6048ce95a9
Added documentation for str.decode().
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This closes SF bug #490823 .
2001-12-10 16:43:08 +00:00
b38784e4a0
Slightly improved indexing for the string-% operator, thanks to comments
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from Skip Montanaro. There is one weirdness in the final index for HTML, but
that is low priority.
2001-12-03 22:15:56 +00:00
14f5c5fa01
Make no assumption about how modules are built when referring to them; this
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can vary by platform and installation.
Based on suggestion to python-docs.
2001-12-03 18:33:13 +00:00
3570551d6f
Remove most references to __members__ and __methods__, leaving only one pair
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of references that now state that these attributes have been removed,
directing the reader to the dir() function.
This closes SF bug #456420 .
2001-12-03 17:32:27 +00:00
c37b65ee10
Clean up some markup cruft. A number of the macros that take no
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parameters (like \UNIX) are commonly entered using an empty group to
separate the markup from a following inter-word space; this is not
needed when the next character is punctuation, or the markup is the
last thing in the enclosing group. These cases were marked
inconsistently; the empty group is now *only* used when needed.
2001-11-28 07:26:15 +00:00
99de218cfc
Promote file objects out of the "Other Objects" category, so they become
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visible in the table of contents.
2001-10-30 06:23:14 +00:00
003047a5f2
Mention the new file() builtin in the section on file objects.
2001-10-30 05:54:04 +00:00
ef428a292a
Explain what [].insert() does when the target index is negative.
2001-10-26 18:57:14 +00:00
0aa811c527
Use the \note and \warning macros where appropriate.
2001-10-20 04:24:09 +00:00
599db7de63
The list.sort() docs require a function that returns -1, 0 or +1. That's
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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
2c9aa5ea8d
Generalize file.writelines() to allow iterable objects.
2001-09-23 04:06:05 +00:00
038d26410d
Note that files are iterable; describe what the iterator returns.
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This closes SF bug #463738 .
2001-09-22 04:34:48 +00:00
d800cff80d
Added explanation that [...] * n generates shallow copies of [...], so
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the contents will be shared by multiple references.
This closes SF bug #455694 .
2001-08-28 14:56:05 +00:00
5ef99a0bc5
Describe the new semantics for setting and deleting a function's
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__dict__ attribute. Deleting it, or setting it to a non-dictionary
result in a TypeError. Note that getting it the first time magically
initializes it to an empty dict so that func.__dict__ will always
appear to be a dictionary (never None).
Closes SF bug #446645 .
2001-08-14 18:22:24 +00:00
54f65094c3
Typo fix.
2001-07-26 21:01:21 +00:00
41d7d58cc4
trivial rewording in footnote 5.
2001-07-25 16:18:19 +00:00
907e76b620
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
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translation more difficult, as well as reading the English more
difficult for non-native speakers.
2001-07-06 20:30:11 +00:00
5fe2c139d5
List constraints on xrange() objects.
2001-07-05 15:27:19 +00:00
3f56166b1a
Rip out the fancy behaviors of xrange that nobody uses: repeat, slice,
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contains, tolist(), and the start/stop/step attributes. This includes
removing the 4th ('repeat') argument to PyRange_New().
2001-07-05 13:27:48 +00:00
e9218a1a8e
Remove the restriction on a mapping's .update() method.
2001-06-26 20:32:59 +00:00
4a6c5c568f
Fixed reference to table notes for {}.keys() and {}.items() -- these
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references did not get updated when the notes were renumbered in a
previous update.
This fixes SF bug #432208 .
2001-06-12 03:31:56 +00:00
c6d8f8d2ac
Add descriptions of {}.iteritems(), {}.iterkeys(), and {}.itervalues()
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in the table of mapping object operations. Re-numbered the list of
notes to reflect the move of the "Added in version 2.2." note to the list
of notes instead of being inserted into the last column of the table.
2001-05-25 04:24:37 +00:00
f42cc45f1b
The general iteration support is part of 2.2, not 2.1 -- fixed the version
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annotations!
Also fixed a typo noted by Neil S.
2001-05-03 04:39:10 +00:00
93656e76f9
Added section describing the iterator protocol.
2001-05-02 20:18:03 +00:00
8b3d6ca3df
At the suggestion of Peter Funk, document 'key in dict' and 'key not
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in dict' after has_key(), with a \versionadded{2.2} note.
2001-04-23 13:22:59 +00:00
82f93c693d
Only document <file>.xreadlines() once; added version annotation.
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This closes SF bug #417943 .
2001-04-22 01:56:51 +00:00
4cacec5393
Fix a number of minor markup errors.
2001-04-21 05:56:06 +00:00
0dbb4fba4c
Implement, test and document "key in dict" and "key not in dict".
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I know some people don't like this -- if it's really controversial,
I'll take it out again. (If it's only Alex Martelli who doesn't like
it, that doesn't count as "real controversial" though. :-)
That's why this is a separate checkin from the iterators stuff I'm
about to check in next.
2001-04-20 16:50:40 +00:00
d4614e8371
Updates to the semantics of function and method attributes.
2001-02-27 03:32:35 +00:00
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
20ab9e9c0a
Document xreadlines() method. (Forgot to check this in before!)
2001-01-17 01:18:00 +00:00
83ad5015cb
effbot caught a typo!
2001-01-15 20:51:40 +00:00
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
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
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
ff63f2023d
"Documentation" for {}.popitem().
2000-12-12 22:03:47 +00:00
5725d1eb03
Backing out my changes.
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Improved version coming soon to a Source Forge near you!
2000-11-30 19:30:21 +00:00
1a62750eda
Added .first{item,value,key}() to dictionaries.
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Complete with docos and tests.
OKed by Guido.
2000-11-30 12:31:03 +00:00
17383b9ad7
Added information about the %r string formatting conversion. Added note
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about the interpretation of radix 0 for int(), and added description of
the optional radix argument for long(). Based on comments from Reuben
Sumner <rasumner@users.sourceforge.net>.
This closes bug #121672 .
2000-11-17 19:44:14 +00:00
a776cea71a
Document the proper exception to be raised by I/O operations on closed
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files; error reported by Ng Pheng Siong <ngps@post1.com>.
Make sure that various special object attributes are properly indexed.
2000-11-06 20:17:37 +00:00
1dba66cb72
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com> noted that the encode() string method
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was added in 2.0.
2000-10-25 21:03:55 +00:00
0b4e25d0c0
Use \obindex{...} instead of \indexii{...}{type} in many places; this is
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more consistent with other index entries in the documentation.
2000-10-04 04:21:19 +00:00
fffe5dbc47
Fixed a number of small problems reported by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
2000-09-21 05:25:30 +00:00
51f53df4c8
Clarify that the softspace attribute is used by print for state management,
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not as a user-controlled parameter.
2000-09-20 04:48:20 +00:00
752ba39a0b
Clarify a number of issues about the file-like object API based on
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discussion on python-dev.
2000-09-19 15:18:51 +00:00
d5d0435617
Use \shortversion in a number of places.
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This partially addresses SourceForge bug #114318 .
2000-09-14 20:24:17 +00:00
66d32b1e12
Add some index entries to make it easier to find information on
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%-formatting of strings.
2000-09-14 17:57:42 +00:00
1349437e4c
When referring to namespaces, always say "namespaces" instead of
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"name spaces".
Inconsistency noted by Keith Briggs <keith.briggs@bt.com>.
2000-09-12 16:23:48 +00:00
66571cc20c
Improve a couple of references to the language reference, making them
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hyperlinks to relevant sections.
Clarify the conditions under which the "softspace" attribute of file-like
objects can "just work" (with relation to overriding of attribute access
in user-defined classes).
2000-09-09 03:30:34 +00:00
512bb72fb0
As pointed out by Denis S. Otkidach <den@analyt.chem.msu.ru>, xrange()
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returns an xrange object, not a range object, despite the name of the
source file they're implemented in.
In the list of comparison operators, list != before <>, since <> is
described as obsolescent.
2000-08-18 03:12:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
Tim Peters
Barry Warsaw
Greg Ward
Skip Montanaro
Guido van Rossum
Moshe Zadka