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Guido van Rossum e084f0beea Add description for some modules that have been added since this intro 
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. 
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 
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. 
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 
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 
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 
"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 
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 
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...). 
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