On 19.03.2011 16:30, R. David Murray wrote: > On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 13:57:02 +0100, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> > wrote: >> On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:22:42 +0100 >> raymond.hettinger <python-check...@python.org> wrote: >> > http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/80ff78425419 >> > changeset: 68671:80ff78425419 >> > branch: 3.2 >> > parent: 68665:f832ca852329 >> > user: Raymond Hettinger <pyt...@rcn.com> >> > date: Fri Mar 18 18:22:28 2011 -0700 >> > summary: >> > Issue 7391: Remove questionable and outdated HOWTO document with >> > permission from its author. >> >> How is this questionable? >> I found it quite useful when trying to warn beginners about anti-idioms. >> Is there another resource which replaces it? > > Indeed. I spent some time a few months back updating a couple sections > of that howto. Perhaps the better thing to do would be to update it > instead of deleting it (although I admit I haven't read through the > whole thing....an issue was submitted for a particular section and I > updated that section and the other one talking about the same topic > (sorry I don't remember which one off the top of my head)).
+1. (Also I don't understand why we'd need permission from an author to *remove* content.) Georg _______________________________________________ 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
