Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page xx 2 instances of www.ora.com were changed to www.oreilly.com |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page xxii last paragraph |
set of kids' names now includes "Roxanne." |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 41 Added the 'c' argument to the call in the program examples in two places. |
Both examples now read: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 64 last word of "Towards automated integration" box |
changed "dial..." to "dial!" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 328 Fig. 11-17 |
changed 2 "Menubutton" in bottom frame to "Button" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 390 Added a sentence to the end of the last paragraph |
One exception worth noting: in Python versions 1.5.2 and later, be sure |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 411 |
Added the 'c' argument to the call in the program example. It now reads: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 412 |
Added the 'c' argument to the call in the program example. It now reads: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 422 |
Added the 'c' argument to the call in the program example. It now reads: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 560 First para, changed to |
"Since integers are a central datatype, most of the |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 690 Replaced the abbreviation "rand" with "random" in the code example. It |
now reads: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 691 last paragraph, 1st sentence |
changed "rand" to "random" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 764 last item under "Numbers" |
changed "hexidecimal" to "hexadecimal" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 828 Third para, first sentence |
removed the errant "and" from between "contains" and "items" |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 845 9th line of code |
moved it down with the next line and set the tab flush |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 852 3rd block of code |
file = open('data', r)... |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 867 |
(index) added entry for "==" after entry for "=" that reads: |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 870 removed "==" entry |
also: |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 873 added entry |
is operator, 92, 550 |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 878 index |
changed "__getitem__" to "__setitem__" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 881 added the following to the end of the last para. |
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Anonymous | Oct 01, 1997 |