16214fb017
Fix a couple of grammatical errors reported by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-04-23 20:00:53 +00:00
4aa4f30759
Work-around LaTeX2HTML space-dropping bug.
1999-04-23 17:30:40 +00:00
87b8f318b0
Fixed some logical markup nits.
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Added a pointer to Grail in the see-also section, since it's used as
an example.
1999-04-23 17:26:24 +00:00
deb7e096d3
Logical markup.
1999-04-23 17:11:53 +00:00
806764bee4
No, __repr__() does not accept a parameter other than self.
1999-04-23 17:03:21 +00:00
0fbec55e23
Shorten the section title.
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Adjust markup to be a little more consistent with the rest of the
document.
1999-04-23 16:44:53 +00:00
eea97ea063
Shorten the section title.
1999-04-23 16:07:38 +00:00
86bd5e48c3
Shorten the section title.
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Fix a couple of grammatical errors.
1999-04-23 16:02:30 +00:00
7475e04fad
Work around a space-dropping problem in LaTeX2HTML.
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Clarify the usage of a parameter.
1999-04-23 15:57:23 +00:00
ae35aa8b63
Added "See also" sections linking to binascii.
1999-04-23 15:52:18 +00:00
ee4d54ea33
Refer to the binhex module, not the non-existent hexbin module.
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Added a "See also" section.
1999-04-23 15:42:36 +00:00
26f7cfe9c7
Fix some glaring markup consistency problems (presentation was
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broken).
Added a "See also" section.
1999-04-23 15:41:53 +00:00
812860e81d
Hack places where '--' should appear as literal output but the -- was
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(properly) converted to - by LaTeX2HTML.
1999-04-23 14:46:18 +00:00
ffbe68723a
Make internal module references hyperlinks wherever it makes sense.
1999-04-22 21:23:22 +00:00
7b8b125fa6
Remove bogus characters in code sample.
1999-04-22 21:19:53 +00:00
fcf94d4edd
Work around LaTeX2HTML comment-handling bug.
1999-04-22 20:55:59 +00:00
4a406c619b
Shorten the section title.
1999-04-22 20:52:44 +00:00
c8c40ff699
Added a "See also" section with some external references.
1999-04-22 20:16:02 +00:00
4e28c593ad
Markup nits.
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Make module references hyperlinks.
1999-04-22 18:25:47 +00:00
b7168c3a07
Clean up lots of mark up.
1999-04-22 17:53:37 +00:00
79936fe73f
Added descriptions of the various exceptions, based on the docstrings.
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Various small cleanups.
1999-04-22 17:23:34 +00:00
c8993aad10
Logical markup and small nits.
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Don't refer to the STDWIN chapter; chances are really good it wasn't
included. ;-)
1999-04-22 16:50:40 +00:00
12a956921f
Make some module references hyperlinks.
1999-04-22 16:47:27 +00:00
b774550ba5
Minor logical markup nits.
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Make some module references hyperlinks.
1999-04-22 16:46:18 +00:00
dd6c6d9b0a
Clean up some mark up.
1999-04-22 16:45:26 +00:00
e2effbd32d
Fix minor (English) usage nits.
1999-04-22 16:21:09 +00:00
bcd5454d63
Reference to urllib module can be a hyperlink.
1999-04-22 16:17:45 +00:00
4429772ea3
Fix dropped space in the HTML output.
1999-04-22 16:15:34 +00:00
babdda53d5
Make reference to the socket module a hyperlink.
1999-04-22 16:03:30 +00:00
bf0f4346af
Shorten the section title.
1999-04-22 15:53:35 +00:00
47894d2858
Don't describe this module as being a popen() wrapper; that's a little
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confusing. This is clearly Unix-specific; label it as such.
1999-04-22 15:19:01 +00:00
a694e00085
Remove \platform declaration; this module is generic.
1999-04-22 15:14:11 +00:00
5254a6d682
Move stat to the Generic chapter.
1999-04-22 15:01:44 +00:00
ca69a03dd6
Don't refer to the system documentation as "man pages"; too
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Unix-centric. Note that this can be used with the output of
os.fstat() as well as os.stat() and os.lstat().
1999-04-22 14:55:43 +00:00
2ea30f4d8c
Add warning that last() and previous() don't work for hashtable
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databases (opened using hashopen()), as noted by Skip Montanaro on
comp.lang.python.
1999-04-22 14:06:36 +00:00
b9f1f6d90b
Misc. markup nits.
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All sections get reasonable file names in the HTML output.
1999-04-21 21:43:17 +00:00
2dabd811cd
Fix markup typo.
1999-04-21 21:33:24 +00:00
d146edfaf1
Mark the "Notes:" sections under tables the same way it's done
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elsewhere in the library reference.
1999-04-21 21:15:35 +00:00
b11d108cdc
The version information here was checked good in 1999, not 199. ;-)
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Added "See also" reference to zlib home page, even though it's
mentioned in the text.
1999-04-21 18:44:41 +00:00
2799f9d09a
Reflow paragraph to work around LaTeX2HTML dropping a space.
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Make all references to the os module hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 18:33:47 +00:00
6d20caa2ce
Reflow paragraph to work around LaTeX2HTML dropping a space.
1999-04-21 18:17:11 +00:00
543e19d923
Small nits, more hyperlinks.
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Added more information for cStringIO.
1999-04-21 18:15:22 +00:00
048b75bd9a
Make references to whrandom hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 18:14:22 +00:00
ec6baaf618
Small markup nits.
1999-04-21 18:13:31 +00:00
54f2fdd1ad
Make the names of the referenced modules hyperlinks; they had not been
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marked at all.
1999-04-21 18:10:08 +00:00
02e8c0fd2d
Nits. Reference to signal module becomes a hyperlink.
1999-04-21 18:01:14 +00:00
283c588402
Work around LaTeX2HTML comment-handling bug.
1999-04-21 17:57:15 +00:00
318c0b131f
Logical markup nits.
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Make references to other modules hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 17:29:14 +00:00
c3845a14d3
Logical markup & other small nits.
1999-04-21 17:18:04 +00:00
11bc8cfee3
Explain *why* the copytree() implementation is presented as the
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example!
1999-04-21 17:08:51 +00:00
e688aec707
Textual references to the glob module can be hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 17:04:43 +00:00
737aa552f4
Markup nit to fixed dropped space in HTML output.
1999-04-21 17:01:15 +00:00
4747f7f61d
Markup nits.
1999-04-21 16:41:40 +00:00
4f6e4fbc1d
Added "See also" reference to xdrlib.
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Markup nits.
1999-04-21 16:38:53 +00:00
69fa56327a
Markup nits.
1999-04-21 16:29:57 +00:00
8307e21a2a
Mark the references to module names use \module or \refmodule (the
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closing paragraph used \code).
1999-04-21 16:29:18 +00:00
6ed122a334
Important fix mentioned by The Dragon De Monsyne: the sendmail()
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method does _not_ disconnect the connection when it throws a
SMTPHeloError!
1999-04-21 16:19:16 +00:00
a889add5d6
Oops; minor nit in example: none of the other interactive examples
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show the "trailing" prompt, so don't show it here!
1999-04-21 16:00:24 +00:00
3d815bd1c7
Added link to xdrlib module in "See also" section.
1999-04-21 15:57:29 +00:00
c3fcd6fa0e
Added index entry for "file objects"; this is appearantly referenced
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somewhere in the Reference Manual, and someone tried to locate it via
the index. Report on the omission by Stefan Franke
<sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-04-21 13:58:17 +00:00
7ceb5777d7
Added doc for the "module" attribute on the class descriptor objects;
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omission repoorted by Glyn Webster <glyn@ninz.org.nz>.
1999-04-20 18:18:53 +00:00
ad56dafd62
Added example use of pack_list() to help explain the pack_item
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parameter. Lack of clarity reported by Matthew Gallagher
<hew@hons.cs.usyd.edu.au>.
1999-04-20 13:41:14 +00:00
4ae52694c9
Updated to reflect additions.
1999-04-19 21:21:28 +00:00
32c562bdec
colorsys docs from David Ascher.
1999-04-19 21:20:13 +00:00
9d15881744
bsddb docs from Skip Montanaro; added interesting links.
1999-04-19 21:19:21 +00:00
e9af64c373
Remove superfluous index entry for posix.popen(); no longer
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appropriate since popen() is only documented in os.
1999-04-16 19:00:48 +00:00
dac9a4e3db
Added link to Fredrik Lundh's online Tkinter reference material.
1999-04-16 18:26:22 +00:00
31bfbc6bff
Minor nits, include author info.
1999-04-16 14:03:32 +00:00
0ebd5483be
Removed dbhash from the undocumented list.
1999-04-15 16:05:29 +00:00
666255f5ac
Document the dbhash module, and link to it from appropriate places.
1999-04-15 15:11:40 +00:00
f4cbada3f9
Correct documentation for <file>.read(); Python makes a serious
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best-effort to return 'size' bytes. Point out that this may mean
multiple fread() calls. Reported by Anders Hammarquist
<iko@iko.pp.se> via the Debian crew.
1999-04-14 14:31:53 +00:00
e331356ff7
Fix availability declaration for popen2 module; report by Barry Scott
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<barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 22:03:26 +00:00
b9971b9964
Minor cleanup.
1999-04-13 21:39:31 +00:00
592dd78408
Fix availability declaration for stat module; report by Barry Scott
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<barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 21:38:02 +00:00
31ec33ed60
Work around problems with HTML conversion by making the break and
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tbreak synopses be all on one line (each). Known problem, most
recently reported by Barry Scott <barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 21:36:44 +00:00
bfb092eb86
Misspellling: "occurance" --> "occurrence"
1999-04-09 19:57:09 +00:00
7969f31c4d
Updated documentation by Per Cederqvist. I've added back the
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documentation sendmail() to reflect the changes by The Dragon
(see smtplib.py checkin).
1999-04-07 15:56:51 +00:00
4f21d54764
Added more "See also" entries, + 1 inline hyperlink.
1999-04-05 22:18:12 +00:00
ea003fcc2a
Fixed latex2html weirdness with footnotes.
1999-04-05 21:59:15 +00:00
45b0aeda3c
correct version info for zlib.
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add note about module failing with old versions of the library.
update comment that explains that this doc is *still* out of date
1999-04-05 21:55:21 +00:00
9aa8543c84
open() description: Made it more clear that 'b' should always be
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added to the mode value for binary files to improve
portability.
Fixed latex2html weirdness with a couple of footnotes.
1999-04-05 21:22:41 +00:00
01553706bf
Added a few items to the "See also" sections at Guido's prompting. Made
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more references to other modules in the text hyperlinks for the HTML and
PDF versions.
1999-04-05 19:46:21 +00:00
50ae47b0de
Removed bosities around example code; not sure where that stuff crept
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in!
1999-04-05 19:26:16 +00:00
1dc3a501a6
Made improvements based on changes just made and comments from
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Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@csd.uwm.edu>.
1999-04-05 19:00:54 +00:00
806a467fbf
Where rfc822.Message is mentioned, add a link to the rfc822 module.
1999-03-27 05:45:46 +00:00
cb1f2420ea
Document complex() with string arg.
1999-03-25 21:23:26 +00:00
5fc9c869dd
SIGTERM is no longer caught to call sys.exitfunc.
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This change was made long ago but the documentation was never updated.
1999-03-25 20:30:00 +00:00
e82f5b3d6e
Added note about ftpmirror.py, since that seems to be one of the most
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requested Python tools/examples.
1999-03-25 05:04:17 +00:00
8be229650d
Document new builtin buffer(). Greg Stein.
1999-03-19 19:10:14 +00:00
596766772e
Documented FTP.set_pasv().
1999-03-18 16:08:54 +00:00
154d909993
Note that abspath() was added in 1.5.2.
1999-03-17 22:25:11 +00:00
8d2c0c2ab4
Fixed minor nits, added index entries to make these easier to find for people
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not familiar with Unix terminology.
1999-03-16 16:40:01 +00:00
658cef0141
Preliminary mhlib and telnetlib documents from Skip Montanaro -- thanks, Skip!
1999-03-15 15:44:18 +00:00
bf5a6d2eb4
Fixed tons of small markup problems.
1999-03-12 19:57:38 +00:00
b3a20bc44c
Added availabililty annotations to respond to concerns of /F.
1999-03-12 18:34:21 +00:00
93503ca57b
Fixup the module keys. There were some problems with hosting / processing
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file HTML files on Windows machines do to case insensitivity.
1999-03-12 16:24:22 +00:00
be110c1706
Updates based on comments from /F.
1999-03-12 15:27:35 +00:00
35c3ffdc3f
Fixed description of WSTOPSIG(), added WTERMSIG(). Problem reported
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by Jonathan Giddy <jon@dgs.monash.edu.au>.
1999-03-04 14:08:10 +00:00
a54a887f66
"\platform{UNIX}" should really be spelled "\platform{Unix}".
1999-03-02 17:03:42 +00:00
f6863c1909
Added \platform annotations.
1999-03-02 16:37:17 +00:00
43b34da656
extract_tb(): Only describe this function once. Problem reported by
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Jonathan Giddy <jon@dgs.monash.edu.au>.
1999-02-26 18:51:21 +00:00
390636382a
Typo: "Availabilty" --> "Availability"
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Thanks to /F!
1999-02-26 14:05:02 +00:00
51027c4173
Added note about comments, from Christopher Petrilli.
1999-02-24 22:36:44 +00:00
16e81f4484
Update some of the top comments and shorten title of the first
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section.
1999-02-24 19:57:14 +00:00
f2b4554403
Document the correct class hierarchy for SystemExit. It is not an
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error and so it derives from Exception and not SystemError.
1999-02-24 00:27:14 +00:00
1ec71cb556
Incorporated updates to describe geturl() by Sjoerd Mullender
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<Sjoerd.Mullender@cwi.nl>.
1999-02-22 22:42:14 +00:00
00a3a65cc0
Refer to the right RFC in the intro.
1999-02-22 17:12:42 +00:00
7d9b13325d
Other chapter titles refer to collections of modules as "Services"; do
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the same here.
1999-02-22 14:48:00 +00:00
fab41f1788
BabylMailbox description: Properly escape the backslashes in the
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string representations.
1999-02-22 14:26:16 +00:00
b63e77ccb0
Oops, used a \label twice - fix one of them.
1999-02-22 14:14:48 +00:00
180b68b3cf
More reasonable section titles.
1999-02-22 13:45:09 +00:00
76991ec75a
Shorten section title.
1999-02-20 05:20:49 +00:00
199b79c37b
Added descriptions for BabylMailbox and Maildir (Qmail) mailbox
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objects.
1999-02-20 05:04:59 +00:00
67d229ea76
Shorten section title.
1999-02-20 04:51:16 +00:00
bbac43223c
Shorten a few section titles.
1999-02-20 00:14:17 +00:00
da57365337
Give subsections reasonable file names in the HTML.
1999-02-19 23:48:05 +00:00
342501142d
Added an index entry.
1999-02-19 23:45:06 +00:00
56f8185a53
Shortened the short synopsis -- too long.
1999-02-19 22:59:56 +00:00
9f03380d1c
Use more current approach to recording authors.
1999-02-19 22:56:08 +00:00
c60047575d
Shortened the short synopsis -- way too long.
1999-02-19 22:33:51 +00:00
d8a41e6391
Fix an amazing number of typos & malformed sentences reported by Detlef
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Lannert <lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-02-19 17:54:10 +00:00
f6346345b0
Noted that the module was added in 1.5.2.
1999-02-19 15:46:38 +00:00
4e7c205470
Update description of what modules "look like" when printed.
1999-02-19 15:30:25 +00:00
cd71aa2a38
Use current approach to record documentation author.
1999-02-18 21:13:03 +00:00
2a2f1fe4d5
Record module & documentation author.
1999-02-18 21:10:32 +00:00
6b103f1e12
Documentation for pyclbr and tokenize modules.
1999-02-18 21:06:50 +00:00
4d358b5d23
Added sections for pyclbr and tokenize.
1999-02-18 20:40:26 +00:00
7c829b3179
Remove the "Parsing Python" section. Hurray!
1999-02-18 20:39:44 +00:00
70a66c9d6d
Add notes to __builtin__.float() and string.atof() that the NaN and Inf
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results are possible but non-portable.
1999-02-18 16:08:36 +00:00
951eea4733
atof() description: Add information about accepting 'NaN' to produce
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the NaN value.
1999-02-18 03:49:20 +00:00
85a59dd68b
The _O_* constants are defined as O_* in the os module.
1999-02-16 19:41:01 +00:00
9329e5ec75
Remove "_" from the P_* symbols used with the spawn*() functions.
1999-02-16 19:40:19 +00:00
c7b72dbbca
Added chapter on Windows modules, including msvcrt and winsound.
1999-02-16 19:18:38 +00:00
aa1afa8d30
Added availability notes for samefile(), sameopenfile(), samestat()
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since these are not available on Windows.
1999-02-15 16:34:00 +00:00
9474d86242
Make sure all HTML pages generated from this section have reasonable
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names.
Markup nits.
1999-02-12 22:05:33 +00:00
2d2b6a0074
Markup nits.
1999-02-12 20:40:49 +00:00
28bc711f5f
Added section for MimeWriter, contributed by Christopher Petrilli
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<petrilli@amber.org>.
This spells the end of another whole section in the undoc chapter!
1999-02-12 19:26:09 +00:00
26b698fa4d
Document <complex #>.conjugate().
1999-02-12 18:27:31 +00:00
ce67f06491
Update documentation to reflect changes to Queue.py by Tim Peters.
1999-02-08 18:43:13 +00:00
d673d481f5
Document sameopenfile(), samestat().
1999-02-03 22:31:30 +00:00
0256c1f453
Document splitdrive().
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For all split*(), these split path *into* pairs, not split path *in*
pairs. "Into" can be used for transformations, "in" is for
containment.
1999-02-03 19:24:44 +00:00
0c9608cf1b
Portability fix for [f]statvfs() return tuple: no longer return the
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f_fsid field, since it's not a scalar on all systems supporting this
call (in particular, it's a tuple of two longs on AIX). Since it's
not particularly useful, just nuke it. Adapted the doc strings too.
1999-02-03 16:32:37 +00:00
215fe2f204
Fix the os/posix documentation issue.
1999-02-02 19:02:35 +00:00
dda199b261
Moved \versionadded to end of description sections.
1999-02-02 19:01:37 +00:00
12ba7868e4
Moved posixpath to os.path.
1999-02-02 19:00:37 +00:00
560bcae0f0
Added posixpath, winsound.
1999-02-02 18:59:58 +00:00
a9b9bf96fe
Change this to be os.path.
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Use consistent parameter naming with the os documentation (paths
always named "path" or "path1", "path2"...).
1999-02-02 18:58:33 +00:00
d0bceeeb59
Move \versionadded macros to end of descriptions.
1999-02-02 18:00:40 +00:00
09da65ef2f
Patch by Sjoerd Mullender to placate /F:
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Clarified (hopefully :-) the documentation of elements and attributes
variables.
1999-02-02 17:55:12 +00:00
dbd72a4e4f
Added module synopsis.
1999-02-01 21:27:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
Guido van Rossum
Jeremy Hylton
Barry Warsaw