62 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Mark Dickinson	ba3b0d84bd	Issue #14245: Improve floating-point entry in FAQ. Thanks Zbyszek Jędrzejewski-Szmek for some of the wording.	2012-05-13 21:00:35 +01:00
Ezio Melotti	b35480e1d2	#14770: improve the library FAQ.	2012-05-13 20:14:04 +03:00
Antoine Pitrou	cc6c673a69	Removed outdated statement about pickle's and marshal's relative performance.	2012-05-10 15:18:20 +02:00
Georg Brandl	12c3cd7c1f	Closes #14306: clarify expensiveness of try-except and update code snippet	2012-03-17 16:58:05 +01:00
Georg Brandl	300a691026	Closes #14305: fix typo.	2012-03-14 22:40:08 +01:00
Éric Araujo	01a2215727	Update mention of Subversion in the FAQ. ... If I grepped correctly, this was the last outdated place.	2012-02-12 04:49:45 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou	432259feea	Issue #13528: rework the performance question in the programming FAQ	2011-12-09 23:10:31 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou	ae44b7a099	Remove obsolete references to bsddb	2011-12-05 00:41:19 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou	dec0f21efc	Streamline mention of sorted()	2011-12-03 23:08:57 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou	c561a9adac	Break down and refine memory management question	2011-12-03 23:06:50 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou	17bd792cd3	Reformulate answer, and remove off-topic discussion of bytecode in a question about compiling to C.	2011-12-03 22:56:02 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou	cc809a286a	Fix compatibility statement.	2011-12-03 22:39:13 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou	748799a0a6	Remove outdated question (the bsddb module isn't included anymore)	2011-12-03 22:37:14 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou	d4ddec5988	Refine FAQ entry for catching stdout	2011-12-03 22:35:31 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou	48383bfc67	Advocate PyTuple_Pack instead of manual building of tuples	2011-12-03 22:30:19 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou	f35204055e	Remove outdate FAQ content	2011-12-03 22:19:55 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou	c5b266efb5	Streamline FAQ entry about the ternary operator, and suggest using io.StringIO for a mutable unicode container.	2011-12-03 22:11:11 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou	9cb41dfbaa	Remove references to psyco, which is mostly unmaintained and doesn't work with Python 3.	2011-12-03 21:21:36 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou	7462e87134	Mention the new GTK+ 3 bindings.	2011-12-03 20:59:24 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou	fd9ebd4a36	Clarify concatenation behaviour of immutable strings, and remove explicit ... mention of the CPython optimization hack.	2011-11-25 16:33:53 +01:00
Éric Araujo	9be57231dd	Update dead references from py.org/dev/faq to the devguide (#13176)	2011-10-14 17:37:45 +02:00
Éric Araujo	7af8ebb6ce	Adapt/remove mentions of functions gone in 3.x	2011-09-01 03:20:13 +02:00
Éric Araujo	37b5f9eebc	Fix some misuses of Sphinx roles and one typo	2011-09-01 03:19:30 +02:00
Georg Brandl	e1eef41a18	Close #12838: fix range() call.	2011-08-25 11:52:26 +02:00
Antoine Pitrou	7095721d3e	Mention asyncore and Twisted in the library FAQ.	2011-02-05 11:24:15 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou	11480b6fe3	Mention concurrent.futures and update answers about the GIL.	2011-02-05 11:18:34 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou	f7005243e5	Update test of "why is Python installed" FAQ.	2011-02-05 11:04:01 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou	09264b66f2	Mention Cython and remove obsolete alternatives	2011-02-05 10:57:17 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou	eb50ba5ab7	Update info in the GUI FAQ	2011-02-05 10:43:57 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis	4d0d471a80	Merge branches/pep-0384.	2010-12-03 20:14:31 +00:00
Georg Brandl	fc9794a8fc	Make file names consistent.	2010-10-17 10:15:50 +00:00
Georg Brandl	4985ff2e61	#9086: correct wrong terminology about linking with pythonXY.dll.	2010-10-17 10:14:38 +00:00
Georg Brandl	682d7e0e07	Fix errors found by "make suspicious".	2010-10-06 10:26:05 +00:00
Georg Brandl	60203b41b0	Migrate to Sphinx 1.0 C language constructs.	2010-10-06 10:11:56 +00:00
Brian Curtin	5a7a52fbb0	#9582 - add a missing "are" and reflow the line.	2010-09-23 13:45:21 +00:00
Georg Brandl	6faee4e2ce	#9911: doc copyedits.	2010-09-21 14:48:28 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou	11cb961b38	Add cross-references to the glossary entry for file objects.	2010-09-15 11:11:28 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou	6a11a98b7c	Update file-related information in the FAQ.	2010-09-15 10:08:31 +00:00
Georg Brandl	54ebb78171	Typo fix.	2010-08-14 15:48:49 +00:00
Senthil Kumaran	f0769e8bd0	Fix Issue7007 - Use percent-encoded consistently instead of URL Encoded variations. Docs changed.	2010-08-09 19:53:52 +00:00
Georg Brandl	4abda54889	Take care of duplicate target name warnings.	2010-07-12 09:00:29 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson	d7c3ed54ef	Merged revisions 80605-80609,80642-80646,80651-80652,80674,80684-80686,80748,80852,80854,80870,80872-80873,80907,80915-80916,80951-80952,80976-80977,80985,81038-81040,81042,81053,81070,81104-81105,81114,81125,81245,81285,81402,81463,81516,81562-81563,81567,81593,81635,81680-81681,81684,81801,81888,81931-81933,81939-81942,81963,81984,81991,82120,82188,82264-82267 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r80605 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-28 19:22:16 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line Add various items ........ r80606 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-28 20:44:30 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 6 lines Fix doubled 'the'. Markup fixes to use :exc:, :option: in a few places. (Glitch: unittest.main's -c ends up a link to the Python interpreter's -c option. Should we skip using :option: for that switch, or disable the auto-linking somehow?) ........ r80607 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-28 20:45:41 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line Add various unittest items ........ r80608 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-28 22:18:05 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line update pypy description ........ r80609 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-28 22:30:59 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line update pypy url ........ r80642 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 19:49:09 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line Always add space after RFC; reword paragraph ........ r80643 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 19:52:31 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 6 lines Reword paragraph to make its meaning clearer. Antoine Pitrou: is my version of the paragraph still correct? R. David Murray: is this more understandable than the previous version? ........ r80644 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 20:02:15 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line Fix typos ........ r80645 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 20:32:47 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line Markup fix; clarify by adding 'in that order' ........ r80646 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 20:33:40 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line Add various items; rearrange unittest section a bit ........ r80651 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-30 08:46:55 -0500 (Fri, 30 Apr 2010) | 1 line Minor grammar re-wording ........ r80652 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-30 08:47:34 -0500 (Fri, 30 Apr 2010) | 1 line Add item ........ r80674 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-30 20:19:16 -0500 (Fri, 30 Apr 2010) | 1 line Add various items ........ r80684 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-01 07:05:52 -0500 (Sat, 01 May 2010) | 1 line Minor grammar fix ........ r80685 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-01 07:06:51 -0500 (Sat, 01 May 2010) | 1 line Describe memoryview ........ r80686 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-05-01 07:16:39 -0500 (Sat, 01 May 2010) | 4 lines Fix attribution. Travis didn't do much and he did a bad work. (yes, this is a sensitive subject, sorry) ........ r80748 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-03 20:24:22 -0500 (Mon, 03 May 2010) | 1 line Add some more items; the urlparse change is added twice ........ r80852 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-05 20:09:47 -0500 (Wed, 05 May 2010) | 1 line Reword paragraph; fix filename, which should be pyconfig.h ........ r80854 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-05 20:10:56 -0500 (Wed, 05 May 2010) | 1 line Add various items ........ r80870 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 09:14:09 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line Describe ElementTree 1.3; rearrange new-module sections; describe dict views as sets; small edits and items ........ r80872 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 12:21:59 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line Add 2 items; record ideas for two initial sections; clarify wording ........ r80873 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 12:27:57 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line Change section title; point to unittest2 ........ r80907 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 20:45:14 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line Add a new section on the development plan; add an item ........ r80915 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-05-07 05:15:51 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 3 lines Fix some markup and a class name. Also, wrap a long line. ........ r80916 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-07 06:30:47 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 1 line Re-word text ........ r80951 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-07 20:15:26 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 1 line Add two items ........ r80952 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-07 20:35:55 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 1 line Get accents correct ........ r80976 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-08 08:28:03 -0500 (Sat, 08 May 2010) | 1 line Add logging.dictConfig example; give up on writing a Ttk example ........ r80977 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-08 08:29:46 -0500 (Sat, 08 May 2010) | 1 line Markup fixes ........ r80985 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-08 10:39:46 -0500 (Sat, 08 May 2010) | 7 lines Write summary of the 2.7 release; rewrite the future section some more; mention PYTHONWARNINGS env. var; tweak some examples for readability. And with this commit, the "What's New" is done... except for a complete read-through to polish the text, and fixing any reported errors, but those tasks can easily wait until after beta2. ........ r81038 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-05-09 16:09:40 -0500 (Sun, 09 May 2010) | 1 line finish clause ........ r81039 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 09:18:27 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line Markup fix; re-word a sentence ........ r81040 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 09:20:12 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line Use title case ........ r81042 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 10:03:35 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line Link to unittest2 article ........ r81053 | florent.xicluna | 2010-05-10 14:59:22 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 2 lines Add a link on maketrans(). ........ r81070 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 18:13:41 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line Fix typo ........ r81104 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-11 19:38:44 -0500 (Tue, 11 May 2010) | 1 line Revision pass: lots of edits, typo fixes, rearrangements ........ r81105 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-11 19:40:47 -0500 (Tue, 11 May 2010) | 1 line Let's call this done ........ r81114 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-12 08:56:07 -0500 (Wed, 12 May 2010) | 1 line Grammar fix ........ r81125 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-12 13:56:48 -0500 (Wed, 12 May 2010) | 1 line #8696: add documentation for logging.config.dictConfig (PEP 391) ........ r81245 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-16 18:31:16 -0500 (Sun, 16 May 2010) | 1 line Add cross-reference to later section ........ r81285 | vinay.sajip | 2010-05-18 03:16:27 -0500 (Tue, 18 May 2010) | 1 line Fixed minor typo in ReST markup. ........ r81402 | vinay.sajip | 2010-05-21 12:41:34 -0500 (Fri, 21 May 2010) | 1 line Updated logging documentation with more dictConfig information. ........ r81463 | georg.brandl | 2010-05-22 03:17:23 -0500 (Sat, 22 May 2010) | 1 line #8785: less confusing description of regex.find*. ........ r81516 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-25 08:34:08 -0500 (Tue, 25 May 2010) | 1 line Add three items ........ r81562 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-27 08:22:53 -0500 (Thu, 27 May 2010) | 1 line Rewrite wxWidgets section ........ r81563 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-27 08:30:09 -0500 (Thu, 27 May 2010) | 1 line Remove top-level 'General Questions' section, pushing up the questions it contains ........ r81567 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-27 16:29:59 -0500 (Thu, 27 May 2010) | 1 line Add item ........ r81593 | georg.brandl | 2010-05-29 03:46:18 -0500 (Sat, 29 May 2010) | 1 line #8616: add new turtle demo "nim". ........ r81635 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-01 02:25:23 -0500 (Tue, 01 Jun 2010) | 1 line Put docs for RegexObject.search() before RegexObject.match() to mirror re.search() and re.match() order. ........ r81680 | vinay.sajip | 2010-06-03 17:34:42 -0500 (Thu, 03 Jun 2010) | 1 line Issue #8890: Documentation changed to avoid reference to temporary files. ........ r81681 | sean.reifschneider | 2010-06-03 20:51:26 -0500 (Thu, 03 Jun 2010) | 2 lines Issue8810: Clearing up docstring for tzinfo.utcoffset. ........ r81684 | vinay.sajip | 2010-06-04 08:41:02 -0500 (Fri, 04 Jun 2010) | 1 line Issue #8890: Documentation changed to avoid reference to temporary files - other cases covered. ........ r81801 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-07 08:38:40 -0500 (Mon, 07 Jun 2010) | 1 line #8875: Remove duplicated paragraph ........ r81888 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-10 20:54:58 -0500 (Thu, 10 Jun 2010) | 1 line Add a few more items ........ r81931 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 01:26:54 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line Fix punctuation. ........ r81932 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 01:28:58 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line Document that an existing directory raises in mkdir(). ........ r81933 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 01:45:33 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line Update version in README. ........ r81939 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:45:01 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line Use newer toctree syntax. ........ r81940 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:45:28 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line Add document on how to build. ........ r81941 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:45:58 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line Fix gratuitous indentation. ........ r81942 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:46:03 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line Update README. ........ r81963 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-12 15:00:55 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line Grammar fix ........ r81984 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-14 10:58:39 -0500 (Mon, 14 Jun 2010) | 1 line #8993: fix reference. ........ r81991 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-14 19:38:58 -0500 (Mon, 14 Jun 2010) | 1 line Add another bunch of items ........ r82120 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-20 16:45:45 -0500 (Sun, 20 Jun 2010) | 1 line Note that Python 3.x isn't covered; add forward ref. for UTF-8; note error in 2.5 and up ........ r82188 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-06-23 19:02:46 -0500 (Wed, 23 Jun 2010) | 1 line remove reverted changed ........ r82264 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:47:47 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line Confusing punctuation. ........ r82265 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:49:23 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line Use designated syntax for optional grammar element. ........ r82266 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:51:44 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line Fix URL. ........ r82267 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:55:38 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line Two typos. ........	2010-06-27 22:32:30 +00:00
Brian Curtin	f4ed2066fc	Merged revisions 80009 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r80009 | brian.curtin | 2010-04-12 13:07:21 -0500 (Mon, 12 Apr 2010) | 2 lines Update the Windows FAQ's text about os.kill (#1220212). ........	2010-04-12 18:10:10 +00:00
Ezio Melotti	19192dd402	Merged revisions 79797 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r79797 | ezio.melotti | 2010-04-05 15:51:45 +0300 (Mon, 05 Apr 2010) | 1 line Fix some broken URLs. ........	2010-04-05 13:25:51 +00:00
Georg Brandl	ff24c8e11e	Merged revisions 79181 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r79181 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-21 10:51:16 +0100 (So, 21 Mär 2010) | 1 line Update os.kill() emulation example for Windows to use ctypes. ........	2010-03-21 09:52:24 +00:00
Georg Brandl	c4a55fccab	Recorded merge of revisions 78024 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r78024 | georg.brandl | 2010-02-06 19:44:44 +0100 (Sa, 06 Feb 2010) | 1 line #5341: fix "builtin" where used as an adjective ("built-in" is correct). ........	2010-02-06 18:46:57 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson	1baf465d27	Merged revisions 76847,76851,76869,76882,76891-76892,76924,77007,77070,77092,77096,77120,77126,77155 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r76847 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-12-14 21:25:27 -0600 (Mon, 14 Dec 2009) | 1 line adverb ........ r76851 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-12-15 21:28:52 -0600 (Tue, 15 Dec 2009) | 1 line remove lib2to3 resource ........ r76869 | vinay.sajip | 2009-12-17 08:52:00 -0600 (Thu, 17 Dec 2009) | 1 line Issue #7529: logging: Minor correction to documentation. ........ r76882 | georg.brandl | 2009-12-19 11:30:28 -0600 (Sat, 19 Dec 2009) | 1 line #7527: use standard versionadded tags. ........ r76891 | georg.brandl | 2009-12-19 12:16:31 -0600 (Sat, 19 Dec 2009) | 1 line #7479: add note about function availability on Unices. ........ r76892 | georg.brandl | 2009-12-19 12:20:18 -0600 (Sat, 19 Dec 2009) | 1 line #7480: remove tautology. ........ r76924 | georg.brandl | 2009-12-20 08:28:05 -0600 (Sun, 20 Dec 2009) | 1 line Small indentation fix. ........ r77007 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-12-23 03:31:11 -0600 (Wed, 23 Dec 2009) | 3 lines Fix possible integer overflow in lchown and fchown functions. For issue1747858. ........ r77070 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-12-27 14:06:44 -0600 (Sun, 27 Dec 2009) | 2 lines Fix a typo in comment ........ r77092 | georg.brandl | 2009-12-28 02:48:24 -0600 (Mon, 28 Dec 2009) | 1 line #7404: remove reference to non-existing example files. ........ r77096 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-12-28 14:51:17 -0600 (Mon, 28 Dec 2009) | 1 line document new fix_callable behavior ........ r77120 | georg.brandl | 2009-12-29 15:09:17 -0600 (Tue, 29 Dec 2009) | 1 line #7595: fix typo in argument default constant. ........ r77126 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-12-29 17:06:17 -0600 (Tue, 29 Dec 2009) | 2 lines #7579: Add docstrings to the msvcrt module ........ r77155 | georg.brandl | 2009-12-30 13:03:00 -0600 (Wed, 30 Dec 2009) | 1 line We only support Windows NT derivatives now. ........	2009-12-31 03:11:23 +00:00
Georg Brandl	99de488949	#7493: more review fixes.	2009-12-20 14:24:06 +00:00
Georg Brandl	11b636291a	#7495: more review fixes.	2009-12-20 14:21:27 +00:00
Ezio Melotti	0639d5aeb6	Merged revisions 76904 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r76904 | ezio.melotti | 2009-12-20 00:41:49 +0200 (Sun, 20 Dec 2009) | 1 line #7388: "python".capitalize() in the Doc ........	2009-12-19 23:26:38 +00:00