cpython/Doc
Robert Smallshire 58a7da9e12
bpo-26680: Incorporate is_integer in all built-in and standard library numeric types (GH-6121)
* bpo-26680: Adds support for int.is_integer() for compatibility with float.is_integer().

The int.is_integer() method always returns True.

* bpo-26680: Adds a test to ensure that False.is_integer() and True.is_integer() are always True.

* bpo-26680: Adds Real.is_integer() with a trivial implementation using conversion to int.

This default implementation is intended to reduce the workload for subclass
implementers. It is not robust in the presence of infinities or NaNs and
may have suboptimal performance for other types.

* bpo-26680: Adds Rational.is_integer which returns True if the denominator is one.

This implementation assumes the Rational is represented in it's
lowest form, as required by the class docstring.

* bpo-26680: Adds Integral.is_integer which always returns True.

* bpo-26680: Adds tests for Fraction.is_integer called as an instance method.

The tests for the Rational abstract base class use an unbound
method to sidestep the inability to directly instantiate Rational.
These tests check that everything works correct as an instance method.

* bpo-26680: Updates documentation for Real.is_integer and built-ins int and float.

The call x.is_integer() is now listed in the table of operations
which apply to all numeric types except complex, with a reference
to the full documentation for Real.is_integer().  Mention of
is_integer() has been removed from the section 'Additional Methods
on Float'.

The documentation for Real.is_integer() describes its purpose, and
mentions that it should be overridden for performance reasons, or
to handle special values like NaN.

* bpo-26680: Adds Decimal.is_integer to the Python and C implementations.

The C implementation of Decimal already implements and uses
mpd_isinteger internally, we just expose the existing function to
Python.

The Python implementation uses internal conversion to integer
using to_integral_value().

In both cases, the corresponding context methods are also
implemented.

Tests and documentation are included.

* bpo-26680: Updates the ACKS file.

* bpo-26680: NEWS entries for int, the numeric ABCs and Decimal.

Co-authored-by: Robert Smallshire <rob@sixty-north.com>
2020-10-01 17:30:08 +01:00
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c-api bpo-41842: Add codecs.unregister() function (GH-22360) 2020-09-28 23:41:11 +02:00
data bpo-41756: Introduce PyGen_Send C API (GH-22196) 2020-09-18 18:38:38 -07:00
distributing Add link to .pypirc specification (GH-20680) 2020-06-20 10:10:25 -07:00
distutils bpo-39586: Deprecate distutils bdist_msi command (GH-18415) 2020-02-10 14:26:40 +01:00
extending bpo-40204: Fix reference to terms in the doc (GH-21865) 2020-08-14 12:20:05 +02:00
faq bpo-41774: Add programming FAQ entry (GH-22402) 2020-09-29 01:02:44 -04:00
howto Revert "Fix all Python Cookbook links (#22205)" (GH-22424) 2020-09-27 01:47:25 +01:00
includes Minor C API documentation improvements. (GH-17696) 2019-12-24 22:25:56 -06:00
install fix comma location in various places (GH-19233) 2020-03-30 14:28:25 -07:00
installing Spell Bitbucket correctly. (GH-16862) 2019-10-23 12:17:30 +03:00
library bpo-26680: Incorporate is_integer in all built-in and standard library numeric types (GH-6121) 2020-10-01 17:30:08 +01:00
reference bpo-41762: Fix usage of productionlist markup in the doc (GH-22281) 2020-09-18 09:10:15 +02:00
tools bpo-35293: Remove RemovedInSphinx40Warning (GH-22198) 2020-09-18 18:22:36 +09:00
tutorial Revert "Fix all Python Cookbook links (#22205)" (GH-22424) 2020-09-27 01:47:25 +01:00
using Fix documented Python version for venv --upgrade-deps (GH-22113) 2020-09-05 13:53:47 -07:00
whatsnew bpo-41842: Add codecs.unregister() function (GH-22360) 2020-09-28 23:41:11 +02:00
Makefile bpo-35293: Travis CI uses "make venv" for the doc (GH-22307) 2020-09-18 16:23:18 +02:00
README.rst Doc: Add an optional obsolete header. (GH-13638) 2019-05-29 18:34:04 +02:00
about.rst
bugs.rst Fix funny typo in Doc/bugs. (GH-15412) 2019-08-23 21:09:43 -07:00
conf.py bpo-40204: Allow pre-Sphinx 3 syntax in the doc (GH-21844) 2020-08-12 21:49:22 +02:00
contents.rst
copyright.rst Bring Python into the next decade. (GH-17801) 2020-01-02 18:56:34 -08:00
glossary.rst [doc] Leverage the fact that the actual types can now be indexed for typing (GH-22340) 2020-09-27 12:07:04 -07:00
license.rst bpo-39883: Use BSD0 license for code in docs (GH-17635) 2020-09-02 22:22:36 -07:00
make.bat Ensure correct version of Sphinx is used for Windows builds (GH-20582) 2020-06-01 22:17:23 +01:00
requirements.txt bpo-35293: Travis CI uses "make venv" for the doc (GH-22307) 2020-09-18 16:23:18 +02:00
runtime.txt bpo-37860: Add netlify deploy preview for docs (GH-15288) 2019-08-21 22:08:47 +09:00

README.rst

Python Documentation README
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This directory contains the reStructuredText (reST) sources to the Python
documentation.  You don't need to build them yourself, `prebuilt versions are
available <https://docs.python.org/dev/download.html>`_.

Documentation on authoring Python documentation, including information about
both style and markup, is available in the "`Documenting Python
<https://devguide.python.org/documenting/>`_" chapter of the
developers guide.


Building the docs
=================

The documentation is built with several tools which are not included in this
tree but are maintained separately and are available from
`PyPI <https://pypi.org/>`_.

* `Sphinx <https://pypi.org/project/Sphinx/>`_
* `blurb <https://pypi.org/project/blurb/>`_
* `python-docs-theme <https://pypi.org/project/python-docs-theme/>`_

The easiest way to install these tools is to create a virtual environment and
install the tools into there.

Using make
----------

To get started on UNIX, you can create a virtual environment with the command ::

  make venv

That will install all the tools necessary to build the documentation. Assuming
the virtual environment was created in the ``venv`` directory (the default;
configurable with the VENVDIR variable), you can run the following command to
build the HTML output files::

  make html

By default, if the virtual environment is not created, the Makefile will
look for instances of sphinxbuild and blurb installed on your process PATH
(configurable with the SPHINXBUILD and BLURB variables).

On Windows, we try to emulate the Makefile as closely as possible with a
``make.bat`` file. If you need to specify the Python interpreter to use,
set the PYTHON environment variable instead.

Available make targets are:

* "clean", which removes all build files.

* "venv", which creates a virtual environment with all necessary tools
  installed.

* "html", which builds standalone HTML files for offline viewing.

* "htmlview", which re-uses the "html" builder, but then opens the main page
  in your default web browser.

* "htmlhelp", which builds HTML files and a HTML Help project file usable to
  convert them into a single Compiled HTML (.chm) file -- these are popular
  under Microsoft Windows, but very handy on every platform.

  To create the CHM file, you need to run the Microsoft HTML Help Workshop
  over the generated project (.hhp) file.  The make.bat script does this for
  you on Windows.

* "latex", which builds LaTeX source files as input to "pdflatex" to produce
  PDF documents.

* "text", which builds a plain text file for each source file.

* "epub", which builds an EPUB document, suitable to be viewed on e-book
  readers.

* "linkcheck", which checks all external references to see whether they are
  broken, redirected or malformed, and outputs this information to stdout as
  well as a plain-text (.txt) file.

* "changes", which builds an overview over all versionadded/versionchanged/
  deprecated items in the current version. This is meant as a help for the
  writer of the "What's New" document.

* "coverage", which builds a coverage overview for standard library modules and
  C API.

* "pydoc-topics", which builds a Python module containing a dictionary with
  plain text documentation for the labels defined in
  `tools/pyspecific.py` -- pydoc needs these to show topic and keyword help.

* "suspicious", which checks the parsed markup for text that looks like
  malformed and thus unconverted reST.

* "check", which checks for frequent markup errors.

* "serve", which serves the build/html directory on port 8000.

* "dist", (Unix only) which creates distributable archives of HTML, text,
  PDF, and EPUB builds.


Without make
------------

First, install the tool dependencies from PyPI.

Then, from the ``Doc`` directory, run ::

   sphinx-build -b<builder> . build/<builder>

where ``<builder>`` is one of html, text, latex, or htmlhelp (for explanations
see the make targets above).

Deprecation header
==================

You can define the ``outdated`` variable in ``html_context`` to show a
red banner on each page redirecting to the "latest" version.

The link points to the same page on ``/3/``, sadly for the moment the
language is lost during the process.


Contributing
============

Bugs in the content should be reported to the
`Python bug tracker <https://bugs.python.org>`_.

Bugs in the toolset should be reported to the tools themselves.

You can also send a mail to the Python Documentation Team at docs@python.org,
and we will process your request as soon as possible.

If you want to help the Documentation Team, you are always welcome.  Just send
a mail to docs@python.org.