Re: Where is the man page of python library

2010-07-24 Thread Chris Jewell
rantingrick writes: > On Jul 23, 9:49 am, Steven D'Aprano In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king! ;-) "... And across the way, in the country of the witless, the half-wit is king." Richard Mitchell (a/k/a The Undeground Grammarian.) http://www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/graves-of-a

Re: Where is the man page of python library

2010-07-23 Thread James Mills
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:42 AM, rantingrick wrote: > In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king! ;-) RIck, your comments don't really help the situation. Really. -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Where is the man page of python library

2010-07-23 Thread rantingrick
On Jul 23, 9:49 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:26:27 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > > If it does say that, it needs to be fixed. > > No, I apparently just made it up. Yes and i'll bet you've *never* just "made up" anything to scaffold your arguments? . Since this trait is one

Re: Where is the man page of python library

2010-07-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:26:27 +, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> What if the peer close the socket? >> >> You will get an exception, > > Nope. You read a value of "". Thank you for the correction. >> just like the Fine Manual says. > > If it does say that, it needs to be fixed. No, I apparentl

Re: Where is the man page of python library

2010-07-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-23, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:18:43 -0700, march wrote: > >> Hi, guys. >> >> As a regular user of python, I am often annoyed by the fact that the >> official python docementation is too short and too simple to satisfy my >> requirement. > > Python is a volunteer e

Re: Where is the man page of python library

2010-07-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:20:03 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: > [Fix top posting] While you were fixing the top posting, did you bother to trim any unnecessary quoting? Let me scroll down and see... ... why no, no you didn't. I'm not a religious man, but the verse about the mote in your brother's

Re: Where is the man page of python library

2010-07-23 Thread geremy condra
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:24 PM, march wrote: > Steven, thank you for your reply. > > It is true that I didn't read the document with enough carefulness. > some of my questions are answered in the page I post the link of. Some > are not. > > But the documentation is poor. You need to read through

Re: Where is the man page of python library

2010-07-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
[Fix top posting] On Jul 23, 12:07 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:18:43 -0700, march wrote: Hi, guys. As a regular user of python, I am often annoyed by the fact that the official python docementation is too short and too simple to satisfy my requirement. Python is a

Re: Where is the man page of python library

2010-07-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:24:39 -0700, march wrote: > Steven, thank you for your reply. > > It is true that I didn't read the document with enough carefulness. some > of my questions are answered in the page I post the link of. Some are > not. > But the documentation is poor. You need to read throu

Re: Where is the man page of python library

2010-07-22 Thread march
Steven, thank you for your reply. It is true that I didn't read the document with enough carefulness. some of my questions are answered in the page I post the link of. Some are not. But the documentation is poor. You need to read throughout the entire page, hoping to find what you need about one

Re: Where is the man page of python library

2010-07-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:18:43 -0700, march wrote: > Hi, guys. > > As a regular user of python, I am often annoyed by the fact that the > official python docementation is too short and too simple to satisfy my > requirement. Python is a volunteer effort. If the docs don't suit your requirements,

Where is the man page of python library

2010-07-22 Thread march
Hi, guys. As a regular user of python, I am often annoyed by the fact that the official python docementation is too short and too simple to satisfy my requirement. While working with socket, I want to know every detail about every API. I can easilly achieve that by reading man page if the langua