Fred Drake
6ba0a3c30a
Denis S. Otkidach <ods@users.sourceforge.net>:
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Minor fix in documentation of code module.
(Clarifies output destination for default implementation of the write()
method.)
2000-09-14 20:42:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
7a666b83c8
Remove reference to the stdwin-based windowed debugger, since stdwin
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is gone.
Make a module reference into a hyperlink.
2000-09-14 20:32:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
bd2d4f1252
Use the \setshortversion macro to specify the abbreviated version number.
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This partially addresses SourceForge bug #114318 .
Fix the release number -- this is supposed to be the *Python* release,
not the documentation release! The later is given by the combination of
the Python release number and the date. Add a comment so I can keep it
straight.
2000-09-14 20:28:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
d5d0435617
Use \shortversion in a number of places.
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This partially addresses SourceForge bug #114318 .
2000-09-14 20:24:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
3cdb89d5ec
do_cmd_shortversion(),
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do_cmd_setshortversion(): Implementation for new markup.
convert_args(): New helper function.
do_cmd_optional(): Modified to understand when it is called from within
a convert_args() invocation.
do_env_funcdesc(),
do_env_funcdescni(),
do_cmd_funcline(),
do_cmd_funclineni(),
handle_classlike_descriptor(),
do_env_methoddesc(),
do_end_methoddescni(),
do_cmd_methodline(),
do_cmd_methodlineni(): Modified to use helper convert_args().
The convert_args() helper and related changes fix the generation of HTML
for the \optional markup, so that bogus </var>...<var> is not generated.
This closes SourceForge bug #113800 .
2000-09-14 20:17:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
af2b71466a
\shortversion,
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\setshortversion: New markup to help deal with Python having a "real"
version number and an abbreviated version number
used to create pathnames to the library installation.
2000-09-14 20:11:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
1fe3b82371
Avoid reference to specific versions of Python where possible.
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This partially addresses SourceForge bug #114318 .
2000-09-14 18:25:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
933f0c38ef
Avoid reference to specific versions of Python where possible.
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This partially addresses SourceForge bug #114318 .
2000-09-14 18:12:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
66d32b1e12
Add some index entries to make it easier to find information on
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%-formatting of strings.
2000-09-14 17:57:42 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
ddef8887db
Include a link to Francois's po-utils.
2000-09-13 12:04:47 +00:00
Greg Ward
8c56259a3d
Fix install directories on Mac OS (now that the "install" command
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does the right thing).
2000-09-13 00:12:37 +00:00
Greg Ward
1ed49eeb29
Changed/added a bunch of section labels so HTML files will be named nicely.
2000-09-13 00:00:58 +00:00
Greg Ward
e24f05e25b
Improve Windows and Mac OS-specific instructions for running the
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setup script. Also added a comment about how it *should* work on Mac OS.
2000-09-12 23:55:19 +00:00
Greg Ward
078fc0816d
Typo fix -- it's 'ext_modules', not 'extensions'.
2000-09-12 23:08:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
e92cdba105
Documentation is good. Let's release more.
2000-09-12 21:08:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
0b25053ca0
Make this script handle PyVarObject* functions as well as PyObject*
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functions.
2000-09-12 20:47:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
31f5550fbe
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>:
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Reference manual docs for augmented assignment.
This closes SourceForge patch #101418 .
2000-09-12 20:32:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
7740a01096
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>:
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Fix up some of the PyNumber_*() documentation.
Add documentation for the InPlace API calls.
2000-09-12 20:27:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
f913e542be
Vladimir Marangozov <Vladimir.Marangozov@inrialpes.fr>:
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Here are some changes to the C API docs. The memory examples & API have
been updated because one malloc family is gone (Py_Malloc).
You'll see other small additions to the "building new types" section
for completeness and some cleanup at the end of the memory section.
2000-09-12 20:17:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
c56817353d
Re-wrapped some wide comments.
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Fixed Module Index generation.
2000-09-12 20:13:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
b7cf378023
Add note that the various \see* macros are only defined in the context
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of a seealso environment.
2000-09-12 19:58:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
5dc6104729
Change the title of the link to the document index to be more specific.
2000-09-12 19:53:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
ae86d43f11
Add a reference item pointing to the Namespaces in XML recommendation.
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Convert the existing reference items to \seetitle markup.
2000-09-12 17:53:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
48449985f4
\seetitle: New macro for building reference list content.
2000-09-12 17:52:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
1349437e4c
When referring to namespaces, always say "namespaces" instead of
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"name spaces".
Inconsistency noted by Keith Briggs <keith.briggs@bt.com>.
2000-09-12 16:23:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
81cccb7563
Added documentation for PySequence_Fast() and PySequence_Fast_GET_ITEM().
2000-09-12 15:22:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
aafc0c4595
When formatting the API manual, use the generated api.tex rather than
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the original, since the refcount information has been added there.
2000-09-12 15:20:54 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
b655939d69
add index entries for list comprehensions
2000-09-11 16:31:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
88fa9627b1
Some updates and fix a bunch of really small consistency nits.
2000-09-11 05:23:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
08c5d0cdcb
Add documentation for the \pep and \seepep macros.
2000-09-11 05:22:30 +00:00
Greg Ward
14deaaec12
Minor tweaks to get rid of some '\XXX' remarks.
2000-09-11 00:33:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
643d76d735
Add support for new \pep, \seepep, excclassdesc markup.
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Update processing of module synopsis tables (found at the beginning of
most chapters of the library reference) to reflect changes in the
processing pattern of recent versions LaTeX2HMTL. Requires most
recent change to SynopsisTable.pm.
This does not fix the module index problem.
2000-09-09 06:07:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
4e607964d1
excclassdesc: New environment. For use in documenting class-based
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exceptions which have interesting constructor signatures.
\pep, \seepep: New macros. Equivalent to \rfc and \seerfc, but
referring to the PEP series instead of the Internet RFC
series of documents.
2000-09-09 06:01:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
75c6cb909c
Add support for a filename to record the name of the node in which the
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table will be presented. Accessor methods are used to access the
attribute.
2000-09-09 05:53:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
1b194f927d
Add a reference to the material on string methods.
2000-09-09 05:34:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
f96e0d203b
Various clarifications and minor nits fixed. Affected descriptions of
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input(), locals(), reload(), unicode(), and zip().
2000-09-09 03:33:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
1172a85175
Really minor consistency nit.
2000-09-09 03:31:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
66571cc20c
Improve a couple of references to the language reference, making them
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hyperlinks to relevant sections.
Clarify the conditions under which the "softspace" attribute of file-like
objects can "just work" (with relation to overriding of attribute access
in user-defined classes).
2000-09-09 03:30:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
7acb21866c
Minor clarifications in the introductory paragraph.
2000-09-09 03:28:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
e544191397
Add \modulesynopsis for inclusion in the list of modules at the beginning
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of the chapter.
Add explanation that this is only available when the cycle detector is
enabled at build time.
2000-09-09 03:26:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
1c4efad770
Move the "See also" section to a location more consistent with other
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module sections. Properly mark the name of the module in the content
of the reference there.
2000-09-09 03:25:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
621d2bee1c
Move description of UserString.MutableString to a location more typical
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of the arrangement of other modules.
2000-09-09 03:23:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
1c25803647
Add a brief section on linking Python as an embedded scripting language.
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This closes SourceForge bug #110833 .
2000-09-08 22:54:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
90f876798f
When building the HTML packages, make sure we pick up all the HTML files
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at the top level of the tree.
2000-09-08 21:54:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
a61bfa84c9
Add a general "About" page and link to it from the index page.
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This fixes SourceForge bug #113810 .
2000-09-08 21:53:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
6c8affe590
Remove an item that no longer needs to be done for 2.0.
2000-09-07 21:11:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
ae3a15c396
Make the HTML more XHTML-friendly.
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Small nits in the layout of the generated markup.
2000-09-07 20:07:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
31edf4defb
Wrap some long lines.
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Note that \file and \filenq do not work inside section titles.
2000-09-07 20:06:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
5cd0cefbd2
Remove the specific date -- back in development mode.
2000-09-07 18:56:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
d0726c3cd9
\file is not allowed in section titles -- converting to PDF fails due to
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weird macro-expansion issues. A better solution may be available in the
future, but this will do for now.
Add an index entry. More should probably be added as well.
2000-09-07 18:55:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
88c023b863
Remove comment about -X and string exceptions. Error noted by
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Justin D. Pettit <jpettit@raznick.com>.
2000-09-07 16:33:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
6300bd42a4
Added note about Python version this was added for.
2000-09-07 14:01:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
77a6c9ece5
Minor markup nits around use of \optional.
2000-09-07 14:00:51 +00:00
Greg Ward
b652897456
Greatly enhanced the section on creating built distributions; in
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particular wrote up creating RPMs in detail.
Other scattered improvements.
2000-09-07 02:40:37 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
4d46d38292
Add new section "What About Python 1.6?"
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Document some things in the 2.0 NEWS files that should be mentioned here.
2000-09-06 17:58:49 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
d500e44297
Removed mention of the winreg module, since it was deleted from 2.0b1
2000-09-06 12:30:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
8b2e8f846c
Added a \versionadded statement to the getfqdn() description.
2000-09-06 02:22:16 +00:00
Greg Ward
54589d4d97
General overhaul of the "Creating a Source Distribution" section --
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better explanation of manifest files, in particular.
2000-09-06 01:37:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
239e1d5e50
Fix mkhowto so that the bookmarks for the PDF work for both "howto" and
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"manual" class documents.
2000-09-05 21:45:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
8bdf0bf705
Fix PDF generation.
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The \\ introduced in the \author in boilerplate.tex broke the PDF
generation because line breaks are not allowed in the "Document Info"
metadata stored in the PDF file. This changes the line break to
a ", " (comma-space) in that context.
2000-09-05 15:19:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
82de71dae8
Minor nit to make this work a little better with the PDF generation fix.
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This does not change the HTML or PostScript output.
2000-09-05 15:11:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
8ff4cd7512
Minor markup revisions for consistency with the rest of the documentation.
2000-09-05 13:50:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
0d83f68fc9
Added entry for mmap module.
2000-09-05 13:49:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
c28425f4c6
Update license according to the LICENSE file in the source tree.
2000-09-05 04:32:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
05e4ef01a2
Set the date.
2000-09-05 03:13:38 +00:00
Greg Ward
47f99a6174
Fleshed out the section on the setup config file, setup.cfg.
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Added a few clarifying footnotes and cross-references.
Various minor tweaks.
2000-09-04 20:07:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
5e08a01a98
Various corrections pointed out by Detlef Lannert
2000-09-04 17:59:27 +00:00
Moshe Zadka
57a5932f13
Update documentation for PyErr_Format, because the function has changed.
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Connected to patch 100895
2000-09-01 09:47:20 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
21fbd540ed
Document the new optional argument "rest" on the transfercmd(),
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ntransfercmd(), and retrbinary() commands. This closes SF patch
#101187 .
2000-09-01 06:32:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
e0d9a83bea
Document PyImport_AppendInittab(), PyImport_ExtendInittab(), and
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struct _inittab.
This closes SourceForge bug #111499 .
2000-09-01 05:30:00 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
b709df3810
refactor __del__ exception handler into PyErr_WriteUnraisable
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add sanity check to gc: if an exception occurs during GC, call
PyErr_WriteUnraisable and then call Py_FatalEror.
2000-09-01 02:47:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
65faf118b6
Fix markup error and minor consistency nit.
2000-08-31 19:35:56 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
ee5adfbae6
add user-modifiable recursion_limit
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ceval.c:
define recurion_limit (static), default value is 2500
define Py_GetRecursionLimit and Py_SetRecursionLimit
raise RuntimeError if limit is exceeded
PC/config.h:
remove plat-specific definition
sysmodule.c:
add sys.(get|set)recursionlimit
2000-08-31 19:23:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
aef0e890b5
Document the limitation that urllib does not work with proxies which
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require authenication. This is an implementation limitation rather than
required behavior, and may be fixed in the future.
This closes SourceForge bug #111725 .
2000-08-31 17:23:35 +00:00
Greg Ward
e3cca26627
Added abstract.
2000-08-31 16:36:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
4c3f797128
UNARY_NEG is supposed to be UNARY_NEGATIVE (spotted by Charles Waldman
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<cgw@fnal.gov>).
Fix minor problem with EXTENDED_ARG description markup..
2000-08-31 16:26:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
7e861bd1b3
Update some version information for tools based on prodding from Greg Ward.
2000-08-31 15:29:38 +00:00
Greg Ward
1365a300a1
Get rid of "sec:" prefix that slipped into a couple of \label's.
2000-08-31 14:47:05 +00:00
Sjoerd Mullender
1c8feae411
New method getnamespace.
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Since the application never gets to see the namespace abbreviation
used in the XML document, but some applications may need to know them,
we provide this method.
2000-08-31 10:27:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
f730fc3e4e
Be a little more careful to avoid including style information in the
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generated markup.
Don't be careless with the navigation icons! We should use the blank
icon where there is not anyplace to go for a particular position in the
navigation bar.
2000-08-31 07:19:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
3eb7c126cd
Always room to remove more formatting from the HTML!
2000-08-31 07:15:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
501b926da9
Move common parameters to mkhowto to a variable, add up-link from the
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generated documents to the document index.
2000-08-31 07:00:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
dfa539d770
Add --up-link and --up-title parameters to allow linking the top level
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of the generated document to an external index. These correspond to the
-up_url and -up_title parameters of LaTeX2HTML.
2000-08-31 06:58:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
3be2074758
Push some table header formatting to the style sheet; this also helps
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separate some of the ties between l2hinit.perl and python.perl.
Revamp the "title page" construction to allow more flexibility.
2000-08-31 06:22:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
0154fea5f4
Remove obsolete scripts.
2000-08-31 06:15:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
8bc627a402
Add --l2h-init option, which can augment the standard LaTeX2HTML
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initialization with additional Perl files. This can be given more
than once.
2000-08-31 06:14:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
b9b4c5b560
Centralize the processing logic for LaTeX documents into the mkhowto script;
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do not use mkdvi.sh or mkhtl.sh any more.
This slows down building all versions of the documentation, but if you are
only building one format, it does not matter.
2000-08-31 06:12:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
fcab76350a
Relocate the popen2 documentation since it is now substantially more
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portable.
2000-08-31 06:09:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
17e6343d2d
Document PyOS_CheckStack().
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Fix a couple of really minor markup nits.
2000-08-31 05:50:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
33642acef5
Added note about documenting the SSL support in the socket module.
2000-08-31 05:08:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
eacc4fc5e6
Push a little more here to avoid style information in the generation
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scripts as much as possible.
2000-08-30 15:02:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
4973b35991
Remove the reference to stdwin. The comment was still true, but no
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longer meaningful to a new user, since stdwin is long gone.
2000-08-30 14:33:02 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
7b828a6a56
doc changes to parallel changes to calendar.py module
2000-08-30 14:02:25 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
3cdb5761c5
Fix markup error
2000-08-30 12:55:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
d576e9df5f
Markup revisions. Nothing was actually required to be able to format it,
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but many conventions were broken.
2000-08-30 04:19:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
47eceeaaa4
Added a couple of links to online documentation. Reasonable since this
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file is not used in the online documentation.
2000-08-30 03:30:40 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
28b815f28a
Oops, spell MAL's name right.
2000-08-30 03:28:17 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
0691a6b8ed
Documentation for the gettext module.
2000-08-30 03:27:10 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
058365aec5
Added libgettext.tex
2000-08-30 03:26:17 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
43737641c2
Removed forgotten text in list comprehensions section (taken from the Haskell
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description of listcomps and used as inspiration)
Rearranged sections (which accounts for much of the size of the diffs)
Added section on augmented assignment
Mentioned 'print >>file'
Broke up the "Core Changes" section into subsections
2000-08-30 00:51:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
699f98c09a
Move a little more here.
2000-08-29 21:57:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
fcb8725de5
Add a --style option to allow specifying an alternate CSS style sheet for
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HTML generation; the machinery was there but no option to set it was
defined.
Simplify some of the path-math since we can assume a recent version of
Python.
2000-08-29 18:15:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
78430b655f
Add a comment noting that the dependency information is stored in
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Makefile.deps.
2000-08-29 16:30:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
7e1a1d0c89
These files are not part of the current plan.
2000-08-29 06:08:06 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
33f785fc1e
Document "print >> None"
2000-08-29 04:57:34 +00:00
Moshe Zadka
a1a4b5916b
Closing patch #101120 -- After everyone agreed.
2000-08-25 21:47:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
0308ff8652
Add reference to RFC 2396 in "See also" section.
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Minor cleanups.
2000-08-25 17:29:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
dfca4dc503
Revised documentation relevant to SourceForge patch #100837
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(simplify making HTTP POST requests).
Added documentation of URLopener.version and how it can be overridden.
2000-08-25 05:13:42 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
99a3701618
Documentation for poll() interface (SF patch #100852 )
2000-08-25 01:21:28 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
12bba852a9
Rough and incomplete documentation on augmented assignment, which follows
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shortly. Markup also needs checking.
2000-08-24 20:06:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3d0c77b37c
Addresses the other half of Bug #112634 -- the documentation suggested
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that you can set self.version *after* calling the base class __init__.
In fact it must be done *before*.
(Fred, maybe the version class variable should be documented now?)
2000-08-24 16:20:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
45ca3331d9
Move references to RFCs to a "See also" section for consistency with
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other sections of the library reference.
2000-08-24 04:58:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
9fa4d61bcc
Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>:
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Documentation updates for urlretrieve() and URLopener.retrieve(), to
reflect Randall Hopper's patch for those functions.
This closes SourceForge patch #100837 .
2000-08-24 01:06:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
8377f5debf
Make sure Thomas Wouters has enough to do. ;-)
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(Some of this is in-progress; this also serves as a reminded to me to
check this out once it is written.)
2000-08-24 00:50:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
093272ea85
Charles G. Waldman <cgw@fnal.gov>:
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Update the dis module documentation to reflect the EXTENDED_ARG opcode.
2000-08-24 00:37:50 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
323fe5df6a
fix list comprehension discussion to use \keyword macro instead of simply
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quoting keywords.
2000-08-23 17:03:34 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
297bf7ceb5
update commonprefix doc to make sure user is aware it works
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character-by-character and that that behavior may result in it returning
prefixes that are not valid paths
2000-08-23 16:58:32 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
46dfa5f4ed
require list comprehensions to start with a for clause
2000-08-22 02:43:07 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
9087688581
Describe the new PRINT_ITEM_TO and PRINT_NEWLINE_TO opcodes.
2000-08-21 17:19:00 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
8c0a242289
PEP 214, Extended print Statement, has been accepted by the BDFL.
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Document the extended print form. Fred, please double check the
markup!
2000-08-21 15:45:16 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
120beb6b67
Strengthen the warning against using SerialCookie and SmartCookie.
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(If they're security holes, should they be documented at all?)
Minor rewrites.
2000-08-20 23:33:50 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
8bad612881
Disallow "import mod.submod as m", because the result is ambiguous. Does it
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load mod.submod as m, or mod as m ? Both can be achieved differently, and
unambiguously. Also attempt to document this restriction (editor
appreciated!)
Note that this is an artificial check during compile, because incorporating
this in the grammar is hard, and then adjusting the compiler to do the right
thing with the right nodes is harder.
2000-08-19 20:55:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
15446d344d
Add entry for Cookie module.
2000-08-19 16:55:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
e5c7352201
Make it format.
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Adjust markup for hyperlinking to the relevant RFCs.
Give it a little organization.
Minor nits.
2000-08-19 16:54:57 +00:00
Moshe Zadka
1b07f2bcf6
Initial revision. Markup unchecked.
2000-08-19 14:11:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
512bb72fb0
As pointed out by Denis S. Otkidach <den@analyt.chem.msu.ru>, xrange()
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returns an xrange object, not a range object, despite the name of the
source file they're implemented in.
In the list of comparison operators, list != before <>, since <> is
described as obsolescent.
2000-08-18 03:12:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
a00738259f
Adjust the way __getslice__() is marked as deprecated; this will also
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stand out more.
2000-08-18 02:42:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
304faf944c
Fix a markup error that caused formatting to fail.
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Lots of minor markup adjustments as well.
2000-08-18 02:15:55 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
59ecafa526
Mention the new 'import X as Y' syntax
2000-08-17 23:37:01 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
0690c86a2a
Document the returns_unicode attribute
2000-08-17 23:15:21 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
5215225ea1
Apply SF patch #101135 , adding 'import module as m' and 'from module import
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name as n'. By doing some twists and turns, "as" is not a reserved word.
There is a slight change in semantics for 'from module import name' (it will
now honour the 'global' keyword) but only in cases that are explicitly
undocumented.
2000-08-17 22:55:00 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
1d75a79c00
Apply SF patch #101029 : call __getitem__ with a proper slice object if there
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is no __getslice__ available. Also does the same for C extension types.
Includes rudimentary documentation (it could use a cross reference to the
section on slice objects, I couldn't figure out how to do that) and a test
suite for all Python __hooks__ I could think of, including the new
behaviour.
2000-08-17 22:37:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
68add2e938
Remove an item that's been done.
2000-08-17 22:32:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
dd611b0070
A little more text, and some really minor cleanups.
2000-08-17 22:31:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
e581bb30c4
Small cleanups, and note when zip() entered the menagerie.
2000-08-17 22:30:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
b32aa5ecef
Revise the comments about the exceptions module to not refer to source
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code; it is not sufficiently readable now that it in written in C, and
is less likely to be available to end users.
2000-08-17 22:29:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
25699f99f4
Martin v. Loewis <martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>:
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Document opcodes added to support extended call syntax.
2000-08-17 22:19:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
de9fec5f99
\citetitle: Format the title, not the optional URL!
2000-08-17 04:25:59 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
2d2dc9fde5
Add section on list comprehension
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Comment out the unwritten XML section
mymalloc.h -> pymem.h
2000-08-17 00:27:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
1aebadf0e5
Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>:
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Further examples of list comprehensions.
2000-08-16 21:44:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
5772c86816
Document socket.getfqdn().
2000-08-16 14:21:42 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
2337f5519a
Mention setdefault() method for dicts
2000-08-16 02:52:37 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
caa658d047
Apply SF patch #101151 , by Peter S-K, which fixes smtplib's passing of the
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'helo' and 'ehlo' message, and exports the 'make_fqdn' function. This
function should be moved to socket.py, if that module ever gets a Python
wrapper.
2000-08-15 19:30:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
d341579178
Fix error made in applying Thomas's patch.
2000-08-15 18:44:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
a1e214a1ed
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>:
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Update the grammar to reflect the most recent changes to list
comprehensions.
2000-08-15 17:54:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
d066f6d780
Fix markup bug that prevented formatting.
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Adjusted some markup for consistency with the rest of the documentation
and creation of the proper index entries.
2000-08-15 17:47:09 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
0be4346da6
Describe the b2a_hex() and a2b_hex() functions (a.k.a. hexlify() and
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unhexlify() respectively).
2000-08-15 06:08:00 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
4ef4be53ac
Added description of the md5.hexdigest() method.
2000-08-15 06:00:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
34c391d743
Correct the reference count information for the parameters of
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PyErr_Restore().
2000-08-15 04:36:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
a2b6ad6e27
Guido pointed out that all names in the sys module have no underscore,
2000-08-15 04:24:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
6bd8b252e0
For bug reporting, point to the SourceForge bug tracker instead of the
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old Jitterbug interface.
2000-08-14 16:35:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
68e2915fc7
Document the byte_order value in the sys module.
2000-08-14 15:47:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
107b9679c4
Document the range type, as suggested by Denis S. Otkidach
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<den@analyt.chem.msu.ru>.
2000-08-14 15:37:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
510d08bfe4
In the section on the "Very High Level Layer", address concerns brought up
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by Edward K. Ream <edream@users.sourceforge.net> about FILE* values and
incompatible C libraries in dynamically linked extensions. It is not clear
(to me) how realistic the issue is, but it is better documented than not.
This closes SourceForge bug #111520 .
2000-08-14 02:50:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
81f7eb6c6b
Fix some markup errors that prevented formatting, and one that didn't.
2000-08-12 20:08:04 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
803d6e5451
list comprehensions. see
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http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=100654&group_id=5470
for details.
2000-08-12 18:09:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
4ca744c70e
Added information for PyEval_EvalCode().
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Fixed a couple of typos (new references are represented by "+1", not "1").
2000-08-12 03:39:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
4de96c2fd8
Added Marc-Andre Lemburg's documentation for string methods, with some
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massaging for markup consistency. This closes SourceForge patch #101063 .
Added Unicode strings and buffer objects to the list of sequence types.
Small markup nits elsewhere.
2000-08-12 03:36:23 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
0be5aab04d
Merge UNPACK_LIST and UNPACK_TUPLE into a single UNPACK_SEQUENCE, since they
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did the same anyway.
I'm not sure what to do with Tools/compiler/compiler/* -- that isn't part of
distutils, is it ? Should it try to be compatible with old bytecode version ?
2000-08-11 22:15:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
a8d7341f63
PyRun_InteractiveOne(),
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PyRun_InteractiveLoop(): Added descriptions.
PyExc_WindowsError: Added to list of standard exceptions and added note
about the right preprocessor symbol to use to protect
code that uses it.
2000-08-11 20:39:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
46479d3740
Some minor clarifications and added some index entries.
2000-08-11 20:34:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
3ac977e39c
O_BINARY: Documented this constant; omission noted by David Ascher.
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access(): Corrected availability statement; error pointed out by
Tim Peters.
2000-08-11 20:19:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
241551c16c
do_env_cfuncdesc(): Push as much of the generated HTML into one place
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as possible for better readability. Revise a comment.
2000-08-11 20:04:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
a8e484c8f5
getopt(): revise description of long_options parameter slightly so it will
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be less confusing; add a paragraph separation so that comments about
the options and long_options parameters don't have references that
are easily misinterpreted.
Adjust the interactive examples to not need the string module.
Add an example showing how the module is commonly used in a script.
2000-08-11 19:55:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
7932ed0ac4
Added material about documenting packages, so that the use of module
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markup for packages is clear.
2000-08-11 17:37:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
f40706375a
Include the document dependencies earlier so that documents are rebuilt
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when they need to be.
2000-08-11 17:36:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
4e15945fff
Markup errors: \cfuntion -> \cfunction
2000-08-11 17:09:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
7d45d34ed7
ANY becomes void, to reflect the requirement for ANSI C.
2000-08-11 17:07:32 +00:00
Peter Schneider-Kamp
10e1bf2f64
remove all occurence of math.rint() from the sources
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(and yes, "Currintly" also counts <0.5 wink>)
2000-08-10 04:23:30 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
65983372f0
More on noutrefresh.
2000-08-09 21:49:31 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
1ebd3f6c4b
Tweak curses.wrapper so it initializes colors if they are available.
2000-08-09 21:11:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
3fe9a98c95
Correct markup error.
2000-08-09 14:37:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
fc1f9229f4
Correct version number at which the curses.ascii module was introduced.
2000-08-09 14:36:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
ec4b2af6bb
Fix a few markup errors and lots of small consistency issues.
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Add "See also" link to curses.wrapper module from curses module.
2000-08-09 14:34:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
cb0fc9c2ce
fix_font(): Handle one more case for the magical first column of tables.
2000-08-09 13:45:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8141cf5c76
Barry's patch to document the new setdefault() method. Slightly
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clarified the summary for default() in the table to indicate the side
effect.
2000-08-08 16:15:49 +00:00
Vladimir Marangozov
f9d20c3786
Neil Schemenauer: GC enable(), disable(), isenabled() interface.
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Small stylistic changes by VM:
- is_enabled() -> isenabled()
- static ... Py_<func> -> static ... gc_<func>
2000-08-06 22:45:31 +00:00
Greg Ward
2afffd42fa
Wrote the "Describing extension modules" section.
2000-08-06 20:37:24 +00:00
Greg Ward
1d8f57a5a4
A bundle of wording improvements, corrections, clarifications, updates,
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and so forth.
2000-08-05 00:43:11 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
b9fb1f23fe
Mention Include/my*.h cleanup
2000-08-04 12:40:35 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
581f33a4cb
Added zip() builtin
2000-08-04 12:35:23 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
5a007693c1
Documented curses.wrapper and curses.textpad.
2000-08-04 07:35:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
ed13b4a5a6
Break the "Python Services" chapter into two: "Python Runtime Services"
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(still at the start of the manual), and "Python Language Services" (late
in the manual). Moved "Restricted Execution" to just before "Python
Language Services."
2000-08-03 21:18:18 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg
8b9835cdb2
Added descriptions of the new parser markers for PyArg_ParseTuple().
2000-08-03 19:38:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
cc2b81e7f3
\py@varvars: Merge the various definitions to be the simplist one that
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does everything needed, and discard the older stuff that is not
being used.
2000-08-03 17:38:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
8b168ba505
int() description: Fix markup to avoid image generation for math mode.
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zip() description: Fix broken markup, three small markup consistency nits,
and one really minor usage nit. Introduce use of \moreargs instead
of hardcoding "..." with \optional.
2000-08-03 17:29:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
3d5a04ab18
do_cmd_moreargs(),
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do_cmd_unspecified(): New functions to reflect previously unused markup.
do_cmd_file(): Simplified generated markup to only make use of the
existing stylesheet.
do_cmd_makevar(): Make the markup more stylesheet-friendly.
2000-08-03 17:25:44 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
faefa2a885
Both PEP 201 Lockstep Iteration and SF patch #101030 have been
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accepted by the BDFL.
Added documentation for zip() builtin.
2000-08-03 15:46:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
6c7a46a2f0
Rob Hooft <rob@hooft.net>:
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Description of fcntl(): Added description of what can go wrong.
2000-08-02 20:53:51 +00:00
Mark Hammond
21a4764b9a
As requested by Fred - mention that in the future a winreg module may make a comeback.
2000-08-01 23:49:50 +00:00
Peter Schneider-Kamp
f917bf6080
fixing a minor spelling mistake
2000-08-01 00:07:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
fbd3b45bb7
Stop lying about [].pop() being experimental! There is no backing it out
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at this point.
2000-07-31 23:42:23 +00:00
Peter Schneider-Kamp
5a65c2d436
added count, extend, index, pop and remove to arraymodule
2000-07-31 20:52:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
4640e13259
Change as suggested by Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>:
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Move around the navigational links on the left-hand side of the navigation
bar to be more like the cursor keys.
2000-07-31 20:13:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
3d83fc3ab1
Change as suggested by Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>:
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Create a hyperlink between the language reference and documentation for
the built in functions.
2000-07-31 20:08:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
e39dab6ce1
Organized a little bit; merged in some items from the 1.5.2p2 branch that
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did not get handled.
2000-07-31 18:18:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
e7aa5dc5bb
Update to indicate the appropriate version of LaTeX2HTML. Update pointer
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for retrieving new versions.
2000-07-31 17:56:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
85d14c9d02
Many changes to work with newer versions of LaTeX2HTML. This has been
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tested with version 99.2beta8.
2000-07-31 17:53:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
1915754ec9
Small changes to reflect changes in LaTeX2HTML support for newer versions
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of LaTeX2HTML.
2000-07-31 17:47:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
1e75e1776f
Two minor nits from Gerry Weiner (no working email address) about
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describing the methods of dictionaries.
2000-07-31 16:34:46 +00:00