On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > >> colour in a programme doesn't seem right. > > Perhaps ironically, there are 52 uses of 'colour' in the stdlib, all but 4 > in idlelib, and most of those in one file. I just changed all except in the > one file.
I agree, although I wouldn't make the change without good reason (avoiding code churn). The last time I used "COLOUR" in any code was in Q-Basic; I had my own subroutine of that name, which did some processing and then used the built-in COLOR command. In fact, the only reason I used the "non-program" spelling of the word was because BASIC doesn't allow shadowing of commands. (I don't even remember what the COLOUR command did. Probably something like coping with red-block - when a CRT screen starts to die and the red channel isn't functional. Hacks to deal with faults, that's what we do!) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
