Terry J. Reedy <[email protected]> added the comment:
Although this is not a problem in IDLE where the window can easily be expanded
beyond 80 chars, I am in favor of the idea for other uses. The command line
interpreter on Windows defaults to 80 chars and is not so easy to change, and
one must be admin to make the change 'permanent' (until the next install
reverts the change). In particular, the 82 char line for math.trun results in
'd.' of 'method.' wrapped to a line by itself with no indent. Pretty ugly.
However, I am puzzled why you edited the 74 char line for math.modf, which
displays as 78 chars with a 4 char indent. This
'''\
Return the fractional and integer parts of x. Both results carry the
sign'''
displays fine on one line as is. The tracker, unfortunately, displays
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012 only
72 chars.
of x and are floats.
I agree that
trunc(x:Real) -> Integral
is more helpful (and therefore better) than
modf(x)
For something like
-"T.index(value, [start, [stop]]) -> integer -- return first index of value.\n"
I personally think '->' and 'return are redundant, so I would argue that this
could be shortened to
-"T.index(value, [start, [stop]]) -> integer (first index of value).\n"
instead of by wrapping.
Since I am not yet in a position to apply patches, I am not (yet) in a position
to tell you whether or how to produce more patches.
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nosy: +terry.reedy
stage: -> patch review
versions: +Python 3.2
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