Correct some bitrot; some things have become inaccurate in the tutorial.

freddrake · freddrake · commit 343ad7a572b8 · 2000-09-22T04:12:27.000Z
&lt;file&gt;.readlines() does not call &lt;file&gt;.readline() internally anymore,
and the sizehint parameter should be mentioned briefly.

Some displays of floating point numbers needed to be updated due to the
change in the repr() of floats (from 1.6).

Both issues were noted by Aahz &lt;aahz@panix.com&gt;.
diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
@@ -488,11 +488,11 @@ \subsection{Numbers \label{numbers}}
 >>> tax = 17.5 / 100
 >>> price = 3.50
 >>> price * tax
-0.6125
+0.61249999999999993
 >>> price + _
-4.1125
+4.1124999999999998
 >>> round(_, 2)
-4.11
+4.1100000000000003
 \end{verbatim}
 
 This variable should be treated as read-only by the user.  Don't
@@ -2780,8 +2780,12 @@ \subsection{Methods of File Objects \label{fileMethods}}
 ''
 \end{verbatim}
 
-\code{f.readlines()} uses \code{f.readline()} repeatedly, and returns
-a list containing all the lines of data in the file.
+\code{f.readlines()} returns a list containing all the lines of data
+in the file.  If given an optional parameter \var{sizehint}, it reads
+that many bytes from the file and enough more to complete a line, and
+returns the lines from that.  This is often used to allow efficient
+reading of a large file by lines, but without having to load the
+entire file in memory.  Only complete lines will be returned.
 
 \begin{verbatim}
 >>> f.readlines()
