Mailman 3 March 2011 - docs

[issue9802] Document 'stability' of builtin min() and max()
by Matthew Woodcraft March 4, 2011

March 4, 2011

New submission from Matthew Woodcraft <matthew(a)woodcraft.me.uk>: In CPython, the builtin max() and min() have the property that if there are items with equal keys, the first item is returned. From a quick look at their source, I think this is true for Jython and IronPython too. I propose making this a documented guarantee. On Python-dev, Raymond Hettinger said: << That seems like a reasonable request. This behavior has been around for a very long time is unlikely to change. … [View More]

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chaos
by Colin Reveley March 4, 2011

March 4, 2011

here: http://docs.python.org/library/turtle.html#demo-scripts you say that chaotic behavior "proves that you cannot trust a computer's computations" well, the opposite is the case. it proves you can trust computations absolutely. the computations are deterministic. they are correct. that's how the lorenz attractor was discovered. you do need to know what a computer does (and to what) when it computes, and what it doesn't, and how to interpret it. it's misleading to say that computation is … [View More]

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[issue11368] Document why xml.etree.ElementTree.Element has no reference to parent
by Georg Brandl March 4, 2011

March 4, 2011

Changes by Georg Brandl <georg(a)python.org>: ---------- title: xml.etree.ElementTree.Element should have a reference to parent -> Document why xml.etree.ElementTree.Element has no reference to parent _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11368> _______________________________________

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[issue11368] xml.etree.ElementTree.Element should have a reference to parent
by Georg Brandl March 4, 2011

March 4, 2011

Changes by Georg Brandl <georg(a)python.org>: ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation -XML nosy: +docs@python _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11368> _______________________________________

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plistlib doc
by David Cotter March 3, 2011

March 3, 2011

http://docs.python.org/library/plistlib.html does not list all the available methods of each new class please document: for example: what are the methods of "Dict" ? 'clear', 'copy', 'fromkeys', 'get', 'has_key', 'items', 'iteritems', 'iterkeys', 'itervalues', 'keys', 'pop', 'popitem', 'setdefault', 'update', 'values' these are not documented and what about all the other classes? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David M. Cotter … [View More]

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Documentation bug in 25.2.3.5. Option Flags and Directives
by David Bronke March 3, 2011

March 3, 2011

In section 25.2.3.5, "Option Flags and Directives" at http://docs.python.org/dev/library/doctest.html<http://docs.python.org/dev/library/doctest.html?highlight=doctest#doctest>, the code examples for doctest directives don't actually show the directives themselves; they seem to be hidden.

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[issue11372] Remove xrange from argparse docs
by Ross Lagerwall March 3, 2011

March 3, 2011

New submission from Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall(a)gmail.com>: As the title says, this patch replaces xrange with range for the 3.3 docs. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: doc.patch keywords: patch messages: 129876 nosy: docs@python, rosslagerwall priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Remove xrange from argparse docs versions: Python 3.3 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20974/doc.patch _______________________________________ … [View More]

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tutorial example bug: filter function
by Schaffer, Steve (317J) March 2, 2011

March 2, 2011

There is a bug in the first example (or at least bug in the description of it) at: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html#functional-programming-… The prose introducing the example reads: "For example, to compute primes up to 25:" And then the actual example shows output: "[5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23]" The actual list of prime numbers less than 25 should include both 2 and 3: "[2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23]" The filter f(x) in the example actually tests for multiples of 2 … [View More]

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Regarding standard Hex32 bit conversion
by GV, Krishnan (GE Transportation, Non-GE) March 2, 2011

March 2, 2011

Hi, I have been learning python for the last few months. I was not able to find a function for conversion from a 32-bit Hexadecimal Representation To Decimal Floating-Point. The one included in the library is really tough to use. Hence I have written my own. Kindly go through and acknowledge if u like it or otherwise. def hexconvert32(str_rcv): #string received :str_rcv str_rcv='0x'+str_rcv #appending 0x to it str_bin=bin(int(str_rcv,16)) #converting to binary k=[] #… [View More]

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[issue11366] xml.etree.ElementTree.Element: docs should mention immediate subelement
by anatoly techtonik March 2, 2011

March 2, 2011

anatoly techtonik <techtonik(a)gmail.com> added the comment: See also http://diveintopython3.org/xml.html#xml-find ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11366> _______________________________________

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