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Hye-Shik Chang 5c5316f111 Add a new unicode codec: ptcp154 (Kazakh) 2004-03-19 08:06:07 +00:00
Brett Cannon d1de45f549 Fix capitalization of title for subsection 2. 2004-03-18 07:37:15 +00:00
Skip Montanaro bdda9f389a The example files need to be opened with the "b" flag. 2004-03-17 01:24:17 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 49f9bd15ff SF feature request #686323: Minor array module enhancements 
array.extend() now accepts iterable arguments implements as a series
of appends.  Besides being a user convenience and matching the behavior
for lists, this the saves memory and cycles that would be used to
create a temporary array object.
 2004-03-14 05:43:59 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang 9168c70438 SF Patch #912462: Relocate \end tag to the right place. 
(Submitted by George Yoshida)
 2004-03-09 05:53:15 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 31017aed36 SF #904720: dict.update should take a 2-tuple sequence like dict.__init_ 
(Championed by Bob Ippolito.)

The update() method for mappings now accepts all the same argument forms
as the dict() constructor.  This includes item lists and/or keyword
arguments.
 2004-03-04 08:25:44 +00:00
Brett Cannon d1080a3418 Have strftime() check its time tuple argument to make sure the tuple's values 
are within proper boundaries as specified in the docs.

This can break possible code (datetime module needed changing, for instance)
that uses 0 for values that need to be greater 1 or greater (month, day, and
day of year).

Fixes bug #897625.
 2004-03-02 04:38:10 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 0a4977c2f3 Replace left(), right(), and __reversed__() with the more general purpose 
__getitem__() and __setitem__().

Simplifies the API, reduces the code size, adds flexibility, and makes
deques work with bisect.bisect(), random.shuffle(), and random.sample().
 2004-03-01 23:16:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 738ec90ca1 Improvements to collections.deque(): 
* Add doctests for the examples in the library reference.
* Add two methods, left() and right(), modeled after deques in C++ STL.
* Apply the new method to asynchat.py.
* Add comparison operators to make deques more substitutable for lists.
* Replace the LookupErrors with IndexErrors to more closely match lists.
 2004-02-29 02:15:56 +00:00
Neal Norwitz fb0521f153 Use versionadded for new features 2004-02-28 16:00:23 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 3e0877ef88 Add version changed/added to doc 2004-02-28 15:19:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 59e02c110d fix typo in reference to RFC 3464 DSN MIME type 2004-02-24 20:58:10 +00:00
David Ascher e2b4b32025 Implementation of patch 869468 
Allow the user to create Tkinter.Tcl objects which are
just like Tkinter.Tk objects except that they do not
initialize Tk. This is useful in circumstances where the
script is being run on machines that do not have an X
server running -- in those cases, Tk initialization fails,
even if no window is ever created.

Includes documentation change and tests.

Tested on Linux, Solaris and Windows.

Reviewed by Martin von Loewis.
 2004-02-18 05:59:53 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 70a6b49821 Replace backticks with repr() or "%r" 
From SF patch #852334.
 2004-02-12 17:35:32 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5de33786a9 SF patch #892821: example for urllib2 has SyntaxError 
(Contributed by George Yoshida.)
 2004-02-08 20:25:01 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 4c9800d663 SF bug #892854: typo in textwrap doc page 
(Reported by Drew Perttula.)
 2004-02-08 18:09:32 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5c5eb86347 * Incorporate Skip's suggestions for documentation (explain the word deque 
comes from and show the differences from lists).
* Add a rotate() method.
 2004-02-07 21:13:00 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 7209294112 a couple other sunos4 support items removed 2004-02-07 12:50:19 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c058fd14a9 * Fix ref counting in extend() and extendleft(). 
* Let deques support reversed().
 2004-02-07 02:45:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 3ba85c2e8a Have deques support high volume loads. 2004-02-06 19:04:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 21ae4f983e minor markup adjustments 2004-02-03 20:55:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 4458ece4d7 Clarify minor point about the ref() and proxy() constructors. 
This matches what is already documented for corresponding feature of the C API.
 2004-02-03 19:44:26 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger dd256d97cc Add documentation for collections.deque(). 2004-01-29 07:35:45 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e52f3b1e56 Add documentation for collections.deque(). 2004-01-29 07:27:45 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 756b3f3c15 * Move collections.deque() in from the sandbox 
* Add unittests, newsitem, and whatsnew
* Apply to Queue.py mutex.py threading.py pydoc.py and shlex.py
* Docs are forthcoming
 2004-01-29 06:37:52 +00:00
Fred Drake bd12b181c8 fix whitespace style (inconsistent with the rest of the docs) 2004-01-27 21:08:04 +00:00
Fred Drake fcc51767bd update signature of the socket constructor 
(could someone backport this to Python 2.3.x please?)
 2004-01-27 18:21:26 +00:00
Fred Drake ee3c6074c3 add missing period 2004-01-26 19:40:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 913829cb1d fix markup 2004-01-26 19:39:13 +00:00
Skip Montanaro db8d1c26d3 add references between getopt and optparse docs 2004-01-26 19:30:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 226f697560 fix method name in example code 2004-01-23 04:05:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 1fe9750200 add direct link to the article in DDJ 
closes SF bug #871402
 2004-01-21 18:30:28 +00:00
Skip Montanaro ba0485a92d expand on notion of row object type 2004-01-21 13:47:04 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 7895146c40 typo 2004-01-21 13:34:35 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 734fb5724f Add a Guido inspired example for groupby(). 2004-01-20 20:04:40 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang 3e2a306920 Add CJK codecs support as discussed on python-dev. (SF #873597) 
Several style fixes are suggested by Martin v. Loewis and
Marc-Andre Lemburg. Thanks!
 2004-01-17 14:29:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 621b443b8d - add warning that hotshot doesn't work well with threads 
- fix some markup
 2004-01-16 17:30:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 990a46b732 minor markup improvements 2004-01-16 16:07:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 3bbd115735 markup changes 2004-01-13 23:41:32 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 44a98237d8 [Bug #873205] Update URL 2004-01-11 23:00:16 +00:00
Sjoerd Mullender 7e6bbe1516 The format of the string data used in the imageop module is described 
as "This is the same format as used by gl.lrectwrite() and the imgfile
module."  This implies a certain byte order in multi-byte pixel
formats.  However, the code was originally written on an SGI
(big-endian) and *uses* the fact that bytes are stored in a particular
order in ints.  This means that the code uses and produces different
byte order on little-endian systems.

This fix adds a module-level flag "backward_compatible" (default not
set, and if not set, behaves as if set to 1--i.e. backward compatible)
that can be used on a little-endian system to use the same byte order
as the SGI.  Using this flag it is then possible to prepare
SGI-compatible images on a little-endian system.

This patch is the result of a (small) discussion on python-dev and was
submitted to SourceForge as patch #874358.
 2004-01-10 20:43:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling c62af02ced Fix some digicool addresses I noticed 2004-01-08 15:01:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 115147921c add link to the red-dove.com page about the logging package 2004-01-08 14:59:02 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 91f5cbe264 SF bug #872461: list.extend() described as experimental 2004-01-08 00:31:50 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c14149e6ef Show how to re-enable GC during timings. 2004-01-04 21:19:18 +00:00
Barry Warsaw ad9aaeea6d Documentation for new RFC 3548 functions. 2004-01-04 01:14:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 6237ef1ddc in the section "The interpreter stack": 
- rearranged a bit to avoid duplicated information
- provide more complete (and hopefully less confusing) descriptions of
  the return values for most of these functions
  (close SF bug #563298)
 2004-01-01 07:21:14 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 621c53ee9f Add sets to list of picklable objects. 2004-01-01 05:53:51 +00:00
Fred Drake fcadf6bdaf fix reference to File Object documentation 
closes SF bug #825810
 2004-01-01 03:41:27 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9b4dab4da1 SF patch #859286: documentation bool change fix 
(Contributed by George Yoshida.)
 2003-12-31 18:37:28 +00:00
Fred Drake a180581511 use conventional whitespace in interactive example 2003-12-31 07:41:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 50e7a11af1 Correct misrepresentation of print (it uses str(), not `...` for 
conversion).  Hopefully I've not messed up the formatting.
 2003-12-31 06:32:38 +00:00
Fred Drake af78512712 - general markup cleanup 
- rearrange so two small sections become one; this avoids an extra
  page in the HTML format
 2003-12-31 05:18:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 7f8d17a50c general markup improvements 2003-12-31 05:01:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 188b2d6cfa - add link to the datetime module 2003-12-31 04:52:36 +00:00
Fred Drake ceb1fd2177 - update description of isleap() 
- add link to the datetime module
 2003-12-31 04:51:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 6f51a72a61 - use the same markup for the deprecation as for that of 
file.xreadlines()
 2003-12-31 04:41:47 +00:00
Fred Drake ae55d5f3cb - add a "See also" reference to the doctest module 
- slightly simplify a couple of examples
- clean up some markup
 2003-12-31 04:34:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 32fef9f477 fix truly evil markup typo 2003-12-30 23:08:14 +00:00
Fred Drake ea49de34c9 minor cleanup of example 2003-12-30 23:01:19 +00:00
Fred Drake ff381e13e0 - we *really* don't care about Python 1.5 alphas any more! 
- note the interpreter's -S option
 2003-12-30 22:51:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 401d1e3cbf fix a variety of markup bugs 2003-12-30 22:21:18 +00:00
Fred Drake f161c915bd work around whitespace bugs in the HTML version 2003-12-30 22:17:16 +00:00
Fred Drake dcf32a676e fix markup errors 2003-12-30 20:48:59 +00:00
Fred Drake b0e8f5d0fe lots of markup adjustments 2003-12-30 20:36:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 7c67cb8fba markup fix 2003-12-30 17:17:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 4922cae1e1 - remove crufty markup that's no longer needed to make the 
presentation work right (and didn't work anyway)
- fix minor typo
 2003-12-30 16:18:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 42713109d9 use consistent email address for Tim 2003-12-30 16:15:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 34929f23f5 - update Tim's email address 
- remove spurious blank lines
 2003-12-30 16:12:27 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 91ca8de6f4 [Bug #850818] Accept Gregory H. Ball's suggested rewrite of a confusing description 2003-12-23 17:01:38 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 7a3786cc55 [Bug #857821] Remove mention of deprecated string.{atol,atof} functions. (Patch from Gerrit Holl) 2003-12-23 16:53:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 828f847d66 minor markup adjustment 2003-12-18 20:58:34 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3435820842 Fix typo 2003-12-18 13:28:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 852fe0689a fix loss of a space after indexing markup 2003-12-18 06:26:56 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger b606b3d08a Guido grants a Christmas wish: 
sorted() becomes a regular function instead of a classmethod.
 2003-12-17 20:50:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 64958a15d7 Guido grants a Christmas wish: 
sorted() becomes a regular function instead of a classmethod.
 2003-12-17 20:43:33 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang c6f066f9a3 Update documentations for str.rsplit() with Alex Martelli's rewrite. 2003-12-17 02:49:03 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang 3ae811b57d Add rsplit method for str and unicode builtin types. 
SF feature request #801847.
Original patch is written by Sean Reifschneider.
 2003-12-15 18:49:53 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 6485a87b9a missing word (should backport - is release23-maint still locked?) 2003-12-15 14:38:57 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton c1be59f40a SF patch 852995: add processors feature to urllib2 
John J. Lee writes: "the patch makes it possible to implement
functionality like HTTP cookie handling, Refresh handling,
etc. etc. using handler objects. At the moment urllib2's handler
objects aren't quite up to the job, which results in a lot of
cut-n-paste and subclassing. I believe the changes are
backwards-compatible, with the exception of people who've
reimplemented build_opener()'s functionality -- those people would
need to call opener.add_handler(HTTPErrorProcessor).

The main change is allowing handlers to implement
methods like:

http_request(request)
http_response(request, response)

In addition to the usual

http_open(request)
http_error{_*}(...)
"

Note that the change isn't well documented at least in part because
handlers aren't well documented at all.  Need to fix this.

Add a bunch of new tests.  It appears that none of these tests
actually use the network, so they don't need to be guarded by a
resource flag.
 2003-12-14 05:27:34 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 378f7b5dca Add a versionadded tag for traceback.format_exc() 2003-12-13 22:34:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5a92175fbc After hearing from someone who gave up on timeout sockets due to a 
mistake in his code, I'm adding a note explaining that you should call
settimeout() before connect().
 2003-12-13 22:12:53 +00:00
Brett Cannon 35415da67c Fix broken link (closes bug #852236). Thanks to Fedor Baart for bug file and 
finding proper link.
 2003-12-11 04:37:24 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger ff294fea40 SF patch #855195: fix typos 
(Contributed by George Yoshida.)
 2003-12-07 13:00:25 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 295530585b Fix double hyphen markup. 2003-12-07 12:46:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e3d5f98180 Put str() in alphabetical order. 2003-12-07 11:24:03 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger a4ce2f5116 SF bug #855317: unittest: 5.3.9 Getting Extended Error Information 
The example code did not work and could not easily be made to work.
Since the docs were already complex and the feature was not used
(it took two years for the errors to surface), we decided to dedocument
it entirely, leaving unittest cleaner than before.
 2003-12-07 10:48:03 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling db7dcffa27 Edit description a bit 2003-12-06 22:29:43 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d25c1c6351 Implement itertools.groupby() 
Original idea by Guido van Rossum.
Idea for skipable inner iterators by Raymond Hettinger.
Idea for argument order and identity function default by Alex Martelli.
Implementation by Hye-Shik Chang (with tweaks by Raymond Hettinger).
 2003-12-06 16:23:06 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger ff6dd0b7d0 SF bug #844123: "up" instead of "down" in turtle module documentation 2003-12-06 01:35:56 +00:00
Fred Drake f96dd83bb4 - fix markup in the bool() description 
- note the behavior of bool() with no arg in the main body of the
  description
 2003-12-05 18:57:00 +00:00
Walter Dörwald c8de4585a6 Add parameters indent, width and depth to pprint.pprint() and pprint.pformat() 
and pass them along to the PrettyPrinter constructor.
 2003-12-03 20:26:05 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 166958b5df As discussed on python-dev, added two extractor functions to the 
operator module.
 2003-12-01 13:18:39 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ccabed35ee Patch #849350: Update to document bool return values. Backported to 2.3. 2003-11-27 19:48:03 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 94681fc4a3 Patch #849595: Add socket.shutdown() constants. 2003-11-27 19:40:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d4462300db Nits from a review of the documentation update. 2003-11-26 17:52:45 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 72452650af Add version changed doc for addition of fillchar to ljust/rjust/center 2003-11-26 14:54:56 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 4f8f976576 Add optional fillchar argument to ljust(), rjust(), and center() string methods. 2003-11-26 08:21:35 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger bd93b3ea8f As discussed on python-dev, banish apply(), buffer(), coerce(), and 
intern() to a separate region in the docs.
 2003-11-25 21:48:21 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f5f41bf087 * Checkin remaining documentation 
* Add more tests
* Refactor and neaten the code a bit.
* Rename union_update() to update().
* Improve the algorithms (making them a closer to sets.py).
 2003-11-24 02:57:33 +00:00
Tim Peters 5a5b243043 More words: gave more motivation, and added cautions about the special 
dangers of trying to iterate over weak dicts.
 2003-11-21 22:20:57 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 65367ca41e Add a missing import. Closes SF # 816344. 2003-11-21 20:28:15 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis af7dc8d8b8 Patch #831747: Add skip_accept_encoding parameter to putrequest. 2003-11-19 19:51:55 +00:00
Barry Warsaw f8d3bcc77e Generator's constructor: The documentation was incorrect regarding how 
header wrapping gets done when maxheaderlen <> 0.  The header really
gets wrapped via the email.Header.Header class, which has a more
sophisticated algorithm than just splitting on semi-colons.
 2003-11-19 02:22:36 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 8bafb2aaca Patch #843088: Fix typos. Backported to 2.3. 2003-11-18 19:48:57 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger a690a9967e * Migrate set() and frozenset() from the sandbox. 
* Install the unittests, docs, newsitem, include file, and makefile update.
* Exercise the new functions whereever sets.py was being used.

Includes the docs for libfuncs.tex.  Separate docs for the types are
forthcoming.
 2003-11-16 16:17:49 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d456849f19 Fix typo 2003-11-16 13:44:19 +00:00
Gregory P. Smith b845ef056a remove "support" for BerkeleyDB 3.1, it hasn't worked for a long time 2003-11-13 08:30:03 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger ad983e79d6 Improve the implementation of itertools.tee(). 
Formerly, underlying queue was implemented in terms of two lists.  The
new queue is a series of singly-linked fixed length lists.

The new implementation runs much faster, supports multi-way tees, and
allows tees of tees without additional memory costs.

The root ideas for this structure were contributed by Andrew Koenig
and Guido van Rossum.
 2003-11-12 14:32:26 +00:00
Fred Drake d85ed1b7fc fix typo in markup 2003-11-10 14:50:54 +00:00
Fred Drake dbe7980d6a add missing "if" 2003-11-10 14:43:16 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 75aa4db04b Mention that getsid is new in 2.4. 2003-11-10 06:46:15 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis d8921379e9 Patch #798297: Add IMAP THREAD command. 2003-11-10 06:44:44 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 49ee14dac5 Patch #839038: Add getsid(2). 2003-11-10 06:35:36 +00:00
Alex Martelli 37dc334276 Add docs for readmodule_ex and its function-descriptors, fixing 
sf bug#812818.
(same as commit of Sun Nov 2 to the release23-maint branch)
 2003-11-09 16:32:54 +00:00
Alex Martelli 50324a604c Avoid giving advice that's bad for security, as per SF bug #823515 
(same as commit of Sun Nov 2 to the release23-maint branch)
 2003-11-09 16:31:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 85c20a41df Implement and apply PEP 322, reverse iteration 2003-11-06 14:06:48 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer f607fc5395 Add traceback.format_exc(). 2003-11-05 23:03:00 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 83c187460e SF patch #834444: add versionadd to new functions 
(Contributed by George Yoshida.)
 2003-11-02 09:50:56 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b4b9ced1b6 [Bug #817178] Fix incorrect arguments in example, noted by Terry Reedy 2003-10-31 19:52:30 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 893ffa4372 Patch #830858: Correct the number of is-functions. Backported to 2.3 and 2.2. 2003-10-31 15:35:53 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 45394c281d Patch #531629: Add multicall support. 2003-10-31 13:49:36 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 48440b7c27 Patch #: Add POP3 over SSL support. 2003-10-31 12:52:35 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9885c93b99 Fix typo. 2003-10-30 06:08:32 +00:00
Brett Cannon 82b24827f6 Minor grammatical fix. 2003-10-30 05:42:15 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 0a9b9da0c3 Add list.sorted() classmethod. 2003-10-29 06:54:43 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c43a7e7c37 SF bug #827902: ctime is not creation time 
New fix for this bug recognizes differing definitions on various systems.
 2003-10-29 00:46:19 +00:00
Armin Rigo 3be6d5d320 Documented gc.get_referrers() as dangerous. 
SF bug 793822
 2003-10-28 12:10:38 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 8476c4df92 SF bug #827902: ctime is not creation time 
Document the correct definition of os.path.getctime()
 2003-10-27 20:00:36 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b546be2448 Fix inaccuracy: all entities from XHTML 1.0 are supported (according to text further down in this file) 2003-10-27 15:46:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d591f666de Replace the window() example with pairwise() which demonstrates tee(). 2003-10-26 15:34:50 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6a5b027742 Added itertools.tee() 
It works like the pure python verion except:
* it stops storing data after of the iterators gets deallocated
* the data queue is implemented with two stacks instead of one dictionary.
 2003-10-24 08:45:23 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 38afcef3f5 [Bug #809174] loads() and dumps() not documented 2003-10-22 14:12:03 +00:00
Fred Drake d22bb6584d Avoid confusing name for the 3rd argument to str.replace(). 
This closes SF bug #827260.
 2003-10-22 02:56:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 4e21dc9efd - make this section format 
- start cleaning up the markup for consistency
- comment out the reference to a MS KnowledgeBase article that doesn't
  seem to be present at msdn.microsoft.com; hopefully someone can
  point out an alternate source for the relevant information
 2003-10-21 17:58:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 5b6150e066 markup fixes; this would not format 2003-10-21 17:04:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 86c60ed198 ConfigParser.items() and SafeConfigParser.items() no longer return a 
generator.  See SF bug #818861.
 2003-10-21 16:50:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0c9a318d64 Use 'predicate = bool' as the default predicate for ifilter[false]. 2003-10-20 17:01:07 +00:00
Walter Dörwald f0dfc7ac5c Fix a bunch of typos in documentation, docstrings and comments. 
(From SF patch #810751)
 2003-10-20 14:01:56 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer d969775d9c Fixed \versionadded for the (?(id/name)yes|no) expression support. 2003-10-18 15:28:22 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 6828e18a6a Patch #825679: Clarify semantics of .isfoo on empty strings. 
Backported to 2.3.
 2003-10-18 09:55:08 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 849a972f35 Patch #809535: Mention behaviour of seek on text files. Backported to 2.3. 2003-10-18 09:38:01 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer ad3fc44ccb Implemented non-recursive SRE matching. 2003-10-17 22:13:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 42b1ba31af * list.sort() now supports three keyword arguments: cmp, key, and reverse. 
key provides C support for the decorate-sort-undecorate pattern.
  reverse provide a stable sort of the list with the comparisions reversed.

* Amended the docs to guarantee sort stability.
 2003-10-16 03:41:09 +00:00
Brett Cannon 4fc3855fb2 Initial checkin of docs for Lib/platform.py . 
Closes patch #785752 and bug #726911.

Should be backported after correctness and such has been verified by Fred.
 2003-10-14 21:45:59 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c2a2832bee SF bug #821701: reduce docs neglect a very important piece of information. 
Add a note showing which argument is the accumulator.
 2003-10-13 17:52:35 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger aac6ae9f26 SF patch #819955: Erroneous \seemodule in tarfile docs 
(Contributed by Johannes Gijsbers.)
 2003-10-12 02:02:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger dbe3d280e7 Adopt Christian Stork's suggested argument order for the logic quantifiers. 
Adopt Jeremy Fincher's suggested function name, "any", instead of "some".
 2003-10-05 16:47:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2f726e9093 SF bug #812202: randint is always even 
* Added C coded getrandbits(k) method that runs in linear time.
* Call the new method from randrange() for ranges >= 2**53.
* Adds a warning for generators not defining getrandbits() whenever they
  have a call to randrange() with too large of a population.
 2003-10-05 09:09:15 +00:00
Skip Montanaro dffeed3ffa Make the fieldnames argument optional in the DictReader. If self.fieldnames 
is None, the next row read is used as the fieldnames.  In the common case,
this means the programmer doesn't need to know the fieldnames ahead of time.
The first row of the file will be used.  In the uncommon case, this means
the programmer can set the reader's fieldnames attribute to None at any time
and have the next row read as the next set of fieldnames, so a csv file can
contain several "sections", each with different fieldnames.
 2003-10-03 14:03:01 +00:00