Jeremy Hylton
e604875b81
Restore a minimal definition of execution frame, since other parts of
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the manual refer to it.
XXX Not sure that it belongs in this section, or that the concept is
particularly important for writing documentation. Perhaps references
to the frame should be removed entirely.
2002-04-01 21:33:55 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
1824b59e89
Update programmer's note on nested functions.
2002-04-01 21:30:15 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
f3255c8540
Reword explanation of global statement since an undeclared global is a
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free variable and is subject to those rules.
2002-04-01 21:25:32 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
f0c1f1badb
Note the sole case in which the ban on "from ... import *" within a
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function is enforced.
2002-04-01 21:19:44 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
15b68976da
Remove the following restriction:
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Names bound by import statements may not occur in global
statements in the same scope.
Why not?
2002-04-01 21:18:02 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
d09ed68aeb
Note that it is illegal to delete a cell variable.
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Note that deleteing an unbound local will raise a NameError.
2002-04-01 21:15:14 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
2225add242
Given lambda its own section, instead of burying it in boolean operators.
2002-04-01 21:05:21 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
53ed917d3a
Update / simplify Identifiers section for nested scopes.
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How do I create a cross reference to section 4.1?
2002-04-01 20:52:24 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
e7d5773ed0
Update docs for nested scopes.
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Replace section 4.1 with section A.3.
The new section 4.1 is titled "Naming and binding." It includes the
text of section A.3 augmented with some of the detailed text from the
old section 4.1.
The \dfn, \index stuff is probably wrong, but I tried.
Also update other parts of appendix A to mention that nested scopes
and generators are standard features.
2002-04-01 20:38:01 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
8392f36579
Update documentation of code objects.
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Split the description of co_flags into two paragraphs. The first
describes the flags that are used for non-future purposes, where
CO_GENERATOR was added. The second describes __future__'s use of
co_flags and mentions the only one currently meaningful,
CO_FUTURE_DIVISION.
2002-04-01 18:53:36 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
26c49b66bb
Small fixes for description of function attributes.
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func_closure is a readonly attribute.
Add \ttindex{} for func_closure.
Remove discussion of func_closure specific to 2.1.
2002-04-01 17:58:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
f6eafc3fe1
Fix up unescaped tilde; reported by several people.
2002-03-18 16:47:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
83d14c12a6
Markup error: braces not properly marked in dictionary display
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grammer productions.
Fixes SF bug #520959 .
2002-03-16 06:35:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
5381588073
Revise the markup related to the grammar productions to increase the
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level of predictability. This is not really "good" markup, but is arguably
better than we had before.
This closes SF bug #523117 .
2002-03-15 23:21:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
216cbca195
Typo: thsi -> this. Closes SF bug #521450 .
2002-02-22 15:40:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
aae728f292
Fix typo reported by François Pinard.
2002-01-21 16:09:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
687bde9433
Added some missing index entries, noted by L. Peter Deutsch.
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This should be included in Python 2.2.1.
2001-12-27 18:38:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
08d752cf28
Update to use the notice environment so a multi-paragraph note can be
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appropriately marked.
2001-12-14 22:55:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
591dd8f620
Update information about __del__() & reference cycles for CPython.
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This partially fixes SF bug #492619 .
Fix a typo & use the new notice environment instead of (ab)using the \note
and \warning macros.
2001-12-14 22:52:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
b062cb22d0
Work around the problem of spaces after a "}" being dropped by LaTeX2HTML if
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they were represented by newlines in the document source.
Partially fixes SF bug #493243 .
2001-12-14 16:57:31 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson
850d3980ab
Fix for
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[ #429329 ] actual-parameters *arg, **kws not doc'd
2001-12-12 11:56:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
8d0645cb84
Add a note about yield requiring a __future__ directive.
2001-12-12 06:06:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
3a8e59ebe1
Clean up a sad sentence in the yield description.
2001-12-11 21:58:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
e31e9cebc0
Document generators and the yield statement, avoiding implementation details.
2001-12-11 21:10:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
1d3e6c15ce
Fix whitespace in example of bad indentation: a comment indicated that one
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line was not indented at all, so the example is no longer indented at all.
All of the errors being shown remain.
Typo: characteru --> character
2001-12-11 17:46:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
f9d580346b
Add change notes where im_class is discussed, since the exact meaning changes
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with Python 2.2.
2001-12-07 23:13:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
b62f0e1a7b
Correct the description of im_class. (Fred, this is changed in 2.2.
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Should this be labeled as changed? How?)
2001-12-07 22:03:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
c2f496a138
Add a note to the description of the interaction between the softspace
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attribute of file objects, the print statement, and other file operations.
This closes SF bug #484857 .
Fix minor markup nits.
2001-12-05 05:46:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
4ed6be7107
Import the keyword module instead of relying on our own list of
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reserved words. No longer need to import string.
2001-12-04 20:39:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
41c6719fe4
Put the keywords back in alphabetical order. Apparently somebody
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didn't use reswords.py, as the comment clearly states. :-(
2001-12-04 20:38:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
3570551d6f
Remove most references to __members__ and __methods__, leaving only one pair
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of references that now state that these attributes have been removed,
directing the reader to the dir() function.
This closes SF bug #456420 .
2001-12-03 17:32:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
c37b65ee10
Clean up some markup cruft. A number of the macros that take no
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parameters (like \UNIX) are commonly entered using an empty group to
separate the markup from a following inter-word space; this is not
needed when the next character is punctuation, or the markup is the
last thing in the enclosing group. These cases were marked
inconsistently; the empty group is now *only* used when needed.
2001-11-28 07:26:15 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
1336e99054
Fred observes that the typo was not the only problem with this sentence.
2001-11-14 21:38:13 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
4a98f70a09
typo
2001-11-14 21:32:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
08fd51509c
When describing "import *", add a level of indirection between "*" and the
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set of names imported (the "public names"), adding a definition of "public
names" that describes the use of __all__.
This closes SF bug #473986 .
Flesh out the vague reference to __import__().
2001-10-24 19:50:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
0aa811c527
Use the \note and \warning macros where appropriate.
2001-10-20 04:24:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
316141b333
Fix typo reported by Michael Soulier.
2001-10-18 15:22:23 +00:00
Tim Peters
1350c07de3
Removed stray backslash (a typo -- my fault).
2001-10-01 20:25:26 +00:00
Tim Peters
20524dbf36
The description of dictionary comparison was out of date. Rather than
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try to explain the complex general scheme we actually use now, I decided
to spell out only what equality means (which is easy to explain and
intuitive), leaving the other outcomes unspecified beyond consistency.
2001-10-01 20:22:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
73921b0eec
Refer to the objects which define __len__(), __*item__(), and __iter__()
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as container objects rather than as mapping objects (in the index entries).
Change the section heading and intro sentence to be a little more general,
since that's how things have actually evolved.
2001-10-01 16:32:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
18d8d5a708
Fix minor usage and consistency nits.
2001-09-18 17:58:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
ed5a7ca5ee
Work around a LaTeX2HTML bug that caused the "m" in "mutable" to be dropped
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in one place.
2001-09-10 15:16:08 +00:00
Tim Peters
d507dab91f
SF patch #455966 : Allow leading 0 in float/imag literals.
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Consequences for Jython still unknown (but raised on Jython-Dev).
2001-08-30 20:51:59 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson
53da317801
Docs for the PEP 264 changes.
2001-08-27 20:02:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
c0cf726d8c
Add material about the "r" and "u" prefixes for string literals; should
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be reviewed for clarity.
Work around a bogosity in the HTML version of the escape sequences table
conversion.
2001-08-14 21:43:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
3e2aca48bd
Add information about __floordiv__() and __truediv__() methods for
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implementing numeric objects in Python.
2001-08-14 20:28:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
a7d608d1cf
"Thin" version of floor division docs: add // to the list of operators
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and //= to the list of other delimiter tokens.
I'll work on it again when it's not so late...
2001-08-08 05:37:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
8dd6ffd0ec
User-defined methods *can* contain things other than user-defined functions
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as the callable, so use more flexible language.
2001-08-02 21:34:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
044bb4d22a
Explain that __init__() methods do not get to return values.
2001-08-02 15:53:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
9079164bdf
Removed unnecessary section "Unicode literals"; all the discussion is
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already present in the "String literals" section, including comments on
the "u" prefix and the additional escape sequences used for Unicode.
This relates to SF bug #442526 .
2001-07-20 15:33:23 +00:00