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Chris Jerdonek 57491e0703 Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in int()'s signature and arguments. 2012-09-28 00:10:44 -07:00
Mark Dickinson 4e12ad19c9 Issue 15985: fix round argument names in documentation. Thanks Chris Jerdonek. 2012-09-20 20:51:14 +01:00
Ezio Melotti e0add76468 #15831: document multiple signatures on different lines. Patch by Chris Jerdonek. 2012-09-14 06:32:35 +03:00
R David Murray 433ef3b5c3 #15694: reflow paragraph. 2012-08-17 20:39:21 -04:00
R David Murray 9f0c9401d3 #15694: Link discussion of file objects to glossary entry.
This is analogous to the link for `flie objects` in the description of
'open' that exists in the 2.7 docs, and adds a similar link to the
io docs.

Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
2012-08-17 20:33:54 -04:00
R David Murray ee0a945ae4 #15543: reflow paragraphs. 2012-08-15 11:05:36 -04:00
R David Murray 1b00f25bf9 #15543: glossary entry for and 'universal newlines', and links to it.
Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
2012-08-15 10:43:58 -04:00
Georg Brandl 296d1bea6a Restore original line lengths. 2012-08-14 09:39:07 +02:00
Andrew Svetlov ecd78feb78 Issue #15624: clarify newline documentation for open and io.TextIOWrapper
Thanks to Chris Jerdonek
2012-08-13 12:58:02 +03:00
Brett Cannon 9b000e7a68 Issue #15482: Properly document the default 'level' parameter for
__import__().

To help explain why the -1 default value is typically not seen, a note
about how import statements only use values of >= 0 is also noted.
2012-08-05 20:46:25 -04:00
Victor Stinner 401e17d0f0 open() / TextIOWrapper doc: make it explicit than newline='\n' doesn't
translate newlines on output.
2012-08-04 01:18:56 +02:00
Terry Jan Reedy 83efd6cbb6 Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
execfile().
2012-07-08 17:36:14 -04:00
Mark Dickinson 328dd0d5f3 Closes #9574: Note that complex constructor doesn't allow whitespace around central operator. 2012-03-10 16:09:35 +00:00
Terry Jan Reedy a3d1e2e342 #11633 At least 2 people prefer earlier revision. 2012-01-12 14:49:02 -05:00
Terry Jan Reedy e247928fed Closes #11633 Clarify print buffering. 2012-01-11 14:09:49 -05:00
Raymond Hettinger 6f45d18c24 Improve itertools docs with clearer examples of pure python equivalent code. 2011-10-30 15:06:14 -07:00
Ezio Melotti 963004d1d8 Fix typo. 2011-10-25 09:41:13 +03:00
Ezio Melotti e130a52d8a Remove duplication. 2011-10-19 10:58:56 +03:00
Éric Araujo 18ddf826e7 Add links from library/functions to other docs.
Suggested by Terry J. Reedy in #12298.
2011-09-01 23:10:36 +02:00
Éric Araujo 9edd9f035b Fix a few links in the table of built-in functions (#12298) 2011-09-01 23:08:55 +02:00
Éric Araujo e8b7eb07e1 Link isinstance/issubclass to the ABC glossary entry (#12256) 2011-08-19 02:17:03 +02:00
Éric Araujo e801aa2a1d Let the doc of __import__ link to importlib (#9254).
importlib.import_module eschews a number of issues that __import__ has.
Reviewed by Brett Cannon.  (The docstring of __import__ was already
updated in 3d490c3a019e, for #7397.)
2011-07-29 17:50:58 +02:00
Raymond Hettinger 9d3df6d508 Issue 11889: Clarify docs for enumerate. 2011-06-25 15:00:14 +02:00
Raymond Hettinger 9028928156 Forward port doc updates for builtin functions. 2011-06-01 16:17:23 -07:00
Éric Araujo c5069e0070 Merge doc touch-ups and fixes for #9831 and #9223 from 3.1 2011-05-29 00:29:56 +02:00
Éric Araujo f33de71514 Minor doc addition for clarity 2011-05-27 04:42:47 +02:00
Raymond Hettinger 30439b23c0 Document default fmtspec. Fix inaccurate note. Document exceptions. 2011-05-11 10:47:27 -07:00
Georg Brandl 2a39b71ecc Replace sys.maxint mention by sys.maxsize. 2010-12-28 09:16:12 +00:00
Georg Brandl 46402378ca Fix markup errors. 2010-12-04 19:06:18 +00:00
Georg Brandl 8334fd9285 Add an "optimize" parameter to compile() to control the optimization level, and provide an interface to it in py_compile, compileall and PyZipFile. 2010-12-04 10:26:46 +00:00
Georg Brandl 38e117d20a Fix punctuation. 2010-12-03 17:19:27 +00:00
Nick Coghlan 37ee850b10 Issue 2690: Add support for slicing and negative indices to range objects (includes precalculation and storage of the range length).
Refer to the tracker issue for the language moratorium implications of this change
2010-12-03 14:26:13 +00:00
Ezio Melotti 1de911592e Add callable() to the built-in functions table. 2010-11-28 04:18:54 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou e71362d3de Issue #10518: Bring back the callable() builtin.
Approved by Guido (BDFL) and Georg (RM).
2010-11-27 22:00:11 +00:00
Georg Brandl ab32fec83c Merged revisions 85572-85573,85606,85609-85622,85624,85626-85627,85629,85631,85633,85635-85636,85638-85639,85641-85642 via svnmerge from
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  r85572 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-16 20:51:05 +0200 (Sa, 16 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #10122: typo fix.
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  r85573 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-16 20:53:08 +0200 (Sa, 16 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #10124: typo fix.
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  r85606 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 08:32:59 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #10058: tweak wording about exception returns.
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  r85609 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 11:19:03 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #8556: use less confusing mapping key in example.
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  r85610 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 11:23:05 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #8686: remove potentially confusing wording that does not add any value.
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  r85611 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 11:33:24 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #8811: small fixes to sqlite3 docs.
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  r85612 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 11:37:54 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #8855: add shelve security warning.
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  r85613 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 11:43:35 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Fix hmac docs: it takes and returns bytes, except for hexdigest().
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  r85614 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 11:46:11 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #8968: add actual name of token constants.
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  r85615 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:05:13 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #459007: merge info from PC/getpathp.c and using/windows.rst to document the forming of sys.path under Windows.
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  r85616 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:07:29 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Fix copy-paste error in example.
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  r85617 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:09:06 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #5212: md5 weaknesses do not affect hmac, so remove the note about that.
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  r85618 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:14:38 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9086: correct wrong terminology about linking with pythonXY.dll.
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  r85619 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:15:50 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Make file names consistent.
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  r85620 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:22:28 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Remove second parser module example; it referred to non-readily-available example files, and this kind of discovery is much better done with the AST nowadays anyway.
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  r85621 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:24:54 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9105: move pickle warning to a bit more prominent location.
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  r85622 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:28:04 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9112: document error() and exit() methods of ArgumentParser.
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  r85624 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:34:28 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Some markup and style fixes in argparse docs.
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  r85626 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:38:20 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9117: fix syntax for class definition.
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  r85627 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:44:11 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9138: reword introduction to classes in Python.
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  r85629 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:51:45 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #5962: clarify sys.exit() vs. threads.
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  r85631 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:53:54 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Fix capitalization.
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  r85633 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:59:41 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9204: remove mentions of removed types in the types module.
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  r85635 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 13:03:22 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #5121: fix claims about default values leading to segfaults.
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  r85636 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 13:06:14 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9237: document sys.call_tracing().
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  r85638 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 13:13:37 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Port changes to pickle docs apparently lost in py3k.
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  r85639 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 13:23:56 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Make twisted example a bit more logical.
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  r85641 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 13:29:07 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Fix documentation of dis.opmap direction.
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  r85642 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 13:36:28 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9730: fix example.
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2010-11-26 08:49:15 +00:00
Ezio Melotti 3188b2082e Merged revisions 86737 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r86737 | ezio.melotti | 2010-11-25 00:02:18 +0200 (Thu, 25 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  Add NEWS entry for r86732 and fix double function in the table.
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2010-11-24 22:04:22 +00:00
Ezio Melotti 17f9b3d289 Add NEWS entry for r86732 and fix double function in the table. 2010-11-24 22:02:18 +00:00
Ezio Melotti 42cc06ebf4 Merged revisions 86732 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r86732 | ezio.melotti | 2010-11-24 22:18:02 +0200 (Wed, 24 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  #10299: Add a table that lists all the built-in functions in functions.rst
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2010-11-24 20:54:01 +00:00
Ezio Melotti f21c7ed39d #10299: Add a table that lists all the built-in functions in functions.rst 2010-11-24 20:18:02 +00:00
Éric Araujo da825ab2dd Merged revisions 86670 via svnmerge from
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  r86670 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-22 04:09:19 +0100 (lun., 22 nov. 2010) | 5 lines


  Remove unnecessary `object` base class in docs (#10366).

  Also add a note about inheritance from `object` being default.
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2010-11-22 03:18:24 +00:00
Éric Araujo 28053fb174 Remove unnecessary `object` base class in docs (#10366).
Also add a note about inheritance from `object` being default.
2010-11-22 03:09:19 +00:00
Mark Dickinson 47c74ac977 Issue #10488: Bring documentation for 'float' builtin up to date. 2010-11-21 21:09:58 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou 60d8684e4f Merged revisions 86603 via svnmerge from
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  r86603 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-11-20 20:36:05 +0100 (sam., 20 nov. 2010) | 3 lines

  In 3.x, bytearray is akin to bytes, not str.
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2010-11-20 19:36:35 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou b85b3afad0 In 3.x, bytearray is akin to bytes, not str. 2010-11-20 19:36:05 +00:00
Alexander Belopolsky 689aa6d3fa Merged revisions 86526 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r86526 | alexander.belopolsky | 2010-11-18 13:50:13 -0500 (Thu, 18 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  Issue 7828: Fixed chr() and ord() documentation for wide characters
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2010-11-18 18:52:11 +00:00
Alexander Belopolsky 5d4dd3eeb2 Issue 7828: Fixed chr() and ord() documentation for wide characters 2010-11-18 18:50:13 +00:00
Éric Araujo f7b5fa521e Merged revisions 86249 via svnmerge from
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  r86249 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 07:30:16 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix typo
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2010-11-06 06:31:00 +00:00
Éric Araujo 8f9626b08b Fix typo 2010-11-06 06:30:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 30bf6e836e Issue 7447: Improve docs for sum(). 2010-10-31 21:27:50 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger b373799e05 Issue 7447: Improve docs for sum(). 2010-10-31 21:23:24 +00:00