English version for Mémento Python 3 (draft, readers needed)
Laurent Pointal
laurent.pointal at free.fr
Wed Jun 6 13:19:04 EDT 2012
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> Am 05.06.2012 19:32, schrieb Laurent Pointal:
>> I started a first translation of my document originally in french. Could
>> some fluent english people read it and indicate errors or bad english
>> expressions.
>
> Just one note up front: Languages or nationalities are written with
> uppercase letters, like English and French. Other common faults of that
> category are days of the week (Monday..) and month names (January..),
> although that's irrelevant for your doc.
I modified slightly the page, to have first links in the page for document
downloading (and other links deeper in the page).
> Another thing I noticed that was missing was that the "in" keyword can
> not only be used to iterate over a sequence (for i in seq:...) but also
> to test if something is contained in a sequence (if i in seq:...).
I reworked the second page to have less informations about string formating
(nice, but less important than operations on containers), and add sections
on containers, lists, dictionaries and set.
> "don't miss to close file after use": Use a "with" statement.
Added as a note.
> "see verso for string formatting..." - what is "verso"?
Modified with Paul indications (its the "other side" in french - from
latin).
> "dont" -> "don't"
Done.
> "char strings" -> "strings" (in the context of indexing, byte strings
> have the same syntax)
Modified (even if I dont teach byte strings with my students).
> "with several else if, else if..." - there is no "else if" but "elif".
Modified (it was originally a translation from french, but the
correcpondance between english version and keywords can be confusing).
> "block else for other cases" - this sounds as if it was blocking the
> else. Maybe "else-block for other cases", but English hyphenation is
> complicated and I'm not sure.
Modified to "else block..."
Thanks for your reading and comments.
A+
Laurent.
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