[docs] Tutorial 6.1.2

Sandro Tosi sandro.tosi at gmail.com
Thu Apr 28 19:19:09 CEST 2011


Hello David,

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 21:09, David Blum <david at martinoblum.com> wrote:
> This is not a report of a bug in Python, but a criticism of the phrasing in
> the documentation.
>
> In Python Tutorial 6.1.2
> (docs.python.org/py3k/tutorial/modules.html#the-module-search-path) the
> second paragraph beginning with "Actually," is very alarming and
> disconcerting. It seems to mean that the preceding paragraph is not
> "actually" true and should be disregarded! I doubt that's what was intended,
> but I cannot quite understand just what the intended meaning was. How do
> these two paragraphs relate to one another? Are they both true? Is each one
> only partially true? Is there supposed to be some way of combining or
> synthesizing them into one coherent explanation? If so, it is not adequately
> communicated by the word "actually".

I just opened http://bugs.python.org/issue11948 to fix it.

Thanks,
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