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Just van Rossum 3eb166b49b Slightly improved version of patch #642578: "Expose PyImport_FrozenModules 
in imp". This adds two functions to the imp module: get_frozenmodules()
and set_frozenmodules().
 2002-11-29 20:47:40 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e33d3df030 SF Patch 643443. Added dict.fromkeys(iterable, value=None), a class 
method for constructing new dictionaries from sequences of keys.
 2002-11-27 07:29:33 +00:00
Fred Drake e9cfcef71e Clarify the interpretation of the __getstate__() return value for 
new-style classes.
Closes SF bug #637941.
 2002-11-27 05:26:46 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 057ab14e7d * libbz2.tex 
Fixed minor typo, suggested by Drew Perttula <drewp@bigasterisk.com>.
 2002-11-25 18:51:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 15353f5c64 Remove extra word 2002-11-25 16:01:08 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis b5c980b802 Add unidata_version. Bump generator version number. 2002-11-25 09:13:37 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 677bde2dd1 Patch #626485: Support Unicode normalization. 2002-11-23 22:08:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 6e596b6895 Added change note about returning a dictionary based on keyword 
arguments.
 2002-11-23 15:02:13 +00:00
Just van Rossum a797d8150d Patch #642500 with slight modifications: allow keyword arguments in 
dict() constructor. Example:
  >>> dict(a=1, b=2)
  {'a': 1, 'b': 2}
  >>>
 2002-11-23 09:45:04 +00:00
Fred Drake a191befb2d Clarify the default setting for daemon_threads. 2002-11-22 14:29:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 74f5a56c2c Fix markup. 2002-11-22 14:28:53 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 4581cfa326 Patch #486438: Make module argument to testmod optional. 2002-11-22 08:23:09 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f86e8ef33e Patch #550765: Add daemon_threads flag. 2002-11-22 08:08:44 +00:00
Piers Lauder d3c821ee71 added details of new IMAP4_stream class; emphasised meaning of data part of command results; added proxyauth command description 2002-11-22 05:47:39 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis d899605e30 Patch #633547: Support plural forms. Do TODOs in test suite. 2002-11-21 21:45:32 +00:00
Tim Peters 3350b5bfd9 NamedTemporaryFile: clarify behavior based on confusions noted by a 
user, and spell out a x-platform use limitation.
 2002-11-21 16:32:11 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 72f861657a Document additional error handling names available through PEP 293. 2002-11-19 21:51:35 +00:00
Walter Dörwald f171540ab8 Change int() so that passing a string, unicode, float or long argument 
that is outside the integer range no longer raises OverflowError, but
returns a long object instead.

This fixes SF bug http://www.python.org/sf/635115
 2002-11-19 20:49:15 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 311f419628 Improve comments. Clarify docs. 
Replace "type(0)" with "int".
Replace "while 1" with "while True"
 2002-11-18 09:01:24 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 8ddc176e2e Improve DictMixin. 
Replaced docstring with comments.  Prevents subclass contamination.
Added the missing __cmp__() method and a test for __cmp__().
Used try/except style in preference to has_key() followed by a look-up.
Used iteritem() where possible to save creating a long key list and
   to save redundant lookups.
Expanded .update() to look for the most helpful methods first and gradually
   work down to a mininum expected interface.
Expanded documentation to be more clear on how to use the class.
 2002-11-18 04:34:10 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 6141812820 correct typo detected by Lee Hansen 2002-11-17 11:09:50 +00:00
Fred Drake e55bec2566 Better note that str.zfill() was added in 2.2.2 as well. ;-( 2002-11-16 00:44:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 9171801de9 Document that a minor feature was added in 2.2.2. ;-( 
Closes SF bug #639170.
 2002-11-16 00:41:55 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 5654cc215a SF 639138, Ref. calendar module in time docs by John J Lee 
Will backport.
 2002-11-15 23:00:30 +00:00
Fred Drake c734b01759 Fix critical markup errors. 2002-11-15 18:49:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 3a2cda876b Minor revisions to clarify the status of xreadlines(), change the way 
iteration support was documented; the docs for __iter__() were just
confusing.
 2002-11-15 16:38:06 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 7994716b6b SF patch #520382: Expand shelve.py to have a full dictionary interface 
and add a mixin to UserDict.py to make it easier to implement a full
dictionary interface.
 2002-11-15 06:46:14 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 4ebe2e3914 add liblogging 2002-11-14 03:58:20 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 649698f72e initial rough cut at documentation of logging module. This is basically 
just a conversion of pydoc.help(logging).
 2002-11-14 03:57:19 +00:00
Fred Drake bad460790e Document struct_time and the field names. 2002-11-13 19:05:01 +00:00
Fred Drake a5a173efbf Fix broken markup. 
Closes SF bug #637807.
 2002-11-13 17:48:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 2c184e7eea Typo: it's --> its 
Closes SF bug #637810.
 2002-11-13 15:56:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 3d03968c75 Clarified meaning of \w and \W with respect to the UNICODE and LOCALE flags. 
Closes SF bug #635595.
 2002-11-12 23:12:54 +00:00
Tim Peters b9099c3df4 SF patch 637176: list.sort crasher 
Armin Rigo's Draconian but effective fix for

SF bug 453523: list.sort crasher

slightly fiddled to catch more cases of list mutation.  The dreaded
internal "immutable list type" is gone!  OTOH, if you look at a list
*while* it's being sorted now, it will appear to be empty.  Better
than a core dump.
 2002-11-12 22:08:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 4b9ed2f346 Clarified documentation of tempnam(). 
Closes SF bug #635656.
 2002-11-12 22:07:11 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f24eb35d18 SF patch 629637: Add sample(population, k) method to the random module. 
Used for random sampling without replacement.
 2002-11-12 17:41:57 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 430b1563dd Add documentation for the PEP 293 functionality: 
The errors attribute can be changed after the reader/writer
is created.

For encoding there are two additional errors values:
"xmlcharrefreplace" and "backslashreplace".

These values can be extended via register_error().
 2002-11-07 22:33:17 +00:00
Fred Drake b5f41dedeb Minor markup adjustments. 2002-11-07 17:13:03 +00:00
Thomas Heller 5b470e0a3a Document the changed fdopen behaviour. 
(Hope the markup is ok).
 2002-11-07 16:33:44 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e3fb22bd4a [Patch #633635 from David M. Cooke] 
Make docs accurate; getch() in nodelay mode returns -1
 2002-11-06 14:17:21 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 110aa50cc2 Fix minor wording and 2 typos 2002-11-05 23:55:27 +00:00
Neal Norwitz fad265e651 Whoops, fix the typo correctly this time 2002-11-05 22:46:39 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 75f36b7040 Document the new `pp' command. 2002-11-05 22:41:16 +00:00
Neal Norwitz c2f7757ef5 Fix minor typos 2002-11-05 22:37:58 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a288a234ec Document that images go away when they go away. Fixes #632323. 2002-11-05 22:11:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 18c7d98bd1 Fix a few minor nits. Still need to actually proofread this. 2002-11-05 17:54:02 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer f8ca8364c9 Patch implementing bz2 module. 
* setup.py
  (PyBuildExt.detect_modules): Included bz2 module detection.

* Modules/bz2module.c
* Lib/test/test_bz2.py
* Doc/lib/libbz2.tex
  Included files implementing, testing, and documenting bz2 module.

* Doc/Makefile.deps
* Doc/lib/lib.tex
  Include references to libbz2.tex.

* Misc/NEWS
  (Library): Mention distutils' c++ linkage patch, and new bz2 module.
 2002-11-05 16:50:05 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 22610da481 Document symbolic constants for commands. 2002-11-04 17:41:18 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 1da9c57c74 Patch #630829: Don't block on IAC, process suboptions. 2002-11-04 09:56:00 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f0a4668e6f Add getpreferredencoding. Support @euro modifiers. Fixes #554676. 
The @euro part is backported to 2.2.3.
 2002-11-03 17:20:12 +00:00
Neal Norwitz cf57e50989 Fix SF #632864, Typo string instead of sting in LibDoc. Will backport. 2002-11-03 13:13:20 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 034c749ff4 Fix SF #618146, overflow error in calendar module 
Will backport.
 2002-11-03 00:13:42 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 1a7a894d90 Move introductory sentence to where it belongs. 2002-11-02 13:32:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 9482d2591a Update example for the type() function to use the currently accepted 
preference of using "is" instead of "==" to compare types, use
built-in names where available, and point to the isinstance()
function.
Closes SF bug #632196.
 2002-11-01 21:33:44 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3adefccdcb Use personal e-mail address 2002-10-30 21:08:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 4e303aad05 Add notes to the asctime() and ctime() descriptions to make it 
explicit that locale information is not used.  There wasn't anything
that implied it was, but this has confused users.
 2002-10-30 18:17:03 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 74b51ac1e5 Patch #613256: Add nescape method to xml.sax.saxutils. 2002-10-26 14:50:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 0eebd5cef9 Implement a safer and more predictable interpolation approach. 
Closes SF bug #511737.
 2002-10-25 21:52:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 97d5f05221 Update to reflect the refactoring into the RawConfigParser and 
ConfigParser classes.
 2002-10-25 20:20:58 +00:00
Fred Drake f596826673 - The "-" format flag overrides the "0" flag, not the "-" flag. 
- Documented the alternate forms, which were claimed to be documented
  but were not.
 2002-10-25 16:55:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 50276abd9b Update an example to use the DOM implementation object. Explain that 
the parse() and parseString() functions use a separate parser, not
actually implement a parser.  (This is a common question.)
 2002-10-24 19:36:04 +00:00
Fred Drake ff287cfb4c Point to the PyXML package as an extended version of the "xml" package 
that can provide this fuctionality.

Note that the docs for the xml.dom and xml.sax packages are the
definitiona of the Python bindings for the DOM and SAX interfaces.
 2002-10-23 20:58:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 88f015dc88 Moved description of _urlopener adjacent to the related functions. 
Added missing import to example code.

Added documentation for pathname2url(), url2pathname().
Closes SF bug #623196.
 2002-10-22 21:58:06 +00:00
Fred Drake d6cf8bea0a Modify example to use string methods instead of the string module. 2002-10-22 20:31:22 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh 019bd4a6c1 terminology 2002-10-22 18:26:28 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh 1303c7cb16 add support for basic authentication, based on patch #624180 
by Phillip J. Eby
 2002-10-22 18:23:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 7d428ecc57 Clarify what versions of Windows are supported, and add Linux 
specifically.
 2002-10-22 15:06:49 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh e7c38d48ff fixed the mail address in the documentation, too... 2002-10-19 20:22:56 +00:00
Fred Drake d8eeeae4a6 Fix reference to the Fetchmail FAQ: 
- URL was missing an "m"
- markup for tilde was wrong
- URL was marked as the title
- actual title was omitted

"make webcheck" didn't catch this; not sure why.

Removed some spurious end-of-line whitespace.
 2002-10-18 16:50:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 5f2c1d27b9 Typo(!): "normal" -> "number" 2002-10-17 19:23:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 98ef20d5e4 Document urldefrag(). 2002-10-16 20:07:54 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f607bdaa77 Add PyStructSequence_UnnamedField. Add stat_float_times. 
Use integers in stat tuple, optionally floats in named fields.
 2002-10-16 18:27:39 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 77ac429eff Patch #572628: Optional timeouts for put and get. 2002-10-15 15:11:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 16ecb2160f Fix tildes in URLs. Closes SF bug #614821. 2002-10-12 15:02:46 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 36a4d8c20e Remove mentionings of DOS. 2002-10-10 18:24:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 5430f4e9c8 Document when unittest was added to Python. 2002-10-10 16:16:25 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 6f0f961741 Update email micro release number. 2002-10-10 15:58:19 +00:00
Barry Warsaw df88b9fadf Document that the Charset constructor coerces its argument to lower 
case.
 2002-10-10 15:23:38 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 57ce1430b2 Document that get_content_charset() coerces its return value to lower 
case.
 2002-10-10 15:22:16 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis dbe3f76270 Patch #569139: Implementation of major, minor and makedev. 2002-10-10 14:27:30 +00:00
Fred Drake aa02c8441b Accept Armin's documentation patch for SF bug #558179. 
Adjusted some markup to make the descriptions more consistent.
 2002-10-09 22:33:23 +00:00
Mark Hammond 8696ebcd28 Add os.path.supports_unicode_filenames for all platforms, 
sys.getwindowsversion() on Windows (new enahanced Tim-proof <wink>
version), and fix test_pep277.py in a few minor ways.
Including doc and NEWS entries.
 2002-10-08 02:44:31 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis e9ce0b0fea Patch #448038: Add move(). Report errors from copytree as in shutil.Error. 2002-10-07 13:23:24 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a844f2d165 Document patch #594001. 2002-10-05 09:46:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 0ba5541a0e Add a comment to the top of the file explaining why the file is here. 2002-10-01 18:20:16 +00:00
Barry Warsaw dd868d32e0 nits 2002-10-01 15:29:09 +00:00
Barry Warsaw de6977f441 Added an introduction. 2002-10-01 15:13:29 +00:00
Fred Drake c61617320f Stub document for the stand-alone email package distribution. 
Barry, please add a reasonable abstract!
 2002-10-01 14:38:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 6516e14968 Minor style nit for referring to other attributes of the same class 
from an attributes description.
 2002-10-01 14:29:58 +00:00
Fred Drake fcc31b44d2 Split the long email package examples into separate files and use 
\verbatiminput instead of the verbatim environment -- this does the "right
thing" regarding page breaks in long examples for the typeset formats, and
has nice benefits for the HTML version as well.
 2002-10-01 14:17:10 +00:00
Barry Warsaw ea66abc6e2 Cleaned up the examples. 2002-10-01 04:48:06 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 5db478fa29 Proofread and spell checked, all except the Examples section (which 
I'll do next).
 2002-10-01 04:33:16 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 5b9da893d3 Vast update to email version 2. This could surely use proofreading. 2002-10-01 01:05:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 2ca041fde0 items(): New method, provided by Gustavo Niemeyer in SF bug #545096. 2002-09-27 15:49:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 4613876ee3 Add deprecation notices to the documentation to reflect recent additions to 
PEP 4.
 2002-09-25 22:13:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 3e930ba55f Another try at clarifying what goes into and comes out of Unicode objects. 2002-09-24 21:08:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 36c2bd8e34 Remove spurious period. 2002-09-24 15:32:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 7b788e0582 Clarify that len() of a Unicode string returns the number of storage units, 
not abstract characters.
 2002-09-24 13:57:21 +00:00
Greg Ward 02669a35bc Tweak description of PortableUnixMailbox: "From " lines are actually 
quoted (or mangled) *at* delivery-time, not "well before" it.  (At least
that's how Exim and qmail work.)
 2002-09-23 19:32:42 +00:00
Thomas Heller c687401337 Fix typos: despatcher -> dispatcher. 2002-09-17 15:19:12 +00:00
Fred Drake c1ddc505d9 Minor revision to the "\\" patch, including updating the docs a little to 
accomodate the fact that they are more general now that they are for the
os.path module and not just posixpath.

This and the previous patch should be combined and applied to the 2.2-maint
branch.
 2002-09-12 18:01:26 +00:00
Skip Montanaro c12909bcc6 add note about os.path.join and drive letters on Windows. 2002-09-12 17:39:56 +00:00
Fred Drake b7c1895ec5 Fix typo reported by Paul Clifford. 
Note that there is no str.joinfields(), use str.join() instead.
 2002-09-12 14:16:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 73e8ebfc5a Revise text about the level of DOM support, and provide pointers to 
the work of the XML-SIG in the main body of the text.

Modify the markup in a few places to avoid wrapping lines in bad
places, and just general cleanliness.
 2002-09-11 22:03:47 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 504bc4f3b7 Remove mentioning of Python 2.0 limitations. Fixes #607783. 2002-09-11 16:26:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 691fb55dd2 Clarify who maintains Tkinter and who maintains Tk. 2002-09-10 21:59:17 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a32c994129 Always generate floats for stat_result; fix configure test. 2002-09-09 16:17:47 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 94717ed1d4 Patch #606592: Subsecond timestamps in stat_result. 2002-09-09 14:24:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 8a64d40949 Fix typo. Close SF Bug 606354. 2002-09-08 22:26:13 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 2c0d3224fc tightened up the definition of \b and \B some more based upon discussion 
after the last checkin.
 2002-09-07 18:48:14 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 5ccaf8f129 Apply diff3.txt (plus additional documentation) 
from SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/554192

This adds two new functions to mimetypes:
guess_all_extensions() which returns a list of all known
extensions for a mime type, and add_type() which adds one
mapping between a mime type and an extension.
 2002-09-06 16:15:58 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 2c519981fb update docs to reflect that \b considers underscore to be part of a word. 2002-09-06 14:38:23 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d918884bb8 Fix typo 2002-09-04 23:52:42 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger a04c3d86ae Fix typo 2002-09-04 15:12:07 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 8e790e7007 expose PYTHON_API_VERSION macro as sys.api_version. Closes patch # 601456. 2002-09-03 13:25:17 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 3aeb632c31 PEP 293 implemention (from SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/432401) 2002-09-02 13:14:32 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 53d58bb369 Further SET_LINENO reomval fixes. See comments in patch #587933. 
Use a slightly different strategy to determine when not to call the line
trace function.  This removes the need for the RETURN_NONE opcode, so
that's gone again.  Update docs and comments to match.

Thanks to Neal and Armin!

Also add a test suite.  This should have come with the original patch...
 2002-08-30 13:09:51 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9240be2a35 Note change in behavior from 1.5.2. The new argument to NameError is 
an error message and not just the missing name.

Closes SF Bug 599869.
 2002-08-27 23:53:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 80a04a4894 Add strong security warning about the rexec module. 
Closes SF patch #600861.

Minor markup changes.
 2002-08-27 16:46:06 +00:00
Tim Peters ea76c98014 Implemented <, <=, >, >= for sets, giving subset and proper-subset 
meanings.  I did not add new, e.g., ispropersubset() methods; we're
going nuts on those, and, e.g., there was no "friendly name" for
== either.
 2002-08-25 18:43:10 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 7ad09552d0 Correct documentation of allow_reuse_address to match the actual script. 
Closes SF bug 599681.
 2002-08-25 16:27:33 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e87ab3fefe Removed < <= > >= from the API. Implemented as comparisons of the 
underlying dictionaries, there were no reasonable use cases (lexicographic
sorting of a list of sets is somewhat esoteric).  Frees the operators
for other uses (such as strict subset and superset comparisons).

Updated documentation and test suite accordingly.
 2002-08-24 07:33:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 055be47b43 Fix typo reported to python-docs. 2002-08-23 21:19:53 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger fa8dd5f407 Fix markup and punctuation 2002-08-23 18:10:54 +00:00
Tim Peters b81b252fab s/_as_Temporarily_Immutable/_as_temporarily_immutable/g, because the 
latter is what the code actually does.
 2002-08-23 17:48:23 +00:00
Tim Peters 54fd3e6ffc pop(): An arbitrary element is removed, not a random element. 2002-08-23 17:45:43 +00:00
Fred Drake d10c6c949a Adjust the markup in a few places so this will actually format. 
Remove the third column in the tables since it isn't used.
 2002-08-23 17:22:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 584cb198f7 Load docs for sets.py 2002-08-23 15:18:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 5ec486b87a Add a note that apply() is needed since the extended call syntax is 
completely equivalent.
 2002-08-22 14:27:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 61cf4407be Added a main() function and support to run this module as a script. 
Closes SF feature request #588768.
 2002-08-21 20:56:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 5b09eeea89 Clarify that even though some of the relevant specifications define the 
order in which form variables should be encoded in a request, a CGI script
should not rely on that since a client may not conform to those specs, or
they may not be relevant to the request.
Closes SF bug #596866.
 2002-08-21 19:24:21 +00:00
Fred Drake ffefb1df56 Clarify the endpos argument to the rx.match() method. 
Closes SF bug #597177.
 2002-08-20 13:57:47 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 11b795cd0f Add versionadded for operator.pow 2002-08-19 22:38:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 017778332f Extend some comments on the order of values in the returns from 
dict.items/keys/values/iteritems/iterkeys/itervalues().
 2002-08-19 21:58:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 45ec02aed1 SF patch 576101, by Oren Tirosh: alternative implementation of 
interning.  I modified Oren's patch significantly, but the basic idea
and most of the implementation is unchanged.  Interned strings created
with PyString_InternInPlace() are now mortal, and you must keep a
reference to the resulting string around; use the new function
PyString_InternImmortal() to create immortal interned strings.
 2002-08-19 21:43:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5959c559df Added __pow__(a,b) to the operator module. Completes the pattern of 
all operators having a counterpart in the operator module.

Closes SF bug #577513.
 2002-08-19 03:19:09 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson dd32a91cc0 This is my patch 
[ 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.
 2002-08-15 14:59:02 +00:00
Barry Warsaw b8c20a723f More updates describing FutureWarnings. 2002-08-14 16:40:54 +00:00
Tim Peters 2f238c1b22 mkstemp's last argument changed from binary=True to text=False. 2002-08-14 16:37:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 830a5151c1 Doc portion of SF 589982 (tempfile.py rewrite, by Zack Weinberg). 
Fred, please review!
 2002-08-09 16:16:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b2865919cc Document that heappop() and heapreplace() raise IndexError if the heap 
is empty.
 2002-08-07 18:56:08 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 22c001bd29 Described responsibilty of weakly referenced extension types to initialize 
the weakreflist to NULL in the constructor and to fill the tp_flags
slot with Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_WEAKREFS.  Closes SF bug 586583.
 2002-08-07 16:18:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 3cfdc3402e Documented os.fsync and os.fdatasync. Closes SF bug 584695. 2002-08-07 15:48:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 442c7c7743 Clarify that the bool instances are acceptable return values from 
__nonzero__(), in response to SF bug #579991.
 2002-08-07 15:40:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 95fa4ddf7b Change the markup a bit more; the parameter was not marked as \var in the 
sample code, and the note was marked as a logical thing.
 2002-08-07 12:39:33 +00:00
Steve Holden 63d5bead18 Fix markup errors. 2002-08-07 12:01:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 2d3c03df9a Added references to the email package. 
Closes SF bug #586937.
 2002-08-06 21:26:01 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 97c5fccd77 Remove mention of deprecated xreadlines method. 2002-08-06 17:03:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0fc01865f3 Document file.next(). Mark xreadlines obsolete (both method and 
module).  (One thing remains to be done: the gzip class has an
xreadline method; this ought to be replaced by an iterator as well.)
 2002-08-06 17:01:28 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 817918cc3c Committing patch #591250 which provides "str1 in str2" when str1 is a 
string of longer than 1 character.
 2002-08-06 16:58:21 +00:00
Steve Holden 545092b063 Add comment about os.path.walk()'s behavior with symbolic links. 2002-08-06 16:07:07 +00:00
Neal Norwitz e72a9a13a1 SF patch #591305 Documentation err in bytecode defs 2002-08-05 23:33:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger acb45d72b4 Note that True and False are pickable objects 2002-08-05 03:55:36 +00:00
Steve Holden c8389c91c2 Remove a syntax error in the example, spotted by Walter Hofman. 2002-08-04 15:27:25 +00:00
Tim Peters 0ad679ff0f Document new heapreplace() function. 2002-08-03 18:53:28 +00:00
Tim Peters 6e0da82a97 Document new heapify() function. 2002-08-03 18:02:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 1acab695a7 Minor markup changes. 2002-08-02 19:46:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 975121664e Add docs for heapq.py. 2002-08-02 18:03:24 +00:00
Skip Montanaro de994d9130 indicate that 'b' is added to the mode flag if not given 2002-08-02 17:20:46 +00:00
Tim Peters 74824584ef Added new footnote about list.sort() stability. Repaired footnote about 
using sort() with comparison functions (it made reference to the non-
existent "builtin-in function sort()").

BTW, I changed list.sort's docstring to contain the word "stable" -- the
easiest way to tell whether a particular Python version's sort *is* stable
is to look for "stable" in the docstring.  I'm not sure whether to
advertise this <wink>.
 2002-08-01 03:10:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 5b11bdd0ed SF patch #581414: info reader bug 
The "Matching vs. Searching" Info node is unreachable from the Info
program (but is fine in Emacs's Info mode). This patch seems to fix
it.  This is the only occurrence where the info reader fails, so
probably it could be addressed in the python docs as a workaround.
Forwarded the report to the info maintainer.
 2002-07-30 17:51:20 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 0cec0ffc78 Patch #573770: Implement lchown. 2002-07-28 16:33:45 +00:00
Fred Drake db40afaabe Small clarifications when referring to the sys.exc_* variables so that 
readers are not given the wrong impression that they should be using those
on a regualar basis.
This closes SF bug #585598.
 2002-07-25 21:11:23 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 403e351dfc Flesh out description of getlogin() and recommend against using it. 2002-07-24 15:32:25 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 1cfcafceb6 add versionadded to doc 2002-07-20 00:46:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 18eb8b85b3 Doc patch from SF 474274 (pure Python strptime by Brett Cannon). 2002-07-19 17:09:36 +00:00
Fred Drake f0b095d804 Added documentation for the buffer_text and related attributes of the 
xmlparser object provided by pyexpat, new in Python 2.3.
 2002-07-17 20:31:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 2095b9690f reduce(): Clarified what is returned in the case of a sequence 1 item long and 
initial/default value.
 2002-07-17 13:55:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9534e14033 Record the decision that StopIteration is a sink state (see recent 
discussion in python-dev with subject "Termination of two-arg iter()").

Implementation will follow.
 2002-07-16 19:53:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 54ed2d32f9 Clarify that the description of sys.path[0] is only valid upon program 
start-up.
 2002-07-15 16:08:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 3e59f72075 Clarify the return value of __nonzero__(): It *must* be an integer. 
Closes SF bug #579991.
 2002-07-12 17:15:10 +00:00
Fred Drake e4523c46b9 Document gc.get_objects(). 
Closes SF bug #578308.
 2002-07-10 19:21:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 4254cbd29c Note that unicode() can raise LookupError for unknown codecs. 
Closes SF bug #513666.
 2002-07-09 05:25:46 +00:00
Fred Drake c6a525e993 Fix typo reported by Kent Engström, and a bunch of broken markup. 2002-07-08 14:42:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 50e1286c00 Fix typo: "an Unicode string" --> "a Unicode string" 
Clarify the return value when the parameter is a Unicode object.
 2002-07-08 14:29:05 +00:00
Steve Holden b1af86a1d7 Revise asyncore documentation and document asynchat for the first time. 2002-07-03 18:36:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 228f6e4e7a Fix up a few more consistency nits and incorrectly applied markup. 
Further clarify the English-centricity of fix_sentence_endings.
 2002-07-03 05:08:48 +00:00
Fred Drake c412617779 Add annotations that describe the change in the "errors" and "failures" 
attributes of the TestResult.
 2002-07-02 22:46:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 387c8b5f37 Update the documentation of the errors and failures attributes of the 
TestResult object.  Add an example of how to get even more information for
apps that can use it.
Closes SF bug #558278.
 2002-07-02 22:34:44 +00:00
Greg Ward 285f4a7db7 Don't list all the keyword args to the TextWrapper constructor in the 
classdesc -- just use "..." with prose explaining the correspondence
between keyword args and instance attributes.

Document 'width' along with the other instance attributes.

Describe default values consistently.

Typo fixes.
 2002-07-02 21:48:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 2c22e85ae7 Attempt to clarify removedirs(). 
Based on SF bug #574773.
 2002-07-02 21:03:49 +00:00
Fred Drake ca23ee273e Deal with & remove the XXX comments. 
Change the markup to be more like the rest of the documentation.
 2002-07-02 20:37:12 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 7d650ca83b Implement the encoding argument for toxml and toprettyxml. 
Document toprettyxml.
 2002-06-30 15:05:00 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 550fd5d799 Fixed bug 574978 shutil example out of sync with source code 2002-06-30 04:43:20 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 8a9e8b6d0e Fix bug 575221 referred to dictionary type instead of dict. 2002-06-30 04:32:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 78e057a32a Clarify the version information for the unicode() built-in. 
Closes SF bug #575272.
 2002-06-29 16:06:47 +00:00
Greg Ward ae64f3adcd Add documentation for new textwrap module. 2002-06-29 02:38:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 2c813818c8 Clean up some markup. 2002-06-27 18:30:34 +00:00
Neal Norwitz dcd0500664 dis.dis() also supports modules 2002-06-26 22:32:47 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger ca0383d3a3 Fix bug #573916. Sender and recipients reversed in email example. 2002-06-26 07:51:32 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 763805dab2 add seealso link to the bisect module 2002-06-26 05:22:08 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 09d9f86c77 add /F's PriorityQueue example 2002-06-26 05:07:28 +00:00
Fred Drake c5e2792ab4 Talk about interfaces rather than implementation classes where appropriate. 
Add hyperlinks to make the documentation on the Attributes and AttributesNS
interfaces more discoverable.
Closes SF bug #484603.
 2002-06-25 17:10:50 +00:00
Fred Drake b6aa9cbb96 Added some more links to the "See also" section. 2002-06-25 16:58:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 7bc121a4fb When talking about interfaces, use the interface names, not the names 
of the implementation classes.  (Remove the "Impl" from two names.)
 2002-06-25 16:25:01 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f0236d7374 Fix typo 2002-06-25 15:26:59 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5ed3fa6578 Fix SF bug 568269 by enclosing 'computername' in a raw string 2002-06-25 04:53:05 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 563d12d145 SF # 572928 One word change for lib/libgettext.tex 
Fix typo.
 2002-06-24 02:22:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 53540ab071 Correct the RE equivalent of scanf()'s %x and %X patterns. 
Closes SF bug #572169.
 2002-06-22 01:07:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 473f46a853 Make the docs for string.capitalize() match those of str.capitalize() 
(which makes it more clear).
Closes SF bug #571767.
 2002-06-20 21:18:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 807354f3b6 Add a note that divmod() with complex numbers is deprecated. 2002-06-20 21:10:25 +00:00
Fred Drake dce695aa4e Added reference to the Expat home page. 2002-06-20 21:06:03 +00:00
Fred Drake f4bf7aa292 Typo: bites --> bytes 
(Hanging around small kids too much...;)
 2002-06-18 20:38:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 9ea01d415f Add description of the deadlock problem with child processes and pipes, and 
hints about how to work around it.
Closes SF bug #530637.
 2002-06-18 20:30:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 69d1fd2fdb Note the limitation that mime_decode_header() only works for Latin-1. 
Closes SF bug #551912.
 2002-06-18 18:51:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 7f59124693 Clarified documentation for os.access(). 
Patch contributed by Sean Reifschneider.
Closes SF patch #570618.
 2002-06-18 16:15:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 28bdc624a8 Clarified description of error handling for shutil.rmtree(). 
This closes SF patch #569832.
 2002-06-18 14:31:04 +00:00
Piers Lauder 3fca291a52 Add IMAP4 QUOTA extension methods 2002-06-17 07:07:20 +00:00
Steve Holden 1e4519faaa Make a start at describing the results of class/type unification 
in the type documentation.
 2002-06-14 09:16:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 6c123efe3d Refer the reader to the correct module for constant definitions. 
This closes SF bug #550777.
 2002-06-14 01:58:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 585775bf11 Document the Binary.data attribute. 
This closes SF bug #562878.
 2002-06-14 00:33:02 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 9c92b69a54 Use \code{True} (or False) instead of true/false. 
Not sure if code is correct, but that is what's in this file.
I've seen \constant{True} in other places.
 2002-06-14 00:27:13 +00:00
Neal Norwitz cc5c6947a6 Add "version added" for getpgid 2002-06-13 21:19:25 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 606edc1d97 Patch #568235: Add posix.setpgid. 2002-06-13 21:09:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fea59e7f76 The opcode FOR_LOOP no longer exists. 2002-06-13 17:59:51 +00:00
Fred Drake efb9097add Do not claim that getlocale() returns a tulpe; that is not always true. 
Closes SF bug #568577.
 2002-06-13 17:54:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 11ba094957 Major overhaul of timeout sockets: 
- setblocking(0) and settimeout(0) are now equivalent, and ditto for
  setblocking(1) and settimeout(None).

- Don't raise an exception from internal_select(); let the final call
  report the error (this means you will get an EAGAIN error instead of
  an ETIMEDOUT error -- I don't care).

- Move the select to inside the Py_{BEGIN,END}_ALLOW_THREADS brackets,
  so other theads can run (this was a bug in the original code).

- Redid the retry logic in connect() and connect_ex() to avoid masking
  errors.  This probably doesn't work for Windows yet; I'll fix that
  next.  It may also fail on other platforms, depending on what
  retrying a connect does; I need help with this.

- Get rid of the retry logic in accept().  I don't think it was needed
  at all.  But I may be wrong.
 2002-06-13 15:07:44 +00:00
Fred Drake e9996c6093 Add version annotations for some older changes to the calendar module. 
Closes SF patch #567867.
 2002-06-13 01:34:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e3fdc975c0 SF bug 567826. Document new opcodes: 
['BINARY_FLOOR_DIVIDE', 'BINARY_TRUE_DIVIDE',
'INPLACE_FLOOR_DIVIDE', 'INPLACE_TRUE_DIVIDE', 'GET_ITER',
'YIELD_VALUE', 'FOR_ITER', 'CONTINUE_LOOP']
 2002-06-12 15:33:08 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 5efaf7eac8 This is my nearly two year old patch 
[ 400998 ] experimental support for extended slicing on lists

somewhat spruced up and better tested than it was when I wrote it.

Includes docs & tests.  The whatsnew section needs expanding, and arrays
should support extended slices -- later.
 2002-06-11 10:55:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a861d552c3 Document that the key should not contain null bytes. 2002-06-10 19:42:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum db9198a8b5 SF bug 563750 (Alex Martelli): posix_tmpfile(): 
The file returned by tmpfile() has mode w+b, so use that in the call
to PyFile_FromFile().

Bugfix candidate.
 2002-06-10 19:23:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 715b861d94 Clarify the interaction between timeout/non-blocking mode, makefile 
and fromfd.
 2002-06-07 12:38:23 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 62a7f63a24 Fix typo 2002-06-07 12:36:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fc9823b1a9 Clarify the interaction between blocking and timeouts. Explain that 
fromfd() assumes a blocking non-timeout socket.
 2002-06-07 03:39:21 +00:00
Neal Norwitz bdbd84fdac Add version info, and fix another typo and wording spotted by /F. I think this is what he meant. :-) 2002-06-06 22:24:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 1a06fb0605 Fix typo spotted by Fredrik Lundh. 2002-06-06 22:19:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 6c6d662760 Fix some markup errors and adjust wording slightly. 2002-06-06 21:57:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum be946bfea7 SF patch 555085 (timeout socket implementation) by Michael Gilfix. 
I've made considerable changes to Michael's code, specifically to use
the select() system call directly and to store the timeout as a C
double instead of a Python object; internally, -1.0 (or anything
negative) represents the None from the API.

I'm not 100% sure that all corner cases are covered correctly, so
please keep an eye on this.  Next I'm going to try it Windows before
Tim complains.

No way is this a bugfix candidate. :-)
 2002-06-06 21:51:01 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 446a25fa3c Patch 473512: add GNU style scanning as gnu_getopt. 2002-06-06 10:58:36 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 474458da48 Add constants BOM_UTF8, BOM_UTF16, BOM_UTF16_LE, BOM_UTF16_BE, 
BOM_UTF32, BOM_UTF32_LE and BOM_UTF32_BE that represent the Byte
Order Mark in UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings for little and
big endian systems.

The old names BOM32_* and BOM64_* were off by a factor of 2.

This closes SF bug http://www.python.org/sf/555360
 2002-06-04 15:16:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 59b2a74c75 SF bug 533625 (Armin Rigo). rexec: potential security hole 
If a rexec instance allows writing in the current directory (a common
thing to do), there's a way to execute bogus bytecode.  Fix this by
not allowing imports from .pyc files (in a way that allows a site to
configure things so that .pyc files *are* allowed, if writing is not
allowed).

I'll apply this to 2.2 and 2.1 too.
 2002-05-31 21:12:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 9b414ac93e Update links and information on PyQt/PyKDE. 2002-05-31 18:21:56 +00:00
Neal Norwitz d68f5171eb As discussed on python-dev, add a mechanism to indicate features 
that are in the process of deprecation (PendingDeprecationWarning).
Docs could be improved.
 2002-05-29 15:54:55 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 34f20eac98 This is patch 
[ 559250 ] more POSIX signal stuff

Adds support (and docs and tests and autoconfery) for posix signal
mask handling -- sigpending, sigprocmask and sigsuspend.
 2002-05-27 15:08:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 92bf9dacc9 Markup adjustments; fix the names of modules referenced in an expression. 2002-05-23 21:07:19 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c32f0336e0 Deprecated Random.cunifvariate clearing bug 506647. Also, added docstrings. 2002-05-23 19:44:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 7779b208ae Remove spurious "()" from the __str__() description. 2002-05-22 20:44:03 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 177b4a065f Jack's documentation for the U mode character on the file() 
constructor, vetted by Barry.
 2002-05-22 20:39:43 +00:00
Fred Drake c58507582b Added a version annotation for StringTypes. 
Added documentation for BooleanType.
 2002-05-22 02:44:24 +00:00
Barry Warsaw c421ad4a35 Minor typo: Message.getall() -> Message.get_all() 2002-05-22 01:22:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6cf09f0792 Patch 543387. Document deprecation of complex %, //,and divmod(). 2002-05-21 18:19:49 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 97394bc795 Patch 533291. Deprecate None return form of __reduce__. 2002-05-21 17:22:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 5ecb7aaa6a Add availability information for a couple of the types, and notes on writing 
string-type tests for versions of Python built without Unicode support.
 2002-05-21 14:28:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger cadc9fbd37 Patch 547037. Corrected documentation to match 
actual module behavior for adding newlines.
 2002-05-16 04:28:44 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger b07fa39edf Added missing index entries for mapping methods. Closes patch #548693. 2002-05-15 15:45:25 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 576474c5ae Closes SF bug 527139. Brings docs inline with random.py 1.29 
which fixes the unnecessarily restricted method domain.
 2002-05-13 23:49:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5359ad63ce Correct gammavariate's method name and domain. 
Partial solution to SF bug 527139.
 2002-05-13 22:40:38 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c045b49633 Added degrees() and radians() to mathmodule. Closing patch 552452 and 
feature request 426539.
 2002-05-13 03:52:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 1f89e2abcc Fix markup error that suppressed space. 
Closes SF bug #554257.  Not relevant to older releases.
 2002-05-10 12:37:56 +00:00
Fred Drake d05c74f42d Add a note explaining the interaction between unbuffered input and 
xreadlines.xreadlines().
This closes SF patch #552804.
 2002-05-06 16:02:42 +00:00
Fred Drake b9032018ff Update the xrange object description to reflect the removal of deprecated 
features.
 2002-05-02 21:37:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 4d707a5d08 Remove extra period produced by previous change. 2002-05-02 17:54:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 4b270518b7 Correct information on support for repietition & concatenation for buffer 
and xrange objects.
This closes SF bug #550555.
 2002-05-02 05:56:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 7f781c9aab Add Pickler.clear_memo() so the pickle and cPickle modules are more similar. 2002-05-01 20:33:53 +00:00
Fred Drake a65375c3e3 Explain what os.read() returns at end of file. 
This closes SF bug #550409.  Applying to release21-maint & release22-maint.
 2002-05-01 03:31:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 7938fab285 Add missing right-parenthesis. 2002-05-01 03:23:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 52cc670711 Add a note about when the "%r" formatting code was added. 2002-04-30 14:54:47 +00:00
Tim Peters 81b9251d59 Mostly in SequenceMatcher.{__chain_b, find_longest_match}: 
This now does a dynamic analysis of which elements are so frequently
repeated as to constitute noise.  The primary benefit is an enormous
speedup in find_longest_match, as the innermost loop can have factors
of 100s less potential matches to worry about, in cases where the
sequences have many duplicate elements.  In effect, this zooms in on
sequences of non-ubiquitous elements now.

While I like what I've seen of the effects so far, I still consider
this experimental.  Please give it a try!
 2002-04-29 01:37:32 +00:00
Fred Drake d3e6678713 Slightly expand and clarify the differences between getegid(), getgid(), 
getpgrp(), and setpgid().
This closes SF bug #547939.
 2002-04-26 20:59:40 +00:00
Fred Drake a7bb2b9b30 Be more consistent, both internally and with recommended practice. 
This closes SF bug #547953.
 2002-04-26 20:44:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 38f71973e5 Documentation for the enumerate() function/type. 
This closes SF patch #547162.
 2002-04-26 20:29:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 99d17006c1 Add text about circular references caused by storing frames in local 
variables.  This closes SF bug #543148.
 2002-04-23 21:21:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 106c1a0e7a WCOREDUMP(), WIFCONTINUED(), WCONTINUED, WUNTRACED: New. 
isatty(), WIFEXITED(), WIFSIGNALED(), WIFSTOPPED(): Changed to return
    bools instead of ints.
 2002-04-23 15:58:02 +00:00
Anthony Baxter 8388895fe4 SF patch [ 545523 ] patch for 514433 bsddb.dbopen (NULL) 
closes SF #514433

can now pass 'None' as the filename for the bsddb.*open functions,
and you'll get an in-memory temporary store.

docs are ripped out of the bsddb dbopen man page. Fred may want to
clean them up.

Considering this for 2.2, but not 2.1.
 2002-04-23 02:11:05 +00:00
Walter Dörwald de02bcb265 Apply patch diff.txt from SF feature request 
http://www.python.org/sf/444708

This adds the optional argument for str.strip
to unicode.strip too and makes it possible
to call str.strip with a unicode argument
and unicode.strip with a str argument.
 2002-04-22 17:42:37 +00:00
Skip Montanaro b02ea65f92 typo 2002-04-17 19:33:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 933f159a2f Add a version annotation for the help() function. 2002-04-17 12:54:04 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 6c7bc31089 added small clarification to the descriptions of encode() and decode() 2002-04-16 15:12:10 +00:00
Fred Drake e19a5bcc7b Be consistent in presenting the signatures. 2002-04-15 19:46:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 154985587b Add docs for os.fchdir(). 2002-04-15 19:41:27 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 068325ef92 Apply the second version of SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/536241 
Add a method zfill to str, unicode and UserString and change
Lib/string.py accordingly.

This activates the zfill version in unicodeobject.c that was
commented out and implements the same in stringobject.c. It also
adds the test for unicode support in Lib/string.py back in and
uses repr() instead() of str() (as it was before Lib/string.py 1.62)
 2002-04-15 13:36:47 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 06a83e90aa Patch #543447: Add posix.mknod. 2002-04-14 10:19:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 8b1c47bb8b Document the optional argument to the .strip(), .rstrip(), .strip() string 
methods.
Part of SF feature #444708.
 2002-04-13 02:43:39 +00:00
Fred Drake d4c0e5fd5b BDFL agreed with Tim: rehabilitate randint(). 2002-04-12 20:01:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e027d9818f Add Raymond Hettinger's d.pop(). See SF patch 539949. 2002-04-12 15:11:59 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 81bdc93d2f Explain octal escapes. Fixes #542226. 2002-04-11 12:24:12 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 2854c478be Remove mention of 'pre' module 
(2.2 bugfix candidate?)
 2002-04-10 21:28:31 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 3b2625ff82 document all the valid encoding values 2002-04-10 04:37:09 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 6b35370c65 Update docs for bool changes by Guido around April 6 2002-04-09 18:15:00 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 688357e035 Patch #512005: getrusage() returns struct-like object. 2002-04-08 21:28:20 +00:00
Fred Drake bc82ab1c9f Do not call "knee" a standard module, and point to the new location. 
This addresses the issue in SF bug #515745.
 2002-04-08 05:22:30 +00:00
Neal Norwitz d3dab2b192 Update doc to reflect Tim's changes to bool. 2002-04-05 02:21:09 +00:00
Fred Drake a2c2595024 Add a version annotation regarding the urlopen(proxies={...}). 2002-04-04 20:58:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 5ca3a08cc0 The rest of the documentation for manual proxy configuration for a basic 
urlopen().
This is part of SF patch #523415.
 2002-04-04 20:34:36 +00:00
Fred Drake d21670328c Documentation for manual proxy configuration, by Andy Gimblett. 
This closes SF patch #523415.
 2002-04-04 20:09:50 +00:00
Neal Norwitz ce5df49957 SF 539024, Fix broken link to numpy 2002-04-04 14:02:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 77f6a65eb0 Add the 'bool' type and its values 'False' and 'True', as described in 
PEP 285.  Everything described in the PEP is here, and there is even
some documentation.  I had to fix 12 unit tests; all but one of these
were printing Boolean outcomes that changed from 0/1 to False/True.
(The exception is test_unicode.py, which did a type(x) == type(y)
style comparison.  I could've fixed that with a single line using
issubtype(x, type(y)), but instead chose to be explicit about those
places where a bool is expected.

Still to do: perhaps more documentation; change standard library
modules to return False/True from predicates.
 2002-04-03 22:41:51 +00:00
Fred Drake aee113d368 Add an experimental mechanism to support extending the pprint formatting. 
Partly responds to SF bug #505152.
 2002-04-02 05:08:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 4dfb7a81c1 Explain that os.spawn*() return the process handle on Windows. 
Clarify that os.waitpid() on Windows takes a process handle, not a process ID.
This closes SF bug #537582.
 2002-04-01 23:30:47 +00:00
Fred Drake d5a072f2eb Fix up the documentation of the type codes to give both the C and Python 
types for each code, and give the actual C types.

Clarified the support for slice operations and note when some TypeError
exceptions are raised.

This closes SF bugs 518767 and 536469.
 2002-04-01 23:05:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 8d62e94761 Minor wording change. 2002-03-28 21:06:17 +00:00
Skip Montanaro bb6bbc45c0 add exception class hierarchy. This should probably be done differently, 
but at least the content is there.
 2002-03-28 20:53:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 47cdf6fb6f Add documentation on the hasfree data object. 2002-03-28 19:34:53 +00:00
Fred Drake e3a3ceb2b1 Minor consistency adjustments. 2002-03-28 12:40:45 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 2e64c34850 Expose C library's gettext. Fixes #516412. 2002-03-27 18:49:02 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 8a79727b53 add seealso referring to site module doc where people can learn how to 
extend sys.path using .pth files.
 2002-03-27 17:29:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 57f8e06e4f Document the finditer() function and method. 
This closes SF bug #520904.

Explain that many of the escapes supported by string literals are also
supported by the RE compiler, and list which ones.
This closes SF bug #529923.
 2002-03-25 20:22:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 3787c9d94c Added description of binhex.Error. 2002-03-25 16:37:56 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 1e962cb61b document InvalidURL exception 2002-03-24 16:55:57 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer ccbb0edf0e Add local_hostname to SMTP.__init__(). 2002-03-24 15:41:40 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer 79f181395b Add more example exceptions that unpickling can raise. 2002-03-22 22:16:03 +00:00
Neal Norwitz e22d3dfcc1 Fix grammar 2002-03-21 12:58:54 +00:00
Walter Dörwald b25c2b0a4a [Apply SF patch #504943] 
This patch makes it possible to pass Warning instances as the first
argument to warnings.warn. In this case the category argument
will be ignored. The message text used will be str(warninginstance).
 2002-03-21 10:38:40 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 1abca4a515 SF# 522426, add doc for common parameter for filecmp.cmpfiles() 2002-03-20 18:55:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 1268678395 Adjust some poor wording in the text that explains what events are used 
for (reported by Keith Briggs).
Wrap some very long lines.
 2002-03-19 14:37:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 2f31d561d5 Clarify that copy_reg.pickle() is not intended for use with "classic" classes. 
This was stated before, but a minor grammatical error made it difficult to be
sure of the meaning.
This closes SF bug #530143.
 2002-03-19 03:33:33 +00:00
Fred Drake a8b663806b Remove extra verb; reported by Detlef Lannert. 2002-03-18 16:45:01 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 5c137c2251 Patch #495598: add an -q (quiet) option to pycompile. 2002-03-18 12:44:08 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 10acc8f9e2 added note that xmlrpclib won't marshal instances of subclasses of the 
builtin types
 2002-03-17 23:15:02 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 587c98c863 Patch #430706: Persistent connections in BaseHTTPServer. 2002-03-17 18:37:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 8e0c82a35f Fix stupid typo in example. 2002-03-16 14:01:12 +00:00
Fred Drake f275803fe9 Clarify the descriptions of the positive and negative lookbehind assertions. 
Added examples of positive lookbehind assertions.
This closes SF bug #529708.
 2002-03-16 05:58:12 +00:00
Skip Montanaro dc8d40717c update text to refer to ServerProxy class in preference to Server, which is 
only retained for backward compatibility with older versions of the library.
 2002-03-14 17:35:25 +00:00
Fred Drake f981617645 "level" keyword argument in example should be "stacklevel". 
This closes SF bug #517684.
 2002-03-12 19:49:31 +00:00
Tim Peters 8f01b680c8 Change Windows file.truncate() to (a) restore the original file position, 
and (b) stop trying to prevent file growth.

Beef up the file.truncate() docs.

Change test_largefile.py to stop assuming that f.truncate() moves the
file pointer to the truncation point, and to verify instead that it leaves
the file position alone.  Remove the test for what happens when a
specified size exceeds the original file size (it's ill-defined, according
to the Single Unix Spec).
 2002-03-12 03:04:44 +00:00
Tim Peters fb05db2cae file_truncate(): provide full "large file" support on Windows, by 
dropping MS's inadequate _chsize() function.  This was inspired by
SF patch 498109 ("fileobject truncate support for win32"), which I
rejected.

libstdtypes.tex:  Someone who knows should update the availability
blurb.  For example, if it's available on Linux, it would be good to
say so.

test_largefile:  Uncommented the file.truncate() tests, and reworked to
do more.  The old comment about "permission errors" in the truncation
tests under Windows was almost certainly due to that the file wasn't open
for *write* access at this point, so of course MS wouldn't let you
truncate it.  I'd be appalled if a Unixish system did.

CAUTION:  Someone should run this test on Linux (etc) too.  The
truncation part was commented out before.  Note that test_largefile isn't
run by default.
 2002-03-11 00:24:00 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 10b3eac278 [Bug #486527] Note that the caller has to ensure there are no control 
characters in strings being passed via XML-RPC.
Fix some typos.

2.2.1 bugfix candidate.
 2002-03-08 17:46:02 +00:00
Piers Lauder a4f8313cbb add SSL class submitted by Tino Lange 2002-03-08 01:53:24 +00:00
Fred Drake da8a6dd072 Added missing version annotation for dict(). 2002-03-06 02:29:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 9479c958c5 Remove extra indenatation from sample interpreter session. 
Remove whitespace from the middle of an inline RE example; it was OK for
the typeset formats, but LaTeX2HTML is more touchy about this.
 2002-03-05 04:02:39 +00:00
Skip Montanaro a8e1d81bdc add simple example of avoiding backtracking 2002-03-04 23:08:28 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 29001ff234 Patch #523268, #522027: return enhanced tuples. 2002-03-01 10:47:37 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis dbd55b3737 Patch #523268, #522027: return enhanced tuples. 2002-03-01 10:38:44 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 9986633609 Patch 520694: arraymodule.c improvements: 
- make array.array a type
- add Py_UNICODE arrays
- support +=, *=
 2002-03-01 10:27:01 +00:00
Fred Drake b6b2aa6c75 Fix error in explanation of the interaction between $ and MULTILINE mode. 
Reported by Steve Alexander.
 2002-02-25 18:56:45 +00:00
Tim Peters 9f4341b3b0 SF bug #501591: dir() doc is old 
Bugfix candidate.

+ Updated dir() description to match actual 2.2 behavior.

+ Replaced the dir(sys) example with dir(struct), because the former
  was way out of date and is bound to change frequently, while the
  latter is stable.

+ Added a note cautioning that dir() is supplied primarily for
  convenience at an interactive prompt (hoping to discourage its
  use as the foundation of introspective code outside the core).
 2002-02-23 04:40:15 +00:00
Greg Ward f8b1f2431b Grammar tweak. 2002-02-22 21:24:32 +00:00
Neal Norwitz ba902fda3c SF #515041, Update path for 2.3 2002-02-19 02:58:54 +00:00
Fred Drake e73ad2a21f Use the standard expression for the availability statement for alarm(). 2002-02-15 20:59:43 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 8d1fdafd89 note that the alarm function is not available on Windows. 2002-02-15 20:36:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 928051fb26 The "%" character does not need to be escaped in verbatim environments. 
This closes SF bug #517811.
 2002-02-15 04:12:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 7bc6f7ac7b Consistently use \textasciicircum to produce a ^ character. 
LaTeX really falls flat on this one!
 2002-02-14 15:19:30 +00:00
Tim Peters ab034fab03 Implement os.waitpid() for Windows, in a way that's compatible with Linux 
where their capabilities intersect.  Would be nice if people using non-
MSVC compilers (Borland etc) took a whack at doing something similar for
them (this code relies on the MS _cwait function).
 2002-02-01 11:27:43 +00:00
Skip Montanaro c318260a71 added handle_error method description 2002-01-31 17:32:24 +00:00
Tim Peters c48a3ca161 Add new constants usable with os.popen() on Windows. 
NOTE:  this seems a mess wrt which symbols are available on which
platforms.  I can't fix it, but I didn't add to it <wink>, and
included an XXX comment about names claimed to be available on
Windows that aren't.  If anyone can figure out the whole ugly truth,
I'm sure a better organization will suggest itself.
 2002-01-30 05:49:46 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ef180dc3d0 Document that get_referrers can return unreachable but uncollected objects. 
Fixes #505453.
 2002-01-26 20:11:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 744f67fb62 Add keyword.kwlist to the public API. 2002-01-24 16:38:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4f3a62d9bc There's no need for typechecks on the second and third argument of 
new.instancemethod() -- the instancemethod object is now a perfectly
general container.

This fixes SF bug ##503091 (Pedro Rodriquez): new.instancemethod fails
for new classes

This is a 2.2.1 candidate.
 2002-01-15 19:21:05 +00:00
Thomas Heller 3d62f8ca35 Fix a simple typo. Has this to be fixed also in other branches? 2002-01-14 08:37:39 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a55ffaeee9 Add a per-message fallback mechanism for translations. 2002-01-11 06:58:49 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 1be6419871 Add fallback argument to translation(). Request fallbacks on install. 
Fixes #500595.
 2002-01-11 06:33:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 7731ed47cb Do not mask the name of a built-in function in example code. 
Based on comment sent to python-docs.
 2002-01-05 04:00:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 5e74d36f9d Fix indentation error in example from the Tkinter Life Preserver. 
This closes SF bug #499505.
 2002-01-05 03:56:54 +00:00
Fred Drake d93d68bd13 Fix minor typo reported in SF patch #497951. 2002-01-05 01:52:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c33e077838 SF patch #497420 (Eduardo Pérez): ftplib: ftp anonymous password 
Instead of sending the real user and host, use "anonymous@" (i.e. no
host name at all!) as the default anonymous FTP password.  This avoids
privacy violations.
 2001-12-28 20:54:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 7c9a53dfc0 Elaborate the descriptions for onecmd(), precmd(), and postcmd() so they are 
useful.
 2001-12-27 05:10:18 +00:00
Fred Drake fd7f115a0e Fix wrongly-named formal parameters in three places: begin_y was used twice 
instead of begin_y and begin_x for derwin(), subpad(), and subwin().
Reported for derwin() by Eric Huss.

Added class annotations for the window methods so they would be properly
described in the index.
 2001-12-26 22:08:44 +00:00
Fred Drake ab2dc1d730 Added index entries similar to some recommended by Skip, and used the word 
"interpolation" in the text, to make the string formatting material easier to
find.
This closes SF bug #487165.
Bugfix: this should be applied for Python 2.2.1.
 2001-12-26 20:06:40 +00:00
Fred Drake ef338ec5f9 More index entries. 2001-12-26 19:48:43 +00:00