Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "We will then copy the state column from sale.py and paste it into our module."

A block of code is set as follows:

from osv import osv, fields


class silkworm_sale_order(osv.Model):
    _inherit = 'sale.order'

    _columns = {
        'x_daterequired': fields.date('Date Required'),
        'x_rush': fields.boolean('Rush Order'),
       }

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Click on the Install button to begin the installation process."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.