Commit Graph

2504 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake 0f871dc39e Added some "See also" references to htmllib docs.
Documented htmlentitydefs.
1999-06-21 21:20:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 2cd31dc3ea Added entry for curses module. 1999-06-21 21:14:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 4997f4d54a Added entries for four of Moshe's documentation sections. 1999-06-21 21:13:50 +00:00
Fred Drake a4070cef5e Preliminary documentation for the curses module by Moshe Zadka, with
lots of markup fixes and some English nits fixed.

Still needs real review.  Some of the function signatures used in this
module are really bad!  (Two leading optional parameters? Ugh!)
1999-06-21 21:13:09 +00:00
Fred Drake d5d55ea02e Fix a markup error. 1999-06-21 18:36:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 4755e7d5c1 Three more modules documented by Moshe! 1999-06-21 18:25:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 6f49e0a154 Added a few minor comments, mostly to discourage documentation of
really old modules that may become obsolete.
1999-06-18 19:58:59 +00:00
Fred Drake a48a083edb Added paragraph about potential re-initialization of extension
modules; responding to suggestion by Robin Boerdijk
<Robin.Boerdijk@nl.origin-it.com>.
1999-06-18 19:17:28 +00:00
Fred Drake a88ef00a50 Further clarfication of the system-dependence of the system() return
value, based on comments from Tim Peters.
1999-06-18 19:11:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 46e1a32edf Re-categorize the dump module as obsolete. 1999-06-18 17:12:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 354e98222c fpformat has been documented for at least a week now! 1999-06-18 15:21:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 26921da2c9 Small markup & usage adjustments. 1999-06-17 18:58:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 924b42de9c When looking for things that might be modules, include *module.c from
the Modules/ directory.  Most of the remaining undocumented modules
seem to be living there.
1999-06-17 18:49:18 +00:00
Fred Drake e019789962 Correction: the parameters of new.instance() are type-checked.
Edited several of the descriptions for English usage and more
consistent style.
1999-06-17 18:15:07 +00:00
Fred Drake de69ae1753 Updated version from Moshe, with a re-written warning about the
side-effect of cmpcache.cmp() using statcache.stat() internally.
1999-06-17 17:40:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 173ba5e3bc Minor markup nits. 1999-06-17 17:09:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 97c2fa03e5 Small English usage nits. 1999-06-17 16:38:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 7487c02209 Small markup and English usage nits. 1999-06-17 16:10:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 873f0297c3 Add reminder that wave.open() documentation should be updated for the
next Python release.
1999-06-17 15:20:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 551d2b14e7 Add entries due to additional sections from Moshe. 1999-06-17 15:12:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 26da2840ac Add/remove entries due to additional sections from Moshe. 1999-06-17 15:12:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 64bc94e3ec New module documentation sections from Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>! 1999-06-17 15:11:35 +00:00
Fred Drake e55702b024 Added note to __not__() description that this operation is defined
only by the interpreter core and is not overridable by objects.

Based on comment from David Ascher on the list.
1999-06-15 20:56:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 1e4402998f Several new index entries to make find this easier.
Noted that name=value is allowed in addition to name: value.
1999-06-15 17:30:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 42120eaca5 Added entries for new sections from Moshe. 1999-06-14 19:52:10 +00:00
Fred Drake c46864e982 Misc. changes related to the new sections. 1999-06-14 19:49:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 21572fdcb6 New sections from Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>.
These document CGIHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer, and linecache.
1999-06-14 19:47:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 7df4dd7de2 Add entry for the fpformat module. 1999-06-11 18:36:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 1739d2f9ee Documentation for the fpformat module by Moshe Zadka
<mzadka@geocities.com>.
1999-06-11 18:31:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 2f9790195b Added 'ce' to the list of "registered" values for os.name.
Make references to the posix module hyperlinks.
1999-06-11 18:28:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 5eb992beed Last night's scribbles:
- Revise abstract based on Guido's comments from way back.
- Point out that LaTeX is a structured system & we're using it that
  way.
- Add a small section on marking up code examples.
1999-06-11 14:25:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 9c5cc14d23 Some clarifications on operations for mapping types, based on comments
from Gerry Weiner <gerry@ucar.edu>.
1999-06-10 22:37:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 697c779d98 Adjust indexing for __import__(); based on comments by Stefan Franke
<sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-06-10 22:09:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 28b1770521 Improve index entry for "import"; responding to comments by Stefan
Franke <sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-06-10 22:08:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 06a73f042a Work around latex2html problem; reported by Gerrit Holl
<gerrit.holl@pobox.com>.
1999-06-10 21:23:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 4d5c87ba11 Declare the "util" module obsolete. 1999-06-10 21:17:11 +00:00
Fred Drake f64f8a0877 Fixed typo reported by Bennett Benson
<BennettBenson@mn.mediaone.net>.
1999-06-10 15:30:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 7a62128722 At David Ascher's request, clarify that os.system() always returns 0
on Win95 & Win98.
1999-06-10 15:07:05 +00:00
Fred Drake ae0f292576 Fix typo reported by Robert Kern <kernr@ncifcrf.gov>. 1999-06-10 15:03:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 66ab4e8af2 Patch by Jim Fulton to document the new parse_qls(). 1999-06-10 03:11:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4727456d46 Add doc for timegm(). 1999-06-09 15:11:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 5fac2ab220 Fix availability clause; mention availability of similar functionality
for Windows using win32pipe.
1999-06-01 17:55:52 +00:00
Fred Drake f1882422d2 Oops, forgot to remove the individual module indexes for lib & mac now
that there's a Global Module Index; there can be only one!
1999-05-27 21:56:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 3c27ec2c05 Add <hr> after top navigation bar; now looks more like the rest of the
navigation bars in the HTML output.
1999-05-27 21:52:51 +00:00
Fred Drake d2a727feee Hack: make sure LaTeX2HTML doesn't change -- to - in mkhowto
description.
1999-05-27 21:45:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 3aa70d63b9 Document the "pid" attribute of the Popen3 class.
Use memberdesc instead of datadesc to document object attributes.
This gets the index right.
1999-05-27 17:50:59 +00:00
Fred Drake a7ce52b03a Typo reported by Gerry Wiener <wiener@rap.ucar.edu>:
items -> item

The returned list will then have one more items than the number of
non-overlapping occurrences of the separator in the string.
1999-05-27 17:18:08 +00:00
Fred Drake abc8cc63ce Move some \index entries around so we can avoid using empty comments;
empty comments trigger a bug in LaTeX2HTML.

Problem reported by Gerry Wiener <gerry@ucar.edu>.
1999-05-26 16:15:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 82f355a36a Change the example of configuring for large file support under Solaris
to use `getconf LFS_CFLAGS`.  Steve Clift (the author of the section
and large file support) agrees that this is the right thing to do.
1999-05-26 13:03:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 6b330ba857 "proces" --> "process"; reported by Gerry Wiener <gerry@ucar.edu>.
Added some index entries.
1999-05-25 13:42:26 +00:00