In article <mailman.1409.1276477866.32709.python-l...@python.org>, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> wrote: >On 13 Jun 2010 09:49:03 -0700 >a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: >> >> Please don't put extraneous punctuation on URLs. That period is a valid >> URL character, but it's invalid for this URL, and it's not obvious to the >> reader whether the period should be part of the URL. URLs in general >> should go on their own line, but at least separate them with whitespace >> (or use the icky angle-bracket hack supported by most mail/newsreaders). > >Or get a proper mail/news reader. That URL is perfectly fine. Any >reader that can't figure out that URLs never end with a period should >be chucked. This ain't the seventies where people had to format their >input exactly as the computer demanded.
What's your cite that URLs never end with a period? AFAIK, that's perfectly valid by the rules. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it." --Dijkstra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
