Martin v. Löwis
22610da481
Document symbolic constants for commands.
2002-11-04 17:41:18 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
1da9c57c74
Patch #630829 : Don't block on IAC, process suboptions.
2002-11-04 09:56:00 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
f0a4668e6f
Add getpreferredencoding. Support @euro modifiers. Fixes #554676 .
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The @euro part is backported to 2.2.3.
2002-11-03 17:20:12 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
cf57e50989
Fix SF #632864 , Typo string instead of sting in LibDoc. Will backport.
2002-11-03 13:13:20 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
034c749ff4
Fix SF #618146 , overflow error in calendar module
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Will backport.
2002-11-03 00:13:42 +00:00
Walter Dörwald
1a7a894d90
Move introductory sentence to where it belongs.
2002-11-02 13:32:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
9482d2591a
Update example for the type() function to use the currently accepted
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preference of using "is" instead of "==" to compare types, use
built-in names where available, and point to the isinstance()
function.
Closes SF bug #632196 .
2002-11-01 21:33:44 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
3adefccdcb
Use personal e-mail address
2002-10-30 21:08:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
4e303aad05
Add notes to the asctime() and ctime() descriptions to make it
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explicit that locale information is not used. There wasn't anything
that implied it was, but this has confused users.
2002-10-30 18:17:03 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
74b51ac1e5
Patch #613256 : Add nescape method to xml.sax.saxutils.
2002-10-26 14:50:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
0eebd5cef9
Implement a safer and more predictable interpolation approach.
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Closes SF bug #511737 .
2002-10-25 21:52:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
97d5f05221
Update to reflect the refactoring into the RawConfigParser and
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ConfigParser classes.
2002-10-25 20:20:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
f596826673
- The "-" format flag overrides the "0" flag, not the "-" flag.
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- Documented the alternate forms, which were claimed to be documented
but were not.
2002-10-25 16:55:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
50276abd9b
Update an example to use the DOM implementation object. Explain that
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the parse() and parseString() functions use a separate parser, not
actually implement a parser. (This is a common question.)
2002-10-24 19:36:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
ff287cfb4c
Point to the PyXML package as an extended version of the "xml" package
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that can provide this fuctionality.
Note that the docs for the xml.dom and xml.sax packages are the
definitiona of the Python bindings for the DOM and SAX interfaces.
2002-10-23 20:58:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
88f015dc88
Moved description of _urlopener adjacent to the related functions.
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Added missing import to example code.
Added documentation for pathname2url(), url2pathname().
Closes SF bug #623196 .
2002-10-22 21:58:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
d6cf8bea0a
Modify example to use string methods instead of the string module.
2002-10-22 20:31:22 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh
019bd4a6c1
terminology
2002-10-22 18:26:28 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh
1303c7cb16
add support for basic authentication, based on patch #624180
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by Phillip J. Eby
2002-10-22 18:23:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
7d428ecc57
Clarify what versions of Windows are supported, and add Linux
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specifically.
2002-10-22 15:06:49 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh
e7c38d48ff
fixed the mail address in the documentation, too...
2002-10-19 20:22:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
d8eeeae4a6
Fix reference to the Fetchmail FAQ:
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- URL was missing an "m"
- markup for tilde was wrong
- URL was marked as the title
- actual title was omitted
"make webcheck" didn't catch this; not sure why.
Removed some spurious end-of-line whitespace.
2002-10-18 16:50:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
5f2c1d27b9
Typo(!): "normal" -> "number"
2002-10-17 19:23:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
98ef20d5e4
Document urldefrag().
2002-10-16 20:07:54 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
f607bdaa77
Add PyStructSequence_UnnamedField. Add stat_float_times.
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Use integers in stat tuple, optionally floats in named fields.
2002-10-16 18:27:39 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
77ac429eff
Patch #572628 : Optional timeouts for put and get.
2002-10-15 15:11:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
16ecb2160f
Fix tildes in URLs. Closes SF bug #614821 .
2002-10-12 15:02:46 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
36a4d8c20e
Remove mentionings of DOS.
2002-10-10 18:24:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
5430f4e9c8
Document when unittest was added to Python.
2002-10-10 16:16:25 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
6f0f961741
Update email micro release number.
2002-10-10 15:58:19 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
df88b9fadf
Document that the Charset constructor coerces its argument to lower
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case.
2002-10-10 15:23:38 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
57ce1430b2
Document that get_content_charset() coerces its return value to lower
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case.
2002-10-10 15:22:16 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
dbe3f76270
Patch #569139 : Implementation of major, minor and makedev.
2002-10-10 14:27:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
aa02c8441b
Accept Armin's documentation patch for SF bug #558179 .
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Adjusted some markup to make the descriptions more consistent.
2002-10-09 22:33:23 +00:00
Mark Hammond
8696ebcd28
Add os.path.supports_unicode_filenames for all platforms,
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sys.getwindowsversion() on Windows (new enahanced Tim-proof <wink>
version), and fix test_pep277.py in a few minor ways.
Including doc and NEWS entries.
2002-10-08 02:44:31 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
e9ce0b0fea
Patch #448038 : Add move(). Report errors from copytree as in shutil.Error.
2002-10-07 13:23:24 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
a844f2d165
Document patch #594001 .
2002-10-05 09:46:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
0ba5541a0e
Add a comment to the top of the file explaining why the file is here.
2002-10-01 18:20:16 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
dd868d32e0
nits
2002-10-01 15:29:09 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
de6977f441
Added an introduction.
2002-10-01 15:13:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
c61617320f
Stub document for the stand-alone email package distribution.
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Barry, please add a reasonable abstract!
2002-10-01 14:38:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
6516e14968
Minor style nit for referring to other attributes of the same class
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from an attributes description.
2002-10-01 14:29:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
fcc31b44d2
Split the long email package examples into separate files and use
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\verbatiminput instead of the verbatim environment -- this does the "right
thing" regarding page breaks in long examples for the typeset formats, and
has nice benefits for the HTML version as well.
2002-10-01 14:17:10 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
ea66abc6e2
Cleaned up the examples.
2002-10-01 04:48:06 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
5db478fa29
Proofread and spell checked, all except the Examples section (which
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I'll do next).
2002-10-01 04:33:16 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
5b9da893d3
Vast update to email version 2. This could surely use proofreading.
2002-10-01 01:05:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
2ca041fde0
items(): New method, provided by Gustavo Niemeyer in SF bug #545096 .
2002-09-27 15:49:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
4613876ee3
Add deprecation notices to the documentation to reflect recent additions to
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PEP 4.
2002-09-25 22:13:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
3e930ba55f
Another try at clarifying what goes into and comes out of Unicode objects.
2002-09-24 21:08:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
36c2bd8e34
Remove spurious period.
2002-09-24 15:32:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
7b788e0582
Clarify that len() of a Unicode string returns the number of storage units,
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not abstract characters.
2002-09-24 13:57:21 +00:00
Greg Ward
02669a35bc
Tweak description of PortableUnixMailbox: "From " lines are actually
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quoted (or mangled) *at* delivery-time, not "well before" it. (At least
that's how Exim and qmail work.)
2002-09-23 19:32:42 +00:00
Thomas Heller
c687401337
Fix typos: despatcher -> dispatcher.
2002-09-17 15:19:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
c1ddc505d9
Minor revision to the "\\" patch, including updating the docs a little to
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accomodate the fact that they are more general now that they are for the
os.path module and not just posixpath.
This and the previous patch should be combined and applied to the 2.2-maint
branch.
2002-09-12 18:01:26 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
c12909bcc6
add note about os.path.join and drive letters on Windows.
2002-09-12 17:39:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
b7c1895ec5
Fix typo reported by Paul Clifford.
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Note that there is no str.joinfields(), use str.join() instead.
2002-09-12 14:16:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
73e8ebfc5a
Revise text about the level of DOM support, and provide pointers to
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the work of the XML-SIG in the main body of the text.
Modify the markup in a few places to avoid wrapping lines in bad
places, and just general cleanliness.
2002-09-11 22:03:47 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
504bc4f3b7
Remove mentioning of Python 2.0 limitations. Fixes #607783 .
2002-09-11 16:26:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
691fb55dd2
Clarify who maintains Tkinter and who maintains Tk.
2002-09-10 21:59:17 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
a32c994129
Always generate floats for stat_result; fix configure test.
2002-09-09 16:17:47 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
94717ed1d4
Patch #606592 : Subsecond timestamps in stat_result.
2002-09-09 14:24:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
8a64d40949
Fix typo. Close SF Bug 606354.
2002-09-08 22:26:13 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
2c0d3224fc
tightened up the definition of \b and \B some more based upon discussion
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after the last checkin.
2002-09-07 18:48:14 +00:00
Walter Dörwald
5ccaf8f129
Apply diff3.txt (plus additional documentation)
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from SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/554192
This adds two new functions to mimetypes:
guess_all_extensions() which returns a list of all known
extensions for a mime type, and add_type() which adds one
mapping between a mime type and an extension.
2002-09-06 16:15:58 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
2c519981fb
update docs to reflect that \b considers underscore to be part of a word.
2002-09-06 14:38:23 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
d918884bb8
Fix typo
2002-09-04 23:52:42 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
a04c3d86ae
Fix typo
2002-09-04 15:12:07 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
8e790e7007
expose PYTHON_API_VERSION macro as sys.api_version. Closes patch # 601456.
2002-09-03 13:25:17 +00:00
Walter Dörwald
3aeb632c31
PEP 293 implemention (from SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/432401 )
2002-09-02 13:14:32 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson
53d58bb369
Further SET_LINENO reomval fixes. See comments in patch #587933 .
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Use a slightly different strategy to determine when not to call the line
trace function. This removes the need for the RETURN_NONE opcode, so
that's gone again. Update docs and comments to match.
Thanks to Neal and Armin!
Also add a test suite. This should have come with the original patch...
2002-08-30 13:09:51 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
9240be2a35
Note change in behavior from 1.5.2. The new argument to NameError is
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an error message and not just the missing name.
Closes SF Bug 599869.
2002-08-27 23:53:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
80a04a4894
Add strong security warning about the rexec module.
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Closes SF patch #600861 .
Minor markup changes.
2002-08-27 16:46:06 +00:00
Tim Peters
ea76c98014
Implemented <, <=, >, >= for sets, giving subset and proper-subset
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meanings. I did not add new, e.g., ispropersubset() methods; we're
going nuts on those, and, e.g., there was no "friendly name" for
== either.
2002-08-25 18:43:10 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
7ad09552d0
Correct documentation of allow_reuse_address to match the actual script.
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Closes SF bug 599681.
2002-08-25 16:27:33 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
e87ab3fefe
Removed < <= > >= from the API. Implemented as comparisons of the
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underlying dictionaries, there were no reasonable use cases (lexicographic
sorting of a list of sets is somewhat esoteric). Frees the operators
for other uses (such as strict subset and superset comparisons).
Updated documentation and test suite accordingly.
2002-08-24 07:33:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
055be47b43
Fix typo reported to python-docs.
2002-08-23 21:19:53 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
fa8dd5f407
Fix markup and punctuation
2002-08-23 18:10:54 +00:00
Tim Peters
b81b252fab
s/_as_Temporarily_Immutable/_as_temporarily_immutable/g, because the
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latter is what the code actually does.
2002-08-23 17:48:23 +00:00
Tim Peters
54fd3e6ffc
pop(): An arbitrary element is removed, not a random element.
2002-08-23 17:45:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
d10c6c949a
Adjust the markup in a few places so this will actually format.
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Remove the third column in the tables since it isn't used.
2002-08-23 17:22:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
584cb198f7
Load docs for sets.py
2002-08-23 15:18:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
5ec486b87a
Add a note that apply() is needed since the extended call syntax is
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completely equivalent.
2002-08-22 14:27:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
61cf4407be
Added a main() function and support to run this module as a script.
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Closes SF feature request #588768 .
2002-08-21 20:56:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
5b09eeea89
Clarify that even though some of the relevant specifications define the
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order in which form variables should be encoded in a request, a CGI script
should not rely on that since a client may not conform to those specs, or
they may not be relevant to the request.
Closes SF bug #596866 .
2002-08-21 19:24:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
ffefb1df56
Clarify the endpos argument to the rx.match() method.
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Closes SF bug #597177 .
2002-08-20 13:57:47 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
11b795cd0f
Add versionadded for operator.pow
2002-08-19 22:38:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
017778332f
Extend some comments on the order of values in the returns from
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dict.items/keys/values/iteritems/iterkeys/itervalues().
2002-08-19 21:58:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
45ec02aed1
SF patch 576101, by Oren Tirosh: alternative implementation of
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interning. I modified Oren's patch significantly, but the basic idea
and most of the implementation is unchanged. Interned strings created
with PyString_InternInPlace() are now mortal, and you must keep a
reference to the resulting string around; use the new function
PyString_InternImmortal() to create immortal interned strings.
2002-08-19 21:43:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
5959c559df
Added __pow__(a,b) to the operator module. Completes the pattern of
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all operators having a counterpart in the operator module.
Closes SF bug #577513 .
2002-08-19 03:19:09 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson
dd32a91cc0
This is my patch
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[ 587993 ] SET_LINENO killer
Remove SET_LINENO. Tracing is now supported by inspecting co_lnotab.
Many sundry changes to document and adapt to this change.
2002-08-15 14:59:02 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
b8c20a723f
More updates describing FutureWarnings.
2002-08-14 16:40:54 +00:00
Tim Peters
2f238c1b22
mkstemp's last argument changed from binary=True to text=False.
2002-08-14 16:37:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
830a5151c1
Doc portion of SF 589982 (tempfile.py rewrite, by Zack Weinberg).
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Fred, please review!
2002-08-09 16:16:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
b2865919cc
Document that heappop() and heapreplace() raise IndexError if the heap
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is empty.
2002-08-07 18:56:08 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
22c001bd29
Described responsibilty of weakly referenced extension types to initialize
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the weakreflist to NULL in the constructor and to fill the tp_flags
slot with Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_WEAKREFS. Closes SF bug 586583.
2002-08-07 16:18:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
3cfdc3402e
Documented os.fsync and os.fdatasync. Closes SF bug 584695.
2002-08-07 15:48:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
442c7c7743
Clarify that the bool instances are acceptable return values from
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__nonzero__(), in response to SF bug #579991 .
2002-08-07 15:40:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
95fa4ddf7b
Change the markup a bit more; the parameter was not marked as \var in the
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sample code, and the note was marked as a logical thing.
2002-08-07 12:39:33 +00:00
Steve Holden
63d5bead18
Fix markup errors.
2002-08-07 12:01:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
2d3c03df9a
Added references to the email package.
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Closes SF bug #586937 .
2002-08-06 21:26:01 +00:00