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6476 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake 04d92c37f2 Remove list of pickle protocol names used by the copy module; there
are enough subtleties to pickling that we don't want misunderstanding
to spread because we don't provide all the information twice.  The
reference to the pickle module for information will have to suffice;
at least only one portion of the docs will be out of date.  ;-(
2004-05-05 04:24:30 +00:00
Fred Drake cee8879a7d note that the error code for socket.gaierror will be one of the EAI_*
constants
(closes SF bug #837929)
2004-05-05 04:18:11 +00:00
Greg Ward 4fe97ca4ce SF #814606: merge from release23-maint branch: clarify/cleanup
mixer docs; trim \platform{}, add \versionadded{}.
2004-05-05 01:36:16 +00:00
Nicholas Bastin e9c2ecfb96 Removed 'U' from the documentation for Py_BuildValue to bring it in line
with the elimination of 'U' in modsupport.c on 2000/04/28 (replaced
with 'u' and 'u#' per fdrake's comments).
2004-05-04 19:25:56 +00:00
Phillip J. Eby 5068c873e6 Document readline module functions added in Python 2.3. See:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-September/037922.html

for background.  It appears I forgot to ever submit a bug report or patch.
2004-05-04 19:20:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d7911a3317 Minor documentation nits. 2004-05-01 08:31:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f5f9a370d4 Add an example application to the docs. 2004-04-30 22:52:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 6fbf703fa2 the headers in an HTTP request are HTTP headers, not MIME headers 2004-04-29 02:47:38 +00:00
Fred Drake ceeb1918a1 remove out-of-date count of the functions in winsound 2004-04-28 03:57:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 6d4c7b05bb fix typo reported in a long-buried email 2004-04-28 03:16:49 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 46a16f297f SF bug #940579: section 5.10: 'not' returns boolean, not int 2004-04-23 17:11:47 +00:00
Thomas Heller 1328b52c6f Two new public API functions, Py_IncRef and Py_DecRef. Useful for
dynamic embedders of Python.
2004-04-22 17:23:49 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e5fced781b SF bug #936827: PyNumber_And() 's description
Fix typo.
2004-04-17 11:57:40 +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
Skip Montanaro 10659f2540 bring description of optional and keyword args for DictReader and DictWriter
classes into line with the actual code.  I didn't see any obvious examples
of latex formatting for *args and **kwds so I just guessed.
2004-04-16 03:21:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 8efc74d35e remove bogus markup that caused the docs to be wrong 2004-04-15 06:18:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 6b3b046ab0 fix up some markup 2004-04-09 18:26:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 94ffbb71a8 give rational filenames to some of the generated HTML 2004-04-08 19:44:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 4cc425a0a3 switch to PNG navigation icons by default 2004-04-08 18:51:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 4f580e8394 include both the GIF and PNG icons in the HTML package 2004-04-08 18:50:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 899072ab71 avoid stripping space after indexing macros 2004-04-08 15:30:12 +00:00
Neal Norwitz ba813e2089 #928751, fix typos in socket doc 2004-04-03 18:02:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 8effa01931 fix typo that wasn't properly fixed in revision 1.144 2004-04-01 04:30:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 862b46bbc1 add a heavy box around warning notices to make them really stand out in the
PDF and PostScript versions of the docs (the CSS already does this for HTML)
2004-03-31 08:08:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 90756c2da7 add missing and forthcoming releases 2004-03-31 08:04:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 34c43202eb Emphasize the requirement that Python.h be included first more strongly.
Closes SF bug #837228; backporting for Python 2.3.4.
2004-03-31 07:45:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 203b10c75a added scripts to the list of files automatically included in the
distribution (see SF bug #796042)
2004-03-31 01:50:37 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling aeaec8d4aa fix typo 2004-03-29 01:19:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f13c024002 Insert missing pronoun 2004-03-28 22:44:09 +00:00
Skip Montanaro dbb407808a - add entry for complex number
- fix a couple typos
- refine definitions for "interpreted" and "coercion" based upon updates on
  the python glossary wiki
2004-03-27 18:23:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 8123ff6bca remove out-of-date warning 2004-03-26 17:11:10 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 707483fdef Update timeit example to reflect current performance. 2004-03-26 07:56:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 504ca68e20 Note that reading from a socket may not always return all of the
remaining content of a stream when expected to do so.
Closes SF bug #725265.  Should be backported to Python 2.3.x.
2004-03-25 16:51:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 267b062432 - make sure the methods minidom adds to the basic DOM are attributed
to Node objects in the index (closes SF bug #832251)
- fix a variety of markup nits

Someone should backport this patch to Python 2.3.x.
2004-03-25 16:39:46 +00:00
Fred Drake ad62202a5e include the right index sources 2004-03-25 16:35:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 73789bc8f5 remove duplicate use of the meta-data label 2004-03-25 16:33:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 2f00c5453e fix typo 2004-03-25 16:14:17 +00:00
Fred Drake f39c3c7a6b note that distutils API docs are included in "Distributing Python
Modules"
2004-03-25 16:12:08 +00:00
Fred Drake d0c3b26bd0 improve the very-high-level API docs (contributed by Jeff Epler)
Closes SF patch #798638.
2004-03-25 15:44:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 85309512ec Remove note that PyErr_SetInterrupt() is obsolete; add comment about the
fact that it was marked obsolete but is still needed.
Closes SF bug #919299.  Someone else should backport this to Python 2.3.
2004-03-25 14:25:28 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5232f50b19 SF bug: #921927: Fixed a typo/thinko spelling "parameter" as "paramter" 2004-03-25 08:51:36 +00:00
Nicholas Bastin c69ebe8d50 Enable the profiling of C functions (builtins and extensions) 2004-03-24 21:57:10 +00:00
Fred Drake fee6f33e08 more markup nits 2004-03-23 21:40:07 +00:00
Fred Drake e05c3e0fbb fix markup nits 2004-03-23 20:30:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 4ac6c6afc3 add the distutils modules to the global modules list 2004-03-23 19:26:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 6356fff2cb give the document indexes 2004-03-23 19:02:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 630e5bd2f7 - use recommended Python style in examples (no spaces around "=" for
keyword args)
- format multi-line calls to distutils.core.setup() consistently, and
  in line with general practice (one keyword arg per line,
  comma/newline after the last
- fix a few typos
2004-03-23 18:54:12 +00:00
Nicholas Bastin 824b1b2da8 Added command line options for profile.py - one for stats output file
and one for sort order when using stdout.  Uses optparse.
2004-03-23 18:44:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 6fca7cc783 merge Anthony Baxter's distutils API reference into the package
author's documentation
2004-03-23 18:43:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 211a2eb784 convert from a howto to a manual 2004-03-22 21:44:43 +00:00