[Python-ideas] PEP-257: drop recommendation for extra line at end of multi-line docstring

[Robert Kern]

On 2014-02-27 22:41, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I haven't followed this recommendation for years. :-) Good riddance!

FWIW, PEP 8 still suggests the old form, though the example was fixed to conform 
to the new suggestion:

http://hg.python.org/peps/file/272debef6b77/pep-0008.txt#l548
http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/5efe00002b3e

> (However, the one about two spaces after a period stands. :-)

Alas!

-- 
Robert Kern

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