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Antoine Pitrou 08c08eb93c Issue #13597: Fix the documentation of the "-u" command-line option, and wording of "What's new in Python 3.0" about standard streams. 2011-12-21 11:24:15 +01:00
Benjamin Peterson 0f1e3ac897 note the blinding speed of these functions 2011-12-20 10:12:41 -06:00
Benjamin Peterson 1c92cfea4a don't mention implementation detail 2011-12-19 16:41:11 -05:00
Ezio Melotti 80a61e8d4c #13387: rephrase unclear sentence. 2011-12-19 07:04:48 +02:00
Victor Stinner 6fbd525ef5 Issue #13617: Document that the result of the conversion of a Unicode object to
wchar*, Py_UNICODE* and bytes may contain embedded null characters/bytes.

Patch written by Arnaud Calmettes.
2011-12-18 19:22:31 +01:00
Victor Stinner a94a0e92b8 Issue #13522: Fix _Py_co_pow() documentation
Patch written by Arnaud Calmettes.
2011-12-18 02:56:18 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 07b1c877b2 Issue #13522: document error return values of some float and complex C API functions. 2011-12-18 01:25:27 +01:00
Victor Stinner e83f899364 Issue #13530: Document os.lseek() result
Patch written by Jérémy Anger.
2011-12-17 23:15:09 +01:00
Ezio Melotti e5b2ac8987 #13613: fix example in re doc. 2011-12-17 01:17:17 +02:00
Antoine Pitrou 7158e06212 Issue #13597: Improve documentation of standard streams. 2011-12-15 16:25:34 +01:00
Ezio Melotti 7b7e39a61f #6570: clarify tutorial section about keyword arguments. 2011-12-13 15:49:22 +02:00
Ezio Melotti 91621e2c16 #13549: improve tutorial section about listcomps. 2011-12-13 15:36:19 +02:00
Lars Gustäbel 0c6cbbd632 Fix doc typo. 2011-12-10 12:45:45 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 432259feea Issue #13528: rework the performance question in the programming FAQ 2011-12-09 23:10:31 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 5b73ca4b3d s/SOCKSTREAM/TCP/ 2011-12-05 01:46:35 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 8e644f0e7c Reword IPC section 2011-12-05 01:43:32 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 8345451170 Use www.python.org instead of a hostname pointing to a parked (or squatted) domain.
Also, reformat a bit.
2011-12-05 01:37:34 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou fa03f6c863 Remove the outdated notion that multithreading doesn't work well on Unices. 2011-12-05 01:32:29 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 534e253cb6 Remove reference to the base64 encoding. 2011-12-05 01:21:46 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 48a7cbf7c2 The functional module hasn't been maintained since 2006 and doesn't work with Python 3.
Remove section about it from the functional programming FAQ.
2011-12-05 01:05:32 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou ae44b7a099 Remove obsolete references to bsddb 2011-12-05 00:41:19 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou c1bd4896cf Issue #13527: remove mention of Python megawidgets and Tkinter3000 WCK
from the doc. These two projects appear dead.
2011-12-04 23:56:30 +01:00
Georg Brandl 6a96a2e1f8 Fix typo. 2011-12-04 11:51:21 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou dec0f21efc Streamline mention of sorted() 2011-12-03 23:08:57 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou c561a9adac Break down and refine memory management question 2011-12-03 23:06:50 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 17bd792cd3 Reformulate answer, and remove off-topic discussion of bytecode in a question about compiling to C. 2011-12-03 22:56:02 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou cc809a286a Fix compatibility statement. 2011-12-03 22:39:13 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 748799a0a6 Remove outdated question (the bsddb module isn't included anymore) 2011-12-03 22:37:14 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou d4ddec5988 Refine FAQ entry for catching stdout 2011-12-03 22:35:31 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 48383bfc67 Advocate PyTuple_Pack instead of manual building of tuples 2011-12-03 22:30:19 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou f35204055e Remove outdate FAQ content 2011-12-03 22:19:55 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou c5b266efb5 Streamline FAQ entry about the ternary operator, and suggest using io.StringIO for a mutable unicode container. 2011-12-03 22:11:11 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 9cb41dfbaa Remove references to psyco, which is mostly unmaintained and doesn't work with Python 3. 2011-12-03 21:21:36 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 5dd95d6f2d Mention PySide in the "other GUIs" page. 2011-12-03 21:07:01 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 7462e87134 Mention the new GTK+ 3 bindings. 2011-12-03 20:59:24 +01:00
Meador Inge 777bebb0ef Issue #13513: IOBase docs incorrectly link to the readline module 2011-12-03 12:29:54 -06:00
Jason R. Coombs a90e364ea5 Issue #12666: Added section about map changes. 2011-12-03 08:24:21 -05:00
Jason R. Coombs df9a5f5ecf Issue #12666: Clarifying changes in map for Python 3 2011-08-01 17:51:34 -04:00
Ezio Melotti c1f26f6fc1 #13494: s/cast/convert/. Also add a link. 2011-12-02 19:47:24 +02:00
Ezio Melotti b1b3fd23b7 #13499: fix example adding >>> before the comments. 2011-12-02 19:28:36 +02:00
Antoine Pitrou 71bca3495d Issue #1040439: better document how to compile and link an embedded Python interpreter.
Still lacks docs for Windows (anyone?).
2011-11-30 21:19:21 +01:00
Éric Araujo c4d7d8c49d Mark up constants in sockets docs as such 2011-11-29 16:46:38 +01:00
Éric Araujo 2bddc53cb9 Fix typo (#13467) 2011-11-29 16:34:58 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou fd9ebd4a36 Clarify concatenation behaviour of immutable strings, and remove explicit
mention of the CPython optimization hack.
2011-11-25 16:33:53 +01:00
Eli Bendersky 5a53f368e6 fix some typos in Doc/c-api/memoryview.rst 2011-11-25 15:07:50 +02:00
Vinay Sajip 631a7e23c5 Added a configuration dictionary example to the logging cookbook. 2011-11-23 14:27:54 +00:00
Vinay Sajip 287f24691d Closes #13459: Clarified documentation on Logger.propagate. Thanks to Mike Fogel for the patch. 2011-11-23 08:54:22 +00:00
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc 3b1acf11e9 bytes() can't be used to get a representation of an object. 2011-11-22 19:34:08 +01:00
Mark Dickinson b1e58fe43f Issue #12245: Document sys.float_info.rounds better. 2011-11-19 16:26:45 +00:00
Ezio Melotti fabf0275a9 #13387: add note about checking the exact type in assertIsInstance doc. 2011-11-18 18:59:36 +02:00
Ezio Melotti e62aad3073 #13426: fix typos in pickle doc. 2011-11-18 13:51:10 +02:00
Eli Bendersky eeae1498aa fixing typos in optparse doc 2011-11-16 06:02:21 +02:00
Éric Araujo 04e6909845 Fix markup 2011-11-14 18:00:48 +01:00
Eli Bendersky d44af82e62 Issue #12767: documenting threading.Condition.notify 2011-11-12 20:44:25 +02:00
Florent Xicluna 599d76b275 Reformat paragraphs. 2011-11-11 19:56:26 +01:00
Florent Xicluna 45c6c3eb71 Few typos in the documentation. 2011-11-11 19:55:21 +01:00
Eli Bendersky a7795dbe9a Issue #13191: typo in argparse docs 2011-11-11 10:57:01 +02:00
Eli Bendersky c2c896093b Issue #13365: correct an error in the documentation of str.expandtabs 2011-11-11 10:40:14 +02:00
Nick Coghlan 32e4a58c06 Issue #13237: Fix formatting error - the legacy shell commands weren't meant to be under the Notes heading 2011-11-08 21:50:58 +10:00
Nick Coghlan 69ce0d8602 Issue #13237: Remove duplicate data value descriptions from the subprocess docs 2011-11-08 21:39:07 +10:00
Nick Coghlan c29248f232 Issue #13237: Forward port subprocess module updates and explicitly document UTF-8 encoding assumption when universal_newlines=True 2011-11-08 20:49:23 +10:00
Éric Araujo 06c42a3fca Document that shutil.make_archive does not typecheck its logger argument 2011-11-07 17:31:07 +01:00
Petri Lehtinen 395ca72380 Issue #3067: Enhance the documentation and docstring of locale.setlocale() 2011-11-05 10:21:16 +02:00
Éric Araujo 9c2f42f253 Branch merge 2011-11-03 16:27:57 +01:00
Éric Araujo a083823a85 Avoid relying on the default reST role in logging library doc 2011-11-03 04:35:20 +01:00
Éric Araujo 3bb1a6f990 State explicitely that PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE is equivalent to -B 2011-11-03 03:20:43 +01:00
Victor Stinner 2662133a05 Issue #10570: curses.tigetstr() is now expecting a byte string, instead of a
Unicode string.

This is an incompatible change, but the previous behaviour was completly wrong.
2011-11-02 23:45:29 +01:00
Ezio Melotti 7de56f6a04 #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``. 2011-11-01 14:12:22 +02:00
Sandro Tosi 4bfe03a42e correct signature for tzinfo.dst() in examples; thanks to Daniil Shved from docs@ 2011-11-01 10:32:05 +01:00
Sandro Tosi 53bcd66012 use diveintopython.net now that DIP.org returns 410; thanks to Josh Gachnang from docs@ 2011-10-31 17:46:04 +01:00
Sandro Tosi 69e59a17dd remove confusing paragraph (as part of r87523); thanks to AJ Hill from docs@ 2011-10-31 17:15:39 +01:00
Sandro Tosi e348455f5f document turtle done() function; thanks to Csaba Szepesvari from docs@ 2011-10-31 10:12:43 +01:00
Sandro Tosi 567493fe26 caught is the right pp of catch; thanks to Don Bennett from docs@ 2011-10-31 02:41:06 +01:00
Raymond Hettinger 6f45d18c24 Improve itertools docs with clearer examples of pure python equivalent code. 2011-10-30 15:06:14 -07:00
Ezio Melotti f54f6f520d Add a button to the code examples in the doc to show/hide the prompts and output. 2011-10-30 09:20:19 +02:00
Florent Xicluna 305bb662a9 Documentation typo 2011-10-28 22:14:41 +02:00
Florent Xicluna 83386dac8b I should be someone 2011-10-28 22:03:55 +02:00
Ezio Melotti f99e4b5dbe Improve HTMLParser example in the doc and fix a couple minor things. 2011-10-28 14:34:56 +03:00
Ezio Melotti 0b85cd0680 Merge heads. 2011-10-28 12:32:53 +03:00
Ezio Melotti d3cf0db3ee #13278: fix typo. 2011-10-28 12:22:25 +03:00
Florent Xicluna 74e6495a20 Fixes #13270: obsolete reference to old-style/new-style classes. 2011-10-28 11:21:19 +02:00
Vinay Sajip 6187664fa7 Added lost documentation cross-reference. 2011-10-27 17:50:55 +01:00
Ezio Melotti fbb39815d4 Refactor a bit the codecs doc. 2011-10-25 10:40:38 +03:00
Ezio Melotti 963004d1d8 Fix typo. 2011-10-25 09:41:13 +03:00
Benjamin Peterson 1fafc1a11f document __bytes__ special method (closes #13259) 2011-10-25 00:03:51 -04:00
Benjamin Peterson d6ca6c2b32 note callable is back in 3.2 2011-10-24 08:51:15 -04:00
Florent Xicluna 023611f34e Issue 13141: Demonstrate recommended style for socketserver examples. 2011-10-23 22:40:37 +02:00
Petri Lehtinen ce77037503 Add the green "New reference" note to the doc of PyException_GetTraceback() 2011-10-23 21:03:33 +03:00
Ezio Melotti cd1d3ef77b #13233: fix typo. 2011-10-20 19:51:18 +03:00
Ezio Melotti 81231d9379 #13219: clarify section about character sets in the re documentation. 2011-10-20 19:38:04 +03:00
Raymond Hettinger af37b89240 Issue 12668: Fix wording in Whatsnew3.2 2011-10-19 14:16:18 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger 5768e0c788 Issue 11931: Minor punctuation/grammar/wording fixups to the regex docs 2011-10-19 14:10:07 -07:00
Senthil Kumaran 29fa9d4d68 3.2 - Fix closes Issue6090 - Raise a ValueError, instead of failing with unrelated
exceptions, when a document with timestamp earlier than 1980 is provided to
zipfile. Patch contributed by  Petri Lehtinen.
2011-10-20 01:46:00 +08:00
Ezio Melotti e130a52d8a Remove duplication. 2011-10-19 10:58:56 +03:00
Ezio Melotti 67494f2224 #12277: add missing comma. 2011-10-18 12:59:39 +03:00
Éric Araujo 9be57231dd Update dead references from py.org/dev/faq to the devguide (#13176) 2011-10-14 17:37:45 +02:00
Mark Dickinson f1ab47ebc4 Issue #13145. Fix incorrect documentation for PyNumber_ToBase. Thanks Sven Marnach. 2011-10-11 18:06:36 +01:00
Ezio Melotti 4e15828640 Fix/improve markup in whatsnew/2.7. 2011-10-10 00:30:14 +03:00
Ezio Melotti 138fc896c8 #13138: add missing versionadded. 2011-10-10 00:02:03 +03:00
Raymond Hettinger df7c4cde48 Clean-up and improve the priority queue example in the heapq docs. 2011-10-09 17:28:14 +01:00
Éric Araujo 47a4521ece Fix distutils byte-compilation to comply with PEP 3147 (#11254).
Patch by Jeff Ramnani.  Tested with -B, -O and -OO.
2011-10-08 00:34:13 +02:00
Éric Araujo 35a502b324 Fix a typo and a broken link (part of #10536).
Found by Franz Glasner in #2504.
2011-10-07 22:02:58 +02:00
Antoine Pitrou f394e47851 Issue #12823: remove broken link and replace it with another resource. 2011-10-07 16:58:07 +02:00
Éric Araujo bb2095f1e2 Branch merge 2011-10-06 13:10:34 +02:00
Senthil Kumaran ad87fa6719 Issue #13073 - Address the review comments made by Ezio. 2011-10-05 23:26:49 +08:00
Éric Araujo 58a9153c9f Fix markup used in the documentation of sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix.
- Using the file role with {placeholders} is IMO clearer than fake
  Python code.

- The fact that sys.version[:3] gives '3.2' is a CPython detail and
  should not be advertised (see #9442), even if some stdlib modules
  currently rely on that detail.
2011-10-05 01:28:24 +02:00
Éric Araujo da27263b4a Move doc of sys.dont_write_bytecode to make all attributes sorted again 2011-10-05 01:17:38 +02:00
Senthil Kumaran 5d0de3fbaa Document message_body arg in HTTPConnection.endheaders 2011-10-03 07:27:06 +08:00
Ezio Melotti 35ec7f771b #13076: fix links to datetime.time and datetime.datetime. 2011-10-02 12:44:50 +03:00
Senthil Kumaran 17dac4c0e2 Fix closes issue13005 - Remove the mention of 'repeat' method in the operator module documentation. 2011-09-22 02:09:17 +08:00
Georg Brandl 1d678f8413 Fix bug in heapq priority queue example. 2011-09-18 07:40:05 +02:00
Georg Brandl 73dd7c71f6 Add info from the docstring for random.gammavariate() to the docs. 2011-09-17 20:36:28 +02:00
Georg Brandl 755460694e Fix typo. 2011-09-17 20:20:04 +02:00
Ezio Melotti 4165bfb6e9 #12940: fix cmd example. Patch by Tim Chase. 2011-09-10 10:06:01 +03:00
Éric Araujo eb933de807 Fix current name of the Python 3 binary on Unix (#12896).
Also fix some markup and typos.
2011-09-09 19:03:41 +02:00
Vinay Sajip 4eb0e73ff2 Closes #12906: Fixed bug in YAML configuration. 2011-09-06 14:07:23 +01:00
Senthil Kumaran e969a2117c Fix closes Issue11155 - Correct the multiprocessing.Queue.put's arg (replace 'item' with 'obj') in the docs. Patch by Westley Martínez. 2011-09-06 00:21:30 +08:00
Georg Brandl 3484a8771c Merge with release clone. 2011-09-04 08:35:54 +02:00
Łukasz Langa 7335e6f3e8 removed misleading editing leftovers 2011-09-02 23:17:39 +02:00
Sandro Tosi fbd4fe2195 Give credit to Adam 2011-09-02 21:24:40 +02:00
Sandro Tosi 172f374a63 #12781: Mention SO_REUSEADDR flag near socket examples 2011-09-02 20:06:31 +02:00
Éric Araujo d9e1789364 Branch merge 2011-09-02 17:30:36 +02:00
Éric Araujo 18ddf826e7 Add links from library/functions to other docs.
Suggested by Terry J. Reedy in #12298.
2011-09-01 23:10:36 +02:00
Éric Araujo 9edd9f035b Fix a few links in the table of built-in functions (#12298) 2011-09-01 23:08:55 +02:00
Éric Araujo 29cf58c9d5 Document that format string don’t support arbitrary dictonary keys.
Text adapted from the PEP.  Addition requested by Terry J. Reedy on
2011-02-23 on python-dev.
2011-09-01 18:59:06 +02:00
Éric Araujo 8ab3a1d735 Document that True/False/None don’t use :keyword: in doc.
This was discussed some months ago on python-dev.  Having tons of links
to the definition of True would be annoying, contrary to links to e.g.
the nonlocal or with statements doc.
2011-09-01 18:45:50 +02:00
Ezio Melotti 222b20844f From RFC 3629 5- and 6-bytes UTF-8 sequences are invalid, so remove them from the doc. 2011-09-01 08:11:28 +03:00
Ross Lagerwall a9353db2cd Remove duplicate text in os documentation. 2011-09-01 06:58:52 +02:00
Éric Araujo ec9a5f6399 Add version number for versionchanged directive (backport from 3.3) 2011-09-01 05:55:26 +02:00
Éric Araujo 7af8ebb6ce Adapt/remove mentions of functions gone in 3.x 2011-09-01 03:20:13 +02:00
Éric Araujo 37b5f9eebc Fix some misuses of Sphinx roles and one typo 2011-09-01 03:19:30 +02:00
Éric Araujo 941afedd74 Avoid using the default reST role. Makes Doc/tools/rstlint.py happy. 2011-09-01 02:47:34 +02:00
Éric Araujo be573e7d17 Remove outdated pointer to optparse (fixes #11360).
The doc already points to argparse.
2011-08-26 16:38:40 +02:00
Éric Araujo 77443824f5 Document the "optional" argument of distutils’ Extension class 2011-08-26 00:45:18 +02:00
Éric Araujo 3f5e958a3f Fix type information in distutils API reference (#9302).
Initial patch by Yue Shuaijie.
2011-08-26 00:44:37 +02:00
Éric Araujo cc42ebe450 Make the list of docs contributors sorted again 2011-08-26 00:10:12 +02:00
Georg Brandl e1eef41a18 Close #12838: fix range() call. 2011-08-25 11:52:26 +02:00
Antoine Pitrou 13d2895dbf Issue #12213: make it clear that BufferedRWPair shouldn't be called with the
same object as reader and writer, and deemphasize it in document order.
2011-08-20 19:48:43 +02:00
Sandro Tosi 9daf98d32a #12787: link original MultiCall proposal to webarchive and in a footnote 2011-08-20 17:05:56 +02:00
Georg Brandl 2513123d66 Update suspicious ignore file. 2011-09-03 09:28:05 +02:00
Georg Brandl a47e53e42e Update sys.platform doc for #12326. 2011-09-03 09:26:09 +02:00
Łukasz Langa 987b188615 removed misleading editing leftovers 2011-09-02 23:17:39 +02:00
Sandro Tosi 335f204977 #12781: Mention SO_REUSEADDR flag near socket examples 2011-09-02 20:06:31 +02:00
Éric Araujo d86ac4cd4e Document that format string don’t support arbitrary dictonary keys.
Text adapted from the PEP.  Addition requested by Terry J. Reedy on
2011-02-23 on python-dev.
2011-09-01 18:59:06 +02:00
Éric Araujo 7bb769c092 Add version number for versionchanged directive (backport from 3.3) 2011-09-01 05:55:26 +02:00
Éric Araujo f3c7822ee5 Adapt/remove mentions of functions gone in 3.x 2011-09-01 03:20:13 +02:00
Éric Araujo 43ba354599 Fix some misuses of Sphinx roles and one typo 2011-09-01 03:19:30 +02:00
Éric Araujo 217607ecde Remove outdated pointer to optparse (fixes #11360).
The doc already points to argparse.
2011-08-26 16:38:40 +02:00
Éric Araujo 72dde45dc6 Document the "optional" argument of distutils’ Extension class 2011-08-26 00:45:18 +02:00
Georg Brandl 852eea20ef Close #12838: fix range() call. 2011-08-25 11:52:26 +02:00