Mailman 3 August 2011 - docs

[issue12719] Direct access to tp_dict can lead to stale attributes
by Roundup Robot Aug. 9, 2011

Aug. 9, 2011

Roundup Robot <devnull(a)psf.upfronthosting.co.za> added the comment: New changeset 6ef65516fd7a by Benjamin Peterson in branch '3.2': note mutating tp_dict is bad (closes #12719) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6ef65516fd7a New changeset 69df5a8d164e by Benjamin Peterson in branch 'default': merge 3.2 (#12719) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/69df5a8d164e ---------- nosy: +python-dev resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed … [View More]

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[issue12719] Direct access to tp_dict can lead to stale attributes
by Benjamin Peterson Aug. 9, 2011

Aug. 9, 2011

Benjamin Peterson <benjamin(a)python.org> added the comment: This is forbidden, and I agree there should be a doc note. See #1878. ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation -Extension Modules nosy: +benjamin.peterson, docs@python _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12719> _______________________________________

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bug in a documentation exemple
by Nicolas Vanheuverzwijn Aug. 9, 2011

Aug. 9, 2011

At http://docs.python.org/tutorial/interpreter.html Every print should be written with parenthesis I think because 'print "printtest" ' doesn't work in python 3.0. Print("test") works. -- Nicolas

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Tutorial code is missing a break statement
by philip＠primacystudios.com Aug. 9, 2011

Aug. 9, 2011

Hello, In section 4.4 "break and continue..." of the v2.7.2 tutorial documentation the loop iterates and returns a different output than what is depicted. Documentation printed output: 2 is a prime number 3 is a prime number 4 equals 2 * 2 5 is a prime number 6 equals 2 * 3 7 is a prime number 8 equals 2 * 4 9 equals 3 * 3 Here is the code: >>> for n in range(2, 10): ... for x in range(2, n): ... if n % x == 0: ... print n, 'equals', x, '*', n/x ... break ... else: ... # … [View More]

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urllib2.urlopen() seems to have worse documentation than urllib.urlopen()
by Daniel Holth Aug. 7, 2011

Aug. 7, 2011

I know I should probably be using httplib9 by now, but urllib2.urlopen() doesn't document its return object's getcode() method even though it seems to have one as documented in urllib.urlopen() Thanks, Daniel Holth

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[issue10741] PyGILState_GetThisThreadState() lacks a doc entry
by Antoine Pitrou Aug. 7, 2011

Aug. 7, 2011

New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou(a)free.fr>: PyGILState_GetThisThreadState() is "documented" in Include/pystate.h but not in the official docs. It should be documented along PyGILState_Ensure() and friends. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 124394 nosy: docs@python, haypo, pitrou priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: PyGILState_GetThisThreadState() lacks a doc entry versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 … [View More]

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[issue12677] Turtle, fix right/left rotation orientation
by Sandro Tosi Aug. 7, 2011

Aug. 7, 2011

New submission from Sandro Tosi <sandro.tosi(a)gmail.com>: Hello, following up http://mail.python.org/pipermail/docs/2011-July/005235.html here's 2 patch (for 3.3 + 3.2 and 2.7) to correct the orientation in the documentation, using turtle.right instead of turtle.left, since the work 'counterclockwise' (even if correct and already used) might be "too heavy". I don't think the sense of the introductory part is voided with the change in the method name instead of fixing what it does. -----… [View More]

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[issue12697] timeit documention still refers to the timeit.py script
by Senthil Kumaran Aug. 6, 2011

Aug. 6, 2011

Senthil Kumaran <senthil(a)uthcode.com> added the comment: Thanks for the report, Boris Feld and Alexis. ---------- assignee: alexis -> docs@python nosy: +docs@python, orsenthil _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12697> _______________________________________

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[issue11047] Bad description for a change
by Oren Held Aug. 6, 2011

Aug. 6, 2011

New submission from Oren Held <oren(a)held.org.il>: In the "what's new in 2.7", there is some mistake in the description of issue 7902. 7902, afaik, disables the fallback to absolute import, when requesting a relative import fails. If I got it right, the description states the opposite. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: whatsnew_issue_7902_fix.patch keywords: patch messages: 127317 nosy: Oren_Held, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: … [View More]

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[issue12686] argparse - document (and improve?) use of SUPPRESS with help=
by R. David Murray Aug. 3, 2011

Aug. 3, 2011

R. David Murray <rdmurray(a)bitdance.com> added the comment: This is partly a doc issue, but there also appear to be bugs in the way the existing functionality works (although it is hard to tell for sure since it isn't documented :) Try using the value argparse.SUPPRESS as the value of help= in various places and you'll see what I mean. ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation, Library (Lib) -None keywords: +easy nosy: +bethard, docs@python, r.david.murray … [View More]

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