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106 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake 9aa8543c84 open() description: Made it more clear that 'b' should always be
added to the mode value for binary files to improve
	portability.

Fixed latex2html weirdness with a couple of footnotes.
1999-04-05 21:22:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cb1f2420ea Document complex() with string arg. 1999-03-25 21:23:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8be229650d Document new builtin buffer(). Greg Stein. 1999-03-19 19:10:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 70a66c9d6d Add notes to __builtin__.float() and string.atof() that the NaN and Inf
results are possible but non-portable.
1999-02-18 16:08:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 951eea4733 atof() description: Add information about accepting 'NaN' to produce
the NaN value.
1999-02-18 03:49:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 87e611e441 Replace the docs for reduce with an adaptation of its docstring, which
was actually clearer!
1999-01-06 23:10:51 +00:00
Fred Drake d83675f344 "singed" --> "signed" (3 places)
Noticed by Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>.
1998-12-07 17:13:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8c2da61811 Add explicit example on how to import a submodule of a package using
__import__ and getattr().
1998-12-04 15:32:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5eabf3823b Clarify that min and max also take multiple arguments. 1998-11-25 18:53:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 2510d22048 Clarify the default buffering for open(). (Comment from Andrew Dalke
<dalke@bioreason.com>).
1998-11-02 18:57:34 +00:00
Barry Warsaw b2031f72d3 Document that apply() can now take any sequence in argument 2. 1998-10-01 15:35:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 607f802886 round(): Mark the second (optional) parameter as optional, since it's
described that way.

setattr():  Clarify that the attribute doesn't need to exist to be set.
1998-08-24 20:30:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 295da24eaf New section header style.
Fix up a few synopses.
1998-08-10 19:42:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5fdd119aba Clarify the + and b mode characters for open() a bit. 1998-07-29 21:05:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a7874d1505 Revert the change of revision 1.30. While it's in general a laudable
goal to use isinstance(x, y) instead of comparing type(x) to y, it
doesn't make sense to change this in the example code for the type()
builtin...
1998-06-22 14:07:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 1b0ff2c32f eval() example: Removed final interpreter prompt; other examples don't have
the empty prompt.
1998-06-19 21:19:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7b7f6688d2 Added a stronger warning about changing the dictionary returned by
locals().
1998-06-18 16:45:34 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 777dcc6b21 Change the description of input() -- it is exactly equivalent to
eval(raw_input(s)).  The statement about breaking a long expression
over multiple lines is no longer true.
1998-06-17 15:16:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 6b303b4bdd Signature for dir() omitted the optional argument. 1998-04-16 22:10:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 6251c169c6 Small nits.
One more index entry.

Be more specific about an exception raised by range().
1998-04-03 07:15:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 0a73d4db51 Removed reference to ni module. 1998-04-02 18:46:44 +00:00
Fred Drake cce1090d49 Change "\," to just "," in function signatures. This is easier to maintain,
works better with LaTeX2HTML, and allows some simplification of the python.sty
macros.
1998-03-17 06:33:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 53525379da Logical markup. 1998-03-03 21:56:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 315b5d8a7f In description of __import__, second paragraph, break up the markup for long
\code{} at each embedded space, so that the words will wrap.  This keeps it
from running off the side of the page, and is only slightly weird.
1998-02-13 21:26:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 1947991c2f Remove all \bcode / \ecode cruft; this is no longer needed. See previous
checkin of myformat.sty.

Change "\renewcommand{\indexsubitem}{(...)}" to "\setindexsubitem{(...)}"
everywhere.

Some other minor nits that I happened to come across.
1998-02-13 06:58:54 +00:00
Fred Drake af8a015c93 Consistency: "{\bf ...}" ==> "\strong{...}"
"{\em ...}" ==> "\emph{...}"

	      Not at all sure what to do with "{\rm ...}".
	      Leaving it for now.
1998-01-14 14:51:31 +00:00
Fred Drake fd49a964bc Follow current recommended practice in an example: Use isinstance() to
perform a type test instead of type(x) == types.FoobarType.  In example
for type().
1998-01-11 21:15:23 +00:00
Guido van Rossum eb0f066fb8 Correct small nits reported by Rob Hooft. 1997-12-30 20:38:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 90f2e5e202 Added a named target for referencing. 1997-12-16 04:06:33 +00:00
Fred Drake e14388c4b8 Fixed index references to modules. 1997-12-15 22:28:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3593e5c4c3 Document new behavior of isinstance() when using a type object. 1997-12-02 19:15:01 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7974b0f2d8 Documented __import__, callable, isinstance, issubclass,
and slice.
1997-10-05 18:53:00 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e47da0ae04 AMK's megapatch:
* \bcode, \ecode added everywhere
	* \label{module-foo} added everywhere
	* A few \seealso sections added.
	* Indentation fixed inside verbatim in lib*tex files
1997-07-17 16:34:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 921f32ce4c Mention abs(complex) -> magnitude (AMK).
Documented list().
Mention [raw_]input()'s interface to GNU readline.
1997-06-02 17:21:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1cd26f2fc0 Add complex().
Update int(), long(), float() to support string conversions.
1997-04-02 06:04:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3978d75cca Added intern() 1997-03-03 16:03:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5cd752028c Describe new ("unsigned") behavior of hex() and oct(). 1997-01-14 18:44:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 4b3f0312c9 (lib<all sorts of stuff>.tex):
Merged in many typo corrections and fixes to support GNU info
	processing; submitted by Tamito Kajiyama.
1996-12-13 22:04:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1dde7b737c Typos detected by Sjoerd 1996-10-11 15:57:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 59b328e11e Added warning about behavior of open mode 'a' (or 'a+'). 1996-05-02 15:16:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0568d5e92c apply() third arg 1995-10-08 01:06:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fb502e964f documented globals() and locals() 1995-07-07 22:58:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ecde781dd1 restructured library manual accordiung to functional group 1995-03-28 13:35:14 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 470be14c8a mass changes; fix titles; add examples; correct typos; clarifications;
unified style; etc.
1995-03-17 16:07:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6bb1adc7ee small changes by Soren Larsen 1995-03-13 10:03:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6c4f003202 changes (suggested) by Soren Larsen 1995-03-07 10:14:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8675115e5f a few typographical changes (e.g. -- => ---) and lots of new stuff in the WWW chapter 1995-02-28 17:14:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7f49b7a1a4 cosmetics/typos 1995-01-12 12:38:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f860162093 updated eval(), added execfile() 1995-01-10 10:50:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1efbb0f002 Added docs for delattr 1994-08-16 22:15:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b8b264b165 * Doc/libfuncs.tex: don't use $math$ in description of pow(x,y,z);
describe tuple()

	* Doc/libposixfile.tex: use tableiii instead of tableii, so
	partparse will work again (I know, chicken!)

	* Doc/libthread.tex: Added get_ident(); updated text on module
	availability

	* Doc/myformat.perl: Added sub do_cmd_Cpp
1994-08-12 13:13:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 16d6e7109d Lots of small corrections by Andrew Kuchling (plus all new rotor docs) 1994-08-08 12:30:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 041be05976 Documented optional bufsize argument to open() and the fact that mode
is now also optional
1994-05-03 14:46:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1738311dab Documented new built-in function vars().
Documented new formatting features: %s takes any type, and
'%(key)format' % dictionary.
Documented posixpath.expandvars().
1994-04-21 10:32:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 68cfbe7c93 Documented xrange; crossreffed lambda a bit more 1994-02-24 11:28:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5fdeeeae2a Restructured library documentation 1994-01-02 01:22:07 +00:00