Errata in Fundamentals of Python
(ISBN-10: 1423902181)
Below are the errors that have been discovered in the first printing. Please report any new errors to klambert@wlu.edu.
| Page xxiii | Paragraph 5, line 1, “”use of the strings” should be “use of strings.” | |
| Page 24 | In code segment at bottom of page, second 3 should be in plain text, third 3 should be italicized. | |
| Page 44 | In third bulleted item, $2000 should be $3000. | |
| Page 44 | In Figure 2.4, 3 should be italicized. | |
| Page 57 | Next to last line of first paragraph, “section” should be “session.” | |
| Page 61 | All entries in Table 2.8 should be bold. | |
| Page 64 | Second paragraph, first sentence, 6.5 and 7.0 should be bold code font. | |
| Page 85 | Third paragraph, next to last sentence, % should be bold code font. | |
| Page 92 | Next to last paragraph, “if-else” should not be italicized. | |
| Page 94 | In first two code segments, “raw_input” should be “input” (4 instances). | |
| Page 94 | Second paragraph, first sentence, “if” should not be italicized. | |
| Page 104 | Last paragraph, first sentence, “while” should be bold code font. | |
| Page 110 | Last line, “y” should not be bold but should be italicized. | |
| Page 128 | First line after line beginning with “if” in first code segment, “cipherValue = ord(‘z’) – \ (distance – (ord(‘a’) – ordValue + 1))” should be “cipherValue = ord(‘z’) – (distance – \ (ordValue – ord(‘a’)) – 1)” |
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| Page 133 | First paragraph, last line, “30” should be “34”. | |
| Page 359 | Last paragraph, line 3, “Chapter 8” should be “Section 8.3.9”. | |
| Page 432 | Second line from bottom, “1,000,000” should be “10,000,000”. | |
| Page 456 | Second paragraph, line 4, “1 out of n” should be “1 out of n!”. | |
| Page 468 | Project 4, line 5, “expo(number, exponent – 1)” should be “number * expo(number, exponent – 1)”. | |
| Page 523 | Item 1 near top of page, “from the target” should be “from just after the target”. | |
| Page 524 | Third line from bottom, “0.33” should be “0.3”. | |
| Page 539 | First code segment, third line, remove “;” | |
| Page 649 | Table 16.6, row 5, column 4, “True” should be “False” | |
| Page 650 | Table 16.6, next to last row, third column, “e , a b” should be “c , e b” | |
| Page 650 | Table 16.6, last row, third column, “e , a b” should be “c , e b” | |
| Page 651 | Table 16.6, second row, third column, “, e a b” should be “, c e b” | |
| Page 651 | Table 16.6, last row, third column, “, a b” should be “, c b” | |
| Page 711 | Figure 17.12,
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| Page 713 | Delete two instances of “k = 0” and “k += 1” . | |
| Page 713 | Two instances of “k <=” should be “0 <=”. | |
| Page 720 | Code segment, third line from bottom, “parser.py” should be “parsers.py”. | |
| Page 744 | Figure 18.9, the first list should not include the box containing 6, and the box containing 4 should be shaded instead of the box containing 5. | |
| Page 773 | Throughout the code segment, “maxChild” should be “minChild” and “maxItem” should be “minItem” | |
| Page 786 | Table 19.3, row 4, column 1, “_setitem__” should be “__setitem__”. | |
| Page 815 | Question 3 b, “0.33” should be “0.3”. | |
| Page 823 | Next to last paragraph, first line, “graph” should be “connected graph”. | |
| Page 825 | Figure 20.8, row 1, column 2 should contain “0”, and row 2, column 2 should contain “1”. | |
| Page 826 | Figure 20.9, row 2, column 1 should contain “1”. | |