Mailman 3 August 2012 - docs

http://docs.python.org/howto/urllib2.html#headers - error
by Maxim Boyarskiy 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

Hello, There is an error on: http://docs.python.org/howto/urllib2.html#headers There is : headers = { 'User-Agent' : user_agent } req = urllib2.Request(url, data, *headers*) If you want to add header, you should use request.add_header method: req = urllib2.Request(url, data, headers) *req.add_header(**'User-Agent', user_agent**)* Maxim.

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Tiny docs bug
by Steve Holden 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

In http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/smtpd.html the received_lines attribute of the SMTPChannel object uses "rn" for "\r\n" and "n" for "\n". Probably just a stropping error. regards Steve -- Steve Holden steve(a)holdenweb.com, Holden Web, LLC http://holdenweb.com/ Python classes (and much more) through the web http://oreillyschool.com/ Conferences and technical event management at http://theopenbastion.com/ Next: DjangoCon US Sep 6-8, Washington DC http://djangocon.us/

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minor documentation bug in random
by Shaddi Hasan 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

Hi there, I think I may have found a minor documentation bug (really, typo) in the documentation for Random. See: http://docs.python.org/library/random.html#random.setstate I believe it should read: "state should have been obtained from a previous call to getstate(), and setstate() restores the internal state of the generator to what it was at the time **getstate()** was called." Apologies if the mistake is in my understanding rather than the documentation. :) Shaddi

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Python tutorial required.
by Kishor Kp 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

Hi, Right now I would be learning Python Programming Language and I was searching for the best book on this. I found it to be from the author " Guido van Rossum". Could you please email the below book? - *Title* Python Tutorial - *Author(s)* Guido van Rossum - *Publisher:* Iuniverse Inc (April 2000); eBook (updated June 11, 2012) - *Hardcover/Paperback* 140 pages - *eBook* HTML and PDF files - *Language:* English - *ISBN-10:* 1583483756 - *ISBN-13:* 978-1475234039 Thanks, Kishor.

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missing quotation mark
by Yevgen Yampolskiy 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html Written: For example, 'ab c\n\nde fg\rkl\r\n'.splitlines() returns ['ab c', '', 'de fg', 'kl'], while the same call with splitlines(True) returns ['ab c\n', '\n , 'de fg\r', 'kl\r\n']. Should be: For example, 'ab c\n\nde fg\rkl\r\n'.splitlines() returns ['ab c', '', 'de fg', 'kl'], while the same call with splitlines(True) returns ['ab c\n', '\n ', 'de fg\r', 'kl\r\n']. Best, Yevgen.

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About documentation
by IBIRISOL FONTES FERREIRA 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

Hi there, I wanna learn python in more specific topics, but i didn't found in documentation. For example, How work the parameter passing in Python? How work the name space? How work memory allocation? I need this documentation for my study, plizzz, help me with documentation link... Bye,

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Programing issues [HELP]
by george 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

Hi, Guido van Rossum & Fred L. Drake, Jr., editor I had some problems with the tutorials so i've sent this screen shoot. Some of the output didn't match what I saw on your tutorial. My python version is: Python 3.2.3 and its the 64bit type on my Windows 7 (64bit) Home Premium. George NIgeria

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unnecessary coma in code-example
by Martin 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

Hi, sorry to bother, i think i found an unecessary comma at: http://docs.python.org/py3k/tutorial/datastructures.html#nested-list-compre… in the first code-example after the last element in the list >>> matrix = [ ... [1, 2, 3, 4], ... [5, 6, 7, 8], ... [9, 10, 11, 12], ... ] Thanks for providing such a great website and the superb organized content! Regards Martin

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an offer of proofreading
by Chris Jewell 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

Good day, I propose to read through at least the Library Reference (and perhaps more of the documentation) for 3.2.3, and send suggested corrections. Will it be best to send diffs of the .html files (which I would usually read anyway) or the plain text? Or are there source files from which you generate all of the distributed docs, and for which the diffs would be more useful? I started the process with the Lib Ref for an earlier version of Python 3 (as a way of learning the differences between Python 2 and 3), but was interrupted before I got around to sending the corrections, and never got back to it. I expect that many of the issues with the earlier version have been corrected by now, but I'll see what I can find. Thank you. -- Chris Jewell chrisj(a)puffin.com

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broken link to Geany IDE
by Tarbet, Karl L 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

Hello, The link http://geany.uvena.de/ on the page http://docs.python.org/using/unix.html#editors seems to be broken. Google suggests to me that you could use http://www.geany.org/ instead. Thanks, Karl

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