New submission from Jim Sizelove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I decided to learn more about the coming changes in Python 3.0 by installing the beta and working through the tutorial. I found some discrepancies between the code examples and the output I got. The attached patch shows several places where the print() function is called incorrectly. These are mostly examples that are missing the parentheses.
The rest of this comment pertains to only one change included in the patch that I find less than satisfactory. In introduction.html, there is an example of printing a fibonacci sequence in one line of output by using the end keyword. When actually run in the python interpreter, the >>> prompt shows at the end of the same line as the fibonacci numbers. The patch fixes this by enclosing a "print()" within an else clause. This "fix" produces the expected output, but I don't think the else clause has been described yet in the tutorial. A better fix would be to wrap the while statement in a function with a print() function call after the end of the while statement (this is how the fib() function is defined in http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/tutorial/modules.html). But functions have not been explained this early in the tutorial. Perhaps it would be best to drop this example of using the end keyword to the print function in the introduction and explain it later in the tutorial. ---------- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation files: print.diff keywords: patch messages: 70727 nosy: georg.brandl, jsizelove severity: normal status: open title: Calls to print() function in Python 3.0 tutorial versions: Python 3.0 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11061/print.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3503> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com