Typo in Python Tutorial?

[chris liechti]

[posted and mailed]

rupe at metro.yak.net (Rupert Scammell) wrote in 
news:79179cf5.0108141146.1ce6e2ee at posting.google.com:
> In the Python Tutorial
> (http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html), Section 5.1, I
> noticed that the pop() method for lists is documented as:
> 
> pop([i])
> Remove the item at the given position in the list, and return it. If
> no index is specified, a.pop() returns the last item in the list. The
> item is also removed from the list.
> 
> I tried the following:
>>>> mylist = ['one','two','three'] list_item = mylist.pop([0])
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: an integer is required

the "[]" are there to indicate an optional argument not a python list.
this means that you can use pop with either no argument or an integer which 
specifies which element to pop.

if you compare it with 
http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/python/PQR2.1.html
you will see that optional args are indicated with bold brackets to make a 
clear distinction to python lists.

-- 
chris <cliechti at mails.ch>