Python Documentation (should be better?)

John J. Lee jjl at pobox.com
Fri May 13 17:06:46 EDT 2005


Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
> > Hi All--
> > The Python docs are not ideal.  I can never remember, for instance,
> > where to find string methods (not methods in the string module, but
> > methods with '')
> 
> Curiously I had the same problem just the other day,
> except with list instead of string. I think the problem
> is that the sections on the actual built-in types
> (list, str, dict, etc.) are one level too far down
> to appear in the table of contents of the Library
> Reference.
> 
> If things could be rearranged so that their names
> actually appeared in the table of contents, I think
> it would make a big difference in this area.
[...]

+1


John



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