bdec50f027
Feature request #935915 : Add os.path.devnull.
2004-06-08 08:29:33 +00:00
e1ca355425
[Bug #918710 ] Add paragraph to clarify docs
2004-06-05 19:25:30 +00:00
1cd6e4dc38
fix various descriptions of "ctime"
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(closes SF patch #870287 )
2004-05-12 03:51:40 +00:00
0ed663443e
really scream out that people should use the file objects instead of
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file descriptor operations for normal applications
2004-04-16 15:20:01 +00:00
9b4dab4da1
SF patch #859286 : documentation bool change fix
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(Contributed by George Yoshida.)
2003-12-31 18:37:28 +00:00
75aa4db04b
Mention that getsid is new in 2.4.
2003-11-10 06:46:15 +00:00
49ee14dac5
Patch #839038 : Add getsid(2).
2003-11-10 06:35:36 +00:00
9756f388c0
Fix typo.
2003-09-10 00:11:28 +00:00
b67449d31d
Fix spacing markup and other sundries.
2003-09-08 18:52:18 +00:00
0a6aa28681
SF patch #797157 : Bug 794658: os.chmod docs, stat constants
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(Contributed by Christos Georgiou.)
Reference the symbol definitions in the stat module.
2003-08-31 05:09:52 +00:00
15eac1f95c
Fix markup nits.
2003-05-20 16:21:51 +00:00
dbaf04ead6
Straighten out the docs for os.system(); the Unix and Windows behaviors
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really can't be smushed together.
Bugfix candidate.
2003-05-20 16:15:58 +00:00
bf1bef820c
Add optional 'onerror' argument to os.walk(), to control error
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handling.
2003-05-13 18:01:19 +00:00
52136a8bea
Fixed spacing and unbalanced brackets or parenthesis.
2003-05-10 03:35:37 +00:00
a390c6e194
walk() docs: Emphasize that the recursive-delete example is dangerous.
2003-04-28 19:15:10 +00:00
5501b5e3d7
SF bug 728097: tmpnam problems on windows 2.3b, breaks test.test_os.
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tmpnam() appears essentially useless on Windows, and it finally broke
the test for Irmen de Jong. Read the long new comment in test_tmpnam()
for details. Since the MS implementation is insane, it might be good
if we supplied a different implementation.
Bugfix candidate.
2003-04-28 03:13:03 +00:00
bf89b3a1f7
walk() docs: Worked "walking" into the description and the text. Added
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a brief example where bottom-up walking is essential.
2003-04-28 02:09:43 +00:00
2194a4eede
markup adjustments
2003-04-25 14:50:06 +00:00
c4e0940042
New generator os.walk() does a bit more than os.path.walk() does, and
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seems much easier to use. Code, docs, NEWS, and additions to test_os.py
(testing this sucker is a bitch!).
2003-04-25 07:11:48 +00:00
2d1c846b73
Clarified new fsync() docs.
2003-04-23 19:47:14 +00:00
11b2306960
Enable os.fsync() for Windows, mapping it to MS's _commit() there. The
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docs here are best-guess: the MS docs I could find weren't clear, and
some even claimed _commit() has no effect on Win32 systems (which is
easily shown to be false just by trying it).
2003-04-23 02:39:17 +00:00
5c7b2487cd
- explain what a UNC path is in the makedirs() description, since
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they're actually mentioned there
- remove some extraneous paragraph separations
- \versionadded --> \versionchanged in one place
2003-03-20 17:39:38 +00:00
96b1c903f5
Patch #683592 revisited, after discussions with MvL:
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- Implement the behavior as specified in PEP 277, meaning os.listdir()
will only return unicode strings if it is _called_ with a unicode
argument.
- And then return only unicode, don't attempt to convert to ASCII.
- Don't switch on Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, but simply use the
default encoding if Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is NULL. This means
os.listdir() can now raise UnicodeDecodeError if the default encoding
can't represent the directory entry. (This seems better than silcencing
the error and fall back to a byte string.)
- Attempted to decribe the above in Doc/lib/libos.tex.
- Reworded the Misc/NEWS items to reflect the current situation.
This checkin also fixes bug #696261 , which was due to os.listdir() not
using Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, like all file system calls are
supposed to.
2003-03-03 17:32:15 +00:00
117910dc44
Migrate definitions of several platform-dependent path-related variables
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into the relevant path modules. See patch #686397 .
2003-02-14 19:35:31 +00:00
002a5de202
extsep description:
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- avoid "e.g." in text
- record version information
(should be backported)
2003-02-14 06:39:37 +00:00
47e46e2347
add missing description of os.extsep
2003-02-14 05:45:31 +00:00
2b09bc4d57
Fix SF bug #675259 , os.environ leaks under FreeBSD and Mac OS X
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Even with the extra work to cleanup the env, *BSD still leaks. Add a note.
Will backport.
2003-02-07 02:27:36 +00:00
4b37364fc8
Bug #678077 : Suggest alternative to os.getlogin()
2003-02-03 15:36:26 +00:00
b6604b3e69
Document EX_OK and friends.
2003-01-07 22:43:25 +00:00
9f5b07dd92
SF bug #592859 : os.chmod is underdocumented
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Document constants for permission bits.
2003-01-06 13:31:26 +00:00
6d23b170cf
Fix a typo
2003-01-05 22:20:51 +00:00
33e94437ca
Document killpg.
2002-12-27 10:21:19 +00:00
438b534ad0
Patch #657889 : Implement posix.getloadavg.
2002-12-27 10:16:42 +00:00
08d10f985e
Typo: "dead lock" --> "deadlock"
2002-12-06 16:45:05 +00:00
4b9ed2f346
Clarified documentation of tempnam().
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Closes SF bug #635656 .
2002-11-12 22:07:11 +00:00
b5f41dedeb
Minor markup adjustments.
2002-11-07 17:13:03 +00:00
5b470e0a3a
Document the changed fdopen behaviour.
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(Hope the markup is ok).
2002-11-07 16:33:44 +00:00
f607bdaa77
Add PyStructSequence_UnnamedField. Add stat_float_times.
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Use integers in stat tuple, optionally floats in named fields.
2002-10-16 18:27:39 +00:00
36a4d8c20e
Remove mentionings of DOS.
2002-10-10 18:24:54 +00:00
dbe3f76270
Patch #569139 : Implementation of major, minor and makedev.
2002-10-10 14:27:30 +00:00
a844f2d165
Document patch #594001 .
2002-10-05 09:46:48 +00:00
a32c994129
Always generate floats for stat_result; fix configure test.
2002-09-09 16:17:47 +00:00
94717ed1d4
Patch #606592 : Subsecond timestamps in stat_result.
2002-09-09 14:24:16 +00:00
3cfdc3402e
Documented os.fsync and os.fdatasync. Closes SF bug 584695.
2002-08-07 15:48:17 +00:00
0cec0ffc78
Patch #573770 : Implement lchown.
2002-07-28 16:33:45 +00:00
403e351dfc
Flesh out description of getlogin() and recommend against using it.
2002-07-24 15:32:25 +00:00
2c22e85ae7
Attempt to clarify removedirs().
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Based on SF bug #574773 .
2002-07-02 21:03:49 +00:00
9ea01d415f
Add description of the deadlock problem with child processes and pipes, and
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hints about how to work around it.
Closes SF bug #530637 .
2002-06-18 20:30:37 +00:00
7f59124693
Clarified documentation for os.access().
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Patch contributed by Sean Reifschneider.
Closes SF patch #570618 .
2002-06-18 16:15:51 +00:00
cc5c6947a6
Add "version added" for getpgid
2002-06-13 21:19:25 +00:00
606edc1d97
Patch #568235 : Add posix.setpgid.
2002-06-13 21:09:11 +00:00
db9198a8b5
SF bug 563750 (Alex Martelli): posix_tmpfile():
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The file returned by tmpfile() has mode w+b, so use that in the call
to PyFile_FromFile().
Bugfix candidate.
2002-06-10 19:23:22 +00:00
1f89e2abcc
Fix markup error that suppressed space.
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Closes SF bug #554257 . Not relevant to older releases.
2002-05-10 12:37:56 +00:00
a65375c3e3
Explain what os.read() returns at end of file.
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This closes SF bug #550409 . Applying to release21-maint & release22-maint.
2002-05-01 03:31:42 +00:00
d3e6678713
Slightly expand and clarify the differences between getegid(), getgid(),
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getpgrp(), and setpgid().
This closes SF bug #547939 .
2002-04-26 20:59:40 +00:00
106c1a0e7a
WCOREDUMP(), WIFCONTINUED(), WCONTINUED, WUNTRACED: New.
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isatty(), WIFEXITED(), WIFSIGNALED(), WIFSTOPPED(): Changed to return
bools instead of ints.
2002-04-23 15:58:02 +00:00
e19a5bcc7b
Be consistent in presenting the signatures.
2002-04-15 19:46:40 +00:00
154985587b
Add docs for os.fchdir().
2002-04-15 19:41:27 +00:00
06a83e90aa
Patch #543447 : Add posix.mknod.
2002-04-14 10:19:44 +00:00
4dfb7a81c1
Explain that os.spawn*() return the process handle on Windows.
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Clarify that os.waitpid() on Windows takes a process handle, not a process ID.
This closes SF bug #537582 .
2002-04-01 23:30:47 +00:00
ab034fab03
Implement os.waitpid() for Windows, in a way that's compatible with Linux
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where their capabilities intersect. Would be nice if people using non-
MSVC compilers (Borland etc) took a whack at doing something similar for
them (this code relies on the MS _cwait function).
2002-02-01 11:27:43 +00:00
c48a3ca161
Add new constants usable with os.popen() on Windows.
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NOTE: this seems a mess wrt which symbols are available on which
platforms. I can't fix it, but I didn't add to it <wink>, and
included an XXX comment about names claimed to be available on
Windows that aren't. If anyone can figure out the whole ugly truth,
I'm sure a better organization will suggest itself.
2002-01-30 05:49:46 +00:00
5c7983113c
Add a reference to the signal module to the os.kill() description.
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This closes SF bug #495609 .
2001-12-21 03:58:47 +00:00
8c8e871530
Fix the availability statement for the spawn*() functions to reflect the
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actual availability on Windows.
This fixes SF bug #495191 .
2001-12-20 17:24:11 +00:00
b404145936
s/it/if/ in descriptions of spawn mode argument.
2001-12-06 23:37:17 +00:00
6995bb61b6
Various cleanups & markup fixes, mostly relating to the stat and statvfs
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result object changes.
2001-11-29 20:48:44 +00:00
c37b65ee10
Clean up some markup cruft. A number of the macros that take no
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parameters (like \UNIX) are commonly entered using an empty group to
separate the markup from a following inter-word space; this is not
needed when the next character is punctuation, or the markup is the
last thing in the enclosing group. These cases were marked
inconsistently; the empty group is now *only* used when needed.
2001-11-28 07:26:15 +00:00
db7287c0f5
Straighten out the exec*() function descriptions a bit, and clarify a few
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points in the spawn*() description.
2001-10-18 18:58:30 +00:00
c405133fce
Elaborate on types and meaning of the setgroups arguments.
2001-10-18 14:07:12 +00:00
61c5edf6fc
Expose setgroups. Fixes feature request #468116 .
2001-10-18 04:06:00 +00:00
938a8d723c
Improve the documentation for the os.P_* constants used with the os.spawn*()
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functions to include information about how they affect the operation of
those functions when used as the "mode" parameter.
This closes SF bug #468384 .
Added warnings to the os.tempnam() and os.tmpnam() functions regarding their
security problem. These warning mirror the warnings added to the runtime
by Skip Montanaro.
2001-10-09 18:07:04 +00:00
244edc8985
Add chroot call. Implements feature #459267 .
2001-10-04 22:44:26 +00:00
bbf7a407e8
Added note about non-support of UNC paths on Windows.
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This fixes SF bug #465447 .
2001-09-28 16:14:18 +00:00
098d7fae39
Document clearly that the only way to retrieve the return code from the
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child processes is to use the Popen3 and Popen4 classes.
This fixes SF bug #460512 .
2001-09-11 19:56:51 +00:00
739282da83
Re-write the description of the os.spawn*() functions, and cover the
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whole family instead of just two.
This closes SF bug #451630 .
2001-08-16 21:21:28 +00:00
8a2adcf812
Typo: Added missing "if".
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This is part of SF patch #442788 .
2001-07-23 19:20:56 +00:00
efaef13c81
Update the availability information for os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile(), and
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os.tmpnam().
2001-07-17 20:39:18 +00:00
8ee679f0ce
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
907e76b620
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
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translation more difficult, as well as reading the English more
difficult for non-native speakers.
2001-07-06 20:30:11 +00:00
0b9bc20e66
Add the appropriate availability annotations for the popen*() family of
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functions -- these are not available on traditional Mac OS platforms.
Corrected the version annotations for the spawn*() functions and related
constants; these were added in Python 1.6, not 1.5.2.
2001-06-11 18:25:34 +00:00
046f4d810d
Fixed parameter order for os.popen2(), os.popen3(), and os.popen(4). Added
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a reference to these functions and popen() from the "Process Management"
section.
Based on a suggestion from comp.lang.python.
2001-06-11 15:21:48 +00:00
b9d973dac5
is -> if in rename description
2001-06-04 15:31:17 +00:00
81e142b907
Document os.getenv().
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This closes SF bug #429059 .
2001-05-31 20:27:46 +00:00
dc9e7e42c8
readlink() description: Added note that the return value may be either
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absolute or relative.
remove(), rename() descriptions: Give more information about the cross-
platform behavior of these functions, so single-platform developers
can be aware of the potential issues when writing portable code.
This closes SF patch #426598 .
2001-05-29 18:13:06 +00:00
4a152630ca
Capitalize first letter of an explanation for a \versionchanged
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annotation.
2000-10-19 05:33:46 +00:00
21c9df7641
For os.stat() & friends, note that the time fields are returned as
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floating-point values.
2000-10-14 05:46:11 +00:00
c71c23e392
Added \versionchanged comment to os.popen() noting that it was unreliable
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in earlier versions of Python; this is useful information for people
interested in writing code that is portable across Python versions.
Suggested by Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>.
2000-10-04 13:57:27 +00:00
1319e3ecbc
Remove old note that os.popen() on Windows is unreliable; this is no
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longer true.
2000-10-03 17:14:27 +00:00
4ce4f2eedd
os.startfile() documentation, based on text from Tim Peters.
2000-09-29 04:15:19 +00:00
8a9db99760
Updated documentation relating to the various flavors of popen[234]()
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for Windows & Unix.
2000-09-28 20:27:51 +00:00
7be3115860
Added explanation of the use of the first program argument passed to the
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exec*() family of functions.
2000-09-23 05:22:07 +00:00
3ac977e39c
O_BINARY: Documented this constant; omission noted by David Ascher.
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access(): Corrected availability statement; error pointed out by
Tim Peters.
2000-08-11 20:19:51 +00:00
d372521ec0
added doc for isatty()
2000-07-19 17:30:58 +00:00
f8316638af
Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes for the Library Reference. I hope
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SourceForge doesn't choke on this batch :-)
I'm not entirely sure this is 100% correct. The patch changes an
\index{persistency} to \index{presistence}, and I don't know what \index{}
does. But it seems to do so persi--er, consistently, so I hope it isn't a
problem.
2000-07-16 19:01:10 +00:00
8d2f2b2db2
From Sam Rushing's Medusa, via SF patch #100858 : add & document
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os.seteuid(), os.setegid(), os.setreuid(), os.setregid().
2000-07-13 01:26:58 +00:00
30f76ffd00
Update version numbering from 1.6 to 2.0.
2000-06-30 16:06:19 +00:00
c82634c13c
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>:
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Documentation updates related to the addition of openpty() and forkpty().
2000-06-28 17:27:48 +00:00
e06d025e00
Use \versionchanged to indicate when the second parameter to utime()
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was allowed to be None.
2000-05-02 17:29:35 +00:00
93a8eacde5
Document the new additional signature for utime(). In addition to the
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previous functionality utime(path, (atime, mtime)), now allowed is
utime(path, None) which sets the file's times to the current time.
2000-05-01 16:18:22 +00:00
38e5d27cae
Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release.
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(Very rough.)
2000-04-03 20:13:55 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
Andrew M. Kuchling
Fred Drake
Raymond Hettinger
Tim Peters
Guido van Rossum
Just van Rossum
Skip Montanaro
Neal Norwitz
Barry Warsaw
Thomas Heller
Jeremy Hylton
Thomas Wouters