The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
| Version |
Location |
Description |
Submitted by |
Date submitted |
| Other Digital Version |
.
(Environment Setup) |
ust a small point, in the environment setup link given in the second video. (Environment Setup)
The web page for Mac OS X states ? It needs to be a version between Python 2.5 and Python 2.7 for this class?
However when Jessica starts to use Python she uses 3.3.2.
So when she gives the example
type(1)
She gets the output
<class ?int?>
In the ?old? python 2.7 you would get the output
<type ?int?>
I understand that for the rest of the course, and it?s level, this might not be so important. But the discrepancy might cause issues.
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Anonymous |
Apr 11, 2014 |
| Other Digital Version |
02_environment-setup.mp4 |
in module 2, a url is given for environment setup:
https://openhatch.org/wiki/O%27Reilly_Introduction_to_Python
this is incomplete, should be:
https://openhatch.org/wiki/O%27Reilly_Introduction_to_Python/Section_1
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bjorn |
Apr 25, 2014 |
| Other Digital Version |
*
United States |
Please note that the 2nd section of Jessica's video ("Environment Setup") contains a URL for openhatch.org that links to some pre-course instructions. I believe that these instructions may need updating, as they direct the user to install (or check that they have installed) Python 2.4 - 2.7, rather than Python 3.
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Anonymous |
Jun 03, 2014 |
| Other Digital Version |
United States |
I can't proceed with the sections until I figure this out.
When running state_capitals.py
What is the capital of Georgia? Atlanta
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "state_capitals.py", line 60, in <module>
capital_guess = input("What is the capital of " + state + "? ")
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'Atlanta' is not defined
Also, from earlier in the lesson:
>>> user_input = input("test> ")
test> hello world
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<string>", line 1
hello world
^
SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing
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Anonymous |
Jul 23, 2014 |
| Other Digital Version |
video 17
Video on Classes |
In the class video she has "1" as a card rank. A normal 52 card deck starts with "2".
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John Barnett |
Oct 01, 2014 |
| Other Digital Version |
1
Section 13 : Flashcard quizzer |
The exercises worked on my MacBook, but not on a Windows PC.
When I did the exercise for french_food.txt on a Windows PC, there is some encoding problem such that \xc3 cannot be read. I saved the .txt file under utf-8 just to make sure and also added
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
to the top of the .py script just to make sure.
However as before, when the question gets a french symbol, the program stops and the error message is generated.
Anyone the same problem?
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Dennis Yap |
Dec 29, 2014 |
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1
external materials |
The link to the materials provided in the video is broken and the openhatch site returns a 500 error.
For anyone looking for the material, with some googling, I've found it here:
http://wiki.openhatch.org/O%27Reilly_Introduction_to_Python
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paul hewitson |
May 25, 2016 |
| Other Digital Version |
2
bottom of slide |
Your errata form is ill-suited to submitting errata relating
to video content. It requires I provide a "page number"
which only makes sense for printed materials (or materials
formatted with fixed "page numbers"). That is not the
case for the problem I wish to report.
2 dead hyperlinks given relating to this video training course.
Page reference given makes no sense since one is in a video
and the other is in the O'Reilly "Your Products" page from which
I access the video content.
1. On the product list page ("Videos" tab) for this course,
when I expand the info about the "Introduction to Python"
course, on the right it provides a link to download "Practice Files".
This link is a "dead link", i.e. attempts to access it result in an error.
The link is
https://openhatch.org/wiki/O%27Reilly_Introduction_to_Python
Note that this link is not in the video course itself, but in the oreilly.com
website links for me to use to access the video course content I have
purchased, along with supplementary materials.
2. On one of the videos, it gives a short link which also cannot be
successfully used to download the material referenced.
The video in question is a 33-second "Environment Setup"
which is the second segment of the course. The link in question
appears in the video at about 7 seconds in; it's
http://oreil.ly/1qa93ej
which expands to something that looks like some labeled
part of the same page.
I've tried about half a dozen times and keep getting either
"Application error" or "Server error".
I tried just going to the openhatch.org main page and it is fine
so the problem seems to be specific to the page for this
particular course.
Fortunately I don't think for my particular case the inability
to access this page is a serious problem since I already
have Python installed and at least for now I'm willing to
live without provided code samples, but it is irritating
and makes for a poor user experience when I pay for
a course and some of its materials can't be accessed.
It doesn't matter that the references are to an external
non-oreilly.com website; that's not my problem.
You sold me this stuff, you should curate the contents
and make sure it remains accessible.
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Anonymous |
Jan 02, 2016 |
| Other Digital Version |
2
Overlay giving link to get Python and Editor software |
In the second lecture of Introduction to Python, the author invites us to download the code and an editor, with which to continue following the video course. An overlay in the frame gives the URL: http://oreil.ly/1qa93ej. But going to that URL leads only to an Open Hatch error page. There is no other path indicated.
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Anonymous |
Mar 04, 2016 |
| Other Digital Version |
4
Chapter 4, about 4 seconds in |
In the fourth video ("Making Choices: booleans, if/elif/else, compound conditionals."), the word "compound" is misspelled onscreen (as "coumpound") when the video title appears about 4 seconds in.
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Raja Thiagarajan |
Oct 25, 2014 |
| Other Digital Version |
10
Throughout video |
Presenter is using Python 3.2.2, but Environment Setup for OS X says the installed 2.7.5 is ok. However, in the State Capitals Quizzer, she uses:
input("> ")
which throws a Traceback error in 2.7.5. Python 2 users can use:
raw_input("> ")
This happens in subsequent videos as well. But I believe the first instance is in video 10.
|
Charles Fishburn |
Apr 12, 2014 |
| Other Digital Version |
10
Section 10: State Capitals Quizzer |
The file state_capitals.py on a python 2.7 environment will not run.
Suggest changing line 60 from:
capital_guess = input("What is the capital of " + state + "? ")
to:
capital_guess = raw_input("What is the capital of " + state + "? ")
|
Francisco Salas |
Mar 08, 2016 |
| Other Digital Version |
18
scrabble_cheater.py |
The code in file: "scrabble_cheater.py" from https://openhatch.org/wiki/O%27Reilly_Introduction_to_Python/Section_18, while functionally the same, does not match the code in the video.
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Anonymous |
Sep 23, 2014 |
| Other Digital Version |
18
scrabble_cheater.py (line 6 in supplied files, approx line 22 in video version) |
Wrong file name in usage error code
Actual file name to be executed from command line is "scrabble_checker.py"
usage error in code (both versions) is
print("Usage: scrabble.py [RACK]")
should be
print("Usage: scrabble_checker.py [RACK]")
or
print("Usage: "+sys.argv[0]+" [RACK]")
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Robin Dexter |
Oct 28, 2014 |
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18
scrabble_cheater.py |
Hi,
I see in the last module 18 for the "scrabble_cheater.py" the code the instructor is showing and running, is not what is published at the supplemental content for the
http://wiki.openhatch.org/O%27Reilly_Introduction_to_Python/Section_18.
It seems both code samples produces the correct results, but formatting is off and it is confused to the students since they can not follow the instructor code looking at the supplemental content.
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Anonymous |
Jan 19, 2017 |
|
500
second video segment (environment setup) URL doesn't work http://oreil.ly/1qa93ej |
Introduction to Python by Jessica McKellar (video) Environment Setup
the following URL doesn't work nor does the contact information on the error (shown below) this is (i am assuming the links necessary for completing the installation of
Error 500 (server error)
You requested a page, and we really wanted to give it to you. But we messed up. Sorry about that!
We were automatically sent an email about it so we have the error recorded. (If you want to follow up to help us get it fixed, contact us.)
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Mary Lou Schar |
Feb 24, 2016 |
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500
http://oreil.ly/1qa93ej |
This link doesn't work
http://oreil.ly/1qa93ej
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V Dinh |
Feb 25, 2016 |