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
Fred Drake
f54519d9e4
Update to push the docs to python.org instead of python.sf.net.
2002-04-01 20:15:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
f4dd65db1d
Copy section on generators from the 2.2 document with a bit of rewriting
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Add an item
2002-04-01 19:28:09 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
9da3efd120
Mention 2.2.1 in intro and in bug/patch counts
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Fix two typos spotted by Joonas Paalasmaa
2002-04-01 19:22:34 +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
Fred Drake
c9319b37a5
Minor adjustments.
2002-04-01 18:49:45 +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
fe5a5388c3
Use the right types for a couple of fields of the type structure.
2002-03-29 22:46:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
0ffd14c9ea
Started updating information about defining attributes on types.
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There's still a long way to go, but we're starting to see some real
content in the docs.
2002-03-29 22:45:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
b1af6376e9
Mark a couple of types that had not been marked.
2002-03-28 23:46:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
0f9a34da2c
Added comments for more entries of the type structure in the example
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type implementation.
2002-03-28 23:45:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
2ab0a10913
The new files included by \verbatiminput in newtypes.tex.
2002-03-28 23:32:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
81b750d467
Move some of the longer example code to external fragments, and
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include them using \verbatiminput. This has the advantage that pages
can still break at reasonable places, and examples that go longer than
a page won't get cut off.
Make a few small markup adjustments for consistency.
Explain that PyObject_New() is not a C function but a polymorphic
beast that returns a pointer to the type that's passed as the first
arg.
Explain why type objects use the PyObject_VAR_HEAD.
2002-03-28 23:12:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
e9fba9188e
Added index entries.
2002-03-28 22:36:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
00f712ee24
Extend \verbatiminput so that the typeset version provides the same appearance
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as a verbatim environment. (The HTML version is already fine.)
2002-03-28 22:28:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
8d62e94761
Minor wording change.
2002-03-28 21:06:17 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
bb6bbc45c0
add exception class hierarchy. This should probably be done differently,
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but at least the content is there.
2002-03-28 20:53:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
31f8483eef
Allow a page break in a code longish example.
2002-03-28 20:19:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
47cdf6fb6f
Add documentation on the hasfree data object.
2002-03-28 19:34:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
e3a3ceb2b1
Minor consistency adjustments.
2002-03-28 12:40:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
7bf9715a8b
Introduce two new flag bits that can be set in a PyMethodDef method
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descriptor, as used for the tp_methods slot of a type. These new flag
bits are both optional, and mutually exclusive. Most methods will not
use either. These flags are used to create special method types which
exist in the same namespace as normal methods without having to use
tedious construction code to insert the new special method objects in
the type's tp_dict after PyType_Ready() has been called.
If METH_CLASS is specified, the method will represent a class method
like that returned by the classmethod() built-in.
If METH_STATIC is specified, the method will represent a static method
like that returned by the staticmethod() built-in.
These flags may not be used in the PyMethodDef table for modules since
these special method types are not meaningful in that case; a
ValueError will be raised if these flags are found in that context.
2002-03-28 05:33:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
ed6a886d9f
Ignore new output directory.
2002-03-27 20:37:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
2e64c34850
Expose C library's gettext. Fixes #516412 .
2002-03-27 18:49:02 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
8a79727b53
add seealso referring to site module doc where people can learn how to
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extend sys.path using .pth files.
2002-03-27 17:29:50 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
9e38c100ab
fix a typo in PyErr_Format table and add row for 'p' format char
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closes bug 534495
2002-03-27 13:42:50 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
03594bbb0e
Fill in this document a bit, adding reminders of items that should be included
2002-03-27 02:29:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
4e526feb6a
Add the "What's New" document to the index of HTML documents.
2002-03-26 20:29:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
69f0a8e42f
The <link> to the stylesheet should include the type attribute.
2002-03-26 19:57:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
3014086fbf
Wire up the makefile to more fully support the "What's New" documents.
2002-03-26 19:53:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
9ac14decde
Wire in the "What's New" document.
2002-03-26 19:18:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
03e1031d67
Add a starter for the next "What's New" document.
2002-03-26 19:17:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
15fc72ce77
Make \url to force horizontal mode.
2002-03-26 19:14:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
57f8e06e4f
Document the finditer() function and method.
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This closes SF bug #520904 .
Explain that many of the escapes supported by string literals are also
supported by the RE compiler, and list which ones.
This closes SF bug #529923 .
2002-03-25 20:22:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
3787c9d94c
Added description of binhex.Error.
2002-03-25 16:37:56 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
1e962cb61b
document InvalidURL exception
2002-03-24 16:55:57 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer
ccbb0edf0e
Add local_hostname to SMTP.__init__().
2002-03-24 15:41:40 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer
194152845c
Fix example for PyErr_SetFromErrno() (need to pass exception type).
2002-03-23 20:57:11 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer
79f181395b
Add more example exceptions that unpickling can raise.
2002-03-22 22:16:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
cf43004b83
Fix broken HTML in the head; this was reported by a user as causing Opera 6.01
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to crash. The user has reported the problem to Opera, but we still should
generate something that passes for HTML.
2002-03-22 17:22:38 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
e22d3dfcc1
Fix grammar
2002-03-21 12:58:54 +00:00
Walter Dörwald
b25c2b0a4a
[Apply SF patch #504943 ]
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This patch makes it possible to pass Warning instances as the first
argument to warnings.warn. In this case the category argument
will be ignored. The message text used will be str(warninginstance).
2002-03-21 10:38:40 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
1abca4a515
SF# 522426, add doc for common parameter for filecmp.cmpfiles()
2002-03-20 18:55:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
1268678395
Adjust some poor wording in the text that explains what events are used
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for (reported by Keith Briggs).
Wrap some very long lines.
2002-03-19 14:37:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
2f31d561d5
Clarify that copy_reg.pickle() is not intended for use with "classic" classes.
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This was stated before, but a minor grammatical error made it difficult to be
sure of the meaning.
This closes SF bug #530143 .
2002-03-19 03:33:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
f6eafc3fe1
Fix up unescaped tilde; reported by several people.
2002-03-18 16:47:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
a8b663806b
Remove extra verb; reported by Detlef Lannert.
2002-03-18 16:45:01 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
5c137c2251
Patch #495598 : add an -q (quiet) option to pycompile.
2002-03-18 12:44:08 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
10acc8f9e2
added note that xmlrpclib won't marshal instances of subclasses of the
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builtin types
2002-03-17 23:15:02 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
587c98c863
Patch #430706 : Persistent connections in BaseHTTPServer.
2002-03-17 18:37:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
8e0c82a35f
Fix stupid typo in example.
2002-03-16 14:01:12 +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
f275803fe9
Clarify the descriptions of the positive and negative lookbehind assertions.
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Added examples of positive lookbehind assertions.
This closes SF bug #529708 .
2002-03-16 05:58:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
0e4cd7f267
pdfTeX 0.13 and 0.14 do not agree on the name of the macro, and I will not
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change the installed version on either of the machines I use to format the
docs. Instead, use a compatibility hack to support both versions. This is
also better for external users of the Python styles.
2002-03-16 04:52:36 +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
7fe80a1085
Make the release status obvious in the title area.
2002-03-15 22:38:16 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
dc8d40717c
update text to refer to ServerProxy class in preference to Server, which is
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only retained for backward compatibility with older versions of the library.
2002-03-14 17:35:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
5d117472b4
Describe how to support the iterator protocol in extension types.
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This closes SF bug #420851 .
2002-03-13 03:55:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
e789ea19c1
Extend the list of special characters and magic markup used to produce them
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to include various characters used in code samples, URLs, and other special
contexts.
This closes SF bug #525684 .
2002-03-13 02:48:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
f171ad9d99
Change the way \textasciitilde is implemented so it works more consistently
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(dropping tildes into data that still goes through LaTeX-like processing is
a bad idea).
2002-03-13 02:44:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
6ccdccd35d
Add a note that Py_None needs the same reference count treatment as any
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other PyObject *.
This closes SF bug #494007 .
2002-03-12 20:12:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
f981617645
"level" keyword argument in example should be "stacklevel".
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This closes SF bug #517684 .
2002-03-12 19:49:31 +00:00
Tim Peters
8f01b680c8
Change Windows file.truncate() to (a) restore the original file position,
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and (b) stop trying to prevent file growth.
Beef up the file.truncate() docs.
Change test_largefile.py to stop assuming that f.truncate() moves the
file pointer to the truncation point, and to verify instead that it leaves
the file position alone. Remove the test for what happens when a
specified size exceeds the original file size (it's ill-defined, according
to the Single Unix Spec).
2002-03-12 03:04:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
314bae50b9
Documentation for PyObject_GetIter(), contributed by Greg Chapman
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(with only minor changes by Fred).
This closes SF bug #498607 .
2002-03-11 18:46:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
e38b7e8fe9
Make the extension manual format using the Makefile; recent changes broke
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the dependency information.
2002-03-11 18:42:08 +00:00
Tim Peters
fb05db2cae
file_truncate(): provide full "large file" support on Windows, by
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dropping MS's inadequate _chsize() function. This was inspired by
SF patch 498109 ("fileobject truncate support for win32"), which I
rejected.
libstdtypes.tex: Someone who knows should update the availability
blurb. For example, if it's available on Linux, it would be good to
say so.
test_largefile: Uncommented the file.truncate() tests, and reworked to
do more. The old comment about "permission errors" in the truncation
tests under Windows was almost certainly due to that the file wasn't open
for *write* access at this point, so of course MS wouldn't let you
truncate it. I'd be appalled if a Unixish system did.
CAUTION: Someone should run this test on Linux (etc) too. The
truncation part was commented out before. Note that test_largefile isn't
run by default.
2002-03-11 00:24:00 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
27761f39a5
Patch #500136 : Update Update ext build documentation. 2.2.1 candidate.
2002-03-09 10:06:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
632bda3aa0
Add more explanation of how data_files is used (esp. where the files end up
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in the installation and how that location is determined).
2002-03-08 22:02:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
10b3eac278
[Bug #486527 ] Note that the caller has to ensure there are no control
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characters in strings being passed via XML-RPC.
Fix some typos.
2.2.1 bugfix candidate.
2002-03-08 17:46:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
02d2212c8e
Add entry for mac/libscrap.tex.
2002-03-08 03:18:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
f3e6f06a45
I started writing more documentation on the Scrap module at one point, but
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it is difficult to do without a Mac box to try things out on. This expands
on what was there only a little bit; hopefully someone with a Mac can work
on this as well!
2002-03-08 03:15:49 +00:00
Piers Lauder
a4f8313cbb
add SSL class submitted by Tino Lange
2002-03-08 01:53:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
6cb64f9e46
"Shortcut" should be "short-circuit".
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This closes SF bug #526277 .
2002-03-08 00:54:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
da8a6dd072
Added missing version annotation for dict().
2002-03-06 02:29:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
58fb237948
Add implementations for \textgreater and \textless, defined in (relatively)
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recent versions of LaTeX2e but not support in LaTeX2HTML.
2002-03-05 04:04:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
9479c958c5
Remove extra indenatation from sample interpreter session.
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Remove whitespace from the middle of an inline RE example; it was OK for
the typeset formats, but LaTeX2HTML is more touchy about this.
2002-03-05 04:02:39 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
a8e1d81bdc
add simple example of avoiding backtracking
2002-03-04 23:08:28 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
29001ff234
Patch #523268 , #522027 : return enhanced tuples.
2002-03-01 10:47:37 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
dbd55b3737
Patch #523268 , #522027 : return enhanced tuples.
2002-03-01 10:38:44 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
9986633609
Patch 520694: arraymodule.c improvements:
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- make array.array a type
- add Py_UNICODE arrays
- support +=, *=
2002-03-01 10:27:01 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson
494cdb6d78
Add 2002 to PSF copyrights.
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Doc/README is odd; it assigns some copyright to the PSF in 2000, when
I didn't think it existed...
2002-02-27 13:29:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
b6b2aa6c75
Fix error in explanation of the interaction between $ and MULTILINE mode.
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Reported by Steve Alexander.
2002-02-25 18:56:45 +00:00
Tim Peters
9f4341b3b0
SF bug #501591 : dir() doc is old
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Bugfix candidate.
+ Updated dir() description to match actual 2.2 behavior.
+ Replaced the dir(sys) example with dir(struct), because the former
was way out of date and is bound to change frequently, while the
latter is stable.
+ Added a note cautioning that dir() is supplied primarily for
convenience at an interactive prompt (hoping to discourage its
use as the foundation of introspective code outside the core).
2002-02-23 04:40:15 +00:00
Greg Ward
f8b1f2431b
Grammar tweak.
2002-02-22 21:24:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
216cbca195
Typo: thsi -> this. Closes SF bug #521450 .
2002-02-22 15:40:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
8371e840d2
Correct the refcount information for the PyWeakref_GetObject() function.
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This closes SF bug #520087 .
2002-02-20 05:07:36 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
ba902fda3c
SF #515041 , Update path for 2.3
2002-02-19 02:58:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
e73ad2a21f
Use the standard expression for the availability statement for alarm().
2002-02-15 20:59:43 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
8d1fdafd89
note that the alarm function is not available on Windows.
2002-02-15 20:36:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
960d7a68d0
Added deprecatioon information for mac.xstat().
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This closes SF bug #505150 .
2002-02-15 14:35:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
928051fb26
The "%" character does not need to be escaped in verbatim environments.
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This closes SF bug #517811 .
2002-02-15 04:12:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
7bc6f7ac7b
Consistently use \textasciicircum to produce a ^ character.
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LaTeX really falls flat on this one!
2002-02-14 15:19:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
c121745fda
Update the instructions on reporting bugs to reflect that anonymous reports
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are no longer accepted.
2002-02-04 21:43:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
baf43c5036
When linking to an index page, explicitly name index.html instead of
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using "./". The later does not work nicely when browsing docs on a local
disk (as in the installed docs on Windows).
2002-02-04 21:15:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
210d3cca86
Update version number to match Include/patchlevel.h.
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Make sure we clean up all the temp files craeted for the typeset formats.
2002-02-04 19:49:29 +00:00