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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/faq/programming.rst | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/faq/windows.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/glossary.rst | 2 |
3 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst index 8b2f047..d1a3daf 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/programming.rst @@ -473,15 +473,6 @@ calling another function by using ``*`` and ``**``:: ... g(x, *args, **kwargs) -In the unlikely case that you care about Python versions older than 2.0, use -:func:`apply`:: - - def f(x, *args, **kwargs): - ... - kwargs['width'] = '14.3c' - ... - apply(g, (x,)+args, kwargs) - How do I write a function with output parameters (call by reference)? --------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/Doc/faq/windows.rst b/Doc/faq/windows.rst index 6b37faf..68a1b5c 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/windows.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/windows.rst @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ with multithreading-DLL options (``/MD``). If you can't change compilers or flags, try using :c:func:`Py_RunSimpleString`. A trick to get it to run an arbitrary file is to construct a call to -:func:`execfile` with the name of your file as argument. +:func:`exec` and :func:`open` with the name of your file as argument. Also note that you can not mix-and-match Debug and Release versions. If you wish to use the Debug Multithreaded DLL, then your module *must* have ``_d`` diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index 63d4c2b..3b211ae 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ Glossary :func:`builtins.open` and :func:`os.open` are distinguished by their namespaces. Namespaces also aid readability and maintainability by making it clear which module implements a function. For instance, writing - :func:`random.seed` or :func:`itertools.izip` makes it clear that those + :func:`random.seed` or :func:`itertools.islice` makes it clear that those functions are implemented by the :mod:`random` and :mod:`itertools` modules, respectively. |