61c5edf6fc
Expose setgroups. Fixes feature request #468116 .
2001-10-18 04:06:00 +00:00
61acf067ac
SF bug [ #471111 ] inspect.getframeinfo() needs docs.
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TeX-ified its docstring.
2001-10-16 23:01:06 +00:00
3c28863e08
Partial patch from SF #452266 , by Jason Petrone.
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This changes Pythread_start_thread() to return the thread ID, or -1
for an error. (It's technically an incompatible API change, but I
doubt anyone calls it.)
2001-10-16 21:13:49 +00:00
511e2cacc4
[ #403753 ] zlib decompress; uncontrollable memory usage
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Mostly by Toby Dickenson and Titus Brown.
Add an optional argument to a decompression object's decompress()
method. The argument specifies the maximum length of the return
value. If the uncompressed data exceeds this length, the excess data
is stored as the unconsumed_tail attribute. (Not to be confused with
unused_data, which is a separate issue.)
Difference from SF patch: Default value for unconsumed_tail is ""
rather than None. It's simpler if the attribute is always a string.
2001-10-16 20:39:49 +00:00
7a59445e37
Document required return values -1, 0, 1 for tp_compare handler, as
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suggested in SF patch #424475 . Also document exception return.
2001-10-16 20:32:05 +00:00
5bf1ecd503
Update the description of PyTrace_EXCEPT.
2001-10-16 19:23:55 +00:00
ab9b238ced
Fix a few usage and style-guide conformance issues.
2001-10-16 19:22:51 +00:00
64d7863797
Added information about setprofile() and settrace() hooks being thread-
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specific, and updated some of the comments about the profile hook.
This closes SF bug #471725 .
2001-10-16 14:54:22 +00:00
a815916472
Fix thinko in a comment about seeking with a file object.
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Reported by Francesco Trentini.
2001-10-16 03:25:00 +00:00
327798ca4a
Added notes to clarify that binascii.crc32(), zlib.crc32(), and
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zlib.adler32() are not suitable as general hash functions.
2001-10-15 13:45:49 +00:00
0fae49fc7b
Added documentation for the functions listed in marshal.h.
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Prompted by Jim Ahlstrom. This closes SF patch #470614 .
2001-10-14 04:45:51 +00:00
c65b3d95b6
Add entries for the newly split C API manual.
2001-10-12 19:02:35 +00:00
3adf79e3e2
Break the Python/C API manual into smaller files by chapter. This manual
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has grown beyond what font-lock will work with using the default (X)Emacs
settings.
Indentation of the description has been made consistent, and a number of
smaller markup adjustments have been made as well.
2001-10-12 19:01:43 +00:00
cb43c085e2
Document that keyfile and certfile are now optional.
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XXX Forgot to mention this in the last socketmodule.c checkin.
2001-10-11 16:17:22 +00:00
c7f8b86307
Describe the HeaderParser class.
2001-10-11 15:45:05 +00:00
8cd015c701
A copy-and-paste job forget the "paste" half.
2001-10-09 20:54:23 +00:00
659a60311d
Allow the profiler's calibration constant to be specified in the constructor
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call, or via setting an instance or class vrbl.
Rewrote the calibration docs.
Modern boxes are so friggin' fast, and a profiler event does so much work
anyway, that the cost of looking up an instance vrbl (the bias constant)
per profile event just isn't a big deal.
2001-10-09 20:51:19 +00:00
dca939899d
Fix minor cut-and-paste typo.
2001-10-09 19:37:51 +00:00
e0063d20a7
Update the documentation for the isinstance() function to reflect recent
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changes in the implementation.
Indented all descriptions consistently.
2001-10-09 19:31:08 +00:00
a55d132f08
Add documentation for the MIMEAudio class/module, contributed by
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Anthony Baxter.
2001-10-09 19:14:17 +00:00
938a8d723c
Improve the documentation for the os.P_* constants used with the os.spawn*()
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functions to include information about how they affect the operation of
those functions when used as the "mode" parameter.
This closes SF bug #468384 .
Added warnings to the os.tempnam() and os.tmpnam() functions regarding their
security problem. These warning mirror the warnings added to the runtime
by Skip Montanaro.
2001-10-09 18:07:04 +00:00
92350b3a1f
New markup: \note{...} and \warning{...}
2001-10-09 18:01:23 +00:00
6959a2fcd7
Note that the values for Boolean options are case-insensitive.
2001-10-09 14:58:24 +00:00
b35f0ce2b8
Update the description of getboolean() to reflect the changes made by
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SF patch #467580 .
2001-10-08 16:03:20 +00:00
0a1fc4e389
Remove code and docs for the OldProfile and HotProfile classes: code
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hasn't worked in years, docs were wrong, and they aren't interesting
anymore regardless.
2001-10-07 03:12:08 +00:00
8c2c3d301b
Update the documentation to reflect the changes to ReferenceError.
2001-10-06 06:10:54 +00:00
bf88b68f38
Add documentation for the public API for weak reference objects.
2001-10-05 22:03:58 +00:00
9835206268
A regexp example was rendered as
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foo\d
when it was clearly intended to render as
foo$
Fred, is this a right way to fix it? If not, the earlier place in the
same paragraph that does render as
foo$
is also wrong.
2001-10-05 20:06:47 +00:00
e8f47bb93a
Remove some long-unsupported Mac OS modules.
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This closes SF patch #460737 .
2001-10-05 16:49:31 +00:00
244edc8985
Add chroot call. Implements feature #459267 .
2001-10-04 22:44:26 +00:00
fcc16330a4
Update a couple of old addresses that point to CNRI.
2001-10-04 20:40:07 +00:00
3899d74c10
Make clear that tuple() accepts the same kind of arguments as list().
2001-10-04 06:53:20 +00:00
6f3d82693a
Expand the documentation of the low-level tracing/profiling interface.
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This reflects what is currently in CVS, which may change before 2.2 is final.
2001-10-03 21:52:51 +00:00
0481d24dd5
CVS patch [ #466628 ] Doc changes for doctest patch ( #466616 ), from
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Tim Hochberg. Doctest no longer searches imported objects.
2001-10-02 21:01:22 +00:00
d90f509b8f
Fredrik tells me the truefalse parameter for boolean() is not part of the
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public interface, so we can simplify the documentation.
2001-10-01 21:05:30 +00:00
1350c07de3
Removed stray backslash (a typo -- my fault).
2001-10-01 20:25:26 +00:00
20524dbf36
The description of dictionary comparison was out of date. Rather than
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try to explain the complex general scheme we actually use now, I decided
to spell out only what equality means (which is easy to explain and
intuitive), leaving the other outcomes unspecified beyond consistency.
2001-10-01 20:22:45 +00:00
6c81e2a44f
"boolean" --> "Boolean" (per the style guide).
2001-10-01 17:04:10 +00:00
0f0380a25f
Fix some minor style-guide conformance bugs.
2001-10-01 17:04:10 +00:00
fe95e65668
Straighten out some markup.
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"boolean" --> "Boolean" (per the style guide).
2001-10-01 17:03:48 +00:00
73921b0eec
Refer to the objects which define __len__(), __*item__(), and __iter__()
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as container objects rather than as mapping objects (in the index entries).
Change the section heading and intro sentence to be a little more general,
since that's how things have actually evolved.
2001-10-01 16:32:13 +00:00
e9ba525c2b
Clarify comments about mailbox objects being iterable.
2001-10-01 15:49:56 +00:00
e7877df595
Docs for SF patch #462628
2001-10-01 13:50:15 +00:00
0daad598d0
Patch #462122 : add readline startup and pre_event hooks.
2001-09-30 21:09:59 +00:00
16dc7f44b1
Patch #462190 , patch #464070 : Support quoted printable in the binascii module.
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Decode and encode underscores for header style encoding. Fixes bug #463996 .
2001-09-30 20:32:11 +00:00
af5910f025
The execfile() docs imply it acts on locals same as exec. But in truth
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it acts more like assigning to keys in locals(), i.e. modifications to
function locals aren't reflected in the locals when execfile() returns.
2001-09-30 06:32:59 +00:00
1c33daf143
Correct docs for long(float).
2001-09-30 06:18:26 +00:00
d38b1c74f3
SF [ #466125 ] PyLong_AsLongLong works for any integer.
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Generalize PyLong_AsLongLong to accept int arguments too. The real point
is so that PyArg_ParseTuple's 'L' code does too. That code was
undocumented (AFAICT), so documented it.
2001-09-30 05:09:37 +00:00
ac1af8093e
Handle PEP references the same way RFC references.
2001-09-29 19:07:22 +00:00
0d68246f01
Fix two typos in the text about compile(), and add two caveats from
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recent user feedback: you must end the input with \n and you must use
\n, not \r\n to represent line endings.
2001-09-29 14:28:52 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
Tim Peters
Guido van Rossum
Jeremy Hylton
Fred Drake
Barry Warsaw