On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@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 :) Avoiding offensive text has nothing to do with a desire to appear "professional" (at least for me) - it's about demonstrating common courtesy to the potentially wide variety of people that will read the Python source code in the future. (In the specific case, I thought quoting the venerable pun was fine, but I also don't have any real problem with modifying it) Cheers, Nick. P.S. 'twas a sad day when copyright concerns cost us the old test audio file :( -- 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
