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Guido van Rossum 7e691de948 Document return value of wait[pid]() more carefully.
Document how to get exit status of a popen() command.
1997-05-09 02:22:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e4f347e779 Document "" and "<broadcast>". 1997-05-09 02:21:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5bbf0f7c93 Some updates (AMK at work, added resource.c). 1997-04-30 19:41:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum dfb4120ea1 Add zlib 1997-04-30 19:40:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 412154f3c7 Updated web ref and version#. Folded some long lines. 1997-04-30 19:39:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 04bc9d6e67 zlib by AMK 1997-04-30 18:12:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e9a0732cd1 Note that passing a filename to uu.{en,de}code() is deprecated. 1997-04-27 21:29:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e76b7a8fcd Added fnmatch, base64 and quopri, received from Andrew Kuchling. 1997-04-27 21:25:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 150853861a Various status updates. 1997-04-03 23:49:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fc5ee0f980 Added site 1997-04-03 22:43:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 571391b963 New stuff by AMK. 1997-04-03 22:41:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 387c575d5c Small grammatical touchups:
Para. 1:  ...that reads and writes a string buffer...
			      ^		 ^

	Para. 3:  ...can be called at any time to retrieve the...
				  XXXXXXXXXXXX       ^^^^^
		  ...entire contents of the entire ``file'' ...
		     ^^^^^^^		   XXXXXXX

Guido, I hope I'm not stomping too far afield, but these seem pretty clear
to me.
1997-04-02 14:51:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f643e3ff7e Spell Unix, not UNIX. 1997-04-02 06:06:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e8d94a8c10 Horrible hack to split up code '--' to prevent
latex2html from collapsing it into '-'.
1997-04-02 06:05:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1cd26f2fc0 Add complex().
Update int(), long(), float() to support string conversions.
1997-04-02 06:04:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 740eb8265f Add cross-refs for int() to atoi() etc.
Change replace() arguments; remove replace1().
1997-04-02 05:56:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8d2893b5b2 Added a list of the main undocumented extension modules. 1997-03-27 20:57:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7f3b0421de Added docs for UserDict,UserList 1997-03-27 14:56:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b6a80262e1 Added docs for glob and mailcap 1997-03-25 22:09:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e6d579ddbc Added docs for glob 1997-03-25 22:07:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 20af95b433 Added docs for mailcap 1997-03-25 22:01:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c8a80cdbad Added docs for replace() and replace1(). 1997-03-25 16:41:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e8e87999ab Remove untrue statement about . and .. being included in list of names
passed to walk() visitor.
1997-03-25 15:25:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7b7c578616 Add optional 4th argument to [r]find and [r]index (end of slice). 1997-03-14 04:13:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 612316f016 Add a rough list of undocumented stuff at the end. 1997-03-14 04:12:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1f8cee2521 Hint about [\] trick to avoid quad backslashes. 1997-03-14 04:10:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3978d75cca Added intern() 1997-03-03 16:03:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 38e2ec4f14 Added ref to StringIO docs. 1997-03-03 16:03:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3ff7317857 Correct two typos 1997-03-03 16:02:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cda3d7d0e7 Added (minimal) StringIO docs. 1997-03-03 16:01:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 20e4210ec4 Fix up indentation of examples to use 4 spaces instead of tabs. 1997-02-28 16:37:49 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 7574587587 Document the new join() semantics. 1997-02-18 21:53:53 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 736bb0659f Added a paragraph to describe clear_cache(), and why it's necessary. 1997-02-18 18:59:37 +00:00
Barry Warsaw cd77df64e6 Document the new get_syntax() function. 1997-02-18 18:54:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6fb6f10a96 Added doco for ratecv. 1997-02-14 15:59:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 43d287ad73 (libparser.tex): Fix typo found by Mark Hammond. 1997-01-22 14:25:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5cd752028c Describe new ("unsigned") behavior of hex() and oct(). 1997-01-14 18:44:23 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fe27a50847 Added warning that gethostname() doesn't always return fqdn, and show
how to find it using gethostbyaddr().
1997-01-11 17:04:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0d2971badb Document that sys.builtin_module_names is now a tuple. 1997-01-06 23:01:02 +00:00
Barry Warsaw d44be3fdb7 very minor typo 1997-01-03 20:19:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 653071731a 'I' and 'L' now always return a Python long. 1997-01-03 19:21:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b0b8181622 Added unsigned data formats (B, H, I, L). 1997-01-03 19:20:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum dbadd558b5 Describe standard float/double support.
Rewrite example to be an interactive session
1997-01-03 04:20:09 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 6717030dc9 setkey method's argument is no longer optional (it used to be a no-op
when missing).
1997-01-02 19:48:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 591bbb1572 (libformatter.tex): Document the flush() method on the writer. 1996-12-31 20:51:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3dd68d3364 Added libstat.tex 1996-12-31 02:24:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 125434665b Document the new extensions. 1996-12-31 02:22:14 +00:00
Barry Warsaw f308c0f1fc From reading the source, it turns out that the setkey() method can
take an optional string key, but if key is not given, the method does
nothing!  In the rewrite (see upcoming check-in), I left things this
way, but here I document that this is the case.
1996-12-23 23:34:17 +00:00
Barry Warsaw e5a43a405d Describe open(2) exported constants 1996-12-19 23:50:34 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e8e9ed176f Docs for stat.py -- docs by Skip Montanaro. 1996-12-19 22:39:22 +00:00
Barry Warsaw fa5a6cff45 posix.open(): third argument (mode) is optional. 1996-12-19 22:38:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 62ac99ebf5 Documented getprotobyname() interface. 1996-12-19 16:43:25 +00:00
Fred Drake ae0cd0b9b3 (libunix.tex): Change matching lib.tex: add line item for the resource
module.
1996-12-19 12:20:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3c7b2dc02c Added docs for Jeremy's resource module. 1996-12-18 18:37:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 63a0c376ea (libunix.tex): Changed two occurances of "Unix" to "\UNIX{}". 1996-12-16 22:12:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 094579e677 (libtime.tex): Merged in changes from Tamito Kajiyama.
(For those watching Python CVS messages:  I checked in all of
	Tamito's other changes, but the mail delivery failed since the
	subject line was too long.  The patch Tamito sent for the
	documentation has been completely merged in.)
1996-12-13 22:09:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 4b3f0312c9 (lib<all sorts of stuff>.tex):
Merged in many typo corrections and fixes to support GNU info
	processing; submitted by Tamito Kajiyama.
1996-12-13 22:04:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8d40c843c1 Added quote_plus() and unquote_plus(), to do space/plus substitutions
for form field values.
Also corrected substitution example (the original changed the spelling
of "conolly" to "connolly" :).
1996-12-13 14:48:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 21be147094 Added remark about time() and sleep()'s subsecond precision.
Added hint about using clock() for benchmarks etc.
Removed non-portable strftime directives and field width, and added a
warning about non-standard features.
1996-12-12 17:59:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3486f27428 Added soundex (sigh) 1996-12-12 17:02:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 843e712bda Added descriptions of parsedate(), parsedate_tz(), getdate_tz()
(all contributed by Andrew Kuchling).
1996-12-06 21:23:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 61ed4db9e8 Added section for operator module (compiled Skip Montanaro). 1996-12-06 21:22:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 9abe64a395 (libparser.tex): Added note that the line number for a terminal token
indicates the line on which the token ends rather than starts
	(a side effect of interpreting the parse tree nodes directly).
	Maybe I'll fix this for Python 2.0.
1996-12-05 22:28:43 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 102dc417bf Describe the new Unpacker.get_buffer() method. 1996-12-04 22:05:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bda7ca7772 Added [nh]to[hn][sl](). 1996-12-02 17:24:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6240b0b773 Small nits only. 1996-10-24 22:49:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f73f79b5fd Done with this for 1.4. 1996-10-24 22:14:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a5a4c2a7d8 Correct truncated paragraph. 1996-10-24 14:47:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 36845ede60 Changed URL for PCT again. 1996-10-22 02:25:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6e308d7e40 Start new chapter on restricted execution. 1996-10-22 01:11:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 095538dd10 Actual text submitted by AMK. 1996-10-22 01:11:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c3d090cd4b Background chapter on restricted execution. Additional sections are
rexec and bastion.
1996-10-22 01:10:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9b0581192d Added embryonic description of fcntl.lockf(). Added pointer to that
in posixfile (which is obsolescent).
1996-10-11 17:43:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 4bf1296e05 (libtypes.tex): Correct reversal of two words in description of
formatting strings.
1996-10-11 16:33:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1dde7b737c Typos detected by Sjoerd 1996-10-11 15:57:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 8f925959c6 (libhtmllib.tex, libsgmllib.tex, libformatter.tex):
Improve indexing somewhat.  Add small intros to the "implementations"
	sections of the formatter module doc.
1996-10-09 16:13:22 +00:00
Fred Drake e1980ed1f8 (lib.tex, libwww.tex): Include the sgmlib chapter before the htmllib
chapter to better reflect the relationship between the modules.
1996-10-09 14:36:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 53e84d5342 (lib.tex): Added entry for formatter module. 1996-10-08 21:54:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 08d301ec53 (libwww.tex): Added entry for formatter module. 1996-10-08 21:54:06 +00:00
Fred Drake e83b30d51e (libformatter.tex): Added documentation for abstract writer/formatter model
and implementation variants.
1996-10-08 21:53:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 58d7f69168 (libhtmllib.tex): Revised documentation for HTML support. 1996-10-08 21:52:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 42439ad738 (libsgmllib.tex): Revised documentation for SGML support. 1996-10-08 21:51:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3f247ade66 Nits corrected by Fred 1996-09-27 17:11:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 4b7d5a49ab (libparser.tex): Revised parser module documentation; improved logical
organization.
1996-09-11 21:57:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2f666639f3 Added long getopt docs; by Fred 1996-09-11 21:26:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum be0a8a6042 Added bastion and (dummy) rexec docs 1996-09-10 17:37:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8206fb9c4c Final set of changes by Fred before 1.4beta3 1996-08-26 00:33:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4747887880 New batch from Fred 1996-08-21 14:32:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 56b30ea664 Document actual behavior of splitext(). 1996-08-19 23:00:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 40006cfd9b Added imghdr,xdrlib; reformatted Makefile somewhat 1996-08-19 22:58:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e5e55d784d Added capitalize, capwords, lstrip, rstrip, and optional 3rd argument
to split.  Document new conventions for split(fields) and
join(fields), where the *fields variant is identical to the other.
1996-08-09 21:44:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0b3f9512ac Added capwords, splitx, and optional 3rd argument to split/splitx. 1996-08-09 21:43:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 12f0cc325a Suggest using default values for __init__ arguments to make classes
unpicklable.
1996-08-09 21:23:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4a5b27b525 Get rid of parrot dropping (spurious 'E') 1996-08-09 21:23:14 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 91f87ca69b Note that the values are ints. 1996-07-30 20:45:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8cf2db47ba Moved description of mktime 9-tuple to top.
Added description of strftime format string.
Minor small editing.
1996-07-30 18:32:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f4d0d5784a Added maketrans() and optional 3rd arg to translate() (chars to delete). 1996-07-30 18:23:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a29cc97285 Document the *new* cgi.py 1996-07-30 18:22:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d61ad53c19 errno docs. 1996-07-30 18:21:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c0fcc44804 Added liberrno 1996-07-30 18:20:01 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 761f7922ad Updated pointers to Andrew Kuchlings fine software. 1996-07-23 18:16:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3317e63cbb added parser module to overview 1996-07-21 02:22:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 38e5088aa4 added plock 1996-07-21 02:21:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ed43073e00 Minute changes by Fred Drake 1996-07-21 02:21:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bbb1e26a67 Add docs for planned improved handling of the marshalling of
unmarshallable objects.
1996-06-26 20:20:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1a5356006b Added Andrew Kuchling's explanation of regexp's. 1996-06-26 19:43:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 036eae6647 mktime returns a float now. 1996-06-26 19:25:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6076ea51e2 Added thread unsafety warning. Added optional retain arg to split. 1996-06-26 19:24:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7c2fdda0b3 Better and correct words for split(). 1996-06-26 19:23:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1e8b63eb88 Document some process group stuff; mkdir mode arg optional; mkfifo. 1996-06-26 19:22:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum db9a7bba22 Give correct length of string. 1996-06-26 19:21:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4d206541be Slight update; file args are no longer optional. 1996-06-26 19:21:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 50ec5c074a Add flock; warn about lockdata system dependency when using fcntl. 1996-06-26 19:20:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 316a430098 Removed some spurios biindex calls.
Added description of file.truncate().
Added warning to write() about buffering.
1996-05-02 15:28:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 59b328e11e Added warning about behavior of open mode 'a' (or 'a+'). 1996-05-02 15:16:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5c6e3738cd Added lost docs for crypt module. 1996-04-10 16:18:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum feeadef61e document OverflowError exception on mktime() 1996-02-12 23:21:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 264302de3e atol supports trailing l/L if base is 0 1996-02-12 23:20:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c1715527fd document non-BSD SIGCHLD behaviour 1996-02-12 23:18:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 789742b8f8 change jars email 1996-02-12 23:17:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8c07bb4565 listdir no longer returns . or ..; added remove==unlink 1996-02-12 23:16:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 71b1815c1d hypot is now always supported 1996-02-12 23:14:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ca81470a15 add libparser.tex 1995-10-11 17:32:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4b73a06e92 Fred Drake's parser module 1995-10-11 17:30:04 +00:00
Jack Jansen da53c5277c Documented MACFS, macostools, EasyDialogs and FrameWork modules. 1995-10-10 14:43:20 +00:00
Jack Jansen 06cf5d0d4c Added base64 codec docs 1995-10-10 14:41:03 +00:00
Jack Jansen ab71c3fca0 Fixed typo. 1995-10-10 11:57:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fbe34faba9 syslog docs by steve clift 1995-10-09 20:49:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0568d5e92c apply() third arg 1995-10-08 01:06:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 26ee80947e added strftime 1995-09-13 17:37:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f65f278b8f added string.translate(s, table) 1995-09-13 17:37:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1e150618a3 add realtime as 5th item to os.times() return value 1995-09-13 17:36:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 93cf55e369 HP-Prec is not 64-bit 1995-09-13 17:35:28 +00:00
Jack Jansen 7e183e902e Documented new argument order. 1995-08-30 12:23:43 +00:00
Jack Jansen 4549b137e3 Documented binascii, binhex and uu modules. Put them in the
Internet/WWW section, for lack of a better place.
1995-08-29 11:30:24 +00:00
Jack Jansen ebed45fe0f Documented MacOS module. 1995-08-14 13:40:05 +00:00
Jack Jansen 4518577b24 Fixed incorrect tex-code for readline 1995-08-14 13:38:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fe4254eb08 warn about bacslash-s lacking 1995-08-11 00:31:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0dbd1fd46e correct description of integer division; describe optional read arg 1995-08-10 14:22:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3e43d8382c clarify optional status 1995-08-10 14:21:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0bbbea15e6 typos only 1995-08-10 14:21:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 95a5b9c949 correct description of list.insert() 1995-07-07 23:03:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d6ac380d39 fix bug in example (should close file at all times) 1995-07-07 23:01:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6b686e94a1 correct typo; document sys.platform 1995-07-07 23:00:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fb502e964f documented globals() and locals() 1995-07-07 22:58:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0bf8475108 documented default flag, mode; changed gdbm into a pointer to dbm 1995-07-07 22:55:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 96628a90c4 typos, layout and other small things 1995-04-10 11:34:00 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 02ee80d408 minor things 1995-04-04 12:29:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 25f6fcc550 more complete examples 1995-04-04 12:28:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f9adf48750 documented termios + TERMIOS 1995-03-31 12:26:24 +00:00