Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment:
I concur with Lisa that this is something the people need to learn (that is why they're taking a class). FWIW, I've seen people copy square brackets for optional arguments, "mypow(base[, exp])" and angle brackets for syntax, "<pos_result> if <cond> else <neg_result>". We also see it with the ellipsis. Accordingly, there should be a FAQ entry or tutorial section on meta-syntactic variable and syntax placeholders. The would also be a good place to cover the confusing "/" and "*" notations generated by the argument clinic: __getattribute__(self, name, /). FWIW, if your students are also cutting-and-pasting the prompt, this is clearly an education issue and not an issue with the venv docs. ---------- nosy: +rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35221> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
