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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?
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Date User Action Args
2010-01-17 21:13:24niraisetrecipients: + nirai, pitrou, r.david.murray, lucifer
2010-01-17 21:13:24niraisetmessageid: <1263762804.14.0.400164376394.issue7610@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010-01-17 21:13:22nirailinkissue7610 messages
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