why wrap _validate with validate and validate_update ?

[arshsingh]

if all the validate and validate_update methods do is just pass the update parameter, why not just let the user do it ?

this is much better :

validate(document)
validate(document, update=True)

than this:

validate(document)
validate_update(document)

[nicolaiarocci]

Yes this has been under my radar for a while. Initially, I think I wanted to make sure that update-validating was a very visible option.