fb8ffe6b5e
Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping.
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Wrap some long lines and fix some markup nits.
2001-04-13 15:54:41 +00:00
24e7a29292
Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by
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Ping on the Doc-SIG mailing list.
2001-04-12 12:37:03 +00:00
e2645775d1
Typo: "ariables" --> "variables"
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This fixes SF bug #411118 .
2001-03-28 16:55:53 +00:00
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
a9d0450f72
No quotes around the "future" in the first use of the term "future
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statement".
2001-03-23 16:47:11 +00:00
557c1ae150
Include the futures appendix.
2001-03-23 16:21:15 +00:00
39778b705d
Revise the markup so that this formats and uses markup consistently with
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the rest of the documentation.
2001-03-23 16:20:46 +00:00
324cc6ee0e
Add some initial text for the appendix on future statements and nested scopes.
2001-03-23 15:29:54 +00:00
2c84fc8a7d
Note that assignments to __debug__ are illegal
2001-03-23 14:34:06 +00:00
e702481d38
Revert to ver 1.22, which was the version before the nested scopes
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docs were introduced. This loses a few small changes, but Fred says
that's okay.
2001-03-23 14:05:16 +00:00
859eb62108
Do not refer to "sub-modules" since that is not a defined term.
2001-03-06 07:34:00 +00:00
ac79e95167
Re-word the explanation of the in/not in operators for increased content
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and clarity.
Add a footnote to the information on the possibility of shadowing builtins
with locals & module globals.
2001-03-06 07:32:11 +00:00
7a5e80e801
Updates to describe function attributes.
2001-02-27 03:36:30 +00:00
230d17d0d1
Sequence indexes are non-negative, not natural (0 is not a natural number).
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Reported by Daniel May <mayds@ecn.purdue.edu>.
De-tabified everywhere.
2001-02-22 21:28:04 +00:00
7530208d8b
Feeble attempt to repair obsolete info about hex escapes.
2001-02-14 04:03:51 +00:00
667c9e46ca
Minor markup adjustments.
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Move some index entries next to what they are referring to for better
"targetting".
2001-02-02 02:43:18 +00:00
3faa52ecc4
Allow 'continue' inside 'try' clause
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SF patch 102989 by Thomas Wouters
2001-02-01 22:48:12 +00:00
c2e35e6f37
Remove spurious "\end{description}" that caused formatting to fail.
2001-02-01 15:37:56 +00:00
0eb107068a
update section 4.1 to describe nested scopes
2001-02-01 03:50:59 +00:00
10f8ba4fc6
Remove note about the compiler not checking for two kinds of illegal
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imports. It checks for them now.
2001-01-30 01:25:15 +00:00
2f4453af6a
Typo: coplete --> complete
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This closes SF bug #129759 .
2001-01-26 15:27:35 +00:00
c8e8281fb6
Updated note about collection of cyclic garbage, based on comments from
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Chris Ryland.
2001-01-22 17:46:18 +00:00
ab782dd6cc
Document rich comparisons.
2001-01-18 15:17:06 +00:00
34bafcc079
Fix a variety of minor nits and typos caught by Chris Ryland
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<cpr@emsoftware.com>.
2001-01-14 02:57:14 +00:00
347a62505c
Steve Holden <sholden@holdenweb.com>:
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Clarify the handling of characters following backslashes in raw strings.
2001-01-09 21:38:16 +00:00
445f832060
__rcmp__() description: Changed to indicate that this is no longer
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supported as of Python 2.1. We still need to
have an entry for this since it is reasonable
for users to want to understand existing code.
This closes SF bug #122715 .
2001-01-04 15:11:48 +00:00
48c2eb9165
Document the NotImplemented object.
2001-01-04 01:25:50 +00:00
2cba0f641f
Improve description of else clause of the try/except/else statement.
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This closes (again!) bug #127098 .
2001-01-02 19:22:48 +00:00
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
68abe832b9
Fix typo
2000-12-19 14:09:21 +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
035f7e88c8
Clarify __repr__ and __str__.
2000-12-19 04:18:13 +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
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
0ac000cd54
Updates to reflect pending changes to the XML conversion process.
2000-11-22 16:42:37 +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
f89259786a
Denis S. Otkidach <ods@users.sourceforge.net>:
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Show how code can be written to handle __getslice__ & friends in a way that
is compatible with pre-2.0 versions of Python while still working with the
"new" way of handling slicing.
Additional explanation added by Fred Drake.
This closes SourceForge patch #101388 .
2000-09-21 22:27:16 +00:00
d68442b164
Lots of minor fixes, many suggested by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
2000-09-21 22:01:36 +00:00
31575ce817
Note that __getitem__() may receive a slice object as the index;
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reported by Detlef Lannert <lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
2000-09-21 05:28:26 +00:00
8d27f898b2
Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>:
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Document the __contains__() method.
(Patch slightly modified by FLD.)
This closes SourceForge patch #101387 .
2000-09-19 18:21:25 +00:00
1156f62348
Many small clarifications, including many suggested by email.
2000-09-19 18:10:05 +00:00
31f5550fbe
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>:
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Reference manual docs for augmented assignment.
This closes SourceForge patch #101418 .
2000-09-12 20:32:18 +00:00
b655939d69
add index entries for list comprehensions
2000-09-11 16:31:55 +00:00
33f785fc1e
Document "print >> None"
2000-08-29 04:57:34 +00:00
12bba852a9
Rough and incomplete documentation on augmented assignment, which follows
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shortly. Markup also needs checking.
2000-08-24 20:06:04 +00:00
323fe5df6a
fix list comprehension discussion to use \keyword macro instead of simply
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quoting keywords.
2000-08-23 17:03:34 +00:00
46dfa5f4ed
require list comprehensions to start with a for clause
2000-08-22 02:43:07 +00:00
8c0a242289
PEP 214, Extended print Statement, has been accepted by the BDFL.
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Document the extended print form. Fred, please double check the
markup!
2000-08-21 15:45:16 +00:00
8bad612881
Disallow "import mod.submod as m", because the result is ambiguous. Does it
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load mod.submod as m, or mod as m ? Both can be achieved differently, and
unambiguously. Also attempt to document this restriction (editor
appreciated!)
Note that this is an artificial check during compile, because incorporating
this in the grammar is hard, and then adjusting the compiler to do the right
thing with the right nodes is harder.
2000-08-19 20:55:02 +00:00
a00738259f
Adjust the way __getslice__() is marked as deprecated; this will also
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stand out more.
2000-08-18 02:42:14 +00:00
5215225ea1
Apply SF patch #101135 , adding 'import module as m' and 'from module import
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name as n'. By doing some twists and turns, "as" is not a reserved word.
There is a slight change in semantics for 'from module import name' (it will
now honour the 'global' keyword) but only in cases that are explicitly
undocumented.
2000-08-17 22:55:00 +00:00
1d75a79c00
Apply SF patch #101029 : call __getitem__ with a proper slice object if there
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is no __getslice__ available. Also does the same for C extension types.
Includes rudimentary documentation (it could use a cross reference to the
section on slice objects, I couldn't figure out how to do that) and a test
suite for all Python __hooks__ I could think of, including the new
behaviour.
2000-08-17 22:37:32 +00:00
d341579178
Fix error made in applying Thomas's patch.
2000-08-15 18:44:10 +00:00
a1e214a1ed
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>:
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Update the grammar to reflect the most recent changes to list
comprehensions.
2000-08-15 17:54:49 +00:00
803d6e5451
list comprehensions. see
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http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=100654&group_id=5470
for details.
2000-08-12 18:09:51 +00:00
3d83fc3ab1
Change as suggested by Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>:
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Create a hyperlink between the language reference and documentation for
the built in functions.
2000-07-31 20:08:23 +00:00
f9b526dbfd
More of Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes. The only ones left now are the
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distutils patches, which I'll leave to the distutils maintainers.
Tip: review the patch like this:
grep "^[\!+-] " <patchfile>
To get a quick and easy way to review the actual changes. Most of the
changes are single-line ones, anyway.
2000-07-16 19:05:38 +00:00
91826ed2a9
Improve the descriptions of expected exceptions for __getitem__(),
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__setitem__(), and __delitem__(). Based on related comments from
Barry Warsaw.
2000-07-13 04:57:58 +00:00
7399b9e6e4
Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>:
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Update the "in" / "not in" description to accomodate the current use
of the __contains__() discipline. This patch also incorporates
suggestions from Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>, minor markup
revisions from Fred Drake, and some rewording of the first affected
paragraph (also from Fred).
Closes SourceForge patch #100831 .
2000-07-11 19:43:47 +00:00
191a28218f
Typo: "This table table" -> "This table is"
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Noted by Nicholas Spies <ns11@voicenet.com>.
2000-07-06 00:50:42 +00:00
35c09f2e51
Revise the description of when functions retrieved from class instances
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are and are not turned into bound methods; some confusion was noted by
Andrew Dalke.
In particular, it has to be noted that functions located on the class
instance are not turned into any sort of method, only those which are
found via the underlying class.
2000-06-28 20:15:47 +00:00
e57a11441e
Fix markup error that hid a tilde character; reported long ago by
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Carl Feynman <carlf@abinitio.com>.
2000-06-15 20:07:25 +00:00
38c28e379c
Added a note to the section on 'exec' about the need for a trailing newline
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in certain circumstances. (Apparently, this is a CPython problem.)
2000-04-27 18:32:02 +00:00
c009d198db
Removed some extraneous and confusing parenthesized expressions.
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Noted by Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>.
2000-04-25 21:09:10 +00:00
8b3ce9e099
But don't do the funny \UNICODE macro; we're trying to get away from
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those markups! <with-mixed-feelings>
2000-04-06 14:00:14 +00:00
f0aff8e759
Patch from Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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Added Unicode type to the language reference.
2000-04-06 13:57:21 +00:00
e15956b465
Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release.
2000-04-03 04:51:13 +00:00
e15eb35fd0
Use \citetitle as appropriate.
1999-11-10 16:13:25 +00:00
a24f7b759a
Use \programopt in one place.
1999-11-09 17:03:45 +00:00
4c2533fe3c
Added sentence "All exceptions must have an executable block."; from
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Dan Wolfe <wolfeman@apple.com>.
1999-08-24 22:14:01 +00:00
c35367e439
Change an {\em ...} to \var{...} and a {\bf ...} to \program{...} (the
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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
431f0ce547
Small nits around some of the index entries.
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When refering to chapters, use \ref, don't hardcode the chapter
number.
1999-05-13 18:38:11 +00:00
b894370f6a
Fixed some index entries.
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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
1ea7c75687
Reflect recent patch for float % and divmod() by Tim Peters. Content
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updates by Tim Peters, markup by FLD.
1999-05-06 14:46:35 +00:00
d09120b5b9
Added index entries for operator precedence; suggestion from Randall
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Hopper <rhh@vislab.epa.gov>.
1999-04-29 16:43:42 +00:00
011f6fca31
Typo: "Otherwose" --> "Otherwise" (reported by Joakim Sernbrant
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<joakim.sernbrant@front.se>).
Misc. small fixes to the logical markup.
1999-04-14 12:52:14 +00:00
b55ce1e8b6
Fixed latex2html weirdness with footnotes.
1999-04-05 21:32:52 +00:00
39fc1bc329
Added note about __builtin__._ to section dicussing classes of
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reserved names, just to avoid confusion on the part of users.
1999-03-05 18:30:21 +00:00
8cdee961bf
Dictionaries are created using the "{...}" notation, not the "..."
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notation. Problem reported by Magnus L. Hetland <mlh@idt.ntnu.no>.
1999-02-23 18:50:38 +00:00
264bd59221
1. Clarify that immutability isn't entirely the same as unchangeable
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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
c411fa6861
Revised description of blank line handling for the interpreter, based
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on a comment from /F.
1999-02-22 14:32:18 +00:00
99cd5735f0
Minor markup nits.
1999-02-12 20:40:09 +00:00
15988fdbbb
Documented __complex__(), made sure all the discipline names hit the
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index.
1999-02-12 18:14:57 +00:00
ae3e574170
"numberic" --> "numeric", two places
1999-01-28 23:21:49 +00:00
4856d01797
Removed a lot of unnecessary comment markers which cause unexplained
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numbers to appear in the HTML version of the manual.
1999-01-12 04:15:20 +00:00
b1f97d6765
Suggestion by Tim Peters clarifying what "before global" means.
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(Also added an XXX comment requesting clarification of module
initialization -- TBD later.)
1998-12-21 18:57:36 +00:00
e039439e3b
Clarify evaluation of default arguments at def time with more text and
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an example.
1998-12-04 19:37:10 +00:00
2f8592cbea
Ignore the byproducts of SGML/XML conversions for now.
1998-12-01 18:58:28 +00:00
d03268feaa
Remove two remaining {\tt ...} constructs.
1998-11-25 19:23:33 +00:00
78eebfdbf4
Remove two remaining {\tt ...} constructs.
1998-11-25 19:09:24 +00:00
1e42d8aaab
Massive change to just about every construct that impacts the index.
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Blame it on Just. ;-)
1998-11-25 17:58:50 +00:00
ea81edf059
Markup nits.
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Fixed an index entry, added three more.
1998-11-25 17:51:15 +00:00
1475e88a35
Minor fixups to some index entries.
1998-11-25 17:48:10 +00:00
2b3730e284
Minor adjustments to a few index entries.
1998-11-25 17:40:00 +00:00
9beee80fd7
Remove a couple of unnecessary "%" characters that cause problems with
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the latest latex2html beta.
1998-10-21 00:44:49 +00:00
dad11321eb
Remove a bunch of unnecessary "%" characters that cause problems with
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the latest latex2html beta.
1998-10-21 00:26:56 +00:00
3041b0715b
Remove an unnecessary "%" character that seems to cause a minor glitch
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with the latest latex2html.
1998-10-21 00:25:32 +00:00
c456d36bde
Fix encoding of \ in some string literals in the discussion of "raw"
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strings. Reported by Lorenzo M. Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>.
1998-10-01 20:41:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
Jeremy Hylton
Barry Warsaw
Tim Peters
Guido van Rossum
Neil Schemenauer
Thomas Wouters
Andrew M. Kuchling
Skip Montanaro
Greg Ward