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Fred Drake 482b9a8c0c Clean up the descriptions of multi-signature functions so we do the right
thing in the index.
2001-11-15 20:41:03 +00:00
Fred Drake bc1491f60f Thanks for the Tkinter chapter, Mike! 2001-11-15 17:26:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 53556861df Add entries for the new Tkinter chapter. 2001-11-15 17:25:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 7cf4e5b329 Tkinter chapter, contributed by Mike Clarkson. Based in part on the "Tkinter
Life Preserver" by Matt Conway.
2001-11-15 17:22:04 +00:00
Fred Drake e1d4ad3a31 Finally commit the font changes that have been live on the development site
for a month or more.
2001-11-14 22:35:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 9c7a07f7a4 Bump release number & date. 2001-11-14 22:28:26 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 1336e99054 Fred observes that the typo was not the only problem with this sentence. 2001-11-14 21:38:13 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 4a98f70a09 typo 2001-11-14 21:32:27 +00:00
Tim Peters 5ebfd36afa CVS patch #477161: New "access" keyword for mmap, from Jay T Miller.
This gives mmap() on Windows the ability to create read-only, write-
through and copy-on-write mmaps.  A new keyword argument is introduced
because the mmap() signatures diverged between Windows and Unix, so
while they (now) both support this functionality, there wasn't a way to
spell it in a common way without introducing a new spelling gimmick.
The old spellings are still accepted, so there isn't a backward-
compatibility issue here.
2001-11-13 23:11:19 +00:00
Thomas Heller 64cdb48c80 No need to preprocess the header files - use ctags -I flag instead to
remove DL_IMPORT.
2001-11-12 12:52:01 +00:00
Thomas Heller bfeeeee851 Fix obvious typos. 2001-11-12 07:46:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 94ead57dc3 Added version annotations, remove hard tabs. 2001-11-09 23:34:26 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 89c3a22a27 Add PyObject_CheckReadBuffer(), which returns true if its argument
supports the single-segment readable buffer interface.

Add documentation for this and other PyObject_XXXBuffer() calls.
2001-11-09 21:59:42 +00:00
Fred Drake da4ffeecf5 No need to have documentation for a module which not accepted in the library. 2001-11-09 21:45:55 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 3b0c82a2f1 Updated the documentation for formatdate(). 2001-11-09 17:08:13 +00:00
Thomas Heller 3988574075 Remove my name, probably bad style. 2001-11-09 17:04:43 +00:00
Thomas Heller 3e77423a64 Script to print undocumented symbols found in Python header files. 2001-11-09 16:50:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 30bd666c35 Cleaned up some markup stupidity and a usage problem reported by Detlef
Lannert.  Added descriptions of HTTP_PORT and HTTPS_PORT.
2001-11-09 05:03:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 399bc8c281 Fix a variety of typographical, grammatical, and clarity problems reported
by Detlef Lannert.
2001-11-09 03:49:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 0b66310476 When referring to a formal parameter from the description, use the name given
with the signature, not an ad hoc abbreviated form.
2001-11-07 06:28:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 59bfe280f5 Another name! 2001-11-07 06:23:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 66ded524ba apply() documentation: Remove a detail about the implementation that does
not affect the API.  Clean up the text about call syntax apply() is
equivalent to.  Based on comments by Thomas Guettler.
2001-11-07 06:22:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 1a670c8414 Adjust the module synopsis to avoid margin overruns in the PDF format. 2001-11-06 22:14:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 10b81ce4e5 A variety of small cleanups, including one to avoid a margin overrun in the
PDF version.
2001-11-06 22:13:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 5976816698 Remove stray quotes; probably left over from conversion from docstrings. 2001-11-06 22:11:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 806d332f02 Remove extra period. 2001-11-06 22:10:47 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 1f774b062e Update obsolete e-mail address, and remove myself as a module author 2001-11-05 21:34:36 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4794f0b234 Update obsolete e-mail address 2001-11-05 21:31:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 47ccfe2d8f Remove obsolete e-mail address 2001-11-05 21:31:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f010df4ee5 Update URL, and remove e-mail address reference (readers can get it from
the Web page)
2001-11-05 21:30:10 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 10f9c075b9 Remove obsolete e-mail address 2001-11-05 21:25:42 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 2bb077f630 Finally fleshed out the examples section with 4 code samples! Some of
my own doing, some originally written by Matthew Dixon Cowles.
2001-11-05 17:50:53 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling c44403995e Remove email*.tex subsections; they're all \input by email.tex 2001-11-05 01:55:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 43dc1fc926 Minor grammar and typo fixes 2001-11-05 01:55:03 +00:00
Tim Peters 169ded0d68 Finish SF patch 477059: __del__ on new classes vs. GC.
Just doc and NEWS here, about the change in gc.garbage meaning.
2001-11-03 19:57:21 +00:00
Tim Peters 7533587d43 Improved error msg when a symbolic group name is redefined. Added docs
and NEWS.  Bugfix candidate?  That's a dilemma for Anthony <wink>:  /F
did fix a longstanding bug here, but the fix can cause code to raise an
exception that previously worked by accident.
2001-11-03 19:35:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling bc4a1c2588 [Patch #476612] Change docs to describe PEP247 interface 2001-11-02 21:44:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 622087a3ed Fix stupid bug recently introduced for DVI version of the docs (used to
generate PostScript).
2001-11-02 20:53:19 +00:00
Fred Drake d9272d6f11 Add deprecation notice to statcache. 2001-11-02 20:20:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 67bd68392c Make sure there are no weird nesting behaviors; the PDF version will not
format if there are (building the "bookmarks" for the reader breaks).
2001-11-02 19:41:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 3808045d00 Correct misspelling of "separate" in two places.
This closes SF bug #476898.
2001-11-01 19:48:01 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 2dab9c7d9b Fix markup typo 2001-10-31 13:16:10 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling bbde5880a5 Add paragraph about difflib suggested by David Goodger
Bump version number
2001-10-31 13:13:36 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 72a7fb78cb Fix grammar error 2001-10-30 22:18:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 433b5c4d34 Rewrites and additions resulting from today's feedback 2001-10-30 21:36:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 345b8df2c4 Always use --dvips-safe when generating HTML for the standard documentation
since we do not have anything that causes dvips to be run except when
PostScript is specifically requested, which is a separate target.
2001-10-30 16:28:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 3ce28e4bd0 Add a new option, --dvips-safe, which sets the $DVIPS_SAFE option in
LaTeX2HTML.  This is not safe to do in general (for the reasons LaTeX2HTML
protects against dvips to begin with), but is safe if we do not actually
need to run dvips.  Note that we also assume it is safe if the user
specifically requests PostScript generation.  See the comments for further
explanation.
2001-10-30 16:09:51 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 7aa63c245f Various minor rewrites
Bump version number
2001-10-30 14:35:03 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 7cc13de554 Corrections noted by Michael McLay 2001-10-30 14:22:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 99de218cfc Promote file objects out of the "Other Objects" category, so they become
visible in the table of contents.
2001-10-30 06:23:14 +00:00
Fred Drake b4ea9d0502 Promote built-in functions to come before built-in types. 2001-10-30 06:22:02 +00:00
Tim Peters 003047a5f2 Mention the new file() builtin in the section on file objects. 2001-10-30 05:54:04 +00:00
Tim Peters a427a2b8d0 Rename "dictionary" (type and constructor) to "dict". 2001-10-29 22:25:45 +00:00
Fred Drake e59feb5edc Revise the PDF support in the LaTeX style sheet. This still isn't quite
right, but the tests for whether we are generating PDF are a bit more
readable, and some unnecessary indirection has been removed.
2001-10-29 21:02:28 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 1117d930fa dictionary -> dict 2001-10-29 20:37:47 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4f9e220e7f Fix two typos noted by Jens Quade
Bump version number
2001-10-29 18:09:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 589abb7212 Add additional information on exceptions from time.mktime() and related to
improper time tuples passed to various functions.  Based on comments from
Andreas Jung.
2001-10-29 18:01:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 1b58bff8a0 More refcount information. 2001-10-29 17:43:14 +00:00
Fred Drake b0109ffb3b Ignore all *.tex files in the typesetting output directories since there are
a bunch of them now.
2001-10-29 17:42:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 520b0093db Make sure we generate versions of each file in the Python/C API manual with
reference-count annotations; this is needed for the typeset forms of the
manuals.
2001-10-29 17:40:40 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 2836907bbb Fix some markup errors noted by MH
Use attribute assignment to illustrate __slots__ raising an error
2001-10-29 15:47:33 +00:00
Fred Drake b0c079e3e5 PyObject_CallFunctionObArgs() ---> PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs()
PyObject_CallMethodObArgs() ---> PyObject_CallMethodObjArgs()
2001-10-28 02:39:03 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling cf31d5d5d0 Fill in remaining XXX spots
- Describe UnpackTuple()
        - Credit __unicode__ to MAL
Use \pep macro everywhere in body text.
   (Listening to "The Great Gate of Kiev" -- appropriately triumphal
    music for this check-in...)
2001-10-26 20:37:55 +00:00
Fred Drake e21e2bb121 Fix up a number of small problems with the DOM documentation.
There's still a lot to do, but it's better now.
2001-10-26 20:09:49 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b83769cb82 Finish off the type/class section; I don't think there's much else
to be covered in an overview article like this.
2001-10-26 20:07:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 41cf5e0069 Remove unused variable. 2001-10-26 19:50:26 +00:00
Fred Drake ef428a292a Explain what [].insert() does when the target index is negative. 2001-10-26 18:57:14 +00:00
Fred Drake d5be3b75dd Add notes pointing out that these classes are kept for backward compatibility
and suggeest that new code that does not require compatibility with older
Python versions subclass dictionary, list, or str.
2001-10-26 18:37:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 7408da54e2 Many, many small fixes and improvements, most suggested by Detlef Lannert. 2001-10-26 17:40:22 +00:00
Fred Drake c44e9eca66 Added docs for PyObject_CallFunctionObArgs() and PyObject_CallMethodObArgs().
Minor cleanups & markup consistency fixes.
2001-10-26 16:38:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 81c7aa2c7b Added refcount data for PyObject_CallFunctionObArgs() and
PyObject_CallMethodObArgs().
2001-10-26 16:29:22 +00:00
Fred Drake ef7d08a661 Some style changes and typo fixes. 2001-10-26 15:04:33 +00:00
Fred Drake fb6499fd9c Clean up the tables of child links generated by stock LaTeX2HTML so we get
consistent (lack of) vertical space between sections, and remove some of the
unnecessary cruft that was added in (finally we get to *remove* something
that got generated!).
2001-10-26 14:16:23 +00:00
Fred Drake de3d060eb2 Typo: destuction --> destruction
Reported by Thomas Heller.
2001-10-26 11:27:54 +00:00
Tim Peters 1fc240e851 Generalize dictionary() to accept a sequence of 2-sequences. At the
outer level, the iterator protocol is used for memory-efficiency (the
outer sequence may be very large if fully materialized); at the inner
level, PySequence_Fast() is used for time-efficiency (these should
always be sequences of length 2).

dictobject.c, new functions PyDict_{Merge,Update}FromSeq2.  These are
wholly analogous to PyDict_{Merge,Update}, but process a sequence-of-2-
sequences argument instead of a mapping object.  For now, I left these
functions file static, so no corresponding doc changes.  It's tempting
to change dict.update() to allow a sequence-of-2-seqs argument too.

Also changed the name of dictionary's keyword argument from "mapping"
to "x".  Got a better name?  "mapping_or_sequence_of_pairs" isn't
attractive, although more so than "mosop" <wink>.

abstract.h, abstract.tex:  Added new PySequence_Fast_GET_SIZE function,
much faster than going thru the all-purpose PySequence_Size.

libfuncs.tex:
- Document dictionary().
- Fiddle tuple() and list() to admit that their argument is optional.
- The long-winded repetitions of "a sequence, a container that supports
  iteration, or an iterator object" is getting to be a PITA.  Many
  months ago I suggested factoring this out into "iterable object",
  where the definition of that could include being explicit about
  generators too (as is, I'm not sure a reader outside of PythonLabs
  could guess that "an iterator object" includes a generator call).
- Please check my curly braces -- I'm going blind <0.9 wink>.

abstract.c, PySequence_Tuple():  When PyObject_GetIter() fails, leave
its error msg alone now (the msg it produces has improved since
PySequence_Tuple was generalized to accept iterable objects, and
PySequence_Tuple was also stomping on the msg in cases it shouldn't
have even before PyObject_GetIter grew a better msg).
2001-10-26 05:06:50 +00:00
Fred Drake af07b2c34f Add yet more markup that let's a stylesheet pick out a small bit of the
presentation.  This is acceptable since it only occurs in the formatted
output and does not affect the document markup.
2001-10-26 03:09:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 7f10cce4c1 Enforce a bit of markup consistency.
When describing a Boolean return value, use "true" and "false" instead of
"1" and "0".
Style-guide conformance:  no "iff" -- to obscure for many readers.  ;-(
2001-10-26 03:04:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 3a2c462436 Minor textual adjustment, and style-guide conformance (no use of "iff"). 2001-10-26 03:00:39 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 107771a228 Applying proposed patch for bug #474583, optional support for
non-standard but common types.  Including Martin's suggestion to add
rejected non-standard types from patch #438790.  Specifically,

guess_type(), guess_extension(): Both the functions and the methods
grow an optional "strict" flag, defaulting to true, which determines
whether to recognize non-standard, but commonly found types or not.

Also, I sorted, reformatted, and culled duplicates from the big
types_map dictionary.  Note that there are a few non-equivalent
duplicates (e.g. .cdf and .xls) for which the first will just get
thrown away.  I didn't remove those though.

Finally, use of the module as a script as grown the -l and -e options
to toggle strictness and to do guess_extension(), respectively.

Doc and unittest updates too.
2001-10-25 21:49:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 61f794918f Typo: NamedNodeList --> NamedNodeMap 2001-10-25 20:42:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 847c51a181 Slightly better conformance to the Python C style guide. 2001-10-25 15:53:44 +00:00
Fred Drake af876d77e0 One more LaTeX-ism that we'd rather ignore. 2001-10-25 15:14:57 +00:00
Fred Drake a281665972 No need to run make twice here. 2001-10-25 15:13:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 0099d8f8fb Update the rules so that changes to the HTML stylesheet cause appropriate
work to be done, but do not require the HTML to be re-built.
2001-10-25 15:12:31 +00:00
Fred Drake bc006af3d0 Make the deprecation notice use the same form as other such notices.
This has sat around in a deprecated state for a *long* time!
2001-10-24 21:56:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 0559d95fd6 Minor revision of the text. 2001-10-24 21:10:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 08fd51509c When describing "import *", add a level of indirection between "*" and the
set of names imported (the "public names"), adding a definition of "public
names" that describes the use of __all__.
This closes SF bug #473986.

Flesh out the vague reference to __import__().
2001-10-24 19:50:31 +00:00
Fred Drake c84f2c5068 Documentation for the new PyArg_UnpackTuple() function. 2001-10-23 21:10:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4855b02554 Fill out section on how to write a new-style class 2001-10-23 20:26:16 +00:00
Tim Peters 98791affc8 Doc and NEWS changes due to Jeremy adding traceback objects to gc. 2001-10-23 01:59:54 +00:00
Barry Warsaw d05e051aa7 Fixed an example in the use of email.Utils.getaddresses(). The
failobj has to be a list or the `+' can fail.
2001-10-22 20:53:45 +00:00
Fred Drake a219b411af Add better support for Mozilla's use of <link> elements. 2001-10-22 16:57:49 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 32e3232a55 Update bug/patch counts 2001-10-22 15:32:05 +00:00
Fred Drake f10584cb11 Do a little bit more to try and add <link> elements to the header, not that
Mozilla 0.9.5 can make intelligent use of them.  Specifically, this causes
the "Acknowledgements" and "Global Module Index" pages to acquire "up"
links in the Mozilla "Site Navigation Bar".
This partially responds to SF bug #469772.
2001-10-22 15:07:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 5d9a6b575c Clarify that the resource module does not attempt to mask platform
differences by defining symbols not defined on particular platforms.
This closes SF bug #473433.
2001-10-22 14:18:23 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling beb385568c Add correction from /F about SRE
\filename{} should be \file{}
2001-10-22 14:11:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 279e744573 Partly fill out the PEP 252 section 2001-10-22 02:03:40 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 8b42f01667 A bunch of minor rewordings 2001-10-22 02:00:11 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 9dbc0bcf9d Update description of border() 2001-10-20 16:07:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 0aa811c527 Use the \note and \warning macros where appropriate. 2001-10-20 04:24:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 64a5aaf05c Describe the content given as the parameter to the \note and \warning macros
in more detail, and use them where appropriate.
2001-10-20 04:18:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 0c77cf15c0 Additional rules to support the iSilo conversion. 2001-10-19 21:12:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 5a4bdb7be8 Hush up CVS. 2001-10-19 21:09:19 +00:00
Fred Drake cc2e306592 Support for the iSilo conversion. 2001-10-19 21:08:36 +00:00
Fred Drake aad8bb5d7a When stating that some parameters to makefile() are similar to the open()
parameters, given a hyperlink to the right part of the documentation to
make it easier to look those up.  Also, refer to the file() function/
constructor instead of open() now that that is where the actual docs for
those parameters live.
This closes SF bug #472004.
2001-10-19 17:22:29 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg b5507ecd3c Additional test and documentation for the unicode() changes.
This patch should also be applied to the 2.2b1 trunk.
2001-10-19 12:02:29 +00:00
Barry Warsaw e736d93eab Added a note about the somewhat kludgey behavior of the message
epilogue, based on the discussion in this SF bug report:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=472481&group_id=25568&atid=384678
2001-10-19 04:34:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b6c1d5239c SF patch #443759: Add Interface to readline's add_history
This was submitted by Moshe, but apparently he's too busy to check it
in himself.  He wrote:

    Here is a function in GNU readline called add_history,
    which is used to manage the history list. Though Python
    uses this function internally, it does not expose it to
    the Python programmer. This patch adds direct interface
    to this function with documentation.

    This could be used by friendly modules to "seed" the
    history with commands.
2001-10-19 01:18:43 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh a5e616510e changed misleading argument name 2001-10-18 20:58:25 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 91b81c4802 Some minor clarifications for find()'s arguments based on SF bug
#463572.  Closing.
2001-10-18 19:41:48 +00:00
Fred Drake db7287c0f5 Straighten out the exec*() function descriptions a bit, and clarify a few
points in the spawn*() description.
2001-10-18 18:58:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 9ae09947f4 Bump version number.
Remove inconsistent use of HTMLDIR.
2001-10-18 18:46:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 77165d039f Bump release information. 2001-10-18 18:41:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 316141b333 Fix typo reported by Michael Soulier. 2001-10-18 15:22:23 +00:00
Fred Drake ca836f7e65 Function descriptions must end as well as start! 2001-10-18 14:26:08 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis c405133fce Elaborate on types and meaning of the setgroups arguments. 2001-10-18 14:07:12 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 61c5edf6fc Expose setgroups. Fixes feature request #468116. 2001-10-18 04:06:00 +00:00
Tim Peters 61acf067ac SF bug [#471111] inspect.getframeinfo() needs docs.
TeX-ified its docstring.
2001-10-16 23:01:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3c28863e08 Partial patch from SF #452266, by Jason Petrone.
This changes Pythread_start_thread() to return the thread ID, or -1
for an error.  (It's technically an incompatible API change, but I
doubt anyone calls it.)
2001-10-16 21:13:49 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 511e2cacc4 [ #403753 ] zlib decompress; uncontrollable memory usage
Mostly by Toby Dickenson and Titus Brown.

Add an optional argument to a decompression object's decompress()
method.  The argument specifies the maximum length of the return
value.  If the uncompressed data exceeds this length, the excess data
is stored as the unconsumed_tail attribute.  (Not to be confused with
unused_data, which is a separate issue.)

Difference from SF patch: Default value for unconsumed_tail is ""
rather than None.  It's simpler if the attribute is always a string.
2001-10-16 20:39:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7a59445e37 Document required return values -1, 0, 1 for tp_compare handler, as
suggested in SF patch #424475.  Also document exception return.
2001-10-16 20:32:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 5bf1ecd503 Update the description of PyTrace_EXCEPT. 2001-10-16 19:23:55 +00:00
Fred Drake ab9b238ced Fix a few usage and style-guide conformance issues. 2001-10-16 19:22:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 64d7863797 Added information about setprofile() and settrace() hooks being thread-
specific, and updated some of the comments about the profile hook.
This closes SF bug #471725.
2001-10-16 14:54:22 +00:00
Fred Drake a815916472 Fix thinko in a comment about seeking with a file object.
Reported by Francesco Trentini.
2001-10-16 03:25:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 327798ca4a Added notes to clarify that binascii.crc32(), zlib.crc32(), and
zlib.adler32() are not suitable as general hash functions.
2001-10-15 13:45:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 0fae49fc7b Added documentation for the functions listed in marshal.h.
Prompted by Jim Ahlstrom.  This closes SF patch #470614.
2001-10-14 04:45:51 +00:00
Fred Drake c65b3d95b6 Add entries for the newly split C API manual. 2001-10-12 19:02:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 3adf79e3e2 Break the Python/C API manual into smaller files by chapter. This manual
has grown beyond what font-lock will work with using the default (X)Emacs
settings.

Indentation of the description has been made consistent, and a number of
smaller markup adjustments have been made as well.
2001-10-12 19:01:43 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton cb43c085e2 Document that keyfile and certfile are now optional.
XXX Forgot to mention this in the last socketmodule.c checkin.
2001-10-11 16:17:22 +00:00
Barry Warsaw c7f8b86307 Describe the HeaderParser class. 2001-10-11 15:45:05 +00:00
Tim Peters 8cd015c701 A copy-and-paste job forget the "paste" half. 2001-10-09 20:54:23 +00:00
Tim Peters 659a60311d Allow the profiler's calibration constant to be specified in the constructor
call, or via setting an instance or class vrbl.
Rewrote the calibration docs.
Modern boxes are so friggin' fast, and a profiler event does so much work
anyway, that the cost of looking up an instance vrbl (the bias constant)
per profile event just isn't a big deal.
2001-10-09 20:51:19 +00:00
Barry Warsaw dca939899d Fix minor cut-and-paste typo. 2001-10-09 19:37:51 +00:00
Fred Drake e0063d20a7 Update the documentation for the isinstance() function to reflect recent
changes in the implementation.
Indented all descriptions consistently.
2001-10-09 19:31:08 +00:00
Barry Warsaw a55d132f08 Add documentation for the MIMEAudio class/module, contributed by
Anthony Baxter.
2001-10-09 19:14:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 938a8d723c Improve the documentation for the os.P_* constants used with the os.spawn*()
functions to include information about how they affect the operation of
those functions when used as the "mode" parameter.
This closes SF bug #468384.

Added warnings to the os.tempnam() and os.tmpnam() functions regarding their
security problem.  These warning mirror the warnings added to the runtime
by Skip Montanaro.
2001-10-09 18:07:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 92350b3a1f New markup: \note{...} and \warning{...} 2001-10-09 18:01:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 6959a2fcd7 Note that the values for Boolean options are case-insensitive. 2001-10-09 14:58:24 +00:00
Fred Drake b35f0ce2b8 Update the description of getboolean() to reflect the changes made by
SF patch #467580.
2001-10-08 16:03:20 +00:00
Tim Peters 0a1fc4e389 Remove code and docs for the OldProfile and HotProfile classes: code
hasn't worked in years, docs were wrong, and they aren't interesting
anymore regardless.
2001-10-07 03:12:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 8c2c3d301b Update the documentation to reflect the changes to ReferenceError. 2001-10-06 06:10:54 +00:00
Fred Drake bf88b68f38 Add documentation for the public API for weak reference objects. 2001-10-05 22:03:58 +00:00
Tim Peters 9835206268 A regexp example was rendered as
foo\d
when it was clearly intended to render as
    foo$
Fred, is this a right way to fix it?  If not, the earlier place in the
same paragraph that does render as
    foo$
is also wrong.
2001-10-05 20:06:47 +00:00
Fred Drake e8f47bb93a Remove some long-unsupported Mac OS modules.
This closes SF patch #460737.
2001-10-05 16:49:31 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 244edc8985 Add chroot call. Implements feature #459267. 2001-10-04 22:44:26 +00:00
Fred Drake fcc16330a4 Update a couple of old addresses that point to CNRI. 2001-10-04 20:40:07 +00:00
Tim Peters 3899d74c10 Make clear that tuple() accepts the same kind of arguments as list(). 2001-10-04 06:53:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 6f3d82693a Expand the documentation of the low-level tracing/profiling interface.
This reflects what is currently in CVS, which may change before 2.2 is final.
2001-10-03 21:52:51 +00:00
Tim Peters 0481d24dd5 CVS patch [#466628] Doc changes for doctest patch (#466616), from
Tim Hochberg.  Doctest no longer searches imported objects.
2001-10-02 21:01:22 +00:00
Fred Drake d90f509b8f Fredrik tells me the truefalse parameter for boolean() is not part of the
public interface, so we can simplify the documentation.
2001-10-01 21:05:30 +00:00
Tim Peters 1350c07de3 Removed stray backslash (a typo -- my fault). 2001-10-01 20:25:26 +00:00
Tim Peters 20524dbf36 The description of dictionary comparison was out of date. Rather than
try to explain the complex general scheme we actually use now, I decided
to spell out only what equality means (which is easy to explain and
intuitive), leaving the other outcomes unspecified beyond consistency.
2001-10-01 20:22:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 6c81e2a44f "boolean" --> "Boolean" (per the style guide). 2001-10-01 17:04:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 0f0380a25f Fix some minor style-guide conformance bugs. 2001-10-01 17:04:10 +00:00
Fred Drake fe95e65668 Straighten out some markup.
"boolean" --> "Boolean" (per the style guide).
2001-10-01 17:03:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 73921b0eec Refer to the objects which define __len__(), __*item__(), and __iter__()
as container objects rather than as mapping objects (in the index entries).
Change the section heading and intro sentence to be a little more general,
since that's how things have actually evolved.
2001-10-01 16:32:13 +00:00
Fred Drake e9ba525c2b Clarify comments about mailbox objects being iterable. 2001-10-01 15:49:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e7877df595 Docs for SF patch #462628 2001-10-01 13:50:15 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 0daad598d0 Patch #462122: add readline startup and pre_event hooks. 2001-09-30 21:09:59 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 16dc7f44b1 Patch #462190, patch #464070: Support quoted printable in the binascii module.
Decode and encode underscores for header style encoding. Fixes bug #463996.
2001-09-30 20:32:11 +00:00
Tim Peters af5910f025 The execfile() docs imply it acts on locals same as exec. But in truth
it acts more like assigning to keys in locals(), i.e. modifications to
function locals aren't reflected in the locals when execfile() returns.
2001-09-30 06:32:59 +00:00
Tim Peters 1c33daf143 Correct docs for long(float). 2001-09-30 06:18:26 +00:00
Tim Peters d38b1c74f3 SF [#466125] PyLong_AsLongLong works for any integer.
Generalize PyLong_AsLongLong to accept int arguments too.  The real point
is so that PyArg_ParseTuple's 'L' code does too.  That code was
undocumented (AFAICT), so documented it.
2001-09-30 05:09:37 +00:00
Fred Drake ac1af8093e Handle PEP references the same way RFC references. 2001-09-29 19:07:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0d68246f01 Fix two typos in the text about compile(), and add two caveats from
recent user feedback: you must end the input with \n and you must use
\n, not \r\n to represent line endings.
2001-09-29 14:28:52 +00:00
Skip Montanaro a1c3662e84 forgot to mark use of StringType and UnicodeType in the text. 2001-09-29 13:53:21 +00:00
Skip Montanaro c7ba0c4c24 added description of StringTypes object 2001-09-29 13:49:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 583061a10f Fix up whitespace in <args> elements; reduce sequences of consecutive
whitespace characters to a single space.
Small changes elsewhere, mostly to clean up the code a little.
2001-09-29 05:05:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 2b05ca3454 Minor markup improvement. 2001-09-29 05:01:59 +00:00
Tim Peters 599db7de63 The list.sort() docs require a function that returns -1, 0 or +1. That's
never been true, and in particular implies cmp() can't be used(!).  Get
closer to the truth.
2001-09-29 01:08:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 7988e0249c Move XML-RPC-related docs to the "Internet Protocols" chapter.
Add entry for the SimpleXMLRPCServer module.
2001-09-28 22:03:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 06c61b14fe Add entry for the SimpleXMLRPCServer module. 2001-09-28 22:02:49 +00:00
Fred Drake e486e0d066 Preliminary documentation for the SimpleXMLRPCServer module. 2001-09-28 22:02:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d4707e3b62 Minor additions and rewrites.
Bump version number.
2001-09-28 20:46:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 3c171d1b9f Convert to string methods.
For the real document element, make sure the prolog is migrated into
the document element so it isn't left stranded.

Make fixup_trailing_whitespace() whitespace do what was really intended.

Add the *desc environments used in the C API manual to the list of
things that can exist at the paragraph level so they don't get wrapped
in <para>...</para>.
2001-09-28 17:14:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 3c10c68c0e Use consistent version annotations instead of something ad hoc. 2001-09-28 16:57:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 0f9bfd3dda Convert most uses of the string module to string methods.
(string.join() lives!)
2001-09-28 16:26:13 +00:00
Fred Drake bbf7a407e8 Added note about non-support of UNC paths on Windows.
This fixes SF bug #465447.
2001-09-28 16:14:18 +00:00
Fred Drake b387860c70 State that encode() and encodestring() append a newline to the input data
if it does not already end with a newline.
This fixes SF bug #463330.
2001-09-28 16:01:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 33f4d6d1db Add entries for the email and compiler packages. 2001-09-27 20:11:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 90e687863b Markup adjustments. 2001-09-27 20:09:39 +00:00
Fred Drake d443d8cc00 Added dependencies for the compiler and email packages.
(Migrate to branch, along with new files compiler.tex and asttable.tex.)
2001-09-27 20:08:20 +00:00
Fred Drake e2f9917f9f Migrate the compiler documentation from the Tools/compiler/doc/ directory.
Changes made to make it work in the new location.
2001-09-27 20:06:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 876389e5d8 Do not distinguish \refmodule from \module in the generated output;
whether or not a link will be generated will depend on the link database.
Add a couple of explanatory comments for one of the stranger constructs
(giving input an empty name).
2001-09-27 17:01:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 9213b7a961 Re-write <ulink> elements as described in the conversion spec. 2001-09-27 16:52:22 +00:00
Fred Drake baacc08ead Turn \input, \include, and \verbatiminput into XInclude elements instead
of something ad-hoc.
2001-09-27 15:49:23 +00:00
Fred Drake b6fa78930e Add support for some more markup that had slipped in.
Fixed a typo in a comment.
2001-09-27 04:18:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 3fc291a1d7 Fix some markup errors. 2001-09-27 04:17:20 +00:00
Fred Drake b802a1e7fa Markup adjustment: \[...\] is math markup and does not translate well when
used with text as was done here.  Fixed so that the typeset version wraps
the warning text and the HTML version does not create images of the warning
text.
2001-09-27 04:16:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 3ab0ac7cd4 Remove comment that no longer applies. 2001-09-26 22:26:45 +00:00
Barry Warsaw c5f8fe3a27 Updates do email package documentation for markup, style, and
organization.
2001-09-26 22:21:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 479384e1ff Move the styling for the HTML version of \mailheader into the CSS file.
In both the HTML and typeset versions of the documentation, add a colon
after the name of a mail header so that it is more easily distinguished
from other text.
2001-09-26 18:46:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 203d91a461 Note that the colon following a mail header name should not be included
when using the \mailheader markup.
Change a couple of inline examples to show the markup rather than the
result.
2001-09-26 18:43:20 +00:00
Greg Ward e22871e9ed Typo fix. 2001-09-26 18:12:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 8b3a7b58b9 Move the \mailheader description to the right place.
Clarify the \mimetype description; it can be used to refer to a part of a
MIME type name, so \mimetype{text} or \mimetype{plain} can be used, not
just \mimetype{text/plain}.
2001-09-26 17:01:58 +00:00
Fred Drake a6a885b6aa Start making some markup adjustments; Barry has indicated he will work on
this before we finish the integration, along with some restructuring.
2001-09-26 16:52:18 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 5e634638e6 The email package documentation, currently organized the way I think
Fred prefers.  I'm not sure I like this organization, so it may change.
2001-09-26 05:23:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 29a67ced72 Update to support \mailheader and 5-column tables. 2001-09-25 20:58:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 9eda3aebb8 Simplify a helper by returning fewer values. 2001-09-25 20:57:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 5055545fc0 Clarified some points about the interface to the mmap() function.
This closes SF bug #448918.
2001-09-25 19:00:08 +00:00
Fred Drake c0765c2381 Minor changes. 2001-09-25 16:32:02 +00:00
Fred Drake c825280ea5 Revise the example to be more resiliant in the face of continued use after
the object has been pickled; don't mutate the instance dict in the
__getstate__() method.  Other minor changes for style.  Broke up the
displayed interactive session to get better page-breaking behavior for
typeset versions, and to point out an important aspect of the example.

This closes SF bug #453914.
2001-09-25 16:29:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 9081bb1d21 Added documentation for the SSL interface, contributed by Gerhard Häring.
This closes SF patch #461337.
2001-09-25 15:48:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 74f1a563ff Fix a URL (closing SF patch #462195).
Cleaned up a bunch of XXX comments containing links to additional
information, replacing them with proper references.
Replaced "MacOS" with "Mac OS", since that's what the style guide says.
2001-09-25 15:12:41 +00:00
Fred Drake f244b2e47c Add more signature information and some descriptions for the new APIs
introduced in Python 2.2.
Add documentation for the slice object interface (not complete).
Added version annotations for several of the Python 2.2 APIs already
documented.
2001-09-24 15:31:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 23a78cf1c1 Add more reference count information. 2001-09-24 15:29:47 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 1497b62827 Add link to Unix Review's 2.2 article
Fix two errors
2001-09-24 14:51:16 +00:00
Tim Peters 2c9aa5ea8d Generalize file.writelines() to allow iterable objects. 2001-09-23 04:06:05 +00:00
Fred Drake d61d0d3f6d Added API information for the PyCallIter_*() and PySeqIter_*() functions.
Added signatures for some new PyType_*() functions.
2001-09-23 02:05:26 +00:00
Tim Peters 8a9c284437 Make difflib.ndiff() and difflib.Differ.compare() generators. This
restores the 2.1 ability of Tools/scripts/ndiff.py to start producing
output before the entire comparison is complete.
2001-09-22 21:30:22 +00:00
Tim Peters e0b2d7ac9a Add a function to compute a class's method resolution order. This is
easy for 2.2 new-style classes, but trickier for classic classes, and
different approaches are needed "depending".  The function will allow
later code to treat all flavors of classes uniformly.
2001-09-22 06:10:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 038d26410d Note that files are iterable; describe what the iterator returns.
This closes SF bug #463738.
2001-09-22 04:34:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 56dd35bd44 Bump version number. 2001-09-21 21:18:16 +00:00
Fred Drake c69205526a Added reference to Tutorial section on user-defined exceptions for
information on defining new exceptions.
This closes SF bug #443559.
2001-09-21 21:12:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 13af42822c Exceptions in interactive examlpes did not always include the indication of
the source file using "in ?".

Added a description of the bare "raise" statement.

Added more description and examples for user-defined exceptions; this
is part of a response to SF bug #443559.
2001-09-21 21:10:05 +00:00
Fred Drake e0af35eb69 Fill in a few more descriptions for xml.parsers.expat. 2001-09-20 20:43:28 +00:00
Tim Peters 2e29bfbe1a Document new file() constructor, with the body of open()'s text, plus a
"new in 2.2" blurb at the end.  Replace open()'s text by pointing back
to file().
2001-09-20 19:55:29 +00:00
Fred Drake f47d8ef683 Document all the Py*_CheckExact() functions.
Document many more of the PyLong_{As,From}*() functions.
2001-09-20 19:18:52 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 494f2aea8e Docs and News item for the codecs.py additions. 2001-09-19 11:33:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 18d8d5a708 Fix minor usage and consistency nits. 2001-09-18 17:58:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 83eeef4b06 SF patch #461781 by Chris Lawrence: os.path.realpath - Resolve symlinks:
Once upon a time, I put together a little function
   that tries to find the canonical filename for a given
   pathname on POSIX. I've finally gotten around to
   turning it into a proper patch with documentation.
   On non-POSIX, I made it an alias for 'abspath', as
   that's the behavior on POSIX when no symlinks are
   encountered in the path.

   Example:
   >>> os.path.realpath('/usr/bin/X11/X')
   '/usr/X11R6/bin/X'
2001-09-17 15:16:09 +00:00
Tim Peters 5b7759f9db Fixed typo in new 'p' description. 2001-09-15 18:16:27 +00:00
Tim Peters 88091aae7e SF bug [#461674] struct 'p' format doesn't work (maybe)
Rewrote the 'p' description.
2001-09-15 18:09:22 +00:00
Tim Peters ad2dc3fc44 Update the warning about transporting marshals across boxes with different
ideas about sizeof(long).
2001-09-14 20:40:13 +00:00
Fred Drake f2a5f3f721 Markup adjustments for consistency. 2001-09-14 17:48:41 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 1efd7ad88e Add support for SMTP TLS 2001-09-14 16:19:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f7fcf5eea6 SF patch #461413 (Gerhard Häring): Add STARTTLS feature to smtplib
This patch adds the features from RFC 2487 (Secure SMTP
   over TLS) to the smtplib module:

   - A starttls() function
   - Wrapper classes that simulate enough of sockets and
     files for smtplib, but really wrap a SSLObject
   - reset the list of known SMTP extensions at each call
     of ehlo(). This should have been the case anyway.
2001-09-14 16:08:44 +00:00
Fred Drake b9a96282f1 Admit that we'll never add the args for a "call" event to the profile
and trace functions; this now declares that None will be passed for the
"call" event.
This closes SF bug/suggestion #460315.
2001-09-13 16:56:43 +00:00
Fred Drake ee0fe0b743 Add missing "}". 2001-09-12 00:43:13 +00:00
Jack Jansen 95fefc7a7a These modules now live under the Carbon package.
Added a few new toolbox modules.
Noted machine dependencies for some modules.
Moved waste to undoc.tex.
2001-09-11 21:25:10 +00:00
Jack Jansen 945bf5f627 Added applesingle, macresource, Nav and videoreader.
Moved icopen to its alphabetical place.
Moved waste here (from toolbox).
2001-09-11 21:24:07 +00:00
Jack Jansen 827713a660 Added a note that these are not available under Carbon (or
OSX MachO Python).
2001-09-11 20:18:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 85ddfbc4cb Another documentation contributor. 2001-09-11 19:58:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 098d7fae39 Document clearly that the only way to retrieve the return code from the
child processes is to use the Popen3 and Popen4 classes.
This fixes SF bug #460512.
2001-09-11 19:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 1c66f8965a Added entry for the hmac module. 2001-09-11 16:59:42 +00:00
Fred Drake aae8da18fd Documentation for the new login() method of the smtplib.SMTP class,
contributed by Gerhard Häring.
This is part of SF patch #460112.
2001-09-11 16:58:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 42706803cd Documentation for the new hmac module, contributed by Gerhard Häring.
This is part of SF patch #460112.
2001-09-11 16:56:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 2732cb4269 Added documentation on the getfirst() and getlist() methods of the
cgi.FieldStorage class.
This closes SF patch #453691.
2001-09-11 16:27:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 3ae5726625 Updated infomation about libraries for alternate compilers on Windows.
This closes SF patch #459441.
2001-09-11 15:10:42 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d6e40e24f8 Remove some XXX markers
Update the patch and bug counts
2001-09-10 16:18:50 +00:00
Fred Drake ed5a7ca5ee Work around a LaTeX2HTML bug that caused the "m" in "mutable" to be dropped
in one place.
2001-09-10 15:16:08 +00:00
Jack Jansen fda3058827 Removed an erronous comment about alias files. 2001-09-10 08:55:25 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 26c39bf1b5 Add section on long integer changes
Add removal of 3-arg pow() for floats
Rewrite introduction a bit
2001-09-10 03:20:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 2872e8a654 Do not rebuild html-$(RELEASE).tar every time we need to use it. 2001-09-06 19:35:02 +00:00
Fred Drake c93cf676da Bump version number. 2001-09-06 19:28:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 05a73b1f9a Update link to the PyOpenGL project in the "gl" module docs.
This closes SF bug #459256.
2001-09-06 19:23:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 00bb329521 Document the built-in iter() function. 2001-09-06 19:04:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 7feae2d28c Bump version number. 2001-09-06 19:02:57 +00:00
Fred Drake a20c265aba Added an additional link to NIST information on secure hashing.
This closes SF bug #458785.
2001-09-06 18:59:43 +00:00