9cfe1824c2
Add documentation for the StopIteration exception.
2001-05-03 04:30:45 +00:00
287c4cb43a
State that Mailbox objects are iterator objects.
2001-05-02 20:22:12 +00:00
eacdec6b38
Update the filter() and list() descriptions to include information about
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the support for containers and iteration.
2001-05-02 20:19:19 +00:00
93656e76f9
Added section describing the iterator protocol.
2001-05-02 20:18:03 +00:00
8b3d6ca3df
At the suggestion of Peter Funk, document 'key in dict' and 'key not
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in dict' after has_key(), with a \versionadded{2.2} note.
2001-04-23 13:22:59 +00:00
82f93c693d
Only document <file>.xreadlines() once; added version annotation.
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This closes SF bug #417943 .
2001-04-22 01:56:51 +00:00
4cacec5393
Fix a number of minor markup errors.
2001-04-21 05:56:06 +00:00
0dbb4fba4c
Implement, test and document "key in dict" and "key not in dict".
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I know some people don't like this -- if it's really controversial,
I'll take it out again. (If it's only Alex Martelli who doesn't like
it, that doesn't count as "real controversial" though. :-)
That's why this is a separate checkin from the iterators stuff I'm
about to check in next.
2001-04-20 16:50:40 +00:00
1aec3a16f3
Add versioning notes: many of the signatures changed to allow the time
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used to be omitted (meaning use the current time) as of Python 2.1.
Users who need cross-version portability need to know things like this.
2001-04-19 04:55:23 +00:00
bc524c4e9f
Cut-&-paste-o noted by Wolfgang Teschner: decompressobj() returns
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*DE*compression objects, not compression objects!
2001-04-18 20:16:51 +00:00
895aa9da4c
Suggestion from Keith Briggs: refer to RE objects consistently instead of
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introducing a new term ("regex") without defining it.
2001-04-18 17:26:20 +00:00
293f77af6f
Add note about the version in which GetoptError was added -- this can
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bite people interested in 1.5.2 compatibility.
2001-04-18 03:18:57 +00:00
c054c75582
Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping.
2001-04-13 17:25:38 +00:00
a3e56a6ceb
Minor markup adjustments.
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Turn reference to the cmd module into a hyperlink.
2001-04-13 14:34:58 +00:00
4f3980d3cb
Added a test main to the pstats library that can help you browse profile dumps.
2001-04-13 00:23:01 +00:00
47f11ce591
Added warning that FancyURLopener prompts the user on the terminal when
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basic authentication is needed.
Added documentation for FancyURLopener.prompt_user_passwd(), explaining
that subclasses should provide more appropriate behavior for the hosting
environment.
2001-04-12 20:26:49 +00:00
62a26699c4
Added module synopsis for the chapter summary.
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Added documentation for TestCase.assertRaises().
Added text for "Mapping concepts to classes", and merged it into the
front matter instead of separating it into a new section.
Removed use of "assert" in examples.
Update the descriptions to reflect further changes from discussions on
the pyunit-interest list.
Added documentation for the defaultTestLoader object and the
TestLoader methods.
Added the assert*() names for the TestCase helper methods.
2001-04-12 19:34:38 +00:00
e20bd19f86
Convert several \seetext references to \seerfc and \seetitle versions.
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These format somewhat better and include more semantic information in the
source.
2001-04-12 16:47:17 +00:00
0056a427bb
Added a lot of text from Steve Purcell's HTML documentation.
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Updated reference material substantially based on discussions on the
pyunit-interest mailing list (not all changes are in the code in CVS
yet).
2001-04-12 04:50:06 +00:00
b942c2f788
Fixed bug in example.
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This closes SF bug #415522 .
Also fix markup error in text following the example.
2001-04-11 21:33:47 +00:00
c3cbbaf513
Added some additional documentation describing how BabylMailbox
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actually works (it returns a message containing the visible headers,
not the original headers). Doc change approved by Fred; closes SF bug
#412230 .
2001-04-11 20:12:33 +00:00
eedf985056
Include a synopsis for the chapter overview.
2001-04-11 19:17:11 +00:00
2bd0d88360
Fixing bug 405999 -- clarifying differences between Python's
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getopt and GNU getopt -- Python is like classical UNIX getopt.
2001-04-11 07:33:08 +00:00
29be70195a
Added definition of "test fixture".
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Added description of optional parameter to the TestSuite constructor.
Added descriptions of the TestLoader and TextTestRunner classes.
Added method descriptions for the TestCase class.
2001-04-10 22:25:06 +00:00
ac154a17a3
Remove the mapping() function from the documentation.
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Add a description of the ReferenceError exception.
2001-04-10 19:57:58 +00:00
da00cda9fa
Add note that difflib was added in Python 2.1.
2001-04-10 19:56:09 +00:00
cfac6d23fd
Normalize tabs to spaces.
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Update the attribution for the "Curses Programming with Python" How-To.
Change the way the reference to the Demo/curses/ directory is marked up.
2001-04-10 18:49:09 +00:00
6fda3ac474
Add reference to the DDJ article discussing a similar algorithm.
2001-04-10 18:41:16 +00:00
90a72f8dcd
Add documentation for getmoduleinfo() and getmodulename().
2001-04-10 15:12:34 +00:00
819815abea
Fix typo in example (\b should be \n in string literal).
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This closes SF bug #414279 .
2001-04-09 15:57:06 +00:00
9c846366ee
Fix a number of bugs and omissions in the AddressList documentation, most
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noted by Steve Holden.
This closes SF bug #413876 .
2001-04-09 15:42:56 +00:00
501d90471d
Add entry for unittest documentation.
2001-04-07 05:42:14 +00:00
b9ad228798
Start of documentation for the unittest module. Some of this comes from
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Steve Purcell's documentation, and a lot of it is written based on
using PyUnit and reading the implementation.
There is more to come, but I want to get this check in before I have a
disk crash or anything else bad happens.
2001-04-07 05:41:39 +00:00
4cf1227e56
Change {\em ...} to \emph{...} for consistency with the rest of the Python
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documentation.
2001-04-05 18:31:27 +00:00
f459d852e5
Add some information about what to expect of the DocumentType's
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.internalSubset attribute based on a clarification from the www-dom
list.
2001-04-05 18:30:04 +00:00
659f377ed9
Add entry for curses.panel documentation.
2001-03-29 22:23:19 +00:00
14631f674f
Fix serious markup errors.
2001-03-29 22:22:23 +00:00
cb83988151
Added example use of weak references, contributed by Tim Peters.
2001-03-28 21:15:41 +00:00
21e036ccca
Add a note that the "kfm" controller supports "konqueror" as well as the
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old KDE 1 "kfm" command.
2001-03-26 16:17:21 +00:00
c8da0f966f
Document use_rawinput. (Although now that I think more about it, a
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better solution would have been to factor out the raw_input() call and
make it into an overridable method. Oh well, maybe later...)
2001-03-24 19:17:35 +00:00
aa90adcfb9
Add nested scopes spec to appendix.
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Add new opcodes LOAD_CLOSURE, LOAD_DEREF, STORE_DEREF, MAKE_CLOSURE to
docs for dis module.
Add docs for new function and code members in Sec. 3 of ref manual.
They're present regardless of whether nested scopes are used.
Remove description of default argument hack from Sec. 7 of the ref
manual and refer the reader to the appendix.
2001-03-23 17:23:50 +00:00
ce7298ab42
Explain the difference between NL and NEWLINE.
2001-03-23 05:22:12 +00:00
c608fb6389
Give a slightly better explanation of excepthook.
2001-03-23 05:17:41 +00:00
5e0dfaccd1
Update to the most recent weakref changes.
2001-03-23 04:36:02 +00:00
b5c5132d1a
Add sys.excepthook.
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Update docstring and library reference section on 'sys' module.
New API PyErr_Display, just for displaying errors, called by excepthook.
Uncaught exceptions now call sys.excepthook; if that fails, we fall back
to calling PyErr_Display directly.
Also comes with sys.__excepthook__ and sys.__displayhook__.
2001-03-23 02:46:52 +00:00
4e6d09e369
Moved the description of the tzparse module to the "Obsolete" section
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and note that it fails when the TZ environment variable is not set.
This closes SF bug #409683 .
2001-03-20 23:13:53 +00:00
b15bbc8d3d
Add documentation for SGMLParser.handle_decl().
2001-03-16 20:39:41 +00:00
f0ebbe0bd0
Re-order some method descriptions for a more logical grouping.
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(Based on reader comment!)
2001-03-08 22:46:41 +00:00
990b0fec1a
Update documentation to reflect the shift to NetrcParseError instead of
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SyntaxError.
2001-03-06 06:55:18 +00:00
93c867139f
Lots of organizational changes for consistency with the rest of the
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documentation.
Fix a few small markup nits.
2001-03-02 20:39:34 +00:00
043d5e5514
For copyfile(), be explicit that src and dst are file names; that was only
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implied.
2001-03-02 16:46:42 +00:00
7606e4d00e
Added entry for urllib2 documentation.
2001-03-01 19:54:29 +00:00
f89ad5ed6b
Document configuration flags to compile for large file support on
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certain Linux systems.
2001-03-01 18:29:57 +00:00
8a18e99008
Checking in patch 404826 -- urllib2 enhancements and documentations.
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(please not that the library reference does *not* include the
urllib2 documnetation -- that will wiat for Fred)
2001-03-01 08:40:42 +00:00
56ba72a563
Document warn_explicit().
2001-02-28 23:34:21 +00:00
7840a9cb99
Add entry for the inspect module.
2001-02-28 23:02:20 +00:00
6dbd382ec8
Clean up some of the markup for consistency, wrap some long lines.
2001-02-28 23:01:38 +00:00
58177b9975
added description of NL token
2001-02-28 22:05:41 +00:00
969ab2710a
Update documentation for termios module; do not refer to the TERMIOS module
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for constant definitions.
Add a deprecation to the TERMIOS module.
2001-02-27 22:01:15 +00:00
5e1633365d
Patch #403985 : Add support for weak-keyed dictionaries
2001-02-27 18:36:56 +00:00
6397c7c9a9
inspect: a module for getting information out of live Python objects
2001-02-27 14:43:21 +00:00
d4614e8371
Updates to the semantics of function and method attributes.
2001-02-27 03:32:35 +00:00
07e6c505ad
Minor adjustments, including markup corrections.
2001-02-23 19:15:56 +00:00
447f545322
Fix extra backslash in example.
2001-02-23 19:13:07 +00:00
afdc8fc0ad
Fix up the markup in some recently-added portions of the text.
2001-02-23 19:10:41 +00:00
19f3c52347
Work around the broken formatting of sys.ps1 prompts in running text.
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Move sample sessions to the left margin of the file for consistency;
formatting can adjust the margin if needed.
This closes SF bug #133213 .
2001-02-22 23:15:05 +00:00
7c30de65f4
Remove documentation for the soundex module; the module is no longer
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included with Python.
2001-02-22 21:25:20 +00:00
7edbd4ffb4
Patch #103885 : Add dynamic registration and lookup of DOM implementations.
2001-02-22 14:05:50 +00:00
754ba589b7
Improve accuracy. In the .tex file, note the new "% BUG:" comments: an
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extra backslash is getting displayed in the generated HTML.
2001-02-20 11:24:35 +00:00
f0768c822b
Added missing \item. See also bug 133213, about damaged HTML generated
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for \code(">>>"); don't know how to fix that one.
2001-02-20 10:57:30 +00:00
e79af273e8
Flesh out PlaySound() docs enough so that SND_ALIAS isn't hopelessly confusing.
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If someone knows how to turn the new table of guaranteed-registered system
sounds into a LaTeX table, be my guest.
2001-02-20 10:02:21 +00:00
5b0705d266
ConfigParser.optionxform(): Document this since it is available for
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sub-classes and application code to override.
2001-02-19 22:37:24 +00:00
15bc404ca8
Added entries for difflib documentation.
2001-02-19 16:32:40 +00:00
baf71422b8
Documentation for the difflib module, converted from the module docstrings.
2001-02-19 16:31:02 +00:00
373d151666
More typos. libwinsound.tex typo noted by Peter Funk (thanks!).
2001-02-19 08:36:41 +00:00
25a9ce371c
Take a tour of hell's seedier neighborhoods to try to make winsound.Beep()
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do something non-useless on Win9X boxes. WinME unknown to me. Someone with
NT/2000 make sure it still works there!
2001-02-19 07:06:36 +00:00
c4089d84d8
In the example showing the irrelevance of start columns, restore that the
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start columns differ (editing had pushed them all into column 0).
2001-02-17 18:03:25 +00:00
f3262b72ca
Add entries for the doctest documentation.
2001-02-17 17:33:25 +00:00
7eb1463bb3
Make a variety of minor markup adjustments.
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Close some environments so that this will actually format.
2001-02-17 17:32:41 +00:00
7688229f7c
SF patch #103808 : doctest.py docs
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Checking in Moshe's patch after rewrapping some paragraphs (to consume
fewer columns) and repairing that I/2.**J lost the I.
2001-02-17 05:58:44 +00:00
04f1d37471
mention the use of the maxtries attribute of FancyURLopener in bounding
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redirection recursion.
2001-02-15 17:00:40 +00:00
bf416fa0dd
Document default blocksize for storbinary().
2001-02-15 13:53:40 +00:00
523ec5709b
Make some clarifications and corrections based on comments from Guido.
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Fix a few markup nits.
Work around a LaTeX2HTML nuisance.
2001-02-15 05:37:51 +00:00
15862f50e5
Add a note to Node.isSameNode() that it is based on the DOM Level 3 working
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draft. I'm not sure that's important, but Uche thinks it is.
2001-02-14 20:39:15 +00:00
1d8ad2b1de
Updated to reflect the additional information and interfaces exported in
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pyexpat.c revision 2.40.
2001-02-14 18:54:32 +00:00
162c6a637a
Reflect change in traceback format:
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"innermost last" --> "most recent call last"
2001-02-14 03:20:18 +00:00
e7d7e6c879
Fix two typos
2001-02-14 02:39:11 +00:00
5ed1dac4c0
Update documentation for pyexpat (xml.parsers.expat), to reflect the new
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support for Expat 1.95.*.
2001-02-08 15:40:33 +00:00
cf2636696d
Fix markup typo in a {verbatim} environment (there should not be any!);
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caught by Eric Raymond.
2001-02-03 14:35:38 +00:00
40e43bfaf7
Document Node.isSameNode().
2001-02-03 01:20:01 +00:00
f891404e1a
Move the whrandom section back to the documented modules section; this
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gives people a chance to see the depracation notice.
2001-02-03 01:17:41 +00:00
269625f67a
Revise the deprecation note for the whrandom module to be correct and a
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little more formal.
2001-02-03 01:12:44 +00:00
6270031f4e
Adjustments to the text of the UnixMailbox description. Added
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PortableUnixMailbox as a separate class as well (this also generates
the right index entry).
2001-02-02 03:51:05 +00:00
57d943ad38
Move the whrandom entry to the "Obsolete Modules" appendix.
2001-02-02 02:45:08 +00:00
844bd5b4a9
Minor markup adjustments.
2001-02-02 02:42:31 +00:00
68b6417c5a
Added a warning at the top saying that user code should not use the
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whrandom module directly.
2001-02-02 02:41:17 +00:00
d0946da701
Fix some markup breakage that prevented formatting; re-wrapped a couple of
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wide paragraphs.
2001-02-01 15:53:24 +00:00
36154b2dbf
Added entry for weakref documentation.
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Moved commented-out entries for obsolete module to an appendix, still
commented out.
2001-02-01 05:21:46 +00:00
ebcf6a8573
Documentation for the weakref module.
2001-02-01 05:20:20 +00:00
0de88fc4b1
Change random.seed() so that it can get at the full range of possible
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internal states. Put the old .seed() (which could only get at about
the square root of the # of possibilities) under the new name .whseed(),
for bit-level compatibility with older versions. This occurred to me
while reviewing effbot's book (he found himself stumbling over .seed()
more than once there ...).
2001-02-01 04:59:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
Guido van Rossum
Eric S. Raymond
Barry Warsaw
Moshe Zadka
Jeremy Hylton
Ka-Ping Yee
Skip Montanaro
Martin v. Löwis
Tim Peters
Andrew M. Kuchling