2e29bfbe1a
Document new file() constructor, with the body of open()'s text, plus a
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"new in 2.2" blurb at the end. Replace open()'s text by pointing back
to file().
2001-09-20 19:55:29 +00:00
f47d8ef683
Document all the Py*_CheckExact() functions.
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Document many more of the PyLong_{As,From}*() functions.
2001-09-20 19:18:52 +00:00
494f2aea8e
Docs and News item for the codecs.py additions.
2001-09-19 11:33:31 +00:00
18d8d5a708
Fix minor usage and consistency nits.
2001-09-18 17:58:20 +00:00
83eeef4b06
SF patch #461781 by Chris Lawrence: os.path.realpath - Resolve symlinks:
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Once upon a time, I put together a little function
that tries to find the canonical filename for a given
pathname on POSIX. I've finally gotten around to
turning it into a proper patch with documentation.
On non-POSIX, I made it an alias for 'abspath', as
that's the behavior on POSIX when no symlinks are
encountered in the path.
Example:
>>> os.path.realpath('/usr/bin/X11/X')
'/usr/X11R6/bin/X'
2001-09-17 15:16:09 +00:00
5b7759f9db
Fixed typo in new 'p' description.
2001-09-15 18:16:27 +00:00
88091aae7e
SF bug [ #461674 ] struct 'p' format doesn't work (maybe)
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Rewrote the 'p' description.
2001-09-15 18:09:22 +00:00
ad2dc3fc44
Update the warning about transporting marshals across boxes with different
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ideas about sizeof(long).
2001-09-14 20:40:13 +00:00
f2a5f3f721
Markup adjustments for consistency.
2001-09-14 17:48:41 +00:00
1efd7ad88e
Add support for SMTP TLS
2001-09-14 16:19:27 +00:00
f7fcf5eea6
SF patch #461413 (Gerhard Häring): Add STARTTLS feature to smtplib
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This patch adds the features from RFC 2487 (Secure SMTP
over TLS) to the smtplib module:
- A starttls() function
- Wrapper classes that simulate enough of sockets and
files for smtplib, but really wrap a SSLObject
- reset the list of known SMTP extensions at each call
of ehlo(). This should have been the case anyway.
2001-09-14 16:08:44 +00:00
b9a96282f1
Admit that we'll never add the args for a "call" event to the profile
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and trace functions; this now declares that None will be passed for the
"call" event.
This closes SF bug/suggestion #460315 .
2001-09-13 16:56:43 +00:00
ee0fe0b743
Add missing "}".
2001-09-12 00:43:13 +00:00
95fefc7a7a
These modules now live under the Carbon package.
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Added a few new toolbox modules.
Noted machine dependencies for some modules.
Moved waste to undoc.tex.
2001-09-11 21:25:10 +00:00
945bf5f627
Added applesingle, macresource, Nav and videoreader.
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Moved icopen to its alphabetical place.
Moved waste here (from toolbox).
2001-09-11 21:24:07 +00:00
827713a660
Added a note that these are not available under Carbon (or
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OSX MachO Python).
2001-09-11 20:18:04 +00:00
85ddfbc4cb
Another documentation contributor.
2001-09-11 19:58:51 +00:00
098d7fae39
Document clearly that the only way to retrieve the return code from the
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child processes is to use the Popen3 and Popen4 classes.
This fixes SF bug #460512 .
2001-09-11 19:56:51 +00:00
1c66f8965a
Added entry for the hmac module.
2001-09-11 16:59:42 +00:00
aae8da18fd
Documentation for the new login() method of the smtplib.SMTP class,
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contributed by Gerhard Häring.
This is part of SF patch #460112 .
2001-09-11 16:58:00 +00:00
42706803cd
Documentation for the new hmac module, contributed by Gerhard Häring.
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This is part of SF patch #460112 .
2001-09-11 16:56:09 +00:00
2732cb4269
Added documentation on the getfirst() and getlist() methods of the
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cgi.FieldStorage class.
This closes SF patch #453691 .
2001-09-11 16:27:03 +00:00
3ae5726625
Updated infomation about libraries for alternate compilers on Windows.
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This closes SF patch #459441 .
2001-09-11 15:10:42 +00:00
d6e40e24f8
Remove some XXX markers
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Update the patch and bug counts
2001-09-10 16:18:50 +00:00
ed5a7ca5ee
Work around a LaTeX2HTML bug that caused the "m" in "mutable" to be dropped
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in one place.
2001-09-10 15:16:08 +00:00
fda3058827
Removed an erronous comment about alias files.
2001-09-10 08:55:25 +00:00
26c39bf1b5
Add section on long integer changes
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Add removal of 3-arg pow() for floats
Rewrite introduction a bit
2001-09-10 03:20:53 +00:00
2872e8a654
Do not rebuild html-$(RELEASE).tar every time we need to use it.
2001-09-06 19:35:02 +00:00
c93cf676da
Bump version number.
2001-09-06 19:28:06 +00:00
05a73b1f9a
Update link to the PyOpenGL project in the "gl" module docs.
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This closes SF bug #459256 .
2001-09-06 19:23:03 +00:00
00bb329521
Document the built-in iter() function.
2001-09-06 19:04:29 +00:00
7feae2d28c
Bump version number.
2001-09-06 19:02:57 +00:00
a20c265aba
Added an additional link to NIST information on secure hashing.
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This closes SF bug #458785 .
2001-09-06 18:59:43 +00:00
ba5c41d4c5
Clarified the interaction between string literals and continuation lines.
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Fixes bug reported as SF bug #453728 .
2001-09-06 18:41:15 +00:00
8b09f4985c
Make the examples for "Default Argument Values" more presentable and
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less hostile to newbie use at the interactive prompt.
This is in response to SF bug #458654 .
2001-09-06 18:21:30 +00:00
9c75ff785a
Fix parameter for PyInt_Check().
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Add refcount information for other recently documented APIs.
2001-09-06 18:06:46 +00:00
f8d7a5d391
Document the PyMethod_* type object, functions, and macros.
2001-09-06 17:12:44 +00:00
396ca574dd
Document the rule that Python.h must be included before any standard
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headers. This is the final checkin for SF bug #458768 .
2001-09-06 16:30:30 +00:00
9b88b4c9e8
Do not #include <stdio.h> since Python.h already does that.
2001-09-06 16:20:33 +00:00
adaca02f9e
Use the standard argument convention for main(), and conform to the
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Python/C style guide.
2001-09-06 16:17:24 +00:00
4d17b303bb
Several updates to cover omissions noted by Rich Salz.
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This closes SF bug #458771 .
2001-09-06 15:51:56 +00:00
f5072b9314
Document the "unixfrom" attribute of the rfc822.Message class.
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Based on a patch by Skip Montanaro, this closes SF bug #458885 .
2001-09-06 15:07:55 +00:00
b0162f9afc
Patch #416079 : fix the debug string output when receiving telnet commands.
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added all the telnet options known to arpa/telnet.h
added all the options registered with IANA as of today
added the possibility for the user to have it's own option negotiation callback
2001-09-06 08:51:38 +00:00
bb5a465ca9
typo...
2001-09-05 19:27:13 +00:00
7c82a3e0fc
Patch #449815 : Set filesystemencoding based on CODESET.
2001-09-05 17:09:48 +00:00
2f0047af3b
Note some changes that I need to write about
2001-09-05 14:53:31 +00:00
44f8696171
Patch #428326 : New class threading.Timer.
2001-09-05 13:44:54 +00:00
7eea37e831
At Guido's suggestion, here's a new C API function, PyObject_Dir(), like
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__builtin__.dir(). Moved the guts from bltinmodule.c to object.c.
2001-09-04 22:08:56 +00:00
33a3b63e21
Correction: the Borland C port isn't fully operational yet
2001-09-04 21:25:58 +00:00
757f7809e1
Add more detail to the descriptions of the shutil functions.
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This closes SF bug #458223 .
2001-09-04 18:26:27 +00:00
c05fc7dd9d
Added documentation for sys.maxunicode and sys.warnoptions.
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Fixed a markup error which caused an em dash to be presented as a minus sign.
This closes SF bug #458350 .
2001-09-04 18:18:36 +00:00
32f453eaa4
New restriction on pow(x, y, z): If z is not None, x and y must be of
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integer types, and y must be >= 0. See discussion at
http://sf.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=457066&group_id=5470&atid=105470
2001-09-03 08:35:41 +00:00
b86677079d
Move the long minidom example to a separate file; \verbatiminput does the
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right thing with page breaks in long examples, while the verbatim
environment does not. This causes the example to wrap to the next page
instead of overwriting the page footer and bottom margin.
2001-09-02 06:07:36 +00:00
481cf2c064
Added the "Host" header to the "GET" example.
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This closes SF bug #457100 .
2001-09-01 02:35:23 +00:00
0e03f588f5
Add Jack Jansen's explanation of the MacOS X changes
2001-08-30 21:30:16 +00:00
d507dab91f
SF patch #455966 : Allow leading 0 in float/imag literals.
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Consequences for Jython still unknown (but raised on Jython-Dev).
2001-08-30 20:51:59 +00:00
55cdc88c09
Update documentation for GC API. Closes SF patch #421893 .
2001-08-30 15:24:17 +00:00
3c0fc84b15
Update the links to the FIPS document that defines the Secure Hash
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Algorithm. This closes SF bug #454917 .
2001-08-30 14:42:40 +00:00
692323488b
Add a new function imp.lock_held(), and use it to skip test_threaded_import
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when that test is doomed to deadlock.
2001-08-30 05:16:13 +00:00
f9dc04341d
Fix a minor markup typo.
2001-08-29 02:34:10 +00:00
da21ce3e31
On Fred's suggestion, convert sprintf() examples to use
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PyString_FromFormat(). Also fixed one grammar problem, and a few
other mark-up issues. Sample code not checked.
2001-08-29 01:41:58 +00:00
0ab31b8562
Add METH_O and METH_NOARGS change
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Rewrite snprintf() item a bit
Bump version number
2001-08-29 01:16:54 +00:00
b5f17f2dc5
Revise comments about TeX & LaTeX for accuracy.
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This closes SF bug #456222 .
2001-08-28 18:09:11 +00:00
d800cff80d
Added explanation that [...] * n generates shallow copies of [...], so
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the contents will be shared by multiple references.
This closes SF bug #455694 .
2001-08-28 14:56:05 +00:00
5cb29a49c8
Fix a number of minor markup errors, and improve the consistency a bit.
2001-08-28 14:25:03 +00:00
46ccd1dae5
Plant a mention in the description of backreferences of the fact that
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while \0 doesn't do what one might expect, \g<0> does.
2001-08-28 12:50:03 +00:00
8c64a54f75
Refcount info for PyString_FromFormat() and PyString_FromFormatV().
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Closes SF patch #455666 .
2001-08-28 02:32:04 +00:00
c86aa57f58
Documentation for PyString_FromFormat() and PyString_FromFormatV().
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Closes SF patch #455666 .
2001-08-28 02:31:28 +00:00
53da317801
Docs for the PEP 264 changes.
2001-08-27 20:02:17 +00:00
88e0b5bee0
SF patch #454553 by Walter Dörwald: auto-guess content-type header for
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ftp urls.
2001-08-23 13:38:15 +00:00
0f10f84028
indicate that mktime is platform-dependent. See SF bug 434143.
2001-08-22 12:44:27 +00:00
5ff41d16a8
indicate that the years for which the calendar function will work are
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platform dependent. See SF bug 434143.
2001-08-22 12:43:38 +00:00
16bb41934c
New \grammartoken markup, similar to \token but allowed everywhere.
2001-08-20 21:36:38 +00:00
2a274a7e41
Add another name.
2001-08-20 21:33:41 +00:00
cc8f44b884
Split "Extending & Embedding" into separate files, one per chapter.
2001-08-20 19:30:29 +00:00
31d833d575
Added documentation for BoundedSemaphore(), contributed by Skip Montanaro.
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This closes SF patch #452836 .
2001-08-20 18:49:00 +00:00
0e40c3d012
Document PyTuple_GET_SIZE(), removing confusing sentence from PyDict_Copy()
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description.
This fixes SF bug #453111 .
2001-08-20 16:48:59 +00:00
29bb115bae
Clean up some argument profiles, enrich the docstring.
2001-08-20 13:16:30 +00:00
dbec7d2c16
Improve Windows time.clock() blurb; was missing return type and unit.
2001-08-19 01:38:03 +00:00
b60f2d0977
Framework code for compilerlike scripts.
2001-08-18 09:24:38 +00:00
dbfe5e8507
Document that uu.decode() will always raise a uu.Error if out_file
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isn't given, and the file in the uu header already exists. Also add a
description of the uu.Error exception class.
2001-08-17 20:01:06 +00:00
2dc07946bf
Make sure that ampersand escaping is still performed on the contents of
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local module tables (the lists of modules documented within a chapter,
inserted at the beginning of the chapter). If this is not done here,
the text is not part of the resulting documents when latex2html does the
processing normally.
This fixes a little bit more of SF bug #451556 .
2001-08-17 17:20:44 +00:00
cb19976f1a
fix_font(): Instead of using a long if/elsif cluster, use a bloody
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dictionary. Added some entries to the dictionary to fix part of
SF bug #451556 .
2001-08-16 21:56:24 +00:00
457c4190f9
Fix typo reported by Joonas Paalasmaa: dada-->data
2001-08-16 21:25:24 +00:00
739282da83
Re-write the description of the os.spawn*() functions, and cover the
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whole family instead of just two.
This closes SF bug #451630 .
2001-08-16 21:21:28 +00:00
e3eb1f2b23
Patch #427190 : Implement and use METH_NOARGS and METH_O.
2001-08-16 13:15:00 +00:00
ce1650f3a5
A large contribution from Dave Kuhlman describing what each of the slots
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in the type object is used for, for many of the more commonly used slots.
Thanks!
(But there is still a lot more to write on this topic.)
Markup and organizational changes by your friendly neighborhood
documentation czar.
2001-08-15 19:07:18 +00:00
87731762f2
Dave Kuhlman has contributed a nice improvement to the "Defining New Types"
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section of the Extending & Embedding manual -- thanks!
2001-08-15 19:00:29 +00:00
94a7eba9db
Note addition of cleanfuture.py
2001-08-15 15:55:48 +00:00
ce575bac5e
Fix a minor typo and mark an exception name that was missed.
2001-08-14 21:51:50 +00:00
c0cf726d8c
Add material about the "r" and "u" prefixes for string literals; should
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be reviewed for clarity.
Work around a bogosity in the HTML version of the escape sequences table
conversion.
2001-08-14 21:43:31 +00:00
0cac5f697b
Added some examples of table markup.
2001-08-14 21:36:19 +00:00
3e2aca48bd
Add information about __floordiv__() and __truediv__() methods for
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implementing numeric objects in Python.
2001-08-14 20:28:08 +00:00
d3ba10f4b5
Clarify the prompt in an example.
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This closes SF bug #450633 .
2001-08-14 19:55:42 +00:00
5ef99a0bc5
Describe the new semantics for setting and deleting a function's
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__dict__ attribute. Deleting it, or setting it to a non-dictionary
result in a TypeError. Note that getting it the first time magically
initializes it to an empty dict so that func.__dict__ will always
appear to be a dictionary (never None).
Closes SF bug #446645 .
2001-08-14 18:22:24 +00:00
680cabb225
Add "exceptions" to the list of fundamental modules
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created by Py_Initialize().
This closes SF bug #450621 .
2001-08-14 15:32:16 +00:00
280f7253e4
Insert omitted "the".
2001-08-14 11:42:13 +00:00
bf781a95c0
Add the smtpd module to the list of undocumented modules; Barry needs to
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write the documentation for this module.
2001-08-14 11:38:35 +00:00
6943a29cbf
David Goodger <dgoodger@atsautomation.com>:
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Documentation for difflib/ndiff refactoring: more of the ndiff functionality
has been moved to the underlying library (difflib).
This closes SF patch #445413 .
2001-08-13 19:31:59 +00:00
84e58ab722
For the escape() function, added a reference to the quoteattrs() function
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in xml.sax.saxutils, since that is the right function to use for quoting
attribute values.
This closes SF bug #444707 .
Cleaned up a variety of other minor markup errors.
2001-08-11 03:28:41 +00:00
9e9c1358e8
Add section on PEP 238 changes
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Minor grammatical changes, reformattings, and an error fix from Keith Briggs
2001-08-11 03:06:50 +00:00
1cf0f1751f
Add a note that the quoteattr() function is useful for HTML and SGML
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attributes as well.
2001-08-10 22:14:17 +00:00
11ee90289c
Added documentation for PyDict_Update() and PyDict_Merge().
2001-08-10 21:31:12 +00:00
1cb560a653
Do more to be compatible with Windows/CygWin. Make error messages more
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informative when a child process dies with an error.
This is a variation of parts of SF patch #429611 .
2001-08-10 20:17:09 +00:00
9443dc31c1
Remove the use of the "cat" program. This improves portability to non-Unix
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platforms.
This is part the response to SF patch #429611 .
2001-08-10 20:12:09 +00:00
8a7b59e7b4
Added this LaTeX style file to the package since not all LaTeX installations
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have it, especially on non-Unix platforms. (MikTeX in particular does not
have it.)
This is part of the response to SF patch #429611 .
2001-08-10 19:47:41 +00:00
d635e3c468
Added a warning about reference cycles and memory consumption to the
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section on functions which return stack frames.
This closes SF bug #449258 .
2001-08-10 17:37:33 +00:00
6d8d72b0cb
Usage fix, problem reported by Keith Briggs.
2001-08-10 16:15:08 +00:00
e89659c02d
Added documentation for the new rich comparison support.
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This closes SF patch #428320 .
Added documentation for the new floordiv() and truediv() functions.
This is part of SF bug #449093 .
Re-organized the listing of functions to get better logical grouping.
2001-08-10 15:55:09 +00:00
024ef6f493
Remove the bogus flags parameter from the PyFile_WriteString() signature;
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it has no such parameter.
This closes SF bug #449761 .
2001-08-10 14:27:38 +00:00
9b75dca192
Expose nl_langinfo through locale where available.
2001-08-10 13:58:50 +00:00
8cc965c1fb
Patch #448474 : Add support for tell() and seek() to gzip.GzipFile.
2001-08-09 07:21:56 +00:00
0197858f62
Added documentation for PyNumber_*FloorDivide(), PyNumber_*TrueDivide(),
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PyInterpreterState_*Head(), PyInterpreterState_Next(), and
PyThreadState_Next().
Wrapped some long lines, added some others.
2001-08-08 19:14:53 +00:00
03590c6bdc
Reference counting information for PyNumber_*FloorDivide() and
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PyNumber_*TrueDivide().
2001-08-08 18:50:18 +00:00
e54acfd8b2
Add option to push the development docs to SF without announcing, for
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when the changes are just too small.
2001-08-08 05:41:01 +00:00
ecab00176f
More names....
2001-08-08 05:39:52 +00:00
3a5ec57456
Clean up some of the markup here -- be more consistent in the use of
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semantic labels instead of presentational markup.
2001-08-08 05:39:29 +00:00
a7d608d1cf
"Thin" version of floor division docs: add // to the list of operators
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and //= to the list of other delimiter tokens.
I'll work on it again when it's not so late...
2001-08-08 05:37:21 +00:00
8c69c91be3
Document two new items
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Correct error noticed by Keith Briggs
Re-indent a paragraph
2001-08-07 14:28:58 +00:00
58212724f2
Add a comment on time.time() returning non-decreasing values except when
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the clock is set back.
This closes SF bug #447945 .
2001-08-05 15:43:04 +00:00
c9908c4f5c
Document IPv6 changes. Contributed by itojun.
2001-08-04 22:22:45 +00:00
53765753c4
Lots of new text and example code on embedding Python in C, contributed
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by Albert Hofkamp. Some editing has been done for style and markup
consistency.
This also supplies an example of importing modules and calling a function
defined in the module, so this closes SF bug #440037 as well.
(The long example code was moved to a separate file so that it would
format properly.)
2001-08-04 01:58:36 +00:00
b3cc29b493
Note that the mimetypes.MimeTypes class was added in Python 2.2.
2001-08-04 00:48:49 +00:00
d5efb17086
Add documentation for the new aspects of the mimetypes module.
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This closes the SF bug (feature request) #439710 .
2001-08-03 21:03:14 +00:00
d86038d1be
Apply the new \mailheader macro where appropriate, and fix a few small
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markup inconsistencies.
2001-08-03 18:39:36 +00:00
7eac0cb04c
Define the \mailheader macro and document conventions for using it.
2001-08-03 18:36:17 +00:00
30cf118cf7
Minor markup nits and slight style-guide conformance changes.
2001-08-03 17:11:33 +00:00
cb60dae6a1
Documented the runtimemodel attribute.
2001-08-03 13:19:56 +00:00
5d54879647
Fix some of the example code; the reference objects do not support a
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get() method; just calling them is sufficient. (There was a get() method
for this in an early version of the implementation.)
Reported by Mats Wichmann.
2001-08-03 03:50:28 +00:00
8dd6ffd0ec
User-defined methods *can* contain things other than user-defined functions
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as the callable, so use more flexible language.
2001-08-02 21:34:53 +00:00
51629c245a
Add a caveat about boundary conditions and RE concatenation, so that the
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documents do not make an overly-strong assertion about the properties of
RE concatenation.
Add an example of RE{m,} syntax and what it will and will not match.
2001-08-02 20:52:00 +00:00
f90490ef94
Move away from apply() to using extended call syntax for some example
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fragments when discussing equivalence of thhe C API to what a Python
programmer sees.
Added descriptions of PyEval_SetProfile() and PyEval_SetTrace().
2001-08-02 18:00:28 +00:00
044bb4d22a
Explain that __init__() methods do not get to return values.
2001-08-02 15:53:05 +00:00
388f37e6f6
Add anentry for the distutils.sysconfig module docs.
2001-08-02 15:13:58 +00:00
ab70b38367
Update some incorrect comments about the bdist commands that exist.
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Add an entry for the distutils.sysconfig module docs.
2001-08-02 15:13:15 +00:00
25376c4f8b
Documentation for the distutils.sysconfig module.
2001-08-02 15:12:07 +00:00
905dc558f1
Cleaned up the description of readline.set_completer().
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Thanks to Nathaniel Gray for reporting the confusion.
2001-08-01 21:42:45 +00:00
236ddd6834
Added more names.
2001-08-01 17:19:11 +00:00
20c94913de
Minor re-wording in the exaplantion of sequence comparisons.
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This closes SF bug #445749 .
2001-08-01 17:17:13 +00:00
e74f8de385
Added an example of a string value for the replacement parameter to
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re.sub().
This closes SF bug #446136 .
Fixed description of RE modifiers so that RE{#} and RE{#,} are more
clearly described and disambiguated (plain RE{#} had not been described
at all). Reported by Jeremy Craven via email.
2001-08-01 16:56:51 +00:00
630a63cafd
Fix description of buffer_info(), and add a note that there is a better
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way...
This closes SF bug #444842 .
2001-08-01 16:50:49 +00:00
77707673f4
Move C-level changes into a section of their own
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Add string.ascii_letters
Remove duplicate MBCS paragraph
2001-07-31 15:51:16 +00:00
f4ccf587f6
Rewrite MBCS paragraph following MH's suggestions, and credit him
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Note new Windows installer
2001-07-31 01:11:36 +00:00
43211ecda2
Make some adjustments to the markup, and fix up some style-guide issues.
2001-07-29 03:41:23 +00:00
66b6e192b9
Patch #416224 : add readline completion to cmd.Cmd.
2001-07-28 14:44:03 +00:00
54f65094c3
Typo fix.
2001-07-26 21:01:21 +00:00
7321ec437b
SF bug #444510 : int() should guarantee truncation.
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It's guaranteed now, assuming the platform modf() works correctly.
2001-07-26 20:02:17 +00:00
4f1cd8bdcb
Patch #411138 : Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774 .
2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
41d7d58cc4
trivial rewording in footnote 5.
2001-07-25 16:18:19 +00:00
d61e3eab44
Add entry for the new distutils section.
2001-07-24 16:20:13 +00:00
Tim Peters
Fred Drake
Marc-André Lemburg
Guido van Rossum
Andrew M. Kuchling
Jack Jansen
Martin v. Löwis
Skip Montanaro
Neil Schemenauer
Barry Warsaw
Eric S. Raymond
Michael W. Hudson
Greg Ward