[Python-Dev] python docs (original) (raw)

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Wed May 10 15:37:12 EDT 2017

On 10/05/2017 15:53, Ethan Furman wrote:

Not sure where to ask about this, so I'm asking here.

In the on-line docs, at the very bottom of a page, in fine print, is a link: Find a bug? Following that link leads to a short page with some advice on how to handle it. Under the second heading [1] is this paragraph:

If you’re short on time, you can also email documentation bug reports > to docs at python.org (behavioral bugs can be sent to python-list at python.org). > ‘docs@’ is a mailing list run by volunteers; your request will be noticed, > though it may take a while to be processed. Why is python-list the place to send behavioral bugs to? It's been my experience that folks there will (rightly) ask the individual to file a bug on the tracker. -- Ethan [1] https://docs.python.org/3/bugs.html#documentation-bugs

Saves even more reports on the grounds that "Python can't do floating point properly". I don't know if it's calmed down now, but there used to be 3 or 4 a year. They were, as always, very politely referred to the FAQ, or similar. Multiply that up by a multitude of newbie problems and the triagers would be swamped.

-- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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