Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

Faillure in spline-regression.rst due to "print" with Python 3

Open Beginner friendly
  • Is something wrong?
#143 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Open doc/spline-regression.rst and inspect the referenced line around 182. Run the documentation generation with Python 3 and ipython-sphinx to reproduce the failure, then verify that the spline-regression documentation builds successfully without the incompatible print usage.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

This print breaks the doc generation in python3 and with ipython-sphinx

https://github.com/pydata/patsy/blob/4c613d0ad3009044ca3aee5a5d70bd56af8f396b/doc/spline-regression.rst#L182

Dominant language
Python
Stars
989
Forks
106
Avg merge
7d 34m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

Getting set up

This project ships no dev container, Dockerfile or contributing guide, so setting up is up to you: start from its README, and see our first-contribution guide for the general steps.

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from pydata/patsy

All issues in pydata/patsy

Similar issues

More Python issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.