Martin v. Löwis
f1f0560832
Patch #940026 : Explain "in" when it is first used.
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Backported to 2.3.
2004-05-06 01:35:45 +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
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- 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
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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at least only one portion of the docs will be out of date.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_*
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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
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mixer docs; trim \platform{}, add \versionadded{}.
2004-05-05 01:36:16 +00:00
Nicholas Bastin
e9c2ecfb96
Removed 'U' from the documentation for Py_BuildValue to bring it in line
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with the elimination of 'U' in modsupport.c on 2000/04/28 (replaced
with 'u' and 'u#' per fdrake's comments).
2004-05-04 19:25:56 +00:00
Phillip J. Eby
5068c873e6
Document readline module functions added in Python 2.3. See:
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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
6d4c7b05bb
fix typo reported in a long-buried email
2004-04-28 03:16:49 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
46a16f297f
SF bug #940579 : section 5.10: 'not' returns boolean, not int
2004-04-23 17:11:47 +00:00
Thomas Heller
1328b52c6f
Two new public API functions, Py_IncRef and Py_DecRef. Useful for
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dynamic embedders of Python.
2004-04-22 17:23:49 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
e5fced781b
SF bug #936827 : PyNumber_And() 's description
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Fix typo.
2004-04-17 11:57:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
0ed663443e
really scream out that people should use the file objects instead of
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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
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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
Fred Drake
4cc425a0a3
switch to PNG navigation icons by default
2004-04-08 18:51:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
4f580e8394
include both the GIF and PNG icons in the HTML package
2004-04-08 18:50:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
899072ab71
avoid stripping space after indexing macros
2004-04-08 15:30:12 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
ba813e2089
#928751 , fix typos in socket doc
2004-04-03 18:02:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
8effa01931
fix typo that wasn't properly fixed in revision 1.144
2004-04-01 04:30:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
862b46bbc1
add a heavy box around warning notices to make them really stand out in the
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PDF and PostScript versions of the docs (the CSS already does this for HTML)
2004-03-31 08:08:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
90756c2da7
add missing and forthcoming releases
2004-03-31 08:04:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
34c43202eb
Emphasize the requirement that Python.h be included first more strongly.
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Closes SF bug #837228 ; backporting for Python 2.3.4.
2004-03-31 07:45:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
203b10c75a
added scripts to the list of files automatically included in the
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distribution (see SF bug #796042 )
2004-03-31 01:50:37 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
aeaec8d4aa
fix typo
2004-03-29 01:19:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
f13c024002
Insert missing pronoun
2004-03-28 22:44:09 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
dbb407808a
- add entry for complex number
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- fix a couple typos
- refine definitions for "interpreted" and "coercion" based upon updates on
the python glossary wiki
2004-03-27 18:23:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
8123ff6bca
remove out-of-date warning
2004-03-26 17:11:10 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
707483fdef
Update timeit example to reflect current performance.
2004-03-26 07:56:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
504ca68e20
Note that reading from a socket may not always return all of the
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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
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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
ad62202a5e
include the right index sources
2004-03-25 16:35:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
73789bc8f5
remove duplicate use of the meta-data label
2004-03-25 16:33:29 +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
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Modules"
2004-03-25 16:12:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
d0c3b26bd0
improve the very-high-level API docs (contributed by Jeff Epler)
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Closes SF patch #798638 .
2004-03-25 15:44:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
85309512ec
Remove note that PyErr_SetInterrupt() is obsolete; add comment about the
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fact that it was marked obsolete but is still needed.
Closes SF bug #919299 . Someone else should backport this to Python 2.3.
2004-03-25 14:25:28 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
5232f50b19
SF bug: #921927 : Fixed a typo/thinko spelling "parameter" as "paramter"
2004-03-25 08:51:36 +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
Fred Drake
4ac6c6afc3
add the distutils modules to the global modules list
2004-03-23 19:26:54 +00:00