8e2b6b5cc7
Change documentation of 'else' clause of 'try/except' to make clear that it
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doesn't get triggered by 'return', 'break' or 'continue'. If the
'try-inside-continue' patch does not get accepted before next release, the
'or continue' should be removed ;P
Closes SF patch #103045 and SF bug #127098 .
2000-12-31 22:52:59 +00:00
be0630282e
Fix doubled word
2000-12-26 16:14:32 +00:00
8694cc42ab
Remove redundant reference to tab (since it = 'horizontal tab')
2000-12-26 16:09:37 +00:00
e6bf85845f
Document ERR and OK
2000-12-26 15:58:27 +00:00
1dea760ca1
Make sure subsections are formatted into HTML pages with reasonable names.
2000-12-25 06:19:08 +00:00
f08cbb1771
Added information on the ExternalEntityParserCreate() method.
2000-12-23 22:19:05 +00:00
5caee408b8
Add 'see also' link to curses.panel
2000-12-22 22:06:43 +00:00
676634beda
Added documentation for the panel wrapper module
2000-12-22 21:57:42 +00:00
e412e7a3a0
Fix lots of small markup nits.
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Wrapped some long lines.
2000-12-21 17:04:31 +00:00
68a6f5a0a2
Document the window.overlay() and .overwrite() methods
2000-12-21 16:25:44 +00:00
68abe832b9
Fix typo
2000-12-19 14:09:21 +00:00
5db5ba1ee3
Document the warnings module.
2000-12-19 06:01:23 +00:00
dea764d7f1
Updated string literals description to encompass Unicode literals and the
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additional escape sequences defined for Unicode.
This closes bug #117158 .
2000-12-19 04:52:03 +00:00
1367b83797
Document warning categories.
2000-12-19 04:27:54 +00:00
035f7e88c8
Clarify __repr__ and __str__.
2000-12-19 04:18:13 +00:00
5b56765fe7
Added documentation on the ErrorHandler interface.
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This closes bug #126034 .
2000-12-19 04:07:54 +00:00
e22e4b2b59
Oops. The value "0 or +1" for the category argument of PyErr_Warn()
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doesn't work. Make it 0. (Although it really *should* be 0 or +1 --
the refcount is incremented when it is raised as an exception, but not
otherwise.)
2000-12-19 03:58:11 +00:00
9a18a7ed03
Document Pyerr_Warn().
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Add an XXX comment at the beginning expressing disappointment over the
confusing way refcount behavior of arguments is documented.
2000-12-19 03:53:57 +00:00
3dbb406335
Document Pyerr_Warn().
2000-12-19 03:53:01 +00:00
2b6d7bc151
Do not talk about "real" numbers; talk about "floats" or "floating point
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numbers" instead; we have not described "reals" anywhere else in the
documentation, and this is not the place to change the story!
Reported by Keith Briggs <keith.briggs@bt.com>.
2000-12-18 13:50:24 +00:00
e9e860faf3
Add support for gdbm2 open flags ('s' and 'u'). Add module constant
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open_flags which contains the flags supported by gdbm. Closes patch
#102802 .
2000-12-17 07:14:13 +00:00
5100133685
urlretrieve() description included explanation of "data" parameter, but
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did not include it in the signature.
Fixed some markup nits.
2000-12-15 23:57:51 +00:00
065cba1281
Added documentation for random.shuffle().
2000-12-15 19:07:17 +00:00
29c45a5e91
Grant Griffin <grant.griffin@honeywell.com>:
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Clarify that invert() is a *bitwise* operation.
2000-12-15 05:41:49 +00:00
4fb588240f
Document napms()
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Add reference to demo directory
2000-12-15 01:03:23 +00:00
de77bc5468
For the title page, insert the package version number before the date.
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This makes the title area more like the title are of the top-level
index, and puts the information more people are interested in first.
2000-12-14 18:36:12 +00:00
f0b315478b
Update information on the locking() function, added the needed constants.
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(Thanks for the info, Tim!)
2000-12-14 03:11:24 +00:00
48971198c5
Finish a sentence that was left half-written!
2000-12-13 22:36:02 +00:00
dd802208a7
Changing allow_reuse_address's default value, and documenting it.
2000-12-13 20:39:22 +00:00
24d6da3eae
Added "stub" documentation for xml.dom.pulldom for Paul to fill out with
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useful explanations.
2000-12-13 19:34:38 +00:00
bc9c1b15cc
Added descriptions of the defined exceptions and their mapping to the
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DOM recommendation.
2000-12-13 17:38:02 +00:00
ff63f2023d
"Documentation" for {}.popitem().
2000-12-12 22:03:47 +00:00
dc90cc2b15
Additional docs for __iadd__ and family, closing SF bug #117178 and SF patch
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#102169 .
2000-12-11 23:11:51 +00:00
2a22200ab4
Adjust explanation of operator precedence summary -- exponentiation groups
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from right to left!
Closes bug #125391 .
2000-12-11 22:39:24 +00:00
ed911b8cfb
Added link to HTML version of the NumPy documentation.
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This closes bug #124943 .
2000-12-11 20:57:13 +00:00
5255c791cc
select.select(): Add note that though this function accepts empty lists,
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using *only* empty lists may not be acceptable on all
platforms, with the specific caveat that it does not
work on Windows. Also clarified list of acceptable
objects that may be in the lists, to let the user know
that file objects are not usable here on Windows.
2000-12-11 15:50:07 +00:00
9a29dd6580
Lots of small improvements and bits of added information on the DOM API.
2000-12-08 06:54:51 +00:00
c3b18d7ca8
Fix error noted by Gerrit Holl (old; had been buried in my INBOX):
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sequence repitition works just fine with long integers now, so we
should not say that only plain integers are allowed.
2000-12-07 04:54:02 +00:00
0c47559352
Added a note that objects which emulate built-in types should only
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implement as many of the relevant methods as make sense for the particular
information being modelled.
2000-12-07 04:49:34 +00:00
16942f2224
Lots of additional information. Not done, but much better.
2000-12-07 04:47:51 +00:00
4c12ee866b
Another name!
2000-12-07 00:06:46 +00:00
fd4d29cf5d
Typo caught by Jim Tittsler <jwt@onjapan.net>: They --> The
2000-12-07 00:03:24 +00:00
b62966c175
Note that, as of Python 1.6, the .returns_unicode attribute on parser
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objects can be modified at any point with the expected results.
2000-12-07 00:00:21 +00:00
b6a54d2a2c
_getframe(): New sys module function for getting at the stack frame.
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Implements and closes SF patch #102106 , with Guido's suggested
documentation changes.
2000-12-06 21:47:46 +00:00
21e4dd0492
Two typos caught by /F; thanks!
2000-12-04 22:29:17 +00:00
e119c8fc61
Added a comment for ContentHandler.characters() explaining how to migrate
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SAX1 code to SAX2, based on bug #123695 .
2000-12-04 22:04:15 +00:00
57657bce94
Update Moshe Zadka's email address to one works and might last a while.
2000-12-01 15:25:23 +00:00
5725d1eb03
Backing out my changes.
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Improved version coming soon to a Source Forge near you!
2000-11-30 19:30:21 +00:00
1a62750eda
Added .first{item,value,key}() to dictionaries.
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Complete with docos and tests.
OKed by Guido.
2000-11-30 12:31:03 +00:00
827bb9fb3c
Adjust to allow an explanation of the changes to be included in the
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notification message.
2000-11-30 07:38:59 +00:00
e463f8e4cd
A few small refinements to the table building code.
2000-11-30 07:17:27 +00:00
c01f6e691b
Use a table to describe the keys to the locale information dictionary;
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this is slightly easier to read than the list environment that had been
used.
2000-11-30 07:13:58 +00:00
e0b9deb3ce
Use small tables instead of bare \item markers to describe the contents
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of return tuples. The bare \item took advantage of an implementation
detail when formatting in LaTeX, and was just wrong when generating HTML.
It also broke the XML conversion scripts, since there was no enclosing
list-like environment to contain them.
2000-11-30 07:12:54 +00:00
1aaf5855f7
Added name.
2000-11-30 07:09:59 +00:00
6b3f3f2861
In the first discussion showing how to handle exceptions from C, make the
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Python equivalent actually equivalent to the C code. Also, in the C code,
place the "goto" statements on a line by themselves for better visibility
of statements that affect control flow.
This closes bug #123398 .
2000-11-29 15:48:22 +00:00
f65ab1bf10
Added entries reflecting the separation of the abstract DOM documentation
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and the implementation docs for xml.dom.minidom.
2000-11-29 06:11:29 +00:00
eaf57aa44a
Substantial re-organization of the DOM documentation. The abstract API
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is now separated from the supplied standard implementation. Not all
interfaces are documented yet, but the structure is better set up to do
so.
There is still a lot to do here, but the shape of the documentation is
coming into line.
2000-11-29 06:10:22 +00:00
4a6f1df48c
Fix broken backslashes in Unicode strings section.
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This closes bug #123730 .
2000-11-29 06:03:45 +00:00
657ebef2ae
Partial fix for SF bug 123730: extra backslash in tutorial.
2000-11-29 05:51:59 +00:00
ee814bf2c9
Added documentation for the Py_InitModule*() family of functions.
2000-11-28 22:34:32 +00:00
83ff4af1a3
Added information on the use of Unicode with the StringIO and cStringIO
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modules, otherwise the behavior is just plain confusing.
2000-11-28 16:24:28 +00:00
0a0ef8696b
Use a subclass of buildindex.Node to clean up the HTML and get the
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ordering fixed up (this makes sure that "xml.dom" comes before
"xml.dom.minidom" in the Module Index, which was not true before because
some HTML cruft crept into the data structures).
2000-11-28 16:20:50 +00:00
6763b31731
Added brief explanation of the \versionchanged for 1.5.2 (fixes formatting
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for the HTML version).
2000-11-28 06:39:28 +00:00
2fef3abc74
Two minor nits.
2000-11-28 06:38:22 +00:00
b7a52c9de3
Minor typo: \subsubsections --> \subsubsection
2000-11-27 20:10:18 +00:00
c113465a49
SF non-bug 123520: fleshed out the tutorial's lambda example a little more.
2000-11-27 06:38:04 +00:00
fed0d09075
Conversion.write_ordinal(): Not used, remove it.
2000-11-22 17:59:32 +00:00
691a5a7c09
Convert the LaTeX "tie" (~) to a simple space.
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Add support for some combining characters.
Remove unnecessary imports and dependencies on PyXML and esistools.
2000-11-22 17:56:43 +00:00
382a75d0e9
Update to reflect the process changes.
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Remove the SGML aspects; there's too much XML momentum to worry about
the SGML flavor at this point.
2000-11-22 16:58:25 +00:00
97be740cd8
Update the rules to separate the two phases for the ESIS generation,
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entirely so that debugging can be performed independently.
2000-11-22 16:54:20 +00:00
d397f236d5
Add support for (relatively) recent additions and changes to python.sty,
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and one more standard LaTeX macro.
2000-11-22 16:45:19 +00:00
0ac000cd54
Updates to reflect pending changes to the XML conversion process.
2000-11-22 16:42:37 +00:00
78489a362e
Do not use \verb in the Python documentation -- it makes parsing the LaTeX
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sources more difficult and other tools do not always work well with it.
Since we have better markup for this case, just fix it.
2000-11-22 16:06:16 +00:00
620ec9d1ca
Document the new setupterm() function
2000-11-18 17:57:33 +00:00
17383b9ad7
Added information about the %r string formatting conversion. Added note
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about the interpretation of radix 0 for int(), and added description of
the optional radix argument for long(). Based on comments from Reuben
Sumner <rasumner@users.sourceforge.net>.
This closes bug #121672 .
2000-11-17 19:44:14 +00:00
977fe96a05
Oops, back out change committed by accident! This is not ready, and
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breaks things.
2000-11-17 19:09:34 +00:00
2ed27d3189
Note that readframes() returns data in linear format, even if the original
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is encoded in u-LAW format. Based on suggestion from Anthony Baxter
<anthony_baxter@users.sourceforge.net>.
This closes bug #122273 .
2000-11-17 19:05:12 +00:00
aa126e1e21
Corrected a number of typos reported by Gilles Civario
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<gcivario@users.sourceforge.net>.
This closes bug #122562 .
2000-11-17 18:20:33 +00:00
d99e534de6
Fixed typos and bug in the second example, reported by Scott Schram
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<schram@users.sourceforge.net>.
This closes bug #122236 .
2000-11-17 18:04:03 +00:00
a3100de9ce
Fix for SF bug 122176: Error in rotor module documentation.
2000-11-14 21:43:01 +00:00
da7b5bedb3
More names...
2000-11-07 16:09:53 +00:00
f16e0ed76c
Patch #102278 : add tparm() function to _curses module
2000-11-07 03:35:24 +00:00
a776cea71a
Document the proper exception to be raised by I/O operations on closed
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files; error reported by Ng Pheng Siong <ngps@post1.com>.
Make sure that various special object attributes are properly indexed.
2000-11-06 20:17:37 +00:00
9dce7b3737
Make sure we clean up the index data each time it is written by LaTeX.
2000-11-03 02:57:31 +00:00
4bc0aed3a6
Fix cut & paste error that describes three paramters when there are only
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two [bug #119729 ].
Update use of distutils.sysconfig that "broke" when Greg W. changed the API
[bug #119645 ].
2000-11-02 21:49:17 +00:00
19647ca318
Typo: writeable --> writable
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Reported by Erno Kuusela <erno@iki.fi>.
2000-11-01 03:12:34 +00:00
5942b439b3
define_module(): Change the "index sub-item" for definitions at module
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scope to be " (in module <name>)" instead of
" (in <name>)" to be consistent with \withsubitem
usage throughout the documentation. This achieves
consistency in indexing throughout the documentation.
2000-10-30 06:24:56 +00:00
ec77e6590d
Fix \withsubitem so that it actually works if the only indexing macro in
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the content body is the \ttindex macro, which seems to match actual usage.
Adjust \funcline to restore the "index sub-item" for functions to be
" (in module <name>)" instead of " (in <name>)". This is need to match
uses of \withsubitem throughout the documentation. (Not ideal, but
gets achieves consistency.)
2000-10-30 06:22:22 +00:00
d34cfcb4c7
Revise the message to be a little nicer.
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Have the mail sent to the python-dev and Doc-SIG lists.
2000-10-29 13:21:45 +00:00
a33c566138
Avoid using \withsubitem and \ttindex internally; they have not proven
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to be very robust. Using \index directly fixes a lot of entries in the
index that had to be specifically read to determine that they had the
wrong parenthesized description.
2000-10-29 05:19:16 +00:00
efffe8e317
Many small markup revisions to be more consistent with markup elsewhere,
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and to provide more consistent indexing.
Added an index entry.
Added documentation for the error and XMLParserType objects.
2000-10-29 05:10:30 +00:00
8fdb6383dc
Update author information.
2000-10-28 04:08:38 +00:00
3aecfc9681
Explained that os.path.basename() may return something different from the
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basename program, as suggested by Gregor Hoffleit <gregor@hoffleit.de>.
This closes bug #119485 .
2000-10-26 21:38:23 +00:00
4532dc1bd9
Do not require packages that are not needed.
2000-10-26 21:13:22 +00:00
351960de94
Normalize the HTML generated for table headers.
2000-10-26 20:14:58 +00:00
6c7fc77d22
Minor simplification.
2000-10-26 20:01:09 +00:00
ca92eeba6f
Update the dependency information to allow the other Makefiles to handle
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as much of this as possible. Avoids propogating information about how
various outputs relate (or don't!).
2000-10-26 19:26:47 +00:00
956698819f
Noted that building the info version requires the HTML::Element package,
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and provided instructions for getting it installed.
2000-10-26 19:01:46 +00:00
585698aa59
All acknowledgements have been moved to the Doc/ACKS file.
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Adjusted to reflect the rename of Setup.in to Setup.dist.
Added pointer to the "Distributing Python Modules" manual in the
appropriate place.
2000-10-26 17:19:58 +00:00
eff9a87fcc
Lots of small markup adjustments for consistency with the rest of the
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documentation.
2000-10-26 16:41:03 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
Andrew M. Kuchling
Fred Drake
Guido van Rossum
Neil Schemenauer
Moshe Zadka
Barry Warsaw
Tim Peters