[email protected] (Aahz) writes: > In article <[email protected]>, > geremy condra <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >Bug filed, http://bugs.python.org/issue8986. > > Please don't put extraneous punctuation on URLs.
The punctuation isn't extraneous; it's a necessary part of a natural English sentence. That's where it belongs. Better is to follow the “Recommendations for Delimiting URI in Context” in RFC 2396 <URL:http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt>, which allow natural punctuation around such delimited URLs. -- \ “I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. | `\ But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take | _o__) it seriously.” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
