John Posner added the comment:
Per Martin's suggestion, deltas from issue21279.v5.patch:
* no change to patch for doc/library/stdtypes.rst
* doc string reflowed in patch for objects/unicodeobject.c
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John Posner added the comment:
issue21279.v5.patch tries to apply the comments in msg233013, msg233014, and
msg233025 to the Doc/library/stdtypes.rst writeup. Then it applies some of the
same language to the docstring in Objects/unicodeobject.c.
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John Posner added the comment:
Patch of 12-21 looks good, Martin.
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John Posner added the comment:
Regarding Martin's patch of 12-18:
stdtypes.rst -- looks good to me
unicodeobject.c -- I suggest changing this sentence:
If a character is not in the table, the subscript operation should raise
LookupError, and the character is left untouched.
... to:
I
John Posner added the comment:
Kindly ignore message #2 on the Rietveld page (sorry for the channel noise).
Here's my suggested revision:
Return a copy of the string *str* in which each character has been mapped
through the given translation *table*. The table must be a subscriptable
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John Posner added the comment:
On python-list, Wolfram Hinderer objected to the proposed patch's calling
__missing__ a "special method".
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John Posner added the comment:
I think it would be confusing to create of subclass of defaultdict, defining a
__missing__ method in that subclass. The existence of the __missing__ method
would cancel the main functionality of the defaultdict object: invoking the
"default value fa
New submission from John Posner :
The documentation for collections.defaultdict is confusing with respect to the
__missing__ method. The fact is that a programmer using defaultdict does not
need to know anything about __missing__.
The attached patch contains a rewrite of the entire section
John Posner added the comment:
Fair enough, Georg. Case closed.
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John Posner added the comment:
Georg, your change (r79587) makes this the main definition:
generator
A function which returns an iterator.
I'm concerned that this definition does not fit well with the occurrence of
"generator object" in the following:
Python 2.6.5 (
John Posner added the comment:
George, here is a patch file for this bug. It modifies file
doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
Please let me know if this was the wrong way to submit the patch file.
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John Posner added the comment:
The "Assignment statements" section *does* talk about the RHS -- but in
a subtle way:
For targets which are attribute references, the initial
value is retrieved with a getattr()
The retrieving of the initial value (maybe "current value&q
New submission from John Posner :
The subsection "Augmented assignment statements" includes a note on this
special case:
a.x += 1
But the parent section "Assignment statements" does not include such a
note, even though it's essentially the same situation. I sugge
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