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Raymond Hettinger 8df4e6b020 Fix punctuation typo. 2004-08-15 23:51:38 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2864b808c7 Add a notes section to the docs: 
* Discuss representation error versus loss of significance.
* Document special values including qNaN, sNaN, +0, -0.
* Show the suprising display of non-normalized zero values.
 2004-08-15 23:47:48 +00:00
Skip Montanaro e5069019e7 Add get_history_item and replace_history_item functions to the readline 
module.  Closes patch #675551.  My apologies to Michal Vitecek for taking so
long to process this.
 2004-08-15 14:32:06 +00:00
Johannes Gijsbers b112d6ed78 bug 990669: os.path.normpath may alter the meaning of a path if it contains 
symbolic links. This has been documented in a comment since 1992, but is now in
the library reference as well.
 2004-08-14 14:41:32 +00:00
Tim Peters 83e259a2c2 Another microburst of snail-like progress. 2004-08-13 21:55:21 +00:00
Tim Peters 41a65ea7fe Doctest has new traceback gimmicks in 2.4. While trying to document 
them (which they are now), I had to rewrite the code to understand
it.  This has got to be the most DWIM part of doctest -- but in context
is really necessary.
 2004-08-13 03:55:05 +00:00
Neal Norwitz ee6511b309 Fix the version number in which changes were made 2004-08-13 02:34:06 +00:00
Tim Peters 2603960525 Markup fiddling. 2004-08-13 01:49:12 +00:00
Tim Peters 8a3b69ca8f Excruciatingly slow progress on the docs. Option flags / directive names 
are documented now, and ripped out a bunch of "private name" convolutions.
 2004-08-12 22:31:25 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 5e897959db This is my patch 
[ 1004703 ] Make func_name writable

plus fixing a couple of nits in the documentation changes spotted by MvL
and a Misc/NEWS entry.
 2004-08-12 18:12:44 +00:00
Fred Drake ba100c98ad clarify the behavior of the .first() and .last() methods for empty 
databases

this should be backported to the release23-maint branch
 2004-08-10 19:22:48 +00:00
Fred Drake d62d507b9a added missing documentation for UseForeignDTD() (new in 2.3) 
someone should backport to the release23-maint branch
 2004-08-10 17:18:32 +00:00
Fred Drake fb568ca52a add descriptions for many of the new error codes 2004-08-10 16:47:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 9d92d5a9ac minor changes to make this format again 2004-08-10 15:41:03 +00:00
Tim Peters c2388a2b9c Start rewriting doctest's LaTeX docs. Damn, this is slow going! 2004-08-10 01:41:28 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 24884a5ccc [Patch #1005465] Markup tweaks 2004-08-09 17:36:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 151df0794d - make a module reference a hyperlink 
- wrap a long line
 2004-08-09 14:12:05 +00:00
Dave Cole 9dc19c2515 Ooops - for some reason I had the wrong versionadded... 2004-08-09 05:59:09 +00:00
Dave Cole 331708b226 Patch #1003700: Add socketpair function to socket module. 2004-08-09 04:51:41 +00:00
Tim Peters feec4533e2 Bug 1003935: xrange overflows 
Added XXX comment about why the undocumented PyRange_New() API function
is too broken to be worth the considerable pain of repairing.

Changed range_new() to stop using PyRange_New().  This fixes a variety
of bogus errors.  Nothing in the core uses PyRange_New() now.

Documented that xrange() is intended to be simple and fast, and that
CPython restricts its arguments, and length of its result sequence, to
native C longs.

Added some tests that failed before the patch, and repaired a test that
relied on a bogus OverflowError getting raised.
 2004-08-08 07:17:39 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 2ee6a7027a [Patch #999280 ] Update kwargs in pickle docs to match implementations 2004-08-07 20:25:55 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 17e33e4c93 [Bug #914375] Crude modulefinder docs, but the module's code is very hard to read and it's not clear which bits are public and which aren't. The module's author should really be doing this (and using docstrings in the code, too) 2004-08-07 20:13:34 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 32dbddafd5 Remove various modules that have been documented 2004-08-07 19:21:59 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 59a27f1d6e Various minor edits 2004-08-07 19:10:36 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4cbe95cdd1 [Bug #866222] Update docs to match the module 2004-08-07 19:06:48 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 1baa248021 Fix 
[ 1000841 ] "make pdf" failure w/ 2.4 docs

in the suggested way, by uglifying a URL.
 2004-08-07 17:39:35 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 0188cdb115 [Bug #998066] Mention result mismatch 2004-08-07 17:28:17 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 8def876d36 [Bug #873146] Document pickletools module (haven't tested the LaTeX yet) 2004-08-07 16:53:59 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 049e7aaa0f Point out that the setdefault defaults the value to None. Inspired by 
Michael Chermside's thinking about patch #748126 (the chief upshot of
which thinking was "reject it!").
 2004-08-07 16:41:34 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling cbbee6fed5 [Bug #984952] Include more material from PEP 307. 
I haven't tried to include all the material on old-style classes using protocols 0,1.  The details are lengthy; someone who knows
more about the pickle module should decide if they're important enough
to be in the docs or not.
 2004-08-07 16:24:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 14d535c3d4 [Bug #984952] Include some material from PEP 307 2004-08-07 15:49:24 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 6f937b1c30 [Bug #998307] Use open() instead of file() in docs 2004-08-07 15:11:24 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 34ed2b020a Typo fix; use 'in-place' instead of 'inplace' 2004-08-06 18:55:09 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 52a21b8e65 SF patch #980695: efficient string concatenation 
(Original patch by Armin Rigo).
 2004-08-06 18:43:09 +00:00
Phillip J. Eby 1884dda233 Warn that settrace() is implementation rather than language 
definition, per Guido's request  in off-list email.
 2004-08-05 12:13:46 +00:00
Matthias Klose 4c8fa42aca Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex: correct items in itemize 
Doc/dist/dist.tex: avoid uncommenting the verbose environment (by the py2texi tool)
 2004-08-04 23:18:49 +00:00
Vinay Sajip 1cf56d0b8a Updated Logger.log() documentation to clarify that lvl parameter should be an integer. 2004-08-04 08:36:44 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang e9ddfbb412 SF #989185: Drop unicode.iswide() and unicode.width() and add 
unicodedata.east_asian_width().  You can still implement your own
simple width() function using it like this:
    def width(u):
        w = 0
        for c in unicodedata.normalize('NFC', u):
            cwidth = unicodedata.east_asian_width(c)
            if cwidth in ('W', 'F'): w += 2
            else: w += 1
        return w
 2004-08-04 07:38:35 +00:00
Fred Drake f901abdd62 allow ctime(), gmtime(), and localtime() to take None as equivalent to an omitted arg 
(closes SF bug #658254, patch #663482)
 2004-08-03 17:58:55 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 9513e34ac4 Patch #823072: add option to NOT use ~/.netrc in nntplib.NNTP(). 2004-08-03 14:36:32 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 70fcdb8be0 Document general mappings for the locals argument for exec and execfile(). 2004-08-03 05:17:58 +00:00
Anthony Baxter c2a5a63654 PEP-0318, @decorator-style. In Guido's words: 
"@ seems the syntax that everybody can hate equally"
Implementation by Mark Russell, from SF #979728.
 2004-08-02 06:10:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 63a5d0b1cf re-wrap paragraphs containing long lines 2004-07-30 19:12:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 69013d070e - document the termination condition for cmd.Cmd.cmdloop() 
- document the use of the return value for cmd.Cmd.do_*() methods
 2004-07-30 18:58:54 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 479b7a7cdb Fix typo. 2004-07-30 16:09:19 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 8ddb638e43 Add closing methoddesc. Add versionadded. Rewrap. 2004-07-30 16:08:49 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f9fd0d7988 SF bug #997533: "disjunct" should be "disjoint" 
* Use plain wording in docs for id().
* Use normal quotation marks instead of single quotes in the description.
 2004-07-29 06:06:34 +00:00
Neal Norwitz f9f0b21653 SF #998170, fix typo. Backport candidate 2004-07-29 03:48:59 +00:00
Neal Norwitz bee417439e Add versionadded info 2004-07-28 02:34:12 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 7b9190b8fc Patch #998149: imaplib deleteacl and myrights. 2004-07-27 05:07:19 +00:00
Fred Drake fdccf1ad6e fix information about what flag database files are opened with by default 2004-07-26 16:33:29 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis cc0f93233a Patch #605370: Add description[s] for RFC 2980 compliance. 2004-07-26 12:40:50 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 37ead8f1c3 Patch #997668: Correct explanation of salts. 
Will backport to 2.3.
 2004-07-26 12:05:16 +00:00
Tim Peters abba5c067d Explain that most floats are actually integers. This is a common confusion 
for people using floor(), ceil() and modf().
 2004-07-26 05:12:01 +00:00
Tim Peters 9a729a1cc5 Typo in new docs. 2004-07-26 04:58:50 +00:00
Tim Peters d6ef19309d SF bugs 996748: os.environ documentation should indicate unreliability 
Clarifed that os.environ is captured once; emphasized that it's better
to assign to os.environ than to call putenv() directly (the putenv()
docs said so, but the environ docs didn't).
 2004-07-26 00:42:41 +00:00
Tim Peters 66bb6e661c SF bug 996392: math and cmath docs don't specify radians 
Major rewrite of the math module docs.  Slapped in "radians" where
appropriate; grouped the functions into reasonable categories; supplied
many more words to address common confusions about some of the subtler
issues.
 2004-07-24 23:00:24 +00:00
Tim Peters 336689b9cc A few trivial edits. 2004-07-23 02:48:24 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger cab5b94592 SF bug #995983 and #995987: Documentation nits. 2004-07-22 19:33:53 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 7bd33c5e22 This change implements the following gettext features, as 
discussed recently in python-dev:

In _locale module:

- bind_textdomain_codeset() binding

In gettext module:

- bind_textdomain_codeset() function
- lgettext(), lngettext(), ldgettext(), ldngettext(),
  which return translated strings encoded in
  preferred system encoding, if
  bind_textdomain_codeset() was not used.
- Added equivalent functionality in translate()
  function and catalog classes.

Every change was also documented.
 2004-07-22 18:44:01 +00:00
Vinay Sajip b4bf62f807 Added an extra example to the basic example section 2004-07-21 14:40:11 +00:00
Skip Montanaro bf76075a4b fix typo, highlight True/False correctly 2004-07-21 02:47:10 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 7728b4719e SF #994605, fcntl example is broken 
The last call to fcntl (which wasn't changed) doesn't work for me, but
the first part works now.

Backport candidate.
 2004-07-21 01:41:14 +00:00
Neal Norwitz d96d1015ef SF #918101, allow files >= 8 GB using GNU extension 2004-07-20 22:23:02 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis b0c319a905 Patch #993187: Make rstrip doc similar to lstrip. 
Backported to 2.3.
 2004-07-19 16:34:01 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 76aa2eff4e Get doc to build (add missing backslash) 2004-07-19 01:39:54 +00:00
Tim Peters 3d7d372ce3 Whitespace normalization, via reindent.py. 2004-07-18 06:25:50 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang 2bb146f2f4 Bring CJKCodecs 1.1 into trunk. This completely reorganizes source 
and installed layouts to make maintenance simple and easy.  And it
also adds four new codecs; big5hkscs, euc-jis-2004, shift-jis-2004
and iso2022-jp-2004.
 2004-07-18 03:06:29 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang 910d8f1e89 Change CJK encoding aliases to their most popular variation of 
hyphen and underscores in consistency of non-CJK aliases.
(Spotted by Mike Brown at SF #969415)
 2004-07-17 14:44:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 872dc5c457 Minor edits 2004-07-17 13:35:43 +00:00
Tim Peters de8332171a SF bug 990749: os constants missing 
A LaTeX comment identified the 6 os.O_XXX constants the docs claimed
are available on Windows but aren't.  The bug report listed the same 6.
Split these non-Windows constants into a different table with a possibly
correct "Availability:" claim.
 2004-07-15 05:46:37 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9296023938 Improve examples for working with the context API. 2004-07-14 21:06:55 +00:00
Jim Fulton d15dc06df0 Implemented thread-local data as proposed on python-dev: 
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-June/045785.html
 2004-07-14 19:11:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8cec3ab0e4 - Bug #981530: Fix UnboundLocalError in shutil.rmtree(). This affects 
the documented behavior: the function passed to the onerror()
  handler can now also be os.listdir.

[I could've sworn I checked this in, but apparently I didn't, or it
got lost???]
 2004-07-14 00:48:58 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 2a510ce119 Wordsmithing 2004-07-13 14:03:31 +00:00
Brett Cannon 71868e74d6 Add another point in the "Restrictions" section about how the handling of FTP 
URLs will seemingly succeed to read a URL that points to a file whose
permissions you do not have to read.

Backport candidate once everyone agrees with the wording.
 2004-07-13 00:48:42 +00:00
Vinay Sajip 20f42c433b Fixed minor bugs in the example configuration file 2004-07-12 15:48:04 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d7c7115926 Small elaboration and typo fixes. 2004-07-12 13:22:14 +00:00
Tim Peters 5af0e41482 Bug #788520: Queue class has logic error when non-blocking 
I don't agree it had a bug (see the report), so this is *not* a candidate
for backporting, but the docs were confusing and the Queue implementation
was old enough to vote.

Rewrote put/put_nowait/get/get_nowait from scratch, to use a pair of
Conditions (not_full and not_empty), sharing a common mutex.  The code
is 1/4 the size now, and 6.25x easier to understand.  For blocking
with timeout, we also get to reuse (indirectly) the tedious timeout
code from threading.Condition.  The Full and Empty exceptions raised
by non-blocking calls are now easy (instead of nearly impossible) to
explain truthfully:  Full is raised if and only if the Queue truly
is full when the non-blocking put call checks the queue size, and
similarly for Empty versus non-blocking get.

What I don't know is whether the new implementation is slower (or
faster) than the old one.  I don't really care.  Anyone who cares
a lot is encouraged to check that.
 2004-07-12 00:45:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 2363e8fece Added documentation for the "smtpd" module. 
Closes SF bug #450803.
 2004-07-11 16:25:25 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 88e8e34ab0 Style nit. 2004-07-11 13:20:11 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 65df07bf23 Minor improvements, fixups and wording changes everywhere. 2004-07-11 12:40:19 +00:00
Kurt B. Kaiser 8932b41669 Patch 851752 (fixes bug 820583) 
Patch by John J Lee
Reviewed by Jeff Epler / KBK
Doc built OK.

urlopen() may return None if no handler handles the request.

Also clarify what install_opener does.

M liburllib2.tex
 2004-07-11 02:13:17 +00:00
Brett Cannon cd77dd6321 Fix minor error in example. 2004-07-10 23:06:07 +00:00
Brett Cannon 91cc5cd188 Clarify docs for inspect.getargspec() that the fourth value is None when there 
are no default arguments for the function.
 2004-07-10 21:13:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3a2418a1d6 [Patch #969900] Various corrections and updates to cookielib docs 2004-07-10 18:41:28 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 300ce19592 [Patch #972310] Apply correction to docs 2004-07-10 18:28:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 099bd524a4 [Bug 949832] Fix example; edit sentence 2004-07-10 16:01:10 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger bf4406971c Improve Context construction and representation: 
* Rename "trap_enablers" to just "traps".
* Simplify names of "settraps" and "setflags" to just "traps" and "flags".
* Show "capitals" in the context representation
* Simplify the Context constructor to match its repr form so that only
  the set flags and traps need to be listed.
* Representation can now be run through eval().

Improve the error message when the Decimal constructor is given a float.

The test suite no longer needs a duplicate reset_flags method.
 2004-07-10 14:14:37 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 0d278b861e SF bug #987486: fix typo. 2004-07-10 11:15:56 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5aa478badf Module and tests: 
* Map conditions to related signals.
* Make contexts unhashable.
* Eliminate used "default" attribute in exception definitions.
* Eliminate the _filterfunc in favor of a straight list.

Docs:
* Eliminate documented references to conditions that are not signals.
* Eliminate parenthetical notes such as "1/0 --> Inf" which are no
  longer true with the new defaults.
 2004-07-09 10:02:53 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 97c9208c6c Incorporate Facundo's suggestions. 2004-07-09 06:13:12 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 2b2795ac6d show how easy it is to manipulate individual columns - from a request on 
c.l.py
 2004-07-08 19:49:10 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 536f76b25a Fix markup, typos, and nits. 2004-07-08 09:22:33 +00:00
Vinay Sajip e3c330b42a Replaced some tabs with spaces in verbatim section. 2004-07-07 15:59:49 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2f55eb4cca Demonstrate how to round final result. 2004-07-06 01:55:14 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 10959b1c2a Expand examples to show polymorphism 2004-07-05 21:13:28 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 77e13b4ead Simplify examples. 2004-07-05 20:27:53 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c4f93d4410 Doc tested the recipes. 2004-07-05 20:17:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9c719bafbf Fix typo 2004-07-05 18:56:03 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d84efb3d93 * Added missing info on construction from a tuple. 
* Added a recipe section.
 2004-07-05 18:41:42 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 8de63a206e Add decimal docs to the core. 2004-07-05 05:52:03 +00:00
Nicholas Bastin 068979cdd6 Textual change to make the doc reflect reality 2004-07-04 04:47:40 +00:00
Vinay Sajip a13c60b810 Moved example section up to just after the section on Logger objects, and changed it to use the new basicConfig() API 2004-07-03 11:45:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 0a4dd390bf Make weak references subclassable: 
- weakref.ref and weakref.ReferenceType will become aliases for each
  other

- weakref.ref will be a modern, new-style class with proper __new__
  and __init__ methods

- weakref.WeakValueDictionary will have a lighter memory footprint,
  using a new weakref.ref subclass to associate the key with the
  value, allowing us to have only a single object of overhead for each
  dictionary entry (currently, there are 3 objects of overhead per
  entry: a weakref to the value, a weakref to the dictionary, and a
  function object used as a weakref callback; the weakref to the
  dictionary could be avoided without this change)

- a new macro, PyWeakref_CheckRefExact(), will be added

- PyWeakref_CheckRef() will check for subclasses of weakref.ref

This closes SF patch #983019.
 2004-07-02 18:57:45 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 214b1c3aae SF Bug #215126: Over restricted type checking on eval() function 
The builtin eval() function now accepts any mapping for the locals argument.
Time sensitive steps guarded by PyDict_CheckExact() to keep from slowing
down the normal case.  My timings so no measurable impact.
 2004-07-02 06:41:07 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 78bace7442 add cp866 row 2004-07-02 02:14:34 +00:00
Walter Dörwald ac1075a645 Document that encode() and decode() raise UnicodeError 
instead of ValueError.

Add a note about error handling schemes added by PEP 293.
 2004-07-01 19:58:47 +00:00
Skip Montanaro ecf7a52bb8 link to the codecs page from the "".encode() description. 2004-07-01 19:26:04 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 2ccf5d689b use file() in preference to open() 2004-06-30 21:06:45 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson d5cf143482 Check in the updated version of patch #957240, which doesn't rely 
on the marshalling characteristics of infinities.
 2004-06-30 09:02:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 7dd8fda49f [Bug #978556] Update SHA spec URL; bugfix candidate 2004-06-29 13:35:01 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 11b91a0ea3 Added socket.getservbyport(), and make its second argument and that of 
getservbyname() optional.  Update the tests and the docs.
 2004-06-28 00:50:43 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ef82d2fdfe Patch #923098: Share interned strings in marshal. 2004-06-27 16:51:46 +00:00
Fred Drake b86aa99eb9 move the note about the bsddb185 module above the "See also" box; that 
should always go last in the relevant section's main content, but
before child sections
 2004-06-24 06:03:59 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 28224f897a Improve the documented advice on how to best use heapq.heapreplace(). 2004-06-20 09:07:53 +00:00
Brett Cannon 3706855d11 Add apparently missing word for InvalidStateError definition. 
Closes bug #973901.  Thanks Brian Gough.
 2004-06-17 21:34:05 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 9e151d149e add missing closing quote. 2004-06-17 13:29:11 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 64af6c545c Comment that getfilesystemencoding returns mbcs even on NT+. Fixes #964870. 2004-06-16 04:53:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger aefde435ef Reverse argument order for nsmallest() and nlargest(). 
Reads better when the iterable is a generator expression.
 2004-06-15 23:53:35 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger b67ad7e671 Patch #826074: cmath.log optional base argument, fixes #823209 
(Contributed by Andrew Gaul.)
 2004-06-14 07:40:10 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ad21945d03 Back out #957240. 2004-06-14 04:58:42 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 965eeca630 SF bug #970042, lockf() signature uses len, doc refers to length (use length, same as docstring) 2004-06-13 21:11:03 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2e3dfaf707 Install C version of heapq.nsmallest(). 2004-06-13 05:26:33 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2e6694086f Minor wording and spacing nits. 2004-06-12 07:59:40 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 34809170e5 Complete the list of weakreferencable objects. 2004-06-12 06:56:44 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 33ecffb65a SF patch #969791: Add nlargest() and nsmallest() to heapq. 2004-06-10 05:03:17 +00:00
Fred Drake da4513a88b make a reference to the SimpleHTTPServer module a hyperlink to the 
docs
 2004-06-09 14:50:19 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 737ea82a5a Patch #774665: Make Python LC_NUMERIC agnostic. 2004-06-08 18:52:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 7f35404b7b - markup fix 
- explain Python/ceval.c from what; lots of people don't use a source
  distro any more
 2004-06-08 14:01:27 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis bdec50f027 Feature request #935915: Add os.path.devnull. 2004-06-08 08:29:33 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f30d60edbc Patch #510695: Add TSC profiling for the VM. 2004-06-08 08:17:44 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 44cbfd7819 [Bug #953177] Mention .getlist(); text from Paul Moore 2004-06-06 23:28:23 +00:00
Tim Peters 0b4d1ee29d SF 964876 mapping a 0 length file 
Document that it can't be done on Windows.
 2004-06-06 16:51:46 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e1ca355425 [Bug #918710] Add paragraph to clarify docs 2004-06-05 19:25:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 175d18840a avoid backticks in examples; use repr() instead 2004-06-03 16:23:23 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 4a9b8069e0 Document string methods that are locale-dependent. Fixes #935749. 
Will backport to 2.3.
 2004-06-03 09:47:01 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis eac324b90b Patch #957240: Add count parameter to asyncore.loop. 2004-06-03 09:18:35 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang 974ed7cfa5 - SF #962502: Add two more methods for unicode type; width() and 
iswide() for east asian width manipulation. (Inspired by David
Goodger, Reviewed by Martin v. Loewis)
- Move _PyUnicode_TypeRecord.flags to the end of the struct so that
no padding is added for UCS-4 builds. (Suggested by Martin v. Loewis)
 2004-06-02 16:49:17 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 92816de18e Patch #932930: suggest the use of rawstrings for backslashes. 2004-05-31 19:01:00 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 2a6ba9097e Patch #963318: Add support for client-side cookie management. 2004-05-31 18:22:40 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 027bb633b6 Add weakref support to sockets and re pattern objects. 2004-05-31 03:09:25 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 79cddc56b3 stupid, stupid, stupid... raw_input() already supports readline() if the 
readline module is loaded.
 2004-05-24 14:20:16 +00:00
Skip Montanaro b98a8ba14d Add example that uses readline.readline(). 2004-05-23 19:06:41 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 0dc23101a0 Exposed readline() function from the readline module. 2004-05-23 17:46:50 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e36894da3a Updated to reflect new types. 2004-05-22 16:38:11 +00:00
Piers Lauder 8bc81fc5c7 Added description for authenticate and namespace 2004-05-20 12:12:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 82903148a8 ConfigParser: 
- read() method returns a list of files parsed successfully
- add tests, documentation
(closes SF patch #677651)
 2004-05-18 04:24:02 +00:00
Fred Drake b4c6091984 ConfigParser: 
- DuplicateSectionError is only raised by add_section()
(closes SF bug #830449)
 2004-05-18 03:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake abc086fb0d ConfigParser: 
- don't allow setting options to non-string values; raise TypeError
  when the value is set, instead of raising an arbitrary exception
  later (such as when string interpolation is performed)
- add tests, documentation
(closes SF bug #810843)
 2004-05-18 03:29:52 +00:00
Fred Drake bc12b01d83 ConfigParser: 
- ensure that option names in interpolations are handled by
  self.optionxform in the same way that other references to option
  names
- add tests, documentation
(closes SF bug #857881, patch #865455)
 2004-05-18 02:25:51 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 0e371f2cb6 Make sure "del d[n]" is properly supported. Was necessary because the 
same method that implements __setitem__ also implements __delitem__.
Also, there were several good use cases (removing items from a queue
and implementing Forth style stack ops).
 2004-05-12 20:55:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 1cd6e4dc38 fix various descriptions of "ctime" 
(closes SF patch #870287)
 2004-05-12 03:51:40 +00:00
Fred Drake bb066cf841 fix various typos; thanks, George Yoshida! 
(closes SF patch #952047)
 2004-05-12 03:07:27 +00:00
Fred Drake f72de0fb8c add note about the __name__ read-only attribute 
(closes SF bug #952212)
 2004-05-12 02:48:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 0d73621cb2 markup adjustment 2004-05-11 05:29:34 +00:00
Barry Warsaw dd69b0ab6c Added a note describing how fp should be opened in binary mode, especially on 
Windows.  Closes SF # 586899.
 2004-05-10 23:12:52 +00:00
Skip Montanaro fb85739494 Point out that %p has no effect on the output hour in strptime unless %I is 
used to parse the hour.
 2004-05-10 18:53:00 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e7169eb9ed Add more examples. 2004-05-09 01:15:01 +00:00
Fred Drake e143bbb610 fix documentation for ContentHandler.ignorableWhitespace() 
(closes SF bug #881707)
 2004-05-06 03:47:48 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 99872c1342 [Bug #810879] Document that copyfile() can fail if you don't have permissions; also, fix a double negative. 2004-05-05 17:21:51 +00:00
Brett Cannon 0fefc140aa Fix small grammatical mistake. 2004-05-05 16:49:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 8aa8c84d18 add an index entry for __getnewargs__() 2004-05-05 04:56:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 0de77d1d6e - note that __getinitargs__() is only for old-style classes 
- describe __getnewargs__()
(closes SF bug #873246)
 2004-05-05 04:54:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 04d92c37f2 Remove list of pickle protocol names used by the copy module; there 
are enough subtleties to pickling that we don't want misunderstanding
to spread because we don't provide all the information twice.  The
reference to the pickle module for information will have to suffice;
at least only one portion of the docs will be out of date.  ;-(
 2004-05-05 04:24:30 +00:00
Fred Drake cee8879a7d note that the error code for socket.gaierror will be one of the EAI_* 
constants
(closes SF bug #837929)
 2004-05-05 04:18:11 +00:00
Greg Ward 4fe97ca4ce SF #814606: merge from release23-maint branch: clarify/cleanup 
mixer docs; trim \platform{}, add \versionadded{}.
 2004-05-05 01:36:16 +00:00
Phillip J. Eby 5068c873e6 Document readline module functions added in Python 2.3. See: 
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-September/037922.html

for background.  It appears I forgot to ever submit a bug report or patch.
 2004-05-04 19:20:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d7911a3317 Minor documentation nits. 2004-05-01 08:31:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f5f9a370d4 Add an example application to the docs. 2004-04-30 22:52:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 6fbf703fa2 the headers in an HTTP request are HTTP headers, not MIME headers 2004-04-29 02:47:38 +00:00
Fred Drake ceeb1918a1 remove out-of-date count of the functions in winsound 2004-04-28 03:57:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 0ed663443e really scream out that people should use the file objects instead of 
file descriptor operations for normal applications
 2004-04-16 15:20:01 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 10659f2540 bring description of optional and keyword args for DictReader and DictWriter 
classes into line with the actual code.  I didn't see any obvious examples
of latex formatting for *args and **kwds so I just guessed.
 2004-04-16 03:21:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 8efc74d35e remove bogus markup that caused the docs to be wrong 2004-04-15 06:18:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 6b3b046ab0 fix up some markup 2004-04-09 18:26:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 94ffbb71a8 give rational filenames to some of the generated HTML 2004-04-08 19:44:31 +00:00
Neal Norwitz ba813e2089 #928751, fix typos in socket doc 2004-04-03 18:02:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 8123ff6bca remove out-of-date warning 2004-03-26 17:11:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 504ca68e20 Note that reading from a socket may not always return all of the 
remaining content of a stream when expected to do so.
Closes SF bug #725265.  Should be backported to Python 2.3.x.
 2004-03-25 16:51:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 267b062432 - make sure the methods minidom adds to the basic DOM are attributed 
to Node objects in the index (closes SF bug #832251)
- fix a variety of markup nits

Someone should backport this patch to Python 2.3.x.
 2004-03-25 16:39:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 2f00c5453e fix typo 2004-03-25 16:14:17 +00:00
Fred Drake f39c3c7a6b note that distutils API docs are included in "Distributing Python 
Modules"
 2004-03-25 16:12:08 +00:00
Nicholas Bastin c69ebe8d50 Enable the profiling of C functions (builtins and extensions) 2004-03-24 21:57:10 +00:00
Fred Drake fee6f33e08 more markup nits 2004-03-23 21:40:07 +00:00
Fred Drake e05c3e0fbb fix markup nits 2004-03-23 20:30:59 +00:00
Nicholas Bastin 824b1b2da8 Added command line options for profile.py - one for stats output file 
and one for sort order when using stdout.  Uses optparse.
 2004-03-23 18:44:39 +00:00
Nicholas Bastin 1eb4bfc657 Added global runctx function to profile to fix SF Bug #716587 2004-03-22 20:12:56 +00:00
Nicholas Bastin 07973dab97 Modified string.split documentation to reflect behaviour of splitting emtpy string. Closes SF bug #811604 2004-03-21 16:59:59 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 20a8336ff7 concrete example of why retaining old objects is good 2004-03-21 16:05:30 +00:00
Brett Cannon 8b6cc2e7f2 Removed extra period from \versionchanged entry; macro adds period 
automatically.
 2004-03-21 14:10:18 +00:00
Brett Cannon 508c57d544 Clarify docs on where .pth files can exist. 2004-03-20 21:41:28 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger fe703e0650 SF bug #918371: hasattr()'s return type 
Replace 1 and 0 with True and False.
 2004-03-20 18:25:31 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 8e6ad6fbe9 Expand on the semantics of reload(). Closes #919099. 2004-03-19 15:20:16 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang 5c5316f111 Add a new unicode codec: ptcp154 (Kazakh) 2004-03-19 08:06:07 +00:00
Brett Cannon d1de45f549 Fix capitalization of title for subsection 2. 2004-03-18 07:37:15 +00:00
Skip Montanaro bdda9f389a The example files need to be opened with the "b" flag. 2004-03-17 01:24:17 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 49f9bd15ff SF feature request #686323: Minor array module enhancements 
array.extend() now accepts iterable arguments implements as a series
of appends.  Besides being a user convenience and matching the behavior
for lists, this the saves memory and cycles that would be used to
create a temporary array object.
 2004-03-14 05:43:59 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang 9168c70438 SF Patch #912462: Relocate \end tag to the right place. 
(Submitted by George Yoshida)
 2004-03-09 05:53:15 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 31017aed36 SF #904720: dict.update should take a 2-tuple sequence like dict.__init_ 
(Championed by Bob Ippolito.)

The update() method for mappings now accepts all the same argument forms
as the dict() constructor.  This includes item lists and/or keyword
arguments.
 2004-03-04 08:25:44 +00:00
Brett Cannon d1080a3418 Have strftime() check its time tuple argument to make sure the tuple's values 
are within proper boundaries as specified in the docs.

This can break possible code (datetime module needed changing, for instance)
that uses 0 for values that need to be greater 1 or greater (month, day, and
day of year).

Fixes bug #897625.
 2004-03-02 04:38:10 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 0a4977c2f3 Replace left(), right(), and __reversed__() with the more general purpose 
__getitem__() and __setitem__().

Simplifies the API, reduces the code size, adds flexibility, and makes
deques work with bisect.bisect(), random.shuffle(), and random.sample().
 2004-03-01 23:16:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 738ec90ca1 Improvements to collections.deque(): 
* Add doctests for the examples in the library reference.
* Add two methods, left() and right(), modeled after deques in C++ STL.
* Apply the new method to asynchat.py.
* Add comparison operators to make deques more substitutable for lists.
* Replace the LookupErrors with IndexErrors to more closely match lists.
 2004-02-29 02:15:56 +00:00
Neal Norwitz fb0521f153 Use versionadded for new features 2004-02-28 16:00:23 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 3e0877ef88 Add version changed/added to doc 2004-02-28 15:19:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 59e02c110d fix typo in reference to RFC 3464 DSN MIME type 2004-02-24 20:58:10 +00:00
David Ascher e2b4b32025 Implementation of patch 869468 
Allow the user to create Tkinter.Tcl objects which are
just like Tkinter.Tk objects except that they do not
initialize Tk. This is useful in circumstances where the
script is being run on machines that do not have an X
server running -- in those cases, Tk initialization fails,
even if no window is ever created.

Includes documentation change and tests.

Tested on Linux, Solaris and Windows.

Reviewed by Martin von Loewis.
 2004-02-18 05:59:53 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 70a6b49821 Replace backticks with repr() or "%r" 
From SF patch #852334.
 2004-02-12 17:35:32 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5de33786a9 SF patch #892821: example for urllib2 has SyntaxError 
(Contributed by George Yoshida.)
 2004-02-08 20:25:01 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 4c9800d663 SF bug #892854: typo in textwrap doc page 
(Reported by Drew Perttula.)
 2004-02-08 18:09:32 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5c5eb86347 * Incorporate Skip's suggestions for documentation (explain the word deque 
comes from and show the differences from lists).
* Add a rotate() method.
 2004-02-07 21:13:00 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 7209294112 a couple other sunos4 support items removed 2004-02-07 12:50:19 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c058fd14a9 * Fix ref counting in extend() and extendleft(). 
* Let deques support reversed().
 2004-02-07 02:45:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 3ba85c2e8a Have deques support high volume loads. 2004-02-06 19:04:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 21ae4f983e minor markup adjustments 2004-02-03 20:55:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 4458ece4d7 Clarify minor point about the ref() and proxy() constructors. 
This matches what is already documented for corresponding feature of the C API.
 2004-02-03 19:44:26 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger dd256d97cc Add documentation for collections.deque(). 2004-01-29 07:35:45 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e52f3b1e56 Add documentation for collections.deque(). 2004-01-29 07:27:45 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 756b3f3c15 * Move collections.deque() in from the sandbox 
* Add unittests, newsitem, and whatsnew
* Apply to Queue.py mutex.py threading.py pydoc.py and shlex.py
* Docs are forthcoming
 2004-01-29 06:37:52 +00:00
Fred Drake bd12b181c8 fix whitespace style (inconsistent with the rest of the docs) 2004-01-27 21:08:04 +00:00
Fred Drake fcc51767bd update signature of the socket constructor 
(could someone backport this to Python 2.3.x please?)
 2004-01-27 18:21:26 +00:00
Fred Drake ee3c6074c3 add missing period 2004-01-26 19:40:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 913829cb1d fix markup 2004-01-26 19:39:13 +00:00
Skip Montanaro db8d1c26d3 add references between getopt and optparse docs 2004-01-26 19:30:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 226f697560 fix method name in example code 2004-01-23 04:05:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 1fe9750200 add direct link to the article in DDJ 
closes SF bug #871402
 2004-01-21 18:30:28 +00:00
Skip Montanaro ba0485a92d expand on notion of row object type 2004-01-21 13:47:04 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 7895146c40 typo 2004-01-21 13:34:35 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 734fb5724f Add a Guido inspired example for groupby(). 2004-01-20 20:04:40 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang 3e2a306920 Add CJK codecs support as discussed on python-dev. (SF #873597) 
Several style fixes are suggested by Martin v. Loewis and
Marc-Andre Lemburg. Thanks!
 2004-01-17 14:29:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 621b443b8d - add warning that hotshot doesn't work well with threads 
- fix some markup
 2004-01-16 17:30:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 990a46b732 minor markup improvements 2004-01-16 16:07:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 3bbd115735 markup changes 2004-01-13 23:41:32 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 44a98237d8 [Bug #873205] Update URL 2004-01-11 23:00:16 +00:00
Sjoerd Mullender 7e6bbe1516 The format of the string data used in the imageop module is described 
as "This is the same format as used by gl.lrectwrite() and the imgfile
module."  This implies a certain byte order in multi-byte pixel
formats.  However, the code was originally written on an SGI
(big-endian) and *uses* the fact that bytes are stored in a particular
order in ints.  This means that the code uses and produces different
byte order on little-endian systems.

This fix adds a module-level flag "backward_compatible" (default not
set, and if not set, behaves as if set to 1--i.e. backward compatible)
that can be used on a little-endian system to use the same byte order
as the SGI.  Using this flag it is then possible to prepare
SGI-compatible images on a little-endian system.

This patch is the result of a (small) discussion on python-dev and was
submitted to SourceForge as patch #874358.
 2004-01-10 20:43:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling c62af02ced Fix some digicool addresses I noticed 2004-01-08 15:01:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 115147921c add link to the red-dove.com page about the logging package 2004-01-08 14:59:02 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 91f5cbe264 SF bug #872461: list.extend() described as experimental 2004-01-08 00:31:50 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c14149e6ef Show how to re-enable GC during timings. 2004-01-04 21:19:18 +00:00
Barry Warsaw ad9aaeea6d Documentation for new RFC 3548 functions. 2004-01-04 01:14:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 6237ef1ddc in the section "The interpreter stack": 
- rearranged a bit to avoid duplicated information
- provide more complete (and hopefully less confusing) descriptions of
  the return values for most of these functions
  (close SF bug #563298)
 2004-01-01 07:21:14 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 621c53ee9f Add sets to list of picklable objects. 2004-01-01 05:53:51 +00:00
Fred Drake fcadf6bdaf fix reference to File Object documentation 
closes SF bug #825810
 2004-01-01 03:41:27 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9b4dab4da1 SF patch #859286: documentation bool change fix 
(Contributed by George Yoshida.)
 2003-12-31 18:37:28 +00:00
Fred Drake a180581511 use conventional whitespace in interactive example 2003-12-31 07:41:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 50e7a11af1 Correct misrepresentation of print (it uses str(), not `...` for 
conversion).  Hopefully I've not messed up the formatting.
 2003-12-31 06:32:38 +00:00
Fred Drake af78512712 - general markup cleanup 
- rearrange so two small sections become one; this avoids an extra
  page in the HTML format
 2003-12-31 05:18:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 7f8d17a50c general markup improvements 2003-12-31 05:01:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 188b2d6cfa - add link to the datetime module 2003-12-31 04:52:36 +00:00
Fred Drake ceb1fd2177 - update description of isleap() 
- add link to the datetime module
 2003-12-31 04:51:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 6f51a72a61 - use the same markup for the deprecation as for that of 
file.xreadlines()
 2003-12-31 04:41:47 +00:00
Fred Drake ae55d5f3cb - add a "See also" reference to the doctest module 
- slightly simplify a couple of examples
- clean up some markup
 2003-12-31 04:34:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 32fef9f477 fix truly evil markup typo 2003-12-30 23:08:14 +00:00
Fred Drake ea49de34c9 minor cleanup of example 2003-12-30 23:01:19 +00:00
Fred Drake ff381e13e0 - we *really* don't care about Python 1.5 alphas any more! 
- note the interpreter's -S option
 2003-12-30 22:51:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 401d1e3cbf fix a variety of markup bugs 2003-12-30 22:21:18 +00:00
Fred Drake f161c915bd work around whitespace bugs in the HTML version 2003-12-30 22:17:16 +00:00
Fred Drake dcf32a676e fix markup errors 2003-12-30 20:48:59 +00:00
Fred Drake b0e8f5d0fe lots of markup adjustments 2003-12-30 20:36:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 7c67cb8fba markup fix 2003-12-30 17:17:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 4922cae1e1 - remove crufty markup that's no longer needed to make the 
presentation work right (and didn't work anyway)
- fix minor typo
 2003-12-30 16:18:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 42713109d9 use consistent email address for Tim 2003-12-30 16:15:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 34929f23f5 - update Tim's email address 
- remove spurious blank lines
 2003-12-30 16:12:27 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 91ca8de6f4 [Bug #850818] Accept Gregory H. Ball's suggested rewrite of a confusing description 2003-12-23 17:01:38 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 7a3786cc55 [Bug #857821] Remove mention of deprecated string.{atol,atof} functions. (Patch from Gerrit Holl) 2003-12-23 16:53:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 828f847d66 minor markup adjustment 2003-12-18 20:58:34 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3435820842 Fix typo 2003-12-18 13:28:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 852fe0689a fix loss of a space after indexing markup 2003-12-18 06:26:56 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger b606b3d08a Guido grants a Christmas wish: 
sorted() becomes a regular function instead of a classmethod.
 2003-12-17 20:50:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 64958a15d7 Guido grants a Christmas wish: 
sorted() becomes a regular function instead of a classmethod.
 2003-12-17 20:43:33 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang c6f066f9a3 Update documentations for str.rsplit() with Alex Martelli's rewrite. 2003-12-17 02:49:03 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang 3ae811b57d Add rsplit method for str and unicode builtin types. 
SF feature request #801847.
Original patch is written by Sean Reifschneider.
 2003-12-15 18:49:53 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 6485a87b9a missing word (should backport - is release23-maint still locked?) 2003-12-15 14:38:57 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton c1be59f40a SF patch 852995: add processors feature to urllib2 
John J. Lee writes: "the patch makes it possible to implement
functionality like HTTP cookie handling, Refresh handling,
etc. etc. using handler objects. At the moment urllib2's handler
objects aren't quite up to the job, which results in a lot of
cut-n-paste and subclassing. I believe the changes are
backwards-compatible, with the exception of people who've
reimplemented build_opener()'s functionality -- those people would
need to call opener.add_handler(HTTPErrorProcessor).

The main change is allowing handlers to implement
methods like:

http_request(request)
http_response(request, response)

In addition to the usual

http_open(request)
http_error{_*}(...)
"

Note that the change isn't well documented at least in part because
handlers aren't well documented at all.  Need to fix this.

Add a bunch of new tests.  It appears that none of these tests
actually use the network, so they don't need to be guarded by a
resource flag.
 2003-12-14 05:27:34 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 378f7b5dca Add a versionadded tag for traceback.format_exc() 2003-12-13 22:34:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5a92175fbc After hearing from someone who gave up on timeout sockets due to a 
mistake in his code, I'm adding a note explaining that you should call
settimeout() before connect().
 2003-12-13 22:12:53 +00:00
Brett Cannon 35415da67c Fix broken link (closes bug #852236). Thanks to Fedor Baart for bug file and 
finding proper link.
 2003-12-11 04:37:24 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger ff294fea40 SF patch #855195: fix typos 
(Contributed by George Yoshida.)
 2003-12-07 13:00:25 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 295530585b Fix double hyphen markup. 2003-12-07 12:46:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e3d5f98180 Put str() in alphabetical order. 2003-12-07 11:24:03 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger a4ce2f5116 SF bug #855317: unittest: 5.3.9 Getting Extended Error Information 
The example code did not work and could not easily be made to work.
Since the docs were already complex and the feature was not used
(it took two years for the errors to surface), we decided to dedocument
it entirely, leaving unittest cleaner than before.
 2003-12-07 10:48:03 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling db7dcffa27 Edit description a bit 2003-12-06 22:29:43 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d25c1c6351 Implement itertools.groupby() 
Original idea by Guido van Rossum.
Idea for skipable inner iterators by Raymond Hettinger.
Idea for argument order and identity function default by Alex Martelli.
Implementation by Hye-Shik Chang (with tweaks by Raymond Hettinger).
 2003-12-06 16:23:06 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger ff6dd0b7d0 SF bug #844123: "up" instead of "down" in turtle module documentation 2003-12-06 01:35:56 +00:00
Fred Drake f96dd83bb4 - fix markup in the bool() description 
- note the behavior of bool() with no arg in the main body of the
  description
 2003-12-05 18:57:00 +00:00
Walter Dörwald c8de4585a6 Add parameters indent, width and depth to pprint.pprint() and pprint.pformat() 
and pass them along to the PrettyPrinter constructor.
 2003-12-03 20:26:05 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 166958b5df As discussed on python-dev, added two extractor functions to the 
operator module.
 2003-12-01 13:18:39 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ccabed35ee Patch #849350: Update to document bool return values. Backported to 2.3. 2003-11-27 19:48:03 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 94681fc4a3 Patch #849595: Add socket.shutdown() constants. 2003-11-27 19:40:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d4462300db Nits from a review of the documentation update. 2003-11-26 17:52:45 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 72452650af Add version changed doc for addition of fillchar to ljust/rjust/center 2003-11-26 14:54:56 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 4f8f976576 Add optional fillchar argument to ljust(), rjust(), and center() string methods. 2003-11-26 08:21:35 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger bd93b3ea8f As discussed on python-dev, banish apply(), buffer(), coerce(), and 
intern() to a separate region in the docs.
 2003-11-25 21:48:21 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f5f41bf087 * Checkin remaining documentation 
* Add more tests
* Refactor and neaten the code a bit.
* Rename union_update() to update().
* Improve the algorithms (making them a closer to sets.py).
 2003-11-24 02:57:33 +00:00
Tim Peters 5a5b243043 More words: gave more motivation, and added cautions about the special 
dangers of trying to iterate over weak dicts.
 2003-11-21 22:20:57 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 65367ca41e Add a missing import. Closes SF # 816344. 2003-11-21 20:28:15 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis af7dc8d8b8 Patch #831747: Add skip_accept_encoding parameter to putrequest. 2003-11-19 19:51:55 +00:00
Barry Warsaw f8d3bcc77e Generator's constructor: The documentation was incorrect regarding how 
header wrapping gets done when maxheaderlen <> 0.  The header really
gets wrapped via the email.Header.Header class, which has a more
sophisticated algorithm than just splitting on semi-colons.
 2003-11-19 02:22:36 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 8bafb2aaca Patch #843088: Fix typos. Backported to 2.3. 2003-11-18 19:48:57 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger a690a9967e * Migrate set() and frozenset() from the sandbox. 
* Install the unittests, docs, newsitem, include file, and makefile update.
* Exercise the new functions whereever sets.py was being used.

Includes the docs for libfuncs.tex.  Separate docs for the types are
forthcoming.
 2003-11-16 16:17:49 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d456849f19 Fix typo 2003-11-16 13:44:19 +00:00
Gregory P. Smith b845ef056a remove "support" for BerkeleyDB 3.1, it hasn't worked for a long time 2003-11-13 08:30:03 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger ad983e79d6 Improve the implementation of itertools.tee(). 
Formerly, underlying queue was implemented in terms of two lists.  The
new queue is a series of singly-linked fixed length lists.

The new implementation runs much faster, supports multi-way tees, and
allows tees of tees without additional memory costs.

The root ideas for this structure were contributed by Andrew Koenig
and Guido van Rossum.
 2003-11-12 14:32:26 +00:00
Fred Drake d85ed1b7fc fix typo in markup 2003-11-10 14:50:54 +00:00
Fred Drake dbe7980d6a add missing "if" 2003-11-10 14:43:16 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 75aa4db04b Mention that getsid is new in 2.4. 2003-11-10 06:46:15 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis d8921379e9 Patch #798297: Add IMAP THREAD command. 2003-11-10 06:44:44 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 49ee14dac5 Patch #839038: Add getsid(2). 2003-11-10 06:35:36 +00:00
Alex Martelli 37dc334276 Add docs for readmodule_ex and its function-descriptors, fixing 
sf bug#812818.
(same as commit of Sun Nov 2 to the release23-maint branch)
 2003-11-09 16:32:54 +00:00
Alex Martelli 50324a604c Avoid giving advice that's bad for security, as per SF bug #823515 
(same as commit of Sun Nov 2 to the release23-maint branch)
 2003-11-09 16:31:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 85c20a41df Implement and apply PEP 322, reverse iteration 2003-11-06 14:06:48 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer f607fc5395 Add traceback.format_exc(). 2003-11-05 23:03:00 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 83c187460e SF patch #834444: add versionadd to new functions 
(Contributed by George Yoshida.)
 2003-11-02 09:50:56 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b4b9ced1b6 [Bug #817178] Fix incorrect arguments in example, noted by Terry Reedy 2003-10-31 19:52:30 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 893ffa4372 Patch #830858: Correct the number of is-functions. Backported to 2.3 and 2.2. 2003-10-31 15:35:53 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 45394c281d Patch #531629: Add multicall support. 2003-10-31 13:49:36 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 48440b7c27 Patch #: Add POP3 over SSL support. 2003-10-31 12:52:35 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9885c93b99 Fix typo. 2003-10-30 06:08:32 +00:00
Brett Cannon 82b24827f6 Minor grammatical fix. 2003-10-30 05:42:15 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 0a9b9da0c3 Add list.sorted() classmethod. 2003-10-29 06:54:43 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c43a7e7c37 SF bug #827902: ctime is not creation time 
New fix for this bug recognizes differing definitions on various systems.
 2003-10-29 00:46:19 +00:00
Armin Rigo 3be6d5d320 Documented gc.get_referrers() as dangerous. 
SF bug 793822
 2003-10-28 12:10:38 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 8476c4df92 SF bug #827902: ctime is not creation time 
Document the correct definition of os.path.getctime()
 2003-10-27 20:00:36 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b546be2448 Fix inaccuracy: all entities from XHTML 1.0 are supported (according to text further down in this file) 2003-10-27 15:46:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d591f666de Replace the window() example with pairwise() which demonstrates tee(). 2003-10-26 15:34:50 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6a5b027742 Added itertools.tee() 
It works like the pure python verion except:
* it stops storing data after of the iterators gets deallocated
* the data queue is implemented with two stacks instead of one dictionary.
 2003-10-24 08:45:23 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 38afcef3f5 [Bug #809174] loads() and dumps() not documented 2003-10-22 14:12:03 +00:00
Fred Drake d22bb6584d Avoid confusing name for the 3rd argument to str.replace(). 
This closes SF bug #827260.
 2003-10-22 02:56:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 4e21dc9efd - make this section format 
- start cleaning up the markup for consistency
- comment out the reference to a MS KnowledgeBase article that doesn't
  seem to be present at msdn.microsoft.com; hopefully someone can
  point out an alternate source for the relevant information
 2003-10-21 17:58:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 5b6150e066 markup fixes; this would not format 2003-10-21 17:04:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 86c60ed198 ConfigParser.items() and SafeConfigParser.items() no longer return a 
generator.  See SF bug #818861.
 2003-10-21 16:50:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0c9a318d64 Use 'predicate = bool' as the default predicate for ifilter[false]. 2003-10-20 17:01:07 +00:00
Walter Dörwald f0dfc7ac5c Fix a bunch of typos in documentation, docstrings and comments. 
(From SF patch #810751)
 2003-10-20 14:01:56 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer d969775d9c Fixed \versionadded for the (?(id/name)yes|no) expression support. 2003-10-18 15:28:22 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 6828e18a6a Patch #825679: Clarify semantics of .isfoo on empty strings. 
Backported to 2.3.
 2003-10-18 09:55:08 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 849a972f35 Patch #809535: Mention behaviour of seek on text files. Backported to 2.3. 2003-10-18 09:38:01 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer ad3fc44ccb Implemented non-recursive SRE matching. 2003-10-17 22:13:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 42b1ba31af * list.sort() now supports three keyword arguments: cmp, key, and reverse. 
key provides C support for the decorate-sort-undecorate pattern.
  reverse provide a stable sort of the list with the comparisions reversed.

* Amended the docs to guarantee sort stability.
 2003-10-16 03:41:09 +00:00
Brett Cannon 4fc3855fb2 Initial checkin of docs for Lib/platform.py . 
Closes patch #785752 and bug #726911.

Should be backported after correctness and such has been verified by Fred.
 2003-10-14 21:45:59 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c2a2832bee SF bug #821701: reduce docs neglect a very important piece of information. 
Add a note showing which argument is the accumulator.
 2003-10-13 17:52:35 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger aac6ae9f26 SF patch #819955: Erroneous \seemodule in tarfile docs 
(Contributed by Johannes Gijsbers.)
 2003-10-12 02:02:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger dbe3d280e7 Adopt Christian Stork's suggested argument order for the logic quantifiers. 
Adopt Jeremy Fincher's suggested function name, "any", instead of "some".
 2003-10-05 16:47:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2f726e9093 SF bug #812202: randint is always even 
* Added C coded getrandbits(k) method that runs in linear time.
* Call the new method from randrange() for ranges >= 2**53.
* Adds a warning for generators not defining getrandbits() whenever they
  have a call to randrange() with too large of a population.
 2003-10-05 09:09:15 +00:00
Skip Montanaro dffeed3ffa Make the fieldnames argument optional in the DictReader. If self.fieldnames 
is None, the next row read is used as the fieldnames.  In the common case,
this means the programmer doesn't need to know the fieldnames ahead of time.
The first row of the file will be used.  In the uncommon case, this means
the programmer can set the reader's fieldnames attribute to None at any time
and have the next row read as the next set of fieldnames, so a csv file can
contain several "sections", each with different fieldnames.
 2003-10-03 14:03:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 1dc3bb4722 Work around minor markup issue: we don't want markup to escape into 
the module index.
 2003-09-30 20:00:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 7cf4d9bf19 [Bug #812936] Correct the documentation for RotatingFileHandler. 
[2.3 bugfix candidate]
 2003-09-26 13:45:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9a80c5dbc4 Added codec for bz2 compression. 2003-09-23 20:21:01 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 7e43110f34 SF 810242. Fix doubled word errors. 2003-09-22 15:00:55 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 1e80359733 Clean-up example code: remove string module and backticks. 2003-09-22 06:25:10 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis e7a9796a0f Patch #800697: Add readline.clear_history. 2003-09-20 16:08:33 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 7bdc484c97 Patch #808362: Fix typos. 2003-09-20 11:09:28 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d21fd7bd86 * Minor wording change 
* Reference the doctest.DocTestSuite() conversion tool.
 2003-09-16 22:04:31 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 3404034a21 Minor fixups 2003-09-16 21:45:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 1e4cf67c32 SF bug #804113: Crypto terminology for crypto hash function 
Noted that the SHA algorithm is really SHA-1.
(Contributed by Ronald Rivest.)
 2003-09-15 18:20:52 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger deadbf50e4 SF #662923 
Add support for the iterator and mapping protocols.
For Py2.3, this was done for shelve, dumbdbm and other mapping objects, but
not for bsddb and dbhash which were inadvertently missed.
 2003-09-12 06:33:37 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 74c8e55f3b SF bug #804280: fromkeys is not listed in index 2003-09-12 00:02:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 614438ab06 fix markup buglets 2003-09-11 18:18:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 7c4d8f3ca9 - add version annotation for HIGHEST_PROTOCOL 
- cleaned up some markup
 2003-09-10 20:47:43 +00:00
Brett Cannon 62dba4c277 select.select() now accepts a sequence (as defined by PySequence_Fast()) for 
its first three arguments.

Closes RFE #798046 .
 2003-09-10 19:37:42 +00:00
Skip Montanaro fd4fa8801a mention new module doc display feature of pydoc in libref and NEWS 2003-09-10 19:04:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6e380cd1d8 SF bug #803679: Missing section number in csv module documentation 2003-09-10 18:54:49 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5bcc933211 SF bug #803842: Wrong description of regexp concatenation 2003-09-10 18:45:12 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 0d6e8cde1a SF bug #802302: Invalid documentation for dbhash. 
The documentation severely departed for the actual implementation.
 2003-09-10 04:44:29 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger bed92ee2b2 SF patch #800899: Making "|" directive from REs a bit clearer. 2003-09-10 03:54:50 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9756f388c0 Fix typo. 2003-09-10 00:11:28 +00:00
Fred Drake f5f0c17b85 end-of-sentence punctuation comes *before* \footnote, not after 2003-09-09 19:49:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger dfa7bd97ff SF #801306: Bad RE in scanf example 2003-09-09 01:30:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 74923d73ee SF bug #560286: Add docs for 'basestring' 2003-09-09 01:12:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger a098b33c93 Add an example to address a common question of how to split iterators. 2003-09-08 23:58:40 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger b67449d31d Fix spacing markup and other sundries. 2003-09-08 18:52:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 60e868abd2 - reorganize sections 
- correct section level error (module references are always \section)
- many markup revisions, including some minor rewordings
 2003-09-06 17:51:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 99812134be SF bug 799191: fix markup 2003-09-06 05:47:31 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 1c90a6754c SF bug 799367: grammar error 2003-09-06 05:36:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 951976dc9f SF bug #801486: Markup error. 2003-09-06 04:39:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 74530ff4f9 markup updates 2003-09-05 15:50:20 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ef36537b81 Patch #792338: Correct documentation for timetuple return type. 2003-09-04 18:29:53 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 25f90d5c5d Use de_DE in example, change message for unknown locale. Fixes #797447. 
Will backport to 2.3.
 2003-09-03 04:50:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 09c7b6075c SF patch #798255: Document httplib.HTTPResponse.read "amt" argument 
(Contributed by Jeff Epler.)
 2003-09-02 02:32:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger aa1178b811 Minor typo 2003-09-01 23:13:04 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c75c3e0392 SF patch #791153: inconsistency with implementation(logging) 
(Contributed by George Yoshida.)
 2003-09-01 22:50:52 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6f6d7b93bc SF bug #797853: Small problems with the csv module's documentation 2003-08-31 05:44:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2f3e5483a3 SF bug #732120:An extended definition of "non-overlapping" would save time. 
Clarified the meaning of non-overlapping in patterns with zero length
matches.
 2003-08-31 05:29:02 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 0a6aa28681 SF patch #797157: Bug 794658: os.chmod docs, stat constants 
(Contributed by Christos Georgiou.)

Reference the symbol definitions in the stat module.
 2003-08-31 05:09:52 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9d12ab5c3c Fix long option markup. 2003-08-31 04:20:12 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 8170200ce2 SF patch #797180: Bug 792656: slicing explained 2003-08-30 23:31:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 4f4dbef2ca remove extra word occurance; reported to webmaster 2003-08-27 15:11:40 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9e3864190c Make the derived tools amendable to cut and paste. 2003-08-25 05:06:09 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 999b57c872 Fix double word typos. 2003-08-25 04:28:05 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9ac25ec025 SF bug #793702: Section 13.1 HTMLParser documentation error 
The -- is special to TeX and was printing as just -.
 2003-08-25 03:31:28 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 463c5a868f Update get_param() description to reflect changes to the docstring. 2003-08-19 04:26:59 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6a1801271a Improvements to set.py: 
* Relaxed the argument restrictions for non-operator methods.  They now
  allow any iterable instead of requiring a set.  This makes the module
  a little easier to use and paves the way for an efficient C
  implementation which can take better advantage of iterable arguments
  while screening out immutables.

* Deprecated Set.update() because it now duplicates Set.union_update()

* Adapted the tests and docs to include the above changes.

* Added more test coverage including testing identities and checking
  to make sure non-restartable generators work as arguments.

Will backport to Py2.3.1 so that the interface remains consistent
across versions.  The deprecation of update() will be changed to
a FutureWarning.
 2003-08-17 08:34:09 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 7ceb29e4a5 Incorporate documentation suggestions from feedback on comp.lang.python. 
* Positive wording for the description of why < and > and = can all
  be False.

* Move to a three column table format that puts long method names
  side-by-side with their operator equivalents

* Mention that KeyError can be raised by Set.pop() and Set.remove().

* Minor tweaks to the examples.

Will backport as soon as Fred rebuilds the docs so I can confirm
the tables formatted properly
 2003-08-16 00:56:40 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger fb857893a2 SF patch #787929: reflect the introduce of boolean type(libcfgparser.tex) 
(Contributed by George Yoshida.)
 2003-08-14 19:58:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 8fd8def1fa fix markup 2003-08-14 04:51:24 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 69f31eb80c [Patch #739124] Add use_default_colors() to curses module 2003-08-13 23:11:04 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f17d65da3a SF patch#786531 'the the' typo. Contributed by George Yoshida 2003-08-12 00:01:16 +00:00
Skip Montanaro bc961e5714 add a statement identifying StringI and StringO objects. 2003-08-11 15:06:07 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6e13bcc7b1 SF bug #775836: change 0,1 to False,True in dict.has_key doc 2003-08-08 11:07:59 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger b5a420883c Modified itertools.izip() to match the behavior of __builtin__.zip() 
which can now take zero arguments.
 2003-08-08 05:10:41 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c7d7766fda Improve docs: 
* Simplify the pure python examples
* Add a quantify() example
 2003-08-08 02:40:28 +00:00