[issue7286] odd exec() behavior or documentation

2009-11-07 Thread Peter Mawhorter
New submission from Peter Mawhorter : The behavior of the built-in exec() function differs in Python3.1 from the behavior in Python 2.6 when only a single argument is passed. Additionally, the documentation for the function does not suggest the behavior that it has. In Python2.6, an exec

[issue1509] Documentation lacking for the sqlite3 module.

2007-11-28 Thread Peter Mawhorter
Peter Mawhorter added the comment: Yes actually... the fetch documentation there is a sufficient explanation of the functions provided. If it could be added to docs.python.org, that would be great. There still remains the fact that the docstrings in the sqlite3 module don't agree with

[issue1509] Documentation lacking for the sqlite3 module.

2007-11-28 Thread Peter Mawhorter
Peter Mawhorter added the comment: I could try, but I honestly don't know exactly how the fetch* functions work. It would probably take me a good couple of hours of reading before I could write decent documentation, and as much as that would be great, I'm not about to squeeze th

[issue1509] Documentation lacking for the sqlite3 module.

2007-11-27 Thread Peter Mawhorter
New submission from Peter Mawhorter: The current documentation for the sqlite3 module on the web fails to make any mention of the fetch* functions posessed by the Cursor class of that module. It in fact gives no indication of how one should extract results from sql queries. The docstrings in