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156 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake 4c2533fe3c Added sentence "All exceptions must have an executable block."; from
Dan Wolfe <wolfeman@apple.com>.
1999-08-24 22:14:01 +00:00
Fred Drake c35367e439 Change an {\em ...} to \var{...} and a {\bf ...} to \program{...} (the
new markup makes sense in context).

These allow the SGML/XML conversion updates to work, & should not have
still been in there anyway.
1999-07-29 13:56:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 431f0ce547 Small nits around some of the index entries.
When refering to chapters, use \ref, don't hardcode the chapter
number.
1999-05-13 18:38:11 +00:00
Fred Drake b894370f6a Fixed some index entries.
In the __coerce__ description, None should be returned if the
conversion is *impossible*, not *possible*.  Reported by Robert Kern
<kernr@ncifcrf.gov>.
1999-05-10 13:43:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 1ea7c75687 Reflect recent patch for float % and divmod() by Tim Peters. Content
updates by Tim Peters, markup by FLD.
1999-05-06 14:46:35 +00:00
Fred Drake d09120b5b9 Added index entries for operator precedence; suggestion from Randall
Hopper <rhh@vislab.epa.gov>.
1999-04-29 16:43:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 011f6fca31 Typo: "Otherwose" --> "Otherwise" (reported by Joakim Sernbrant
<joakim.sernbrant@front.se>).

Misc. small fixes to the logical markup.
1999-04-14 12:52:14 +00:00
Fred Drake b55ce1e8b6 Fixed latex2html weirdness with footnotes. 1999-04-05 21:32:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 39fc1bc329 Added note about __builtin__._ to section dicussing classes of
reserved names, just to avoid confusion on the part of users.
1999-03-05 18:30:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 8cdee961bf Dictionaries are created using the "{...}" notation, not the "..."
notation.  Problem reported by Magnus L. Hetland <mlh@idt.ntnu.no>.
1999-02-23 18:50:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 264bd59221 1. Clarify that immutability isn't entirely the same as unchangeable
value (because of immutable containers containing mutable objects).

2. Document that func_code, func_defaults and func_doc / __doc__ are
now writable.
1999-02-23 16:40:55 +00:00
Fred Drake c411fa6861 Revised description of blank line handling for the interpreter, based
on a comment from /F.
1999-02-22 14:32:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 99cd5735f0 Minor markup nits. 1999-02-12 20:40:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 15988fdbbb Documented __complex__(), made sure all the discipline names hit the
index.
1999-02-12 18:14:57 +00:00
Fred Drake ae3e574170 "numberic" --> "numeric", two places 1999-01-28 23:21:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 4856d01797 Removed a lot of unnecessary comment markers which cause unexplained
numbers to appear in the HTML version of the manual.
1999-01-12 04:15:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b1f97d6765 Suggestion by Tim Peters clarifying what "before global" means.
(Also added an XXX comment requesting clarification of module
initialization -- TBD later.)
1998-12-21 18:57:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e039439e3b Clarify evaluation of default arguments at def time with more text and
an example.
1998-12-04 19:37:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 2f8592cbea Ignore the byproducts of SGML/XML conversions for now. 1998-12-01 18:58:28 +00:00
Fred Drake d03268feaa Remove two remaining {\tt ...} constructs. 1998-11-25 19:23:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 78eebfdbf4 Remove two remaining {\tt ...} constructs. 1998-11-25 19:09:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 1e42d8aaab Massive change to just about every construct that impacts the index.
Blame it on Just.  ;-)
1998-11-25 17:58:50 +00:00
Fred Drake ea81edf059 Markup nits.
Fixed an index entry, added three more.
1998-11-25 17:51:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 1475e88a35 Minor fixups to some index entries. 1998-11-25 17:48:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 2b3730e284 Minor adjustments to a few index entries. 1998-11-25 17:40:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 9beee80fd7 Remove a couple of unnecessary "%" characters that cause problems with
the latest latex2html beta.
1998-10-21 00:44:49 +00:00
Fred Drake dad11321eb Remove a bunch of unnecessary "%" characters that cause problems with
the latest latex2html beta.
1998-10-21 00:26:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 3041b0715b Remove an unnecessary "%" character that seems to cause a minor glitch
with the latest latex2html.
1998-10-21 00:25:32 +00:00
Fred Drake c456d36bde Fix encoding of \ in some string literals in the discussion of "raw"
strings.  Reported by Lorenzo M. Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>.
1998-10-01 20:41:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 82385872e9 Fix some confusion in the __repr__() and __str__() descriptions.
Reported by Lorenzo M. Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>.
1998-10-01 20:40:43 +00:00
Fred Drake d4c3352288 Fix encoding of \n in a couple of places (reported by Lorenzo
M. Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>).
1998-10-01 20:39:47 +00:00
Fred Drake d82575d5bf Markup changes in the section on disciplines to match method descriptions
a little better, and produce better HTML.

Add some index entries.
1998-08-28 20:03:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f5a80a4a88 Describe what happens when ``raise C, x'' is called where C is a class
and x is not an instance of C (nor of a class derived of C).
1998-08-25 14:45:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 1a0b872665 At least mark the URL to the Packages essay using \url. 1998-08-07 17:40:20 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 92a6ed9940 Minor refilling of a paragraph... 1998-08-07 16:33:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 70da192f63 im_function --> im_func 1998-08-07 16:28:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 9f86b662d1 Update to use a separate page for front matter. 1998-07-28 21:55:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 61c7728cc9 Make sure all chapters, sections, and subsections have a \label to give them
semantic file names in the HTML.  No more node#.html files!
1998-07-28 19:34:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 020f8c0139 Make sure chapters, sections, and subsections all have a \label to give them
semantic file names in the HTML version; no more node#.html files.

Fix one section heading.
1998-07-28 19:32:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 9ad9c9be03 Convert operator precedence table to the new style markup.
Added lambda to the table.
Call "**" exponentiation instead of power.

{\em ...} --> \emph{...}
1998-07-27 20:27:53 +00:00
Fred Drake a1cce714d0 Converted some {tabular}s to use {tablei*} environments. 1998-07-24 22:12:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum aca61a43dd Removing all references to FrameMaker 1998-07-24 20:58:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6a2fe26861 checkpoint before I throw this away 1998-07-24 20:55:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 579c8453c3 Checking in uninteresting changes (mostly window resizes :-)
before I remove all this cruft.
1998-07-24 20:54:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 246837d0f5 Fix markup of an \indexiii --> only two parameters were given. 1998-07-24 20:28:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d540509682 Changes copied from the FrameMaker version. Hardly anything (but then
this is the shortest chapter.)

Hurray, I'm done with this!
1998-07-24 18:56:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5399d68c4b Changes copied from the FrameMaker version. Not too much. 1998-07-24 18:51:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 56c2013d15 Changes copied from the FrameMaker version. Also documented some
previously undocumented features.

Packages and the import mechanism in general are still left
undocumented.
1998-07-24 18:25:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7c0240f112 e.g. -> e.g., 1998-07-24 15:36:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3a0ad6089b Changes copied from the FrameMaker version, and some new stuff
(complex numbers, power operator).
1998-07-23 21:57:42 +00:00