G. Berriz also suggested having a note at the start of the index: "If you notice omissions, please help save the world and drop a note to XXX@python.org", where XXX is some mail alias for Guido or an editor, or possibly XXX='doc-sig'. The Tkinter life preserver is something I hadn't thought of; how long is it? (Place reference to the Monty Python lifeboat sketch here.) However, if Frederik is revising it for inclusion in his book, O'Reilly would have to agree to allowing republication of those sections. Regarding the tutorial: the later sections seem to contain two sorts of items. Some are just informational ChangeLog-like things ("The Macintosh version is much more robust now." "The string module now has a capwords() function.") which can be cut out and put in another file, and others are actual language changes, which will need to be integrated into the text. Tutorial readers probably don't care about the interpreter's past history. Guido van Rossum wrote:
(In fact, some chapters of the library manual, e.g. the SGI and Mac specific parts, might be left out too.)
Good point. One might also wonder if the SGI-specific modules should be dropped from the distribution; Python isn't only (or even mostly) on SGIs these days, and time seems to be taking its toll on them---there's a more recent OpenGL interface, PIL for image processing...
So I don't think it will be a big PR item.
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