On Fri, 20 May 2016 at 09:46 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:

> ALso, in case anyone reading this didn't realize, this is a classic
> internet debate that has been going on for decades (just not on
> python-dev). Just Google it.
>

Yes, I don't mean to suggest we should change the two space specification
to one-space, just why specify at all to that granularity of formatting?

-Brett


>
> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Facundo Batista
> <facundobati...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a specific reason for calling out two spaces in comments after
> a
> >> period(I realize it's probably for consistency, but I sure don't ever
> think
> >> about this when I write comment)? Otherwise who actually still writes
> using
> >> two spaces after punctuation? :)
> >
> > I couldn't find it in the reference but AFAIK is something that is
> > also done in ReStructured Text.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
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