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
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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
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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().
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* 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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[ 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()
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(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
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(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
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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
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* 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
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[ 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:
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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
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(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
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* 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 .
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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
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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
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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
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- 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
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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):
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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
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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
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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
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- 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
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(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
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(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
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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
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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:
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* 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
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(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
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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
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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.
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Will backport to 2.4.
2005-03-03 23:07:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
b098fd7f89
minor edits:
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- 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
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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
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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).
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Clarify the behavior when a string begins or ends with whitespace.
2005-01-25 10:21:19 +00:00