On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 3:48 PM Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > > On 5/20/2021 1:14 PM, boB Stepp wrote: > > On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 11:43 AM Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > >> > >> can you verify that the Algorithm chapter (near end in 2nd ed.) does > >> *NOT* have an introduction by Tim Peters? > >> (Info needed to verify timeit doc correction > >> https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/21744) > > > > In my 3rd edition copy chapter 1 is "Data Structures and Algorithms". > > The only thing comprising an introduction is a brief paragraph that > > starts the chapter and has no attribution. > > Hmm. 2nd ed starts with 1. Text. The intro mentioned was for 18. > Algorithms, starting with removing duplicates from a sequence.
3rd edition in chapter 1 starts with "1.1 Unpacking a Sequence into Separate Variables" Later in chapter is "1.10 Removing Duplicates from a Sequence while Maintaining Order". The preface does say the third edition is a major rewrite, so I suppose there will be significant differences from the 2nd edition which I don't own. boB Stepp -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list