thanks for the help... ------- the python doc is stilted. It tried to organized the thing and with a style around some highbrow inane "computer science" outlook.
i found the little section on global (http://python.org/doc/2.4/ref/global.html) and can't make out what shit it is trying to say without having read and figured out the entire doc of its style and contexts and definitions. (formalization varies and computing model and jargons mean different things.) Python doc writers needs to re-organize and re-style their docs so that its organization is towards programing, as opposed to how the implementation works (as in the Lib Reference), or a formalization of the language spec. (e.g. the fucking semi-joke of "(for language lawyers)" and BNF and those Runtime "Service" shits.) Its style needs to shift from highbrowism to pragmatic and exemplary. I've addressed some of the jargon-riding ills common in industry with examples from the Python doc, archived here: http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/t2/xlali_skami_cukta.html as to the way of its stiltedenss and academicism, which make it hard for programers to find or apply any info, i'll expound later. PS just so that there is no misunderstanding: The docs of unix and Perl, are fucking criminally incompetent. Python docs, although stilted in a academic way, but nevertheless is solid, and its writers are educated, and tried best to make it a quality one, albeit sometimes inevitably showed some masterbation and jargonization. While the unix and Perl docs, (and essentially all things out of unix, e.g. Apache docs), are fucking incompetent drivels and in many cases exorbitant lies, and they semi-present it as humor and want and brainwash people to take them as norm. In a nutshell, these people are spreading untruths and indirectly are causing massive harm in the computing industry. People, we need to stop it. This each of us can do by not accepting their attitudes or behavior. In online forums, work place, conventions, conversations etc., raise questions or otherwise voice your opinion whenever you can. Xah [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/more.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
