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1016 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Guido van Rossum 1804dc3c07 Document abspath() (implementation is forthcoming). 1999-01-29 18:05:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 703b70e260 Added \modulesynopsis. 1999-01-28 19:30:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 9d814c6805 Document the repr module. This removes the entire "Code objects and
files, debugger etc." section from "Undocumented Modules"!
1999-01-27 17:20:33 +00:00
Fred Drake da452bf6a7 Don't say that the module defines the "following functions" and then
only describe one; say "following function" instead!

Merge the two one-sentence paragraphs into a single paragraph, so it
doesn't look too stupid.
1999-01-27 15:48:23 +00:00
Fred Drake ebe2a12de8 Incorporate changes for patched version of ConfigParser. 1999-01-26 21:49:05 +00:00
Fred Drake bc866ce2e3 Documentation for the ConfigParser module, by Christopher G. Petrilli
(petrilli@amber.org).
1999-01-26 15:47:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9700e9becc Document the default for tabsize in expandtabs(). 1999-01-25 22:31:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 19a0dba342 Add caveat on partial dependence on the "cl" module, only available on
IRIX systems.
1999-01-20 16:26:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 9ea3e36419 Move the jpeg module to the SGI section; it is dependent on the "cl"
module available on IRIX.
1999-01-20 15:55:20 +00:00
Fred Drake a7998f650a Revised comments on null bytes in pattern string.
Removed "New" from module synopsis.
1999-01-19 20:00:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 6ffa445832 Fix second description of handling 2-digit years (last item in
introductory text).
1999-01-19 19:35:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 7eca8e5017 Fix typo spotted by Jeff MacDonald <jam@ans.net>. 1999-01-18 15:46:02 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 53610caee2 for method getaddrlist(): Added a note clarifying that all named
headers and their continuation lines are parsed.
1999-01-14 21:26:54 +00:00
Fred Drake e36e4e6778 Use \refmodule when we say "use the XXX module instead".
For the whatsound module, point to sndhdr.
1999-01-13 17:11:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 39cddb7439 Added \modulesynopsis. 1999-01-12 19:22:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 03dd3efd5a <writer>.send_paragraph(): Clarify what needs to be done by this
method and what it should not do.  (Specifically: handling
	breaking of last line of preceeding paragraph.)
1999-01-12 18:33:47 +00:00
Fred Drake bb3b0028ba Patches describing the statvfs() and fstatvfs() functions. Additional
text about large file support.

All new text by Steve Clift <clift@mail.anacapa.net>, with only minor
revision / addition of markup.
1999-01-11 18:36:23 +00:00
Fred Drake c7dd3e11da Markup nit.
Add module synopsis.
1999-01-07 15:45:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cf3ce92ef4 Explain how come that pickle and cPickle, while using the same data
format, can produce different pickle strings for the same object.
1999-01-06 23:34:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 87e611e441 Replace the docs for reduce with an adaptation of its docstring, which
was actually clearer!
1999-01-06 23:10:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 74429eacb5 Add doc for access() and ttyname(). Patch by Sean Reifschneider. 1999-01-06 23:03:43 +00:00
Fred Drake c553358c63 Remove documentation for whatraw() since it's gone now. 1999-01-06 15:21:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 60adb362df Document the sndhdr module.
Document that the whatsound module is obsolete.
1999-01-05 23:09:12 +00:00
Fred Drake a2e4017394 Shorten the synopsis that gets into the table of contents. 1999-01-05 22:54:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 02e18b4b84 Added missing "from" in IOError description. 1999-01-05 21:42:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f07c328c07 Document the optional mode argument (Z_FLUSH, Z_SYNC_FLUSH, etc.)
to the flush() method of compressor objects.
1998-12-31 21:14:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 94c4a7976f Added index entries to make it easier to locate directory & file operations. 1998-12-28 21:58:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 8692998018 Added index entries to make it easier to locate directory operations. 1998-12-28 21:58:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 76fa3b73d6 Remove recently documented modules from the undoc list. 1998-12-28 20:53:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 449e18f459 Add documentation for shutil module. 1998-12-28 20:16:58 +00:00
Fred Drake cd058539a8 Adjust a few niggles that affected the HTML conversion (a couple of
"^"s were being dropped in the context of [^...]).
1998-12-28 19:03:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 99e2c39b31 Add the getpass module. 1998-12-22 23:37:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 5ac2a07fca Basic documentation for the getpass module. 1998-12-22 23:37:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 5cb48a4c98 Added a \versionchanged since the API changed to support
namespaces with 1.5.2.

Added an index entry.

Fixed XML expansion:  XML is the "Extensible Markup Language", not the
"eXtended Markup Language".
1998-12-22 18:46:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 292b9ebfba Added information on when this was added, allowing us to release the
documentation on the Web while people are still using < 1.5.2b1.
1998-12-22 18:40:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 1189fa98eb Adjust markup to match current conventions, and make it formattable. 1998-12-22 18:24:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 768ac6b804 Start of text that describes differences between match and search.
Strengthen pointers to the search() function and method.
1998-12-22 18:19:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 191f2857f5 Use \moduleauthor and \sectionauthor instead of a comment to credit
the author (just happened to notice this one).
1998-12-22 18:06:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 7be0cde3a0 Add an explanation about what the example does and doesn't do.
Fix an appearantly new behavior with latex2html with quoting.  (Good
incentive to work on the SGML conversion! ;)
1998-12-22 18:04:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5e97c9dff9 Adding libshlex and libnetrc by Eric Raymond. 1998-12-22 05:18:24 +00:00
Fred Drake e848976fba Clarify descriptions of some operations; it's not always clear that
strings are not actually modified.  Problem reported by Dr. Peter
Stoehr <peter.stoehr@weihenstephan.org>.
1998-12-21 18:56:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 3b02ddfa41 Add a bunch of index entries related to retrieving information from
the process table.
1998-12-21 18:52:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b083a9fb54 Sjoerd Mullender writes:
Here is my current version of xmllib.py and the documentation.  This
version has some API changes with respect to the version currently in
Python (also the one in 1.5.2a).
This version supports XML namespaces.
1998-12-18 20:17:13 +00:00
Fred Drake fee6abea90 Remove another {\rm ...} construct.
Sheesh, where do these things come from?
1998-12-10 19:57:52 +00:00
Fred Drake e9e05968e3 Nits. 1998-12-10 05:04:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 0ad55fb241 Update the descriptions of strftime() and strptime() to avoid
confusion, and describe what the "directives" are about.
1998-12-08 19:59:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum aac399b80b Correct the poplib example. Stephan Richter pointed out some problems
with it.
1998-12-08 16:30:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 64583d3f87 Rename the parameters of atan2(), based on comments from Guido & Peter
A. Koren <pkoren@hex.net>.
1998-12-08 16:10:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f484a3366b Sjoerd writes:
When literal mode is entered it should exit automatically when the
matching close tag of the last unclosed open tag is encountered.  This
patch fixes this.
1998-12-07 21:59:56 +00:00
Fred Drake d83675f344 "singed" --> "signed" (3 places)
Noticed by Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>.
1998-12-07 17:13:18 +00:00