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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Page chapter4 section6 |
The example; Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Oct 20, 2022 | ||
Printed | Page xiv How to Contact Us section |
"nuts@oreilly.com" now reads "info@oreilly.com" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page xvi 1st paragraph |
"Geoff Philbric" now reads "Geoffrey Philbrick" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 31 Table 2-3 |
"compliment" now reads "complement" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 33 1st paragraph, last sentence |
After "expressions;" the sentence was changed to read: |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 45 Table 2-7, 2nd column, 3rd item |
now reads: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 76 In "a...b," the "..." was put in regular type. |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 78 All instances of "..." were put into regular type (4 times). |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 87 3rd paragraph, the code example |
Mathematically, integers less than 2 are NOT considered prime. Hence, the else |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 88 In "... print X," the "..." was put into regular type. |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 89 All instances of "..." were put into regular type (8 times). |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 90 All instances of "..." were put into regular type (8 times). |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 105 4th line of code |
"..." was put into regular type. |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 106 2nd line |
"that exist when the function is called." |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 107 5th line of code |
"..." was put into regular type. |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 108 Last paragraph, last sentence |
"assigns toast and eggs" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 117 1st block of code, line 4 |
"..." was put into regular type. |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 118 5th line of code |
"..." was put into regular type. |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 119 6th block of code |
"..." was put into regular type. |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 120 1st block of code, 7th line and 2nd block of code, 5th line |
Both "..." were put into regular type. |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 121 3rd line of code |
"..." was put into regular type. |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 132 bottom paragraph, first line |
"Just like def, import, and from are executable statements,..." |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 139 |
(139) to the entry for "sys.path" immediately above. |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 142 4th line in the "listing" function |
"module.___name__" now reads "module.__name__" (two underscores, not three). |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 148 Table 5-1, row 3, column 1 |
"from mod import" now reads "from mod import *" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 149 1st line |
"reads" now reads "opens" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 153 end of comment in example in mid page: |
In "# self is the instance", last 2 letters no longer in bold type. |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 177 paragraph 2, sentence 2: |
"...in each class that it lists in its header line." |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 202 second paragraph |
In "Catching 1-of-N Exceptions," "It inspects expect clauses..." |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 205 Code near end of "Why You Will Care" box |
changed: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 216 code section, 9th line |
"dir (sys)" after the prompt (">>>") is now in bold. |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 219 3rd paragraph, 1st sentence; |
The order of cmp return value interpretations wass wrong here. It has been |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 220 Entry for "tuple(seq)" now reads "Returns the tuple version..." |
Example of ord(c) now shows ord('A') value as 65. |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 221 Table 8-2 |
The description for the "setattr" built-in function was added: |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 224 3rd line |
"a callable objects" now reads "a callable object" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 227 under "Regular Expressions:" |
"The character * means ..." now reads "The character + means ..." |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 231 "Most Frequently Used Functions from the os Module" chart, last two |
entries: |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 234 |
os.path.walk('..', test_walk, 'show' |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 236 Table 8-11, last line under "Behavior" |
Last line is now indented properly. |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 236 Table 8-12, 5th line under "Behavior" |
This line is now indented properly. |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 240 code section at beginning |
After the prompt ("(Pdb)") lines 2, 3, 5 and 8 are now in bold. |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 240 Second half of page, code block |
The "*" was removed from the do_timing function's def header. Also, a "," was |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 253 2nd line from top |
"output.py" now reads "output.txt" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 255 2nd line from bottom: |
"a lists of lists" now reads "a list of lists" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 257 2nd paragraph from bottom, line 3 |
"are just as fast" now reads "are probably faster." |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 258 Last paragraph, 1st word |
"Using" is now in normal font. |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 259 in example at top |
os.system('/usr/bin/mail ... < %(tempfile)s' ... ) |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 261 Last paragraph, 2nd line from bottom |
"text from the string str" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 265 In the get_temperature(country,state,city) function, |
line 13 used to read: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 278 code section for class FormData |
"def __init__(self, formdict)" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 281 Deleted space between "FormData." and "__init__" in second text |
paragraph. |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 288 code near bottom |
from tkinter import mainloop |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 290 code at top |
added line: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 292 beginning of last paragraph |
"self-select" now reads "self.select" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 293 extra paren in program code near top of page |
string.replace(labelstr, '
'), '') |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 294 third paragraph from bottom |
The URL for JPython now reads "http://www.jpython.org/". |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 295 middle of page |
The URL for JPython/CPython differences now reads "http://www.jpython.org/ |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 296 5th line of code |
added a single quote before "This" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 325 1st paragraph, last line |
"Conifg" now reads "Config" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 330 1st paragraph, line 5 |
"...L[3:3], the empty insertion point after offset 3" should really be "...L[3:3], |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 352 end of solution 4: |
used to read: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 356 solution #2: |
used to read: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 365 index: |
Deleted the "sys.path dictionary" entry and added its page number |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 |