On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > And there are underspecified rules too. What is the plural of octopus? No > fair looking it up in the dictionary.
Standard and well-known piece of trivia, and there are several options. "Octopodes" is one of the most rigorously formal, but "octopuses" is perfectly acceptable. "Octopi" is technically incorrect, as the -us ending does not derive from the Latin. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
