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<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 20 May 2016 at 09:46 Guido van Rossum <<a href="mailto:guido@python.org">guido@python.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">ALso, in case anyone reading this didn't realize, this is a classic<br>
internet debate that has been going on for decades (just not on<br>
python-dev). Just Google it.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>-Brett</div><div>Â </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Facundo Batista<br>
<<a href="mailto:facundobatista@gmail.com" target="_blank">facundobatista@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Brett Cannon <<a href="mailto:brett@python.org" target="_blank">brett@python.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Is there a specific reason for calling out two spaces in comments after a<br>
>> period(I realize it's probably for consistency, but I sure don't ever think<br>
>> about this when I write comment)? Otherwise who actually still writes using<br>
>> two spaces after punctuation? :)<br>
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> I couldn't find it in the reference but AFAIK is something that is<br>
> also done in ReStructured Text.<br>
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