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Title: Improve docs for filter()
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Components: Documentation Versions: Python 2.5
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Status: closed Resolution: rejected
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Assigned To: rhettinger Nosy List: collinwinter, rhettinger (2)
Priority: normal Keywords: patch

Created on 2006-07-13 23:59 by collinwinter, last changed 2006-07-17 12:26 by collinwinter.

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detail_filter_implementation.patch collinwinter, 2006-07-13 23:59 Against r50627
Messages (3)
msg50695 - (view) Author: Collin Winter (collinwinter) Date: 2006-07-13 23:59 
The attached patch augments the documentation for
filter() by detailing how filter() treats subclasses of
str, unicode and tuple.
msg50696 - (view) Author: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) Date: 2006-07-14 03:26 
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Sorry, no thanks.  This does not make the docs better.  It 
makes it harder to understand the general operation of 
filter() and goes into implementation specific details 
which may not apply to other implementations of Python.
msg50697 - (view) Author: Collin Winter (collinwinter) Date: 2006-07-17 12:26 
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Would you support adding this information as a footnote to
filter(), or perhaps somewhere else in the manual (if so,
where?), or would you prefer that this part of filter()'s
behaviour remain undocumented?
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