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Ezio Melotti 7449231eca #16862: remove outdated statements about Stackless. 2013-01-05 07:37:47 +02:00
Ezio Melotti 9beeefbb45 Cleanup a few minor things. 2013-01-05 07:36:54 +02:00
Ezio Melotti 19cdee891e Fix example by making the exception inherit from Exception. 2013-01-05 06:53:27 +02:00
Ezio Melotti cad8b0ff8e #13094: add Programming FAQ entry about the behavior of closures. 2013-01-05 00:50:46 +02:00
Chris Jerdonek b43099464a Add additional links and index entries for "argument" and "parameter".
This adds to the work done for issue #15990 (i.e. f44b8d69e5fc and the
commits referenced there).
2012-12-25 14:54:44 -08:00
Brian Curtin 655b0c462f Fix #14901. Update the Windows FAQ.
Patch by Ashish Nitin Patil.
2012-12-16 23:58:09 -06:00
Chris Jerdonek c2a7fd60e1 Improve argument/parameter documentation (issue #15990).
This commit adds "parameter" to the glossary, improves and consolidates the
"argument" glossary entry, and adds a question to the FAQ on the difference
between arguments and parameters.
2012-11-28 02:29:33 -08:00
Chris Jerdonek 4ed4b1c7fe Improve FAQ link in documentation (for issue #16435). 2012-11-09 17:52:30 -08:00
Chris Jerdonek 8b7f9f581d Remove unneeded "Release" and "Date" markers from doc index pages. 2012-10-28 11:08:26 -07:00
Ezio Melotti 694f2331c6 Fix a few quotes/backslashes. 2012-09-20 09:47:03 +03:00
Mark Dickinson ba3b0d84bd Issue #14245: Improve floating-point entry in FAQ. Thanks Zbyszek Jędrzejewski-Szmek for some of the wording. 2012-05-13 21:00:35 +01:00
Ezio Melotti b35480e1d2 #14770: improve the library FAQ. 2012-05-13 20:14:04 +03:00
Antoine Pitrou cc6c673a69 Removed outdated statement about pickle's and marshal's relative performance. 2012-05-10 15:18:20 +02:00
Georg Brandl 12c3cd7c1f Closes #14306: clarify expensiveness of try-except and update code snippet 2012-03-17 16:58:05 +01:00
Georg Brandl 300a691026 Closes #14305: fix typo. 2012-03-14 22:40:08 +01:00
Éric Araujo 01a2215727 Update mention of Subversion in the FAQ.
If I grepped correctly, this was the last outdated place.
2012-02-12 04:49:45 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 432259feea Issue #13528: rework the performance question in the programming FAQ 2011-12-09 23:10:31 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou ae44b7a099 Remove obsolete references to bsddb 2011-12-05 00:41:19 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou dec0f21efc Streamline mention of sorted() 2011-12-03 23:08:57 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou c561a9adac Break down and refine memory management question 2011-12-03 23:06:50 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 17bd792cd3 Reformulate answer, and remove off-topic discussion of bytecode in a question about compiling to C. 2011-12-03 22:56:02 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou cc809a286a Fix compatibility statement. 2011-12-03 22:39:13 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 748799a0a6 Remove outdated question (the bsddb module isn't included anymore) 2011-12-03 22:37:14 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou d4ddec5988 Refine FAQ entry for catching stdout 2011-12-03 22:35:31 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 48383bfc67 Advocate PyTuple_Pack instead of manual building of tuples 2011-12-03 22:30:19 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou f35204055e Remove outdate FAQ content 2011-12-03 22:19:55 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou c5b266efb5 Streamline FAQ entry about the ternary operator, and suggest using io.StringIO for a mutable unicode container. 2011-12-03 22:11:11 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 9cb41dfbaa Remove references to psyco, which is mostly unmaintained and doesn't work with Python 3. 2011-12-03 21:21:36 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou 7462e87134 Mention the new GTK+ 3 bindings. 2011-12-03 20:59:24 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou fd9ebd4a36 Clarify concatenation behaviour of immutable strings, and remove explicit
mention of the CPython optimization hack.
2011-11-25 16:33:53 +01:00
Éric Araujo 9be57231dd Update dead references from py.org/dev/faq to the devguide (#13176) 2011-10-14 17:37:45 +02:00
Éric Araujo 7af8ebb6ce Adapt/remove mentions of functions gone in 3.x 2011-09-01 03:20:13 +02:00
Éric Araujo 37b5f9eebc Fix some misuses of Sphinx roles and one typo 2011-09-01 03:19:30 +02:00
Georg Brandl e1eef41a18 Close #12838: fix range() call. 2011-08-25 11:52:26 +02:00
Antoine Pitrou 7095721d3e Mention asyncore and Twisted in the library FAQ. 2011-02-05 11:24:15 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou 11480b6fe3 Mention concurrent.futures and update answers about the GIL. 2011-02-05 11:18:34 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou f7005243e5 Update test of "why is Python installed" FAQ. 2011-02-05 11:04:01 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou 09264b66f2 Mention Cython and remove obsolete alternatives 2011-02-05 10:57:17 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou eb50ba5ab7 Update info in the GUI FAQ 2011-02-05 10:43:57 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 4d0d471a80 Merge branches/pep-0384. 2010-12-03 20:14:31 +00:00
Georg Brandl fc9794a8fc Make file names consistent. 2010-10-17 10:15:50 +00:00
Georg Brandl 4985ff2e61 #9086: correct wrong terminology about linking with pythonXY.dll. 2010-10-17 10:14:38 +00:00
Georg Brandl 682d7e0e07 Fix errors found by "make suspicious". 2010-10-06 10:26:05 +00:00
Georg Brandl 60203b41b0 Migrate to Sphinx 1.0 C language constructs. 2010-10-06 10:11:56 +00:00
Brian Curtin 5a7a52fbb0 #9582 - add a missing "are" and reflow the line. 2010-09-23 13:45:21 +00:00
Georg Brandl 6faee4e2ce #9911: doc copyedits. 2010-09-21 14:48:28 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou 11cb961b38 Add cross-references to the glossary entry for file objects. 2010-09-15 11:11:28 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou 6a11a98b7c Update file-related information in the FAQ. 2010-09-15 10:08:31 +00:00
Georg Brandl 54ebb78171 Typo fix. 2010-08-14 15:48:49 +00:00
Senthil Kumaran f0769e8bd0 Fix Issue7007 - Use percent-encoded consistently instead of URL Encoded variations. Docs changed. 2010-08-09 19:53:52 +00:00