Docstrings considered too complicated

[Ed Keith]

--- On Wed, 3/3/10, David Robinow <drobinow at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Robinow <drobinow at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Docstrings considered too complicated
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 2:54 PM
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Ed
> Keith <e_d_k at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > --- On Wed, 3/3/10, D'Arcy J.M. Cain  wrote:
> >
> >> They needed a way to tell where the end of the
> information
> >> was.  Why
> >> they used ^Z (SUB - Substitute) instead of ^C (ETX
> - End of
> >> TeXt) or
> >> even ^D (EOT - End Of Transmission) is anyone's
> guess.
> >
> > That has always puzzled me to. ETX and EOT were well
> established, why no use one of them? I'd love to know what
> they were thinking.
> 
> There were numerous incompatible and primitive transfer
> protocols in
> those days. They probably wanted to pick something that was
> NOT well
> established so it would pass through without, for example,
> causing End
> Of Transmission.

That makes a lot of sense.

   -EdK

Ed Keith
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