In Doc/tutorial/appetite.rst change Unix operating systems to Unix-like operating systems?

[tocretpa]

Documentation

Doc/tutorial/appetite.rst

[hugovk]

Here's the text:

You could write a Unix shell script or Windows batch files for some of these tasks, but shell scripts are best at moving around files and changing text data, not well-suited for GUI applications or games. You could write a C/C++/Java program, but it can take a lot of development time to get even a first-draft program. Python is simpler to use, available on Windows, macOS, and Unix operating systems, and will help you get the job done more quickly.

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/appetite.html

@tocretpa What's the justification for changing it?

[tocretpa]

Here's the text:

You could write a Unix shell script or Windows batch files for some of these tasks, but shell scripts are best at moving around files and changing text data, not well-suited for GUI applications or games. You could write a C/C++/Java program, but it can take a lot of development time to get even a first-draft program. Python is simpler to use, available on Windows, macOS, and Unix operating systems, and will help you get the job done more quickly.

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/appetite.html

@tocretpa What's the justification for changing it?

Well Linux for example is technically not Unix but Unix-like, I just thought the documentation would be clearer with the change I proposed, some people who know the technicality might read the documentation and be a bit offput or confused. But I understand that the change changes a page that might be best left alone since it is rarely edited. I am happy for You to make or not make the change.

[tocretpa]

I should also mention that Python probably only runs on a portion of all Unix-like operating systems! As there are quite a few deprecated Unix-like operating systems, etc!

[picnixz]

I don't think it's really worth it and this looks rather pedantic. The .. availability directive also just mentions "Unix" in general to glob everything that is derived from Unix and is deliberately vague.

should also mention that Python probably only runs on a portion of all Unix-like operating systems

This would make the docs less readable and won't help more. If as a reader I see "on a portion of Unix-like OSes" I would be "then what are they???" and I still won't get my answer. If something doesn't work on my platform, I would look at PEP-11 first and maybe I would want to worry about whether I'm a supported platform.

[tocretpa]

Maybe consider adding Linux and at least some BSDs though?

[picnixz]

We already mention whether it's Linux/BSD in availability. For supported platforms, we just have PEP-11. I don't see value in being pedantic in the tutorial.