Fred Drake
a4a90ddeac
Clarify that the Modules/ directory is in an unpacked source
...
distribution; this is not clear for Windows users.
1999-04-29 02:44:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
c0fcbc1ac6
Update starship URLs.
1999-04-29 02:30:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
52e2d51ef3
Fixed latex2html weirdness for a footnote.
1999-04-05 21:26:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
dc12ec8ca0
Fix a number of typos and small grammatical nits pointed out by Detlef
...
Lannert <lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
Added a comment explaining the cast in the method table for the
keyword arguments sample code, in response to another comment by
Detlef.
1999-03-09 18:36:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
ba21d10d9b
Added note about *static* after description of *shared*.
1999-02-22 18:21:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
9226d8e8a8
Removed "This will be discussed later." where it's not. Reported by
...
Clay Spence <cspence@sarnoff.com>; see entry in ../TODO.
1999-02-22 14:55:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
29fb54f0ca
Update note about the (...) format specifier for PyArg_ParseTuple().
1999-02-18 03:50:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
8e0151725d
Small updates and grammatical adjustments.
...
Remove comment about this manual being out of date from the abstract.
1999-02-17 18:12:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
33698f818b
Removed old dynamic linking chapter.
...
Integrated information on Windows DLLs from Chris Phoenix (Thanks!).
Added "Acknowledgements" area to thank contributing authors.
1999-02-16 23:06:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
3de61bc13f
Integrated notes on building extension modules on Windows, by Neil
...
Schemenauer <neil_schemenauer@transcanada.com>.
Thanks, Neil!
1999-02-16 21:14:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
abfd7d6701
Small grammatical fix; missing comma.
1999-02-16 17:34:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
295fb434ed
Make it clear that Demo/embed/ is from the source distribution.
1999-02-16 17:29:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
ec9fbe90be
Added section "Providing a C API for an Extension Module" by Konrad
...
Hinsen.
"\C{}" --> "C"
1999-02-15 16:20:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
f9918f25b1
Minor nit to prevent dropping a space in the HTML generation.
1999-02-05 18:30:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
d358afeec0
Document 'N' format character for Py_BuildValue -- like 'O' but doesn't INCREF.
1998-12-23 05:02:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
2f8592cbea
Ignore the byproducts of SGML/XML conversions for now.
1998-12-01 18:58:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
e743fd01ac
Rationalize a word-space markup to not break in the LaTeX->*ML
...
conversion tools currently being constructed.
Add a chapter from Jim Fulton on using Misc/Makefile.pre.in. Still
preliminary. The "Dynamic Loading" chapter needs to be updated (and
possibly removed, since it's no longer an issue for most (any?)
users.
1998-11-24 17:07:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
5e8aa549d1
Update the example in "Calling Python Functions from C" to use
...
METH_VARARGS conventions and PyArg_ParseTuple(), and document the flag
and where to look for PyArg_ParseTuple() info.
Response to comment from Don Bashford <bashford@scripps.edu>.
1998-11-16 18:34:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
9f86b662d1
Update to use a separate page for front matter.
1998-07-28 21:55:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
b85fbec83b
"ZeroDevisionError" --> "ZeroDivisionError"
...
Thanks, AMK!
1998-04-13 00:50:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
e7957184d2
Change \sectcode to logical markup.
1998-04-04 07:17:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
dc40904a32
Hyphenate "built-in" for consistency.
1998-04-02 18:54:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
b789c70d05
Minor markup nits.
1998-04-02 16:19:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
a0dbddfcc0
Markup consistency nits.
...
Fix indentation in code sample in PyArg_ParseTuple() section.
Added one index entry.
Fix include file reference in "Shared Libraries" to print <...> instead of
the upside-down versions of ! and ?.
1998-04-02 06:50:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
f3aa0e0627
Revert the index stuff to work better with LaTeX2HTML.
1998-03-17 06:23:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
7d20ffe245
Adjust the index inclusion for the new index support.
1998-03-09 16:39:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
cd05ca9762
Remove unnecessary blank line in long code sample.
...
Remove a confusing article.
1998-03-07 05:32:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
3fe985fc28
Simplify some of the escaping around ']' in \item[...] markup in light of
...
a fix to LaTeX2HTML from Ross Moore. Yeah!
1998-03-04 03:51:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
6659c30b67
Convert LaTeX support to create a new class of documents. HTML generation
...
now requires LaTeX2HTML 98.1p1 or newer (& and is still in progress).
This means that doing things to change the formatting of the manuals (at the
"normal user" level, like A4 paper), can happen in just one place, rather
than in each document file.
1998-03-03 22:02:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
40e72f7fbd
Fix typo.
1998-03-03 19:37:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
d7bb3032c1
Marked reference to the Python Library Reference with \emph{}.
...
Changed sample module creation of an exception to use PyErr_NewException().
Logical markup.
1998-03-03 17:52:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
3da06a69b9
Marked references to the other manuals as \emph{} in the abstract.
...
Added \label{}s for logical addressing.
1998-02-26 18:49:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
2474d68548
Fix up description of 'S' format; as Dave Ascher pointed out, it
...
was ungrammatical to the point of saying the opposite of what it
should say.
1998-02-26 17:07:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
628f59814e
Make sure the ']' in the content of the \item[] isn't used as the ending ']'.
1998-02-25 15:48:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
1aedbd8b0a
"--" --> "---" in two places.
1998-02-16 14:47:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
1e11a5c117
Remove \bcode / \ecode everywhere.
...
Make all the indentations in {verbatim} environments have column 0 of the
listing in column 0 of the file.
Remove pagenumbering / pagestyle cruft.
1998-02-13 07:11:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
afcd589027
Retract the statement that all functions called by Python (even method
...
defs) need to be declared extern "C" -- it seems to have no basis in
truth (any more?).
1998-02-05 19:59:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
b6e5032d9c
Added description of "D" format for PyArg_ParseTuple(), including example
...
use with function name provided as well.
Wrapped up PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords() description and provided example
based on Geoff Philbrick's example to the mailing list.
1998-02-04 20:26:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
ca6567fb3f
Use \url{} to mark URLs.
1998-01-22 20:44:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
53396f66c1
Consistency: In two \section{} headers, change {\tt ...} to \sectcode{...}.
1998-01-19 02:48:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
af8a015c93
Consistency: "{\bf ...}" ==> "\strong{...}"
...
"{\em ...}" ==> "\emph{...}"
Not at all sure what to do with "{\rm ...}".
Leaving it for now.
1998-01-14 14:51:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
4d4f9e726a
Removed \mytableofcontents; just use \tableofcontents.
1998-01-13 22:25:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
dca8792b52
Added openright option the the \documentclass{} for each of the manuals.
1998-01-13 16:53:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
0fd8268189
Revise prologue and frontmatter to use latex2e (not in 2.09 compatibility
...
mode) and take advantage of changes in myformat.sty.
Change "C" to "\C{}" and "\code{NULL}" to "\NULL{}" everywhere for consistency
and control.
Started a description of PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords().
1998-01-09 05:39:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
fdacc58bfe
Added pointer to api.tex and note about the out-of-date-ness of this
...
document.
1997-10-07 14:40:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
98046b90d0
Minor typo only.
1997-08-14 19:50:18 +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
debf2e8a53
Fix dropped word.
1997-07-17 15:58:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
9231c8f176
Made a start with api.tex, the Python-C API Reference Manual.
...
Removed extref.tex (which provided the starting point).
Also removed qua.tex, which is out of date and no longer needed.
1997-05-15 21:43:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7e924dd10d
Correct typo in PyArg_ParseTuple example.
...
Add reference to DLD 3.3 at http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/DLD.html .
1997-02-10 16:51:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
d16ddb610a
Typos reported by Tamito Kajiyama.
1996-12-13 02:38:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
305ed11a74
Remove mention of HAVE_CONFIG_H
1996-08-19 22:59:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
267e80d4d4
Added doco for abstract interface
1996-08-09 21:01:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
ed39cd05c2
change warning about C++
1995-10-08 00:17:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7ec5957022
typo bf should be \bf
1995-04-07 15:35:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
b92112da0e
yet a better introduction
1995-03-20 14:24:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
f23e0fe3be
micro change
1995-03-18 11:04:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5049bcb164
another round (sigh :-( )
1995-03-13 16:55:23 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
16cd7f9f12
Moved author and date to boilerplate.tex.
...
Added copyright.tex to all files.
Added descr of check_interval to libsys.tex.
Corrected lotsa typos in tut.tex (thanks to George M. Sipe).
Corrected mktuple (should be newtupleobject) example in ext.tex.
1994-10-06 10:29:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
16d6e7109d
Lots of small corrections by Andrew Kuchling (plus all new rotor docs)
1994-08-08 12:30:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6938f06047
Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk
1994-08-01 12:22:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
fbee23e55b
Documented the fact that IRIX 5.x also supports Sun style shared
...
libraries.
1994-01-01 17:32:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
83eb962528
* {lib,ref,ext,tut}.tex: added explicit \date{<date> \\ <release>}.
...
* lib2.tex: change bogus \\var to \var.
1993-11-23 16:28:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6f0132f490
* text2latex.py: call main() instead of always processing ext.tex.
...
* Makefile: added 'ext' to 'all' target
* ext.tex: more changes towards a readable text
* lib4.tex (posix): added set{uid,gid}
* lib2.tex (array): restored doc for typecode and itemsize (which were
there but not visible for dir())
1993-11-19 13:13:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
db65a6ce55
* ext.tex: did most of the tedious changes from plain ASCII text to LaTeX.
...
* text2latex.py: automatically put function names in \code{}.
* lib.tex, ref.tex, ext.tex, qua.tex, tut.tex: use new P.O.Box number in
address.
1993-11-05 17:11:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7a2dba2a00
* ext.tex: documentation for extending, reference counts, and embedding
...
(formerly ../misc/{EXTENDING,REFCNT,EMBEDDING}). Also affects Makefile.
* text2latex.py: script to do part of the conversion from an plain ASCI
text file (in my particular style) to LaTeX.
(Chapter/section/subsection headers, and verbatim sections.)
* partparse.py, texipre.dat, fix.el, Makefile: Minor cleanup of latex ->
info conversion process (at least it works again, and with less
debugging output). Removed fix.sh.
* lib1.tex (section{Built-in Functions}): adapt description of str() and
repr() to new situation.
* lib3.tex (Module os): added exec*() variants.
* lib3.tex (Module posix): added execve().
* lib2.tex (Module array): documented reality; remove typecode and
itemsize, add byteswap, rename read/write to fromfile/tofile, and
re-alphabetized.
* lib1.tex (Built-in Functions): renamed bagof() to filter().
1993-11-05 14:45:11 +00:00