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List:       python-dev
Subject:    Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r86750
From:       Michael Foord <fuzzyman () voidspace ! org ! uk>
Date:       2010-11-27 12:52:40
Message-ID: 4CF0FF18.4030408 () voidspace ! org ! uk
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On 27/11/2010 12:22, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Senthil Kumaran<orsenthil@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Re: “colour”: the rest of the file use US English, as do the function
>>> names (see for example curses.has_color).  It’s good to use one dialect
>>> consistently in one file.
>> Good catch. Did not realize it because, we write it as colour too.
>> Changing it.
> I just resign myself to having to spell words like colour and
> serialise wrong when I'm working on Python. Compared to the
> adjustments the non-native English speakers have to make, I figure I'm
> getting off lightly ;)
>

I *thought* that the Python policy was that English speakers wrote 
documentation in English and American speakers wrote documentation in 
American and that we *don't* insist on US spellings in the Python 
documentation?

Michael


> Cheers,
> Nick.
>


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