Learning Python, 2nd Edition
by Mark Lutz, David Ascher

The following errata were *corrected* in the 3/05 reprint:

Here's a key to the markup:
	[page-number]: serious technical mistake
	{page-number}: minor technical mistake
	<page-number>: important language/formatting problem
	(page-number): language change or minor formatting problem


	
(xviii)  4th paragraph;
"Learning Python is designed to be naturally complimented by..." 

NOW READS:
"Learning Python is designed to be naturally complemented by..."


(xvi)  last bullet in first list of bullets;
"New testing and documentation tools such as PyDoc, PyUnit, and doctest (Chapter 11)"

NOW READS:
"New testing and documentation tools such as PyDoc, PyUnit, and doctest (Chapter 26)"


(4)  4th paragraph, 2nd sentence;
"Although this may be an intangible benefit, it's effect on productivity at large is
an important asset."

"It's"   NOW READS   "its."


(10)  1st paragraph;
"On the web, you'll also find a third-party system called gadfly that 
implements a SQL database for Python programs, a complete
object-oriented database system called ZODB."

NOW READS:
"On the web, you'll also find a third-party system called gadfly that implements 
a SQL database for Python programs, and a complete
object-oriented database system called ZODB."



(12)  2nd paragraph;
"Be-OS".  NOW READS  "BeOS". 

"PocketPC and CE"

NOW READS:
"PocketPC and Windows CE"


(15)  First paragraph, last line;
"... Python code will be much less to write, debug, and maintain."

NOW READS:
"... Python code will be much less difficult to write, debug, and maintain."


(21)  3rd paragraph;
"Python.net"  NOW READS  "Python.NET" (as on page 22).


(29)  2nd paragraph;
"...type three Python statements into a text file named spam.py".

NOW READS:
"...type two Python statements into a text file named spam.py".


(30)  paragraph 7;
"Finally, remember to give the full path to
your script file if it lives a different directory ...."

NOW READS:
"Finally, remember to give the full path to
your script file if it lives in a different directory ...."


(38)  First line on page;
.. attribute title in other components two different ways.

NOW READS:
.. attribute title in other components in two different ways.



(46)  line 3;
www.python.og  NOW READS  www.python.org



(59)  "Parentheses Group Subexpressions", line 5 and line 10;
On line 5, "write one of the following to force Python evaluate"

NOW READS:
"write one of the following to force Python to evaluate"

On line 10, "In the second cases"  NOW READS  "In the second case"


(61)  third text paragraph;
"that's why the result are displayed ..."

NOW READS:
"that's why the result is displayed ..."


(64)  3rd text paragraph;
"In general, any code that depends on / truncating an integer result may be effected..."

NOW READS:
"In general, any code that depends on / truncating an integer result may be affected..."


(67)  6th text paragraph;
"This is covered in Chapter 4."

NOW READS:
"This is covered in Chapter 5."


(72)  1st paragraph under "References and Garbage Collection";
"...Python also reclaims the old object, if it is not reference by any other name (or object)."

NOW READS:
"...Python also reclaims the old object, if it is not referenced by any other name (or object)."


(80)  4th paragraph, last line;
"Unicode is normlly used to ..."

NOW READS:
"Unicode is normally used to ..."


(81)  2nd line after code;
"hexidecimal"

NOW READS:
"hexadecimal"


(82)  code after first paragraph; In third comment, 
Repitition  NOW READS  Repetition.


(83)  4th paragraph;
"The first line defines a four-character string and assign it the name S."

NOW READS:
"The first line defines a four-character string and assigns it the name S."


(84)  2nd line;
"When you index a sequence object such as a string on a pair of offsets seperated by a colon..."

NOW READS:
"When you index a sequence object such as a string on a pair of offsets separated by a colon..."


(88)  "Advanced String Formatting", line 1;
"... you can use any of conversion codes ...."

NOW READS:
"... you can use any of the conversion codes ...."


(88)  5th line from bottom;
%X    X, but prints uppercase

NOW READS:
%X    x, but prints uppercase


(90)  3rd text paragraph;
"See also the section "Numbers" in Chapter 4 for examples that convert to 
hexidecimal and octal strings with the %x and %o formatting target codes."

NOW READS:
"See also the section "Numbers" in Chapter 4 for examples that convert to 
hexadecimal and octal strings with the %x and %o formatting target codes."



(94)  Last line of first paragraph;
'basic text extraction cores.'

NOW READS:
'basic text extraction chores.'


(98)  Table 6-1, the column2 entries;

"""
Index,
slice,
length
"""

NOW READS:

"""
Index,
index of index,
slice,
length
"""


(99) 1st Paragraph, 2nd sentence
For instance, the second row in Table 6-1 assigns variable L1 to a four-item list.

NOW READS:
For instance, the second row in Table 6-1 assigns variable L2 to a four-item list.


page 105, Table 6-2, 
 d3['food']['ham']

NOW READS:
 D3['food']['ham']



AND

 len(d1)

NOW READS:
 len(D1)

AND


 del d2[key]

NOW READS:
 del D2[key]



(106)  First set of examples;
>>> 'ham' in d3

NOW READS:
>>> 'ham' in d2



(107)  4th paragraph,end of 2nd line:
"blindly overwiting values"

NOW READS:
"blindly overwriting values"



(113)  Table 7-1, the column2 entries;

"""
Index,
slice,
length
"""

NOW READS:

"""
Index,
index of index,
slice,
length
"""


(114)  2nd paragraph;
"Many programmers also find that parenthesis tend to aid script readability."

NOW READS:
"Many programmers also find that parentheses tend to aid script readability."



(125)  4th paragraph,in the second sentence:
"exmaple"

NOW READS:
"example".


(137)  Table 8-3;
In the list of Python reserved words, the keyword 'Is'  NOW READS  'is'
and the keyword 'lamda' NOW READS  'lambda'


(137)  footnote;
"In the Jython Java-based implementation or Python, ..."

NOW READS:
"In the Jython Java-based implementation of Python, ..."


(154)  2nd paragraph;
"true of false" 

NOW READS: 
"true or false"


(156)  "Examples" section; first line;
"here are a few of simple...." 

NOW READS:
"here are a few simple.


(164)  "Loop Variations" section; paragraph 2; bullet 2;
"... returns a list a ...."

NOW READS:
"... returns a list of ..."


(169)  end of 4th paragraph;
Reference to  "Chapter 11"  NOW READS  "Chapter 14"


(173) first paragraph under Docstrings:__doc__, last line;
...known as a docsting, into the __doc__ attribute...

NOW READS:
...known as a docstring, into the __doc__ attribute...


(175)  "Built-in docstrings" section; line 1;
"It turns out that built modules ...." 

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"It turns out that built-in modules  ..."


(182)  2nd paragraph;
relevent

NOW READS:
relevant


(194)  3rd paragraph;
categoy  

NOW READS:
category


(206)  mid page, on the right side;
"in most cases, it is no longer necesary..."

NOW READS:
"in most cases, it is no longer necessary..."


{215}  Line 4, first line of output from running mins.py;
The result of the statement
     print min1(3,4,1,2)
       
from the previous page NOW READS "1"  instead of "2"


{401}  Second code block;
Missing  ":" at the end of the except IndexError line HAS BEEN ADDED.


{479}  last line of code near the bottom of the page;
apply(self.__init__, (self,) + args), kw)

NOW READS:
apply(self.__init__, (self,) + args, kw)