[issue13443] wrong links and examples in the functional HOWTO

Éric Araujo added the comment: Sorry, my messages could be confusing. What I meant is: While I think that Antoine’s doc changes were clear improvements, in the specific case of the functional howto there were good arguments in favor of keeping the part about the functional module. -

[issue13443] wrong links and examples in the functional HOWTO

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[issue13443] wrong links and examples in the functional HOWTO

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[issue13443] wrong links and examples in the functional HOWTO

Éric Araujo added the comment: Hm, it was actually Antoine who removed it. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing lis

[issue13443] wrong links and examples in the functional HOWTO

Éric Araujo added the comment: Hi Senthil. I think you applied a patch that did not have consensus. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue13443] wrong links and examples in the functional HOWTO

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Fixed this in 2.7. -- nosy: +orsenthil resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue13443] wrong links and examples in the functional HOWTO

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset c6880edaf6f3 by Senthil Kumaran in branch '2.7': Issue13443 - Remove the functional module examples from 2.7 (as module is http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c6880edaf6f3 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tr

[issue13443] wrong links and examples in the functional HOWTO

Ezio Melotti added the comment: This section has been removed from the 3.x docs in 3828f81a64e7 and 2aeef275bec8, but it's still there in 2.7. -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker _

[issue13443] wrong links and examples in the functional HOWTO

A.M. Kuchling added the comment: Yes, linking to the functional module was to point people to a module that might be useful, even if it's not in the stdlib. A numeric processing or socket handling HOWTO would also pretty much have to link to non-stdlib sources. The purpose of documentation

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[issue13443] wrong links and examples in the functional HOWTO

Éric Araujo added the comment: Good idea. The functions used are: compose, partial (which we have in functools), flip, foldl. I will disagree with “unhealthy”: I’m sure adding this link was a deliberate exposure of an external module, to put a well-written solution to the spotlight as a ser

[issue13443] wrong links and examples in the functional HOWTO

Eli Bendersky added the comment: > Before doing that, would you have the time to contact its author and inquire > about porting plans? I hope to find the time. I was also thinking about an alternative - since the HOWTO probably uses just a handful of functions from that module perhaps they c

[issue13443] wrong links and examples in the functional HOWTO

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the fixed links amk. I think they can be fixed in the repo right now. [Eli] > I still think it's a bigger problem that the page discusses a module which > is not available on Python 3.x - this means that a user following the page > can't just type in

[issue13443] wrong links and examples in the functional HOWTO

Eli Bendersky added the comment: Andrew, thanks, but I still think it's a bigger problem that the page discusses a module which is not available on Python 3.x - this means that a user following the page can't just type in the code and make it run. The links can be fixed and kept there, as Éri

[issue13443] wrong links and examples in the functional HOWTO

A.M. Kuchling added the comment: Here's a patch against the 3.3 trunk. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23765/functional-patch.txt ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue13443] wrong links and examples in the functional HOWTO

Éric Araujo added the comment: Broken links should obviously be fixed, either to their newer location if it can be found or to Web Archive links. I think that it’s a good thing to link to some outside articles and code from the official docs; we acknowledge that the stdlib is not the whole of

[issue13443] wrong links and examples in the functional HOWTO

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[issue13443] wrong links and examples in the functional HOWTO

New submission from Eli Bendersky : Michał Chałupczak reported in this docs@ list that the links to IBM developerworks articles are wrong. >From some additional observation, the code samples on the 3.x page use the >external `functional` module, which was not ported to Python 3 at all. I wond