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1636 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake 6763b31731 Added brief explanation of the \versionchanged for 1.5.2 (fixes formatting
for the HTML version).
2000-11-28 06:39:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 2fef3abc74 Two minor nits. 2000-11-28 06:38:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 0ac000cd54 Updates to reflect pending changes to the XML conversion process. 2000-11-22 16:42:37 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 620ec9d1ca Document the new setupterm() function 2000-11-18 17:57:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 17383b9ad7 Added information about the %r string formatting conversion. Added note
about the interpretation of radix 0 for int(), and added description of
the optional radix argument for long().  Based on comments from Reuben
Sumner <rasumner@users.sourceforge.net>.

This closes bug #121672.
2000-11-17 19:44:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 977fe96a05 Oops, back out change committed by accident! This is not ready, and
breaks things.
2000-11-17 19:09:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 2ed27d3189 Note that readframes() returns data in linear format, even if the original
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 d99e534de6 Fixed typos and bug in the second example, reported by Scott Schram
<schram@users.sourceforge.net>.

This closes bug #122236.
2000-11-17 18:04:03 +00:00
Tim Peters a3100de9ce Fix for SF bug 122176: Error in rotor module documentation. 2000-11-14 21:43:01 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f16e0ed76c Patch #102278: add tparm() function to _curses module 2000-11-07 03:35:24 +00:00
Fred Drake a776cea71a Document the proper exception to be raised by I/O operations on closed
files; error reported by Ng Pheng Siong <ngps@post1.com>.

Make sure that various special object attributes are properly indexed.
2000-11-06 20:17:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 19647ca318 Typo: writeable --> writable
Reported by Erno Kuusela <erno@iki.fi>.
2000-11-01 03:12:34 +00:00
Fred Drake efffe8e317 Many small markup revisions to be more consistent with markup elsewhere,
and to provide more consistent indexing.

Added an index entry.

Added documentation for the error and XMLParserType objects.
2000-10-29 05:10:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 3aecfc9681 Explained that os.path.basename() may return something different from the
basename program, as suggested by Gregor Hoffleit <gregor@hoffleit.de>.

This closes bug #119485.
2000-10-26 21:38:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 53143bec9b Since LookupError can be raised by sys.setdefaultencoding(), we should not
document it as only being a base class, not matter how unlikely this is
to affect normal users.
2000-10-25 21:05:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 1dba66cb72 Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com> noted that the encode() string method
was added in 2.0.
2000-10-25 21:03:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 8940fafabd Additions from Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>, documenting
getdefaultencoding() and setdefaultencoding().
2000-10-25 21:02:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 1491cace2a Several additions and updates based on text from Marc-Andre Lemburg
<mal@lemburg.com>.

Lots of markup reformatting to make it easier for me to read & maintain.
2000-10-25 20:59:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 277a21150b Added entries for the xml.dom.minidom module. 2000-10-24 02:35:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 669d36f02c Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>:
Documentation for the xml.dom.minidom module & Python DOM API.

FLD:  I have revised the markup in some places and added a few minor
details to Paul's text, but that's it.  Given the substantial
structural differences with the bulk of the presentation, I will be
making additional revisions over the next few days.
2000-10-24 02:34:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 246f65f2bb Correct the name of a parameter in the description of the register()
function.

This closes bug #117467.
2000-10-23 15:41:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 8c2fd49cc3 Added missing entry for invert() function.
Added table mapping abstract operations to syntax to functions, based on
a suggestion from Bob Weiner <weiner@beopen.com>.
2000-10-22 03:19:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 4a152630ca Capitalize first letter of an explanation for a \versionchanged
annotation.
2000-10-19 05:33:46 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 75afc0b914 Document the .lastindex and .lastgroup attributes of MatchObject 2000-10-18 23:08:13 +00:00
Fred Drake ba0a989988 Make all the \seemodule explanations consistent: start with a capitalized
letter and end with proper punctuation.  "Documenting Python" will be
updated accordingly so that this will be editorial policy for the Python
documentation.
2000-10-18 17:43:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 510dfbad3d Capitalize & use periods for \seemodule explanation parameter. 2000-10-18 16:47:52 +00:00
Fred Drake b4b401eda3 Update the links to the NumPy website and documentation, based on a
comment from Janko Hauser <jhauser@ifm.uni-kiel.de>.
2000-10-17 04:58:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 21c9df7641 For os.stat() & friends, note that the time fields are returned as
floating-point values.
2000-10-14 05:46:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 602aa77d2f Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
Documentation for the codec base classes.
Lots of markup adjustments by FLD.

This closes SourceForge bug #115308, patch #101877.
2000-10-12 20:50:55 +00:00
Fred Drake babe326c65 Added entries for new files of SAX documentation. 2000-10-12 20:07:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 014f0e3394 Massive addition of SAX documentation from Martin von Loewis
<loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de>.

Reorganized to be more like other parts of the documentation in its
arrangement, but with few content changes.

This closes SourceForge patch #101850.
2000-10-12 20:05:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 93615657ec Document the exceptions that now get raised on invalid parameters. 2000-10-11 22:27:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 6fe9bacb8c Make sure methods of ZipFile objects are in alphabetical order; the logical
groupings are still maintained.  Based on a comment by Steve Holden
<sholden@holdenweb.com>.
2000-10-11 18:56:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 2c4f554b78 Fixed a large number of small problems, mostly noted by Detlef Lannert
<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
2000-10-10 22:00:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 66c9f0781d Note that the UserString/MutableString classes are far less efficient
than the built-in string types (suggested by Moshe Zadka
<moshez@math.huji.ac.il>).

Clarified what "can be converted to a string" means.

Fixed a few markup nits.
2000-10-10 20:58:48 +00:00
Fred Drake ef52f601ed Revise the examples not to use the "from socket import *", and adjust
one comment in the example for clarity.
2000-10-10 20:36:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 0fc6a67307 Remove duplicated text from urlopen() description, noted by Ka-Ping
Yee <ping@lfw.org> and probably others as well.
2000-10-10 20:23:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 3ece71327f Make it clear that copy_reg.pickle() should not be used for classes, but
only for extension types.

This partially fixes SourceForge bug #116295.
2000-10-10 18:36:02 +00:00
Fred Drake f8ca7d88c6 Fixed lots of small nits caught by Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>. 2000-10-10 17:03:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 2d34cd3ecf Minor nit fixes based on suggestions from Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>.
Added "See also" section with relevant RFC references.
2000-10-10 17:02:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 25407882ea Better synopsis based on suggestion from Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>. 2000-10-10 16:59:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 4d3714b5c6 Better synopses based on suggestions from Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>. 2000-10-10 16:56:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 6ff7aec2ab Move the documentation for the mutex module to be with the threading
and queue-management modules, since that is where the general context
for use in most cases.
2000-10-10 16:46:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 17a2b640e4 Work around annoyances in LaTeX2HTML. 2000-10-09 18:12:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 955e03bd68 Push xmllib to the end of the markup chapter since it is deprecated. 2000-10-09 18:11:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 3383792c74 Denis S. Otkidach <ods@users.sourceforge.net>:
Correct description of leapdays() function.

This closes SourceForge patch #101840.
2000-10-09 15:27:31 +00:00
Fred Drake c2bac8745d Include more information from the docstrings. 2000-10-06 21:07:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 519744409b Fix really bad typo, noted by Neil Schemenauer <nas@arctrix.com>. 2000-10-06 20:16:50 +00:00
Fred Drake c6243e4e08 Add notes on the requirements for subclasses.
This closes SourceForge bug #115928.
2000-10-06 20:04:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 2e06c209dc Revise the versioning information to say that this was revised in 1.6,
not added then, and note what the change was (ncurses, change to a package).
2000-10-06 20:01:23 +00:00