495172c3b4
Add change to int() and OverflowError
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Re-order the "porting" section to list items by decreasing significance
2002-11-20 13:50:15 +00:00
72f861657a
Document additional error handling names available through PEP 293.
2002-11-19 21:51:35 +00:00
f171540ab8
Change int() so that passing a string, unicode, float or long argument
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that is outside the integer range no longer raises OverflowError, but
returns a long object instead.
This fixes SF bug http://www.python.org/sf/635115
2002-11-19 20:49:15 +00:00
6f429c3d1c
Use \ulink instead of \citetitle; bump version number
2002-11-19 13:09:00 +00:00
669249ecd3
Add PyBSDDB update
2002-11-19 13:05:33 +00:00
311f419628
Improve comments. Clarify docs.
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Replace "type(0)" with "int".
Replace "while 1" with "while True"
2002-11-18 09:01:24 +00:00
8ddc176e2e
Improve DictMixin.
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Replaced docstring with comments. Prevents subclass contamination.
Added the missing __cmp__() method and a test for __cmp__().
Used try/except style in preference to has_key() followed by a look-up.
Used iteritem() where possible to save creating a long key list and
to save redundant lookups.
Expanded .update() to look for the most helpful methods first and gradually
work down to a mininum expected interface.
Expanded documentation to be more clear on how to use the class.
2002-11-18 04:34:10 +00:00
6141812820
correct typo detected by Lee Hansen
2002-11-17 11:09:50 +00:00
e55bec2566
Better note that str.zfill() was added in 2.2.2 as well. ;-(
2002-11-16 00:44:00 +00:00
9171801de9
Document that a minor feature was added in 2.2.2. ;-(
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Closes SF bug #639170 .
2002-11-16 00:41:55 +00:00
5654cc215a
SF 639138, Ref. calendar module in time docs by John J Lee
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Will backport.
2002-11-15 23:00:30 +00:00
0e9bfa38b1
Minor markup nits.
2002-11-15 20:34:52 +00:00
08abe8e275
Fix stupid typo.
2002-11-15 20:32:03 +00:00
e61f365b0b
Document the available command line flags for bdist_wininst, which are
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avaliable in the Python 2.2 branch.
I've left out some flags which are more thought for debugging, if
someone needs them, he can always look at the output of --help.
I'm sure Fred will make some adjustments, so I'll only mark this as a
2.2 bugfix candidate.
There are more options available in the current CVS bdist_wininst,
I will document them after this is in.
2002-11-15 20:13:26 +00:00
36343f63fe
Correct typo: the option is 'formats' not 'format'.
2002-11-15 19:20:56 +00:00
49b33fa4cb
Squash an enormous number of warnings reported when adding "use
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warnings;" to this, and keep the "use" statement this time.
Fix an obscure bug that caused weird index entries to be generated in
a few cases, and a minor problem with horizontal alignmetn of the last
column of 5-column tables.
[I'd report a SF bug #, but I can't get to that right now.]
2002-11-15 19:04:10 +00:00
c734b01759
Fix critical markup errors.
2002-11-15 18:49:57 +00:00
3a2cda876b
Minor revisions to clarify the status of xreadlines(), change the way
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iteration support was documented; the docs for __iter__() were just
confusing.
2002-11-15 16:38:06 +00:00
88eed70fc8
Mention that the MRO algorithm changes in 2.3
2002-11-15 14:37:46 +00:00
b60ea3f01f
Mention change in MRO
2002-11-15 14:37:10 +00:00
7994716b6b
SF patch #520382 : Expand shelve.py to have a full dictionary interface
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and add a mixin to UserDict.py to make it easier to implement a full
dictionary interface.
2002-11-15 06:46:14 +00:00
3a7f405f5b
Draft a section on modifying Python's path. I'm not sure where
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this section fits best in inst.tex's organization; Fred or someone, feel
free to move it.
2002-11-15 02:52:44 +00:00
24d5a5281a
Add section on Optik
2002-11-14 23:40:42 +00:00
366c10c5c0
Finish up the logging section
2002-11-14 23:07:57 +00:00
28f2f88c31
Add partial section on the logging package; not finished yet.
2002-11-14 14:14:16 +00:00
4ebe2e3914
add liblogging
2002-11-14 03:58:20 +00:00
649698f72e
initial rough cut at documentation of logging module. This is basically
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just a conversion of pydoc.help(logging).
2002-11-14 03:57:19 +00:00
66abcee948
Integrate updates to the GNU info conversion.
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This includes SF patch #590352 and additional support for more of the custom
markup.
2002-11-13 19:31:04 +00:00
b02f0dfbe9
- Committing the modified signature lines I've been using for a long
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time in http://www.python.org/dev/doc/ . There have been no bug
reports on these for a long time now.
- Remove local "use" statement that duplicates a top-level "use".
2002-11-13 19:16:37 +00:00
bad460790e
Document struct_time and the field names.
2002-11-13 19:05:01 +00:00
4400509aaa
Add \funcline, \funclineni, and \methodlineni to the list of functions
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that are processed before their arguments.
Closes SF bug #637807 .
2002-11-13 17:55:17 +00:00
a5a173efbf
Fix broken markup.
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Closes SF bug #637807 .
2002-11-13 17:48:15 +00:00
2c184e7eea
Typo: it's --> its
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Closes SF bug #637810 .
2002-11-13 15:56:13 +00:00
ce5619e8a1
Update: Older versions of Python crashed when calling repr()
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(including the implied call using back-ticks) of a recursive object,
but this is no longer the case.
Reported by Manus Hand via email.
2002-11-13 15:32:34 +00:00
674dae245a
Clarify that PyImport_AddModule() and PyImport_ExecCodeModule() don't
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add any package support structure even if a dotted-name is passed for
the module.
Closes SF bug #424106 .
2002-11-13 15:13:38 +00:00
5c4cf1587b
Normalize whitespace.
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Fix a number of markup consistency buglets.
2002-11-13 14:59:06 +00:00
8a61f499dc
Fill out the 'Porting' section
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Add random.sample()
2002-11-13 13:24:41 +00:00
3d03968c75
Clarified meaning of \w and \W with respect to the UNICODE and LOCALE flags.
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Closes SF bug #635595 .
2002-11-12 23:12:54 +00:00
b9099c3df4
SF patch 637176: list.sort crasher
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Armin Rigo's Draconian but effective fix for
SF bug 453523: list.sort crasher
slightly fiddled to catch more cases of list mutation. The dreaded
internal "immutable list type" is gone! OTOH, if you look at a list
*while* it's being sorted now, it will appear to be empty. Better
than a core dump.
2002-11-12 22:08:10 +00:00
4b9ed2f346
Clarified documentation of tempnam().
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Closes SF bug #635656 .
2002-11-12 22:07:11 +00:00
cab94a19f6
Update text to refer to 2.2.2
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Remove an XXX item: I'm not going to write a section on the email package
at this point
2002-11-12 18:59:20 +00:00
71dd790ad2
Remove extra word
2002-11-12 18:45:46 +00:00
f24eb35d18
SF patch 629637: Add sample(population, k) method to the random module.
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Used for random sampling without replacement.
2002-11-12 17:41:57 +00:00
0da7f39a7c
Closes SF bug #634069 reporting the docs on the ** operator were out
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of date and did not reflect the current CPython implementation.
2002-11-08 05:30:23 +00:00
430b1563dd
Add documentation for the PEP 293 functionality:
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The errors attribute can be changed after the reader/writer
is created.
For encoding there are two additional errors values:
"xmlcharrefreplace" and "backslashreplace".
These values can be extended via register_error().
2002-11-07 22:33:17 +00:00
b5f41dedeb
Minor markup adjustments.
2002-11-07 17:13:03 +00:00
5b470e0a3a
Document the changed fdopen behaviour.
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(Hope the markup is ok).
2002-11-07 16:33:44 +00:00
572aae32f1
Old change (probably suggested by Jason Tishler) The GNU/Windows compiler is now called MinGW
2002-11-06 14:34:50 +00:00
e3fb22bd4a
[Patch #633635 from David M. Cooke]
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Make docs accurate; getch() in nodelay mode returns -1
2002-11-06 14:17:21 +00:00
110aa50cc2
Fix minor wording and 2 typos
2002-11-05 23:55:27 +00:00
fad265e651
Whoops, fix the typo correctly this time
2002-11-05 22:46:39 +00:00
75f36b7040
Document the new `pp' command.
2002-11-05 22:41:16 +00:00
c2f7757ef5
Fix minor typos
2002-11-05 22:37:58 +00:00
71f5acdd1e
Minor cleanups, markup.
2002-11-05 22:19:45 +00:00
a288a234ec
Document that images go away when they go away. Fixes #632323 .
2002-11-05 22:11:50 +00:00
18c7d98bd1
Fix a few minor nits. Still need to actually proofread this.
2002-11-05 17:54:02 +00:00
cc6cc5ddff
Fix minor markup nits.
2002-11-05 16:52:50 +00:00
f8ca8364c9
Patch implementing bz2 module.
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* setup.py
(PyBuildExt.detect_modules): Included bz2 module detection.
* Modules/bz2module.c
* Lib/test/test_bz2.py
* Doc/lib/libbz2.tex
Included files implementing, testing, and documenting bz2 module.
* Doc/Makefile.deps
* Doc/lib/lib.tex
Include references to libbz2.tex.
* Misc/NEWS
(Library): Mention distutils' c++ linkage patch, and new bz2 module.
2002-11-05 16:50:05 +00:00
bc5e3cc34f
Use personal e-mail address; update date; various small edits; add a name to acks
2002-11-05 00:26:33 +00:00
7a82b8c736
Bring back the patch/bug count paragraph.
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Correct source of *strip() changes
Small rewrites.
2002-11-04 20:17:24 +00:00
dc3f7e12ee
Mention distutil changes
2002-11-04 20:05:10 +00:00
22610da481
Document symbolic constants for commands.
2002-11-04 17:41:18 +00:00
2eba52fefb
Thinking on comp.text.tex seems to be that it's better to override
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\@makefntext than \@footnotetext, so we'll do that instead.
2002-11-04 16:29:31 +00:00
1da9c57c74
Patch #630829 : Don't block on IAC, process suboptions.
2002-11-04 09:56:00 +00:00
f0a4668e6f
Add getpreferredencoding. Support @euro modifiers. Fixes #554676 .
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The @euro part is backported to 2.2.3.
2002-11-03 17:20:12 +00:00
cf57e50989
Fix SF #632864 , Typo string instead of sting in LibDoc. Will backport.
2002-11-03 13:13:20 +00:00
1aca2d0cb3
Fix SF # 518775, buffer object API description truncated
2002-11-03 02:56:27 +00:00
034c749ff4
Fix SF #618146 , overflow error in calendar module
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Will backport.
2002-11-03 00:13:42 +00:00
1a7a894d90
Move introductory sentence to where it belongs.
2002-11-02 13:32:07 +00:00
9482d2591a
Update example for the type() function to use the currently accepted
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preference of using "is" instead of "==" to compare types, use
built-in names where available, and point to the isinstance()
function.
Closes SF bug #632196 .
2002-11-01 21:33:44 +00:00
ff031cfdf4
Define abstract way to get the normal and smaller font sizes that work
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even in the footnote context.
2002-10-31 21:04:34 +00:00
8612a431b9
Add a missing % to a Windows-style environment variable expression.
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Minor style guide compliance fix.
Several markup fixes.
2002-10-31 20:46:20 +00:00
699799e6f3
Add a couple of comments about the use of \normalsize and
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\footnotesize.
2002-10-30 22:20:27 +00:00
2394900a55
Still more magical <link> elements.
2002-10-30 21:51:18 +00:00
dbb2b9d77e
Hackish way to generate an up-<link> for the title page if we have
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one.
Added misc. comments.
2002-10-30 21:38:32 +00:00
4a4734927d
More <link> support for generated pages.
2002-10-30 21:32:40 +00:00
8687609a39
Two more <link> elements.
2002-10-30 21:29:50 +00:00
942bd502e7
Add some relevant <link> elements.
2002-10-30 21:17:10 +00:00
3adefccdcb
Use personal e-mail address
2002-10-30 21:08:34 +00:00
0e2e687ba0
Minor rearranging.
2002-10-30 19:55:23 +00:00
4e303aad05
Add notes to the asctime() and ctime() descriptions to make it
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explicit that locale information is not used. There wasn't anything
that implied it was, but this has confused users.
2002-10-30 18:17:03 +00:00
b1510d5060
Sprinkle with --favicon options.
2002-10-30 17:07:02 +00:00
b07216b43a
Added support for --favicon.
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Fix support for the Aesop Meta Type.
2002-10-30 17:05:03 +00:00
56c8c27b27
Added support for --favicon.
2002-10-30 17:02:21 +00:00
dd3d6a03c0
Add support for using a "favicon".
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make_head_and_body(): Re-arranged to do (slightly) less work for each page.
2002-10-30 17:00:58 +00:00
11eb3d090f
Make use of the new "favicon" image.
2002-10-30 16:54:54 +00:00
45be2fe230
Added "favicon" image.
2002-10-30 16:54:12 +00:00
d0c7137c8b
Chapter titles that get split over multiple lines in the typeset
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formats can't have whitespace after the last non-blank character (bug
in LaTeX?); fix up a couple of instances of this.
Update an email address.
2002-10-28 19:28:22 +00:00
74b51ac1e5
Patch #613256 : Add nescape method to xml.sax.saxutils.
2002-10-26 14:50:45 +00:00
7fbd01262c
Clarify packages in tutorial. Closes SF bug #616211 .
2002-10-26 03:13:57 +00:00
0eebd5cef9
Implement a safer and more predictable interpolation approach.
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Closes SF bug #511737 .
2002-10-25 21:52:00 +00:00
97d5f05221
Update to reflect the refactoring into the RawConfigParser and
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ConfigParser classes.
2002-10-25 20:20:58 +00:00
f596826673
- The "-" format flag overrides the "0" flag, not the "-" flag.
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- Documented the alternate forms, which were claimed to be documented
but were not.
2002-10-25 16:55:51 +00:00
5e96f1ff1d
Correct the description of PyErr_Restore().
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Closes SF bug #577000 .
2002-10-24 20:54:18 +00:00
79713fd9c6
Relocate an index entry so named anchors are not generated in a section head.
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Closes SF bug #546579 .
2002-10-24 19:57:37 +00:00
50276abd9b
Update an example to use the DOM implementation object. Explain that
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the parse() and parseString() functions use a separate parser, not
actually implement a parser. (This is a common question.)
2002-10-24 19:36:04 +00:00
73c5b6602d
Clean up some really minor Perl warnings.
2002-10-24 16:36:05 +00:00
ff287cfb4c
Point to the PyXML package as an extended version of the "xml" package
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that can provide this fuctionality.
Note that the docs for the xml.dom and xml.sax packages are the
definitiona of the Python bindings for the DOM and SAX interfaces.
2002-10-23 20:58:32 +00:00
88f015dc88
Moved description of _urlopener adjacent to the related functions.
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Added missing import to example code.
Added documentation for pathname2url(), url2pathname().
Closes SF bug #623196 .
2002-10-22 21:58:06 +00:00
55803bca98
Describe __path__ along with the rest of the package description.
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Closes SF bug #626554 .
2002-10-22 21:00:44 +00:00
d6cf8bea0a
Modify example to use string methods instead of the string module.
2002-10-22 20:31:22 +00:00
4b2472647a
Clarified the error cases and Unicode handling of PyString_AsString(),
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PyString_AsStringAndSize(), and PyString_AS_STRING().
Closes SF bug #606463 .
2002-10-22 20:20:20 +00:00
019bd4a6c1
terminology
2002-10-22 18:26:28 +00:00
1303c7cb16
add support for basic authentication, based on patch #624180
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by Phillip J. Eby
2002-10-22 18:23:00 +00:00
7d428ecc57
Clarify what versions of Windows are supported, and add Linux
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specifically.
2002-10-22 15:06:49 +00:00
d22eb59535
Added a paragraph to explain that SchedParams(0, 0) is usually what
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you want.
2002-10-19 21:36:56 +00:00
e7c38d48ff
fixed the mail address in the documentation, too...
2002-10-19 20:22:56 +00:00
5e31c3f768
Fix markup for tilde in URL.
2002-10-18 18:16:19 +00:00
d8eeeae4a6
Fix reference to the Fetchmail FAQ:
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- URL was missing an "m"
- markup for tilde was wrong
- URL was marked as the title
- actual title was omitted
"make webcheck" didn't catch this; not sure why.
Removed some spurious end-of-line whitespace.
2002-10-18 16:50:17 +00:00
ddc369a7d2
Fix markup for tilde in URL.
2002-10-18 16:33:30 +00:00
78eb200758
Added cross-references to related material on exceptions.
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Closes SF bug #217195 .
Make sure section numbers wrap together with the preceeding word
("section").
2002-10-18 15:20:32 +00:00
e7097e0b1c
Added cross-references to related material on exceptions.
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Closes SF bug #217195 .
2002-10-18 15:18:18 +00:00
30be5768d2
Make sure section numbers wrap together with the preceeding word
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("section").
2002-10-18 15:03:42 +00:00
d7bc0fec38
Try to fix the broken links caused by multiple \ref on the same line.
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SF bug #217195 .
Not sure if chomp() is correct, but chop() definitely has problems.
This change seems to have no ill effects.
Backport candidate if Fred agrees.
2002-10-18 02:05:47 +00:00
5f2c1d27b9
Typo(!): "normal" -> "number"
2002-10-17 19:23:43 +00:00
98ef20d5e4
Document urldefrag().
2002-10-16 20:07:54 +00:00
f607bdaa77
Add PyStructSequence_UnnamedField. Add stat_float_times.
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Use integers in stat tuple, optionally floats in named fields.
2002-10-16 18:27:39 +00:00
2314a0470f
Use string methods. Re-organize imports to Python Normal Form.
2002-10-16 16:06:07 +00:00
27c4e09a62
Only reset _is_empty if needed.
2002-10-16 16:02:08 +00:00
df85f0b09f
Modernization: Use string methods, use str instead of
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types.StringType, inherit from list instead of
UserList.
2002-10-16 16:00:42 +00:00
071972e426
Use string methods.
2002-10-16 15:30:17 +00:00
06912b7702
Use string methods. Organize the imports in Python Normal Form.
2002-10-16 15:29:07 +00:00
4fe904d3d6
Use string methods; minor code cleanup.
2002-10-16 14:59:02 +00:00
77ac429eff
Patch #572628 : Optional timeouts for put and get.
2002-10-15 15:11:13 +00:00
816aebdf94
Use the same shade of blue as the site navigation areas.
2002-10-14 15:45:11 +00:00
f834ecbba5
Minor refactoring to avoid code duplication.
2002-10-14 15:04:33 +00:00
16ecb2160f
Fix tildes in URLs. Closes SF bug #614821 .
2002-10-12 15:02:46 +00:00
463bfafd24
Clarify deprecation of the floor div operator, modulo operator,
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and divmod() function for complex numbers.
Closes SF Bug 621708: Unclear deprecation.
2002-10-11 21:08:02 +00:00
36a4d8c20e
Remove mentionings of DOS.
2002-10-10 18:24:54 +00:00
5430f4e9c8
Document when unittest was added to Python.
2002-10-10 16:16:25 +00:00
c309ccab64
Add new posix functions
2002-10-10 16:04:08 +00:00
6f0f961741
Update email micro release number.
2002-10-10 15:58:19 +00:00
df88b9fadf
Document that the Charset constructor coerces its argument to lower
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case.
2002-10-10 15:23:38 +00:00
57ce1430b2
Document that get_content_charset() coerces its return value to lower
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case.
2002-10-10 15:22:16 +00:00
dbe3f76270
Patch #569139 : Implementation of major, minor and makedev.
2002-10-10 14:27:30 +00:00
3e3e1296f0
[Bug #621039 ] Fix broken link
2002-10-10 11:32:30 +00:00
83992480ed
[Bug #621038 ] Remove duplicated item
2002-10-10 11:31:48 +00:00
aa02c8441b
Accept Armin's documentation patch for SF bug #558179 .
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Adjusted some markup to make the descriptions more consistent.
2002-10-09 22:33:23 +00:00
0a6fa9619e
Minor edits and markup fixes
2002-10-09 12:11:10 +00:00
8696ebcd28
Add os.path.supports_unicode_filenames for all platforms,
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sys.getwindowsversion() on Windows (new enahanced Tim-proof <wink>
version), and fix test_pep277.py in a few minor ways.
Including doc and NEWS entries.
2002-10-08 02:44:31 +00:00
20eae69a9f
Document PEP 293.
2002-10-07 19:01:07 +00:00
bd5e38d4cc
Document PEP 277 changes.
2002-10-07 18:52:29 +00:00
74653820e3
Modified presentation of the grammar for calls to be easier to read
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for both HTML and typeset renderings. Corresponds to revision
1.53.4.8 on the r22-maint branch.
2002-10-07 16:28:38 +00:00
e9ce0b0fea
Patch #448038 : Add move(). Report errors from copytree as in shutil.Error.
2002-10-07 13:23:24 +00:00
a844f2d165
Document patch #594001 .
2002-10-05 09:46:48 +00:00
0f345567fe
Add a section to be written; remove reference to deleted code
2002-10-04 22:34:11 +00:00
57b38ed424
Remove some unnecessary dependencies (minor).
2002-10-04 19:23:06 +00:00
b915a38b6f
Added refcount information for PyObject_GetIter().
2002-10-04 18:58:58 +00:00
0ba5541a0e
Add a comment to the top of the file explaining why the file is here.
2002-10-01 18:20:16 +00:00
cfb30e23d1
build(): Use self.builddir, not self.doc when copying the icons, so
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they'll end up in the right directory when --dir is used.
2002-10-01 15:38:01 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
Walter Dörwald
Raymond Hettinger
Skip Montanaro
Fred Drake
Neal Norwitz
Thomas Heller
Tim Peters
Barry Warsaw
Martin v. Löwis
Gustavo Niemeyer
Fredrik Lundh
Jack Jansen
Mark Hammond