[Python-checkins] [Python-Dev] cpython: Remove mention of medical condition from the test suite.

[Georg Brandl]

Am 05.07.2011 15:57, schrieb Nick Coghlan:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
>> That points to why such changes are justified despite an author's
>> right to have her mode of expression respected -- the Python project
>> aims at professionalism, and offensive language detracts from it.
> 
> Given that the contents of many test strings are quite arbitrary, I
> personally consider a bit of inoffensive humour or cultural references
> to be a fine thing to include rather than yet another instance of
> "foobar" (which itself has humorous *and* offensive origins). Heck,
> stripping just the Monty Python quotes from the test suite would
> probably take a while :)

Well, the diversity list discussed this specific problem, and it was stated that
even double-use of such terms documented in dictionaries is offensive to some.

For this test string, a) I'm not a native speaker and therefore don't know of
any special treatment this pun deserves and b) the content is really quite
arbitrary, meaning that the test works just as well with this content.

Georg