[issue39480] referendum reference is needlessly annoying

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[issue39480] referendum reference is needlessly annoying

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Speaking as a British, UK-based Python contributor who's unhappy with recent political developments in the UK, I say let's close this. -- nosy: +mark.dickinson ___ Python tracker

[issue39480] referendum reference is needlessly annoying

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[issue39480] referendum reference is needlessly annoying

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I concur with Steven and Raymond. The 2016 Brexit votes were Leave 17.4 million and Remain 16.1 million. No resemblence to the hypothetical example. I think that this should be closed as 'not a bug'. -- nosy: +terry.reedy

[issue39480] referendum reference is needlessly annoying

Aurora added the comment: This example is practically against Python's diversity statement. -- nosy: +opensource-assist ___ Python tracker ___

[issue39480] referendum reference is needlessly annoying

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I concur with Steven. The association with Brexit is specious and the CoC wasn't intended to apply to second guessing technical examples. -- assignee: docs@python -> willingc nosy: +rhettinger, willingc priority: normal -> low

[issue39480] referendum reference is needlessly annoying

Steven D'Aprano added the comment: Oh come on now, this is such a trivialisation of the CoC that I cannot believe that it is a good-faith bug report and not a troll. I'm surprised you didn't toss in the words "triggered" and "micro-aggression" while you're at it. The example has nothing to

[issue39480] referendum reference is needlessly annoying

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[issue39480] referendum reference is needlessly annoying

New submission from Ian Jackson : The section "Fancier Output Formatting" has the example below. This will remind many UK readers of the 2016 EU referendum. About half of those readers will be quite annoyed. This annoyance seems entirely avoidable; a different example which did not refer