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2233 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake b6b2aa6c75 Fix error in explanation of the interaction between $ and MULTILINE mode.
Reported by Steve Alexander.
2002-02-25 18:56:45 +00:00
Tim Peters 9f4341b3b0 SF bug #501591: dir() doc is old
Bugfix candidate.

+ Updated dir() description to match actual 2.2 behavior.

+ Replaced the dir(sys) example with dir(struct), because the former
  was way out of date and is bound to change frequently, while the
  latter is stable.

+ Added a note cautioning that dir() is supplied primarily for
  convenience at an interactive prompt (hoping to discourage its
  use as the foundation of introspective code outside the core).
2002-02-23 04:40:15 +00:00
Greg Ward f8b1f2431b Grammar tweak. 2002-02-22 21:24:32 +00:00
Neal Norwitz ba902fda3c SF #515041, Update path for 2.3 2002-02-19 02:58:54 +00:00
Fred Drake e73ad2a21f Use the standard expression for the availability statement for alarm(). 2002-02-15 20:59:43 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 8d1fdafd89 note that the alarm function is not available on Windows. 2002-02-15 20:36:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 928051fb26 The "%" character does not need to be escaped in verbatim environments.
This closes SF bug #517811.
2002-02-15 04:12:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 7bc6f7ac7b Consistently use \textasciicircum to produce a ^ character.
LaTeX really falls flat on this one!
2002-02-14 15:19:30 +00:00
Tim Peters ab034fab03 Implement os.waitpid() for Windows, in a way that's compatible with Linux
where their capabilities intersect.  Would be nice if people using non-
MSVC compilers (Borland etc) took a whack at doing something similar for
them (this code relies on the MS _cwait function).
2002-02-01 11:27:43 +00:00
Skip Montanaro c318260a71 added handle_error method description 2002-01-31 17:32:24 +00:00
Tim Peters c48a3ca161 Add new constants usable with os.popen() on Windows.
NOTE:  this seems a mess wrt which symbols are available on which
platforms.  I can't fix it, but I didn't add to it <wink>, and
included an XXX comment about names claimed to be available on
Windows that aren't.  If anyone can figure out the whole ugly truth,
I'm sure a better organization will suggest itself.
2002-01-30 05:49:46 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ef180dc3d0 Document that get_referrers can return unreachable but uncollected objects.
Fixes #505453.
2002-01-26 20:11:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 744f67fb62 Add keyword.kwlist to the public API. 2002-01-24 16:38:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4f3a62d9bc There's no need for typechecks on the second and third argument of
new.instancemethod() -- the instancemethod object is now a perfectly
general container.

This fixes SF bug ##503091 (Pedro Rodriquez): new.instancemethod fails
for new classes

This is a 2.2.1 candidate.
2002-01-15 19:21:05 +00:00
Thomas Heller 3d62f8ca35 Fix a simple typo. Has this to be fixed also in other branches? 2002-01-14 08:37:39 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a55ffaeee9 Add a per-message fallback mechanism for translations. 2002-01-11 06:58:49 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 1be6419871 Add fallback argument to translation(). Request fallbacks on install.
Fixes #500595.
2002-01-11 06:33:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 7731ed47cb Do not mask the name of a built-in function in example code.
Based on comment sent to python-docs.
2002-01-05 04:00:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 5e74d36f9d Fix indentation error in example from the Tkinter Life Preserver.
This closes SF bug #499505.
2002-01-05 03:56:54 +00:00
Fred Drake d93d68bd13 Fix minor typo reported in SF patch #497951. 2002-01-05 01:52:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c33e077838 SF patch #497420 (Eduardo Pérez): ftplib: ftp anonymous password
Instead of sending the real user and host, use "anonymous@" (i.e. no
host name at all!) as the default anonymous FTP password.  This avoids
privacy violations.
2001-12-28 20:54:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 7c9a53dfc0 Elaborate the descriptions for onecmd(), precmd(), and postcmd() so they are
useful.
2001-12-27 05:10:18 +00:00
Fred Drake fd7f115a0e Fix wrongly-named formal parameters in three places: begin_y was used twice
instead of begin_y and begin_x for derwin(), subpad(), and subwin().
Reported for derwin() by Eric Huss.

Added class annotations for the window methods so they would be properly
described in the index.
2001-12-26 22:08:44 +00:00
Fred Drake ab2dc1d730 Added index entries similar to some recommended by Skip, and used the word
"interpolation" in the text, to make the string formatting material easier to
find.
This closes SF bug #487165.
Bugfix: this should be applied for Python 2.2.1.
2001-12-26 20:06:40 +00:00
Fred Drake ef338ec5f9 More index entries. 2001-12-26 19:48:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 39960f6ec9 Fix the erroneous availability annotation for s.makefile() from the last
checkin (my fault!).
Wrap some long lines and fix some markup inconsistencies.
2001-12-22 19:07:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 87fa3aa12c Add notes that fromfd() and s.makefile() are Unix-specific.
This fixes SF bug #495896.

Fix up various markup consistency & style guide conformance nits.
2001-12-21 17:45:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 5c7983113c Add a reference to the signal module to the os.kill() description.
This closes SF bug #495609.
2001-12-21 03:58:47 +00:00
Fred Drake dce2e1161a Fix typo in httplib example.
This fixes SF bug #495221.
2001-12-21 03:52:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 8c8e871530 Fix the availability statement for the spawn*() functions to reflect the
actual availability on Windows.
This fixes SF bug #495191.
2001-12-20 17:24:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 34a37b807a Re-commit Ping's patch to the cgi and cgitb documentation, using the
right version this time.  Thanks, Ping!
(This was from SF patch #494582, "\index -> \indexii" version.)
2001-12-20 17:13:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 4b1b3bfac1 Add entry for the pydoc documentation. 2001-12-18 16:32:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 96be564027 Add documentation for the pydoc module; contributed by Ka-Ping Yee.
This closes SF patch #494622.
2001-12-18 16:31:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 732299ff63 Add documentation for the help() built-in; contributed by Ka-Ping Yee.
This is part of SF patch #494622.
2001-12-18 16:31:08 +00:00
Fred Drake e088970ce0 Merge in Ping's changes to the cgitb documentation, and add a version
annotation as well.
This closes SF patch #494582.
2001-12-18 15:51:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 0c0b5305ae Mark the mpz module deprecated as of Python 2.2. 2001-12-16 01:54:55 +00:00
Fred Drake c57772870b Add a link to the mxNumber package. 2001-12-15 20:37:40 +00:00
Fred Drake b40501b05e Add link to the gmpy project. 2001-12-15 18:37:24 +00:00
Fred Drake dda7dcb3f7 Add a missing "cycle". 2001-12-14 21:19:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 526c7a0101 Ensure that complex() only accepts a string argument as the first arg,
and only if there is no second arg.
This closes SF patch #479551.
2001-12-13 19:52:22 +00:00
Fred Drake a0b767625b Minor adjustments. 2001-12-13 04:25:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 1529ef860e Document that isleap() returns exactly 1 or 0, which is guaranteed by the
docstring.
This closes SF bug #485794.


Additional (very) small details were added.
2001-12-12 05:40:46 +00:00
Fred Drake cf72abab8c Update link to the SAX homepage. 2001-12-10 18:10:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 6048ce95a9 Added documentation for str.decode().
This closes SF bug #490823.
2001-12-10 16:43:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 146483964e Patch supplied by Burton Radons for his own SF bug #487390: Modifying
type.__module__ behavior.

This adds the module name and a dot in front of the type name in every
type object initializer, except for built-in types (and those that
already had this).  Note that it touches lots of Mac modules -- I have
no way to test these but the changes look right.  Apologies if they're
not.  This also touches the weakref docs, which contains a sample type
object initializer.  It also touches the mmap test output, because the
mmap type's repr is included in that output.  It touches object.h to
put the correct description in a comment.
2001-12-08 18:02:58 +00:00
Fred Drake f9d580346b Add change notes where im_class is discussed, since the exact meaning changes
with Python 2.2.
2001-12-07 23:13:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b62f0e1a7b Correct the description of im_class. (Fred, this is changed in 2.2.
Should this be labeled as changed?  How?)
2001-12-07 22:03:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 7961930595 Revise description of dumbdbm.open() to reflect that the flag argument is
ignored and that mode was ignored before Python 2.2.
This closes SF bug #490098.
2001-12-07 21:56:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 8b7bb7a0f2 Describe the behavior of the read() method when the list of filenames
includes files that do not exist, explain the intended use of the interface,
and show how to ensure an expected file really exists.
This closes SF bug #490399.
2001-12-07 21:35:57 +00:00
Tim Peters b404145936 s/it/if/ in descriptions of spawn mode argument. 2001-12-06 23:37:17 +00:00