On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: > >> In article <mailman.1348.1276386991.32709.python-l...@python.org>, >> geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >Bug filed, http://bugs.python.org/issue8986. >> >> Please don't put extraneous punctuation on URLs. > > The punctuation isn't extraneous; it's a necessary part of a natural > English sentence. That's where it belongs. > > Better is to follow the “Recommendations for Delimiting URI in Context” > in RFC 2396 <URL:http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt>, which allow > natural punctuation around such delimited URLs.
You know, I've never been a part of a community in which the URL format was the most contentious part of filing a bug report. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list