Fred Drake
667c9e46ca
Minor markup adjustments.
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Move some index entries next to what they are referring to for better
"targetting".
2001-02-02 02:43:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
844bd5b4a9
Minor markup adjustments.
2001-02-02 02:42:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
68b6417c5a
Added a warning at the top saying that user code should not use the
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whrandom module directly.
2001-02-02 02:41:17 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
3faa52ecc4
Allow 'continue' inside 'try' clause
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SF patch 102989 by Thomas Wouters
2001-02-01 22:48:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
d0946da701
Fix some markup breakage that prevented formatting; re-wrapped a couple of
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wide paragraphs.
2001-02-01 15:53:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
c2e35e6f37
Remove spurious "\end{description}" that caused formatting to fail.
2001-02-01 15:37:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
36154b2dbf
Added entry for weakref documentation.
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Moved commented-out entries for obsolete module to an appendix, still
commented out.
2001-02-01 05:21:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
0d0e64861b
Add entry for weakref documentation.
2001-02-01 05:20:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
ebcf6a8573
Documentation for the weakref module.
2001-02-01 05:20:20 +00:00
Tim Peters
0de88fc4b1
Change random.seed() so that it can get at the full range of possible
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internal states. Put the old .seed() (which could only get at about
the square root of the # of possibilities) under the new name .whseed(),
for bit-level compatibility with older versions. This occurred to me
while reviewing effbot's book (he found himself stumbling over .seed()
more than once there ...).
2001-02-01 04:59:18 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
0eb107068a
update section 4.1 to describe nested scopes
2001-02-01 03:50:59 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
30dbd1429a
Document the two changes to the mailbox.py module:
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- All constructors grow an optional argument `factory' which is a
callable used when new message instances are created by the next()
methods. Defaults to the rfc822.Message class.
- A new subclass of UnixMailbox is added, called PortableUnixMailbox.
It's identical to UnixMailbox, but uses a more portable test for
From_ delimiter lines. With PortableUnixMailbox, any line that
starts with "From " is considered a delimiter (this should really
check for two newlines before the F, but it doesn't.
2001-01-31 22:14:01 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
b416290d5d
Some rewriting of the "Internationalizing your programs and modules"
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subsection to include a discussion of the msgfmt.py program.
2001-01-31 21:21:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
5599441bbf
Make HTML the default output format, since that is what people actually
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want most of the time.
2001-01-30 22:30:01 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
10f8ba4fc6
Remove note about the compiler not checking for two kinds of illegal
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imports. It checks for them now.
2001-01-30 01:25:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
4308d3c4b5
Add note about non-recursive Makefiles
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Get Fred's name right
Add some XXX items that need to be written
2001-01-29 17:36:53 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
3229b859fb
More on noutrefresh() and scroll().
2001-01-29 06:39:33 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
4fda21ba6b
updated to document use of sequences of two-element tuples as inputs
2001-01-28 21:18:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
c37f5b3296
Adjust documentation for new.instance() to reflect that the second
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parameter may be omitted or None.
2001-01-28 17:23:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
5838d0fc84
Document the PyInstance_*() functions and data.
2001-01-28 06:39:35 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
9ca35ec97a
Instructive example for strftime(); how to generate RFC822 dates.
2001-01-28 00:56:54 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
e7213c7a80
Emphasis that instantiating this class doesn't consume the message body.
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Fix some unclear language in the description of the addrlist member.
2001-01-27 10:56:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
66f98b45cd
Fix a number of typos found by Guido.
2001-01-26 20:51:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
8c071d4388
Massively improved documentation for string formatting operations,
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primarily from Evelyn Mitchell (thanks!).
This closes SF patch #103412 .
2001-01-26 20:48:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
2f4453af6a
Typo: coplete --> complete
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This closes SF bug #129759 .
2001-01-26 15:27:35 +00:00
Tim Peters
e360d9507a
The combo of getstate/setstate/jumpahead is very powerful, but needs
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examples to flesh it out for the uninitiated. Here they are.
2001-01-26 10:00:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
8863460490
Add bzip2 archives back to the set of generated archives; we had way too
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many reasonable requests to keep them around.
Bump version number.
2001-01-25 17:32:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
29052482d1
Removed references to Python 1.5.3; that was a "tentative" number I used
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in the docs to indicate the next version before we decided on 1.6.
Adjusted winsound.Beep() description slightly as well.
2001-01-25 17:29:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
cf069da57d
Update link to LaTeX2HTML web site.
2001-01-25 17:25:28 +00:00
Tim Peters
517ce23183
Clarify winsound.beep docs, in response to c.l.py beep brouhahalet.
2001-01-25 09:33:48 +00:00
Tim Peters
d52269bfd0
Fix bugs introduced by rewrite (in particular, time-based initialization
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got broken). Also added new method .jumpahead(N). This finally gives us
a semi-decent answer to how Python's RNGs can be used safely and efficiently
in multithreaded programs (although it requires the user to use the new
machinery!).
2001-01-25 06:23:18 +00:00
Tim Peters
d7b5e88e8e
Reworked random.py so that it no longer depends on, and offers all the
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functionality of, whrandom.py. Also closes all the "XXX" todos in
random.py. New frequently-requested functions/methods getstate() and
setstate(). All exported functions are now bound methods of a hidden
instance. Killed all unintended exports. Updated the docs.
FRED: The more I fiddle the docs, the less I understand the exact
intended use of the \var, \code, \method tags. Please review critically.
GUIDO: See email. I updated NEWS as if whrandom were deprecated; I
think it should be.
2001-01-25 03:36:26 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
83125775e0
A \begin{funcdesc} was closed with an \end{methoddesc}.
2001-01-25 00:39:16 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
21f37e1b88
Fixed a bug where \& was needed.
2001-01-25 00:38:15 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
8ee1a4bdeb
Provide a much better (and complete!) description of the lockf()
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function, based on an eyeballing of the code.
2001-01-25 00:36:54 +00:00
Tim Peters
902446a28d
Supply long-missing docs for random.seed(). Extensive rewrite of module
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intro docs.
*************** Fred: check my LaTeX! Also, the docs for whrandom should
*************** be moved into Obsolete Modules.
2001-01-24 23:06:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
9368a12011
Fix an obvious usage nit I should have caught myself on the previous
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change to this file. Thanks, /F!
2001-01-24 18:19:40 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee
fa004ad36c
Show '\011', '\012', and '\015' as '\t', '\n', '\r' in strings.
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Switch from octal escapes to hex escapes for other nonprintable characters.
2001-01-24 17:19:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
0bbaa515a1
Remove evil "sec:" prefix from some \label markups; this is bad for
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filenames on Windows (& Mac?) platforms.
2001-01-24 16:39:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
b1b6a11b28
AttributeList --> NamedNodeMap
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Since there is no such thing as an AttributeList, don't say "attributes"
is one.
2001-01-24 16:17:15 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh
0110d3b2ad
new unicodedata functions (name, lookup)
2001-01-24 08:10:07 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
eda28445c0
documented (new) optional doseq parameter to urlencode.
2001-01-24 06:36:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
1ae43c4341
Add names of people who've pointed out broken links and images
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Bump version number
2001-01-24 01:11:26 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
d975196d57
Fredrik pointed out that the database shrank more than 55K
2001-01-24 00:52:56 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
26e94a8822
Jeremy didn't write PEP 205, Fred did!
2001-01-23 15:21:05 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
f79cb2db3e
Expose the autoraise capability. Improve the documentation.
2001-01-23 13:49:44 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
aeb5532ca0
Oops...finish a mangled sentence.
2001-01-23 13:22:28 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
f7f185116a
Rewrite webbrowser.py to fix various bugs following Ka-Ping Yee's
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complaints. The new version moves most of its initialization to
package load time; it's simpler, faster, smaller, and adds support for
Mozilla and Links. Interpretation of the BROWSER variable now works
and is documented. The open_new entry point and methods are marked
"deprecated; may be removed in 2.1".
2001-01-23 13:16:32 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
f33c118869
Add introductory note about this article's draft status
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Grammatical and typographic fixes from David Goodger
Expanded notes about PEP 229
Removed user-visible XXXes; they're in comments now
2001-01-23 02:48:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
da6daee439
A variety of updates of out-of-date information.
2001-01-22 21:38:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
bc3974c03b
When generating the source package, copy in the LICENSE file from the main
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source directory.
2001-01-22 21:34:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
9c3b9b76c1
Never mind ignoring a copied LICENSE file; let's do this another way.
2001-01-22 21:31:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
e94b9f9d3c
Ignore the generated LICENSE file needed for the documentation source
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package.
2001-01-22 21:07:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
3a045e8993
Change the main targets to generate HTML instead of PostScript.
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Update the comments at the beginning of the file.
2001-01-22 20:47:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
dc40ac0fe0
Added link to the "Python Codecs" project at SourceForge.
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Changed markup of the list of values for the list of meaningful "errors"
values.
2001-01-22 20:17:54 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
91834c6c7e
Added dictionary.popitem() and the improved XML modules.
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Reorder the smaller items, roughly in decreasing order of visibility to
the Python coder
Finished an incomplete sentence.
Moved the unwritten sections down to the bottom.
Bumped version number and added acknowledgements
2001-01-22 19:51:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
0f564eaceb
Change some wording to make this work with PDF generation -- using a PDF
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hyperlink at the start of the paragraph confused pdflatex; it saw the
link start while still in vertical mode, which is not allowed. Including
text before the link forces horizontal mode.
2001-01-22 19:06:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
bcb09fa33f
Worked around bug SF #125880 : changed the text of three sections that
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really nasty TeX source to "bleed" into the PDF "bookmarks".
2001-01-22 18:38:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
5f0decf0d3
Clean up the docs for the "random" module according to comments from Tim
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Peters.
This closes SF bug #125919 .
2001-01-22 18:18:30 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
f228fd10d9
Add reference to PEP 232.
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Use correct flag name Py_TPFLAGS_CHECKTYPES
Mention that numeric methods can return Py_NotImplemented (NAS)
Mention optional arguments in time modules (TW)
Various minor rewrites and additional attributions
2001-01-22 17:52:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
31ab298df6
Remove the dollar sign from the formatting of environment variables --
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too Unix-specific, and not really needed. (Already fixed the HTML
formatting, but forgot to mention it in the checkin for python.perl 1.94.)
2001-01-22 17:50:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
0a8690a0ad
Make "PythonLabs" bold.
2001-01-22 17:48:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
c8e8281fb6
Updated note about collection of cyclic garbage, based on comments from
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Chris Ryland.
2001-01-22 17:46:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
ef8cd7ca99
Minor markup adjustment.
2001-01-22 17:42:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
afc7ce118e
Fix \seepep handling -- correct URL to the online PEP repository on SF is
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now generated. (SF bug #129692.)
Patch from Anthon van der Neut <anthon@mnt.org>:
Work around the removal of content-less paired tags used for name
anchors in some places. (SF bug #116008.)
Move some class attributes from an artificial SPAN element to otherwise
"useful" elements that are being generated anyway. Added the class
"versionnote", used for \deprecated, \versionadded, \versionchanged.
2001-01-22 17:33:24 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
b216ab632f
Fill out various transcripts and XXX bits, thanks to the WMATA.
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The only missing section is the Nested Scopes section, which has to wait
to see if a patch is actually committed. (Plus any other notable changes
that get made or backed out between now and 2.1final, of course...)
2001-01-22 16:15:44 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
90cecee894
Beginning of a "What's New in Python 2.1" article
2001-01-22 04:02:09 +00:00
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
Fred Drake
5566c1ce36
Fixed a bunch of typos caught by Gilles Civario.
2001-01-19 22:48:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
0fe5af9b4d
Clarify comments about returning None using a return without an expression;
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this is not hard to explain!
Closes SF bug #129345 .
2001-01-19 22:34:59 +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
Guido van Rossum
ab782dd6cc
Document rich comparisons.
2001-01-18 15:17:06 +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
a544ea2354
Undoing the whitespace patches which sneaked into the earlier patch.
2001-01-17 18:04:31 +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
34bafcc079
Fix a variety of minor nits and typos caught by Chris Ryland
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<cpr@emsoftware.com>.
2001-01-14 02:57:14 +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
fe338ca540
Fix a typo, remove one copy of a duplicated name.
2001-01-10 05:33:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
675e1d0a0d
Remove bogus "echo" command.
2001-01-09 22:50:13 +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
42181dba8e
Added a --global-module-index option to specify a (possibly relative) URL
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to the Global Module Index for a set of documents. This is used to include
a reference to the global index from the per-document module indexes, so
that it is just a little easier to find.
(Someone suggested this, but I do not remember who. Please let me know if
it was you -- thanks!)
2001-01-09 22:02:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
c49480ed51
Miscellaneous updates.
2001-01-09 21:40:52 +00:00