[issue13525] Tutorial: Example of Source Code Encoding triggers error
New submission from Nicolas Goutte nicolas.gou...@extragroup.de: Current Behaviour The tutorial of Python 3.2.x has an example to set an encoding in a source file: http://docs.python.org/py3k/tutorial/interpreter.html#source-code-encoding It explains to set the following line at the start of the source code: # -*- coding: cp-1252 -*- However when done exactly so, Python raises the following exception: SyntaxError: encoding problem: with BOM The problem seems to be that Python knows Windows codepage 1252 as windows-1252 (its IANA charset name, see http://www.iana.org/assignments/charset-reg/windows-1252 ) or alternatively as cp1252 (without dash) but not as cp-1252 (with dash). As this is an example in the tutorial is particularly problematic, as users might not understand how to do it correctly. This is still the case in the tutorial of Python 3.3 alpha: http://docs.python.org/dev/tutorial/interpreter.html#source-code-encoding Expected Behaviour The tutorial should give a correct example, for example with: # -*- coding: windows-1252 -*- Alternatively a totally other example as for Python 2.7 would be nice too: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/interpreter.html#source-code-encoding Notes: I have tested this with following Python implementations: - Python 3.2.1 (openSUSE 12.1) on Linux - Python 3.2.2 on Windows 7 SP1 64 Bits - Python 3.2.2 on MacOS 10.5.8 (Always on the command line; I have not tested in IDLE.) -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: cp_1252broken.py messages: 148798 nosy: docs@python, nicolasg priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Tutorial: Example of Source Code Encoding triggers error versions: Python 3.2 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23840/cp_1252broken.py ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13525 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue13525] Tutorial: Example of Source Code Encoding triggers error
Changes by Nicolas Goutte nicolas.gou...@extragroup.de: Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23841/windows_1252ok.py ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue13525 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue6723] csv.writer: example does not work
New submission from Nicolas Goutte nicolas.gou...@extragroup.de:
In the documentation for csv.writer, the example
spamWriter = csv.writer(open('eggs.csv', 'w'), delimiter=' ',
quotechar='|', quoting=QUOTE_MINIMAL)
does not work, as Python complains about SyntaxError: invalid syntax,
as QUOTE_MINIMAL is not a global identifier.
By replacing QUOTE_MINIMAL by csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL there is no syntax error
anymore.
I have discovered the issue with python 2.6.2. All online documentation
version (2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2) seem to have the same documentation (e.g.
http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html )
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status: open
title: csv.writer: example does not work
versions: Python 2.6
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[issue5751] Typo in documentation of print function parameters
New submission from Nicolas Goutte nicolas.gou...@extragroup.de: In http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#print the print function is documented to have a parameter named end with a default 'n'. However the default should be '\n' as documented in Python 3 ( http://docs.python.org/3.0/library/functions.html#print ) -- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 85962 nosy: georg.brandl, nicolasg severity: normal status: open title: Typo in documentation of print function parameters versions: Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5751 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
