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Fred Drake 106c1a0e7a WCOREDUMP(), WIFCONTINUED(), WCONTINUED, WUNTRACED: New. 
isatty(), WIFEXITED(), WIFSIGNALED(), WIFSTOPPED(): Changed to return
    bools instead of ints.
 2002-04-23 15:58:02 +00:00
Anthony Baxter 8388895fe4 SF patch [ 545523 ] patch for 514433 bsddb.dbopen (NULL) 
closes SF #514433

can now pass 'None' as the filename for the bsddb.*open functions,
and you'll get an in-memory temporary store.

docs are ripped out of the bsddb dbopen man page. Fred may want to
clean them up.

Considering this for 2.2, but not 2.1.
 2002-04-23 02:11:05 +00:00
Walter Dörwald de02bcb265 Apply patch diff.txt from SF feature request 
http://www.python.org/sf/444708

This adds the optional argument for str.strip
to unicode.strip too and makes it possible
to call str.strip with a unicode argument
and unicode.strip with a str argument.
 2002-04-22 17:42:37 +00:00
Tim Peters 4a0db06edf Hack around the "2.1.6 Blank lines" bug in a way that the TOC still 
displays a recognizable section title (there are extra blanks at the
end of it now, due to the nested anchor, but that's fine).
 2002-04-21 04:44:11 +00:00
Tim Peters dc374e034a Give the Help viewer a font-size button. This isn't documented by MS, 
but is documented by others on the web, and the defn of the magic flag
needed appears in MS's htmlhelp.h header file.
 2002-04-21 02:01:01 +00:00
Tim Peters c8490c70cd Move "everything left one": the TOC now shows each doc directory as a 
distinct top-level node.  Before they were all nested under an artificial
top-level node, uselessly chewing up horizontal space, and ensuring that
the only thing the user saw in the TOC upon opening the file was a single
collapsed top-level folder.
 2002-04-20 21:34:34 +00:00
Tim Peters 4545407746 Stopped all warnings from the HTML Help Compiler, by generating proper 
HTML (or, at least, proper in its view).  The TOC file is now identical
to what the HTML compiler itself generates, except for whitespace and
a glitch identified below.  The pretty-printing done by prechm.py is
pretty much destroyed for now; if you need it pretty-printed, just make
the Help Compiler save the files (it's got its own idea of pretty-
printing anyway).

Glitch:  The title of Ref Man "2.1.6 Blank lines" shows up as a blank
for now.  This is because the relevant entry in ref/index.html contains
nested anchors, and pychm really has no idea what to do with that.  I
hacked it for now to avoid any error messages or worse insanity, and
filed a bug report against the docs.
 2002-04-20 20:26:26 +00:00
Tim Peters e21095e3c5 Widespread: Used classes in a more natural way. Added convenience 
methods to squash code duplication.  Simplified several overly complex
chunks of logic.  Built output strings more with string interpolation
instead of infix '+'.  Added comments.  Exploited recent Python features
(chiefly bool and augmented assignment).
 2002-04-20 08:36:42 +00:00
Tim Peters d9a10509ac Replaced the fiddly 5-tuples with a new Book convenience class, allowing 
to reference fields via names instead of meaningless little integers.
This turned up one case where the wrong little integer was being used,
in informative progress output.  Fixed that too.
 2002-04-20 03:25:02 +00:00
Tim Peters 8d62ad7ffd Fixed a comment. 2002-04-20 02:56:20 +00:00
Tim Peters 661e49231a All over: get rid of blanks before colons that open code blocks. 2002-04-20 02:39:44 +00:00
Tim Peters 460643b8c5 do_project(): Modernized the code. 2002-04-20 02:37:07 +00:00
Tim Peters 5d5e1930dd Added "What's New" to the 2.2 doc set. 2002-04-20 02:07:58 +00:00
Tim Peters 4f109c1cf9 Added a stop-list to reduce the size of the full text search index. Fred, 
populate the "stop_list" triple-quoted string with your favorite handful
of stop words.
 2002-04-19 18:41:46 +00:00
Tim Peters e6b63e685b project_template: use dict interpolation instead of giant tuples. 2002-04-19 18:07:52 +00:00
Tim Peters a905363ce5 + Changed TOC to folder-tree style. 
+ Increased size of the window the user sees the first time.
+ Arranged for the display to remember its last size and position.
+ Added a Favorites (bookmarks) tab.
+ Added the "Advanced Search" decorations.
 2002-04-19 16:46:43 +00:00
Tim Peters 52cfa33e6e Generates inputs to the Microsoft Help Compiler, which creates compiled 
HTML help files (.chm).  Obtained from Robin Dunn's packaging of the
2.2 docs at <http://alldunn.com/python/>, obtained in turn from
Hernán Martínez Foffani's original work at
<http://www.orgmf.com.ar/condor/pytstuff.html>.
 2002-04-19 16:09:26 +00:00
Tim Peters 7d4ed0db95 Get the right funny characters in Hernan's name. 2002-04-19 15:59:01 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 75700db7f0 \idxcode -> \py@idxcode (mimics index stuff in python.sty - problem only 
revealed itself when i added index generating lines to doc/doc.tex)
 2002-04-19 04:52:44 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 176bda4cde fix duplicate label 
add index turds
 2002-04-19 04:50:44 +00:00
Fred Drake c55ae4b98c Clean up the use of version numbers in filenames; always use an "abstract" 
version number, and explain what it is at the top of the chapter.
This closes SF bug #225003.
 2002-04-19 04:04:57 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 91bae441f6 Long-forgotten change: Update first paragraph with actual release date 2002-04-18 02:18:27 +00:00
Skip Montanaro b02ea65f92 typo 2002-04-17 19:33:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 8d95ca4469 Add text on tp_as_buffer that refers tothe section that covers the topic. 
Additional material is still needed in that section.
 2002-04-17 13:44:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 933f159a2f Add a version annotation for the help() function. 2002-04-17 12:54:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 70b3831697 Adjust markup to worm around tool limitations; the "m" in "model" was being 
dropped in the HTML formatted version.
Reported by Mike Coleman.
 2002-04-17 03:41:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 3d0b697d70 Pass the -r option to getpagecounts to generate an entry for the "What's 
New" document.
 2002-04-17 03:31:08 +00:00
Fred Drake bab5aa0039 Remove Emacs turd; not needed with modern Emacs versions. 
Add a -r option; if given with a release number, the "What's New" document
is included with the relevant version number.

Update the text of the README distributed with the PostScript files to
reflect the changes in the user organizations in the Python community.
 2002-04-17 03:29:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 1f6794622b Changed last remaining use of "./" to "index.html" when referring to the 
index file for the top-level directory.  This makes it easier to use an
unpacked version of the documentation via file: URLs.
This closes SF bug #541257.
 2002-04-17 01:40:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 34a05f7a1f Start of script to locate C symbols and segregate them into lists of 
the documented and undocumented symbols.
 2002-04-16 21:27:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 0fdc826f54 Update the dependencies. 2002-04-16 18:48:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 121460d8cb Minor wording change. 2002-04-16 18:32:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 9ad70f9cb0 Add more text from Guido on the type structure fields. 
Small additional changes.
 2002-04-16 16:22:24 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 6c7bc31089 added small clarification to the descriptions of encode() and decode() 2002-04-16 15:12:10 +00:00
Thomas Heller 0e661dcdbf Replace the simpleminded string.find with a re.search looking only for 
full words. Before that, something like 'PyObject_Call' was missed
because 'PyObject_CallFunction' was found.

Passes PyChecker now.
 2002-04-16 15:04:56 +00:00
Fred Drake c0a02c084b Remove repeated index entry; adds nothing different. 
Closes SF bug #518985.
 2002-04-16 02:03:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 0e0b6180ba Add documentation for PyObject_Call(). 
Note that PyObject_Size() is a synonym for PyObject_Length().
This closes SF patch #544330 (contributed by Thomas Heller).
 2002-04-15 20:51:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 34adb8a8ec Separate out a \cfuncline macro from the cfuncdesc environment. 
This matches many other of the *desc environments, and is useful when
multiple functions share a description.
 2002-04-15 20:48:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 1251b0eb24 Document the cmemberdesc environment. 2002-04-15 20:10:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 8a5a270000 Better documentation for GetArgv() and the ProgressBar type. 
Back-porting to release22-maint.
This closes SF patch #496705.
 2002-04-15 19:53:35 +00:00
Fred Drake e19a5bcc7b Be consistent in presenting the signatures. 2002-04-15 19:46:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 154985587b Add docs for os.fchdir(). 2002-04-15 19:41:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 0157276cf8 Generate the right annotations in the index entries. 
Thanks to Thomas Heller for the sharp eye.
 2002-04-15 19:35:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 188ecd141a Integrated more text from Guido. 2002-04-15 18:44:46 +00:00
Fred Drake c63042bcc4 Move the listing of the type structure, since both the C API reference and 
the Extending & Embedding manual use it.
 2002-04-15 18:43:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 8a5e6790d9 Clean up the application of style to verbatim text. 
This moves styling to the stylesheet; the use of <dl> structures to control
style sometimes produced improper indentation of subsequent text in many
browsers when the text was already part of the <dl> structure (as in a
function or class description).
 2002-04-15 18:41:31 +00:00
Fred Drake eeb5ec42e0 Add support for \cmemberline and the cmemberdesc environment. 2002-04-15 17:46:00 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 8e8af6e722 Add item 2002-04-15 14:05:59 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 068325ef92 Apply the second version of SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/536241 
Add a method zfill to str, unicode and UserString and change
Lib/string.py accordingly.

This activates the zfill version in unicodeobject.c that was
commented out and implements the same in stringobject.c. It also
adds the test for unicode support in Lib/string.py back in and
uses repr() instead() of str() (as it was before Lib/string.py 1.62)
 2002-04-15 13:36:47 +00:00
Neal Norwitz b384c72639 posix.mknod() and {}.pop() were added 2002-04-15 12:46:11 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f367651472 Add items 2002-04-15 02:27:55 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 06a83e90aa Patch #543447: Add posix.mknod. 2002-04-14 10:19:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 8b1c47bb8b Document the optional argument to the .strip(), .rstrip(), .strip() string 
methods.
Part of SF feature #444708.
 2002-04-13 02:43:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 01e94618f5 Additional support for describing C structure members. 2002-04-12 22:48:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 4d2a95dfe7 Integrate a bunch of new text from Guido. 2002-04-12 22:47:18 +00:00
Fred Drake d4c0e5fd5b BDFL agreed with Tim: rehabilitate randint(). 2002-04-12 20:01:47 +00:00
Fred Drake fd92304ae8 Update the type of the tp_free slot. 2002-04-12 19:49:13 +00:00
Fred Drake f495ef7466 Warn people away from PyModule_GetDict(), but not too strongly. 
(The real issue is whether modules can benefit from an alternate
implementation strategy rather than using a dictionary.  We should migrate
away from direct dictionary manipulation to allow more room for Jeremy to
flex the implementation with changes in globals lookup.)
 2002-04-12 19:32:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 63e40a598d Do not use PyModule_GetDict(). 
Clean up the example of exporting a C-callable API from an extension module.
Add a hyperlink to a related section in the Python/C API reference.
 2002-04-12 19:08:31 +00:00
Fred Drake e77e5ef2af Change example of retrieving & calling a Python function to not use 
PyModule_GetDict(), which is also more flexible: it does not assume that the
"module" is a real module.
 2002-04-12 19:04:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 292da58a5c Change the type of the tp_dealloc back to what it really is. 
Change a section title to fit in better.
 2002-04-12 18:28:08 +00:00
Fred Drake ee48519bc6 Modernize the minimal example of an extension type. 2002-04-12 16:17:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 28de8d4b37 Add a (very) simple description of PyType_Ready(). 2002-04-12 16:15:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 0babc44ab2 Update the type of tp_dealloc. 2002-04-12 15:37:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e027d9818f Add Raymond Hettinger's d.pop(). See SF patch 539949. 2002-04-12 15:11:59 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 2a519f8fe6 Document __unicode__. Fixes #541245. 2002-04-11 12:39:35 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 81bdc93d2f Explain octal escapes. Fixes #542226. 2002-04-11 12:24:12 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 17850f79a8 Add a name 2002-04-10 21:53:22 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 2854c478be Remove mention of 'pre' module 
(2.2 bugfix candidate?)
 2002-04-10 21:28:31 +00:00
Fred Drake e3c764b6c2 Document PyType_CheckExact(), PyType_IS_GC(). 
Update description of PyType_Check().
 2002-04-10 17:52:52 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 3b2625ff82 document all the valid encoding values 2002-04-10 04:37:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 3c1ff5c766 When adding a name to the table of macros and environments, make sure it 
is not already present.  If it is, raise an exception, since that should not
happen in a well-defined conversion.
 2002-04-10 04:20:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 0047e16d1b Added support for \csimplemacro and csimplemacrodesc. 2002-04-10 04:19:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 4d61775a35 Started filling in the information about some of the basic types and macros 
used to define Python objects.
 2002-04-09 21:22:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 375e30225e Update to use the new \csimplemacro macro 2002-04-09 21:09:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 79bf99c505 Document the \csimplemacro macro and the csimplemacrodesc environment. 2002-04-09 20:17:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 19f827e765 Add \csimplemacro to parallel the csimplemacrodesc environment. 
Fix a typo in the comments for csimplemacrodesc.
 2002-04-09 20:16:47 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 6b35370c65 Update docs for bool changes by Guido around April 6 2002-04-09 18:15:00 +00:00
Fred Drake eee12e9aba Ignore an output directory for intermediates here as well. 2002-04-09 14:54:26 +00:00
Fred Drake fd867719bc Fix typo: coverted --> converted. Reported by Francois Pinard. 2002-04-09 14:39:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 77f4438f1a Update the table of releases. 2002-04-08 21:57:31 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 688357e035 Patch #512005: getrusage() returns struct-like object. 2002-04-08 21:28:20 +00:00
Fred Drake bc82ab1c9f Do not call "knee" a standard module, and point to the new location. 
This addresses the issue in SF bug #515745.
 2002-04-08 05:22:30 +00:00
Tim Peters 87bbdd3085 Minor clarification about what's actually promised for PyMem_Malloc(0). 
I probably didn't do a correct thing for the LaTeX spelling of the
integer 1.
 2002-04-06 09:14:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 68304ccce3 Move reference material on PyArg_Parse*() out of the Extending & Embedding 
document to the C API reference.  Move some instructional text from the API
reference to the Extending & Embedding manual.

Fix the descriptions of the es and es# formats for PyArg_Parse*().
This closes SF bug #536516.
 2002-04-05 23:01:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 9651198db4 Remove weird spacing in typeset version of the chapter head. 2002-04-05 19:54:19 +00:00
Fred Drake d15a0a05d3 Fix bug in command line handling, noted by Fredrik Lundh. 2002-04-05 18:09:22 +00:00
Fred Drake e03e1fe5cc Add support for the "Aesop Meta Tag". Not widely used, but not a bad idea, 
either.
 2002-04-05 17:34:50 +00:00
Neal Norwitz d3dab2b192 Update doc to reflect Tim's changes to bool. 2002-04-05 02:21:09 +00:00
Fred Drake a8e5d432a5 Minor style change. 2002-04-04 22:56:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 9b3e2ca74d Add support for \textgreater, \textless. 
Updated productionlist environment.
 2002-04-04 21:39:42 +00:00
Fred Drake a2c2595024 Add a version annotation regarding the urlopen(proxies={...}). 2002-04-04 20:58:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 5ca3a08cc0 The rest of the documentation for manual proxy configuration for a basic 
urlopen().
This is part of SF patch #523415.
 2002-04-04 20:34:36 +00:00
Fred Drake d21670328c Documentation for manual proxy configuration, by Andy Gimblett. 
This closes SF patch #523415.
 2002-04-04 20:09:50 +00:00
Fred Drake e13602ee49 Mark the notice about the new development version of the docs as not needing 
to be archived.  Most of these are pretty bland.  ;-)
 2002-04-04 18:06:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2e1c09c1fd Removed old Digital Creations copyright/license notices (with 
permission from Paul Everitt).  Also removed a few other references to
Digital Creations and changed the remaining ones to Zope Corporation.
 2002-04-04 17:52:50 +00:00
Neal Norwitz ce5df49957 SF 539024, Fix broken link to numpy 2002-04-04 14:02:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 243ea71669 Correct the descriptions of the PyObject_As*Buffer() return values. 
This closes SF bug #539081.
 2002-04-04 04:10:36 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3a52ff6df4 Add empty section for bool 2002-04-03 22:44:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 77f6a65eb0 Add the 'bool' type and its values 'False' and 'True', as described in 
PEP 285.  Everything described in the PEP is here, and there is even
some documentation.  I had to fix 12 unit tests; all but one of these
were printing Boolean outcomes that changed from 0/1 to False/True.
(The exception is test_unicode.py, which did a type(x) == type(y)
style comparison.  I could've fixed that with a single line using
issubtype(x, type(y)), but instead chose to be explicit about those
places where a bool is expected.

Still to do: perhaps more documentation; change standard library
modules to return False/True from predicates.
 2002-04-03 22:41:51 +00:00
Fred Drake b81fbad9c0 Updated PEP link to point to the now-canonical site. 2002-04-03 02:52:50 +00:00
Fred Drake dbfe768f66 Update the PEP URL format to point to python.org. 2002-04-03 02:47:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 103b548a76 Add a note warning against semicolons following PyObject_HEAD. 
Minor cleanups.
 2002-04-02 15:42:46 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 45afd54c8f Add an item 2002-04-02 14:25:25 +00:00
Fred Drake aee113d368 Add an experimental mechanism to support extending the pprint formatting. 
Partly responds to SF bug #505152.
 2002-04-02 05:08:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 4dfb7a81c1 Explain that os.spawn*() return the process handle on Windows. 
Clarify that os.waitpid() on Windows takes a process handle, not a process ID.
This closes SF bug #537582.
 2002-04-01 23:30:47 +00:00
Fred Drake d764b0a484 There is no PyArg_ConvertTuple(); call it by the right name. 
This closes SF bug #537511.
 2002-04-01 23:12:25 +00:00
Fred Drake d5a072f2eb Fix up the documentation of the type codes to give both the C and Python 
types for each code, and give the actual C types.

Clarified the support for slice operations and note when some TypeError
exceptions are raised.

This closes SF bugs 518767 and 536469.
 2002-04-01 23:05:10 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 88955cbe1f Change reference to execframes to naming. 2002-04-01 21:34:28 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton e604875b81 Restore a minimal definition of execution frame, since other parts of 
the manual refer to it.

XXX Not sure that it belongs in this section, or that the concept is
particularly important for writing documentation.  Perhaps references
to the frame should be removed entirely.
 2002-04-01 21:33:55 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 1824b59e89 Update programmer's note on nested functions. 2002-04-01 21:30:15 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton f3255c8540 Reword explanation of global statement since an undeclared global is a 
free variable and is subject to those rules.
 2002-04-01 21:25:32 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton f0c1f1badb Note the sole case in which the ban on "from ... import *" within a 
function is enforced.
 2002-04-01 21:19:44 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 15b68976da Remove the following restriction: 
Names bound by import statements may not occur in global
    statements in the same scope.

Why not?
 2002-04-01 21:18:02 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton d09ed68aeb Note that it is illegal to delete a cell variable. 
Note that deleteing an unbound local will raise a NameError.
 2002-04-01 21:15:14 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 2225add242 Given lambda its own section, instead of burying it in boolean operators. 2002-04-01 21:05:21 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 53ed917d3a Update / simplify Identifiers section for nested scopes. 
How do I create a cross reference to section 4.1?
 2002-04-01 20:52:24 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton e7d5773ed0 Update docs for nested scopes. 
Replace section 4.1 with section A.3.

The new section 4.1 is titled "Naming and binding."  It includes the
text of section A.3 augmented with some of the detailed text from the
old section 4.1.

The \dfn, \index stuff is probably wrong, but I tried.

Also update other parts of appendix A to mention that nested scopes
and generators are standard features.
 2002-04-01 20:38:01 +00:00
Fred Drake f54519d9e4 Update to push the docs to python.org instead of python.sf.net. 2002-04-01 20:15:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f4dd65db1d Copy section on generators from the 2.2 document with a bit of rewriting 
Add an item
 2002-04-01 19:28:09 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 9da3efd120 Mention 2.2.1 in intro and in bug/patch counts 
Fix two typos spotted by Joonas Paalasmaa
 2002-04-01 19:22:34 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 8392f36579 Update documentation of code objects. 
Split the description of co_flags into two paragraphs.  The first
describes the flags that are used for non-future purposes, where
CO_GENERATOR was added.  The second describes __future__'s use of
co_flags and mentions the only one currently meaningful,
CO_FUTURE_DIVISION.
 2002-04-01 18:53:36 +00:00
Fred Drake c9319b37a5 Minor adjustments. 2002-04-01 18:49:45 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 26c49b66bb Small fixes for description of function attributes. 
func_closure is a readonly attribute.
Add \ttindex{} for func_closure.
Remove discussion of func_closure specific to 2.1.
 2002-04-01 17:58:39 +00:00
Fred Drake fe5a5388c3 Use the right types for a couple of fields of the type structure. 2002-03-29 22:46:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 0ffd14c9ea Started updating information about defining attributes on types. 
There's still a long way to go, but we're starting to see some real
content in the docs.
 2002-03-29 22:45:28 +00:00
Fred Drake b1af6376e9 Mark a couple of types that had not been marked. 2002-03-28 23:46:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 0f9a34da2c Added comments for more entries of the type structure in the example 
type implementation.
 2002-03-28 23:45:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 2ab0a10913 The new files included by \verbatiminput in newtypes.tex. 2002-03-28 23:32:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 81b750d467 Move some of the longer example code to external fragments, and 
include them using \verbatiminput.  This has the advantage that pages
can still break at reasonable places, and examples that go longer than
a page won't get cut off.

Make a few small markup adjustments for consistency.

Explain that PyObject_New() is not a C function but a polymorphic
beast that returns a pointer to the type that's passed as the first
arg.

Explain why type objects use the PyObject_VAR_HEAD.
 2002-03-28 23:12:09 +00:00
Fred Drake e9fba9188e Added index entries. 2002-03-28 22:36:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 00f712ee24 Extend \verbatiminput so that the typeset version provides the same appearance 
as a verbatim environment.  (The HTML version is already fine.)
 2002-03-28 22:28:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 8d62e94761 Minor wording change. 2002-03-28 21:06:17 +00:00
Skip Montanaro bb6bbc45c0 add exception class hierarchy. This should probably be done differently, 
but at least the content is there.
 2002-03-28 20:53:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 31f8483eef Allow a page break in a code longish example. 2002-03-28 20:19:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 47cdf6fb6f Add documentation on the hasfree data object. 2002-03-28 19:34:53 +00:00
Fred Drake e3a3ceb2b1 Minor consistency adjustments. 2002-03-28 12:40:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 7bf9715a8b Introduce two new flag bits that can be set in a PyMethodDef method 
descriptor, as used for the tp_methods slot of a type.  These new flag
bits are both optional, and mutually exclusive.  Most methods will not
use either.  These flags are used to create special method types which
exist in the same namespace as normal methods without having to use
tedious construction code to insert the new special method objects in
the type's tp_dict after PyType_Ready() has been called.

If METH_CLASS is specified, the method will represent a class method
like that returned by the classmethod() built-in.

If METH_STATIC is specified, the method will represent a static method
like that returned by the staticmethod() built-in.

These flags may not be used in the PyMethodDef table for modules since
these special method types are not meaningful in that case; a
ValueError will be raised if these flags are found in that context.
 2002-03-28 05:33:33 +00:00
Fred Drake ed6a886d9f Ignore new output directory. 2002-03-27 20:37:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 2e64c34850 Expose C library's gettext. Fixes #516412. 2002-03-27 18:49:02 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 8a79727b53 add seealso referring to site module doc where people can learn how to 
extend sys.path using .pth files.
 2002-03-27 17:29:50 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 9e38c100ab fix a typo in PyErr_Format table and add row for 'p' format char 
closes bug 534495
 2002-03-27 13:42:50 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 03594bbb0e Fill in this document a bit, adding reminders of items that should be included 2002-03-27 02:29:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 4e526feb6a Add the "What's New" document to the index of HTML documents. 2002-03-26 20:29:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 69f0a8e42f The <link> to the stylesheet should include the type attribute. 2002-03-26 19:57:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 3014086fbf Wire up the makefile to more fully support the "What's New" documents. 2002-03-26 19:53:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 9ac14decde Wire in the "What's New" document. 2002-03-26 19:18:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 03e1031d67 Add a starter for the next "What's New" document. 2002-03-26 19:17:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 15fc72ce77 Make \url to force horizontal mode. 2002-03-26 19:14:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 57f8e06e4f Document the finditer() function and method. 
This closes SF bug #520904.

Explain that many of the escapes supported by string literals are also
supported by the RE compiler, and list which ones.
This closes SF bug #529923.
 2002-03-25 20:22:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 3787c9d94c Added description of binhex.Error. 2002-03-25 16:37:56 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 1e962cb61b document InvalidURL exception 2002-03-24 16:55:57 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer ccbb0edf0e Add local_hostname to SMTP.__init__(). 2002-03-24 15:41:40 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer 194152845c Fix example for PyErr_SetFromErrno() (need to pass exception type). 2002-03-23 20:57:11 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer 79f181395b Add more example exceptions that unpickling can raise. 2002-03-22 22:16:03 +00:00
Fred Drake cf43004b83 Fix broken HTML in the head; this was reported by a user as causing Opera 6.01 
to crash.  The user has reported the problem to Opera, but we still should
generate something that passes for HTML.
 2002-03-22 17:22:38 +00:00
Neal Norwitz e22d3dfcc1 Fix grammar 2002-03-21 12:58:54 +00:00
Walter Dörwald b25c2b0a4a [Apply SF patch #504943] 
This patch makes it possible to pass Warning instances as the first
argument to warnings.warn. In this case the category argument
will be ignored. The message text used will be str(warninginstance).
 2002-03-21 10:38:40 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 1abca4a515 SF# 522426, add doc for common parameter for filecmp.cmpfiles() 2002-03-20 18:55:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 1268678395 Adjust some poor wording in the text that explains what events are used 
for (reported by Keith Briggs).
Wrap some very long lines.
 2002-03-19 14:37:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 2f31d561d5 Clarify that copy_reg.pickle() is not intended for use with "classic" classes. 
This was stated before, but a minor grammatical error made it difficult to be
sure of the meaning.
This closes SF bug #530143.
 2002-03-19 03:33:33 +00:00
Fred Drake f6eafc3fe1 Fix up unescaped tilde; reported by several people. 2002-03-18 16:47:14 +00:00
Fred Drake a8b663806b Remove extra verb; reported by Detlef Lannert. 2002-03-18 16:45:01 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 5c137c2251 Patch #495598: add an -q (quiet) option to pycompile. 2002-03-18 12:44:08 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 10acc8f9e2 added note that xmlrpclib won't marshal instances of subclasses of the 
builtin types
 2002-03-17 23:15:02 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 587c98c863 Patch #430706: Persistent connections in BaseHTTPServer. 2002-03-17 18:37:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 8e0c82a35f Fix stupid typo in example. 2002-03-16 14:01:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 83d14c12a6 Markup error: braces not properly marked in dictionary display 
grammer productions.
Fixes SF bug #520959.
 2002-03-16 06:35:54 +00:00
Fred Drake f275803fe9 Clarify the descriptions of the positive and negative lookbehind assertions. 
Added examples of positive lookbehind assertions.
This closes SF bug #529708.
 2002-03-16 05:58:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 0e4cd7f267 pdfTeX 0.13 and 0.14 do not agree on the name of the macro, and I will not 
change the installed version on either of the machines I use to format the
docs.  Instead, use a compatibility hack to support both versions.  This is
also better for external users of the Python styles.
 2002-03-16 04:52:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 5381588073 Revise the markup related to the grammar productions to increase the 
level of predictability.  This is not really "good" markup, but is arguably
better than we had before.
This closes SF bug #523117.
 2002-03-15 23:21:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 7fe80a1085 Make the release status obvious in the title area. 2002-03-15 22:38:16 +00:00
Skip Montanaro dc8d40717c update text to refer to ServerProxy class in preference to Server, which is 
only retained for backward compatibility with older versions of the library.
 2002-03-14 17:35:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 5d117472b4 Describe how to support the iterator protocol in extension types. 
This closes SF bug #420851.
 2002-03-13 03:55:11 +00:00
Fred Drake e789ea19c1 Extend the list of special characters and magic markup used to produce them 
to include various characters used in code samples, URLs, and other special
contexts.
This closes SF bug #525684.
 2002-03-13 02:48:24 +00:00
Fred Drake f171ad9d99 Change the way \textasciitilde is implemented so it works more consistently 
(dropping tildes into data that still goes through LaTeX-like processing is
a bad idea).
 2002-03-13 02:44:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 6ccdccd35d Add a note that Py_None needs the same reference count treatment as any 
other PyObject *.
This closes SF bug #494007.
 2002-03-12 20:12:54 +00:00
Fred Drake f981617645 "level" keyword argument in example should be "stacklevel". 
This closes SF bug #517684.
 2002-03-12 19:49:31 +00:00
Tim Peters 8f01b680c8 Change Windows file.truncate() to (a) restore the original file position, 
and (b) stop trying to prevent file growth.

Beef up the file.truncate() docs.

Change test_largefile.py to stop assuming that f.truncate() moves the
file pointer to the truncation point, and to verify instead that it leaves
the file position alone.  Remove the test for what happens when a
specified size exceeds the original file size (it's ill-defined, according
to the Single Unix Spec).
 2002-03-12 03:04:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 314bae50b9 Documentation for PyObject_GetIter(), contributed by Greg Chapman 
(with only minor changes by Fred).
This closes SF bug #498607.
 2002-03-11 18:46:29 +00:00
Fred Drake e38b7e8fe9 Make the extension manual format using the Makefile; recent changes broke 
the dependency information.
 2002-03-11 18:42:08 +00:00
Tim Peters fb05db2cae file_truncate(): provide full "large file" support on Windows, by 
dropping MS's inadequate _chsize() function.  This was inspired by
SF patch 498109 ("fileobject truncate support for win32"), which I
rejected.

libstdtypes.tex:  Someone who knows should update the availability
blurb.  For example, if it's available on Linux, it would be good to
say so.

test_largefile:  Uncommented the file.truncate() tests, and reworked to
do more.  The old comment about "permission errors" in the truncation
tests under Windows was almost certainly due to that the file wasn't open
for *write* access at this point, so of course MS wouldn't let you
truncate it.  I'd be appalled if a Unixish system did.

CAUTION:  Someone should run this test on Linux (etc) too.  The
truncation part was commented out before.  Note that test_largefile isn't
run by default.
 2002-03-11 00:24:00 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 27761f39a5 Patch #500136: Update Update ext build documentation. 2.2.1 candidate. 2002-03-09 10:06:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 632bda3aa0 Add more explanation of how data_files is used (esp. where the files end up 
in the installation and how that location is determined).
 2002-03-08 22:02:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 10b3eac278 [Bug #486527] Note that the caller has to ensure there are no control 
characters in strings being passed via XML-RPC.
Fix some typos.

2.2.1 bugfix candidate.
 2002-03-08 17:46:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 02d2212c8e Add entry for mac/libscrap.tex. 2002-03-08 03:18:19 +00:00
Fred Drake f3e6f06a45 I started writing more documentation on the Scrap module at one point, but 
it is difficult to do without a Mac box to try things out on.  This expands
on what was there only a little bit; hopefully someone with a Mac can work
on this as well!
 2002-03-08 03:15:49 +00:00
Piers Lauder a4f8313cbb add SSL class submitted by Tino Lange 2002-03-08 01:53:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 6cb64f9e46 "Shortcut" should be "short-circuit". 
This closes SF bug #526277.
 2002-03-08 00:54:43 +00:00
Fred Drake da8a6dd072 Added missing version annotation for dict(). 2002-03-06 02:29:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 58fb237948 Add implementations for \textgreater and \textless, defined in (relatively) 
recent versions of LaTeX2e but not support in LaTeX2HTML.
 2002-03-05 04:04:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 9479c958c5 Remove extra indenatation from sample interpreter session. 
Remove whitespace from the middle of an inline RE example; it was OK for
the typeset formats, but LaTeX2HTML is more touchy about this.
 2002-03-05 04:02:39 +00:00
Skip Montanaro a8e1d81bdc add simple example of avoiding backtracking 2002-03-04 23:08:28 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 29001ff234 Patch #523268, #522027: return enhanced tuples. 2002-03-01 10:47:37 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis dbd55b3737 Patch #523268, #522027: return enhanced tuples. 2002-03-01 10:38:44 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 9986633609 Patch 520694: arraymodule.c improvements: 
- make array.array a type
- add Py_UNICODE arrays
- support +=, *=
 2002-03-01 10:27:01 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 494cdb6d78 Add 2002 to PSF copyrights. 
Doc/README is odd; it assigns some copyright to the PSF in 2000, when
I didn't think it existed...
 2002-02-27 13:29:46 +00:00
Fred Drake b6b2aa6c75 Fix error in explanation of the interaction between $ and MULTILINE mode. 
Reported by Steve Alexander.
 2002-02-25 18:56:45 +00:00
Tim Peters 9f4341b3b0 SF bug #501591: dir() doc is old 
Bugfix candidate.

+ Updated dir() description to match actual 2.2 behavior.

+ Replaced the dir(sys) example with dir(struct), because the former
  was way out of date and is bound to change frequently, while the
  latter is stable.

+ Added a note cautioning that dir() is supplied primarily for
  convenience at an interactive prompt (hoping to discourage its
  use as the foundation of introspective code outside the core).
 2002-02-23 04:40:15 +00:00
Greg Ward f8b1f2431b Grammar tweak. 2002-02-22 21:24:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 216cbca195 Typo: thsi -> this. Closes SF bug #521450. 2002-02-22 15:40:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 8371e840d2 Correct the refcount information for the PyWeakref_GetObject() function. 
This closes SF bug #520087.
 2002-02-20 05:07:36 +00:00
Neal Norwitz ba902fda3c SF #515041, Update path for 2.3 2002-02-19 02:58:54 +00:00
Fred Drake e73ad2a21f Use the standard expression for the availability statement for alarm(). 2002-02-15 20:59:43 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 8d1fdafd89 note that the alarm function is not available on Windows. 2002-02-15 20:36:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 960d7a68d0 Added deprecatioon information for mac.xstat(). 
This closes SF bug #505150.
 2002-02-15 14:35:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 928051fb26 The "%" character does not need to be escaped in verbatim environments. 
This closes SF bug #517811.
 2002-02-15 04:12:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 7bc6f7ac7b Consistently use \textasciicircum to produce a ^ character. 
LaTeX really falls flat on this one!
 2002-02-14 15:19:30 +00:00
Fred Drake c121745fda Update the instructions on reporting bugs to reflect that anonymous reports 
are no longer accepted.
 2002-02-04 21:43:08 +00:00
Fred Drake baf43c5036 When linking to an index page, explicitly name index.html instead of 
using "./".  The later does not work nicely when browsing docs on a local
disk (as in the installed docs on Windows).
 2002-02-04 21:15:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 210d3cca86 Update version number to match Include/patchlevel.h. 
Make sure we clean up all the temp files craeted for the typeset formats.
 2002-02-04 19:49:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 375bbc306e Update version number to match Include/patchlevel.h. 2002-02-04 19:48:25 +00:00
Tim Peters ab034fab03 Implement os.waitpid() for Windows, in a way that's compatible with Linux 
where their capabilities intersect.  Would be nice if people using non-
MSVC compilers (Borland etc) took a whack at doing something similar for
them (this code relies on the MS _cwait function).
 2002-02-01 11:27:43 +00:00
Skip Montanaro c318260a71 added handle_error method description 2002-01-31 17:32:24 +00:00
Tim Peters c48a3ca161 Add new constants usable with os.popen() on Windows. 
NOTE:  this seems a mess wrt which symbols are available on which
platforms.  I can't fix it, but I didn't add to it <wink>, and
included an XXX comment about names claimed to be available on
Windows that aren't.  If anyone can figure out the whole ugly truth,
I'm sure a better organization will suggest itself.
 2002-01-30 05:49:46 +00:00
Fred Drake c26467d53f Revise cheeseshop example so that the order of the keyword output is 
completely determined by the example; dict insertion order and the string
hash algorithm no longer affect the output.
This fixes SF bug #509281.
 2002-01-29 14:53:30 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ef180dc3d0 Document that get_referrers can return unreachable but uncollected objects. 
Fixes #505453.
 2002-01-26 20:11:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 744f67fb62 Add keyword.kwlist to the public API. 2002-01-24 16:38:53 +00:00
Fred Drake db2d3d1b3a libkeyword.tex was missing from the list of dependencies for the 
Library Reference.
 2002-01-24 16:38:08 +00:00
Skip Montanaro ea3ceaa913 PyDict_Next: update doc to indicate that pkey and pvalue return values are 
borrowed references.
 2002-01-23 10:54:41 +00:00
Skip Montanaro a23bc42ad5 add missing return value info for PyDict_DelItem 2002-01-23 08:18:30 +00:00
Fred Drake aae728f292 Fix typo reported by François Pinard. 2002-01-21 16:09:18 +00:00
Fred Drake ac6dd0a817 Updated GNU info dir segment from Milan Zamazal. 2002-01-17 21:27:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 826e98214b Update email address. 2002-01-17 21:05:14 +00:00
Fred Drake d6bdb075ca Update the list of output formats. 2002-01-17 12:35:20 +00:00
Fred Drake ac96868d2d Consistency nits. 2002-01-17 04:51:55 +00:00
Fred Drake efff11b37c Minor consistency nit. 2002-01-17 04:44:34 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 8fbd4a3e78 That hasn't been my email address for a while! 2002-01-16 14:55:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4f3a62d9bc There's no need for typechecks on the second and third argument of 
new.instancemethod() -- the instancemethod object is now a perfectly
general container.

This fixes SF bug ##503091 (Pedro Rodriquez): new.instancemethod fails
for new classes

This is a 2.2.1 candidate.
 2002-01-15 19:21:05 +00:00
Thomas Heller 3d62f8ca35 Fix a simple typo. Has this to be fixed also in other branches? 2002-01-14 08:37:39 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a55ffaeee9 Add a per-message fallback mechanism for translations. 2002-01-11 06:58:49 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 1be6419871 Add fallback argument to translation(). Request fallbacks on install. 
Fixes #500595.
 2002-01-11 06:33:28 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 3e3eacb5fc Fixed "u#" parser marker to pass through Unicode objects as-is without 
going through the buffer interface API.

Added tests for this to the _testcapi module and updated docs.
 2002-01-09 16:21:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 7731ed47cb Do not mask the name of a built-in function in example code. 
Based on comment sent to python-docs.
 2002-01-05 04:00:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 5e74d36f9d Fix indentation error in example from the Tkinter Life Preserver. 
This closes SF bug #499505.
 2002-01-05 03:56:54 +00:00
Fred Drake d93d68bd13 Fix minor typo reported in SF patch #497951. 2002-01-05 01:52:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c33e077838 SF patch #497420 (Eduardo Pérez): ftplib: ftp anonymous password 
Instead of sending the real user and host, use "anonymous@" (i.e. no
host name at all!) as the default anonymous FTP password.  This avoids
privacy violations.
 2001-12-28 20:54:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 089c7d1d5e Another name; should be added to Python 2.2.1. 2001-12-27 18:40:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 687bde9433 Added some missing index entries, noted by L. Peter Deutsch. 
This should be included in Python 2.2.1.
 2001-12-27 18:38:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 7c9a53dfc0 Elaborate the descriptions for onecmd(), precmd(), and postcmd() so they are 
useful.
 2001-12-27 05:10:18 +00:00
Fred Drake fd7f115a0e Fix wrongly-named formal parameters in three places: begin_y was used twice 
instead of begin_y and begin_x for derwin(), subpad(), and subwin().
Reported for derwin() by Eric Huss.

Added class annotations for the window methods so they would be properly
described in the index.
 2001-12-26 22:08:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 7fa4ec5498 Added another name. 2001-12-26 22:08:35 +00:00
Fred Drake ab2dc1d730 Added index entries similar to some recommended by Skip, and used the word 
"interpolation" in the text, to make the string formatting material easier to
find.
This closes SF bug #487165.
Bugfix: this should be applied for Python 2.2.1.
 2001-12-26 20:06:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 3d422662ad Make this do the right thing with entries which start with the percent sign, 
in response to Skip's comments in SF bug #487165.

Make use of string methods instead of string module functions in most places.
Add (and make the default) a way to collapse symbol entries into a single
"Symbols" section in the generated index.  This is similar to what makeindex
does, but does not include entries beginning with an underscore.
 2001-12-26 19:55:14 +00:00
Fred Drake ef338ec5f9 More index entries. 2001-12-26 19:48:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 8b8fe288b3 Close an improperly-closed verbatim environment. 
This closes SF patch #496215.

Add a little more detail to the example that had not been closed.

Bugfix: this should be made part of 2.2.1.
 2001-12-26 16:53:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 39960f6ec9 Fix the erroneous availability annotation for s.makefile() from the last 
checkin (my fault!).
Wrap some long lines and fix some markup inconsistencies.
 2001-12-22 19:07:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 87fa3aa12c Add notes that fromfd() and s.makefile() are Unix-specific. 
This fixes SF bug #495896.

Fix up various markup consistency & style guide conformance nits.
 2001-12-21 17:45:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 09aa55a090 Doc changes on the trunk will not be in Python 2.2, so let's call it 2.2+. 2001-12-21 16:46:28 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling bec5b362db 1.00 at last! 
Describe super() very briefly
A few minor reformattings and wording changes
Set the release date (presumably tomorrow...)
 2001-12-21 04:39:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 5c7983113c Add a reference to the signal module to the os.kill() description. 
This closes SF bug #495609.
 2001-12-21 03:58:47 +00:00
Fred Drake dce2e1161a Fix typo in httplib example. 
This fixes SF bug #495221.
 2001-12-21 03:52:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 23d45f4744 Fix up some examples in the tutorial so we don't contradict our own 
advice on docstrings.
This fixes SF bug #495601.
 2001-12-20 23:54:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 8c8e871530 Fix the availability statement for the spawn*() functions to reflect the 
actual availability on Windows.
This fixes SF bug #495191.
 2001-12-20 17:24:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 34a37b807a Re-commit Ping's patch to the cgi and cgitb documentation, using the 
right version this time.  Thanks, Ping!
(This was from SF patch #494582, "\index -> \indexii" version.)
 2001-12-20 17:13:09 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 5e08d10dd9 Update the documentation links 
Remove reference to this being a draft
 2001-12-20 16:33:45 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling adc7df5778 Use the final patch/bug numbers 2001-12-20 16:04:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 4b1b3bfac1 Add entry for the pydoc documentation. 2001-12-18 16:32:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 96be564027 Add documentation for the pydoc module; contributed by Ka-Ping Yee. 
This closes SF patch #494622.
 2001-12-18 16:31:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 732299ff63 Add documentation for the help() built-in; contributed by Ka-Ping Yee. 
This is part of SF patch #494622.
 2001-12-18 16:31:08 +00:00
Fred Drake e088970ce0 Merge in Ping's changes to the cgitb documentation, and add a version 
annotation as well.
This closes SF patch #494582.
 2001-12-18 15:51:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 0c0b5305ae Mark the mpz module deprecated as of Python 2.2. 2001-12-16 01:54:55 +00:00
Fred Drake b9c0ef5db7 Update to reflect recently added markup. 2001-12-15 22:24:06 +00:00
Fred Drake c57772870b Add a link to the mxNumber package. 2001-12-15 20:37:40 +00:00
Fred Drake b40501b05e Add link to the gmpy project. 2001-12-15 18:37:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 08d752cf28 Update to use the notice environment so a multi-paragraph note can be 
appropriately marked.
 2001-12-14 22:55:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 591dd8f620 Update information about __del__() & reference cycles for CPython. 
This partially fixes SF bug #492619.

Fix a typo & use the new notice environment instead of (ab)using the \note
and \warning macros.
 2001-12-14 22:52:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 6ca33771f8 Add a new environment for whole-paragraph (or longer) notes & warnings. 2001-12-14 22:50:06 +00:00
Fred Drake dda7dcb3f7 Add a missing "cycle". 2001-12-14 21:19:08 +00:00
Fred Drake b062cb22d0 Work around the problem of spaces after a "}" being dropped by LaTeX2HTML if 
they were represented by newlines in the document source.
Partially fixes SF bug #493243.
 2001-12-14 16:57:31 +00:00
Fred Drake e27f86820a The valign attribute to control the vertical alignment of a table cell should 
be on the <tr> element, not the <table> element.
Partially fixes SF bug #493243.
 2001-12-14 16:54:53 +00:00
Fred Drake e6965cd9f0 Bump version numbers for the trunk. 2001-12-14 16:45:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 7b82271bb5 Reflect change of Digital Creations to Zope Corporation. 2001-12-14 16:42:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 526c7a0101 Ensure that complex() only accepts a string argument as the first arg, 
and only if there is no second arg.
This closes SF patch #479551.
 2001-12-13 19:52:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 5f29319197 Replace the "Cookbook approach" with the approach documented in 
PC/example_nt/readme.txt; this one does not rely on any external scripts.
This "fixes" SF bug #221671 and most of SF bug #225003.
 2001-12-13 17:20:32 +00:00
Fred Drake a0b767625b Minor adjustments. 2001-12-13 04:25:37 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 850d3980ab Fix for 
[ #429329 ] actual-parameters *arg, **kws not doc'd
 2001-12-12 11:56:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 5f443cb550 Added the iSilo documentation to the standard target for distribution files 
for "online" (as opposed to typeset) formats.
 2001-12-12 06:22:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 8d0645cb84 Add a note about yield requiring a __future__ directive. 2001-12-12 06:06:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 1529ef860e Document that isleap() returns exactly 1 or 0, which is guaranteed by the 
docstring.
This closes SF bug #485794.


Additional (very) small details were added.
 2001-12-12 05:40:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 3a8e59ebe1 Clean up a sad sentence in the yield description. 2001-12-11 21:58:35 +00:00
Fred Drake e31e9cebc0 Document generators and the yield statement, avoiding implementation details. 2001-12-11 21:10:08 +00:00
Fred Drake be6dd3083c Remove crufty whitespace in a block of index entries. 
Minor, but generates slightly smaller HTML & makes it easier to see what's
happening when debugging the HTML.
 2001-12-11 20:49:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 54e6294197 A number of small adjustments. 2001-12-11 19:40:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 145b479508 Added discussion of protecting against screwing up the exception state in 
an object's deallocator, including an example of how to do this.
 2001-12-11 19:28:22 +00:00
Tim Peters f582b82fe9 SF bug #491415 PyDict_UpdateFromSeq2() unused 
PyDict_UpdateFromSeq2():  removed it.
PyDict_MergeFromSeq2():  made it public and documented it.
PyDict_Merge() docs:  updated to reveal <wink> that the second
argument can be any mapping object.
 2001-12-11 18:51:08 +00:00
Fred Drake c82bd7281f Save a new version of the productionlist environment for safe-keeping; this 
will be replaced shortly.  See the comments for more details.
 2001-12-11 18:47:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 1d3e6c15ce Fix whitespace in example of bad indentation: a comment indicated that one 
line was not indented at all, so the example is no longer indented at all.
All of the errors being shown remain.

Typo: characteru --> character
 2001-12-11 17:46:38 +00:00
Fred Drake cf72abab8c Update link to the SAX homepage. 2001-12-10 18:10:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 6048ce95a9 Added documentation for str.decode(). 
This closes SF bug #490823.
 2001-12-10 16:43:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 146483964e Patch supplied by Burton Radons for his own SF bug #487390: Modifying 
type.__module__ behavior.

This adds the module name and a dot in front of the type name in every
type object initializer, except for built-in types (and those that
already had this).  Note that it touches lots of Mac modules -- I have
no way to test these but the changes look right.  Apologies if they're
not.  This also touches the weakref docs, which contains a sample type
object initializer.  It also touches the mmap test output, because the
mmap type's repr is included in that output.  It touches object.h to
put the correct description in a comment.
 2001-12-08 18:02:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 73f0a4ecd7 Script to generate the table of distribution packages, plugging in the size 
information automatically.
 2001-12-08 00:26:07 +00:00
Fred Drake f9d580346b Add change notes where im_class is discussed, since the exact meaning changes 
with Python 2.2.
 2001-12-07 23:13:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b62f0e1a7b Correct the description of im_class. (Fred, this is changed in 2.2. 
Should this be labeled as changed?  How?)
 2001-12-07 22:03:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 7961930595 Revise description of dumbdbm.open() to reflect that the flag argument is 
ignored and that mode was ignored before Python 2.2.
This closes SF bug #490098.
 2001-12-07 21:56:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 8b7bb7a0f2 Describe the behavior of the read() method when the list of filenames 
includes files that do not exist, explain the intended use of the interface,
and show how to ensure an expected file really exists.
This closes SF bug #490399.
 2001-12-07 21:35:57 +00:00
Fred Drake c6259d73c2 Another name. 2001-12-07 18:27:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 44b3f76adf More info about the cycle detector. 2001-12-07 17:57:56 +00:00
Tim Peters 874c4f0f99 Trivial spelling repair on new cyclic garbage text. 2001-12-07 17:51:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 024e647972 Added more information about reference counting limitations and the cycle 
detector.
This closes SF bug #484950.
 2001-12-07 17:30:40 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 038215ab0c Use an immutable tuple for __slots instead of a mutable list 
Bump version number
 2001-12-07 14:22:13 +00:00
Tim Peters b404145936 s/it/if/ in descriptions of spawn mode argument. 2001-12-06 23:37:17 +00:00
Tim Peters c7cb69263d For ratecv, document that None should be the initial state argument (when 
I was squashing spurious overflows in the implementation, I got hung up
on this point).
 2001-12-06 23:16:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 32a3587345 Document that PyString_FromString() cannot take NULL as a parameter. 
This closes SF bug #489872.
 2001-12-06 20:38:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 22d35a7337 [Bug #459270] Fix incorrect filename for system-wide config file 2001-12-06 16:34:53 +00:00
Fred Drake a16433b14e Re-enabled debugging prints in poplib & documented the set_debuglevel() 
method.
This closes SF patch #486079.
 2001-12-05 22:37:21 +00:00
Fred Drake d761662b66 asyncore.loop() description contributed by Skip Montanaro. 
This closes SF bug #489513.
 2001-12-05 21:37:50 +00:00
Fred Drake c2f496a138 Add a note to the description of the interaction between the softspace 
attribute of file objects, the print statement, and other file operations.
This closes SF bug #484857.

Fix minor markup nits.
 2001-12-05 05:46:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 39368c1053 Added documentation of the sendall() method, and a note to the send() method 
that it does not guarantee that all data is sent.
This closes SF patch #474307.
 2001-12-05 05:25:59 +00:00
Fred Drake d2a557e51e Added entry for the "cgitb" module docs. 2001-12-04 22:48:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 6e70e8b401 Documentation for the "cgitb" module. 2001-12-04 22:47:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4ed6be7107 Import the keyword module instead of relying on our own list of 
reserved words.  No longer need to import string.
 2001-12-04 20:39:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 41c6719fe4 Put the keywords back in alphabetical order. Apparently somebody 
didn't use reswords.py, as the comment clearly states. :-(
 2001-12-04 20:38:44 +00:00
Fred Drake ecd8157a2c Include a warning that scripts should not have the same name as standard 
modules, or the module cannot be properly imported.  (Based on a suggestion
sent to python-docs.)

Update the displayed dir() of the sys and __builtin__ module with Python 2.2.
 2001-12-04 19:47:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 6016dbecca Talk about str() in the discussion of string representations of values, and 
give examples for which str() and repr() yield different results.
This closes SF bug #485446.
 2001-12-04 19:20:43 +00:00
Fred Drake bb7775a6ae Fix SF bug #479967: Appearantly I broke something that made the index 
insertion work.  This fix makes things at least somewhat more explicit, and
adds a little sanity checking (and verbosity!) to
add_bbl_and_idx_dummy_commands().
 2001-12-04 17:03:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 97e3201220 Add a note that the rgbimg module is only built on 32-bit machines (prompted 
by a question to webmaster).
Re-wrapped a long line.
 2001-12-04 16:49:00 +00:00
Fred Drake b48b6d0737 Remove meaningless comment. 2001-12-04 16:32:04 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton db5a93cd6a Update docs to reflect new compile() and compileFile() 2001-12-04 02:48:52 +00:00
Fred Drake b38784e4a0 Slightly improved indexing for the string-% operator, thanks to comments 
from Skip Montanaro.  There is one weirdness in the final index for HTML, but
that is low priority.
 2001-12-03 22:15:56 +00:00
Fred Drake fcf94681ed Update lambda description to reflect nested scopes. This was noted by 
Andrew Koenig.
 2001-12-03 21:47:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 1a76386194 Added documentation on the ScrolledText module. 2001-12-03 21:18:30 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling c54fc3179f Oops! Forgot the value parameter. 2001-12-03 20:58:29 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 9455df2a5a Add __delete__ method of properties 
Reflow paragraph
 2001-12-03 20:55:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 1da50f6c6e Add a scalar product to the example list comprehensions based on a suggestion 
sent to python-docs.
 2001-12-03 18:54:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 5172adca81 Minor clarification of the zip() description, based on a comment sent to 
python-docs.
 2001-12-03 18:35:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 14f5c5fa01 Make no assumption about how modules are built when referring to them; this 
can vary by platform and installation.
Based on suggestion to python-docs.
 2001-12-03 18:33:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 1722e4a952 Re-word the intro slightly to avoid reader misunderstanding: strings are not 
mutable!  We do not want to shock anyone.
This closes SF bug #483805.

Re-factor so that the description of the "access" keyword parameter is not
repeated in both the descriptions of mmap().  Also, only make sure the first
description of mmap() appears in the index.  The the index link is followed,
the first is now used to locate the page on the screen; chances are really good
both will be visible.  This avoids the problem that the index entry for the
second is selected and the first version is not visible, making the reader
consider that mmap() is not available on Windows.
 2001-12-03 18:27:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 551ffae30c Clarify that the Python runtime may behave mysteriously when an exception 
is not handled properly.
This closes SF bug #485153.
 2001-12-03 17:56:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 3570551d6f Remove most references to __members__ and __methods__, leaving only one pair 
of references that now state that these attributes have been removed,
directing the reader to the dir() function.
This closes SF bug #456420.
 2001-12-03 17:32:27 +00:00
Fred Drake f07125ee53 PyErr_Format() does not return a new reference; it always returns NULL. 
This closes SF bug #488387.
 2001-12-03 16:36:43 +00:00
Fred Drake b22c6720aa Clean up some material that is not part of the standard documentation. 
This closes SF bug #487308.
 2001-12-03 06:12:23 +00:00
Fred Drake c7b78381da Another name. 2001-12-02 15:13:35 +00:00
Fred Drake d745b4e7a4 Add reference to the "String Methods" section to make that information 
easier to find.  Based on the comment from Steve Alexander on the
zope-coders mailing list.
 2001-12-02 15:10:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 381832ead5 Drop xmllib in favor of SAX. 2001-11-30 19:30:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 1e53fa7907 Add a couple of entries to the whitespace-cleanups table. 2001-11-30 19:25:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 0467775715 Add description of tkCommonDialog. 2001-11-30 19:24:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 95e33f03ba Added two new conversion specifications. 2001-11-30 19:06:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 10cd315963 Change the chapter title to reflect the Tk affinity. 
Use the new seealso* environment in the section pointing out other GUI
toolkits.
 2001-11-30 18:17:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 5ed35fd149 Add a new environment in the Python docs markup: seealso*. This is similar 
to seealso, but does not add the "See also:" header or put the content in a
box in the HTML version.

Updated the description of \seeurl to better indicate when it should be used;
the old description was written before we had \seetitle.
 2001-11-30 18:09:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 89d63cc450 Minor adjustments to markup for the getDOMImplementation() description. 2001-11-30 16:58:15 +00:00
Fred Drake bd34b6bc3d Added the convenience constants that are present in PyXML to make these 
more similar.
 2001-11-30 15:37:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 38f3b72f9f Updated documentation for the new httplib interface, by Kalle Svensson. 
This closes SF bug #458447.
 2001-11-30 06:06:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 454af89712 Update the signature of PyFile_WriteString(). 2001-11-29 22:42:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 44b6f84e56 More information about Tix support, contributed by Mike Clarkson. 2001-11-29 21:09:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 6995bb61b6 Various cleanups & markup fixes, mostly relating to the stat and statvfs 
result object changes.
 2001-11-29 20:48:44 +00:00
Fred Drake ed0a71911c Neil Schemenauer suggested a small improvement to one of the example REs. 2001-11-29 20:23:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 389aa17ad3 writeline() --> writelines() 
This closes SF bug #487147.
 2001-11-29 19:04:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 1cec7fab1d New section of regular expression examples contributed by Skip Montanaro, 
with some extensions and changes from me.
This closes SF patch #472825.
 2001-11-29 08:45:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 92024d1a99 Clarify the description of the creation of an owned reference from an API 
function.
This closes SF bug #486657.
 2001-11-29 07:16:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 99181ac64e Add an index entry for the discussion of PyEval_CallObject(). 
This is related to SF bug #485165.
 2001-11-29 05:02:34 +00:00
Fred Drake ea4d2c0241 A few small changes: 
- Change PREFIX to PREFIXES, which contains a sequence of prefix strings.
  This is useful since we want to look for both Py and PY.
- Wrap a long line.
- Collect struct tags as well as typedef names.  Since we generally only
  use one of the other, that improves coverage.
- Make the script executable on Unix.

This could use a better approach to determine if a symbol is documented,
and could easily avoid keeping the massive string in memory.  That would
take time to actually write more code, though, so we'll bail on that
for now.
 2001-11-29 04:30:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 5107b4cf5f Re-arrange the modules in the "Internet Data Handling" chapter to try to 
achieve a more sensible organization.
 2001-11-28 07:50:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 6a6bb1828b Clarify that on some systems, lockf() using LOCK_EX requires that the file 
is opened for writing; this closes SF bug #485342.

Added notes that file objects are also accepted in the place of file
descriptors.
 2001-11-28 07:48:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 48704ee478 Add synopsis for the SimpleXMLRPCServer module; used in the chapter-level 
list of modules.
 2001-11-28 07:32:53 +00:00
Fred Drake c37b65ee10 Clean up some markup cruft. A number of the macros that take no 
parameters (like \UNIX) are commonly entered using an empty group to
separate the markup from a following inter-word space; this is not
needed when the next character is punctuation, or the markup is the
last thing in the enclosing group.  These cases were marked
inconsistently; the empty group is now *only* used when needed.
 2001-11-28 07:26:15 +00:00
Fred Drake beafc795df Typo, spotted by Fredrik Lundh. 2001-11-26 21:46:53 +00:00
Fred Drake b03d0cc45e Typo, spotted by Detlef Lannert. 2001-11-26 21:39:40 +00:00
Fred Drake fcb05ab512 Tk-related modules should no longer be listed here. 2001-11-26 21:38:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 2744f43f71 Fix typo, extra markup constructs. 
This closes SF bug #485252.
 2001-11-26 21:30:36 +00:00
Fred Drake cd8474e6a2 Add documentation for the PyCell* APIs. 2001-11-26 21:29:17 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ccf04658b0 Correctly create new-style classes in the examples 
Mention change to _PyTuple_Resize
 2001-11-26 18:15:44 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 560da62fc7 Rename get_referents to get_referrers. Fixes #483815. 2001-11-24 09:24:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 27ae311864 Avoid trailing blank lines in the output. 2001-11-19 05:28:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 00c96aeba6 Adjust input pre-processing so that a comment on the last line does not 
break the processor; this will do the right thing.
 2001-11-19 05:27:40 +00:00
Fred Drake e70dbe0fc5 Update the platform notes for the CGIHTTPServer module; it works on more 
platforms now, and has since Python 2.0.
This closes SF bug #482943.
 2001-11-19 05:16:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 63c4f907a9 Another name... 2001-11-19 04:35:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 7064d3b581 Fix the default value for feature_namespaces, per discussions on the XML-SIG 
mailing list.  This causes the docs to match the default implementation.
 2001-11-19 04:34:50 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 69ab5836ae Paul Rubin reminds me that of course a class's constructor /could/ get 
called, if the pickler found a __getinitargs__() method.
 2001-11-18 16:24:01 +00:00
Fred Drake ebbd14d7c2 Clarified a couple of issues for the startElement*() handlers: 
- the attrs value may be re-used by the parser, so the implementation
  cannot rely on owning the object.
- an element with no namespace encountered in namespace mode will have a URI
  of None, not "" (startElementNS() only).

Fixed a couple of minor markup issues as well.
 2001-11-18 04:58:28 +00:00
Tim Peters af0a883041 Relatively large expansion of the docs for gc.garbage. 2001-11-18 04:51:17 +00:00
Fred Drake ef6373a4f6 Exhibit good form in C code: always provide docstrings in method tables, and 
always fill in all slots of table entries.
Fixed a few minor markup errors.
 2001-11-17 06:50:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 50ecc15d05 Add omitted word for clarity. 2001-11-17 06:39:18 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 0c0565dd7f Toughen up the security warnings a bit. 2001-11-16 22:28:17 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 5e17d20743 Add a clarification that the email package always deals in native line 
endings, and that it is smtplib's job to convert those to RFC 2821
line endings when sending the message.
 2001-11-16 22:16:04 +00:00
Fred Drake dd2487d759 Post-release bumps. Do *NOT* merge into the 2.2b2 branch. 2001-11-16 17:34:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 666ca80b63 Clean up some markup a little bit more. Make this work with the PDF format, 
which is a little more strict than the other formats on some things (fixable,
but not tonight).
 2001-11-16 06:02:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 5545219bf6 Document the urlsplit() and urlunsplit() functions. 2001-11-16 03:22:15 +00:00
Fred Drake c66ff203bb Switched a couple of sections around. 
Cleaned up some markup nits.
Add a few more of the Tk-related modules to the list of modules.
 2001-11-16 01:05:27 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 69b2d75fc7 A few minor updates to make it clear(er) that pickle should be used 
instead of marshal for object serialization.

Fred, please proofread!
 2001-11-15 23:55:12 +00:00
Barry Warsaw f595fd975d A massive rewrite affecting both the pickle and cPickle module 
documentation.  This addresses previously undocumented parts of the
public interfaces, the differences between pickle and cPickle,
security concerns, and on and on.

Fred please proofread!
 2001-11-15 23:39:07 +00:00
Barry Warsaw d44e7ad702 Minor updates to add more pointers to the pickle documentation, and to 
clarify some of the interface.
 2001-11-15 23:37:26 +00:00
Fred Drake fd4f069b12 The turtle docs will be moving to another location in the Tkinter chapter. 2001-11-15 22:10:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 482b9a8c0c Clean up the descriptions of multi-signature functions so we do the right 
thing in the index.
 2001-11-15 20:41:03 +00:00
Fred Drake bc1491f60f Thanks for the Tkinter chapter, Mike! 2001-11-15 17:26:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 53556861df Add entries for the new Tkinter chapter. 2001-11-15 17:25:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 7cf4e5b329 Tkinter chapter, contributed by Mike Clarkson. Based in part on the "Tkinter 
Life Preserver" by Matt Conway.
 2001-11-15 17:22:04 +00:00
Fred Drake e1d4ad3a31 Finally commit the font changes that have been live on the development site 
for a month or more.
 2001-11-14 22:35:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 9c7a07f7a4 Bump release number & date. 2001-11-14 22:28:26 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 1336e99054 Fred observes that the typo was not the only problem with this sentence. 2001-11-14 21:38:13 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 4a98f70a09 typo 2001-11-14 21:32:27 +00:00
Tim Peters 5ebfd36afa CVS patch #477161: New "access" keyword for mmap, from Jay T Miller. 
This gives mmap() on Windows the ability to create read-only, write-
through and copy-on-write mmaps.  A new keyword argument is introduced
because the mmap() signatures diverged between Windows and Unix, so
while they (now) both support this functionality, there wasn't a way to
spell it in a common way without introducing a new spelling gimmick.
The old spellings are still accepted, so there isn't a backward-
compatibility issue here.
 2001-11-13 23:11:19 +00:00
Thomas Heller 64cdb48c80 No need to preprocess the header files - use ctags -I flag instead to 
remove DL_IMPORT.
 2001-11-12 12:52:01 +00:00
Thomas Heller bfeeeee851 Fix obvious typos. 2001-11-12 07:46:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 94ead57dc3 Added version annotations, remove hard tabs. 2001-11-09 23:34:26 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 89c3a22a27 Add PyObject_CheckReadBuffer(), which returns true if its argument 
supports the single-segment readable buffer interface.

Add documentation for this and other PyObject_XXXBuffer() calls.
 2001-11-09 21:59:42 +00:00
Fred Drake da4ffeecf5 No need to have documentation for a module which not accepted in the library. 2001-11-09 21:45:55 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 3b0c82a2f1 Updated the documentation for formatdate(). 2001-11-09 17:08:13 +00:00
Thomas Heller 3988574075 Remove my name, probably bad style. 2001-11-09 17:04:43 +00:00
Thomas Heller 3e77423a64 Script to print undocumented symbols found in Python header files. 2001-11-09 16:50:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 30bd666c35 Cleaned up some markup stupidity and a usage problem reported by Detlef 
Lannert.  Added descriptions of HTTP_PORT and HTTPS_PORT.
 2001-11-09 05:03:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 399bc8c281 Fix a variety of typographical, grammatical, and clarity problems reported 
by Detlef Lannert.
 2001-11-09 03:49:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 0b66310476 When referring to a formal parameter from the description, use the name given 
with the signature, not an ad hoc abbreviated form.
 2001-11-07 06:28:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 59bfe280f5 Another name! 2001-11-07 06:23:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 66ded524ba apply() documentation: Remove a detail about the implementation that does 
not affect the API.  Clean up the text about call syntax apply() is
equivalent to.  Based on comments by Thomas Guettler.
 2001-11-07 06:22:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 1a670c8414 Adjust the module synopsis to avoid margin overruns in the PDF format. 2001-11-06 22:14:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 10b81ce4e5 A variety of small cleanups, including one to avoid a margin overrun in the 
PDF version.
 2001-11-06 22:13:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 5976816698 Remove stray quotes; probably left over from conversion from docstrings. 2001-11-06 22:11:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 806d332f02 Remove extra period. 2001-11-06 22:10:47 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 1f774b062e Update obsolete e-mail address, and remove myself as a module author 2001-11-05 21:34:36 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4794f0b234 Update obsolete e-mail address 2001-11-05 21:31:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 47ccfe2d8f Remove obsolete e-mail address 2001-11-05 21:31:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f010df4ee5 Update URL, and remove e-mail address reference (readers can get it from 
the Web page)
 2001-11-05 21:30:10 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 10f9c075b9 Remove obsolete e-mail address 2001-11-05 21:25:42 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 2bb077f630 Finally fleshed out the examples section with 4 code samples! Some of 
my own doing, some originally written by Matthew Dixon Cowles.
 2001-11-05 17:50:53 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling c44403995e Remove email*.tex subsections; they're all \input by email.tex 2001-11-05 01:55:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 43dc1fc926 Minor grammar and typo fixes 2001-11-05 01:55:03 +00:00
Tim Peters 169ded0d68 Finish SF patch 477059: __del__ on new classes vs. GC. 
Just doc and NEWS here, about the change in gc.garbage meaning.
 2001-11-03 19:57:21 +00:00
Tim Peters 7533587d43 Improved error msg when a symbolic group name is redefined. Added docs 
and NEWS.  Bugfix candidate?  That's a dilemma for Anthony <wink>:  /F
did fix a longstanding bug here, but the fix can cause code to raise an
exception that previously worked by accident.
 2001-11-03 19:35:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling bc4a1c2588 [Patch #476612] Change docs to describe PEP247 interface 2001-11-02 21:44:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 622087a3ed Fix stupid bug recently introduced for DVI version of the docs (used to 
generate PostScript).
 2001-11-02 20:53:19 +00:00
Fred Drake d9272d6f11 Add deprecation notice to statcache. 2001-11-02 20:20:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 67bd68392c Make sure there are no weird nesting behaviors; the PDF version will not 
format if there are (building the "bookmarks" for the reader breaks).
 2001-11-02 19:41:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 3808045d00 Correct misspelling of "separate" in two places. 
This closes SF bug #476898.
 2001-11-01 19:48:01 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 2dab9c7d9b Fix markup typo 2001-10-31 13:16:10 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling bbde5880a5 Add paragraph about difflib suggested by David Goodger 
Bump version number
 2001-10-31 13:13:36 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 72a7fb78cb Fix grammar error 2001-10-30 22:18:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 433b5c4d34 Rewrites and additions resulting from today's feedback 2001-10-30 21:36:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 345b8df2c4 Always use --dvips-safe when generating HTML for the standard documentation 
since we do not have anything that causes dvips to be run except when
PostScript is specifically requested, which is a separate target.
 2001-10-30 16:28:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 3ce28e4bd0 Add a new option, --dvips-safe, which sets the $DVIPS_SAFE option in 
LaTeX2HTML.  This is not safe to do in general (for the reasons LaTeX2HTML
protects against dvips to begin with), but is safe if we do not actually
need to run dvips.  Note that we also assume it is safe if the user
specifically requests PostScript generation.  See the comments for further
explanation.
 2001-10-30 16:09:51 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 7aa63c245f Various minor rewrites 
Bump version number
 2001-10-30 14:35:03 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 7cc13de554 Corrections noted by Michael McLay 2001-10-30 14:22:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 99de218cfc Promote file objects out of the "Other Objects" category, so they become 
visible in the table of contents.
 2001-10-30 06:23:14 +00:00
Fred Drake b4ea9d0502 Promote built-in functions to come before built-in types. 2001-10-30 06:22:02 +00:00
Tim Peters 003047a5f2 Mention the new file() builtin in the section on file objects. 2001-10-30 05:54:04 +00:00
Tim Peters a427a2b8d0 Rename "dictionary" (type and constructor) to "dict". 2001-10-29 22:25:45 +00:00
Fred Drake e59feb5edc Revise the PDF support in the LaTeX style sheet. This still isn't quite 
right, but the tests for whether we are generating PDF are a bit more
readable, and some unnecessary indirection has been removed.
 2001-10-29 21:02:28 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 1117d930fa dictionary -> dict 2001-10-29 20:37:47 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4f9e220e7f Fix two typos noted by Jens Quade 
Bump version number
 2001-10-29 18:09:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 589abb7212 Add additional information on exceptions from time.mktime() and related to 
improper time tuples passed to various functions.  Based on comments from
Andreas Jung.
 2001-10-29 18:01:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 1b58bff8a0 More refcount information. 2001-10-29 17:43:14 +00:00
Fred Drake b0109ffb3b Ignore all *.tex files in the typesetting output directories since there are 
a bunch of them now.
 2001-10-29 17:42:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 520b0093db Make sure we generate versions of each file in the Python/C API manual with 
reference-count annotations; this is needed for the typeset forms of the
manuals.
 2001-10-29 17:40:40 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 2836907bbb Fix some markup errors noted by MH 
Use attribute assignment to illustrate __slots__ raising an error
 2001-10-29 15:47:33 +00:00
Fred Drake b0c079e3e5 PyObject_CallFunctionObArgs() ---> PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs() 
PyObject_CallMethodObArgs() ---> PyObject_CallMethodObjArgs()
 2001-10-28 02:39:03 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling cf31d5d5d0 Fill in remaining XXX spots 
- Describe UnpackTuple()
        - Credit __unicode__ to MAL
Use \pep macro everywhere in body text.
   (Listening to "The Great Gate of Kiev" -- appropriately triumphal
    music for this check-in...)
 2001-10-26 20:37:55 +00:00
Fred Drake e21e2bb121 Fix up a number of small problems with the DOM documentation. 
There's still a lot to do, but it's better now.
 2001-10-26 20:09:49 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b83769cb82 Finish off the type/class section; I don't think there's much else 
to be covered in an overview article like this.
 2001-10-26 20:07:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 41cf5e0069 Remove unused variable. 2001-10-26 19:50:26 +00:00
Fred Drake ef428a292a Explain what [].insert() does when the target index is negative. 2001-10-26 18:57:14 +00:00