Erlend E. Aasland <erlend.aasl...@innova.no> added the comment:

> What is wrong with addressing the reader as "you"?

I remember this was discussed on python-dev last year (?). IIRC, the majority 
was in favour of changing the documentation to avoid addressing the reader 
personally. Let us ask the Documentation Workgroup over at Discourse. I'll 
create a topic.

> Avoiding an affirmative tone goes directly against the style-guide you linked 
> to, which recommends an affirmative (positive) tone:

Sorry, that was a language glitch; I'm not a native english speaker :) _Use_ an 
affirmative tone is of course correct.

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