General question about Python design goals

Bengt Richter bokr at oz.net
Tue Nov 29 09:54:44 EST 2005


On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:52:25 -0500, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:

>bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) writes:
>>>Then feel free to submit patches for the docs.
>> This is easy to say, and maybe the docs maintainers are accomodating,
>> but I'd be the average reader wouldn't have a concept of how a "patch"
>> should be prepared.
>
>From what's been said here before, the doc committers aren't picky
>about getting patches. That requires learning whatever doc format they
>use, and they understand that that's a pretty hefty burden for a one
>or two-paragraph tweak on the documentation. So submitting docs in
>English works. Submitting patches works *better*, but not doing so
>doesn't consign your suggestions to oblivion.
>
Ok, sounds reasonable.
BTW, no opinion on iter as a type harboring sequence-applicable methods? ;-)

Regards,
Bengt Richter



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