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Fred Drake 2de7a35e9a one more place to avoid extra markup 2006-05-03 02:27:40 +00:00
Fred Drake f25fa6ddb9 avoid ugly markup based on the unfortunate conversions of ">>" and "<<" to 
guillemets; no need for magic here
 2006-05-03 02:04:40 +00:00
Phillip J. Eby 1a9fac0937 Yield is now allowed in try-finally, so update docs accordingly 2006-03-25 00:46:43 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh 5a49fae1ab SF patch #1421726 
fixed typo in language reference
 2006-02-02 21:58:55 +00:00
Neal Norwitz c0d11250af Make close brace a paren to match open. 2005-10-04 03:43:43 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 19f6b86955 Armin caught this mistake in bug #973103. 2005-10-04 03:37:29 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger bee0d467a1 Correct docs for empty raise when no exception is active. 2005-10-03 16:39:51 +00:00
Fred Drake b6e1c11004 note that the return and yield statements cannot be used at the top level in 
exec statements; people coming from certain other languages seem to be
confused by this on a regular basis
 2005-09-07 05:17:07 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger b56b494bea SF bug #1190451: 6.9 First sentence is confusing 
* Fixed incorrect wording:  expression->exception
* Noted the specific exception reported by "raise" when the is nothing
  to re-raise.
* Eliminated several instances of "e.g." as recommended in the style guide.
 2005-04-28 07:18:47 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 68804315e0 SF Patch #1093896: miscellaneous doc typos 2005-01-01 00:28:46 +00:00
Johannes Gijsbers f4a70f35b0 Patch #1080684: typo repair. Thanks George Yoshida! 
- Doc/lib/libbase64.tex
s/algorith/algorithm

- Doc/lib/libpickle.tex
s/interchangable/interchangeable

- Doc/lib/libxmlrpclib.tex
s/{_cmp__}/{__cmp__}

leading underscore needs to be double, not single.

- Doc/ref/ref6.tex
0/1 => False/True
 2004-12-12 16:52:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 2269d86598 Fix SF bug #1061770: Manual typesets bit-shift operators as guillemet 2004-11-11 06:14:05 +00:00
Anthony Baxter 1a4ddaecc7 SF patch #1007189, multi-line imports, for instance: 
"from blah import (foo, bar
baz, bongo)"
 2004-08-31 10:07:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 70fcdb8be0 Document general mappings for the locals argument for exec and execfile(). 2004-08-03 05:17:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 7a700b873b clean up indexing for None, NotImplemented 
closes SF bug #820344
 2004-01-01 05:43:53 +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
Fred Drake d51ce7de97 Indexing is a mess; try to get the link targets closer to the relevant 
text.  There needs to be a better way.
 2003-07-15 22:03:00 +00:00
Fred Drake b3be52eaf4 Try to clean up some indexing relevant to the import statement. 
Pertains to SF bug #518989.
 2003-07-15 21:37:58 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 96a8233b64 SF patch #751038 fixing SF bug#750092: exec doesn't need newline 
Patch contributed by Steven Taschuk.
 2003-06-18 01:32:24 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 847207acff SF bug #719367, string exceptions are deprecated 
Remove references to string based exceptions in the doc.
 2003-05-29 02:17:23 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 8bea5dc879 Move future statement here from appendix a. 2003-05-21 21:43:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 007fadd59d Fix symbol in grammar; this should fix some hyperlinking in the HTML 
version.
 2003-03-31 14:53:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 8bd62afca9 Fix typo reported to python-docs. 2003-01-25 03:47:35 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e701dcbabd SF patch #634866: Alex Martelli's corrections to the ref manual. 
Backport candidate.  All but one or two of these changes
are applicable to 2.2.2.
 2003-01-19 13:08:18 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 13dd9d9978 Patch #662454: import a.b as c is ok, fixes #660811. 2003-01-16 11:30:08 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 1772f17666 SF bug #661848 and #631055: Clarify use of __all__. 2003-01-06 12:54:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 27cae1f7c5 Revise the __all__ index entry a touch. 2002-12-07 16:00:00 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f9229d98ae Add __all__ to Reference Manual index. 
Closes SF 643227.
 2002-12-07 09:39:15 +00:00
Fred Drake e7097e0b1c Added cross-references to related material on exceptions. 
Closes SF bug #217195.
 2002-10-18 15:18:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 04e7e0c60f Close bug 417930 by clarifying augmented assignment docs 2002-06-25 13:36:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 81932e234b Try to improve the explanation of the "raise" statement and how its arguments 
are interpreted.
This closes SF bug #532467.
 2002-06-20 20:55:29 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 495afea36e Typo. 2002-06-17 12:51:57 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton f3255c8540 Reword explanation of global statement since an undeclared global is a 
free variable and is subject to those rules.
 2002-04-01 21:25:32 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton f0c1f1badb Note the sole case in which the ban on "from ... import *" within a 
function is enforced.
 2002-04-01 21:19:44 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 15b68976da Remove the following restriction: 
Names bound by import statements may not occur in global
    statements in the same scope.

Why not?
 2002-04-01 21:18:02 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton d09ed68aeb Note that it is illegal to delete a cell variable. 
Note that deleteing an unbound local will raise a NameError.
 2002-04-01 21:15:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 5381588073 Revise the markup related to the grammar productions to increase the 
level of predictability.  This is not really "good" markup, but is arguably
better than we had before.
This closes SF bug #523117.
 2002-03-15 23:21:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 08d752cf28 Update to use the notice environment so a multi-paragraph note can be 
appropriately marked.
 2001-12-14 22:55:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 8d0645cb84 Add a note about yield requiring a __future__ directive. 2001-12-12 06:06:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 3a8e59ebe1 Clean up a sad sentence in the yield description. 2001-12-11 21:58:35 +00:00
Fred Drake e31e9cebc0 Document generators and the yield statement, avoiding implementation details. 2001-12-11 21:10:08 +00:00
Fred Drake c2f496a138 Add a note to the description of the interaction between the softspace 
attribute of file objects, the print statement, and other file operations.
This closes SF bug #484857.

Fix minor markup nits.
 2001-12-05 05:46:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 08fd51509c When describing "import *", add a level of indirection between "*" and the 
set of names imported (the "public names"), adding a definition of "public
names" that describes the use of __all__.
This closes SF bug #473986.

Flesh out the vague reference to __import__().
 2001-10-24 19:50:31 +00:00
Fred Drake cb4638a278 Change the grammar productions to use the new productionlist environment; 
this supports a hyperlinked version of the grammar that can make tracking
down details and definitions a little easier.
 2001-07-06 22:49:53 +00:00
Fred Drake be9d10edbb Remove some bogus trailing whitespace. 2001-06-23 06:16:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 93852ef3c8 Fix minor markup nits. 2001-06-23 06:06:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 2829f1cf99 Fix a very minor (but annoying when looking for things!) markup nit. 2001-06-23 05:27:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 62effc1127 Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping. 2001-04-13 15:55:25 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 2c84fc8a7d Note that assignments to __debug__ are illegal 2001-03-23 14:34:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 859eb62108 Do not refer to "sub-modules" since that is not a defined term. 2001-03-06 07:34:00 +00:00