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Eric S. Raymond 3229b859fb More on noutrefresh() and scroll(). 2001-01-29 06:39:33 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 4fda21ba6b updated to document use of sequences of two-element tuples as inputs 2001-01-28 21:18:16 +00:00
Fred Drake c37f5b3296 Adjust documentation for new.instance() to reflect that the second
parameter may be omitted or None.
2001-01-28 17:23:05 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond 9ca35ec97a Instructive example for strftime(); how to generate RFC822 dates. 2001-01-28 00:56:54 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond e7213c7a80 Emphasis that instantiating this class doesn't consume the message body.
Fix some unclear language in the description of the addrlist member.
2001-01-27 10:56:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 66f98b45cd Fix a number of typos found by Guido. 2001-01-26 20:51:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 8c071d4388 Massively improved documentation for string formatting operations,
primarily from Evelyn Mitchell (thanks!).

This closes SF patch #103412.
2001-01-26 20:48:35 +00:00
Tim Peters e360d9507a The combo of getstate/setstate/jumpahead is very powerful, but needs
examples to flesh it out for the uninitiated.  Here they are.
2001-01-26 10:00:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 29052482d1 Removed references to Python 1.5.3; that was a "tentative" number I used
in the docs to indicate the next version before we decided on 1.6.

Adjusted winsound.Beep() description slightly as well.
2001-01-25 17:29:18 +00:00
Tim Peters 517ce23183 Clarify winsound.beep docs, in response to c.l.py beep brouhahalet. 2001-01-25 09:33:48 +00:00
Tim Peters d52269bfd0 Fix bugs introduced by rewrite (in particular, time-based initialization
got broken).  Also added new method .jumpahead(N).  This finally gives us
a semi-decent answer to how Python's RNGs can be used safely and efficiently
in multithreaded programs (although it requires the user to use the new
machinery!).
2001-01-25 06:23:18 +00:00
Tim Peters d7b5e88e8e Reworked random.py so that it no longer depends on, and offers all the
functionality of, whrandom.py.  Also closes all the "XXX" todos in
random.py.  New frequently-requested functions/methods getstate() and
setstate().  All exported functions are now bound methods of a hidden
instance.  Killed all unintended exports.  Updated the docs.
FRED:  The more I fiddle the docs, the less I understand the exact
intended use of the \var, \code, \method tags.  Please review critically.
GUIDO:  See email.  I updated NEWS as if whrandom were deprecated; I
think it should be.
2001-01-25 03:36:26 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 83125775e0 A \begin{funcdesc} was closed with an \end{methoddesc}. 2001-01-25 00:39:16 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 21f37e1b88 Fixed a bug where \& was needed. 2001-01-25 00:38:15 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 8ee1a4bdeb Provide a much better (and complete!) description of the lockf()
function, based on an eyeballing of the code.
2001-01-25 00:36:54 +00:00
Tim Peters 902446a28d Supply long-missing docs for random.seed(). Extensive rewrite of module
intro docs.
*************** Fred:  check my LaTeX!  Also, the docs for whrandom should
*************** be moved into Obsolete Modules.
2001-01-24 23:06:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 9368a12011 Fix an obvious usage nit I should have caught myself on the previous
change to this file.  Thanks, /F!
2001-01-24 18:19:40 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee fa004ad36c Show '\011', '\012', and '\015' as '\t', '\n', '\r' in strings.
Switch from octal escapes to hex escapes for other nonprintable characters.
2001-01-24 17:19:08 +00:00
Fred Drake b1b6a11b28 AttributeList --> NamedNodeMap
Since there is no such thing as an AttributeList, don't say "attributes"
is one.
2001-01-24 16:17:15 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh 0110d3b2ad new unicodedata functions (name, lookup) 2001-01-24 08:10:07 +00:00
Skip Montanaro eda28445c0 documented (new) optional doseq parameter to urlencode. 2001-01-24 06:36:06 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond f79cb2db3e Expose the autoraise capability. Improve the documentation. 2001-01-23 13:49:44 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond aeb5532ca0 Oops...finish a mangled sentence. 2001-01-23 13:22:28 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond f7f185116a Rewrite webbrowser.py to fix various bugs following Ka-Ping Yee's
complaints.  The new version moves most of its initialization to
package load time; it's simpler, faster, smaller, and adds support for
Mozilla and Links.  Interpretation of the BROWSER variable now works
and is documented.  The open_new entry point and methods are marked
"deprecated; may be removed in 2.1".
2001-01-23 13:16:32 +00:00
Fred Drake dc40ac0fe0 Added link to the "Python Codecs" project at SourceForge.
Changed markup of the list of values for the list of meaningful "errors"
values.
2001-01-22 20:17:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 0f564eaceb Change some wording to make this work with PDF generation -- using a PDF
hyperlink at the start of the paragraph confused pdflatex; it saw the
link start while still in vertical mode, which is not allowed.  Including
text before the link forces horizontal mode.
2001-01-22 19:06:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 5f0decf0d3 Clean up the docs for the "random" module according to comments from Tim
Peters.

This closes SF bug #125919.
2001-01-22 18:18:30 +00:00
Fred Drake ef8cd7ca99 Minor markup adjustment. 2001-01-22 17:42:32 +00:00
Thomas Wouters fe385251f4 Make the 'time' argument to the timemodule functions strftime, asctime,
ctime, gmtime and localtime optional, defaulting to 'the current time' in
all cases. Adjust docs, add news item. Also convert all argument-handling to
METH_VARARGS. Closes SF patch #103265.
2001-01-19 23:16:56 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 6f77667a64 Backed out the unistr() builtin. 2001-01-19 21:36:19 +00:00
Fred Drake bc0b260a77 Minor markup cleaning, and one required fix in the unistr() description. 2001-01-18 18:09:07 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 9483bed6d9 correct typo - closes bug #129205 2001-01-18 10:44:08 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 3a9582fbe5 Fix the example (it didn't seem to reflect reality). 2001-01-18 07:50:17 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg ad7c98e264 This patch adds a new builtin unistr() which behaves like str()
except that it always returns Unicode objects.

A new C API PyObject_Unicode() is also provided.

This closes patch #101664.

Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg. Copyright assigned to Guido van Rossum.
2001-01-17 17:09:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 90badd1286 Add a missing newline in an example; caught by Chris Ryland
<cpr@emsoftware.com>.
2001-01-17 05:12:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 20ab9e9c0a Document xreadlines() method. (Forgot to check this in before!) 2001-01-17 01:18:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 25be1931a0 Fix a few small markup/consistency nits. 2001-01-16 20:52:41 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond bd1a489759 push_source() and pop_source() entry points for shlex instances.
These basically just make available to the user what userhook()
does to the source stack.  Documentation included.
2001-01-16 14:18:55 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 83ad5015cb effbot caught a typo! 2001-01-15 20:51:40 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 773d9f09be Document function attributes for both the function type and the method
type.  The method documentation also includes a new brief discussion
of `bound' vs. `unbound' and why setting an attr on a bound method is
a TypeError.  Includes Skip's suggested text.
2001-01-15 20:28:50 +00:00
Barry Warsaw a770e866d6 Fixing author's email address. 2001-01-15 17:08:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 97d3b93c2f Document changed default to passive mode. 2001-01-15 16:37:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 77b20f099e Document filterwarnings(..., append=<bool>). 2001-01-14 14:10:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 1beb3d204f Added note that this module was added in Python 2.1. 2001-01-12 22:57:32 +00:00
Fred Drake ca7e1ee01a Updated descriptions to incorporate additional information from Tim Peters.
This mostly closes SF bug #128251.
2001-01-11 22:49:49 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a177c40daf Document \code{import} in pth files. 2001-01-11 22:07:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 49c9ac30a4 Fixed minor markup nits for consistency with the rest of the library
reference.
2001-01-11 16:02:08 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond ab78beca2f Added pointer on POP3 variations. 2001-01-11 10:22:34 +00:00
Moshe Zadka f68f2fec7d Implementation of PEP-0217.
This closes the PEP, and patch 103170
2001-01-11 05:41:27 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond 5ac97957f7 Corrections and additions to the documentation for POP3 and IMAP library
support, based on my fetchmail experience.
2001-01-11 04:19:52 +00:00