Thanks Raymond. I've been out of python community for a couple of years. I've saved your messages and will study it later when next time i work in python. Possibly today and will reply in some of your points.
But just wanted to say thanks for improving python. Also, sometimes ago out of the blue i noticed someone has posted a bug on python's gzip doc with acknowledgement. http://bugs.python.org/issue2406 Thank you M.-A. DARCHE (madarche). Also, i noticed python doc now and later has improved a lot since last i looked around python 2.4. For one thing, the html/xhtml is now valid html. Good riddence of the fucking TeX. Also, code examples have syntax coloring on. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ On Aug 12, 12:15 pm, Raymond Hettinger <pyt...@rcn.com> wrote: > [Xah Lee] > > > i've wrote several articles about this issue, total time spend on this > > is probably more than 2 months full-time work. See: > > > • Python Documentation Problems > > http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_doc_index.html > > I just read you post. You did devote a substantial amount of time > to the project. Some of your criticisms are valid. Wish you had > posted patches, I think many of them would have been accepted. > > Since you wrote this a few years ago, many examples have > been added to the docs and more are forthcoming. > > > I often receive thank you emails for 2 particular articles, which are > > most frequently google searched as indicated by my weblog: > > > • Python Doc Problem Example: gzip > > http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_doc_gzip.html > > > • Python Doc Problem Example: sort() > > http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_doc_sort.html > > > • Sorting in Python and Perl > > http://xahlee.org/perl-python/sort_list.html > > Some are the criticisms are valid; others seem off-base. > > Here are a few thoughts on list.sort() for those who are interested: > > * The key= and reversed= parameters are not intended for special > cases, leaving cmp= for the general case. They were intended to > be full replacements. In Python3.x, the cmp function is gone. > > * The interaction of the key= and cmp= functions can be made to > interact (the key function is first applied to every element and > the cmp function then gets applied to the results of the key > function). This isn't a normal or intended use case, so the docs > don't delve into the subject. > > * The reversed parameter does more than list.sort() followed by > list.reverse(). It also preserves stability in the event of equal > keys: > > >>> sorted([(1,2), (1,3)], key=itemgetter(0), reverse=True) > [(1,2), (1,3)] > > So it was not correct to say that the following are equivalent: > > li.sort(lambda x, y: cmp(x[1],y[1]), reverse=True) > li.sort(lambda x, y: cmp(y[1],x[1])) > > * We should link the sorted() and list.sort() docs to the > sorting how-to (with a fuller discussion on the art of sorting > including a discussion of operator.itemgetter() and > operator.attrgetter() which were designed to work with the key= > parameter. > > Raymond -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
