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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/p3yk ................ r55413 | fred.drake | 2007-05-17 12:30:10 -0700 (Thu, 17 May 2007) | 1 line fix argument name in documentation; match the implementation ................ r55430 | jack.diederich | 2007-05-18 06:39:59 -0700 (Fri, 18 May 2007) | 1 line Implements class decorators, PEP 3129. ................ r55432 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-05-18 08:09:41 -0700 (Fri, 18 May 2007) | 2 lines obsubmit. ................ r55434 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-05-18 09:39:10 -0700 (Fri, 18 May 2007) | 3 lines Fix bug in test_inspect. (I presume this is how it should be fixed; Jack Diedrich, please verify.) ................ r55460 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-20 00:31:57 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 4 lines Remove the imageop module. With imgfile already removed in Python 3.0 and rgbimg gone in Python 2.6 the unit tests themselves were made worthless. Plus third-party libraries perform the same function much better. ................ r55469 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-20 11:28:20 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 118 lines Merged revisions 55324-55467 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r55348 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-15 13:19:34 -0700 (Tue, 15 May 2007) | 4 lines HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and injecting HTML into the error page. ........ r55372 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-15 21:33:50 -0700 (Tue, 15 May 2007) | 6 lines Port rev 55353 from Guido: Add what looks like a necessary call to PyErr_NoMemory() when PyMem_MALLOC() fails. Will backport. ........ r55377 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-15 22:06:33 -0700 (Tue, 15 May 2007) | 1 line Mention removal of some directories for obsolete platforms ........ r55380 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-15 22:50:03 -0700 (Tue, 15 May 2007) | 2 lines Change the maintainer of the BeOS port. ........ r55383 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-16 06:44:18 -0700 (Wed, 16 May 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1719995: don't use deprecated method in sets example. ........ r55386 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-16 13:05:11 -0700 (Wed, 16 May 2007) | 5 lines Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack of an infinite recursion check. Contributed by Damien Miller at Google. ........ r55389 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-16 15:42:29 -0700 (Wed, 16 May 2007) | 6 lines Remove the gopherlib module. It has been raising a DeprecationWarning since Python 2.5. Also remove gopher support from urllib/urllib2. As both imported gopherlib the usage of the support would have raised a DeprecationWarning. ........ r55394 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-05-16 18:08:04 -0700 (Wed, 16 May 2007) | 1 line calendar.py gets no benefit from xrange() instead of range() ........ r55395 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-16 19:02:56 -0700 (Wed, 16 May 2007) | 3 lines Complete deprecation of BaseException.message. Some subclasses were directly accessing the message attribute instead of using the descriptor. ........ r55396 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-16 23:11:36 -0700 (Wed, 16 May 2007) | 4 lines Reduce the max stack depth to see if this fixes the segfaults on Windows and some other boxes. If this is successful, this rev should be backported. I'm not sure how close to the limit we should push this. ........ r55397 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-16 23:23:50 -0700 (Wed, 16 May 2007) | 4 lines Set the depth to something very small to try to determine if the crashes on Windows are really due to the stack size or possibly some other problem. ........ r55398 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-17 00:04:46 -0700 (Thu, 17 May 2007) | 4 lines Last try for tweaking the max stack depth. 5000 was the original value, 4000 didn't work either. 1000 does work on Windows. If 2000 works, that will hopefully be a reasonable balance. ........ r55412 | fred.drake | 2007-05-17 12:29:58 -0700 (Thu, 17 May 2007) | 1 line fix argument name in documentation; match the implementation ........ r55427 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-17 22:47:16 -0700 (Thu, 17 May 2007) | 1 line Verify neither dumps or loads overflow the stack and segfault. ........ r55446 | collin.winter | 2007-05-18 16:11:24 -0700 (Fri, 18 May 2007) | 1 line Backport PEP 3110's new 'except' syntax to 2.6. ........ r55448 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-05-18 18:11:16 -0700 (Fri, 18 May 2007) | 1 line Improvements to NamedTuple's implementation, tests, and documentation ........ r55449 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-05-18 18:50:11 -0700 (Fri, 18 May 2007) | 1 line Fix beginner mistake -- don't mix spaces and tabs. ........ r55450 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-18 20:48:47 -0700 (Fri, 18 May 2007) | 1 line Clear data so random memory does not get freed. Will backport. ........ r55452 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-18 21:34:55 -0700 (Fri, 18 May 2007) | 3 lines Whoops, need to pay attention to those test failures. Move the clear to *before* the first use, not after. ........ r55453 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-18 21:35:52 -0700 (Fri, 18 May 2007) | 1 line Give some clue as to what happened if the test fails. ........ r55455 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-19 11:09:26 -0700 (Sat, 19 May 2007) | 2 lines Fix docstring for add_package in site.py. ........ r55458 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-20 00:09:50 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 2 lines Remove the rgbimg module. It has been deprecated since Python 2.5. ........ r55465 | nick.coghlan | 2007-05-20 04:12:49 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 1 line Fix typo in example (should be backported, but my maintenance branch is woefully out of date) ........ ................ r55472 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-20 12:06:18 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 2 lines Remove imageop from the Windows build process. ................ r55486 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-20 23:59:52 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 1 line Remove callable() builtin ................ r55506 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-22 00:43:29 -0700 (Tue, 22 May 2007) | 78 lines Merged revisions 55468-55505 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r55468 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-20 11:06:27 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 1 line rotor is long gone. ........ r55470 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-20 11:43:00 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 1 line Update directories/files at the top-level. ........ r55471 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-20 12:05:06 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 2 lines Try to remove rgbimg from Windows builds. ........ r55474 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-20 16:17:38 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 4 lines Remove the macfs module. This led to the deprecation of macostools.touched(); it completely relied on macfs and is a no-op on OS X according to code comments. ........ r55476 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-20 16:56:18 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 3 lines Move imgfile import to the global namespace to trigger an import error ASAP to prevent creation of a test file. ........ r55477 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-20 16:57:38 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 3 lines Cause posixfile to raise a DeprecationWarning. Documented as deprecated since Ptyhon 1.5. ........ r55479 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-05-20 17:03:15 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 1 line Note removed modules ........ r55481 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-05-20 21:35:47 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 2 lines Add Alexandre Vassalotti. ........ r55482 | george.yoshida | 2007-05-20 21:41:21 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 4 lines fix against r55474 [Remove the macfs module] Remove "libmacfs.tex" from Makefile.deps and mac/mac.tex. ........ r55487 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-05-21 01:13:35 -0700 (Mon, 21 May 2007) | 1 line Replace assertion with straight error-checking. ........ r55489 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-05-21 09:40:10 -0700 (Mon, 21 May 2007) | 1 line Allow all alphanumeric and underscores in type and field names. ........ r55490 | facundo.batista | 2007-05-21 10:32:32 -0700 (Mon, 21 May 2007) | 5 lines Added timeout support to HTTPSConnection, through the socket.create_connection function. Also added a small test for this, and updated NEWS file. ........ r55495 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-21 13:34:16 -0700 (Mon, 21 May 2007) | 2 lines Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function calls. ........ r55502 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-21 23:03:36 -0700 (Mon, 21 May 2007) | 1 line Document new params to HTTPSConnection ........ r55504 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-22 00:16:10 -0700 (Tue, 22 May 2007) | 1 line Stop using METH_OLDARGS ........ r55505 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-22 00:16:44 -0700 (Tue, 22 May 2007) | 1 line Stop using METH_OLDARGS implicitly ........ ................ |
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README
Python standard documentation -- in LaTeX ----------------------------------------- This directory contains the LaTeX sources to the Python documentation and tools required to support the formatting process. The documents now require LaTeX2e; LaTeX 2.09 compatibility has been dropped. If you don't have LaTeX, or if you'd rather not format the documentation yourself, you can ftp a tar file containing HTML, PDF, or PostScript versions of all documents. Additional formats may be available. These should be in the same place where you fetched the main Python distribution (try <http://www.python.org/> or <ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/>). The following are the LaTeX source files: api/*.tex Python/C API Reference Manual doc/*.tex Documenting Python ext/*.tex Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter lib/*.tex Python Library Reference mac/*.tex Macintosh Library Modules ref/*.tex Python Reference Manual tut/*.tex Python Tutorial inst/*.tex Installing Python Modules dist/*.tex Distributing Python Modules Most use the "manual" document class and "python" package, derived from the old "myformat.sty" style file. The Macintosh Library Modules document uses the "howto" document class instead. These contains many macro definitions useful in documenting Python, and set some style parameters. There's a Makefile to call LaTeX and the other utilities in the right order and the right number of times. By default, it will build the HTML version of the documentation, but DVI, PDF, and PostScript can also be made. To view the generated HTML, point your favorite browser at the top-level index (html/index.html) after running "make". The Makefile can also produce DVI files for each document made; to preview them, use xdvi. PostScript is produced by the same Makefile target that produces the DVI files. This uses the dvips tool. Printing depends on local conventions; at our site, we use lpr. For example: make paper-letter/lib.ps # create lib.dvi and lib.ps xdvi paper-letter/lib.dvi # preview lib.dvi lpr paper-letter/lib.ps # print on default printer What if I find a bug? --------------------- First, check that the bug is present in the development version of the documentation at <http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/>; we may have already fixed it. If we haven't, tell us about it. We'd like the documentation to be complete and accurate, but have limited time. If you discover any inconsistencies between the documentation and implementation, or just have suggestions as to how to improve the documentation, let is know! Specific bugs and patches should be reported using our bug & patch databases at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/python Other suggestions or questions should be sent to the Python Documentation Team: docs@python.org Thanks! What tools do I need? --------------------- You need to install Python; some of the scripts used to produce the documentation are written in Python. You don't need this documentation to install Python; instructions are included in the README file in the Python distribution. The simplest way to get the rest of the tools in the configuration we used is to install the teTeX TeX distribution, versions 0.9 or newer. More information is available on teTeX at <http://www.tug.org/tetex/>. This is a Unix-only TeX distribution at this time. This documentation release was tested with the 1.0.7 release, but there have been no substantial changes since late in the 0.9 series, which we used extensively for previous versions without any difficulty. If you don't want to get teTeX, here is what you'll need: To create DVI, PDF, or PostScript files: - LaTeX2e, 1995/12/01 or newer. Older versions are likely to choke. - makeindex. This is used to produce the indexes for the library reference and Python/C API reference. To create PDF files: - pdflatex. We used the one in the teTeX distribution (pdfTeX version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1) at the time of this writing). Versions even a couple of patchlevels earlier are highly likely to fail due to syntax changes for some of the pdftex primitives. To create PostScript files: - dvips. Most TeX installations include this. If you don't have one, check CTAN (<ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/>). To create info files: Note that info support is currently being revised using new conversion tools by Michael Ernst <mernst@cs.washington.edu>. - makeinfo. This is available from any GNU mirror. - emacs or xemacs. Emacs is available from the same place as makeinfo, and xemacs is available from ftp.xemacs.org. - Perl. Find the software at <http://language.perl.com/info/software.html>. - HTML::Element. If you don't have this installed, you can get this from CPAN. Use the command: perl -e 'use CPAN; CPAN::install("HTML::Element");' You may need to be root to do this. To create HTML files: - Perl 5.6.0 or newer. Find the software at <http://language.perl.com/info/software.html>. - LaTeX2HTML 99.2b8 or newer. Older versions are not supported; each version changes enough that supporting multiple versions is not likely to work. Many older versions don't work with Perl 5.6 as well. This also screws up code fragments. ;-( Releases are available at: <http://www.latex2html.org/>. I got a make error: "make: don't know how to make commontex/patchlevel.tex." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your version of make doesn't support the 'shell' function. You will need to use a version which does, e.g. GNU make. LaTeX (or pdfLaTeX) ran out of memory; how can I fix it? -------------------------------------------------------- This is known to be a problem at least on Mac OS X, but it has been observed on other systems in the past. On some systems, the default sizes of some of the memory pools allocated by TeX needs to be changed; this is a configuration setting for installations based on web2c (most if not all installations). This is usually set in a file named texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf (where the top-level texmf/ directory is part of the TeX installation). If you get a "buffer overflow" warning from LaTeX, open that configuration file and look for the "main_memory.pdflatex" setting. If there is not one, you can add a line with the setting. The value 1500000 seems to be sufficient for formatting the Python documetantion. What if Times fonts are not available? -------------------------------------- As distributed, the LaTeX documents use PostScript Times fonts. This is done since they are much better looking and produce smaller PostScript files. If, however, your TeX installation does not support them, they may be easily disabled. Edit the file texinputs/pypaper.sty and comment out the line that starts "\RequirePackage{times}" by inserting a "%" character at the beginning of the line. If you're formatting the docs for A4 paper instead of US-Letter paper, change paper-a4/pypaper.sty instead. An alternative is to install the right fonts and LaTeX style file. What if I want to use A4 paper? ------------------------------- Instead of building the PostScript by giving the command "make ps", give the command "make PAPER=a4 ps"; the output will be produced in the paper-a4/ subdirectory. (You can use "make PAPER=a4 pdf" if you'd rather have PDF output.) Making HTML files ----------------- The LaTeX documents can be converted to HTML using Nikos Drakos' LaTeX2HTML converter. See the Makefile; after some twiddling, "make" should do the trick. What else is in here? --------------------- There is a new LaTeX document class called "howto". This is used for the new series of Python HOWTO documents which is being coordinated by Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>. The file templates/howto.tex is a commented example which may be used as a template. A Python script to "do the right thing" to format a howto document is included as tools/mkhowto. These documents can be formatted as HTML, PDF, PostScript, or ASCII files. Use "mkhowto --help" for information on using the formatting tool. For authors of module documentation, there is a file templates/module.tex which may be used as a template for a module section. This may be used in conjunction with either the howto or manual document class. Create the documentation for a new module by copying the template to lib<mymodule>.tex and editing according to the instructions in the comments. Documentation on the authoring Python documentation, including information about both style and markup, is available in the "Documenting Python" manual. Copyright notice ================ The Python source is copyrighted, but you can freely use and copy it as long as you don't change or remove the copyright notice: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Python Software Foundation. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2000 BeOpen.com. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1995-2000 Corporation for National Research Initiatives. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum. All rights reserved. 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