Fred Drake
7f577e7fd4
regex and regsub are obsolete and Evil, so don't include them in the club.
2000-09-25 18:26:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
e53793bf4c
Updates from Fredrik Lundh <effbot@telia.com> about Unicode-related
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behavior.
2000-09-25 17:52:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
ef5781b8c8
Add obsolescence note to the module descriptions that get added to the
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list of module synopses at the front of the chapter; based on a comment
from Aahz <aahz@panix.com>.
2000-09-25 17:23:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
d79c33a47b
Minor cleanups, wrap long lines.
2000-09-25 14:14:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
7be3115860
Added explanation of the use of the first program argument passed to the
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exec*() family of functions.
2000-09-23 05:22:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
7fbc85c5c5
Rename the public interface from "pyexpat" to "xml.parsers.expat".
2000-09-23 04:47:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
c32741d1ab
Added warnings about platform vagaries to the strptime() documentation.
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This closes SourceForge bug #115146 .
2000-09-23 04:36:14 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer
544de1effb
- Add DEBUG_SAVEALL option. When enabled all garbage objects found by the
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collector will be saved in gc.garbage. This is useful for debugging a
program that creates reference cycles.
- Fix else statements in gcmodule.c to conform to Python coding standards.
2000-09-22 15:22:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
ed773ef78d
Include the new text on reporting bugs in a few useful places.
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This closes SourceForge bug #114792 .
2000-09-21 21:35:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
1bf4e93180
Convert the longest two tables from tableii to longtableii so they do not
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make too big a mess. One actually did not fit on a single page at all!
2000-09-21 16:04:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
fffe5dbc47
Fixed a number of small problems reported by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
2000-09-21 05:25:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
51f53df4c8
Clarify that the softspace attribute is used by print for state management,
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not as a user-controlled parameter.
2000-09-20 04:48:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
f5aa4ef07c
Add entries for the xml.sax documentation.
2000-09-20 02:54:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
e10ef74bb8
First cut at documentation for the xml.sax package (not including any
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sub-modules).
2000-09-20 02:52:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
752ba39a0b
Clarify a number of issues about the file-like object API based on
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discussion on python-dev.
2000-09-19 15:18:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
480abc2751
Document the "printable" and "punctuation" constants added to the string
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module.
2000-09-18 16:48:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
1675375a7c
Add missing \declaremodule for zipfile.
2000-09-18 16:21:11 +00:00
Tim Peters
1de8098ca6
Repaired some glitches in the MD5 and SHA docs; copied the descriptions of
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the MD5 methods into the SHA docs (substituting "sha" for "md5", of course,
and changing the stuff that depended on digest size accordingly).
Fred, don't trust me!
2000-09-18 15:34:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
5316ef4bbb
Added documentation for new functions.
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Deprecated sequenceIncludes().
Based on patch by Denis S. Otkidach <ods@users.sourceforge.net>,
this closes SourceForge patch #101390 .
2000-09-17 16:10:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
6e1fecc28a
Update URL to unicode.org's FTP site using an HTTP URL to the same
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document.
2000-09-16 13:46:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
315b9e0ac1
Update *both* uses of the URL to the zlib home page, and use the version
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advertised as the canonical form.
2000-09-16 06:18:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
ab2f9f766f
Update link to the zlib homepage.
2000-09-16 05:07:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
f29107447a
Update the link to Andrew Kuchling's crypto code.
2000-09-16 05:02:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
91fc9319fa
Update link to the FIPS PUB 180-1 (PDF is available, but not PostScript).
2000-09-16 04:59:33 +00:00
Tim Peters
78fc0b57df
Fixed legit gripe from c.l.py that math.fmod docs aren't confusing enough.
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FRED, please check my monkey-see-monkey-do Tex fiddling!
2000-09-16 03:54:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
7c25f3df85
Add some comments on the available implementations that this module can
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use.
Change the list of flag values for open() to a table.
Markup consistency nits.
2000-09-15 21:31:31 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
6634b14f3b
add cross reference to mimetools module
2000-09-15 18:20:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
6e5184fe6a
Update comments in the second paragraph, discussing versioning issues
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related to the BSD DB library. Based on comments from Mark Summerfield
<summer@netcraft.com>.
2000-09-15 15:19:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
81c1735809
Add item to the list of limitations that points out the lack of support
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for authenticated proxies. This is noted elsewhere, but this makes it
easier to find.
Fix typo where it was already mentioned.
This closes SourceForge bug #110619 .
2000-09-15 04:12:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
4dfad57235
Add a reference to the sha module, noting that SHA is considered more
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secure. Suggested by Erno Kuusela <erno@iki.fi>.
2000-09-14 21:47:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
b9fd468ded
Convert "See also" section to use \seetitle.
2000-09-14 21:46:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
6ba0a3c30a
Denis S. Otkidach <ods@users.sourceforge.net>:
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Minor fix in documentation of code module.
(Clarifies output destination for default implementation of the write()
method.)
2000-09-14 20:42:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
7a666b83c8
Remove reference to the stdwin-based windowed debugger, since stdwin
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is gone.
Make a module reference into a hyperlink.
2000-09-14 20:32:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
d5d0435617
Use \shortversion in a number of places.
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This partially addresses SourceForge bug #114318 .
2000-09-14 20:24:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
1fe3b82371
Avoid reference to specific versions of Python where possible.
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This partially addresses SourceForge bug #114318 .
2000-09-14 18:25:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
66d32b1e12
Add some index entries to make it easier to find information on
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%-formatting of strings.
2000-09-14 17:57:42 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
ddef8887db
Include a link to Francois's po-utils.
2000-09-13 12:04:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
ae86d43f11
Add a reference item pointing to the Namespaces in XML recommendation.
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Convert the existing reference items to \seetitle markup.
2000-09-12 17:53:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
1349437e4c
When referring to namespaces, always say "namespaces" instead of
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"name spaces".
Inconsistency noted by Keith Briggs <keith.briggs@bt.com>.
2000-09-12 16:23:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
88fa9627b1
Some updates and fix a bunch of really small consistency nits.
2000-09-11 05:23:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
1b194f927d
Add a reference to the material on string methods.
2000-09-09 05:34:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
f96e0d203b
Various clarifications and minor nits fixed. Affected descriptions of
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input(), locals(), reload(), unicode(), and zip().
2000-09-09 03:33:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
1172a85175
Really minor consistency nit.
2000-09-09 03:31:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
66571cc20c
Improve a couple of references to the language reference, making them
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hyperlinks to relevant sections.
Clarify the conditions under which the "softspace" attribute of file-like
objects can "just work" (with relation to overriding of attribute access
in user-defined classes).
2000-09-09 03:30:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
7acb21866c
Minor clarifications in the introductory paragraph.
2000-09-09 03:28:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
e544191397
Add \modulesynopsis for inclusion in the list of modules at the beginning
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of the chapter.
Add explanation that this is only available when the cycle detector is
enabled at build time.
2000-09-09 03:26:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
1c4efad770
Move the "See also" section to a location more consistent with other
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module sections. Properly mark the name of the module in the content
of the reference there.
2000-09-09 03:25:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
621d2bee1c
Move description of UserString.MutableString to a location more typical
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of the arrangement of other modules.
2000-09-09 03:23:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
d0726c3cd9
\file is not allowed in section titles -- converting to PDF fails due to
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weird macro-expansion issues. A better solution may be available in the
future, but this will do for now.
Add an index entry. More should probably be added as well.
2000-09-07 18:55:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
88c023b863
Remove comment about -X and string exceptions. Error noted by
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Justin D. Pettit <jpettit@raznick.com>.
2000-09-07 16:33:32 +00:00