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

[Georg Brandl]

Am 06.07.2011 02:35, schrieb Guido van Rossum:
> To clarify, now that I have access to an actual keyboard instead of
> just a cellphone: I think it should be rolled back, since the proper
> process for controversial changes was not followed. Our process (part
> of our culture, if you will) for anything controversial is to discuss
> the change first, then, if deemed necessary, fix the code. And from
> the size of this thread it clearly is controversial. Georg, can you
> please revert this change?

Sure; done.

> Note that another part of our process/culture is that we try not to
> engage in battling commits, i.e. generally we don't unilaterally roll
> back a change just to make the point that it is incorrect; we ask the
> original committer to roll it back.
> 
> As to the controversy itself, if you want to make blind people fell
> more at home in the Python community surely there are more useful
> things to do than to remove puns involving blindness; e.g. improve
> accessibility of python.org or some part of it. Or maybe find some
> blind programmers and ask them what would help them.

Well, it was stated that even non-joking use of such words can offend
(the example given was "your argument is blind to (these facts)").
I consider use in jokes to be more serious, since it's careless use.
Sorry if I overreacted here.

Georg