Mailman 3 February 2012 - docs

[issue14112] tutorial intro talks of "shallow copy" concept without explanation
by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe Aug. 24, 2019

Aug. 24, 2019

New submission from Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang(a)gmail.com>: Relevant line: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/e2eccc906354/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rs… When the concept is introduced, it appears like there's an assumption that the reader would know what it means. I'm curious if it's that common a term that it should be taken for granted, or if it deserves a definition. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 154151 nosy: docs@python, tshepang priority: … [View More]

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[issue12634] Random Remarks in class documentation
by Ashutosh Swain Aug. 23, 2019

Aug. 23, 2019

New submission from Ashutosh Swain <ats.engg(a)gmail.com>: URL: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/classes.html section: 9.4 Random Remarks The first sentense is bit confusing: "Data attributes override method attributes with the same name" Is it possible to change the sentense something like this: "Data attributes set through instance override method attributes with the same name" ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 141073 nosy: ats.engg, docs@python … [View More]

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[issue14050] Tutorial, list.sort() and items comparability
by Sandro Tosi Aug. 22, 2019

Aug. 22, 2019

New submission from Sandro Tosi <sandro.tosi(a)gmail.com>: I'm providing patches for what reported at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/docs/2012-February/007481.html . I'm not sure on wording or even if we want them in the tutorial section, but I think it would be nice to have it documented nonetheless. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: list_sort-py27.diff keywords: patch messages: 153648 nosy: docs@python, sandro.tosi priority: normal severity: normal … [View More]

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[issue11165] Document PyEval_Call* functions
by Nick Coghlan Aug. 8, 2019

Aug. 8, 2019

New submission from Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan(a)gmail.com>: There are currently undocumented PyEval_Call* equivalents to a number of the PyObject_Call* functions. Since there are resources out there on the web that direct people to use the currently undocumented PyEval functions, it would be good to document those properly, and recommend people typically use the PyObject_Call* variants instead (as the latter include all the stack and interpreter state integrity protection code, while the … [View More]

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[issue13127] xml.dom.Attr.name is not labeled as read-only
by Dillon Amburgey July 13, 2019

July 13, 2019

New submission from Dillon Amburgey <dillona(a)dillona.com>: http://docs.python.org/library/xml.dom.html#dom-attr-objects does not label the name attribute as read-only (like localName) even though it is. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 145155 nosy: dillona, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: xml.dom.Attr.name is not labeled as read-only _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.… [View More]

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[issue12217] Cross-link docs for faulthandler, traceback and pdb
by Éric Araujo July 13, 2019

July 13, 2019

New submission from Éric Araujo <merwok(a)netwok.org>: haypo suggested linking between traceback.print_tb and faulthandler.dump_traceback(). See also links between pdb and faulthandler could also be nice, if they explain briefly how the modules differ. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation keywords: easy messages: 137298 nosy: docs@python, eric.araujo, haypo priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Cross-link docs for faulthandler, … [View More]

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[issue13286] PEP 3151 breaks backward compatibility: it should be documented
by STINNER Victor May 13, 2019

May 13, 2019

New submission from STINNER Victor <victor.stinner(a)haypocalc.com>: The following example works on Python 2.7 and 3.2, but fails on Python 3.3: ----------- import errno import os try: os.rmdir("testdir") except: pass os.mkdir("testdir") try: try: os.mkdir("testdir") except IOError as exc: # If can't get proper access, then just forget about writing # the data. if exc.errno == errno.EACCES: pass else: raise … [View More]

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[issue10536] Enhancements to gettext docs
by Éric Araujo May 9, 2019

May 9, 2019

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 … [View More]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> _______________________________________ [View Less]

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[issue12188] PEP 7, C style: add ++ policy and explanation
by Terry J. Reedy May 9, 2019

May 9, 2019

New submission from Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy(a)udel.edu>: In response to a discussion of a patch removing 'useless' post-increments, (which issue has apparently come up before) Guido posted "> Sorry to butt in here, but I agree with Eric that it was better > before. There is a common idiom, *pointer++ =<something>, and > whenever you see that you know that you are appending something to an > output buffer. Perhaps the most important idea here is that this > maintains … [View More]

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[issue11001] Various obvious errors in cookies documentation
by Luke Plant May 7, 2019

May 7, 2019

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, … [View More]

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