Mailman 3 September 2016 - docs

[issue27957] minor typo in importlib docs
by George London Sept. 5, 2016

Sept. 5, 2016

New submission from George London: An extra apostrophe made the grammar of a method description ambiguous. The attached patch removes the apostrophe. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: mywork.patch keywords: patch messages: 274429 nosy: docs@python, gjlondon priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: minor typo in importlib docs type: enhancement versions: Python 3.5 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file44377/mywork.patch … [View More]

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[issue27949] Fix description in bytes literal doc
by Xiang Zhang Sept. 3, 2016

Sept. 3, 2016

New submission from Xiang Zhang: This sentence "bytes with a numeric value of 128 or greater must be expressed with escapes" is wrong and not complete. The value needs to be escaped is >= 127 and < 32. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: lexical_bytes_literal.patch keywords: patch messages: 274297 nosy: docs@python, xiang.zhang priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Fix description in bytes literal doc type: enhancement versions: Python 3.6 … [View More]

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[issue27902] pstats.Stats: strip_dirs() method cannot handle file paths from different OS
by Jaroslav Sept. 2, 2016

Sept. 2, 2016

Jaroslav added the comment: The paragraph is ok. I'll open. Thanks a lot. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27902> _______________________________________

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Add documentation for typing.Type (issue 27905)
by levkivskyi＠gmail.com Sept. 2, 2016

Sept. 2, 2016

http://bugs.python.org/review/27905/diff/18277/Doc/library/typing.rst File Doc/library/typing.rst (right): http://bugs.python.org/review/27905/diff/18277/Doc/library/typing.rst#newco… Doc/library/typing.rst:507: A variable of type ``Type[C]`` represents the class object of some object I would formulate this a bit longer: A variable annotated with ``C`` can take values that have type ``C``. In contrast a variable annotated with ``Type[C]`` can take values that are classes themselves, namely … [View More]

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Download Python 3.5.2 Documentation
by dan Sept. 2, 2016

Sept. 2, 2016

Hi, I am from China, and I want to download the python 3.5 document in pdf form, but when I clicked the link, it turned out "404 error". so could you help to fix this problem? Or are these documents no longer been provided for users downloading?

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[issue901727] extra_path kwarg to setup() undocumented
by Jason R. Coombs Sept. 1, 2016

Sept. 1, 2016

Jason R. Coombs added the comment: Given the progression in issue27919, I suggest this documentation effort can be dropped, but feel free to revive the conversation if you disagree. ---------- nosy: +jason.coombs resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <report(a)bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue901727> _______________________________________

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Broken links on Download page
by post＠vladimirboyd.ru Sept. 1, 2016

Sept. 1, 2016

Hello guys and girls, I was trying to download archives off of your Downloads page (https://docs.python.org/3.4/download.html) for Python 3.4 (https://docs.python.org/ftp/python/doc/3.4.5/python-3.4.5-docs-html.tar.bz2) and some of the links just don't work. Please, inform the person responsible for the page. Thank you, Vladimir Boyd.

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[issue26051] Non-data descriptors in pydoc
by Antony Lee Sept. 1, 2016

Sept. 1, 2016

New submission from Antony Lee: Consider the following minimal example: class readonlyprop: __init__ = lambda self, func: None __get__ = lambda self, inst, cls=None: None class C: def bar(self): pass @readonlyprop def foo(self): pass def quux(self): pass the output of `pydoc modname.C` is <... cropped ...> modname.C = class C(builtins.object) | Methods defined here: | | … [View More]

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