Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.031 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.94; '*S*': 0.00; 'sufficient': 0.05; 'answer?': 0.09; 'preferable': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'question.': 0.14; 'finney': 0.16; 'number?': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:PEPs': 0.16; 'subject:download': 0.16; 'subject:included': 0.16; 'small,': 0.19; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'possibly': 0.26; 'least': 0.26; 'downloaded': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; 'question:': 0.31; 'wright': 0.31; 'writes:': 0.31; 'quite': 0.32; 'maybe': 0.34; 'subject:the': 0.34; 'could': 0.34; 'subject:with': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'reality': 0.36; 'subject:skip:d 10': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'turn': 0.37; 'ben': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'users': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'read': 0.60; 'most': 0.60; 'took': 0.61; 'course': 0.61; 'such': 0.63; 'choose': 0.64; 'between': 0.67; 'hour': 0.70; 'internet': 0.71; '\xe2\x80\x93': 0.77; 'high,': 0.84; "it'd": 0.84; 'authorities': 0.95 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Ben Finney Subject: Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:21:04 +1000 References: <4bc4d258-1e12-4e1a-af9c-0019f099612f@googlegroups.com> <7wppt5mb3z.fsf@benfinney.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rasputin.madmonks.org X-Public-Key-ID: 0xBD41714B X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 9CFE 12B0 791A 4267 887F 520C B7AC 2E51 BD41 714B X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-gpg.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nlhMG04cSFgl25jWW56EsVQAivs= X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 21 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1377238878 news.xs4all.nl 15981 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:34629 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:52865 Chris Angelico writes: > Hence the question: How many people actually do use the downloaded > docs? Maybe it'd turn out to be quite high, but it's not an > unreasonable question. I think it's an unreasonable question. What would you accept as an answer? Who could possibly be autoritative at estimating such a number? How would you choose between competing authorities and estimates? It should be sufficient to realise that the reality of internet infrastructure in most countries makes it preferable – at least some of the time, for some significant, even if small, number of users – to read the documentation on local storage instead of on the internet. -- \ “I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in | `\ only ten minutes.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney