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Author	nirai
Recipients	lucifer, nirai, pitrou, r.david.murray
Date	2010-01-17.21:13:22
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> I do not find the existing phrasing in the IO docs ambiguous, but since > it is obviously possible to misinterpret it it would be good to clarify > it. Can you suggest an alternate phrasing that would be clearer? Replace 'may' with 'will' or 'shall' everywhere the context indicates a mandatory requirement. Since this possibly affects the entire Python documentation, does it make sense to discuss this on python-dev?

> I do not find the existing phrasing in the IO docs ambiguous, but since 
> it is obviously possible to misinterpret it it would be good to clarify 
> it.  Can you suggest an alternate phrasing that would be clearer?

Replace 'may' with 'will' or 'shall' everywhere the context indicates a mandatory requirement.

Since this possibly affects the entire Python documentation, does it make sense to discuss this on python-dev?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-01-17 21:13:24	nirai	set	recipients: + nirai, pitrou, r.david.murray, lucifer
2010-01-17 21:13:24	nirai	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
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2010-01-17 21:13:22	nirai	create