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Fred Drake c211254334 Updated the section "Parsing Python". 1997-10-06 21:41:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 14bf341f16 Added keyword module entry. 1997-10-06 21:40:48 +00:00
Fred Drake e061a51de1 Minor nits (Lib/token.py is a file, token is a module...). 
Added docs for symbol and token modules at the end.
 1997-10-06 21:40:20 +00:00
Fred Drake db12f343bc Documentation for the keyword module. 1997-10-06 21:39:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 00eb96a126 Move the pprint docs after the code docs, so that all parser/codegen type 
things come together.
 1997-10-06 21:26:03 +00:00
Barry Warsaw dc0f00ad03 Document the mapping object's new get() method. 1997-10-06 17:50:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0bfd146594 Added strerror() 1997-10-05 18:54:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bc3b13643d Removed emacs.py 1997-10-05 18:54:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum eb53ae4928 Fixed some stuff that was incorrectly copied from regex. 1997-10-05 18:54:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7974b0f2d8 Documented __import__, callable, isinstance, issubclass, 
and slice.
 1997-10-05 18:53:00 +00:00
Guido van Rossum df3dba049d Documented new exceptions and exception classes. 1997-10-05 18:51:26 +00:00
Fred Drake b55e07f4eb Fixed up formatting. 1997-09-30 21:59:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 1b914b3397 Fixed up formatting, added descriptions for previously undocumented functions. 1997-09-30 20:14:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3cdb8f3286 Update the description and the example to the new functionality, which 
is mostly concentrated in a generalized find_module() and the new
load_module().  Added the new module type constants.  Declare that
SEARCH_ERROR and a whole bunch of module-type-specific functions are
obsolete.
 1997-09-09 20:53:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9cf4e2bde7 Change packages to site-packages (so it's clearly not a package itself). 1997-09-08 02:02:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 16221126d6 Added warning about ni's obsolescence. Retracted semantic changes 
(i.e. when using ni, the old __init__.py semantics prevail!)
 1997-09-07 03:02:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 593801142e Initial revision 1997-09-07 02:56:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f01dff7e93 Give in to Mike Meyer -- add *both* lib/python1.5/packages and 
lib/site-python to the path (if they exist).  This is a reasonable
compromise.
 1997-09-03 22:05:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 28cad964ec Document newly revamped site configuration mechanism. 
Damn the criticism in c.l.p!
 1997-08-30 20:03:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 36764b8b0e Added docs for 'user' customization module. Renamed libuser.tex 
(which had UserDict/UserList) to libuserdict.tex.
 1997-08-30 20:02:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b2afc811c2 Added os.altsep; this is '/' on DOS/Windows, and None on systems with 
a sane filename syntax.
 1997-08-29 22:37:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 282290f821 Referred to POSIX docs as well as to Unix docs. 1997-08-27 14:54:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e20aef574a Ignore whitespace between formats (not internal to a count+format). 1997-08-26 20:39:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 81e479a11f Removed some colons that shouldn't be there (probably leftovers from 
docstring conversion).
 1997-08-25 18:28:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 08157f8db6 mention cPickle and cStringIO 1997-08-21 02:29:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e229d8636d Misc Mac mods by Jack. Added libmacic.tex, and these patches: 
libmacfs.tex	Document NewAliasMinimalFromFullPath
libmacos.tex	Document SetEventHandler and SchedParams
libmacui.tex	Document asynchronous event handling
libmailbox.tex	Removed mime-turds that somehow got in here
 1997-08-18 15:14:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9085822f28 the usual 1997-08-15 02:52:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1acceb0650 Added AMK's first cut at docs for re.py 1997-08-14 23:12:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3572d3718b Updated platform specific notes (it is now more common to have this) 
added some caveats.
 1997-08-14 19:51:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8f06247b51 Added buffer_info() docs. 1997-08-14 19:50:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fcaf26e245 Documented mime_decode_header() and mime_encode_header(). 1997-08-14 14:13:01 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9c43c590bc More emphasis on os.environ's calling of putenv; and added hint about 
flags for open().
 1997-08-08 21:05:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fd16ca4542 Added mimify docs (Sjoerd). 1997-07-30 22:05:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 12d9eac0a2 A couple of grammatical nits. 
Re-sequenced the function descriptions so that the formatting is described
before the assumption is made that the reader has a clue about the formatting.

Moved examples to be closer to the functions being demonstrated.

Added example of saferepr() result.
 1997-07-24 15:39:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6576dd6ad6 Document new 'quote' flag to cgi.escape(). 1997-07-19 20:16:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 61c270345c added code.py; codehack.py is obsolete 1997-07-18 21:08:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1c78cf3317 Added label{module-spam} 1997-07-18 21:07:34 +00:00
Fred Drake ca1182b262 Remove pprint from the list of undocumented modules. 1997-07-18 20:44:22 +00:00
Fred Drake d2b9f81ec5 Add entry for the pprint module. 1997-07-18 20:43:53 +00:00
Fred Drake ee8d3ca4cf Documentation for the pprint module. 1997-07-18 20:41:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b15e5ed689 Use 'and' instead of '&', which is a (La)TeX control character. 
"make lib tut ext" should now be errorfree.
 1997-07-17 18:30:15 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e47da0ae04 AMK's megapatch: 
* \bcode, \ecode added everywhere
	* \label{module-foo} added everywhere
	* A few \seealso sections added.
	* Indentation fixed inside verbatim in lib*tex files
 1997-07-17 16:34:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3c2a056fdd Extensive changes by AMK. 1997-07-17 16:29:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5320998da5 Note that getvalue() must be called before close(). 1997-07-17 16:29:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0fcbe8dde2 Added libni.tex libgzip.tex 1997-07-17 16:27:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 41884a9b1c New from AMK 1997-07-17 16:26:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum eb1633ec6e Removed mailbox, SocketServer, cmath -- these are now documented! 1997-07-17 16:21:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 84057a3874 Added cmath 1997-07-17 16:15:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 246d96555f Typo in example. 1997-07-17 16:14:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 14a8024b04 New cmath module docs, by AMK (with additions and deletions by Guido). 1997-07-17 16:13:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6c9db41d30 Added fileno(); added readlines(sizehint). 
AMK's sed job.
 1997-07-17 16:05:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cfaf143956 Added a few new undocumented modules. 1997-07-16 15:48:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 31cbc846ac Oops, some clarifications to conditional breaks. 1997-07-11 13:57:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 255d790077 Added (minimal) doc for conditional breakpoints. 
(Lie about the syntax (and the syntax for "list") because latex2html
doesn't seem to handle doubly nested [] pairs.)
 1997-07-11 13:51:17 +00:00
Fred Drake dd527332b7 fixed typo, "header" ==> "headers" 1997-06-20 16:55:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 8f81ef1edd Fix LaTeX bug found by examining the docstrings added to commands.py. 1997-06-12 16:14:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 4fd1292c3c Documentation for Lib/commands.py, from Sue Williams. 1997-06-12 16:05:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 455838a217 Really nitty-gritty change to prevent latex2html from using a LaTeX-generated 
image of the argument list....
 1997-06-06 21:57:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 39a23cc1e3 Doc for mailbox.tex (Jack) 1997-06-02 21:04:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e5bb790027 Added libmailbox, obsolete libstdwin 1997-06-02 17:35:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b40f2a7446 Added SocketServer and mailbox modules. 1997-06-02 17:34:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 98b43eb012 It's now using mimetools instead of rfc822 1997-06-02 17:34:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b9ee9c2298 stdwin is obsolete. Point to bsddb from dbhash. 1997-06-02 17:34:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0a3c7532f3 Additional info about sys.path, sys.version, sys.prefix, sys.exec_prefix. 
(AMK)
 1997-06-02 17:32:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0fa066b72e Grammar (AMK). 1997-06-02 17:30:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 067a2acdf6 Mention seekable parameter (AMK). 
Added pointer to mailbox module.
 1997-06-02 17:30:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bac80022e4 Mention use of profile.py to run a script (AMK). 1997-06-02 17:29:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f967bf63f8 Added putenv, ftruncate (AMK). 1997-06-02 17:28:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 809408eb90 Mention use of pdb.py to run a script (AMK). 1997-06-02 17:28:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 94adab5e17 Added date, xgtitle, xover, xpath (AMK). 1997-06-02 17:27:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a3f53cde37 It's now using mimetools instead of rfc822 1997-06-02 17:26:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2525bedfc0 Fix a sentence which ends "...is 6, which." (AMK) 1997-06-02 17:22:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 921f32ce4c Mention abs(complex) -> magnitude (AMK). 
Documented list().
Mention [raw_]input()'s interface to GNU readline.
 1997-06-02 17:21:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3a0d850160 Added complex numbers (AMK). 
Clarify that sort() works in-place.
Renamed dict.absorb() to dict.update().
 1997-06-02 17:18:00 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6102b51f2b Added copy() and absorb(). 1997-05-28 19:32:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2335c5eaec Added description of socket_type. 1997-05-21 14:41:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6181e00667 Added AMK's SocketServer docs. 1997-05-19 19:55:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 51a6c9055c Added docs for dumbdbm (AMK), and misc small fixes. 1997-05-09 02:23:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7e691de948 Document return value of wait[pid]() more carefully. 
Document how to get exit status of a popen() command.
 1997-05-09 02:22:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e4f347e779 Document "" and "<broadcast>". 1997-05-09 02:21:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5bbf0f7c93 Some updates (AMK at work, added resource.c). 1997-04-30 19:41:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum dfb4120ea1 Add zlib 1997-04-30 19:40:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 412154f3c7 Updated web ref and version#. Folded some long lines. 1997-04-30 19:39:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 04bc9d6e67 zlib by AMK 1997-04-30 18:12:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e9a0732cd1 Note that passing a filename to uu.{en,de}code() is deprecated. 1997-04-27 21:29:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e76b7a8fcd Added fnmatch, base64 and quopri, received from Andrew Kuchling. 1997-04-27 21:25:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 150853861a Various status updates. 1997-04-03 23:49:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fc5ee0f980 Added site 1997-04-03 22:43:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 571391b963 New stuff by AMK. 1997-04-03 22:41:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 387c575d5c Small grammatical touchups: 
Para. 1:  ...that reads and writes a string buffer...
			      ^		 ^

	Para. 3:  ...can be called at any time to retrieve the...
				  XXXXXXXXXXXX       ^^^^^
		  ...entire contents of the entire ``file'' ...
		     ^^^^^^^		   XXXXXXX

Guido, I hope I'm not stomping too far afield, but these seem pretty clear
to me.
 1997-04-02 14:51:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f643e3ff7e Spell Unix, not UNIX. 1997-04-02 06:06:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e8d94a8c10 Horrible hack to split up code '--' to prevent 
latex2html from collapsing it into '-'.
 1997-04-02 06:05:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1cd26f2fc0 Add complex(). 
Update int(), long(), float() to support string conversions.
 1997-04-02 06:04:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 740eb8265f Add cross-refs for int() to atoi() etc. 
Change replace() arguments; remove replace1().
 1997-04-02 05:56:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8d2893b5b2 Added a list of the main undocumented extension modules. 1997-03-27 20:57:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7f3b0421de Added docs for UserDict,UserList 1997-03-27 14:56:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b6a80262e1 Added docs for glob and mailcap 1997-03-25 22:09:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e6d579ddbc Added docs for glob 1997-03-25 22:07:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 20af95b433 Added docs for mailcap 1997-03-25 22:01:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c8a80cdbad Added docs for replace() and replace1(). 1997-03-25 16:41:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e8e87999ab Remove untrue statement about . and .. being included in list of names 
passed to walk() visitor.
 1997-03-25 15:25:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7b7c578616 Add optional 4th argument to [r]find and [r]index (end of slice). 1997-03-14 04:13:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 612316f016 Add a rough list of undocumented stuff at the end. 1997-03-14 04:12:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1f8cee2521 Hint about [\] trick to avoid quad backslashes. 1997-03-14 04:10:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3978d75cca Added intern() 1997-03-03 16:03:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 38e2ec4f14 Added ref to StringIO docs. 1997-03-03 16:03:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3ff7317857 Correct two typos 1997-03-03 16:02:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cda3d7d0e7 Added (minimal) StringIO docs. 1997-03-03 16:01:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 20e4210ec4 Fix up indentation of examples to use 4 spaces instead of tabs. 1997-02-28 16:37:49 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 7574587587 Document the new join() semantics. 1997-02-18 21:53:53 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 736bb0659f Added a paragraph to describe clear_cache(), and why it's necessary. 1997-02-18 18:59:37 +00:00
Barry Warsaw cd77df64e6 Document the new get_syntax() function. 1997-02-18 18:54:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6fb6f10a96 Added doco for ratecv. 1997-02-14 15:59:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 43d287ad73 (libparser.tex): Fix typo found by Mark Hammond. 1997-01-22 14:25:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5cd752028c Describe new ("unsigned") behavior of hex() and oct(). 1997-01-14 18:44:23 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fe27a50847 Added warning that gethostname() doesn't always return fqdn, and show 
how to find it using gethostbyaddr().
 1997-01-11 17:04:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0d2971badb Document that sys.builtin_module_names is now a tuple. 1997-01-06 23:01:02 +00:00
Barry Warsaw d44be3fdb7 very minor typo 1997-01-03 20:19:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 653071731a 'I' and 'L' now always return a Python long. 1997-01-03 19:21:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b0b8181622 Added unsigned data formats (B, H, I, L). 1997-01-03 19:20:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum dbadd558b5 Describe standard float/double support. 
Rewrite example to be an interactive session
 1997-01-03 04:20:09 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 6717030dc9 setkey method's argument is no longer optional (it used to be a no-op 
when missing).
 1997-01-02 19:48:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 591bbb1572 (libformatter.tex): Document the flush() method on the writer. 1996-12-31 20:51:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3dd68d3364 Added libstat.tex 1996-12-31 02:24:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 125434665b Document the new extensions. 1996-12-31 02:22:14 +00:00
Barry Warsaw f308c0f1fc From reading the source, it turns out that the setkey() method can 
take an optional string key, but if key is not given, the method does
nothing!  In the rewrite (see upcoming check-in), I left things this
way, but here I document that this is the case.
 1996-12-23 23:34:17 +00:00
Barry Warsaw e5a43a405d Describe open(2) exported constants 1996-12-19 23:50:34 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e8e9ed176f Docs for stat.py -- docs by Skip Montanaro. 1996-12-19 22:39:22 +00:00
Barry Warsaw fa5a6cff45 posix.open(): third argument (mode) is optional. 1996-12-19 22:38:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 62ac99ebf5 Documented getprotobyname() interface. 1996-12-19 16:43:25 +00:00
Fred Drake ae0cd0b9b3 (libunix.tex): Change matching lib.tex: add line item for the resource 
module.
 1996-12-19 12:20:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3c7b2dc02c Added docs for Jeremy's resource module. 1996-12-18 18:37:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 63a0c376ea (libunix.tex): Changed two occurances of "Unix" to "\UNIX{}". 1996-12-16 22:12:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 094579e677 (libtime.tex): Merged in changes from Tamito Kajiyama. 
(For those watching Python CVS messages:  I checked in all of
	Tamito's other changes, but the mail delivery failed since the
	subject line was too long.  The patch Tamito sent for the
	documentation has been completely merged in.)
 1996-12-13 22:09:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 4b3f0312c9 (lib<all sorts of stuff>.tex): 
Merged in many typo corrections and fixes to support GNU info
	processing; submitted by Tamito Kajiyama.
 1996-12-13 22:04:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8d40c843c1 Added quote_plus() and unquote_plus(), to do space/plus substitutions 
for form field values.
Also corrected substitution example (the original changed the spelling
of "conolly" to "connolly" :).
 1996-12-13 14:48:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 21be147094 Added remark about time() and sleep()'s subsecond precision. 
Added hint about using clock() for benchmarks etc.
Removed non-portable strftime directives and field width, and added a
warning about non-standard features.
 1996-12-12 17:59:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3486f27428 Added soundex (sigh) 1996-12-12 17:02:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 843e712bda Added descriptions of parsedate(), parsedate_tz(), getdate_tz() 
(all contributed by Andrew Kuchling).
 1996-12-06 21:23:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 61ed4db9e8 Added section for operator module (compiled Skip Montanaro). 1996-12-06 21:22:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 9abe64a395 (libparser.tex): Added note that the line number for a terminal token 
indicates the line on which the token ends rather than starts
	(a side effect of interpreting the parse tree nodes directly).
	Maybe I'll fix this for Python 2.0.
 1996-12-05 22:28:43 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 102dc417bf Describe the new Unpacker.get_buffer() method. 1996-12-04 22:05:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bda7ca7772 Added [nh]to[hn][sl](). 1996-12-02 17:24:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6240b0b773 Small nits only. 1996-10-24 22:49:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f73f79b5fd Done with this for 1.4. 1996-10-24 22:14:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a5a4c2a7d8 Correct truncated paragraph. 1996-10-24 14:47:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 36845ede60 Changed URL for PCT again. 1996-10-22 02:25:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6e308d7e40 Start new chapter on restricted execution. 1996-10-22 01:11:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 095538dd10 Actual text submitted by AMK. 1996-10-22 01:11:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c3d090cd4b Background chapter on restricted execution. Additional sections are 
rexec and bastion.
 1996-10-22 01:10:56 +00:00