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Clarify wording in chapter 10 so it does not imply a new list is crea…
talosgl Jun 14, 2025
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Update text to explicitly reference urllib as the HTTP protocol suppo…
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Merge branch 'csev:master' into minor-suggestions
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions book3/10-tuples.mkd
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Expand Up @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ key:
[('a', 10), ('b', 1), ('c', 22)]
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The new list is sorted in ascending alphabetical order by the key value.
The list of tuples is now sorted in ascending alphabetical order by the key.

Multiple assignment with dictionaries
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Expand Down Expand Up @@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ To do this, we first make a list of tuples where each tuple is
list of `(key, value)` tuples, but this time we want to sort
by value, not key. Once we have constructed the list with the value-key
tuples, it is a simple matter to sort the list in reverse order and
print out the new, sorted list.
print it out.

~~~~ {.python}
>>> d = {'a':10, 'b':1, 'c':22}
Expand All @@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ print out the new, sorted list.
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By carefully constructing the list of tuples to have the value as the
first element of each tuple, we can sort the list of tuples and get our
first element of each tuple, we can sort the list of tuples and print our
dictionary contents sorted by value.

The most common words
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion book3/12-network.mkd
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Expand Up @@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ send and receive the data according to the protocol.

However, since the protocol that we use most commonly is the HTTP web
protocol, Python has a special library specifically designed to support
the HTTP protocol for the retrieval of documents and data over the web.
the HTTP protocol for the retrieval of documents and data over the web,
`urllib`, which we'll cover shortly.

One of the requirements for using the HTTP protocol is the need to send
and receive data as bytes objects, instead of strings. In the preceding
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