as per email exchanges with F. Drake, here's a first part of suggested corrections to the 2.2.2 reference manual, mostly to make it reflect a bit better the way Python currently works.
Logged In: YES user_id=3066 Alex, a few nits: - In the first chunk, I suspect you meant "triple-quoted string literal", not "raw string literal". - "e.g." and "i.e." should be avoided with great prejudice. I've been removing them from the rest of the documentation as I've had time. - "\C" and "\C{}" should both be replaced with just "C" whenever found. - When you refer to the "C or Java implementation", realize that the Java implementation is more deterministic; Java ints are 32 bits, period, IIRC. - There is not __iterkeys__(), only iterkeys(). I have not tried applying the patch to test formatting. Ok, it sounds like a lot of things, but they're all rather small. Your patch really helps; thanks! If you can make these changes and post an updated patch, it shouldn't take long to get it committed. I've marked the patch "pending" since I'm waiting for changes.
Logged In: YES user_id=80475 Reviewed diff, fixed markup, add Py2.3 features, clipped a couple more \C{}, removed more i.e. and e.g. and applied to Python2.3 with a note to backport. See ref2.tex 1.47, ref3.tex 1.97, and ref6.tex 1.61.
