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Barry Warsaw 17c8e781c0 libqueue.tex: Documentation for the Queue.py module. 
Makefile: Add dependency on libqueue.tex

lib.tex: Place the libqueue.tex documentation just after libthread.tex
since Queue depends on thread support in Python.
 1997-11-20 19:54:16 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 4552f3d6de In the description of sub(), give a better explanation of the 
interface when repl is a function.  Also give a simple example of
using a function repl.
 1997-11-20 00:15:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2974f0fe9a Add xmllib; remove (slow) from description of htmllib. 1997-11-18 15:30:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7336935e4c dis is now documented; bisect is deemed useful. 1997-11-18 15:30:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f7790c608d Document s.connect_ex(), which does not raise an exception on error. 1997-11-18 15:29:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 364e643fdd Clarified reference to old profiler. 
Mention conversion to Perl-style regular expressions.
 1997-11-18 15:28:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5de64883d8 Added doc for errorcode dictionary. 1997-11-18 15:27:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum eae121e436 Adding dis and xmllib docs 1997-11-18 15:11:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a10768ae44 Docu for xmllib.py, by Sjoerd Mullender. 1997-11-18 15:11:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b62b6d145e Docu for dis.py, written by Martin von Loewis. 1997-11-18 15:10:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9d37a4d332 Small wording change about global and local trace functions. 1997-10-27 19:57:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 040e565261 Ooops, found too more references to old conditions on floating point values. 1997-10-24 21:15:55 +00:00
Fred Drake ae18e9fc1c Removed obsolete discussion on _xdr helper module. 1997-10-24 21:14:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d7dc2eb708 Put {} around \^ in sets to force latex2html to do the right thing... 1997-10-22 03:03:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 828a0bdb1d count() now has a 4th parameter too. Also rephrased the docs for find 
to use the same, better words to explain start/end.
 1997-10-20 22:40:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 871cf161f1 Documented exc_info(); also updated exc_type and last_type docs. 1997-10-20 22:38:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 2950b2d881 Restore the \seealso formatting that got lost when I updated the math 
module documentation.
 1997-10-13 22:06:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 7cd60442b4 Remove macpath entry -- it is already documented. 1997-10-13 22:02:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 5451d67dd9 socket_type ==> SocketType 1997-10-13 21:31:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 120ac20c40 Remove superfluous comman from between "not" and "in" when describing the 
"not in" operator.
 1997-10-13 20:48:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6cd7ecb10b The sequence behavior is now on the Exception root class rather than 
on the StandardError class.
 1997-10-07 14:41:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 6f2a26d42b And "ni" has been documented... 1997-10-06 21:53:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 2df75832b3 Oops; don't know if this was my typo or not: There was a "p" on a line that 
should have been blank.
 1997-10-06 21:52:31 +00:00
Fred Drake c211254334 Updated the section "Parsing Python". 1997-10-06 21:41:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 14bf341f16 Added keyword module entry. 1997-10-06 21:40:48 +00:00
Fred Drake e061a51de1 Minor nits (Lib/token.py is a file, token is a module...). 
Added docs for symbol and token modules at the end.
 1997-10-06 21:40:20 +00:00
Fred Drake db12f343bc Documentation for the keyword module. 1997-10-06 21:39:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 00eb96a126 Move the pprint docs after the code docs, so that all parser/codegen type 
things come together.
 1997-10-06 21:26:03 +00:00
Barry Warsaw dc0f00ad03 Document the mapping object's new get() method. 1997-10-06 17:50:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0bfd146594 Added strerror() 1997-10-05 18:54:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bc3b13643d Removed emacs.py 1997-10-05 18:54:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum eb53ae4928 Fixed some stuff that was incorrectly copied from regex. 1997-10-05 18:54:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7974b0f2d8 Documented __import__, callable, isinstance, issubclass, 
and slice.
 1997-10-05 18:53:00 +00:00
Guido van Rossum df3dba049d Documented new exceptions and exception classes. 1997-10-05 18:51:26 +00:00
Fred Drake b55e07f4eb Fixed up formatting. 1997-09-30 21:59:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 1b914b3397 Fixed up formatting, added descriptions for previously undocumented functions. 1997-09-30 20:14:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3cdb8f3286 Update the description and the example to the new functionality, which 
is mostly concentrated in a generalized find_module() and the new
load_module().  Added the new module type constants.  Declare that
SEARCH_ERROR and a whole bunch of module-type-specific functions are
obsolete.
 1997-09-09 20:53:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9cf4e2bde7 Change packages to site-packages (so it's clearly not a package itself). 1997-09-08 02:02:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 16221126d6 Added warning about ni's obsolescence. Retracted semantic changes 
(i.e. when using ni, the old __init__.py semantics prevail!)
 1997-09-07 03:02:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 593801142e Initial revision 1997-09-07 02:56:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f01dff7e93 Give in to Mike Meyer -- add *both* lib/python1.5/packages and 
lib/site-python to the path (if they exist).  This is a reasonable
compromise.
 1997-09-03 22:05:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 28cad964ec Document newly revamped site configuration mechanism. 
Damn the criticism in c.l.p!
 1997-08-30 20:03:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 36764b8b0e Added docs for 'user' customization module. Renamed libuser.tex 
(which had UserDict/UserList) to libuserdict.tex.
 1997-08-30 20:02:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b2afc811c2 Added os.altsep; this is '/' on DOS/Windows, and None on systems with 
a sane filename syntax.
 1997-08-29 22:37:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 282290f821 Referred to POSIX docs as well as to Unix docs. 1997-08-27 14:54:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e20aef574a Ignore whitespace between formats (not internal to a count+format). 1997-08-26 20:39:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 81e479a11f Removed some colons that shouldn't be there (probably leftovers from 
docstring conversion).
 1997-08-25 18:28:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 08157f8db6 mention cPickle and cStringIO 1997-08-21 02:29:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e229d8636d Misc Mac mods by Jack. Added libmacic.tex, and these patches: 
libmacfs.tex	Document NewAliasMinimalFromFullPath
libmacos.tex	Document SetEventHandler and SchedParams
libmacui.tex	Document asynchronous event handling
libmailbox.tex	Removed mime-turds that somehow got in here
 1997-08-18 15:14:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9085822f28 the usual 1997-08-15 02:52:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1acceb0650 Added AMK's first cut at docs for re.py 1997-08-14 23:12:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3572d3718b Updated platform specific notes (it is now more common to have this) 
added some caveats.
 1997-08-14 19:51:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8f06247b51 Added buffer_info() docs. 1997-08-14 19:50:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fcaf26e245 Documented mime_decode_header() and mime_encode_header(). 1997-08-14 14:13:01 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9c43c590bc More emphasis on os.environ's calling of putenv; and added hint about 
flags for open().
 1997-08-08 21:05:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fd16ca4542 Added mimify docs (Sjoerd). 1997-07-30 22:05:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 12d9eac0a2 A couple of grammatical nits. 
Re-sequenced the function descriptions so that the formatting is described
before the assumption is made that the reader has a clue about the formatting.

Moved examples to be closer to the functions being demonstrated.

Added example of saferepr() result.
 1997-07-24 15:39:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6576dd6ad6 Document new 'quote' flag to cgi.escape(). 1997-07-19 20:16:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 61c270345c added code.py; codehack.py is obsolete 1997-07-18 21:08:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1c78cf3317 Added label{module-spam} 1997-07-18 21:07:34 +00:00
Fred Drake ca1182b262 Remove pprint from the list of undocumented modules. 1997-07-18 20:44:22 +00:00
Fred Drake d2b9f81ec5 Add entry for the pprint module. 1997-07-18 20:43:53 +00:00
Fred Drake ee8d3ca4cf Documentation for the pprint module. 1997-07-18 20:41:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b15e5ed689 Use 'and' instead of '&', which is a (La)TeX control character. 
"make lib tut ext" should now be errorfree.
 1997-07-17 18:30:15 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e47da0ae04 AMK's megapatch: 
* \bcode, \ecode added everywhere
	* \label{module-foo} added everywhere
	* A few \seealso sections added.
	* Indentation fixed inside verbatim in lib*tex files
 1997-07-17 16:34:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3c2a056fdd Extensive changes by AMK. 1997-07-17 16:29:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5320998da5 Note that getvalue() must be called before close(). 1997-07-17 16:29:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0fcbe8dde2 Added libni.tex libgzip.tex 1997-07-17 16:27:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 41884a9b1c New from AMK 1997-07-17 16:26:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum eb1633ec6e Removed mailbox, SocketServer, cmath -- these are now documented! 1997-07-17 16:21:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 84057a3874 Added cmath 1997-07-17 16:15:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 246d96555f Typo in example. 1997-07-17 16:14:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 14a8024b04 New cmath module docs, by AMK (with additions and deletions by Guido). 1997-07-17 16:13:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6c9db41d30 Added fileno(); added readlines(sizehint). 
AMK's sed job.
 1997-07-17 16:05:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cfaf143956 Added a few new undocumented modules. 1997-07-16 15:48:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 31cbc846ac Oops, some clarifications to conditional breaks. 1997-07-11 13:57:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 255d790077 Added (minimal) doc for conditional breakpoints. 
(Lie about the syntax (and the syntax for "list") because latex2html
doesn't seem to handle doubly nested [] pairs.)
 1997-07-11 13:51:17 +00:00
Fred Drake dd527332b7 fixed typo, "header" ==> "headers" 1997-06-20 16:55:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 8f81ef1edd Fix LaTeX bug found by examining the docstrings added to commands.py. 1997-06-12 16:14:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 4fd1292c3c Documentation for Lib/commands.py, from Sue Williams. 1997-06-12 16:05:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 455838a217 Really nitty-gritty change to prevent latex2html from using a LaTeX-generated 
image of the argument list....
 1997-06-06 21:57:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 39a23cc1e3 Doc for mailbox.tex (Jack) 1997-06-02 21:04:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e5bb790027 Added libmailbox, obsolete libstdwin 1997-06-02 17:35:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b40f2a7446 Added SocketServer and mailbox modules. 1997-06-02 17:34:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 98b43eb012 It's now using mimetools instead of rfc822 1997-06-02 17:34:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b9ee9c2298 stdwin is obsolete. Point to bsddb from dbhash. 1997-06-02 17:34:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0a3c7532f3 Additional info about sys.path, sys.version, sys.prefix, sys.exec_prefix. 
(AMK)
 1997-06-02 17:32:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0fa066b72e Grammar (AMK). 1997-06-02 17:30:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 067a2acdf6 Mention seekable parameter (AMK). 
Added pointer to mailbox module.
 1997-06-02 17:30:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bac80022e4 Mention use of profile.py to run a script (AMK). 1997-06-02 17:29:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f967bf63f8 Added putenv, ftruncate (AMK). 1997-06-02 17:28:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 809408eb90 Mention use of pdb.py to run a script (AMK). 1997-06-02 17:28:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 94adab5e17 Added date, xgtitle, xover, xpath (AMK). 1997-06-02 17:27:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a3f53cde37 It's now using mimetools instead of rfc822 1997-06-02 17:26:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2525bedfc0 Fix a sentence which ends "...is 6, which." (AMK) 1997-06-02 17:22:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 921f32ce4c Mention abs(complex) -> magnitude (AMK). 
Documented list().
Mention [raw_]input()'s interface to GNU readline.
 1997-06-02 17:21:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3a0d850160 Added complex numbers (AMK). 
Clarify that sort() works in-place.
Renamed dict.absorb() to dict.update().
 1997-06-02 17:18:00 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6102b51f2b Added copy() and absorb(). 1997-05-28 19:32:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2335c5eaec Added description of socket_type. 1997-05-21 14:41:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6181e00667 Added AMK's SocketServer docs. 1997-05-19 19:55:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 51a6c9055c Added docs for dumbdbm (AMK), and misc small fixes. 1997-05-09 02:23:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7e691de948 Document return value of wait[pid]() more carefully. 
Document how to get exit status of a popen() command.
 1997-05-09 02:22:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e4f347e779 Document "" and "<broadcast>". 1997-05-09 02:21:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5bbf0f7c93 Some updates (AMK at work, added resource.c). 1997-04-30 19:41:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum dfb4120ea1 Add zlib 1997-04-30 19:40:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 412154f3c7 Updated web ref and version#. Folded some long lines. 1997-04-30 19:39:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 04bc9d6e67 zlib by AMK 1997-04-30 18:12:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e9a0732cd1 Note that passing a filename to uu.{en,de}code() is deprecated. 1997-04-27 21:29:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e76b7a8fcd Added fnmatch, base64 and quopri, received from Andrew Kuchling. 1997-04-27 21:25:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 150853861a Various status updates. 1997-04-03 23:49:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fc5ee0f980 Added site 1997-04-03 22:43:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 571391b963 New stuff by AMK. 1997-04-03 22:41:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 387c575d5c Small grammatical touchups: 
Para. 1:  ...that reads and writes a string buffer...
			      ^		 ^

	Para. 3:  ...can be called at any time to retrieve the...
				  XXXXXXXXXXXX       ^^^^^
		  ...entire contents of the entire ``file'' ...
		     ^^^^^^^		   XXXXXXX

Guido, I hope I'm not stomping too far afield, but these seem pretty clear
to me.
 1997-04-02 14:51:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f643e3ff7e Spell Unix, not UNIX. 1997-04-02 06:06:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e8d94a8c10 Horrible hack to split up code '--' to prevent 
latex2html from collapsing it into '-'.
 1997-04-02 06:05:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1cd26f2fc0 Add complex(). 
Update int(), long(), float() to support string conversions.
 1997-04-02 06:04:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 740eb8265f Add cross-refs for int() to atoi() etc. 
Change replace() arguments; remove replace1().
 1997-04-02 05:56:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8d2893b5b2 Added a list of the main undocumented extension modules. 1997-03-27 20:57:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7f3b0421de Added docs for UserDict,UserList 1997-03-27 14:56:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b6a80262e1 Added docs for glob and mailcap 1997-03-25 22:09:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e6d579ddbc Added docs for glob 1997-03-25 22:07:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 20af95b433 Added docs for mailcap 1997-03-25 22:01:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c8a80cdbad Added docs for replace() and replace1(). 1997-03-25 16:41:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e8e87999ab Remove untrue statement about . and .. being included in list of names 
passed to walk() visitor.
 1997-03-25 15:25:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7b7c578616 Add optional 4th argument to [r]find and [r]index (end of slice). 1997-03-14 04:13:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 612316f016 Add a rough list of undocumented stuff at the end. 1997-03-14 04:12:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1f8cee2521 Hint about [\] trick to avoid quad backslashes. 1997-03-14 04:10:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3978d75cca Added intern() 1997-03-03 16:03:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 38e2ec4f14 Added ref to StringIO docs. 1997-03-03 16:03:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3ff7317857 Correct two typos 1997-03-03 16:02:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cda3d7d0e7 Added (minimal) StringIO docs. 1997-03-03 16:01:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 20e4210ec4 Fix up indentation of examples to use 4 spaces instead of tabs. 1997-02-28 16:37:49 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 7574587587 Document the new join() semantics. 1997-02-18 21:53:53 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 736bb0659f Added a paragraph to describe clear_cache(), and why it's necessary. 1997-02-18 18:59:37 +00:00
Barry Warsaw cd77df64e6 Document the new get_syntax() function. 1997-02-18 18:54:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6fb6f10a96 Added doco for ratecv. 1997-02-14 15:59:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 43d287ad73 (libparser.tex): Fix typo found by Mark Hammond. 1997-01-22 14:25:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5cd752028c Describe new ("unsigned") behavior of hex() and oct(). 1997-01-14 18:44:23 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fe27a50847 Added warning that gethostname() doesn't always return fqdn, and show 
how to find it using gethostbyaddr().
 1997-01-11 17:04:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0d2971badb Document that sys.builtin_module_names is now a tuple. 1997-01-06 23:01:02 +00:00
Barry Warsaw d44be3fdb7 very minor typo 1997-01-03 20:19:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 653071731a 'I' and 'L' now always return a Python long. 1997-01-03 19:21:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b0b8181622 Added unsigned data formats (B, H, I, L). 1997-01-03 19:20:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum dbadd558b5 Describe standard float/double support. 
Rewrite example to be an interactive session
 1997-01-03 04:20:09 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 6717030dc9 setkey method's argument is no longer optional (it used to be a no-op 
when missing).
 1997-01-02 19:48:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 591bbb1572 (libformatter.tex): Document the flush() method on the writer. 1996-12-31 20:51:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3dd68d3364 Added libstat.tex 1996-12-31 02:24:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 125434665b Document the new extensions. 1996-12-31 02:22:14 +00:00
Barry Warsaw f308c0f1fc From reading the source, it turns out that the setkey() method can 
take an optional string key, but if key is not given, the method does
nothing!  In the rewrite (see upcoming check-in), I left things this
way, but here I document that this is the case.
 1996-12-23 23:34:17 +00:00
Barry Warsaw e5a43a405d Describe open(2) exported constants 1996-12-19 23:50:34 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e8e9ed176f Docs for stat.py -- docs by Skip Montanaro. 1996-12-19 22:39:22 +00:00
Barry Warsaw fa5a6cff45 posix.open(): third argument (mode) is optional. 1996-12-19 22:38:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 62ac99ebf5 Documented getprotobyname() interface. 1996-12-19 16:43:25 +00:00
Fred Drake ae0cd0b9b3 (libunix.tex): Change matching lib.tex: add line item for the resource 
module.
 1996-12-19 12:20:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3c7b2dc02c Added docs for Jeremy's resource module. 1996-12-18 18:37:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 63a0c376ea (libunix.tex): Changed two occurances of "Unix" to "\UNIX{}". 1996-12-16 22:12:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 094579e677 (libtime.tex): Merged in changes from Tamito Kajiyama. 
(For those watching Python CVS messages:  I checked in all of
	Tamito's other changes, but the mail delivery failed since the
	subject line was too long.  The patch Tamito sent for the
	documentation has been completely merged in.)
 1996-12-13 22:09:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 4b3f0312c9 (lib<all sorts of stuff>.tex): 
Merged in many typo corrections and fixes to support GNU info
	processing; submitted by Tamito Kajiyama.
 1996-12-13 22:04:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8d40c843c1 Added quote_plus() and unquote_plus(), to do space/plus substitutions 
for form field values.
Also corrected substitution example (the original changed the spelling
of "conolly" to "connolly" :).
 1996-12-13 14:48:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 21be147094 Added remark about time() and sleep()'s subsecond precision. 
Added hint about using clock() for benchmarks etc.
Removed non-portable strftime directives and field width, and added a
warning about non-standard features.
 1996-12-12 17:59:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3486f27428 Added soundex (sigh) 1996-12-12 17:02:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 843e712bda Added descriptions of parsedate(), parsedate_tz(), getdate_tz() 
(all contributed by Andrew Kuchling).
 1996-12-06 21:23:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 61ed4db9e8 Added section for operator module (compiled Skip Montanaro). 1996-12-06 21:22:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 9abe64a395 (libparser.tex): Added note that the line number for a terminal token 
indicates the line on which the token ends rather than starts
	(a side effect of interpreting the parse tree nodes directly).
	Maybe I'll fix this for Python 2.0.
 1996-12-05 22:28:43 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 102dc417bf Describe the new Unpacker.get_buffer() method. 1996-12-04 22:05:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bda7ca7772 Added [nh]to[hn][sl](). 1996-12-02 17:24:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6240b0b773 Small nits only. 1996-10-24 22:49:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f73f79b5fd Done with this for 1.4. 1996-10-24 22:14:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a5a4c2a7d8 Correct truncated paragraph. 1996-10-24 14:47:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 36845ede60 Changed URL for PCT again. 1996-10-22 02:25:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6e308d7e40 Start new chapter on restricted execution. 1996-10-22 01:11:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 095538dd10 Actual text submitted by AMK. 1996-10-22 01:11:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c3d090cd4b Background chapter on restricted execution. Additional sections are 
rexec and bastion.
 1996-10-22 01:10:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9b0581192d Added embryonic description of fcntl.lockf(). Added pointer to that 
in posixfile (which is obsolescent).
 1996-10-11 17:43:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 4bf1296e05 (libtypes.tex): Correct reversal of two words in description of 
formatting strings.
 1996-10-11 16:33:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1dde7b737c Typos detected by Sjoerd 1996-10-11 15:57:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 8f925959c6 (libhtmllib.tex, libsgmllib.tex, libformatter.tex): 
Improve indexing somewhat.  Add small intros to the "implementations"
	sections of the formatter module doc.
 1996-10-09 16:13:22 +00:00
Fred Drake e1980ed1f8 (lib.tex, libwww.tex): Include the sgmlib chapter before the htmllib 
chapter to better reflect the relationship between the modules.
 1996-10-09 14:36:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 53e84d5342 (lib.tex): Added entry for formatter module. 1996-10-08 21:54:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 08d301ec53 (libwww.tex): Added entry for formatter module. 1996-10-08 21:54:06 +00:00
Fred Drake e83b30d51e (libformatter.tex): Added documentation for abstract writer/formatter model 
and implementation variants.
 1996-10-08 21:53:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 58d7f69168 (libhtmllib.tex): Revised documentation for HTML support. 1996-10-08 21:52:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 42439ad738 (libsgmllib.tex): Revised documentation for SGML support. 1996-10-08 21:51:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3f247ade66 Nits corrected by Fred 1996-09-27 17:11:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 4b7d5a49ab (libparser.tex): Revised parser module documentation; improved logical 
organization.
 1996-09-11 21:57:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2f666639f3 Added long getopt docs; by Fred 1996-09-11 21:26:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum be0a8a6042 Added bastion and (dummy) rexec docs 1996-09-10 17:37:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8206fb9c4c Final set of changes by Fred before 1.4beta3 1996-08-26 00:33:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4747887880 New batch from Fred 1996-08-21 14:32:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 56b30ea664 Document actual behavior of splitext(). 1996-08-19 23:00:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 40006cfd9b Added imghdr,xdrlib; reformatted Makefile somewhat 1996-08-19 22:58:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e5e55d784d Added capitalize, capwords, lstrip, rstrip, and optional 3rd argument 
to split.  Document new conventions for split(fields) and
join(fields), where the *fields variant is identical to the other.
 1996-08-09 21:44:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0b3f9512ac Added capwords, splitx, and optional 3rd argument to split/splitx. 1996-08-09 21:43:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 12f0cc325a Suggest using default values for __init__ arguments to make classes 
unpicklable.
 1996-08-09 21:23:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4a5b27b525 Get rid of parrot dropping (spurious 'E') 1996-08-09 21:23:14 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 91f87ca69b Note that the values are ints. 1996-07-30 20:45:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8cf2db47ba Moved description of mktime 9-tuple to top. 
Added description of strftime format string.
Minor small editing.
 1996-07-30 18:32:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f4d0d5784a Added maketrans() and optional 3rd arg to translate() (chars to delete). 1996-07-30 18:23:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a29cc97285 Document the *new* cgi.py 1996-07-30 18:22:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d61ad53c19 errno docs. 1996-07-30 18:21:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c0fcc44804 Added liberrno 1996-07-30 18:20:01 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 761f7922ad Updated pointers to Andrew Kuchlings fine software. 1996-07-23 18:16:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3317e63cbb added parser module to overview 1996-07-21 02:22:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 38e5088aa4 added plock 1996-07-21 02:21:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ed43073e00 Minute changes by Fred Drake 1996-07-21 02:21:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bbb1e26a67 Add docs for planned improved handling of the marshalling of 
unmarshallable objects.
 1996-06-26 20:20:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1a5356006b Added Andrew Kuchling's explanation of regexp's. 1996-06-26 19:43:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 036eae6647 mktime returns a float now. 1996-06-26 19:25:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6076ea51e2 Added thread unsafety warning. Added optional retain arg to split. 1996-06-26 19:24:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7c2fdda0b3 Better and correct words for split(). 1996-06-26 19:23:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1e8b63eb88 Document some process group stuff; mkdir mode arg optional; mkfifo. 1996-06-26 19:22:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum db9a7bba22 Give correct length of string. 1996-06-26 19:21:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4d206541be Slight update; file args are no longer optional. 1996-06-26 19:21:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 50ec5c074a Add flock; warn about lockdata system dependency when using fcntl. 1996-06-26 19:20:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 316a430098 Removed some spurios biindex calls. 
Added description of file.truncate().
Added warning to write() about buffering.
 1996-05-02 15:28:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 59b328e11e Added warning about behavior of open mode 'a' (or 'a+'). 1996-05-02 15:16:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5c6e3738cd Added lost docs for crypt module. 1996-04-10 16:18:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum feeadef61e document OverflowError exception on mktime() 1996-02-12 23:21:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 264302de3e atol supports trailing l/L if base is 0 1996-02-12 23:20:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c1715527fd document non-BSD SIGCHLD behaviour 1996-02-12 23:18:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 789742b8f8 change jars email 1996-02-12 23:17:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8c07bb4565 listdir no longer returns . or ..; added remove==unlink 1996-02-12 23:16:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 71b1815c1d hypot is now always supported 1996-02-12 23:14:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ca81470a15 add libparser.tex 1995-10-11 17:32:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4b73a06e92 Fred Drake's parser module 1995-10-11 17:30:04 +00:00
Jack Jansen da53c5277c Documented MACFS, macostools, EasyDialogs and FrameWork modules. 1995-10-10 14:43:20 +00:00
Jack Jansen 06cf5d0d4c Added base64 codec docs 1995-10-10 14:41:03 +00:00
Jack Jansen ab71c3fca0 Fixed typo. 1995-10-10 11:57:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fbe34faba9 syslog docs by steve clift 1995-10-09 20:49:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0568d5e92c apply() third arg 1995-10-08 01:06:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 26ee80947e added strftime 1995-09-13 17:37:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f65f278b8f added string.translate(s, table) 1995-09-13 17:37:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1e150618a3 add realtime as 5th item to os.times() return value 1995-09-13 17:36:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 93cf55e369 HP-Prec is not 64-bit 1995-09-13 17:35:28 +00:00
Jack Jansen 7e183e902e Documented new argument order. 1995-08-30 12:23:43 +00:00
Jack Jansen 4549b137e3 Documented binascii, binhex and uu modules. Put them in the 
Internet/WWW section, for lack of a better place.
 1995-08-29 11:30:24 +00:00
Jack Jansen ebed45fe0f Documented MacOS module. 1995-08-14 13:40:05 +00:00
Jack Jansen 4518577b24 Fixed incorrect tex-code for readline 1995-08-14 13:38:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fe4254eb08 warn about bacslash-s lacking 1995-08-11 00:31:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0dbd1fd46e correct description of integer division; describe optional read arg 1995-08-10 14:22:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3e43d8382c clarify optional status 1995-08-10 14:21:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0bbbea15e6 typos only 1995-08-10 14:21:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 95a5b9c949 correct description of list.insert() 1995-07-07 23:03:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d6ac380d39 fix bug in example (should close file at all times) 1995-07-07 23:01:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6b686e94a1 correct typo; document sys.platform 1995-07-07 23:00:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fb502e964f documented globals() and locals() 1995-07-07 22:58:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0bf8475108 documented default flag, mode; changed gdbm into a pointer to dbm 1995-07-07 22:55:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 96628a90c4 typos, layout and other small things 1995-04-10 11:34:00 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 02ee80d408 minor things 1995-04-04 12:29:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 25f6fcc550 more complete examples 1995-04-04 12:28:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f9adf48750 documented termios + TERMIOS 1995-03-31 12:26:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2ddd978fcc rewritten Abstract 1995-03-30 16:01:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 233aa1d4fc rewritten introduction 1995-03-30 16:01:15 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4bbe9c0add added WNOHANG 1995-03-30 16:00:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d45c1560e0 restructured docs for callback types 1995-03-30 11:47:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ecde781dd1 restructured library manual accordiung to functional group 1995-03-28 13:35:14 +00:00
Sjoerd Mullender ffd6de1049 New documentation on the CD module. 1995-03-28 11:56:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1b91cdae97 completed nntp docs 1995-03-24 15:56:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cca8d2bb48 some new material 1995-03-22 15:48:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 86cb0928e3 added nodename macro calls for new very long section names 1995-03-20 12:59:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f23e0fe3be micro change 1995-03-18 11:04:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 470be14c8a mass changes; fix titles; add examples; correct typos; clarifications; 
unified style; etc.
 1995-03-17 16:07:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6bb1adc7ee small changes by Soren Larsen 1995-03-13 10:03:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6c4f003202 changes (suggested) by Soren Larsen 1995-03-07 10:14:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d01c100713 clarified expanding %xx and form for print_form 1995-03-07 10:12:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 85c4ff298d added macdnr 1995-03-07 10:12:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ea6e19c3d4 added code objects 1995-03-07 10:11:15 +00:00
Guido van Rossum df804f8591 converted docs for Jim Roskind's profiler 1995-03-02 12:38:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f4aac48cc3 minor update 1995-03-02 12:37:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0bf4d892eb add warning about strop 1995-03-02 12:37:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum dc46c7f734 small nits and new files 1995-03-01 15:38:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 81b3060b14 en weer twee! 1995-03-01 14:36:00 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 51bbdfb2ff totally rewritten, for new macro set 1995-03-01 14:07:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8675115e5f a few typographical changes (e.g. -- => ---) and lots of new stuff in the WWW chapter 1995-02-28 17:14:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a12ef9433b added WWW sections 1995-02-27 17:53:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7defee7a06 document restriction on group names 1995-02-27 17:52:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8df3637fee changes refs to SO_* symbols 1995-02-27 17:52:15 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 61d34f47c3 added quote and unquote 1995-02-27 17:51:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d6304d09cc added cgi 1995-02-27 17:51:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a8db1df6aa document www interfaces 1995-02-16 16:29:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ed2bad8ef8 added lots of constants 1995-02-16 16:29:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5680b95b15 added list of restrictions 1995-02-16 16:29:01 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 817a842ad2 added www chapters 1995-02-16 16:28:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d1883588ae added docs for pickle, shelve and copy 1995-02-15 15:53:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e1ff7adbf6 added lots of useful info 1995-02-15 15:52:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4f4c9b42ba make __import__ 4-args 1995-02-15 15:52:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 626c1e7882 added libsignal.tex 1995-02-07 14:37:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7f49b7a1a4 cosmetics/typos 1995-01-12 12:38:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 28379703dc optional bufsize arg for popen and fdopen 1995-01-12 12:38:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 946805d418 new module 1995-01-10 10:51:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9c51e41201 sys.setcheckinterval(x) instead of sys.check_interval = x 1995-01-10 10:50:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f860162093 updated eval(), added execfile() 1995-01-10 10:50:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 31cce97374 copyright.tex: Add 1995 to copyright message. 
lib.tex: add libimp; remove bogus warning about lineii.
libmath.tex: document hypot().
libmd5.tex: rename md5.md5() to md5.new().
libposix.tex: document chown().
libposixfile.tex: openfile() instead of fileopen().
libsocket.tex: document gethostbyaddr().
libtypes.tex: add footnote explaining why readline() keeps the newline.
ref3.tex: correct typos, add back*quotes to index.
ref4.tex: don't use \verb inside footnote.
ref5.tex: explain repr() and str() and add them + back*quotes to index.
ref6.tex: correct typo, don't use \verb in footnote.
ref7.tex: don't use \verb in footnote.
 1995-01-04 19:17:34 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 411a8bd799 add hypot() 1994-10-20 22:00:28 +00:00
Sjoerd Mullender 9fd48ab27e Added missing \end{datadesc}. 1994-10-06 15:18:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 16cd7f9f12 Moved author and date to boilerplate.tex. 
Added copyright.tex to all files.
Added descr of check_interval to libsys.tex.
Corrected lotsa typos in tut.tex (thanks to George M. Sipe).
Corrected mktuple (should be newtupleobject) example in ext.tex.
 1994-10-06 10:29:26 +00:00
Sjoerd Mullender cd57dc3a98 Added documentation on the aifc module. 1994-09-29 16:46:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 91951481b8 added Tommy Burnette's setblocking() method 1994-09-07 14:39:14 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bd851cd167 * Doc/libtime.tex: get rid of references to millitime() and 
millisleep(); document clock()

	* Doc/ref6.tex (section{Assignment statements}): added warning
	about overlaps in lhs of assignment (e.g. "i, x[i] = 1, 2")
 1994-08-23 13:26:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2828e9dbd4 * Doc/libstring.tex (section{Standard Module \sectcode{string}}): 
removed references to {ato{f,i,l},index}_error
 1994-08-17 13:16:34 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1efbb0f002 Added docs for delattr 1994-08-16 22:15:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b8b264b165 * Doc/libfuncs.tex: don't use $math$ in description of pow(x,y,z); 
describe tuple()

	* Doc/libposixfile.tex: use tableiii instead of tableii, so
	partparse will work again (I know, chicken!)

	* Doc/libthread.tex: Added get_ident(); updated text on module
	availability

	* Doc/myformat.perl: Added sub do_cmd_Cpp
 1994-08-12 13:13:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 16d6e7109d Lots of small corrections by Andrew Kuchling (plus all new rotor docs) 1994-08-08 12:30:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b69e0958a5 Added gdbm docs 1994-08-08 08:03:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 781db5d0bb * Doc/libsocket.tex (subsection{Socket Object Methods}): 
documented gethostname() and a few misc things
 1994-08-05 13:37:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6938f06047 Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk 1994-08-01 12:22:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ab3a2504b9 libsocket.tex: send[to] returns nbytes. 
libstring.tex: added count().
ref2.tex: new keywords; moved keyword printing program to keywords.py.
 1994-08-01 12:18:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8b605eb06a documented writelines() 1994-06-23 12:14:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a84ec51965 clarify the meaning of address for those methods that or return addresses 1994-06-23 12:13:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7f61b3511c README: correct typo (lib.index) 
lib.tex: include libfcntl, libposixfile
myformat.sty: add tableii environment
libfcntl.tex, libposixfile.tex: docs contributed by Jaap V
 1994-05-19 09:09:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e6ef03260c * Doc/libtypes.tex: fix typo in table of list methods; clarify 
truncation behavior of floating point formatting

	* Doc/ref3.tex: clarify defaults for __repr__, __cmp__ and
	__str__; correct (some) descriptions of class constructors
 1994-05-09 14:54:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 041be05976 Documented optional bufsize argument to open() and the fact that mode 
is now also optional
 1994-05-03 14:46:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1738311dab Documented new built-in function vars(). 
Documented new formatting features: %s takes any type, and
'%(key)format' % dictionary.
Documented posixpath.expandvars().
 1994-04-21 10:32:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5da5755c4a adapt to min value of 1 for listen() backlog argument 1994-03-02 10:52:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 68cfbe7c93 Documented xrange; crossreffed lambda a bit more 1994-02-24 11:28:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c5c67bc367 At release 1.0.1. Scripts, Makefile, README: cosmetic changes and 
streamlined procedure; tut.tex: fixes by Tim Peters; libposix.tex:
added posix.fdopen; ext.tex: typos
 1994-02-15 15:59:23 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4290161d2d s.avail() has met its maker 1994-01-03 14:07:23 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 326c0bc241 Added symcomp and resulting new data items 1994-01-03 00:00:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5fdeeeae2a Restructured library documentation 1994-01-02 01:22:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 83eb962528 * {lib,ref,ext,tut}.tex: added explicit \date{<date> \\ <release>}. 
* lib2.tex: change bogus \\var to \var.
 1993-11-23 16:28:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum db65a6ce55 * ext.tex: did most of the tedious changes from plain ASCII text to LaTeX. 
* text2latex.py: automatically put function names in \code{}.
* lib.tex, ref.tex, ext.tex, qua.tex, tut.tex: use new P.O.Box number in
  address.
 1993-11-05 17:11:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 95cd2ef162 Incorporated Jan-Hein's changes and texinfo conversion. 1992-12-08 14:37:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6a11eb4e17 Initial revision 1992-06-03 17:59:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c7ff85d612 Documented new contents of lib5.tex 1992-06-03 17:56:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 379537805b Moved a4wide option to myformat.sty 1992-04-06 14:04:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bdbadd4ca1 Added style options twoside,a4wide,11pt 1992-03-31 19:12:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum be3eb96e2d Use \include instead of \input. 1992-03-24 13:34:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b75d8cea54 Moved macros to myformat.sty. 1992-03-06 10:56:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9b57385c9a Excitem now has only one argument. 1992-01-29 14:46:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1c462adaa8 Added indexing commands 1992-01-16 17:36:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1230c08b8e Changes needed for indexing. 1992-01-07 16:40:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 481ae68911 The Reference Manual is now official. 1991-11-25 17:28:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 19f1b8261e Renamed mod to lib; and split in 5 instead of 3 parts. 1991-11-12 15:41:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4410c758a1 *** empty log message *** 1991-06-04 20:22:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a9d5c228f9 Added \dataitem command; removed DRAFT from title; changed a word 
in the reference to the reference document.
 1991-04-23 14:11:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 958ab3dd72 Split into a root file (this one) and three subfile mod[123].tex. 1991-02-19 17:23:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8ec6350d78 Made function items bold; other changes? 1991-02-19 12:53:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d38b7648c0 Changed \begin{code} and \end{code} into \bcode and \ecode. 
Small lay-out improvements.
 1991-01-25 13:26:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0ed6918698 Small changes. 1991-01-24 16:54:15 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 515834a99b Initial revision 1991-01-22 11:45:29 +00:00