Guido van Rossum
e084f0beea
Add description for some modules that have been added since this intro
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section was last revised...
1997-11-20 21:03:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3472026347
Add description for Queue; fix typo (whichdbm should be whichdb).
1997-11-20 21:00:03 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
17c8e781c0
libqueue.tex: Documentation for the Queue.py module.
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Makefile: Add dependency on libqueue.tex
lib.tex: Place the libqueue.tex documentation just after libthread.tex
since Queue depends on thread support in Python.
1997-11-20 19:54:16 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
4552f3d6de
In the description of sub(), give a better explanation of the
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interface when repl is a function. Also give a simple example of
using a function repl.
1997-11-20 00:15:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
2974f0fe9a
Add xmllib; remove (slow) from description of htmllib.
1997-11-18 15:30:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7336935e4c
dis is now documented; bisect is deemed useful.
1997-11-18 15:30:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
f7790c608d
Document s.connect_ex(), which does not raise an exception on error.
1997-11-18 15:29:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
364e643fdd
Clarified reference to old profiler.
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Mention conversion to Perl-style regular expressions.
1997-11-18 15:28:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5de64883d8
Added doc for errorcode dictionary.
1997-11-18 15:27:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
eae121e436
Adding dis and xmllib docs
1997-11-18 15:11:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
a10768ae44
Docu for xmllib.py, by Sjoerd Mullender.
1997-11-18 15:11:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
b62b6d145e
Docu for dis.py, written by Martin von Loewis.
1997-11-18 15:10:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
9d37a4d332
Small wording change about global and local trace functions.
1997-10-27 19:57:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
040e565261
Ooops, found too more references to old conditions on floating point values.
1997-10-24 21:15:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
ae18e9fc1c
Removed obsolete discussion on _xdr helper module.
1997-10-24 21:14:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
d7dc2eb708
Put {} around \^ in sets to force latex2html to do the right thing...
1997-10-22 03:03:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
828a0bdb1d
count() now has a 4th parameter too. Also rephrased the docs for find
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to use the same, better words to explain start/end.
1997-10-20 22:40:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
871cf161f1
Documented exc_info(); also updated exc_type and last_type docs.
1997-10-20 22:38:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
2950b2d881
Restore the \seealso formatting that got lost when I updated the math
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module documentation.
1997-10-13 22:06:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
7cd60442b4
Remove macpath entry -- it is already documented.
1997-10-13 22:02:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
5451d67dd9
socket_type ==> SocketType
1997-10-13 21:31:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
120ac20c40
Remove superfluous comman from between "not" and "in" when describing the
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"not in" operator.
1997-10-13 20:48:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6cd7ecb10b
The sequence behavior is now on the Exception root class rather than
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on the StandardError class.
1997-10-07 14:41:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
6f2a26d42b
And "ni" has been documented...
1997-10-06 21:53:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
2df75832b3
Oops; don't know if this was my typo or not: There was a "p" on a line that
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should have been blank.
1997-10-06 21:52:31 +00:00
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...).
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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(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
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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.
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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
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(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
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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
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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:
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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)
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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
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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.
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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.
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"make lib tut ext" should now be errorfree.
1997-07-17 18:30:15 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e47da0ae04
AMK's megapatch:
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* \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).
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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.
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(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
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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.
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(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).
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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).
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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).
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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.
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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:
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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
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latex2html from collapsing it into '-'.
1997-04-02 06:05:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
1cd26f2fc0
Add complex().
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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