Tim Peters
d6ef19309d
SF bugs 996748: os.environ documentation should indicate unreliability
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Clarifed that os.environ is captured once; emphasized that it's better
to assign to os.environ than to call putenv() directly (the putenv()
docs said so, but the environ docs didn't).
2004-07-26 00:42:41 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
76aa2eff4e
Get doc to build (add missing backslash)
2004-07-19 01:39:54 +00:00
Tim Peters
de8332171a
SF bug 990749: os constants missing
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A LaTeX comment identified the 6 os.O_XXX constants the docs claimed
are available on Windows but aren't. The bug report listed the same 6.
Split these non-Windows constants into a different table with a possibly
correct "Availability:" claim.
2004-07-15 05:46:37 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
bdec50f027
Feature request #935915 : Add os.path.devnull.
2004-06-08 08:29:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
e1ca355425
[Bug #918710 ] Add paragraph to clarify docs
2004-06-05 19:25:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
1cd6e4dc38
fix various descriptions of "ctime"
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(closes SF patch #870287 )
2004-05-12 03:51:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
0ed663443e
really scream out that people should use the file objects instead of
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file descriptor operations for normal applications
2004-04-16 15:20:01 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
9b4dab4da1
SF patch #859286 : documentation bool change fix
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(Contributed by George Yoshida.)
2003-12-31 18:37:28 +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
49ee14dac5
Patch #839038 : Add getsid(2).
2003-11-10 06:35:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
9756f388c0
Fix typo.
2003-09-10 00:11:28 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
b67449d31d
Fix spacing markup and other sundries.
2003-09-08 18:52:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
0a6aa28681
SF patch #797157 : Bug 794658: os.chmod docs, stat constants
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(Contributed by Christos Georgiou.)
Reference the symbol definitions in the stat module.
2003-08-31 05:09:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
15eac1f95c
Fix markup nits.
2003-05-20 16:21:51 +00:00
Tim Peters
dbaf04ead6
Straighten out the docs for os.system(); the Unix and Windows behaviors
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really can't be smushed together.
Bugfix candidate.
2003-05-20 16:15:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
bf1bef820c
Add optional 'onerror' argument to os.walk(), to control error
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handling.
2003-05-13 18:01:19 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
52136a8bea
Fixed spacing and unbalanced brackets or parenthesis.
2003-05-10 03:35:37 +00:00
Tim Peters
a390c6e194
walk() docs: Emphasize that the recursive-delete example is dangerous.
2003-04-28 19:15:10 +00:00
Tim Peters
5501b5e3d7
SF bug 728097: tmpnam problems on windows 2.3b, breaks test.test_os.
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tmpnam() appears essentially useless on Windows, and it finally broke
the test for Irmen de Jong. Read the long new comment in test_tmpnam()
for details. Since the MS implementation is insane, it might be good
if we supplied a different implementation.
Bugfix candidate.
2003-04-28 03:13:03 +00:00
Tim Peters
bf89b3a1f7
walk() docs: Worked "walking" into the description and the text. Added
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a brief example where bottom-up walking is essential.
2003-04-28 02:09:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
2194a4eede
markup adjustments
2003-04-25 14:50:06 +00:00
Tim Peters
c4e0940042
New generator os.walk() does a bit more than os.path.walk() does, and
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seems much easier to use. Code, docs, NEWS, and additions to test_os.py
(testing this sucker is a bitch!).
2003-04-25 07:11:48 +00:00
Tim Peters
2d1c846b73
Clarified new fsync() docs.
2003-04-23 19:47:14 +00:00
Tim Peters
11b2306960
Enable os.fsync() for Windows, mapping it to MS's _commit() there. The
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docs here are best-guess: the MS docs I could find weren't clear, and
some even claimed _commit() has no effect on Win32 systems (which is
easily shown to be false just by trying it).
2003-04-23 02:39:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
5c7b2487cd
- explain what a UNC path is in the makedirs() description, since
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they're actually mentioned there
- remove some extraneous paragraph separations
- \versionadded --> \versionchanged in one place
2003-03-20 17:39:38 +00:00
Just van Rossum
96b1c903f5
Patch #683592 revisited, after discussions with MvL:
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- Implement the behavior as specified in PEP 277, meaning os.listdir()
will only return unicode strings if it is _called_ with a unicode
argument.
- And then return only unicode, don't attempt to convert to ASCII.
- Don't switch on Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, but simply use the
default encoding if Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is NULL. This means
os.listdir() can now raise UnicodeDecodeError if the default encoding
can't represent the directory entry. (This seems better than silcencing
the error and fall back to a byte string.)
- Attempted to decribe the above in Doc/lib/libos.tex.
- Reworded the Misc/NEWS items to reflect the current situation.
This checkin also fixes bug #696261 , which was due to os.listdir() not
using Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, like all file system calls are
supposed to.
2003-03-03 17:32:15 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
117910dc44
Migrate definitions of several platform-dependent path-related variables
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into the relevant path modules. See patch #686397 .
2003-02-14 19:35:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
002a5de202
extsep description:
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- avoid "e.g." in text
- record version information
(should be backported)
2003-02-14 06:39:37 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
47e46e2347
add missing description of os.extsep
2003-02-14 05:45:31 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
2b09bc4d57
Fix SF bug #675259 , os.environ leaks under FreeBSD and Mac OS X
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Even with the extra work to cleanup the env, *BSD still leaks. Add a note.
Will backport.
2003-02-07 02:27:36 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
4b37364fc8
Bug #678077 : Suggest alternative to os.getlogin()
2003-02-03 15:36:26 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
b6604b3e69
Document EX_OK and friends.
2003-01-07 22:43:25 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
9f5b07dd92
SF bug #592859 : os.chmod is underdocumented
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Document constants for permission bits.
2003-01-06 13:31:26 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
6d23b170cf
Fix a typo
2003-01-05 22:20:51 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
33e94437ca
Document killpg.
2002-12-27 10:21:19 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
438b534ad0
Patch #657889 : Implement posix.getloadavg.
2002-12-27 10:16:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
08d10f985e
Typo: "dead lock" --> "deadlock"
2002-12-06 16:45:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
4b9ed2f346
Clarified documentation of tempnam().
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Closes SF bug #635656 .
2002-11-12 22:07:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
b5f41dedeb
Minor markup adjustments.
2002-11-07 17:13:03 +00:00
Thomas Heller
5b470e0a3a
Document the changed fdopen behaviour.
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(Hope the markup is ok).
2002-11-07 16:33:44 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
f607bdaa77
Add PyStructSequence_UnnamedField. Add stat_float_times.
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Use integers in stat tuple, optionally floats in named fields.
2002-10-16 18:27:39 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
36a4d8c20e
Remove mentionings of DOS.
2002-10-10 18:24:54 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
dbe3f76270
Patch #569139 : Implementation of major, minor and makedev.
2002-10-10 14:27:30 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
a844f2d165
Document patch #594001 .
2002-10-05 09:46:48 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
a32c994129
Always generate floats for stat_result; fix configure test.
2002-09-09 16:17:47 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
94717ed1d4
Patch #606592 : Subsecond timestamps in stat_result.
2002-09-09 14:24:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
3cfdc3402e
Documented os.fsync and os.fdatasync. Closes SF bug 584695.
2002-08-07 15:48:17 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
0cec0ffc78
Patch #573770 : Implement lchown.
2002-07-28 16:33:45 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
403e351dfc
Flesh out description of getlogin() and recommend against using it.
2002-07-24 15:32:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
2c22e85ae7
Attempt to clarify removedirs().
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Based on SF bug #574773 .
2002-07-02 21:03:49 +00:00