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Author SHA1 Message Date
Thomas Wouters 12bba852a9 Rough and incomplete documentation on augmented assignment, which follows
shortly. Markup also needs checking.
2000-08-24 20:06:04 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 323fe5df6a fix list comprehension discussion to use \keyword macro instead of simply
quoting keywords.
2000-08-23 17:03:34 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 46dfa5f4ed require list comprehensions to start with a for clause 2000-08-22 02:43:07 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 8c0a242289 PEP 214, Extended print Statement, has been accepted by the BDFL.
Document the extended print form.  Fred, please double check the
markup!
2000-08-21 15:45:16 +00:00
Thomas Wouters 8bad612881 Disallow "import mod.submod as m", because the result is ambiguous. Does it
load mod.submod as m, or mod as m ? Both can be achieved differently, and
unambiguously. Also attempt to document this restriction (editor
appreciated!)

Note that this is an artificial check during compile, because incorporating
this in the grammar is hard, and then adjusting the compiler to do the right
thing with the right nodes is harder.
2000-08-19 20:55:02 +00:00
Fred Drake a00738259f Adjust the way __getslice__() is marked as deprecated; this will also
stand out more.
2000-08-18 02:42:14 +00:00
Thomas Wouters 5215225ea1 Apply SF patch #101135, adding 'import module as m' and 'from module import
name as n'. By doing some twists and turns, "as" is not a reserved word.

There is a slight change in semantics for 'from module import name' (it will
now honour the 'global' keyword) but only in cases that are explicitly
undocumented.
2000-08-17 22:55:00 +00:00
Thomas Wouters 1d75a79c00 Apply SF patch #101029: call __getitem__ with a proper slice object if there
is no __getslice__ available. Also does the same for C extension types.
Includes rudimentary documentation (it could use a cross reference to the
section on slice objects, I couldn't figure out how to do that) and a test
suite for all Python __hooks__ I could think of, including the new
behaviour.
2000-08-17 22:37:32 +00:00
Fred Drake d341579178 Fix error made in applying Thomas's patch. 2000-08-15 18:44:10 +00:00
Fred Drake a1e214a1ed Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>:
Update the grammar to reflect the most recent changes to list
comprehensions.
2000-08-15 17:54:49 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 803d6e5451 list comprehensions. see
http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=100654&group_id=5470

for details.
2000-08-12 18:09:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 3d83fc3ab1 Change as suggested by Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>:
Create a hyperlink between the language reference and documentation for
the built in functions.
2000-07-31 20:08:23 +00:00
Thomas Wouters f9b526dbfd More of Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes. The only ones left now are the
distutils patches, which I'll leave to the distutils maintainers.

Tip: review the patch like this:

grep "^[\!+-] " <patchfile>

To get a quick and easy way to review the actual changes. Most of the
changes are single-line ones, anyway.
2000-07-16 19:05:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 91826ed2a9 Improve the descriptions of expected exceptions for __getitem__(),
__setitem__(), and __delitem__().  Based on related comments from
Barry Warsaw.
2000-07-13 04:57:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 7399b9e6e4 Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>:
Update the "in" / "not in" description to accomodate the current use
of the __contains__() discipline.  This patch also incorporates
suggestions from Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>, minor markup
revisions from Fred Drake, and some rewording of the first affected
paragraph (also from Fred).

Closes SourceForge patch #100831.
2000-07-11 19:43:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 191a28218f Typo: "This table table" -> "This table is"
Noted by Nicholas Spies <ns11@voicenet.com>.
2000-07-06 00:50:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 35c09f2e51 Revise the description of when functions retrieved from class instances
are and are not turned into bound methods; some confusion was noted by
Andrew Dalke.

In particular, it has to be noted that functions located on the class
instance are not turned into any sort of method, only those which are
found via the underlying class.
2000-06-28 20:15:47 +00:00
Fred Drake e57a11441e Fix markup error that hid a tilde character; reported long ago by
Carl Feynman <carlf@abinitio.com>.
2000-06-15 20:07:25 +00:00
Greg Ward 38c28e379c Added a note to the section on 'exec' about the need for a trailing newline
in certain circumstances.  (Apparently, this is a CPython problem.)
2000-04-27 18:32:02 +00:00
Fred Drake c009d198db Removed some extraneous and confusing parenthesized expressions.
Noted by Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>.
2000-04-25 21:09:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 8b3ce9e099 But don't do the funny \UNICODE macro; we're trying to get away from
those markups!  <with-mixed-feelings>
2000-04-06 14:00:14 +00:00
Fred Drake f0aff8e759 Patch from Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
Added Unicode type to the language reference.
2000-04-06 13:57:21 +00:00
Fred Drake e15956b465 Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release. 2000-04-03 04:51:13 +00:00
Fred Drake e15eb35fd0 Use \citetitle as appropriate. 1999-11-10 16:13:25 +00:00
Fred Drake a24f7b759a Use \programopt in one place. 1999-11-09 17:03:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 4c2533fe3c Added sentence "All exceptions must have an executable block."; from
Dan Wolfe <wolfeman@apple.com>.
1999-08-24 22:14:01 +00:00
Fred Drake c35367e439 Change an {\em ...} to \var{...} and a {\bf ...} to \program{...} (the
new markup makes sense in context).

These allow the SGML/XML conversion updates to work, & should not have
still been in there anyway.
1999-07-29 13:56:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 431f0ce547 Small nits around some of the index entries.
When refering to chapters, use \ref, don't hardcode the chapter
number.
1999-05-13 18:38:11 +00:00
Fred Drake b894370f6a Fixed some index entries.
In the __coerce__ description, None should be returned if the
conversion is *impossible*, not *possible*.  Reported by Robert Kern
<kernr@ncifcrf.gov>.
1999-05-10 13:43:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 1ea7c75687 Reflect recent patch for float % and divmod() by Tim Peters. Content
updates by Tim Peters, markup by FLD.
1999-05-06 14:46:35 +00:00
Fred Drake d09120b5b9 Added index entries for operator precedence; suggestion from Randall
Hopper <rhh@vislab.epa.gov>.
1999-04-29 16:43:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 011f6fca31 Typo: "Otherwose" --> "Otherwise" (reported by Joakim Sernbrant
<joakim.sernbrant@front.se>).

Misc. small fixes to the logical markup.
1999-04-14 12:52:14 +00:00
Fred Drake b55ce1e8b6 Fixed latex2html weirdness with footnotes. 1999-04-05 21:32:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 39fc1bc329 Added note about __builtin__._ to section dicussing classes of
reserved names, just to avoid confusion on the part of users.
1999-03-05 18:30:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 8cdee961bf Dictionaries are created using the "{...}" notation, not the "..."
notation.  Problem reported by Magnus L. Hetland <mlh@idt.ntnu.no>.
1999-02-23 18:50:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 264bd59221 1. Clarify that immutability isn't entirely the same as unchangeable
value (because of immutable containers containing mutable objects).

2. Document that func_code, func_defaults and func_doc / __doc__ are
now writable.
1999-02-23 16:40:55 +00:00
Fred Drake c411fa6861 Revised description of blank line handling for the interpreter, based
on a comment from /F.
1999-02-22 14:32:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 99cd5735f0 Minor markup nits. 1999-02-12 20:40:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 15988fdbbb Documented __complex__(), made sure all the discipline names hit the
index.
1999-02-12 18:14:57 +00:00
Fred Drake ae3e574170 "numberic" --> "numeric", two places 1999-01-28 23:21:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 4856d01797 Removed a lot of unnecessary comment markers which cause unexplained
numbers to appear in the HTML version of the manual.
1999-01-12 04:15:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b1f97d6765 Suggestion by Tim Peters clarifying what "before global" means.
(Also added an XXX comment requesting clarification of module
initialization -- TBD later.)
1998-12-21 18:57:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e039439e3b Clarify evaluation of default arguments at def time with more text and
an example.
1998-12-04 19:37:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 2f8592cbea Ignore the byproducts of SGML/XML conversions for now. 1998-12-01 18:58:28 +00:00
Fred Drake d03268feaa Remove two remaining {\tt ...} constructs. 1998-11-25 19:23:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 78eebfdbf4 Remove two remaining {\tt ...} constructs. 1998-11-25 19:09:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 1e42d8aaab Massive change to just about every construct that impacts the index.
Blame it on Just.  ;-)
1998-11-25 17:58:50 +00:00
Fred Drake ea81edf059 Markup nits.
Fixed an index entry, added three more.
1998-11-25 17:51:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 1475e88a35 Minor fixups to some index entries. 1998-11-25 17:48:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 2b3730e284 Minor adjustments to a few index entries. 1998-11-25 17:40:00 +00:00