Tim Peters
74824584ef
Added new footnote about list.sort() stability. Repaired footnote about
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using sort() with comparison functions (it made reference to the non-
existent "builtin-in function sort()").
BTW, I changed list.sort's docstring to contain the word "stable" -- the
easiest way to tell whether a particular Python version's sort *is* stable
is to look for "stable" in the docstring. I'm not sure whether to
advertise this <wink>.
2002-08-01 03:10:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
5b11bdd0ed
SF patch #581414 : info reader bug
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The "Matching vs. Searching" Info node is unreachable from the Info
program (but is fine in Emacs's Info mode). This patch seems to fix
it. This is the only occurrence where the info reader fails, so
probably it could be addressed in the python docs as a workaround.
Forwarded the report to the info maintainer.
2002-07-30 17:51:20 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
0cec0ffc78
Patch #573770 : Implement lchown.
2002-07-28 16:33:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
db40afaabe
Small clarifications when referring to the sys.exc_* variables so that
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readers are not given the wrong impression that they should be using those
on a regualar basis.
This closes SF bug #585598 .
2002-07-25 21:11:23 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
403e351dfc
Flesh out description of getlogin() and recommend against using it.
2002-07-24 15:32:25 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
1cfcafceb6
add versionadded to doc
2002-07-20 00:46:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
18eb8b85b3
Doc patch from SF 474274 (pure Python strptime by Brett Cannon).
2002-07-19 17:09:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
f0b095d804
Added documentation for the buffer_text and related attributes of the
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xmlparser object provided by pyexpat, new in Python 2.3.
2002-07-17 20:31:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
2095b9690f
reduce(): Clarified what is returned in the case of a sequence 1 item long and
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initial/default value.
2002-07-17 13:55:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
9534e14033
Record the decision that StopIteration is a sink state (see recent
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discussion in python-dev with subject "Termination of two-arg iter()").
Implementation will follow.
2002-07-16 19:53:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
54ed2d32f9
Clarify that the description of sys.path[0] is only valid upon program
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start-up.
2002-07-15 16:08:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
3e59f72075
Clarify the return value of __nonzero__(): It *must* be an integer.
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Closes SF bug #579991 .
2002-07-12 17:15:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
e4523c46b9
Document gc.get_objects().
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Closes SF bug #578308 .
2002-07-10 19:21:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
4254cbd29c
Note that unicode() can raise LookupError for unknown codecs.
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Closes SF bug #513666 .
2002-07-09 05:25:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
c6a525e993
Fix typo reported by Kent Engström, and a bunch of broken markup.
2002-07-08 14:42:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
50e1286c00
Fix typo: "an Unicode string" --> "a Unicode string"
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Clarify the return value when the parameter is a Unicode object.
2002-07-08 14:29:05 +00:00
Steve Holden
b1af86a1d7
Revise asyncore documentation and document asynchat for the first time.
2002-07-03 18:36:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
228f6e4e7a
Fix up a few more consistency nits and incorrectly applied markup.
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Further clarify the English-centricity of fix_sentence_endings.
2002-07-03 05:08:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
c412617779
Add annotations that describe the change in the "errors" and "failures"
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attributes of the TestResult.
2002-07-02 22:46:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
387c8b5f37
Update the documentation of the errors and failures attributes of the
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TestResult object. Add an example of how to get even more information for
apps that can use it.
Closes SF bug #558278 .
2002-07-02 22:34:44 +00:00
Greg Ward
285f4a7db7
Don't list all the keyword args to the TextWrapper constructor in the
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classdesc -- just use "..." with prose explaining the correspondence
between keyword args and instance attributes.
Document 'width' along with the other instance attributes.
Describe default values consistently.
Typo fixes.
2002-07-02 21:48:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
2c22e85ae7
Attempt to clarify removedirs().
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Based on SF bug #574773 .
2002-07-02 21:03:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
ca23ee273e
Deal with & remove the XXX comments.
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Change the markup to be more like the rest of the documentation.
2002-07-02 20:37:12 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
7d650ca83b
Implement the encoding argument for toxml and toprettyxml.
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Document toprettyxml.
2002-06-30 15:05:00 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
550fd5d799
Fixed bug 574978 shutil example out of sync with source code
2002-06-30 04:43:20 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
8a9e8b6d0e
Fix bug 575221 referred to dictionary type instead of dict.
2002-06-30 04:32:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
78e057a32a
Clarify the version information for the unicode() built-in.
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Closes SF bug #575272 .
2002-06-29 16:06:47 +00:00
Greg Ward
ae64f3adcd
Add documentation for new textwrap module.
2002-06-29 02:38:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
2c813818c8
Clean up some markup.
2002-06-27 18:30:34 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
dcd0500664
dis.dis() also supports modules
2002-06-26 22:32:47 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
ca0383d3a3
Fix bug #573916 . Sender and recipients reversed in email example.
2002-06-26 07:51:32 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
763805dab2
add seealso link to the bisect module
2002-06-26 05:22:08 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
09d9f86c77
add /F's PriorityQueue example
2002-06-26 05:07:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
c5e2792ab4
Talk about interfaces rather than implementation classes where appropriate.
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Add hyperlinks to make the documentation on the Attributes and AttributesNS
interfaces more discoverable.
Closes SF bug #484603 .
2002-06-25 17:10:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
b6aa9cbb96
Added some more links to the "See also" section.
2002-06-25 16:58:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
7bc121a4fb
When talking about interfaces, use the interface names, not the names
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of the implementation classes. (Remove the "Impl" from two names.)
2002-06-25 16:25:01 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
f0236d7374
Fix typo
2002-06-25 15:26:59 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
5ed3fa6578
Fix SF bug 568269 by enclosing 'computername' in a raw string
2002-06-25 04:53:05 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
563d12d145
SF # 572928 One word change for lib/libgettext.tex
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Fix typo.
2002-06-24 02:22:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
53540ab071
Correct the RE equivalent of scanf()'s %x and %X patterns.
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Closes SF bug #572169 .
2002-06-22 01:07:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
473f46a853
Make the docs for string.capitalize() match those of str.capitalize()
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(which makes it more clear).
Closes SF bug #571767 .
2002-06-20 21:18:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
807354f3b6
Add a note that divmod() with complex numbers is deprecated.
2002-06-20 21:10:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
dce695aa4e
Added reference to the Expat home page.
2002-06-20 21:06:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
f4bf7aa292
Typo: bites --> bytes
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(Hanging around small kids too much...;)
2002-06-18 20:38:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
9ea01d415f
Add description of the deadlock problem with child processes and pipes, and
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hints about how to work around it.
Closes SF bug #530637 .
2002-06-18 20:30:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
69d1fd2fdb
Note the limitation that mime_decode_header() only works for Latin-1.
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Closes SF bug #551912 .
2002-06-18 18:51:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
7f59124693
Clarified documentation for os.access().
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Patch contributed by Sean Reifschneider.
Closes SF patch #570618 .
2002-06-18 16:15:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
28bdc624a8
Clarified description of error handling for shutil.rmtree().
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This closes SF patch #569832 .
2002-06-18 14:31:04 +00:00
Piers Lauder
3fca291a52
Add IMAP4 QUOTA extension methods
2002-06-17 07:07:20 +00:00
Steve Holden
1e4519faaa
Make a start at describing the results of class/type unification
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in the type documentation.
2002-06-14 09:16:40 +00:00