943277ecd3
Minor corrections.
2003-07-17 14:47:12 +00:00
ea690c4b25
- improve the description of how user-defined method
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objects get made
- improve the description of attribute retrieval from
classes and class instances
- add brief documentation of static method and
class method objects.
2003-07-17 05:26:53 +00:00
4d6e8fe5d1
Clarify the lack of relationship between rich comparison operators.
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Prompted by a discussion on comp.lang.python.
2003-07-16 19:40:23 +00:00
d51ce7de97
Indexing is a mess; try to get the link targets closer to the relevant
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text. There needs to be a better way.
2003-07-15 22:03:00 +00:00
b3be52eaf4
Try to clean up some indexing relevant to the import statement.
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Pertains to SF bug #518989 .
2003-07-15 21:37:58 +00:00
e37b4ed24e
Discuss calling new-style types.
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Closes SF bug #453683 .
2003-07-15 20:45:16 +00:00
5918f8de67
Minor fixes to punctuation and grammar.
2003-06-29 04:53:23 +00:00
25b5358cf2
Add definitions of the test and testlist symbols in the grammar so
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there are no gaps in the definitions.
Closes SF bug #726150 .
2003-06-27 17:12:43 +00:00
df9eff061e
* Markup nits for the Invoking Descriptors section
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* Documented __slots__
* Documented __metaclass__
Shamelessly plagarized from Guido's tutorial.
2003-06-27 06:57:56 +00:00
d0cda1dc9f
SF patch #760792 : "wo" in "word" now valid but not documented as such
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Revised version of a contribution from Gerrit Holl.
Update the docs for the extended behavior of __contains__
2003-06-26 19:32:10 +00:00
daa340418b
* Fixed an unmatched parenthesis early in the text.
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* Clarified the meaning of lexicographic sequence ordering as discussed on
comp.lang.python: http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e163c9f9ba114493
2003-06-26 17:41:40 +00:00
4db3661e24
remove _ from label: LaTeX rejects this due to all the magic we use to
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get the _ character to format like a normal character
2003-06-26 03:11:20 +00:00
03ec6d538a
* Document how descriptors are invoked.
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* Fix minor parenthesis matching errors in ref3.tex.
2003-06-25 18:29:36 +00:00
171be76bdd
Patch #755683 : Document that there might be a maximum indentation limit.
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Fixes #700827
2003-06-21 13:40:02 +00:00
96a8233b64
SF patch #751038 fixing SF bug#750092: exec doesn't need newline
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Patch contributed by Steven Taschuk.
2003-06-18 01:32:24 +00:00
9e6fedd2ec
Add explicit text for where an obindex call for generators was since obindex does not cause output of its argument.
2003-06-15 22:57:44 +00:00
b268f03459
SF bug #749759 : comparisons yield bool not int
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Minor documentation fix.
2003-06-06 02:52:14 +00:00
847207acff
SF bug #719367 , string exceptions are deprecated
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Remove references to string based exceptions in the doc.
2003-05-29 02:17:23 +00:00
a95d3b78c8
Oops. License is still an appendix.
2003-05-28 12:12:55 +00:00
2fb6124afd
Appendix was removed.
2003-05-28 12:04:38 +00:00
cf9c46719c
*** empty log message ***
2003-05-28 11:51:11 +00:00
8bea5dc879
Move future statement here from appendix a.
2003-05-21 21:43:00 +00:00
7af9f4dac3
Add a specific mention of the term "operator overloading" and add an
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index entry. Suggested to python-docs.
2003-05-12 13:50:11 +00:00
4efd91713b
Add a space after expression to be consistent
2003-04-10 21:51:29 +00:00
007fadd59d
Fix symbol in grammar; this should fix some hyperlinking in the HTML
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version.
2003-03-31 14:53:03 +00:00
62364ffb80
- apply SF patch #700798 : fixes and cleanups for descriptor info
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- use a TeX "tie" to prevent word-wrapping in "section x.y"-like text
2003-03-20 18:17:16 +00:00
2ab1d08f90
I thought it was common practice to check things compiled before
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checking them in? Oh well, this fixes various obvious mistakes and
changes a subsubsubsection (which doesn't exist) into a subsubsection
(which does). I'm not sure this matches the intent, but it seems to
read OK on a quick skim.
2003-03-05 14:20:58 +00:00
d41eea05f4
SF doc patch #692001 , properties and __getattribute__. I added some
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stuff, and changed 'property' to 'descriptor'.
2003-02-28 14:11:45 +00:00
f9b0cc7df6
Document __module__.
2003-01-31 18:52:45 +00:00
8bd62afca9
Fix typo reported to python-docs.
2003-01-25 03:47:35 +00:00
f4ca5a2f45
Fix typo
2003-01-19 14:57:12 +00:00
e701dcbabd
SF patch #634866 : Alex Martelli's corrections to the ref manual.
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Backport candidate. All but one or two of these changes
are applicable to 2.2.2.
2003-01-19 13:08:18 +00:00
13dd9d9978
Patch #662454 : import a.b as c is ok, fixes #660811 .
2003-01-16 11:30:08 +00:00
1772f17666
SF bug #661848 and #631055 : Clarify use of __all__.
2003-01-06 12:54:54 +00:00
cfd3884882
This is Richie Hindle's patch
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[ 643835 ] Set Next Statement for Python debuggers
with a few tweaks by me: adding an unsigned or two, mentioning that
not all jumps are allowed in the doc for pdb, adding a NEWS item and
a note to whatsnew, and AuCTeX doing something cosmetic to libpdb.tex.
2002-12-17 16:15:34 +00:00
78429a6aa6
Fixing bug
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[#448679 ] Left to right
* Python/compile.c
(com_dictmaker): Reordered evaluation of dictionaries to follow strict
LTR evaluation.
* Lib/compiler/pycodegen.py
(CodeGenerator.visitDict): Reordered evaluation of dictionaries to
follow strict LTR evaluation.
* Doc/ref/ref5.tex
Documented the general LTR evaluation order idea.
* Misc/NEWS
Documented change in evaluation order of dictionaries.
2002-12-16 13:54:02 +00:00
27cae1f7c5
Revise the __all__ index entry a touch.
2002-12-07 16:00:00 +00:00
f9229d98ae
Add __all__ to Reference Manual index.
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Closes SF 643227.
2002-12-07 09:39:15 +00:00
f955412130
* Doc/ref/ref5.tex
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Fixed minor bug preventing documentation compilation.
2002-11-26 18:14:35 +00:00
5b21df4a5c
Repaired inaccuracies in the % docs. In particular, we don't (and can't)
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guarantee abs(x%y) < abs(y) in all cases when a float is involved.
math.fmod() should, though, so noted that too.
Bugfix candidate. Someone should check the LaTeX here first, though.
2002-11-24 20:23:04 +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
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
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
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
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
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
5ec22f2d7b
Another try at clarifying what goes into and comes out of Unicode objects.
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Document the indices() method of slice objects.
2002-09-24 21:09:13 +00:00
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