[issue1163367] correct/clarify documentation for super

2008-03-21 Thread Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: This issue seems to have foundered on finding an explanation for the finer points of super(). Perhaps the glaring errors could at least be corrected, or the fine points could be omitted or glossed over? For example change the first sentence

[issue10303] small inconsistency in tutorial

2010-11-07 Thread Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson k...@kentsjohnson.com added the comment: Attached patch deletes the referenced sentence. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +kjohnson Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file19536/issue10303.diff ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http

[issue4012] Minor errors in multiprocessing docs

2008-10-01 Thread Kent Johnson
New submission from Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the docs for AsyncResult http://docs.python.org/dev/library/multiprocessing.html#multiprocessing.pool.AsyncResult get([timeout) is missing a ] In the example following, it refers to pool.applyAsync() in two places; the docs spell

[issue4012] Minor errors in multiprocessing docs

2008-10-02 Thread Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Jesse Noller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jesse Noller [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: Which examples are you talking about Georg? I think you mean me, not Georg...I was referring to the example

[issue4017] IDLE 2.6 broken on OSX (Leopard)

2008-10-07 Thread Kent Johnson
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[issue4156] Docs for BaseHandler.protocol_xxx methods are unclear

2008-10-21 Thread Kent Johnson
New submission from Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the docs for urllib2.BaseHandler previous to Python 2.6, the names of the protocol_xxx() methods were spelled with 'protocol' in italics to indicate that it is a placeholder; the actual method name is e.g. http_opener(). http

[issue7935] Cross-reference ast.literal_eval() from eval() docs

2010-02-15 Thread Kent Johnson
New submission from Kent Johnson k...@kentsjohnson.com: eval() is a known security hole. Since Python 2.6 ast.literal_eval() provides a better alternative in many cases. literal_eval() is not as well known as eval() and not easy to find even if you know it exists (but don't remember the name

[issue3670] Reporting bugs - no such sections

2008-08-24 Thread Kent Johnson
New submission from Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The Reporting Bugs section of the Python 2.6b3 docs http://docs.python.org/dev/bugs.html says, please use either the “Add a comment” or the “Suggest a change” features of the relevant page in the most recent online documentation at http

[issue3671] What's New in 2.6 - corrections

2008-08-24 Thread Kent Johnson
New submission from Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: These are minor corrections to the What's New in Python 2.6[b3] doc. Note: the PEP references are to the headers in What's New, not the actual PEPs - PEP 371: The multiprocessing Package - apply() or apply_async, adding a single request

[issue3670] Reporting bugs - no such sections

2008-08-24 Thread Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: You should add something like the old About this document footer. AFAICT there is no information in the new docs about how to report a problem with the docs. ___ Python tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[issue3671] What's New in 2.6 - corrections

2008-09-04 Thread Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: For the itertools examples, perhaps you could remove the [ ] from the result text so it doesn't look like a list. For example: itertools.izip_longest([1,2,3], [1,2,3,4,5]) - (1, 1), (2, 2), (3, 3), (None, 4), (None, 5

[issue3866] int() doesn't 'guess'

2008-09-14 Thread Kent Johnson
New submission from Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The library reference for int() says, If radix is zero, the proper radix is guessed based on the contents of string; the interpretation is the same as for integer literals. The use of the word 'guess' implies that there is some heuristic used

[issue7310] Unhelpful __repr__() in os.environ

2009-11-12 Thread Kent Johnson
New submission from Kent Johnson k...@kentsjohnson.com: In Python 2.x, os.environ extends UserDict.IterableUserDict and therefore os.environ.__repr__() shows the environment. This makes it easy and intuitive to view the entire environment in the interactive interpreter. In Python 3.1

[issue17390] display python version on idle title bar

2013-04-13 Thread Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson added the comment: issue17390_editor_title.patch is not correct, it changes the title on any window that inherits from EditorWindow, including the shell window. Here is a new patch that changes short_title() instead of saved_change_hook(), so it can be overridden by derived

[issue17719] IDLE help text refers to incorrect Python version

2013-04-13 Thread Kent Johnson
New submission from Kent Johnson: The IDLE help text says, Running without a subprocess: (DEPRECATED in Python 3.5 see Issue 16123). According to the referenced issue, this feature is scheduled to be deprecated in *3.4* and *removed* in 3.5. The attached patch corrects the help text

[issue17719] IDLE help text refers to incorrect Python version

2013-04-13 Thread Kent Johnson
Kent Johnson added the comment: Note: this text does not appear in Doc/library/idle.rst so it does not have to be corrected there. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17719

[issue17390] display python version on idle title bar

2014-06-04 Thread Kent Johnson
Changes by Kent Johnson k...@kentsjohnson.com: -- nosy: -kjohnson ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17390 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list