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Author SHA1 Message Date
Brett Cannon 7706c2da14 Update references specifying "Macintosh" to mean OS X semantics and not Mac OS
9.

Applies patch #1095802.  Thanks Jack Jansen.
2005-02-13 22:50:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 4d394dfebb Truncate st_?time before comparing it with ST_?TIME in the tests. 2005-01-23 09:19:22 +00:00
Fred Drake b184ae860e fix a bunch of spelling errors
(closes SF patch #1104868)
2005-01-19 03:39:17 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis fe33d0ba87 Default stat_float_times to true. 2005-01-16 08:57:39 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 22b457e03b Added SEEK_* constants. Fixes #711830. 2005-01-16 08:40:58 +00:00
Facundo Batista bccc9a956a Added example to os.stat() 2005-01-07 02:50:22 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 3fa932f7ed Fix typo (from SF bug #1086127). 2004-12-15 23:44:18 +00:00
Tim Peters 7f13cfa674 os.walk(): Changed the "sum of bytes consumed by files" example to use
a generator expression instead of a listcomp.

Not a backport candidate (genexps are new in 2.4).
2004-11-22 16:53:46 +00:00
Tim Peters 919a3b40f9 SF bug 1071087: os.walk example for deleting a full tree is sometime wrong.
Clarify that the example assumes no links are present; the point of the
example is to illustrate a need for topdown=False, not to wrestle with
platform-dependent link convolutions.

Also spell os.path.join() out in full, instead of using a shortcut import.
The bug reporter was confused by that too, and it's clearer this way.

Bugfix candidate; but I don't intend to backport it.
2004-11-22 16:49:02 +00:00
Tim Peters 2cf5e1920b Point out some platform vagaries in stat() and utime().
Bugfix candidate (the vagaries aren't new <wink>), but I don't intend to
backport this.
2004-11-04 21:27:48 +00:00
Johannes Gijsbers 9fc9789a0d Document that on Unix, the 'cmd' argument to the os.popen2/3/4 and
popen2.popen2/3/4 functions can be a sequence. All texts are a variation on the
following:

On \UNIX, \var{cmd} may be a sequence, in which case arguments will be passed
directly to the program without shell intervention (as with
\function{os.spawnv()}). If \var{cmd} is a string it will be passed to the shell
(as with \function{os.system()}).
2004-10-11 18:12:20 +00:00
Armin Rigo b6aa856f25 Patch #1009075, bug #952953: allow execve with empty 2nd argument 2004-09-27 19:54:33 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis dc3883f671 Patch #934711: Expose platform-specific entropy. 2004-08-29 15:46:35 +00:00
Tim Peters d6ef19309d SF bugs 996748: os.environ documentation should indicate unreliability
Clarifed that os.environ is captured once; emphasized that it's better
to assign to os.environ than to call putenv() directly (the putenv()
docs said so, but the environ docs didn't).
2004-07-26 00:42:41 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 76aa2eff4e Get doc to build (add missing backslash) 2004-07-19 01:39:54 +00:00
Tim Peters de8332171a SF bug 990749: os constants missing
A LaTeX comment identified the 6 os.O_XXX constants the docs claimed
are available on Windows but aren't.  The bug report listed the same 6.
Split these non-Windows constants into a different table with a possibly
correct "Availability:" claim.
2004-07-15 05:46:37 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis bdec50f027 Feature request #935915: Add os.path.devnull. 2004-06-08 08:29:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e1ca355425 [Bug #918710] Add paragraph to clarify docs 2004-06-05 19:25:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 1cd6e4dc38 fix various descriptions of "ctime"
(closes SF patch #870287)
2004-05-12 03:51:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 0ed663443e really scream out that people should use the file objects instead of
file descriptor operations for normal applications
2004-04-16 15:20:01 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9b4dab4da1 SF patch #859286: documentation bool change fix
(Contributed by George Yoshida.)
2003-12-31 18:37:28 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 75aa4db04b Mention that getsid is new in 2.4. 2003-11-10 06:46:15 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 49ee14dac5 Patch #839038: Add getsid(2). 2003-11-10 06:35:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9756f388c0 Fix typo. 2003-09-10 00:11:28 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger b67449d31d Fix spacing markup and other sundries. 2003-09-08 18:52:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 0a6aa28681 SF patch #797157: Bug 794658: os.chmod docs, stat constants
(Contributed by Christos Georgiou.)

Reference the symbol definitions in the stat module.
2003-08-31 05:09:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 15eac1f95c Fix markup nits. 2003-05-20 16:21:51 +00:00
Tim Peters dbaf04ead6 Straighten out the docs for os.system(); the Unix and Windows behaviors
really can't be smushed together.

Bugfix candidate.
2003-05-20 16:15:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bf1bef820c Add optional 'onerror' argument to os.walk(), to control error
handling.
2003-05-13 18:01:19 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 52136a8bea Fixed spacing and unbalanced brackets or parenthesis. 2003-05-10 03:35:37 +00:00
Tim Peters a390c6e194 walk() docs: Emphasize that the recursive-delete example is dangerous. 2003-04-28 19:15:10 +00:00
Tim Peters 5501b5e3d7 SF bug 728097: tmpnam problems on windows 2.3b, breaks test.test_os.
tmpnam() appears essentially useless on Windows, and it finally broke
the test for Irmen de Jong.  Read the long new comment in test_tmpnam()
for details.  Since the MS implementation is insane, it might be good
if we supplied a different implementation.

Bugfix candidate.
2003-04-28 03:13:03 +00:00
Tim Peters bf89b3a1f7 walk() docs: Worked "walking" into the description and the text. Added
a brief example where bottom-up walking is essential.
2003-04-28 02:09:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 2194a4eede markup adjustments 2003-04-25 14:50:06 +00:00
Tim Peters c4e0940042 New generator os.walk() does a bit more than os.path.walk() does, and
seems much easier to use.  Code, docs, NEWS, and additions to test_os.py
(testing this sucker is a bitch!).
2003-04-25 07:11:48 +00:00
Tim Peters 2d1c846b73 Clarified new fsync() docs. 2003-04-23 19:47:14 +00:00
Tim Peters 11b2306960 Enable os.fsync() for Windows, mapping it to MS's _commit() there. The
docs here are best-guess:  the MS docs I could find weren't clear, and
some even claimed _commit() has no effect on Win32 systems (which is
easily shown to be false just by trying it).
2003-04-23 02:39:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 5c7b2487cd - explain what a UNC path is in the makedirs() description, since
they're actually mentioned there
- remove some extraneous paragraph separations
- \versionadded --> \versionchanged in one place
2003-03-20 17:39:38 +00:00
Just van Rossum 96b1c903f5 Patch #683592 revisited, after discussions with MvL:
- Implement the behavior as specified in PEP 277, meaning os.listdir()
  will only return unicode strings if it is _called_ with a unicode
  argument.
- And then return only unicode, don't attempt to convert to ASCII.
- Don't switch on Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, but simply use the
  default encoding if Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is NULL. This means
  os.listdir() can now raise UnicodeDecodeError if the default encoding
  can't represent the directory entry. (This seems better than silcencing
  the error and fall back to a byte string.)
- Attempted to decribe the above in Doc/lib/libos.tex.
- Reworded the Misc/NEWS items to reflect the current situation.

This checkin also fixes bug #696261, which was due to os.listdir() not
using Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, like all file system calls are
supposed to.
2003-03-03 17:32:15 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 117910dc44 Migrate definitions of several platform-dependent path-related variables
into the relevant path modules.  See patch #686397.
2003-02-14 19:35:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 002a5de202 extsep description:
- avoid "e.g." in text
- record version information
(should be backported)
2003-02-14 06:39:37 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 47e46e2347 add missing description of os.extsep 2003-02-14 05:45:31 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 2b09bc4d57 Fix SF bug #675259, os.environ leaks under FreeBSD and Mac OS X
Even with the extra work to cleanup the env, *BSD still leaks.  Add a note.

Will backport.
2003-02-07 02:27:36 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4b37364fc8 Bug #678077: Suggest alternative to os.getlogin() 2003-02-03 15:36:26 +00:00
Barry Warsaw b6604b3e69 Document EX_OK and friends. 2003-01-07 22:43:25 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9f5b07dd92 SF bug #592859: os.chmod is underdocumented
Document constants for permission bits.
2003-01-06 13:31:26 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 6d23b170cf Fix a typo 2003-01-05 22:20:51 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 33e94437ca Document killpg. 2002-12-27 10:21:19 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 438b534ad0 Patch #657889: Implement posix.getloadavg. 2002-12-27 10:16:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 08d10f985e Typo: "dead lock" --> "deadlock" 2002-12-06 16:45:05 +00:00