Fred Drake
eff9a87fcc
Lots of small markup adjustments for consistency with the rest of the
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documentation.
2000-10-26 16:41:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
bce920129c
Typo: shorted --> shorter
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This closes bug #117706 .
2000-10-25 23:22:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
53143bec9b
Since LookupError can be raised by sys.setdefaultencoding(), we should not
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document it as only being a base class, not matter how unlikely this is
to affect normal users.
2000-10-25 21:05:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
1dba66cb72
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com> noted that the encode() string method
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was added in 2.0.
2000-10-25 21:03:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
8940fafabd
Additions from Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>, documenting
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getdefaultencoding() and setdefaultencoding().
2000-10-25 21:02:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
1491cace2a
Several additions and updates based on text from Marc-Andre Lemburg
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<mal@lemburg.com>.
Lots of markup reformatting to make it easier for me to read & maintain.
2000-10-25 20:59:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
7497bd3e3d
Rename $PYTHON_VERSION to $PACKAGE_VERSION; this is the version number for
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whatever is being documented, not necessarily Python. (These tools are
also used for the How-To documents, etc.)
get_version_text(): New function. Returns HTML fragment describing the
software version and documentation date.
bot_navigation_panel(): Include the result of get_version_text() at the
end, so the information is available on every page.
2000-10-25 16:18:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
d04592a46b
Rename $PYTHON_VERSION to $PACKAGE_VERSION; this is the version number for
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whatever is being documented, not necessarily Python. (These tools are
also used for the How-To documents, etc.)
2000-10-25 16:15:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
e4359952c0
Remove some HTML from the PYTHONDOCS fragment defined here.
2000-10-25 16:12:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
6a11960ed4
Minor addition; add a little formatting to the release information that
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will be added to Doc/perl/l2hinit.perl shortly.
2000-10-25 16:10:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
7ceab739d0
Make this actually work now that the tool is checked in here instead of
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just sitting around in my working directory.
2000-10-24 19:59:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
277a21150b
Added entries for the xml.dom.minidom module.
2000-10-24 02:35:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
669d36f02c
Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>:
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Documentation for the xml.dom.minidom module & Python DOM API.
FLD: I have revised the markup in some places and added a few minor
details to Paul's text, but that's it. Given the substantial
structural differences with the bulk of the presentation, I will be
making additional revisions over the next few days.
2000-10-24 02:34:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
f61eac425a
Remove second horizontal line below table headers; it is just too
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distracting.
2000-10-24 02:18:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
8902442e2f
Added exception to the rule that the buffer returned by PyString_AsString()
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and PyString_AsStringAndSize() for strings that were just created using
PyString_FromStringAndSize(NULL, n).
This closes bug #117377 .
Added warning about passing NULL to the concrete object functions; many of
them use the appropriate Py<Type>_Check() test, but do not check for NULL.
"de-allocated" --> "deallocated"
2000-10-23 16:00:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
246f65f2bb
Correct the name of a parameter in the description of the register()
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function.
This closes bug #117467 .
2000-10-23 15:41:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
0579eb042c
More names.
2000-10-22 03:23:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
8c2fd49cc3
Added missing entry for invert() function.
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Added table mapping abstract operations to syntax to functions, based on
a suggestion from Bob Weiner <weiner@beopen.com>.
2000-10-22 03:19:30 +00:00
Greg Ward
7ef2ba796b
Minor tweaks to catch up with the current code in a few spots.
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Wrote the "Distutils Configuration Files" section.
2000-10-22 01:40:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
d097d48200
Flesh out the "LaTeX Primer" some more.
2000-10-20 20:51:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
860106ae90
Update the display of some floating point values at the interactive prompt
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to reflect current behavior.
This closes SourceForge bug #117305 .
Made a reference to the library reference a hyperlink.
Fixed some minor markup nits.
2000-10-20 03:03:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
a577aa2003
Remove the bzip2 archives from the "distfiles" target. There are not
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enough downloads to keep this around.
2000-10-19 13:25:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
4a41f54958
Two more names.
2000-10-19 05:58:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
692565c9e9
Helper scripts used in published the "development" snapshots of the
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Python documentation.
2000-10-19 05:54:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
63568aa9bb
Revise the capitalization policy of \versionchanged explanation; the
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explanation must now be capitalized. This is more consistent with the
\see* explanation fields.
Added a lot of material to the "LaTeX Primer" section.
2000-10-19 05:36:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
4a152630ca
Capitalize first letter of an explanation for a \versionchanged
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annotation.
2000-10-19 05:33:46 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
a8d10785f1
Correction from David Bolen: the Windows version no longer crashes
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on trying to import a 1.5 module
Bump the document version number
2000-10-19 01:42:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
75afc0b914
Document the .lastindex and .lastgroup attributes of MatchObject
2000-10-18 23:08:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
ba0a989988
Make all the \seemodule explanations consistent: start with a capitalized
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letter and end with proper punctuation. "Documenting Python" will be
updated accordingly so that this will be editorial policy for the Python
documentation.
2000-10-18 17:43:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
510dfbad3d
Capitalize & use periods for \seemodule explanation parameter.
2000-10-18 16:47:52 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
ad6f2c8007
Bump version number -- this document is pretty much finished!
2000-10-17 13:02:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
b4b401eda3
Update the links to the NumPy website and documentation, based on a
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comment from Janko Hauser <jhauser@ifm.uni-kiel.de>.
2000-10-17 04:58:01 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
f155170f09
Correct form of FourThought's name
2000-10-16 14:19:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
89fb035248
For PyErr_Format(), note that the exception parameter can be a string or
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class, but not an instance (since an instance will be created using the
formatted message string as the constructor parameter).
2000-10-14 05:49:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
3c8c2f9b77
Adjust the Macintosh manual to have the formatting dependencies for
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manuals instead of howtos.
2000-10-14 05:47:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
21c9df7641
For os.stat() & friends, note that the time fields are returned as
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floating-point values.
2000-10-14 05:46:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
e764968649
Update dependencies for the Macintosh manual.
2000-10-14 05:44:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
c25296a916
Update to include all the new chapters & sections.
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Convert from a howto to a manual, so we can *have* chapters!
Comment out the macconsole module documentation; Think C seems to have
disappeared.
2000-10-14 05:41:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
c7babad2a0
Remove everything that is not module documentation.
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It is no longer needed here.
2000-10-14 05:39:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
8e850ee0f2
Fix some internal references that I botched.
2000-10-14 05:24:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
45aa573186
Chapter on how to use MacPython, by Bob Savage <bobsavage@mac.com>.
2000-10-14 05:09:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
4d0d621b66
Chapters on Mac Toolbox modules and other undocumented modules, ready to
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be filled in with real information. Contributed by Chris Barker
<cbarker@jps.net>.
2000-10-14 05:08:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
1bd905e901
Documentation for the aepack and aetypes modules, by Vincent Marchetti
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<vincem@en.com>.
2000-10-14 05:06:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
8f6ca1518a
Chris Barker <cbarker@jps.net>:
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Small fixes.
2000-10-14 04:59:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
eab58af841
Chris Barker <cbarker@jps.net>:
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Various updates and additions.
2000-10-14 04:56:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
26fbd8b692
Chris Barker <cbarker@jps.net>:
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Small clarification, remove the assertion that the module is temporary.
2000-10-14 04:55:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
658865c370
Chris Barker <cbarker@jps.net>:
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Added summary of the strengths and weaknesses of the FrameWork module
and fixed some typos.
2000-10-14 04:53:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
f459a09e9a
Wrap a long line.
2000-10-14 04:49:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
b6441e78fb
More names.
2000-10-14 04:47:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
eecdc7f47e
A bunch of nits fix and some additional information added by Chris
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Barker <cbarker@jps.net>.
2000-10-14 04:45:22 +00:00