[Doc-SIG] Doc html Index only works with netscape

[Fetherston, Tom]

file:///C:/Python20/Doc/ref/types.html#l2h-80
This is the resolved link for the "sequence object" under the 
entry for "Sequence".  Now types.html has an entry talking about
Sequences, so I assume the fragment "#l2h-80" is supposed to bring
that area into view.
This is the html source at that jpoint:

<P>
</DD>
</DL> 
<P>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>Sequences</STRONG></DT>
<DD>These represent finite ordered sets indexed by natural numbers.
The built-in function <tt class="function">len()</tt> returns the
number of items of a sequence.
When the length of a sequence is <var>n</var>, the
index set contains the numbers 0, 1, ..., <var>n</var>-1.  Item
<var>i</var> of sequence <var>a</var> is selected by
<code><var>a</var>[<var>i</var>]</code>.

I'm unclear how "#l2h-80" refers to this point.  As Richard Gordon pointed
out,
fragments usually point to named anchor, and there isn't one here.

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred L. Drake, Jr. [mailto:fdrake@acm.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 3:53 PM
To: Fetherston, Tom
Cc: Doc-SIG List
Subject: RE: [Doc-SIG] Doc html Index only works with netscape



Fetherston, Tom writes:
 > It seems that this type of fragment (which I don't understand, and can't
 > find in Html reference books) only works in Netscape.

  I'm confused by what you mean "this type of fragment" -- there's
nothing special going on here.  The first character is a lower case
"L", not the digit "1", in case that's hard to tell.

 > I note that the Window download of Python has the Doc type set to
netscape
 > docs.

  This must be a Mac-specific thing; I don't know what this is about.
Do MSIE and Netscape use different file types for HTML documents on
the Mac?  (Well, I *do* remember that there are file type codes on the
Mac, I just don't know what Netscape and MSIE have to do with that.)


  -Fred

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