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Subject: Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:27:03 -0400
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On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:55:44 -0400, random832@fastmail.us declaimed the
following:

>I think, though, that if there's any useful information that can be
>obtained by reading accepted PEPs but not the documentation, or if
>things are explained less clearly than in the PEPs, that's a bug in the
>documentation, and should be remedied by adding to the documentation.

	The only PEP I routinely reference is the one covering the DB-API (2).
Since many of the DB adapters are supposed to follow it, and may actually
slough off documentation to that PEP.

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