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Fred Drake bcd1df746d The fpectl module does not work on Windows, so remove Windows from the
\platform statement.

Also fix a minor style consistency nit in an example.
2001-07-05 21:17:08 +00:00
Fred Drake a939911345 Fix a markup error: do not omit a method's parameter list if it is
empty.
2001-07-05 21:14:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 25211f5724 Added more information on the differences between the htmllib and HTMLParser
modules.
2001-07-05 16:34:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5fe2c139d5 List constraints on xrange() objects. 2001-07-05 15:27:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3f56166b1a Rip out the fancy behaviors of xrange that nobody uses: repeat, slice,
contains, tolist(), and the start/stop/step attributes.  This includes
removing the 4th ('repeat') argument to PyRange_New().
2001-07-05 13:27:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 20006b2d51 Marked the parameters to Stats.print_*() as optional.
This closes SF bug #438032.
2001-07-02 21:22:39 +00:00
Fred Drake cb9be93955 Add another name. 2001-07-02 17:16:07 +00:00
Tim Peters 4efb6e9643 Turns out Neil didn't intend for *all* of his gen-branch work to get
committed.

tokenize.py:  I like these changes, and have tested them extensively
without even realizing it, so I just updated the docstring and the docs.

tabnanny.py:  Also liked this, but did a little code fiddling.  I should
really rewrite this to *exploit* generators, but that's near the bottom
of my effort/benefit scale so doubt I'll get to it anytime soon (it
would be most useful as a non-trivial example of ideal use of generators;
but test_generators.py has already grown plenty of food-for-thought
examples).

inspect.py:  I'm sure Ping intended for this to continue running even
under 1.5.2, so I reverted this to the last pre-gen-branch version.  The
"bugfix" I checked in in-between was actually repairing a bug *introduced*
by the conversion to generators, so it's OK that the reverted version
doesn't reflect that checkin.
2001-06-29 23:51:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 88e66254f9 Use the more conventional "self" as the name of the self parameter in an
example.  It actually confused a reader.
2001-06-29 17:50:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 0c209047ba Correct a markup error for an accented character.
Reported by Milan Zamazal <pdm@zamazal.org>.
2001-06-29 16:25:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 58c95391fa Removed some stray periods, and fix up a number of visible markup
consistency errors (mostly omitted "()" at the end of function and
method names).

Reported by Milan Zamazal <pdm@zamazal.org>.
2001-06-29 16:21:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 9c3c5e406d Two more names. 2001-06-29 15:42:20 +00:00
Fred Drake f29ca18df3 SourceForge bug #437041:
Use a portable format in the example that creates a timestamp suitable for
use in email, also updating it and the footnote from RFC 822 to RFC 2822.
2001-06-29 15:39:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 9f9bd6af78 Simplify an example based on comment from Thomas Holenstein <thomas@hex.ch>:
Do not use an extra flag variable to test only once in one subsequent if
statement.
2001-06-29 14:59:01 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling a43e70396e Add more items that need to be written about 2001-06-27 20:32:12 +00:00
Thomas Wouters 69940973db Remove duplicate ', ' in dbhash.open()'s argument list. 2001-06-27 13:49:59 +00:00
Barry Warsaw e9218a1a8e Remove the restriction on a mapping's .update() method. 2001-06-26 20:32:59 +00:00
Tim Peters 3e7b1a04a0 Teach the types module about generators. Thanks to James Althoff on the
Iterators list for bringing it up!
2001-06-25 19:46:25 +00:00
Fred Drake b037d33245 Updated link to zlib's home page. 2001-06-25 15:30:13 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e7e03cd0cf Fix typo 2001-06-23 16:26:44 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond ff00fdae23 Correct erroneous description of precmd. 2001-06-23 14:42:43 +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 deda9f3420 Use a named reference to another chapter instead of hard coding the
chapter number.  This also makes the reference a hyperlink in the HTML
version.
2001-06-23 06:06:21 +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 f5eae668a8 Add "yeild" to the list of keywords.
Fix a very minor (but annoying when looking for things!) markup nit.
2001-06-23 05:26:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 1ab1f71ec3 Consistently use semi-colons after the last property for each selector. 2001-06-23 04:53:43 +00:00
Fred Drake f015d9a5f6 Give the pattern used to pick out a source anchor a more specific pattern. 2001-06-23 04:35:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 5962eb0d89 Added several names. 2001-06-23 03:17:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 8058bfa6fc Contributed updates from Harald Hanche-Olsen, giving details of the branch
cuts for the complex math functions.  Includes a brief description of
what branch cuts are.
2001-06-23 03:16:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 6fe4660f61 Added support for our new \infinity and \plusminus macros, and the
standard \textbar macro (not supported in many versions of LaTeX2HTML).

Added newline to error message.
2001-06-23 03:13:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 5445e5e305 \infinity,
\plusminus:  New macros to allow us to avoid math mode for these symbols.
2001-06-23 03:11:45 +00:00
Fred Drake bfd80dd8c0 Miscellaneous code cleanups.
Make sure we do not lose track of the build directory -- convert a user-
supplied directory to an absolute path.
2001-06-23 03:06:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 1bf198e946 Remove an extra tab character. 2001-06-22 18:36:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 307cb05764 Re-organize a little, clean up some markup.
Added some comments about sys.exit(), SystemExit, and preventing restricted
code from exiting the interpreter.

This closes SF bug #434743.
2001-06-22 18:21:53 +00:00
Fred Drake f66cb5d0eb Corrected an error in the information on supporting weak references in
extension types (the docs reflected a development version of the API).

This closes SF bug #435066.
2001-06-22 17:20:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 9ca78ac57f Adjust to understand use of either single- or double-quotes to quote
attribute values, and make the logic surrounding the platform
annotations just a little easier to read.  Also make the platform
notes appear in the generated page; they were supposed to, but did not.
2001-06-22 17:11:30 +00:00
Fred Drake aff8837740 Add the new texinputs/license.tex to the shared dependencies. 2001-06-22 17:07:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 93438bf0a2 Fix & clean up the information about building Python with large file support
for Linux.

This closes SF bug #434975.
2001-06-22 16:01:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 490d34dbad Move license information to a less annoying location in the document.
Add documentation for PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename().
2001-06-20 21:39:12 +00:00
Fred Drake d5df09cfb6 Update to include the license information in a less annoying place. 2001-06-20 21:37:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 852f7951a2 Separate the copyright statements and license text; include some new
comments regarding the history of Python licensing from Guido.
2001-06-20 21:34:35 +00:00
Fred Drake f911a84d5a Separate the version number and release status into two separate values. 2001-06-20 21:33:13 +00:00
Fred Drake dce975c820 Update to use the newly separated values $PACKAGE_VERSION and $RELEASE_INFO.
Normalize all HTML attributes to be written as name="value" instead of
name='value'.
2001-06-20 21:31:36 +00:00
Fred Drake f1927a6d80 Added support for new \setreleaseinfo macro.
Normalize all generated HTML so that attribute names come out as
name="value" instead of name='value'.
Changed the target of RFC links to point to the hypertext RFCs at
www.faqs.org instead of the plain text RFCs at www.ietf.org.
2001-06-20 21:29:30 +00:00
Fred Drake c65218e1fd Add a little more support for describing version information. This
is not pretty, but does what is needed.
2001-06-20 21:17:09 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 6016e39250 Document the new encodestring() and decodestring() functions. Also,
add some description of what the quotetabs argument does for the
encode*() functions.  Finally, add a "see also" pointing to the base64
module.
2001-06-19 19:44:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 66eed24415 Add some information on the use of \verbatiminput to display sources from
an external file.
2001-06-18 14:59:58 +00:00
Tim Peters fa9e273442 Clarification in the fp appendix suggested on c.l.py by Michael Chermside.
Also replaced a *star* style emphasis in the Representation Error section
with an \emph{} thingie.
2001-06-17 21:57:17 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 918f2c722a Document that filter is added in 2.2. 2001-06-16 08:14:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 57e52ef076 Implement the \verbatiminput LaTeX macro; this contains more magic than
it should, but only enough that LaTeX2HTML doesn't bite us.
2001-06-15 21:31:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 54d10fd2cd Add a version annotation for the Q and q format codes. 2001-06-15 14:13:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 8fcd4b5ab3 Fix an improperly placed comma. 2001-06-14 13:57:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 66a0a0a9b6 Make the option processing more robust.
Add a -F option similar to "cvs commit -F <file>".
Add a -t option to allow specifying the prefix to the directory into which
the docs should be unpacked (useful when I start trying out new styles for
the presentation).
2001-06-12 13:31:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 4a6c5c568f Fixed reference to table notes for {}.keys() and {}.items() -- these
references did not get updated when the notes were renumbered in a
previous update.

This fixes SF bug #432208.
2001-06-12 03:31:56 +00:00
Tim Peters 7a3bfc3a47 Added q/Q standard (x-platform 8-byte ints) mode in struct module.
This completes the q/Q project.

longobject.c _PyLong_AsByteArray:  The original code had a gross bug:
the most-significant Python digit doesn't necessarily have SHIFT
significant bits, and you really need to count how many copies of the sign
bit it has else spurious overflow errors result.

test_struct.py:  This now does exhaustive std q/Q testing at, and on both
sides of, all relevant power-of-2 boundaries, both positive and negative.

NEWS:  Added brief dict news while I was at it.
2001-06-12 01:22:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 0b9bc20e66 Add the appropriate availability annotations for the popen*() family of
functions -- these are not available on traditional Mac OS platforms.

Corrected the version annotations for the spawn*() functions and related
constants; these were added in Python 1.6, not 1.5.2.
2001-06-11 18:25:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 046f4d810d Fixed parameter order for os.popen2(), os.popen3(), and os.popen(4). Added
a reference to these functions and popen() from the "Process Management"
section.

Based on a suggestion from comp.lang.python.
2001-06-11 15:21:48 +00:00
Fred Drake c115835457 Fix recent changes so that this section will format again. 2001-06-11 14:55:01 +00:00
Tim Peters 7b9542a3f7 Initial support for 'q' and 'Q' struct format codes: for now, only in
native mode, and only when config #defines HAVE_LONG_LONG.  Standard mode
will eventually treat them as 8-byte ints across all platforms, but that
likely requires a new set of routines in longobject.c first (while
sizeof(long) >= 4 is guaranteed by C, there's nothing in C we can rely
on x-platform to hold 8 bytes of int, so we'll have to roll our own;
I'm thinking of a simple pair of conversion functions, Python long
to/from sized vector of unsigned bytes; that may be useful for GMP
conversions too; std q/Q would call them with size fixed at 8).

test_struct.py:  In addition to adding some native-mode 'q' and 'Q' tests,
got rid of unused code, and repaired a non-portable assumption about
native sizeof(short) (it isn't 2 on some Cray boxes).

libstruct.tex:  In addition to adding a bit of 'q'/'Q' docs (more needed
later), removed an erroneous footnote about 'I' behavior.
2001-06-10 23:40:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 7bc50714fe Fix the attributions for the new floating point text. 2001-06-08 17:09:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 8c27d99941 Added credits in the right places. 2001-06-08 16:28:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 417d667dd9 Text from Tim & Guido discussing floating point arithmetic and what users
need to understand about the binary & decimal fp, so that representation
weirdness is documented somewhere.  This makes it easier to repond to "bug"
reports caused by user confusion & ignorance of the issues.

This closes SF patch #426208.
2001-06-08 16:24:58 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 1dc98c44fe add warning about situation where code may be executed twice, once when
module is __main__ and once when module is imported.
2001-06-08 14:40:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 62f9d7c021 In the section on extending the profiler, add some additional discussion
about setting up the dispatch table, and update the OldProfile and
HotProfile classes to the current implementations, showing the adjusted
construction for the dispatch table.
2001-06-08 05:04:19 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis e2ccb89513 Document filter. 2001-06-07 19:01:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 2a9bda9223 Typo: "descrition" --> "description"
Add reference to the documentation for the Python documentation markup.

Fixed up a couple of descriptions.

This closes SF bug #430627.
2001-06-06 16:02:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 9ccc0df52f Add references to the documentation for the Python documentation markup.
Suggested by the comments in SF bug #430627.
2001-06-06 15:59:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis e24fef0dd2 Fix bug #422702: Make flag argument to open optional, and document it that way. 2001-06-05 05:33:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 88382696f4 Update a "Programmer's note" about lambda forms and scoping to reflect
the availability of nested scoping in Python 2.1 and 2.2.
2001-06-05 02:17:02 +00:00
Skip Montanaro b9d973dac5 is -> if in rename description 2001-06-04 15:31:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 00d0cb6ec3 Explained more differences between PyList_SetItem() and PyList_SET_ITEM().
In particular, the affect on existing list content was not sufficiently
explained.

This closes SF bug #429554.
2001-06-03 03:12:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 81e142b907 Document os.getenv().
This closes SF bug #429059.
2001-05-31 20:27:46 +00:00
Fred Drake c19f39272e Some general cleanup of the threading module documentation, including
fixing the reference to Thread.getDeamon() (should be isDaemon()).

This closes SF bug #429070.
2001-05-31 20:24:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 6cba3d0e64 Added entry for HTMLParser documentation. 2001-05-30 04:59:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 3b755d43ac Michel Pelletier <michel@digicool.com>:
Documentation for the HTMLParser module, with small changes by FLD.
2001-05-30 04:59:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 9a374186fc New solution to the "Someone stuck a colon in that filename!" problem:
Allow colons in the labels used for internal references, but do not
expose them when generating filename.
2001-05-29 19:53:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 96a2a80065 Users of PySequence_GET_FAST() should get the length of the sequence using
PySequence_Size(), not PyObject_Size(): the later considers the mapping
methods as well as the sequence methods, which is not needed here.  Either
should be equally fast in this case, but PySequence_Size() offers a better
conceptual match.
2001-05-29 18:51:41 +00:00
Fred Drake dc9e7e42c8 readlink() description: Added note that the return value may be either
absolute or relative.

remove(), rename() descriptions:  Give more information about the cross-
    platform behavior of these functions, so single-platform developers
    can be aware of the potential issues when writing portable code.

This closes SF patch #426598.
2001-05-29 18:13:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 964c074a62 Hack to make this play nicer with *old* versions of Python: os.path.abspath()
was not available in Python 1.5.1.  (Yes, a user actually tried to use this
with that version of Python!)
2001-05-29 16:10:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 597bc1d46f Bring the notes on the relationship between __cmp__(), __eq__(), and
__hash__() up to date (re: use of objects which define these methods
as dictionary keys).

This closes SF bug #427698.
2001-05-29 16:02:35 +00:00
Fred Drake b9879e1020 Fix typo reported in SF bug #427783. 2001-05-29 15:44:27 +00:00
Fred Drake c80d4dd695 The parameter to the listen() method is not optional, but was marked as
optional in the documentation.

This closes SF bug #427985.
2001-05-29 15:37:45 +00:00
Fred Drake b2625eb10e Removed information on the old third parameter to _PyTuple_Resize().
Added information on PyIter_Check(), PyIter_Next(),
PyObject_Unicode(), PyString_AsDecodedObject(),
PyString_AsEncodedObject(), and PyThreadState_GetDict().
2001-05-29 15:34:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 404ac97207 If the input line does not contain enough fields, raise a meaningful
error.
2001-05-29 15:25:51 +00:00
Fred Drake fac312ff88 Do not start API descriptions with "Does the same, but ..." -- actually
state *which* other function the current one is like, even if the
descriptions are adjacent.

Revise the _PyTuple_Resize() description to reflect the removal of the
third parameter.
2001-05-29 15:13:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 56a71eee65 Add a version annotation for splitdrive(); old, but as long as I managed
to end up with the information, it is better recorded than lost.
2001-05-25 16:21:00 +00:00
Fred Drake c6d8f8d2ac Add descriptions of {}.iteritems(), {}.iterkeys(), and {}.itervalues()
in the table of mapping object operations.  Re-numbered the list of
notes to reflect the move of the "Added in version 2.2." note to the list
of notes instead of being inserted into the last column of the table.
2001-05-25 04:24:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 98cfab6523 One more update related to the new get() and setdefault() methods on the
Message object.
2001-05-22 22:00:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 6b4593e338 Update to add get() and setdefault() as supported mapping operations, and
add a list of the mapping methods which are not supported (per Barry's
comments).
2001-05-22 15:12:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 706314909b Add some clarifications about the mapping interface presented by
rfc822.Message objects, based on comments from Barry.
2001-05-22 14:36:30 +00:00
Tim Peters bd695a716d Changed all the examples with ugly platform-dependent float output to use
numbers that display nicely after repr().  From much doctest experience
with the same trick, I believe people find examples with simple fractions
easier to understand too:  they can usually check the results in their
head, and so feel confident about what they're seeing.  Not even I get a
warm feeling from a result that looks like 70330.345024097141 ...
2001-05-22 06:54:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 1400baa5d6 Add a "See also" section with useful links. More should be added giving
pointers to information about the other mailbox formats; if anyone can
provide the information needed, please let me know!
2001-05-21 21:23:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 8b0b8409ae Update output to reflect additional precision produced by the repr() of
floating point numbers in an interactive example.


Added comment to help explain control flow in the example code showing
how to check if a number is prime.

This closes SF bugs 419434 and 424552.
2001-05-21 16:55:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 24e621918b Add documentation for Py_Main() and PyThreadState_GetDict(). 2001-05-21 15:56:55 +00:00
Fred Drake fc43d00c17 Typo: "that" --> "than"
This closes SF bug #425320.
2001-05-21 15:03:35 +00:00
Fred Drake e9719fe1a7 Fix bug in smtplib example: the prompt said to end the message with ^D,
but doing so raised EOFError.  This makes it work as advertised and
converts to string methods where reasonable.

This closes SF bug #424776.
2001-05-20 12:26:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 09daff4596 Get Aahz listed correctly using his legal/professional name. 2001-05-20 05:29:01 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3b923fcff5 Add another item 2001-05-19 19:35:46 +00:00
Fred Drake c0dac1a58c Beef up the unicode() description a bit, based on material from AMK's
"What's New in Python ..." documents.
2001-05-15 15:27:53 +00:00