On 13 Jun 2010 09:49:03 -0700 a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: > >Bug filed, http://bugs.python.org/issue8986. > > Please don't put extraneous punctuation on URLs. That period is a valid > URL character, but it's invalid for this URL, and it's not obvious to the > reader whether the period should be part of the URL. URLs in general > should go on their own line, but at least separate them with whitespace > (or use the icky angle-bracket hack supported by most mail/newsreaders).
Or get a proper mail/news reader. That URL is perfectly fine. Any reader that can't figure out that URLs never end with a period should be chucked. This ain't the seventies where people had to format their input exactly as the computer demanded. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
