[issue24724] Element.findall documentation misleading

New submission from Eric S: Documentation states: Element.findall() finds only elements with a tag which are direct children of the current element. More accurate to say "direct descendents" as "direct children" implies only one generation below whereas function goes down

[issue24724] Element.findall documentation misleading

Eric S added the comment: Pointing to XPath and clarifying the example reference are good ideas. For me though, the phrase "direct children" would still lead me to believe that findall() would only give me the first generation right below the element (e.g. only the countries in t

[issue24724] Element.findall documentation misleading

Eric S added the comment: To my preference, the drop-in is verbose and I got a little confused on first read. The current documentation and example seem mostly OK to me. If we leave "children" as in "all children of *root*", it doesn't illuminate the fact that

[issue24724] Element.findall documentation misleading

Eric S added the comment: Code was intended as example, not request for help to correct, but rushed so example was flawed, but still, I tested and you both are right. Must've had other error in code to cause the xml to dict to have every element map to under every node. Debugger also s

[issue1165] Should itertools.count work for arbitrary integers?

Eric S. R-e-mond added the comment: Hi guys. -- assignee: -> esr nosy: +esr __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1165> __ ___ Python-bu

[issue1165] Should itertools.count work for arbitrary integers?

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[issue1165] Should itertools.count work for arbitrary integers?

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[issue1165] Should itertools.count work for arbitrary integers?

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[issue1165] Should itertools.count work for arbitrary integers?

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[issue1165] Should itertools.count work for arbitrary integers?

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[issue1165] Should itertools.count work for arbitrary integers?

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[issue1166] NameError when calling malloc

New submission from Eric S. R-e-mond: I tried this code, and it blew up in my face. >>> foo = malloc(4096) NameError: name 'malloc' is not defined Why? -- components: Library (Lib) keywords: r-eyyy-mond messages: 55929 nosy: esr priority: high severity: normal