Mailman 3 December 2010 - docs

[issue8910] Write a text file explaining why Lib/test/data exists
by Éric Araujo Dec. 5, 2010

Dec. 5, 2010

Éric Araujo <merwok(a)netwok.org> added the comment: Temporarily reopening so that Martin can decide whether he wants to add Lib/test/data/README to msi.py ---------- status: closed -> open _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8910> _______________________________________

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Possible bug in 3.2 Accumulate Function
by Frank Ellis Dec. 5, 2010

Dec. 5, 2010

Quoting from the http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/whatsnew/3.2.html page: The itertools module has a new function, accumulate() modeled on APL’s scan operator and on Numpy’s accumulate function:>>> list(accumulate(8, 2, 50)) [8, 10, 60] >>> prob_dist = [0.1, 0.4, 0.2, 0.3] >>> list(accumulate(prob_dist)) # cumulative probability distribution [0.1, 0.5, 0.7, 1.0] I'm not sure if this is a bug as … [View More]

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[issue10609] dbm documentation example doesn't work (iteritems())
by Éric Araujo Dec. 4, 2010

Dec. 4, 2010

Éric Araujo <merwok(a)netwok.org> added the comment: Arg, the internal classes returned by dbm.*.open have keys but not necessarily items. See #9523, #6045 and #5736. The docs should be fixed independently of that, with the less non-idiomatic code that we can find. Do you want to check the dbm docs for other similar broken examples? I’ll review the patch. ---------- assignee: docs@python -> eric.araujo _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.… [View More]

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Re: [docs] [issue10516] Add list.clear() and list.copy()
by Éric Araujo Dec. 4, 2010

Dec. 4, 2010

Hi Eli, I think the right place is 4.6.4, http://docs.python.org/dev/library/stdtypes#mutable-sequence-types It starts with “List and bytearray objects support additional operations that allow in-place modification of the object”. For methods not supported by bytearray, you can use the fake footnote (8) and edit its texte (“sort() is not supported by bytearray objects”). Regards

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Python Doc bug, 5.3 Pure Emebedding
by Bob Reese Dec. 4, 2010

Dec. 4, 2010

FYI (great job on documentation!!) 5.3 Pure Embedding code example. This is a good example but under 2.3 and 2.6 on my Linux systems, the example fails to run because the sys.path variable does not have the current working directory ('[]') on it, so the module is not found (the python code is in the cwd). I am not sure why this occurs, because if the normal python interpreter is executed and the sys.path variable printed, the current working directory is on that path. I don't know why … [View More]

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official place to document list's methods
by Eli Bendersky Dec. 4, 2010

Dec. 4, 2010

Hello docs@python, I'm currently working on issue 10516 (adding the .clear and .copy methods to list, for Python 3.3) and I'm wondering where in the documentation I should describe these new methods. The closest place I found that looks like it's listing the methods of a list is sections 3.3.6 and 4.6.4. In particular 4.6.4 looks suitable, but it talks about bytearray too. Can you recommend how to proceed with this? Thanks in advance, Eli

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[issue10623] What’s New In Python 3.2 document refers to PEP 382: Defining a Stable ABI
by Daniel Urban Dec. 4, 2010

Dec. 4, 2010

New submission from Daniel Urban <urban.dani+py(a)gmail.com>: But "Defining a Stable ABI" is PEP 384: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0384/ (PEP 382 is "Namespace Packages") ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 123345 nosy: docs@python, durban priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: What’s New In Python 3.2 document refers to PEP 382: Defining a Stable ABI type: behavior versions: Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python … [View More]

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[issue10609] dbm documentation example doesn't work (iteritems())
by Sandro Tosi Dec. 2, 2010

Dec. 2, 2010

Sandro Tosi <sandro.tosi(a)gmail.com> added the comment: Hi Eric, on and up-to-date py3k I got this: >>> for k, v in db.items(): ... print(k, '\t', v) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: '_dbm.dbm' object has no attribute 'items' >>> 'items' in dir(db) False (I tried to use items() before proposing that code ;)). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)… [View More]

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[issue10609] dbm documentation example doesn't work (iteritems())
by Éric Araujo Dec. 2, 2010

Dec. 2, 2010

Changes by Éric Araujo <merwok(a)netwok.org>: ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation nosy: +docs@python stage: -> needs patch versions: +Python 3.1, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10609> _______________________________________

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[issue10299] Add index with links section for built-in functions
by nestor Dec. 2, 2010

Dec. 2, 2010

New submission from nestor <nestornissen(a)gmail.com>: The built-in function page (http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/functions.html) is pretty long. Each function has an anchor but unlike the built-in types section there is no quick way to get an overview or jump to a specific function (like open or print) short of scrolling through 22 pages. It would be nice to have an index of all built-in functions linked to the specific entry on the built-in functions page. This could be either … [View More]

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