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Skip Montanaro 40d4bc5934 Add a glossary to the tutorial. Also generate an index. At the moment this 
mostly only references glossary entries.
 2003-09-24 16:53:02 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 16434b5e25 Fix whitespace in example 2003-09-24 03:58:56 +00:00
Fred Drake f5c87c4d99 - added many links into the library reference 
- removed use of the string module
- fixed some broken markup
 2003-09-11 06:06:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 626d472edd - add several links into the library reference 
- update a couple of URLs to point to more recent portions of
  python.org
 2003-09-11 04:28:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 57d71289a1 SF patch #797868: Tutorial, sec. 5.1.4 could contain an extra example 
(Revised from the original patch contributed by Michal Pasternak.)

Also, make a couple minor fixups elsewhere.
 2003-08-30 23:21:32 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c2a5cb2327 Fix typo. 
Thou shalt not count to two unless proceeding to the number three.
 2003-08-23 03:49:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 236ffba400 Adjust some horizontal indentation to be consistent with the style used 
throughout the documentation.
 2003-08-16 06:30:47 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer 90b182c16c Don't introduce map(None, ...) in the tutorial. In practice, zip() is 
usually preferred.
 2003-08-14 22:57:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c7a26562f9 SF patch#786531 'the the' typo. Contributed by George Yoshida 2003-08-12 00:01:17 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 0eec08794c Explain argument unpacking 2003-08-08 23:32:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger b233e54409 Nits. 2003-07-15 23:16:01 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6122d0267f SF patch #726751: Clarify docs for except target assignment 
Brett found that the tutorial didn't really explain what was happening
with exception targets.  Hopefully, this sheds some light on the subject.
 2003-07-12 01:05:37 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger fa6cce1fdd Minor fixups and added sections for iterators and generators. 2003-07-11 18:58:11 +00:00
Fred Drake dfda8d79ee - explain about making Python scripts executable on Unix in more 
detail
- fix minor markup nit
 2003-07-07 21:00:29 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 8ee006097f SF #751062: Tutorial: remove string exceptions, add parnassus, #posts 
(Contributed by Gerritt Holl)

* Remove the last mentions of string exceptions
* Reference a third-party repository of programs
* Minor clarification of comp.lang.py posting volumes
 2003-07-01 06:19:34 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger ccd615c1a7 SF bug #762990: Awful Grammar in Python Tutorial 
Fixed a nit.
 2003-06-30 04:27:31 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 32a5e878d7 minor wordsmithing 2003-06-29 16:01:51 +00:00
Fred Drake ded8e740df Correct markup errors that prevented formatting. 2003-06-28 11:50:34 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 7928f388c4 Explain source encodings. Fixes #683486. 2003-06-28 08:11:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 2664cbbeba Remove heading from orphan section. 2003-06-20 14:27:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 3a8fbe7eec Include "instances of most classes" in a warning about mutable objects 
as default values of function/method parameters.
 2003-06-18 17:14:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 6bab183d4e Markup nits. 2003-05-20 15:28:58 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger a02469f969 More message updates and minor fixes. 2003-05-07 17:49:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger a2f84ceda5 Update traceback message 2003-05-07 17:11:15 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 45a9c93236 add missing parens - verified w/ interpreter - sorry to dismiss your comment 
Fred
 2003-05-07 16:01:43 +00:00
Skip Montanaro b4f12424a5 replace most uses of `...` by repr(...), noting that `...` is discouraged, 
but convenient in interactive sessions.
 2003-05-07 15:29:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 03e929e7e0 Fix some markup nits. 2003-04-22 14:30:53 +00:00
Alex Martelli a70b19147f Adding new built-in function sum, with docs and tests. 2003-04-22 08:12:33 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 60de2e837f SF bug #699237: Tutorial uses omitted slice indices before explaining them 
Moved up the explanation of slice default arguments.
 2003-03-12 04:46:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 46d3dc37e4 - New function sys.exc_clear() clears the current exception. This is 
rarely needed, but can sometimes be useful to release objects
  referenced by the traceback held in sys.exc_info()[2].  (SF patch
  #693195.)  Thanks to Kevin Jacobs!
 2003-03-01 03:20:41 +00:00
Fred Drake d0c7137c8b Chapter titles that get split over multiple lines in the typeset 
formats can't have whitespace after the last non-blank character (bug
in LaTeX?); fix up a couple of instances of this.

Update an email address.
 2002-10-28 19:28:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 7fbd01262c Clarify packages in tutorial. Closes SF bug #616211. 2002-10-26 03:13:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 55803bca98 Describe __path__ along with the rest of the package description. 
Closes SF bug #626554.
 2002-10-22 21:00:44 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 36a4d8c20e Remove mentionings of DOS. 2002-10-10 18:24:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 44c42b9cf3 Added a tutorial note and example regarding the scope of loop variables 
in a list comprehension.  Includes a justification and a comparision
to regular for-loops.

Closes SF bug 605047.
 2002-09-06 18:06:04 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger a6e16a86c4 Replace all cases of "while 1" with "while True". 
Though slightly slower, has better clarity and teaching value.
 2002-08-21 04:54:00 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson dd32a91cc0 This is my patch 
[ 587993 ] SET_LINENO killer

Remove SET_LINENO.  Tracing is now supported by inspecting co_lnotab.

Many sundry changes to document and adapt to this change.
 2002-08-15 14:59:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 5c08a99b77 Remove a broken example of extreme backward compatibility; it is 
simply not relevant any more.
Closes SF bug #595032.
 2002-08-14 15:26:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger ae7ef57cba GvR pointed out that only enclosing function bodies are part of nested scopes. 2002-08-07 20:20:52 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 861bb02448 Describe nested scopes in the tutorial. Closes SF bug 500704. 2002-08-07 16:09:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 33fd5f7e02 Fix typo reported to python-docs. 2002-06-26 21:25:15 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 07dc91800f Close bug 480337: Dict used before dicts explained. Added explanation 
and examples of the dict() constructor.
 2002-06-25 15:13:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 7951f60f45 Fix spacing in loop example 2002-06-25 03:17:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 55ad7f84a4 Completely revise markup for the list of list methods; the new markup matches 
the semantics and presentation used in the library reference.
Added an explanation of the use of [...] to denote optional arguments, since
this is the only use of this in a signature line.
Closes SF bug #567127.
 2002-06-11 02:56:17 +00:00
Neal Norwitz d68f5171eb As discussed on python-dev, add a mechanism to indicate features 
that are in the process of deprecation (PendingDeprecationWarning).
Docs could be improved.
 2002-05-29 15:54:55 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e7bd876f9d Message for NameError has changed 2002-05-02 14:31:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 38f71973e5 Documentation for the enumerate() function/type. 
This closes SF patch #547162.
 2002-04-26 20:29:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 6cb64f9e46 "Shortcut" should be "short-circuit". 
This closes SF bug #526277.
 2002-03-08 00:54:43 +00:00
Fred Drake c26467d53f Revise cheeseshop example so that the order of the keyword output is 
completely determined by the example; dict insertion order and the string
hash algorithm no longer affect the output.
This fixes SF bug #509281.
 2002-01-29 14:53:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 23d45f4744 Fix up some examples in the tutorial so we don't contradict our own 
advice on docstrings.
This fixes SF bug #495601.
 2001-12-20 23:54:56 +00:00