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Andrew M. Kuchling d680a86206 Bug #643631: MacOS 9 details missing from inst.tex
Fill in the missing details. (From Jack Jansen)
2002-11-27 13:34:20 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e33d3df030 SF Patch 643443. Added dict.fromkeys(iterable, value=None), a class
method for constructing new dictionaries from sequences of keys.
2002-11-27 07:29:33 +00:00
Fred Drake e9cfcef71e Clarify the interpretation of the __getstate__() return value for
new-style classes.
Closes SF bug #637941.
2002-11-27 05:26:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 4add68bbbc Add missing dependency information for the "What's New" document. 2002-11-26 22:13:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 54fe3fdf77 Noted the support for resource exclusion for regrtest. Some people
use regrtest, so it might be interesting.
2002-11-26 22:07:35 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 8c8aa5d666 Rename want_objects to wantobjects throughout, for consistency. 2002-11-26 21:39:48 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer f955412130 * Doc/ref/ref5.tex
Fixed minor bug preventing documentation compilation.
2002-11-26 18:14:35 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 96bc3b4d74 This is not part of my patch
[ 635933 ] make some type attrs writable

but should have been!

News about the above.
2002-11-26 14:48:23 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 39b48523e4 Report Tkinter changes. 2002-11-26 09:47:25 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 057ab14e7d * libbz2.tex
Fixed minor typo, suggested by Drew Perttula <drewp@bigasterisk.com>.
2002-11-25 18:51:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 9e7453dc71 Remove \module{} in link text to avoid HTML generation bug 2002-11-25 16:02:13 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 15353f5c64 Remove extra word 2002-11-25 16:01:08 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 1a54d71550 Mention that .pth files can't be used to override standard modules
(suggested by Jack Jansen)
2002-11-25 13:56:12 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis b5c980b802 Add unidata_version. Bump generator version number. 2002-11-25 09:13:37 +00:00
Tim Peters 5b21df4a5c Repaired inaccuracies in the % docs. In particular, we don't (and can't)
guarantee abs(x%y) < abs(y) in all cases when a float is involved.
math.fmod() should, though, so noted that too.

Bugfix candidate.  Someone should check the LaTeX here first, though.
2002-11-24 20:23:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 677bde2dd1 Patch #626485: Support Unicode normalization. 2002-11-23 22:08:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 6e596b6895 Added change note about returning a dictionary based on keyword
arguments.
2002-11-23 15:02:13 +00:00
Just van Rossum a797d8150d Patch #642500 with slight modifications: allow keyword arguments in
dict() constructor. Example:
  >>> dict(a=1, b=2)
  {'a': 1, 'b': 2}
  >>>
2002-11-23 09:45:04 +00:00
Fred Drake a191befb2d Clarify the default setting for daemon_threads. 2002-11-22 14:29:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 74f5a56c2c Fix markup. 2002-11-22 14:28:53 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 4581cfa326 Patch #486438: Make module argument to testmod optional. 2002-11-22 08:23:09 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f86e8ef33e Patch #550765: Add daemon_threads flag. 2002-11-22 08:08:44 +00:00
Piers Lauder d3c821ee71 added details of new IMAP4_stream class; emphasised meaning of data part of command results; added proxyauth command description 2002-11-22 05:47:39 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis d899605e30 Patch #633547: Support plural forms. Do TODOs in test suite. 2002-11-21 21:45:32 +00:00
Tim Peters 3350b5bfd9 NamedTemporaryFile: clarify behavior based on confusions noted by a
user, and spell out a x-platform use limitation.
2002-11-21 16:32:11 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 495172c3b4 Add change to int() and OverflowError
Re-order the "porting" section to list items by decreasing significance
2002-11-20 13:50:15 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 72f861657a Document additional error handling names available through PEP 293. 2002-11-19 21:51:35 +00:00
Walter Dörwald f171540ab8 Change int() so that passing a string, unicode, float or long argument
that is outside the integer range no longer raises OverflowError, but
returns a long object instead.

This fixes SF bug http://www.python.org/sf/635115
2002-11-19 20:49:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 6f429c3d1c Use \ulink instead of \citetitle; bump version number 2002-11-19 13:09:00 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 669249ecd3 Add PyBSDDB update 2002-11-19 13:05:33 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 311f419628 Improve comments. Clarify docs.
Replace "type(0)" with "int".
Replace "while 1" with "while True"
2002-11-18 09:01:24 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 8ddc176e2e Improve DictMixin.
Replaced docstring with comments.  Prevents subclass contamination.
Added the missing __cmp__() method and a test for __cmp__().
Used try/except style in preference to has_key() followed by a look-up.
Used iteritem() where possible to save creating a long key list and
   to save redundant lookups.
Expanded .update() to look for the most helpful methods first and gradually
   work down to a mininum expected interface.
Expanded documentation to be more clear on how to use the class.
2002-11-18 04:34:10 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 6141812820 correct typo detected by Lee Hansen 2002-11-17 11:09:50 +00:00
Fred Drake e55bec2566 Better note that str.zfill() was added in 2.2.2 as well. ;-( 2002-11-16 00:44:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 9171801de9 Document that a minor feature was added in 2.2.2. ;-(
Closes SF bug #639170.
2002-11-16 00:41:55 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 5654cc215a SF 639138, Ref. calendar module in time docs by John J Lee
Will backport.
2002-11-15 23:00:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 0e9bfa38b1 Minor markup nits. 2002-11-15 20:34:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 08abe8e275 Fix stupid typo. 2002-11-15 20:32:03 +00:00
Thomas Heller e61f365b0b Document the available command line flags for bdist_wininst, which are
avaliable in the Python 2.2 branch.

I've left out some flags which are more thought for debugging, if
someone needs them, he can always look at the output of --help.

I'm sure Fred will make some adjustments, so I'll only mark this as a
2.2 bugfix candidate.

There are more options available in the current CVS bdist_wininst,
I will document them after this is in.
2002-11-15 20:13:26 +00:00
Thomas Heller 36343f63fe Correct typo: the option is 'formats' not 'format'. 2002-11-15 19:20:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 49b33fa4cb Squash an enormous number of warnings reported when adding "use
warnings;" to this, and keep the "use" statement this time.

Fix an obscure bug that caused weird index entries to be generated in
a few cases, and a minor problem with horizontal alignmetn of the last
column of 5-column tables.

[I'd report a SF bug #, but I can't get to that right now.]
2002-11-15 19:04:10 +00:00
Fred Drake c734b01759 Fix critical markup errors. 2002-11-15 18:49:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 3a2cda876b Minor revisions to clarify the status of xreadlines(), change the way
iteration support was documented; the docs for __iter__() were just
confusing.
2002-11-15 16:38:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 88eed70fc8 Mention that the MRO algorithm changes in 2.3 2002-11-15 14:37:46 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b60ea3f01f Mention change in MRO 2002-11-15 14:37:10 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 7994716b6b SF patch #520382: Expand shelve.py to have a full dictionary interface
and add a mixin to UserDict.py to make it easier to implement a full
dictionary interface.
2002-11-15 06:46:14 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3a7f405f5b Draft a section on modifying Python's path. I'm not sure where
this section fits best in inst.tex's organization; Fred or someone, feel
   free to move it.
2002-11-15 02:52:44 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 24d5a5281a Add section on Optik 2002-11-14 23:40:42 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 366c10c5c0 Finish up the logging section 2002-11-14 23:07:57 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 28f2f88c31 Add partial section on the logging package; not finished yet. 2002-11-14 14:14:16 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 4ebe2e3914 add liblogging 2002-11-14 03:58:20 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 649698f72e initial rough cut at documentation of logging module. This is basically
just a conversion of pydoc.help(logging).
2002-11-14 03:57:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 66abcee948 Integrate updates to the GNU info conversion.
This includes SF patch #590352 and additional support for more of the custom
markup.
2002-11-13 19:31:04 +00:00
Fred Drake b02f0dfbe9 - Committing the modified signature lines I've been using for a long
time in http://www.python.org/dev/doc/.  There have been no bug
  reports on these for a long time now.
- Remove local "use" statement that duplicates a top-level "use".
2002-11-13 19:16:37 +00:00
Fred Drake bad460790e Document struct_time and the field names. 2002-11-13 19:05:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 4400509aaa Add \funcline, \funclineni, and \methodlineni to the list of functions
that are processed before their arguments.
Closes SF bug #637807.
2002-11-13 17:55:17 +00:00
Fred Drake a5a173efbf Fix broken markup.
Closes SF bug #637807.
2002-11-13 17:48:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 2c184e7eea Typo: it's --> its
Closes SF bug #637810.
2002-11-13 15:56:13 +00:00
Fred Drake ce5619e8a1 Update: Older versions of Python crashed when calling repr()
(including the implied call using back-ticks) of a recursive object,
but this is no longer the case.
Reported by Manus Hand via email.
2002-11-13 15:32:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 674dae245a Clarify that PyImport_AddModule() and PyImport_ExecCodeModule() don't
add any package support structure even if a dotted-name is passed for
the module.
Closes SF bug #424106.
2002-11-13 15:13:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 5c4cf1587b Normalize whitespace.
Fix a number of markup consistency buglets.
2002-11-13 14:59:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 8a61f499dc Fill out the 'Porting' section
Add random.sample()
2002-11-13 13:24:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 3d03968c75 Clarified meaning of \w and \W with respect to the UNICODE and LOCALE flags.
Closes SF bug #635595.
2002-11-12 23:12:54 +00:00
Tim Peters b9099c3df4 SF patch 637176: list.sort crasher
Armin Rigo's Draconian but effective fix for

SF bug 453523: list.sort crasher

slightly fiddled to catch more cases of list mutation.  The dreaded
internal "immutable list type" is gone!  OTOH, if you look at a list
*while* it's being sorted now, it will appear to be empty.  Better
than a core dump.
2002-11-12 22:08:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 4b9ed2f346 Clarified documentation of tempnam().
Closes SF bug #635656.
2002-11-12 22:07:11 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling cab94a19f6 Update text to refer to 2.2.2
Remove an XXX item: I'm not going to write a section on the email package
    at this point
2002-11-12 18:59:20 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 71dd790ad2 Remove extra word 2002-11-12 18:45:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f24eb35d18 SF patch 629637: Add sample(population, k) method to the random module.
Used for random sampling without replacement.
2002-11-12 17:41:57 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 0da7f39a7c Closes SF bug #634069 reporting the docs on the ** operator were out
of date and did not reflect the current CPython implementation.
2002-11-08 05:30:23 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 430b1563dd Add documentation for the PEP 293 functionality:
The errors attribute can be changed after the reader/writer
is created.

For encoding there are two additional errors values:
"xmlcharrefreplace" and "backslashreplace".

These values can be extended via register_error().
2002-11-07 22:33:17 +00:00
Fred Drake b5f41dedeb Minor markup adjustments. 2002-11-07 17:13:03 +00:00
Thomas Heller 5b470e0a3a Document the changed fdopen behaviour.
(Hope the markup is ok).
2002-11-07 16:33:44 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 572aae32f1 Old change (probably suggested by Jason Tishler) The GNU/Windows compiler is now called MinGW 2002-11-06 14:34:50 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e3fb22bd4a [Patch #633635 from David M. Cooke]
Make docs accurate; getch() in nodelay mode returns -1
2002-11-06 14:17:21 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 110aa50cc2 Fix minor wording and 2 typos 2002-11-05 23:55:27 +00:00
Neal Norwitz fad265e651 Whoops, fix the typo correctly this time 2002-11-05 22:46:39 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 75f36b7040 Document the new `pp' command. 2002-11-05 22:41:16 +00:00
Neal Norwitz c2f7757ef5 Fix minor typos 2002-11-05 22:37:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 71f5acdd1e Minor cleanups, markup. 2002-11-05 22:19:45 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a288a234ec Document that images go away when they go away. Fixes #632323. 2002-11-05 22:11:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 18c7d98bd1 Fix a few minor nits. Still need to actually proofread this. 2002-11-05 17:54:02 +00:00
Fred Drake cc6cc5ddff Fix minor markup nits. 2002-11-05 16:52:50 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer f8ca8364c9 Patch implementing bz2 module.
* setup.py
  (PyBuildExt.detect_modules): Included bz2 module detection.

* Modules/bz2module.c
* Lib/test/test_bz2.py
* Doc/lib/libbz2.tex
  Included files implementing, testing, and documenting bz2 module.

* Doc/Makefile.deps
* Doc/lib/lib.tex
  Include references to libbz2.tex.

* Misc/NEWS
  (Library): Mention distutils' c++ linkage patch, and new bz2 module.
2002-11-05 16:50:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling bc5e3cc34f Use personal e-mail address; update date; various small edits; add a name to acks 2002-11-05 00:26:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 7a82b8c736 Bring back the patch/bug count paragraph.
Correct source of *strip() changes
Small rewrites.
2002-11-04 20:17:24 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling dc3f7e12ee Mention distutil changes 2002-11-04 20:05:10 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 22610da481 Document symbolic constants for commands. 2002-11-04 17:41:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 2eba52fefb Thinking on comp.text.tex seems to be that it's better to override
\@makefntext than \@footnotetext, so we'll do that instead.
2002-11-04 16:29:31 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 1da9c57c74 Patch #630829: Don't block on IAC, process suboptions. 2002-11-04 09:56:00 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f0a4668e6f Add getpreferredencoding. Support @euro modifiers. Fixes #554676.
The @euro part is backported to 2.2.3.
2002-11-03 17:20:12 +00:00
Neal Norwitz cf57e50989 Fix SF #632864, Typo string instead of sting in LibDoc. Will backport. 2002-11-03 13:13:20 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 1aca2d0cb3 Fix SF # 518775, buffer object API description truncated 2002-11-03 02:56:27 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 034c749ff4 Fix SF #618146, overflow error in calendar module
Will backport.
2002-11-03 00:13:42 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 1a7a894d90 Move introductory sentence to where it belongs. 2002-11-02 13:32:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 9482d2591a Update example for the type() function to use the currently accepted
preference of using "is" instead of "==" to compare types, use
built-in names where available, and point to the isinstance()
function.
Closes SF bug #632196.
2002-11-01 21:33:44 +00:00
Fred Drake ff031cfdf4 Define abstract way to get the normal and smaller font sizes that work
even in the footnote context.
2002-10-31 21:04:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 8612a431b9 Add a missing % to a Windows-style environment variable expression.
Minor style guide compliance fix.
Several markup fixes.
2002-10-31 20:46:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 699799e6f3 Add a couple of comments about the use of \normalsize and
\footnotesize.
2002-10-30 22:20:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 2394900a55 Still more magical <link> elements. 2002-10-30 21:51:18 +00:00
Fred Drake dbb2b9d77e Hackish way to generate an up-<link> for the title page if we have
one.

Added misc. comments.
2002-10-30 21:38:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 4a4734927d More <link> support for generated pages. 2002-10-30 21:32:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 8687609a39 Two more <link> elements. 2002-10-30 21:29:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 942bd502e7 Add some relevant <link> elements. 2002-10-30 21:17:10 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3adefccdcb Use personal e-mail address 2002-10-30 21:08:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 0e2e687ba0 Minor rearranging. 2002-10-30 19:55:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 4e303aad05 Add notes to the asctime() and ctime() descriptions to make it
explicit that locale information is not used.  There wasn't anything
that implied it was, but this has confused users.
2002-10-30 18:17:03 +00:00
Fred Drake b1510d5060 Sprinkle with --favicon options. 2002-10-30 17:07:02 +00:00
Fred Drake b07216b43a Added support for --favicon.
Fix support for the Aesop Meta Type.
2002-10-30 17:05:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 56c8c27b27 Added support for --favicon. 2002-10-30 17:02:21 +00:00
Fred Drake dd3d6a03c0 Add support for using a "favicon".
make_head_and_body():  Re-arranged to do (slightly) less work for each page.
2002-10-30 17:00:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 11eb3d090f Make use of the new "favicon" image. 2002-10-30 16:54:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 45be2fe230 Added "favicon" image. 2002-10-30 16:54:12 +00:00
Fred Drake d0c7137c8b Chapter titles that get split over multiple lines in the typeset
formats can't have whitespace after the last non-blank character (bug
in LaTeX?); fix up a couple of instances of this.

Update an email address.
2002-10-28 19:28:22 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 74b51ac1e5 Patch #613256: Add nescape method to xml.sax.saxutils. 2002-10-26 14:50:45 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 7fbd01262c Clarify packages in tutorial. Closes SF bug #616211. 2002-10-26 03:13:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 0eebd5cef9 Implement a safer and more predictable interpolation approach.
Closes SF bug #511737.
2002-10-25 21:52:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 97d5f05221 Update to reflect the refactoring into the RawConfigParser and
ConfigParser classes.
2002-10-25 20:20:58 +00:00
Fred Drake f596826673 - The "-" format flag overrides the "0" flag, not the "-" flag.
- Documented the alternate forms, which were claimed to be documented
  but were not.
2002-10-25 16:55:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 5e96f1ff1d Correct the description of PyErr_Restore().
Closes SF bug #577000.
2002-10-24 20:54:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 79713fd9c6 Relocate an index entry so named anchors are not generated in a section head.
Closes SF bug #546579.
2002-10-24 19:57:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 50276abd9b Update an example to use the DOM implementation object. Explain that
the parse() and parseString() functions use a separate parser, not
actually implement a parser.  (This is a common question.)
2002-10-24 19:36:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 73c5b6602d Clean up some really minor Perl warnings. 2002-10-24 16:36:05 +00:00
Fred Drake ff287cfb4c Point to the PyXML package as an extended version of the "xml" package
that can provide this fuctionality.

Note that the docs for the xml.dom and xml.sax packages are the
definitiona of the Python bindings for the DOM and SAX interfaces.
2002-10-23 20:58:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 88f015dc88 Moved description of _urlopener adjacent to the related functions.
Added missing import to example code.

Added documentation for pathname2url(), url2pathname().
Closes SF bug #623196.
2002-10-22 21:58:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 55803bca98 Describe __path__ along with the rest of the package description.
Closes SF bug #626554.
2002-10-22 21:00:44 +00:00
Fred Drake d6cf8bea0a Modify example to use string methods instead of the string module. 2002-10-22 20:31:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 4b2472647a Clarified the error cases and Unicode handling of PyString_AsString(),
PyString_AsStringAndSize(), and PyString_AS_STRING().
Closes SF bug #606463.
2002-10-22 20:20:20 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh 019bd4a6c1 terminology 2002-10-22 18:26:28 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh 1303c7cb16 add support for basic authentication, based on patch #624180
by Phillip J. Eby
2002-10-22 18:23:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 7d428ecc57 Clarify what versions of Windows are supported, and add Linux
specifically.
2002-10-22 15:06:49 +00:00
Jack Jansen d22eb59535 Added a paragraph to explain that SchedParams(0, 0) is usually what
you want.
2002-10-19 21:36:56 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh e7c38d48ff fixed the mail address in the documentation, too... 2002-10-19 20:22:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 5e31c3f768 Fix markup for tilde in URL. 2002-10-18 18:16:19 +00:00
Fred Drake d8eeeae4a6 Fix reference to the Fetchmail FAQ:
- URL was missing an "m"
- markup for tilde was wrong
- URL was marked as the title
- actual title was omitted

"make webcheck" didn't catch this; not sure why.

Removed some spurious end-of-line whitespace.
2002-10-18 16:50:17 +00:00
Fred Drake ddc369a7d2 Fix markup for tilde in URL. 2002-10-18 16:33:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 78eb200758 Added cross-references to related material on exceptions.
Closes SF bug #217195.

Make sure section numbers wrap together with the preceeding word
("section").
2002-10-18 15:20:32 +00:00
Fred Drake e7097e0b1c Added cross-references to related material on exceptions.
Closes SF bug #217195.
2002-10-18 15:18:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 30be5768d2 Make sure section numbers wrap together with the preceeding word
("section").
2002-10-18 15:03:42 +00:00
Neal Norwitz d7bc0fec38 Try to fix the broken links caused by multiple \ref on the same line.
SF bug #217195.
Not sure if chomp() is correct, but chop() definitely has problems.
This change seems to have no ill effects.

Backport candidate if Fred agrees.
2002-10-18 02:05:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 5f2c1d27b9 Typo(!): "normal" -> "number" 2002-10-17 19:23:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 98ef20d5e4 Document urldefrag(). 2002-10-16 20:07:54 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f607bdaa77 Add PyStructSequence_UnnamedField. Add stat_float_times.
Use integers in stat tuple, optionally floats in named fields.
2002-10-16 18:27:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 2314a0470f Use string methods. Re-organize imports to Python Normal Form. 2002-10-16 16:06:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 27c4e09a62 Only reset _is_empty if needed. 2002-10-16 16:02:08 +00:00
Fred Drake df85f0b09f Modernization: Use string methods, use str instead of
types.StringType, inherit from list instead of
                UserList.
2002-10-16 16:00:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 071972e426 Use string methods. 2002-10-16 15:30:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 06912b7702 Use string methods. Organize the imports in Python Normal Form. 2002-10-16 15:29:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 4fe904d3d6 Use string methods; minor code cleanup. 2002-10-16 14:59:02 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 77ac429eff Patch #572628: Optional timeouts for put and get. 2002-10-15 15:11:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 816aebdf94 Use the same shade of blue as the site navigation areas. 2002-10-14 15:45:11 +00:00