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Andrew M. Kuchling b7697a50fb [Bug #848556] Remove \d* from second alternative to avoid exponential case when repeating match 2006-07-31 16:22:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling aa95fdb783 [Bug #1514540] Instead of putting the standard types in a section, put them in a chapter of their own. This means string methods will now show up in the ToC. (Should the types come before or after the functions+exceptions+constants chapter? I've put them after, for now.) 2006-07-31 16:10:24 +00:00
Georg Brandl fbf969928f Fix function name. 2006-07-31 16:00:34 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ec3a89449e Remove reference to notation 2006-07-31 15:23:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 17159fe26f Typo fix 2006-07-31 15:22:58 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 04c897a2a9 Mention csv newline changes 2006-07-31 13:18:27 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4bcfe53e29 Add PyErr_WarnEx() 2006-07-31 12:52:26 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 555ac45b20 Document PyErr_WarnEx. (Bad Neal! No biscuit!)
Is the explanation of the 'stacklevel' parameter clear?  Please feel free
to edit it.

I don't have LaTeX installed on this machine, so haven't verified that the
markup is correct.  Will check tonight, or maybe the automatic doc build will
tell me.
2006-07-31 12:39:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 43bae4144b Add refcounts for PyErr_WarnEx 2006-07-31 12:20:24 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 759c185ce0 minor tweaks 2006-07-31 03:11:11 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 08bbccf369 minor tweaks 2006-07-31 03:09:45 +00:00
Andrew McNamara 10183b8e40 Redo the comment about the 2.5 change in quoted-newline handling. 2006-07-31 02:27:48 +00:00
Georg Brandl 5b654ea774 Bug #1531349: right <-> left glitch in __rop__ description. 2006-07-30 20:18:51 +00:00
George Yoshida c7605270b4 Rename struct.pack_to to struct.pack_into as changed in revision 46642. 2006-07-30 16:37:37 +00:00
Georg Brandl e34ac7ce7a Bug #1002398: The documentation for os.path.sameopenfile now correctly
refers to file descriptors, not file objects.
2006-07-30 11:07:23 +00:00
Georg Brandl ad6911bd62 Clarify that __op__ methods must return NotImplemented if they don't support the operation. 2006-07-30 10:53:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 33c3e29fce - remove yet another reference to how commonly Tkinter is (thought to be) used
- fix an internal section reference
2006-07-30 05:55:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 21731118af remove possibly-outdated comment on what GUI toolkit is most commonly used;
it is hard to know whether this is right, and it does not add valuable reference information
at any rate
2006-07-30 05:49:49 +00:00
Fred Drake c3c805e8b2 update information on wxPython, from Robin Dunn 2006-07-30 05:41:28 +00:00
Fred Drake e0d4aecfc2 lots of markup nits, most commonly Unix/unix --> \UNIX 2006-07-30 03:03:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ad416d056f [Bug #793553] Correct description of keyword arguments for SSL authentication 2006-07-30 00:37:56 +00:00
Fred Drake d457a97beb markup cleanups 2006-07-29 23:34:57 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 2d5c8e3bb1 Fix case for 'Unix' 2006-07-29 21:30:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b9a79c95dc Follow TeX's conventions for hyphens 2006-07-29 21:27:12 +00:00
Fred Drake a650fb3d6f fix minor markup error that introduced extra punctuation 2006-07-29 20:21:25 +00:00
Skip Montanaro abd51a3585 Add a comment to the csv reader documentation that explains why the
treatment of newlines changed in 2.5.  Pulled almost verbatim from a comment
by Andrew McNamara in <http://python.org/sf/1465014>.
2006-07-29 20:06:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 45540b0922 SF bug #1193966: Weakref types documentation misplaced
The information about supporting weakrefs with types defined in C extensions
is moved to the Extending & Embedding manual.  Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_WEAKREFS is
no longer mentioned since it is part of Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT.
2006-07-29 20:04:42 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 9964fdb466 [Patch #1068277] Clarify that os.path.exists() can return False depending on permissions. Fred approved committing this patch in December 2004! 2006-07-29 19:50:37 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling a40191c305 [Patch #1490989 from Skip Montanaro] Mention debugging builds in the API documentation. I've changed Skip's patch to point to Misc/SpecialBuilds and fiddled with the markup a bit. 2006-07-29 19:24:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 897afc43ad emphasize and oddball nuance of LaTeX comment syntax 2006-07-29 19:14:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 4a847888a7 document the footnote usage pattern 2006-07-29 19:09:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 84608f0c67 make the reference to older versions of the documentation a link
to the right page on python.org
2006-07-29 18:33:29 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 956597f4ef Reorganize the docs for 'file' and 'open()' after some discussion with Fred.
We want to encourage users to write open() when opening a file, but
open() was described with a single paragraph and
'file' had lots of explanation of the mode and bufsize arguments.

I've shrunk the description of 'file' to cross-reference to the 'File
objects' section, and to open() for an explanation of the arguments.

open() now has all the paragraphs about the mode string.  The bufsize
argument was moved up so that it isn't buried at the end; now there's
1 paragraph on mode, 1 on bufsize, and then 3 more on mode.  Various
other edits and rearrangements were made in the process.

It's probably best to read the final text and not to try to make sense
of the diffs.
2006-07-29 18:14:07 +00:00
Fred Drake fbdeaad069 expunge the xmlcore changes:
41667, 41668 - initial switch to xmlcore
  47044        - mention of xmlcore in What's New
  50687        - mention of xmlcore in the library reference

re-apply xmlcore changes to xml:
  41674        - line ending changes (re-applied manually), directory props
  41677        - add cElementTree wrapper
  41678        - PSF licensing for etree
  41812        - whitespace normalization
  42724        - fix svn:eol-style settings
  43681, 43682 - remove Python version-compatibility cruft from minidom
  46773        - fix encoding of \r\n\t in attr values in saxutils
  47269        - added XMLParser alias for cElementTree compatibility

additional tests were added in Lib/test/test_sax.py that failed with
the xmlcore changes; these relate to SF bugs #1511497, #1513611
2006-07-29 16:56:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling c032ee939b Set bug/patch count. Take a bow, everyone! 2006-07-29 16:08:40 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e49741d412 [Bug #1528258] Mention that the 'data' argument can be None.
The constructor docs referred the reader to the add_data() method's docs,
but they weren't very helpful.  I've simply copied an earlier explanation
of 'data' that's more useful.
2006-07-29 15:57:08 +00:00
Matt Fleming aab30d0f08 Fix typo 2006-07-29 15:55:30 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 2d20a5fe99 Typo fix 2006-07-29 15:42:46 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b9d7e04880 [Bug #1530382] Document SSL.server(), .issuer() methods 2006-07-29 15:35:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 7092f4ce9f [Bug #1519571] Document some missing functions: setup(), title(), done() 2006-07-29 14:42:48 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling dafb1e59c9 [Bug #1529157] Mention raw_input() and input(); while I'm at it, reword the description a bit 2006-07-29 14:21:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3ec3f78c8a Reword paragraph to match the order of the subsequent sections 2006-07-29 14:08:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 144691cfd8 Update URL 2006-07-29 14:04:47 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 35f64c12d3 Add example 2006-07-29 13:56:48 +00:00
Georg Brandl 9fd21e31b6 Bug #835255: The "closure" argument to new.function() is now documented. 2006-07-29 08:51:21 +00:00
Phillip J. Eby f7575d0cb7 Bug #1529871: The speed enhancement patch #921466 broke Python's compliance
with PEP 302.  This was fixed by adding an ``imp.NullImporter`` type that is
used in ``sys.path_importer_cache`` to cache non-directory paths and avoid
excessive filesystem operations during imports.
2006-07-28 21:12:07 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 39d7739e6c Add example. Should I propagate this example to all the other DBM-ish modules, too? 2006-07-28 12:48:07 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 1d69a7013f Don't overwrite built-in name; add some blank lines for readability 2006-07-28 12:45:55 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling bd468103e0 Add example 2006-07-28 12:33:19 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4036f43cac Add example 2006-07-28 12:32:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 984b075978 Typo fix 2006-07-28 12:18:22 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 9d93341489 [Patch #1529811] Correction to description of r|* mode 2006-07-28 12:07:12 +00:00
Tim Peters 750c4420a8 Live with that "the hardware address" is an ill-defined
concept, and that different ways of trying to find "the
hardware address" may return different results.  Certainly
true on both of my Windows boxes, and in different ways
(see whining on python-dev).
2006-07-28 04:51:59 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 00decd7835 Patch #1520294: Support for getset and member descriptors in types.py,
inspect.py, and pydoc.py.  Specifically, this allows for querying the type of
an object against these built-in C types and more importantly, for getting
their docstrings printed in the interactive interpreter's help() function.

This patch includes a new built-in module called _types which provides
definitions of getset and member descriptors for use by the types.py module.
These types are exposed as types.GetSetDescriptorType and
types.MemberDescriptorType.  Query functions are provided as
inspect.isgetsetdescriptor() and inspect.ismemberdescriptor().  The
implementations of these are robust enough to work with Python implementations
other than CPython, which may not have these fundamental types.

The patch also includes documentation and test suite updates.

I commit these changes now under these guiding principles:

1. Silence is assent.  The release manager has not said "no", and of the few
   people that cared enough to respond to the thread, the worst vote was "0".

2. It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

3. It's so dang easy to revert stuff in svn, that you could view this as a
   forcing function. :)

Windows build patches will follow.
2006-07-27 23:43:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling fc0e61d9b6 Add example 2006-07-27 22:49:54 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 752e28ad9f Add example 2006-07-27 22:49:38 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4b6d53780d Reword paragraph 2006-07-27 22:40:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling cff784caa7 If binhex is higher-level than binascii, it should come first in the chapter 2006-07-27 19:12:49 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 40b35aa5cc Mention base64 module; rewrite last sentence to be more positive 2006-07-27 19:11:07 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling cbe801697b Add punctuation mark; add some examples 2006-07-27 19:07:29 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f60eeb1738 Update URL; add example 2006-07-27 18:53:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 9ad7a60f62 Repair typos 2006-07-27 18:44:10 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 623005e94a Add missing word 2006-07-27 18:42:41 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 5ee6616528 Typo fix ('publically' is rare, poss. non-standard) 2006-07-27 18:41:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 9dd8dc3fee Add example 2006-07-27 18:37:33 +00:00
Greg Ward 48fae7acd2 Resync optparse with Optik 1.5.3: minor tweaks for/to tests. 2006-07-23 16:05:51 +00:00
Barry Warsaw b110bad2d9 More RFC 2231 improvements for the email 4.0 package. As Mark Sapiro rightly
points out there are really two types of continued headers defined in this
RFC (i.e. "encoded" parameters with the form "name*0*=" and unencoded
parameters with the form "name*0="), but we were were handling them both the
same way and that isn't correct.

This patch should be much more RFC compliant in that only encoded params are
%-decoded and the charset/language information is only extract if there are
any encoded params in the segments.  If there are no encoded params then the
RFC says that there will be no charset/language parts.

Note however that this will change the return value for Message.get_param() in
some cases.  For example, whereas before if you had all unencoded param
continuations you would have still gotten a 3-tuple back from this method
(with charset and language == None), you will now get just a string.  I don't
believe this is a backward incompatible change though because the
documentation for this method already indicates that either return value is
possible and that you must do an isinstance(val, tuple) check to discriminate
between the two.  (Yeah that API kind of sucks but we can't change /that/
without breaking code.)

Test cases, some documentation updates, and a NEWS item accompany this patch.
2006-07-21 14:51:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 3fda93604c markup fix 2006-07-20 20:11:57 +00:00
Vinay Sajip 9325ba6df4 Updated documentation for TimedRotatingFileHandler relating to how rollover files are named. The previous documentation was wrongly the same as for RotatingFileHandler. 2006-07-20 16:28:39 +00:00
Brett Cannon caebe22038 Fix bug #1520914. Starting in 2.4, time.strftime() began to check the bounds
of values in the time tuple passed in.  Unfortunately people came to rely on
undocumented behaviour of setting unneeded values to 0, regardless of if it was
within the valid range.  Now those values force the value internally to the
minimum value when 0 is passed in.
2006-07-18 04:41:36 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 7a752e7ad4 Attribute more features 2006-07-17 16:47:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 83fa22f564 document xmlcore (still minimal; needs mention in each of the xml.* modules)
SF bug #1504456 (partial)
2006-07-17 05:47:52 +00:00
Fred Drake ec5948aae2 clean up some link markup 2006-07-16 01:21:20 +00:00
George Yoshida b2d5af8d9e Bug #15187702 : ext/win-cookbook.html has a broken link to distutils 2006-07-15 16:03:49 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh 76e268bb62 typo 2006-07-14 21:45:48 +00:00
Thomas Heller b69a3c2bda Updates for the ctypes documentation. 2006-07-14 18:22:50 +00:00
Peter Astrand 7d1d43630e Bug #1223937: CalledProcessError.errno -> CalledProcessError.returncode. 2006-07-14 14:04:45 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 8c051da2cf Mention new options 2006-07-14 13:32:38 +00:00
Neal Norwitz eda87127a8 Try to improve grammar further. 2006-07-14 07:20:04 +00:00
Georg Brandl 13b78d536b Patch #1521874: grammar errors in doanddont.tex. 2006-07-14 07:12:54 +00:00
Thomas Heller 76c5af6216 Fix the wrong description of LibraryLoader.LoadLibrary, and document
the DEFAULT_MODE constant.
2006-07-12 14:25:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b0aa54ece8 Bump version number; add sys._current_frames 2006-07-11 17:20:16 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 06c68b800c Patch #1519566: Remove unused _tofill member.
Make begin_fill idempotent.
Update demo2 to demonstrate filling of concave shapes.
2006-07-10 22:11:28 +00:00
Tim Peters 32a8361f2d After approval from Anthony, merge the tim-current_frames
branch into the trunk.  This adds a new sys._current_frames()
function, which returns a dict mapping thread id to topmost
thread stack frame.
2006-07-10 21:08:24 +00:00
Anthony Baxter 70e8e87750 preparing for 2.5b2 2006-07-10 07:41:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 8d65681e94 Introduce DISTUTILS_USE_SDK as a flag to determine whether the
SDK environment should be used. Fixes #1508010.
2006-07-10 07:23:48 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 56640df6c3 Patch #1504046: Add documentation for xml.etree.
/F wrote the text docs, Englebert Gruber massaged it to latex and I
did some more massaging to try and improve the consistency and
fix some name mismatches between the declaration and text.
2006-07-10 02:36:41 +00:00
Georg Brandl b6b175229b Fix RFC number. 2006-07-07 08:15:12 +00:00
Thomas Heller 653f23cc81 Document the correct return type of PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLongMask. 2006-07-06 15:06:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling beb572b50a ImportWarning is now silent by default 2006-07-06 13:57:28 +00:00
Nick Coghlan 2bfe3a9dbf Cover ImportWarning, PendingDeprecationWarning and simplefilter() in the warnings module docs 2006-07-06 13:41:34 +00:00
Nick Coghlan 94a98e4fc6 Update the tutorial section on relative imports 2006-07-06 13:04:56 +00:00
Nick Coghlan 56829d5b4a Revert the __module_name__ changes made in rev 47142. We'll revisit this in Python 2.6 2006-07-06 12:53:04 +00:00
Thomas Heller b979b35f70 Document the changes in svn revision 47263, from patch #1517790. 2006-07-06 09:11:22 +00:00
Thomas Heller f40aed930a Document the Struture and Union constructors. 2006-07-06 08:58:40 +00:00
Georg Brandl d41f4ce0c8 no need to elaborate "string". 2006-07-05 15:50:05 +00:00
Georg Brandl f41beacecb Patch #1517490: fix glitches in filter() docs. 2006-07-05 14:18:45 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 2eda1b78f9 [Bug #1511911] Clarify description of optional arguments to sorted()
by improving the xref to the section on lists, and by
   copying the explanations of the arguments (with a slight modification).
2006-07-03 14:16:09 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f896795103 [Bug #1515932] Clarify description of slice assignment 2006-07-03 14:07:30 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 82c276ea33 Document functions added in 2.3 and 2.5. 2006-07-03 11:12:06 +00:00