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Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake 0c14961872 Update to reflect the new string repr -- \n instead of \012. This is the
only documentation file that appears to be affected by the change!
2001-04-12 04:26:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 5d6e402e0c Based on a comment by Konrad Hinsen on python-list:
Change "EOF" to "end-of-file", on the premise that it is easier for
new programmers to understand (at least a little).

This does not attempt to explain "file or device attached to standard
input."
2001-04-11 04:38:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 979d041b6f Make reference to the Library Reference in the "What Now?" chapter a
hyperlink.

Fix two English usage errors caught by Jan Wells:  Changed "subsequence"
to "sub-sequence" in two places, and avoid improper use of "hopefully" in
the first paragraph of the "What Now?" chapter.
2001-04-03 17:41:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 1b0b2a4df2 Add some LaTeX magic so that Latin-1 characters do not get so badly
trashed.
2001-03-13 17:56:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 67fdaa4883 Correct typos in Ping's email address.
Remove premature use of negative indexes in string operation examples;
negative indexes have not been explained at that point, and the use of
negative indexes are not necessary for the examples.
2001-03-06 07:19:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 162c6a637a Reflect change in traceback format:
"innermost last" --> "most recent call last"
2001-02-14 03:20:18 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 5401996638 Update to properly explain that the default Unicode encoding is ASCII, &c. 2001-02-13 22:20:22 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee fa004ad36c Show '\011', '\012', and '\015' as '\t', '\n', '\r' in strings.
Switch from octal escapes to hex escapes for other nonprintable characters.
2001-01-24 17:19:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 0fe5af9b4d Clarify comments about returning None using a return without an expression;
this is not hard to explain!

Closes SF bug #129345.
2001-01-19 22:34:59 +00:00
Fred Drake cc97f8c609 Fix up an awkward sentence, pointed out by Chris Ryland <cpr@emsoftware.com>. 2001-01-01 20:33:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 4a6f1df48c Fix broken backslashes in Unicode strings section.
This closes bug #123730.
2000-11-29 06:03:45 +00:00
Tim Peters 657ebef2ae Partial fix for SF bug 123730: extra backslash in tutorial. 2000-11-29 05:51:59 +00:00
Tim Peters c113465a49 SF non-bug 123520: fleshed out the tutorial's lambda example a little more. 2000-11-27 06:38:04 +00:00
Fred Drake bce920129c Typo: shorted --> shorter
This closes bug #117706.
2000-10-25 23:22:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 860106ae90 Update the display of some floating point values at the interactive prompt
to reflect current behavior.
This closes SourceForge bug #117305.

Made a reference to the library reference a hyperlink.

Fixed some minor markup nits.
2000-10-20 03:03:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 31b761e326 Spelling: internalization --> internationalization
Fixed displays of the interactive prompt in running text.
These close SourceForge bug #115658.

Also:

Updated discussion of tuple unpacking to reflect the general ability
to unpack any sequence type.  Explained that it is possible to create
tuples which contain mutable values, and noted in the dictionary
section that such tuples cannot be used as keys.

Noted that .pyc and .pyo files can be run directly when provided as
the script parameter to the interpreter, and slightly clarified
comments about using modules with only the byte compiled code.

Removed some XXX comments that are no longer relevant.
Removed commented-out paragraph about __private names being experimental.

Adjusted markup for consistency in some places.
2000-09-29 15:17:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 343ad7a572 Correct some bitrot; some things have become inaccurate in the tutorial.
<file>.readlines() does not call <file>.readline() internally anymore,
and the sizehint parameter should be mentioned briefly.

Some displays of floating point numbers needed to be updated due to the
change in the repr() of floats (from 1.6).

Both issues were noted by Aahz <aahz@panix.com>.
2000-09-22 04:12:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 1349437e4c When referring to namespaces, always say "namespaces" instead of
"name spaces".

Inconsistency noted by Keith Briggs <keith.briggs@bt.com>.
2000-09-12 16:23:48 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 46dfa5f4ed require list comprehensions to start with a for clause 2000-08-22 02:43:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 1aebadf0e5 Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>:
Further examples of list comprehensions.
2000-08-16 21:44:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 81f7eb6c6b Fix some markup errors that prevented formatting, and one that didn't. 2000-08-12 20:08:04 +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 518e55c7f2 Rip out the information about the PSA, since the fate of that is not
certain.

Update the information about the mailing list, using the python.org
address instead of cwi.nl, and point to the pipermail archives.  Also
update the daily average message count (at the risk of scaring people
off), using the mail archive at http://www.egroups.com/group/python-list
for the first half of 2000 for statistical information.
2000-07-27 20:55:12 +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 5443c49fbb Markup improvements in sections relating to interactive behavior.
Clarify some of the details of readline-related configuration.
2000-07-08 05:18:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 30f76ffd00 Update version numbering from 1.6 to 2.0. 2000-06-30 16:06:19 +00:00
Fred Drake e99d1dbc74 Clarify the description of the else clause for try/except, and add an
explanation of why you'd want to use it.

Based on a question from Michael Simcich <msimcich@accesstools.com>.
2000-04-17 14:56:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 9dc30bb956 Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
Tutorial information about Unicode strings in Python, with some markup
adjustments from FLD.
2000-04-06 14:17:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 69fbf33680 Fixed typo in example code; spotted by Everett Lipman
<lipman@sphere.niddk.nih.gov>.
2000-04-04 19:53:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 20082d92f2 Merge in changes from the 1.5.2p2 release. 2000-04-03 04:26:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 37f1574f2e Use \citetitle and \programopt as appropriate. 1999-11-10 16:21:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 0ba58158c5 Added "import string" to a couple of examples that describe string
module functions, to clarify that the import is not automatic.
Suggested by Koray Oner <Koray.Oner@Eng.Sun.COM>.
1999-09-14 18:00:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 2900ff9382 Added paragraph explaining that except clauses can't be empty; that
pass can be used if needed.  By Dan Wolfe <wolfeman@apple.com>.
1999-08-24 22:14:57 +00:00
Fred Drake f1ad207f2a Made several grammatical corrections based on comments from Daniel
Barcla <danielb@digitalfocus.com>.

Also added example of what happens when a parameter is set both
positionally and by a keyword (one of Daniels suggestions related to
that paragraph).
1999-06-30 15:32:50 +00:00
Fred Drake f64f8a0877 Fixed typo reported by Bennett Benson
<BennettBenson@mn.mediaone.net>.
1999-06-10 15:30:21 +00:00
Fred Drake bdadf0f7f3 Explain comments at the start of chapter 3. This is needed since they
appear in the examples without any further explanation, and the
tutorial doesn't have this information explicit anywhere else.
Omission reported by Jon Black <jblack@Ridgeway-Sys.com>.
1999-04-29 13:20:25 +00:00
Fred Drake c0fcbc1ac6 Update starship URLs. 1999-04-29 02:30:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 511281ac00 In list of sequence comparison examples, "=" should be "==". Reported
by Mirko Liss <n89553@hrz.uni-paderborn.de>.
1999-04-16 13:17:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 93aa0f23a7 Fixed latex2html weirdness with footnotes. 1999-04-05 21:39:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 4b1a07ae18 Fixed grammatical error reported by Donald Wallace Rouse II
<dwr2@ix.netcom.com>.
1999-03-12 18:21:32 +00:00
Fred Drake ee84d5972f Lots of nits to respond to various comments from users. 1999-03-10 17:25:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6b86a42c7f Document -OO; "unsafe" optimization that removes docstrings.
Marc-Andre Lemburg.
1999-01-28 15:07:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e51aa5b2cd Minor clarifications by Sean Reifschneider:
- add example of string literal concatenation
- add clarifying comment to the example of the if statement
1999-01-06 23:14:14 +00:00
Fred Drake cc09e8dc82 Clarified what Python versions the interactivity chapter applies to,
and what it doesn't apply to.
1998-12-28 21:21:36 +00:00
Fred Drake f790b16d00 Change "for" explanation slightly based on comment passed along by
Blake Winton <BlakeW@pcdocs.com>.
1998-11-30 20:37:24 +00:00
Fred Drake db70d06464 Eliminate remaining \verb/.../ constructs; there's no need for them. 1998-11-17 21:59:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c62cf36e76 The last two example functions in the section about default argument
values (4.7.1) should return l, not a.  Reported by Axel Boldt.
1998-10-24 13:15:28 +00:00
Fred Drake b7833d3c0c Add a \label to the section "Fancier Output Formatting" (it's referenced from
the KOE docs).

Some markup nits.
1998-09-11 16:21:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum aee5e26f4b Add warning that mutable argument defaults are evaluated only once;
with examples and workaround.  This keeps coming up, and I believe
that this section in the tutorial may have been (in part) the source
of the confusion.  While it didn't show examples with [] for a default,
it also didn't emphasize enough why that would be a bad idea, and
while it did say that defaults are evaluated at the point of function
definition, the example was not relevant for this issue.
1998-08-07 17:45:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 9f86b662d1 Update to use a separate page for front matter. 1998-07-28 21:55:19 +00:00