best way of testing a program exists before using it?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Tim Golden wrote:

> OK, I've never sent in a patch before (blushes for shame
> as he thinks of all the years he's been using Python). Would
> you mind pointing me towards some doc or post which tells
> me where to look and what to do. Should I checkout svn and 
> patch against that? Or what?

there's no need to create patches for small documentation fixes: just 
add a suggested replacement text to the bug tracker:

     http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=5470

if you want to make a proper patch, you'll find the official patch and 
documentation guidelines here:

     http://www.python.org/patches/
     http://www.python.org/dev/doc/

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