[issue9717] operator module - "in place" operators documentation

2011-01-08 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger added the comment: See r87862. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue9717] operator module - "in place" operators documentation

2010-09-04 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Since Raymond has grabbed this, I will let him decide on its scope. I agree with sectioning the operator doc and intended to suggest that. The term 'in-place operation' is fine when accurate. The term 'in-place operator', which is what you wrote and what I cri

[issue9717] operator module - "in place" operators documentation

2010-09-04 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
Arnaud Delobelle added the comment: Terry: I agree that augmented assignement should be described better in the language reference. I guess that would warrant opening another issue? However I tend to think that the term "in-place operation" is a good one. BTW: - the reference of "(See secti

[issue9717] operator module - "in place" operators documentation

2010-09-03 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Changes by Raymond Hettinger : -- assignee: d...@python -> rhettinger ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscr

[issue9717] operator module - "in place" operators documentation

2010-09-03 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Consider breaking the operator module documents into sections, grouping all of the in-place ops into the last section. Start that section with a full description of how in-place works in python and show some examples of successful way to use the in-place

[issue9717] operator module - "in place" operators documentation

2010-09-03 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I agree that the docs for augmented assignments and the corresponding method and funciton can and should be improved. But I do not like this as is. In particular, Python does not have in-place operators; it has methods that optionally do an operation in-place

[issue9717] operator module - "in place" operators documentation

2010-08-30 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
New submission from Arnaud Delobelle : More detailed explanation of how in place operators work, and how they are related to the operator module iadd, isub, ... functions. Submitted following this message on python-list: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2010-August/1254243.html --