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Martin v. Löwis c6d626ed9f Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile. 2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00:00
Lars Gustäbel a69aa327aa Bug #1656581: Point out that external file objects are supposed to be 
at position 0.
 2007-02-12 09:25:53 +00:00
Georg Brandl 441268f867 Bug #1656078: typo in in profile docs. 2007-02-09 18:48:41 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 7c4615b252 Update broken link. Will backport to 2.5. 2007-02-09 12:58:49 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 3156316823 SF: 1397711 Set docs conflated immutable and hashable 2007-02-07 21:04:20 +00:00
Lars Gustäbel 3f8aca1164 Patch #1652681: create nonexistent files in append mode and 
allow appending to empty files.
 2007-02-06 18:38:13 +00:00
Brett Cannon 129bd52146 No more raising of string exceptions! 
The next step of PEP 352 (for 2.6) causes raising a string exception to trigger
a TypeError.  Trying to catch a string exception raises a DeprecationWarning.
References to string exceptions has been removed from the docs since they are
now just an error.
 2007-01-30 21:34:36 +00:00
Georg Brandl a05153683c Bug #1648191: typo in docs. 2007-01-30 20:21:30 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 391e917b1a Strengthen warning about using lock() 2007-01-24 20:06:41 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis aef4c6bc00 Patch #1610575: Add support for _Bool to struct. 2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 1b0ce85271 SF# 1635892: Fix docs for betavariate's input parameters . 2007-01-19 18:07:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3ffcfe2f68 [Part of bug #1599254] Add suggestion to Mailbox docs to use Maildir, and warn user to lock/unlock mailboxes when modifying them 2007-01-17 19:55:06 +00:00
Brett Cannon f5c034af10 Add a note for strptime that just because strftime supports some extra 
directive that is not documented that strptime will as well.
 2007-01-15 19:12:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2799aab86d Doc patch matching r53434 (htonl etc. now always take/return positive ints). 2007-01-15 00:02:35 +00:00
Vinay Sajip 1ff01fb0af Added documentation for WatchedFileHandler (based on SF patch #1598415) 2007-01-14 21:50:50 +00:00
Georg Brandl 7ded34d25e Fix typo. 2007-01-13 12:31:51 +00:00
Brett Cannon 093b67061a Deprecate the sets module. 2007-01-13 00:29:49 +00:00
Brett Cannon 78a132b814 Fix error where the end of a funcdesc environment was accidentally moved too 
far down.
 2007-01-12 07:27:52 +00:00
Matthias Klose 764a7ec8ca - Make the documentation match the code and the docstring 2007-01-11 10:26:31 +00:00
Gregory P. Smith d92d3c7197 typo fix 2007-01-05 07:21:35 +00:00
Gregory P. Smith 8b96a35d14 Support linking of the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x 
(will backport to 2.5)
 2007-01-05 01:59:42 +00:00
Brett Cannon 92d54d5e9c Add EnvironmentVarGuard to test.test_support. Provides a context manager to 
temporarily set or unset environment variables.
 2007-01-04 00:23:49 +00:00
Thomas Heller d5624cf6c9 Fix wrong markup of an argument in a method signature. 
Will backport.
 2006-12-21 18:30:56 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4a8d272dca Mention the os.SEEK_* constants 2006-12-21 13:40:29 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 2dd7c8c41e [Bug #1619680] in_dll() arguments are documented in the wrong order 2006-12-20 20:20:42 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling a490d59fbb Some other built-in functions are described with 'sequence' arguments 
that should really be 'iterable'; this commit changes them.

Did I miss any?  Did I introduce any errors?
 2006-12-20 20:11:12 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b688573766 Two grammar fixes 2006-12-20 19:58:11 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 1be2ac9cd6 [Bug #1619674] Make sum() use the term iterable, not sequence 2006-12-20 19:57:10 +00:00
Georg Brandl ebbeed781d Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError exception 
if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
 2006-12-19 22:06:46 +00:00
Vinay Sajip 8183c635bc Updated documentation for findCaller() to indicate that a 3-tuple is now returned, rather than a 2-tuple. 2006-12-19 18:29:11 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 64df22bdb5 [Bug #1613651] Document socket.recv_into, socket.recvfrom_into 
Also, the text for recvfrom told you to read recv() for an explanation of the
'flags' argument, but recv() just pointed you at the man page.  Copied the
man-page text to recvfrom(), recvfrom_into, recv_into to avoid the pointless
redirection.

I don't have LaTeX on this machine; hope my markup is OK.
 2006-12-19 14:28:23 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4cd69d43e8 [Bug #1618083] Add missing word; make a few grammar fixes 2006-12-18 17:12:31 +00:00
George Yoshida 7366fcecdf Note that guard_warnings_filter was added in 2.6 2006-12-14 02:22:44 +00:00
Brett Cannon 6d9520c4f0 Add test.test_support.guard_warnings_filter . This function returns a context 
manager that protects warnings.filter from being modified once the context is
exited.
 2006-12-13 23:09:53 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 0adf0846ce Fix a typo 2006-12-11 01:01:06 +00:00
Matthias Klose ebde1498e7 - Fix the build of the library reference in info format. 2006-12-09 12:15:27 +00:00
Georg Brandl 70f466932c RFE #1592899: mention string.maketrans() in docs for str.translate, 
remove reference to the old regex module in the former's doc.
 2006-12-07 09:30:06 +00:00
George Yoshida 0a286d0b53 Fix pickle doc typo 
Patch #1608758
 2006-12-05 05:39:50 +00:00
George Yoshida 9be4905f42 fix a versionchanged tag 2006-12-04 11:41:54 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a00bcac003 Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type 
for ordering, sorting, etc.
 2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00:00
Georg Brandl 73e7e058f5 Bug #1603789: grammatical error in Tkinter docs. 2006-11-27 18:46:21 +00:00
Georg Brandl 3f969022c6 Bug #1601630: little improvement to getopt docs 2006-11-23 09:55:07 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 7ac039653e Fix SF #1599879, socket.gethostname should ref getfqdn directly. 2006-11-21 06:23:44 +00:00
Georg Brandl 1e753863b3 Further markup fix. 2006-11-20 07:12:58 +00:00
George Yoshida 942f5e7864 markup fix 2006-11-20 02:24:48 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 07529354db Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType 
in xmlrpclib.
 2006-11-19 18:51:54 +00:00
Georg Brandl 540821183b Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register() 
to facilitate usage as a decorator.
 2006-11-16 16:50:59 +00:00
Georg Brandl adff8eb8d6 Bug #1597576: mention that the new base64 api has been introduced in py2.4. 2006-11-16 15:05:14 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 056dac1bcf Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek. 2006-11-12 18:24:26 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 040a927cd1 Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in 
HTTPConnection.request().
 2006-11-12 10:32:47 +00:00
Georg Brandl 1ee79f16e8 Bug #1594758: wording improvement for dict.update() docs. 2006-11-11 18:32:47 +00:00
Georg Brandl 361bc21c51 Bug #1594742: wrong word in stringobject doc. 2006-11-11 18:29:11 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 48b1007542 [Feature request #1542920] Link to wsgi.org 2006-11-10 14:39:01 +00:00
Georg Brandl fafdc3b97b Bug #1592533: rename variable in heapq doc example, to avoid shadowing 
"sorted".
 2006-11-08 10:04:29 +00:00
Thomas Heller 9bfc24481f Fix grammatical error as well. 
Will backport to release25-maint.
 2006-11-07 18:20:47 +00:00
Thomas Heller a2dd0f3a17 Fix markup. 
Will backport to release25-maint.
 2006-11-07 18:01:18 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 3230599329 note that user can control directory location even if default dir is used 2006-11-06 14:34:52 +00:00
Thomas Heller be1bc3b63a Fix a code example by adding a missing import. 
Fixes #1557890.

Will backport to release25-maint.
 2006-11-02 20:22:29 +00:00
Thomas Heller b11472358f Replace the XXX marker in the 'Arrays and pointers' reference manual 
section with a link to the tutorial sections.

Will backport to release25-maint.
 2006-11-02 19:48:24 +00:00
Vinay Sajip 12411005e3 Added relativeCreated to Formatter doc (has been in the system for a long time - was unaccountably left out of the docs and not noticed until now). 2006-10-31 17:34:31 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 4bb9b56501 From SF 1557890, fix problem of using wrong type in example. 
Will backport.
 2006-10-28 22:12:26 +00:00
Georg Brandl 35692a0c0e Fix nth() itertool recipe. 2006-10-28 16:04:04 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d3aad0199e Point users to the subprocess module in the docs for os.system, os.spawn*, os.popen2, and the popen2 and commands modules 2006-10-27 14:53:41 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4bc64aaef7 [Bug #1562583] Mention the set_reuse_addr() method 2006-10-27 13:06:25 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 14b0cab5d5 [Bug #1583946] Reword description of server and issuer 2006-10-27 12:50:38 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 514d0cf40e [Bug #1585690] Note that line_num was added in Python 2.5 2006-10-27 12:18:38 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 1192044445 Some wording changes and markup fixes 2006-10-27 11:37:01 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ee82c0e6b7 Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS. 2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00:00
Ronald Oussoren 10168f25ad Patch #1580674: with this patch os.readlink uses the filesystem encoding to 
decode unicode objects and returns an unicode object when the argument is one.
 2006-10-22 10:45:18 +00:00
Brett Cannon 5a72372329 Clean up the language of a sentence relating to the connect() function and 
user-defined datatypes.
 2006-10-14 06:36:45 +00:00
Georg Brandl a9969a6460 Small grammar fix, thanks Sjoerd. 2006-10-12 11:59:27 +00:00
Georg Brandl 10f0f691d3 Add a note to fpectl docs that it's not built by default 
(bug #1556261).
 2006-10-12 11:41:11 +00:00
Georg Brandl 7d74a0e287 Bug #1546628: add a note about urlparse.urljoin() and absolute paths. 2006-10-12 11:14:40 +00:00
Georg Brandl fc8375748a Bug #1575746: fix typo in property() docs. 2006-10-12 07:38:04 +00:00
Skip Montanaro fe6e46d42a Note that the excel_tab class is registered as the "excel-tab" dialect. 
Fixes 1572471.  Make a similar change for the excel class and clean up
references to the Dialects and Formatting Parameters section in a few
places.
 2006-10-07 11:05:02 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling c536a64b89 Case fix 2006-10-06 10:41:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 3c108b0e44 - update links 
- remove Sleepycat name now that they have been bought
 2006-10-06 00:03:45 +00:00
Brett Cannon 710513ef83 Clarify what "re-initialization" means for init_builtin() and init_dynamic(). 
Also remove warning about re-initialization as possibly raising an execption as
both call _PyImport_FindExtension() which pulls any module that was already
imported from the Python process' extension cache and just copies the __dict__
into the module stored in sys.modules.
 2006-10-05 22:02:31 +00:00
Vinay Sajip f4686f995e Documentation clarified to mention optional parameters. 2006-10-03 18:20:26 +00:00
Vinay Sajip cfbb7df4b0 Documentation omitted the additional parameter to LogRecord.__init__ which was added in 2.5. (See SF #1569622). 2006-10-03 18:02:37 +00:00
Georg Brandl fb25773862 Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs. 2006-09-30 09:06:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 13782a3359 revise explanation of returns_unicode to reflect bool values 
and to include the default value
(merged from release25-maint revision 51890)
 2006-09-15 16:11:27 +00:00
Fred Drake a58f123602 - fix module name in links in formatted documentation 
- minor markup cleanup
(forward-ported from release25-maint revision 51888)
 2006-09-15 15:18:04 +00:00
Georg Brandl c9ded90368 Correct elementtree module index entry. 2006-09-15 05:22:24 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee cdf6afde1a Fix grammar errors and improve clarity. 2006-09-15 00:34:19 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ab856873f1 More wordsmithing 2006-09-12 21:21:51 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 32cec80b02 Some editing, markup fixes 2006-09-12 21:09:02 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling abd5520cff Markup typo fix 2006-09-12 20:50:23 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling af57f6065f Fix typo in example 2006-09-08 14:05:10 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 6d75567238 Use native SQLite types 2006-09-08 14:03:01 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 2b46434109 Explain SQLite a bit more clearly 2006-09-08 13:36:36 +00:00
Georg Brandl c48c9e266f Bug #1552618: change docs of dict.has_key() to reflect recommendation 
to use "in".
 2006-09-05 12:44:58 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger a0c95fa4d8 Fix endcase for str.rpartition() 2006-09-04 15:32:48 +00:00
Nick Coghlan 5a901c62cc Typo fix for decimal docs 2006-09-03 01:06:07 +00:00
Nick Coghlan f1f42d850f Fix final documentation nits before backporting decimal module fixes to 2.5 2006-09-03 01:02:00 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 68b6d3b85a Fix documentation nits for decimal context managers. 2006-09-02 17:07:23 +00:00
Nick Coghlan e7877d930c Further corrections to the decimal module context management documentation 2006-09-02 04:04:18 +00:00
Fred Drake eef345aa97 - SF patch #1550263: Enhance and correct unittest docs 
- various minor cleanups for improved consistency
 2006-09-01 03:57:19 +00:00
Nick Coghlan 8b6999b4c5 Fix the wrongheaded implementation of context management in the decimal module and add unit tests. (python-dev discussion is ongoing regarding what we do about Python 2.5) 2006-08-31 12:00:43 +00:00
Armin Rigo f580b104a4 Doc fix: hashlib objects don't always return a digest of 16 bytes. 
Backport candidate for 2.5.
 2006-08-31 08:51:06 +00:00
Anthony Baxter c85578725b patch for documentation for recent uuid changes (from ping) 2006-08-22 07:36:59 +00:00
Thomas Heller f5af05a211 Tutorial: 
Clarify somewhat how parameters are passed to functions
    (especially explain what integer means).

    Correct the table - Python integers and longs can both be used.
    Further clarification to the table comparing ctypes types, Python
    types, and C types.

Reference:

    Replace integer by C ``int`` where it makes sense.
 2006-08-16 18:02:11 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 040f76b79c Slightly revised version of patch #1538956: 
Replace UnicodeDecodeErrors raised during == and !=
compares of Unicode and other objects with a new
UnicodeWarning.

All other comparisons continue to raise exceptions.
Exceptions other than UnicodeDecodeErrors are also left
untouched.
 2006-08-14 10:55:19 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 30c0d1d174 Reword paragraph to clarify 2006-08-08 18:50:14 +00:00
Georg Brandl 212b587a52 Patch #1534922: correct and enhance unittest docs. 2006-08-05 06:10:54 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f4152c3215 Fix mangled sentence 2006-08-04 21:10:03 +00:00
Gregory P. Smith d856ce0a1f fix typos 2006-08-04 05:17:47 +00:00
Thomas Heller 5c387f2e5d Fix a mistake. 2006-08-02 12:00:13 +00:00
Thomas Heller 6a0ce407fb A few nore words about what ctypes does. 
Document that using the wrong calling convention can also raise
'ValueError: Procedure called with the wrong number of arguments'.
 2006-08-02 11:35:31 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b7697a50fb [Bug #848556] Remove \d* from second alternative to avoid exponential case when repeating match 2006-07-31 16:22:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling aa95fdb783 [Bug #1514540] Instead of putting the standard types in a section, put them in a chapter of their own. This means string methods will now show up in the ToC. (Should the types come before or after the functions+exceptions+constants chapter? I've put them after, for now.) 2006-07-31 16:10:24 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ec3a89449e Remove reference to notation 2006-07-31 15:23:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 17159fe26f Typo fix 2006-07-31 15:22:58 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 759c185ce0 minor tweaks 2006-07-31 03:11:11 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 08bbccf369 minor tweaks 2006-07-31 03:09:45 +00:00
Andrew McNamara 10183b8e40 Redo the comment about the 2.5 change in quoted-newline handling. 2006-07-31 02:27:48 +00:00
Georg Brandl e34ac7ce7a Bug #1002398: The documentation for os.path.sameopenfile now correctly 
refers to file descriptors, not file objects.
 2006-07-30 11:07:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 33c3e29fce - remove yet another reference to how commonly Tkinter is (thought to be) used 
- fix an internal section reference
 2006-07-30 05:55:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 21731118af remove possibly-outdated comment on what GUI toolkit is most commonly used; 
it is hard to know whether this is right, and it does not add valuable reference information
at any rate
 2006-07-30 05:49:49 +00:00
Fred Drake c3c805e8b2 update information on wxPython, from Robin Dunn 2006-07-30 05:41:28 +00:00
Fred Drake e0d4aecfc2 lots of markup nits, most commonly Unix/unix --> \UNIX 2006-07-30 03:03:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ad416d056f [Bug #793553] Correct description of keyword arguments for SSL authentication 2006-07-30 00:37:56 +00:00
Fred Drake d457a97beb markup cleanups 2006-07-29 23:34:57 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 2d5c8e3bb1 Fix case for 'Unix' 2006-07-29 21:30:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b9a79c95dc Follow TeX's conventions for hyphens 2006-07-29 21:27:12 +00:00
Fred Drake a650fb3d6f fix minor markup error that introduced extra punctuation 2006-07-29 20:21:25 +00:00
Skip Montanaro abd51a3585 Add a comment to the csv reader documentation that explains why the 
treatment of newlines changed in 2.5.  Pulled almost verbatim from a comment
by Andrew McNamara in <http://python.org/sf/1465014>.
 2006-07-29 20:06:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 45540b0922 SF bug #1193966: Weakref types documentation misplaced 
The information about supporting weakrefs with types defined in C extensions
is moved to the Extending & Embedding manual.  Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_WEAKREFS is
no longer mentioned since it is part of Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT.
 2006-07-29 20:04:42 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 9964fdb466 [Patch #1068277] Clarify that os.path.exists() can return False depending on permissions. Fred approved committing this patch in December 2004! 2006-07-29 19:50:37 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 956597f4ef Reorganize the docs for 'file' and 'open()' after some discussion with Fred. 
We want to encourage users to write open() when opening a file, but
open() was described with a single paragraph and
'file' had lots of explanation of the mode and bufsize arguments.

I've shrunk the description of 'file' to cross-reference to the 'File
objects' section, and to open() for an explanation of the arguments.

open() now has all the paragraphs about the mode string.  The bufsize
argument was moved up so that it isn't buried at the end; now there's
1 paragraph on mode, 1 on bufsize, and then 3 more on mode.  Various
other edits and rearrangements were made in the process.

It's probably best to read the final text and not to try to make sense
of the diffs.
 2006-07-29 18:14:07 +00:00
Fred Drake fbdeaad069 expunge the xmlcore changes: 
41667, 41668 - initial switch to xmlcore
  47044        - mention of xmlcore in What's New
  50687        - mention of xmlcore in the library reference

re-apply xmlcore changes to xml:
  41674        - line ending changes (re-applied manually), directory props
  41677        - add cElementTree wrapper
  41678        - PSF licensing for etree
  41812        - whitespace normalization
  42724        - fix svn:eol-style settings
  43681, 43682 - remove Python version-compatibility cruft from minidom
  46773        - fix encoding of \r\n\t in attr values in saxutils
  47269        - added XMLParser alias for cElementTree compatibility

additional tests were added in Lib/test/test_sax.py that failed with
the xmlcore changes; these relate to SF bugs #1511497, #1513611
 2006-07-29 16:56:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e49741d412 [Bug #1528258] Mention that the 'data' argument can be None. 
The constructor docs referred the reader to the add_data() method's docs,
but they weren't very helpful.  I've simply copied an earlier explanation
of 'data' that's more useful.
 2006-07-29 15:57:08 +00:00
Matt Fleming aab30d0f08 Fix typo 2006-07-29 15:55:30 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b9d7e04880 [Bug #1530382] Document SSL.server(), .issuer() methods 2006-07-29 15:35:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 7092f4ce9f [Bug #1519571] Document some missing functions: setup(), title(), done() 2006-07-29 14:42:48 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling dafb1e59c9 [Bug #1529157] Mention raw_input() and input(); while I'm at it, reword the description a bit 2006-07-29 14:21:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3ec3f78c8a Reword paragraph to match the order of the subsequent sections 2006-07-29 14:08:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 144691cfd8 Update URL 2006-07-29 14:04:47 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 35f64c12d3 Add example 2006-07-29 13:56:48 +00:00
Georg Brandl 9fd21e31b6 Bug #835255: The "closure" argument to new.function() is now documented. 2006-07-29 08:51:21 +00:00
Phillip J. Eby f7575d0cb7 Bug #1529871: The speed enhancement patch #921466 broke Python's compliance 
with PEP 302.  This was fixed by adding an ``imp.NullImporter`` type that is
used in ``sys.path_importer_cache`` to cache non-directory paths and avoid
excessive filesystem operations during imports.
 2006-07-28 21:12:07 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 39d7739e6c Add example. Should I propagate this example to all the other DBM-ish modules, too? 2006-07-28 12:48:07 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 1d69a7013f Don't overwrite built-in name; add some blank lines for readability 2006-07-28 12:45:55 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling bd468103e0 Add example 2006-07-28 12:33:19 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4036f43cac Add example 2006-07-28 12:32:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 984b075978 Typo fix 2006-07-28 12:18:22 +00:00
Tim Peters 750c4420a8 Live with that "the hardware address" is an ill-defined 
concept, and that different ways of trying to find "the
hardware address" may return different results.  Certainly
true on both of my Windows boxes, and in different ways
(see whining on python-dev).
 2006-07-28 04:51:59 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 00decd7835 Patch #1520294: Support for getset and member descriptors in types.py, 
inspect.py, and pydoc.py.  Specifically, this allows for querying the type of
an object against these built-in C types and more importantly, for getting
their docstrings printed in the interactive interpreter's help() function.

This patch includes a new built-in module called _types which provides
definitions of getset and member descriptors for use by the types.py module.
These types are exposed as types.GetSetDescriptorType and
types.MemberDescriptorType.  Query functions are provided as
inspect.isgetsetdescriptor() and inspect.ismemberdescriptor().  The
implementations of these are robust enough to work with Python implementations
other than CPython, which may not have these fundamental types.

The patch also includes documentation and test suite updates.

I commit these changes now under these guiding principles:

1. Silence is assent.  The release manager has not said "no", and of the few
   people that cared enough to respond to the thread, the worst vote was "0".

2. It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

3. It's so dang easy to revert stuff in svn, that you could view this as a
   forcing function. :)

Windows build patches will follow.
 2006-07-27 23:43:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling fc0e61d9b6 Add example 2006-07-27 22:49:54 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 752e28ad9f Add example 2006-07-27 22:49:38 +00:00