Never mind (at least tentatively). Later in the day I got an email from the publisher, saying they're going to send me a corrected copy "free".
Evidently if you get a bad copy you don't have to complain to the publisher or the retailer, you just have to post a complaint somewhere where Google can see it... DU. In article <dullrich-5ea218.10405607042...@text.giganews.com>, "David C. Ullrich" <dullr...@sprynet.com> wrote: > Just curious - has anyone else bought the printed > Python 3 Reference Manual published by SoHo Books? > > Talking about what they call "Part 2" of their Python > Documentation. I haven't looked in detail - Part 1 > seems fine, but the typesetting in Part 2 is totally > screwed up. > > I mean totally - on more or less every page there are lines > that are unreadable because there are words printed on top > of each other instead of next to each other! > > On the one hand I don't see how the problem could be with > just my copy. On the other hand I don't see how they could > _all_ be like mine - that would mean nobody even _glanced_ > at what was coming out of the press. So I'm curious whether > anyone else has a copy. > > (I know it's all online. Some people like _books_...) > > DU. -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
