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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 2aa5afab4e Issue #16199: Backport 2to3 typo fix from 3.2. 2012-10-11 16:15:46 -07:00
Chris Jerdonek 1e65159b34 Backport from 3.2: Fix placement of shell=True warning in subprocess.Popen() docs. 2012-10-10 22:58:57 -07:00
Chris Jerdonek 2a6672b100 Issue #16115: Backport subprocess.Popen() documentation improvements from 3.2. 2012-10-10 17:55:41 -07:00
Chris Jerdonek cfb01a5ad0 Issue #12947: Backport doctest documentation change from 3.3. 2012-10-10 08:39:34 -07:00
Georg Brandl a11c1fcd20 Missed one instance of code-block:: text highlighting to revert. 2012-10-10 16:56:15 +02:00
Georg Brandl 7495456ffc Issue #12947: revert earlier workaround and use a monkey-patch to enable showing doctest directives only in the doctest docs. 2012-10-10 16:45:11 +02:00
Chris Jerdonek d469c400ed Issue #12947: Backport doctest documentation improvements from 3.3. 2012-10-10 07:13:56 -07:00
Chris Jerdonek 1906c0c992 Issue #16115: Backport subprocess.Popen() documentation improvements from 3.2. 2012-10-08 23:18:17 -07:00
Chris Jerdonek ad4b000179 Issue #14783: Backport changes from 3.2. 2012-10-07 20:37:54 -07:00
R David Murray fefd3ac04c #9957: document that SpooledTemporaryFile.truncate does not take size arg 2012-10-06 18:26:40 -04:00
Andrew Svetlov 8c4419304d Issue #16025: Minor corrections to the zipfile documentation.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
2012-10-06 18:01:05 +03:00
Nick Coghlan 7c0a87f211 Issue #12947: Better workaround for the problem with doctest directives being stripped from code examples that are intended to illustrate those directives 2012-10-03 13:48:17 +05:30
Nick Coghlan a42709e6bb Issue #12947: Add a note to doctest until the example rendering is fixed 2012-10-03 12:18:23 +05:30
Ezio Melotti 31a9e83d7d #15979: improve timeit documentation. 2012-10-02 05:34:38 +03:00
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
R David Murray 95d7cdfd7b Fix sqlite3 class markup. 2012-09-30 21:04:46 -04:00
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
R David Murray 3e09b14026 #16085: Don't promote shadowing builtins in the configparser example. 2012-09-29 14:44:16 -04:00
R David Murray 9faaf1b43e #16071: fix email.message links in the mailbox docs. 2012-09-28 15:21:32 -04:00
Andrew Svetlov 0c68c5ddb2 Update docs for string.zfill 2012-09-28 16:32:27 +03:00
Andrew Svetlov 9ac20231e0 Update documentation for string.replace. Thanks to docs@ 2012-09-28 16:31:06 +03:00
Raymond Hettinger 1b43274d12 Show how to close a connection 2012-09-25 19:57:50 -04:00
Barry Warsaw 0dea936e78 - Issue #15935: Clarification of argparse docs, re: add_argument() type and
default arguments.  Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
2012-09-25 10:32:53 -04:00
Mark Dickinson 39e0fb01ef Issue 15985: fix round argument names in documentation. Thanks Chris Jerdonek. 2012-09-20 20:57:37 +01:00
Ezio Melotti a8e49638d1 Fix a few quotes/backslashes. 2012-09-20 09:48:07 +03:00
Ezio Melotti aea83f53ee Fix rst markup in timeit docs. 2012-09-20 06:02:50 +03:00
Ezio Melotti b3b32fbd69 #11643: fix rst markup error in site.rst. 2012-09-17 08:59:36 +02:00
Ezio Melotti eab4df5830 #15789: mention shell-like parts of the stdlib in the subprocess docs. Patch by Chris Rebert. 2012-09-15 08:33:12 +03:00
Ezio Melotti a733d814be #15932: use with statement in csv doc examples. 2012-09-15 05:46:24 +03:00
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 8d580539f0 #14649: clarify DocTestSuite error when there are no docstrings.
Also adds tests to verify the documented behavior (which is probably a bug, as
indicated in the added comments).

Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
2012-09-10 10:17:13 -04:00
R David Murray b9495c78a1 closes #5088: document behavior of optparse defaults with 'append' action. 2012-09-08 16:47:24 -04:00
R David Murray 1b6e7c47f2 #15510: clarify textwrap's handling of whitespace, and add confirming tests.
Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
2012-09-08 13:42:01 -04:00
Petri Lehtinen f9e1f1128b #13769: Enhance docs for ensure_ascii semantics in JSON decoding functions 2012-09-01 07:29:06 +03:00
Andrew Svetlov 2b326e4c2b Issue #15825: fix typo in OrderedDict docs.
Patch by Mike Hoy.
2012-08-31 13:53:30 +03:00
Ezio Melotti 6bb9c73b06 Add missing comma. 2012-08-29 17:50:42 +03:00
Vinay Sajip 3d212e6ee5 Closes #15807: Removed incorrect directive from help. 2012-08-29 14:25:42 +01:00
Hynek Schlawack 7d978902d0 #14880: Fix kwargs notation in csv.reader, .writer & .register_dialect
Patch by Chris Rebert.
2012-08-28 12:33:46 +02:00
Ezio Melotti 8662c84ac8 #15788: fix broken links in subprocess doc. Patch by Chris Rebert. 2012-08-27 10:00:05 +03:00
Antoine Pitrou 85ede8da00 Add glossary references 2012-08-24 19:49:08 +02:00
Antoine Pitrou f3e0a69d88 Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the json module's standard compliance.
Patch by Chris Rebert.
2012-08-24 19:46:17 +02:00
Georg Brandl e565cf805d Remove patch artifacts. 2012-08-21 19:44:00 +02:00
R David Murray 07f6ea5506 #15742: clarify sqlite parameter substitution example. 2012-08-20 14:17:22 -04:00
R David Murray d928b6a965 #13579: minimize code base drift for 'a' string.Formatter change.
2.7 doesn't support 'a'.  This changeset ports the doc change
and clause-reording portions of Francisco Martín Brugué patch
in order to minimize code base drift.
2012-08-19 17:57:29 -04:00
Eli Bendersky 6ee2187cdc Issue #15586: porting ET's new documentation bits to 2.7. Patch by Daniel Ellis 2012-08-18 05:40:38 +03:00
Terry Jan Reedy 73b19d0b00 Issue 15660: Clarify 0 prefix for width field in str.format doc. 2012-08-17 15:37:52 -04:00
Richard Oudkerk 3c3ab22d36 Issue #15412: Remove erroneous note about weakrefs 2012-08-17 15:00:58 +01:00
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
R David Murray becfcc0a6b #15269: document dircmp.left and right.
Based on patch by Chris Jerdonek.
2012-08-14 21:50:38 -04:00
Andrew Svetlov 33f87a59b8 Issue #15497: Correct characters in TextWrapper.replace_whitespace docs.
Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
2012-08-13 23:26:28 +03:00
Sandro Tosi 614e44a0fa complete cgi.parse() signature; thanks to Aaron Bingham from docs@ 2012-08-12 18:47:45 +02:00
Sandro Tosi eca4006b1f add usage example from cli; thanks to Christian Clauss from docs@ 2012-08-12 17:33:41 +02:00
Sandro Tosi 106c25034a it's getstatus() not setstatus(); thanks to Shaddi Hasan from docs@ 2012-08-12 15:11:58 +02:00
Sandro Tosi 018e14dfe9 add missing quote in splitlines() example; thanks to Yevgen Yampolskiy from docs@ 2012-08-12 12:34:57 +02:00
Sandro Tosi 682100e46a add missing parenthesis to 'action' argparse doc; thanks to kishkin from docs@ 2012-08-12 10:49:07 +02:00
Andrew Svetlov 8afcec41f4 Issue #15501: Document exception classes in subprocess module.
Initial patch by Anton Barkovsky.
2012-08-09 15:23:49 +03:00
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 decdb74227 #15554: clarify splitlines/split differences.
Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
2012-08-06 16:09:09 -04:00
Antoine Pitrou 76370f4977 Make TextIOWrapper's documentation clearer by copying the newline argument's description from open(). 2012-08-04 00:55:38 +02:00
Andrew Svetlov 15fc22011d Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation. 2012-07-26 17:19:40 +03:00
Antoine Pitrou b37f14c70e Mention the *limit* argument of TextIO.readline(). 2012-07-25 22:38:33 +02:00
Vinay Sajip 34e992d451 Issue #15445: Updated logging configuration documentation to highlight potential security risk posed by listen() in certain scenarios. 2012-07-25 19:12:35 +01:00
Senthil Kumaran 0c472c3271 Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek. 2012-07-22 19:36:03 -07:00
Vinay Sajip bee739baa7 Issue #15399: Added versionchanged for processName. 2012-07-20 09:48:46 +01:00
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
R David Murray fc095202af #15375: remove duplicated word 'child' 2012-07-16 22:31:32 -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
Georg Brandl 5356af8c48 Fix leftover quote. 2012-07-06 21:36:48 +02:00
Éric Araujo 9e06e37be0 Branch merge 2012-07-03 01:13:40 -04:00
Raymond Hettinger e16c882584 Make it easier to search for the grouper() recipe. 2012-07-02 21:08:45 -07:00
Éric Araujo 96534689a8 Use source role to get links to files 2012-07-02 17:46:56 -04:00
Éric Araujo 06176a89ff Adapt mentions of future changes in doc 2012-07-02 17:46:40 -04:00
Raymond Hettinger 2aa8519f07 The StopIteration API applies to both tokenize() and generate_tokens() 2012-07-01 20:00:09 -07:00
Georg Brandl e683ef55fc Make call of os.getppid() conditional: it is not available on Windows. 2012-07-01 09:47:54 +02:00
Georg Brandl 1014686d76 Remove an unneeded footnote. 2012-07-01 09:40:16 +02:00
Senthil Kumaran 9d5d507322 urlparse docs clean up 2012-06-28 21:07:32 -07:00
Antoine Pitrou d9a5137742 Issue #5067: improve some json error messages.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
2012-06-29 01:58:26 +02:00
Senthil Kumaran 189bd91255 issue13666 - Fixing datetime documentation example when using tzinfo 2012-06-26 20:05:12 +08:00
Sandro Tosi 771d98d694 Issue #15060: better fix, thanks to review on #python-dev 2012-06-14 00:36:54 +02:00
Sandro Tosi 89539e8268 Issue #15060: fix typo in socket doc; Patch by anatoly techtonik 2012-06-13 23:58:35 +02:00
Raymond Hettinger 491f7070f1 Code cleanups 2012-06-08 13:24:12 -07:00
Sandro Tosi 5fae78c09d refer to time.strftime 2012-06-02 18:21:06 +02:00
R David Murray de738a1b82 #14957: fix doc typo. 2012-06-02 11:21:31 -04:00
R David Murray 4fbf7c61fe #14957: clarify splitlines docs.
Initial patch by Michael Driscoll, I added the example.
2012-06-01 16:21:06 -04:00
R David Murray b42b6eba63 #11785: fix the :mod: references in email package submodule titles. 2012-05-27 17:13:54 -04:00
Hynek Schlawack d68ffdb45a Restore [] where default arguments are not keywords
Reverts some changes of a36666c52115.

In the case of os's `mknod(filename[, mode=0600[, device=0]])`, I have nested
the [] as setting mode doesn't require to set device (but setting device
requires to set mode).
2012-05-22 15:22:14 +02:00
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
Vinay Sajip 5f045ea440 Fixes #14864: Added documentation on how to undo the effects of a logging.disable() call. 2012-05-20 15:35:00 +01:00
Hynek Schlawack 897b278cf0 Document when json.load's parse_constant behaviour changed
It doesn't get called on 'null', 'true', 'false' since f686aced02a3.
2012-05-20 11:50:41 +02:00
Petri Lehtinen 5f39706b07 #14494: Document that absolute imports became default in 3.0 instead of 2.7. 2012-05-19 18:36:04 +03:00
Petri Lehtinen 491ef97f75 Fix time.time() references in the time module docs
Closes #14842.
2012-05-18 21:19:18 +03:00
R David Murray 1bddab7f0c #14823: Simplify threading.Lock.acquire argument discussion. 2012-05-17 09:15:02 -04:00
Hynek Schlawack 019935f615 #14692 Fix json docs to reflect changes in json.load
The behaviour of the parse_constant callback changed insofar that 'null',
'true', 'false' don't trigger its call anymore.

Patch by Serhiy Storchaka
2012-05-16 18:02:54 +02:00
R David Murray e3d8ab6d38 #1440472: reflow 2012-05-15 22:12:56 -04:00
R David Murray af707234c6 #1440472: Explain that email parser/generator isn't *quite* "idempotent" 2012-05-15 22:12:09 -04:00
R David Murray 8349bc2ba9 #14766: Reflow the altered paragraphs. 2012-05-14 22:33:36 -04:00
R David Murray 089d4d4f7c #14766: Add correct algorithm for when a 'time' object is naive.
This patch also clarifies the definition of Naive and Aware.

Original patch by Greg Weller, I modified the first hunk
somewhat to make the exposition even clearer (I hope).
2012-05-14 22:32:44 -04:00
Sandro Tosi 334be84540 correctly define what 'fill' could be; thanks to Leland Hulbert from docs@ 2012-05-12 23:29:06 +02:00
Raymond Hettinger 56f5c38320 Additional example of using decimal.localcontext(). 2012-05-11 12:50:11 -07:00
Ezio Melotti 35d03ed832 #14763: document default maxsplit value for str.split. 2012-05-10 15:30:42 +03:00
Ezio Melotti 95f42a86dd #14763: fix documentation for string.split/rsplit. 2012-05-09 14:59:24 +03:00
R David Murray 5ec0340ce1 Improve the grammar of a non-sentence. 2012-05-08 21:29:36 -04:00
Sandro Tosi 1d710b6a84 backport 7a05cb3beddf to 2.7 2012-05-07 21:56:24 +02:00
Ezio Melotti e48daea2a6 #14034: added the argparse tutorial. Patch by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe. 2012-05-06 16:15:35 +03:00
Ezio Melotti 510ff54324 Use Python 3 instead of 3.0. 2012-05-03 19:21:40 +03:00
Ned Deily d811e150f5 Issue #10433: Document unique behavior of 'os.getgroups' on Mac OS X. 2012-04-30 11:13:16 -07:00
Ezio Melotti 30abb3a6a8 #14558: document the module, argv, and testLoader args of unittest.main. 2012-04-30 19:05:57 +03:00
Ezio Melotti 8950019283 #14519: fix the regex used in the scanf example. 2012-04-29 11:47:28 +03:00
Ezio Melotti 217e6a66db Fix markup in unittest doc. 2012-04-29 10:52:18 +03:00
Senthil Kumaran fb5aebc1cc Fix issue6085 - Remove the delay caused by fqdn lookup while logging in BaseHTTPRequestHandler 2012-04-29 13:39:16 +08:00
Ezio Melotti 1142773084 #14461: fix wording. 2012-04-29 07:34:22 +03:00
Senthil Kumaran 429d311c2b issue14427 - Document Request.get_header and Request.header_items 2012-04-29 11:52:59 +08:00
Ezio Melotti 48d886b725 #14155: add a note about \b. 2012-04-29 04:46:34 +03:00
Sandro Tosi f8ece8d777 refer to file.readline() in stdtypes doc; thanks to Mihai Capotă from docs@ 2012-04-28 12:50:42 +02:00
Sandro Tosi 2d0bcd7ca9 Issue #14676: DeprecationWarning is ignored too; patch by Peter Eisentraut 2012-04-28 12:20:57 +02:00
Sandro Tosi aa31d52b80 Issue #14448: add reference to IANA timezone database; thanks to Georg/Nick suggestions 2012-04-28 11:19:11 +02:00
Raymond Hettinger 9aa1395916 Make the example cut and pasteable. 2012-04-27 09:55:31 -07:00
Sandro Tosi 51a5ad43b5 fix footnote reference; thanks to Fizz from docs@ 2012-04-25 19:55:30 +02:00
Sandro Tosi 13c598b1d8 Issue #14448: mention pytz; patch by Andrew Svetlov 2012-04-24 19:43:33 +02:00
Sandro Tosi 466a5f20f1 Issue #14554: correct example for captured_stdout() 2012-04-24 18:38:59 +02:00
Sandro Tosi 3f0f5776cd Issue #13478: document timeit.default_timer() 2012-04-24 18:11:29 +02:00
Raymond Hettinger 016878aea6 merge 2012-04-23 00:22:48 -07:00
Senthil Kumaran ea17082c25 Update 2.7 docs about legal characters allowed in Cookie name 2012-04-22 10:27:22 +08:00
Ned Deily 9b5952d7cd Remove webbrowser doc reference to the previously removed internet-config option. 2012-04-18 12:48:09 -07:00
Raymond Hettinger 094c33f047 Minor fixups. 2012-04-18 00:25:32 -04:00
Raymond Hettinger 33c66301ee Clean-up the SQLite introduction. 2012-04-17 22:48:06 -04:00
Raymond Hettinger 0e15a6e244 Clarify that a new connection needs to be made after the close. 2012-04-17 15:03:20 -04:00
R David Murray 142ab32ecd #14552: remove redundant wording in 'test' docs.
Original patch by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe.
2012-04-11 20:38:45 -04:00
Senthil Kumaran dc0b324a0f Fix closes Issue14258 - Clarify the re.LOCALE and re.UNICODE flags for \S class 2012-04-11 03:22:58 +08:00
Vinay Sajip 2a1c13bb2d Updated logging reference and HOWTO. 2012-04-10 19:52:06 +01:00
Senthil Kumaran 3661473ae0 minor .rst fix 2012-04-10 19:50:08 +08:00
Sandro Tosi ceeb47d0c3 Issue #14502: release() and unlocked lock generates a ThreadError 2012-04-05 22:51:00 +02:00
Georg Brandl b45c5e2d0e Closes #14489: correct link target. 2012-04-05 09:04:40 +02:00
R David Murray 5fc56eb1ca #14481: fix formatting of example in subprocess docs. 2012-04-03 08:46:05 -04:00
Sandro Tosi 6ca845c66a use unittest.skip; thanks to Chang Min Jeon from docs@ 2012-03-31 18:34:42 +02:00
Sandro Tosi 04cd09552a add 'safari' to webbrowser browsers table; thanks to Jonathan Eunice from docs@ 2012-03-31 17:22:47 +02:00
R David Murray 5080cad646 #10423: clarify options vs args in argparse discussion of optparse
Patch by Sandro Tosi.
2012-03-30 18:09:07 -04:00
R David Murray de294ec02e #14416: add missing LOG_SYSLOG facility to syslog docs. 2012-03-29 06:47:59 -04:00
Sandro Tosi 48a88953cc Issue #14410: fix typo in argparse doc; patch by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe 2012-03-26 19:35:52 +02:00
Vinay Sajip 49d5fbab87 Minor documentation tweak. 2012-03-26 17:06:44 +01:00
Georg Brandl 94a105705f Closes #14250: regex.flags has not only explicit flags but also those from the pattern 2012-03-17 17:31:32 +01:00
Georg Brandl 5a607b06d6 Closes #14343: avoid shadowing builtin input() in example code. 2012-03-17 17:26:27 +01:00
Georg Brandl ce54617260 Closes #14342: remove out-of-date section about avoiding recursion errors. 2012-03-17 17:25:47 +01:00
Senthil Kumaran e3d73544ad explain json.dumps for non-string keys in dicts. closes issue6566. Patch contributed Kirubakaran Athmanathan 2012-03-17 00:37:38 -07:00
R David Murray bee24df3a7 #11780: s/throw/raise/ 2012-03-16 22:11:22 -04:00
R David Murray 0cc4e53d1d #11780: document that email.encoders throw TypeError on multipart messages. 2012-03-16 22:06:08 -04:00
R David Murray 32a3b147b2 #12758: removing confusing mention of UTC from time.time description
Patch by Dylan Sarber.
2012-03-15 03:05:01 -04:00