Wikipedia and a little piece of Python History

Cameron Laird claird at lairds.us
Wed Mar 21 18:31:25 EDT 2007


In article <1174508599.250404.176510 at y66g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
Paddy <paddy3118 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>On Mar 21, 8:20 pm, j... at pobox.com (John J. Lee) wrote:
>> "Paddy" <paddy3... at googlemail.com> writes:
>> > I just had a link to Tim peters first post on doctest:
>> >http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/1c57cfb7b3772763
>> > removed fromhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctestas it doesn't fit
>> > their guidelines for external links.
>> > I wonder, could maybe the official website be persuaded to host a copy
>> > so that it could be linked to?
>>
>> > Tim, would you object?
>>
>> It (wikipedia) is a wiki, why not edit the page and paste it in?
>>
>> John
>
>They have rules, and periodically trawl pages and clean them. I'd like
>to stay within the rules.
>
>- Paddy.
>

Phaseit would be honored to memorialize a permanent URL for
that post, or even the thread from which it's taken.  Is that
an appropriate resolution, Paddy?



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