Tutorial update for 3.0 by Paul Dubois.
I had to fix a few markup issues in controlflow.rst and modules.rst.
There's a unicode issue on line 448 in introduction.rst that someone else needs to fix.
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst b/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst
index 0b0dabd..cd91376 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
def fib(n): # write Fibonacci series up to n
a, b = 0, 1
while b < n:
- print b,
+ print(b, end=' ')
a, b = b, a+b
def fib2(n): # return Fibonacci series up to n
@@ -102,6 +102,9 @@
1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144 233 377
This imports all names except those beginning with an underscore (``_``).
+In most cases Python programmers do not use this facility since it introduces
+an unknown set of names into the interpreter, possibly hiding some things
+you have already defined.
.. _tut-modulesasscripts:
@@ -162,6 +165,8 @@
a module when that module is imported. This will generally be an error. See
section :ref:`tut-standardmodules` for more information.
+.. %
+ Do we need stuff on zip files etc. ? DUBOIS
"Compiled" Python files
-----------------------
@@ -218,7 +223,10 @@
* The module :mod:`compileall` can create :file:`.pyc` files (or :file:`.pyo`
files when :option:`-O` is used) for all modules in a directory.
- .. %
+* If using Python in a parallel processing system with a shared file system,
+ you need to patch python to disable the creation of the compiled files
+ because otherwise the multiple Python interpreters will encounter race
+ conditions in creating them.
.. _tut-standardmodules:
@@ -250,7 +258,7 @@
>>> sys.ps2
'... '
>>> sys.ps1 = 'C> '
- C> print 'Yuck!'
+ C> print('Yuck!')
Yuck!
C>
@@ -308,31 +316,27 @@
>>> import __builtin__
>>> dir(__builtin__)
- ['ArithmeticError', 'AssertionError', 'AttributeError', 'DeprecationWarning',
- 'EOFError', 'Ellipsis', 'EnvironmentError', 'Exception', 'False',
- 'FloatingPointError', 'FutureWarning', 'IOError', 'ImportError',
- 'IndentationError', 'IndexError', 'KeyError', 'KeyboardInterrupt',
- 'LookupError', 'MemoryError', 'NameError', 'None', 'NotImplemented',
- 'NotImplementedError', 'OSError', 'OverflowError',
- 'PendingDeprecationWarning', 'ReferenceError', 'RuntimeError',
- 'RuntimeWarning', 'StopIteration', 'SyntaxError',
- 'SyntaxWarning', 'SystemError', 'SystemExit', 'TabError', 'True',
- 'TypeError', 'UnboundLocalError', 'UnicodeDecodeError',
- 'UnicodeEncodeError', 'UnicodeError', 'UnicodeTranslateError',
- 'UserWarning', 'ValueError', 'Warning', 'WindowsError',
- 'ZeroDivisionError', '_', '__debug__', '__doc__', '__import__',
- '__name__', 'abs', 'basestring', 'bool', 'buffer',
- 'chr', 'classmethod', 'cmp', 'compile',
- 'complex', 'copyright', 'credits', 'delattr', 'dict', 'dir', 'divmod',
- 'enumerate', 'eval', 'exec', 'exit', 'filter', 'float',
- 'frozenset', 'getattr', 'globals', 'hasattr', 'hash', 'help', 'hex',
- 'id', 'input', 'int', 'isinstance', 'issubclass', 'iter',
- 'len', 'license', 'list', 'locals', 'map', 'max', 'min',
- 'object', 'oct', 'open', 'ord', 'pow', 'property', 'quit', 'range',
- 'repr', 'reversed', 'round', 'set',
- 'setattr', 'slice', 'sorted', 'staticmethod', 'str', 'sum', 'super',
- 'tuple', 'type', 'vars', 'zip']
+ ['ArithmeticError', 'AssertionError', 'AttributeError', 'BaseException', 'Buffer
+ Error', 'DeprecationWarning', 'EOFError', 'Ellipsis', 'EnvironmentError', 'Excep
+ tion', 'False', 'FloatingPointError', 'FutureWarning', 'GeneratorExit', 'IOError
+ ', 'ImportError', 'ImportWarning', 'IndentationError', 'IndexError', 'KeyError',
+ 'KeyboardInterrupt', 'LookupError', 'MemoryError', 'NameError', 'None', 'NotImp
+ lemented', 'NotImplementedError', 'OSError', 'OverflowError', 'PendingDeprecatio
+ nWarning', 'ReferenceError', 'RuntimeError', 'RuntimeWarning', 'StopIteration',
+ 'SyntaxError', 'SyntaxWarning', 'SystemError', 'SystemExit', 'TabError', 'True',
+ 'TypeError', 'UnboundLocalError', 'UnicodeDecodeError', 'UnicodeEncodeError', '
+ UnicodeError', 'UnicodeTranslateError', 'UnicodeWarning', 'UserWarning', 'ValueE
+ rror', 'Warning', 'ZeroDivisionError', '__build_class__', '__debug__', '__doc__'
+ , '__import__', '__name__', 'abs', 'all', 'any', 'basestring', 'bin', 'bool', 'b
+ uffer', 'bytes', 'chr', 'chr8', 'classmethod', 'cmp', 'compile', 'complex', 'cop
+ yright', 'credits', 'delattr', 'dict', 'dir', 'divmod', 'enumerate', 'eval', 'ex
+ ec', 'exit', 'filter', 'float', 'frozenset', 'getattr', 'globals', 'hasattr', 'h
+ ash', 'help', 'hex', 'id', 'input', 'int', 'isinstance', 'issubclass', 'iter', '
+ len', 'license', 'list', 'locals', 'map', 'max', 'memoryview', 'min', 'next', 'o
+ bject', 'oct', 'open', 'ord', 'pow', 'print', 'property', 'quit', 'range', 'repr
+ ', 'reversed', 'round', 'set', 'setattr', 'slice', 'sorted', 'staticmethod', 'st
+ r', 'str8', 'sum', 'super', 'trunc', 'tuple', 'type', 'vars', 'zip']
.. _tut-packages: