imperative mood in docstrings

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Feb 9 12:15:46 EST 2014


On 09/02/2014 12:05, bagrat lazaryan wrote:
> pep 257 -- docstring conventions, as well as a myriad of books and other resources, recommend documenting a function's or method's effect as a command ("do this", "return that"), not as a description ("does this", "returns that"). what's the logic behind this recommendation?
>
> bagratte
>

I can't really answer your question as I don't understand why docstrings 
should get moody, or did you mean mode? :)

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Mark Lawrence

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