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Andrew M. Kuchling 8def876d36 [Bug #873146] Document pickletools module (haven't tested the LaTeX yet) 2004-08-07 16:53:59 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 049e7aaa0f Point out that the setdefault defaults the value to None. Inspired by
Michael Chermside's thinking about patch #748126 (the chief upshot of
which thinking was "reject it!").
2004-08-07 16:41:34 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling cbbee6fed5 [Bug #984952] Include more material from PEP 307.
I haven't tried to include all the material on old-style classes using protocols 0,1.  The details are lengthy; someone who knows
more about the pickle module should decide if they're important enough
to be in the docs or not.
2004-08-07 16:24:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 14d535c3d4 [Bug #984952] Include some material from PEP 307 2004-08-07 15:49:24 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 6f937b1c30 [Bug #998307] Use open() instead of file() in docs 2004-08-07 15:11:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 9bae19e8b1 fix two typos in markup 2004-08-07 14:28:37 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e30c4d4ddc Add recent items 2004-08-07 13:58:02 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 38dc2a6bf7 Simplify language 2004-08-07 13:24:12 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ac6428756a Add string concat item 2004-08-07 13:13:31 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ba59be04fa Bump version 2004-08-06 18:55:48 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 34ed2b020a Typo fix; use 'in-place' instead of 'inplace' 2004-08-06 18:55:09 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 52a21b8e65 SF patch #980695: efficient string concatenation
(Original patch by Armin Rigo).
2004-08-06 18:43:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 3f5c654deb fix markup nit, typo 2004-08-06 03:34:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 6bd8e842e4 update to reflect the new significance of the "@" character 2004-08-05 21:11:27 +00:00
Phillip J. Eby 1884dda233 Warn that settrace() is implementation rather than language
definition, per Guido's request  in off-list email.
2004-08-05 12:13:46 +00:00
Matthias Klose 4c8fa42aca Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex: correct items in itemize
Doc/dist/dist.tex: avoid uncommenting the verbose environment (by the py2texi tool)
2004-08-04 23:18:49 +00:00
Vinay Sajip 1cf56d0b8a Updated Logger.log() documentation to clarify that lvl parameter should be an integer. 2004-08-04 08:36:44 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang e9ddfbb412 SF #989185: Drop unicode.iswide() and unicode.width() and add
unicodedata.east_asian_width().  You can still implement your own
simple width() function using it like this:
    def width(u):
        w = 0
        for c in unicodedata.normalize('NFC', u):
            cwidth = unicodedata.east_asian_width(c)
            if cwidth in ('W', 'F'): w += 2
            else: w += 1
        return w
2004-08-04 07:38:35 +00:00
Fred Drake f901abdd62 allow ctime(), gmtime(), and localtime() to take None as equivalent to an omitted arg
(closes SF bug #658254, patch #663482)
2004-08-03 17:58:55 +00:00
Fred Drake d04573fef0 This allows additional commands to be provided for existing setup.py
scripts without modifying either the distutils installation or the
setup.py scripts of packages with which the new commands will be used.

Specifically, an option is added to distutils that allows additional
packages to be searched for command implementations in addition to
distutils.command.  The additional packages can be specified on the
command line or via the installation or personal configuration files
already loaded by distutils.

For discussion, see the thread starting with:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2004-August/004112.html

This closes SF patch #102241.
2004-08-03 16:37:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 2be406bd9f let's avoid the extra nesting where reasonable 2004-08-03 16:02:35 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 9513e34ac4 Patch #823072: add option to NOT use ~/.netrc in nntplib.NNTP(). 2004-08-03 14:36:32 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 70fcdb8be0 Document general mappings for the locals argument for exec and execfile(). 2004-08-03 05:17:58 +00:00
Fred Drake bec69f6a2e fix a little lie ;-( 2004-08-02 23:05:25 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 7fdd92f31f Fix typo though 2004-08-02 21:56:33 +00:00
Fred Drake e72bd4d621 fix markup error 2004-08-02 21:50:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 0c84c7f915 start filling in documentation on extending distutils 2004-08-02 21:39:11 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 77a602fbf2 Add PEP318 2004-08-02 13:48:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d91fcbe265 Add import change; add empty section for function decorators 2004-08-02 12:44:28 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 1455f795e2 Update item 2004-08-02 12:09:58 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 829d6c4138 Fix doubled word. 2004-08-02 08:36:07 +00:00
Anthony Baxter c2a5a63654 PEP-0318, @decorator-style. In Guido's words:
"@ seems the syntax that everybody can hate equally"
Implementation by Mark Russell, from SF #979728.
2004-08-02 06:10:11 +00:00
Tim Peters fd7dc5169c Typo repair. 2004-08-02 04:30:37 +00:00
Tim Peters 0c6199e8ed Completed a sentence I left dangling. 2004-08-02 04:14:10 +00:00
Tim Peters cfd575d398 PyImport_ImportModule, PyImport_ImportModuleEx, PyImport_ExecCodeModule:
in failure cases, incompletely initalized module objects are no longer
left behind in sys.modules.
2004-08-02 03:46:45 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 750f060ad7 SF bug #1001088, incorrect reference to macro named foo
Backport candidate.
2004-08-01 22:36:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 63a5d0b1cf re-wrap paragraphs containing long lines 2004-07-30 19:12:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 69013d070e - document the termination condition for cmd.Cmd.cmdloop()
- document the use of the return value for cmd.Cmd.do_*() methods
2004-07-30 18:58:54 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 479b7a7cdb Fix typo. 2004-07-30 16:09:19 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 8ddb638e43 Add closing methoddesc. Add versionadded. Rewrap. 2004-07-30 16:08:49 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f9fd0d7988 SF bug #997533: "disjunct" should be "disjoint"
* Use plain wording in docs for id().
* Use normal quotation marks instead of single quotes in the description.
2004-07-29 06:06:34 +00:00
Neal Norwitz f9f0b21653 SF #998170, fix typo. Backport candidate 2004-07-29 03:48:59 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 6d3db7000e Add missing doc for Py_True/Py_False. Use the correct macro to define
Py_RETURN_FALSE and Py_RETURN_TRUE.
2004-07-29 02:16:04 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 671c506737 Add new encodings 2004-07-28 15:29:39 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 33ee76ae9e A little boolean music if you please, maestro... (Not sure I have the
versionadded{} args quite right).
2004-07-28 14:17:04 +00:00
Neal Norwitz bee417439e Add versionadded info 2004-07-28 02:34:12 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ce4bae6170 Add an item 2004-07-27 12:13:25 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 7b9190b8fc Patch #998149: imaplib deleteacl and myrights. 2004-07-27 05:07:19 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 5785a1391e Add some items 2004-07-26 19:28:46 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e03664ff22 Two typo fixes 2004-07-26 19:25:54 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e3e1ecacd5 [Bug #997166] Fix example 2004-07-26 18:52:48 +00:00
Fred Drake fdccf1ad6e fix information about what flag database files are opened with by default 2004-07-26 16:33:29 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis cc0f93233a Patch #605370: Add description[s] for RFC 2980 compliance. 2004-07-26 12:40:50 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 37ead8f1c3 Patch #997668: Correct explanation of salts.
Will backport to 2.3.
2004-07-26 12:05:16 +00:00
Tim Peters abba5c067d Explain that most floats are actually integers. This is a common confusion
for people using floor(), ceil() and modf().
2004-07-26 05:12:01 +00:00
Tim Peters 9a729a1cc5 Typo in new docs. 2004-07-26 04:58:50 +00:00
Tim Peters d6ef19309d SF bugs 996748: os.environ documentation should indicate unreliability
Clarifed that os.environ is captured once; emphasized that it's better
to assign to os.environ than to call putenv() directly (the putenv()
docs said so, but the environ docs didn't).
2004-07-26 00:42:41 +00:00
Tim Peters 66bb6e661c SF bug 996392: math and cmath docs don't specify radians
Major rewrite of the math module docs.  Slapped in "radians" where
appropriate; grouped the functions into reasonable categories; supplied
many more words to address common confusions about some of the subtler
issues.
2004-07-24 23:00:24 +00:00
Thomas Heller fe0808382b Fix an uncorrect function prototype.
Will backport to release23-maint.

BTW: Shouldn't it read PY_LONG_LONG instead of 'long long' ?
2004-07-23 14:49:52 +00:00
Tim Peters 336689b9cc A few trivial edits. 2004-07-23 02:48:24 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger cab5b94592 SF bug #995983 and #995987: Documentation nits. 2004-07-22 19:33:53 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 7bd33c5e22 This change implements the following gettext features, as
discussed recently in python-dev:

In _locale module:

- bind_textdomain_codeset() binding

In gettext module:

- bind_textdomain_codeset() function
- lgettext(), lngettext(), ldgettext(), ldngettext(),
  which return translated strings encoded in
  preferred system encoding, if
  bind_textdomain_codeset() was not used.
- Added equivalent functionality in translate()
  function and catalog classes.

Every change was also documented.
2004-07-22 18:44:01 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling c12527e2c7 [Bug #990524] Fix typo 2004-07-21 21:34:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 4ab0e9e541 revise wording to avoid confusion for non-native English speakers
(second occurance of the same wording)
2004-07-21 17:36:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 20938f57ba revise wording to avoid confusion for non-native English speakers 2004-07-21 17:18:19 +00:00
Vinay Sajip b4bf62f807 Added an extra example to the basic example section 2004-07-21 14:40:11 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 0ad20f18fe Update Decimal section to match the current module 2004-07-21 13:00:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 65a333219f Add PEP 331; add constancy of None; minor edits 2004-07-21 12:41:38 +00:00
Skip Montanaro bf76075a4b fix typo, highlight True/False correctly 2004-07-21 02:47:10 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 7728b4719e SF #994605, fcntl example is broken
The last call to fcntl (which wasn't changed) doesn't work for me, but
the first part works now.

Backport candidate.
2004-07-21 01:41:14 +00:00
Neal Norwitz d96d1015ef SF #918101, allow files >= 8 GB using GNU extension 2004-07-20 22:23:02 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis b0c319a905 Patch #993187: Make rstrip doc similar to lstrip.
Backported to 2.3.
2004-07-19 16:34:01 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 76aa2eff4e Get doc to build (add missing backslash) 2004-07-19 01:39:54 +00:00
Tim Peters 3d7d372ce3 Whitespace normalization, via reindent.py. 2004-07-18 06:25:50 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang 2bb146f2f4 Bring CJKCodecs 1.1 into trunk. This completely reorganizes source
and installed layouts to make maintenance simple and easy.  And it
also adds four new codecs; big5hkscs, euc-jis-2004, shift-jis-2004
and iso2022-jp-2004.
2004-07-18 03:06:29 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang 910d8f1e89 Change CJK encoding aliases to their most popular variation of
hyphen and underscores in consistency of non-CJK aliases.
(Spotted by Mike Brown at SF #969415)
2004-07-17 14:44:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e970d2a310 Add a definition (found in the Debian patches for 2.3.4) 2004-07-17 14:43:32 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang 2b05248e8b SF #990497: Fix a trivial typo in sorted() example.
(Submitted by Daniel Pezely)
2004-07-17 13:53:48 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 872dc5c457 Minor edits 2004-07-17 13:35:43 +00:00
Tim Peters 8ff9f9f4aa Supply missing word in new datetime docs, aggravated by copy-paste-edit. 2004-07-17 01:42:26 +00:00
Jack Jansen 6c09a21f66 Fix for #795649: explain how to use TextEdit for editing Python code. 2004-07-15 22:38:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 0045717090 Add thread-local feature 2004-07-15 11:52:40 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 23406894ea Correct a paragraph: basicConfig() isn't actually new 2004-07-15 11:44:42 +00:00
Tim Peters de8332171a SF bug 990749: os constants missing
A LaTeX comment identified the 6 os.O_XXX constants the docs claimed
are available on Windows but aren't.  The bug report listed the same 6.
Split these non-Windows constants into a different table with a possibly
correct "Availability:" claim.
2004-07-15 05:46:37 +00:00
Tim Peters 5960d80e11 s/it's/its/, s/NULL/NULL{}/, where appropriate. 2004-07-15 04:23:13 +00:00
Tim Peters eda29306b3 Formalize that the Py_VISIT macro requires that the tp_traverse
implementation it's used in must give its arguments specific names.
2004-07-15 04:05:59 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 89ba1fff17 Bump version; update date 2004-07-14 21:56:19 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9296023938 Improve examples for working with the context API. 2004-07-14 21:06:55 +00:00
Jim Fulton d15dc06df0 Implemented thread-local data as proposed on python-dev:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-June/045785.html
2004-07-14 19:11:50 +00:00
Jim Fulton aa6389e13b Documented the new Py_VISIT macro to simplify implementation of
tp_traverse handlers. (Tim made me do it. ;)
2004-07-14 19:08:17 +00:00
Jim Fulton 8c5aeaa277 Implemented a new Py_CLEAR macro. This macro should be used when
decrementing the refcount of variables that might be accessed as a
result of calling Python
2004-07-14 19:07:35 +00:00
Jim Fulton 7a0e8bc283 Updated documentation to:
- point out the importance of reassigning data members before
  assigning thier values

- correct my missconception about return values from visitprocs. Sigh.

- mention the labor saving Py_VISIT and Py_CLEAR macros.
2004-07-14 19:07:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8cec3ab0e4 - Bug #981530: Fix UnboundLocalError in shutil.rmtree(). This affects
the documented behavior: the function passed to the onerror()
  handler can now also be os.listdir.

[I could've sworn I checked this in, but apparently I didn't, or it
got lost???]
2004-07-14 00:48:58 +00:00
Fred Drake c0ed9c4956 clarify where \versionadded and \versionchanged should be placed when
they are used
2004-07-13 21:04:26 +00:00
Tim Peters e45d5a3b00 Claifications: visit procs are supplied by the core, users aren't
expected to write their own.  A NULL "object" must not be passed to
the visit callback.  A non-zero return from a visit proc isn't
necessarily an error return (and it doesn't matter to the tp_traverse
code *what* it might signify, their only job is to return it).
2004-07-13 17:18:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 0751d554c0 generalize a bit; no need to mention my user id directly 2004-07-13 17:08:10 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 2a510ce119 Wordsmithing 2004-07-13 14:03:31 +00:00
Brett Cannon 71868e74d6 Add another point in the "Restrictions" section about how the handling of FTP
URLs will seemingly succeed to read a URL that points to a file whose
permissions you do not have to read.

Backport candidate once everyone agrees with the wording.
2004-07-13 00:48:42 +00:00
Vinay Sajip 20f42c433b Fixed minor bugs in the example configuration file 2004-07-12 15:48:04 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d7c7115926 Small elaboration and typo fixes. 2004-07-12 13:22:14 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger ca1a775ab9 Fix markup. 2004-07-12 13:00:45 +00:00
Anthony Baxter 1869df1154 another note for amk 2004-07-12 08:15:37 +00:00
Tim Peters 5af0e41482 Bug #788520: Queue class has logic error when non-blocking
I don't agree it had a bug (see the report), so this is *not* a candidate
for backporting, but the docs were confusing and the Queue implementation
was old enough to vote.

Rewrote put/put_nowait/get/get_nowait from scratch, to use a pair of
Conditions (not_full and not_empty), sharing a common mutex.  The code
is 1/4 the size now, and 6.25x easier to understand.  For blocking
with timeout, we also get to reuse (indirectly) the tedious timeout
code from threading.Condition.  The Full and Empty exceptions raised
by non-blocking calls are now easy (instead of nearly impossible) to
explain truthfully:  Full is raised if and only if the Queue truly
is full when the non-blocking put call checks the queue size, and
similarly for Empty versus non-blocking get.

What I don't know is whether the new implementation is slower (or
faster) than the old one.  I don't really care.  Anyone who cares
a lot is encouraged to check that.
2004-07-12 00:45:14 +00:00
Tim Peters 183dabcd73 SF patch 986010: add missing doc for datetime C API, from
Anthony Tuininga.

This is a derived patch, taking the opportunity to add some organization
to the now-large pile of datetime-related macros, and to factor out
tedious repeated text.

Also improved some clumsy wording in NEWS.
2004-07-11 19:26:19 +00:00
Kurt B. Kaiser e246508779 Add FAQ on non-GNU make error. Update copyright date to 2004. 2004-07-11 16:40:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 2363e8fece Added documentation for the "smtpd" module.
Closes SF bug #450803.
2004-07-11 16:25:25 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 88e8e34ab0 Style nit. 2004-07-11 13:20:11 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 44dc13bf3e Fix decimal write-up nits. 2004-07-11 12:49:47 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 65df07bf23 Minor improvements, fixups and wording changes everywhere. 2004-07-11 12:40:19 +00:00
Kurt B. Kaiser ad5206fc02 Clarify requirement for GNU make 2004-07-11 04:10:14 +00:00
Kurt B. Kaiser 8932b41669 Patch 851752 (fixes bug 820583)
Patch by John J Lee
Reviewed by Jeff Epler / KBK
Doc built OK.

urlopen() may return None if no handler handles the request.

Also clarify what install_opener does.

M liburllib2.tex
2004-07-11 02:13:17 +00:00
Brett Cannon cd77dd6321 Fix minor error in example. 2004-07-10 23:06:07 +00:00
Brett Cannon 711e7d97e4 Add PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords(). Document this function and
PyArg_VaParse().

Closes patch #550732.  Thanks Greg Chapman.
2004-07-10 22:20:32 +00:00
Brett Cannon 91cc5cd188 Clarify docs for inspect.getargspec() that the fourth value is None when there
are no default arguments for the function.
2004-07-10 21:13:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3a2418a1d6 [Patch #969900] Various corrections and updates to cookielib docs 2004-07-10 18:41:28 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 300ce19592 [Patch #972310] Apply correction to docs 2004-07-10 18:28:33 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 21f9fce968 Fix typo. 2004-07-10 16:11:03 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 099bd524a4 [Bug 949832] Fix example; edit sentence 2004-07-10 16:01:10 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger bf4406971c Improve Context construction and representation:
* Rename "trap_enablers" to just "traps".
* Simplify names of "settraps" and "setflags" to just "traps" and "flags".
* Show "capitals" in the context representation
* Simplify the Context constructor to match its repr form so that only
  the set flags and traps need to be listed.
* Representation can now be run through eval().

Improve the error message when the Decimal constructor is given a float.

The test suite no longer needs a duplicate reset_flags method.
2004-07-10 14:14:37 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d9dfe0213f Remove a few elderly sentences 2004-07-10 13:48:54 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ff8113f8d0 Replace example with simpler alternative using PyGILState_{Ensure,Require). Can someone please confirm this change is OK? 2004-07-10 13:42:52 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 371d98ab15 [Bug #987835] Add documentation from PEP 311. (Untested TeX code.) 2004-07-10 13:31:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 0d278b861e SF bug #987486: fix typo. 2004-07-10 11:15:56 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 682be2249d SF bug 988387: markup nits. 2004-07-10 11:11:15 +00:00
Anthony Baxter 5da4c83a6b reminder for amk 2004-07-09 16:16:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5aa478badf Module and tests:
* Map conditions to related signals.
* Make contexts unhashable.
* Eliminate used "default" attribute in exception definitions.
* Eliminate the _filterfunc in favor of a straight list.

Docs:
* Eliminate documented references to conditions that are not signals.
* Eliminate parenthetical notes such as "1/0 --> Inf" which are no
  longer true with the new defaults.
2004-07-09 10:02:53 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 97c9208c6c Incorporate Facundo's suggestions. 2004-07-09 06:13:12 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9499658b61 Add a link to the decimal module docs. 2004-07-09 06:00:32 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 2b2795ac6d show how easy it is to manipulate individual columns - from a request on
c.l.py
2004-07-08 19:49:10 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 081483cd42 Fix markup and nits. 2004-07-08 09:33:00 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 536f76b25a Fix markup, typos, and nits. 2004-07-08 09:22:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 63a0191c8a Deal with macros that have to be replaced with simple text; only a
couple of these are currently found in index data, but these should
all be handled in the same way.

Closes SF bug #952737.
2004-07-08 03:56:12 +00:00
Vinay Sajip e3c330b42a Replaced some tabs with spaces in verbatim section. 2004-07-07 15:59:49 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ee5e4cd899 [Bug #984017] Incorrect prototype, fixed by Timothy Stranex 2004-07-07 13:07:47 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling bcefe698b0 Add logging changes 2004-07-07 13:01:53 +00:00
Tim Peters 74979664d0 Typo repair. 2004-07-07 02:32:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2f55eb4cca Demonstrate how to round final result. 2004-07-06 01:55:14 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 10959b1c2a Expand examples to show polymorphism 2004-07-05 21:13:28 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 77e13b4ead Simplify examples. 2004-07-05 20:27:53 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c4f93d4410 Doc tested the recipes. 2004-07-05 20:17:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9c719bafbf Fix typo 2004-07-05 18:56:03 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d84efb3d93 * Added missing info on construction from a tuple.
* Added a recipe section.
2004-07-05 18:41:42 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 8de63a206e Add decimal docs to the core. 2004-07-05 05:52:03 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 71432f1db6 Various edits 2004-07-05 01:40:07 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3bf85f1ae8 Various edits 2004-07-05 01:37:07 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3b7909160e Bump version #; write introductory para 2004-07-04 16:39:40 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d0b6d9d892 More additions 2004-07-04 15:35:00 +00:00
Nicholas Bastin 068979cdd6 Textual change to make the doc reflect reality 2004-07-04 04:47:40 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d4be86cb09 Write another section 2004-07-04 01:44:04 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling c8f8a814e2 Rewrite two sections 2004-07-04 01:26:42 +00:00
Vinay Sajip a13c60b810 Moved example section up to just after the section on Logger objects, and changed it to use the new basicConfig() API 2004-07-03 11:45:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 0a4dd390bf Make weak references subclassable:
- weakref.ref and weakref.ReferenceType will become aliases for each
  other

- weakref.ref will be a modern, new-style class with proper __new__
  and __init__ methods

- weakref.WeakValueDictionary will have a lighter memory footprint,
  using a new weakref.ref subclass to associate the key with the
  value, allowing us to have only a single object of overhead for each
  dictionary entry (currently, there are 3 objects of overhead per
  entry: a weakref to the value, a weakref to the dictionary, and a
  function object used as a weakref callback; the weakref to the
  dictionary could be avoided without this change)

- a new macro, PyWeakref_CheckRefExact(), will be added

- PyWeakref_CheckRef() will check for subclasses of weakref.ref

This closes SF patch #983019.
2004-07-02 18:57:45 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 214b1c3aae SF Bug #215126: Over restricted type checking on eval() function
The builtin eval() function now accepts any mapping for the locals argument.
Time sensitive steps guarded by PyDict_CheckExact() to keep from slowing
down the normal case.  My timings so no measurable impact.
2004-07-02 06:41:07 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 78bace7442 add cp866 row 2004-07-02 02:14:34 +00:00
Brett Cannon d88471f432 Change signatures for arguments to "s" and friends to be the proper ``const
char *`` instead of just ``char *``.  Also added the mentioning of "const" in
some places where it was left out even when the signature already stated the
fact.

Closes bug #980925.
2004-07-01 20:55:42 +00:00
Walter Dörwald ac1075a645 Document that encode() and decode() raise UnicodeError
instead of ValueError.

Add a note about error handling schemes added by PEP 293.
2004-07-01 19:58:47 +00:00
Skip Montanaro ecf7a52bb8 link to the codecs page from the "".encode() description. 2004-07-01 19:26:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 1b89656d70 add omitted markup 2004-07-01 14:26:31 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 68a37ac841 * Fix typos.
* Format an example so that the identation is more obvious.
* Add a section on the decimal module to the Brief Tour Part II.
2004-07-01 12:56:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 0fff62f9cd Move Decimal from the sandbox into production. 2004-07-01 11:52:15 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 2ccf5d689b use file() in preference to open() 2004-06-30 21:06:45 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson d5cf143482 Check in the updated version of patch #957240, which doesn't rely
on the marshalling characteristics of infinities.
2004-06-30 09:02:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 96b935e643 fix handling when a proper getopt(1) is available; the "--"
end-of-options marker wasn't recognized
2004-06-29 14:39:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 6d3a0d2dff [Bug #948970] Add PyExc_* symbols to index.
(I ran this through texcheck, but don't have LaTeX installed on this machine and therefore haven't
verified that the changes are accepted by LaTeX.)
2004-06-29 13:52:14 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 7dd8fda49f [Bug #978556] Update SHA spec URL; bugfix candidate 2004-06-29 13:35:01 +00:00
Brett Cannon a031a0870d Add a missing space. 2004-06-29 04:14:02 +00:00
Brett Cannon 289e4cba1c Changed applicable use of ``char *`` declarations that are passed into
PyArg_ParseTuple() to ``const char *`` to match the recommendation made in
section 1.3 and to support better coding habits.

Section 1.8 ("Keyword Parameters for Extension Functions") and it's coding
example were not touched since it is stems from an accredited source and thus
did not want to step on anyone's toes.
2004-06-29 03:48:23 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 11b91a0ea3 Added socket.getservbyport(), and make its second argument and that of
getservbyname() optional.  Update the tests and the docs.
2004-06-28 00:50:43 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ef82d2fdfe Patch #923098: Share interned strings in marshal. 2004-06-27 16:51:46 +00:00
Brett Cannon 634893d1a3 Mention Py_RETURN_NONE when introducing the idiom of how to have a function
return Py_None.
2004-06-27 04:28:00 +00:00
Brett Cannon 555a96475d Clarify sentence at end of Intermezzo section stating that PyMODINIT_FUNC will
be discussed later by saying it is the function return type of the sample code
to make spotting it easier.
2004-06-26 23:10:32 +00:00
Fred Drake ec6229e352 Make distutils "install --home" support all platforms. 2004-06-25 23:02:59 +00:00
Fred Drake b86aa99eb9 move the note about the bsddb185 module above the "See also" box; that
should always go last in the relevant section's main content, but
before child sections
2004-06-24 06:03:59 +00:00
Tim Peters 9ddf40b4e1 SF patch 876130: add C API to datetime module, from Anthony Tuininga.
The LaTeX is untested (well, so is the new API, for that matter).
Note that I also changed NULL to get spelled consistently in concrete.tex.
If that was a wrong thing to do, Fred should yell at me.
2004-06-20 22:41:32 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 28224f897a Improve the documented advice on how to best use heapq.heapreplace(). 2004-06-20 09:07:53 +00:00
Thomas Heller dd6d207cf8 Fix an obvious typo (It *is* a typo, or not?) 2004-06-18 17:31:23 +00:00
Thomas Heller a42bc21ef8 The 'distributing python modules' manual now has an index. 2004-06-18 08:27:36 +00:00
Thomas Heller 949f66141b Fix typo - the module is named distutils.util. 2004-06-18 06:55:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 964c798a94 Use getopt where possible, so this supports option letters that get
jammed together on thos platforms.
2004-06-17 22:04:17 +00:00
Brett Cannon 3706855d11 Add apparently missing word for InvalidStateError definition.
Closes bug #973901.  Thanks Brian Gough.
2004-06-17 21:34:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 9e1ac2496f - add link to the downloadable package in the generated email
- misc. changes
2004-06-17 18:36:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 0083c920f2 make the tarball available for download instead of throwing it away 2004-06-17 17:19:12 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 9e151d149e add missing closing quote. 2004-06-17 13:29:11 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 64af6c545c Comment that getfilesystemencoding returns mbcs even on NT+. Fixes #964870. 2004-06-16 04:53:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger aefde435ef Reverse argument order for nsmallest() and nlargest().
Reads better when the iterable is a generator expression.
2004-06-15 23:53:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 40333ceeac add a pointer to the Distutils Cookbook 2004-06-14 22:07:50 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger b67ad7e671 Patch #826074: cmath.log optional base argument, fixes #823209
(Contributed by Andrew Gaul.)
2004-06-14 07:40:10 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ad21945d03 Back out #957240. 2004-06-14 04:58:42 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 965eeca630 SF bug #970042, lockf() signature uses len, doc refers to length (use length, same as docstring) 2004-06-13 21:11:03 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2e3dfaf707 Install C version of heapq.nsmallest(). 2004-06-13 05:26:33 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2e6694086f Minor wording and spacing nits. 2004-06-12 07:59:40 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 34809170e5 Complete the list of weakreferencable objects. 2004-06-12 06:56:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 0eb32a65b0 Add support for package data.
This is basically the support for package data from Phillip Eby's
setuptools package.  I've changed it only to fit it into the core
implementation rather than to live in subclasses, and added
documentation.
2004-06-11 21:50:33 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 33ecffb65a SF patch #969791: Add nlargest() and nsmallest() to heapq. 2004-06-10 05:03:17 +00:00
Thomas Heller 7d019664d7 Defining Py_GCC_ATTRIBUTE finds even some more undocumented functions. 2004-06-09 18:50:54 +00:00
Thomas Heller 4369b59b6d Public Python functions are nowadays marked PyAPI_FUNC, not DL_IMPORT. 2004-06-09 18:38:20 +00:00
Fred Drake da4513a88b make a reference to the SimpleHTTPServer module a hyperlink to the
docs
2004-06-09 14:50:19 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 737ea82a5a Patch #774665: Make Python LC_NUMERIC agnostic. 2004-06-08 18:52:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 7f35404b7b - markup fix
- explain Python/ceval.c from what; lots of people don't use a source
  distro any more
2004-06-08 14:01:27 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis bdec50f027 Feature request #935915: Add os.path.devnull. 2004-06-08 08:29:33 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f30d60edbc Patch #510695: Add TSC profiling for the VM. 2004-06-08 08:17:44 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer d68d3ee3dd Note that memory returned by PyBuffer_New is not specifically aligned.
Closes SF bug #472568.
2004-06-08 02:58:50 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d348193ff2 Add genexps to the glossary. 2004-06-07 21:52:47 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 44cbfd7819 [Bug #953177] Mention .getlist(); text from Paul Moore 2004-06-06 23:28:23 +00:00
Tim Peters 0b4d1ee29d SF 964876 mapping a 0 length file
Document that it can't be done on Windows.
2004-06-06 16:51:46 +00:00
Phillip J. Eby de48307f76 Added documentation to address SF bug #963246: limitations on multiple
inheritance in Python when a C type is one of the bases.
2004-06-06 15:59:18 +00:00
Nicholas Bastin cfa157d808 Doc fix for SF #962633. 2004-06-06 01:17:52 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e1ca355425 [Bug #918710] Add paragraph to clarify docs 2004-06-05 19:25:30 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 1b50b43bee [Bug #936837] Add missing word 2004-06-05 19:00:55 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang 2d6783b4bc SF #966375: Fix typo (Reported by Kristian Ovaska) 2004-06-04 09:33:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 22ec5c3639 if we must argue over the/they, we can just remove the unecessary word 2004-06-03 17:19:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 175d18840a avoid backticks in examples; use repr() instead 2004-06-03 16:23:23 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2d1a2aa117 Fix typo: the-->they 2004-06-03 14:13:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6dfed6c41f Fix typo. 2004-06-03 13:56:05 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 3151e18505 Small clarification. 2004-06-03 13:36:42 +00:00
Fred Drake d6d35d954b - fix typo reported by John Belmonte
- wrap a long line
2004-06-03 13:31:22 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 77ca6c4c84 Warn abou missing mutate flag to ioctl. Fixes #696535. 2004-06-03 12:47:26 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 9bc4f2def3 Drop claims that Unicode always means UCS-2. Fixes #881861. 2004-06-03 09:55:28 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 4a9b8069e0 Document string methods that are locale-dependent. Fixes #935749.
Will backport to 2.3.
2004-06-03 09:47:01 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis eac324b90b Patch #957240: Add count parameter to asyncore.loop. 2004-06-03 09:18:35 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang 974ed7cfa5 - SF #962502: Add two more methods for unicode type; width() and
iswide() for east asian width manipulation. (Inspired by David
Goodger, Reviewed by Martin v. Loewis)
- Move _PyUnicode_TypeRecord.flags to the end of the struct so that
no padding is added for UCS-4 builds. (Suggested by Martin v. Loewis)
2004-06-02 16:49:17 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d783694dea Remove old reminder 2004-06-02 15:33:59 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 9c322fbe36 The expression list in inheritance is not optional. Fixes #960448.
Will backport to 2.3.
2004-06-02 12:59:59 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 477c85631a Move grammar rule for lambda_form into section on lambdas. Fixes #964525. 2004-06-02 12:54:33 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 13ff116ac7 Fix typo reported in #964592. Will backport to 2.3. 2004-06-02 12:48:20 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis dd07e59eee Document PyModule_AddIntConstant to take a long. Fixes #962471.
Will backport to 2.3.
2004-06-02 12:45:27 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis e440e47e91 Patch #957398: Add public API for Generator Object/Type. 2004-06-01 15:22:42 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e148595504 Fixup spacing in an example. 2004-05-31 22:53:25 +00:00
Tim Peters 2f50e90818 SF patch 959726: sdist versus SVN
The disutils sdist command now ignores .svn directories.
2004-05-31 19:27:59 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 92816de18e Patch #932930: suggest the use of rawstrings for backslashes. 2004-05-31 19:01:00 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 2a6ba9097e Patch #963318: Add support for client-side cookie management. 2004-05-31 18:22:40 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 874ebd5c3d Add weakref support to sockets and re pattern objects. 2004-05-31 03:15:02 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 027bb633b6 Add weakref support to sockets and re pattern objects. 2004-05-31 03:09:25 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 4ccf336e56 Fill-in the introductory paragraph for the library tour. 2004-05-26 13:57:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 846865bba6 Add a further tour of the standard library. 2004-05-26 13:52:59 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger a8aebcedf9 Follow official recommendation for domain names in examples. 2004-05-25 16:08:28 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 79cddc56b3 stupid, stupid, stupid... raw_input() already supports readline() if the
readline module is loaded.
2004-05-24 14:20:16 +00:00
Skip Montanaro b98a8ba14d Add example that uses readline.readline(). 2004-05-23 19:06:41 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 0dc23101a0 Exposed readline() function from the readline module. 2004-05-23 17:46:50 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e36894da3a Updated to reflect new types. 2004-05-22 16:38:11 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 956e4f792f Clarify when iter() is first called in generator expressions. 2004-05-20 22:59:26 +00:00
Piers Lauder 8bc81fc5c7 Added description for authenticate and namespace 2004-05-20 12:12:58 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6e1fd2f208 Improved wording for generator expressions. 2004-05-19 22:30:25 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 170a62221c Add more docs for generator expressions.
* Put in a brief, example driven tutorial entry.
* Use better examples in whatsnew24.tex.
2004-05-19 19:45:19 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 354433a59d SF patch #872326: Generator expression implementation
(Code contributed by Jiwon Seo.)

The documentation portion of the patch is being re-worked and will be
checked-in soon.  Likewise, PEP 289 will be updated to reflect Guido's
rationale for the design decisions on binding behavior (as described in
in his patch comments and in discussions on python-dev).

The test file, test_genexps.py, is written in doctest format and is
meant to exercise all aspects of the the patch.  Further additions are
welcome from everyone.  Please stress test this new feature as much as
possible before the alpha release.
2004-05-19 08:20:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 9f15b5c11c add some notes about the changes to ConfigParser 2004-05-18 04:30:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 82903148a8 ConfigParser:
- read() method returns a list of files parsed successfully
- add tests, documentation
(closes SF patch #677651)
2004-05-18 04:24:02 +00:00
Fred Drake b4c6091984 ConfigParser:
- DuplicateSectionError is only raised by add_section()
(closes SF bug #830449)
2004-05-18 03:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake abc086fb0d ConfigParser:
- don't allow setting options to non-string values; raise TypeError
  when the value is set, instead of raising an arbitrary exception
  later (such as when string interpolation is performed)
- add tests, documentation
(closes SF bug #810843)
2004-05-18 03:29:52 +00:00
Fred Drake bc12b01d83 ConfigParser:
- ensure that option names in interpolations are handled by
  self.optionxform in the same way that other references to option
  names
- add tests, documentation
(closes SF bug #857881, patch #865455)
2004-05-18 02:25:51 +00:00