[Python-Dev] Convention on functions that shadow existing stdlib functions

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Sat Jul 30 17:38:22 CEST 2011


On Jul 31, 2011, at 01:23 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>It sounds to me like you're really objecting to the devguide living in
>a separate clone. This doesn't bode well for the prospects of ever
>splitting the stdlib out from the CPython interpreter core...

Actually, no.  I'm objecting to moving documentation for code to a different
repo than the code.  If/when the stdlib is split out (which I support), then
the documentation should go with it.

Cheers,
-Barry
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