Fred Drake
4f6d6e487c
Fix things. Blame Andy Eskilsson <andy.eskilsson@telelogic.se>.
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But I'm not giving this or the info files out until Andy (or anyone else)
agrees to take over the maintenance of this script! Hah!
1998-04-17 15:28:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
4f5155817b
Mark TMPDIR correctly.
1998-04-17 14:51:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
bdbdb80b0b
Separate the Mac-related files from the library reference files. The new
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variable isn't used yet.
1998-04-17 14:01:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
1d9fb63293
Remove commented-out Mac chapter.
1998-04-17 13:24:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
12f842e33e
Adjust to allow both general and module indexes.
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PDF output properly supports the outline.
1998-04-17 02:52:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
60961c561d
Python HOWTO document that replaces the old Mac section from the reference
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manual.
1998-04-17 02:47:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
b51429a145
Adjust so that it works as part of a HOWTO-based manual.
1998-04-17 02:46:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
d579ed8239
Shift (re-)definition of \theindex to the document classes so that it doesn't
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break HOWTO documents.
1998-04-17 02:45:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
300775d222
Hide \varvars from "public" interface.
1998-04-17 02:17:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
08932054e9
New helper functions to help deal with parameter parsing.
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Use the helpers in do_cmd_*() and do_env_*(); *much* cleaner!
1998-04-17 02:15:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
64bdc24301
Code cleanup, some syntax modernization.
1998-04-17 02:14:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
6b303b4bdd
Signature for dir() omitted the optional argument.
1998-04-16 22:10:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
bf88c3830e
Fix the broken PDF links, really this time!
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Appending a junk char to the end doesn't quite do it, or doesn't seem to at
any rate. Instead, pad the page numbers to always be 3 charaters wide, with
leading zeros.
1998-04-15 17:50:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
a2c2a836d7
Fix the broken PDF links, really this time!
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"." cannot be part of the target names either.
Appending a junk char to the end doesn't quite do it, or doesn't seem to at
any rate. Instead, pad the page numbers to always be 3 charaters wide, with
leading zeros.
1998-04-15 17:50:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
a88d681255
Change the form of the name given to each page of the PDF from "page.%d" to
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"page.%dx"; this works around an acroread bug that causes targets not to be
recognized if their name is a prefix of another target in the file.
1998-04-15 14:53:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
d671e8fb87
Added dependency on the tools/toc2bkm.py script for the PDF files.
1998-04-15 14:50:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3c4378bd9b
Some patches by Drew Csillag; plus a few of my own uncommitted changes.
1998-04-14 20:21:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
12d9fc94f4
Use shorter labels; using long labels creates problems on the Macintosh.
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(Thanks, Just!)
1998-04-14 17:19:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
95638f5b0f
Added entry for Tkdnd.py.
1998-04-14 04:55:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
e3ae5198a3
Update to use the new release number. Will generalize in the next round.
1998-04-13 21:55:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
f5013f1f0c
Add RELEASE make variable; this gets the entire release # ("1.5.1").
1998-04-13 21:02:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
68fede768a
Added item in Misc. for getpass module.
1998-04-13 20:31:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
4d2996d473
Fix version number.
1998-04-13 20:29:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
916d8f8733
No more threats, just list the new methods under "AST Objects".
1998-04-13 18:46:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
c4f1ca1967
Add a note that pickling is supported.
1998-04-13 16:27:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
3e7a48e0d9
Revert markup around list of display fields from the disassembler; it doesn't
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look at good in print, but doesn't break the HTML.
1998-04-13 16:15:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
3ad125e611
Fix bug in little-used markup: don't forget to pass the source text along!
1998-04-13 14:18:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
7238988657
Fixed example to load the startup file from a script (didn't test for the
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file's existance).
Removed some XXX comments about extension modules which support pickling.
Added text from AMK about the readline and rlcompleter modules.
Thanks, AMK!
1998-04-13 01:31:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
003d8da779
Typo: (and often severly limited) -- severely
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Typo: (but not to the tuple or list into which the item it put!) -- is put
Thanks, AMK!
1998-04-13 00:53:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
b85fbec83b
"ZeroDevisionError" --> "ZeroDivisionError"
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Thanks, AMK!
1998-04-13 00:50:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
a608febd5f
Fix typo. (What I get for trying to fix bugs at home and running conversions
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at work....)
1998-04-12 03:58:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
ae9bc67e0e
Don't append () to the name of an object attribute in the index.
1998-04-12 03:49:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
6250205166
Use {methoddesc} instead of {funcdesc} for object methods.
1998-04-12 03:31:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
898601bf8f
Add cPickle to the list of modules in the chapter.
1998-04-12 03:08:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
d6d88ffaf9
Add cStringIO to the list of modules in the chapter.
1998-04-12 03:07:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
c303e67f3c
The built-in exceptions are not still strings, so make no claims about them.
1998-04-12 02:48:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
c94d9348ca
In descriptions of Py_GetPrefix() and Py_GetExecPrefix(), make sure the
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"--" at the start of the configure options isn't collapsed to "-" when the
HTML is generated.
1998-04-12 02:39:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
1072e46263
Added a simpler, working {verbatim} support that generates legitimate HTML.
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(2 lines, explained by 6 lines of comments....)
1998-04-12 02:16:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
b73bc31e39
Removed partially broken {verbatim} support.
1998-04-12 02:13:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
ee60191d1d
Lighten up tables.
1998-04-11 20:53:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
17e564042d
Change order of \seemodule macros at end of pickle module section.
1998-04-11 20:43:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
9463de2092
Document cPickle and cStringIO.
1998-04-11 20:05:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
fab2f34538
When the text of a table cell should be wrapped, used a "p" column.
1998-04-11 18:46:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
7e9383ab59
Add a comment to indicate the methods of the StringIO are being discussed...
1998-04-11 18:05:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
70c460c84d
Remove imaplib from the undocumented list.
1998-04-11 16:58:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
a38a2867d0
Include () after function name.
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One more logical mark.
1998-04-11 16:57:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
0d213d3497
When the text of a table cell should be wrapped, used a "p" column.
1998-04-11 16:40:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
2b8c95e4ed
Minor housing cleaning in HTML that gets generated.
1998-04-11 16:26:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
34672dbb38
Remove over-active replace-string turds.
1998-04-11 16:24:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
8f6b958fdb
Use {memberdesc} to mark the instance attributes.
1998-04-11 15:11:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
7dba8e2ab4
Hmmm... better add some \label macros for logical addressing while I'm at it.
1998-04-11 13:51:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
2a37455967
It's "Lauder", not "Lauders"!
1998-04-11 13:48:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
9d4b6c52c3
Update the module index support to use the changed field separator for the
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input file to buildindex.py.
1998-04-11 05:21:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
e5cf53ad89
Formatting nits.
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An index entry.
1998-04-11 05:02:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
eb4ed15be8
Shift index entries around a little so the HTML doesn't have weird spacing.
1998-04-11 04:52:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
1e0f8bfea9
Add imaplib to appropriate lists.
1998-04-11 04:27:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
36751b0ed2
Remove obsolete module soundex from list of modules.
1998-04-11 04:23:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
c48b772a77
Remove obsolete module rand from list of modules.
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Add fileinput to list.
1998-04-11 04:22:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
89de314cfc
First cut at documentation for imaplib. Based on original documentation by
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Piers Lauders.
1998-04-11 04:19:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
756a9e87b1
do_env_memberdesc(): Fix argument parsing for {memberdesc} environments.
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(The bug was detected by the Q/A team -- me! Please, help review the docs!)
1998-04-11 03:12:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
007bac3b0b
Added smtplib.py (thanks, Guido!).
1998-04-09 18:54:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
2cb824cbf9
Don't use \samp when \code is better.
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Consistently use ' instead of ": this conforms to my unofficial stance that
constants should be presented using the repr() whenever it makes sense. This
isn't because I think repr() is the greatest thing since spam, just that it's
an easy to adopt consistency standard. (It also holds no new surprises!)
1998-04-09 18:10:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
5cca42e0b7
do_cmd_lineii(),
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do_cmd_lineiii(): Fix markup style conversion to HTML tags for first column.
(The endtag wasn't formed properly.)
1998-04-09 17:59:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
6b529ae0c0
Remove @webchecker.pickle in the "clean" target.
1998-04-09 15:46:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
45c634ecae
Work around a small (& annoying) limitation of the latex2html support for
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\seemodule. This is far easier than figuring out the real problem, but it
works.
1998-04-09 15:44:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
8a254b5967
Removed misleading comment about GNU software. This module and the zlib
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library have no relationship with GNU software other than implementing some of
the same algorithms and file format. (The zlib module is more general.)
1998-04-09 15:41:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
45084ed52a
Added note about current status of info generation.
1998-04-09 15:19:41 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
253328104f
Many markup changes (to \regexp, mostly)
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Clarified text on 8-bit cleanness, complemented sets like [^5], and {m,n}
qualifier.
1998-04-09 14:56:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
02a8e6b600
Update release number and date.
1998-04-09 14:50:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
20ca9171c1
Don't assume that \version expands to the 3-character major.minor number; it
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is the full release version name ("1.5.1beta1", for instance).
Add section for previously documented obsolete modules. Includes ni, rand,
and soundex.
1998-04-09 14:32:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
363ab1a613
Comment out the soundex section.
1998-04-09 14:23:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
2de75ec245
Don't assume that \version expands to the 3-character major.minor number; it
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is the full release version name ("1.5.1beta1", for instance).
1998-04-09 14:12:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
9da38814a3
Use the correct URL to AMK's regex-to-re HOWTO!
1998-04-09 14:06:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
54c3947fbc
Updated URL to AMK's regex-to-re HOWTO.
1998-04-09 14:03:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
5406e7071f
Added reference to AMK's HOWTO on the topic.
1998-04-09 14:02:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
223395c0a0
Added imaplib.
1998-04-09 13:55:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
b8efda01e6
Update URL to the related HOWTO document.
1998-04-09 13:49:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
bd400881dd
Add section for ni back in, but comment it out.
1998-04-09 11:04:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
eac469ca3d
Commented out sections on obsolete & Macintosh modules.
1998-04-09 04:51:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
f1b72ddf82
Reduced description of the obsolete method Stats.ignore().
1998-04-09 04:49:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
058068d992
Nearly a complete re-write.
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Basically, it now works and produces a nice-looking HTML index.
Shows some promise for extensibility, but still young. Needs useful comments.
1998-04-08 23:12:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
166abbabf9
Remove option to strip out <tt>...</tt> from index entry text; this is now
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left to the buildindex.py script.
Change the field separator used in the index.dat file so utilities like grep
are useful on these files; they can't typically handle NUL bytes.
Protect index entries for environment variables from being handled as
case-insensitive by buildindex.py.
1998-04-08 23:10:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
ae2be7144d
Correct definition of CTIME.
1998-04-08 22:44:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
3f3c25fc03
Set flag to remove <tt>...</tt> markup from the index entries; it just ends up
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looking really bad in popular browsers, mostly due to vertical size differences
between the roman and monospaced fonts.
1998-04-08 13:46:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
2764dd33cf
Separate sections on anydbm and dumbdbm.
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This is the last separation; each module now gets its own section. This will
be useful in performing conversions.
1998-04-07 22:08:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
8e729ec31a
Caught a few more spurious \setindexsubitem macros....
1998-04-07 22:06:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
5ab5503b8a
Use {classdesc} and {memberdesc} where appropriate.
1998-04-07 22:01:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
a3f5c32f18
Removed unnecessary \setindexsubitem.
1998-04-07 21:45:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
1ce3604cfd
Separate UserDict and UserList documentation into separate sections.
1998-04-07 20:05:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
df0e3fcb63
Markup nit.
1998-04-07 20:04:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
c708605f4f
Added a reference to the discussion in Knuth's "Sorting and Searching", and
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noted that the original algorithm produces 4-character results rather than
the 6-character results provided by this module.
1998-04-07 19:58:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
41565f66b6
Data attributes of objects should not be indexed with trailing parentheses!
1998-04-07 19:32:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
396b827a93
Minor markup nit.
1998-04-07 19:17:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
82d493fb96
Fixed some index entries.
1998-04-07 19:14:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
6b9ff7257b
Added entry for wdb.
1998-04-07 19:09:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
810349b685
Fix the formatting of the list of fields in the disassemble() function.
1998-04-07 14:16:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
272fb3aaa4
Added poplib.
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Made the module lists look like the other module lists in the documentation.
1998-04-07 14:15:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
af370ea254
Move a short paragraph outside the description of ASTType.
1998-04-05 20:23:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
3a0351cf85
Remove all uses of \sectcode; we can now use logical markup everywhere.
1998-04-04 07:23:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
e7957184d2
Change \sectcode to logical markup.
1998-04-04 07:17:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
fc57619811
Remove obsolete \setindexsubitem macros.
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Massive migration to methoddesc and memberdesc.
Logical markup as needed.
A sprinkling of index entries for flavor.
1998-04-04 07:15:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
71c1e502f0
Moved some things around.
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Adjusted a couple of the comments to be more informative.
Tell a little bit about what obsolete means now, and how to use obsolete
modules.
1998-04-04 07:03:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
13beac1289
Removed obsolete \setindexsubitem macros.
1998-04-04 06:46:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
85ea68b2a2
Added index entries.
1998-04-04 06:46:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
81acc2e988
Remove obsolete \setindexsubitem macro.
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Logical markup, methoddesc, etc.
1998-04-04 06:35:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
61f45c7cb5
Remove obsolete \setindexsubitem macro,
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Added index entries.
Markup nits.
1998-04-04 06:31:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
b208f128b4
Added index entry.
1998-04-04 06:28:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
82143348aa
Remove obsolete \setindexsubitem macro.
1998-04-04 06:28:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
858f787a02
Fix index entry for HTMLParser class.
1998-04-04 06:25:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
41788db3e2
Logical markup.
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Index entries.
1998-04-04 06:23:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
9b28fe285d
Logical markup.
1998-04-04 06:20:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
e14dde2117
Fixed description of similarity between m[name] and m.getheader(name),
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reported by Samuel L. Bayer.
Use methoddesc instead of funcdesc, etc.
1998-04-04 06:19:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
d275de985a
Remove obsolete lines like this:
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\setindexsubitem{(in module frobnitz)}
These are no longer needed when present before any other \setindexsubitem{}
in the module section. The indexsubitem is now set by \bimodindex and
\stmodindex.
1998-04-04 05:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
4bde97f190
Add fileinput section under Misc. Services.
1998-04-04 05:50:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
ea2f2b9409
Use new index style for makeindex.
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Add dependency on libfileinput.tex for lib.dvi.
1998-04-04 04:21:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
35ca0d69e1
Document fileinput.
1998-04-04 04:20:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
a8e262b0b2
Use the new index style when running makeindex.
1998-04-04 04:20:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
10ad52e8af
Minor cleanliness.
1998-04-04 04:19:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
0a2eb138e7
Style specification for building *.ind from *.idx. This is needed to avoid
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wrapping of long lines, which tools/indfix.py doesn't understand, and needs
to to handle collapsing of entries which can share a common emtry and just
be short entries themselves. We get the added benefit of nicer formatting.
1998-04-04 04:18:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
07bcd99873
Start at updating the template a little bit. There's a lot of stuff that's
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just not here yet.
1998-04-03 21:25:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
47cfd03dff
Increase space between the end of a regexp and the little right floor symbol
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used as a closing quote. At AMK's request.
1998-04-03 21:22:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
fe03e81aa5
Removed line of obsolete markup.
1998-04-03 20:35:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
791468f731
Some clarifications of out-of-range group indexes/names
1998-04-03 20:07:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
61885924b1
Lots of markup consistency nits.
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Logical markup.
1998-04-03 07:16:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
6251c169c6
Small nits.
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One more index entry.
Be more specific about an exception raised by range().
1998-04-03 07:15:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
8efde2197b
Several minor markup nits.
1998-04-03 07:13:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
9f6aec870e
"alternative" is a noun, use "alternate" for the adjective.
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Minor nits.
1998-04-03 07:12:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
14c198b146
Talk about some minor nits...
1998-04-03 07:11:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
395e8e4860
Capitalize "Python" for consistency.
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Describe UserDict and UserList individually so they aren't too hideous in
the presentation.
1998-04-03 07:10:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
7932a6bf8c
Small markup nits.
1998-04-03 07:09:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
d59db4f974
Small consistency nits.
1998-04-03 07:06:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
2123774287
Capitalize "Python" for consistency.
1998-04-03 07:06:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
e6cedb362c
New index entries.
1998-04-03 07:05:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
3f1c4720b5
Use {methoddesc} as appropriate.
1998-04-03 07:04:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
5dabeed4ea
Index entries.
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Consistency nits.
1998-04-03 07:02:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
d0a40cb4cf
Added comment crediting Sue Williams with this documentation section (the
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ACKS file should be checked....).
1998-04-03 06:56:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
55e3cbd115
Fix one typo.
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Add a manpage reference.
Add an index entry.
1998-04-03 06:54:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
74810d5abb
Nits.
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Add {excdesc} for zlib.error.
Use {methoddesc} where appropriate.
1998-04-03 06:49:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
c3486318e0
Add index entry for GzipFile class.
1998-04-03 06:48:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
d678cb7a6c
Logical markup.
1998-04-03 06:35:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
9fee071ab6
Markup consistency.
1998-04-03 06:21:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
5bfe4850cf
Consistency: Don't use module name when referring to functions defined
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in the same module.
1998-04-03 06:14:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
2cfc835b7b
Minor nits.
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Lots of index entries.
1998-04-03 06:12:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
4e6688747c
Consistency nits:
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Use math-mode pi instead of mixing forms.
Use spaces around relational operators.
1998-04-03 06:04:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
76547c5631
Minor nits.
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Moved IGNORECASE & friends to "top level" definitions following compile(),
since there is no other case of nesting in the manual.
Use {memberdesc} and {methoddesc} as appropriate.
1998-04-03 05:59:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
dff21a6b93
Minor nits.
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Indent code sample to use 4-space indents.
1998-04-03 05:42:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
16a19c46a9
Mention the --help option to tools/mkhowto.sh.
1998-04-03 05:41:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
5bd7fccef9
Minor nits.
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Index entry.
1998-04-03 05:31:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
a594bafde7
Normalized case rules in section headings.
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Moved stuff from "Recent Additions to 1.1" to "More on Defining Functions".
This means there's now a short section on "Defining Functions" immediately
followed by a long section "More on Defining Functions."
1998-04-03 05:16:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
7e9d3148d1
Capitalize "Python" for consistency.
1998-04-03 05:02:28 +00:00