Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3.0a documentation

2007-09-28 Thread Georg Brandl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > I'd like to help out cleaning up the Python3.0 documentation. There are a > lot of little leftovers from 2.x that are no longer true. (mentions of > long, callable() etc.) I've applied the first four patches, thank you! Georg -- Thus spake the Lord: Thou shalt ind

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3.0a documentation

2007-09-26 Thread Georg Brandl
Martin v. Löwis schrieb: >> In the 2.x docs, all versionadded strings should stay. But IMO in the >> 3.0 docs we should get rid of them all. If you want compatibility >> information, look at the 2.6 docs (those should also mention things >> that are changing in 3.0). > > I agree. People who target

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3.0a documentation

2007-09-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> In the 2.x docs, all versionadded strings should stay. But IMO in the > 3.0 docs we should get rid of them all. If you want compatibility > information, look at the 2.6 docs (those should also mention things > that are changing in 3.0). I agree. People who target 3.x need to test anyway if they

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3.0a documentation

2007-09-26 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 9/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Guido> I fully support removing all historic references from the 3.0 > Guido> language manual. > > By historic I assume you mean references to 2.x modules, classes, functions, > etc which are no longer present. One thing I would

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3.0a documentation

2007-09-26 Thread skip
Guido> I fully support removing all historic references from the 3.0 Guido> language manual. By historic I assume you mean references to 2.x modules, classes, functions, etc which are no longer present. One thing I would suggest is that the more recent versionadded strings be kept. At t

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3.0a documentation

2007-09-26 Thread Guido van Rossum
I fully support removing all historic references from the 3.0 language manual. Please do help out! You can just start putting patches ("svn diff") into bugs.python.org; typically Georg gets to these very quickly. Do use subversion, not the distributed tarbal (which was out of date by the time it wa