Fred Drake
ef338ec5f9
More index entries.
2001-12-26 19:48:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
39960f6ec9
Fix the erroneous availability annotation for s.makefile() from the last
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checkin (my fault!).
Wrap some long lines and fix some markup inconsistencies.
2001-12-22 19:07:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
87fa3aa12c
Add notes that fromfd() and s.makefile() are Unix-specific.
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This fixes SF bug #495896 .
Fix up various markup consistency & style guide conformance nits.
2001-12-21 17:45:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
5c7983113c
Add a reference to the signal module to the os.kill() description.
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This closes SF bug #495609 .
2001-12-21 03:58:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
dce2e1161a
Fix typo in httplib example.
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This fixes SF bug #495221 .
2001-12-21 03:52:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
8c8e871530
Fix the availability statement for the spawn*() functions to reflect the
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actual availability on Windows.
This fixes SF bug #495191 .
2001-12-20 17:24:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
34a37b807a
Re-commit Ping's patch to the cgi and cgitb documentation, using the
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right version this time. Thanks, Ping!
(This was from SF patch #494582 , "\index -> \indexii" version.)
2001-12-20 17:13:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
4b1b3bfac1
Add entry for the pydoc documentation.
2001-12-18 16:32:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
96be564027
Add documentation for the pydoc module; contributed by Ka-Ping Yee.
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This closes SF patch #494622 .
2001-12-18 16:31:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
732299ff63
Add documentation for the help() built-in; contributed by Ka-Ping Yee.
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This is part of SF patch #494622 .
2001-12-18 16:31:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
e088970ce0
Merge in Ping's changes to the cgitb documentation, and add a version
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annotation as well.
This closes SF patch #494582 .
2001-12-18 15:51:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
0c0b5305ae
Mark the mpz module deprecated as of Python 2.2.
2001-12-16 01:54:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
c57772870b
Add a link to the mxNumber package.
2001-12-15 20:37:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
b40501b05e
Add link to the gmpy project.
2001-12-15 18:37:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
dda7dcb3f7
Add a missing "cycle".
2001-12-14 21:19:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
526c7a0101
Ensure that complex() only accepts a string argument as the first arg,
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and only if there is no second arg.
This closes SF patch #479551 .
2001-12-13 19:52:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
a0b767625b
Minor adjustments.
2001-12-13 04:25:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
1529ef860e
Document that isleap() returns exactly 1 or 0, which is guaranteed by the
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docstring.
This closes SF bug #485794 .
Additional (very) small details were added.
2001-12-12 05:40:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
cf72abab8c
Update link to the SAX homepage.
2001-12-10 18:10:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
6048ce95a9
Added documentation for str.decode().
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This closes SF bug #490823 .
2001-12-10 16:43:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
146483964e
Patch supplied by Burton Radons for his own SF bug #487390 : Modifying
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type.__module__ behavior.
This adds the module name and a dot in front of the type name in every
type object initializer, except for built-in types (and those that
already had this). Note that it touches lots of Mac modules -- I have
no way to test these but the changes look right. Apologies if they're
not. This also touches the weakref docs, which contains a sample type
object initializer. It also touches the mmap test output, because the
mmap type's repr is included in that output. It touches object.h to
put the correct description in a comment.
2001-12-08 18:02:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
f9d580346b
Add change notes where im_class is discussed, since the exact meaning changes
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with Python 2.2.
2001-12-07 23:13:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
b62f0e1a7b
Correct the description of im_class. (Fred, this is changed in 2.2.
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Should this be labeled as changed? How?)
2001-12-07 22:03:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
7961930595
Revise description of dumbdbm.open() to reflect that the flag argument is
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ignored and that mode was ignored before Python 2.2.
This closes SF bug #490098 .
2001-12-07 21:56:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
8b7bb7a0f2
Describe the behavior of the read() method when the list of filenames
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includes files that do not exist, explain the intended use of the interface,
and show how to ensure an expected file really exists.
This closes SF bug #490399 .
2001-12-07 21:35:57 +00:00
Tim Peters
b404145936
s/it/if/ in descriptions of spawn mode argument.
2001-12-06 23:37:17 +00:00
Tim Peters
c7cb69263d
For ratecv, document that None should be the initial state argument (when
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I was squashing spurious overflows in the implementation, I got hung up
on this point).
2001-12-06 23:16:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
a16433b14e
Re-enabled debugging prints in poplib & documented the set_debuglevel()
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method.
This closes SF patch #486079 .
2001-12-05 22:37:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
d761662b66
asyncore.loop() description contributed by Skip Montanaro.
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This closes SF bug #489513 .
2001-12-05 21:37:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
39368c1053
Added documentation of the sendall() method, and a note to the send() method
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that it does not guarantee that all data is sent.
This closes SF patch #474307 .
2001-12-05 05:25:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
d2a557e51e
Added entry for the "cgitb" module docs.
2001-12-04 22:48:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
6e70e8b401
Documentation for the "cgitb" module.
2001-12-04 22:47:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
97e3201220
Add a note that the rgbimg module is only built on 32-bit machines (prompted
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by a question to webmaster).
Re-wrapped a long line.
2001-12-04 16:49:00 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
db5a93cd6a
Update docs to reflect new compile() and compileFile()
2001-12-04 02:48:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
b38784e4a0
Slightly improved indexing for the string-% operator, thanks to comments
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from Skip Montanaro. There is one weirdness in the final index for HTML, but
that is low priority.
2001-12-03 22:15:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
1a76386194
Added documentation on the ScrolledText module.
2001-12-03 21:18:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
5172adca81
Minor clarification of the zip() description, based on a comment sent to
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python-docs.
2001-12-03 18:35:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
14f5c5fa01
Make no assumption about how modules are built when referring to them; this
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can vary by platform and installation.
Based on suggestion to python-docs.
2001-12-03 18:33:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
1722e4a952
Re-word the intro slightly to avoid reader misunderstanding: strings are not
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mutable! We do not want to shock anyone.
This closes SF bug #483805 .
Re-factor so that the description of the "access" keyword parameter is not
repeated in both the descriptions of mmap(). Also, only make sure the first
description of mmap() appears in the index. The the index link is followed,
the first is now used to locate the page on the screen; chances are really good
both will be visible. This avoids the problem that the index entry for the
second is selected and the first version is not visible, making the reader
consider that mmap() is not available on Windows.
2001-12-03 18:27:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
3570551d6f
Remove most references to __members__ and __methods__, leaving only one pair
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of references that now state that these attributes have been removed,
directing the reader to the dir() function.
This closes SF bug #456420 .
2001-12-03 17:32:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
b22c6720aa
Clean up some material that is not part of the standard documentation.
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This closes SF bug #487308 .
2001-12-03 06:12:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
d745b4e7a4
Add reference to the "String Methods" section to make that information
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easier to find. Based on the comment from Steve Alexander on the
zope-coders mailing list.
2001-12-02 15:10:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
0467775715
Add description of tkCommonDialog.
2001-11-30 19:24:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
10cd315963
Change the chapter title to reflect the Tk affinity.
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Use the new seealso* environment in the section pointing out other GUI
toolkits.
2001-11-30 18:17:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
89d63cc450
Minor adjustments to markup for the getDOMImplementation() description.
2001-11-30 16:58:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
bd34b6bc3d
Added the convenience constants that are present in PyXML to make these
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more similar.
2001-11-30 15:37:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
38f3b72f9f
Updated documentation for the new httplib interface, by Kalle Svensson.
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This closes SF bug #458447 .
2001-11-30 06:06:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
44b6f84e56
More information about Tix support, contributed by Mike Clarkson.
2001-11-29 21:09:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
6995bb61b6
Various cleanups & markup fixes, mostly relating to the stat and statvfs
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result object changes.
2001-11-29 20:48:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
ed0a71911c
Neil Schemenauer suggested a small improvement to one of the example REs.
2001-11-29 20:23:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
389aa17ad3
writeline() --> writelines()
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This closes SF bug #487147 .
2001-11-29 19:04:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
1cec7fab1d
New section of regular expression examples contributed by Skip Montanaro,
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with some extensions and changes from me.
This closes SF patch #472825 .
2001-11-29 08:45:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
5107b4cf5f
Re-arrange the modules in the "Internet Data Handling" chapter to try to
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achieve a more sensible organization.
2001-11-28 07:50:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
6a6bb1828b
Clarify that on some systems, lockf() using LOCK_EX requires that the file
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is opened for writing; this closes SF bug #485342 .
Added notes that file objects are also accepted in the place of file
descriptors.
2001-11-28 07:48:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
48704ee478
Add synopsis for the SimpleXMLRPCServer module; used in the chapter-level
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list of modules.
2001-11-28 07:32:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
c37b65ee10
Clean up some markup cruft. A number of the macros that take no
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parameters (like \UNIX) are commonly entered using an empty group to
separate the markup from a following inter-word space; this is not
needed when the next character is punctuation, or the markup is the
last thing in the enclosing group. These cases were marked
inconsistently; the empty group is now *only* used when needed.
2001-11-28 07:26:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
b03d0cc45e
Typo, spotted by Detlef Lannert.
2001-11-26 21:39:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
fcb05ab512
Tk-related modules should no longer be listed here.
2001-11-26 21:38:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
2744f43f71
Fix typo, extra markup constructs.
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This closes SF bug #485252 .
2001-11-26 21:30:36 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
560da62fc7
Rename get_referents to get_referrers. Fixes #483815 .
2001-11-24 09:24:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
e70dbe0fc5
Update the platform notes for the CGIHTTPServer module; it works on more
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platforms now, and has since Python 2.0.
This closes SF bug #482943 .
2001-11-19 05:16:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
7064d3b581
Fix the default value for feature_namespaces, per discussions on the XML-SIG
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mailing list. This causes the docs to match the default implementation.
2001-11-19 04:34:50 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
69ab5836ae
Paul Rubin reminds me that of course a class's constructor /could/ get
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called, if the pickler found a __getinitargs__() method.
2001-11-18 16:24:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
ebbd14d7c2
Clarified a couple of issues for the startElement*() handlers:
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- the attrs value may be re-used by the parser, so the implementation
cannot rely on owning the object.
- an element with no namespace encountered in namespace mode will have a URI
of None, not "" (startElementNS() only).
Fixed a couple of minor markup issues as well.
2001-11-18 04:58:28 +00:00
Tim Peters
af0a883041
Relatively large expansion of the docs for gc.garbage.
2001-11-18 04:51:17 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
0c0565dd7f
Toughen up the security warnings a bit.
2001-11-16 22:28:17 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
5e17d20743
Add a clarification that the email package always deals in native line
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endings, and that it is smtplib's job to convert those to RFC 2821
line endings when sending the message.
2001-11-16 22:16:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
666ca80b63
Clean up some markup a little bit more. Make this work with the PDF format,
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which is a little more strict than the other formats on some things (fixable,
but not tonight).
2001-11-16 06:02:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
5545219bf6
Document the urlsplit() and urlunsplit() functions.
2001-11-16 03:22:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
c66ff203bb
Switched a couple of sections around.
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Cleaned up some markup nits.
Add a few more of the Tk-related modules to the list of modules.
2001-11-16 01:05:27 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
69b2d75fc7
A few minor updates to make it clear(er) that pickle should be used
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instead of marshal for object serialization.
Fred, please proofread!
2001-11-15 23:55:12 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
f595fd975d
A massive rewrite affecting both the pickle and cPickle module
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documentation. This addresses previously undocumented parts of the
public interfaces, the differences between pickle and cPickle,
security concerns, and on and on.
Fred please proofread!
2001-11-15 23:39:07 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
d44e7ad702
Minor updates to add more pointers to the pickle documentation, and to
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clarify some of the interface.
2001-11-15 23:37:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
fd4f069b12
The turtle docs will be moving to another location in the Tkinter chapter.
2001-11-15 22:10:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
482b9a8c0c
Clean up the descriptions of multi-signature functions so we do the right
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thing in the index.
2001-11-15 20:41:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
53556861df
Add entries for the new Tkinter chapter.
2001-11-15 17:25:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
7cf4e5b329
Tkinter chapter, contributed by Mike Clarkson. Based in part on the "Tkinter
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Life Preserver" by Matt Conway.
2001-11-15 17:22:04 +00:00
Tim Peters
5ebfd36afa
CVS patch #477161 : New "access" keyword for mmap, from Jay T Miller.
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This gives mmap() on Windows the ability to create read-only, write-
through and copy-on-write mmaps. A new keyword argument is introduced
because the mmap() signatures diverged between Windows and Unix, so
while they (now) both support this functionality, there wasn't a way to
spell it in a common way without introducing a new spelling gimmick.
The old spellings are still accepted, so there isn't a backward-
compatibility issue here.
2001-11-13 23:11:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
da4ffeecf5
No need to have documentation for a module which not accepted in the library.
2001-11-09 21:45:55 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
3b0c82a2f1
Updated the documentation for formatdate().
2001-11-09 17:08:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
30bd666c35
Cleaned up some markup stupidity and a usage problem reported by Detlef
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Lannert. Added descriptions of HTTP_PORT and HTTPS_PORT.
2001-11-09 05:03:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
399bc8c281
Fix a variety of typographical, grammatical, and clarity problems reported
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by Detlef Lannert.
2001-11-09 03:49:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
0b66310476
When referring to a formal parameter from the description, use the name given
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with the signature, not an ad hoc abbreviated form.
2001-11-07 06:28:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
66ded524ba
apply() documentation: Remove a detail about the implementation that does
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not affect the API. Clean up the text about call syntax apply() is
equivalent to. Based on comments by Thomas Guettler.
2001-11-07 06:22:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
1a670c8414
Adjust the module synopsis to avoid margin overruns in the PDF format.
2001-11-06 22:14:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
10b81ce4e5
A variety of small cleanups, including one to avoid a margin overrun in the
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PDF version.
2001-11-06 22:13:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
5976816698
Remove stray quotes; probably left over from conversion from docstrings.
2001-11-06 22:11:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
806d332f02
Remove extra period.
2001-11-06 22:10:47 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
1f774b062e
Update obsolete e-mail address, and remove myself as a module author
2001-11-05 21:34:36 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
4794f0b234
Update obsolete e-mail address
2001-11-05 21:31:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
47ccfe2d8f
Remove obsolete e-mail address
2001-11-05 21:31:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
f010df4ee5
Update URL, and remove e-mail address reference (readers can get it from
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the Web page)
2001-11-05 21:30:10 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
2bb077f630
Finally fleshed out the examples section with 4 code samples! Some of
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my own doing, some originally written by Matthew Dixon Cowles.
2001-11-05 17:50:53 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
c44403995e
Remove email*.tex subsections; they're all \input by email.tex
2001-11-05 01:55:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
43dc1fc926
Minor grammar and typo fixes
2001-11-05 01:55:03 +00:00
Tim Peters
169ded0d68
Finish SF patch 477059: __del__ on new classes vs. GC.
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Just doc and NEWS here, about the change in gc.garbage meaning.
2001-11-03 19:57:21 +00:00
Tim Peters
7533587d43
Improved error msg when a symbolic group name is redefined. Added docs
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and NEWS. Bugfix candidate? That's a dilemma for Anthony <wink>: /F
did fix a longstanding bug here, but the fix can cause code to raise an
exception that previously worked by accident.
2001-11-03 19:35:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
bc4a1c2588
[Patch #476612 ] Change docs to describe PEP247 interface
2001-11-02 21:44:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
d9272d6f11
Add deprecation notice to statcache.
2001-11-02 20:20:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
67bd68392c
Make sure there are no weird nesting behaviors; the PDF version will not
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format if there are (building the "bookmarks" for the reader breaks).
2001-11-02 19:41:23 +00:00