[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Remove mention of medical condition from the test suite.

[Nick Coghlan]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> That points to why such changes are justified despite an author's
> right to have her mode of expression respected -- the Python project
> aims at professionalism, and offensive language detracts from it.

Given that the contents of many test strings are quite arbitrary, I
personally consider a bit of inoffensive humour or cultural references
to be a fine thing to include rather than yet another instance of
"foobar" (which itself has humorous *and* offensive origins). Heck,
stripping just the Monty Python quotes from the test suite would
probably take a while :)

Avoiding offensive text has nothing to do with a desire to appear
"professional" (at least for me) - it's about demonstrating common
courtesy to the potentially wide variety of people that will read the
Python source code in the future.

(In the specific case, I thought quoting the venerable pun was fine,
but I also don't have any real problem with modifying it)

Cheers,
Nick.

P.S. 'twas a sad day when copyright concerns cost us the old test audio file :(

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