On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Huy Ton That <huyslo...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is going to sound silly, but I realized there are some areas within the > documentation that do not make absolute sense to me. > e.g. > compile(source, filename, mode[, flags[, dont_inherit]]) > I see within this built in function, the first argument can be what they > define as source, the second argument as the filename and the third as the > mode. > But what confuses me is sometimes I see a bracket, above as [, flags[, > dont_inherit]]. Is this an optional argument like flags=dont_inherit? > Just not grokking it correctly and I can't seem to track down where the > documentation formatting is defined within the python.org documentation... > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > >
From http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html is this : '(The square brackets around the i in the method signature denote that the parameter is optional, not that you should type square brackets at that position. You will see this notation frequently in the Python Library Reference.)' _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
