Commit 436ebf8a authored by Georg Brandl's avatar Georg Brandl

Closes #16155: fix a few errors in doctest output of the FAQ pages.

parent 8d867cb7
......@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Why are floating point calculations so inaccurate?
People are often very surprised by results like this::
>>> 1.2 - 1.0
0.199999999999999996
0.19999999999999996
and think it is a bug in Python. It's not. This has nothing to do with Python,
but with how the underlying C platform handles floating point numbers, and
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......@@ -415,14 +415,22 @@ while they enter their program's source in another window. If they can't
remember the methods for a list, they can do something like this::
>>> L = []
>>> dir(L)
['append', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove',
'reverse', 'sort']
>>> dir(L) # doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__delitem__',
'__delslice__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__',
'__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__getslice__', '__gt__',
'__hash__', '__iadd__', '__imul__', '__init__', '__iter__', '__le__',
'__len__', '__lt__', '__mul__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__',
'__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__reversed__', '__rmul__',
'__setattr__', '__setitem__', '__setslice__', '__sizeof__', '__str__',
'__subclasshook__', 'append', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert',
'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort']
>>> help(L.append)
Help on built-in function append:
<BLANKLINE>
append(...)
L.append(object) -- append object to end
<BLANKLINE>
>>> L.append(1)
>>> L
[1]
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......@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ by entering a few expressions of your choice and seeing the results::
>>> print "Hello"
Hello
>>> "Hello" * 3
HelloHelloHello
'HelloHelloHello'
Many people use the interactive mode as a convenient yet highly programmable
calculator. When you want to end your interactive Python session, hold the Ctrl
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