b3384d3555
Make sure we include all of Python's numeric types in the data model
...
description, so that the introduction of complex is not a surprise.
This closes SF bug #423429 .
2001-05-14 16:04:22 +00:00
7c116d7acb
Fix typo reported by David Goodger. This closes SF patch #422383 .
2001-05-10 15:09:36 +00:00
b8ac0096b2
Fix the operator precedence table: exponentiation binds tighter than
...
negation.
This closes SF bug #421999 .
2001-05-09 16:51:49 +00:00
0dbb4fba4c
Implement, test and document "key in dict" and "key not in dict".
...
I know some people don't like this -- if it's really controversial,
I'll take it out again. (If it's only Alex Martelli who doesn't like
it, that doesn't count as "real controversial" though. :-)
That's why this is a separate checkin from the iterators stuff I'm
about to check in next.
2001-04-20 16:50:40 +00:00
62effc1127
Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping.
2001-04-13 15:55:25 +00:00
fb8ffe6b5e
Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping.
...
Wrap some long lines and fix some markup nits.
2001-04-13 15:54:41 +00:00
24e7a29292
Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by
...
Ping on the Doc-SIG mailing list.
2001-04-12 12:37:03 +00:00
e2645775d1
Typo: "ariables" --> "variables"
...
This fixes SF bug #411118 .
2001-03-28 16:55:53 +00:00
aa90adcfb9
Add nested scopes spec to appendix.
...
Add new opcodes LOAD_CLOSURE, LOAD_DEREF, STORE_DEREF, MAKE_CLOSURE to
docs for dis module.
Add docs for new function and code members in Sec. 3 of ref manual.
They're present regardless of whether nested scopes are used.
Remove description of default argument hack from Sec. 7 of the ref
manual and refer the reader to the appendix.
2001-03-23 17:23:50 +00:00
a9d0450f72
No quotes around the "future" in the first use of the term "future
...
statement".
2001-03-23 16:47:11 +00:00
557c1ae150
Include the futures appendix.
2001-03-23 16:21:15 +00:00
39778b705d
Revise the markup so that this formats and uses markup consistently with
...
the rest of the documentation.
2001-03-23 16:20:46 +00:00
324cc6ee0e
Add some initial text for the appendix on future statements and nested scopes.
2001-03-23 15:29:54 +00:00
2c84fc8a7d
Note that assignments to __debug__ are illegal
2001-03-23 14:34:06 +00:00
e702481d38
Revert to ver 1.22, which was the version before the nested scopes
...
docs were introduced. This loses a few small changes, but Fred says
that's okay.
2001-03-23 14:05:16 +00:00
859eb62108
Do not refer to "sub-modules" since that is not a defined term.
2001-03-06 07:34:00 +00:00
ac79e95167
Re-word the explanation of the in/not in operators for increased content
...
and clarity.
Add a footnote to the information on the possibility of shadowing builtins
with locals & module globals.
2001-03-06 07:32:11 +00:00
7a5e80e801
Updates to describe function attributes.
2001-02-27 03:36:30 +00:00
230d17d0d1
Sequence indexes are non-negative, not natural (0 is not a natural number).
...
Reported by Daniel May <mayds@ecn.purdue.edu>.
De-tabified everywhere.
2001-02-22 21:28:04 +00:00
7530208d8b
Feeble attempt to repair obsolete info about hex escapes.
2001-02-14 04:03:51 +00:00
667c9e46ca
Minor markup adjustments.
...
Move some index entries next to what they are referring to for better
"targetting".
2001-02-02 02:43:18 +00:00
3faa52ecc4
Allow 'continue' inside 'try' clause
...
SF patch 102989 by Thomas Wouters
2001-02-01 22:48:12 +00:00
c2e35e6f37
Remove spurious "\end{description}" that caused formatting to fail.
2001-02-01 15:37:56 +00:00
0eb107068a
update section 4.1 to describe nested scopes
2001-02-01 03:50:59 +00:00
10f8ba4fc6
Remove note about the compiler not checking for two kinds of illegal
...
imports. It checks for them now.
2001-01-30 01:25:15 +00:00
2f4453af6a
Typo: coplete --> complete
...
This closes SF bug #129759 .
2001-01-26 15:27:35 +00:00
c8e8281fb6
Updated note about collection of cyclic garbage, based on comments from
...
Chris Ryland.
2001-01-22 17:46:18 +00:00
ab782dd6cc
Document rich comparisons.
2001-01-18 15:17:06 +00:00
34bafcc079
Fix a variety of minor nits and typos caught by Chris Ryland
...
<cpr@emsoftware.com>.
2001-01-14 02:57:14 +00:00
347a62505c
Steve Holden <sholden@holdenweb.com>:
...
Clarify the handling of characters following backslashes in raw strings.
2001-01-09 21:38:16 +00:00
445f832060
__rcmp__() description: Changed to indicate that this is no longer
...
supported as of Python 2.1. We still need to
have an entry for this since it is reasonable
for users to want to understand existing code.
This closes SF bug #122715 .
2001-01-04 15:11:48 +00:00
48c2eb9165
Document the NotImplemented object.
2001-01-04 01:25:50 +00:00
2cba0f641f
Improve description of else clause of the try/except/else statement.
...
This closes (again!) bug #127098 .
2001-01-02 19:22:48 +00:00
8e2b6b5cc7
Change documentation of 'else' clause of 'try/except' to make clear that it
...
doesn't get triggered by 'return', 'break' or 'continue'. If the
'try-inside-continue' patch does not get accepted before next release, the
'or continue' should be removed ;P
Closes SF patch #103045 and SF bug #127098 .
2000-12-31 22:52:59 +00:00
68abe832b9
Fix typo
2000-12-19 14:09:21 +00:00
dea764d7f1
Updated string literals description to encompass Unicode literals and the
...
additional escape sequences defined for Unicode.
This closes bug #117158 .
2000-12-19 04:52:03 +00:00
035f7e88c8
Clarify __repr__ and __str__.
2000-12-19 04:18:13 +00:00
dc90cc2b15
Additional docs for __iadd__ and family, closing SF bug #117178 and SF patch
...
#102169 .
2000-12-11 23:11:51 +00:00
2a22200ab4
Adjust explanation of operator precedence summary -- exponentiation groups
...
from right to left!
Closes bug #125391 .
2000-12-11 22:39:24 +00:00
c3b18d7ca8
Fix error noted by Gerrit Holl (old; had been buried in my INBOX):
...
sequence repitition works just fine with long integers now, so we
should not say that only plain integers are allowed.
2000-12-07 04:54:02 +00:00
0c47559352
Added a note that objects which emulate built-in types should only
...
implement as many of the relevant methods as make sense for the particular
information being modelled.
2000-12-07 04:49:34 +00:00
0ac000cd54
Updates to reflect pending changes to the XML conversion process.
2000-11-22 16:42:37 +00:00
2ed27d3189
Note that readframes() returns data in linear format, even if the original
...
is encoded in u-LAW format. Based on suggestion from Anthony Baxter
<anthony_baxter@users.sourceforge.net>.
This closes bug #122273 .
2000-11-17 19:05:12 +00:00
f89259786a
Denis S. Otkidach <ods@users.sourceforge.net>:
...
Show how code can be written to handle __getslice__ & friends in a way that
is compatible with pre-2.0 versions of Python while still working with the
"new" way of handling slicing.
Additional explanation added by Fred Drake.
This closes SourceForge patch #101388 .
2000-09-21 22:27:16 +00:00
d68442b164
Lots of minor fixes, many suggested by Detlef Lannert
...
<lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
2000-09-21 22:01:36 +00:00
31575ce817
Note that __getitem__() may receive a slice object as the index;
...
reported by Detlef Lannert <lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
2000-09-21 05:28:26 +00:00
8d27f898b2
Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>:
...
Document the __contains__() method.
(Patch slightly modified by FLD.)
This closes SourceForge patch #101387 .
2000-09-19 18:21:25 +00:00
1156f62348
Many small clarifications, including many suggested by email.
2000-09-19 18:10:05 +00:00
31f5550fbe
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>:
...
Reference manual docs for augmented assignment.
This closes SourceForge patch #101418 .
2000-09-12 20:32:18 +00:00
b655939d69
add index entries for list comprehensions
2000-09-11 16:31:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
Guido van Rossum
Jeremy Hylton
Barry Warsaw
Tim Peters
Neil Schemenauer
Thomas Wouters
Andrew M. Kuchling
Skip Montanaro