[Python-Dev] Best practice for documentation for std lib (original) (raw)

Fred Drake fred at fdrake.net
Mon Sep 23 21:37:54 CEST 2013


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

'Return' versus 'Returns', exact uppercase word match, is a little over 3 to 1. I am sure I have seen 'Return' and similiar directive forms ('Print', 'Store', 'Compare', etc) recommended as current doc style, as prefered by the current doc crew.

I don't know about the current crew, but this dates way back to Guido's initial LaTeX documentation, and Guido's strong preference on this.

-Fred

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