Commit Graph

155 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Serhiy Storchaka 0092bc7279 Issue #28763: Use double hyphens (rendered as en-dashes) in numerical ranges
in the documentation.
2016-11-26 13:43:39 +02:00
Martin Panter d51b0f2188 Issue #24314: Add links for general attributes like __name__, __dict__ 2016-06-18 03:57:31 +00:00
Georg Brandl 6e0b44ef9e Closes #25910: fix dead and permanently redirected links in the docs. Thanks to SilentGhost for the patch. 2016-02-26 19:37:12 +01:00
Terry Jan Reedy 0a1ba70949 Issue #25432: Explain isinstance behaviour when type is a tuple. 2015-10-28 03:14:46 -04:00
Robert Collins 937f2f70f5 Issue #20769: Improve reload() docs. Patch by Dorian Pula. 2015-08-05 08:16:41 +12:00
Terry Jan Reedy 13ab3a46ae Make expression legal python by adding '1'. 2015-05-23 16:16:23 -04:00
R David Murray 11d041a045 #24081: Remove obsolete caveat from import docs.
Per Eric Snow's research, this changed in Python 2.4 in changeset 331e60d8ce,
but these docs were not updated.
2015-05-02 15:02:30 -04:00
Ezio Melotti 1afb9da747 #23512: list non-essential built-in functions after the table. Patch by Carlo Beccarini. 2015-03-24 13:44:58 +02:00
Raymond Hettinger 3454941d26 Use internal links where possible 2014-11-09 17:25:42 -08:00
Georg Brandl 34d1597bb7 #22613: fix several factual errors in builtin docs (thanks Jacques Ducasse) 2014-10-31 09:41:46 +01:00
Georg Brandl 06f3b3b98c Use https:// URLs when referring to python.org hosts. 2014-10-29 08:36:35 +01:00
Ezio Melotti 9f8a5b1abd #22237: document that sorted() is guaranteed to be stable. Initial patch by Martin Panter. 2014-10-28 12:57:11 +01:00
Terry Jan Reedy c305ad7350 Issue #22575: Revise bytearray entry for 2.7. 2014-10-10 13:02:55 -04:00
Georg Brandl 4a89fd9ba8 Document builtin classes as such, not functions. 2014-10-06 13:54:36 +02:00
Raymond Hettinger 575ee4c4c7 Issue #22174: Clean-up grammar and ambiguities in property() docs. 2014-08-10 10:44:21 -07:00
Zachary Ware 85b5b73999 Fix minor typo in round docs. Reported by Scott Hinton on docs@. 2014-07-22 13:14:54 -05:00
Terry Jan Reedy 9f2dcd227c Issue #19362: Tweek len() doc and docstring to expand the indicated range of
arguments. Original patch by Gareth Rees.
2014-06-16 03:05:30 -04:00
Antoine Pitrou c7692805f7 Close #16665: improve documentation for hex(). Patch by Jessica McKellar. 2014-03-16 02:12:20 +01:00
Éric Araujo fd0c2f5711 Define what “updating” means in docs for open (#19627).
Original patch by Lina Clark.
2014-03-12 02:16:37 -04:00
Serhiy Storchaka 26d936a71e Issue #19795: Improved markup of True/False constants. 2013-11-29 12:16:53 +02:00
Serhiy Storchaka ad16b725bc Issue #19190: Improve cross-references in builtin types and functions documentation. 2013-10-09 14:02:14 +03:00
Benjamin Peterson b44c8619fe document that various functions that parse from source will interpret things as latin-1 (closes #18870) 2013-09-01 19:06:35 -04:00
Terry Jan Reedy 589cb111b5 Issue #17418: specify that buffer sizes are bytes. 2013-03-16 15:55:53 -04:00
Ezio Melotti 5f52246f75 #14489: fix wrong link. 2013-03-10 04:28:28 +02:00
Ezio Melotti ed5fba2ad9 #17035: use new style classes in classmethod/staticmethod examples. Patch by Berker Peksag. 2013-02-22 07:34:52 +02:00
Ezio Melotti 01560de287 #16503: clarify "apply" docs. 2012-11-18 21:23:44 +02:00
Chris Jerdonek 9e173ebde2 Link to "XRange Type" section in xrange() built-in function documentation. 2012-11-14 02:13:28 -08:00
Chris Jerdonek 67f089f860 Backport from 3.2: adjust set and frozenset function docs (issue #16436). 2012-11-09 19:12:02 -08:00
Ezio Melotti b8fbff889f #16210: combine the two type() docs. Patch by Pete Sevander. 2012-10-24 23:01:30 +03:00
Chris Jerdonek def5df6c53 Issue #16206: Backport dict documentation improvements from 3.2.
Improve the documentation of the dict constructor.  This change includes
replacing the single-line signature documentation with a more complete
multiple-line signature.
2012-10-13 03:49:30 -07:00
Chris Jerdonek ad4b000179 Issue #14783: Backport changes from 3.2. 2012-10-07 20:37:54 -07:00
Chris Jerdonek 71d74b0c4e Close #16036: Backport 3.x documentation improvement.
See changeset 6ccb04c4cbae for the corresponding 3.3 change.
2012-09-30 21:07:56 -07:00
Chris Jerdonek fab57ccd13 Close issue #16077: fix code example in documentation of reduce() built-in (from docs@). 2012-09-29 11:51:37 -07:00
Mark Dickinson 39e0fb01ef Issue 15985: fix round argument names in documentation. Thanks Chris Jerdonek. 2012-09-20 20:57:37 +01:00
Ezio Melotti 714e64ebd1 #15831: avoid using 3.x syntax for keyword-only args. 2012-09-15 04:45:57 +03:00
Ezio Melotti ed3f5900d4 #15831: document multiple signatures on different lines. Patch by Chris Jerdonek. 2012-09-14 06:48:32 +03:00
R David Murray c7b8f809e7 #15543: reflow paragraphs. 2012-08-15 11:22:58 -04:00
R David Murray 5618aaaafe #15543: glossary entry for and 'universal newlines', and links to it.
Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
2012-08-15 11:15:39 -04:00
Benjamin Peterson 359b5032f6 make documented file() kw names and actual ones agree (closes #15572)
Patch by Daniel Ellis.
2012-08-07 11:57:47 -07:00
R David Murray 59488d233b Closes #9254: backport __import__ docstring/doc mentions of importlib.
Patch by Éric Araujo.
2012-07-18 19:44:08 -04:00
Terry Jan Reedy 45ed012433 Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
execfile().
2012-07-08 17:35:26 -04:00
Hynek Schlawack e58ce01f30 #14804: Remove [] around optional arguments with default values
Mostly just mechanical removal of []. In some rare cases I've pulled the
default value up into the argument list.
2012-05-22 10:27:40 +02:00
Sandro Tosi 1d710b6a84 backport 7a05cb3beddf to 2.7 2012-05-07 21:56:24 +02:00
Georg Brandl b45c5e2d0e Closes #14489: correct link target. 2012-04-05 09:04:40 +02:00
Mark Dickinson 5081957642 Closes #9574: Note that complex constructor doesn't allow whitespace around central operator. 2012-03-10 16:09:35 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 65de77ed9e Clean-up docs for input() 2012-02-02 00:52:33 -08:00
Raymond Hettinger 6d837a3769 Add pure python equivalent code for reduce(). 2012-02-02 00:48:46 -08:00
Ezio Melotti 51ab3519d8 Move a space. 2012-01-21 16:40:03 +02:00
Sandro Tosi 98ed08f24e update to new C roles and directives 2012-01-14 16:42:02 +01:00
Terry Jan Reedy 150122a5a2 #11633 about buffering of print 2012-01-14 00:06:37 -05:00