On 8/31/2010 12:47 AM, ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
I have participated in 71 doc improvement issues on the tracker. Most of
those I either initiated or provided suggestions. How many have you
helped with?
Certainly not 71. But there is, for example,
http://bugs.python.org/issue1397474
Please note
On 08/30/2010 01:14 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 8/30/2010 12:23 AM, ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> The Python docs have some major problems.
>
> And I have no idea what you think they are.
I have written about a few of them here in the past. I sure Google
will
turn up something.
> I have participated
On 08/30/2010 04:50 AM, Thomas Jollans wrote:
> On Monday 30 August 2010, it occurred to ru...@yahoo.com to exclaim:
>> Face the facts dude. The Python docs have some major problems.
>> They were pretty good when Python was a new, cool, project used
>> by a handful of geeks. They are good relativ
On 8/30/2010 12:23 AM, ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
The Python docs have some major problems.
And I have no idea what you think they are.
I have participated in 71 doc improvement issues on the tracker. Most of
those I either initiated or provided suggestions. How many have you
helped with?
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T
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:50:32 +0200, Thomas Jollans wrote:
>> Face the facts dude. The Python docs have some major problems.
>> They were pretty good when Python was a new, cool, project used
>> by a handful of geeks. They are good relative to the "average"
>> (whatever that is) open source proje
On 8/30/2010 7:14 AM, Paul Rubin wrote:
example, tkinter has been part of the stdlib for at least a decade but
is totally undocumented in the Python library manual.
I have trouble equating 'totally undocumented' to about 400 lines + 200
for tix + 600 for ttk ;-). Yes, 400, while more than mos
On Monday 30 August 2010, it occurred to Paul Rubin to exclaim:
> Thomas Jollans writes:
> > Actually, the Python standard library reference manual is excellent. At
> > least that's my opinion
> > What exactly are you comparing the Python docs to, I wonder? Obviously
> > not something like Val
Thomas Jollans writes:
> Actually, the Python standard library reference manual is excellent. At least
> that's my opinion
> What exactly are you comparing the Python docs to, I wonder? Obviously not
> something like Vala, but that goes without saying.
I didn't know Vala had especially goo
On Monday 30 August 2010, it occurred to ru...@yahoo.com to exclaim:
> Face the facts dude. The Python docs have some major problems.
> They were pretty good when Python was a new, cool, project used
> by a handful of geeks. They are good relative to the "average"
> (whatever that is) open source
On 08/29/2010 08:21 PM, alex23 wrote:
> kj wrote:
snip
>> Sorry for the outburst, but unfortunately, PIL is not alone in
>> this. Python is awash in poor documentation. [...]
>> I have to conclude that the problem with Python docs
>> is somehow "systemic"...
>
> Yes, if everyone else disagrees wi
kj wrote:
> Example: I went to the docs page for ImageDraw. There I find that
> the constructor for an ImageDraw.Draw object takes an argument,
> but *what* this argument should be (integer? object? string?) is
> left entirely undefined. From the examples given I *guessed* that
> it was an objec
kj writes:
> Thanks for the pointer, but...
>
>
> The documentation I have found for PIL (at
> http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook) is beyond atrocious.
> If this is the only way to learn how to use this library, then I
> really don't understand how anyone who is not clairvoyant can d
In Benjamin Kaplan
writes:
>On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:01 PM, kj wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi! =A0Does anyone know of an easy way to convert a Unicode string into a=
>n image file (either jpg or png)?
>>
>Do you mean you have some text and you want an image containing that
>text? PIL's ImageDraw module
kj wrote:
Hi! Does anyone know of an easy way to convert a Unicode string into an image
file (either jpg or png)?
TIA!
~k
The question has no meaning as presently worded.
If you have Unicode text that you need to render, so that you end up
with an image of the text, as printed in some
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:01 PM, kj wrote:
>
>
> Hi! Does anyone know of an easy way to convert a Unicode string into an
> image file (either jpg or png)?
>
Do you mean you have some text and you want an image containing that
text? PIL's ImageDraw module can do that.
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Hi! Does anyone know of an easy way to convert a Unicode string into an image
file (either jpg or png)?
TIA!
~k
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