On Sat, Mar 30, 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> Interestingly enough, the exception message says "__nonzero__ should >> return an int" but really means "__nonzero__ must return an int". > > You've been staring at standards too much, haven't you? The > difference between MUST and SHOULD isn't as clear-cut as most > standards people use them. True, but I'd be happy if Python were to take a step in the formal direction here. I don't think we want to write standards-like documentation, of course, but adopting a bit more precision couldn't hurt and might help. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Why is this newsgroup different from all other newsgroups?
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