Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.029 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.94; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.05; '(although': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'library': 0.15; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'examples': 0.18; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'am,': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'maybe': 0.29; 'could': 0.32; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'subject:?': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'but': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'enough': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'more': 0.63; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'url:htm': 0.71; 'examples.': 0.84; 'received:pacbell.net': 0.84; 'subject:you': 0.88; 'capability': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: emile Subject: Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs? Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:36:16 -0800 References: <512cb0a0$0$30001$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <700408a1-09e0-420c-a73e-93211fe18667@m12g2000yqp.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-226-129-65.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106 Thunderbird/17.0.2 In-Reply-To: <700408a1-09e0-420c-a73e-93211fe18667@m12g2000yqp.googlegroups.com> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 17 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1361925379 news.xs4all.nl 6937 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:47062 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:40014 On 02/26/2013 11:00 AM, nn wrote: > What it could have is better searching capability and a way to see > more examples. Examples would clutter the documentation so maybe they > should be collapsible, but you can never have enough examples. A good resource (although only covering up to v2.3) is effbot's guide to the standard library available at http://effbot.org/zone/librarybook-index.htm It's pretty much _all_ examples. Emile