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Fred Drake 4de05a90be Place C typedef for Py_complex after brief description, to be more consistent
with the other example of a structure description (struct _frozen).

Added index entries for the modules referenced in the document.
1998-02-16 14:25:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 53fb7723ee Added index enties for the Python built-in functions, where appropriate. 1998-02-16 06:23:20 +00:00
Fred Drake e058b4f124 Lots of nitty-gritty stuff:
Use \emph{} when referring to title of any of the Python manuals, like is
done in the other manuals.

In some places, use \emph{} or \dfn{} instead of ``...''.

Use \samp{} instead of \code{} when marking identifier prefixes.

Use logical markup wherever it made sense.

Fixed a bunch of typos.

In several places, use "---" instead of "--" to get the emdash.

Start sentences with capital letters and end them with periods, as needed.

"it's" --> "its" in many places:  "it's" it *always* a contraction of "it is",
and "its" should always be used for the possessive.

"don't" --> "doesn't"

"should discards any" --> "should discard any"

In C function descriptions, use \var{} to mark parameters in the running
text instead of \code{}.  This matches usage in the other manauls better,
and is more consistent with the formatting of the function signatures.
Lots of little changes to implement this.

Lots of fixups needed due to appearant heavy cut-&-paste in the orignal
document.

Mention that the exception objects may be either classes or strings,
depending on the use of -X; they were unequivocally stated to be strings
in the section "Standard Exceptions".

"mkvalue()" --> "Py_BuildValue()"

Description of PyNumber_Power() indicates that the third value is option,
but not how to indicate that it was omitted.  Clarified.

Explain the behavior of PyString_FromStringAndSize() if the buffer is NULL.

Explain the Py_complex structure a little (tell what it's used for) and use
a {verbatim} environment for the structure definition itself.

Fix explanation of PyFile_SoftSpace().

Update the example version string to 1.5.

Combined the sections on defining new object types.
1998-02-16 06:15:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 2a4646c660 Remove obsolete pagenumbering / pagestyle cruft. 1998-02-13 07:08:56 +00:00
Fred Drake e5bc49785c "ASCII" --> "\ASCII{}" 1998-02-12 23:36:49 +00:00
Fred Drake e5bf8b2c79 Reorganized a bit. No changed content.
Guido, please take a look at new structure, at least the ToC.
1998-02-12 21:22:28 +00:00
Fred Drake f44617d298 For sections describing the "Foo Protocol", consistently use the capitalized
"Protocol" and not "protocol".
1998-02-12 20:57:15 +00:00
Fred Drake faa1afe2d7 Py_Exit(status) calls exit(status), not exit(0). 1998-02-12 20:51:02 +00:00
Fred Drake c6c921a4de Py_AtExit(): Added brief note about the constraint on cleanup functions not
calling the Python API.
1998-01-26 19:16:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 4d4f9e726a Removed \mytableofcontents; just use \tableofcontents. 1998-01-13 22:25:02 +00:00
Fred Drake b0a78738ea Consistency:
"Unix" ==> "\UNIX{}"

"C" ==> "\C{}"

"C++" ==> "\Cpp{}"
1998-01-13 18:51:10 +00:00
Fred Drake dca8792b52 Added openright option the the \documentclass{} for each of the manuals. 1998-01-13 16:53:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 1f8449af4e Revise prologue and frontmatter to use latex2e (not in 2.09 compatibility
mode) and take advantage of changes in myformat.sty.
1998-01-09 05:36:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 85a5c52752 Descriptions for PyRun_String(), PyRun_File(), and PyRun_CompileString() all
gave the return type as part of the function field and used an empty return
type field.  Fixed.

Function name field for PyLong_FromString() included an asterisk at the
beginning of the function name field; removed.
1998-01-02 03:24:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5b8a523538 A whole bunch of typos fixed by Andrew Kuchling.
Added a warning about the incompleteness to the front.
Added a reminder about CObject to the back.
1997-12-30 04:38:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 580aa8dbc3 Several changes, e.g. restructuring of the intro to be closer to what
it ought to be.  Maybe the last checkin before 1.5b1 is released.
1997-11-25 15:34:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 36fbe76a45 struct _frozen:
Use spaces instead of tabs to indent structure definition; tabs don't
	work in tex/latex.

PyImport_FrozenModules:
	struct _freeze ==> struct _frozen
1997-10-13 18:18:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9faf4c57b0 Change title to {Python/C API Reference Manual}; remove \bcode \ecode
which appears to be out of fashion in this file.
1997-10-07 14:38:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c44d3d6664 Done with tread state descriptions. Sigh! 1997-10-06 05:10:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 42cefd03cf Checkpoint. Added docs for the new exception handling APIs and for
the interfaces defined in import.h.
1997-10-05 15:27:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b904629f75 Fix some badly botched prototypes for PyRun* c.s. 1997-08-21 02:28:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5060b3be9b Consistently change Python-C API to Python/C API; added lots of new
introductory text for reference counts and error handling, with good
examples.
1997-08-17 18:02:23 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 09270b51e4 Fixes to make it pass latex without complaints. 1997-08-15 18:57:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4a944d7a47 Added more stuff on initialization (still rudimentary) 1997-08-14 20:35:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 59a61352ad Added new intro sections (incomplete); fixed various typos 1997-08-14 20:34:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ae110af13b Just another checkin for backup. Nothing substantial yet. 1997-05-22 20:11:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9231c8f176 Made a start with api.tex, the Python-C API Reference Manual.
Removed extref.tex (which provided the starting point).
Also removed qua.tex, which is out of date and no longer needed.
1997-05-15 21:43:21 +00:00