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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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