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4964 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrew M. Kuchling dcdf48a5c7 Add some acks 2002-06-26 13:28:19 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d003a2a54f Describe textwrap module 2002-06-26 13:23:55 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger ca0383d3a3 Fix bug #573916. Sender and recipients reversed in email example. 2002-06-26 07:51:32 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 763805dab2 add seealso link to the bisect module 2002-06-26 05:22:08 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 09d9f86c77 add /F's PriorityQueue example 2002-06-26 05:07:28 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling fdc34315f7 Add a reminder 2002-06-26 00:03:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 09d6b928e7 Add a reminder 2002-06-25 23:57:17 +00:00
Fred Drake c5e2792ab4 Talk about interfaces rather than implementation classes where appropriate.
Add hyperlinks to make the documentation on the Attributes and AttributesNS
interfaces more discoverable.
Closes SF bug #484603.
2002-06-25 17:10:50 +00:00
Fred Drake b6aa9cbb96 Added some more links to the "See also" section. 2002-06-25 16:58:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 7bc121a4fb When talking about interfaces, use the interface names, not the names
of the implementation classes.  (Remove the "Impl" from two names.)
2002-06-25 16:25:01 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f0236d7374 Fix typo 2002-06-25 15:26:59 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 07dc91800f Close bug 480337: Dict used before dicts explained. Added explanation
and examples of the dict() constructor.
2002-06-25 15:13:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 04e7e0c60f Close bug 417930 by clarifying augmented assignment docs 2002-06-25 13:36:41 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5ed3fa6578 Fix SF bug 568269 by enclosing 'computername' in a raw string 2002-06-25 04:53:05 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 7fd9ced4ca Minor English grammar correction 2002-06-25 04:04:14 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 7951f60f45 Fix spacing in loop example 2002-06-25 03:17:03 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 563d12d145 SF # 572928 One word change for lib/libgettext.tex
Fix typo.
2002-06-24 02:22:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 723f94bd66 Convert the example C code to ANSI rather than K&R.
This matches the Python C style guide (PEP 7).
Closes SF patch #571489.
2002-06-22 01:42:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 53540ab071 Correct the RE equivalent of scanf()'s %x and %X patterns.
Closes SF bug #572169.
2002-06-22 01:07:37 +00:00
Greg Ward 6f45eeb0f3 Typo fix. 2002-06-21 12:33:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 1d1e1dba12 Corrected return type and value information for PyUnicode_Count() and
PyUnicode_Find().
This closes SF bug #566631.
2002-06-20 22:07:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 473f46a853 Make the docs for string.capitalize() match those of str.capitalize()
(which makes it more clear).
Closes SF bug #571767.
2002-06-20 21:18:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 807354f3b6 Add a note that divmod() with complex numbers is deprecated. 2002-06-20 21:10:25 +00:00
Fred Drake dce695aa4e Added reference to the Expat home page. 2002-06-20 21:06:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 81932e234b Try to improve the explanation of the "raise" statement and how its arguments
are interpreted.
This closes SF bug #532467.
2002-06-20 20:55:29 +00:00
Fred Drake e08c9dbffc Simplify the production for argument list, making sure that it
actually allows all the legal syntax, and nothing else.  Previously,
it did not allow a call like func(arg, **dictionary).
This closes (again!) SF bug #493243.
2002-06-20 14:23:15 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 10cbe8dcbc SF 563530 added missing methods for emulating numeric types 2002-06-20 06:12:37 +00:00
Fred Drake f4bf7aa292 Typo: bites --> bytes
(Hanging around small kids too much...;)
2002-06-18 20:38:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 9ea01d415f Add description of the deadlock problem with child processes and pipes, and
hints about how to work around it.
Closes SF bug #530637.
2002-06-18 20:30:37 +00:00
Fred Drake a23b5739bb Add a note about "as" not being a keyword, though it has special meaning
when used as part of the import statement.

Note that both "as" and "None" becoming keywords in the future.

Closes SF bug #553262.
2002-06-18 19:17:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 69d1fd2fdb Note the limitation that mime_decode_header() only works for Latin-1.
Closes SF bug #551912.
2002-06-18 18:51:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 074712112b Played contortionist games with the argument_list production so it
might be easier to understand.
This relates to SF bug #493243, which will be closed.
2002-06-18 18:42:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 4837fa3a54 \productioncont: Replace leading spaces with   so that it's
possible to control the indentation of continuation lines.

cfuncline_helper():  Only mark the argument names are <var>, not the
    whole argument list.  This leaves the argument types in the same
    font as the return type.  Based on a casual suggestion from
    Guido.
2002-06-18 18:30:28 +00:00
Fred Drake f6e902717e Refactor the generation of signature lines for funcdesc, methoddesc,
and friends.  This was part of the changes to the presentation of
signature lines, but does not include any of the aspects that people
questioned.
2002-06-18 18:24:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 7f59124693 Clarified documentation for os.access().
Patch contributed by Sean Reifschneider.
Closes SF patch #570618.
2002-06-18 16:15:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 28bdc624a8 Clarified description of error handling for shutil.rmtree().
This closes SF patch #569832.
2002-06-18 14:31:04 +00:00
Fred Drake b084017c7a Fix documentation for PyMarshal_WriteObjectToFile() and
PyMarshal_WriteObjectToFile().
This closes SF bug #533735.
2002-06-17 15:44:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 6fc22f6c3d Ensure \verbatiminput always uses a unique filename for each input file in
the "Download as text" link.  Previously, it could map multiple source files
to a single name since all files end up with the same extension.
This closes SF bug #558279.
2002-06-17 15:01:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 9f6e104c80 Add reminder, and a new POSIX function
Tweak traceback display for consistency
2002-06-17 13:40:04 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 495afea36e Typo. 2002-06-17 12:51:57 +00:00
Piers Lauder 3fca291a52 Add IMAP4 QUOTA extension methods 2002-06-17 07:07:20 +00:00
Fred Drake a0c5e9fb74 Clean up descriptions of PyObject_RichCompare() and PyObject_RichCompareBool()
based on comments from David Abrahams.
Added refcount information for these functions.
2002-06-14 14:35:56 +00:00
Fred Drake a8ef0d1df2 Anchors ("a" elements) used only for the name attribute should not
change color on hover, only those that are link sources (href
attributes).
2002-06-14 13:47:58 +00:00
Steve Holden 1e4519faaa Make a start at describing the results of class/type unification
in the type documentation.
2002-06-14 09:16:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 6c123efe3d Refer the reader to the correct module for constant definitions.
This closes SF bug #550777.
2002-06-14 01:58:19 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 1f68fc7fa5 SF bug # 493951 string.{starts,ends}with vs slices
Handle negative indices similar to slices.
2002-06-14 00:50:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 585775bf11 Document the Binary.data attribute.
This closes SF bug #562878.
2002-06-14 00:33:02 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 9c92b69a54 Use \code{True} (or False) instead of true/false.
Not sure if code is correct, but that is what's in this file.
I've seen \constant{True} in other places.
2002-06-14 00:27:13 +00:00
Neal Norwitz cc5c6947a6 Add "version added" for getpgid 2002-06-13 21:19:25 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 606edc1d97 Patch #568235: Add posix.setpgid. 2002-06-13 21:09:11 +00:00