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Tim Peters 397301eccb The tzinfo methods utcoffset() and dst() must return a timedelta object 
(or None) now.  In 2.3a1 they could also return an int or long, but that
was an unhelpfully redundant leftover from an earlier version wherein
they couldn't return a timedelta.  TOOWTDI.
 2003-01-02 21:28:08 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 4abd5f0fce Allow list sort's comparison function to explicitly be None. See SF patch 
661092.
 2003-01-02 20:51:08 +00:00
Tim Peters 710fb1548a astimezone() internals: if utcoffset() returns a duration, complain if 
dst() returns None (instead of treating that as 0).
 2003-01-02 19:35:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e55534665f Update the copyright year. 2003-01-02 16:31:35 +00:00
Neal Norwitz e149798c7f Add some version info for new methods and class 2003-01-02 15:32:00 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 9e86ad7072 Fix an example 2003-01-02 13:42:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 74bcac4cae - documented Ellipsis, NotImplemented 
- minor markup changes
- indented for consistency with newer content
 2003-01-02 05:13:51 +00:00
Fred Drake d0859aaaaa Add dependency info for the recently added lib/libconsts.tex. 2003-01-02 05:00:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 45e482fd3d Document that apply() is deprecated. See: 
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-January/031556.html
 2003-01-02 04:54:04 +00:00
Tim Peters f36151556f A quicker astimezone() implementation, rehabilitating an earlier 
suggestion from Guido, along with a formal correctness proof of the
trickiest bit.  The intricacy of the proof reveals how delicate this
is, but also how robust the conclusion:  correctness doesn't rely on
dst() returning +- one hour (not all real time zones do!), it only
relies on:

1. That dst() returns a (any) non-zero value if and only if daylight
   time is in effect.

and

2. That the tzinfo subclass implements a consistent notion of time zone.

The meaning of "consistent" was a hidden assumption, which is now an
explicit requirement in the docs.  Alas, it's an unverifiable (by the
datetime implementation) requirement, but so it goes.
 2003-01-01 21:51:37 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 0233bd9c7d mention built-in constants. 2003-01-01 20:37:14 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 1f041e7aa8 process libconsts.tex 2003-01-01 20:34:00 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 17804b1df4 new section - builtin constants 2003-01-01 20:33:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 33fb554a13 Revert merge from 2.3 alpha 1 release branch; the change does not 
apply to the trunk.
 2003-01-01 04:50:32 +00:00
Tim Peters 88ad134e36 Merging in changes from r23a1-branch. Doc/makefile had conflicts, which 
I leave to Fred to sort out.
 2003-01-01 02:14:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 8f1f8f13e4 The trunk is (nominally) post-alpha. 2002-12-31 20:26:25 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f15fb2926b Results of a rewrite pass 2002-12-31 18:34:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 0f8e543159 - use classdesc where we can (for better indexing) 
- more style consistency crud
 2002-12-31 18:31:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 436eadd455 General style conformance. Markup some unmarked constructs. 2002-12-31 18:13:11 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f621232c0d Use funcdesc instead of classdesc to be consistent with out sections. 2002-12-31 17:24:50 +00:00
Fred Drake e2c649126e Further cleanup of exceptions. All interpolation-related exceptions 
now derive from InterpolationError, which is not raised directly (only
subclasses get raised).  This matches what the docs already said.
 2002-12-31 17:23:27 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6222958500 Spelling fix 2002-12-31 16:37:03 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger cbd6cd2312 Add markup for time object. 
Cleanup whitespace.
Fix unbalanced parenthesis.
 2002-12-31 16:30:49 +00:00
Tim Peters 9532298c82 Removed the now-untrue (or soon-to-be untrue) part of the astimezone() 
docs.  Replaced it with an XXX block, because the hoped-for treatment
of DST endcases remains unclear (Guido doesn't really like raising an
exception when it's impossible to deliver a correct result, but so
far I have no way in hand to consistently deliver a defined incorrect
result either).
 2002-12-31 16:01:47 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond 2852cbaf26 Document the new ,netrc awareness in nntplib. 2002-12-31 15:28:44 +00:00
Fred Drake f91b4619e0 Barry raised reasonable objections to the macro name \mimeheader, so 
we'll simply revert to \mailheader since there's no other good name.
 2002-12-31 15:23:09 +00:00
Fred Drake f14730a49a - correct the deprecation markups so this formats again 
- some minor cleanups
 2002-12-31 15:10:49 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c5f5f87f74 Complete the markup for timedelta objects. 
Fix a curly brace that should have been a paren.
 2002-12-31 14:26:54 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ae3bbf57bf Add posix.loadavg() 
Add some times
 2002-12-31 14:03:45 +00:00
Neal Norwitz f3edea5b90 Use the name (path) specified in the parameter list 2002-12-31 13:38:28 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 96a60e4af5 Patch #658927: Add getctime to os.path. 
Document that getatime and getmtime may return floats.
 2002-12-31 13:11:54 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 5c37a7717d Document standard encodings. 2002-12-31 12:39:07 +00:00
Neal Norwitz ee711092eb SmartCookie and SerialCookie were recently deprecated 2002-12-31 12:27:11 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 99448e5214 InterpolationSyntaxError was added in 2.3 2002-12-31 12:23:10 +00:00
Fred Drake a3661e1267 Update version numbers. 2002-12-31 05:51:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2714706188 Phrase repair. 2002-12-31 04:41:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8e7ec7cec8 Minor markup and spelling repair. 2002-12-31 04:39:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 5095a47408 Add a hurriedly-written section on the datetime module 2002-12-31 02:48:59 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 974ab9d865 Add lots of items. 
The only thing missing now is the new date/time stuff.
 2002-12-31 01:20:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 81e4aa7054 - re-mark ESR's warning about extended registry syntax 
- document InterpolationSyntaxError
 2002-12-30 23:50:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 66162de80d Add entries for the dummy_thread and dummy_threading modules. 2002-12-30 23:01:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 740f80029c - fix use of \refmodule markup 
- correct some module names, add hyperlinks
- wrap some long lines
 2002-12-30 23:00:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2969233f9a Add dummy_thread[ing] sections and reference these from libthread[ing]. 2002-12-30 22:34:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ad50ca91a9 Brett Cannon's dummy_thread and dummy_threading modules (SF patch 
622537), with some nitpicking editorial changes.
 2002-12-30 22:30:22 +00:00
Fred Drake a37e5cce4b We're using strictly American spellings, so there's no diaresis over 
the i in naive.

More markup fixups.
 2002-12-30 21:26:42 +00:00
Tim Peters bad8ff089a A step on the way to making tzinfo classes writable by mortals: get rid 
of the timetz case.  A tzinfo method will always see a datetimetz arg,
or None, now.  In the former case, it's still possible that it will get
a datetimetz argument belonging to a different timezone.  That will get
fixed next.
 2002-12-30 20:52:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 567332abc4 Start something that might make table notes easier to deal with, 
eventually.
 2002-12-30 20:51:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 9bdeee492a Clean up a table so it passes formatting. 2002-12-30 20:35:32 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 0de926fd12 Added the \var{} markup so the tables will look good. 2002-12-30 20:21:21 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6005a344ce Added markup upto line 233. 2002-12-30 20:01:24 +00:00
Barry Warsaw d1adc8a6af Describe the new `errors' argument to Header.__init__() and 
Header.append()
 2002-12-30 19:17:37 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling fa91858c6c More markup additions 2002-12-30 14:20:16 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d6d7cfaada Minor grammar fix, and clarification 2002-12-30 03:08:27 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling c97868ee2f Mark up more text 2002-12-30 03:06:45 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 40f6217092 SF patch 658251: Install a C implementation of the Mersenne Twister as the 
core generator for random.py.
 2002-12-29 23:03:38 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c7b076928c Incorporate Skip's suggestion to use SciPy's validation test near 
equality.  Note, there is another flavor that compares to a given
number of significant digits rather than decimal places.  If there
is a demand, that could be added at a later date.
 2002-12-29 17:59:24 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f8bcfb13f1 SF Bug 645777: list.extend() works with any iterable and is no longer 
experimental.
 2002-12-29 05:49:09 +00:00
Tim Peters 276a8f3b80 astimezone(): document that None is an OK argument. 2002-12-27 21:41:32 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond 56b3184e89 Added a useful warning to the documentation. 2002-12-27 20:05:36 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 33e94437ca Document killpg. 2002-12-27 10:21:19 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 438b534ad0 Patch #657889: Implement posix.getloadavg. 2002-12-27 10:16:42 +00:00
Tim Peters 60c76e4016 Make comparison and subtraction of aware objects ignore tzinfo if the 
operands have identical tzinfo members (meaning object identity -- "is").
I misunderstood the intent here, reading wrong conclusion into
conflicting clues.
 2002-12-27 00:41:11 +00:00
Just van Rossum 8982595870 Backing out patch #642578 in anticipation of final acceptance of PEP 302. 2002-12-25 23:13:34 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e11b510a5b SF 658405: calendar.py to rely on the datetime module instead of the time 
module.

The code is shorter, more readable, faster, and dramatically increases the
range of acceptable dates.

Also, used the floor division operator in leapdays().
 2002-12-25 16:37:19 +00:00
Tim Peters 80475bb4d2 Implemented datetime.astimezone() and datetimetz.astimezone(). 2002-12-25 07:40:55 +00:00
Tim Peters 52d134874f Removed blurb admonishing users to raise an exception if the datetime 
argument to a tzinfo method doesn't have a matching tzinfo member.
 2002-12-24 16:34:13 +00:00
Tim Peters 2483b61e03 Added note about technical pickle limitation on tzinfo instances. 2002-12-24 16:30:58 +00:00
Tim Peters 1cff9fc97c tzinfo.{utcoffset,dst} can return timedelta (or integer or None). 
{timetz,datetimetz}.{uctcoffset,dst} do return timedelta (or None).
 2002-12-24 16:25:29 +00:00
Neal Norwitz c7d8c68c65 Fix SF #658023, "What's New in 2.3", s12, verbatim error 
Remove space between \end {verbatim}
 2002-12-24 14:51:43 +00:00
Tim Peters 12bf339aea Implemented .replace() methods for date, datetime, datetimetz, time and 
timetz.
 2002-12-24 05:41:27 +00:00
Tim Peters 29fb9c7e07 Brought the strftime explanation into synch with the plain-text sandbox 
docs, and moved its section to the end (before the "C API" section,
which latter doesn't really belong in the Library manual).
 2002-12-23 22:21:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 446f32367b Add in the datetime docs now that they pass LaTeX. Still ugly, but that can 
be fixed.
 2002-12-23 19:03:00 +00:00
Fred Drake bbdb250862 Lots of markup changes. This is still pretty sad, but passes LaTeX 
and is mostly readable.
 2002-12-23 18:58:06 +00:00
Fred Drake ce5200842e Move the examples of concrete tzinfo classes to a separate file, so the 
verbatim environment does not bollux page breaking.
 2002-12-23 18:52:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 4a80a3ec21 Added docs for (draft) pkgutil module. 2002-12-23 16:53:59 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling c4a3f413a7 Bump version number 2002-12-23 12:50:50 +00:00
Tim Peters 8ed8320827 Fixed longstanding bug in the description of strftime's %W code. 2002-12-20 17:15:39 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ca2623a2f9 Check in current, unfinished, draft of datetime docs 
(Fred, don't bother to add to lib.tex or to proofread this yet.)
 2002-12-18 14:59:11 +00:00
Fred Drake e0f02f0826 Fix some small markup nits. 2002-12-18 02:07:14 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 3e93b4d222 Fix typo spotted by Richie Hindle 2002-12-18 01:20:29 +00:00
Greg Ward 3ebf56c60f Two more typo fixes. 2002-12-17 23:27:41 +00:00
Greg Ward 1d5d8cf61f Typo fix. 2002-12-17 18:14:21 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson cfd3884882 This is Richie Hindle's patch 
[ 643835 ] Set Next Statement for Python debuggers

with a few tweaks by me: adding an unsigned or two, mentioning that
not all jumps are allowed in the doc for pdb, adding a NEWS item and
a note to whatsnew, and AuCTeX doing something cosmetic to libpdb.tex.
 2002-12-17 16:15:34 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 212b43f90c Add markup for base parameter 2002-12-17 01:24:11 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 046b8a7244 Fix SF # 641111, Undocumented side effect of eval 
Try to clear up confusion about the current globals being copied
into a globals dict passed to eval().  This wording (more or less)
was suggested in bug report.  It should probably be made clearer.

Backport candidate.
 2002-12-17 01:08:06 +00:00
Neal Norwitz e9ce25e512 Fix SF #642742, property() builtin not documented 
Added doc for functions new to 2.2:  classmethod property staticmethod super
Taken from docstrings.  Could use review.
Hope there wasn't a reason why these shouldn't have been added.

Backport candidate.
 2002-12-17 01:02:57 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 0f30dbd991 Fix SF # 626275, missing DECREF's in embedding example 
Tested w/valgrind, all paths except the return on PyInt_AsLong() failure
I think I got all of these right.

Backport candidate.
 2002-12-17 00:40:38 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 786ddb29c9 Fixed bug 
[#521782] unreliable file.read() error handling

* Objects/fileobject.c
  (file_read): Clear errors before leaving the loop in all situations,
  and also check if some data was read before exiting the loop with an
  EWOULDBLOCK exception.

* Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
* Objects/fileobject.c
  Document that sometimes a read() operation can return less data than
  what the user asked, if running in non-blocking mode.

* Misc/NEWS
  Document the fix.
 2002-12-16 18:12:53 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 78429a6aa6 Fixing bug 
[#448679] Left to right

* Python/compile.c
  (com_dictmaker): Reordered evaluation of dictionaries to follow strict
  LTR evaluation.

* Lib/compiler/pycodegen.py
  (CodeGenerator.visitDict): Reordered evaluation of dictionaries to
  follow strict LTR evaluation.

* Doc/ref/ref5.tex
  Documented the general LTR evaluation order idea.

* Misc/NEWS
  Documented change in evaluation order of dictionaries.
 2002-12-16 13:54:02 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 8e5b53b3d9 Rewrite to produce a complete sentence 2002-12-15 20:17:38 +00:00
Just van Rossum edd179ee77 typo fix. 2002-12-15 13:14:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 45bda57c1d Added missing markup. 
Replaced British spelling of 'behaviour' with 'behavior'.
Noted the new optional argument in math.log(x [,base]).
 2002-12-14 20:20:45 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 866964c3a3 Apply SF patch 652930: Add optional base argument to math.log(x[, base]). 2002-12-14 19:51:34 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 6c50df2d90 Add Tkinter threading change 
Fix markup errors
Rewrite a sentence
 2002-12-13 12:53:16 +00:00
Thomas Heller 63b4dd33c9 Description of description was really confusing, and added some markup. 2002-12-12 19:35:00 +00:00
Thomas Heller 2c3bfc2a1a Raw documentation for the bdist_wininst postinstallation script. 
People are already using it, so these docs are certainly better than
no docs at all. Markup is mostly missing and the layout is probably
ugly, but this can be fixed later.

Question: there are references to MS docs for the CSIDL_... constants
and the IShellLink interface. Are these pointers sufficient, or should
the MS docs reworded and repeated here?
 2002-12-12 18:54:19 +00:00
Walter Dörwald d9a6ad3beb Enhance issubclass() and PyObject_IsSubclass() so that a tuple is 
supported as the second argument. This has the same meaning as
for isinstance(), i.e. issubclass(X, (A, B)) is equivalent
to issubclass(X, A) or issubclass(X, B). Compared to isinstance(),
this patch does not search the tuple recursively for classes, i.e.
any entry in the tuple that is not a class, will result in a
TypeError.

This closes SF patch #649608.
 2002-12-12 16:41:44 +00:00
Just van Rossum b083cb3901 Patch #651621, approved by MvL. 
This patch allows ZipFile.writestr() to be called with
an archive file name instead of a ZipInfo instance:

z = ZipFile("myarchive.zip", "w")
z.writestr("foo/baz/file.ext", data)
z.close()

I found the old writestr() method very inconvenient
for simple (but common) things.

If called with a file name instead of a ZipInfo
instance, the date_time is set to the current date/time,
which makes sense to me for anonymous data.
 2002-12-12 12:23:32 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 449a87d791 Various additions and changes suggested by Raymond Hettinger 2002-12-11 15:03:51 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 0479104a91 Patch #651006: Better explain what component might be empty. 2002-12-11 12:55:53 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d2bef8256b Update comments about the performance of xrange(). 2002-12-11 07:14:03 +00:00
Tim Peters 85f7f83d71 Added a word to the heapq description in response to user confusion. 2002-12-10 21:04:25 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 3bf99e3e87 Add support for binary pickles to the shelve module. In some situations 
this can result in significantly smaller files.  All classes as well as the
open function now accept an optional binary parameter, which defaults to
False for backward compatibility.  Added a small test suite, updated the
libref documentation (including documenting the exported classes and fixing
a few other nits) and added a note about the change to Misc/NEWS.
 2002-12-08 18:36:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 27cae1f7c5 Revise the __all__ index entry a touch. 2002-12-07 16:00:00 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f9229d98ae Add __all__ to Reference Manual index. 
Closes SF 643227.
 2002-12-07 09:39:15 +00:00
Thomas Heller ead60e5d1c Typo: propogate -> propagate 
Bugfix candidate.
 2002-12-06 22:42:13 +00:00
Fred Drake edb635ff5c Remove extra ")" in example. 2002-12-06 18:52:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 08d10f985e Typo: "dead lock" --> "deadlock" 2002-12-06 16:45:05 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 6d5f30eaed Document that the second argument to PyObject_IsInstance 
may be a tuple. This closes SF patch
http://www.python.org/sf/649095

Backport to release22-maint will follow.
 2002-12-06 10:09:16 +00:00
Fred Drake a41b2bb981 Fix problem in example code. It's minor in this particular example, 
but can lead to mysterious problems in real applications.
 2002-12-03 22:57:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 7af24bd237 Fix example regular expressions that simulate scanf() constructs. 2002-12-03 18:49:17 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 71aa6d6db9 Patch #646824: Remove extra \end. 2002-12-03 18:09:02 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b1e4bf9dc1 Bug #647387: corrections to the logging section by Vinay Sanjip 2002-12-03 13:35:17 +00:00
Mark Hammond 8af50bcf40 _ssl.pyd available for Windows. 2002-12-03 06:13:35 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 75bc8ba0d7 Fix SF # 646578, Documentation Typo 2002-12-02 04:42:58 +00:00
Neal Norwitz ae6bf4adfa Remove unused variable 2002-12-02 04:40:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 53262577eb Add ossaudiodev; fix typo 2002-12-01 14:00:21 +00:00
Just van Rossum 3eb166b49b Slightly improved version of patch #642578: "Expose PyImport_FrozenModules 
in imp". This adds two functions to the imp module: get_frozenmodules()
and set_frozenmodules().
 2002-11-29 20:47:40 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b6f7959093 Fix value of 'propagate' (noted by Chris Reedy) 
Rewrite paragraph
 2002-11-29 19:43:45 +00:00
Walter Dörwald fb97443e57 Fix typo. 2002-11-29 16:39:07 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b492fa9101 Mention dict.fromkeys() 
Various edits
 2002-11-27 19:11:10 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 5ef2b214cd Update e-mail address 2002-11-27 18:53:38 +00:00
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