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Author SHA1 Message Date
Mark Dickinson ba3b0d84bd Issue #14245: Improve floating-point entry in FAQ. Thanks Zbyszek Jędrzejewski-Szmek for some of the wording. 2012-05-13 21:00:35 +01:00
Ezio Melotti b35480e1d2 #14770: improve the library FAQ. 2012-05-13 20:14:04 +03:00
Antoine Pitrou cc6c673a69 Removed outdated statement about pickle's and marshal's relative performance. 2012-05-10 15:18:20 +02:00
Georg Brandl 12c3cd7c1f Closes #14306: clarify expensiveness of try-except and update code snippet 2012-03-17 16:58:05 +01:00
Georg Brandl 300a691026 Closes #14305: fix typo. 2012-03-14 22:40:08 +01:00
Éric Araujo 01a2215727 Update mention of Subversion in the FAQ.
If I grepped correctly, this was the last outdated place.
2012-02-12 04:49:45 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 432259feea Issue #13528: rework the performance question in the programming FAQ 2011-12-09 23:10:31 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou ae44b7a099 Remove obsolete references to bsddb 2011-12-05 00:41:19 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou dec0f21efc Streamline mention of sorted() 2011-12-03 23:08:57 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou c561a9adac Break down and refine memory management question 2011-12-03 23:06:50 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 17bd792cd3 Reformulate answer, and remove off-topic discussion of bytecode in a question about compiling to C. 2011-12-03 22:56:02 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou cc809a286a Fix compatibility statement. 2011-12-03 22:39:13 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 748799a0a6 Remove outdated question (the bsddb module isn't included anymore) 2011-12-03 22:37:14 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou d4ddec5988 Refine FAQ entry for catching stdout 2011-12-03 22:35:31 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 48383bfc67 Advocate PyTuple_Pack instead of manual building of tuples 2011-12-03 22:30:19 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou f35204055e Remove outdate FAQ content 2011-12-03 22:19:55 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou c5b266efb5 Streamline FAQ entry about the ternary operator, and suggest using io.StringIO for a mutable unicode container. 2011-12-03 22:11:11 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 9cb41dfbaa Remove references to psyco, which is mostly unmaintained and doesn't work with Python 3. 2011-12-03 21:21:36 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 7462e87134 Mention the new GTK+ 3 bindings. 2011-12-03 20:59:24 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou fd9ebd4a36 Clarify concatenation behaviour of immutable strings, and remove explicit
mention of the CPython optimization hack.
2011-11-25 16:33:53 +01:00
Éric Araujo 9be57231dd Update dead references from py.org/dev/faq to the devguide (#13176) 2011-10-14 17:37:45 +02:00
Éric Araujo 7af8ebb6ce Adapt/remove mentions of functions gone in 3.x 2011-09-01 03:20:13 +02:00
Éric Araujo 37b5f9eebc Fix some misuses of Sphinx roles and one typo 2011-09-01 03:19:30 +02:00
Georg Brandl e1eef41a18 Close #12838: fix range() call. 2011-08-25 11:52:26 +02:00
Antoine Pitrou 7095721d3e Mention asyncore and Twisted in the library FAQ. 2011-02-05 11:24:15 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou 11480b6fe3 Mention concurrent.futures and update answers about the GIL. 2011-02-05 11:18:34 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou f7005243e5 Update test of "why is Python installed" FAQ. 2011-02-05 11:04:01 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou 09264b66f2 Mention Cython and remove obsolete alternatives 2011-02-05 10:57:17 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou eb50ba5ab7 Update info in the GUI FAQ 2011-02-05 10:43:57 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 4d0d471a80 Merge branches/pep-0384. 2010-12-03 20:14:31 +00:00
Georg Brandl fc9794a8fc Make file names consistent. 2010-10-17 10:15:50 +00:00
Georg Brandl 4985ff2e61 #9086: correct wrong terminology about linking with pythonXY.dll. 2010-10-17 10:14:38 +00:00
Georg Brandl 682d7e0e07 Fix errors found by "make suspicious". 2010-10-06 10:26:05 +00:00
Georg Brandl 60203b41b0 Migrate to Sphinx 1.0 C language constructs. 2010-10-06 10:11:56 +00:00
Brian Curtin 5a7a52fbb0 #9582 - add a missing "are" and reflow the line. 2010-09-23 13:45:21 +00:00
Georg Brandl 6faee4e2ce #9911: doc copyedits. 2010-09-21 14:48:28 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou 11cb961b38 Add cross-references to the glossary entry for file objects. 2010-09-15 11:11:28 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou 6a11a98b7c Update file-related information in the FAQ. 2010-09-15 10:08:31 +00:00
Georg Brandl 54ebb78171 Typo fix. 2010-08-14 15:48:49 +00:00
Senthil Kumaran f0769e8bd0 Fix Issue7007 - Use percent-encoded consistently instead of URL Encoded variations. Docs changed. 2010-08-09 19:53:52 +00:00
Georg Brandl 4abda54889 Take care of duplicate target name warnings. 2010-07-12 09:00:29 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson d7c3ed54ef Merged revisions 80605-80609,80642-80646,80651-80652,80674,80684-80686,80748,80852,80854,80870,80872-80873,80907,80915-80916,80951-80952,80976-80977,80985,81038-81040,81042,81053,81070,81104-81105,81114,81125,81245,81285,81402,81463,81516,81562-81563,81567,81593,81635,81680-81681,81684,81801,81888,81931-81933,81939-81942,81963,81984,81991,82120,82188,82264-82267 via svnmerge from
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  r80605 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-28 19:22:16 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Add various items
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  r80606 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-28 20:44:30 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 6 lines

  Fix doubled 'the'.
  Markup fixes to use :exc:, :option: in a few places.
    (Glitch: unittest.main's -c ends up a link to the Python
    interpreter's -c option.  Should we skip using :option: for that
    switch, or disable the auto-linking somehow?)
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  r80607 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-28 20:45:41 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Add various unittest items
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  r80608 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-28 22:18:05 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  update pypy description
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  r80609 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-28 22:30:59 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  update pypy url
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  r80642 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 19:49:09 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Always add space after RFC; reword paragraph
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  r80643 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 19:52:31 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 6 lines

  Reword paragraph to make its meaning clearer.

  Antoine Pitrou: is my version of the paragraph still correct?

  R. David Murray: is this more understandable than the previous version?
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  r80644 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 20:02:15 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Fix typos
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  r80645 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 20:32:47 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Markup fix; clarify by adding 'in that order'
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  r80646 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 20:33:40 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Add various items; rearrange unittest section a bit
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  r80651 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-30 08:46:55 -0500 (Fri, 30 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Minor grammar re-wording
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  r80652 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-30 08:47:34 -0500 (Fri, 30 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Add item
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  r80674 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-30 20:19:16 -0500 (Fri, 30 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Add various items
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  r80684 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-01 07:05:52 -0500 (Sat, 01 May 2010) | 1 line

  Minor grammar fix
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  r80685 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-01 07:06:51 -0500 (Sat, 01 May 2010) | 1 line

  Describe memoryview
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  r80686 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-05-01 07:16:39 -0500 (Sat, 01 May 2010) | 4 lines

  Fix attribution. Travis didn't do much and he did a bad work.
  (yes, this is a sensitive subject, sorry)
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  r80748 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-03 20:24:22 -0500 (Mon, 03 May 2010) | 1 line

  Add some more items; the urlparse change is added twice
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  r80852 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-05 20:09:47 -0500 (Wed, 05 May 2010) | 1 line

  Reword paragraph; fix filename, which should be pyconfig.h
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  r80854 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-05 20:10:56 -0500 (Wed, 05 May 2010) | 1 line

  Add various items
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  r80870 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 09:14:09 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line

  Describe ElementTree 1.3; rearrange new-module sections; describe dict views as sets; small edits and items
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  r80872 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 12:21:59 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line

  Add 2 items; record ideas for two initial sections; clarify wording
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  r80873 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 12:27:57 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line

  Change section title; point to unittest2
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  r80907 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 20:45:14 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line

  Add a new section on the development plan; add an item
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  r80915 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-05-07 05:15:51 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 3 lines

  Fix some markup and a class name. Also, wrap a long line.
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  r80916 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-07 06:30:47 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 1 line

  Re-word text
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  r80951 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-07 20:15:26 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 1 line

  Add two items
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  r80952 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-07 20:35:55 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 1 line

  Get accents correct
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  r80976 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-08 08:28:03 -0500 (Sat, 08 May 2010) | 1 line

  Add logging.dictConfig example; give up on writing a Ttk example
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  r80977 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-08 08:29:46 -0500 (Sat, 08 May 2010) | 1 line

  Markup fixes
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  r80985 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-08 10:39:46 -0500 (Sat, 08 May 2010) | 7 lines

  Write summary of the 2.7 release; rewrite the future section some more;
  mention PYTHONWARNINGS env. var; tweak some examples for readability.

  And with this commit, the "What's New" is done... except for a
  complete read-through to polish the text, and fixing any reported errors,
  but those tasks can easily wait until after beta2.
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  r81038 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-05-09 16:09:40 -0500 (Sun, 09 May 2010) | 1 line

  finish clause
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  r81039 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 09:18:27 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line

  Markup fix; re-word a sentence
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  r81040 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 09:20:12 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line

  Use title case
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  r81042 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 10:03:35 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line

  Link to unittest2 article
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  r81053 | florent.xicluna | 2010-05-10 14:59:22 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 2 lines

  Add a link on maketrans().
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  r81070 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 18:13:41 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line

  Fix typo
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  r81104 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-11 19:38:44 -0500 (Tue, 11 May 2010) | 1 line

  Revision pass: lots of edits, typo fixes, rearrangements
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  r81105 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-11 19:40:47 -0500 (Tue, 11 May 2010) | 1 line

  Let's call this done
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  r81114 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-12 08:56:07 -0500 (Wed, 12 May 2010) | 1 line

  Grammar fix
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  r81125 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-12 13:56:48 -0500 (Wed, 12 May 2010) | 1 line

  #8696: add documentation for logging.config.dictConfig (PEP 391)
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  r81245 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-16 18:31:16 -0500 (Sun, 16 May 2010) | 1 line

  Add cross-reference to later section
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  r81285 | vinay.sajip | 2010-05-18 03:16:27 -0500 (Tue, 18 May 2010) | 1 line

  Fixed minor typo in ReST markup.
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  r81402 | vinay.sajip | 2010-05-21 12:41:34 -0500 (Fri, 21 May 2010) | 1 line

  Updated logging documentation with more dictConfig information.
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  r81463 | georg.brandl | 2010-05-22 03:17:23 -0500 (Sat, 22 May 2010) | 1 line

  #8785: less confusing description of regex.find*.
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  r81516 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-25 08:34:08 -0500 (Tue, 25 May 2010) | 1 line

  Add three items
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  r81562 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-27 08:22:53 -0500 (Thu, 27 May 2010) | 1 line

  Rewrite wxWidgets section
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  r81563 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-27 08:30:09 -0500 (Thu, 27 May 2010) | 1 line

  Remove top-level 'General Questions' section, pushing up the questions it contains
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  r81567 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-27 16:29:59 -0500 (Thu, 27 May 2010) | 1 line

  Add item
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  r81593 | georg.brandl | 2010-05-29 03:46:18 -0500 (Sat, 29 May 2010) | 1 line

  #8616: add new turtle demo "nim".
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  r81635 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-01 02:25:23 -0500 (Tue, 01 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Put docs for RegexObject.search() before RegexObject.match() to mirror re.search() and re.match() order.
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  r81680 | vinay.sajip | 2010-06-03 17:34:42 -0500 (Thu, 03 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #8890: Documentation changed to avoid reference to temporary files.
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  r81681 | sean.reifschneider | 2010-06-03 20:51:26 -0500 (Thu, 03 Jun 2010) | 2 lines

  Issue8810: Clearing up docstring for tzinfo.utcoffset.
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  r81684 | vinay.sajip | 2010-06-04 08:41:02 -0500 (Fri, 04 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #8890: Documentation changed to avoid reference to temporary files - other cases covered.
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  r81801 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-07 08:38:40 -0500 (Mon, 07 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  #8875: Remove duplicated paragraph
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  r81888 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-10 20:54:58 -0500 (Thu, 10 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Add a few more items
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  r81931 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 01:26:54 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Fix punctuation.
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  r81932 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 01:28:58 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Document that an existing directory raises in mkdir().
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  r81933 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 01:45:33 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Update version in README.
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  r81939 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:45:01 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Use newer toctree syntax.
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  r81940 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:45:28 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Add document on how to build.
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  r81941 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:45:58 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Fix gratuitous indentation.
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  r81942 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:46:03 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Update README.
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  r81963 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-12 15:00:55 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Grammar fix
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  r81984 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-14 10:58:39 -0500 (Mon, 14 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  #8993: fix reference.
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  r81991 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-14 19:38:58 -0500 (Mon, 14 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Add another bunch of items
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  r82120 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-20 16:45:45 -0500 (Sun, 20 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Note that Python 3.x isn't covered; add forward ref. for UTF-8; note error in 2.5 and up
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  r82188 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-06-23 19:02:46 -0500 (Wed, 23 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  remove reverted changed
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  r82264 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:47:47 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Confusing punctuation.
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  r82265 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:49:23 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Use designated syntax for optional grammar element.
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  r82266 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:51:44 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Fix URL.
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  r82267 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:55:38 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line

  Two typos.
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2010-06-27 22:32:30 +00:00
Brian Curtin f4ed2066fc Merged revisions 80009 via svnmerge from
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  r80009 | brian.curtin | 2010-04-12 13:07:21 -0500 (Mon, 12 Apr 2010) | 2 lines

  Update the Windows FAQ's text about os.kill (#1220212).
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2010-04-12 18:10:10 +00:00
Ezio Melotti 19192dd402 Merged revisions 79797 via svnmerge from
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  r79797 | ezio.melotti | 2010-04-05 15:51:45 +0300 (Mon, 05 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Fix some broken URLs.
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2010-04-05 13:25:51 +00:00
Georg Brandl ff24c8e11e Merged revisions 79181 via svnmerge from
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  r79181 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:51:16 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line

  Update os.kill() emulation example for Windows to use ctypes.
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2010-03-21 09:52:24 +00:00
Georg Brandl c4a55fccab Recorded merge of revisions 78024 via svnmerge from
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  r78024 | georg.brandl | 2010-02-06 19:44:44 +0100 (Sa, 06 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  #5341: fix "builtin" where used as an adjective ("built-in" is correct).
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2010-02-06 18:46:57 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson 1baf465d27 Merged revisions 76847,76851,76869,76882,76891-76892,76924,77007,77070,77092,77096,77120,77126,77155 via svnmerge from
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  r76847 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-12-14 21:25:27 -0600 (Mon, 14 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  adverb
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  r76851 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-12-15 21:28:52 -0600 (Tue, 15 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  remove lib2to3 resource
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  r76869 | vinay.sajip | 2009-12-17 08:52:00 -0600 (Thu, 17 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  Issue #7529: logging: Minor correction to documentation.
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  r76882 | georg.brandl | 2009-12-19 11:30:28 -0600 (Sat, 19 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  #7527: use standard versionadded tags.
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  r76891 | georg.brandl | 2009-12-19 12:16:31 -0600 (Sat, 19 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  #7479: add note about function availability on Unices.
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  r76892 | georg.brandl | 2009-12-19 12:20:18 -0600 (Sat, 19 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  #7480: remove tautology.
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  r76924 | georg.brandl | 2009-12-20 08:28:05 -0600 (Sun, 20 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  Small indentation fix.
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  r77007 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-12-23 03:31:11 -0600 (Wed, 23 Dec 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix possible integer overflow in lchown and fchown functions.  For issue1747858.
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  r77070 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-12-27 14:06:44 -0600 (Sun, 27 Dec 2009) | 2 lines

  Fix a typo in comment
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  r77092 | georg.brandl | 2009-12-28 02:48:24 -0600 (Mon, 28 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  #7404: remove reference to non-existing example files.
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  r77096 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-12-28 14:51:17 -0600 (Mon, 28 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  document new fix_callable behavior
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  r77120 | georg.brandl | 2009-12-29 15:09:17 -0600 (Tue, 29 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  #7595: fix typo in argument default constant.
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  r77126 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-12-29 17:06:17 -0600 (Tue, 29 Dec 2009) | 2 lines

  #7579: Add docstrings to the msvcrt module
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  r77155 | georg.brandl | 2009-12-30 13:03:00 -0600 (Wed, 30 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  We only support Windows NT derivatives now.
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2009-12-31 03:11:23 +00:00
Georg Brandl 99de488949 #7493: more review fixes. 2009-12-20 14:24:06 +00:00
Georg Brandl 11b636291a #7495: more review fixes. 2009-12-20 14:21:27 +00:00
Ezio Melotti 0639d5aeb6 Merged revisions 76904 via svnmerge from
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  r76904 | ezio.melotti | 2009-12-20 00:41:49 +0200 (Sun, 20 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  #7388: "python".capitalize() in the Doc
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