Re: [Tutor] Questions about the formatting of docstrings

2018-07-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 11:34:11PM -0500, boB Stepp wrote: > I am near the end of reading "Documenting Python Code: A Complete > Guide" by James Mertz, found at > https://realpython.com/documenting-python-code/ This has led me to a > few questions: > > (1) The author claims that reStructuredTex

[Tutor] Questions about the formatting of docstrings

2018-07-26 Thread boB Stepp
I am near the end of reading "Documenting Python Code: A Complete Guide" by James Mertz, found at https://realpython.com/documenting-python-code/ This has led me to a few questions: (1) The author claims that reStructuredText is the official Python documentation standard. Is this true? If yes,

Re: [Tutor] How can I find a group of characters in a list of strings?

2018-07-26 Thread Matt Ruffalo
On 2018-07-25 20:23, Mats Wichmann wrote: > On 07/25/2018 05:50 PM, Jim wrote: >> Linux mint 18 and python 3.6 >> >> I have a list of strings that contains slightly more than a million >> items. Each item is a string of 8 capital letters like so: >> >> ['MIBMMCCO', 'YOWHHOY', ...] >> >> I need to c