87da1ea127
Patch from Andrew Kuchling: document the new multiple pattern feature in the
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manifest template.
2000-04-21 04:35:25 +00:00
d5767a5e43
Reformatted wide paragraphs.
2000-04-19 22:48:09 +00:00
4eaa3bfed0
Reverted '\var' in the "standard installation location" table to '\filevar'.
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Reformatted wide paragraphs.
2000-04-19 22:44:25 +00:00
c402fa122f
Dropped '\tilde' and '\bslash' definitions.
2000-04-19 22:40:34 +00:00
4756e5fb1c
Changed '\tilde' and '\bslash' to the standard '\textasciitilde' and
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'\textbackslash'.
2000-04-19 22:40:12 +00:00
95da443447
Removed '\package' definition.
2000-04-19 22:36:33 +00:00
1ecc251538
Changed '\package' to \module'.
2000-04-19 22:36:24 +00:00
a021acacfb
Changed '\option' to '\longprogramopt' wherever it referred to a command-line
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option.
2000-04-19 22:34:11 +00:00
cebda6f5f0
Added documentation for WindowsError; omission noted by Michal Bozon
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<bozon@natur.cuni.cz>.
(Mark Hammond, other Python/Windows cognoscenti: please check this!)
2000-04-17 17:42:00 +00:00
e99d1dbc74
Clarify the description of the else clause for try/except, and add an
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explanation of why you'd want to use it.
Based on a question from Michael Simcich <msimcich@accesstools.com>.
2000-04-17 14:56:31 +00:00
46b98e35fd
Various wording/formattin tweaks.
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Started spewing "Creating Built Distributions" section.
2000-04-14 01:53:36 +00:00
9cf7587fdc
Update change to version_info structure.
2000-04-13 17:51:58 +00:00
4d65d73686
Document hexversion (incompletely explained) and version_info (easily
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explained).
2000-04-13 16:54:17 +00:00
502d2b4615
Added note about usual default prefix under Linux (thanks to Peter Funk
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for the idea).
2000-04-12 14:20:15 +00:00
822a86a955
Trying to placate Fred: redefine \tilde and \bslash; document everything.
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Still some not-quite-standard definitions in here that I have to fix.
2000-04-12 01:44:35 +00:00
d5faa7ea08
Changed the table of per-platform default installation locations to be
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more consistent with the rest of the Python docs.
2000-04-12 01:42:19 +00:00
ee775a194c
Make use of \longprogramopt where appropriate.
2000-04-11 19:46:40 +00:00
2b85341776
Elaborate descriptions of \e, \module.
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Describe policy on vertical lines in tables.
2000-04-11 19:08:30 +00:00
ce44498ba8
Revise the description of \programopt, document \longprogramopt.
2000-04-11 18:52:52 +00:00
493624941a
\longprogramopt: New macro.
2000-04-11 18:47:59 +00:00
0cd6021339
do_cmd_longprogramopt(): New function.
2000-04-11 18:46:59 +00:00
08c68fc82d
LaTeX macros for the Distutils manuals.
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Perhaps these should be added to the standard Python style file?
2000-04-11 02:01:52 +00:00
c392caa390
Spewed a bunch more verbiage.
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Lots of scattered wording changes.
2000-04-11 02:00:26 +00:00
8520cc2328
Added reference count information for Py_FindMethod().
2000-04-10 19:38:24 +00:00
7357770153
Yet another markup nit: functions that are part of the Python/C API
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are still C functions, and should be marked.
2000-04-10 18:50:14 +00:00
37f41565a8
PyErr_Format():
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Remove statement that the return value is always NULL; this is
generated by the formatting.
2000-04-10 18:46:22 +00:00
98605b54b4
document PyErr_Format
2000-04-10 18:40:57 +00:00
0682be4524
letters:
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Fix description; lowercase and uppercase are strings, not
functions! Noted by Randall Hopper <aa8vb@yahoo.com>.
maketrans():
Minor markup nits in description.
2000-04-10 18:35:49 +00:00
8394595f3b
Add to the comment a description of the "null" value for returned
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PyObject* values.
2000-04-10 18:29:21 +00:00
c2578c5bb6
load_refcounts(),
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do_env_cfuncdesc(): Support the "null" value for the refcounts field
in refcounts.dat.
2000-04-10 18:26:45 +00:00
db2764d941
The reference count field for PyErr_NoMemory() and
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PyErr_SetFromErrno() should be "null".
2000-04-10 18:25:09 +00:00
5e872de6c7
If the refcount field is "null", that's ok; the value will be None.
2000-04-10 18:24:26 +00:00
729eca1b9d
For functions which return a PyObject* but use "null" for the
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reference count field, state that the return value is always NULL.
(Useful for some PyErr_*() flavors.)
2000-04-10 18:23:47 +00:00
0a863da1f8
cfuncdesc environment:
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When processing the optional parameter, don't append any text;
let the pre-processor supply all of it.
2000-04-10 18:21:38 +00:00
adb272ceee
do_cmd_datalineni(): New function, to implement the non-indexing form
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of \dataline.
2000-04-10 17:47:14 +00:00
c248baecb3
Moved definition of \XXX command out to distutils.sty.
2000-04-09 20:55:35 +00:00
6002ffc38c
Wrote the introduction (including several subsections).
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Started writing the "Standard Build and Install" section.
2000-04-09 20:54:50 +00:00
facb8dbaeb
Fixed so LaTeX can actually process it, and so it looks like the other
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Distutils manual.
2000-04-09 04:32:40 +00:00
16aafcd85b
Got started for real on this manual. Completely untested and unread -- just
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checking it in so I can move things around in the CVS repository.
2000-04-09 04:06:44 +00:00
7593eb3267
Extracted a bunch of Distutils-specific commands and macros to distutils.sty
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(also needed by inst.tex).
2000-04-09 03:59:15 +00:00
9164f88657
Fix Skip's email address in his attribution! (Thanks, Skip!)
2000-04-08 04:53:29 +00:00
e7a8c972d8
Added support for the "Long HTML" version to the build/packaging
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process.
2000-04-07 16:27:15 +00:00
c2c46c3751
New example from Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>.
2000-04-07 16:09:59 +00:00
46f14580cb
Describe the purpose of the "long HTML" package.
2000-04-07 14:47:27 +00:00
cff5482d37
Mark RELEASE with the release level ("a2").
2000-04-06 18:38:30 +00:00
69ca950d1f
Make sure the \declaremodule uses the right name for the module!
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Clean up several markup problems & inconsistencies.
2000-04-06 16:09:59 +00:00
343301aaa4
unichr(),
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unicode(): Added \versionadded{} annotations.
2000-04-06 15:06:03 +00:00
0b72116812
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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Added UnicodeType.
2000-04-06 15:05:04 +00:00
56ced2a7e4
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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Added note that Unicode strings are picklable.
2000-04-06 15:04:30 +00:00
5828ad6963
Revised / removed comments about string exceptions (relating to the
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standard exceptions), added documentation of UnboundLocalError.
2000-04-06 15:03:01 +00:00
3cb793e8e8
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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Added UnicodeError description.
2000-04-06 14:48:35 +00:00
61098f201e
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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Add Unicode strings to the list of marshalable types.
2000-04-06 14:47:20 +00:00
665dd704a3
Note the exception raised when parameter to chr() is out of range.
2000-04-06 14:45:19 +00:00
33d51841a3
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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Documentation for unichr(), unicode(), update for ord().
2000-04-06 14:43:12 +00:00
2097ef126b
Added entry for codecs module.
2000-04-06 14:26:43 +00:00
98f8a3d8da
Added codecs entry here as part of String Services.
2000-04-06 14:25:28 +00:00
b7979c756c
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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codecs module documentation, with some preliminary markup
adjustments from FLD.
2000-04-06 14:21:58 +00:00
9dc30bb956
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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Tutorial information about Unicode strings in Python, with some markup
adjustments from FLD.
2000-04-06 14:17:03 +00:00
a4cd2611f4
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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API documentation for Unicode support from C.
2000-04-06 14:10:29 +00:00
8b3ce9e099
But don't do the funny \UNICODE macro; we're trying to get away from
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those markups! <with-mixed-feelings>
2000-04-06 14:00:14 +00:00
f0aff8e759
Patch from Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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Added Unicode type to the language reference.
2000-04-06 13:57:21 +00:00
6d5c6bdb25
Removed bogus connect() call in SMTP example; reported by Travis
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B. Hartwell <slt5v@cc.usu.edu>.
Removed second copy of the "See also" section!
2000-04-05 22:12:06 +00:00
71b04dab58
Added reference to the multifile module from the "See also" section
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in the mimetools documentation.
Suggested by Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>.
2000-04-05 22:05:15 +00:00
d1a56f4235
Noted by Guido:
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Fixed up descriptions of altzone and timezone not to refer to the
0th meridian, which doesn't exist. Reference is now to UTC.
2000-04-05 15:06:03 +00:00
898915d7e2
Noted by Guido:
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Directionality of up/down were confused.
2000-04-05 15:01:36 +00:00
43b89b637f
Noted by Guido:
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Note in the "Caveats" section should refer to the exit() function, not
exit_thread().
2000-04-05 15:00:38 +00:00
bf4041a0a6
Merged in changes from 1.5.2p2 release.
2000-04-04 20:58:39 +00:00
02ba62141e
Merged in changes from 1.5.2p2 release as appropriate.
2000-04-04 20:58:25 +00:00
12ed36525a
Added "See also" section; from Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>
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(re-written).
2000-04-04 20:43:50 +00:00
005f494a7f
Added "See also" section; from Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>.
2000-04-04 20:42:38 +00:00
69fbf33680
Fixed typo in example code; spotted by Everett Lipman
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<lipman@sphere.niddk.nih.gov>.
2000-04-04 19:53:06 +00:00
7d68690d8d
Added notes about the eventual disappearance of two-parameter bind(),
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connect(), and connect_ex().
I didn't make these deprecation notices since it was never a
documented feature.
2000-04-04 17:48:30 +00:00
38e5d27cae
Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release.
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(Very rough.)
2000-04-03 20:13:55 +00:00
659ebfa79e
Merge in changes from the 1.5.2p2 release.
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Hopefully I got all this right!
2000-04-03 15:42:13 +00:00
eb725cd045
Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release.
2000-04-03 15:06:40 +00:00
6a0d844e76
UserString section:
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Small cleanups noted by Detlef Lannert
<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
Make the spelling of Unicode always uppercase.
2000-04-03 15:02:35 +00:00
42934689ea
Note that "Unicode" is always capitalized.
2000-04-03 15:00:28 +00:00
54fd8452a1
Merge in changes from the 1.5.2p2 release.
2000-04-03 04:54:28 +00:00
e15956b465
Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release.
2000-04-03 04:51:13 +00:00
20082d92f2
Merge in changes from the 1.5.2p2 release.
2000-04-03 04:26:58 +00:00
ba82878a3b
Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release.
2000-04-03 04:19:14 +00:00
a22b576d05
UserString class from Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>.
2000-04-03 03:51:50 +00:00
9a257b4fd4
Added --numeric option, similar to mkhtml.sh.
2000-03-31 20:27:36 +00:00
9c26f5dbed
Added rule to copy in the icons/ directory.
2000-03-31 20:26:33 +00:00
3bb719f744
List of subdirs that are generated during the build.
2000-03-31 20:26:00 +00:00
e018beea94
Build rules for the "long HTML" version.
2000-03-31 20:22:29 +00:00
ddc6c276b7
Improve explanation of reference counts for PyString_Concat().
2000-03-31 18:22:38 +00:00
38d062d022
Reflect the two new sections in the dependencies.
2000-03-31 18:10:17 +00:00
3c9f936eee
Two new sections. Preliminary.
2000-03-31 17:51:10 +00:00
a12c7a7620
Add PyDict_Copy() function to C API for dicts. It returns a new
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dictionary that contains the same key/value pairs as p.
2000-03-30 22:27:31 +00:00
bdcc96c9e3
Changes from 1.5.2p2, plus fix a couple of errors noted by Hernan
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Martinez Foffani <hfoffani@sofrecom.com.ar>.
2000-03-29 22:41:52 +00:00
8e14f05ae6
Fix small errors in description of Mac, Windows installation schemes.
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Added comment about "--help" (no value) not working.
2000-03-22 01:00:23 +00:00
295765630a
Third attempt at documenting an installation scheme; this one feels like
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it could work--reasonably short and straightforward to document, but
flexible enough that it will be able to handle more than just modules
and extensions in the future.
2000-03-18 15:11:50 +00:00
dee86c644e
Script to annotate api.tex with reference count information.
2000-03-15 14:57:59 +00:00
169f91b808
[from 2000-02-25] Second attempt at describing an installation scheme; this is
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the simplified scheme that Guido proposed. Also already-obsolete,
and saved only for posterity.
2000-03-10 01:57:51 +00:00
7c1e5f65e3
[from 2000-02-23] Description of the baroque and already-obsolete
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installation scheme that Fred Drake and I cooked up. Only saved for
posterity.
2000-03-10 01:56:58 +00:00
15861b2a41
Update portability information for the spawn*() functions and related
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constants. Someone will need to fill in information on the spawn*()
functions that aren't listed.
2000-02-29 05:19:38 +00:00
abc52169b7
The "Distributing Python Modules" manual; currently empty (I'll get to it
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Real Soon Now(TM).
2000-02-26 00:52:48 +00:00
0baf773c44
Added entry for libtabnanny.tex.
2000-02-23 15:44:58 +00:00
3c227eef91
Added dependency on libtabnanny.tex.
2000-02-23 15:44:34 +00:00
Greg Ward
Fred Drake
Jeremy Hylton