On Jul 31, 4:53 pm, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > r wrote: > > On Jul 31, 4:16 pm, Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Jul 31, 1:10 pm, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: > > >>> I'm pretty new to Python, and I like a lot overall, but I find the > >>> documentation for Python rather poor, overall. > >>> I'm sure that Python experts don't have this problem: they have > >>> internalized some good ways to access the documentation, are > >>> productive with it, and therefore have lost the ability to see why > >>> the Python documentations is deficient for beginners. > >> That may be so, but I do remember when I was a beginner myself and I > >> had no issue with the documentation. > > > have you tried the new docs (>= 2.6) The interface has changed > > drastically as to render itself completely useless. The old docs (<= > > 2.5) --the ones i learned from-- where flawless. > > > @ Mark Lawrence > > Have you clicked any of those links? try the "Tutorial start here" and > > then try to find a menu of sorts. It seems you have to click "next" to > > navigate. Thats pretty counter intuitive if you need to get to page > > 589!! Upon clicking the tutorial link in the OLD DOCS, you where > > presented with a nice menu for concise navigation. > > Yes. Works perfectly as evidenced by the fact that this evening I've > checked data on the cProfile, pstats and array modules. > > -- > Kindest regards. > > Mark Lawrence.
Hold the phone... You checked data on modules using the "Tutorial Start Here" link? Would not the "Global Module Index" be more, shall we say, "informative"? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
