Tsue <tsued...@gmail.com> added the comment: I'm not new to computers, but I am very new to python and its symantics. I dont mean to be silly about this, but I do think little things count in the world. If lets say the file being loaded was the README file, then at least there would be some material to display. I'm simply saying, the tutorial does not actual show what happens, it implies the reader has some knowledge of programming and what is required to do the tutorial and get the same outputs. I dont read minds, and I only figured out what was going on after watching the file byte size go to zero, or destroying a copy of the README file. It would simply be good writing to be more explicit and accurate, more detail is better than less. If this is an issue in improving the tutorial, then, I have been asking too much.
- just on a side note, does the file need to be reloaded each time an EOF is reached when using f.read or f.readlines? Tsue. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Georg Brandl <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Georg Brandl <ge...@python.org> added the comment: > > I'm sorry, but isn't it a bit nonsensical to talk about file I/O if you > don't have files that contain anything? Also, it should be clear that > the object "f" is just the same that was opened before. > > Yes, this is a tutorial, but no, it is not meant to educate a person > completely new to computers about files etc. > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue5351> > _______________________________________ > _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5351> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
