[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-410207 ] correction to section 2.3: 'apply'

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Bugs item #410207, was updated on 2001-03-20 17:10
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Category: Documentation
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: John Cook (johncook)
Assigned to: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Summary: correction to section 2.3: 'apply'

Initial Comment:
In section 2.3, 'Built-in Functions', I think the 
following description for 'apply' is incorrect:

"The function argument must be a callable object (a 
user-defined or built-in function or method, or a 
class object) and the args argument must be a sequence 
(if it is not a tuple, the sequence is first converted 
to a tuple). "

I suggest the following:

"The function argument must be a callable object (a 
user-defined or built-in function or method, or a 
class object) and the args argument must be a tuple 
(if it is a sequence, the sequence is first converted 
to a tuple)."

I found this in the Release 2.1 beta 1 version of the 
Python documentation at:
http://python.sourceforge.net/devel-docs/

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>Comment By: John Cook (johncook)
Date: 2001-03-20 17:33

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On further review, this is better:

"The function argument must be a callable object (a 
user-defined or built-in function or method, or a 
class object) and the args argument must be a tuple or a 
sequence (if args is a sequence, apply converts the 
sequence to a tuple)."

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