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Fri Mar 4 21:48:33 CET 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-March/108683.html

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Westley Martínez <anikom15 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 00:54 -0800, Aaron DeVore wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Kerrick Staley <mail at kerrickstaley.com>
> wrote:
> > > That way, if the sysadmin does decide to replace the installed "python"
> file, he can do so without inadvertently deleting the previously installed
> binary.
> >
> > Nit pick: Change "he" to "they" to be gender neutral.
>
> Nit pick: Change "they" to "he" to be grammatically correct. If we
> really have to be gender neutral, change "he" to "he or she".

This grammatical "rule" is a modern fiction with no particular utility.  Go
ahead and use singular "they" as a gender-neutral pronoun; it was good
enough for Shakespeare, Twain, Austen and Shaw, it should be good enough for
Python.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Examples_of_generic_they
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