Mailman 3 April 2016 - docs

[issue26747] types.InstanceType only for old style class only in 2.7
by Roundup Robot April 14, 2016

April 14, 2016

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset b684298671f9 by Berker Peksag in branch '2.7': Issue #26747: Document that InstanceTypes only works for old-style classes https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b684298671f9 ---------- nosy: +python-dev _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26747> _______________________________________

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Hard to parse, understand, or believe statement in 2.1 "Invoking the Interpreter."
by Steve Katzman April 13, 2016

April 13, 2016

The bold part of the following statement, from the 2.1 "Invoking the Interpreter" page of the tutorial, is hard to follow. "Some Python modules are also useful as scripts. These can be invoked using python -m module [arg] ..., which executes the source file for *module* *as if you had spelled out its full name on the command line."* Does it mean "as if you had spelled out the source file on the command line?" or perhaps "as if you had spelled out the full name of the script imbedded in the module?" It seems to read as though "its full name" refers to the name of the module typed in the invocation. Is this correct - does "name" in this context mean something different from the module name? Steve

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[issue16399] argparse: append action with default list adds to list instead of overriding
by Gabriel Devenyi April 13, 2016

April 13, 2016

Gabriel Devenyi added the comment: >From what I can tell a workaround for this still isn't documented. ---------- nosy: +Gabriel Devenyi _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16399> _______________________________________

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[issue26747] types.InstanceType only for old style class only in 2.7
by SilentGhost April 13, 2016

April 13, 2016

Changes by SilentGhost <ghost.adh(a)runbox.com>: ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation nosy: +docs@python stage: -> patch review _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26747> _______________________________________

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An typo in Python » Python 2.7.9 documentation » Tutorial » 6.3. The dir() Function
by Maksym Nikulyak April 13, 2016

April 13, 2016

Hi, there is a typo in the following listing: >>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] >>> import fibo >>> fib = fibo.fib >>> dir() ['__builtins__', '__name__', '__package__', 'a', 'fib', 'fibo', 'sys'] In the last line of the listing, the 'sys' item must not be in the list. Thanks,

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Re: [docs] Wrong documentation for PyUnicode_FromObject() (issue 15984)
by vadmium+py＠gmail.com April 13, 2016

April 13, 2016

https://bugs.python.org/review/15984/diff/16922/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst File Doc/c-api/unicode.rst (right): https://bugs.python.org/review/15984/diff/16922/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst#newco… Doc/c-api/unicode.rst:730: Copy a Unicode subtype object to a new base Unicode object if necessary. On 2016/04/10 13:06:50, storchaka wrote: > The term "base Unicode object" is not used anywhere else. The documentation for > PyUnicode_Check() and PyUnicode_CheckExact() say just about a Unicode object and > an instance of a Unicode subtype. The original comment in unicodeobject.h uses “true Unicode object”, so I will try that. I was trying to avoid it saying it copies a subtype to another object of the subtype. https://bugs.python.org/review/15984/

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[issue26699] locale.str docstring is incorrect: "Convert float to integer"
by Mark Dickinson April 12, 2016

April 12, 2016

New submission from Mark Dickinson: [Observed by one of my colleagues] The locale.str docstring currently looks like this (and apparently has been this way since the dawn of time): def str(val): """Convert float to integer, taking the locale into account.""" The output of str doesn't *look* like an integer on my machine. :-) Python 2.7.10 |Master 2.1.0.dev1829 (64-bit)| (default, Oct 21 2015, 09:09:19) [GCC 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2335.6)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import locale >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, 'fr_FR') 'fr_FR' >>> locale.str(34.56) '34,56' ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation keywords: easy messages: 262936 nosy: docs@python, mark.dickinson priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: locale.str docstring is incorrect: "Convert float to integer" type: behavior versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.5, Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26699> _______________________________________

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locale.str docstring is incorrect: "Convert float to integer" (issue 26699)
by senthil＠uthcode.com April 12, 2016

April 12, 2016

Thanks for the patch, poleto. Looks good to me. http://bugs.python.org/review/26699/

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[issue25496] tarfile: Default value for compresslevel is not documented
by Martin Panter April 12, 2016

April 12, 2016

Martin Panter added the comment: Thanks for the patch Hamza ---------- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25496> _______________________________________

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[issue25496] tarfile: Default value for compresslevel is not documented
by Roundup Robot April 12, 2016

April 12, 2016

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset b1f3fe320adf by Martin Panter in branch '3.5': Issue #25496: Document compresslevel defaults to 9, by Hamza T Khan https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b1f3fe320adf New changeset a04455866ec7 by Martin Panter in branch 'default': Issue #25496: Merge tarfile doc from 3.5 https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a04455866ec7 New changeset 4b9d70d3ba1b by Martin Panter in branch '2.7': Issue #25496: Document compresslevel defaults to 9, by Hamza T Khan https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4b9d70d3ba1b ---------- nosy: +python-dev _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25496> _______________________________________

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