[docs] couple things on the Dos and Donts page

Sandro Tosi sandro.tosi at gmail.com
Thu Aug 18 15:38:59 CEST 2011


Hello Darren,
thanks for your email.

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 02:25, Darren Yin <darren.yin at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://docs.python.org/howto/doanddont.html
>>
>> Even in versions where it was accepted, it made the function execution
>> slower, because the compiler could not be certain which names are local and
>> which are global.
>
> Even in versions where it was accepted, it made the function execution
> slower, because the compiler could not be certain which names were local and
> which were global.
> Currently it mixes past and present tenses in a somewhat awkward manner.
>>
>> One of the most awful question asked on the newsgroup is why this code:
>
> One of the most awful questions asked on the newsgroup is why this code:
>
> Because it used to just be non-grammatical.

these are now fixed: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d430a352dab3

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi


More information about the docs mailing list