[New-bugs-announce] [issue4196] library documentation errors

[David W. Lambert]

New submission from David W. Lambert <lambertdw at corning.com>:

4 problems noted here.

Thanks, Dave.

1,2---problems 1 & 2 concern py<3k references:

http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/library/multiprocessing.html


1) "apply(func[, args[, kwds]])
Equivalent of the apply() builtin function. It blocks till the result 
is ready."

Of course there isn't any longer an "apply" builtin.


2) "imap(func, iterable[, chunksize])
An equivalent of itertools.imap()."

Likewise, there's no "itertools.imap".  Perhaps use 
itertools.some_sort_of_truncating_wrapper(itertools.zip_longest(...))?


This brings us to the itertools problem.


3,4---problems 3 & 4 concern "izip" in: 

http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/library/itertools.html

This mentions "izip_longest()", but there isn't an "izip_anything" in 
py3k itertools.  Searching the page for the string "izip" produces two 
separate occurrences.  izip_longest -> zip_longest but I don't know 
how to fix the other one.

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assignee: georg.brandl
components: Documentation
messages: 75176
nosy: LambertDW, georg.brandl
severity: normal
status: open
title: library documentation errors
versions: Python 3.0

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