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Author SHA1 Message Date
Barry Warsaw 93a8eacde5 Document the new additional signature for utime(). In addition to the
previous functionality utime(path, (atime, mtime)), now allowed is
utime(path, None) which sets the file's times to the current time.
2000-05-01 16:18:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 40ee7acb95 \file and \filenq should not be used in section titles; they are not
sufficiently robust to survive the creation of bookmarks in the PDF
format.
2000-04-28 18:17:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 20bab56118 Don't worry about the output dirs for the distutils manuals. 2000-04-28 17:45:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 8187cb9664 Added distutils manuals.
Made the attributes more XHTML-friendly.
2000-04-28 17:43:12 +00:00
Greg Ward e78298a6bd Stripped leading 'sec:' from all section labels -- generates bad filenames,
bad link URLs in HTML, etc.
2000-04-28 17:12:24 +00:00
Greg Ward e9792c4563 When building HTML releases, refer to */*.css and */*.html instead of
???/*.css and ???/*.html -- need to pick up the Distutils manuals!
2000-04-28 17:09:17 +00:00
Greg Ward 3abb104356 Added the Distutils manuals. 2000-04-28 17:05:41 +00:00
Greg Ward 0784c335f3 Added the Distutils manuals: inst and dist. 2000-04-28 17:03:26 +00:00
Greg Ward 0862f800d0 Added 'inst' and 'dist' -- the two Distutils manuals. 2000-04-28 16:53:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 3c3507fd4f Documentation patch describing the 'u' and 'u#' format specifiers,
from Brian Hooper <brian_takashi@hotmail.com>.
2000-04-28 14:43:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 638ae9d0bb Support for the special macros used by the distutils documentation. 2000-04-27 21:27:49 +00:00
Greg Ward 38c28e379c Added a note to the section on 'exec' about the need for a trailing newline
in certain circumstances.  (Apparently, this is a CPython problem.)
2000-04-27 18:32:02 +00:00
Fred Drake ac308d0a6f Added a "See also:" section that exhibits the \seerfc markup. 2000-04-26 18:20:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 64b72b6f4f Define \seerfc within the seealso environment. 2000-04-26 18:13:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 37cc0c0e9f ref_module_index_helper(): Use "my" instead of "local".
get_rfc_url():  New function; returns the URL for a numbered IETF RFC.

do_cmd_rfc():  Use get_rfc_url() instead of hard-coding in the HTML
               formatting.

do_cmd_seerfc():  New function.

do_env_definitions():  Small change to avoid "local".
2000-04-26 18:05:24 +00:00
Fred Drake c009d198db Removed some extraneous and confusing parenthesized expressions.
Noted by Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>.
2000-04-25 21:09:10 +00:00
Greg Ward 4a9e72266d Added section headers for "Extending the Distutils" section (just
a reminder to myself).
2000-04-25 02:57:36 +00:00
Greg Ward 87da1ea127 Patch from Andrew Kuchling: document the new multiple pattern feature in the
manifest template.
2000-04-21 04:35:25 +00:00
Greg Ward d5767a5e43 Reformatted wide paragraphs. 2000-04-19 22:48:09 +00:00
Greg Ward 4eaa3bfed0 Reverted '\var' in the "standard installation location" table to '\filevar'.
Reformatted wide paragraphs.
2000-04-19 22:44:25 +00:00
Greg Ward c402fa122f Dropped '\tilde' and '\bslash' definitions. 2000-04-19 22:40:34 +00:00
Greg Ward 4756e5fb1c Changed '\tilde' and '\bslash' to the standard '\textasciitilde' and
'\textbackslash'.
2000-04-19 22:40:12 +00:00
Greg Ward 95da443447 Removed '\package' definition. 2000-04-19 22:36:33 +00:00
Greg Ward 1ecc251538 Changed '\package' to \module'. 2000-04-19 22:36:24 +00:00
Greg Ward a021acacfb Changed '\option' to '\longprogramopt' wherever it referred to a command-line
option.
2000-04-19 22:34:11 +00:00
Fred Drake cebda6f5f0 Added documentation for WindowsError; omission noted by Michal Bozon
<bozon@natur.cuni.cz>.

(Mark Hammond, other Python/Windows cognoscenti: please check this!)
2000-04-17 17:42:00 +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
Greg Ward 46b98e35fd Various wording/formattin tweaks.
Started spewing "Creating Built Distributions" section.
2000-04-14 01:53:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 9cf7587fdc Update change to version_info structure. 2000-04-13 17:51:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 4d65d73686 Document hexversion (incompletely explained) and version_info (easily
explained).
2000-04-13 16:54:17 +00:00
Greg Ward 502d2b4615 Added note about usual default prefix under Linux (thanks to Peter Funk
for the idea).
2000-04-12 14:20:15 +00:00
Greg Ward 822a86a955 Trying to placate Fred: redefine \tilde and \bslash; document everything.
Still some not-quite-standard definitions in here that I have to fix.
2000-04-12 01:44:35 +00:00
Greg Ward d5faa7ea08 Changed the table of per-platform default installation locations to be
more consistent with the rest of the Python docs.
2000-04-12 01:42:19 +00:00
Fred Drake ee775a194c Make use of \longprogramopt where appropriate. 2000-04-11 19:46:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 2b85341776 Elaborate descriptions of \e, \module.
Describe policy on vertical lines in tables.
2000-04-11 19:08:30 +00:00
Fred Drake ce44498ba8 Revise the description of \programopt, document \longprogramopt. 2000-04-11 18:52:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 493624941a \longprogramopt: New macro. 2000-04-11 18:47:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 0cd6021339 do_cmd_longprogramopt(): New function. 2000-04-11 18:46:59 +00:00
Greg Ward 08c68fc82d LaTeX macros for the Distutils manuals.
Perhaps these should be added to the standard Python style file?
2000-04-11 02:01:52 +00:00
Greg Ward c392caa390 Spewed a bunch more verbiage.
Lots of scattered wording changes.
2000-04-11 02:00:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 8520cc2328 Added reference count information for Py_FindMethod(). 2000-04-10 19:38:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 7357770153 Yet another markup nit: functions that are part of the Python/C API
are still C functions, and should be marked.
2000-04-10 18:50:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 37f41565a8 PyErr_Format():
Remove statement that the return value is always NULL; this is
        generated by the formatting.
2000-04-10 18:46:22 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 98605b54b4 document PyErr_Format 2000-04-10 18:40:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 0682be4524 letters:
Fix description; lowercase and uppercase are strings, not
        functions!  Noted by Randall Hopper <aa8vb@yahoo.com>.

maketrans():
        Minor markup nits in description.
2000-04-10 18:35:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 8394595f3b Add to the comment a description of the "null" value for returned
PyObject* values.
2000-04-10 18:29:21 +00:00
Fred Drake c2578c5bb6 load_refcounts(),
do_env_cfuncdesc():  Support the "null" value for the refcounts field
        in refcounts.dat.
2000-04-10 18:26:45 +00:00
Fred Drake db2764d941 The reference count field for PyErr_NoMemory() and
PyErr_SetFromErrno() should be "null".
2000-04-10 18:25:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 5e872de6c7 If the refcount field is "null", that's ok; the value will be None. 2000-04-10 18:24:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 729eca1b9d For functions which return a PyObject* but use "null" for the
reference count field, state that the return value is always NULL.

(Useful for some PyErr_*() flavors.)
2000-04-10 18:23:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 0a863da1f8 cfuncdesc environment:
When processing the optional parameter, don't append any text;
        let the pre-processor supply all of it.
2000-04-10 18:21:38 +00:00
Fred Drake adb272ceee do_cmd_datalineni(): New function, to implement the non-indexing form
of \dataline.
2000-04-10 17:47:14 +00:00
Greg Ward c248baecb3 Moved definition of \XXX command out to distutils.sty. 2000-04-09 20:55:35 +00:00
Greg Ward 6002ffc38c Wrote the introduction (including several subsections).
Started writing the "Standard Build and Install" section.
2000-04-09 20:54:50 +00:00
Greg Ward facb8dbaeb Fixed so LaTeX can actually process it, and so it looks like the other
Distutils manual.
2000-04-09 04:32:40 +00:00
Greg Ward 16aafcd85b Got started for real on this manual. Completely untested and unread -- just
checking it in so I can move things around in the CVS repository.
2000-04-09 04:06:44 +00:00
Greg Ward 7593eb3267 Extracted a bunch of Distutils-specific commands and macros to distutils.sty
(also needed by inst.tex).
2000-04-09 03:59:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 9164f88657 Fix Skip's email address in his attribution! (Thanks, Skip!) 2000-04-08 04:53:29 +00:00
Fred Drake e7a8c972d8 Added support for the "Long HTML" version to the build/packaging
process.
2000-04-07 16:27:15 +00:00
Fred Drake c2c46c3751 New example from Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>. 2000-04-07 16:09:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 46f14580cb Describe the purpose of the "long HTML" package. 2000-04-07 14:47:27 +00:00
Fred Drake cff5482d37 Mark RELEASE with the release level ("a2"). 2000-04-06 18:38:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 69ca950d1f Make sure the \declaremodule uses the right name for the module!
Clean up several markup problems & inconsistencies.
2000-04-06 16:09:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 343301aaa4 unichr(),
unicode():  Added \versionadded{} annotations.
2000-04-06 15:06:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 0b72116812 Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
Added UnicodeType.
2000-04-06 15:05:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 56ced2a7e4 Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
Added note that Unicode strings are picklable.
2000-04-06 15:04:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 5828ad6963 Revised / removed comments about string exceptions (relating to the
standard exceptions), added documentation of UnboundLocalError.
2000-04-06 15:03:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 3cb793e8e8 Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
Added UnicodeError description.
2000-04-06 14:48:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 61098f201e Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
Add Unicode strings to the list of marshalable types.
2000-04-06 14:47:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 665dd704a3 Note the exception raised when parameter to chr() is out of range. 2000-04-06 14:45:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 33d51841a3 Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
Documentation for unichr(), unicode(), update for ord().
2000-04-06 14:43:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 2097ef126b Added entry for codecs module. 2000-04-06 14:26:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 98f8a3d8da Added codecs entry here as part of String Services. 2000-04-06 14:25:28 +00:00
Fred Drake b7979c756c Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
codecs module documentation, with some preliminary markup
adjustments from FLD.
2000-04-06 14:21:58 +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 a4cd2611f4 Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
API documentation for Unicode support from C.
2000-04-06 14:10:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 8b3ce9e099 But don't do the funny \UNICODE macro; we're trying to get away from
those markups!  <with-mixed-feelings>
2000-04-06 14:00:14 +00:00
Fred Drake f0aff8e759 Patch from Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
Added Unicode type to the language reference.
2000-04-06 13:57:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 6d5c6bdb25 Removed bogus connect() call in SMTP example; reported by Travis
B. Hartwell <slt5v@cc.usu.edu>.

Removed second copy of the "See also" section!
2000-04-05 22:12:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 71b04dab58 Added reference to the multifile module from the "See also" section
in the mimetools documentation.
Suggested by Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>.
2000-04-05 22:05:15 +00:00
Fred Drake d1a56f4235 Noted by Guido:
Fixed up descriptions of altzone and timezone not to refer to the
0th meridian, which doesn't exist.  Reference is now to UTC.
2000-04-05 15:06:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 898915d7e2 Noted by Guido:
Directionality of up/down were confused.
2000-04-05 15:01:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 43b89b637f Noted by Guido:
Note in the "Caveats" section should refer to the exit() function, not
exit_thread().
2000-04-05 15:00:38 +00:00
Fred Drake bf4041a0a6 Merged in changes from 1.5.2p2 release. 2000-04-04 20:58:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 02ba62141e Merged in changes from 1.5.2p2 release as appropriate. 2000-04-04 20:58:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 12ed36525a Added "See also" section; from Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>
(re-written).
2000-04-04 20:43:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 005f494a7f Added "See also" section; from Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>. 2000-04-04 20:42:38 +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 7d68690d8d Added notes about the eventual disappearance of two-parameter bind(),
connect(), and connect_ex().

I didn't make these deprecation notices since it was never a
documented feature.
2000-04-04 17:48:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 38e5d27cae Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release.
(Very rough.)
2000-04-03 20:13:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 659ebfa79e Merge in changes from the 1.5.2p2 release.
Hopefully I got all this right!
2000-04-03 15:42:13 +00:00
Fred Drake eb725cd045 Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release. 2000-04-03 15:06:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 6a0d844e76 UserString section:
Small cleanups noted by Detlef Lannert
<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.

Make the spelling of Unicode always uppercase.
2000-04-03 15:02:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 42934689ea Note that "Unicode" is always capitalized. 2000-04-03 15:00:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 54fd8452a1 Merge in changes from the 1.5.2p2 release. 2000-04-03 04:54:28 +00:00
Fred Drake e15956b465 Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release. 2000-04-03 04:51:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 20082d92f2 Merge in changes from the 1.5.2p2 release. 2000-04-03 04:26:58 +00:00
Fred Drake ba82878a3b Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release. 2000-04-03 04:19:14 +00:00
Fred Drake a22b576d05 UserString class from Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>. 2000-04-03 03:51:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 9a257b4fd4 Added --numeric option, similar to mkhtml.sh. 2000-03-31 20:27:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 9c26f5dbed Added rule to copy in the icons/ directory. 2000-03-31 20:26:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 3bb719f744 List of subdirs that are generated during the build. 2000-03-31 20:26:00 +00:00
Fred Drake e018beea94 Build rules for the "long HTML" version. 2000-03-31 20:22:29 +00:00
Fred Drake ddc6c276b7 Improve explanation of reference counts for PyString_Concat(). 2000-03-31 18:22:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 38d062d022 Reflect the two new sections in the dependencies. 2000-03-31 18:10:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 3c9f936eee Two new sections. Preliminary. 2000-03-31 17:51:10 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton a12c7a7620 Add PyDict_Copy() function to C API for dicts. It returns a new
dictionary that contains the same key/value pairs as p.
2000-03-30 22:27:31 +00:00
Fred Drake bdcc96c9e3 Changes from 1.5.2p2, plus fix a couple of errors noted by Hernan
Martinez Foffani <hfoffani@sofrecom.com.ar>.
2000-03-29 22:41:52 +00:00
Greg Ward 8e14f05ae6 Fix small errors in description of Mac, Windows installation schemes.
Added comment about "--help" (no value) not working.
2000-03-22 01:00:23 +00:00
Greg Ward 295765630a Third attempt at documenting an installation scheme; this one feels like
it could work--reasonably short and straightforward to document, but
flexible enough that it will be able to handle more than just modules
and extensions in the future.
2000-03-18 15:11:50 +00:00
Fred Drake dee86c644e Script to annotate api.tex with reference count information. 2000-03-15 14:57:59 +00:00
Greg Ward 169f91b808 [from 2000-02-25] Second attempt at describing an installation scheme; this is
the simplified scheme that Guido proposed.  Also already-obsolete,
and saved only for posterity.
2000-03-10 01:57:51 +00:00
Greg Ward 7c1e5f65e3 [from 2000-02-23] Description of the baroque and already-obsolete
installation scheme that Fred Drake and I cooked up.  Only saved for
posterity.
2000-03-10 01:56:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 15861b2a41 Update portability information for the spawn*() functions and related
constants.  Someone will need to fill in information on the spawn*()
functions that aren't listed.
2000-02-29 05:19:38 +00:00
Greg Ward abc52169b7 The "Distributing Python Modules" manual; currently empty (I'll get to it
Real Soon Now(TM).
2000-02-26 00:52:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 0baf773c44 Added entry for libtabnanny.tex. 2000-02-23 15:44:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 3c227eef91 Added dependency on libtabnanny.tex. 2000-02-23 15:44:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 155348be33 Initial version from Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>, with minor
consistency changes and a note that the API may change in the future.
2000-02-23 15:44:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 89af0776cd This branch is for 1.6 & forward. 2000-02-22 18:20:03 +00:00
Fred Drake c29e41df44 Script to help locate markup that LaTeX2HTML has a problem with. 2000-02-21 17:20:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 1e862e8a37 Update the description of int() to include the radix parameter;
omission noted on c.l.py by Aahz Maruch.

Swapped the order of the descriptions of int() and intern() so that
int() comes first (the functions are in alphabetic order).
2000-02-17 17:45:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8006d316bc Added docs for new crc32() function. By Jim Ahlstrom.
(Fred, please check.)
2000-02-16 21:13:37 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 41d84631ba Document the API changes to the nntplib module (exceptions become
classes, NNTP.__init__() grows a new optional argument to set reader
mode on the server).
2000-02-10 20:26:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 2bb43a20ce The dircmp module is now obsolete. 2000-02-03 15:27:26 +00:00
Fred Drake ecb84f8e75 Don't insert extra indentation before <title> elements. 2000-01-20 22:51:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 9093834acb Added item about specific missing entries in the C API manual. 1999-12-23 17:22:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 6a90b5e4d0 Removed a couple of items that got done(!).
Moved a couple to a new "Not worth it" section (explanations were
already there).
1999-12-21 23:02:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 76e6da38c0 Document GetoptError and label error an alias. 1999-12-21 22:50:05 +00:00
Fred Drake b9bdfc6a23 Document 1.5.2+ aspects of the NotANumber exception. (Note that this
is in the development branch, not the maintenance branch!)
1999-12-21 18:45:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 89ab163479 Document that the |mode| parameter to open() is optional and explain how
the default value is determined.
1999-12-21 18:31:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 88f6ca2ce9 Document getgroups(), getlogin(), fpathconf(), pathconf(),
pathconf_names, confstr(), confstr_names, sysconf(), sysconf_names.
1999-12-15 19:39:04 +00:00
Fred Drake d16b5abc07 Markup consistency nits that Guido didn't check. ;-) 1999-12-13 23:34:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5f7a28cdf8 Doc update from Piers Lauder see changes for imaplib.py version 2.16. 1999-12-13 23:29:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 18f7a45324 Document the new stuff in the os module. 1999-12-09 22:11:43 +00:00
Fred Drake d4d4ba3fd2 Update link to PythonWare library page. 1999-12-01 18:44:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 645af9fedd rewrite_descriptor(): Fixup conversion of arguments (simpler).
join_adjacent_elements():  Hack to merge adjacent instances of
        <option>; the source \programopt with GNU-style long options
        created problems with LaTeX2HTML; this removes the evil
        workaround, which should never be necessary from structured
        documents(!).
1999-11-23 21:52:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 8a3b4495df Don't rename \var to <varname>; DocBook is too verbose here.
Do adopt DocBook's <command>, <option>, <envar> names for \program,
\programopt, \envvar.

Add \filenq --> <filename quote="no"> (it has to go somewhere, at
least for now).
1999-11-23 21:48:41 +00:00
Fred Drake d81b1b0ffa Set the date and version to reflect the actual status, not the last
released status.  Has to be changed just before publishing anyway.
1999-11-18 20:57:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 0d6bf0e544 When generating the top-level index to the documents, make sure some
oddball things from the LaTeX get translated to rational values.  This
is mostly to keep things from looking broken in a development tree
when they're not.
1999-11-18 20:56:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 7424242c1c Removed last XXX comment; no further action needed on this one. 1999-11-17 16:09:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 55e93964e6 Preliminary documentation for turtle module (Tk), by Moshe Zadka.
Fixed up a few TeXisms and markup nits, but otherwise unchanged.
Somewhat raw.
1999-11-15 17:03:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 2530d4e32b Added request to please not send HTML email to the newsgroup/mailing
list or to python-docs.
1999-11-12 17:20:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 29a710f2ef Document \citetitle and \programopt. 1999-11-10 22:51:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 37f1574f2e Use \citetitle and \programopt as appropriate. 1999-11-10 16:21:37 +00:00
Fred Drake e15eb35fd0 Use \citetitle as appropriate. 1999-11-10 16:13:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 9fa76f1090 Use \citetitle in several places, and \programopt where appropriate. 1999-11-10 16:01:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 698d5206aa Use \citetitle in several places. 1999-11-10 15:54:57 +00:00
Fred Drake ebe0341109 Use \citetitle instead of \emph. 1999-11-09 20:11:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 356d0ceb7e Use \citetitle in one place. 1999-11-09 20:10:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 268df27c9a Use the new markup as apporpriate. 1999-11-09 19:45:59 +00:00