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Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake cc8f44b884 Split "Extending & Embedding" into separate files, one per chapter. 2001-08-20 19:30:29 +00:00
Fred Drake ce1650f3a5 A large contribution from Dave Kuhlman describing what each of the slots
in the type object is used for, for many of the more commonly used slots.
Thanks!

(But there is still a lot more to write on this topic.)
Markup and organizational changes by your friendly neighborhood
documentation czar.
2001-08-15 19:07:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 53765753c4 Lots of new text and example code on embedding Python in C, contributed
by Albert Hofkamp.  Some editing has been done for style and markup
consistency.

This also supplies an example of importing modules and calling a function
defined in the module, so this closes SF bug #440037 as well.

(The long example code was moved to a separate file so that it would
format properly.)
2001-08-04 01:58:36 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 4f1cd8bdcb Patch #411138: Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774. 2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 3332778f35 Corrected a section reference (title was wrong).
Added information on the return values of PyArg_ParseTuple() and
PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords().
2001-07-20 20:59:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 7a889ceb1e Minor change to match the style guide. 2001-07-14 02:27:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 15e33d828c Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
translation more difficult, as well as reading the English more
difficult for non-native speakers.
2001-07-06 06:49:32 +00:00
Fred Drake d5df09cfb6 Update to include the license information in a less annoying place. 2001-06-20 21:37:34 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 6f15e5796e Added new parser markers 'et' and 'et#' which do not recode string
objects but instead assume that they use the requested encoding.

This is needed on Windows to enable opening files by passing in
Unicode file names.
2001-05-02 17:16:16 +00:00
Fred Drake f531ad698c Markup nit: For the Python documents, we use \empt instead of \textit. 2001-03-19 04:19:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 93fe96a3c8 Py_BuildValue(): Add "D" conversion to create a Python complex value from
a Py_complex C value.

Patch by Walter Dörwald.
This closes SF patch #407148.
2001-03-12 21:06:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 80d4c07775 There was a real leak in the "export a C API" example; fix that one.
(There are too many initspam() functions; they need to be renamed
post-beta.)
2001-03-02 19:48:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 0539bfaaa4 There is no longer a -X option to the interpreter, so remove the comments
on how PyErr_NewException() behaves in that case.

Clarify why an owned reference is kept in an extension module's
variable that refers to the result of PyErr_NewException(); one reader
thought that was a leak.

Clean up some tabs and simplify some markup.
2001-03-02 18:15:11 +00:00
Fred Drake f6a9617ba0 Michael Hudson <mwh21@cam.ac.uk>:
New material on defining extension types.  Thanks!

(Small markup adjustments made, but this is mostly as received.)
2001-02-19 19:22:00 +00:00
Fred Drake bcb09fa33f Worked around bug SF #125880: changed the text of three sections that
really nasty TeX source to "bleed" into the PDF "bookmarks".
2001-01-22 18:38:00 +00:00
Fred Drake aa126e1e21 Corrected a number of typos reported by Gilles Civario
<gcivario@users.sourceforge.net>.

This closes bug #122562.
2000-11-17 18:20:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 4bc0aed3a6 Fix cut & paste error that describes three paramters when there are only
two [bug #119729].

Update use of distutils.sysconfig that "broke" when Greg W. changed the API
[bug #119645].
2000-11-02 21:49:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 585698aa59 All acknowledgements have been moved to the Doc/ACKS file.
Adjusted to reflect the rename of Setup.in to Setup.dist.

Added pointer to the "Distributing Python Modules" manual in the
appropriate place.
2000-10-26 17:19:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 4dc1a6d6ba Added some comments on the interaction of reload() and extension modules.
Based on comments from Chris Barker <cbarker@jps.net>.
2000-10-02 22:38:09 +00:00
Fred Drake ed773ef78d Include the new text on reporting bugs in a few useful places.
This closes SourceForge bug #114792.
2000-09-21 21:35:22 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 3578b77312 Special case the "s#" PyArg_Parse() token for Unicode objects:
"s#" will now return a pointer to the default encoded string data
of the Unicode object instead of a pointer to the raw UTF-16
data.

The latter is still available via PyObject_AsReadBuffer().
2000-09-21 21:08:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 1c25803647 Add a brief section on linking Python as an embedded scripting language.
This closes SourceForge bug #110833.
2000-09-08 22:54:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 4e15945fff Markup errors: \cfuntion -> \cfunction 2000-08-11 17:09:23 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 8b9835cdb2 Added descriptions of the new parser markers for PyArg_ParseTuple(). 2000-08-03 19:38:07 +00:00
Greg Stein c2844af87b needs a space 2000-07-09 16:27:33 +00:00
Fred Drake a83b68a143 Remove the only Py_PROTO in the docs. 2000-07-09 03:35:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 1739be50cb Small grammatical correction from Frank Stajano. Added comment with
suggestion from Frank for an example and further explanation.
2000-06-30 17:58:34 +00:00
Fred Drake ec105d0993 Enhanced memory-reference information in the description of Py_BuildValue(),
based on response from Frank Stajano <fstajano@uk.research.att.com>.
2000-06-28 16:15:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 2b9e180ec3 Added memory-reference information to the description of Py_BuildValue(),
based on comments from Frank Stajano <fstajano@uk.research.att.com>.
2000-06-28 15:32:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 65e69002a2 Oops, better also note that the module initialization function must be
extern "C" for C++.
2000-05-10 20:36:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 2d54523551 Section "The Module's Method Table and Initialization Function":
Explain that the name of the initialization function must be
        init<module>().  Omission noted by Daniel Kozan
        <crum@dev-group.com>.
2000-05-10 20:33:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 25871c001f Brian Hooper <brian_takashi@hotmail.com>:
Added 'u' and 'u#' tags for PyArg_ParseTuple - these turn a
PyUnicodeObject argument into a Py_UNICODE * buffer, or a Py_UNICODE *
buffer plus a length with the '#'.  Also added an analog to 'U'
for Py_BuildValue.
2000-05-03 15:17:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 3c3507fd4f Documentation patch describing the 'u' and 'u#' format specifiers,
from Brian Hooper <brian_takashi@hotmail.com>.
2000-04-28 14:43:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 54fd8452a1 Merge in changes from the 1.5.2p2 release. 2000-04-03 04:54:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 9fa76f1090 Use \citetitle in several places, and \programopt where appropriate. 1999-11-10 16:01:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 8779f648d2 Added descriptions of the t#, w, and w# PyArg_ParseTuple() format
characters; these are the ones for the buffer interface.
1999-08-27 15:28:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 82ac24ffb0 Minor markup nit. 1999-07-02 14:29:14 +00:00
Fred Drake a48a083edb Added paragraph about potential re-initialization of extension
modules; responding to suggestion by Robin Boerdijk
<Robin.Boerdijk@nl.origin-it.com>.
1999-06-18 19:17:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 5f342ac2a7 Always use "section" when referring to sections of a document, not "Section". 1999-04-29 02:47:40 +00:00
Fred Drake a4a90ddeac Clarify that the Modules/ directory is in an unpacked source
distribution; this is not clear for Windows users.
1999-04-29 02:44:50 +00:00
Fred Drake c0fcbc1ac6 Update starship URLs. 1999-04-29 02:30:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 52e2d51ef3 Fixed latex2html weirdness for a footnote. 1999-04-05 21:26:37 +00:00
Fred Drake dc12ec8ca0 Fix a number of typos and small grammatical nits pointed out by Detlef
Lannert <lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.

Added a comment explaining the cast in the method table for the
keyword arguments sample code, in response to another comment by
Detlef.
1999-03-09 18:36:55 +00:00
Fred Drake ba21d10d9b Added note about *static* after description of *shared*. 1999-02-22 18:21:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 9226d8e8a8 Removed "This will be discussed later." where it's not. Reported by
Clay Spence <cspence@sarnoff.com>; see entry in ../TODO.
1999-02-22 14:55:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 29fb54f0ca Update note about the (...) format specifier for PyArg_ParseTuple(). 1999-02-18 03:50:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 8e0151725d Small updates and grammatical adjustments.
Remove comment about this manual being out of date from the abstract.
1999-02-17 18:12:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 33698f818b Removed old dynamic linking chapter.
Integrated information on Windows DLLs from Chris Phoenix (Thanks!).

Added "Acknowledgements" area to thank contributing authors.
1999-02-16 23:06:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 3de61bc13f Integrated notes on building extension modules on Windows, by Neil
Schemenauer <neil_schemenauer@transcanada.com>.

Thanks, Neil!
1999-02-16 21:14:16 +00:00
Fred Drake abfd7d6701 Small grammatical fix; missing comma. 1999-02-16 17:34:51 +00:00