Fred Drake
0056a427bb
Added a lot of text from Steve Purcell's HTML documentation.
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Updated reference material substantially based on discussions on the
pyunit-interest mailing list (not all changes are in the code in CVS
yet).
2001-04-12 04:50:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
b942c2f788
Fixed bug in example.
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This closes SF bug #415522 .
Also fix markup error in text following the example.
2001-04-11 21:33:47 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
c3cbbaf513
Added some additional documentation describing how BabylMailbox
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actually works (it returns a message containing the visible headers,
not the original headers). Doc change approved by Fred; closes SF bug
#412230 .
2001-04-11 20:12:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
eedf985056
Include a synopsis for the chapter overview.
2001-04-11 19:17:11 +00:00
Moshe Zadka
2bd0d88360
Fixing bug 405999 -- clarifying differences between Python's
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getopt and GNU getopt -- Python is like classical UNIX getopt.
2001-04-11 07:33:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
29be70195a
Added definition of "test fixture".
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Added description of optional parameter to the TestSuite constructor.
Added descriptions of the TestLoader and TextTestRunner classes.
Added method descriptions for the TestCase class.
2001-04-10 22:25:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
ac154a17a3
Remove the mapping() function from the documentation.
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Add a description of the ReferenceError exception.
2001-04-10 19:57:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
da00cda9fa
Add note that difflib was added in Python 2.1.
2001-04-10 19:56:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
cfac6d23fd
Normalize tabs to spaces.
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Update the attribution for the "Curses Programming with Python" How-To.
Change the way the reference to the Demo/curses/ directory is marked up.
2001-04-10 18:49:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
6fda3ac474
Add reference to the DDJ article discussing a similar algorithm.
2001-04-10 18:41:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
90a72f8dcd
Add documentation for getmoduleinfo() and getmodulename().
2001-04-10 15:12:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
819815abea
Fix typo in example (\b should be \n in string literal).
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This closes SF bug #414279 .
2001-04-09 15:57:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
9c846366ee
Fix a number of bugs and omissions in the AddressList documentation, most
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noted by Steve Holden.
This closes SF bug #413876 .
2001-04-09 15:42:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
501d90471d
Add entry for unittest documentation.
2001-04-07 05:42:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
b9ad228798
Start of documentation for the unittest module. Some of this comes from
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Steve Purcell's documentation, and a lot of it is written based on
using PyUnit and reading the implementation.
There is more to come, but I want to get this check in before I have a
disk crash or anything else bad happens.
2001-04-07 05:41:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
4cf1227e56
Change {\em ...} to \emph{...} for consistency with the rest of the Python
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documentation.
2001-04-05 18:31:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
f459d852e5
Add some information about what to expect of the DocumentType's
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.internalSubset attribute based on a clarification from the www-dom
list.
2001-04-05 18:30:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
659f377ed9
Add entry for curses.panel documentation.
2001-03-29 22:23:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
14631f674f
Fix serious markup errors.
2001-03-29 22:22:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
cb83988151
Added example use of weak references, contributed by Tim Peters.
2001-03-28 21:15:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
21e036ccca
Add a note that the "kfm" controller supports "konqueror" as well as the
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old KDE 1 "kfm" command.
2001-03-26 16:17:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
c8da0f966f
Document use_rawinput. (Although now that I think more about it, a
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better solution would have been to factor out the raw_input() call and
make it into an overridable method. Oh well, maybe later...)
2001-03-24 19:17:35 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
aa90adcfb9
Add nested scopes spec to appendix.
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Add new opcodes LOAD_CLOSURE, LOAD_DEREF, STORE_DEREF, MAKE_CLOSURE to
docs for dis module.
Add docs for new function and code members in Sec. 3 of ref manual.
They're present regardless of whether nested scopes are used.
Remove description of default argument hack from Sec. 7 of the ref
manual and refer the reader to the appendix.
2001-03-23 17:23:50 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee
ce7298ab42
Explain the difference between NL and NEWLINE.
2001-03-23 05:22:12 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee
c608fb6389
Give a slightly better explanation of excepthook.
2001-03-23 05:17:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
5e0dfaccd1
Update to the most recent weakref changes.
2001-03-23 04:36:02 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee
b5c5132d1a
Add sys.excepthook.
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Update docstring and library reference section on 'sys' module.
New API PyErr_Display, just for displaying errors, called by excepthook.
Uncaught exceptions now call sys.excepthook; if that fails, we fall back
to calling PyErr_Display directly.
Also comes with sys.__excepthook__ and sys.__displayhook__.
2001-03-23 02:46:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
4e6d09e369
Moved the description of the tzparse module to the "Obsolete" section
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and note that it fails when the TZ environment variable is not set.
This closes SF bug #409683 .
2001-03-20 23:13:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
b15bbc8d3d
Add documentation for SGMLParser.handle_decl().
2001-03-16 20:39:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
f0ebbe0bd0
Re-order some method descriptions for a more logical grouping.
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(Based on reader comment!)
2001-03-08 22:46:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
990b0fec1a
Update documentation to reflect the shift to NetrcParseError instead of
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SyntaxError.
2001-03-06 06:55:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
93c867139f
Lots of organizational changes for consistency with the rest of the
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documentation.
Fix a few small markup nits.
2001-03-02 20:39:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
043d5e5514
For copyfile(), be explicit that src and dst are file names; that was only
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implied.
2001-03-02 16:46:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
7606e4d00e
Added entry for urllib2 documentation.
2001-03-01 19:54:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
f89ad5ed6b
Document configuration flags to compile for large file support on
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certain Linux systems.
2001-03-01 18:29:57 +00:00
Moshe Zadka
8a18e99008
Checking in patch 404826 -- urllib2 enhancements and documentations.
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(please not that the library reference does *not* include the
urllib2 documnetation -- that will wiat for Fred)
2001-03-01 08:40:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
56ba72a563
Document warn_explicit().
2001-02-28 23:34:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
7840a9cb99
Add entry for the inspect module.
2001-02-28 23:02:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
6dbd382ec8
Clean up some of the markup for consistency, wrap some long lines.
2001-02-28 23:01:38 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
58177b9975
added description of NL token
2001-02-28 22:05:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
969ab2710a
Update documentation for termios module; do not refer to the TERMIOS module
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for constant definitions.
Add a deprecation to the TERMIOS module.
2001-02-27 22:01:15 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
5e1633365d
Patch #403985 : Add support for weak-keyed dictionaries
2001-02-27 18:36:56 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee
6397c7c9a9
inspect: a module for getting information out of live Python objects
2001-02-27 14:43:21 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
d4614e8371
Updates to the semantics of function and method attributes.
2001-02-27 03:32:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
07e6c505ad
Minor adjustments, including markup corrections.
2001-02-23 19:15:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
447f545322
Fix extra backslash in example.
2001-02-23 19:13:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
afdc8fc0ad
Fix up the markup in some recently-added portions of the text.
2001-02-23 19:10:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
19f3c52347
Work around the broken formatting of sys.ps1 prompts in running text.
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Move sample sessions to the left margin of the file for consistency;
formatting can adjust the margin if needed.
This closes SF bug #133213 .
2001-02-22 23:15:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
7c30de65f4
Remove documentation for the soundex module; the module is no longer
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included with Python.
2001-02-22 21:25:20 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
7edbd4ffb4
Patch #103885 : Add dynamic registration and lookup of DOM implementations.
2001-02-22 14:05:50 +00:00