On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote: >> I just resign myself to having to spell words like colour and >> serialise wrong when I'm working on Python. Compared to the >> adjustments the non-native English speakers have to make, I figure I'm >> getting off lightly ;) >> > > I *thought* that the Python policy was that English speakers wrote > documentation in English and American speakers wrote documentation in > American and that we *don't* insist on US spellings in the Python > documentation? If we're just talking about those things in generally, then that's a reasonable rule. But when in close proximity to an actual API that uses the American spelling, or modifying a file that uses the relevant word a lot, following the prevailing style is a definite courtesy to the reader. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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