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Title: Small typo
Type: Stage:
Components: Documentation Versions:
process
Status: closed Resolution: fixed
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: Nosy List: hllywood, rhettinger, terry.reedy
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2004-11-15 22:57 by hllywood, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (3)
msg23162 - (view) Author: Scott Miller (hllywood) Date: 2004-11-15 22:57
On: 
http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node5.html

Should:
"Like in C, the equal sign ("=") is used to assign a
value to a variable. The value of an assignment is not
written:"

Be:
"The value of an assignment *is* written:"
msg23163 - (view) Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) * (Python committer) Date: 2004-11-17 19:17
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The sentence is correct as written; it refers to the following 
different responses:

>>> 2+3
5
>>> a=2+3
>>>

However, I do think 'printed' or 'displayed' would be clearer 
both here and in a previous sentence in the same 
subsection.  And, of course, Python assignment is not 
really 'like in C' and people eventually have to learn the 
difference.

[Note: SourceForge does not make urls clickable, and a 
given url may encompass several subsections.  So please 
give section/subsection numbers instead or in addition, as 
in '3.1.1 Numbers']
msg23164 - (view) Author: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) * (Python committer) Date: 2004-11-18 06:23
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Fixed.  Thanks.
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