[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Doc/tut tut.tex, 1.196.8.23, 1.196.8.24

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Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Doc/tut
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv31095

Modified Files:
      Tag: release23-maint
	tut.tex 
Log Message:
- show how to use file.write() with a non-string value
  (closes SF bug #621057)
- add missing whitespace around assignment operator
(backported from trunk revision 1.257)


Index: tut.tex
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Doc/tut/tut.tex,v
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diff -u -d -r1.196.8.23 -r1.196.8.24
--- tut.tex	22 Aug 2004 15:27:16 -0000	1.196.8.23
+++ tut.tex	2 Nov 2004 18:26:05 -0000	1.196.8.24
@@ -3069,6 +3069,15 @@
 >>> f.write('This is a test\n')
 \end{verbatim}
 
+To write something other than a string, it needs to be converted to a
+string first:
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+>>> value = ('the answer', 42)
+>>> s = str(value)
+>>> f.write(s)
+\end{verbatim}
+
 \code{f.tell()} returns an integer giving the file object's current
 position in the file, measured in bytes from the beginning of the
 file.  To change the file object's position, use
@@ -3081,7 +3090,7 @@
 using the beginning of the file as the reference point.
 
 \begin{verbatim}
->>> f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'r+')
+>>> f = open('/tmp/workfile', 'r+')
 >>> f.write('0123456789abcdef')
 >>> f.seek(5)     # Go to the 6th byte in the file
 >>> f.read(1)