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Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrew M. Kuchling 2cd773160d Minor text changes; update bug/patch count (quite a jump!) 2003-07-16 14:44:12 +00:00
Fred Drake bd5fdd93a9 Make it easier to figure out the where a menuselection starts and ends
by controling the font.
2003-07-16 14:01:56 +00:00
Fred Drake a66b6c1267 Cygwin instructions:
- added missing period
- added markup so it's easier to tell which names are special
2003-07-16 13:50:28 +00:00
Fred Drake d24c767d5b A variety of markup-level adjustments. 2003-07-16 05:17:23 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 46f681cc07 Discussion of signatures for unicode.translate() and str.translate()
were in the wrong file.  Moved out of libstring.tex and into
libstdtypes.tex.
2003-07-16 05:11:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 6c85bcb2aa - update some comments
- add support for the "What's New" document
- add short aliases for individual documents; nice for debugging
  conversions
2003-07-16 04:02:58 +00:00
Fred Drake fa00f91897 Pass along the selected "What's New" document to the make file for the
GNU info conversion.
2003-07-16 04:01:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 15b3dba85e Adjust description of the internationalized domain name encoding to
better accomodate the GNU info conversion.
2003-07-16 04:00:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 0bb242b67c Map \envvar to the TeXinfo equivalent, @env. 2003-07-16 03:44:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 850026308b Simple support for the alltt environment. 2003-07-16 03:35:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 3605ae5966 In the description of enumerate(), the indexing operators should not
be included in the \var.  This produced weird results in general, but
broke the GNU info conversion.
2003-07-16 03:26:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 7769bb9224 Teach this script about \AA and \aa (the Scandanavian A-ring
characters); \AA is used in whatsnew23.tex.
2003-07-16 03:16:34 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger b233e54409 Nits. 2003-07-15 23:16:01 +00:00
Fred Drake d51ce7de97 Indexing is a mess; try to get the link targets closer to the relevant
text.  There needs to be a better way.
2003-07-15 22:03:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 4e72e0533d process_commands_wrap_deferred:
- fix comment describing what this is for
  - add lots of indexing macros to this call
Closes SF bug #518989.
2003-07-15 22:00:36 +00:00
Fred Drake b3be52eaf4 Try to clean up some indexing relevant to the import statement.
Pertains to SF bug #518989.
2003-07-15 21:37:58 +00:00
Fred Drake e37b4ed24e Discuss calling new-style types.
Closes SF bug #453683.
2003-07-15 20:45:16 +00:00
Fred Drake d9cf8e7e7c Markup consistency nits. 2003-07-14 21:07:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 9753ae1237 Added missing markup. 2003-07-14 20:53:57 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 708c2a877e Fix unbalanced parenthesis in text. 2003-07-14 18:36:47 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 0e53d234eb Fix missing parenthesis 2003-07-14 18:24:26 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 7233117960 update norobots link 2003-07-14 17:04:50 +00:00
Skip Montanaro a2d3d93ee3 + libdumdbm 2003-07-14 12:13:27 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 0f59b54f32 + libdumbdbm 2003-07-14 12:12:56 +00:00
Skip Montanaro d54c5ddd28 minimal dumdbm module doc 2003-07-14 12:12:37 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9bb33868af SF bug #738090: Section 13.3: htmllib.HTMLParser constructor definition
amendment

Add a clarifying cross-reference to the formatter module.
2003-07-14 08:15:47 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5c5fca9844 SF bug #706546: u''.translate not documented
Clarified the difference between translate methods for string objects and
Unicode objects.
2003-07-13 02:06:47 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 627273733f SF bug #770107: Typo in documentation of resource module 2003-07-13 00:46:40 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 162f081fb3 Patch 549151, rev4: redirect posts for 301 also. Will backport to 2.2. 2003-07-12 07:33:32 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger a685f52256 Fix missing parenthesis 2003-07-12 04:42:30 +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 92f21b13ea Document Jim Fulton's docttest extensions. 2003-07-11 22:32:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger fa6cce1fdd Minor fixups and added sections for iterators and generators. 2003-07-11 18:58:11 +00:00
Fred Drake e7f343d0f1 normalize whitespace 2003-07-11 03:36:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 192b95bb6c update the reference to the Apple Publications Style Guide 2003-07-11 03:34:17 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9de3c21865 SF #767592: unittest docs don't suggest "unittest.main()"
Expanded docs to have a quick start example showing how
to create and run tests.
2003-07-10 22:14:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 7adcfad4c2 fix stupid typo 2003-07-10 17:04:45 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 8ccf4d751d Missing markup. 2003-07-10 15:48:33 +00:00
Neal Norwitz a4d2b869b9 Add versionadded. Remove duplicate "to" 2003-07-09 12:41:55 +00:00
Kurt B. Kaiser 39c3bdc022 Adding "use warnings" to .../Doc/perl/python.perl raises
the Perl requirement to 5.6.0 or later.
2003-07-08 18:05:26 +00:00
Kurt B. Kaiser 0b1782f7c0 Document interrupt_main()
Remove obsolete reference to deprecated exit_thread() function
2003-07-08 17:07:20 +00:00
Neal Norwitz dd3afa75b3 add missing ' 2003-07-08 16:26:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 7898ccdd63 Improve compatibility with more versions of LaTeX2HTML and more LaTeX
markup.  Not currently needed, but easier to save this now than to
have to figure it out when we do.
2003-07-08 15:57:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 9a5b6a6f08 - clean up table markup for readability
- don't use \constant for literals; it's for "defined" constants
- fix various consistency issues
2003-07-08 15:38:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 8120995b56 Update Tkinter3000 notes based on text from Fredrik Lundh. 2003-07-08 13:44:27 +00:00
Anthony Baxter a6b7d3411f Fixed a table that wasn't in a tableii block, and added a very simple
example to show how to log to a file.
2003-07-08 08:40:20 +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
Fred Drake b93b3e790e Error noted in email to python-docs: PyObject corresponds to
PyObject_HEAD, not PyObject_VAR_HEAD.
2003-07-07 17:20:40 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 7cb229df18 add versionadded for getcheckinterval 2003-07-07 14:11:53 +00:00
Tim Peters e5e065b669 New function sys.getcheckinterval(), to complement setcheckinterval(). 2003-07-06 18:36:54 +00:00
Neal Norwitz b25229d823 Fix SF bug #766288, property() example gives syntax error 2003-07-05 17:37:58 +00:00
Skip Montanaro eec26f982a Correct documentation of check interval - it's 100 by default, not 10 any
longer.  Pointed out by Alex Martelli.
2003-07-02 21:38:34 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 5e4e39f12a Note that csv files (when they are actual files) must be opened in 'b'inary
mode.  Note that the only restriction on the csvfile passed to writer
objects is that it have a write method.
2003-07-02 15:32:48 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 774816f817 SF bug #764616: execfile(filename,...) not execfile(file,...)
Clarify parameter name.
2003-07-02 15:31:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f8020e0211 Grammar nit. SF bug #757822 2003-07-02 15:10:38 +00:00
Fred Drake c5528b1f5c Revert the previous change; this is now dealt with in a better way. 2003-07-02 14:44:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 6675881aab There's a better way to deal with the "comment" environment; I found
this in SF patch #732174.
2003-07-02 14:44:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 629dd99802 Make the "install schema" tables follow the same table style we use
elsewhere (lines between columns).
2003-07-02 14:33:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 89de74ee94 The Macintosh Modules Reference now formats to GNU info without errors
(which is not to say it's right), so re-enable it.

Documenting Python and Installing Python Modules still have problems
when converting to GNU info, so we'll continue to leave them out for
now.
2003-07-02 14:25:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 3b09558710 Fill out the set of macros and environments supported somewhat.
Some of this is still pretty iffy.
2003-07-02 14:22:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 1ec0bdf899 The datetime C API really isn't usable outside the datetime module
implementation, so remove this decoy (it break formatting of the GNU
info version of the docs).
2003-07-02 13:42:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 2884d6de15 Fix a variety of small markup nits. 2003-07-02 12:27:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 3ede7848a9 - note that super() only applies to new-style classes;
closes SF bug #764003
- fix markup for consistency
2003-07-01 16:31:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 901a41e757 normalize markup for consistency 2003-07-01 16:17:50 +00:00
Tim Peters 93ceaea01f showwarning() calls formatwarning(), not showwarning().
Bugfix candidate.
2003-07-01 14:37:59 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9c8f78deab Improve the wording a bit 2003-07-01 07:19:17 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 69d6356eb9 Fix spelling, grammar, usage, and markup. 2003-07-01 06:29:18 +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
Brett Cannon 20def8bb19 Make temporary change of using _strptime for time.strptime permanent.
Flesh out docs to better explain time.strptime (closes bug #697990).
2003-07-01 05:16:08 +00:00
Neal Norwitz ecc7171007 Add versionadded info for the 2 new threading module functions 2003-06-30 21:47:47 +00:00
Thomas Heller 675580f4fc Document the DISTUTILS_DEBUG variable.
Closes sf #761401.

Backport candidate.
2003-06-30 19:33:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 220e83946d We are now post-beta 2. 2003-06-30 13:38:38 +00:00
Fred Drake f647b63624 Added missing name (textwrap.dedent() docs). 2003-06-30 12:18:52 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger ccd615c1a7 SF bug #762990: Awful Grammar in Python Tutorial
Fixed a nit.
2003-06-30 04:27:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 5728815e7b Fix broken markup, & tweak a couple of things for consistency. 2003-06-29 18:12:23 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton bfccb35b58 Add settrace() and setprofile() functions to the threading library. 2003-06-29 16:58:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 85d27576a3 Update copyright years. 2003-06-29 16:55:47 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 32a5e878d7 minor wordsmithing 2003-06-29 16:01:51 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger be2528d866 SF patch #760257: add socket.timeout exception
(Contributed by Bob Halley)

Add documentation for the new socket.timeout exception.
2003-06-29 04:55:59 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5918f8de67 Minor fixes to punctuation and grammar. 2003-06-29 04:53:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 3e2244c9e1 Bump version information for Python 2.3 beta 2. 2003-06-29 02:17:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 6595e15331 Document PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc(). 2003-06-29 02:14:31 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 6891cd3aa3 A few minor improvements 2003-06-28 15:22:16 +00:00
Jim Fulton 6c71091fbe Rewrote the docs for supporting cyclic garbage collection to reflect
the new way that once writes types.

Deleted the old section and sample code and added a new section
building on the Noddy example.
2003-06-28 13:29:16 +00:00
Jim Fulton 9c3e957251 Updated the depenencies to reflect changes in the sample code for
building new types.
2003-06-28 13:27:57 +00:00
Jim Fulton 18a6be9748 Added tests for sample modules. 2003-06-28 11:54:40 +00:00
Jim Fulton f0e38d1cd2 Added s setup module to make it easier to test the sample modules. 2003-06-28 11:54:20 +00:00
Jim Fulton 7050e929e6 Fixed bug in implementation of tp_init function. It should be an int
function, not a PyObject *.
2003-06-28 11:54:03 +00:00
Jim Fulton 4b59f9165d Changed the assignment of PyType_GenericNew to tp_new slot. Now do
this in module initialization before calling PyType_Ready.  (Sorry
Tim.) This is necessary to compile on cygwin.  AFAIK, we support
cygwin. If so, then we need to write extentions this way.
2003-06-28 11:53:29 +00:00
Jim Fulton db6a569de7 Changed the assignment of PyType_GenericNew to tp_new slot. Now do
this in module initialization before calling PyType_Ready.  (Sorry
Tim.) This is necessary to compile on cygwin.  AFAIK, we support
cygwin. If so, then we need to write extentions this way.

Fixed bug in implementation of tp_init function. It should be an int
function, not a PyObject *.
2003-06-28 11:53:12 +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
Raymond Hettinger 3567a876c7 Add take() to examples. Tighten the islice() example 2003-06-28 05:44:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 5d2f515dd4 fix markup nits 2003-06-28 03:09:06 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6f3eaa67e5 SF patch #761519: Fixes for bugs 760703 and 757821
SF bug #760703: SocketHandler and LogRecord don't work well together
SF bug #757821: logging module docs

Applied Vinay Sajip's patch with a few minor fixups and a NEWS item.

Patched __init__.py - added new function
makeLogRecord (for bug report 760703).

Patched handlers.py - updated some docstrings and
deleted some old commented-out code.

Patched test_logging.py to make use of makeLogRecord.

Patched liblogging.tex to fill documentation gaps (both
760703 and bug 757821).
2003-06-27 21:43:39 +00:00
Tim Peters 6ebe61fa80 A hack to ease compatibility with pre-2.3 Pythons: by default, doctest
now accepts "True" when a test expects "1", and similarly for "False"
versus "0".  This is un-doctest-like, but on balance makes it much
more pleasant to write doctests that pass under 2.2 and 2.3.  I expect
it to go away again, when 2.2 is forgotten.  In the meantime, there's
a new doctest module constant that can be passed to a new optional
argument, if you want to turn this behavior off.

Note that this substitution is very simple-minded:  the expected and
actual outputs have to consist of single tokens.  No attempt is made,
e.g., to accept [True, False] when a test expects [1, 0].  This is a
simple hack for simple tests, and I intend to keep it that way.
2003-06-27 20:48:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 095f817330 Don't assume the name of the table of contents will be contents.html;
that won't be right when mkhowto is called with --numeric (as it is
for the Python Tutorial).  Save the actual name we use when we build
the table of contents, then use that in the page head metadata.  The
node2label.pl script will munge this properly when --numeric isn't
given, so this works in both cases.
Closes SF bug #761830.
2003-06-27 18:26:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 25b5358cf2 Add definitions of the test and testlist symbols in the grammar so
there are no gaps in the definitions.
Closes SF bug #726150.
2003-06-27 17:12:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 6ab8b40337 fix link-hovering so <a name='...'> (no href attribute) doesn't get
the hovering background
2003-06-27 16:32:27 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger df9eff061e * Markup nits for the Invoking Descriptors section
* Documented __slots__
* Documented __metaclass__

Shamelessly plagarized from Guido's tutorial.
2003-06-27 06:57:56 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d0cda1dc9f SF patch #760792: "wo" in "word" now valid but not documented as such
Revised version of a contribution from Gerrit Holl.

Update the docs for the extended behavior of __contains__
2003-06-26 19:32:10 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger daa340418b * Fixed an unmatched parenthesis early in the text.
* Clarified the meaning of lexicographic sequence ordering as discussed on
  comp.lang.python:  http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e163c9f9ba114493
2003-06-26 17:41:40 +00:00
Fred Drake f91888bb46 markup consistency nits 2003-06-26 03:11:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 4db3661e24 remove _ from label: LaTeX rejects this due to all the magic we use to
get the _ character to format like a normal character
2003-06-26 03:11:20 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2b9bc08ee7 Removed useless intra-section references which jump to the top of the
section instead of the specific item being referenced.
2003-06-25 20:36:20 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2dd8c42638 SF bug #696777: How to make a class iterable using a member generator.
* Added a note that a container class can implement the iterator protocol
  by defining its __iter__() method as a generator.
2003-06-25 19:03:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 03ec6d538a * Document how descriptors are invoked.
* Fix minor parenthesis matching errors in ref3.tex.
2003-06-25 18:29:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 35fd926195 SF bug #757822: Additional index items, other minor details
* Minor grammatical fix.
2003-06-25 15:07:45 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 9e9a7c3dd7 Patch #640236: Better eplain unused data. 2003-06-21 14:15:25 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 171be76bdd Patch #755683: Document that there might be a maximum indentation limit.
Fixes #700827
2003-06-21 13:40:02 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 47db252786 Add some documentation which describes how to use the email package
instead of rfc822 as the Message factory.
2003-06-20 22:04:03 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 3a03de4a27 SF #757229, fix libsocket.tex typo 2003-06-20 17:11:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 2664cbbeba Remove heading from orphan section. 2003-06-20 14:27:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 0799d0a9e3 Update link to Python book information. 2003-06-20 14:00:49 +00:00
Skip Montanaro f5ed9819b0 Avoid using 'dir' as a variable name and use os.path.join() to create
paths.
2003-06-19 18:10:37 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger befa37dd05 Minor updates:
* Updated comment on design of imap()
* Added untraversed object in izip() structure
* Replaced the pairwise() example with a more general window() example
2003-06-18 19:25:37 +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
Raymond Hettinger b5155e30ce Fix typo. 2003-06-18 01:58:31 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 96a8233b64 SF patch #751038 fixing SF bug#750092: exec doesn't need newline
Patch contributed by Steven Taschuk.
2003-06-18 01:32:24 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 93719b56ed Updated documentation for the new slice arguments for list.index(). 2003-06-17 16:19:56 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 364ca40c2a SF Patch 569574 - enhancements to cgitb for plain text display 2003-06-17 12:58:31 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 938b7a0f63 Fix some markup nits 2003-06-17 02:37:06 +00:00
Tim Peters 9ca3f02dc0 ^D means EOF on Unix but not on Windows. Expand the example's prompt to
tell Windows Truth too.

Bugfix candidate.
2003-06-15 23:08:45 +00:00
Brett Cannon 9e6fedd2ec Add explicit text for where an obindex call for generators was since obindex does not cause output of its argument. 2003-06-15 22:57:44 +00:00
Jack Jansen 097da0dc01 Documented the fact that the main class now mimicks the OSA "application" class. 2003-06-13 14:59:26 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 7e902b27e0 * Added missing documentation for object().
* Noted the Py2.3 in the optional arg for bool().
2003-06-11 09:15:26 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 3985df2c99 SF bug #660022: parameters for int(), str(), etc.
* Indicate that arguments are optional for most builtin type constructors.
* Replace e.g. in staticmethod() and classmethod() docs.
* Add \code{} markup to some in-line code examples.
2003-06-11 08:16:06 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 132fa373d1 Add docs for get_grouped_opcodes(). 2003-06-11 07:50:44 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 80b3f685b4 SF bug: 751941 Invisible HTML tag
Added missing jump target labels.
2003-06-10 21:41:22 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 9caa0d1642 guess_all_extensions(): Return the empty list instead of None when
there are no matching types.  Updated the docs and docstrings.  Added
some unit tests.
2003-06-09 22:27:41 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e07b83591f Document context_diff() and unified_diff() 2003-06-09 21:44:59 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 305908cffd SF #735051, add time.tzset documentation 2003-06-08 13:57:19 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 9556fba685 - urllib2.py now knows how to order proxy classes, so the user doesn't
have to insert it in front of other classes, nor do dirty tricks like
  inserting a "dummy" HTTPHandler after a ProxyHandler when building an
  opener with proxy support.
2003-06-07 17:53:08 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger b268f03459 SF bug #749759: comparisons yield bool not int
Minor documentation fix.
2003-06-06 02:52:14 +00:00
Skip Montanaro a1045567e0 QUOTE_ALWAYS -> QUOTE_ALL 2003-06-04 15:30:13 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 19a5a710fc Patch #744238: Explain that different string types also may compare equal. 2003-05-31 08:05:49 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 7472336444 Patch #744877: Explain filter in terms of list comprehension. Remove
explanation of int in terms of string.atoi. Explain sum in terms of
reduce.
2003-05-31 08:02:38 +00:00
Fred Drake d691c42a38 Include both </tr> tags in the thead, not just the first. 2003-05-29 19:46:29 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 847207acff SF bug #719367, string exceptions are deprecated
Remove references to string based exceptions in the doc.
2003-05-29 02:17:23 +00:00
Neal Norwitz d3d5768e5e isdatadescriptor() was added recently. 2003-05-29 02:10:31 +00:00
Greg Ward 2748a4aa7e Typo fix. 2003-05-29 01:41:51 +00:00
Greg Ward fb1b5a164d Rewrite the description of setparameters() so it actually reflects the
code (which has also been recently overhauled, so that it can be
documented without embarassment).

'error' has been renamed to 'OSSAudioError'.

Minor wordsmithing.
2003-05-29 01:39:32 +00:00
Gregory P. Smith dad58601a0 Remove the note about the BerkeleyDB license. Barry indicates that
sleepycat has told him that since python is OSS and berkeleydb is
being distributed with python for the bsddb library all is fine.
2003-05-28 16:20:03 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton a95d3b78c8 Oops. License is still an appendix. 2003-05-28 12:12:55 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton a8e71c13e9 Update dependencies. 2003-05-28 12:10:14 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 2fb6124afd Appendix was removed. 2003-05-28 12:04:38 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton c428112d29 Rename lib__future__.tex to libfuture.tex and add link in lib.tex. 2003-05-28 11:57:52 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton cf9c46719c *** empty log message *** 2003-05-28 11:51:11 +00:00
Gregory P. Smith 5772513f0f Include a link to the pybsddb web documentation for the modern object
oriented DbEnv & Db object BerkeleyDB interface.

Include a note about Sleepycat's BerkeleyDB license with regards to
distributing it within non-opensource applications and include a link
to their website for license details.

Document that 'r' is the default flag for the legacy bsddb btopen(),
hashopen(), and rnopen() functions.  This is apparently different than the
dbm libraries in other languages according to Bug #732951.  Changing
the default from 'r' to 'c' would break backwards compatibility with
legacy bsddb applications; documenting the default should suffice.
2003-05-28 07:56:45 +00:00
Greg Ward 451a766953 More wordsmithing and cleanup. 2003-05-26 01:51:33 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 8fb665a51a Fix ref counts in initialization code. 2003-05-25 17:59:38 +00:00
Greg Ward c316d0d391 Lots of wordsmithing and typographical improvement. 2003-05-23 02:44:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 5af41c55e6 Correct dependency information -- the Python docs load the "About this
document" text from html/stdabout.dat, not html/about.dat.
2003-05-22 15:28:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 4864bfb88f Minor elaboration in the information about reporting errors. 2003-05-22 15:09:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 6ce0b60063 update version history 2003-05-22 14:58:02 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton e41195fab6 Add documentation for __future__ 2003-05-21 21:45:01 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 8bea5dc879 Move future statement here from appendix a. 2003-05-21 21:43:00 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 28137a09d6 Don't mention __slots__ as a technique for error avoidance 2003-05-20 18:12:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 15eac1f95c Fix markup nits. 2003-05-20 16:21:51 +00:00
Tim Peters dbaf04ead6 Straighten out the docs for os.system(); the Unix and Windows behaviors
really can't be smushed together.

Bugfix candidate.
2003-05-20 16:15:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 6bab183d4e Markup nits. 2003-05-20 15:28:58 +00:00
Fred Drake e5a55519a8 Remove unused line numbers from example code.
Line numbering of examples is not used elsewhere.
2003-05-20 15:21:08 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f9c2eda3c1 Fix missing parethesis. 2003-05-20 05:31:16 +00:00
Brett Cannon 235d1efe12 Add docs for key_file and cert_file arguments for HTTPSConnection. Copied from socket.ssl docs. 2003-05-20 02:56:35 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 7789237331 * Correct Sniffer doc to correspond to the implementation.
* Add optional delimiters arg to Sniffer.sniff() which restricts the set of
  candidate field delimiters.
2003-05-19 15:33:36 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 9e46abed50 Fix array.array.insert(), so that it treats negative indices as
being relative to the end of the array, just like list.insert() does.
This closes SF bug #739313.
2003-05-18 03:15:10 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 047c54bb24 Missing parenthesis. 2003-05-16 14:36:26 +00:00
Jim Fulton 1f325562f0 Added some missing PyObject* casts in the deallocators.
Added some defines for PyMODINIT_FUNC so that the examples work
with Python 2.2.

I think I'm done hacking this documentation. Yippie! :)
2003-05-16 13:53:43 +00:00
Jim Fulton a24d73ddb1 Added a missing PyObject* cast to the dealloc examples.
Added a note that the mechanism for defining new tyoes documented here
only works for Python 2.2 and higher.
2003-05-16 13:51:58 +00:00
Jim Fulton aea763bde7 Removed reference to the out-of-date (and not very useful)
Objects/xxobject.c example.

Updated the discussion of type checking to refer to
PyObject_TypeCheck.
2003-05-16 13:32:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8f512a22cd Add docs for MessageBeep. 2003-05-16 01:42:22 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 7696344182 [Bug #471893] Replace security material with a warning against unpickling
untrusted data.
2003-05-14 16:51:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 126d366ea6 document Stats.dump_stats(), new for Python 2.3 2003-05-14 14:29:27 +00:00
Fred Drake c868d16e11 When an external application we use exits normally, exit with the same
exit code they returned.  All other types of exit from child processes
are normalized to a return code of 1.
Closes SF bug #732143.
2003-05-14 04:16:14 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bf1bef820c Add optional 'onerror' argument to os.walk(), to control error
handling.
2003-05-13 18:01:19 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e9a54a3eaf [Bug #713722] Delete dangling references to unwritten sections 2003-05-13 15:02:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling c85bf58276 [Bug #732124] Clarify .pos, .endpos by saying 'method' instead of 'function'
Also, put match() description before search(); search() refers to match()
2003-05-13 14:40:24 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 8d17709c5c Remove more markup from headers 2003-05-13 14:26:54 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 433307b75d [Bug #729297] Remove markup in section headers 2003-05-13 14:23:54 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling eabd9a1314 [Bug #729817] Document the rexec and Bastion modules as dead 2003-05-13 14:16:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 032bd0a9a8 Fix typo 2003-05-13 14:13:58 +00:00
Brett Cannon 1213bdd16d Fix and add reference to urllib.urlencode for parse_qsl? functions. 2003-05-13 02:50:36 +00:00
Jim Fulton d2eadc6946 Updated simple example. This should have been checked in the other
day, but I missfired in CVS.
2003-05-12 17:42:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 7af9f4dac3 Add a specific mention of the term "operator overloading" and add an
index entry.  Suggested to python-docs.
2003-05-12 13:50:11 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger bf3a75283c Fix minor typos. 2003-05-12 03:23:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 8f53cdcfce - object is a class type, not a function
- when marking a function, the trailing () should be included
  consistently
2003-05-10 19:46:39 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger b4c1d9be8f Fix unbalanced parethesis. 2003-05-10 08:51:28 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 0dfd7a9361 Missing parenthesis found by texcheck.py 2003-05-10 07:40:56 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 5467d4c0e3 Patch #612627: Add encoding attribute to file objects, and determine
the terminal encoding on Windows and Unix.
2003-05-10 07:10:12 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger eca984fcce Fix missing parenthesis. 2003-05-10 04:21:08 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 52136a8bea Fixed spacing and unbalanced brackets or parenthesis. 2003-05-10 03:35:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 9f545c489a Make this format again. 2003-05-09 19:10:12 +00:00
Skip Montanaro a30dffbb53 add a note about accessing user-defined functions with an import statement
in the setup parameter
2003-05-09 18:21:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 3ec4dfd812 Make this format again. 2003-05-09 18:18:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 8b6ed26dc7 - remove bogus \end{description}
- fix two typos
2003-05-09 15:04:56 +00:00
Jack Jansen 1662162c04 Documented the new autoGIL module. 2003-05-09 14:45:04 +00:00
Jim Fulton 3ff5bb20b7 Fixed small typo Pointed out by Michael Hudson. 2003-05-08 10:35:07 +00:00
Jim Fulton 83cedcf660 Fixed a typo in an example dealloc routine that calls it's "self"
argument "obj" rather than "self".
2003-05-08 10:32:10 +00:00
Greg Ward 86e1790cad Clarify the dedent() example a bit by indenting the input lines unevenly. 2003-05-08 02:12:35 +00:00
Greg Ward 8f6329c547 SF patch #598163 (Ville Vainio, vvainio@users.sourceforge.net):
document dedent() function.
2003-05-08 02:09:49 +00:00
Brett Cannon 066f3928b2 Library documentation for the 'test' package. Still needs to be checked by Fred. 2003-05-07 22:02:17 +00:00
Jim Fulton aed0a4a138 Rewrote the basic section of the chapter on defining new types.
Changed the example to show how to create types the new way:

- Use a class new method rather than a new function.

- Use self->ob_type->tp_free in deallocators

- Use attribute descriptors rather than set/getattr methods.

- Make the type usable as a base type.

I split the example into 3 parts:

1. The minimal new type

2. Adding attributes and methods.

3. Finer control over attributes.

It's much simpler to define builtin types. These updates hopefully
show this.

I also made minor wording changes in two other places.

I still need to update xxobject.c
2003-05-07 19:48:13 +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
Andrew M. Kuchling fcf6b3ecde Add list.insert() change for negative positions
Add ~ to MvL's last name
Fix use of all-caps for a name
Bump version number
2003-05-07 17:00:35 +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
Skip Montanaro 6d9f45bc3f add a note about the undocumented bsddb185 module 2003-05-06 20:40:17 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 6cb52ddc3c Refer reader to platform library docs for specific semantics.
Resolves SF bugs 697989, 697988, 697986.
2003-05-05 16:46:26 +00:00
Greg Ward d72312857e Scattered wording and typographical improvements (up to but not
including the "Callback Options" section).
2003-05-03 21:22:58 +00:00
Greg Ward 649625bc05 Rename "The Tao of Option Parsing" section to "Philosophy".
Remove first-person usage from it.  Various wording tweaks.
2003-05-03 20:41:37 +00:00
Greg Ward 1f53517a8c Use True/False instead of 1/0 when talking about store_true/store_false.
Particularly important since they now store True and False rather than 1
and 0!
2003-05-03 20:13:08 +00:00
Greg Ward c50b088cfd Add a big comment about cross-platform issues (especially OpenBSD).
This should be turned into a footnote by someone who actually
understands OSS and its relationship to Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD,
etc.
2003-05-03 19:45:47 +00:00
Greg Ward bf8f1b55a8 Use TeX quotes -- ``foo'' -- as appropriate.
Remove whitespace around em-dashes.
2003-05-03 19:41:45 +00:00
Greg Ward b4e3319302 Fix various markup errors: use \longprogramopt{} more, and use it
correctly.  (Closes SF #731689.)  Use \emph{} in a few places.
2003-05-03 19:16:36 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ec31047c0c Use \versionchanged, not \versionadded. 2003-05-03 10:59:13 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 7829e5661c Patch #731514: Update recursion documentation to mention simple recursion. 2003-05-03 10:57:53 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis e59e2bab8f Patch #711902: Cause pydoc to show data descriptor __doc__ strings. 2003-05-03 09:09:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 8b34e7cc40 - add title attributes to the navigation icons on the navigation bars;
this causes some browsers to offer descriptive tooltips when the
  mouse hovers over the linked icon
- clean up the code in this area
2003-05-03 02:07:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 05404c3d7c add link types for the remaining links in the navigation panels 2003-05-02 20:30:18 +00:00
Fred Drake bf8ec3e035 - add link relationships to some of the links in the navigation panels
- implement custom_REL_hook() so LaTeX2HTML uses currently recommended
  link types; those work fine with tools like the Mozilla Site
  Navigation Bar
2003-05-02 20:18:01 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 341deb74e7 The previous made the stop argument optional.
It is better to be explicit and just allow stop to be None.
2003-05-02 19:44:20 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 14ef54cd83 SF bug #730685: itertools.islice stop argument is not optional
* itertools.islice() stop argument did not perform as documented.
* beefed-up test suite
2003-05-02 19:04:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 98b2576424 Avoid extraneous blank line generated in the middle of the document
head.
2003-05-02 18:21:22 +00:00
Fred Drake f06b90534b Remove section number from the title for use in the
<meta name='description' ...> element in the document head.
2003-05-02 18:08:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 90fc0b356f At the site of an indexed reference to print, point to the relevant
documentation.  Closes SF bug #723136.
2003-04-30 16:44:36 +00:00
Fred Drake b876bcc561 work around mostly-minor formatting problems; the encodings.idna
example still doesn't come out quite right: a bug in the formatting
tools
2003-04-30 15:03:46 +00:00
Fred Drake d4be747e1e - comment out \moduleauthor that broke formatting until the formatting
tools can be fixed; added XXX comment
- general markup fixes
2003-04-30 15:02:07 +00:00
Fred Drake c95628e3f2 - clean up some extra punctuation hidden in indexing markup
- fix a typo and one markup nit
- normalize whitespace
2003-04-29 13:56:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 83c19ee06b Clarify that the timeout argument to read_until() is in seconds. 2003-04-29 13:39:05 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6e887bb05f SF bug #729096: getopt online documentation example improvement
A newbie found it difficult to translate the exampe into a
case that used only short options or long options but not both.
He tried to shorten the tuple search but forgot the trailing comma,
The appropriate pattern is an equality check.

Revised the example to point him in the right direction.

Backport candidate.
2003-04-29 04:35:36 +00:00
Brett Cannon a2f8737faf Add comment that urlopen opens local files without universal newlines 2003-04-29 04:11:12 +00:00
Tim Peters a1af767c4d Reworded fabs() for consistency with the others. Noted that all
return values are floats.
2003-04-28 21:32:03 +00:00
Tim Peters a390c6e194 walk() docs: Emphasize that the recursive-delete example is dangerous. 2003-04-28 19:15:10 +00:00
Tim Peters 5501b5e3d7 SF bug 728097: tmpnam problems on windows 2.3b, breaks test.test_os.
tmpnam() appears essentially useless on Windows, and it finally broke
the test for Irmen de Jong.  Read the long new comment in test_tmpnam()
for details.  Since the MS implementation is insane, it might be good
if we supplied a different implementation.

Bugfix candidate.
2003-04-28 03:13:03 +00:00
Tim Peters bf89b3a1f7 walk() docs: Worked "walking" into the description and the text. Added
a brief example where bottom-up walking is essential.
2003-04-28 02:09:43 +00:00
Tim Peters 965697fc4b Clarified new text about math exceptions.
Bugfix candidate.
2003-04-26 15:11:08 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 5118341530 Add note about platform-specific behavior arising from discussion on bug
711019.
2003-04-26 02:59:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 2f36b3e205 Version updates for Python 2.3. 2003-04-26 00:52:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 9635268ea9 organizational and markup cleansing 2003-04-25 18:02:34 +00:00
Fred Drake c440af5495 Updated information on package metadata to reflect recent additions.
This is a modified form of SF patch #718027 (mostly markup changes).
2003-04-25 16:43:28 +00:00
Fred Drake d198f38505 - add availability statements for some of the new APIs
- lots of general cleanup
2003-04-25 16:16:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 53e5b71bbc Add modified versions of the examples from Sean Reifschneider
(SF patch #545480).
2003-04-25 15:27:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b016752d8b Fix a copy-paste error: the paragraph about inet_ntop's use was copied
literally from inet_pton.
2003-04-25 15:26:58 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 5d0136e297 reflect csv's change back to a module. Document the new sniffer api. 2003-04-25 15:14:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 9f48045ec0 Use a simpler \note instead of a "See also" section to refer to the
os.walk() generator.
2003-04-25 15:12:47 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 6eb502f267 Add versionadded for has_ipv6 attribute 2003-04-25 14:53:48 +00:00
Neal Norwitz cabf56f8b4 Fix markup 2003-04-25 14:52:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 2194a4eede markup adjustments 2003-04-25 14:50:06 +00:00
Tim Peters c4e0940042 New generator os.walk() does a bit more than os.path.walk() does, and
seems much easier to use.  Code, docs, NEWS, and additions to test_os.py
(testing this sucker is a bitch!).
2003-04-25 07:11:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 47dfa4a89a Patch by Jp Calderone:
- The socket module now provides the functions inet_pton and inet_ntop
  for converting between string and packed representation of IP addresses.
  See SF patch #658327.

This still needs a bit of work in the doc area, because it is not
available on all platforms (especially not on Windows).
2003-04-25 05:48:32 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f8d0c075b2 [Patch #628208] Document the allow_none argument 2003-04-25 00:29:31 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 3bd3c8403a * minor tweaks relating to the package nature of the beast
* added an (incomplete) description of the utils.Sniffer class
2003-04-24 18:47:31 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 50889239c3 Updated a bunch of docs to describe how message ids and strings are
Unicode in GNUTranslations.  Also provide better descriptions of
*gettext() overridden methods, esp. w.r.t. the behavior in the face of
fallbacks.
2003-04-24 18:14:49 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 035272be91 Add some more items 2003-04-24 16:38:20 +00:00
Fred Drake c11076e0da Bump the release information. 2003-04-24 16:37:21 +00:00
Fred Drake d859d470a1 Add cross-references between urllib.urlencode() and cgi.parse_qs[l]().
Closes SF bug #724751.
2003-04-24 16:22:47 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 024aaa1bfe SF Patch 549151: urllib2 POSTs on redirect
(contributed by John J Lee)
2003-04-24 15:32:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 1d5854fdc4 Note the platform module. 2003-04-24 15:24:46 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 13b4c41748 Mention deprecation of rotor module 2003-04-24 13:23:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling bbb9a55327 [Patch #679505] Document that this module is deprecated 2003-04-24 13:19:09 +00:00
Brett Cannon 317ad7a5ee Fixed docs for urlretrieve() to match code in the case of opening a local file.
Also some typos and removed trailing whitespace on the lines.
2003-04-24 02:31:14 +00:00
Fred Drake c22b2999f6 fix some markup errors 2003-04-23 20:38:41 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 54a234a566 clarify - restrict version mention to the trunk version 2003-04-23 20:35:14 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 1bd1d858ae added note about character set limitations in passwords. 2003-04-23 20:22:12 +00:00
Thomas Heller 34d7f0927b Document the new functions PyInt_AsUnsignedLongMask(), PyInt_AsUnsignedLongLongMask(),
PyLong_AsUnsignedLongMask(), PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLongMask().
2003-04-23 19:51:05 +00:00
Tim Peters 2d1c846b73 Clarified new fsync() docs. 2003-04-23 19:47:14 +00:00
Thomas Heller 42a1172cf4 Document the new format codes B, H, I, k, K. 2003-04-23 19:27:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 444e434011 Update the package list whenever we build distfiles.
This is used on www.python.org.
2003-04-23 15:04:52 +00:00
Tim Peters 11b2306960 Enable os.fsync() for Windows, mapping it to MS's _commit() there. The
docs here are best-guess:  the MS docs I could find weren't clear, and
some even claimed _commit() has no effect on Win32 systems (which is
easily shown to be false just by trying it).
2003-04-23 02:39:17 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 863983e8e5 Add comment on performance.
Fix missing right parenthesis.
Add three examples.
2003-04-23 00:09:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 70995830a6 markup corrections 2003-04-22 18:54:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 282be3ab89 - explain the start argument to sum()
- various adjustments to sum() markup and explanation
2003-04-22 14:52:08 +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
Gustavo Niemeyer 48f3dcc93e - Changed shlex.split() method to have more useful and
meaningful parameters.
2003-04-20 01:57:03 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer cf146d31e7 - Included examples documenting how the lastindex member of
match objects work.
2003-04-20 01:48:59 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 153c9e493e Patch #553171: Add writeback parameter. Also add protocol parameter. 2003-04-19 20:59:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a26854095b - Several methods of nntplib.NNTP have grown an optional file argument
which specifies a file where to divert the command's output
  (already supported by the body() method).  (SF patch #720468)
  Thanks to Terry Carroll.
2003-04-19 18:04:57 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e36b690087 Mention the bz2 module
Various rewrites
2003-04-19 15:38:47 +00:00
Barry Warsaw b05df5796a Added some more documentation to as_string() to make it clear that
it's a convenience only.  Give an example of what to do for more
flexibility.
2003-04-18 23:03:53 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 338bcbccfa Change email address. 2003-04-18 22:04:34 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis faf71ea5b3 Fix spelling of cedillas. 2003-04-18 21:48:56 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 07d4fb6f17 Correct methoddesc environments. 2003-04-18 21:48:13 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 382f078437 Add lib/libstringprep.tex lib/libdocxmlrpc.tex. 2003-04-18 21:45:26 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 281b2c6211 Patch #536883: SimpleXMLRPCServer auto-docing subclass. 2003-04-18 21:04:39 +00:00
Fred Drake cf6d74aedd - accepted (slightly) modified version of docs for the OptionGroup
class; closes SF patch #697941
- use em-dashes intead of en-dashes
- section references: use a "tie" between the word "section" and the
  section number, use quotation marks around section titles
- other minor markup corrections/cleanups
2003-04-18 15:50:13 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 2548c730c1 Implement IDNA (Internationalized Domain Names in Applications). 2003-04-18 10:39:54 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 10cf21802d Use True in a few more places.
Use isinstance(somestring, basestring) instead of type() as per PEP 8
2003-04-17 23:09:08 +00:00
Neal Norwitz a6bdf2aef6 Oops, missed updating doc to correct version for split 2003-04-17 23:07:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 30b6e8230b Added documentation for the handle_pi() method, based on SF patch #662464.
Closes SF bug #659188, patch #662464.
2003-04-17 22:36:52 +00:00
Fred Drake aa3b5d2ec5 markup banalities 2003-04-17 21:49:04 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 68d8cef89a Implemented posix-mode parsing support in shlex.py, as dicussed in
mailing list, and in patch #722686.
2003-04-17 21:31:33 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2ed6dff796 As discussed on python-dev, revised docs to note that
PyObject_IsTrue() can have an error result.

Also, added missing docs for PyObject_Not().

Will backport.
2003-04-16 17:28:12 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 1475c49211 Add version info for name2codepoint and codepoint2name 2003-04-16 13:21:06 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 5688b7ac3e Add two dictionaries to htmlentitydefs: name2codepoint maps
HTML entity names to Unicode codepoints (as integers).
codepoint2name is the reverse mapping. From SF patch #722017.
2003-04-16 09:46:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0fc8f00252 - pythunrun.c, Py_Finalize(): move the call to _Py_PrintReferences()
even farther down, to just before the call to
  _PyObject_DebugMallocStats().  This required the following changes:

- pystate.c, PyThreadState_GetDict(): changed not to raise an
  exception or issue a fatal error when no current thread state is
  available, but simply return NULL without raising an exception
  (ever).

- object.c, Py_ReprEnter(): when PyThreadState_GetDict() returns NULL,
  don't raise an exception but return 0.  This means that when
  printing a container that's recursive, printing will go on and on
  and on.  But that shouldn't happen in the case we care about (see
  first bullet).

- Updated Misc/NEWS and Doc/api/init.tex to reflect changes to
  PyThreadState_GetDict() definition.
2003-04-15 15:12:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3a3cca5b82 - list.insert(i, x) now interprets negative i as it would be
interpreted by slicing, so negative values count from the end of the
  list.  This was the only place where such an interpretation was not
  placed on a list index.
2003-04-14 20:58:14 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b43f15e1ce Add a name 2003-04-14 18:47:28 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 44c62ef5ee Typo fix 2003-04-14 15:32:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d39078ba2d Mention timeit module
Fix error in description of logging package's 'propagate'
Mention default arg to dict.pop()
Link to more module docs
   (I wonder if I should adopt some convention such as linking the first
    mention of all new modules to the LibRef?)
Various text changes
Bump version number and Python version
2003-04-13 21:44:28 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ba887bb04e Use simpler import 2003-04-13 21:13:02 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 125b9b0736 Back out of setting the default charset to iso-8859-1. 2003-04-11 21:28:10 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 06c7b62a83 Fix markup 2003-04-11 18:48:03 +00:00
Barry Warsaw a1ce93f87c From http://mail.python.org/pipermail/i18n-sig/2003-April/001557.html
- Expose NullTranslations and GNUTranslations to __all__

- Set the default charset to iso-8859-1.  It used to be None, which
would cause problems with .ugettext() if the file had no charset
parameter.  Arguably, the po/mo file would be broken, but I still think
iso-8859-1 is a reasonable default.

- Add a "coerce" default argument to GNUTranslations's constructor.  The
reason for this is that in Zope, we want all msgids and msgstrs to be
Unicode.  For the latter, we could use .ugettext() but there isn't
currently a mechanism for Unicode-ifying msgids.

The plan then is that the charset parameter specifies the encoding for
both the msgids and msgstrs, and both are decoded to Unicode when read.
For example, we might encode po files with utf-8. I think the GNU
gettext tools don't care.

Since this could potentially break code [*] that wants to use the
encoded interface .gettext(), the constructor flag is added, defaulting
to False.  Most code I suspect will want to set this to True and use
.ugettext().

- A few other minor changes from the Zope project, including asserting
that a zero-length msgid must have a Project-ID-Version header for it to
be counted as the metadata record.
2003-04-11 18:36:43 +00:00
Jack Jansen bae5c965e8 Moved all the scripting stuff to a separate section, added all the
missing bits (well, all the bits I could think of) and updated the
rest.
2003-04-11 15:35:28 +00:00
Neal Norwitz ffe33b7f24 Attempt to make all the various string *strip methods the same.
* Doc - add doc for when functions were added
 * UserString
 * string object methods
 * string module functions
'chars' is used for the last parameter everywhere.

These changes will be backported, since part of the changes
have already been made, but they were inconsistent.
2003-04-10 22:35:32 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 4efd91713b Add a space after expression to be consistent 2003-04-10 21:51:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 12dd7b12c6 Minor markup adjustments. 2003-04-09 18:15:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6db771871e Try to discourage use of PyObject_Type(). 2003-04-09 18:02:23 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling a6b1c75b7a Re-indent example; fix typo 2003-04-09 17:26:38 +00:00
Jack Jansen d5e0a5a08e Created a minimal MacOSX section. 2003-04-09 15:12:38 +00:00
Fred Drake fcd845a7ed Lots of small markup adjustments. 2003-04-09 04:06:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 61a0a73d76 Add dependency information for the hotshot package docs. 2003-04-09 03:25:07 +00:00
Anthony Baxter fda5e27ec9 extra punctuation removed 2003-04-09 03:03:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 567b0a6445 Add dependency information for the timeit module docs. 2003-04-09 02:41:36 +00:00
Skip Montanaro d6e9fe386a + libtimeit 2003-04-09 01:39:06 +00:00
Skip Montanaro ca652746ff doc for timeit module/script - mostly just a recast of Tim's docstring 2003-04-09 01:38:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 2c2068c4d1 Added example of using positional and keyword args with atexit.register().
Based on a suggestion from a reader.
2003-04-08 17:46:53 +00:00
Fred Drake de7ad2caac Markup fix. 2003-04-08 17:37:47 +00:00
Tim Peters 730f5535ba s/referrents/referents/g. Gotta love that referrers remains rife with rs. 2003-04-08 17:17:17 +00:00
Tim Peters 0f81ab6d88 Finished implementing gc.get_referrents(): dealt with error and end
cases, wrote docs, added a test.
2003-04-08 16:39:48 +00:00
Anthony Baxter cb8ed53014 add note suggested by rhettinger about example. 2003-04-07 12:21:56 +00:00
Anthony Baxter b3303efec6 patch [ 698505 ] docs for hotshot module 2003-04-07 12:19:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 2a04623ddd - add the "download_url" field to the pre-2.2.3 metadata compatibility note
- fix some markup nits
2003-03-31 16:23:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 007fadd59d Fix symbol in grammar; this should fix some hyperlinking in the HTML
version.
2003-03-31 14:53:03 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 24b8881f61 Patch #701395: Correct documentation of PyUnicode_Splitlines. 2003-03-30 16:40:42 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis b9a0f91218 Rename LONG_LONG to PY_LONG_LONG. Fixes #710285. 2003-03-29 10:06:18 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee bd379e9627 PyWeakref_GetObject returns None (not NULL) when the referent is gone. 2003-03-28 18:07:16 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 3ae0f7a7cf Replace criterium with criterion. Fixes #705120. 2003-03-27 16:59:38 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 24fcd23eae Back out previous change as discussed on python-checkins 2003-03-22 16:19:52 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 1e942bd3f4 Add lib/mimelib.tex to dependencies 2003-03-22 00:23:04 +00:00
Barry Warsaw bfa893f3ac email is at version 2.5 now 2003-03-21 21:14:48 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling a092ba1adc Add PEP 307 section 2003-03-21 18:32:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling a978e10676 Add PEP305 section 2003-03-21 18:10:12 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling c71bb97e2f Update datetime section a bit 2003-03-21 17:23:07 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 0135b65c01 Add new CSV module to doc dependancies 2003-03-21 00:28:30 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 5fbf8362a3 include csv doc section - Fred, you may want to change the location 2003-03-20 23:35:00 +00:00
Skip Montanaro b4a0417e91 new CSV file processing module - see PEP 305 2003-03-20 23:29:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 4cee220ff3 - added example of using a comparison function with list.sort(), and
explained the construction of a [(key, value), ...] list as an
  alternative
- note that support for cmpfunc=None was added in 2.3
2003-03-20 22:17:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 62364ffb80 - apply SF patch #700798: fixes and cleanups for descriptor info
- use a TeX "tie" to prevent word-wrapping in "section x.y"-like text
2003-03-20 18:17:16 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 2a403e8a7e add descriptions of {get,set}defaulttimeout. 2003-03-20 17:58:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 5c7b2487cd - explain what a UNC path is in the makedirs() description, since
they're actually mentioned there
- remove some extraneous paragraph separations
- \versionadded --> \versionchanged in one place
2003-03-20 17:39:38 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 43ed43bfc1 Take out my (long since disabled) POSIX signal mask handling code.
I'm not going to have the time or energy to get this working x-platform
-- anyone who does is welcome to the code!
2003-03-13 13:56:53 +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
Barry Warsaw 45c3941510 Update the package version number 2003-03-12 03:43:09 +00:00
Barry Warsaw a996d4f137 For email 2.5b1, we no longer add a trailing newline to
MIMEText.__init__()'s _text argument if it doesn't already end in a
newline.  This may be controversial.
2003-03-11 05:03:25 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 52b39f5b47 body_line_iterator() now takes a decode argument. 2003-03-11 04:40:14 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 20ebc37013 Describe what happens when decode=True and the payload has bogus
base64 data.
2003-03-10 16:13:50 +00:00
Greg Ward cd930f5258 openmixer()'s 'mode' parameter has been removed. 2003-03-10 03:18:19 +00:00
Greg Ward f882c77d70 Expand description of ossaudiodev.error exception.
Improve descriptions of open(), openmixer().
2003-03-10 03:05:21 +00:00
Greg Ward 3e34f59ce2 Rewrite intro paragraphs and add a "See also" box for the link to the
official OSS docs.

Markup fixes: change \code{} variously to \function{}, \method{}, or
\constant{} as appropriate.
2003-03-10 02:09:51 +00:00
Greg Ward 074472ba98 Fix two unformatted lists: one is now an 'enumerate' environment, the
other a 'tableii'.

Formatting/typo fix.
2003-03-10 00:24:42 +00:00
Greg Ward 41a28e374c Add libossaudiodev.tex. 2003-03-10 00:07:14 +00:00
Greg Ward 33bcd987dd Wrap all paragraphs to 72 columns.
Two spaces between sentences.
Fix em-dashes -- should be "---" not " - ".
Spelling fix.
2003-03-09 23:57:34 +00:00
Greg Ward 620e343c0a Documentation for the ossaudiodev module.
Initial revision supplied by Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale <wzdd@lardcave.net>
(emailed to me [gward@python.net] 2003-03-08 23:37 +1100).
2003-03-09 23:34:52 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5284b4474e Add contributor name. 2003-03-09 07:19:38 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 42182ebaf6 SF 698520: Iterator for urllib.URLOpener
Contributed by Brett Cannon.
2003-03-09 05:33:33 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 959c7727f4 Add a little more verbiage about the bsddb module/package change. It's
clear from recent discussions on c.l.py that people are a bit confused about
the differences between the old bsddb, the new bssdb, the bsddb3/PyBSDDB
package and changes to file formats.  Tried to clarify the issues.
2003-03-07 15:45:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 9e1595e6e4 Minor clarification about the ob_size field. 2003-03-07 15:02:03 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger a3e1e4cd79 SF patch #693753: fix for bug 639806: default for dict.pop
(contributed by Michael Stone.)
2003-03-06 23:54:28 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 1930949a8a Fix SF bug #697256, PyMarshal_WriteShortToFile() documented, but not implemented
Remove prototype and doc.  Backport candidate.
2003-03-06 22:04:24 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 1a2c37316b Describe Charset.__repr__(). 2003-03-06 06:07:34 +00:00
Barry Warsaw f32e313914 Describe the new Header.encode() argument "splitchars". 2003-03-06 06:06:54 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 73d538b9c6 Always initialize Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding on Unix in Py_Initialize,
and not as a side effect of setlocale. Expose it as sys.getfilesystemencoding.
Adjust test case.
2003-03-05 15:13:47 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 9c20615d4f Back in June in revision 1.98 Steve (accidentally, presumably) wiped
out a month's worth of checkins to libstdtypes.tex (including my
extended slice docs).

I think this checkin merges them all back in, but if you make one of
these checkins:

    revision 1.97
    date: 2002/06/14 00:27:13;  author: nnorwitz
    Use \code{True} (or False) instead of true/false.
    Not sure if code is correct, but that is what's in this file.
    I've seen \constant{True} in other places.
    ----------------------------
    revision 1.95
    date: 2002/05/22 20:39:43;  author: bwarsaw
    Jack's documentation for the U mode character on the file()
    constructor, vetted by Barry.
    ----------------------------
    revision 1.94
    date: 2002/05/21 18:19:15;  author: rhettinger
    Patch 543387.  Document deprecation of complex %, //,and divmod().
    ----------------------------
    revision 1.93
    date: 2002/05/15 15:45:25;  author: rhettinger
    Added missing index entries for mapping methods.  Closes patch
    #548693.

some checking may be in order.
2003-03-05 14:42:09 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 2ab1d08f90 I thought it was common practice to check things compiled before
checking them in?  Oh well, this fixes various obvious mistakes and
changes a subsubsubsection (which doesn't exist) into a subsubsection
(which does).  I'm not sure this matches the intent, but it seems to
read OK on a quick skim.
2003-03-05 14:20:58 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 55fa3bb250 Point e-mail address at the SIG 2003-03-04 19:36:11 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 69700ef573 Weaken recommendation of Friedl book; fix reference 2003-03-04 14:17:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 02a0b3b81a [bug #692016] update description of {m,n} modifier; you can omit the lower bound 2003-03-04 14:12:24 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 85f3227a74 [bug #696771] Remove misleading parenthetical aside 2003-03-04 14:07:51 +00:00
Just van Rossum 96b1c903f5 Patch #683592 revisited, after discussions with MvL:
- Implement the behavior as specified in PEP 277, meaning os.listdir()
  will only return unicode strings if it is _called_ with a unicode
  argument.
- And then return only unicode, don't attempt to convert to ASCII.
- Don't switch on Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, but simply use the
  default encoding if Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is NULL. This means
  os.listdir() can now raise UnicodeDecodeError if the default encoding
  can't represent the directory entry. (This seems better than silcencing
  the error and fall back to a byte string.)
- Attempted to decribe the above in Doc/lib/libos.tex.
- Reworded the Misc/NEWS items to reflect the current situation.

This checkin also fixes bug #696261, which was due to os.listdir() not
using Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, like all file system calls are
supposed to.
2003-03-03 17:32:15 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson f008998668 Fix bug
[ 555817 ] Flawed fcntl.ioctl implementation.

with my patch that allows for an array to be mutated when passed
as the buffer argument to ioctl() (details complicated by
backwards compatibility considerations -- read the docs!).
2003-03-03 12:29:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 41bcbe3050 Commit MvL's doc patch for SF bug #221327. This adds an example of
calling into Python from a C thread.
2003-03-02 13:17:20 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 563389fdee Add updates for alpha2 2003-03-02 02:31:58 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 41c3e00851 Expand itertools paragraph 2003-03-02 02:13:52 +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
Guido van Rossum d41eea05f4 SF doc patch #692001, properties and __getattribute__. I added some
stuff, and changed 'property' to 'descriptor'.
2003-02-28 14:11:45 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling c61402ba26 Update PyPI link 2003-02-26 19:00:52 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b6b4613ae4 [Bug #693474, reported by Stuart Bishop]
Fix errors in the list of setup() arguments
2003-02-26 18:58:46 +00:00
Jack Jansen 5860dab401 Documented linkmodel and WMAvailable(). 2003-02-24 11:02:36 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 7aba3d471f Fix SF bug #691276, shutil.copytree documentation bug 2003-02-23 21:36:47 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 61fe64d5de User requested changes to the itertools module.
Subsumed times() into repeat().
Added cycle() and chain().
2003-02-23 04:40:07 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson f5dd753f4d I'm am the PyPy sprint waiting for a Grand Renaming so I killed a few
seconds making the doc for get_completer marginally less minimal :)
2003-02-21 20:11:09 +00:00
Neal Norwitz b7d1d3cf23 Add some minimal doc for get_completer added for patch 676342 2003-02-21 18:57:05 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 1b56de05d5 Fill in missing table entries. 2003-02-21 05:42:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger a97e4f3a49 SF bug #685775: turtle circle() documentation error 2003-02-21 03:14:08 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 3004b090ad SF bug #690377: Dud footnote reference in distutils docs 2003-02-21 02:47:09 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 1b18ba49ab Markup and nits. 2003-02-21 01:45:34 +00:00
Neal Norwitz d08baa9504 Add some notes about HIGHEST_PROTOCOL. 2003-02-21 00:26:33 +00:00
Fred Drake cade71387e Added a note about the new itertools module. (Omission noted by
Gerrit Holl in email to python-docs.)
2003-02-19 16:08:08 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3749507296 logging.warn() renamed to warning() 2003-02-19 13:46:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 7f90c7fcb3 Bump version number. 2003-02-18 22:11:58 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 6fa635df7a SF patch #687683, Patches to logging (updates from Vinay)
Mostly rename WARN -> WARNING
Other misc tweaks
Update tests (not in original patch)
2003-02-18 14:20:07 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d87eeb9477 Add two acks; bump version number 2003-02-18 00:56:56 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 7ee9b51ba5 [Bug #688261] Fix optparse example and output 2003-02-18 00:48:23 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling acddabc6ec [Bug #683416] Make PEP263 coverage a bit more explicit, and add it to the
porting section
2003-02-18 00:43:24 +00:00
Neal Norwitz f927f14eda Fix SF bug #687655, String formatting conversions misleading 2003-02-17 18:57:06 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 117910dc44 Migrate definitions of several platform-dependent path-related variables
into the relevant path modules.  See patch #686397.
2003-02-14 19:35:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 002a5de202 extsep description:
- avoid "e.g." in text
- record version information
(should be backported)
2003-02-14 06:39:37 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 47e46e2347 add missing description of os.extsep 2003-02-14 05:45:31 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2835e37be5 SF bug #663701: sets module review
Renamed hook methods to use the double underscore convention.
2003-02-14 03:42:11 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e544f6f682 SF bug #663701. The caret wasn't printing well in the PDF documentation. 2003-02-14 01:49:09 +00:00
Neal Norwitz d8d2cf476e Remove deps on mac doc files which have been removed 2003-02-14 01:45:53 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 15f742dbac first cut at a shell script to view a single section from the library
reference manual
2003-02-13 18:30:08 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 12d31e2e9d Try to doc the new pickle details being implemented as part of PEP 307.
Needs review.
2003-02-13 03:12:48 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 2294c0d4ec Cleanup from patch #683257:
Add missing INCREFs and re-indent returns to be consistent.
 Add \n\ for lines in docstring
 Add a pathetic test
 Add docs
2003-02-12 23:02:21 +00:00
Jack Jansen 7aeba45b84 Updated the Mac documentation to the current state of affairs. 2003-02-12 09:58:33 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer a33d0aa693 Unparenting BZ2File, as discussed in SF patch #661796.
* Modules/bz2module.c
  (BZ2FileObject): Now the structure includes a pointer to a file object,
   instead of "inheriting" one. Also, some members were copied from the
   PyFileObject structure to avoid dealing with the internals of that
   structure from outside fileobject.c.

  (Util_GetLine,Util_DropReadAhead,Util_ReadAhead,Util_ReadAheadGetLineSkip,
   BZ2File_write,BZ2File_writelines,BZ2File_init,BZ2File_dealloc,
   BZ2Comp_dealloc,BZ2Decomp_dealloc):
   	These functions were adapted to the change above.

  (BZ2File_seek,BZ2File_close): Use PyObject_CallMethod instead of
   getting the function attribute locally.

  (BZ2File_notsup): Removed, since it's not necessary anymore to overload
   truncate(), and readinto() with dummy functions.

  (BZ2File_methods): Added xreadlines() as an alias to BZ2File_getiter,
   and removed truncate() and readinto().

  (BZ2File_get_newlines,BZ2File_get_closed,BZ2File_get_mode,BZ2File_get_name,
   BZ2File_getset):
   	Implemented getters for "newlines", "mode", and "name".

  (BZ2File_members): Implemented "softspace" member.

  (BZ2File_init): Reworked to create a file instance instead of initializing
   itself as a file subclass. Also, pass "name" object untouched to the
   file constructor, and use PyObject_CallFunction instead of building the
   argument tuple locally.

  (BZ2File_Type): Set tp_new to PyType_GenericNew, tp_members to
   BZ2File_members, and tp_getset to BZ2File_getset.

  (initbz2): Do not set BZ2File_Type.tp_base nor BZ2File_Type.tp_new.


* Doc/lib/libbz2.tex
  Do not mention that BZ2File inherits from the file type.
2003-02-11 18:46:20 +00:00
Neal Norwitz ada859c111 Remove duplicate word (rules) 2003-02-11 14:30:39 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson eb189934ce Fix so it compiles at least.
"make lib" takes a while, doesn't it?
2003-02-11 14:24:13 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 3e245d800d Add item pertaining to
[ 680429 ] __module__ broken for extension classes
2003-02-11 14:19:56 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 065f5facea Sundry very picky changes. 2003-02-10 19:24:50 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson aab0260682 Remove erroneous period. 2003-02-10 19:21:16 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 1e71b04258 Update advice about __module__ and __name__ and tp_name wrt. new types.
Add \refs to GC section that were XXXed out.
2003-02-10 19:18:21 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson bbe17f50eb A typo, and desist from inaccurately describing some things as lists. 2003-02-10 19:12:42 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 72df65ac0e Add Neil's suggestions for avoiding this warning 2003-02-10 15:08:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 60eca9331a C Code:
* Removed the ifilter flag wart by splitting it into two simpler functions.
* Fixed comment tabbing in C code.
* Factored module start-up code into a loop.

Documentation:
* Re-wrote introduction.
* Addede examples for quantifiers.
* Simplified python equivalent for islice().
* Documented split of ifilter().

Sets.py:
* Replace old ifilter() usage with new.
2003-02-09 06:40:58 +00:00
Tim Peters 07534a607b Comparison for timedelta, time, date and datetime objects: __eq__ and
__ne__ no longer complain if they don't know how to compare to the other
thing.  If no meaningful way to compare is known, saying "not equal" is
sensible.  This allows things like

    if adatetime in some_sequence:
and
    somedict[adatetime] = whatever

to work as expected even if some_sequence contains non-datetime objects,
or somedict non-datetime keys, because they only call __eq__.

It still complains (raises TypeError) for mixed-type comparisons in
contexts that require a total ordering, such as list.sort(), use as a
key in a BTree-based data structure, and cmp().
2003-02-07 22:50:28 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b8a3905112 Update URL 2003-02-07 20:22:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 693aea2eb4 - make some links into the reference documentation relative for
off-line readers
- fix some minor typos and markup errors
2003-02-07 14:52:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2012f174ea SF bug #681003: itertools issues
* Fixed typo in exception message for times()
* Filled in missing times_traverse()
* Document reasons that imap() did not adopt a None fill-in feature
* Document that count(sys.maxint) will wrap-around on overflow
* Add overflow test to islice()
* Check that starmap()'s argument returns a tuple
* Verify that imap()'s tuple re-use is safe
* Make a similar tuple re-use (with safety check) for izip()
2003-02-07 05:32:58 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 2b09bc4d57 Fix SF bug #675259, os.environ leaks under FreeBSD and Mac OS X
Even with the extra work to cleanup the env, *BSD still leaks.  Add a note.

Will backport.
2003-02-07 02:27:36 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 694d9b3541 Update doc to reflect code changes for obsoleting use_statcache parameter 2003-02-06 21:17:17 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 241c2e9692 Remove another lie. 2003-02-06 18:38:11 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 847f37543f Correct lie about METH_NOARGS functions.
Backport candidate.
2003-02-06 18:37:11 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 93cf58b015 Typo fixes 2003-02-06 18:04:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 80fd7851ac Mention FutureWarning for large ints 2003-02-06 15:14:04 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ba37524b7c Fix description of filterwarnings() parameters (error noted by Richard Jones at
http://mechanicalcat.net/cgi-bin/log/python/turning_warnings_off.html)
2003-02-06 14:38:45 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 292f56cd26 Provide version changed info 2003-02-06 05:02:39 +00:00
Anthony Baxter 983b008824 Updated version of [ 558544 ] cmd.py: add instance-specific stdin/out
This patch adds stdin, stdout as optional arguments to the cmd.Cmd
constructor (defaulting to sys.stdin, sys.stdout), and changes the Cmd
methods throughout to use self.stdout.write() and self.stdin.foo for
output and input. This allows much greater flexibility for using cmd -
for instance, hooking it into a telnet server.

Patch for library module and for documentation.
2003-02-06 01:45:11 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 570e35870a Markup fixes; in particular, the tables are now reasonable width 2003-02-05 21:15:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 604ade4ebd supports_unicode_filenames was not in the right location. 2003-02-04 19:13:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 57d575240c Update to better reflect the usage of struct_time instances throughout;
continuing to call these "time tuples" is misleading at best.
Closes SF bug #671731; will backport to 2.2.x.
2003-02-04 15:12:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 5bbeb8d1ad Twiddle. 2003-02-04 15:01:37 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4b37364fc8 Bug #678077: Suggest alternative to os.getlogin() 2003-02-03 15:36:26 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b9ba4e6d75 [Bug #679251] Use correct constant name 2003-02-03 15:16:15 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 1ff49a7734 * Add description of PyInt_FromString.
* Correct description of PyFloat_FromString.  While ignored, the pend
  argument still has to be given.
* Typo in PyLong_FromString.
2003-02-03 05:13:24 +00:00
Skip Montanaro ae31e9b8c7 Add PyFloat_FromString. Left the char **pend argument out of the
description since while there, it is useless and ignored, according to Tim's
commen.  (PyInt_FromString is also not described, but PyLong_FromString is.
Is the former deprecated?)
2003-02-03 03:56:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 96ef8115dd Move itertools module from the sandbox and into production. 2003-02-01 00:10:11 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton f9b0cc7df6 Document __module__. 2003-01-31 18:52:45 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 2e0b18af30 Change the treatment of positions returned by PEP293
error handers in the Unicode codecs: Negative
positions are treated as being relative to the end of
the input and out of bounds positions result in an
IndexError.

Also update the PEP and include an explanation of
this in the documentation for codecs.register_error.

Fixes a small bug in iconv_codecs: if the position
from the callback is negative *add* it to the size
instead of substracting it.

From SF patch #677429.
2003-01-31 17:19:08 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 89fc4f3e56 Fix typo 2003-01-31 05:44:25 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2adbb83a24 SF bug #671447: StringIO doc doesn't say it's sometimes read-only. 2003-01-31 05:17:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 008a36ac20 Fix markup error. 2003-01-30 22:22:59 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 301eb71fb9 Author markup: Andrew got to it first 2003-01-30 01:03:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 49c595589e Make the footer at the end of a \verbatiminput stand out a little
more, to make it easier to tell apart from the verbatim content.
2003-01-29 05:14:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 7934bc23a8 Move a footnote to the end of the sentence, so the note mark won't
interfere with the flow of the sentence.
2003-01-29 05:10:27 +00:00
Fred Drake c23e0192c9 More markup changes for consistency. 2003-01-28 22:09:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 68e6d57bb9 Various minor markup adjustments. 2003-01-28 22:02:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 7821d7230c Added missing dependency. 2003-01-28 21:53:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling a31bb379f8 Update register example 2003-01-27 16:36:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 0a9cc58c85 Adjust some of Skip's latest changes slightly; these really are things
that should stand out.
2003-01-27 16:32:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 9db20c62ff Make the "notice" environments somewhat similar, with less difference
between the "note" and "warning" flavors.
2003-01-27 16:31:16 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 13a28634ac * add \versionadded{} strings as appropriate
* remove doc for defunct IllegalKeywordArgument exception
* add note that HTTP class is for backward compatibility and refer reader to
  online docstrings for help
2003-01-27 15:00:38 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2ef85a729e Fix minor typos. 2003-01-25 21:46:53 +00:00
Neal Norwitz cd5c8c2120 SF #638299, LaTeX documentation for logging package
Replace existing doc with new version from Vinay.
Fixed markup and wrapped long lines from patch.
Needs review.
2003-01-25 21:29:41 +00:00
Neal Norwitz daae32721a Fix markup 2003-01-25 21:08:30 +00:00
Fred Drake f536827c65 Include version annotation for PyObject_Call(). 2003-01-25 07:48:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 8bd62afca9 Fix typo reported to python-docs. 2003-01-25 03:47:35 +00:00
Tim Peters 8d81a012ef date and datetime comparison: when we don't know how to
compare against "the other" argument, we raise TypeError,
in order to prevent comparison from falling back to the
default (and worse than useless, in this case) comparison
by object address.

That's fine so far as it goes, but leaves no way for
another date/datetime object to make itself comparable
to our objects.  For example, it leaves Marc-Andre no way
to teach mxDateTime dates how to compare against Python
dates.

Discussion on Python-Dev raised a number of impractical
ideas, and the simple one implemented here:  when we don't
know how to compare against "the other" argument, we raise
TypeError *unless* the other object has a timetuple attr.
In that case, we return NotImplemented instead, and Python
will give the other object a shot at handling the
comparison then.

Note that comparisons of time and timedelta objects still
suffer the original problem, though.
2003-01-24 22:36:34 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 6d9f9b3b67 Fred drives and fixes a formatting nit. 2003-01-24 17:33:30 +00:00
Tim Peters 2a44a8d332 SF bug 660872: datetimetz constructors behave counterintuitively (2.3a1).
This gives much the same treatment to datetime.fromtimestamp(stamp, tz) as
the last batch of checkins gave to datetime.now(tz):  do "the obvious"
thing with the tz argument instead of a senseless thing.
2003-01-23 20:53:10 +00:00
Tim Peters 10cadce41e Reimplemented datetime.now() to be useful. 2003-01-23 19:58:02 +00:00
Tim Peters f196a0a4dd "Premature" doc changes, for new astimezone() rules, and the new
tzinfo.fromutc() method.  The C code doesn't implement any of this
yet (well, not the C code on the machine I'm using now), nor does
the test suite reflect it.  The Python datetime.py implementation and
test suite in the sandbox do match these doc changes.  The C
implementation probably won't catch up before Thursday (Wednesday is
a scheduled "black hole" day this week <0.4 wink>).
2003-01-22 04:45:50 +00:00
Tim Peters b01c39bb94 SF bug 671779: Error in tzinfo.dst() docs
tzinfo dst() should return timedelta(0) if DST is not effect, not 0.
2003-01-21 16:44:27 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 1f7a271f0b more tweaks 2003-01-21 01:52:39 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 190613cee9 * document open() function
* promote the example and the documented restrictions to \subsection status
* document the flag parameter of the DbfilenameShelf class
2003-01-21 01:38:47 +00:00
Tim Peters 327098a613 New rule for tzinfo subclasses handling both standard and daylight time:
When daylight time ends, an hour repeats on the local clock (for example,
in US Eastern, the clock jumps from 1:59 back to 1:00 again).  Times in
the repeated hour are ambiguous.  A tzinfo subclass that wants to play
with astimezone() needs to treat times in the repeated hour as being
standard time.  astimezone() previously required that such times be
treated as daylight time.  There seems no killer argument either way,
but Guido wants the standard-time version, and it does seem easier the
new way to code both American (local-time based) and European (UTC-based)
switch rules, and the astimezone() implementation is simpler.
2003-01-20 22:54:38 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f4ca5a2f45 Fix typo 2003-01-19 14:57:12 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e701dcbabd SF patch #634866: Alex Martelli's corrections to the ref manual.
Backport candidate.  All but one or two of these changes
are applicable to 2.2.2.
2003-01-19 13:08:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9543b34006 SF patch #670423: Add missing identity tests to operator.c 2003-01-18 23:22:20 +00:00
Fred Drake aac8c58f0b Various markup changes. 2003-01-17 22:50:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 42b567fce9 Fix a couple of markup errors. 2003-01-17 22:47:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 376f0ef30c Clean up some files that LaTeX2HTML drops in the HTML output directory
sometimes.
2003-01-17 21:25:04 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger ee1bded046 Correct typos in example code. 2003-01-17 16:20:23 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 13dd9d9978 Patch #662454: import a.b as c is ok, fixes #660811. 2003-01-16 11:30:08 +00:00
Skip Montanaro a5caa6fcd9 reference the os module and the lock flags in the os.open() function.
(Someone please review what I wrote for accuracy.)
2003-01-15 21:08:19 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 3801ec7ff3 Document that __cmp__() is not defined for sets.
Note, that list.sort() is undefined for lists of sets.
Add the ... prompt to the example so it runs in doctest.
2003-01-15 15:46:05 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 0c6774d92b Patch #661719: Expose compilation errors as exceptions on request. 2003-01-15 11:51:06 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis d69663d300 Patch #473586: Implement CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler. 2003-01-15 11:37:23 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling a974b3939f Move the date/time section into the modules section; it was in the
C API section by mistake
2003-01-13 19:09:03 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling c1dd174682 Link to MRO article
Mention deprecation of string exceptions
2003-01-13 13:59:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2bd1568d35 SF patch 664183 and SF bug 664044: Note that both u'%s' % 'x' and
'%s' % u'x'  return a unicode object.
2003-01-13 04:29:19 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 06daee9dd7 Try to make a sentance more readable. 2003-01-12 15:04:54 +00:00
Neal Norwitz e68fbc44aa SF #665570, curses causes interpreter crash
The interpreter doesn't crash, but it does call exit() in libncurses.
Add a note to this effect.

Will backport
2003-01-12 14:56:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 8ec17a0a8d Minor correction and clarification. 2003-01-11 23:15:47 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 3cb68a2512 Remove extra 'types'
Change a couple of list -> mylist
2003-01-10 13:52:30 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6fe1299b09 SF bug #652888: bad documentation for the "type" builtin
Clarified that not all types are included.  The OP was looking for a
StaticMethodType.

Also, added a note and example suggesting the use of int,str, etc.
instead of IntType, StrType, etc.

Renamed the crummy variable name in the example from "list" to "mylist".
2003-01-10 09:33:08 +00:00
Tim Peters 312141c51f Purged reference to defunct datetimetz. 2003-01-09 19:52:17 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 9b44571caa Various minor edits 2003-01-09 13:46:30 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 0f0e6b9d48 Markup fix 2003-01-09 12:51:50 +00:00
Tim Peters 003720235b Massive fiddling to reflect that datetimetz and timetz no longer exist.
WARNING:  It would be a minor miracle if the LaTeX stuff still worked.

s/field/member/ generally everywhere, to conform with most other usage in
the docs.

s/daylight savings time/daylight saving time/ generally everywhere,
because the latter spelling is anally correct.
2003-01-09 04:10:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 326c72a839 Add notes about the linuxaudiodev and ossaudiodev modules. 2003-01-08 07:21:53 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 55d555f012 command doesn't work, but program does, not sure it's correct, though 2003-01-08 05:27:42 +00:00
Greg Ward 19b6f60f5c There's no such method as has_option() -- should be has_extn(). 2003-01-08 03:04:42 +00:00
Greg Ward d4fee28717 Rewrite awkward/ungrammatical sentence.
Typo fix.
2003-01-08 03:02:26 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d97b01cb82 Bump version number 2003-01-08 02:09:40 +00:00
Barry Warsaw b6604b3e69 Document EX_OK and friends. 2003-01-07 22:43:25 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 051314f924 SF #664011, move tarfile module in docs 2003-01-07 22:36:04 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 674b0bfde6 Add tarfile module 2003-01-07 00:07:19 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ef893fe452 Add Tix and rexec changes 2003-01-06 20:04:17 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 8ef3d8d5d1 Fix spelling. 2003-01-06 18:41:01 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 488609e43a SF #642236, optparse LaTeX docs by Johannes Gijsbers 2003-01-06 16:51:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 11f89b75e1 Strike any hint that from-import-* could ever be reasonable; it's a
vile abomination and should be eradicated!
2003-01-06 16:38:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 2e3ae21060 Fix some nits Guido brought up last August:
- give subsection pages nicer names
- shorten some really long table cells; table cells can't wrap in the
  typeset version of the documentation
2003-01-06 15:50:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 2b0a3d33f8 Fix markup so this will format again. 2003-01-06 15:03:11 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9f5b07dd92 SF bug #592859: os.chmod is underdocumented
Document constants for permission bits.
2003-01-06 13:31:26 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 1772f17666 SF bug #661848 and #631055: Clarify use of __all__. 2003-01-06 12:54:54 +00:00
Neal Norwitz b9ef4aea5e SF #651082, tarfile module implementation from Lars Gustäbel 2003-01-05 23:19:43 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 6d23b170cf Fix a typo 2003-01-05 22:20:51 +00:00
Tim Peters 75a6e3bd1a datetime_from_timet_and_us(): ignore leap seconds if the platform
localtime()/gmtime() insists on delivering them, + associated doc
changes.

Redid the docs for datetimtez.astimezone().
2003-01-04 18:17:36 +00:00
Tim Peters adf642038e A new implementation of astimezone() that does what we agreed on in all
cases, plus even tougher tests of that.  This implementation follows
the correctness proof very closely, and should also be quicker (yes,
I wrote the proof before the code, and the code proves the proof <wink>).
2003-01-04 06:03:15 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 69bf8f3f4e SF bug #655271: Slightly modify locals() doc
Clarify the operation of locals().
2003-01-04 02:16:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2ca243368f SF bug #651149: Review libshelve.tex when possible
Minor fixes to markup, spelling, parameter names, and abbreviations.
2003-01-04 01:53:38 +00:00
Tim Peters 8827d0c338 Replaced the flawed "local time" example tzinfo class with the guts
of Guido's later Local.py (from the datetime sandbox).
2003-01-03 22:26:57 +00:00
Greg Ward fdf65d9106 Grammatical fix: change possessive "it's" to "its". 2003-01-03 21:09:57 +00:00
Greg Ward aa1d3aa643 Spread the blame (err, I mean credit) for ossaudiodev around a bit. 2003-01-03 18:03:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 5a22453d33 Write PEP 301 section
Mention difference between 2.2.2 and 2.3 True and False
2003-01-03 16:52:27 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 87cebbf601 Add SSL support for imaplib; add empty PEP301 section 2003-01-03 16:24:28 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d15f4e3d42 [Patch #658093 ] Documentation support for PEP 301
Add two sections to this manual about package meta-data and about
  registering packages
2003-01-03 15:42:14 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 1618cedfac Add contributor. 2003-01-03 10:41:50 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 04b89950b0 Fix error in previous correction; thanks, Just! 2003-01-02 23:50:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d5ac8d0b39 Fix PEP 302 description; bump version number 2003-01-02 21:33:15 +00:00
Tim Peters 397301eccb The tzinfo methods utcoffset() and dst() must return a timedelta object
(or None) now.  In 2.3a1 they could also return an int or long, but that
was an unhelpfully redundant leftover from an earlier version wherein
they couldn't return a timedelta.  TOOWTDI.
2003-01-02 21:28:08 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 4abd5f0fce Allow list sort's comparison function to explicitly be None. See SF patch
661092.
2003-01-02 20:51:08 +00:00
Tim Peters 710fb1548a astimezone() internals: if utcoffset() returns a duration, complain if
dst() returns None (instead of treating that as 0).
2003-01-02 19:35:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e55534665f Update the copyright year. 2003-01-02 16:31:35 +00:00
Neal Norwitz e149798c7f Add some version info for new methods and class 2003-01-02 15:32:00 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 9e86ad7072 Fix an example 2003-01-02 13:42:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 74bcac4cae - documented Ellipsis, NotImplemented
- minor markup changes
- indented for consistency with newer content
2003-01-02 05:13:51 +00:00
Fred Drake d0859aaaaa Add dependency info for the recently added lib/libconsts.tex. 2003-01-02 05:00:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 45e482fd3d Document that apply() is deprecated. See:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-January/031556.html
2003-01-02 04:54:04 +00:00
Tim Peters f36151556f A quicker astimezone() implementation, rehabilitating an earlier
suggestion from Guido, along with a formal correctness proof of the
trickiest bit.  The intricacy of the proof reveals how delicate this
is, but also how robust the conclusion:  correctness doesn't rely on
dst() returning +- one hour (not all real time zones do!), it only
relies on:

1. That dst() returns a (any) non-zero value if and only if daylight
   time is in effect.

and

2. That the tzinfo subclass implements a consistent notion of time zone.

The meaning of "consistent" was a hidden assumption, which is now an
explicit requirement in the docs.  Alas, it's an unverifiable (by the
datetime implementation) requirement, but so it goes.
2003-01-01 21:51:37 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 0233bd9c7d mention built-in constants. 2003-01-01 20:37:14 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 1f041e7aa8 process libconsts.tex 2003-01-01 20:34:00 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 17804b1df4 new section - builtin constants 2003-01-01 20:33:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 33fb554a13 Revert merge from 2.3 alpha 1 release branch; the change does not
apply to the trunk.
2003-01-01 04:50:32 +00:00
Tim Peters 88ad134e36 Merging in changes from r23a1-branch. Doc/makefile had conflicts, which
I leave to Fred to sort out.
2003-01-01 02:14:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 8f1f8f13e4 The trunk is (nominally) post-alpha. 2002-12-31 20:26:25 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f15fb2926b Results of a rewrite pass 2002-12-31 18:34:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 0f8e543159 - use classdesc where we can (for better indexing)
- more style consistency crud
2002-12-31 18:31:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 436eadd455 General style conformance. Markup some unmarked constructs. 2002-12-31 18:13:11 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f621232c0d Use funcdesc instead of classdesc to be consistent with out sections. 2002-12-31 17:24:50 +00:00
Fred Drake e2c649126e Further cleanup of exceptions. All interpolation-related exceptions
now derive from InterpolationError, which is not raised directly (only
subclasses get raised).  This matches what the docs already said.
2002-12-31 17:23:27 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6222958500 Spelling fix 2002-12-31 16:37:03 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger cbd6cd2312 Add markup for time object.
Cleanup whitespace.
Fix unbalanced parenthesis.
2002-12-31 16:30:49 +00:00
Tim Peters 9532298c82 Removed the now-untrue (or soon-to-be untrue) part of the astimezone()
docs.  Replaced it with an XXX block, because the hoped-for treatment
of DST endcases remains unclear (Guido doesn't really like raising an
exception when it's impossible to deliver a correct result, but so
far I have no way in hand to consistently deliver a defined incorrect
result either).
2002-12-31 16:01:47 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond 2852cbaf26 Document the new ,netrc awareness in nntplib. 2002-12-31 15:28:44 +00:00
Fred Drake f91b4619e0 Barry raised reasonable objections to the macro name \mimeheader, so
we'll simply revert to \mailheader since there's no other good name.
2002-12-31 15:23:09 +00:00