f5213c2a3d
Usage nit: a bunch of "nor"s should have been a single "or".
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Make reference to the copy_reg module a hyperlink.
1999-06-29 16:02:12 +00:00
8ad2703bfb
Minor wording change in section title.
1999-06-29 16:00:22 +00:00
ac00c4c1c6
byteswap() method: Tell *what* exception gets raised when the type
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cannot be byteswapped.
1999-06-29 15:58:00 +00:00
9118f7cfc4
Remove unnecessary comma.
1999-06-29 15:53:52 +00:00
9e0b6229f6
Comment out XXX comment; this needn't appear in the formatted
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versions. XXX comments only need to be grep-able.
1999-06-29 15:45:09 +00:00
ef1a029d4c
Add note about not being able to use this module with modules not
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implemented in Python.
1999-06-29 15:43:02 +00:00
4886c66daf
Moshe: Remove extraneous "and".
1999-06-29 14:57:12 +00:00
e4d78189e8
Added entries for mutex and nis modules.
1999-06-27 15:02:37 +00:00
7fefba5c13
NIS documentation from Moshe.
1999-06-27 15:01:08 +00:00
2231357aa6
Mutex documentation from Moshe.
1999-06-27 15:00:41 +00:00
7a65a26f81
Separate documentation of SUNAUDIODEV from sunaudiodev; this mirrors
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similar constructs elsewhere (al/AL, gl/GL/DEVICE).
1999-06-27 14:53:11 +00:00
14ae4b48fb
Fix some typos.
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Add an index entry.
1999-06-25 19:13:36 +00:00
c4e3bf9b5e
Add entries for the sched module.
1999-06-25 18:54:30 +00:00
7e990323b4
Moshe's section on the sched module, with edits.
1999-06-25 18:52:44 +00:00
60b66e1f7b
Update to Sjoerd's documentation of the chunk module, with some
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additions from Moshe's version. Used my table for describing the
chunk format, and added some markup and index entries.
1999-06-25 17:52:17 +00:00
cf6905f986
Clarify the example by explicitly importing the fcntl module -- this
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avoid being fooled into thinking that fcntl and FCNTL are the same
thing -- they aren't! (fcntl is the extension, FCNTL.py is h2py
output that defines all the constants).
(XXX The example is still weird -- I think there's a more portable way
to do locking now. That's for someone else to fix...)
1999-06-24 17:58:44 +00:00
7c2426439e
Removed tty module entry.
1999-06-23 17:31:59 +00:00
1b2dc9045e
Add entries for tty module.
1999-06-23 17:29:02 +00:00
0bccd73be0
Updates from Moshe, again edited by me. Describe the parameters to
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border() using a table instead of text for ease of comprehension.
1999-06-23 17:28:01 +00:00
92f3f41424
Added "See Also" section for termios module.
1999-06-23 15:12:09 +00:00
ae4d5c23f5
Various updates.
1999-06-23 14:56:13 +00:00
66239d5530
tty module documentation from Moshe, with some editing and an added
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"See also" section.
1999-06-23 14:30:19 +00:00
af81a509c3
Added more sections...
1999-06-23 13:34:22 +00:00
b742a42bc0
Two more from Moshe!
1999-06-23 13:33:40 +00:00
707f8e67b9
Added entry for the chunk module.
1999-06-22 18:50:06 +00:00
97793ab6b9
New section from Moshe Zadka, modified by FLD for markup, some
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additional content.
1999-06-22 18:49:20 +00:00
0f871dc39e
Added some "See also" references to htmllib docs.
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Documented htmlentitydefs.
1999-06-21 21:20:56 +00:00
2cd31dc3ea
Added entry for curses module.
1999-06-21 21:14:30 +00:00
a4070cef5e
Preliminary documentation for the curses module by Moshe Zadka, with
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lots of markup fixes and some English nits fixed.
Still needs real review. Some of the function signatures used in this
module are really bad! (Two leading optional parameters? Ugh!)
1999-06-21 21:13:09 +00:00
d5d55ea02e
Fix a markup error.
1999-06-21 18:36:09 +00:00
4755e7d5c1
Three more modules documented by Moshe!
1999-06-21 18:25:49 +00:00
6f49e0a154
Added a few minor comments, mostly to discourage documentation of
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really old modules that may become obsolete.
1999-06-18 19:58:59 +00:00
a88ef00a50
Further clarfication of the system-dependence of the system() return
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value, based on comments from Tim Peters.
1999-06-18 19:11:25 +00:00
46e1a32edf
Re-categorize the dump module as obsolete.
1999-06-18 17:12:15 +00:00
354e98222c
fpformat has been documented for at least a week now!
1999-06-18 15:21:25 +00:00
26921da2c9
Small markup & usage adjustments.
1999-06-17 18:58:02 +00:00
e019789962
Correction: the parameters of new.instance() are type-checked.
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Edited several of the descriptions for English usage and more
consistent style.
1999-06-17 18:15:07 +00:00
de69ae1753
Updated version from Moshe, with a re-written warning about the
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side-effect of cmpcache.cmp() using statcache.stat() internally.
1999-06-17 17:40:52 +00:00
173ba5e3bc
Minor markup nits.
1999-06-17 17:09:23 +00:00
97c2fa03e5
Small English usage nits.
1999-06-17 16:38:18 +00:00
7487c02209
Small markup and English usage nits.
1999-06-17 16:10:39 +00:00
26da2840ac
Add/remove entries due to additional sections from Moshe.
1999-06-17 15:12:16 +00:00
64bc94e3ec
New module documentation sections from Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>!
1999-06-17 15:11:35 +00:00
e55702b024
Added note to __not__() description that this operation is defined
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only by the interpreter core and is not overridable by objects.
Based on comment from David Ascher on the list.
1999-06-15 20:56:40 +00:00
1e4402998f
Several new index entries to make find this easier.
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Noted that name=value is allowed in addition to name: value.
1999-06-15 17:30:59 +00:00
c46864e982
Misc. changes related to the new sections.
1999-06-14 19:49:50 +00:00
21572fdcb6
New sections from Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>.
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These document CGIHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer, and linecache.
1999-06-14 19:47:47 +00:00
7df4dd7de2
Add entry for the fpformat module.
1999-06-11 18:36:42 +00:00
1739d2f9ee
Documentation for the fpformat module by Moshe Zadka
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<mzadka@geocities.com>.
1999-06-11 18:31:00 +00:00
2f9790195b
Added 'ce' to the list of "registered" values for os.name.
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Make references to the posix module hyperlinks.
1999-06-11 18:28:37 +00:00
9c5cc14d23
Some clarifications on operations for mapping types, based on comments
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from Gerry Weiner <gerry@ucar.edu>.
1999-06-10 22:37:34 +00:00
697c779d98
Adjust indexing for __import__(); based on comments by Stefan Franke
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<sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-06-10 22:09:20 +00:00
28b1770521
Improve index entry for "import"; responding to comments by Stefan
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Franke <sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-06-10 22:08:16 +00:00
06a73f042a
Work around latex2html problem; reported by Gerrit Holl
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<gerrit.holl@pobox.com>.
1999-06-10 21:23:31 +00:00
4d5c87ba11
Declare the "util" module obsolete.
1999-06-10 21:17:11 +00:00
7a62128722
At David Ascher's request, clarify that os.system() always returns 0
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on Win95 & Win98.
1999-06-10 15:07:05 +00:00
ae0f292576
Fix typo reported by Robert Kern <kernr@ncifcrf.gov>.
1999-06-10 15:03:07 +00:00
66ab4e8af2
Patch by Jim Fulton to document the new parse_qls().
1999-06-10 03:11:41 +00:00
4727456d46
Add doc for timegm().
1999-06-09 15:11:58 +00:00
5fac2ab220
Fix availability clause; mention availability of similar functionality
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for Windows using win32pipe.
1999-06-01 17:55:52 +00:00
3aa70d63b9
Document the "pid" attribute of the Popen3 class.
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Use memberdesc instead of datadesc to document object attributes.
This gets the index right.
1999-05-27 17:50:59 +00:00
a7ce52b03a
Typo reported by Gerry Wiener <wiener@rap.ucar.edu>:
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items -> item
The returned list will then have one more items than the number of
non-overlapping occurrences of the separator in the string.
1999-05-27 17:18:08 +00:00
abc8cc63ce
Move some \index entries around so we can avoid using empty comments;
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empty comments trigger a bug in LaTeX2HTML.
Problem reported by Gerry Wiener <gerry@ucar.edu>.
1999-05-26 16:15:17 +00:00
82f355a36a
Change the example of configuring for large file support under Solaris
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to use `getconf LFS_CFLAGS`. Steve Clift (the author of the section
and large file support) agrees that this is the right thing to do.
1999-05-26 13:03:34 +00:00
6b330ba857
"proces" --> "process"; reported by Gerry Wiener <gerry@ucar.edu>.
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Added some index entries.
1999-05-25 13:42:26 +00:00
338da93734
SET_LINE_NO ==> SET_LINENO
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Reported by Corran Webster <cwebster@math.tamu.edu>.
1999-05-17 20:57:07 +00:00
33378da964
Added paragraph explaininng the text/binary flavors of some methods,
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to make it easier for people to find what they're looking for.
1999-05-17 16:35:15 +00:00
dbc2d08ff5
POP3.uidl(): Update description based on comments from Piers Lauder
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<piers@cs.su.oz.au>.
1999-05-13 18:48:14 +00:00
7088df4c56
Removed old comments.
1999-05-13 16:20:30 +00:00
03c05a5192
Move the "See also:" section so it appears are part of the top HTML
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page of the section.
1999-05-11 15:15:54 +00:00
184e8360e8
Added module references; minor grammatical fixes.
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All suggested by Eric Raymond.
1999-05-11 15:14:15 +00:00
9ade7e0110
Added missing comma, reported by Eric Raymond.
1999-05-11 13:45:37 +00:00
b0bc7f2d6c
Updated connect_ex() documentation based on comments in the newgroup
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(M.-A. Lemburg and GvR).
1999-05-06 22:03:50 +00:00
1ea7c75687
Reflect recent patch for float % and divmod() by Tim Peters. Content
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updates by Tim Peters, markup by FLD.
1999-05-06 14:46:35 +00:00
673c65e500
Use the new module-key for the FL module when hyperlinking (the old
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one caused problems on case-insensitive file systems).
1999-04-29 18:42:18 +00:00
d03e9e34de
Don't point readers to rand, point to random! And make it a hyperlink
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while you're at it.
Also, when discussing order of reading, make it clear that chapter 2
is assumed background material for the remainder of the manual.
That's needed for terminology if nothing else!
1999-04-29 13:41:17 +00:00
0e1de8bd6b
Minor nits, partly in response to comments from Jonathan Black
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<jblack@Ridgeway-Sys.com>.
1999-04-29 12:57:32 +00:00
5f342ac2a7
Always use "section" when referring to sections of a document, not "Section".
1999-04-29 02:47:40 +00:00
c0fcbc1ac6
Update starship URLs.
1999-04-29 02:30:04 +00:00
ea0020571f
Use \rfc to mark some remaining RFC references.
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Remove comment about full name bug in getaddrlist(); this has been
fixed for a while now.
Work around LaTeX2HTML space-dropping bug.
Mention that the fp attribute can be used to read the message body.
1999-04-28 18:11:09 +00:00
505c49199a
Added "See also" reference to PyOpenGL.
1999-04-27 18:05:06 +00:00
dcf17f3860
mhlib is now documented.
1999-04-23 22:24:12 +00:00
a4966647ec
Markup consistency.
1999-04-23 22:22:27 +00:00
1c7cd63a2b
Nits.
1999-04-23 22:03:00 +00:00
957ac3fadb
Add section for the sha module.
1999-04-23 21:52:18 +00:00
154fc6dcf7
Patch from Greg Ward adding descriptions of S_IMODE() and S_IFMT(),
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and an explanation of why any of stat.S_*() would be used instead of
os.path.is*(). (With some really small enhancements by me.)
1999-04-23 20:54:57 +00:00
24aca83dbd
Fixed typo and font-control problem reported by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-04-23 20:33:59 +00:00
29cf682b71
Clarifications on the first(), next(), and previous() functions, based
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on comments from Detlef Lannert <lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-04-23 20:32:59 +00:00
861192120b
Fix a grammatical error reported by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-04-23 20:07:02 +00:00
16214fb017
Fix a couple of grammatical errors reported by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-04-23 20:00:53 +00:00
4aa4f30759
Work-around LaTeX2HTML space-dropping bug.
1999-04-23 17:30:40 +00:00
87b8f318b0
Fixed some logical markup nits.
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Added a pointer to Grail in the see-also section, since it's used as
an example.
1999-04-23 17:26:24 +00:00
deb7e096d3
Logical markup.
1999-04-23 17:11:53 +00:00
806764bee4
No, __repr__() does not accept a parameter other than self.
1999-04-23 17:03:21 +00:00
0fbec55e23
Shorten the section title.
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Adjust markup to be a little more consistent with the rest of the
document.
1999-04-23 16:44:53 +00:00
eea97ea063
Shorten the section title.
1999-04-23 16:07:38 +00:00
86bd5e48c3
Shorten the section title.
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Fix a couple of grammatical errors.
1999-04-23 16:02:30 +00:00
7475e04fad
Work around a space-dropping problem in LaTeX2HTML.
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Clarify the usage of a parameter.
1999-04-23 15:57:23 +00:00
ae35aa8b63
Added "See also" sections linking to binascii.
1999-04-23 15:52:18 +00:00
ee4d54ea33
Refer to the binhex module, not the non-existent hexbin module.
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Added a "See also" section.
1999-04-23 15:42:36 +00:00
26f7cfe9c7
Fix some glaring markup consistency problems (presentation was
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broken).
Added a "See also" section.
1999-04-23 15:41:53 +00:00
812860e81d
Hack places where '--' should appear as literal output but the -- was
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(properly) converted to - by LaTeX2HTML.
1999-04-23 14:46:18 +00:00
ffbe68723a
Make internal module references hyperlinks wherever it makes sense.
1999-04-22 21:23:22 +00:00
7b8b125fa6
Remove bogus characters in code sample.
1999-04-22 21:19:53 +00:00
fcf94d4edd
Work around LaTeX2HTML comment-handling bug.
1999-04-22 20:55:59 +00:00
4a406c619b
Shorten the section title.
1999-04-22 20:52:44 +00:00
c8c40ff699
Added a "See also" section with some external references.
1999-04-22 20:16:02 +00:00
4e28c593ad
Markup nits.
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Make module references hyperlinks.
1999-04-22 18:25:47 +00:00
b7168c3a07
Clean up lots of mark up.
1999-04-22 17:53:37 +00:00
79936fe73f
Added descriptions of the various exceptions, based on the docstrings.
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Various small cleanups.
1999-04-22 17:23:34 +00:00
c8993aad10
Logical markup and small nits.
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Don't refer to the STDWIN chapter; chances are really good it wasn't
included. ;-)
1999-04-22 16:50:40 +00:00
12a956921f
Make some module references hyperlinks.
1999-04-22 16:47:27 +00:00
b774550ba5
Minor logical markup nits.
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Make some module references hyperlinks.
1999-04-22 16:46:18 +00:00
dd6c6d9b0a
Clean up some mark up.
1999-04-22 16:45:26 +00:00
e2effbd32d
Fix minor (English) usage nits.
1999-04-22 16:21:09 +00:00
bcd5454d63
Reference to urllib module can be a hyperlink.
1999-04-22 16:17:45 +00:00
4429772ea3
Fix dropped space in the HTML output.
1999-04-22 16:15:34 +00:00
babdda53d5
Make reference to the socket module a hyperlink.
1999-04-22 16:03:30 +00:00
bf0f4346af
Shorten the section title.
1999-04-22 15:53:35 +00:00
47894d2858
Don't describe this module as being a popen() wrapper; that's a little
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confusing. This is clearly Unix-specific; label it as such.
1999-04-22 15:19:01 +00:00
a694e00085
Remove \platform declaration; this module is generic.
1999-04-22 15:14:11 +00:00
5254a6d682
Move stat to the Generic chapter.
1999-04-22 15:01:44 +00:00
ca69a03dd6
Don't refer to the system documentation as "man pages"; too
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Unix-centric. Note that this can be used with the output of
os.fstat() as well as os.stat() and os.lstat().
1999-04-22 14:55:43 +00:00
2ea30f4d8c
Add warning that last() and previous() don't work for hashtable
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databases (opened using hashopen()), as noted by Skip Montanaro on
comp.lang.python.
1999-04-22 14:06:36 +00:00
b9f1f6d90b
Misc. markup nits.
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All sections get reasonable file names in the HTML output.
1999-04-21 21:43:17 +00:00
2dabd811cd
Fix markup typo.
1999-04-21 21:33:24 +00:00
d146edfaf1
Mark the "Notes:" sections under tables the same way it's done
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elsewhere in the library reference.
1999-04-21 21:15:35 +00:00
b11d108cdc
The version information here was checked good in 1999, not 199. ;-)
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Added "See also" reference to zlib home page, even though it's
mentioned in the text.
1999-04-21 18:44:41 +00:00
2799f9d09a
Reflow paragraph to work around LaTeX2HTML dropping a space.
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Make all references to the os module hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 18:33:47 +00:00
6d20caa2ce
Reflow paragraph to work around LaTeX2HTML dropping a space.
1999-04-21 18:17:11 +00:00
543e19d923
Small nits, more hyperlinks.
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Added more information for cStringIO.
1999-04-21 18:15:22 +00:00
048b75bd9a
Make references to whrandom hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 18:14:22 +00:00
ec6baaf618
Small markup nits.
1999-04-21 18:13:31 +00:00
54f2fdd1ad
Make the names of the referenced modules hyperlinks; they had not been
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marked at all.
1999-04-21 18:10:08 +00:00
02e8c0fd2d
Nits. Reference to signal module becomes a hyperlink.
1999-04-21 18:01:14 +00:00
283c588402
Work around LaTeX2HTML comment-handling bug.
1999-04-21 17:57:15 +00:00
318c0b131f
Logical markup nits.
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Make references to other modules hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 17:29:14 +00:00
c3845a14d3
Logical markup & other small nits.
1999-04-21 17:18:04 +00:00
11bc8cfee3
Explain *why* the copytree() implementation is presented as the
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example!
1999-04-21 17:08:51 +00:00
e688aec707
Textual references to the glob module can be hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 17:04:43 +00:00
737aa552f4
Markup nit to fixed dropped space in HTML output.
1999-04-21 17:01:15 +00:00
4747f7f61d
Markup nits.
1999-04-21 16:41:40 +00:00
4f6e4fbc1d
Added "See also" reference to xdrlib.
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Markup nits.
1999-04-21 16:38:53 +00:00
69fa56327a
Markup nits.
1999-04-21 16:29:57 +00:00
8307e21a2a
Mark the references to module names use \module or \refmodule (the
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closing paragraph used \code).
1999-04-21 16:29:18 +00:00
6ed122a334
Important fix mentioned by The Dragon De Monsyne: the sendmail()
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method does _not_ disconnect the connection when it throws a
SMTPHeloError!
1999-04-21 16:19:16 +00:00
a889add5d6
Oops; minor nit in example: none of the other interactive examples
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show the "trailing" prompt, so don't show it here!
1999-04-21 16:00:24 +00:00
3d815bd1c7
Added link to xdrlib module in "See also" section.
1999-04-21 15:57:29 +00:00
c3fcd6fa0e
Added index entry for "file objects"; this is appearantly referenced
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somewhere in the Reference Manual, and someone tried to locate it via
the index. Report on the omission by Stefan Franke
<sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-04-21 13:58:17 +00:00
7ceb5777d7
Added doc for the "module" attribute on the class descriptor objects;
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omission repoorted by Glyn Webster <glyn@ninz.org.nz>.
1999-04-20 18:18:53 +00:00
ad56dafd62
Added example use of pack_list() to help explain the pack_item
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parameter. Lack of clarity reported by Matthew Gallagher
<hew@hons.cs.usyd.edu.au>.
1999-04-20 13:41:14 +00:00
4ae52694c9
Updated to reflect additions.
1999-04-19 21:21:28 +00:00
32c562bdec
colorsys docs from David Ascher.
1999-04-19 21:20:13 +00:00
9d15881744
bsddb docs from Skip Montanaro; added interesting links.
1999-04-19 21:19:21 +00:00
e9af64c373
Remove superfluous index entry for posix.popen(); no longer
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appropriate since popen() is only documented in os.
1999-04-16 19:00:48 +00:00
dac9a4e3db
Added link to Fredrik Lundh's online Tkinter reference material.
1999-04-16 18:26:22 +00:00
31bfbc6bff
Minor nits, include author info.
1999-04-16 14:03:32 +00:00
0ebd5483be
Removed dbhash from the undocumented list.
1999-04-15 16:05:29 +00:00
666255f5ac
Document the dbhash module, and link to it from appropriate places.
1999-04-15 15:11:40 +00:00
f4cbada3f9
Correct documentation for <file>.read(); Python makes a serious
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best-effort to return 'size' bytes. Point out that this may mean
multiple fread() calls. Reported by Anders Hammarquist
<iko@iko.pp.se> via the Debian crew.
1999-04-14 14:31:53 +00:00
e331356ff7
Fix availability declaration for popen2 module; report by Barry Scott
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<barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 22:03:26 +00:00
b9971b9964
Minor cleanup.
1999-04-13 21:39:31 +00:00
592dd78408
Fix availability declaration for stat module; report by Barry Scott
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<barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 21:38:02 +00:00
31ec33ed60
Work around problems with HTML conversion by making the break and
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tbreak synopses be all on one line (each). Known problem, most
recently reported by Barry Scott <barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 21:36:44 +00:00
bfb092eb86
Misspellling: "occurance" --> "occurrence"
1999-04-09 19:57:09 +00:00
7969f31c4d
Updated documentation by Per Cederqvist. I've added back the
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documentation sendmail() to reflect the changes by The Dragon
(see smtplib.py checkin).
1999-04-07 15:56:51 +00:00
4f21d54764
Added more "See also" entries, + 1 inline hyperlink.
1999-04-05 22:18:12 +00:00
ea003fcc2a
Fixed latex2html weirdness with footnotes.
1999-04-05 21:59:15 +00:00
45b0aeda3c
correct version info for zlib.
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add note about module failing with old versions of the library.
update comment that explains that this doc is *still* out of date
1999-04-05 21:55:21 +00:00
9aa8543c84
open() description: Made it more clear that 'b' should always be
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added to the mode value for binary files to improve
portability.
Fixed latex2html weirdness with a couple of footnotes.
1999-04-05 21:22:41 +00:00
01553706bf
Added a few items to the "See also" sections at Guido's prompting. Made
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more references to other modules in the text hyperlinks for the HTML and
PDF versions.
1999-04-05 19:46:21 +00:00
50ae47b0de
Removed bosities around example code; not sure where that stuff crept
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in!
1999-04-05 19:26:16 +00:00
1dc3a501a6
Made improvements based on changes just made and comments from
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Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@csd.uwm.edu>.
1999-04-05 19:00:54 +00:00
806a467fbf
Where rfc822.Message is mentioned, add a link to the rfc822 module.
1999-03-27 05:45:46 +00:00
cb1f2420ea
Document complex() with string arg.
1999-03-25 21:23:26 +00:00
5fc9c869dd
SIGTERM is no longer caught to call sys.exitfunc.
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This change was made long ago but the documentation was never updated.
1999-03-25 20:30:00 +00:00
e82f5b3d6e
Added note about ftpmirror.py, since that seems to be one of the most
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requested Python tools/examples.
1999-03-25 05:04:17 +00:00
8be229650d
Document new builtin buffer(). Greg Stein.
1999-03-19 19:10:14 +00:00
596766772e
Documented FTP.set_pasv().
1999-03-18 16:08:54 +00:00
154d909993
Note that abspath() was added in 1.5.2.
1999-03-17 22:25:11 +00:00
8d2c0c2ab4
Fixed minor nits, added index entries to make these easier to find for people
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not familiar with Unix terminology.
1999-03-16 16:40:01 +00:00
658cef0141
Preliminary mhlib and telnetlib documents from Skip Montanaro -- thanks, Skip!
1999-03-15 15:44:18 +00:00
bf5a6d2eb4
Fixed tons of small markup problems.
1999-03-12 19:57:38 +00:00
b3a20bc44c
Added availabililty annotations to respond to concerns of /F.
1999-03-12 18:34:21 +00:00
93503ca57b
Fixup the module keys. There were some problems with hosting / processing
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file HTML files on Windows machines do to case insensitivity.
1999-03-12 16:24:22 +00:00
be110c1706
Updates based on comments from /F.
1999-03-12 15:27:35 +00:00
35c3ffdc3f
Fixed description of WSTOPSIG(), added WTERMSIG(). Problem reported
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by Jonathan Giddy <jon@dgs.monash.edu.au>.
1999-03-04 14:08:10 +00:00
a54a887f66
"\platform{UNIX}" should really be spelled "\platform{Unix}".
1999-03-02 17:03:42 +00:00
f6863c1909
Added \platform annotations.
1999-03-02 16:37:17 +00:00
43b34da656
extract_tb(): Only describe this function once. Problem reported by
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Jonathan Giddy <jon@dgs.monash.edu.au>.
1999-02-26 18:51:21 +00:00
390636382a
Typo: "Availabilty" --> "Availability"
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Thanks to /F!
1999-02-26 14:05:02 +00:00
51027c4173
Added note about comments, from Christopher Petrilli.
1999-02-24 22:36:44 +00:00
16e81f4484
Update some of the top comments and shorten title of the first
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section.
1999-02-24 19:57:14 +00:00
f2b4554403
Document the correct class hierarchy for SystemExit. It is not an
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error and so it derives from Exception and not SystemError.
1999-02-24 00:27:14 +00:00
1ec71cb556
Incorporated updates to describe geturl() by Sjoerd Mullender
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<Sjoerd.Mullender@cwi.nl>.
1999-02-22 22:42:14 +00:00
00a3a65cc0
Refer to the right RFC in the intro.
1999-02-22 17:12:42 +00:00
7d9b13325d
Other chapter titles refer to collections of modules as "Services"; do
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the same here.
1999-02-22 14:48:00 +00:00
fab41f1788
BabylMailbox description: Properly escape the backslashes in the
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string representations.
1999-02-22 14:26:16 +00:00
b63e77ccb0
Oops, used a \label twice - fix one of them.
1999-02-22 14:14:48 +00:00
180b68b3cf
More reasonable section titles.
1999-02-22 13:45:09 +00:00
76991ec75a
Shorten section title.
1999-02-20 05:20:49 +00:00
199b79c37b
Added descriptions for BabylMailbox and Maildir (Qmail) mailbox
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objects.
1999-02-20 05:04:59 +00:00
67d229ea76
Shorten section title.
1999-02-20 04:51:16 +00:00
bbac43223c
Shorten a few section titles.
1999-02-20 00:14:17 +00:00
da57365337
Give subsections reasonable file names in the HTML.
1999-02-19 23:48:05 +00:00
342501142d
Added an index entry.
1999-02-19 23:45:06 +00:00
56f8185a53
Shortened the short synopsis -- too long.
1999-02-19 22:59:56 +00:00
9f03380d1c
Use more current approach to recording authors.
1999-02-19 22:56:08 +00:00
c60047575d
Shortened the short synopsis -- way too long.
1999-02-19 22:33:51 +00:00
d8a41e6391
Fix an amazing number of typos & malformed sentences reported by Detlef
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Lannert <lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-02-19 17:54:10 +00:00
f6346345b0
Noted that the module was added in 1.5.2.
1999-02-19 15:46:38 +00:00
4e7c205470
Update description of what modules "look like" when printed.
1999-02-19 15:30:25 +00:00
cd71aa2a38
Use current approach to record documentation author.
1999-02-18 21:13:03 +00:00
2a2f1fe4d5
Record module & documentation author.
1999-02-18 21:10:32 +00:00
6b103f1e12
Documentation for pyclbr and tokenize modules.
1999-02-18 21:06:50 +00:00
4d358b5d23
Added sections for pyclbr and tokenize.
1999-02-18 20:40:26 +00:00
7c829b3179
Remove the "Parsing Python" section. Hurray!
1999-02-18 20:39:44 +00:00
70a66c9d6d
Add notes to __builtin__.float() and string.atof() that the NaN and Inf
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results are possible but non-portable.
1999-02-18 16:08:36 +00:00
951eea4733
atof() description: Add information about accepting 'NaN' to produce
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the NaN value.
1999-02-18 03:49:20 +00:00
85a59dd68b
The _O_* constants are defined as O_* in the os module.
1999-02-16 19:41:01 +00:00
9329e5ec75
Remove "_" from the P_* symbols used with the spawn*() functions.
1999-02-16 19:40:19 +00:00
c7b72dbbca
Added chapter on Windows modules, including msvcrt and winsound.
1999-02-16 19:18:38 +00:00
aa1afa8d30
Added availability notes for samefile(), sameopenfile(), samestat()
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since these are not available on Windows.
1999-02-15 16:34:00 +00:00
9474d86242
Make sure all HTML pages generated from this section have reasonable
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names.
Markup nits.
1999-02-12 22:05:33 +00:00
2d2b6a0074
Markup nits.
1999-02-12 20:40:49 +00:00
28bc711f5f
Added section for MimeWriter, contributed by Christopher Petrilli
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<petrilli@amber.org>.
This spells the end of another whole section in the undoc chapter!
1999-02-12 19:26:09 +00:00
26b698fa4d
Document <complex #>.conjugate().
1999-02-12 18:27:31 +00:00
ce67f06491
Update documentation to reflect changes to Queue.py by Tim Peters.
1999-02-08 18:43:13 +00:00
d673d481f5
Document sameopenfile(), samestat().
1999-02-03 22:31:30 +00:00
0256c1f453
Document splitdrive().
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For all split*(), these split path *into* pairs, not split path *in*
pairs. "Into" can be used for transformations, "in" is for
containment.
1999-02-03 19:24:44 +00:00
0c9608cf1b
Portability fix for [f]statvfs() return tuple: no longer return the
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f_fsid field, since it's not a scalar on all systems supporting this
call (in particular, it's a tuple of two longs on AIX). Since it's
not particularly useful, just nuke it. Adapted the doc strings too.
1999-02-03 16:32:37 +00:00
215fe2f204
Fix the os/posix documentation issue.
1999-02-02 19:02:35 +00:00
dda199b261
Moved \versionadded to end of description sections.
1999-02-02 19:01:37 +00:00
12ba7868e4
Moved posixpath to os.path.
1999-02-02 19:00:37 +00:00
560bcae0f0
Added posixpath, winsound.
1999-02-02 18:59:58 +00:00
a9b9bf96fe
Change this to be os.path.
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Use consistent parameter naming with the os documentation (paths
always named "path" or "path1", "path2"...).
1999-02-02 18:58:33 +00:00
d0bceeeb59
Move \versionadded macros to end of descriptions.
1999-02-02 18:00:40 +00:00
09da65ef2f
Patch by Sjoerd Mullender to placate /F:
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Clarified (hopefully :-) the documentation of elements and attributes
variables.
1999-02-02 17:55:12 +00:00
dbd72a4e4f
Added module synopsis.
1999-02-01 21:27:59 +00:00
68a8c69499
Take out just about everything and refer the reader to the os module.
1999-02-01 20:23:02 +00:00
b23ee1d899
Make the text generic, and call it os.path instead of posixpath.
1999-02-01 20:20:39 +00:00
98be47e737
OSError description: "as the by the" --> "as the"
1999-02-01 16:17:40 +00:00
1804dc3c07
Document abspath() (implementation is forthcoming).
1999-01-29 18:05:05 +00:00
703b70e260
Added \modulesynopsis.
1999-01-28 19:30:49 +00:00
9d814c6805
Document the repr module. This removes the entire "Code objects and
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files, debugger etc." section from "Undocumented Modules"!
1999-01-27 17:20:33 +00:00
da452bf6a7
Don't say that the module defines the "following functions" and then
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only describe one; say "following function" instead!
Merge the two one-sentence paragraphs into a single paragraph, so it
doesn't look too stupid.
1999-01-27 15:48:23 +00:00
ebe2a12de8
Incorporate changes for patched version of ConfigParser.
1999-01-26 21:49:05 +00:00
bc866ce2e3
Documentation for the ConfigParser module, by Christopher G. Petrilli
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(petrilli@amber.org ).
1999-01-26 15:47:59 +00:00
9700e9becc
Document the default for tabsize in expandtabs().
1999-01-25 22:31:53 +00:00
19a0dba342
Add caveat on partial dependence on the "cl" module, only available on
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IRIX systems.
1999-01-20 16:26:09 +00:00
9ea3e36419
Move the jpeg module to the SGI section; it is dependent on the "cl"
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module available on IRIX.
1999-01-20 15:55:20 +00:00
a7998f650a
Revised comments on null bytes in pattern string.
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Removed "New" from module synopsis.
1999-01-19 20:00:08 +00:00
6ffa445832
Fix second description of handling 2-digit years (last item in
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introductory text).
1999-01-19 19:35:18 +00:00
7eca8e5017
Fix typo spotted by Jeff MacDonald <jam@ans.net>.
1999-01-18 15:46:02 +00:00
53610caee2
for method getaddrlist(): Added a note clarifying that all named
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headers and their continuation lines are parsed.
1999-01-14 21:26:54 +00:00
e36e4e6778
Use \refmodule when we say "use the XXX module instead".
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For the whatsound module, point to sndhdr.
1999-01-13 17:11:52 +00:00
39cddb7439
Added \modulesynopsis.
1999-01-12 19:22:11 +00:00
03dd3efd5a
<writer>.send_paragraph(): Clarify what needs to be done by this
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method and what it should not do. (Specifically: handling
breaking of last line of preceeding paragraph.)
1999-01-12 18:33:47 +00:00
bb3b0028ba
Patches describing the statvfs() and fstatvfs() functions. Additional
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text about large file support.
All new text by Steve Clift <clift@mail.anacapa.net>, with only minor
revision / addition of markup.
1999-01-11 18:36:23 +00:00
c7dd3e11da
Markup nit.
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Add module synopsis.
1999-01-07 15:45:55 +00:00
cf3ce92ef4
Explain how come that pickle and cPickle, while using the same data
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format, can produce different pickle strings for the same object.
1999-01-06 23:34:39 +00:00
87e611e441
Replace the docs for reduce with an adaptation of its docstring, which
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was actually clearer!
1999-01-06 23:10:51 +00:00
74429eacb5
Add doc for access() and ttyname(). Patch by Sean Reifschneider.
1999-01-06 23:03:43 +00:00
c553358c63
Remove documentation for whatraw() since it's gone now.
1999-01-06 15:21:19 +00:00
60adb362df
Document the sndhdr module.
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Document that the whatsound module is obsolete.
1999-01-05 23:09:12 +00:00
a2e4017394
Shorten the synopsis that gets into the table of contents.
1999-01-05 22:54:49 +00:00
02e18b4b84
Added missing "from" in IOError description.
1999-01-05 21:42:18 +00:00
f07c328c07
Document the optional mode argument (Z_FLUSH, Z_SYNC_FLUSH, etc.)
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to the flush() method of compressor objects.
1998-12-31 21:14:23 +00:00
94c4a7976f
Added index entries to make it easier to locate directory & file operations.
1998-12-28 21:58:57 +00:00
8692998018
Added index entries to make it easier to locate directory operations.
1998-12-28 21:58:15 +00:00
76fa3b73d6
Remove recently documented modules from the undoc list.
1998-12-28 20:53:19 +00:00
449e18f459
Add documentation for shutil module.
1998-12-28 20:16:58 +00:00
cd058539a8
Adjust a few niggles that affected the HTML conversion (a couple of
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"^"s were being dropped in the context of [^...]).
1998-12-28 19:03:24 +00:00
99e2c39b31
Add the getpass module.
1998-12-22 23:37:46 +00:00
5ac2a07fca
Basic documentation for the getpass module.
1998-12-22 23:37:21 +00:00
5cb48a4c98
Added a \versionchanged since the API changed to support
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namespaces with 1.5.2.
Added an index entry.
Fixed XML expansion: XML is the "Extensible Markup Language", not the
"eXtended Markup Language".
1998-12-22 18:46:13 +00:00
292b9ebfba
Added information on when this was added, allowing us to release the
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documentation on the Web while people are still using < 1.5.2b1.
1998-12-22 18:40:50 +00:00
1189fa98eb
Adjust markup to match current conventions, and make it formattable.
1998-12-22 18:24:13 +00:00
768ac6b804
Start of text that describes differences between match and search.
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Strengthen pointers to the search() function and method.
1998-12-22 18:19:45 +00:00
191f2857f5
Use \moduleauthor and \sectionauthor instead of a comment to credit
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the author (just happened to notice this one).
1998-12-22 18:06:02 +00:00
7be0cde3a0
Add an explanation about what the example does and doesn't do.
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Fix an appearantly new behavior with latex2html with quoting. (Good
incentive to work on the SGML conversion! ;)
1998-12-22 18:04:48 +00:00
5e97c9dff9
Adding libshlex and libnetrc by Eric Raymond.
1998-12-22 05:18:24 +00:00
e848976fba
Clarify descriptions of some operations; it's not always clear that
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strings are not actually modified. Problem reported by Dr. Peter
Stoehr <peter.stoehr@weihenstephan.org>.
1998-12-21 18:56:13 +00:00
3b02ddfa41
Add a bunch of index entries related to retrieving information from
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the process table.
1998-12-21 18:52:53 +00:00
b083a9fb54
Sjoerd Mullender writes:
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Here is my current version of xmllib.py and the documentation. This
version has some API changes with respect to the version currently in
Python (also the one in 1.5.2a).
This version supports XML namespaces.
1998-12-18 20:17:13 +00:00
fee6abea90
Remove another {\rm ...} construct.
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Sheesh, where do these things come from?
1998-12-10 19:57:52 +00:00
e9e05968e3
Nits.
1998-12-10 05:04:21 +00:00
0ad55fb241
Update the descriptions of strftime() and strptime() to avoid
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confusion, and describe what the "directives" are about.
1998-12-08 19:59:36 +00:00
aac399b80b
Correct the poplib example. Stephan Richter pointed out some problems
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with it.
1998-12-08 16:30:10 +00:00
64583d3f87
Rename the parameters of atan2(), based on comments from Guido & Peter
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A. Koren <pkoren@hex.net>.
1998-12-08 16:10:44 +00:00
f484a3366b
Sjoerd writes:
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When literal mode is entered it should exit automatically when the
matching close tag of the last unclosed open tag is encountered. This
patch fixes this.
1998-12-07 21:59:56 +00:00
d83675f344
"singed" --> "signed" (3 places)
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Noticed by Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>.
1998-12-07 17:13:18 +00:00
8c2da61811
Add explicit example on how to import a submodule of a package using
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__import__ and getattr().
1998-12-04 15:32:17 +00:00
6d26f4b188
Moved NotImplementedError into alphabetical order, and reword
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description.
1998-12-01 19:48:04 +00:00
1e151322fb
Added documentation for NotImplementedError. Fred (I'm sure) will
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sanitize for your protection :-)
1998-12-01 19:19:21 +00:00
2f8592cbea
Ignore the byproducts of SGML/XML conversions for now.
1998-12-01 18:58:28 +00:00
eabfab1048
Nits to support conversions.
1998-12-01 18:37:59 +00:00
1e270f0e03
Nits to support conversions.
1998-11-30 22:58:12 +00:00
50b804dc88
Fix minor nit with respect to conversion.
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Update some logical markup.
1998-11-30 22:14:58 +00:00
caa3379c4f
Remove {\rm ...} constructs.
1998-11-30 21:53:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
Guido van Rossum
Jeremy Hylton
Barry Warsaw
Andrew M. Kuchling