On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: >> I just resign myself to having to spell words like colour and >> serialise wrong when I'm working on Python. Compared to the >> adjustments the non-native English speakers have to make, I figure I'm >> getting off lightly ;) >> > > I *thought* that the Python policy was that English speakers wrote > documentation in English and American speakers wrote documentation in > American and that we *don't* insist on US spellings in the Python > documentation?
If we're just talking about those things in generally, then that's a reasonable rule. But when in close proximity to an actual API that uses the American spelling, or modifying a file that uses the relevant word a lot, following the prevailing style is a definite courtesy to the reader. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
