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Title: file built-in object is after file() function
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Components: Documentation Versions: Python 2.3
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Status: closed Resolution: out of date
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Assigned To: fdrake Nosy List: fdrake, mwh, nerby, rhettinger, tim.peters
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Created on 2004-03-25 08:18 by nerby, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg20311 - (view) Author: Francesco Ricciardi (nerby) Date: 2004-03-25 08:18
In section 2.1 of the HTML and PDF-A4 library 
references (so supposedly in all lib references), in the 
description of the file() function, it says that "Return a 
new file object (described earlier under Built-in Types)", 
but the Built-in Types section is later not earlier.
msg20312 - (view) Author: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) * (Python committer) Date: 2004-03-25 08:28
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Forward references are only problematic in the tutorial. 
The rest of the docs tend to be used in a random access
fashion rather than sequentially.  That's a good thing
because forward references are everywhere.
msg20313 - (view) Author: Michael Hudson (mwh) (Python committer) Date: 2004-03-29 17:57
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That's not what he's complaining about, though.

Seems to me that just removing the 'earlier' would suffice.
msg20314 - (view) Author: Tim Peters (tim.peters) * (Python committer) Date: 2004-04-05 23:55
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Assigned to Fred.  The LaTeX currently has

"""
  Return a new file object (described in
  section~\ref{bltin-file-objects}, ``\ulink{File
  Objects}{bltin-file-objects.html}'').
"""

so I expect this should just be closed, as already fixed.
msg20315 - (view) Author: Fred Drake (fdrake) (Python committer) Date: 2004-05-06 04:00
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Closing as out-of-date; as Tim notes, the CVS version of the
documentation has already been made direction-agnostic.
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2022-04-11 14:56:03adminsetgithub: 40077
2004-03-25 08:18:02nerbycreate