Jeremy Hylton
10f8ba4fc6
Remove note about the compiler not checking for two kinds of illegal
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imports. It checks for them now.
2001-01-30 01:25:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
2f4453af6a
Typo: coplete --> complete
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This closes SF bug #129759 .
2001-01-26 15:27:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
c8e8281fb6
Updated note about collection of cyclic garbage, based on comments from
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Chris Ryland.
2001-01-22 17:46:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
ab782dd6cc
Document rich comparisons.
2001-01-18 15:17:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
34bafcc079
Fix a variety of minor nits and typos caught by Chris Ryland
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<cpr@emsoftware.com>.
2001-01-14 02:57:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
347a62505c
Steve Holden <sholden@holdenweb.com>:
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Clarify the handling of characters following backslashes in raw strings.
2001-01-09 21:38:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
445f832060
__rcmp__() description: Changed to indicate that this is no longer
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supported as of Python 2.1. We still need to
have an entry for this since it is reasonable
for users to want to understand existing code.
This closes SF bug #122715 .
2001-01-04 15:11:48 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer
48c2eb9165
Document the NotImplemented object.
2001-01-04 01:25:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
2cba0f641f
Improve description of else clause of the try/except/else statement.
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This closes (again!) bug #127098 .
2001-01-02 19:22:48 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
8e2b6b5cc7
Change documentation of 'else' clause of 'try/except' to make clear that it
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doesn't get triggered by 'return', 'break' or 'continue'. If the
'try-inside-continue' patch does not get accepted before next release, the
'or continue' should be removed ;P
Closes SF patch #103045 and SF bug #127098 .
2000-12-31 22:52:59 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
68abe832b9
Fix typo
2000-12-19 14:09:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
dea764d7f1
Updated string literals description to encompass Unicode literals and the
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additional escape sequences defined for Unicode.
This closes bug #117158 .
2000-12-19 04:52:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
035f7e88c8
Clarify __repr__ and __str__.
2000-12-19 04:18:13 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
dc90cc2b15
Additional docs for __iadd__ and family, closing SF bug #117178 and SF patch
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#102169 .
2000-12-11 23:11:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
2a22200ab4
Adjust explanation of operator precedence summary -- exponentiation groups
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from right to left!
Closes bug #125391 .
2000-12-11 22:39:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
c3b18d7ca8
Fix error noted by Gerrit Holl (old; had been buried in my INBOX):
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sequence repitition works just fine with long integers now, so we
should not say that only plain integers are allowed.
2000-12-07 04:54:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
0c47559352
Added a note that objects which emulate built-in types should only
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implement as many of the relevant methods as make sense for the particular
information being modelled.
2000-12-07 04:49:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
0ac000cd54
Updates to reflect pending changes to the XML conversion process.
2000-11-22 16:42:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
2ed27d3189
Note that readframes() returns data in linear format, even if the original
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is encoded in u-LAW format. Based on suggestion from Anthony Baxter
<anthony_baxter@users.sourceforge.net>.
This closes bug #122273 .
2000-11-17 19:05:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
f89259786a
Denis S. Otkidach <ods@users.sourceforge.net>:
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Show how code can be written to handle __getslice__ & friends in a way that
is compatible with pre-2.0 versions of Python while still working with the
"new" way of handling slicing.
Additional explanation added by Fred Drake.
This closes SourceForge patch #101388 .
2000-09-21 22:27:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
d68442b164
Lots of minor fixes, many suggested by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
2000-09-21 22:01:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
31575ce817
Note that __getitem__() may receive a slice object as the index;
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reported by Detlef Lannert <lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
2000-09-21 05:28:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
8d27f898b2
Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>:
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Document the __contains__() method.
(Patch slightly modified by FLD.)
This closes SourceForge patch #101387 .
2000-09-19 18:21:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
1156f62348
Many small clarifications, including many suggested by email.
2000-09-19 18:10:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
31f5550fbe
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>:
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Reference manual docs for augmented assignment.
This closes SourceForge patch #101418 .
2000-09-12 20:32:18 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
b655939d69
add index entries for list comprehensions
2000-09-11 16:31:55 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
33f785fc1e
Document "print >> None"
2000-08-29 04:57:34 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
12bba852a9
Rough and incomplete documentation on augmented assignment, which follows
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shortly. Markup also needs checking.
2000-08-24 20:06:04 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
323fe5df6a
fix list comprehension discussion to use \keyword macro instead of simply
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quoting keywords.
2000-08-23 17:03:34 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
46dfa5f4ed
require list comprehensions to start with a for clause
2000-08-22 02:43:07 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
8c0a242289
PEP 214, Extended print Statement, has been accepted by the BDFL.
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Document the extended print form. Fred, please double check the
markup!
2000-08-21 15:45:16 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
8bad612881
Disallow "import mod.submod as m", because the result is ambiguous. Does it
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load mod.submod as m, or mod as m ? Both can be achieved differently, and
unambiguously. Also attempt to document this restriction (editor
appreciated!)
Note that this is an artificial check during compile, because incorporating
this in the grammar is hard, and then adjusting the compiler to do the right
thing with the right nodes is harder.
2000-08-19 20:55:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
a00738259f
Adjust the way __getslice__() is marked as deprecated; this will also
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stand out more.
2000-08-18 02:42:14 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
5215225ea1
Apply SF patch #101135 , adding 'import module as m' and 'from module import
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name as n'. By doing some twists and turns, "as" is not a reserved word.
There is a slight change in semantics for 'from module import name' (it will
now honour the 'global' keyword) but only in cases that are explicitly
undocumented.
2000-08-17 22:55:00 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
1d75a79c00
Apply SF patch #101029 : call __getitem__ with a proper slice object if there
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is no __getslice__ available. Also does the same for C extension types.
Includes rudimentary documentation (it could use a cross reference to the
section on slice objects, I couldn't figure out how to do that) and a test
suite for all Python __hooks__ I could think of, including the new
behaviour.
2000-08-17 22:37:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
d341579178
Fix error made in applying Thomas's patch.
2000-08-15 18:44:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
a1e214a1ed
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>:
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Update the grammar to reflect the most recent changes to list
comprehensions.
2000-08-15 17:54:49 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
803d6e5451
list comprehensions. see
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http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=100654&group_id=5470
for details.
2000-08-12 18:09:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
3d83fc3ab1
Change as suggested by Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>:
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Create a hyperlink between the language reference and documentation for
the built in functions.
2000-07-31 20:08:23 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
f9b526dbfd
More of Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes. The only ones left now are the
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distutils patches, which I'll leave to the distutils maintainers.
Tip: review the patch like this:
grep "^[\!+-] " <patchfile>
To get a quick and easy way to review the actual changes. Most of the
changes are single-line ones, anyway.
2000-07-16 19:05:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
91826ed2a9
Improve the descriptions of expected exceptions for __getitem__(),
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__setitem__(), and __delitem__(). Based on related comments from
Barry Warsaw.
2000-07-13 04:57:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
7399b9e6e4
Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>:
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Update the "in" / "not in" description to accomodate the current use
of the __contains__() discipline. This patch also incorporates
suggestions from Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>, minor markup
revisions from Fred Drake, and some rewording of the first affected
paragraph (also from Fred).
Closes SourceForge patch #100831 .
2000-07-11 19:43:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
191a28218f
Typo: "This table table" -> "This table is"
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Noted by Nicholas Spies <ns11@voicenet.com>.
2000-07-06 00:50:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
35c09f2e51
Revise the description of when functions retrieved from class instances
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are and are not turned into bound methods; some confusion was noted by
Andrew Dalke.
In particular, it has to be noted that functions located on the class
instance are not turned into any sort of method, only those which are
found via the underlying class.
2000-06-28 20:15:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
e57a11441e
Fix markup error that hid a tilde character; reported long ago by
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Carl Feynman <carlf@abinitio.com>.
2000-06-15 20:07:25 +00:00
Greg Ward
38c28e379c
Added a note to the section on 'exec' about the need for a trailing newline
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in certain circumstances. (Apparently, this is a CPython problem.)
2000-04-27 18:32:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
c009d198db
Removed some extraneous and confusing parenthesized expressions.
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Noted by Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>.
2000-04-25 21:09:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
8b3ce9e099
But don't do the funny \UNICODE macro; we're trying to get away from
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those markups! <with-mixed-feelings>
2000-04-06 14:00:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
f0aff8e759
Patch from Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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Added Unicode type to the language reference.
2000-04-06 13:57:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
e15956b465
Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release.
2000-04-03 04:51:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
e15eb35fd0
Use \citetitle as appropriate.
1999-11-10 16:13:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
a24f7b759a
Use \programopt in one place.
1999-11-09 17:03:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
4c2533fe3c
Added sentence "All exceptions must have an executable block."; from
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Dan Wolfe <wolfeman@apple.com>.
1999-08-24 22:14:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
c35367e439
Change an {\em ...} to \var{...} and a {\bf ...} to \program{...} (the
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new markup makes sense in context).
These allow the SGML/XML conversion updates to work, & should not have
still been in there anyway.
1999-07-29 13:56:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
431f0ce547
Small nits around some of the index entries.
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When refering to chapters, use \ref, don't hardcode the chapter
number.
1999-05-13 18:38:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
b894370f6a
Fixed some index entries.
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In the __coerce__ description, None should be returned if the
conversion is *impossible*, not *possible*. Reported by Robert Kern
<kernr@ncifcrf.gov>.
1999-05-10 13:43:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
1ea7c75687
Reflect recent patch for float % and divmod() by Tim Peters. Content
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updates by Tim Peters, markup by FLD.
1999-05-06 14:46:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
d09120b5b9
Added index entries for operator precedence; suggestion from Randall
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Hopper <rhh@vislab.epa.gov>.
1999-04-29 16:43:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
011f6fca31
Typo: "Otherwose" --> "Otherwise" (reported by Joakim Sernbrant
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<joakim.sernbrant@front.se>).
Misc. small fixes to the logical markup.
1999-04-14 12:52:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
b55ce1e8b6
Fixed latex2html weirdness with footnotes.
1999-04-05 21:32:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
39fc1bc329
Added note about __builtin__._ to section dicussing classes of
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reserved names, just to avoid confusion on the part of users.
1999-03-05 18:30:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
8cdee961bf
Dictionaries are created using the "{...}" notation, not the "..."
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notation. Problem reported by Magnus L. Hetland <mlh@idt.ntnu.no>.
1999-02-23 18:50:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
264bd59221
1. Clarify that immutability isn't entirely the same as unchangeable
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value (because of immutable containers containing mutable objects).
2. Document that func_code, func_defaults and func_doc / __doc__ are
now writable.
1999-02-23 16:40:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
c411fa6861
Revised description of blank line handling for the interpreter, based
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on a comment from /F.
1999-02-22 14:32:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
99cd5735f0
Minor markup nits.
1999-02-12 20:40:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
15988fdbbb
Documented __complex__(), made sure all the discipline names hit the
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index.
1999-02-12 18:14:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
ae3e574170
"numberic" --> "numeric", two places
1999-01-28 23:21:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
4856d01797
Removed a lot of unnecessary comment markers which cause unexplained
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numbers to appear in the HTML version of the manual.
1999-01-12 04:15:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
b1f97d6765
Suggestion by Tim Peters clarifying what "before global" means.
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(Also added an XXX comment requesting clarification of module
initialization -- TBD later.)
1998-12-21 18:57:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e039439e3b
Clarify evaluation of default arguments at def time with more text and
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an example.
1998-12-04 19:37:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
2f8592cbea
Ignore the byproducts of SGML/XML conversions for now.
1998-12-01 18:58:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
d03268feaa
Remove two remaining {\tt ...} constructs.
1998-11-25 19:23:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
78eebfdbf4
Remove two remaining {\tt ...} constructs.
1998-11-25 19:09:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
1e42d8aaab
Massive change to just about every construct that impacts the index.
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Blame it on Just. ;-)
1998-11-25 17:58:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
ea81edf059
Markup nits.
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Fixed an index entry, added three more.
1998-11-25 17:51:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
1475e88a35
Minor fixups to some index entries.
1998-11-25 17:48:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
2b3730e284
Minor adjustments to a few index entries.
1998-11-25 17:40:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
9beee80fd7
Remove a couple of unnecessary "%" characters that cause problems with
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the latest latex2html beta.
1998-10-21 00:44:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
dad11321eb
Remove a bunch of unnecessary "%" characters that cause problems with
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the latest latex2html beta.
1998-10-21 00:26:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
3041b0715b
Remove an unnecessary "%" character that seems to cause a minor glitch
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with the latest latex2html.
1998-10-21 00:25:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
c456d36bde
Fix encoding of \ in some string literals in the discussion of "raw"
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strings. Reported by Lorenzo M. Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>.
1998-10-01 20:41:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
82385872e9
Fix some confusion in the __repr__() and __str__() descriptions.
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Reported by Lorenzo M. Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>.
1998-10-01 20:40:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
d4c3352288
Fix encoding of \n in a couple of places (reported by Lorenzo
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M. Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>).
1998-10-01 20:39:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
d82575d5bf
Markup changes in the section on disciplines to match method descriptions
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a little better, and produce better HTML.
Add some index entries.
1998-08-28 20:03:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
f5a80a4a88
Describe what happens when ``raise C, x'' is called where C is a class
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and x is not an instance of C (nor of a class derived of C).
1998-08-25 14:45:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
1a0b872665
At least mark the URL to the Packages essay using \url.
1998-08-07 17:40:20 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
92a6ed9940
Minor refilling of a paragraph...
1998-08-07 16:33:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
70da192f63
im_function --> im_func
1998-08-07 16:28:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
9f86b662d1
Update to use a separate page for front matter.
1998-07-28 21:55:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
61c7728cc9
Make sure all chapters, sections, and subsections have a \label to give them
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semantic file names in the HTML. No more node#.html files!
1998-07-28 19:34:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
020f8c0139
Make sure chapters, sections, and subsections all have a \label to give them
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semantic file names in the HTML version; no more node#.html files.
Fix one section heading.
1998-07-28 19:32:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
9ad9c9be03
Convert operator precedence table to the new style markup.
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Added lambda to the table.
Call "**" exponentiation instead of power.
{\em ...} --> \emph{...}
1998-07-27 20:27:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
a1cce714d0
Converted some {tabular}s to use {tablei*} environments.
1998-07-24 22:12:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
aca61a43dd
Removing all references to FrameMaker
1998-07-24 20:58:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6a2fe26861
checkpoint before I throw this away
1998-07-24 20:55:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
579c8453c3
Checking in uninteresting changes (mostly window resizes :-)
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before I remove all this cruft.
1998-07-24 20:54:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
246837d0f5
Fix markup of an \indexiii --> only two parameters were given.
1998-07-24 20:28:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
d540509682
Changes copied from the FrameMaker version. Hardly anything (but then
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this is the shortest chapter.)
Hurray, I'm done with this!
1998-07-24 18:56:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5399d68c4b
Changes copied from the FrameMaker version. Not too much.
1998-07-24 18:51:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
56c2013d15
Changes copied from the FrameMaker version. Also documented some
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previously undocumented features.
Packages and the import mechanism in general are still left
undocumented.
1998-07-24 18:25:38 +00:00