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On 09/10/2014 23:53, Terry Reedy wrote:

>
> Like it or not, Python uses American English.
>

It is my understanding that this has been agreed to by a Dutch born 
dictator.  The traitor should be shot, selling out his fellow Europeans 
to the North Americans indeed :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence