Mailman 3 November 2013 - docs

[issue19541] ast.dump(indent=True) prettyprinting
by anatoly techtonik Nov. 9, 2013

Nov. 9, 2013

New submission from anatoly techtonik: ast.dump needs an indent argument for pretty printing. from pprint import pprint as pp pp(ast.dump(node)) "Assign(targets=[Tuple(elts=[Name(id='d', ctx=Store()), Name(id='m', ctx=Store())], ctx=Store())], value=Call(func=Name(id='divmod', ctx=Load()), args=[Call(func=Name(id='len', ctx=Load()), args=[Name(id='seq', ctx=Load())], keywords=[], starargs=None, kwargs=None), Name(id='size', ctx=Load())], keywords=[], starargs=None, kwargs=None))" -----… [View More]

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[issue19540] PEP339: Fix link to Zephyr ASDL paper
by anatoly techtonik Nov. 9, 2013

Nov. 9, 2013

Changes by anatoly techtonik <techtonik(a)gmail.com>: ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation hgrepos: 213 nosy: docs@python, techtonik priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: PEP339: Fix link to Zephyr ASDL paper _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19540> _______________________________________

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Documentation is missing for distutils.version for Python 3.2
by Michel Albert Nov. 8, 2013

Nov. 8, 2013

See http://docs.python.org/3.2/distutils/apiref.html#module-distutils.version Apparently, the docs for 2.7 are empty as well: http://docs.python.org/2/distutils/apiref.html#module-distutils.version

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Invalid method name in example for multiprocessing 3.2
by Viktor Lucza Nov. 8, 2013

Nov. 8, 2013

The problem was found here: http://docs.python.org/3.2/library/multiprocessing.html#module-multiprocess… I believe one of these should be called next instead of __next__: # Proxy type for generator objectsclass GeneratorProxy(BaseProxy): _exposed_ = ('next', '__next__') def __iter__(self): return self def __next__(self): return self._callmethod('next') def __next__(self): return self._callmethod('__next__') -- Viktor Lucza

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[issue18985] Improve the documentation in fcntl module
by Vajrasky Kok Nov. 7, 2013

Nov. 7, 2013

New submission from Vajrasky Kok: The attached patch fixed typos and improved the documentation to improve the clarity in Modules/fcntlmodule.c. Please see the attached patch and feel free to disagree with the improvement. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: fix_documentation_on_fcntl_module.patch keywords: patch messages: 197358 nosy: docs@python, vajrasky priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Improve the documentation in fcntl module type: … [View More]

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A possible bug in the "property()" function documentation
by Guangzhi Xu (ENV) Nov. 7, 2013

Nov. 7, 2013

Hello: I have noticed one, probably not strictly a "bug", maybe just one problematic sentence: "This code is exactly equivalent to the first example. Be sure to give the additional functions the same name as the original property (x in this case.)" My doubt is that those 2 blocks of codes are not exactly equivalent. In the first example: class C(object): def __init__(self): self._x = None def getx(self): return self._x def setx(self, value): self._x = … [View More]

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[issue19517] sysconfig variables introduced by PEP-3149 are currently undocumented
by Yury V. Zaytsev Nov. 7, 2013

Nov. 7, 2013

New submission from Yury V. Zaytsev: PEP-3149 (issue9193) introduces new variables (SO and SOABI) so that one can find out what are the supported extension suffixes. Quote from the PEP: >>> sysconfig.get_config_var('SO') '.cpython-32mu.so' >>> sysconfig.get_config_var('SOABI') 'cpython-32mu' Later, in issue16754, doko introduced EXT_SUFFIX & SHLIB_SUFFIX and planned to update the PEP, but this didn't happen. This caused discrepancy in the news (issue11234), and the … [View More]

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[issue7061] Improve turtle module documentation
by A.M. Kuchling Nov. 6, 2013

Nov. 6, 2013

A.M. Kuchling added the comment: Is there anything left to do for this issue? ---------- nosy: +akuchling _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7061> _______________________________________

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[issue3849] FUD in documentation for urllib.urlopen()
by A.M. Kuchling Nov. 6, 2013

Nov. 6, 2013

Changes by A.M. Kuchling <lists(a)amk.ca>: ---------- keywords: -easy _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3849> _______________________________________

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Doubt
by CAIXA DE SERVICO SWHOMOL Nov. 6, 2013

Nov. 6, 2013

Good morning Python. The Python software it's very interesting, therefore we have a question. Would like to know if it's allowed to use free the Python 3.3.2 AMD64 software for commercial projects or if only through acquisition a purchase order? Regards, Marcos _______________________ Homologação de Hardware e Software Embratel (Brazilian Telecommunications Company) swhomol(a)embratel.com.br<mailto:swhomol@embratel.com.br> [cid:image001.jpg@01CEDA1F.884F1AD0] … [View More]

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