[Python-ideas] Canceled versus cancelled (was Re: Interrupting threads)

[Terry Reedy]

On 1/29/2013 12:40 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> This is all pretty pointless given that PEP 3148 uses cancelled() and
> concurrent.futures.Future has been released since Python 3.2.

I should have added that I considered 'cancelled' the right choice now 
for a global language. The case is quite different from 'color' versus 
'colour'.

> Introducing single-ell aliases is just going to confuse things more.

So this need not be considered for perhaps 50 to 100 years ;-).

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Terry Jan Reedy