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Fred Drake 0bccd73be0 Updates from Moshe, again edited by me. Describe the parameters to
border() using a table instead of text for ease of comprehension.
1999-06-23 17:28:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 92f3f41424 Added "See Also" section for termios module. 1999-06-23 15:12:09 +00:00
Fred Drake ae4d5c23f5 Various updates. 1999-06-23 14:56:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 66239d5530 tty module documentation from Moshe, with some editing and an added
"See also" section.
1999-06-23 14:30:19 +00:00
Fred Drake af81a509c3 Added more sections... 1999-06-23 13:34:22 +00:00
Fred Drake b742a42bc0 Two more from Moshe! 1999-06-23 13:33:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 707f8e67b9 Added entry for the chunk module. 1999-06-22 18:50:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 97793ab6b9 New section from Moshe Zadka, modified by FLD for markup, some
additional content.
1999-06-22 18:49:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 0f871dc39e Added some "See also" references to htmllib docs.
Documented htmlentitydefs.
1999-06-21 21:20:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 2cd31dc3ea Added entry for curses module. 1999-06-21 21:14:30 +00:00
Fred Drake a4070cef5e Preliminary documentation for the curses module by Moshe Zadka, with
lots of markup fixes and some English nits fixed.

Still needs real review.  Some of the function signatures used in this
module are really bad!  (Two leading optional parameters? Ugh!)
1999-06-21 21:13:09 +00:00
Fred Drake d5d55ea02e Fix a markup error. 1999-06-21 18:36:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 4755e7d5c1 Three more modules documented by Moshe! 1999-06-21 18:25:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 6f49e0a154 Added a few minor comments, mostly to discourage documentation of
really old modules that may become obsolete.
1999-06-18 19:58:59 +00:00
Fred Drake a88ef00a50 Further clarfication of the system-dependence of the system() return
value, based on comments from Tim Peters.
1999-06-18 19:11:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 46e1a32edf Re-categorize the dump module as obsolete. 1999-06-18 17:12:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 354e98222c fpformat has been documented for at least a week now! 1999-06-18 15:21:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 26921da2c9 Small markup & usage adjustments. 1999-06-17 18:58:02 +00:00
Fred Drake e019789962 Correction: the parameters of new.instance() are type-checked.
Edited several of the descriptions for English usage and more
consistent style.
1999-06-17 18:15:07 +00:00
Fred Drake de69ae1753 Updated version from Moshe, with a re-written warning about the
side-effect of cmpcache.cmp() using statcache.stat() internally.
1999-06-17 17:40:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 173ba5e3bc Minor markup nits. 1999-06-17 17:09:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 97c2fa03e5 Small English usage nits. 1999-06-17 16:38:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 7487c02209 Small markup and English usage nits. 1999-06-17 16:10:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 26da2840ac Add/remove entries due to additional sections from Moshe. 1999-06-17 15:12:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 64bc94e3ec New module documentation sections from Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>! 1999-06-17 15:11:35 +00:00
Fred Drake e55702b024 Added note to __not__() description that this operation is defined
only by the interpreter core and is not overridable by objects.

Based on comment from David Ascher on the list.
1999-06-15 20:56:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 1e4402998f Several new index entries to make find this easier.
Noted that name=value is allowed in addition to name: value.
1999-06-15 17:30:59 +00:00
Fred Drake c46864e982 Misc. changes related to the new sections. 1999-06-14 19:49:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 21572fdcb6 New sections from Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>.
These document CGIHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer, and linecache.
1999-06-14 19:47:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 7df4dd7de2 Add entry for the fpformat module. 1999-06-11 18:36:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 1739d2f9ee Documentation for the fpformat module by Moshe Zadka
<mzadka@geocities.com>.
1999-06-11 18:31:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 2f9790195b Added 'ce' to the list of "registered" values for os.name.
Make references to the posix module hyperlinks.
1999-06-11 18:28:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 9c5cc14d23 Some clarifications on operations for mapping types, based on comments
from Gerry Weiner <gerry@ucar.edu>.
1999-06-10 22:37:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 697c779d98 Adjust indexing for __import__(); based on comments by Stefan Franke
<sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-06-10 22:09:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 28b1770521 Improve index entry for "import"; responding to comments by Stefan
Franke <sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-06-10 22:08:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 06a73f042a Work around latex2html problem; reported by Gerrit Holl
<gerrit.holl@pobox.com>.
1999-06-10 21:23:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 4d5c87ba11 Declare the "util" module obsolete. 1999-06-10 21:17:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 7a62128722 At David Ascher's request, clarify that os.system() always returns 0
on Win95 & Win98.
1999-06-10 15:07:05 +00:00
Fred Drake ae0f292576 Fix typo reported by Robert Kern <kernr@ncifcrf.gov>. 1999-06-10 15:03:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 66ab4e8af2 Patch by Jim Fulton to document the new parse_qls(). 1999-06-10 03:11:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4727456d46 Add doc for timegm(). 1999-06-09 15:11:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 5fac2ab220 Fix availability clause; mention availability of similar functionality
for Windows using win32pipe.
1999-06-01 17:55:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 3aa70d63b9 Document the "pid" attribute of the Popen3 class.
Use memberdesc instead of datadesc to document object attributes.
This gets the index right.
1999-05-27 17:50:59 +00:00
Fred Drake a7ce52b03a Typo reported by Gerry Wiener <wiener@rap.ucar.edu>:
items -> item

The returned list will then have one more items than the number of
non-overlapping occurrences of the separator in the string.
1999-05-27 17:18:08 +00:00
Fred Drake abc8cc63ce Move some \index entries around so we can avoid using empty comments;
empty comments trigger a bug in LaTeX2HTML.

Problem reported by Gerry Wiener <gerry@ucar.edu>.
1999-05-26 16:15:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 82f355a36a Change the example of configuring for large file support under Solaris
to use `getconf LFS_CFLAGS`.  Steve Clift (the author of the section
and large file support) agrees that this is the right thing to do.
1999-05-26 13:03:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 6b330ba857 "proces" --> "process"; reported by Gerry Wiener <gerry@ucar.edu>.
Added some index entries.
1999-05-25 13:42:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 338da93734 SET_LINE_NO ==> SET_LINENO
Reported by Corran Webster <cwebster@math.tamu.edu>.
1999-05-17 20:57:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 33378da964 Added paragraph explaininng the text/binary flavors of some methods,
to make it easier for people to find what they're looking for.
1999-05-17 16:35:15 +00:00
Fred Drake dbc2d08ff5 POP3.uidl(): Update description based on comments from Piers Lauder
<piers@cs.su.oz.au>.
1999-05-13 18:48:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 7088df4c56 Removed old comments. 1999-05-13 16:20:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 03c05a5192 Move the "See also:" section so it appears are part of the top HTML
page of the section.
1999-05-11 15:15:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 184e8360e8 Added module references; minor grammatical fixes.
All suggested by Eric Raymond.
1999-05-11 15:14:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 9ade7e0110 Added missing comma, reported by Eric Raymond. 1999-05-11 13:45:37 +00:00
Fred Drake b0bc7f2d6c Updated connect_ex() documentation based on comments in the newgroup
(M.-A. Lemburg and GvR).
1999-05-06 22:03:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 1ea7c75687 Reflect recent patch for float % and divmod() by Tim Peters. Content
updates by Tim Peters, markup by FLD.
1999-05-06 14:46:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 673c65e500 Use the new module-key for the FL module when hyperlinking (the old
one caused problems on case-insensitive file systems).
1999-04-29 18:42:18 +00:00
Fred Drake d03e9e34de Don't point readers to rand, point to random! And make it a hyperlink
while you're at it.

Also, when discussing order of reading, make it clear that chapter 2
is assumed background material for the remainder of the manual.
That's needed for terminology if nothing else!
1999-04-29 13:41:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 0e1de8bd6b Minor nits, partly in response to comments from Jonathan Black
<jblack@Ridgeway-Sys.com>.
1999-04-29 12:57:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 5f342ac2a7 Always use "section" when referring to sections of a document, not "Section". 1999-04-29 02:47:40 +00:00
Fred Drake c0fcbc1ac6 Update starship URLs. 1999-04-29 02:30:04 +00:00
Fred Drake ea0020571f Use \rfc to mark some remaining RFC references.
Remove comment about full name bug in getaddrlist(); this has been
fixed for a while now.

Work around LaTeX2HTML space-dropping bug.

Mention that the fp attribute can be used to read the message body.
1999-04-28 18:11:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 505c49199a Added "See also" reference to PyOpenGL. 1999-04-27 18:05:06 +00:00
Fred Drake dcf17f3860 mhlib is now documented. 1999-04-23 22:24:12 +00:00
Fred Drake a4966647ec Markup consistency. 1999-04-23 22:22:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 1c7cd63a2b Nits. 1999-04-23 22:03:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 957ac3fadb Add section for the sha module. 1999-04-23 21:52:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 154fc6dcf7 Patch from Greg Ward adding descriptions of S_IMODE() and S_IFMT(),
and an explanation of why any of stat.S_*() would be used instead of
os.path.is*().  (With some really small enhancements by me.)
1999-04-23 20:54:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 24aca83dbd Fixed typo and font-control problem reported by Detlef Lannert
<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-04-23 20:33:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 29cf682b71 Clarifications on the first(), next(), and previous() functions, based
on comments from Detlef Lannert <lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-04-23 20:32:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 861192120b Fix a grammatical error reported by Detlef Lannert
<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-04-23 20:07:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 16214fb017 Fix a couple of grammatical errors reported by Detlef Lannert
<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-04-23 20:00:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 4aa4f30759 Work-around LaTeX2HTML space-dropping bug. 1999-04-23 17:30:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 87b8f318b0 Fixed some logical markup nits.
Added a pointer to Grail in the see-also section, since it's used as
an example.
1999-04-23 17:26:24 +00:00
Fred Drake deb7e096d3 Logical markup. 1999-04-23 17:11:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 806764bee4 No, __repr__() does not accept a parameter other than self. 1999-04-23 17:03:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 0fbec55e23 Shorten the section title.
Adjust markup to be a little more consistent with the rest of the
document.
1999-04-23 16:44:53 +00:00
Fred Drake eea97ea063 Shorten the section title. 1999-04-23 16:07:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 86bd5e48c3 Shorten the section title.
Fix a couple of grammatical errors.
1999-04-23 16:02:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 7475e04fad Work around a space-dropping problem in LaTeX2HTML.
Clarify the usage of a parameter.
1999-04-23 15:57:23 +00:00
Fred Drake ae35aa8b63 Added "See also" sections linking to binascii. 1999-04-23 15:52:18 +00:00
Fred Drake ee4d54ea33 Refer to the binhex module, not the non-existent hexbin module.
Added a "See also" section.
1999-04-23 15:42:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 26f7cfe9c7 Fix some glaring markup consistency problems (presentation was
broken).

Added a "See also" section.
1999-04-23 15:41:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 812860e81d Hack places where '--' should appear as literal output but the -- was
(properly) converted to - by LaTeX2HTML.
1999-04-23 14:46:18 +00:00
Fred Drake ffbe68723a Make internal module references hyperlinks wherever it makes sense. 1999-04-22 21:23:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 7b8b125fa6 Remove bogus characters in code sample. 1999-04-22 21:19:53 +00:00
Fred Drake fcf94d4edd Work around LaTeX2HTML comment-handling bug. 1999-04-22 20:55:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 4a406c619b Shorten the section title. 1999-04-22 20:52:44 +00:00
Fred Drake c8c40ff699 Added a "See also" section with some external references. 1999-04-22 20:16:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 4e28c593ad Markup nits.
Make module references hyperlinks.
1999-04-22 18:25:47 +00:00
Fred Drake b7168c3a07 Clean up lots of mark up. 1999-04-22 17:53:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 79936fe73f Added descriptions of the various exceptions, based on the docstrings.
Various small cleanups.
1999-04-22 17:23:34 +00:00
Fred Drake c8993aad10 Logical markup and small nits.
Don't refer to the STDWIN chapter; chances are really good it wasn't
included.  ;-)
1999-04-22 16:50:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 12a956921f Make some module references hyperlinks. 1999-04-22 16:47:27 +00:00
Fred Drake b774550ba5 Minor logical markup nits.
Make some module references hyperlinks.
1999-04-22 16:46:18 +00:00
Fred Drake dd6c6d9b0a Clean up some mark up. 1999-04-22 16:45:26 +00:00
Fred Drake e2effbd32d Fix minor (English) usage nits. 1999-04-22 16:21:09 +00:00
Fred Drake bcd5454d63 Reference to urllib module can be a hyperlink. 1999-04-22 16:17:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 4429772ea3 Fix dropped space in the HTML output. 1999-04-22 16:15:34 +00:00
Fred Drake babdda53d5 Make reference to the socket module a hyperlink. 1999-04-22 16:03:30 +00:00
Fred Drake bf0f4346af Shorten the section title. 1999-04-22 15:53:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 47894d2858 Don't describe this module as being a popen() wrapper; that's a little
confusing.  This is clearly Unix-specific; label it as such.
1999-04-22 15:19:01 +00:00
Fred Drake a694e00085 Remove \platform declaration; this module is generic. 1999-04-22 15:14:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 5254a6d682 Move stat to the Generic chapter. 1999-04-22 15:01:44 +00:00
Fred Drake ca69a03dd6 Don't refer to the system documentation as "man pages"; too
Unix-centric.  Note that this can be used with the output of
os.fstat() as well as os.stat() and os.lstat().
1999-04-22 14:55:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 2ea30f4d8c Add warning that last() and previous() don't work for hashtable
databases (opened using hashopen()), as noted by Skip Montanaro on
comp.lang.python.
1999-04-22 14:06:36 +00:00
Fred Drake b9f1f6d90b Misc. markup nits.
All sections get reasonable file names in the HTML output.
1999-04-21 21:43:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 2dabd811cd Fix markup typo. 1999-04-21 21:33:24 +00:00
Fred Drake d146edfaf1 Mark the "Notes:" sections under tables the same way it's done
elsewhere in the library reference.
1999-04-21 21:15:35 +00:00
Fred Drake b11d108cdc The version information here was checked good in 1999, not 199. ;-)
Added "See also" reference to zlib home page, even though it's
mentioned in the text.
1999-04-21 18:44:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 2799f9d09a Reflow paragraph to work around LaTeX2HTML dropping a space.
Make all references to the os module hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 18:33:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 6d20caa2ce Reflow paragraph to work around LaTeX2HTML dropping a space. 1999-04-21 18:17:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 543e19d923 Small nits, more hyperlinks.
Added more information for cStringIO.
1999-04-21 18:15:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 048b75bd9a Make references to whrandom hyperlinks. 1999-04-21 18:14:22 +00:00
Fred Drake ec6baaf618 Small markup nits. 1999-04-21 18:13:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 54f2fdd1ad Make the names of the referenced modules hyperlinks; they had not been
marked at all.
1999-04-21 18:10:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 02e8c0fd2d Nits. Reference to signal module becomes a hyperlink. 1999-04-21 18:01:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 283c588402 Work around LaTeX2HTML comment-handling bug. 1999-04-21 17:57:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 318c0b131f Logical markup nits.
Make references to other modules hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 17:29:14 +00:00
Fred Drake c3845a14d3 Logical markup & other small nits. 1999-04-21 17:18:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 11bc8cfee3 Explain *why* the copytree() implementation is presented as the
example!
1999-04-21 17:08:51 +00:00
Fred Drake e688aec707 Textual references to the glob module can be hyperlinks. 1999-04-21 17:04:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 737aa552f4 Markup nit to fixed dropped space in HTML output. 1999-04-21 17:01:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 4747f7f61d Markup nits. 1999-04-21 16:41:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 4f6e4fbc1d Added "See also" reference to xdrlib.
Markup nits.
1999-04-21 16:38:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 69fa56327a Markup nits. 1999-04-21 16:29:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 8307e21a2a Mark the references to module names use \module or \refmodule (the
closing paragraph used \code).
1999-04-21 16:29:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6ed122a334 Important fix mentioned by The Dragon De Monsyne: the sendmail()
method does _not_ disconnect the connection when it throws a
SMTPHeloError!
1999-04-21 16:19:16 +00:00
Fred Drake a889add5d6 Oops; minor nit in example: none of the other interactive examples
show the "trailing" prompt, so don't show it here!
1999-04-21 16:00:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 3d815bd1c7 Added link to xdrlib module in "See also" section. 1999-04-21 15:57:29 +00:00
Fred Drake c3fcd6fa0e Added index entry for "file objects"; this is appearantly referenced
somewhere in the Reference Manual, and someone tried to locate it via
the index.  Report on the omission by Stefan Franke
<sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-04-21 13:58:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 7ceb5777d7 Added doc for the "module" attribute on the class descriptor objects;
omission repoorted by Glyn Webster <glyn@ninz.org.nz>.
1999-04-20 18:18:53 +00:00
Fred Drake ad56dafd62 Added example use of pack_list() to help explain the pack_item
parameter.  Lack of clarity reported by Matthew Gallagher
<hew@hons.cs.usyd.edu.au>.
1999-04-20 13:41:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 4ae52694c9 Updated to reflect additions. 1999-04-19 21:21:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 32c562bdec colorsys docs from David Ascher. 1999-04-19 21:20:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 9d15881744 bsddb docs from Skip Montanaro; added interesting links. 1999-04-19 21:19:21 +00:00
Fred Drake e9af64c373 Remove superfluous index entry for posix.popen(); no longer
appropriate since popen() is only documented in os.
1999-04-16 19:00:48 +00:00
Fred Drake dac9a4e3db Added link to Fredrik Lundh's online Tkinter reference material. 1999-04-16 18:26:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 31bfbc6bff Minor nits, include author info. 1999-04-16 14:03:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 0ebd5483be Removed dbhash from the undocumented list. 1999-04-15 16:05:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 666255f5ac Document the dbhash module, and link to it from appropriate places. 1999-04-15 15:11:40 +00:00
Fred Drake f4cbada3f9 Correct documentation for <file>.read(); Python makes a serious
best-effort to return 'size' bytes.  Point out that this may mean
multiple fread() calls.  Reported by Anders Hammarquist
<iko@iko.pp.se> via the Debian crew.
1999-04-14 14:31:53 +00:00
Fred Drake e331356ff7 Fix availability declaration for popen2 module; report by Barry Scott
<barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 22:03:26 +00:00
Fred Drake b9971b9964 Minor cleanup. 1999-04-13 21:39:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 592dd78408 Fix availability declaration for stat module; report by Barry Scott
<barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 21:38:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 31ec33ed60 Work around problems with HTML conversion by making the break and
tbreak synopses be all on one line (each).  Known problem, most
recently reported by Barry Scott <barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 21:36:44 +00:00
Fred Drake bfb092eb86 Misspellling: "occurance" --> "occurrence" 1999-04-09 19:57:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7969f31c4d Updated documentation by Per Cederqvist. I've added back the
documentation sendmail() to reflect the changes by The Dragon
(see smtplib.py checkin).
1999-04-07 15:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 4f21d54764 Added more "See also" entries, + 1 inline hyperlink. 1999-04-05 22:18:12 +00:00
Fred Drake ea003fcc2a Fixed latex2html weirdness with footnotes. 1999-04-05 21:59:15 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 45b0aeda3c correct version info for zlib.
add note about module failing with old versions of the library.

update comment that explains that this doc is *still* out of date
1999-04-05 21:55:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 9aa8543c84 open() description: Made it more clear that 'b' should always be
added to the mode value for binary files to improve
	portability.

Fixed latex2html weirdness with a couple of footnotes.
1999-04-05 21:22:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 01553706bf Added a few items to the "See also" sections at Guido's prompting. Made
more references to other modules in the text hyperlinks for the HTML and
PDF versions.
1999-04-05 19:46:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 50ae47b0de Removed bosities around example code; not sure where that stuff crept
in!
1999-04-05 19:26:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 1dc3a501a6 Made improvements based on changes just made and comments from
Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@csd.uwm.edu>.
1999-04-05 19:00:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 806a467fbf Where rfc822.Message is mentioned, add a link to the rfc822 module. 1999-03-27 05:45:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cb1f2420ea Document complex() with string arg. 1999-03-25 21:23:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5fc9c869dd SIGTERM is no longer caught to call sys.exitfunc.
This change was made long ago but the documentation was never updated.
1999-03-25 20:30:00 +00:00
Fred Drake e82f5b3d6e Added note about ftpmirror.py, since that seems to be one of the most
requested Python tools/examples.
1999-03-25 05:04:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8be229650d Document new builtin buffer(). Greg Stein. 1999-03-19 19:10:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 596766772e Documented FTP.set_pasv(). 1999-03-18 16:08:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 154d909993 Note that abspath() was added in 1.5.2. 1999-03-17 22:25:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 8d2c0c2ab4 Fixed minor nits, added index entries to make these easier to find for people
not familiar with Unix terminology.
1999-03-16 16:40:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 658cef0141 Preliminary mhlib and telnetlib documents from Skip Montanaro -- thanks, Skip! 1999-03-15 15:44:18 +00:00
Fred Drake bf5a6d2eb4 Fixed tons of small markup problems. 1999-03-12 19:57:38 +00:00
Fred Drake b3a20bc44c Added availabililty annotations to respond to concerns of /F. 1999-03-12 18:34:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 93503ca57b Fixup the module keys. There were some problems with hosting / processing
file HTML files on Windows machines do to case insensitivity.
1999-03-12 16:24:22 +00:00
Fred Drake be110c1706 Updates based on comments from /F. 1999-03-12 15:27:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 35c3ffdc3f Fixed description of WSTOPSIG(), added WTERMSIG(). Problem reported
by Jonathan Giddy <jon@dgs.monash.edu.au>.
1999-03-04 14:08:10 +00:00
Fred Drake a54a887f66 "\platform{UNIX}" should really be spelled "\platform{Unix}". 1999-03-02 17:03:42 +00:00
Fred Drake f6863c1909 Added \platform annotations. 1999-03-02 16:37:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 43b34da656 extract_tb(): Only describe this function once. Problem reported by
Jonathan Giddy <jon@dgs.monash.edu.au>.
1999-02-26 18:51:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 390636382a Typo: "Availabilty" --> "Availability"
Thanks to /F!
1999-02-26 14:05:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 51027c4173 Added note about comments, from Christopher Petrilli. 1999-02-24 22:36:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 16e81f4484 Update some of the top comments and shorten title of the first
section.
1999-02-24 19:57:14 +00:00
Barry Warsaw f2b4554403 Document the correct class hierarchy for SystemExit. It is not an
error and so it derives from Exception and not SystemError.
1999-02-24 00:27:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 1ec71cb556 Incorporated updates to describe geturl() by Sjoerd Mullender
<Sjoerd.Mullender@cwi.nl>.
1999-02-22 22:42:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 00a3a65cc0 Refer to the right RFC in the intro. 1999-02-22 17:12:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 7d9b13325d Other chapter titles refer to collections of modules as "Services"; do
the same here.
1999-02-22 14:48:00 +00:00
Fred Drake fab41f1788 BabylMailbox description: Properly escape the backslashes in the
string representations.
1999-02-22 14:26:16 +00:00
Fred Drake b63e77ccb0 Oops, used a \label twice - fix one of them. 1999-02-22 14:14:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 180b68b3cf More reasonable section titles. 1999-02-22 13:45:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 76991ec75a Shorten section title. 1999-02-20 05:20:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 199b79c37b Added descriptions for BabylMailbox and Maildir (Qmail) mailbox
objects.
1999-02-20 05:04:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 67d229ea76 Shorten section title. 1999-02-20 04:51:16 +00:00
Fred Drake bbac43223c Shorten a few section titles. 1999-02-20 00:14:17 +00:00
Fred Drake da57365337 Give subsections reasonable file names in the HTML. 1999-02-19 23:48:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 342501142d Added an index entry. 1999-02-19 23:45:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 56f8185a53 Shortened the short synopsis -- too long. 1999-02-19 22:59:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 9f03380d1c Use more current approach to recording authors. 1999-02-19 22:56:08 +00:00
Fred Drake c60047575d Shortened the short synopsis -- way too long. 1999-02-19 22:33:51 +00:00
Fred Drake d8a41e6391 Fix an amazing number of typos & malformed sentences reported by Detlef
Lannert <lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-02-19 17:54:10 +00:00
Fred Drake f6346345b0 Noted that the module was added in 1.5.2. 1999-02-19 15:46:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 4e7c205470 Update description of what modules "look like" when printed. 1999-02-19 15:30:25 +00:00
Fred Drake cd71aa2a38 Use current approach to record documentation author. 1999-02-18 21:13:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 2a2f1fe4d5 Record module & documentation author. 1999-02-18 21:10:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 6b103f1e12 Documentation for pyclbr and tokenize modules. 1999-02-18 21:06:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 4d358b5d23 Added sections for pyclbr and tokenize. 1999-02-18 20:40:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 7c829b3179 Remove the "Parsing Python" section. Hurray! 1999-02-18 20:39:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 70a66c9d6d Add notes to __builtin__.float() and string.atof() that the NaN and Inf
results are possible but non-portable.
1999-02-18 16:08:36 +00:00