Thomas Wouters
fe385251f4
Make the 'time' argument to the timemodule functions strftime, asctime,
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ctime, gmtime and localtime optional, defaulting to 'the current time' in
all cases. Adjust docs, add news item. Also convert all argument-handling to
METH_VARARGS. Closes SF patch #103265 .
2001-01-19 23:16:56 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg
6f77667a64
Backed out the unistr() builtin.
2001-01-19 21:36:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
bc0b260a77
Minor markup cleaning, and one required fix in the unistr() description.
2001-01-18 18:09:07 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
9483bed6d9
correct typo - closes bug #129205
2001-01-18 10:44:08 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee
3a9582fbe5
Fix the example (it didn't seem to reflect reality).
2001-01-18 07:50:17 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg
ad7c98e264
This patch adds a new builtin unistr() which behaves like str()
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except that it always returns Unicode objects.
A new C API PyObject_Unicode() is also provided.
This closes patch #101664 .
Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg. Copyright assigned to Guido van Rossum.
2001-01-17 17:09:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
90badd1286
Add a missing newline in an example; caught by Chris Ryland
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<cpr@emsoftware.com>.
2001-01-17 05:12:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
20ab9e9c0a
Document xreadlines() method. (Forgot to check this in before!)
2001-01-17 01:18:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
25be1931a0
Fix a few small markup/consistency nits.
2001-01-16 20:52:41 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
bd1a489759
push_source() and pop_source() entry points for shlex instances.
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These basically just make available to the user what userhook()
does to the source stack. Documentation included.
2001-01-16 14:18:55 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
83ad5015cb
effbot caught a typo!
2001-01-15 20:51:40 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
773d9f09be
Document function attributes for both the function type and the method
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type. The method documentation also includes a new brief discussion
of `bound' vs. `unbound' and why setting an attr on a bound method is
a TypeError. Includes Skip's suggested text.
2001-01-15 20:28:50 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
a770e866d6
Fixing author's email address.
2001-01-15 17:08:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
97d3b93c2f
Document changed default to passive mode.
2001-01-15 16:37:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
77b20f099e
Document filterwarnings(..., append=<bool>).
2001-01-14 14:10:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
1beb3d204f
Added note that this module was added in Python 2.1.
2001-01-12 22:57:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
ca7e1ee01a
Updated descriptions to incorporate additional information from Tim Peters.
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This mostly closes SF bug #128251 .
2001-01-11 22:49:49 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
a177c40daf
Document \code{import} in pth files.
2001-01-11 22:07:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
49c9ac30a4
Fixed minor markup nits for consistency with the rest of the library
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reference.
2001-01-11 16:02:08 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
ab78beca2f
Added pointer on POP3 variations.
2001-01-11 10:22:34 +00:00
Moshe Zadka
f68f2fec7d
Implementation of PEP-0217.
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This closes the PEP, and patch 103170
2001-01-11 05:41:27 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
5ac97957f7
Corrections and additions to the documentation for POP3 and IMAP library
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support, based on my fetchmail experience.
2001-01-11 04:19:52 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
8321026ff4
SourceForge patch #103140 , checked in at fdrake's invitation. Minor fixes and
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additions to library docs.#
2001-01-10 19:34:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
3c48ef7de8
Added documentation for the xreadlines module & related changes. The
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documentation was written by Jeff Epler (thanks!).
2001-01-09 22:47:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
986eafdc2b
Added missing word; fixed minor nits.
2001-01-09 20:54:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
37f1b34b62
Added entry for fpectl module documentation.
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Moved the mutex docs to be adjacent to the sched docs, since these are
meant to be used together (if they are used at all!).
2001-01-09 20:52:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
a5e7ad99d5
Documentation for the fpectl module, from Lee Busby. (Thanks!)
2001-01-09 20:38:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
45b1d6a831
Explain that long options are matched based on a unique prefix rather than
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requiring the whole option to be typed out.
This closes SF bug #126863 .
2001-01-08 16:05:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
e1d4715a6f
Update explanation of the set_location() method to indicate that in
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BTree databases, the key need not be in the database. Also, tell about
the exception if the key is not in the DB for other DB types.
This closes SF bug #127377 .
2001-01-05 06:44:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
4e18f07613
Based on comments from Guido, do not describe bisect() and insert() as
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being "for backward compatibility." Also revert to using bisect() in the
example, since Guido thinks that is the best recommendation for typical
usage.
2001-01-04 14:18:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
288927f426
Markup nit: Command line options should be marked with \programopt.
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Other minor markup nits fixed.
Make reference to PyErr_Warn() a hyperlink.
2001-01-04 05:59:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
b162d188f6
Fix typo spotted by Detlef Lannert <lannert@users.sourceforge.net>.
2001-01-04 05:48:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
19ae78302e
Added information about the interaction of opening a file in append mode
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and seek() in the description of seek().
This closes SF bug #126850 .
2001-01-04 05:16:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
22e9a5eaec
Markup nit: OK and ERR should be marked \constant in running text.
2001-01-04 05:14:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
2a72712efe
Update documentation to include the new functions, and use the more
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explicitly-named bisect_right() in the example code.
This closes SF bug #127055 .
2001-01-04 05:12:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
9c15fa7a0f
Description of long(): A string parameter is no longer required to be
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*decimal*.
This closes SF bug #127273 .
2001-01-04 05:09:16 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
be0630282e
Fix doubled word
2000-12-26 16:14:32 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
8694cc42ab
Remove redundant reference to tab (since it = 'horizontal tab')
2000-12-26 16:09:37 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
e6bf85845f
Document ERR and OK
2000-12-26 15:58:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
1dea760ca1
Make sure subsections are formatted into HTML pages with reasonable names.
2000-12-25 06:19:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
f08cbb1771
Added information on the ExternalEntityParserCreate() method.
2000-12-23 22:19:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
5caee408b8
Add 'see also' link to curses.panel
2000-12-22 22:06:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
676634beda
Added documentation for the panel wrapper module
2000-12-22 21:57:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
e412e7a3a0
Fix lots of small markup nits.
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Wrapped some long lines.
2000-12-21 17:04:31 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
68a6f5a0a2
Document the window.overlay() and .overwrite() methods
2000-12-21 16:25:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5db5ba1ee3
Document the warnings module.
2000-12-19 06:01:23 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
1367b83797
Document warning categories.
2000-12-19 04:27:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
5b56765fe7
Added documentation on the ErrorHandler interface.
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This closes bug #126034 .
2000-12-19 04:07:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
2b6d7bc151
Do not talk about "real" numbers; talk about "floats" or "floating point
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numbers" instead; we have not described "reals" anywhere else in the
documentation, and this is not the place to change the story!
Reported by Keith Briggs <keith.briggs@bt.com>.
2000-12-18 13:50:24 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer
e9e860faf3
Add support for gdbm2 open flags ('s' and 'u'). Add module constant
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open_flags which contains the flags supported by gdbm. Closes patch
#102802 .
2000-12-17 07:14:13 +00:00