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Chris Jerdonek cf4710c323 Add additional links and index entries for "argument" and "parameter".
This adds to the work done for issue #15990 (i.e. f44b8d69e5fc and the
commits referenced there).
2012-12-25 14:50:21 -08:00
Chris Jerdonek 8da8268b1f Backport from 3.2: improve argument/parameter documentation (issue #15990).
The corresponding 3.x commits are 69d5d834c5cb, 40fd26a4206b, and
74d8a2a20c52.
2012-11-29 19:03:37 -08:00
R David Murray 5618aaaafe #15543: glossary entry for and 'universal newlines', and links to it.
Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
2012-08-15 11:15:39 -04:00
Sandro Tosi fd4c4b1e01 backport c4bd68be5fc6 to 2.7 2012-06-02 23:40:59 +02:00
Ezio Melotti 510ff54324 Use Python 3 instead of 3.0. 2012-05-03 19:21:40 +03:00
Sandro Tosi d987c0221c fix typo; thanks to Robert Bardos from docs@ 2012-04-01 01:49:46 +02:00
Senthil Kumaran c768d4caa8 closes issue14257 - Grammatical fix 2012-03-12 10:05:04 -07:00
Senthil Kumaran 814d316888 closes issue14257 minor error in glossary wording regarding __hash__ 2012-03-11 21:04:05 -07:00
Sandro Tosi 03c6110b21 revert part of cefe4f38fa0e, as agreed with Éric 2012-01-17 18:32:02 +01:00
Éric Araujo e0054c51c7 Link isinstance/issubclass to the ABC glossary entry (#12256) 2011-08-19 09:15:47 +02:00
Éric Araujo a8f66dd52c Synchronize glossary with py3k.
This update includes new entries that apply to 2.7 too, mention of class
decorators, mention of nonlocal, notes about bytecode, markup fixes and
some rewrappings.  Future backports of changes should be slightly
easier.
2011-08-19 01:27:00 +02:00
Éric Araujo 8fde9506b7 Improve glossary entry for ABCs.
- Rename reST target name for collections ABCs to avoid collisions
- Link to glossary entry from numbers module doc (other modules already do it)
2011-07-29 11:34:17 +02:00
Georg Brandl 073070629b #12061: remove duplicate glossary entry. 2011-05-12 07:47:06 +02:00
Georg Brandl 28dadd988b Merged revisions 87050,87101,87146,87156,87172,87175,87371,87378,87522-87524,87526,87530-87535 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r87050 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-04 18:09:30 +0100 (Sa, 04 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Fix typo.
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  r87101 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-06 23:02:48 +0100 (Mo, 06 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Remove visible XXX comments.
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  r87146 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-09 19:08:43 +0100 (Do, 09 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Fix "seperate".
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  r87156 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-10 11:01:44 +0100 (Fr, 10 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10668: fix wrong call of __init__.
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  r87172 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-11 20:10:30 +0100 (Sa, 11 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Avoid AttributeError(_closed) when a TemporaryDirectory is deallocated whose mkdtemp call failed.
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  r87175 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-11 23:19:34 +0100 (Sa, 11 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Fix markup.
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  r87371 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-18 17:21:58 +0100 (Sa, 18 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Fix typo.
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  r87378 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-18 18:51:28 +0100 (Sa, 18 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10723: add missing builtin exceptions.
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  r87522 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 10:16:12 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Replace sys.maxint mention by sys.maxsize.
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  r87523 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 10:18:24 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Remove confusing paragraph -- this is relevant only to advanced users anyway and does not belong into the tutorial.
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  r87524 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 10:29:19 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Fix advice: call PyType_Ready to fill in ob_type of custom types.
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  r87526 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 11:38:33 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10777: fix iteration over dict keys while mutating the dict.
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  r87530 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:06:07 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10767: update README in crashers; not all may have a bug entry and/or be fixed.
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  r87531 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:08:17 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10742: document readonly attribute of memoryviews.
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  r87532 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:15:49 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10781: clarify that *encoding* is not a parameter for Node objects in general.
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  r87533 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:38:12 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Remove history; adapt a bit more to reST, since this will once be part of the dev guide.
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  r87534 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:48:53 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  Rewrap.
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  r87535 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-28 12:49:41 +0100 (Di, 28 Dez 2010) | 1 line

  #10739: document that on Windows, socket.makefile() does not make a file that has a true file descriptor usable where such a thing is expected.
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2011-02-25 10:50:32 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c4c52dd23d Issue 10357: Clarify what it means to be a mapping. 2011-01-08 23:50:39 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou 9f41bb325b Merged revisions 87792 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r87792 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-06 17:31:28 +0100 (jeu., 06 janv. 2011) | 3 lines

  Elaborate about the GIL.
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2011-01-06 16:35:14 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger acdafa8e8c Add some internal links. 2010-11-30 17:50:53 +00:00
Georg Brandl 3b85b9b477 Merged revisions 85843,85849-85850,85867,85907,85914,86134,86187,86315-86316,86390,86424-86425,86428 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r85843 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-26 08:59:23 +0200 (Di, 26 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Markup fix.
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  r85849 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-26 21:31:06 +0200 (Di, 26 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #10200: typo.
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  r85850 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-26 21:58:11 +0200 (Di, 26 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #10200: typo.
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  r85867 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-27 22:01:51 +0200 (Mi, 27 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Add David.
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  r85907 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-29 06:54:13 +0200 (Fr, 29 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #10222: fix for overzealous AIX compiler.
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  r85914 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-29 08:17:38 +0200 (Fr, 29 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  (?:...) is a non-capturing, but still grouping construct.
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  r86134 | georg.brandl | 2010-11-03 08:41:00 +0100 (Mi, 03 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  A newline in lineno output breaks pyframe output.
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  r86187 | georg.brandl | 2010-11-05 08:10:41 +0100 (Fr, 05 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  Move glossary entry to the right position and fix link.
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  r86315 | georg.brandl | 2010-11-08 12:05:18 +0100 (Mo, 08 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  Fix latex conversion glitch in property/feature descriptions.
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  r86316 | georg.brandl | 2010-11-08 12:08:35 +0100 (Mo, 08 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  Fix typo.
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  r86390 | georg.brandl | 2010-11-10 08:57:10 +0100 (Mi, 10 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  Fix typo.
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  r86424 | georg.brandl | 2010-11-12 07:19:48 +0100 (Fr, 12 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  Build a PDF of the FAQs too.
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  r86425 | georg.brandl | 2010-11-12 07:20:12 +0100 (Fr, 12 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  #10008: Fix duplicate index entry.
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  r86428 | georg.brandl | 2010-11-12 09:09:26 +0100 (Fr, 12 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  Fix weird line block in table.
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2010-11-26 08:20:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 0d6fa4da49 Document key-functions in the glossary. 2010-11-06 00:06:14 +00:00
Georg Brandl 0930228aee Merged revisions 84945 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r84945 | georg.brandl | 2010-09-21 16:48:28 +0200 (Di, 21 Sep 2010) | 1 line

  #9911: doc copyedits.
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2010-10-06 09:32:48 +00:00
Georg Brandl e85e1ae413 Merged revisions 82757-82758,82760-82764 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r82757 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 10:58:37 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  Fix markup.
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  r82758 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 12:23:40 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  Emphasize role of count for Pascal string.
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  r82760 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 12:39:57 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #3214: improve description of duck-typing in glossary.
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  r82761 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 13:40:13 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #1434090: properly append child in expatbuilder doctype handler.
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  r82762 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 13:51:06 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #8338: fix outdated class name.
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  r82763 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 14:01:34 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #8456: fix signature of sqlite3.connect().
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  r82764 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 14:20:38 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #8564: update docs on integrating doctest/unittest with unittest(2) test discovery.
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2010-10-06 09:17:24 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f1b678d9e1 Glossary cleanup 2010-09-01 22:25:41 +00:00
Georg Brandl 04eba2ccdd Merged revisions 82790 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r82790 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 10:36:20 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #3214 followup: add link to ABC entry.
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2010-07-11 08:56:18 +00:00
Georg Brandl 2b4eda4b55 Add link to bytecode docs. 2010-07-03 10:25:54 +00:00
Georg Brandl ea2d389474 #8012: clarification in generator glossary entry. 2010-04-02 09:11:49 +00:00
Alexandre Vassalotti 69eb51697c Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views. 2010-01-11 23:17:10 +00:00
Georg Brandl d7d4fd7336 builtin -> built-in. 2009-07-26 14:37:28 +00:00
Georg Brandl 624f3372e2 #5529: backport new docs of import semantics written by Brett to 2.x. 2009-03-31 16:11:45 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger aff711d32a Clarify that named tuples do not have to subclass tuple. 2009-02-04 19:25:17 +00:00
Georg Brandl c62ef8b4d9 Remove trailing whitespace. 2009-01-03 20:55:06 +00:00
Georg Brandl 5066c0cf95 Followup to #4511: add link from decorator glossary entry to definition. 2008-12-05 18:00:06 +00:00
Georg Brandl 9a05373145 #4517: add "special method" glossary entry and clarify when __getattribute__ is bypassed. 2008-12-05 15:29:39 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 9feab31d98 Pick up a few more definitions from the glossary on the wiki. 2008-09-15 02:19:53 +00:00
Skip Montanaro f02c5f3d4e Review usage. Fix a mistake in the new-style class definition. Add a
couple new definitions (CPython and virtual machine).
2008-09-15 02:03:05 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson 4020221838 add some documentation for 2to3 2008-07-24 02:45:37 +00:00
Georg Brandl e64f738507 #926501: add info where to put the docstring. 2008-07-20 11:50:29 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson 9385b9db8b lowercase glossary term 2008-07-03 12:57:35 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson aac51b8a69 add ABC to the glossary 2008-07-01 23:33:06 +00:00
Georg Brandl 5a42ca6c04 Add notes that tkinter modules will be renamed. 2008-05-20 07:20:12 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson 518c44cecf mention Py3k in glossary 2008-05-16 22:59:28 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d4c2e8659c Tighten the definition of a named tuple. 2008-01-15 03:07:42 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 8bdd044dfd Fix spelling. 2008-01-13 06:18:07 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c20ed51dc3 Named tuple is a concept, not a specific type. 2008-01-13 06:15:15 +00:00
Georg Brandl e3c3db59b5 Documentation for r5990[3567]. 2008-01-11 09:55:53 +00:00
Georg Brandl e151ab4282 Adapt style. 2007-12-08 17:56:07 +00:00
Skip Montanaro ffe455c3a2 + "context manager" 2007-12-08 15:23:31 +00:00
Georg Brandl 968a3e570d Fix a sentence I missed before. Do not merge to 3k. 2007-12-02 18:17:50 +00:00
Georg Brandl 584265b001 Add more entries to the glossary.
Written by Jeff Wheeler for GHOP.
2007-12-02 14:58:50 +00:00
Georg Brandl 7c3e79f67f Make "hashable" a glossary entry and clarify docs on __cmp__, __eq__ and __hash__.
I hope the concept of hashability is better understandable now.
Thanks to Tim Hatch for pointing out the flaws here.
2007-11-02 20:06:17 +00:00
Georg Brandl a739503881 Add :term:s for "new-style class". 2007-10-21 12:15:05 +00:00