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
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(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
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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"
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module available on IRIX.
1999-01-20 15:55:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
a7998f650a
Revised comments on null bytes in pattern string.
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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
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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
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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".
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.)
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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
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"^"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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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the process table.
1998-12-21 18:52:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
b083a9fb54
Sjoerd Mullender writes:
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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.
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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
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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
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with it.
1998-12-08 16:30:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
64583d3f87
Rename the parameters of atan2(), based on comments from Guido & Peter
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A. Koren <pkoren@hex.net>.
1998-12-08 16:10:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
f484a3366b
Sjoerd writes:
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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)
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Noticed by Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>.
1998-12-07 17:13:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8c2da61811
Add explicit example on how to import a submodule of a package using
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__import__ and getattr().
1998-12-04 15:32:17 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
6d26f4b188
Moved NotImplementedError into alphabetical order, and reword
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description.
1998-12-01 19:48:04 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
1e151322fb
Added documentation for NotImplementedError. Fred (I'm sure) will
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sanitize for your protection :-)
1998-12-01 19:19:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
2f8592cbea
Ignore the byproducts of SGML/XML conversions for now.
1998-12-01 18:58:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
eabfab1048
Nits to support conversions.
1998-12-01 18:37:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
1e270f0e03
Nits to support conversions.
1998-11-30 22:58:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
50b804dc88
Fix minor nit with respect to conversion.
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Update some logical markup.
1998-11-30 22:14:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
caa3379c4f
Remove {\rm ...} constructs.
1998-11-30 21:53:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
84538cd076
Remove some remaining {\rm ...} constructs.
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Update logical markup in a few spots.
1998-11-30 21:51:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
1776556f8f
Markup nit to ease conversions.
1998-11-30 19:00:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
3d29955a6e
Markup improvements to help with conversions.
1998-11-30 18:59:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
01d5d94020
Remove cruft from the old Texinfo conversion. This simplifies some of
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the newer processing.
1998-11-30 17:33:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
5208823158
Remove bogus \@.
1998-11-30 16:27:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
d61975e179
Minor markup nit to ease conversion processing.
1998-11-30 16:26:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
f6c59e8fff
Do all the right imports. Problem reported by Martijn Faassen
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<faassen@vet.uu.nl>.
1998-11-30 15:07:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
4471f20ed4
Logical markup.
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Fix a few things for the conversion to structured markup.
Removed texinfo special cases, since there's likely a new info
process.
1998-11-25 22:38:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
f65e323101
Fix remaining {\rm ...} construct.
1998-11-25 20:55:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5eabf3823b
Clarify that min and max also take multiple arguments.
1998-11-25 18:53:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
e839199014
Fix indexing of func_code attribute; this is on a function, not a code
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object.
Add "()" to method names indexed using \ttindex{}.
1998-11-25 17:09:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
04307ce789
Rewrote the section on sys.exit(), documenting other argument types
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than integers and recommending sys.exit("message").
(I see this as Python's answer to Perls ``die "message";''.)
1998-11-23 17:49:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
da30f4ca6b
Fix typo in doc for handle(): client_request should be client_address.
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Noted by Stefan Witzel.
1998-11-16 19:07:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
c46973c89b
Document the user and password parameters to the NNTP constructor.
1998-11-16 17:11:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
2510d22048
Clarify the default buffering for open(). (Comment from Andrew Dalke
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<dalke@bioreason.com>).
1998-11-02 18:57:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
cab91efd34
Fix Barry's markup.
1998-11-02 17:23:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
9ed1a0afb9
Moved zmod and poly descriptions to the Obsolete section.
1998-11-02 15:46:21 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
4a1cdd7f22
Document the new features of this module
1998-10-31 23:19:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
130072d663
Don't describe something as "below"; that won't make sense for the
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HTML version. Give a reference to the actual section to allow a
hyperlink to be built.
1998-10-28 20:08:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
c024c99faf
Fix typo reported by Gerry Weiner <gerry@ucar.edu>.
1998-10-28 18:19:16 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
c1cea208bc
Added URL to HOWTO page, with reference to Regex HOWTO.
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Corrected error: {,5} is not equivalent to {0,5}.
1998-10-28 15:44:14 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
04101960e6
Indicate that os.environ may not be a real dictionary.
1998-10-24 20:16:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
18fa7d2800
Typo: JIFF -> JFIF.
1998-10-19 13:30:01 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
f35b884c91
Clarify that close() of a stream opened by popen() returns None if the
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exit status is zero.
1998-10-15 13:28:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7d447aabbf
Moved search and match around so that search is documented first.
1998-10-13 16:03:52 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
afd974c2ab
Document the new list.extend() method. Interesting enough, the
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canonical definition of extend() is very similar to append() except
that the former doesn't list-ify the argument!
1998-10-09 16:39:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
09b295754f
Remove extra } at end of method description parameters.
1998-10-01 20:43:13 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
b2031f72d3
Document that apply() can now take any sequence in argument 2.
1998-10-01 15:35:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
9814a943a5
Add warning that on Windows it only works on sockets.
1998-09-28 14:28:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
954b9adcd2
Document new urllib features by Eric Raymond.
1998-09-28 14:08:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5fb2631ff9
Explicitly document the fact that the search method returns a MatchObject.
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(Reported by Gary Herron.)
1998-09-21 19:26:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6ac06b39b3
Patch by Greg Stein to document the 'P' flag.
1998-09-21 14:44:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
10a7985565
re.findall(): Mark as added in 1.5.2.
1998-09-18 17:11:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
43b655c0ab
Get rid of 'ppp' that accidentally crept in.
1998-09-17 17:07:15 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6442116029
Richard Wolff's changes, documenting his changes to pdb.py.
1998-09-17 15:11:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
d16d4981d1
Markup nits.
1998-09-10 20:21:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
9b134bf716
Added comment about support for rational numbers, and pointer to
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Demos/classes/Rat.py.
1998-09-10 18:42:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
7a2f0668e4
Markup nits.
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Fixes/index improvements from Michael Ernst <mernst@cs.washington.edu>.
1998-09-10 18:25:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
dbf7956e52
Clarify Y2K behavior when a tuple with a 2-digit date is passed to
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mktime() and such.
1998-08-25 14:44:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
607f802886
round(): Mark the second (optional) parameter as optional, since it's
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described that way.
setattr(): Clarify that the attribute doesn't need to exist to be set.
1998-08-24 20:30:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
c859350fa6
Added some cross-references to the end.
1998-08-24 18:46:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
d0421dd448
spoking --> speaking
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object whose method this is --> object on which the method operates
1998-08-24 17:57:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
637af13dca
There is no <ISINPUT> element, just <ISINDEX>. ;-)
1998-08-21 20:02:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
42db27fedc
Added an example that uses signal.alarm() to time out an os.open() that
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takes too long. This example relies on the fact that raising an
exception in a signal handler causes the exception to be re-raised
when the main line of the program resumes execution. Is this guaranteed
in CPython, or is this something that just happens to work by accident?
Also fixed a typo.
1998-08-18 19:38:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
e7210dad6c
Fix arguments for renames(); bug spotted by Oliver Andrich
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<oli@rhein-zeitung.de>.
1998-08-17 13:29:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
a5aefbad5a
Fix markup where C include files get named in <...> form; bug reported by
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Lorenzo M. Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>.
1998-08-14 17:05:17 +00:00