Chris Jerdonek
17fc44c9b3
Improve str() and object.__str__() documentation (issue #13538 ).
2012-11-20 17:31:02 -08:00
Chris Jerdonek
df3abec2c9
Link set and frozenset function docs to their class definitions (issue #16436 ).
2012-11-09 18:57:32 -08:00
Ezio Melotti
837cd06d36
#16210 : combine the two type() docs. Patch by Pete Sevander.
2012-10-24 23:06:25 +03:00
Chris Jerdonek
f341317185
Issue #16206 : Improve the documentation of the dict constructor.
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This change includes replacing the single-line signature documentation
with a more complete multiple-line signature.
2012-10-13 03:22:33 -07:00
Ezio Melotti
7fa822275b
Fix links to the __next__ method.
2012-10-12 13:42:08 +03:00
Chris Jerdonek
83fe2e1c22
Issue #14783 : Improve int() docstring and also str(), range(), and slice().
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This commit rewrites the docstring for int() to incorporate the documentation
changes made in issue #16036 . It also switches the docstrings for int(),
str(), range(), and slice() to use multi-line signatures.
2012-10-07 14:48:36 -07:00
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.
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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.
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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
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Thanks to Chris Jerdonek
2012-08-13 12:58:02 +03:00
Brett Cannon
9b000e7a68
Issue #15482 : Properly document the default 'level' parameter for
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__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
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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
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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.
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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 ).
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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).
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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.
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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
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Merged revisions 86737 via svnmerge from
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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
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Merged revisions 86732 via svnmerge from
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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
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#10299 : Add a table that lists all the built-in functions in functions.rst
2010-11-24 20:18:02 +00:00
Éric Araujo
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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
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Remove unnecessary `object` base class in docs ( #10366 ).
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Also add a note about inheritance from `object` being default.
2010-11-22 03:09:19 +00:00
Mark Dickinson
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Issue #10488 : Bring documentation for 'float' builtin up to date.
2010-11-21 21:09:58 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou
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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
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In 3.x, bytearray is akin to bytes, not str.
2010-11-20 19:36:05 +00:00