In article <4ef7e337$0$29973$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> And I'm afraid that you have missed my point. The above comment from the > source is from a docstring: it *is* public, official documentation. See > help(random.Random). When you wrote, "the source explicitly tells you..." the natural assumption I made was "something in the source that's not part of the documentation" (i.e. some comment). > > The documentation is the specification of how something behaves. > > If the documentation doesn't say it, you can't rely on it. > A nice platitude, but not true. Documentation is often incomplete or even > inaccurate. Of course it is. Those things constitute doc bugs which need to get fixed. The fact that the specification is flawed does not change the fact that it *is* the specification. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
