PEPs should be included with the documentation download

Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Fri Aug 23 04:14:29 EDT 2013


In article <7wvc2xkjvz.fsf at benfinney.id.au>,
 Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:
> > Hence the question: How many people actually do use the downloaded
> > docs? Maybe it'd turn out to be quite high, but it's not an
> > unreasonable question.
> 
> I think it's an unreasonable question. What would you accept as an
> answer? Who could possibly be autoritative at estimating such a number?
> How would you choose between competing authorities and estimates?
> 
> It should be sufficient to realise that the reality of internet
> infrastructure in most countries makes it preferable – at least some of
> the time, for some significant, even if small, number of users – to read
> the documentation on local storage instead of on the internet.

In any case if you want to see this happen, someone needs to open an 
issue and make a case for it on the Python bug tracker.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org




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