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Terry Jan Reedy e247928fed Closes #11633 Clarify print buffering. 2012-01-11 14:09:49 -05:00
Raymond Hettinger 6f45d18c24 Improve itertools docs with clearer examples of pure python equivalent code. 2011-10-30 15:06:14 -07:00
Ezio Melotti 963004d1d8 Fix typo. 2011-10-25 09:41:13 +03:00
Ezio Melotti e130a52d8a Remove duplication. 2011-10-19 10:58:56 +03:00
Éric Araujo 18ddf826e7 Add links from library/functions to other docs.
Suggested by Terry J. Reedy in #12298.
2011-09-01 23:10:36 +02:00
Éric Araujo 9edd9f035b Fix a few links in the table of built-in functions (#12298) 2011-09-01 23:08:55 +02:00
Éric Araujo e8b7eb07e1 Link isinstance/issubclass to the ABC glossary entry (#12256) 2011-08-19 02:17:03 +02:00
Éric Araujo e801aa2a1d Let the doc of __import__ link to importlib (#9254).
importlib.import_module eschews a number of issues that __import__ has.
Reviewed by Brett Cannon.  (The docstring of __import__ was already
updated in 3d490c3a019e, for #7397.)
2011-07-29 17:50:58 +02:00
Raymond Hettinger 9d3df6d508 Issue 11889: Clarify docs for enumerate. 2011-06-25 15:00:14 +02:00
Raymond Hettinger 9028928156 Forward port doc updates for builtin functions. 2011-06-01 16:17:23 -07:00
Éric Araujo c5069e0070 Merge doc touch-ups and fixes for #9831 and #9223 from 3.1 2011-05-29 00:29:56 +02:00
Éric Araujo f33de71514 Minor doc addition for clarity 2011-05-27 04:42:47 +02:00
Raymond Hettinger 30439b23c0 Document default fmtspec. Fix inaccurate note. Document exceptions. 2011-05-11 10:47:27 -07:00
Georg Brandl 2a39b71ecc Replace sys.maxint mention by sys.maxsize. 2010-12-28 09:16:12 +00:00
Georg Brandl 46402378ca Fix markup errors. 2010-12-04 19:06:18 +00:00
Georg Brandl 8334fd9285 Add an "optimize" parameter to compile() to control the optimization level, and provide an interface to it in py_compile, compileall and PyZipFile. 2010-12-04 10:26:46 +00:00
Georg Brandl 38e117d20a Fix punctuation. 2010-12-03 17:19:27 +00:00
Nick Coghlan 37ee850b10 Issue 2690: Add support for slicing and negative indices to range objects (includes precalculation and storage of the range length).
Refer to the tracker issue for the language moratorium implications of this change
2010-12-03 14:26:13 +00:00
Ezio Melotti 1de911592e Add callable() to the built-in functions table. 2010-11-28 04:18:54 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou e71362d3de Issue #10518: Bring back the callable() builtin.
Approved by Guido (BDFL) and Georg (RM).
2010-11-27 22:00:11 +00:00
Georg Brandl ab32fec83c Merged revisions 85572-85573,85606,85609-85622,85624,85626-85627,85629,85631,85633,85635-85636,85638-85639,85641-85642 via svnmerge from
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  r85572 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-16 20:51:05 +0200 (Sa, 16 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #10122: typo fix.
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  r85573 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-16 20:53:08 +0200 (Sa, 16 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #10124: typo fix.
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  r85606 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 08:32:59 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #10058: tweak wording about exception returns.
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  r85609 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 11:19:03 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #8556: use less confusing mapping key in example.
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  r85610 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 11:23:05 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #8686: remove potentially confusing wording that does not add any value.
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  r85611 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 11:33:24 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #8811: small fixes to sqlite3 docs.
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  r85612 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 11:37:54 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #8855: add shelve security warning.
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  r85613 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 11:43:35 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Fix hmac docs: it takes and returns bytes, except for hexdigest().
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  r85614 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 11:46:11 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #8968: add actual name of token constants.
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  r85615 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:05:13 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #459007: merge info from PC/getpathp.c and using/windows.rst to document the forming of sys.path under Windows.
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  r85616 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:07:29 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Fix copy-paste error in example.
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  r85617 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:09:06 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #5212: md5 weaknesses do not affect hmac, so remove the note about that.
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  r85618 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:14:38 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9086: correct wrong terminology about linking with pythonXY.dll.
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  r85619 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:15:50 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Make file names consistent.
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  r85620 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:22:28 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Remove second parser module example; it referred to non-readily-available example files, and this kind of discovery is much better done with the AST nowadays anyway.
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  r85621 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:24:54 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9105: move pickle warning to a bit more prominent location.
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  r85622 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:28:04 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9112: document error() and exit() methods of ArgumentParser.
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  r85624 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:34:28 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Some markup and style fixes in argparse docs.
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  r85626 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:38:20 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9117: fix syntax for class definition.
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  r85627 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:44:11 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9138: reword introduction to classes in Python.
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  r85629 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:51:45 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #5962: clarify sys.exit() vs. threads.
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  r85631 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:53:54 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Fix capitalization.
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  r85633 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:59:41 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9204: remove mentions of removed types in the types module.
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  r85635 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 13:03:22 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #5121: fix claims about default values leading to segfaults.
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  r85636 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 13:06:14 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9237: document sys.call_tracing().
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  r85638 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 13:13:37 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Port changes to pickle docs apparently lost in py3k.
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  r85639 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 13:23:56 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Make twisted example a bit more logical.
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  r85641 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 13:29:07 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Fix documentation of dis.opmap direction.
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  r85642 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 13:36:28 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9730: fix example.
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2010-11-26 08:49:15 +00:00
Ezio Melotti 3188b2082e Merged revisions 86737 via svnmerge from
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  r86737 | ezio.melotti | 2010-11-25 00:02:18 +0200 (Thu, 25 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  Add NEWS entry for r86732 and fix double function in the table.
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2010-11-24 22:04:22 +00:00
Ezio Melotti 17f9b3d289 Add NEWS entry for r86732 and fix double function in the table. 2010-11-24 22:02:18 +00:00
Ezio Melotti 42cc06ebf4 Merged revisions 86732 via svnmerge from
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  r86732 | ezio.melotti | 2010-11-24 22:18:02 +0200 (Wed, 24 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  #10299: Add a table that lists all the built-in functions in functions.rst
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2010-11-24 20:54:01 +00:00
Ezio Melotti f21c7ed39d #10299: Add a table that lists all the built-in functions in functions.rst 2010-11-24 20:18:02 +00:00
Éric Araujo da825ab2dd Merged revisions 86670 via svnmerge from
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  r86670 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-22 04:09:19 +0100 (lun., 22 nov. 2010) | 5 lines


  Remove unnecessary `object` base class in docs (#10366).

  Also add a note about inheritance from `object` being default.
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2010-11-22 03:18:24 +00:00
Éric Araujo 28053fb174 Remove unnecessary `object` base class in docs (#10366).
Also add a note about inheritance from `object` being default.
2010-11-22 03:09:19 +00:00
Mark Dickinson 47c74ac977 Issue #10488: Bring documentation for 'float' builtin up to date. 2010-11-21 21:09:58 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou 60d8684e4f Merged revisions 86603 via svnmerge from
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  r86603 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-11-20 20:36:05 +0100 (sam., 20 nov. 2010) | 3 lines

  In 3.x, bytearray is akin to bytes, not str.
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2010-11-20 19:36:35 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou b85b3afad0 In 3.x, bytearray is akin to bytes, not str. 2010-11-20 19:36:05 +00:00
Alexander Belopolsky 689aa6d3fa Merged revisions 86526 via svnmerge from
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  r86526 | alexander.belopolsky | 2010-11-18 13:50:13 -0500 (Thu, 18 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  Issue 7828: Fixed chr() and ord() documentation for wide characters
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2010-11-18 18:52:11 +00:00
Alexander Belopolsky 5d4dd3eeb2 Issue 7828: Fixed chr() and ord() documentation for wide characters 2010-11-18 18:50:13 +00:00
Éric Araujo f7b5fa521e Merged revisions 86249 via svnmerge from
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  r86249 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 07:30:16 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix typo
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2010-11-06 06:31:00 +00:00
Éric Araujo 8f9626b08b Fix typo 2010-11-06 06:30:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 30bf6e836e Issue 7447: Improve docs for sum(). 2010-10-31 21:27:50 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger b373799e05 Issue 7447: Improve docs for sum(). 2010-10-31 21:23:24 +00:00
Georg Brandl 8e4ddcfaea #10122: typo fix. 2010-10-16 18:51:05 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 066e7a974a Issue #10029: Fix sample code in the docs for zip(). 2010-10-10 05:56:57 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2f08df3690 Issue #10029: Fix sample code in the docs for zip(). 2010-10-10 05:54:39 +00:00
Georg Brandl e5e6bc68f9 Merged revisions 85276 via svnmerge from
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  r85276 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-06 12:35:24 +0200 (Mi, 06 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Fix the suspicious builder not to write CRLF, update suspicious file and add instructions to Makefile.
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2010-10-06 10:43:34 +00:00
Georg Brandl 682d7e0e07 Fix errors found by "make suspicious". 2010-10-06 10:26:05 +00:00
Georg Brandl 4009c9edfc Merged revisions 82805-82806,83523-83527,83536,83538,83542,83546-83548,83550-83555,83558,83560 via svnmerge from
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  r82805 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:42:10 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #7935: cross-reference to ast.literal_eval() from eval() docs.
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  r82806 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 12:22:44 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #9223: link to Command class reference, and move Command interface docs nearer to class docs.
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  r83523 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:06:18 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #9209 and #7781: fix two crashes in pstats interactive browser.
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  r83524 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:20:23 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #9428: fix running scripts from profile/cProfile with their own name and the right namespace.  Same fix as for trace.py in #1690103.
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  r83525 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:36:24 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Get rid of spurious "threading" entries in trace output.
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  r83526 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:40:22 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Fix softspace relic.
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  r83527 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:48:46 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #3821: beginnings of a trace.py unittest.
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  r83536 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 19:49:25 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8578: mention danger of not incref'ing weak referenced object.
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  r83538 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 20:10:13 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #6928: fix class docs w.r.t. new metaclasses.
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  r83542 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 20:56:54 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Move test_SimpleHTTPServer into test_httpservers.
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  r83546 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:16:34 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #7973: Fix distutils options spelling.
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  r83547 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:19:26 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #7386: add example that shows that trailing path separators are stripped.
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  r83548 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:23:34 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8172: how does one use a property?
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  r83550 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:32:43 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #9451: strengthen warning about __*__ special name usage.
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  r83551 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:35:06 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Remove XXX comment that was displayed.
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  r83552 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:36:36 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #9438: clarify that constant names also cannot be assigned as attributes.
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  r83553 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:39:17 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Remove redundant information.
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  r83554 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:43:05 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #7280: note about nasmw.exe.
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  r83555 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:44:48 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8861: remove unused variable.
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  r83558 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:05:19 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8648: document UTF-7 codec functions.
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  r83560 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:16:18 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #9087: update json docstrings -- unicode and long do not exist anymore.
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2010-10-06 08:26:09 +00:00
Georg Brandl 914a218fbe Merged revisions 82629,82632,82724,82757-82758,82760-82763,82798-82799,82801 via svnmerge from
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  r82629 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-07 20:51:43 +0200 (Mi, 07 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  Make comment out of an awkward note.
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  r82632 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-07 21:04:36 +0200 (Mi, 07 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  Turn more notes into comments.
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  r82724 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-09 09:33:15 +0200 (Fr, 09 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  2.7 is now stable.
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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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  r82798 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:23:11 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #6774: explain shutdown() behavior varying with platform.
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  r82799 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:26:57 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  Fix typo.
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  r82801 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:33:39 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #9184: fix default value for "buffering" param of open().
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2010-10-06 08:13:26 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 476a31ef1e Issue 9802: Document min()/max() sort stability 2010-09-14 23:13:42 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson f8a08d9d36 Merged revisions 84359-84360 via svnmerge from
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  r84359 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-08-30 07:46:09 -0500 (Mon, 30 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  sync open() doc
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  r84360 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-08-30 08:19:53 -0500 (Mon, 30 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  rewrite and move open() docs only to functions.rst
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2010-08-30 13:27:30 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson 6b4fa776ac rewrite and move open() docs only to functions.rst 2010-08-30 13:19:53 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson 4e4ffb1181 sync open() doc 2010-08-30 12:46:09 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson 17689991e6 only catch AttributeError in hasattr() #9666 2010-08-24 03:26:23 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson 7ac98ae3b3 wrap 2010-08-17 17:52:02 +00:00
Georg Brandl 67b21b7547 Consistency check for versionadded/changed directives. 2010-08-17 15:07:14 +00:00