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Fred Drake 83d14c12a6 Markup error: braces not properly marked in dictionary display 
grammer productions.
Fixes SF bug #520959.
 2002-03-16 06:35:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 5381588073 Revise the markup related to the grammar productions to increase the 
level of predictability.  This is not really "good" markup, but is arguably
better than we had before.
This closes SF bug #523117.
 2002-03-15 23:21:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 216cbca195 Typo: thsi -> this. Closes SF bug #521450. 2002-02-22 15:40:23 +00:00
Fred Drake aae728f292 Fix typo reported by François Pinard. 2002-01-21 16:09:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 687bde9433 Added some missing index entries, noted by L. Peter Deutsch. 
This should be included in Python 2.2.1.
 2001-12-27 18:38:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 08d752cf28 Update to use the notice environment so a multi-paragraph note can be 
appropriately marked.
 2001-12-14 22:55:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 591dd8f620 Update information about __del__() & reference cycles for CPython. 
This partially fixes SF bug #492619.

Fix a typo & use the new notice environment instead of (ab)using the \note
and \warning macros.
 2001-12-14 22:52:41 +00:00
Fred Drake b062cb22d0 Work around the problem of spaces after a "}" being dropped by LaTeX2HTML if 
they were represented by newlines in the document source.
Partially fixes SF bug #493243.
 2001-12-14 16:57:31 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 850d3980ab Fix for 
[ #429329 ] actual-parameters *arg, **kws not doc'd
 2001-12-12 11:56:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 8d0645cb84 Add a note about yield requiring a __future__ directive. 2001-12-12 06:06:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 3a8e59ebe1 Clean up a sad sentence in the yield description. 2001-12-11 21:58:35 +00:00
Fred Drake e31e9cebc0 Document generators and the yield statement, avoiding implementation details. 2001-12-11 21:10:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 1d3e6c15ce Fix whitespace in example of bad indentation: a comment indicated that one 
line was not indented at all, so the example is no longer indented at all.
All of the errors being shown remain.

Typo: characteru --> character
 2001-12-11 17:46:38 +00:00
Fred Drake f9d580346b Add change notes where im_class is discussed, since the exact meaning changes 
with Python 2.2.
 2001-12-07 23:13:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b62f0e1a7b Correct the description of im_class. (Fred, this is changed in 2.2. 
Should this be labeled as changed?  How?)
 2001-12-07 22:03:18 +00:00
Fred Drake c2f496a138 Add a note to the description of the interaction between the softspace 
attribute of file objects, the print statement, and other file operations.
This closes SF bug #484857.

Fix minor markup nits.
 2001-12-05 05:46:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4ed6be7107 Import the keyword module instead of relying on our own list of 
reserved words.  No longer need to import string.
 2001-12-04 20:39:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 41c6719fe4 Put the keywords back in alphabetical order. Apparently somebody 
didn't use reswords.py, as the comment clearly states. :-(
 2001-12-04 20:38:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 3570551d6f Remove most references to __members__ and __methods__, leaving only one pair 
of references that now state that these attributes have been removed,
directing the reader to the dir() function.
This closes SF bug #456420.
 2001-12-03 17:32:27 +00:00
Fred Drake c37b65ee10 Clean up some markup cruft. A number of the macros that take no 
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.
 2001-11-28 07:26:15 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 1336e99054 Fred observes that the typo was not the only problem with this sentence. 2001-11-14 21:38:13 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 4a98f70a09 typo 2001-11-14 21:32:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 08fd51509c When describing "import *", add a level of indirection between "*" and the 
set of names imported (the "public names"), adding a definition of "public
names" that describes the use of __all__.
This closes SF bug #473986.

Flesh out the vague reference to __import__().
 2001-10-24 19:50:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 0aa811c527 Use the \note and \warning macros where appropriate. 2001-10-20 04:24:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 316141b333 Fix typo reported by Michael Soulier. 2001-10-18 15:22:23 +00:00
Tim Peters 1350c07de3 Removed stray backslash (a typo -- my fault). 2001-10-01 20:25:26 +00:00
Tim Peters 20524dbf36 The description of dictionary comparison was out of date. Rather than 
try to explain the complex general scheme we actually use now, I decided
to spell out only what equality means (which is easy to explain and
intuitive), leaving the other outcomes unspecified beyond consistency.
 2001-10-01 20:22:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 73921b0eec Refer to the objects which define __len__(), __*item__(), and __iter__() 
as container objects rather than as mapping objects (in the index entries).
Change the section heading and intro sentence to be a little more general,
since that's how things have actually evolved.
 2001-10-01 16:32:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 18d8d5a708 Fix minor usage and consistency nits. 2001-09-18 17:58:20 +00:00
Fred Drake ed5a7ca5ee Work around a LaTeX2HTML bug that caused the "m" in "mutable" to be dropped 
in one place.
 2001-09-10 15:16:08 +00:00
Tim Peters d507dab91f SF patch #455966: Allow leading 0 in float/imag literals. 
Consequences for Jython still unknown (but raised on Jython-Dev).
 2001-08-30 20:51:59 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 53da317801 Docs for the PEP 264 changes. 2001-08-27 20:02:17 +00:00
Fred Drake c0cf726d8c Add material about the "r" and "u" prefixes for string literals; should 
be reviewed for clarity.

Work around a bogosity in the HTML version of the escape sequences table
conversion.
 2001-08-14 21:43:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 3e2aca48bd Add information about __floordiv__() and __truediv__() methods for 
implementing numeric objects in Python.
 2001-08-14 20:28:08 +00:00
Fred Drake a7d608d1cf "Thin" version of floor division docs: add // to the list of operators 
and //= to the list of other delimiter tokens.

I'll work on it again when it's not so late...
 2001-08-08 05:37:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 8dd6ffd0ec User-defined methods *can* contain things other than user-defined functions 
as the callable, so use more flexible language.
 2001-08-02 21:34:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 044bb4d22a Explain that __init__() methods do not get to return values. 2001-08-02 15:53:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 9079164bdf Removed unnecessary section "Unicode literals"; all the discussion is 
already present in the "String literals" section, including comments on
the "u" prefix and the additional escape sequences used for Unicode.

This relates to SF bug #442526.
 2001-07-20 15:33:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 0825dc2427 Fix typo in description of raw strings: "value" --> "valid" 
This closes SF bug #443059.
 2001-07-20 14:32:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 6e5e1d924c Minor change to match the style guide. 2001-07-14 02:12:27 +00:00
Fred Drake cb4638a278 Change the grammar productions to use the new productionlist environment; 
this supports a hyperlinked version of the grammar that can make tracking
down details and definitions a little easier.
 2001-07-06 22:49:53 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e7e03cd0cf Fix typo 2001-06-23 16:26:44 +00:00
Fred Drake be9d10edbb Remove some bogus trailing whitespace. 2001-06-23 06:16:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 93852ef3c8 Fix minor markup nits. 2001-06-23 06:06:52 +00:00
Fred Drake deda9f3420 Use a named reference to another chapter instead of hard coding the 
chapter number.  This also makes the reference a hyperlink in the HTML
version.
 2001-06-23 06:06:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 2829f1cf99 Fix a very minor (but annoying when looking for things!) markup nit. 2001-06-23 05:27:20 +00:00
Fred Drake f5eae668a8 Add "yeild" to the list of keywords. 
Fix a very minor (but annoying when looking for things!) markup nit.
 2001-06-23 05:26:52 +00:00
Fred Drake d5df09cfb6 Update to include the license information in a less annoying place. 2001-06-20 21:37:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 88382696f4 Update a "Programmer's note" about lambda forms and scoping to reflect 
the availability of nested scoping in Python 2.1 and 2.2.
 2001-06-05 02:17:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 597bc1d46f Bring the notes on the relationship between __cmp__(), __eq__(), and 
__hash__() up to date (re: use of objects which define these methods
as dictionary keys).

This closes SF bug #427698.
 2001-05-29 16:02:35 +00:00
Fred Drake b9879e1020 Fix typo reported in SF bug #427783. 2001-05-29 15:44:27 +00:00
Fred Drake b3384d3555 Make sure we include all of Python's numeric types in the data model 
description, so that the introduction of complex is not a surprise.

This closes SF bug #423429.
 2001-05-14 16:04:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 7c116d7acb Fix typo reported by David Goodger. This closes SF patch #422383. 2001-05-10 15:09:36 +00:00
Fred Drake b8ac0096b2 Fix the operator precedence table: exponentiation binds tighter than 
negation.

This closes SF bug #421999.
 2001-05-09 16:51:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0dbb4fba4c Implement, test and document "key in dict" and "key not in dict". 
I know some people don't like this -- if it's really controversial,
I'll take it out again.  (If it's only Alex Martelli who doesn't like
it, that doesn't count as "real controversial" though. :-)

That's why this is a separate checkin from the iterators stuff I'm
about to check in next.
 2001-04-20 16:50:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 62effc1127 Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping. 2001-04-13 15:55:25 +00:00
Fred Drake fb8ffe6b5e Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping. 
Wrap some long lines and fix some markup nits.
 2001-04-13 15:54:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 24e7a29292 Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by 
Ping on the Doc-SIG mailing list.
 2001-04-12 12:37:03 +00:00
Fred Drake e2645775d1 Typo: "ariables" --> "variables" 
This fixes SF bug #411118.
 2001-03-28 16:55:53 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton aa90adcfb9 Add nested scopes spec to appendix. 
Add new opcodes LOAD_CLOSURE, LOAD_DEREF, STORE_DEREF, MAKE_CLOSURE to
docs for dis module.

Add docs for new function and code members in Sec. 3 of ref manual.
They're present regardless of whether nested scopes are used.

Remove description of default argument hack from Sec. 7 of the ref
manual and refer the reader to the appendix.
 2001-03-23 17:23:50 +00:00
Fred Drake a9d0450f72 No quotes around the "future" in the first use of the term "future 
statement".
 2001-03-23 16:47:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 557c1ae150 Include the futures appendix. 2001-03-23 16:21:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 39778b705d Revise the markup so that this formats and uses markup consistently with 
the rest of the documentation.
 2001-03-23 16:20:46 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 324cc6ee0e Add some initial text for the appendix on future statements and nested scopes. 2001-03-23 15:29:54 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 2c84fc8a7d Note that assignments to __debug__ are illegal 2001-03-23 14:34:06 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton e702481d38 Revert to ver 1.22, which was the version before the nested scopes 
docs were introduced.  This loses a few small changes, but Fred says
that's okay.
 2001-03-23 14:05:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 859eb62108 Do not refer to "sub-modules" since that is not a defined term. 2001-03-06 07:34:00 +00:00
Fred Drake ac79e95167 Re-word the explanation of the in/not in operators for increased content 
and clarity.

Add a footnote to the information on the possibility of shadowing builtins
with locals & module globals.
 2001-03-06 07:32:11 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 7a5e80e801 Updates to describe function attributes. 2001-02-27 03:36:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 230d17d0d1 Sequence indexes are non-negative, not natural (0 is not a natural number). 
Reported by Daniel May <mayds@ecn.purdue.edu>.

De-tabified everywhere.
 2001-02-22 21:28:04 +00:00
Tim Peters 7530208d8b Feeble attempt to repair obsolete info about hex escapes. 2001-02-14 04:03:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 667c9e46ca Minor markup adjustments. 
Move some index entries next to what they are referring to for better
"targetting".
 2001-02-02 02:43:18 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 3faa52ecc4 Allow 'continue' inside 'try' clause 
SF patch 102989 by Thomas Wouters
 2001-02-01 22:48:12 +00:00
Fred Drake c2e35e6f37 Remove spurious "\end{description}" that caused formatting to fail. 2001-02-01 15:37:56 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 0eb107068a update section 4.1 to describe nested scopes 2001-02-01 03:50:59 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 10f8ba4fc6 Remove note about the compiler not checking for two kinds of illegal 
imports.  It checks for them now.
 2001-01-30 01:25:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 2f4453af6a Typo: coplete --> complete 
This closes SF bug #129759.
 2001-01-26 15:27:35 +00:00
Fred Drake c8e8281fb6 Updated note about collection of cyclic garbage, based on comments from 
Chris Ryland.
 2001-01-22 17:46:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ab782dd6cc Document rich comparisons. 2001-01-18 15:17:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 34bafcc079 Fix a variety of minor nits and typos caught by Chris Ryland 
<cpr@emsoftware.com>.
 2001-01-14 02:57:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 347a62505c Steve Holden <sholden@holdenweb.com>: 
Clarify the handling of characters following backslashes in raw strings.
 2001-01-09 21:38:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 445f832060 __rcmp__() description: Changed to indicate that this is no longer 
supported as of Python 2.1.  We still need to
                         have an entry for this since it is reasonable
                         for users to want to understand existing code.

This closes SF bug #122715.
 2001-01-04 15:11:48 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer 48c2eb9165 Document the NotImplemented object. 2001-01-04 01:25:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 2cba0f641f Improve description of else clause of the try/except/else statement. 
This closes (again!) bug #127098.
 2001-01-02 19:22:48 +00:00
Thomas Wouters 8e2b6b5cc7 Change documentation of 'else' clause of 'try/except' to make clear that it 
doesn't get triggered by 'return', 'break' or 'continue'. If the
'try-inside-continue' patch does not get accepted before next release, the
'or continue' should be removed ;P

Closes SF patch #103045 and SF bug #127098.
 2000-12-31 22:52:59 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 68abe832b9 Fix typo 2000-12-19 14:09:21 +00:00
Fred Drake dea764d7f1 Updated string literals description to encompass Unicode literals and the 
additional escape sequences defined for Unicode.
This closes bug #117158.
 2000-12-19 04:52:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 035f7e88c8 Clarify __repr__ and __str__. 2000-12-19 04:18:13 +00:00
Thomas Wouters dc90cc2b15 Additional docs for __iadd__ and family, closing SF bug #117178 and SF patch 
#102169.
 2000-12-11 23:11:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 2a22200ab4 Adjust explanation of operator precedence summary -- exponentiation groups 
from right to left!

Closes bug #125391.
 2000-12-11 22:39:24 +00:00
Fred Drake c3b18d7ca8 Fix error noted by Gerrit Holl (old; had been buried in my INBOX): 
sequence repitition works just fine with long integers now, so we
should not say that only plain integers are allowed.
 2000-12-07 04:54:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 0c47559352 Added a note that objects which emulate built-in types should only 
implement as many of the relevant methods as make sense for the particular
information being modelled.
 2000-12-07 04:49:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 0ac000cd54 Updates to reflect pending changes to the XML conversion process. 2000-11-22 16:42:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 2ed27d3189 Note that readframes() returns data in linear format, even if the original 
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 f89259786a Denis S. Otkidach <ods@users.sourceforge.net>: 
Show how code can be written to handle __getslice__ & friends in a way that
is compatible with pre-2.0 versions of Python while still working with the
"new" way of handling slicing.

Additional explanation added by Fred Drake.

This closes SourceForge patch #101388.
 2000-09-21 22:27:16 +00:00
Fred Drake d68442b164 Lots of minor fixes, many suggested by Detlef Lannert 
<lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
 2000-09-21 22:01:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 31575ce817 Note that __getitem__() may receive a slice object as the index; 
reported by Detlef Lannert <lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
 2000-09-21 05:28:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 8d27f898b2 Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>: 
Document the __contains__() method.
(Patch slightly modified by FLD.)

This closes SourceForge patch #101387.
 2000-09-19 18:21:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 1156f62348 Many small clarifications, including many suggested by email. 2000-09-19 18:10:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 31f5550fbe Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>: 
Reference manual docs for augmented assignment.

This closes SourceForge patch #101418.
 2000-09-12 20:32:18 +00:00
Skip Montanaro b655939d69 add index entries for list comprehensions 2000-09-11 16:31:55 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 33f785fc1e Document "print >> None" 2000-08-29 04:57:34 +00:00
Thomas Wouters 12bba852a9 Rough and incomplete documentation on augmented assignment, which follows 
shortly. Markup also needs checking.
 2000-08-24 20:06:04 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 323fe5df6a fix list comprehension discussion to use \keyword macro instead of simply 
quoting keywords.
 2000-08-23 17:03:34 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 46dfa5f4ed require list comprehensions to start with a for clause 2000-08-22 02:43:07 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 8c0a242289 PEP 214, Extended print Statement, has been accepted by the BDFL. 
Document the extended print form.  Fred, please double check the
markup!
 2000-08-21 15:45:16 +00:00
Thomas Wouters 8bad612881 Disallow "import mod.submod as m", because the result is ambiguous. Does it 
load mod.submod as m, or mod as m ? Both can be achieved differently, and
unambiguously. Also attempt to document this restriction (editor
appreciated!)

Note that this is an artificial check during compile, because incorporating
this in the grammar is hard, and then adjusting the compiler to do the right
thing with the right nodes is harder.
 2000-08-19 20:55:02 +00:00
Fred Drake a00738259f Adjust the way __getslice__() is marked as deprecated; this will also 
stand out more.
 2000-08-18 02:42:14 +00:00
Thomas Wouters 5215225ea1 Apply SF patch #101135, adding 'import module as m' and 'from module import 
name as n'. By doing some twists and turns, "as" is not a reserved word.

There is a slight change in semantics for 'from module import name' (it will
now honour the 'global' keyword) but only in cases that are explicitly
undocumented.
 2000-08-17 22:55:00 +00:00
Thomas Wouters 1d75a79c00 Apply SF patch #101029: call __getitem__ with a proper slice object if there 
is no __getslice__ available. Also does the same for C extension types.
Includes rudimentary documentation (it could use a cross reference to the
section on slice objects, I couldn't figure out how to do that) and a test
suite for all Python __hooks__ I could think of, including the new
behaviour.
 2000-08-17 22:37:32 +00:00
Fred Drake d341579178 Fix error made in applying Thomas's patch. 2000-08-15 18:44:10 +00:00
Fred Drake a1e214a1ed Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>: 
Update the grammar to reflect the most recent changes to list
comprehensions.
 2000-08-15 17:54:49 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 803d6e5451 list comprehensions. see 
http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=100654&group_id=5470

for details.
 2000-08-12 18:09:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 3d83fc3ab1 Change as suggested by Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>: 
Create a hyperlink between the language reference and documentation for
the built in functions.
 2000-07-31 20:08:23 +00:00
Thomas Wouters f9b526dbfd More of Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes. The only ones left now are the 
distutils patches, which I'll leave to the distutils maintainers.

Tip: review the patch like this:

grep "^[\!+-] " <patchfile>

To get a quick and easy way to review the actual changes. Most of the
changes are single-line ones, anyway.
 2000-07-16 19:05:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 91826ed2a9 Improve the descriptions of expected exceptions for __getitem__(), 
__setitem__(), and __delitem__().  Based on related comments from
Barry Warsaw.
 2000-07-13 04:57:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 7399b9e6e4 Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>: 
Update the "in" / "not in" description to accomodate the current use
of the __contains__() discipline.  This patch also incorporates
suggestions from Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>, minor markup
revisions from Fred Drake, and some rewording of the first affected
paragraph (also from Fred).

Closes SourceForge patch #100831.
 2000-07-11 19:43:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 191a28218f Typo: "This table table" -> "This table is" 
Noted by Nicholas Spies <ns11@voicenet.com>.
 2000-07-06 00:50:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 35c09f2e51 Revise the description of when functions retrieved from class instances 
are and are not turned into bound methods; some confusion was noted by
Andrew Dalke.

In particular, it has to be noted that functions located on the class
instance are not turned into any sort of method, only those which are
found via the underlying class.
 2000-06-28 20:15:47 +00:00
Fred Drake e57a11441e Fix markup error that hid a tilde character; reported long ago by 
Carl Feynman <carlf@abinitio.com>.
 2000-06-15 20:07:25 +00:00
Greg Ward 38c28e379c Added a note to the section on 'exec' about the need for a trailing newline 
in certain circumstances.  (Apparently, this is a CPython problem.)
 2000-04-27 18:32:02 +00:00
Fred Drake c009d198db Removed some extraneous and confusing parenthesized expressions. 
Noted by Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>.
 2000-04-25 21:09:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 8b3ce9e099 But don't do the funny \UNICODE macro; we're trying to get away from 
those markups!  <with-mixed-feelings>
 2000-04-06 14:00:14 +00:00
Fred Drake f0aff8e759 Patch from Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>: 
Added Unicode type to the language reference.
 2000-04-06 13:57:21 +00:00
Fred Drake e15956b465 Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release. 2000-04-03 04:51:13 +00:00
Fred Drake e15eb35fd0 Use \citetitle as appropriate. 1999-11-10 16:13:25 +00:00
Fred Drake a24f7b759a Use \programopt in one place. 1999-11-09 17:03:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 4c2533fe3c Added sentence "All exceptions must have an executable block."; from 
Dan Wolfe <wolfeman@apple.com>.
 1999-08-24 22:14:01 +00:00
Fred Drake c35367e439 Change an {\em ...} to \var{...} and a {\bf ...} to \program{...} (the 
new markup makes sense in context).

These allow the SGML/XML conversion updates to work, & should not have
still been in there anyway.
 1999-07-29 13:56:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 431f0ce547 Small nits around some of the index entries. 
When refering to chapters, use \ref, don't hardcode the chapter
number.
 1999-05-13 18:38:11 +00:00
Fred Drake b894370f6a Fixed some index entries. 
In the __coerce__ description, None should be returned if the
conversion is *impossible*, not *possible*.  Reported by Robert Kern
<kernr@ncifcrf.gov>.
 1999-05-10 13:43:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 1ea7c75687 Reflect recent patch for float % and divmod() by Tim Peters. Content 
updates by Tim Peters, markup by FLD.
 1999-05-06 14:46:35 +00:00
Fred Drake d09120b5b9 Added index entries for operator precedence; suggestion from Randall 
Hopper <rhh@vislab.epa.gov>.
 1999-04-29 16:43:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 011f6fca31 Typo: "Otherwose" --> "Otherwise" (reported by Joakim Sernbrant 
<joakim.sernbrant@front.se>).

Misc. small fixes to the logical markup.
 1999-04-14 12:52:14 +00:00
Fred Drake b55ce1e8b6 Fixed latex2html weirdness with footnotes. 1999-04-05 21:32:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 39fc1bc329 Added note about __builtin__._ to section dicussing classes of 
reserved names, just to avoid confusion on the part of users.
 1999-03-05 18:30:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 8cdee961bf Dictionaries are created using the "{...}" notation, not the "..." 
notation.  Problem reported by Magnus L. Hetland <mlh@idt.ntnu.no>.
 1999-02-23 18:50:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 264bd59221 1. Clarify that immutability isn't entirely the same as unchangeable 
value (because of immutable containers containing mutable objects).

2. Document that func_code, func_defaults and func_doc / __doc__ are
now writable.
 1999-02-23 16:40:55 +00:00
Fred Drake c411fa6861 Revised description of blank line handling for the interpreter, based 
on a comment from /F.
 1999-02-22 14:32:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 99cd5735f0 Minor markup nits. 1999-02-12 20:40:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 15988fdbbb Documented __complex__(), made sure all the discipline names hit the 
index.
 1999-02-12 18:14:57 +00:00
Fred Drake ae3e574170 "numberic" --> "numeric", two places 1999-01-28 23:21:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 4856d01797 Removed a lot of unnecessary comment markers which cause unexplained 
numbers to appear in the HTML version of the manual.
 1999-01-12 04:15:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b1f97d6765 Suggestion by Tim Peters clarifying what "before global" means. 
(Also added an XXX comment requesting clarification of module
initialization -- TBD later.)
 1998-12-21 18:57:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e039439e3b Clarify evaluation of default arguments at def time with more text and 
an example.
 1998-12-04 19:37:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 2f8592cbea Ignore the byproducts of SGML/XML conversions for now. 1998-12-01 18:58:28 +00:00
Fred Drake d03268feaa Remove two remaining {\tt ...} constructs. 1998-11-25 19:23:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 78eebfdbf4 Remove two remaining {\tt ...} constructs. 1998-11-25 19:09:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 1e42d8aaab Massive change to just about every construct that impacts the index. 
Blame it on Just.  ;-)
 1998-11-25 17:58:50 +00:00
Fred Drake ea81edf059 Markup nits. 
Fixed an index entry, added three more.
 1998-11-25 17:51:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 1475e88a35 Minor fixups to some index entries. 1998-11-25 17:48:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 2b3730e284 Minor adjustments to a few index entries. 1998-11-25 17:40:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 9beee80fd7 Remove a couple of unnecessary "%" characters that cause problems with 
the latest latex2html beta.
 1998-10-21 00:44:49 +00:00
Fred Drake dad11321eb Remove a bunch of unnecessary "%" characters that cause problems with 
the latest latex2html beta.
 1998-10-21 00:26:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 3041b0715b Remove an unnecessary "%" character that seems to cause a minor glitch 
with the latest latex2html.
 1998-10-21 00:25:32 +00:00
Fred Drake c456d36bde Fix encoding of \ in some string literals in the discussion of "raw" 
strings.  Reported by Lorenzo M. Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>.
 1998-10-01 20:41:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 82385872e9 Fix some confusion in the __repr__() and __str__() descriptions. 
Reported by Lorenzo M. Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>.
 1998-10-01 20:40:43 +00:00
Fred Drake d4c3352288 Fix encoding of \n in a couple of places (reported by Lorenzo 
M. Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>).
 1998-10-01 20:39:47 +00:00
Fred Drake d82575d5bf Markup changes in the section on disciplines to match method descriptions 
a little better, and produce better HTML.

Add some index entries.
 1998-08-28 20:03:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f5a80a4a88 Describe what happens when ``raise C, x'' is called where C is a class 
and x is not an instance of C (nor of a class derived of C).
 1998-08-25 14:45:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 1a0b872665 At least mark the URL to the Packages essay using \url. 1998-08-07 17:40:20 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 92a6ed9940 Minor refilling of a paragraph... 1998-08-07 16:33:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 70da192f63 im_function --> im_func 1998-08-07 16:28:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 9f86b662d1 Update to use a separate page for front matter. 1998-07-28 21:55:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 61c7728cc9 Make sure all chapters, sections, and subsections have a \label to give them 
semantic file names in the HTML.  No more node#.html files!
 1998-07-28 19:34:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 020f8c0139 Make sure chapters, sections, and subsections all have a \label to give them 
semantic file names in the HTML version; no more node#.html files.

Fix one section heading.
 1998-07-28 19:32:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 9ad9c9be03 Convert operator precedence table to the new style markup. 
Added lambda to the table.
Call "**" exponentiation instead of power.

{\em ...} --> \emph{...}
 1998-07-27 20:27:53 +00:00
Fred Drake a1cce714d0 Converted some {tabular}s to use {tablei*} environments. 1998-07-24 22:12:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum aca61a43dd Removing all references to FrameMaker 1998-07-24 20:58:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6a2fe26861 checkpoint before I throw this away 1998-07-24 20:55:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 579c8453c3 Checking in uninteresting changes (mostly window resizes :-) 
before I remove all this cruft.
 1998-07-24 20:54:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 246837d0f5 Fix markup of an \indexiii --> only two parameters were given. 1998-07-24 20:28:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d540509682 Changes copied from the FrameMaker version. Hardly anything (but then 
this is the shortest chapter.)

Hurray, I'm done with this!
 1998-07-24 18:56:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5399d68c4b Changes copied from the FrameMaker version. Not too much. 1998-07-24 18:51:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 56c2013d15 Changes copied from the FrameMaker version. Also documented some 
previously undocumented features.

Packages and the import mechanism in general are still left
undocumented.
 1998-07-24 18:25:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7c0240f112 e.g. -> e.g., 1998-07-24 15:36:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3a0ad6089b Changes copied from the FrameMaker version, and some new stuff 
(complex numbers, power operator).
 1998-07-23 21:57:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b18a93b4c8 Changes copied from the FrameMaker version (hardly anything original). 1998-07-23 19:36:00 +00:00
Guido van Rossum dfb658c386 'name space' -> 'namespace' 1998-07-23 17:54:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 83b2f8ad3d Lots of changes copied from the FrameMaker version. Also documented 
some previously undocumented features.
 1998-07-23 17:12:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5f574aace9 Added back the description of the exec statement. It appears that I 
accidentally cut it out when removing the access statement!  Added a
paragraph on __builtins__ and other possible manipulations of the key
space of the dictionaries.  Added some index entries.
 1998-07-06 13:18:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 60f2f0cf8e Lots of changes to get this in sync with the Frame version. 
Added raw strings, imaginary literals, assert and exec (!) keywords, a
table about Resererved classes of identifiers, and more.
 1998-06-15 18:00:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0bd3795d6a Two small additions to make it identical to the obsolete Frame version. 1998-06-15 16:27:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum dc1dab18a5 NewNew abstract, copied from the obsolete Frame version. 1998-06-15 16:27:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c85be6a0ff Fix another oldie (item (b) only): 
Date:    Fri, 20 Dec 1996 14:47:50 +0100
From:    Lele Gaifax <lele@nautilus.eclipse.it>
To:      Python List <python-list@cwi.nl>
Subject: Typos in ref manual

Hi all,
browsing the reference manual I noticed what seem two small errors:
  a) in the list of keywords (section 2.3.1) 'exec' is missing
  b) in the Operator Precedence table (5.12) the comparison operators
     include '=', but probably '==' was intended.
Hope this help,
lele.
 1998-05-16 02:11:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 5c07d9b028 Updated markup style (got rid of \verb@...@, mostly). 1998-05-14 19:37:06 +00:00
Fred Drake f8e4415578 Markup consistency. 
Using \input instead of \include to avoid extra .aux files from being
generated.
 1998-05-07 17:27:32 +00:00
Fred Drake dde91f000a Fix a bogus \code@...@ to be \code{...}. 
Normalize some other markup.
 1998-05-06 20:59:46 +00:00
Fred Drake f666917ab7 The Python Reference Manual. 1998-05-06 19:52:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 47e09c43fd Change the date to March 6, 1998. 
Migration to Frame 5.5.

Checking in the PDF file.  (This is questionable -- but we check in the
Postscript as well.  Perhaps *both* should be removed from the CVS tree,
now everything is unbundled and we're distributing PS and PDF tarballs?)

Note -- the HTML generation using webmaker is currently broken.  I'll
have to look into generating HTML from Frame...
 1998-03-06 21:43:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 79a6a9e882 Removed a confusing note about coercions and __r*__ operators. 1998-01-19 23:16:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3884e7edf9 Apply fixps.py to allow A4 paper printing. 1997-12-30 23:49:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ccd25d10c4 Final version for 1.5; two tiny corrections. 1997-12-30 18:35:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum dd79bd3539 Checking in fixed PS, with A4 capability. 1997-12-24 18:32:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b9973d9060 Script to edit one line in the PS to allow A4 printing. 1997-12-24 18:31:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a0eaa2200c Some manipulations with tags to get the TOC and Index to look better 1997-12-06 00:39:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3e396cf9ff New WML file, this time with working Title and Author tags, and 
mapping chapter and section headings to more appropriate nodes so that
the TOC actually works.  Now generates one HTML page per chapter.
 1997-12-06 00:38:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 628b4085b5 Ignore html files generated by webmaker. 1997-11-25 20:10:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 000eb0a138 Augmented the script so that (at CNRI anyway) it also invokes webmaker 
to create the HTML.
 1997-11-25 20:10:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 71ace95e12 Updated to the most pressing 1.5 issues. 1997-11-25 18:20:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7806c16650 generated from latest doc files 1997-05-21 14:48:15 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d0e8436e19 ??? maybe window size 1997-05-08 23:39:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 881255223d Added assert statement. 1997-05-08 23:39:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d8f038ec0a Added assert resword. 1997-05-08 23:39:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4408ed5dcb Tiny utility prints the latest set of reserved words. 1997-05-08 23:21:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 78b21cf47a Checking in old changes -- no idea why (probably window size). 1997-05-08 23:21:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4745a274a5 Added some more turd files we can't avoid: .MIF, .ps, .auto. 1996-11-27 19:52:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cd612d5e5c Webmaker instructions 1996-11-27 19:51:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 558c09e4c1 Script to write MIF files from ref*.{book,doc} 1996-11-27 19:50:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 58e7a1a388 Updated notice. 1996-10-25 14:06:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 52cf578382 Touched by FrameMaker :-( 1996-10-24 22:25:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fa7bfce0be Include updated title page. 1996-10-24 22:24:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 71445570c6 Removed CNRI copyright, changed notice to standard notice. 
Added date and version to title.
 1996-10-24 18:41:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c148cd6cdd Ignore Frame backup and lock files. 1996-10-23 16:25:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1775a517f5 Regenerated to remove hidden text from page 1. 1996-10-23 16:15:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum db2318580a Frame versions of documents after mangling by Robin. 1996-10-22 22:13:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1f17543ee7 Removed LaTeX version of reference manual. Added ref/ref.ps. 1996-10-22 20:00:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1fd5b21425 Mention warning for exception in __del__. 1996-08-20 18:03:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0a94dfcab8 Erase all memory of the access statement 1996-08-20 17:35:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8823972cea Documented class exceptions. 1996-08-19 23:00:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 22277c860f Added footnote about lamda bodies being the same as function bodies. 1996-08-09 21:00:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 45687bb976 Add warning about exceptions in __del__ being ignored. 1996-08-09 20:59:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1dead9bd0a Added __doc__ to predefined module attributes. 1996-06-26 19:29:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b7c6620e7f typo 1996-06-26 19:27:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a95a1405a8 expr_list -> expression_list 1996-06-26 19:26:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7710f1f00c explain global better 1996-06-26 19:26:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 00ed6a3279 added '**kw' to parameter list syntax 1996-06-26 19:26:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8476d00060 footnote about keyword args 1995-10-08 01:07:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c5d0d79714 make access obsolete 1995-10-08 00:52:14 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 611be707c2 replace vars() with locals() and globals(); 3rd raise arg; typos 1995-07-07 23:06:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8fd02194c5 typos 1995-07-07 23:05:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ab330d47d6 add missing definitin of longstringitem 1995-07-07 23:04:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ad07f2b656 squeezed some space out of a line that was too long 1995-05-03 13:47:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 93dda331ef update list of supported os-es 1995-04-04 11:57:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum aaec403a75 added index entries for __*__ identifiers 1995-03-21 14:41:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4dd6b84e5f added table of precedences 1995-03-17 15:59:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 55dd113bc8 forget about html.sty 1995-03-17 15:59:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a54754719d made palatable for latex2html: 
removed $math$, added braces to \item[\tt...]
 1995-03-16 14:44:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 47b4c0fb35 replace ASCII by macro call 1995-03-15 11:25:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3d54de2ab9 clarified code objects 1995-03-07 10:09:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 46f2157279 added ref to vars() 1995-03-07 10:09:34 +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 eb8b0d20c1 added classes as exceptions 1995-02-07 14:37:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 31cce97374 copyright.tex: Add 1995 to copyright message. 
lib.tex: add libimp; remove bogus warning about lineii.
libmath.tex: document hypot().
libmd5.tex: rename md5.md5() to md5.new().
libposix.tex: document chown().
libposixfile.tex: openfile() instead of fileopen().
libsocket.tex: document gethostbyaddr().
libtypes.tex: add footnote explaining why readline() keeps the newline.
ref3.tex: correct typos, add back*quotes to index.
ref4.tex: don't use \verb inside footnote.
ref5.tex: explain repr() and str() and add them + back*quotes to index.
ref6.tex: correct typo, don't use \verb in footnote.
ref7.tex: don't use \verb in footnote.
 1995-01-04 19:17:34 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 29c1b97d28 __call__, __getattr__ c.s. 1994-10-09 22:56:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 16cd7f9f12 Moved author and date to boilerplate.tex. 
Added copyright.tex to all files.
Added descr of check_interval to libsys.tex.
Corrected lotsa typos in tut.tex (thanks to George M. Sipe).
Corrected mktuple (should be newtupleobject) example in ext.tex.
 1994-10-06 10:29:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bd851cd167 * Doc/libtime.tex: get rid of references to millitime() and 
millisleep(); document clock()

	* Doc/ref6.tex (section{Assignment statements}): added warning
	about overlaps in lhs of assignment (e.g. "i, x[i] = 1, 2")
 1994-08-23 13:26:22 +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 e9914961b8 Merge lost revisions back 1994-08-01 12:38:14 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6938f06047 Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk 1994-08-01 12:22:53 +00:00