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Author	belopolsky
Recipients	belopolsky, docs@python, eric.araujo, georg.brandl, gregorlingl, rhettinger, terry.reedy
Date	2010-11-10.18:18:30
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Message-id	<1289413223.13.0.236219045402.issue7061@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Éric Araujo <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: .. > “Python” is lower-cased only when referring to the executable (as a > file) itself. When talking about the language, the implementation or > the VM in an abstract way (not a file), It think it’s always “Python”. For the record, this is covered in the Python documentation style guide: """ Python The name of our favorite programming language is always capitalized. """ http://docs.python.org/dev/documenting/style.html

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Éric Araujo <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
..
> “Python” is lower-cased only when referring to the executable (as a 
> file) itself.  When talking about the language, the implementation or
> the VM in an abstract way (not a file), It think it’s always “Python”.

For the record, this is covered in the Python documentation style guide:

"""
Python

    The name of our favorite programming language is always capitalized.
"""

http://docs.python.org/dev/documenting/style.html

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-11-10 18:20:23	belopolsky	set	recipients: + belopolsky, georg.brandl, rhettinger, terry.reedy, gregorlingl, eric.araujo, docs@python
2010-11-10 18:20:23	belopolsky	set	messageid: <1289413223.13.0.236219045402.issue7061@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2010-11-10 18:18:30	belopolsky	create