Fred Drake
ce1650f3a5
A large contribution from Dave Kuhlman describing what each of the slots
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in the type object is used for, for many of the more commonly used slots.
Thanks!
(But there is still a lot more to write on this topic.)
Markup and organizational changes by your friendly neighborhood
documentation czar.
2001-08-15 19:07:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
87731762f2
Dave Kuhlman has contributed a nice improvement to the "Defining New Types"
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section of the Extending & Embedding manual -- thanks!
2001-08-15 19:00:29 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
94a7eba9db
Note addition of cleanfuture.py
2001-08-15 15:55:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
ce575bac5e
Fix a minor typo and mark an exception name that was missed.
2001-08-14 21:51:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
c0cf726d8c
Add material about the "r" and "u" prefixes for string literals; should
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be reviewed for clarity.
Work around a bogosity in the HTML version of the escape sequences table
conversion.
2001-08-14 21:43:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
0cac5f697b
Added some examples of table markup.
2001-08-14 21:36:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
3e2aca48bd
Add information about __floordiv__() and __truediv__() methods for
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implementing numeric objects in Python.
2001-08-14 20:28:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
d3ba10f4b5
Clarify the prompt in an example.
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This closes SF bug #450633 .
2001-08-14 19:55:42 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
5ef99a0bc5
Describe the new semantics for setting and deleting a function's
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__dict__ attribute. Deleting it, or setting it to a non-dictionary
result in a TypeError. Note that getting it the first time magically
initializes it to an empty dict so that func.__dict__ will always
appear to be a dictionary (never None).
Closes SF bug #446645 .
2001-08-14 18:22:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
680cabb225
Add "exceptions" to the list of fundamental modules
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created by Py_Initialize().
This closes SF bug #450621 .
2001-08-14 15:32:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
280f7253e4
Insert omitted "the".
2001-08-14 11:42:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
bf781a95c0
Add the smtpd module to the list of undocumented modules; Barry needs to
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write the documentation for this module.
2001-08-14 11:38:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
6943a29cbf
David Goodger <dgoodger@atsautomation.com>:
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Documentation for difflib/ndiff refactoring: more of the ndiff functionality
has been moved to the underlying library (difflib).
This closes SF patch #445413 .
2001-08-13 19:31:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
84e58ab722
For the escape() function, added a reference to the quoteattrs() function
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in xml.sax.saxutils, since that is the right function to use for quoting
attribute values.
This closes SF bug #444707 .
Cleaned up a variety of other minor markup errors.
2001-08-11 03:28:41 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
9e9c1358e8
Add section on PEP 238 changes
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Minor grammatical changes, reformattings, and an error fix from Keith Briggs
2001-08-11 03:06:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
1cf0f1751f
Add a note that the quoteattr() function is useful for HTML and SGML
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attributes as well.
2001-08-10 22:14:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
11ee90289c
Added documentation for PyDict_Update() and PyDict_Merge().
2001-08-10 21:31:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
1cb560a653
Do more to be compatible with Windows/CygWin. Make error messages more
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informative when a child process dies with an error.
This is a variation of parts of SF patch #429611 .
2001-08-10 20:17:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
9443dc31c1
Remove the use of the "cat" program. This improves portability to non-Unix
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platforms.
This is part the response to SF patch #429611 .
2001-08-10 20:12:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
8a7b59e7b4
Added this LaTeX style file to the package since not all LaTeX installations
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have it, especially on non-Unix platforms. (MikTeX in particular does not
have it.)
This is part of the response to SF patch #429611 .
2001-08-10 19:47:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
d635e3c468
Added a warning about reference cycles and memory consumption to the
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section on functions which return stack frames.
This closes SF bug #449258 .
2001-08-10 17:37:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
6d8d72b0cb
Usage fix, problem reported by Keith Briggs.
2001-08-10 16:15:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
e89659c02d
Added documentation for the new rich comparison support.
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This closes SF patch #428320 .
Added documentation for the new floordiv() and truediv() functions.
This is part of SF bug #449093 .
Re-organized the listing of functions to get better logical grouping.
2001-08-10 15:55:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
024ef6f493
Remove the bogus flags parameter from the PyFile_WriteString() signature;
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it has no such parameter.
This closes SF bug #449761 .
2001-08-10 14:27:38 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
9b75dca192
Expose nl_langinfo through locale where available.
2001-08-10 13:58:50 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
8cc965c1fb
Patch #448474 : Add support for tell() and seek() to gzip.GzipFile.
2001-08-09 07:21:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
0197858f62
Added documentation for PyNumber_*FloorDivide(), PyNumber_*TrueDivide(),
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PyInterpreterState_*Head(), PyInterpreterState_Next(), and
PyThreadState_Next().
Wrapped some long lines, added some others.
2001-08-08 19:14:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
03590c6bdc
Reference counting information for PyNumber_*FloorDivide() and
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PyNumber_*TrueDivide().
2001-08-08 18:50:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
e54acfd8b2
Add option to push the development docs to SF without announcing, for
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when the changes are just too small.
2001-08-08 05:41:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
ecab00176f
More names....
2001-08-08 05:39:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
3a5ec57456
Clean up some of the markup here -- be more consistent in the use of
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semantic labels instead of presentational markup.
2001-08-08 05:39:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
a7d608d1cf
"Thin" version of floor division docs: add // to the list of operators
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and //= to the list of other delimiter tokens.
I'll work on it again when it's not so late...
2001-08-08 05:37:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
8c69c91be3
Document two new items
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Correct error noticed by Keith Briggs
Re-indent a paragraph
2001-08-07 14:28:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
58212724f2
Add a comment on time.time() returning non-decreasing values except when
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the clock is set back.
This closes SF bug #447945 .
2001-08-05 15:43:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
c9908c4f5c
Document IPv6 changes. Contributed by itojun.
2001-08-04 22:22:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
53765753c4
Lots of new text and example code on embedding Python in C, contributed
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by Albert Hofkamp. Some editing has been done for style and markup
consistency.
This also supplies an example of importing modules and calling a function
defined in the module, so this closes SF bug #440037 as well.
(The long example code was moved to a separate file so that it would
format properly.)
2001-08-04 01:58:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
b3cc29b493
Note that the mimetypes.MimeTypes class was added in Python 2.2.
2001-08-04 00:48:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
d5efb17086
Add documentation for the new aspects of the mimetypes module.
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This closes the SF bug (feature request) #439710 .
2001-08-03 21:03:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
d86038d1be
Apply the new \mailheader macro where appropriate, and fix a few small
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markup inconsistencies.
2001-08-03 18:39:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
7eac0cb04c
Define the \mailheader macro and document conventions for using it.
2001-08-03 18:36:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
30cf118cf7
Minor markup nits and slight style-guide conformance changes.
2001-08-03 17:11:33 +00:00
Jack Jansen
cb60dae6a1
Documented the runtimemodel attribute.
2001-08-03 13:19:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
5d54879647
Fix some of the example code; the reference objects do not support a
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get() method; just calling them is sufficient. (There was a get() method
for this in an early version of the implementation.)
Reported by Mats Wichmann.
2001-08-03 03:50:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
8dd6ffd0ec
User-defined methods *can* contain things other than user-defined functions
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as the callable, so use more flexible language.
2001-08-02 21:34:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
51629c245a
Add a caveat about boundary conditions and RE concatenation, so that the
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documents do not make an overly-strong assertion about the properties of
RE concatenation.
Add an example of RE{m,} syntax and what it will and will not match.
2001-08-02 20:52:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
f90490ef94
Move away from apply() to using extended call syntax for some example
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fragments when discussing equivalence of thhe C API to what a Python
programmer sees.
Added descriptions of PyEval_SetProfile() and PyEval_SetTrace().
2001-08-02 18:00:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
044bb4d22a
Explain that __init__() methods do not get to return values.
2001-08-02 15:53:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
388f37e6f6
Add anentry for the distutils.sysconfig module docs.
2001-08-02 15:13:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
ab70b38367
Update some incorrect comments about the bdist commands that exist.
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Add an entry for the distutils.sysconfig module docs.
2001-08-02 15:13:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
25376c4f8b
Documentation for the distutils.sysconfig module.
2001-08-02 15:12:07 +00:00