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7391 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake d5ecb513ad fix markup nits 2005-07-20 03:49:42 +00:00
Georg Brandl 2d8cc618db [ 755617 ] os module: Need a better description of "mode" 2005-07-18 08:16:33 +00:00
Georg Brandl 2982252452 bug [ 850238 ] unclear documentation/missing command? 2005-07-18 08:04:17 +00:00
Georg Brandl ca5feabac2 bug [ 957505 ] SocketServer module documentation misleading 2005-07-18 07:38:44 +00:00
Georg Brandl c48a740887 bug [ 1021621 ] use first_name, not first, in code samples 2005-07-17 21:18:25 +00:00
Georg Brandl b37b8eca88 bug [ 872769 ] os.access() documentation should stress race conditions 2005-07-17 21:10:11 +00:00
Georg Brandl 75d5106bd0 [ 912943 ] 7.5.6 Thread Objects is too vague 2005-07-17 21:00:26 +00:00
Georg Brandl 5dbda75a02 - Bug #1015140: disambiguated the term "article id" in nntplib docs and
docstrings to either "article number" or "message id".
2005-07-17 20:27:41 +00:00
Georg Brandl 0e03272350 bug [ 1061920 ] "k" specifier in PyArg_ParseTuple incomplete documentated 2005-07-17 20:05:25 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 7a7b350375 use macro 2005-07-17 15:34:58 +00:00
Skip Montanaro bbf74f9d7b Note that usegmt is new in 2.4. Closes #1239681. 2005-07-17 11:47:46 +00:00
Georg Brandl 5c5fe2f445 RFE [ 1216944 ] Add Error Code Dictionary to urllib2 2005-07-14 06:40:47 +00:00
Georg Brandl b9ab7a584d Oops. 2005-07-12 13:20:49 +00:00
Georg Brandl 9abfa90a6d bug [ 1232768 ] Mistakes in online docs under "5.3 Pure Embedding" 2005-07-12 13:17:59 +00:00
Georg Brandl 208eec2cad bug [ 1235266 ] debug info file descriptor of tarfile is inconsistent 2005-07-12 07:28:20 +00:00
Georg Brandl 8b687cf683 bug [ 969757 ] function and method objects confounded in Tutorial 2005-07-08 21:36:36 +00:00
Georg Brandl 290f3829d7 Revert patch for 1162912. 2005-07-04 14:17:47 +00:00
Georg Brandl f73b4b0077 bug [ 1162912 ] typesseq-mutable lacks note on combined key/cmp usage 2005-07-03 20:21:40 +00:00
Georg Brandl 9a65d583ac Add doctest for examples in libweakref.tex to test_weakref. 2005-07-02 19:07:30 +00:00
Georg Brandl 376e6227b4 bug [ 1228904 ] weakref example broken 2005-07-02 10:44:32 +00:00
Georg Brandl 1c330eb9eb Patch [ 1230615 ] Patch for (Doc) #1168746
Bug [ 1204734 ] incorrect description of __getattribute__
2005-07-02 10:27:31 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 452b6834f0 Cross reference the set built-ins with the sets module. 2005-07-01 23:18:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 16ffbc3d10 Provide a comparison to the builtin set types. 2005-07-01 23:00:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 87de8ed4b9 More info on rounding modes. Add sections for floating point notes. 2005-07-01 16:54:12 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 02c64d5684 Note that files are iterable. 2005-06-28 00:16:08 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5a34afb745 * Show the keyword argument form of dict().
* Note that dict works with the "in" keyword.
2005-06-27 23:36:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 3e3b699adf add note that os.EX_* constants are subject to availability on the host
platform
2005-06-27 23:23:43 +00:00
Georg Brandl 54d8b680e0 bug [ 1166582 ] IterableUserDict not in docs 2005-06-25 21:03:52 +00:00
Georg Brandl 6df3fd3790 bug [ 1186072 ] tempnam doc doesn't include link to tmpfile 2005-06-25 20:44:10 +00:00
Georg Brandl e21d9ab342 bug [ 1175022 ] property example code error 2005-06-25 20:07:36 +00:00
Georg Brandl 03dbb4f50d Bug [ 1190563 ] os.waitpid docs don't specify return value for WNOHANG 2005-06-25 19:55:04 +00:00
Georg Brandl 71de040b82 bug [ 1202475 ] httplib docs mentioning HTTPConnection.getreply 2005-06-25 19:15:48 +00:00
Georg Brandl 0929b7e5f7 Patch [ 1213031 ] note that os.chown can have -1 as an argument 2005-06-25 18:52:24 +00:00
Georg Brandl 3da85ec682 correcting duplicate TeX markup 2005-06-25 18:46:09 +00:00
Georg Brandl 837a9769c9 Bug [ 1225705 ] os.environ documentation should mention unsetenv 2005-06-25 18:44:49 +00:00
Georg Brandl 9020a21b7c Patch #1227442: smtplib.SMTP.sendmail() accepts a string or list as to_addrs. 2005-06-25 18:24:03 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson fb662972e0 Add a(nother) warning about mixing Py_NewInterpreter and the
PyGILState_* functions.
2005-06-20 16:37:03 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 7b279078c0 fix some silly whitespace stuff (must have hit M-q or something?) 2005-06-20 12:12:45 +00:00
Georg Brandl f33f5e9d6e Bug #1209560: spurious blank page in dist.pdf 2005-06-18 20:11:40 +00:00
Georg Brandl 2e36f450f4 Patch #1180012: add documentation for modulefinder 2005-06-18 20:06:15 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer c49322951f Fix grammar (it's -> its). 2005-06-18 17:54:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 610d9dd38d Fix typo. 2005-06-17 10:25:33 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger ed65c3ad76 Fix nits. 2005-06-15 16:53:31 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 744ff388ff Missed this documentation change about my marshal-floats-binarywise
change.
2005-06-15 11:38:01 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 8960c7e7e4 [Bug #1219862] Document correct argument range for pair_content() 2005-06-14 14:45:24 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger eeed58cd25 SF bug #1219448: small output bug 2005-06-14 08:57:28 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 24d7521985 SF bug #1215887: String and list methods documentation deeply hidden
Make doc on specific types easier to find by listing them in the headings
for the abstract types.
2005-06-14 08:45:43 +00:00
Gregory P. Smith 2e23e08f04 fix typo. \var vs \variable 2005-06-11 08:16:04 +00:00
Georg Brandl debd3710b6 Clarify docs about os.popen[234]. 2005-06-10 19:55:35 +00:00
Armin Rigo d6ebb5172e The functions audioop.lin2adpcm3() and audioop.adpcm32lin() were removed from
this module in Jan 1994, but still documented.
2005-06-10 15:29:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 68c0453418 Add untokenize() function to allow full round-trip tokenization.
Should significantly enhance the utility of the module by supporting
the creation of tools that modify the token stream and writeback the
modified result.
2005-06-10 11:05:19 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4aef245827 [Bug #1079134] Mention change to date comparisons; bump version info and release date to 2.4.1 2005-06-09 15:57:32 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 8dbe1a70d7 [Bug #1149413] 'psize' argument should be 'pgsize' 2005-06-08 21:51:28 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 684364c646 Tweak note about using os.open to lock files if O_SHLOCK and O_EXLOCK are
present.
2005-06-08 02:28:11 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 8f6f08c5d4 [Bug #1170422] Use correct option name 2005-06-07 18:51:42 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d391d10d2e Add a decimal FAQ 2005-06-07 18:50:56 +00:00
Vinay Sajip 4c1423bb7a Documentation clarified re. config socket listener protocol 2005-06-05 20:39:36 +00:00
Georg Brandl b6c1bb883e Bug #1184380: extending&embedding example broken 2005-06-05 10:56:59 +00:00
Georg Brandl 89f000e7a8 Bug #1210001: typo in email doc 2005-06-04 10:01:15 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang 4c560ea05b Correct URL to the official UnicodeData 3.2.0 resource. (Reported
by Darek Suchojad)
2005-06-04 07:31:48 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 921879abc2 [Bug #1209880] Describe only the True/False return values from lock.acquire() 2005-06-02 16:59:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 6a15c5d038 [Bug #1193001] Make the notation section use the same productionlist env. as other grammar rules 2005-06-02 13:50:19 +00:00
Hye-Shik Chang 5f937a7b8b Patch #1212117: Add optional attribute st_flags to os.stat_result
when the member is available on the platform. (Contributed by
Diego Petteno)
2005-06-02 13:09:30 +00:00
Piers Lauder d80ef02ec0 added GET/SETANNOTATION methods 2005-06-01 23:50:52 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling a0abb24729 [Bug #1105706] Use correct name for constant 2005-06-01 23:31:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 79cf9d8e7f [Bug #1123268] Fix typo 2005-06-01 23:22:11 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 1a5152d94b [Bug #1181939] Remove incorrect text about __init__; move map discussion into a separate paragraph 2005-06-01 15:39:57 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 597bd60ef1 [Bug #1194249] Fix duplicate assignment in example code 2005-06-01 15:26:24 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger dede3bdfa1 SF bug #1209411: divmod documentation shd reference // not / 2005-05-31 11:04:00 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 7bebbe7673 SF bug #1202395: Description of string.lstrip() needs improvement
Clarify the role of the chars argument in the strip() methods.
2005-05-31 10:26:28 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 631bfe602f SF bug #1209671: dict.popitem documentation should mention empty dict case 2005-05-27 10:43:55 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 2f475a7bc8 Fix:
[ 1207501 ] Issue in grammar

We didn't define dotted_name in the pseudo-grammar in the reference
docs.  Backport candidate.
2005-05-26 07:58:22 +00:00
Fred Drake b141cd03a1 fix description of the input range of unichr()
(closes SF bug #1120777)
2005-05-25 05:39:36 +00:00
Fred Drake db22958f07 update documentation on what constitutes a line in a source file
(closes SF bug #1167922)
2005-05-25 05:29:17 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 5ff1492720 Add O_SHLOCK & O_EXLOCK. Closes patch #1103951. 2005-05-16 02:42:22 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 174dd2219d Add better datetime support to xmlrpclib module. Closes patch #1120353. 2005-05-14 20:54:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 0f43983aa3 SF bug #1201807: Glossary listing bug 2005-05-14 17:18:31 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 766349e57e Incorporate a lightly edited version of the SocketServer module's docstring
into the docs and segregate the method descriptions for the various classes
into separate sections.  Base on suggestion by Paul Rubin in c.l.py.
2005-05-12 13:42:42 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger b56b494bea SF bug #1190451: 6.9 First sentence is confusing
* Fixed incorrect wording:  expression->exception
* Noted the specific exception reported by "raise" when the is nothing
  to re-raise.
* Eliminated several instances of "e.g." as recommended in the style guide.
2005-04-28 07:18:47 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson e8dead47e6 Fix
[ python-Bugs-1190599 ] dir() docs show incorrect output

though not entirely how it's suggested in the bug report.
2005-04-27 09:41:23 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f21569e53d Fix typo. 2005-04-26 05:18:53 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 87bd3fe266 Correct swapped descriptions of empty string splits. 2005-04-19 04:29:44 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 769f8219a4 SF patch #1180062 by George Yoshida:
Doc/lib/libfunctional.tex: "in an new object" should read "in a new object"
Doc/lib/libsubprocess.tex: argument name is wrong; comma is missing.
2005-04-14 20:08:59 +00:00
Fred Drake cc97ebf577 get_method() returns a method name, not take it as an argument
(backporting to release24-maint branch)
2005-04-13 01:08:23 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger fc11383ec3 SF bug #1180392: StringIO's docs should mention overwriting of initial value
* Added a note that the initial file position is zero even if the object
  is freshly initialized.
2005-04-11 01:03:44 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e490502e04 SF bug #1179957: Missing def'n of equality for set elements 2005-04-10 17:32:35 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d8d732e7d2 Fill out one section 2005-04-09 23:59:41 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4b000cd819 Add more text 2005-04-09 15:51:44 +00:00
Brett Cannon 629496b77c Add grammar change for allowing ``class B(): pass`` syntax. 2005-04-09 03:03:00 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger ad351f806d SF bug #1178269 Clarify when isMappingType/isSequenceType is True. 2005-04-07 05:36:17 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger fb5f04d77f SF bug #1178255: 256 should read 255 in operator module docs 2005-04-07 04:38:04 +00:00
Vinay Sajip 99358df865 Added threadName to LogRecord 2005-03-31 20:18:06 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 5c473559e5 Minor wording fix. 2005-03-30 16:25:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 1b17b6bf08 add 2.4.1 to the release history 2005-03-29 16:06:51 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 0f9679d2b0 Mention that DEBUG_LEAK includes DEBUG_SAVEALL. Fixes #1170460.
Will backport to 2.4.
2005-03-28 15:29:28 +00:00
Greg Ward a17fa89a2b SF #1169212: merge from 2.4 branch: fix silly typo in explaining AFMT
macros: U16 is unsigned and S16 is signed.  Duh.  Clarify surrounding
text a bit and refer to OSS docs.
2005-03-28 02:34:59 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 1b2e0d9da0 Fix whitespace. 2005-03-27 20:19:05 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger fdf3bd6630 SF patch #1171417: bug fix for islice() in docs 2005-03-27 20:11:44 +00:00
Thomas Heller 33ceda85d0 Function signatures for tp_descr_get and tp_descr_set. 2005-03-24 07:45:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 712f07082d clean up the underscore mess for the typeset formats so that subscripts
work in math displays (thanks to Bo Peng on the Doc-SIG)
2005-03-24 06:21:37 +00:00
Walter Dörwald c8734a7257 Fix typo. 2005-03-23 10:38:59 +00:00
Fred Drake ae22bbed81 - fix markup bugs
- more consistent markup
- elaborate a couple of points
2005-03-22 04:09:37 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 55f1bb8bfa Add the upload command. Make all dist commands register their
outputs with the distribution object.
2005-03-21 20:56:35 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 3f8f666914 correct ontosys url - closes 1167329 2005-03-21 19:39:16 +00:00
Fred Drake dd6f04630f fix obscure markup error, wrapping a long line 2005-03-21 05:51:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 114b8caf01 fix environment broken in revision 1.6 2005-03-21 05:47:11 +00:00
Fred Drake db7b0027dc PEP 314 implementation (client side):
added support for the provides, requires, and obsoletes metadata fields
2005-03-20 22:19:47 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b1c96fd83e Write part of PEP 309 section 2005-03-20 21:42:04 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 0c35db9dd1 Describe how to get back lib-old; if this isn't the best way, please let me know 2005-03-20 20:06:49 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 511a3a8174 Add item 2005-03-20 19:52:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e9b1bf4718 Describe various things 2005-03-20 19:26:30 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 582ffe21c4 Fill-in missing argspec. 2005-03-19 16:27:33 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 4aec61e0fc Add a remove() method to collections.deque objects. 2005-03-18 21:20:23 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 5011c3f7fc add UnicodeReader and UnicodeWriter example classes 2005-03-18 16:56:37 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f77d0334f3 Revised the itertools quantifier recipes to match the performance of the
new builtins.
2005-03-11 22:17:30 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 96229b1918 Add two new functions, any() and all(). 2005-03-11 06:49:40 +00:00
Brett Cannon 01668a1ab9 Fix test for socket.getfqdn() to also include the name returned by
socket.gethostname() in the check for a valid return.

Also clarified docs (official and docstring) that the value from gethostname()
is returned if gethostbyaddr() doesn't do the job.
2005-03-11 00:04:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 346803e060 - fix generated Texinfo markup for \deprecated
- add support for additional markup: \leq, \textbar, \textit
- add a comment about the non-support for the Euro character
(ported from release24-maint branch release 1.10.4.2)
2005-03-10 05:02:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 1592c4c6b2 fix broken usage comment 2005-03-10 04:01:14 +00:00
Fred Drake cc933af1ac add missing entries from GNU info conversion table
(ported from release24-maint branch revision 1.10.4.1)
2005-03-10 03:59:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 9687b4dc57 correct several markup errors caught by the GNU info conversion
(ported from release24-maint branch revision 1.86.2.3)
2005-03-10 03:48:14 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 984f9bb714 operator.itemgetter() and operator.attrgetter() now support extraction
of multiple fields.  This provides direct support for sorting by
multiple keys.
2005-03-09 16:38:48 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 1c7ddb625e hmmm... moving def'n of version makes the __init__ unnecessary for the
example
2005-03-09 03:01:31 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 8e97fbf360 Correct description/example of how to override User-agent. 2005-03-09 02:57:26 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 3e1dd3be49 Make functional.partial() more closely match the spec by emulating some useful features of regular functions:
* Made weak referencable.
* Allow attribute access so a user can set __name__, __doc__, etc.
2005-03-08 07:15:36 +00:00
Greg Ward ff564d3391 SF #1156412: document the __new__() static method
(merge from release24-maint branch).
2005-03-08 01:10:20 +00:00
Greg Ward 50682d0f78 SF #818006: merge from release24-maint branch: add useful read-only
attributes to oss_audio_device object: 'closed', 'name', and 'mode'.
2005-03-07 01:41:11 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 78be7df9e4 Patch #918101: Add tarfile open mode r|* for auto-detection of the
stream compression; add, for symmetry reasons, r:* as a synonym of r.
2005-03-05 12:47:42 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 00a73e7715 Patch #1043890: tarfile: add extractall() method. 2005-03-04 19:40:34 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson a2a9888f22 Updates to the exceptions documentation (this is my patch #1156102). 2005-03-04 14:33:32 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis c9f852512c Patch #1107221: Updated "Working on Cygwin" section.
Will backport to 2.4.
2005-03-03 23:07:21 +00:00
Fred Drake b098fd7f89 minor edits:
- function names marked with \function should include parentheses
- "standard error" instead of "stderr" for text
- a boolean parameter takes true or false values, not just True or False
2005-03-03 17:25:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 7fe60c0a0a Patches #749830, #1144555: allow UNIX mmap size to default to current
file size.
2005-03-03 11:22:44 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 9b62b39070 Document quiet parameter to decode. Fixes #803413. 2005-03-03 10:06:05 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6a458e9bc9 Noted that the module is new in version 2.5. 2005-03-02 15:10:38 +00:00
Skip Montanaro c8c45c25ac Improve (?) description of system dependence of access to the pw_passwd
field on systems that support shadow passwords.
2005-03-02 04:29:23 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3e41b0597b Note various changes that need to be described 2005-03-01 00:53:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9c323f8de4 SF patch #941881: PEP 309 Implementation (Partial Function Application).
Combined efforts of many including Peter Harris, Hye-Shik Chang,
Martin v. Löwis, Nick Coghlan, Paul Moore, and Raymond Hettinger.
2005-02-28 19:39:44 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger bc2c21ea52 Update an example to match current output. 2005-02-23 20:40:42 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2b0d058cd5 Document missing opcodes. 2005-02-21 20:28:07 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 467024ccfc Fix some wording and grammar nits. 2005-02-21 15:46:52 +00:00
Vinay Sajip 84df97fdd6 Fixed documentation for SMTPHandler 2005-02-18 11:50:11 +00:00
Brett Cannon 5bbe6ad2b5 Fix name for PyDateTime_FromDateAndTime.
Closes bug #1124278.
2005-02-17 05:17:17 +00:00
Brett Cannon 7706c2da14 Update references specifying "Macintosh" to mean OS X semantics and not Mac OS
9.

Applies patch #1095802.  Thanks Jack Jansen.
2005-02-13 22:50:04 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 4e9907c914 SF bug #1119700: list extend() accepts args besides lists 2005-02-09 23:19:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 9aa890a149 add 2.3.5, 2.4 to the history and licensing info 2005-02-08 06:42:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d064142579 Security fix PSF-2005-001 for SimpleXMLRPCServer.py. 2005-02-03 15:01:24 +00:00
Johannes Gijsbers b5646aa3fb Bug #1108490: fix broken link. 2005-01-29 19:49:34 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger bc029af436 SF bug #1108303: fix .split() maxsplit doc
Docs incorrectly stated that maxsplit=0 would cause unlimited splitting.
2005-01-26 22:40:08 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 770184b365 SF bug #1105286: Undocumented implicit strip() in split(None) string method
Clarify the behavior when a string begins or ends with whitespace.
2005-01-25 10:21:19 +00:00