Mailman 3 November 2010 - docs

[issue8652] Minor improvements to the "Handling Exceptions" part of the tutorial
by Marien Zwart June 7, 2012

June 7, 2012

New submission from Marien Zwart <m_zwart(a)123mail.org>: Based on questions asked on freenode's #python by people reading the tutorial I would like to suggest two improvements to http://docs.python.org/tutorial/errors.html#handling-exceptions : - Mention the older "except SomeException, e:" syntax too, not just "except SomeException as e:". I have had people ask me to help them upgrade to a newer python because they thought their version of python did not support catching exception … [View More]

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[issue8617] Non-existent variables documented
by Dave Abrahams May 9, 2012

May 9, 2012

New submission from Dave Abrahams <dave(a)boostpro.com>: http://docs.python.org/library/site.html#module-site mentions two variables that don't appear in my Python 2.6.5 installation's site module: PYTHONNOUSERSITE New in version 2.6. PYTHONUSERBASE New in version 2.6. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 104985 nosy: dabrahams, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Non-existent variables documented versions: Python 2.6 … [View More]

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[issue10423] s/args/options in arpgarse "Upgrading optparse code"
by Steven Bethard March 30, 2012

March 30, 2012

New submission from Steven Bethard <steven.bethard(a)gmail.com>: >From a personal email: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm not signed up for all the Python issue tracking stuff, but thought I'd let you know about a problem with the argparse doc page: http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html It says at the end: Replace options, args = parser.parse_args() with args = parser.parse_args() and add additional ArgumentParser.… [View More]

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[issue9442] Update sys.version doc
by Éric Araujo Feb. 9, 2012

Feb. 9, 2012

New submission from Éric Araujo <merwok(a)netwok.org>: Attaching a patch to edit mention of “build number” in library/sys. I also don’t understand “The first three characters are used to identify the version in the installation directories (where appropriate on each platform)”, maybe someone who does could enlighten me. If #5778 is rejected, the doc will need another update to mention that there may be a newline in sys.version. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: … [View More]

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[issue9021] no copy.copy problem description
by anatoly techtonik Feb. 9, 2012

Feb. 9, 2012

New submission from anatoly techtonik <techtonik(a)gmail.com>: `copy` module covers very important aspect of Python programming. However its documentation doesn't provide any intro or overview of this problem starting right from details. When people meet `copy` construction in the code - the refer to module documentation and its doesn't completely answer two basic questions they have: 1. why copy module is needed (i.e. what's the problem with var assignment) 2. when and where it should … [View More]

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[issue9637] docs do not say that urllib uses HTTP_PROXY
by Kirikaza Jan. 10, 2012

Jan. 10, 2012

New submission from Kirikaza <kirikaza(a)rambler.ru>: In practice urllib reads HTTP_PROXY firstly and then if HTTP_PROXY is empty urllib reads http_proxy. Documentation (http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html) says nothing about HTTP_PROXY. Maybe it affects all the versions of Python. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 114319 nosy: docs@python, kirikaza priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: docs do not say that urllib uses … [View More]

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[issue9349] document argparse's help=SUPPRESS
by Steven Bethard Jan. 3, 2012

Jan. 3, 2012

New submission from Steven Bethard <steven.bethard(a)gmail.com>: Argparse supports silencing help for certain options using SUPPRESS. >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() >>> parser.add_argument('--foo', help=argparse.SUPPRESS) >>> parser.print_help() usage: [-h] optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit This should be documented in the description of help= http://docs.python.org/library/argparse.html#help ---------- assignee: … [View More]

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[issue8646] PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal is undocumented
by Daniel Stutzbach Nov. 21, 2011

Nov. 21, 2011

New submission from Daniel Stutzbach <daniel(a)stutzbachenterprises.com>: PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal is undocumented (although it's referenced in passing in the documentation for PyLong_FromUnicode). There's a lengthy comment in unicodeobject.h describing PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal, which could be converted more or less directly into documentation. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 105205 nosy: docs@python, stutzbach priority: normal severity: normal stage: … [View More]

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[issue10526] Minor typo in What's New in Python 2.7
by Petter Remen Oct. 8, 2011

Oct. 8, 2011

New submission from Petter Remen <petter.remen(a)gmail.com>: There's a word missing in section "PEP 372: Adding an Ordered Dictionary to collections" The ConfigParser module uses them by default, meaning that configuration files can now read, modified, and then written [...] ~~~~~~~~ should be "now be read". ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 122347 nosy: Petter.Remen, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open … [View More]

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[issue10454] Clarify compileall options
by Éric Araujo Sept. 2, 2011

Sept. 2, 2011

New submission from Éric Araujo <merwok(a)netwok.org>: This is the help text of compileall: usage: python compileall.py [-l] [-f] [-q] [-d destdir] [-x regexp] [-i list] [directory|file ...] -l: don't recurse down -f: force rebuild even if timestamps are up-to-date -q: quiet operation -d destdir: purported directory name for error messages if no directory arguments, -l sys.path is assumed -x regexp: skip files matching the regular expression regexp the regexp is searched … [View More]

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