Fred Drake
2900ff9382
Added paragraph explaining that except clauses can't be empty; that
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pass can be used if needed. By Dan Wolfe <wolfeman@apple.com>.
1999-08-24 22:14:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
f1ad207f2a
Made several grammatical corrections based on comments from Daniel
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Barcla <danielb@digitalfocus.com>.
Also added example of what happens when a parameter is set both
positionally and by a keyword (one of Daniels suggestions related to
that paragraph).
1999-06-30 15:32:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
f64f8a0877
Fixed typo reported by Bennett Benson
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<BennettBenson@mn.mediaone.net>.
1999-06-10 15:30:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
bdadf0f7f3
Explain comments at the start of chapter 3. This is needed since they
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appear in the examples without any further explanation, and the
tutorial doesn't have this information explicit anywhere else.
Omission reported by Jon Black <jblack@Ridgeway-Sys.com>.
1999-04-29 13:20:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
c0fcbc1ac6
Update starship URLs.
1999-04-29 02:30:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
511281ac00
In list of sequence comparison examples, "=" should be "==". Reported
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by Mirko Liss <n89553@hrz.uni-paderborn.de>.
1999-04-16 13:17:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
93aa0f23a7
Fixed latex2html weirdness with footnotes.
1999-04-05 21:39:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
4b1a07ae18
Fixed grammatical error reported by Donald Wallace Rouse II
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<dwr2@ix.netcom.com>.
1999-03-12 18:21:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
ee84d5972f
Lots of nits to respond to various comments from users.
1999-03-10 17:25:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6b86a42c7f
Document -OO; "unsafe" optimization that removes docstrings.
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Marc-Andre Lemburg.
1999-01-28 15:07:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e51aa5b2cd
Minor clarifications by Sean Reifschneider:
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- add example of string literal concatenation
- add clarifying comment to the example of the if statement
1999-01-06 23:14:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
cc09e8dc82
Clarified what Python versions the interactivity chapter applies to,
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and what it doesn't apply to.
1998-12-28 21:21:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
f790b16d00
Change "for" explanation slightly based on comment passed along by
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Blake Winton <BlakeW@pcdocs.com>.
1998-11-30 20:37:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
db70d06464
Eliminate remaining \verb/.../ constructs; there's no need for them.
1998-11-17 21:59:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
c62cf36e76
The last two example functions in the section about default argument
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values (4.7.1) should return l, not a. Reported by Axel Boldt.
1998-10-24 13:15:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
b7833d3c0c
Add a \label to the section "Fancier Output Formatting" (it's referenced from
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the KOE docs).
Some markup nits.
1998-09-11 16:21:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
aee5e26f4b
Add warning that mutable argument defaults are evaluated only once;
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with examples and workaround. This keeps coming up, and I believe
that this section in the tutorial may have been (in part) the source
of the confusion. While it didn't show examples with [] for a default,
it also didn't emphasize enough why that would be a bad idea, and
while it did say that defaults are evaluated at the point of function
definition, the example was not relevant for this issue.
1998-08-07 17:45:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
9f86b662d1
Update to use a separate page for front matter.
1998-07-28 21:55:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
a4289a79f8
In the example iterating over sys.argv and opening each argument,
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change it to iterate over sys.argv[1:]. Suggestion by Gerry Wiener.
1998-07-07 20:18:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
108943c216
Added a section to the chapter on modules, describing the package system.
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The text is almost completely from GvR's essay on packages; some
introductory paragraphs have been removed, and everything after the
'Details' section in the HTML has been dropped (seems too technical). A
paragraph has been added after the sample package layout stating that there
must be a file called__init__.py in a directory to make it a package.
1998-07-01 13:58:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
002f7aae08
Note that no .pyc/.pyo files are created for script files.
1998-06-28 19:16:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
a8a1b9bc65
There's no point in mentioning F6 as an alternate EOF on DOS -- it
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doesn't work on modern Windows systems, and Control-Z works
everywhere.
1998-06-22 14:28:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
13c8ef62e6
Say a bit more about .pyc and .pyo files.
1998-05-29 19:12:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
7238988657
Fixed example to load the startup file from a script (didn't test for the
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file's existance).
Removed some XXX comments about extension modules which support pickling.
Added text from AMK about the readline and rlcompleter modules.
Thanks, AMK!
1998-04-13 01:31:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
c303e67f3c
The built-in exceptions are not still strings, so make no claims about them.
1998-04-12 02:48:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
e7957184d2
Change \sectcode to logical markup.
1998-04-04 07:17:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
a594bafde7
Normalized case rules in section headings.
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Moved stuff from "Recent Additions to 1.1" to "More on Defining Functions".
This means there's now a short section on "Defining Functions" immediately
followed by a long section "More on Defining Functions."
1998-04-03 05:16:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
391564f10f
Small markup nits, a few grammatical fixes, and a clarification of the binary
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mode for files under MacOS.
Updated the traffic figure for c.l.p in the "What Now?" chapter; see comments.
1998-04-01 23:11:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
6659c30b67
Convert LaTeX support to create a new class of documents. HTML generation
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now requires LaTeX2HTML 98.1p1 or newer (& and is still in progress).
This means that doing things to change the formatting of the manuals (at the
"normal user" level, like A4 paper), can happen in just one place, rather
than in each document file.
1998-03-03 22:02:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
6c2176eea7
Added \label{}s for logical addressing.
1998-02-26 21:47:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
8842e867af
Remove \bcode / \ecode everywhere.
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Make all the indentations in {verbatim} environments have column 0 of the
listing in column 0 of the file.
Remove pagenumbering / pagestyle cruft.
Use more logical and less physical markup.
1998-02-13 07:16:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
ed68854b40
"lists objects" --> "list objects" (Section "More on Lists".)
1998-02-11 22:29:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
8d486b1779
In the appendix, all sections were marked as subsections, and so had section
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numbers "A.0.#". Fixed.
1998-02-11 22:12:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
ca6567fb3f
Use \url{} to mark URLs.
1998-01-22 20:44:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
af8a015c93
Consistency: "{\bf ...}" ==> "\strong{...}"
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"{\em ...}" ==> "\emph{...}"
Not at all sure what to do with "{\rm ...}".
Leaving it for now.
1998-01-14 14:51:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
4d4f9e726a
Removed \mytableofcontents; just use \tableofcontents.
1998-01-13 22:25:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
3f20592c3e
Consistency:
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"Unix" ==> "\UNIX{}"
"C" ==> "\C{}"
"C++" ==> "\Cpp{}"
1998-01-13 18:56:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
dca8792b52
Added openright option the the \documentclass{} for each of the manuals.
1998-01-13 16:53:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
1f8449af4e
Revise prologue and frontmatter to use latex2e (not in 2.09 compatibility
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mode) and take advantage of changes in myformat.sty.
1998-01-09 05:36:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
dccc298e3d
Took out some disclaiming text (even from the title!). Rewritten
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abstract. Alas, I didn't get to do anything else before the release
:-(
1997-12-30 04:40:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
eee08cdd54
Make examples consistently use 4-space indentation.
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Use \file{} for file names.
Prefer \code{blat} and \emph{blat} to {\tt blat} and {\em blat}; this matches
current style in the Library Reference a bit better.
Made the example startup banner current. The version number should be
bumped before the next release.
1997-12-04 15:43:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
9e63faaa66
Change Python-as-executable-script example to use "#! /usr/bin/env python"
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since that's now the recommended way to do it.
In pickling discussion, change "code{pickle}" (not missing leading "\") to
"This" since the immediately preceeding sentence ended with the same text
(with the proper "\"). Fixes a formatting bug and an odd glitch in the
writing.
1997-10-15 14:37:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
0245569fd1
New version (interim) by AMK.
1997-07-17 16:21:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
6dc2aae3cd
(tut.tex): Normalized all uses of "UNIX" and "{\UNIX}" to use "\UNIX{}",
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per usage needed for GNU info processing. Based on comments from
Tamito Kajiyama.
1996-12-13 21:56:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
76e47f3d75
Change last Ellipses to Ellipsis :-(
1996-11-02 17:05:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
fd255e433f
(tut.tex): Added matching \normalsize after \small font control command
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(and the contents it was supposed to be affecting). The latest
LaTeX2HTML handles these, but didn't close it as expected. This
handles that problem and does not affect the PostScript output.
1996-10-29 15:50:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3a26dd88af
Done with the "New in 1.4" chapter.
1996-10-24 22:12:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6a05f951cd
Got rid of most XXXes in the News chapter. Bumped the version to 1.4.
1996-10-22 19:27:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
58124880cc
A first stab at describing what's new in 1.4. Still many XXX'es left.
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Also would like to add an "author's note" at the beginning, basically
pointing everyone to the books.
1996-10-08 17:29:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
97662c89fa
Version number; started chapter on what's new in 1.4
1996-08-23 15:35:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
34e1777807
Note that EOF is ^Z on DOS. Spell Unix as \UNIX in some more places.
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Note that .pyc files are platform independent.
1996-06-10 19:44:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
bf032a97b9
mention syslog upgrade
1995-10-11 19:28:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
aa93ca834b
mention Fred Drake's parser module
1995-10-11 17:47:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
288527a162
updated version and date
1995-10-09 21:02:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
691d4ec0bf
a fe more things: apply 3rd arg, ni, ihooks, rexec
1995-10-08 01:14:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
9beefa2f85
describe more 1.3 changes
1995-10-08 00:38:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
a67dee30bf
move uncomfortable backslash
1995-09-13 17:34:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
eafe32a639
chapter on new things in 1.3
1995-08-10 14:18:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
abfa2cae9f
added pointer to libimp.tex for __import__ example
1995-07-07 22:57:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
96628a90c4
typos, layout and other small things
1995-04-10 11:34:00 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
1133aec893
versions and dates
1995-03-15 11:34:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
47b4c0fb35
replace ASCII by macro call
1995-03-15 11:25:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8675115e5f
a few typographical changes (e.g. -- => ---) and lots of new stuff in the WWW chapter
1995-02-28 17:14:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
bcc958259a
no need to reference doc strings for documented modules
1995-02-16 16:28:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
194e57caa6
added chapter on new things in 1.2
1995-02-15 15:51:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e5f8b60429
spam -> foo (etc.) in examples
1995-01-04 19:12:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
cfb45e476e
typos
1994-11-10 23:04:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
94ed6f5f63
Oops! version numbers again!
1994-10-06 17:08:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
29766b2da6
Add simpler __getattr__ example and document __call__
1994-10-06 15:33:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
ca3f6c8c01
Removed description of class.init() method.
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Added news about new operator overloading and __getattr__ etc.
1994-10-06 14:08:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
16cd7f9f12
Moved author and date to boilerplate.tex.
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Added copyright.tex to all files.
Added descr of check_interval to libsys.tex.
Corrected lotsa typos in tut.tex (thanks to George M. Sipe).
Corrected mktuple (should be newtupleobject) example in ext.tex.
1994-10-06 10:29:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
c1be9d59e4
* Doc/tut.tex (subsection{Lambda Forms}): fix typo in lambda
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example
1994-08-30 12:08:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
16d6e7109d
Lots of small corrections by Andrew Kuchling (plus all new rotor docs)
1994-08-08 12:30:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6938f06047
Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk
1994-08-01 12:22:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3cbc16d904
* lib2.tex (sys): updated sys.std{in,out,err} docs. Added
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sys.tracebacklimit.
* tut.tex (Exceptions): change text printed by traceback.
* lib5.tex (audioop): added minmax.
* lib5.tex (audioop.getsample): move wandered paragraph back
* lib3.tex, partparse.py: undo mucking with \nopagebreak (didn't work).
* partparse.py: ignore \nopagebreak command
* ref5.tex: added description of lambda forms.
* ref7.tex: added reference to lambda forms to section on function
definition.
* lib1.tex: removed lambda as built-in function (it is now a special
form). Also removed feature of filter, map, reduce to turn a string
argument into an anonymous function.
1993-12-17 12:13:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
83eb962528
* {lib,ref,ext,tut}.tex: added explicit \date{<date> \\ <release>}.
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* lib2.tex: change bogus \\var to \var.
1993-11-23 16:28:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
db65a6ce55
* ext.tex: did most of the tedious changes from plain ASCII text to LaTeX.
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* text2latex.py: automatically put function names in \code{}.
* lib.tex, ref.tex, ext.tex, qua.tex, tut.tex: use new P.O.Box number in
address.
1993-11-05 17:11:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
4bd023f882
* lib3.tex (module string): added rindex().
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* lib1.tex (section{Built-in Functions}): added bagof(), lambda(), map()
and reduce(). Repharased apply(). Removed or rephrased references to
exec() (now the exec stmt).
* lib4.tex: posix.exec --> posix.execv
* ref4.tex, ref8.tex, tut.tex: builtin --> __builtin__
* lib3.tex (module string): added atof() and atol(), and ato[fl]_error.
1993-10-27 13:49:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
b2c6556fb0
Lots of small changes collected over months...
1993-05-12 08:53:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
95cd2ef162
Incorporated Jan-Hein's changes and texinfo conversion.
1992-12-08 14:37:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7b3c8a1422
Added hint about changing the prompt in $PYTHONSTARTUP
1992-09-08 09:20:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
9a4e3fc56a
Changed references to /usr/local into /usr/local/bin.
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Documented $PYTHONSTARTUP
1992-09-03 21:27:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
084b0b2c16
Fixed botched lay-out in class example
1992-08-14 09:19:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
da8c3fd979
Fixed descr of try/finally
1992-08-09 13:55:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5e0759d351
Add chapter on classes (mostly from ../misc/CLASSES).
1992-08-07 16:06:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
379537805b
Moved a4wide option to myformat.sty
1992-04-06 14:04:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
d33024c451
Copied doc style from other docs
1992-04-05 15:06:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
573805afd6
_ can now be a normal character.
1992-03-06 10:56:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
cdc9355367
Set parskip to 0 in the table of content.
1992-02-11 15:53:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
a8d754e876
Cosmetic changes; added more subsections to chapter 2; new syntax (==).
1992-01-07 16:44:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
481ae68911
The Reference Manual is now official.
1991-11-25 17:28:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8f96f7734c
Fixed dictionary example to use commas instead of semicolons.
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(This was actually a bug in the interpreter!)
1991-11-12 15:45:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6fc178f46d
Too much to describe changed...
1991-08-16 09:13:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
dd0108081b
Mention "-c command" option.
1991-06-07 14:31:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
4410c758a1
*** empty log message ***
1991-06-04 20:22:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
67fa160744
Minor improvements. Removed footnote about CWI pathnames.
1991-04-23 14:14:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
56098fa2d4
Use garamod as alternative style.
1991-02-19 12:54:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5ce78f11fc
Changed code environment into \bcode and \ecode macros.
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Small lay-out improvements.
Took out a ref or two to "python -s".
1991-01-25 13:27:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
2292b8e98a
Most silly things fixed.
1991-01-23 16:31:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7d9f8d70b9
Small changes. Use description instead of list env.
1991-01-22 11:45:00 +00:00