On 2/9/2014 7:05 AM, bagrat lazaryan wrote:
pep 257 -- docstring conventions, as well as a myriad of books and other resources, recommend documenting a function's 
or method's effect as a command ("do this", "return that"), not as a description ("does 
this", "returns that"). what's the logic behind this recommendation?

The imperative is directed at the Python interpreter. It says what a call instructs the interpreter to do.

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