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4067 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrew M. Kuchling 77707673f4 Move C-level changes into a section of their own
Add string.ascii_letters
Remove duplicate MBCS paragraph
2001-07-31 15:51:16 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f4ccf587f6 Rewrite MBCS paragraph following MH's suggestions, and credit him
Note new Windows installer
2001-07-31 01:11:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 43211ecda2 Make some adjustments to the markup, and fix up some style-guide issues. 2001-07-29 03:41:23 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 66b6e192b9 Patch #416224: add readline completion to cmd.Cmd. 2001-07-28 14:44:03 +00:00
Greg Ward 54f65094c3 Typo fix. 2001-07-26 21:01:21 +00:00
Tim Peters 7321ec437b SF bug #444510: int() should guarantee truncation.
It's guaranteed now, assuming the platform modf() works correctly.
2001-07-26 20:02:17 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 4f1cd8bdcb Patch #411138: Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774. 2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 41d7d58cc4 trivial rewording in footnote 5. 2001-07-25 16:18:19 +00:00
Fred Drake d61e3eab44 Add entry for the new distutils section. 2001-07-24 16:20:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 4fefcc3ce4 Overview comments for the distutils package, with links to the distutils
manuals for more information.  This is being added to make it easier to
find the documentation for the distutils code.
2001-07-24 16:19:24 +00:00
Fred Drake f1b3de8d5c Add labels to all \section and \subsection headings for use in references. 2001-07-24 14:38:34 +00:00
Fred Drake c547b46c06 Be more specific about corner cases in the description of the $ RE syntax,
and include an example where the MULTILINE flag makes a real difference.

This closes SF bug #441600.
2001-07-23 21:14:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 6fd3b22847 When explaining the enterabs() method, using the modern spelling of apply(),
and relax the type of the argument list from tuple to sequence.
2001-07-23 19:28:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 6fdb90c0ca Remove self-reference from the anydbm module.
This closes SF patch #443788.
2001-07-23 19:22:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 8a2adcf812 Typo: Added missing "if".
This is part of SF patch #442788.
2001-07-23 19:20:56 +00:00
Fred Drake c046e97dc2 Add StopIteration to the list of exceptions *not* derived from StandardError.
Slightly re-word discussion of SystemExit and fork().
This is part of SF patch #443788.
2001-07-23 19:19:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 63bc2e0fcb Convert the use of apply(f, args) to the new spelling: f(*args).
This is part of SF patch #443788.
2001-07-23 19:16:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 3332778f35 Corrected a section reference (title was wrong).
Added information on the return values of PyArg_ParseTuple() and
PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords().
2001-07-20 20:59:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 88fdaa7c9e Typo: PyArgs_ParseTuple --> PyArg_ParseTuple
Moved the PyArg_Parse*(), Py_BuildValue() functions to the Utilities
chapter, added a minimal description and reference to the Extending
manual for Py_BuildValue().
2001-07-20 20:56:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 6d988559a3 Added information on Py_BuildValue(). 2001-07-20 20:55:31 +00:00
Fred Drake f69868f304 Add a missing "\" to the markup. 2001-07-20 19:03:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 960fdf9ac3 Added the constants ascii_letters, ascii_lowercase, and ascii_uppercase
to the string module.  This was determined to be the right approach in
SF bug #226706.
2001-07-20 18:38:26 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling a6d2a04065 More Unicode corrections from MAL to match a post-2.2a1 change
Mention additional new imaplib.py features

(Don't expect to see an updated version of the Web page until around the 28th
   of July.  Vacation time!)
2001-07-20 18:34:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 9079164bdf Removed unnecessary section "Unicode literals"; all the discussion is
already present in the "String literals" section, including comments on
the "u" prefix and the additional escape sequences used for Unicode.

This relates to SF bug #442526.
2001-07-20 15:33:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 0825dc2427 Fix typo in description of raw strings: "value" --> "valid"
This closes SF bug #443059.
2001-07-20 14:32:28 +00:00
Piers Lauder a3a1668904 apply patch item #416254 2001-07-20 11:04:19 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 5120eac6c6 Bump release number to 1.00, while I'm at it 2001-07-20 03:22:00 +00:00
Fred Drake acd32d3be5 Added function xml.sax.saxutils.quoteattr().
This closes SF bug #440351.  It should not be moved to Python 2.1.1.
2001-07-19 16:10:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ab01087109 Revise the Unicode section after getting comments from MAL, GvR, and others.
Add new low-level API for interpreter introspection
Bump version number.
2001-07-19 14:59:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 53d285a9af Remove some false statements. 2001-07-19 03:49:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f5fec3c88a Fill out the Unicode section, somewhat uncertainly 2001-07-19 01:48:08 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 8cfa9055cf Finish the "Other changes" section
Bump version number
Insert a few blank lines here and there
2001-07-19 01:19:59 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 28bafb8b5d Fix a few typos 2001-07-19 01:17:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b39fa8a75b Remove note about this being a draft document.
Note the actual date of 2.1's release
2001-07-19 00:29:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 5afb5e5c9c Look to the future: bump the version number.
Do more to ensure we don't do any more formatting than we need to.
Use separate targets for the distribution packages for paper-based and
non-paper-based formats; this avoids some extra packaging when a complete
distribution is being built with both paper sizes.
2001-07-18 21:17:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 413bfb766e 2.2a1 is out; look to the future. 2001-07-18 21:06:06 +00:00
Fred Drake cb417c0724 Ignore all .tar files in the top directory; we're about to generate
more of them.
2001-07-18 21:04:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 6c29926587 Lots of small updates, some long overdue. 2001-07-18 20:01:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 01815526e0 Add a more substantial example startup file for the interactive shell;
sample startup script provided by Itamar Shtull-Trauring.

This closes SF patch #410890.

Add some logical markup where it was missing.
2001-07-18 19:21:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 1ca78b6b70 Change the command lines to use a similar "phrasing" to that used in the
other documentation makefiles.  This is probably not sufficient to run
the conversion on Windows, but goes at least part way.
2001-07-18 18:32:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 72182027a8 "Make small changes, but carry a big diff."
Minor local consistency adjustments.
A couple of small tweaks to the setdlopenflags() description.
For setprofile() and settrace(), convert some references to become
hyperlinks in the HTML version.
2001-07-18 17:52:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 1a2302b3b2 Add some symbolic names to support hyperlinked references. 2001-07-18 17:40:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 5d808fba00 Made a few minor style & markup changes to the new {get,set}dlopenflags()
descriptions; added availability notes.
2001-07-18 16:35:05 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f0473d511b Patch #412229: Add functions sys.getdlopenflags and sys.setdlopenflags.
Add dlopenflags to PyInterpreterState, and use it in dlopen calls.
2001-07-18 16:17:16 +00:00
Fred Drake b311ad5bcb Ignore the html-*.tar file that can now be generated as an intermediate. 2001-07-17 23:36:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 8f65aeffbd Revise the rules for building the distribution files for the HTML format.
These work again.
2001-07-17 23:35:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 0068e9c1eb Mirror Guido's latest changes to the license file. 2001-07-17 23:08:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 5e06b84092 Be more specific about some of the dependencies, to avoid re-building when
some of the mostly-general files get changed.
2001-07-17 23:07:03 +00:00
Fred Drake f269e59232 Define new markup for 5-column tables. 2001-07-17 23:05:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 3a3bb211c8 Kill another merge zombie. 2001-07-17 21:05:22 +00:00