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On Fri, 20 May 2016 at 09:46 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
ALso, in case anyone reading this didn't realize, this is a classic
internet debate that has been going on for decades (just not on
python-dev). Just Google it.

Yes, I don't mean to suggest we should change the two space specification to one-space, just why specify at all to that granularity of formatting?

-Brett

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Facundo Batista
<facundobatista@gmail.com> wrote:
\> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
\>
\>> Is there a specific reason for calling out two spaces in comments after a
\>> period(I realize it's probably for consistency, but I sure don't ever think
\>> about this when I write comment)? Otherwise who actually still writes using
\>> two spaces after punctuation? :)
\>
\> I couldn't find it in the reference but AFAIK is something that is
\> also done in ReStructured Text.
\>
\> Regards,
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