➜
This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub,
and is currently read-only.
For more information,
see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.
Created on 2013-06-17 18:33 by py.user, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.
| Files | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| File name | Uploaded | Description | Edit | |
| issue18245.diff | py.user, 2013-06-17 18:33 | review | ||
| Messages (5) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| msg191354 - (view) | Author: py.user (py.user) * | Date: 2013-06-17 18:33 | |
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/data "data (uncountable) or plural noun" |
|||
| msg191356 - (view) | Author: Ned Batchelder (nedbat) *  |
Date: 2013-06-17 18:35 | |
Please don't make this change. "Data" is used as a singular collective noun, especially in software contexts. "Data" as a plural noun sounds archaic, or at best, scientific. |
|||
| msg191359 - (view) | Author: R. David Murray (r.david.murray) *  |
Date: 2013-06-17 18:50 | |
Yes, the way it is now is normal written english, regardless of what any older official stylebooks may say :) |
|||
| msg191365 - (view) | Author: Mark Dickinson (mark.dickinson) * |
Date: 2013-06-17 19:17 | |
In any case, the patch only gives half of the correction. The corrected test would have to be "if *those* data are needed later" rather than "if that data are needed later". |
|||
| msg191366 - (view) | Author: Mark Dickinson (mark.dickinson) * |
Date: 2013-06-17 19:18 | |
Bah. s/test/text. |
|||
| History | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2022-04-11 14:57:47 | admin | set | github: 62445 |
| 2013-06-17 19:18:22 | mark.dickinson | set | messages: + msg191366 |
| 2013-06-17 19:17:12 | mark.dickinson | set | nosy:
+ mark.dickinson messages: + msg191365 |
| 2013-06-17 18:50:04 | r.david.murray | set | status: open -> closed type: behavior nosy: + r.david.murray messages: + msg191359 resolution: not a bug stage: resolved |
| 2013-06-17 18:35:43 | nedbat | set | nosy:
+ nedbat messages: + msg191356 |
| 2013-06-17 18:33:25 | py.user | create | |