Mailman 3 December 2012 - docs

[issue4395] Document auto __ne__ generation; provide a use case for non-trivial __ne__
by Nick Coghlan Dec. 8, 2012

Dec. 8, 2012

Changes by Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan(a)gmail.com>: ---------- nosy: +antocuni _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4395> _______________________________________

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[issue4395] Document auto __ne__ generation; provide a use case for non-trivial __ne__
by Nick Coghlan Dec. 8, 2012

Dec. 8, 2012

Changes by Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan(a)gmail.com>: ---------- nosy: +ncoghlan _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4395> _______________________________________

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[issue16609] float loses precision when passed to str()
by Terry J. Reedy Dec. 8, 2012

Dec. 8, 2012

Changes by Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy(a)udel.edu>: ---------- status: pending -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16609> _______________________________________

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[issue14901] Python Windows FAQ is Very Outdated
by Ashish Nitin Patil Dec. 7, 2012

Dec. 7, 2012

Ashish Nitin Patil added the comment: Just added my name to the Misc/ACKS. ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file28250/faq+ack.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14901> _______________________________________

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[issue14901] Python Windows FAQ is Very Outdated
by Ashish Nitin Patil Dec. 7, 2012

Dec. 7, 2012

Ashish Nitin Patil added the comment: Made most of the relevant changes & updation to the FAQ. 1. Updated references to Windows 7/XP/Vista & dropped all references & solutions on older Windows. 2. Also, many of the ending FAQs like cw3215mt.dll, CTL3D32 were completely dropped as I found that the googled pages show most results(pages) dating back more than 10 years. 3. Modified the questioon on 'freeze' to 'conversion from py to exe' 4. Did not touch questions that I am not familiar with, like CGI, os.kill(), etc. 5. Dropped questions that were directly in respect to older (unsupported) Windows. Any suggestion/correction is wel-received. My first patch! :-) \m/ ---------- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file28245/faq.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14901> _______________________________________

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[issue14901] Python Windows FAQ is Very Outdated
by Ashish Nitin Patil Dec. 7, 2012

Dec. 7, 2012

Ashish Nitin Patil added the comment: Found this - http://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html Seems like my work got a bit easy. Need to truncate the bits & bytes oof the document so as to fit with FAQ system. I think I will also need to do changes to the official wiki (online) too. Any help/suggestion is appreciated. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14901> _______________________________________

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xml.etree.ElementTree.tostring
by Quarante-Deux Dec. 7, 2012

Dec. 7, 2012

Hello, For http://docs.python.org/2/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html#xml.etree.Eleme… could you please add that if the tag of the element is set to None, said tag is omitted in the resulting bytes: Python 3.3.0 (v3.3.0:bd8afb90ebf2, Sep 29 2012, 01:25:11) from xml.etree.ElementTree import fromstring, tostring e = fromstring('<xml>example accentué</xml>') tostring(e) --> b'<xml>example accentué</xml>' e.tag = None tostring(e) --> b'example accentué' Very handy in a templating context. Also, tostring returns bytes and should be named tobytes, actually :-) If what you really want is a string you should use : tostring(e, encoding='unicode') --> 'example accentué' Hum… Thank you. Quarante-Deux: quelques pages sur la SF Ellen C. Herzfeld - Dominique O. Martel http://www.quarante-deux.org/ - @xlii42 http://www.quarante-deux.org/index.atom

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[issue14901] Python Windows FAQ is Very Outdated
by Ashish Nitin Patil Dec. 6, 2012

Dec. 6, 2012

Ashish Nitin Patil added the comment: Is anyone currently working on this issue? I am a newbie & am really looking forward to contributing, but, quite unsure of what exact changes need to be made to the FAQ documentation. The previous comments are very helpful & I am going to proceed with the same. Senior or Core developer suggestions/corrections are welcome anytime. ---------- nosy: +ashishnitinpatil _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14901> _______________________________________

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sum()
by bob gailer Dec. 6, 2012

Dec. 6, 2012

Currently: sum(iterable[, start]) Sums start and the items of an iterable from left to right and returns the total. start defaults to 0. The iterable‘s items are normally numbers, and the start value is not allowed to be a string I just learned that sum([[1,2],[3,4]],[]) produces: [1, 2, 3, 4] I would never have guessed that from the explanation above! I think the terms "sum" and "total" are misleading. apply(operator.add, [[1,2], [3,4]]) generates the same result, but emphasizes the use of +. I suggest either explaining this explicitly or providing an example. -- Bob Gailer 919-636-4239 Chapel Hill NC

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datetime.time inconsistency
by Sean Munkel Dec. 6, 2012

Dec. 6, 2012

In the 2.x (and 3.0) version of the python documentation, the arguments for datetime.time are listed as follows: datetime.time(hour[, minute[, second[, microsecond[, tzinfo]]]]) While the builtin python help() function says this: time([hour[, minute[, second[, microsecond[, tzinfo]]]]]) The online documentation seems to suggest that "hour" is a required argument, which isn't the case.

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