Mailman 3 January 2011 - docs

[issue8824] Improve documentation of exec
by Terry J. Reedy 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

New submission from Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy(a)udel.edu>: This doc improvement suggestion is inspired by #991196 (and subsequent duplicates) and the current discussion on py-dev in the thread 'variable name resolution in exec is incorrect' (which is not a correct claim). I believe there is consensus that the doc for exec needs improving. My suggestion (which others may amend) is that the following paragraph (from the 3.x builtin functions exec entry) "In all cases, if the optional parts are omitted, the code is executed in the current scope. If only globals is provided, it must be a dictionary, which will be used for both the global and the local variables. If globals and locals are given, they are used for the global and local variables, respectively. If provided, locals can be any mapping object." have these two sentences added: "If only globals is provided or if onedict is provided as both globals and locals, the code is executed in a new top-level scope. If different objects are given as globals and locals, the code is executed as if it were in a class statement in a new top-level scope." ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 106552 nosy: docs@python, tjreedy priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Improve documentation of exec versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8824> _______________________________________

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[issue9056] Adding additional level of bookmarks and section numbers in python pdf documents.
by pengyu.ut 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

New submission from pengyu.ut <pengyu.ut(a)gmail.com>: Current pdf version of python documents don't have bookmarks for sussubsection. For example, there is no bookmark for the following section in python_2.6.5_reference.pdf. Also the bookmarks don't have section numbers in them. I suggest to include the section numbers. Could these features be added in future release of python document. 3.4.1 Basic customization ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 108334 nosy: docs@python, pengyu.ut priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Adding additional level of bookmarks and section numbers in python pdf documents. versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9056> _______________________________________

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[issue9305] Don't use east/west of UTC in date/time documentation
by Alexander Belopolsky 14 Feb '20

14 Feb '20

New submission from Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky(a)users.sourceforge.net>: I am opening this to supersede issue7229. See discussion following msg107148. In many places offsets representing the difference between local time and UTC are described as minutes or seconds east or west of UTC. This is not correct because UTC is not a place and minutes and seconds don't measure distance in this context. Replacing UTC with the Prime Meridian will not fix that because some regions in the western hemisphere use positive offsets from UTC. or example, Madrid is at 3° 42' West, but uses Central European Time which is UTC+1. I believe geographical references in the python documentation are irrelevant. What users are interested in is how to convert local time to UTC and UTC to local time rather than what is the sign of time.timezone in Madrid. I suggest the following wording for time.timezone description: time.timezone: The number of seconds one must add to the local time to arrive at UTC. Similarly, tzinfo.utcoffset() can be defined as "Returns timedelta one must add to UTC to arrive at local time." ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation keywords: easy messages: 110774 nosy: belopolsky, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Don't use east/west of UTC in date/time documentation type: feature request versions: Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9305> _______________________________________

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[issue9938] Documentation for argparse interactive use
by Jay T 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

New submission from Jay T <jaytula(a)gmail.com>: I want to create a custom interactive shell where I continually do parse_args. Like the following: parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() command = raw_input() while(True): args = parser.parse_args(shlex.split(command)) # Do some magic stuff command = raw_input() The problem is that if I give it invalid input, it errors and exits with a help message. I learned from argparse-users group that you can override the exit method like the following: class MyParser(ArgumentParser): def exit(self, status=0, message=None): # do whatever you want here I would be nice to have this usage documented perhaps along with best practices for doing help messages in this scenario. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 117287 nosy: docs@python, jayt priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Documentation for argparse interactive use type: feature request versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9938> _______________________________________

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[issue10536] Enhancements to gettext docs
by Éric Araujo 09 May '19

09 May '19

New submission from Éric Araujo <merwok(a)netwok.org>: A patch made for #2504 revealed a bug in gettext.rst, and I’ve found a number of other things to change in the file. This is the first patch of a series of two or three. Barry, as the original author of the module and doc, I’d like your opinion on points 3, a, and b particularly. Patch is also uploaded to Rietveld for greater convenience: http://codereview.appspot.com/3333042/ (upload.py rocks) Summary: 1) Markup: Use modern class/method directives combo (yay DRY). Mark up variable parts in :file: constructs (e.g. :file:`{domain}.mo` will cause the HTML output to use var to indicate replaceable text). Also change some ``gettext`` to :program:`gettext` for consistency. 2) Fix a typo in lngettext doc (originally included in patch by Franz Glasner for #2504). 3) I had started to remove information about private attributes (_info, _charset), advertising public getter methods instead. Then I read the description of NullTranslations and realized the information was needed for subclasses. I’ve reverted my removals, but I still think the private attributes should be listed in a specific section for people writing subclasses and not in the rest of the text. If you’re okay, I’ll make a second patch. 4) Assorted wording changes, missing periods and hyphens, and other very small touch-ups: Turned a broken bare link into a working link with nice text; used the with statement in an example (we all love the with statement!); used two spaces after periods throughout (hello Fred Drake). Final note: lines have not been rewrapped, for diff clarity. When I commit part or all of this patch, I’ll make another commit to rewrap. Not addressed: a) The current docs is currently POSIX-specific. b) The docs take great care to explain that Unicode strings will be returned in different places, but this should not be so accented in 3.x docs IMO. I would just put a note somewhere near the top that all strings are str and remove the redundant sentences. Following that line of thought, I could group all l*gettext variants at the end of the list of methods, explaining that regular usage should just be happy with str objects and that l*gettext are available if people really want bytes. c) The file uses “built-in namespace” and “builtins namespace”, sometimes in neighbor paragraphs. :mod:`builtins` is not used, even in explanations of the install function/method. I don’t know if I should change that. d) Some capitalization patterns look strange to me: I have seen “I18N” and “L10N” in upper case nowhere else. Similarly, lower-case “id” looks stranger than “ID”. The latter is used for example in official GNU gettext docs. Am I going into foolish consistency territory or not? Thanks in advance for reviews and opinions. ---------- assignee: eric.araujo components: Documentation files: gettext-docs-1.diff keywords: needs review, patch messages: 122420 nosy: barry, docs@python, eric.araujo priority: normal severity: normal stage: patch review status: open title: Enhancements to gettext docs versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file19819/gettext-docs-1.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10536> _______________________________________

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[issue11001] Various obvious errors in cookies documentation
by Luke Plant 07 May '19

07 May '19

New submission from Luke Plant <L.Plant.98(a)cantab.net>: Docs for SimpleCookie, BaseCookie.value_encode and BaseCookie.value_decode are obviously incorrect. Attempt at patch attached. The error has existed in every Python version I've seen, I've tagged the ones I believe can receive fixes, sorry if I've made a mistake. Thanks. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: http_cookies_doc_corrections.diff keywords: patch messages: 126962 nosy: docs@python, spookylukey priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Various obvious errors in cookies documentation versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20507/http_cookies_doc_corrections.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11001> _______________________________________

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[issue10789] Lock.acquire documentation is misleading
by Jyrki Pulliainen 26 Apr '19

26 Apr '19

New submission from Jyrki Pulliainen <jyrki(a)dywypi.org>: In threading module, the Lock.acquire documentation is misleading. The signature suggests that the blocking can be given as a keyword argument but that would lead to an TypeError, as thread.lock.acquire does not accept keyword arguments. The signature in documentation should be formatted as in thread.lock.acquire. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 124861 nosy: Jyrki.Pulliainen, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Lock.acquire documentation is misleading versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10789> _______________________________________

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[issue10048] urllib.request documentation confusing
by Antoine Pitrou 26 Apr '19

26 Apr '19

New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou(a)free.fr>: The urllib.request documentation intermingles old 2.x urllib (FancyURLopener, etc.) with urllib2-inherited (*Handler, build_opener, etc.) primitives without making any distinction. This makes it rather confusing for the reader to figure out which ones to use. Ideally, the use of the old primitives should also be discouraged. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 118179 nosy: docs@python, orsenthil, pitrou priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: urllib.request documentation confusing versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10048> _______________________________________

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[issue9842] Document ... used in recursive repr of containers
by Éric Araujo 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

New submission from Éric Araujo <merwok(a)netwok.org>: Built-in containers like dict use an ellipsis to represent a recursive item. In the symbols index, “...” only links to the secondary prompt; I think it should also link to a paragraph explaining the display of recursive containers. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation keywords: easy messages: 116256 nosy: docs@python, eric.araujo priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Document ... used in recursive repr of containers versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9842> _______________________________________

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[issue11015] Bring test.support docs up to date
by Nick Coghlan 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

New submission from Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan(a)gmail.com>: The test.support docs are there to help CPython devs with writing good unit tests more easily. There are a few additions we've made in recent years that haven't made it into the .rst file, so it is easy to miss useful tools if you don't go looking through the module source code. There are some other helper modules (such as test.script_helper) that could also stand to be made easier to find. Fixing this is just a matter of doing a pass through test.support and the test directory looking for things that might be worth mentioning in the test package docs. ---------- assignee: docs@python keywords: easy messages: 127086 nosy: docs@python, ncoghlan priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Bring test.support docs up to date type: behavior _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11015> _______________________________________

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