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54 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake c58507582b Added a version annotation for StringTypes.
Added documentation for BooleanType.
2002-05-22 02:44:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 5ecb7aaa6a Add availability information for a couple of the types, and notes on writing
string-type tests for versions of Python built without Unicode support.
2002-05-21 14:28:22 +00:00
Skip Montanaro a1c3662e84 forgot to mark use of StringType and UnicodeType in the text. 2001-09-29 13:53:21 +00:00
Skip Montanaro c7ba0c4c24 added description of StringTypes object 2001-09-29 13:49:41 +00:00
Tim Peters 3e7b1a04a0 Teach the types module about generators. Thanks to James Althoff on the
Iterators list for bringing it up!
2001-06-25 19:46:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 0b72116812 Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
Added UnicodeType.
2000-04-06 15:05:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 38e5d27cae Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release.
(Very rough.)
2000-04-03 20:13:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 295da24eaf New section header style.
Fix up a few synopses.
1998-08-10 19:42:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1eb200d360 Added 3 missing types: ComplexType, SliceType, EllipsisType. 1998-07-24 15:01:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 78a6ddbdd1 Move files around in a different way, so CVS picks up all the changes. ;-) 1998-07-24 14:27:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 472b9a3f06 Clearly I was to quick with the previous commit...
Need to add \optional{} to sort argument too.

Made x a \var in descr of pop.

Fixed note for pop() and mentioned that it is experimental.

Also added pop to index.
1998-06-30 16:02:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 97ea116472 Documented the pop() method for lists.
# The brackets generated by \optional{} are real ugly.  Alas...
1998-06-30 15:56:23 +00:00
Fred Drake e5836d9811 Mark the 'whence' parameter of the file object's seek() method as optional;
it's already decribed that way in the description.
1998-06-25 16:26:56 +00:00
Fred Drake ee60191d1d Lighten up tables. 1998-04-11 20:53:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 8e729ec31a Caught a few more spurious \setindexsubitem macros.... 1998-04-07 22:06:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 8efde2197b Several minor markup nits. 1998-04-03 07:13:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 8fe533e6a0 Use the new {methoddesc} and {memberdesc} environments as appropriate. 1998-03-27 05:27:08 +00:00
Fred Drake cce1090d49 Change "\," to just "," in function signatures. This is easier to maintain,
works better with LaTeX2HTML, and allows some simplification of the python.sty
macros.
1998-03-17 06:33:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 1a855fad30 Markup nits.
Adjusted some index entries.
1998-03-16 05:23:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 8aee0e0356 Add some more labels for logical addressing. 1998-03-10 05:21:39 +00:00
Fred Drake c3e4549012 Added \label{} for logical addressing. 1998-02-19 20:22:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 31ecd50d02 Added \label{} for logical addressing. 1998-02-18 15:40:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 7154d382c3 Update indexsubitem for file attributes correctly. 1998-02-17 02:11:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 83bd081920 Minor stuff:
Explain what happens when a negative shift count is used (what exception).

Mark the title "Python Reference Manual" as \emph{}, for consistency.

"info" --> "information"

Tell more about the data attributes of file objects, using the {datadesc}
environment.

When refering the user to the language reference for information about
internal types, tell what internal types to expect information on.
1998-02-13 20:59:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 1947991c2f Remove all \bcode / \ecode cruft; this is no longer needed. See previous
checkin of myformat.sty.

Change "\renewcommand{\indexsubitem}{(...)}" to "\setindexsubitem{(...)}"
everywhere.

Some other minor nits that I happened to come across.
1998-02-13 06:58:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 41785fb864 Do the right magic to make \ABC{} get sorted correctly in the index. 1998-02-09 20:16:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8083c176a3 Add a note about rounding up of readlines()' sizehint to 8K. 1998-02-08 22:51:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7570669a08 Add a note explaining that multiplying a sequence with a negative
number is the same as multiplying it with zero, and yields an empty
sequence.
1998-01-27 19:09:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 73a973bf8d Always mark variables in the "Notes" following a table the same way as in the
tables:  \var{}

Add a couple of index entries to the File Objects section.
1998-01-20 05:20:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 6b3ed7f581 Markup consistency in the mapping object interface description. 1998-01-09 20:36:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum eb0f066fb8 Correct small nits reported by Rob Hooft. 1997-12-30 20:38:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e903aab833 Replace unprotected tilders by \~ -- an unprotected tilde is a
non-breaking space!
1997-12-18 16:28:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 8274f32a6d Fixed index references to modules.
Changed regex reference to re.
1997-12-15 22:19:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 120ac20c40 Remove superfluous comman from between "not" and "in" when describing the
"not in" operator.
1997-10-13 20:48:17 +00:00
Barry Warsaw dc0f00ad03 Document the mapping object's new get() method. 1997-10-06 17:50:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6c9db41d30 Added fileno(); added readlines(sizehint).
AMK's sed job.
1997-07-17 16:05:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3a0d850160 Added complex numbers (AMK).
Clarify that sort() works in-place.
Renamed dict.absorb() to dict.update().
1997-06-02 17:18:00 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6102b51f2b Added copy() and absorb(). 1997-05-28 19:32:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 4bf1296e05 (libtypes.tex): Correct reversal of two words in description of
formatting strings.
1996-10-11 16:33:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1dde7b737c Typos detected by Sjoerd 1996-10-11 15:57:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 316a430098 Removed some spurios biindex calls.
Added description of file.truncate().
Added warning to write() about buffering.
1996-05-02 15:28:53 +00:00
Jack Jansen 4518577b24 Fixed incorrect tex-code for readline 1995-08-14 13:38:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0dbd1fd46e correct description of integer division; describe optional read arg 1995-08-10 14:22:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 95a5b9c949 correct description of list.insert() 1995-07-07 23:03:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 96628a90c4 typos, layout and other small things 1995-04-10 11:34:00 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ecde781dd1 restructured library manual accordiung to functional group 1995-03-28 13:35:14 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 86cb0928e3 added nodename macro calls for new very long section names 1995-03-20 12:59:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 470be14c8a mass changes; fix titles; add examples; correct typos; clarifications;
unified style; etc.
1995-03-17 16:07:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ea6e19c3d4 added code objects 1995-03-07 10:11:15 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 31cce97374 copyright.tex: Add 1995 to copyright message.
lib.tex: add libimp; remove bogus warning about lineii.
libmath.tex: document hypot().
libmd5.tex: rename md5.md5() to md5.new().
libposix.tex: document chown().
libposixfile.tex: openfile() instead of fileopen().
libsocket.tex: document gethostbyaddr().
libtypes.tex: add footnote explaining why readline() keeps the newline.
ref3.tex: correct typos, add back*quotes to index.
ref4.tex: don't use \verb inside footnote.
ref5.tex: explain repr() and str() and add them + back*quotes to index.
ref6.tex: correct typo, don't use \verb in footnote.
ref7.tex: don't use \verb in footnote.
1995-01-04 19:17:34 +00:00