From ae18e9fc1c1f7f672a35c41df7f17f921b7c7f28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 21:14:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Removed obsolete discussion on _xdr helper module. --- Doc/lib/libxdrlib.tex | 22 +--------------------- Doc/libxdrlib.tex | 22 +--------------------- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/lib/libxdrlib.tex b/Doc/lib/libxdrlib.tex index 0de56957a5c..a219f40539f 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libxdrlib.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libxdrlib.tex @@ -9,9 +9,7 @@ The \code{xdrlib} module supports the External Data Representation Standard as described in RFC 1014, written by Sun Microsystems, Inc. June 1987. It supports most of the data types described in the -RFC, although some, most notably \code{float} and \code{double} are -only supported on those operating systems that provide an XDR -library. +RFC. The \code{xdrlib} module defines two classes, one for packing variables into XDR representation, and another for unpacking from XDR @@ -230,21 +228,3 @@ try: except xdrlib.ConversionError, instance: print 'packing the double failed:', instance.msg \end{verbatim}\ecode -% -\subsection{Supporting Floating Point Data} - -Packing and unpacking floating point data, -i.e. \code{Packer.pack_float}, \code{Packer.pack_double}, -\code{Unpacker.unpack_float}, and \code{Unpacker.unpack_double}, are -only supported with the helper built-in \code{_xdr} module, which -relies on your operating system having the appropriate XDR library -routines. - -If you have built the Python interpeter with the \code{_xdr} module, -or have built the \code{_xdr} module as a shared library, -\code{xdrlib} will use these to pack and unpack floating point -numbers. Otherwise, using these routines will raise a -\code{ConversionError} exception. - -See the Python installation instructions for details on building the -\code{_xdr} module. diff --git a/Doc/libxdrlib.tex b/Doc/libxdrlib.tex index 0de56957a5c..a219f40539f 100644 --- a/Doc/libxdrlib.tex +++ b/Doc/libxdrlib.tex @@ -9,9 +9,7 @@ The \code{xdrlib} module supports the External Data Representation Standard as described in RFC 1014, written by Sun Microsystems, Inc. June 1987. It supports most of the data types described in the -RFC, although some, most notably \code{float} and \code{double} are -only supported on those operating systems that provide an XDR -library. +RFC. The \code{xdrlib} module defines two classes, one for packing variables into XDR representation, and another for unpacking from XDR @@ -230,21 +228,3 @@ try: except xdrlib.ConversionError, instance: print 'packing the double failed:', instance.msg \end{verbatim}\ecode -% -\subsection{Supporting Floating Point Data} - -Packing and unpacking floating point data, -i.e. \code{Packer.pack_float}, \code{Packer.pack_double}, -\code{Unpacker.unpack_float}, and \code{Unpacker.unpack_double}, are -only supported with the helper built-in \code{_xdr} module, which -relies on your operating system having the appropriate XDR library -routines. - -If you have built the Python interpeter with the \code{_xdr} module, -or have built the \code{_xdr} module as a shared library, -\code{xdrlib} will use these to pack and unpack floating point -numbers. Otherwise, using these routines will raise a -\code{ConversionError} exception. - -See the Python installation instructions for details on building the -\code{_xdr} module.