The guidelines for documenting function parameters in Python give examples showing the parameter name, followed by a space, a colon, a space, and a text string describing the type. However, the guidelines do not say that this whitespace is significant: if the parameter name is immediately followed by a colon, the type description will be printed verbatim (with, for example, explicit ` marks).

Please update the guide to specifically say that the parameter name and the colon must be separated by a space.