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  r60364 | neal.norwitz | 2008-01-27 19:09:48 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

  Update the comment and remove the close.  If we close we can't flush anymore.
  We might still need to close after the for loop if flushing 6! times still
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  r60365 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-27 19:14:43 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Remove effectless expression statement.
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  r60367 | neal.norwitz | 2008-01-27 19:19:04 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 1 line

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  r60370 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-27 20:01:45 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Change isbasestring function as discussed on the cvs list a while ago
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  r60372 | neal.norwitz | 2008-01-27 21:03:13 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  socket.error doesn't have a headers attribute like ProtocolError.
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  r60375 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-27 21:25:12 +0100 (Sun, 27 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Add refcounting extension to build config.
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  r60377 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-01-28 00:08:46 +0100 (Mon, 28 Jan 2008) | 6 lines

  Moved Rational._binary_float_to_ratio() to float.as_integer_ratio() because
  it's useful outside of rational numbers.

  This is my first C code that had to do anything significant. Please be more
  careful when looking over it.
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  r60378 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-28 00:34:59 +0100 (Mon, 28 Jan 2008) | 1 line

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README.txt

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 at http://docs.python.org/download/.

Documentation on the authoring Python documentation, including information about
both style and markup, is available in the "Documenting Python" chapter of the
documentation.  There's also a chapter intended to point out differences to
those familiar with the previous docs written in LaTeX.


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

You need to install Python 2.5.1 or higher (but Python 3.0 is not supported yet);
the toolset used to build the docs are written in Python.  The toolset used
to build the documentation is called *Sphinx*, it is not included in this
tree, but maintained separately in the Python Subversion repository.  Also
needed are Jinja, a templating engine (included in Sphinx as a Subversion
external), and optionally Pygments, a code highlighter.


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

Luckily, a Makefile has been prepared so that on Unix, provided you have
installed Python and Subversion, you can just run ::

   make html

to check out the necessary toolset in the `tools/` subdirectory and build the
HTML output files.  To view the generated HTML, point your favorite browser at
the top-level index `build/html/index.html` after running "make".

To use a Python interpreter that's not called ``python``, use the standard
way to set Makefile variables, using e.g. ::

   make html PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.5

Available make targets are:

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

 * "web", which builds files usable with the Sphinx.web application (used to
   serve the docs online at http://docs.python.org/).

 * "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.

 * "latex", which builds LaTeX source files that can be run with "pdflatex"
   to produce PDF documents.

 * "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.

A "make update" updates the Subversion checkouts in `tools/`.


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

You'll need to checkout the Sphinx package to the `tools/` directory::

   svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/doctools/trunk/sphinx tools/sphinx

Then, you need to install Docutils 0.4 (the SVN snapshot won't work), either
by checking it out via ::

   svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/external/docutils-0.4/docutils tools/docutils

or by installing it from http://docutils.sf.net/.

You can optionally also install Pygments, either as a checkout via :: 

   svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/external/Pygments-0.9/pygments tools/pygments

or from PyPI at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pygments.


Then, make an output directory, e.g. under `build/`, and run ::

   python tools/sphinx-build.py -b<builder> . build/<outputdirectory>

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


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

For bugs in the content, the online version at http://docs.python.org/ has a
"suggest change" facility that can be used to correct errors in the source text
and submit them as a patch to the maintainers.

Bugs in the toolset should be reported in the Python bug tracker at
http://bugs.python.org/.

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.


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:

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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.

See the file "license.rst" for information on usage and redistribution
of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
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