Updates and Errata - Second printing
This page is broken into two parts, Updates and Errata. Updates address issues that affect whether your code will run or not. Errata refer to minor issues such as typos, and errors in grayed-out code that probably won’t affect the code you’re entering.
Code that produces warnings but still runs correctly is noted under Errata, as this is a fairly common occurrence and the code often still works for a long time while producing warnings.
If you find an error in the book that's not listed here, or can’t get something to work, please let me know. You can reach me through email at ehmatthes@gmail.com, or on Twitter at @ehmatthes.
Updates
Chapter 16
On Windows, the calls to path.read_text() should all have an encoding='utf-8' argument. On page 330, that would look like this:
path = Path('weather_data/sitka_weather_07-2021_simple.csv')
lines = path.read_text(encoding='utf-8').splitlines()
This also affects the calls to path.read_text() on pages 339 and 343. There are a few other grayed-out references to path.read_text() that should include this argument, but that shouldn't affect the code you're entering. Those are on pages 332, 334, 336, 339, 345, and 348.
Errata
Chapter 6
The output at the bottom of page 95 should say position, not x-position:
Chapter 15
Matplotlib has a number of predefined styles that you can choose from. The book uses the seaborn style, which was base on a style from the Seaborn plotting library. The default style of the Seaborn library has diverged from Matplotlib's seaborn style, so they are changing the name of this style to make that clear. (If you're curious to read more about this, see "seaborn styles renamed" in the Matplotlib documentation page API Changes for 3.6.0.)
If you use seaborn as the book does, you'll see a MatplotlibDeprecationWarning. This won't prevent your code from running, and it won't affect the style of your output.
To avoid seeing this warning, use seaborn-v0_8 wherever you see seaborn in the book's code. The code should look like this:
Chapter 16
As noted above for Chapter 15, use seaborn-v0_8 wherever you see seaborn.
Chapter 17
On page 370, the code that starts the for loop should go through index 30, not 5:
submission_dicts = []
for submission_id in submission_ids[:30]:
# Make a new API call for each submission.
...
Chapter 18
On page 391, the path to the index.html template should read:
Chapter 19
On page 416, the sentence:
Make a new urls.py file in the directory ll_project/accounts/ and add the following...
should instead read:
Make a new urls.py file in the directory learning_log/accounts/ and add the following...
On page 417 under The login Template the path to the accounts/ directory should be learning_log/accounts/, not ll_project/accounts/. The full path to the login.html template should be: learning_log/accounts/templates/registration/login.html.
Also on page 417, the word Settting should only have two Ts.