Raymond Hettinger
68a37ac841
* Fix typos.
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* Format an example so that the identation is more obvious.
* Add a section on the decimal module to the Brief Tour Part II.
2004-07-01 12:56:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
22ec5c3639
if we must argue over the/they, we can just remove the unecessary word
2004-06-03 17:19:25 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
2d1a2aa117
Fix typo: the-->they
2004-06-03 14:13:04 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
e148595504
Fixup spacing in an example.
2004-05-31 22:53:25 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
4ccf336e56
Fill-in the introductory paragraph for the library tour.
2004-05-26 13:57:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
846865bba6
Add a further tour of the standard library.
2004-05-26 13:52:59 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
a8aebcedf9
Follow official recommendation for domain names in examples.
2004-05-25 16:08:28 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
170a62221c
Add more docs for generator expressions.
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* Put in a brief, example driven tutorial entry.
* Use better examples in whatsnew24.tex.
2004-05-19 19:45:19 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
f1f0560832
Patch #940026 : Explain "in" when it is first used.
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Backported to 2.3.
2004-05-06 01:35:45 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
707483fdef
Update timeit example to reflect current performance.
2004-03-26 07:56:23 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
cbddabfd85
Remove 'now'
2004-03-21 22:12:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
f0ae4272b4
fix English usage error reported by Ken Fuchs
2004-02-24 16:13:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
e6ed33a6b3
fix minor markup error: \code{for} --> \keyword{for}
2004-02-12 14:35:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
b1e5b50531
SF 895560: minor typo
2004-02-12 09:50:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
42713109d9
use consistent email address for Tim
2003-12-30 16:15:35 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
a95e87a488
Guido grants a Christmas wish:
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sorted() becomes a regular function instead of a classmethod.
2003-12-17 21:38:26 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
b7a10d1bc5
Incorporate suggestions from Aahz.
2003-12-06 20:12:00 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
f62444ab16
Fix links and typos.
2003-12-05 07:53:50 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
ec3402f287
Fix typo
2003-12-05 06:39:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
8850c8785f
Fix link
2003-12-03 22:33:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
8772d4e4c3
Add a standard library tour
2003-12-03 22:23:46 +00:00
Walter Dörwald
7bafa9f340
Fix typo. (From SF bug #853064 )
2003-12-03 10:34:57 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
25695282a5
Convert a 0/1 to False/True.
2003-12-02 07:38:30 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
d4462300db
Nits from a review of the documentation update.
2003-11-26 17:52:45 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
65674b80fc
Documentation for set objects.
2003-11-18 17:50:34 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
dc62aeca4c
Add a new looping idiom
2003-11-07 01:30:58 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
8ed69e3389
SF #829941 , update tutorial, built-in types can be base classes since 2.2
2003-10-25 14:15:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
f12f32421f
Don't make promises about about the visibility of the induction variable.
2003-10-21 18:42:21 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
95cf84a4f3
Patch #821093 : Fix various typos.
2003-10-19 07:32:24 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
40d4bc5934
Add a glossary to the tutorial. Also generate an index. At the moment this
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mostly only references glossary entries.
2003-09-24 16:53:02 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
16434b5e25
Fix whitespace in example
2003-09-24 03:58:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
f5c87c4d99
- added many links into the library reference
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- removed use of the string module
- fixed some broken markup
2003-09-11 06:06:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
626d472edd
- add several links into the library reference
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- update a couple of URLs to point to more recent portions of
python.org
2003-09-11 04:28:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
57d71289a1
SF patch #797868 : Tutorial, sec. 5.1.4 could contain an extra example
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(Revised from the original patch contributed by Michal Pasternak.)
Also, make a couple minor fixups elsewhere.
2003-08-30 23:21:32 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
c2a5cb2327
Fix typo.
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Thou shalt not count to two unless proceeding to the number three.
2003-08-23 03:49:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
236ffba400
Adjust some horizontal indentation to be consistent with the style used
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throughout the documentation.
2003-08-16 06:30:47 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer
90b182c16c
Don't introduce map(None, ...) in the tutorial. In practice, zip() is
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usually preferred.
2003-08-14 22:57:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
c7a26562f9
SF patch#786531 'the the' typo. Contributed by George Yoshida
2003-08-12 00:01:17 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
0eec08794c
Explain argument unpacking
2003-08-08 23:32:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
b233e54409
Nits.
2003-07-15 23:16:01 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
6122d0267f
SF patch #726751 : Clarify docs for except target assignment
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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
fa6cce1fdd
Minor fixups and added sections for iterators and generators.
2003-07-11 18:58:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
dfda8d79ee
- explain about making Python scripts executable on Unix in more
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detail
- fix minor markup nit
2003-07-07 21:00:29 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
8ee006097f
SF #751062 : Tutorial: remove string exceptions, add parnassus, #posts
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(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
Raymond Hettinger
ccd615c1a7
SF bug #762990 : Awful Grammar in Python Tutorial
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Fixed a nit.
2003-06-30 04:27:31 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
32a5e878d7
minor wordsmithing
2003-06-29 16:01:51 +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
Fred Drake
2664cbbeba
Remove heading from orphan section.
2003-06-20 14:27:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
3a8fbe7eec
Include "instances of most classes" in a warning about mutable objects
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as default values of function/method parameters.
2003-06-18 17:14:29 +00:00