Mailman 3 November 2010 - docs

Error in text
by John Baumgartner 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Hi Team, It's not technically a bug, but the following code (on page http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html#functional-programming-…) is claimed to compute primes, but it does not return only primes... >>> def f(x): return x % 2 != 0 and x % 3 != 0 ... >>> filter(f, range(2, 25)) [5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23] Sure, for the range given in the filter only primes are returned, but if this range was expanded, composites would sneak in. Great docs though! I'm new to Python and the examples are fantastic. Cheers, John

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[issue7061] Improve 24.5. turtle doc
by Alexander Belopolsky 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky(a)users.sourceforge.net> added the comment: I am attaching a patch that adds a hack that allows to run turtle doctests using turtle.run_doctests() function. Running this function has revealed numerous mistakes in doctests that are corrected in the patch. The patch is against release27 branch because there are even more problems in py3k. I don't think run_doctests hack belongs to turtle module. I think it would be more appropriate to place it in test.test_turtle. I have also not been able to figure out how to make global functions' doctests runnable. The current patch disables them by mangling the >>> prompts in docstrings. ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file19500/issue7061-docstrings-r27.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7061> _______________________________________

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[issue10285] Other status field flags in documentation for NNTP LIST command
by Julien ÉLIE 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

New submission from Julien ÉLIE <julien(a)trigofacile.com>: > +.. method:: NNTP.list(*, file=None) > + > + Send a ``LIST`` command. Return a pair ``(response, list)`` where *list* is a > + list of tuples representing all the groups available from this NNTP server. > + Each tuple has the form ``(group, last, first, flag)``, where > + *group* is a group name, *last* and *first* are the last and first article > + numbers, and *flag* is ``'y'`` if posting is allowed, ``'n'`` if not, > + and ``'m'`` if the newsgroup is moderated. (Note the ordering: *last*, *first*.) There are other values: 'x', 'j', and '=' followed by the name of a newsgroup (alias). I believe the best would be to use what INN mentions in its documentation! (Or otherwise, RFC 3977 and RFC 6048.) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs/active.html It would then give: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... and *flag* usually takes one of these values: y Local postings and articles from peers are allowed. m The group is moderated and all postings must be approved. n No local postings are allowed, only articles from peers. j Articles from peers are filed in the junk group instead. x No local postings, and articles from peers are ignored. =foo.bar Articles are filed in the group foo.bar instead. If *flag* has another value, then the status of the newsgroup should be considered to be unknown. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Can a bullet list be used in the documentation, to properly indent the flag values? ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation, Extension Modules messages: 120162 nosy: docs@python, jelie priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Other status field flags in documentation for NNTP LIST command type: behavior versions: Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10285> _______________________________________

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[issue10038] Returntype of json.loads() on strings
by Nik Tautenhahn 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

New submission from Nik Tautenhahn <nik(a)livinglogic.de>: Hi, before 2.7, an import json json.loads('"abc"') yielded u"abc". in 2.7 I get "abc" (a byte string). I would have expected an entry in "news" or "What's new in 2.7" why this change happened. In addition, all examples at http://docs.python.org/library/json are wrong for Python 2.7 if json.loads is involved. Any insight on this? best regards, Nik ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation, Library (Lib) messages: 118069 nosy: docs@python, llnik priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Returntype of json.loads() on strings type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10038> _______________________________________

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Typo in 16.6.1.1.
by Sebastian Zug 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Dear Python documentation team, on page http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html in chapter "16.6.1.1. The Process class" there is a obvious typo inside the second code example in line 7 from multiprocessing import Process import os def info(title): print title print 'module name:', __name__ print 'parent process:', os.getppid() <-- it means os.getpid() print 'process id:', os.getpid() def f(name): info('function f') print 'hello', name if __name__ == '__main__': info('main line') p = Process(target=f, args=('bob',)) p.start() p.join() Best wishes from Germany Enjoy the weekend Sebastian -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl. Ing. Sebastian Zug Dept. Embedded Systems and Operating Systems (EOS) Institute for Distributed Systems (IVS) Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg Universitätsplatz 2 39106 Magdeburg Germany mail: zug(a)ivs.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Tel.: +49 - 391 - 67 - 11459 Fax: +49 - 391 - 67 - 11161

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[issue7061] Improve 24.5. turtle doc
by Éric Araujo 31 Oct '10

31 Oct '10

Éric Araujo <merwok(a)netwok.org> added the comment: “Python” is lower-cased only when referring to the executable (as a file) itself. When talking about the language, the implementation or the VM in an abstract way (not a file), It think it’s always “Python”. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7061> _______________________________________

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