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Martin v. Löwis 5e1633365d Patch #403985: Add support for weak-keyed dictionaries 2001-02-27 18:36:56 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 6397c7c9a9 inspect: a module for getting information out of live Python objects 2001-02-27 14:43:21 +00:00
Barry Warsaw d4614e8371 Updates to the semantics of function and method attributes. 2001-02-27 03:32:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 07e6c505ad Minor adjustments, including markup corrections. 2001-02-23 19:15:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 447f545322 Fix extra backslash in example. 2001-02-23 19:13:07 +00:00
Fred Drake afdc8fc0ad Fix up the markup in some recently-added portions of the text. 2001-02-23 19:10:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 19f3c52347 Work around the broken formatting of sys.ps1 prompts in running text.
Move sample sessions to the left margin of the file for consistency;
formatting can adjust the margin if needed.

This closes SF bug #133213.
2001-02-22 23:15:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 7c30de65f4 Remove documentation for the soundex module; the module is no longer
included with Python.
2001-02-22 21:25:20 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 7edbd4ffb4 Patch #103885: Add dynamic registration and lookup of DOM implementations. 2001-02-22 14:05:50 +00:00
Tim Peters 754ba589b7 Improve accuracy. In the .tex file, note the new "% BUG:" comments: an
extra backslash is getting displayed in the generated HTML.
2001-02-20 11:24:35 +00:00
Tim Peters f0768c822b Added missing \item. See also bug 133213, about damaged HTML generated
for \code(">>>"); don't know how to fix that one.
2001-02-20 10:57:30 +00:00
Tim Peters e79af273e8 Flesh out PlaySound() docs enough so that SND_ALIAS isn't hopelessly confusing.
If someone knows how to turn the new table of guaranteed-registered system
sounds into a LaTeX table, be my guest.
2001-02-20 10:02:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 5b0705d266 ConfigParser.optionxform(): Document this since it is available for
sub-classes and application code to override.
2001-02-19 22:37:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 15bc404ca8 Added entries for difflib documentation. 2001-02-19 16:32:40 +00:00
Fred Drake baf71422b8 Documentation for the difflib module, converted from the module docstrings. 2001-02-19 16:31:02 +00:00
Tim Peters 373d151666 More typos. libwinsound.tex typo noted by Peter Funk (thanks!). 2001-02-19 08:36:41 +00:00
Tim Peters 25a9ce371c Take a tour of hell's seedier neighborhoods to try to make winsound.Beep()
do something non-useless on Win9X boxes.  WinME unknown to me.  Someone with
NT/2000 make sure it still works there!
2001-02-19 07:06:36 +00:00
Tim Peters c4089d84d8 In the example showing the irrelevance of start columns, restore that the
start columns differ (editing had pushed them all into column 0).
2001-02-17 18:03:25 +00:00
Fred Drake f3262b72ca Add entries for the doctest documentation. 2001-02-17 17:33:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 7eb1463bb3 Make a variety of minor markup adjustments.
Close some environments so that this will actually format.
2001-02-17 17:32:41 +00:00
Tim Peters 7688229f7c SF patch #103808: doctest.py docs
Checking in Moshe's patch after rewrapping some paragraphs (to consume
fewer columns) and repairing that I/2.**J lost the I.
2001-02-17 05:58:44 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 04f1d37471 mention the use of the maxtries attribute of FancyURLopener in bounding
redirection recursion.
2001-02-15 17:00:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bf416fa0dd Document default blocksize for storbinary(). 2001-02-15 13:53:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 523ec5709b Make some clarifications and corrections based on comments from Guido.
Fix a few markup nits.
Work around a LaTeX2HTML nuisance.
2001-02-15 05:37:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 15862f50e5 Add a note to Node.isSameNode() that it is based on the DOM Level 3 working
draft.  I'm not sure that's important, but Uche thinks it is.
2001-02-14 20:39:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 1d8ad2b1de Updated to reflect the additional information and interfaces exported in
pyexpat.c revision 2.40.
2001-02-14 18:54:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 162c6a637a Reflect change in traceback format:
"innermost last" --> "most recent call last"
2001-02-14 03:20:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e7d7e6c879 Fix two typos 2001-02-14 02:39:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 5ed1dac4c0 Update documentation for pyexpat (xml.parsers.expat), to reflect the new
support for Expat 1.95.*.
2001-02-08 15:40:33 +00:00
Fred Drake cf2636696d Fix markup typo in a {verbatim} environment (there should not be any!);
caught by Eric Raymond.
2001-02-03 14:35:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 40e43bfaf7 Document Node.isSameNode(). 2001-02-03 01:20:01 +00:00
Fred Drake f891404e1a Move the whrandom section back to the documented modules section; this
gives people a chance to see the depracation notice.
2001-02-03 01:17:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 269625f67a Revise the deprecation note for the whrandom module to be correct and a
little more formal.
2001-02-03 01:12:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 6270031f4e Adjustments to the text of the UnixMailbox description. Added
PortableUnixMailbox as a separate class as well (this also generates
the right index entry).
2001-02-02 03:51:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 57d943ad38 Move the whrandom entry to the "Obsolete Modules" appendix. 2001-02-02 02:45:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 844bd5b4a9 Minor markup adjustments. 2001-02-02 02:42:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 68b6417c5a Added a warning at the top saying that user code should not use the
whrandom module directly.
2001-02-02 02:41:17 +00:00
Fred Drake d0946da701 Fix some markup breakage that prevented formatting; re-wrapped a couple of
wide paragraphs.
2001-02-01 15:53:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 36154b2dbf Added entry for weakref documentation.
Moved commented-out entries for obsolete module to an appendix, still
commented out.
2001-02-01 05:21:46 +00:00
Fred Drake ebcf6a8573 Documentation for the weakref module. 2001-02-01 05:20:20 +00:00
Tim Peters 0de88fc4b1 Change random.seed() so that it can get at the full range of possible
internal states.  Put the old .seed() (which could only get at about
the square root of the # of possibilities) under the new name .whseed(),
for bit-level compatibility with older versions.  This occurred to me
while reviewing effbot's book (he found himself stumbling over .seed()
more than once there ...).
2001-02-01 04:59:18 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 30dbd1429a Document the two changes to the mailbox.py module:
- All constructors grow an optional argument `factory' which is a
  callable used when new message instances are created by the next()
  methods.  Defaults to the rfc822.Message class.

- A new subclass of UnixMailbox is added, called PortableUnixMailbox.
  It's identical to UnixMailbox, but uses a more portable test for
  From_ delimiter lines.  With PortableUnixMailbox, any line that
  starts with "From " is considered a delimiter (this should really
  check for two newlines before the F, but it doesn't.
2001-01-31 22:14:01 +00:00
Barry Warsaw b416290d5d Some rewriting of the "Internationalizing your programs and modules"
subsection to include a discussion of the msgfmt.py program.
2001-01-31 21:21:45 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond 3229b859fb More on noutrefresh() and scroll(). 2001-01-29 06:39:33 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 4fda21ba6b updated to document use of sequences of two-element tuples as inputs 2001-01-28 21:18:16 +00:00
Fred Drake c37f5b3296 Adjust documentation for new.instance() to reflect that the second
parameter may be omitted or None.
2001-01-28 17:23:05 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond 9ca35ec97a Instructive example for strftime(); how to generate RFC822 dates. 2001-01-28 00:56:54 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond e7213c7a80 Emphasis that instantiating this class doesn't consume the message body.
Fix some unclear language in the description of the addrlist member.
2001-01-27 10:56:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 66f98b45cd Fix a number of typos found by Guido. 2001-01-26 20:51:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 8c071d4388 Massively improved documentation for string formatting operations,
primarily from Evelyn Mitchell (thanks!).

This closes SF patch #103412.
2001-01-26 20:48:35 +00:00
Tim Peters e360d9507a The combo of getstate/setstate/jumpahead is very powerful, but needs
examples to flesh it out for the uninitiated.  Here they are.
2001-01-26 10:00:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 29052482d1 Removed references to Python 1.5.3; that was a "tentative" number I used
in the docs to indicate the next version before we decided on 1.6.

Adjusted winsound.Beep() description slightly as well.
2001-01-25 17:29:18 +00:00
Tim Peters 517ce23183 Clarify winsound.beep docs, in response to c.l.py beep brouhahalet. 2001-01-25 09:33:48 +00:00
Tim Peters d52269bfd0 Fix bugs introduced by rewrite (in particular, time-based initialization
got broken).  Also added new method .jumpahead(N).  This finally gives us
a semi-decent answer to how Python's RNGs can be used safely and efficiently
in multithreaded programs (although it requires the user to use the new
machinery!).
2001-01-25 06:23:18 +00:00
Tim Peters d7b5e88e8e Reworked random.py so that it no longer depends on, and offers all the
functionality of, whrandom.py.  Also closes all the "XXX" todos in
random.py.  New frequently-requested functions/methods getstate() and
setstate().  All exported functions are now bound methods of a hidden
instance.  Killed all unintended exports.  Updated the docs.
FRED:  The more I fiddle the docs, the less I understand the exact
intended use of the \var, \code, \method tags.  Please review critically.
GUIDO:  See email.  I updated NEWS as if whrandom were deprecated; I
think it should be.
2001-01-25 03:36:26 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 83125775e0 A \begin{funcdesc} was closed with an \end{methoddesc}. 2001-01-25 00:39:16 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 21f37e1b88 Fixed a bug where \& was needed. 2001-01-25 00:38:15 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 8ee1a4bdeb Provide a much better (and complete!) description of the lockf()
function, based on an eyeballing of the code.
2001-01-25 00:36:54 +00:00
Tim Peters 902446a28d Supply long-missing docs for random.seed(). Extensive rewrite of module
intro docs.
*************** Fred:  check my LaTeX!  Also, the docs for whrandom should
*************** be moved into Obsolete Modules.
2001-01-24 23:06:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 9368a12011 Fix an obvious usage nit I should have caught myself on the previous
change to this file.  Thanks, /F!
2001-01-24 18:19:40 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee fa004ad36c Show '\011', '\012', and '\015' as '\t', '\n', '\r' in strings.
Switch from octal escapes to hex escapes for other nonprintable characters.
2001-01-24 17:19:08 +00:00
Fred Drake b1b6a11b28 AttributeList --> NamedNodeMap
Since there is no such thing as an AttributeList, don't say "attributes"
is one.
2001-01-24 16:17:15 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh 0110d3b2ad new unicodedata functions (name, lookup) 2001-01-24 08:10:07 +00:00
Skip Montanaro eda28445c0 documented (new) optional doseq parameter to urlencode. 2001-01-24 06:36:06 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond f79cb2db3e Expose the autoraise capability. Improve the documentation. 2001-01-23 13:49:44 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond aeb5532ca0 Oops...finish a mangled sentence. 2001-01-23 13:22:28 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond f7f185116a Rewrite webbrowser.py to fix various bugs following Ka-Ping Yee's
complaints.  The new version moves most of its initialization to
package load time; it's simpler, faster, smaller, and adds support for
Mozilla and Links.  Interpretation of the BROWSER variable now works
and is documented.  The open_new entry point and methods are marked
"deprecated; may be removed in 2.1".
2001-01-23 13:16:32 +00:00
Fred Drake dc40ac0fe0 Added link to the "Python Codecs" project at SourceForge.
Changed markup of the list of values for the list of meaningful "errors"
values.
2001-01-22 20:17:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 0f564eaceb Change some wording to make this work with PDF generation -- using a PDF
hyperlink at the start of the paragraph confused pdflatex; it saw the
link start while still in vertical mode, which is not allowed.  Including
text before the link forces horizontal mode.
2001-01-22 19:06:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 5f0decf0d3 Clean up the docs for the "random" module according to comments from Tim
Peters.

This closes SF bug #125919.
2001-01-22 18:18:30 +00:00
Fred Drake ef8cd7ca99 Minor markup adjustment. 2001-01-22 17:42:32 +00:00
Thomas Wouters fe385251f4 Make the 'time' argument to the timemodule functions strftime, asctime,
ctime, gmtime and localtime optional, defaulting to 'the current time' in
all cases. Adjust docs, add news item. Also convert all argument-handling to
METH_VARARGS. Closes SF patch #103265.
2001-01-19 23:16:56 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 6f77667a64 Backed out the unistr() builtin. 2001-01-19 21:36:19 +00:00
Fred Drake bc0b260a77 Minor markup cleaning, and one required fix in the unistr() description. 2001-01-18 18:09:07 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 9483bed6d9 correct typo - closes bug #129205 2001-01-18 10:44:08 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 3a9582fbe5 Fix the example (it didn't seem to reflect reality). 2001-01-18 07:50:17 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg ad7c98e264 This patch adds a new builtin unistr() which behaves like str()
except that it always returns Unicode objects.

A new C API PyObject_Unicode() is also provided.

This closes patch #101664.

Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg. Copyright assigned to Guido van Rossum.
2001-01-17 17:09:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 90badd1286 Add a missing newline in an example; caught by Chris Ryland
<cpr@emsoftware.com>.
2001-01-17 05:12:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 20ab9e9c0a Document xreadlines() method. (Forgot to check this in before!) 2001-01-17 01:18:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 25be1931a0 Fix a few small markup/consistency nits. 2001-01-16 20:52:41 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond bd1a489759 push_source() and pop_source() entry points for shlex instances.
These basically just make available to the user what userhook()
does to the source stack.  Documentation included.
2001-01-16 14:18:55 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 83ad5015cb effbot caught a typo! 2001-01-15 20:51:40 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 773d9f09be Document function attributes for both the function type and the method
type.  The method documentation also includes a new brief discussion
of `bound' vs. `unbound' and why setting an attr on a bound method is
a TypeError.  Includes Skip's suggested text.
2001-01-15 20:28:50 +00:00
Barry Warsaw a770e866d6 Fixing author's email address. 2001-01-15 17:08:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 97d3b93c2f Document changed default to passive mode. 2001-01-15 16:37:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 77b20f099e Document filterwarnings(..., append=<bool>). 2001-01-14 14:10:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 1beb3d204f Added note that this module was added in Python 2.1. 2001-01-12 22:57:32 +00:00
Fred Drake ca7e1ee01a Updated descriptions to incorporate additional information from Tim Peters.
This mostly closes SF bug #128251.
2001-01-11 22:49:49 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a177c40daf Document \code{import} in pth files. 2001-01-11 22:07:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 49c9ac30a4 Fixed minor markup nits for consistency with the rest of the library
reference.
2001-01-11 16:02:08 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond ab78beca2f Added pointer on POP3 variations. 2001-01-11 10:22:34 +00:00
Moshe Zadka f68f2fec7d Implementation of PEP-0217.
This closes the PEP, and patch 103170
2001-01-11 05:41:27 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond 5ac97957f7 Corrections and additions to the documentation for POP3 and IMAP library
support, based on my fetchmail experience.
2001-01-11 04:19:52 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond 8321026ff4 SourceForge patch #103140, checked in at fdrake's invitation. Minor fixes and
additions to library docs.#
2001-01-10 19:34:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 3c48ef7de8 Added documentation for the xreadlines module & related changes. The
documentation was written by Jeff Epler (thanks!).
2001-01-09 22:47:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 986eafdc2b Added missing word; fixed minor nits. 2001-01-09 20:54:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 37f1b34b62 Added entry for fpectl module documentation.
Moved the mutex docs to be adjacent to the sched docs, since these are
meant to be used together (if they are used at all!).
2001-01-09 20:52:49 +00:00
Fred Drake a5e7ad99d5 Documentation for the fpectl module, from Lee Busby. (Thanks!) 2001-01-09 20:38:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 45b1d6a831 Explain that long options are matched based on a unique prefix rather than
requiring the whole option to be typed out.

This closes SF bug #126863.
2001-01-08 16:05:51 +00:00
Fred Drake e1d4715a6f Update explanation of the set_location() method to indicate that in
BTree databases, the key need not be in the database.  Also, tell about
the exception if the key is not in the DB for other DB types.

This closes SF bug #127377.
2001-01-05 06:44:19 +00:00