[ 587993 ] SET_LINENO killer
Remove SET_LINENO. Tracing is now supported by inspecting co_lnotab.
Many sundry changes to document and adapt to this change.
the semantics and presentation used in the library reference.
Added an explanation of the use of [...] to denote optional arguments, since
this is the only use of this in a signature line.
Closes SF bug #567127.
modules, or the module cannot be properly imported. (Based on a suggestion
sent to python-docs.)
Update the displayed dir() of the sys and __builtin__ module with Python 2.2.
parameters (like \UNIX) are commonly entered using an empty group to
separate the markup from a following inter-word space; this is not
needed when the next character is punctuation, or the markup is the
last thing in the enclosing group. These cases were marked
inconsistently; the empty group is now *only* used when needed.
the source file using "in ?".
Added a description of the bare "raise" statement.
Added more description and examples for user-defined exceptions; this
is part of a response to SF bug #443559.
need to understand about the binary & decimal fp, so that representation
weirdness is documented somewhere. This makes it easier to repond to "bug"
reports caused by user confusion & ignorance of the issues.
This closes SF patch #426208.
numbers that display nicely after repr(). From much doctest experience
with the same trick, I believe people find examples with simple fractions
easier to understand too: they can usually check the results in their
head, and so feel confident about what they're seeing. Not even I get a
warm feeling from a result that looks like 70330.345024097141 ...
floating point numbers in an interactive example.
Added comment to help explain control flow in the example code showing
how to check if a number is prime.
This closes SF bugs 419434 and 424552.
Change "EOF" to "end-of-file", on the premise that it is easier for
new programmers to understand (at least a little).
This does not attempt to explain "file or device attached to standard
input."
hyperlink.
Fix two English usage errors caught by Jan Wells: Changed "subsequence"
to "sub-sequence" in two places, and avoid improper use of "hopefully" in
the first paragraph of the "What Now?" chapter.
Remove premature use of negative indexes in string operation examples;
negative indexes have not been explained at that point, and the use of
negative indexes are not necessary for the examples.
Raymond Hettinger
Fred Drake
Martin v. Löwis
Michael W. Hudson
Neal Norwitz
Andrew M. Kuchling
Tim Peters
Ka-Ping Yee