New submission from Alexey Shamrin <sham...@gmail.com>: Maybe it's just me, but it took me several attempts to understand namedtuple example in the documentation [1]. The problem is that the first example uses verbose=True. It's very unusual to get Python source as the output in Python shell. At first I thought there's some syntax error in documentation source.
I know that several lines above one can read: "If verbose is true, the class definition is printed just before being built." But during first several attempts to understand namedtuple, I skipped it and directly scrolled to the first example. I think the first example on namedtuple usage shouldn't use verbose=True. You could argue I had to try using namedtuple inside Python shell. I agree. But unfortunately Python 2.6 was not installed on the computer I was at. [1]: http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html#collections.namedtuple ---------- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 91680 nosy: ash, georg.brandl severity: normal status: open title: collections.namedtuple: confusing example versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6722> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
