Fred Drake
6763b31731
Added brief explanation of the \versionchanged for 1.5.2 (fixes formatting
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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
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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
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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
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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
d99e534de6
Fixed typos and bug in the second example, reported by Scott Schram
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<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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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<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>:
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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()
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function.
This closes bug #117467 .
2000-10-23 15:41:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
8c2fd49cc3
Added missing entry for invert() function.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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floating-point values.
2000-10-14 05:46:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
602aa77d2f
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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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
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<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
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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
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<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
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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
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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
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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
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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>.
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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
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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>:
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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.
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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,
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not added then, and note what the change was (ncurses, change to a package).
2000-10-06 20:01:23 +00:00