Programming Python, Third Edition
by Mark Lutz

This errata page lists errors corrected in the most recent printing.

If you have technical questions or error reports, you can send them to
booktech@oreilly.com.  Please specify the printing date of your copy.

This page was updated August 2, 2007.

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
	?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification



Confirmed errors:

{39}  1st line of listing at bottom of page;
...\PP3E\Preview> python make_db_file.py
should be
...\PP3E\Preview> python make_db_files.py


{40}  1st line of Example 2-3. and Example 2-4.;
from make_db_file import loadDbase, storeDbase
should be
from make_db_files import loadDbase, storeDBase

The associated example files, PP3E\Preview\dump_db_file.py and
PP3E\Preview\update_db_file.py, contain the error also and will 
not run until it is corrected.


{46}  1st line of Example 2-13;
from initdb import tom
should be
from initdata import tom

The example file PP3E\Preview\update_db_shelve.py also contains 
the error and it will not run until it is corrected.


(51)  3rd text paragraph starting "In fact,";
to be at all ware of
should be
to be at all aware of


{107} 3rd paragraph, 2nd sentence:
os.sep.split(dirpath)
should be
dirpath.split(os.sep)


(107)  4th sentence in the code example:
(False, Tuue)
should be
(False, True)


(200)  3rd paragraph, 2nd sentence;
Aa thread will never...
should be
A thread will never...


(307) about 10 lines from top;
Problem: Statemet missing closing quote.
Text reads: elif mode == '-all:
Should read: elif mode == '-all':


{413}  5th line on page in code listing;
def message(self)):
should be
def message(self):


(841) main comment, example 14-22;
common superclasses: used to turn trace massages on/off
should be:
common superclasses: used to turn trace messages on/off


(1158) Footnote;
"Known as" is misspelled as "known a" in the footnote. This is in the August 2006 printing (Third edition).


(1350)  about 7 lines from bottom;
expand(template])
should be
expand([template])