Guido van Rossum
612316f016
Add a rough list of undocumented stuff at the end.
1997-03-14 04:12:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
1f8cee2521
Hint about [\] trick to avoid quad backslashes.
1997-03-14 04:10:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3978d75cca
Added intern()
1997-03-03 16:03:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
38e2ec4f14
Added ref to StringIO docs.
1997-03-03 16:03:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3ff7317857
Correct two typos
1997-03-03 16:02:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
cda3d7d0e7
Added (minimal) StringIO docs.
1997-03-03 16:01:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
20e4210ec4
Fix up indentation of examples to use 4 spaces instead of tabs.
1997-02-28 16:37:49 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
7574587587
Document the new join() semantics.
1997-02-18 21:53:53 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
736bb0659f
Added a paragraph to describe clear_cache(), and why it's necessary.
1997-02-18 18:59:37 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
cd77df64e6
Document the new get_syntax() function.
1997-02-18 18:54:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6fb6f10a96
Added doco for ratecv.
1997-02-14 15:59:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
43d287ad73
(libparser.tex): Fix typo found by Mark Hammond.
1997-01-22 14:25:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5cd752028c
Describe new ("unsigned") behavior of hex() and oct().
1997-01-14 18:44:23 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
fe27a50847
Added warning that gethostname() doesn't always return fqdn, and show
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how to find it using gethostbyaddr().
1997-01-11 17:04:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
0d2971badb
Document that sys.builtin_module_names is now a tuple.
1997-01-06 23:01:02 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
d44be3fdb7
very minor typo
1997-01-03 20:19:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
653071731a
'I' and 'L' now always return a Python long.
1997-01-03 19:21:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
b0b8181622
Added unsigned data formats (B, H, I, L).
1997-01-03 19:20:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
dbadd558b5
Describe standard float/double support.
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Rewrite example to be an interactive session
1997-01-03 04:20:09 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
6717030dc9
setkey method's argument is no longer optional (it used to be a no-op
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when missing).
1997-01-02 19:48:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
591bbb1572
(libformatter.tex): Document the flush() method on the writer.
1996-12-31 20:51:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3dd68d3364
Added libstat.tex
1996-12-31 02:24:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
125434665b
Document the new extensions.
1996-12-31 02:22:14 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
f308c0f1fc
From reading the source, it turns out that the setkey() method can
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take an optional string key, but if key is not given, the method does
nothing! In the rewrite (see upcoming check-in), I left things this
way, but here I document that this is the case.
1996-12-23 23:34:17 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
e5a43a405d
Describe open(2) exported constants
1996-12-19 23:50:34 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e8e9ed176f
Docs for stat.py -- docs by Skip Montanaro.
1996-12-19 22:39:22 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
fa5a6cff45
posix.open(): third argument (mode) is optional.
1996-12-19 22:38:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
62ac99ebf5
Documented getprotobyname() interface.
1996-12-19 16:43:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
ae0cd0b9b3
(libunix.tex): Change matching lib.tex: add line item for the resource
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module.
1996-12-19 12:20:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3c7b2dc02c
Added docs for Jeremy's resource module.
1996-12-18 18:37:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
63a0c376ea
(libunix.tex): Changed two occurances of "Unix" to "\UNIX{}".
1996-12-16 22:12:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
094579e677
(libtime.tex): Merged in changes from Tamito Kajiyama.
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(For those watching Python CVS messages: I checked in all of
Tamito's other changes, but the mail delivery failed since the
subject line was too long. The patch Tamito sent for the
documentation has been completely merged in.)
1996-12-13 22:09:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
4b3f0312c9
(lib<all sorts of stuff>.tex):
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Merged in many typo corrections and fixes to support GNU info
processing; submitted by Tamito Kajiyama.
1996-12-13 22:04:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8d40c843c1
Added quote_plus() and unquote_plus(), to do space/plus substitutions
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for form field values.
Also corrected substitution example (the original changed the spelling
of "conolly" to "connolly" :).
1996-12-13 14:48:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
21be147094
Added remark about time() and sleep()'s subsecond precision.
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Added hint about using clock() for benchmarks etc.
Removed non-portable strftime directives and field width, and added a
warning about non-standard features.
1996-12-12 17:59:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3486f27428
Added soundex (sigh)
1996-12-12 17:02:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
843e712bda
Added descriptions of parsedate(), parsedate_tz(), getdate_tz()
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(all contributed by Andrew Kuchling).
1996-12-06 21:23:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
61ed4db9e8
Added section for operator module (compiled Skip Montanaro).
1996-12-06 21:22:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
9abe64a395
(libparser.tex): Added note that the line number for a terminal token
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indicates the line on which the token ends rather than starts
(a side effect of interpreting the parse tree nodes directly).
Maybe I'll fix this for Python 2.0.
1996-12-05 22:28:43 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
102dc417bf
Describe the new Unpacker.get_buffer() method.
1996-12-04 22:05:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
bda7ca7772
Added [nh]to[hn][sl]().
1996-12-02 17:24:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6240b0b773
Small nits only.
1996-10-24 22:49:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
f73f79b5fd
Done with this for 1.4.
1996-10-24 22:14:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
a5a4c2a7d8
Correct truncated paragraph.
1996-10-24 14:47:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
36845ede60
Changed URL for PCT again.
1996-10-22 02:25:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6e308d7e40
Start new chapter on restricted execution.
1996-10-22 01:11:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
095538dd10
Actual text submitted by AMK.
1996-10-22 01:11:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
c3d090cd4b
Background chapter on restricted execution. Additional sections are
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rexec and bastion.
1996-10-22 01:10:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
9b0581192d
Added embryonic description of fcntl.lockf(). Added pointer to that
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in posixfile (which is obsolescent).
1996-10-11 17:43:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
4bf1296e05
(libtypes.tex): Correct reversal of two words in description of
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formatting strings.
1996-10-11 16:33:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
1dde7b737c
Typos detected by Sjoerd
1996-10-11 15:57:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
8f925959c6
(libhtmllib.tex, libsgmllib.tex, libformatter.tex):
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Improve indexing somewhat. Add small intros to the "implementations"
sections of the formatter module doc.
1996-10-09 16:13:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
e1980ed1f8
(lib.tex, libwww.tex): Include the sgmlib chapter before the htmllib
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chapter to better reflect the relationship between the modules.
1996-10-09 14:36:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
53e84d5342
(lib.tex): Added entry for formatter module.
1996-10-08 21:54:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
08d301ec53
(libwww.tex): Added entry for formatter module.
1996-10-08 21:54:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
e83b30d51e
(libformatter.tex): Added documentation for abstract writer/formatter model
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and implementation variants.
1996-10-08 21:53:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
58d7f69168
(libhtmllib.tex): Revised documentation for HTML support.
1996-10-08 21:52:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
42439ad738
(libsgmllib.tex): Revised documentation for SGML support.
1996-10-08 21:51:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3f247ade66
Nits corrected by Fred
1996-09-27 17:11:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
4b7d5a49ab
(libparser.tex): Revised parser module documentation; improved logical
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organization.
1996-09-11 21:57:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
2f666639f3
Added long getopt docs; by Fred
1996-09-11 21:26:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
be0a8a6042
Added bastion and (dummy) rexec docs
1996-09-10 17:37:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8206fb9c4c
Final set of changes by Fred before 1.4beta3
1996-08-26 00:33:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
4747887880
New batch from Fred
1996-08-21 14:32:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
56b30ea664
Document actual behavior of splitext().
1996-08-19 23:00:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
40006cfd9b
Added imghdr,xdrlib; reformatted Makefile somewhat
1996-08-19 22:58:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e5e55d784d
Added capitalize, capwords, lstrip, rstrip, and optional 3rd argument
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to split. Document new conventions for split(fields) and
join(fields), where the *fields variant is identical to the other.
1996-08-09 21:44:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
0b3f9512ac
Added capwords, splitx, and optional 3rd argument to split/splitx.
1996-08-09 21:43:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
12f0cc325a
Suggest using default values for __init__ arguments to make classes
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unpicklable.
1996-08-09 21:23:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
4a5b27b525
Get rid of parrot dropping (spurious 'E')
1996-08-09 21:23:14 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
91f87ca69b
Note that the values are ints.
1996-07-30 20:45:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8cf2db47ba
Moved description of mktime 9-tuple to top.
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Added description of strftime format string.
Minor small editing.
1996-07-30 18:32:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
f4d0d5784a
Added maketrans() and optional 3rd arg to translate() (chars to delete).
1996-07-30 18:23:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
a29cc97285
Document the *new* cgi.py
1996-07-30 18:22:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
d61ad53c19
errno docs.
1996-07-30 18:21:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
c0fcc44804
Added liberrno
1996-07-30 18:20:01 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
761f7922ad
Updated pointers to Andrew Kuchlings fine software.
1996-07-23 18:16:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3317e63cbb
added parser module to overview
1996-07-21 02:22:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
38e5088aa4
added plock
1996-07-21 02:21:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
ed43073e00
Minute changes by Fred Drake
1996-07-21 02:21:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
bbb1e26a67
Add docs for planned improved handling of the marshalling of
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unmarshallable objects.
1996-06-26 20:20:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
1a5356006b
Added Andrew Kuchling's explanation of regexp's.
1996-06-26 19:43:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
036eae6647
mktime returns a float now.
1996-06-26 19:25:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6076ea51e2
Added thread unsafety warning. Added optional retain arg to split.
1996-06-26 19:24:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7c2fdda0b3
Better and correct words for split().
1996-06-26 19:23:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
1e8b63eb88
Document some process group stuff; mkdir mode arg optional; mkfifo.
1996-06-26 19:22:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
db9a7bba22
Give correct length of string.
1996-06-26 19:21:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
4d206541be
Slight update; file args are no longer optional.
1996-06-26 19:21:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
50ec5c074a
Add flock; warn about lockdata system dependency when using fcntl.
1996-06-26 19:20:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
316a430098
Removed some spurios biindex calls.
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Added description of file.truncate().
Added warning to write() about buffering.
1996-05-02 15:28:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
59b328e11e
Added warning about behavior of open mode 'a' (or 'a+').
1996-05-02 15:16:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5c6e3738cd
Added lost docs for crypt module.
1996-04-10 16:18:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
feeadef61e
document OverflowError exception on mktime()
1996-02-12 23:21:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
264302de3e
atol supports trailing l/L if base is 0
1996-02-12 23:20:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
c1715527fd
document non-BSD SIGCHLD behaviour
1996-02-12 23:18:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
789742b8f8
change jars email
1996-02-12 23:17:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8c07bb4565
listdir no longer returns . or ..; added remove==unlink
1996-02-12 23:16:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
71b1815c1d
hypot is now always supported
1996-02-12 23:14:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
ca81470a15
add libparser.tex
1995-10-11 17:32:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
4b73a06e92
Fred Drake's parser module
1995-10-11 17:30:04 +00:00