Georg Brandl
6ab8452036
RFE #1670167 : fix in isinstance() docs.
2007-03-16 08:33:47 +00:00
Georg Brandl
5240d7416c
Patch #1444529 : the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
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(backport)
2007-03-13 20:46:32 +00:00
Georg Brandl
871f1bc601
Backport from Py3k branch:
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Patch #1591665 : implement the __dir__() special function lookup in PyObject_Dir.
Had to change a few bits of the patch because classobjs and __methods__ are still
in Py2.6.
2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
759410b372
Do not copy free variables to locals in class namespaces.
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Fixes bug 1569356, but at the cost of a minor incompatibility in
locals(). Add test that verifies that the class namespace is not
polluted. Also clarify the behavior in the library docs.
Along the way, cleaned up the dict_to_map and map_to_dict
implementations and added some comments that explain what they do.
2007-02-26 18:41:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
a490d59fbb
Some other built-in functions are described with 'sequence' arguments
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that should really be 'iterable'; this commit changes them.
Did I miss any? Did I introduce any errors?
2006-12-20 20:11:12 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
1be2ac9cd6
[Bug #1619674 ] Make sum() use the term iterable, not sequence
2006-12-20 19:57:10 +00:00
Georg Brandl
fc8375748a
Bug #1575746 : fix typo in property() docs.
2006-10-12 07:38:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
e0d4aecfc2
lots of markup nits, most commonly Unix/unix --> \UNIX
2006-07-30 03:03:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
956597f4ef
Reorganize the docs for 'file' and 'open()' after some discussion with Fred.
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We want to encourage users to write open() when opening a file, but
open() was described with a single paragraph and
'file' had lots of explanation of the mode and bufsize arguments.
I've shrunk the description of 'file' to cross-reference to the 'File
objects' section, and to open() for an explanation of the arguments.
open() now has all the paragraphs about the mode string. The bufsize
argument was moved up so that it isn't buried at the end; now there's
1 paragraph on mode, 1 on bufsize, and then 3 more on mode. Various
other edits and rearrangements were made in the process.
It's probably best to read the final text and not to try to make sense
of the diffs.
2006-07-29 18:14:07 +00:00
Georg Brandl
d41f4ce0c8
no need to elaborate "string".
2006-07-05 15:50:05 +00:00
Georg Brandl
f41beacecb
Patch #1517490 : fix glitches in filter() docs.
2006-07-05 14:18:45 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
2eda1b78f9
[Bug #1511911 ] Clarify description of optional arguments to sorted()
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by improving the xref to the section on lists, and by
copying the explanations of the arguments (with a slight modification).
2006-07-03 14:16:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
6f42dfce7c
- consistency nit: always include "()" in \function and \method
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(*should* be done by the presentation, but that requires changes all over)
- avoid spreading the __name meme
2006-06-30 19:29:25 +00:00
Georg Brandl
348b7c8304
Document decorator usage of property.
2006-06-30 18:47:56 +00:00
Georg Brandl
7b90e168f3
Bug #1462152 : file() now checks more thoroughly for invalid mode
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strings and removes a possible "U" before passing the mode to the
C library function.
2006-05-18 07:01:27 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
c4edb0ec81
SF #1479181 : split open() and file() from being aliases for each other.
2006-05-02 04:43:14 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
92e212f7d9
Accept keyword arguments for __import__ and doc the addition of the level param from PEP 328.
2006-04-03 04:48:37 +00:00
Georg Brandl
b227bea292
object() is a function, not a base class.
2006-03-31 15:07:25 +00:00
Georg Brandl
48b4bf7b1a
Add a note about pow(x,y) equalling x**y (the "**" operator
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was used unmotivated in the pow() docs)
2006-03-21 08:48:04 +00:00
Georg Brandl
533ff6fc06
Patch #1434038 : property() now uses the getter's docstring if there is
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no "doc" argument given. This makes it possible to legitimately use
property() as a decorator to produce a read-only property.
2006-03-08 18:09:27 +00:00
Georg Brandl
87b90adc28
Patch #1410783 : add documentation links for static/classmethod
2006-01-20 21:33:54 +00:00
Georg Brandl
a635fbbcb0
Remove dots in \version{changed,added} argument and
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correct argument order.
2006-01-15 07:55:35 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
76fb6d84d0
SF bug #1100368 : Wrong "type()" syntax in docs
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Docs were missing the name/bases/dict form of type().
(Much of the wording contributed by Steven Bethard.)
2005-08-24 07:06:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
b406905f33
ord() documentation update; this is what remains applicable from
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SF patch #1057588 ; other changes make the rest of the patch out of date
or otherwise unnecessary
2005-08-23 04:33:29 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
1823ae7e36
SF bug #1121416 : zip incorrectly and incompletely documented
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sequences ==> iterables
2005-08-21 11:58:06 +00:00
Georg Brandl
b370059233
bug [ 1250306 ] incorrect description of range function
2005-08-03 07:17:33 +00:00
Georg Brandl
08c02dbb85
[ 1243081 ] repair typos
2005-07-22 18:39:19 +00:00
Georg Brandl
e21d9ab342
bug [ 1175022 ] property example code error
2005-06-25 20:07:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
dede3bdfa1
SF bug #1209411 : divmod documentation shd reference // not /
2005-05-31 11:04:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
b141cd03a1
fix description of the input range of unichr()
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(closes SF bug #1120777 )
2005-05-25 05:39:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
582ffe21c4
Fill-in missing argspec.
2005-03-19 16:27:33 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
96229b1918
Add two new functions, any() and all().
2005-03-11 06:49:40 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
72b83c86a9
SF patch 1094011: Docs for file() vs open().
2005-01-07 04:33:44 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
68804315e0
SF Patch #1093896 : miscellaneous doc typos
2005-01-01 00:28:46 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
07b28b920e
Hyphenate 'one-argument'
2004-12-03 14:59:09 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
3b0c7c20a1
SF patch #1077353 : add key= argument to min and max
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(First draft of patch contributed by Steven Bethard.)
2004-12-03 08:30:39 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
f751fa6195
SF bug #1035279 : hex() and oct() documentation is incorrect
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* Updated docs to reflected signed return values.
* Fixed a doubled word typo.
2004-09-30 00:59:08 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
8d494f3241
Patch #1015021 : Stop claiming that coerce can return None.
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Will backport to 2.3.
2004-08-25 10:42:41 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
cb40ba1f5e
SF bug #805304 : super instances don't support item assignment
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Document a nuance of super(). It is designed to work well with dotted
attribute lookup but not with equivalent implicit lookups using operators
or statements.
2004-08-17 02:21:45 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
24884a5ccc
[Patch #1005465 ] Markup tweaks
2004-08-09 17:36:56 +00:00
Tim Peters
feec4533e2
Bug 1003935: xrange overflows
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Added XXX comment about why the undocumented PyRange_New() API function
is too broken to be worth the considerable pain of repairing.
Changed range_new() to stop using PyRange_New(). This fixes a variety
of bogus errors. Nothing in the core uses PyRange_New() now.
Documented that xrange() is intended to be simple and fast, and that
CPython restricts its arguments, and length of its result sequence, to
native C longs.
Added some tests that failed before the patch, and repaired a test that
relied on a bogus OverflowError getting raised.
2004-08-08 07:17:39 +00:00
Matthias Klose
4c8fa42aca
Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex: correct items in itemize
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Doc/dist/dist.tex: avoid uncommenting the verbose environment (by the py2texi tool)
2004-08-04 23:18:49 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
70fcdb8be0
Document general mappings for the locals argument for exec and execfile().
2004-08-03 05:17:58 +00:00
Anthony Baxter
c2a5a63654
PEP-0318, @decorator-style. In Guido's words:
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"@ seems the syntax that everybody can hate equally"
Implementation by Mark Russell, from SF #979728 .
2004-08-02 06:10:11 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
f9fd0d7988
SF bug #997533 : "disjunct" should be "disjoint"
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* Use plain wording in docs for id().
* Use normal quotation marks instead of single quotes in the description.
2004-07-29 06:06:34 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
214b1c3aae
SF Bug #215126 : Over restricted type checking on eval() function
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The builtin eval() function now accepts any mapping for the locals argument.
Time sensitive steps guarded by PyDict_CheckExact() to keep from slowing
down the normal case. My timings so no measurable impact.
2004-07-02 06:41:07 +00:00
Brett Cannon
0fefc140aa
Fix small grammatical mistake.
2004-05-05 16:49:11 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
20a8336ff7
concrete example of why retaining old objects is good
2004-03-21 16:05:30 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
fe703e0650
SF bug #918371 : hasattr()'s return type
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Replace 1 and 0 with True and False.
2004-03-20 18:25:31 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
8e6ad6fbe9
Expand on the semantics of reload(). Closes #919099 .
2004-03-19 15:20:16 +00:00