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

[Guido van Rossum]

Fixed. Thanks for pointing this out!


On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!
>
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