On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:44 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 17, 8:54 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Candidate to *Longest and Most Boring Thread of the Year* - started >> more than a month ago, currently discussing "The official definition >> of call-by-value", and "What't the value of an object": >> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/6163956596a8c082/ > > Nice. The Python Reference defines objects, the core concept > of Python, as id, type, and value, and then leaves one clueless > about what a value is, and several notable Python contributors > declare the subject boring. > > I guess this goes a long way to explaining why the Python docs > suck so badly in many areas.
This is a commonly heard assertion. Maybe it's just me but I find that on average Python documentation on the web is pretty good (*) and does its job very well. One is also left to wonder why all these critics don't take some initiative and work to improve it. Francesco (*) Not to mention many books, papers, and magazines, like those by Alex Martelli, Mark Lutz, Mark Hammond and many others. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
