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-rw-r--r--Doc/faq/windows.rst2
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst
index d7be299..151bcde 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/design.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/design.rst
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Why are floating-point calculations so inaccurate?
Users are often surprised by results like this::
>>> 1.2 - 1.0
- 0.199999999999999996
+ 0.19999999999999996
and think it is a bug in Python. It's not. This has little to do with Python,
and much more to do with how the underlying platform handles floating-point
diff --git a/Doc/faq/general.rst b/Doc/faq/general.rst
index 7ad949c..331e80c 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/general.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/general.rst
@@ -415,14 +415,25 @@ while they enter their program's source in another window. If they can't
remember the methods for a list, they can do something like this::
>>> L = []
- >>> dir(L)
- ['append', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove',
+ >>> dir(L) # doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
+ ['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__delitem__',
+ '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__',
+ '__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__iadd__',
+ '__imul__', '__init__', '__iter__', '__le__', '__len__', '__lt__',
+ '__mul__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__',
+ '__repr__', '__reversed__', '__rmul__', '__setattr__', '__setitem__',
+ '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', 'append', 'clear',
+ 'copy', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove',
'reverse', 'sort']
+ >>> [d for d in dir(L) if '__' not in d]
+ ['append', 'clear', 'copy', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort']
+
>>> help(L.append)
Help on built-in function append:
-
+ <BLANKLINE>
append(...)
- L.append(object) -- append object to end
+ L.append(object) -> None -- append object to end
+ <BLANKLINE>
>>> L.append(1)
>>> L
[1]
diff --git a/Doc/faq/windows.rst b/Doc/faq/windows.rst
index 59f9480..ee62721 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/windows.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/windows.rst
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ by entering a few expressions of your choice and seeing the results::
>>> print("Hello")
Hello
>>> "Hello" * 3
- HelloHelloHello
+ 'HelloHelloHello'
Many people use the interactive mode as a convenient yet highly programmable
calculator. When you want to end your interactive Python session, hold the Ctrl