545092b063
Add comment about os.path.walk()'s behavior with symbolic links.
2002-08-06 16:07:07 +00:00
e72a9a13a1
SF patch #591305 Documentation err in bytecode defs
2002-08-05 23:33:54 +00:00
acb45d72b4
Note that True and False are pickable objects
2002-08-05 03:55:36 +00:00
c8389c91c2
Remove a syntax error in the example, spotted by Walter Hofman.
2002-08-04 15:27:25 +00:00
0ad679ff0f
Document new heapreplace() function.
2002-08-03 18:53:28 +00:00
6e0da82a97
Document new heapify() function.
2002-08-03 18:02:09 +00:00
1acab695a7
Minor markup changes.
2002-08-02 19:46:42 +00:00
975121664e
Add docs for heapq.py.
2002-08-02 18:03:24 +00:00
de994d9130
indicate that 'b' is added to the mode flag if not given
2002-08-02 17:20:46 +00:00
74824584ef
Added new footnote about list.sort() stability. Repaired footnote about
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using sort() with comparison functions (it made reference to the non-
existent "builtin-in function sort()").
BTW, I changed list.sort's docstring to contain the word "stable" -- the
easiest way to tell whether a particular Python version's sort *is* stable
is to look for "stable" in the docstring. I'm not sure whether to
advertise this <wink>.
2002-08-01 03:10:45 +00:00
5b11bdd0ed
SF patch #581414 : info reader bug
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The "Matching vs. Searching" Info node is unreachable from the Info
program (but is fine in Emacs's Info mode). This patch seems to fix
it. This is the only occurrence where the info reader fails, so
probably it could be addressed in the python docs as a workaround.
Forwarded the report to the info maintainer.
2002-07-30 17:51:20 +00:00
0cec0ffc78
Patch #573770 : Implement lchown.
2002-07-28 16:33:45 +00:00
db40afaabe
Small clarifications when referring to the sys.exc_* variables so that
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readers are not given the wrong impression that they should be using those
on a regualar basis.
This closes SF bug #585598 .
2002-07-25 21:11:23 +00:00
403e351dfc
Flesh out description of getlogin() and recommend against using it.
2002-07-24 15:32:25 +00:00
1cfcafceb6
add versionadded to doc
2002-07-20 00:46:12 +00:00
18eb8b85b3
Doc patch from SF 474274 (pure Python strptime by Brett Cannon).
2002-07-19 17:09:36 +00:00
f0b095d804
Added documentation for the buffer_text and related attributes of the
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xmlparser object provided by pyexpat, new in Python 2.3.
2002-07-17 20:31:52 +00:00
2095b9690f
reduce(): Clarified what is returned in the case of a sequence 1 item long and
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initial/default value.
2002-07-17 13:55:33 +00:00
9534e14033
Record the decision that StopIteration is a sink state (see recent
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discussion in python-dev with subject "Termination of two-arg iter()").
Implementation will follow.
2002-07-16 19:53:39 +00:00
54ed2d32f9
Clarify that the description of sys.path[0] is only valid upon program
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start-up.
2002-07-15 16:08:10 +00:00
3e59f72075
Clarify the return value of __nonzero__(): It *must* be an integer.
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Closes SF bug #579991 .
2002-07-12 17:15:10 +00:00
e4523c46b9
Document gc.get_objects().
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Closes SF bug #578308 .
2002-07-10 19:21:07 +00:00
4254cbd29c
Note that unicode() can raise LookupError for unknown codecs.
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Closes SF bug #513666 .
2002-07-09 05:25:46 +00:00
c6a525e993
Fix typo reported by Kent Engström, and a bunch of broken markup.
2002-07-08 14:42:22 +00:00
50e1286c00
Fix typo: "an Unicode string" --> "a Unicode string"
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Clarify the return value when the parameter is a Unicode object.
2002-07-08 14:29:05 +00:00
b1af86a1d7
Revise asyncore documentation and document asynchat for the first time.
2002-07-03 18:36:39 +00:00
228f6e4e7a
Fix up a few more consistency nits and incorrectly applied markup.
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Further clarify the English-centricity of fix_sentence_endings.
2002-07-03 05:08:48 +00:00
c412617779
Add annotations that describe the change in the "errors" and "failures"
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attributes of the TestResult.
2002-07-02 22:46:42 +00:00
387c8b5f37
Update the documentation of the errors and failures attributes of the
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TestResult object. Add an example of how to get even more information for
apps that can use it.
Closes SF bug #558278 .
2002-07-02 22:34:44 +00:00
285f4a7db7
Don't list all the keyword args to the TextWrapper constructor in the
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classdesc -- just use "..." with prose explaining the correspondence
between keyword args and instance attributes.
Document 'width' along with the other instance attributes.
Describe default values consistently.
Typo fixes.
2002-07-02 21:48:12 +00:00
2c22e85ae7
Attempt to clarify removedirs().
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Based on SF bug #574773 .
2002-07-02 21:03:49 +00:00
ca23ee273e
Deal with & remove the XXX comments.
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Change the markup to be more like the rest of the documentation.
2002-07-02 20:37:12 +00:00
7d650ca83b
Implement the encoding argument for toxml and toprettyxml.
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Document toprettyxml.
2002-06-30 15:05:00 +00:00
550fd5d799
Fixed bug 574978 shutil example out of sync with source code
2002-06-30 04:43:20 +00:00
8a9e8b6d0e
Fix bug 575221 referred to dictionary type instead of dict.
2002-06-30 04:32:38 +00:00
78e057a32a
Clarify the version information for the unicode() built-in.
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Closes SF bug #575272 .
2002-06-29 16:06:47 +00:00
ae64f3adcd
Add documentation for new textwrap module.
2002-06-29 02:38:50 +00:00
2c813818c8
Clean up some markup.
2002-06-27 18:30:34 +00:00
dcd0500664
dis.dis() also supports modules
2002-06-26 22:32:47 +00:00
ca0383d3a3
Fix bug #573916 . Sender and recipients reversed in email example.
2002-06-26 07:51:32 +00:00
763805dab2
add seealso link to the bisect module
2002-06-26 05:22:08 +00:00
09d9f86c77
add /F's PriorityQueue example
2002-06-26 05:07:28 +00:00
c5e2792ab4
Talk about interfaces rather than implementation classes where appropriate.
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Add hyperlinks to make the documentation on the Attributes and AttributesNS
interfaces more discoverable.
Closes SF bug #484603 .
2002-06-25 17:10:50 +00:00
b6aa9cbb96
Added some more links to the "See also" section.
2002-06-25 16:58:58 +00:00
7bc121a4fb
When talking about interfaces, use the interface names, not the names
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of the implementation classes. (Remove the "Impl" from two names.)
2002-06-25 16:25:01 +00:00
f0236d7374
Fix typo
2002-06-25 15:26:59 +00:00
5ed3fa6578
Fix SF bug 568269 by enclosing 'computername' in a raw string
2002-06-25 04:53:05 +00:00
563d12d145
SF # 572928 One word change for lib/libgettext.tex
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Fix typo.
2002-06-24 02:22:39 +00:00
53540ab071
Correct the RE equivalent of scanf()'s %x and %X patterns.
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Closes SF bug #572169 .
2002-06-22 01:07:37 +00:00
473f46a853
Make the docs for string.capitalize() match those of str.capitalize()
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(which makes it more clear).
Closes SF bug #571767 .
2002-06-20 21:18:46 +00:00
807354f3b6
Add a note that divmod() with complex numbers is deprecated.
2002-06-20 21:10:25 +00:00
dce695aa4e
Added reference to the Expat home page.
2002-06-20 21:06:03 +00:00
f4bf7aa292
Typo: bites --> bytes
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(Hanging around small kids too much...;)
2002-06-18 20:38:05 +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
69d1fd2fdb
Note the limitation that mime_decode_header() only works for Latin-1.
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Closes SF bug #551912 .
2002-06-18 18:51:30 +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
28bdc624a8
Clarified description of error handling for shutil.rmtree().
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This closes SF patch #569832 .
2002-06-18 14:31:04 +00:00
3fca291a52
Add IMAP4 QUOTA extension methods
2002-06-17 07:07:20 +00:00
1e4519faaa
Make a start at describing the results of class/type unification
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in the type documentation.
2002-06-14 09:16:40 +00:00
6c123efe3d
Refer the reader to the correct module for constant definitions.
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This closes SF bug #550777 .
2002-06-14 01:58:19 +00:00
585775bf11
Document the Binary.data attribute.
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This closes SF bug #562878 .
2002-06-14 00:33:02 +00:00
9c92b69a54
Use \code{True} (or False) instead of true/false.
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Not sure if code is correct, but that is what's in this file.
I've seen \constant{True} in other places.
2002-06-14 00:27:13 +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
fea59e7f76
The opcode FOR_LOOP no longer exists.
2002-06-13 17:59:51 +00:00
efb9097add
Do not claim that getlocale() returns a tulpe; that is not always true.
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Closes SF bug #568577 .
2002-06-13 17:54:06 +00:00
11ba094957
Major overhaul of timeout sockets:
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- setblocking(0) and settimeout(0) are now equivalent, and ditto for
setblocking(1) and settimeout(None).
- Don't raise an exception from internal_select(); let the final call
report the error (this means you will get an EAGAIN error instead of
an ETIMEDOUT error -- I don't care).
- Move the select to inside the Py_{BEGIN,END}_ALLOW_THREADS brackets,
so other theads can run (this was a bug in the original code).
- Redid the retry logic in connect() and connect_ex() to avoid masking
errors. This probably doesn't work for Windows yet; I'll fix that
next. It may also fail on other platforms, depending on what
retrying a connect does; I need help with this.
- Get rid of the retry logic in accept(). I don't think it was needed
at all. But I may be wrong.
2002-06-13 15:07:44 +00:00
e9996c6093
Add version annotations for some older changes to the calendar module.
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Closes SF patch #567867 .
2002-06-13 01:34:50 +00:00
e3fdc975c0
SF bug 567826. Document new opcodes:
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['BINARY_FLOOR_DIVIDE', 'BINARY_TRUE_DIVIDE',
'INPLACE_FLOOR_DIVIDE', 'INPLACE_TRUE_DIVIDE', 'GET_ITER',
'YIELD_VALUE', 'FOR_ITER', 'CONTINUE_LOOP']
2002-06-12 15:33:08 +00:00
5efaf7eac8
This is my nearly two year old patch
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[ 400998 ] experimental support for extended slicing on lists
somewhat spruced up and better tested than it was when I wrote it.
Includes docs & tests. The whatsnew section needs expanding, and arrays
should support extended slices -- later.
2002-06-11 10:55:12 +00:00
a861d552c3
Document that the key should not contain null bytes.
2002-06-10 19:42:43 +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
715b861d94
Clarify the interaction between timeout/non-blocking mode, makefile
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and fromfd.
2002-06-07 12:38:23 +00:00
62a7f63a24
Fix typo
2002-06-07 12:36:44 +00:00
fc9823b1a9
Clarify the interaction between blocking and timeouts. Explain that
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fromfd() assumes a blocking non-timeout socket.
2002-06-07 03:39:21 +00:00
bdbd84fdac
Add version info, and fix another typo and wording spotted by /F. I think this is what he meant. :-)
2002-06-06 22:24:10 +00:00
1a06fb0605
Fix typo spotted by Fredrik Lundh.
2002-06-06 22:19:20 +00:00
6c6d662760
Fix some markup errors and adjust wording slightly.
2002-06-06 21:57:48 +00:00
be946bfea7
SF patch 555085 (timeout socket implementation) by Michael Gilfix.
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I've made considerable changes to Michael's code, specifically to use
the select() system call directly and to store the timeout as a C
double instead of a Python object; internally, -1.0 (or anything
negative) represents the None from the API.
I'm not 100% sure that all corner cases are covered correctly, so
please keep an eye on this. Next I'm going to try it Windows before
Tim complains.
No way is this a bugfix candidate. :-)
2002-06-06 21:51:01 +00:00
446a25fa3c
Patch 473512: add GNU style scanning as gnu_getopt.
2002-06-06 10:58:36 +00:00
474458da48
Add constants BOM_UTF8, BOM_UTF16, BOM_UTF16_LE, BOM_UTF16_BE,
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BOM_UTF32, BOM_UTF32_LE and BOM_UTF32_BE that represent the Byte
Order Mark in UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings for little and
big endian systems.
The old names BOM32_* and BOM64_* were off by a factor of 2.
This closes SF bug http://www.python.org/sf/555360
2002-06-04 15:16:29 +00:00
59b2a74c75
SF bug 533625 (Armin Rigo). rexec: potential security hole
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If a rexec instance allows writing in the current directory (a common
thing to do), there's a way to execute bogus bytecode. Fix this by
not allowing imports from .pyc files (in a way that allows a site to
configure things so that .pyc files *are* allowed, if writing is not
allowed).
I'll apply this to 2.2 and 2.1 too.
2002-05-31 21:12:53 +00:00
9b414ac93e
Update links and information on PyQt/PyKDE.
2002-05-31 18:21:56 +00:00
d68f5171eb
As discussed on python-dev, add a mechanism to indicate features
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that are in the process of deprecation (PendingDeprecationWarning).
Docs could be improved.
2002-05-29 15:54:55 +00:00
34f20eac98
This is patch
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[ 559250 ] more POSIX signal stuff
Adds support (and docs and tests and autoconfery) for posix signal
mask handling -- sigpending, sigprocmask and sigsuspend.
2002-05-27 15:08:24 +00:00
92bf9dacc9
Markup adjustments; fix the names of modules referenced in an expression.
2002-05-23 21:07:19 +00:00
c32f0336e0
Deprecated Random.cunifvariate clearing bug 506647. Also, added docstrings.
2002-05-23 19:44:49 +00:00
7779b208ae
Remove spurious "()" from the __str__() description.
2002-05-22 20:44:03 +00:00
177b4a065f
Jack's documentation for the U mode character on the file()
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constructor, vetted by Barry.
2002-05-22 20:39:43 +00:00
c58507582b
Added a version annotation for StringTypes.
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Added documentation for BooleanType.
2002-05-22 02:44:24 +00:00
c421ad4a35
Minor typo: Message.getall() -> Message.get_all()
2002-05-22 01:22:46 +00:00
6cf09f0792
Patch 543387. Document deprecation of complex %, //,and divmod().
2002-05-21 18:19:49 +00:00
97394bc795
Patch 533291. Deprecate None return form of __reduce__.
2002-05-21 17:22:02 +00:00
5ecb7aaa6a
Add availability information for a couple of the types, and notes on writing
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string-type tests for versions of Python built without Unicode support.
2002-05-21 14:28:22 +00:00
cadc9fbd37
Patch 547037. Corrected documentation to match
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actual module behavior for adding newlines.
2002-05-16 04:28:44 +00:00
b07fa39edf
Added missing index entries for mapping methods. Closes patch #548693 .
2002-05-15 15:45:25 +00:00
576474c5ae
Closes SF bug 527139. Brings docs inline with random.py 1.29
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which fixes the unnecessarily restricted method domain.
2002-05-13 23:49:13 +00:00
5359ad63ce
Correct gammavariate's method name and domain.
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Partial solution to SF bug 527139.
2002-05-13 22:40:38 +00:00
c045b49633
Added degrees() and radians() to mathmodule. Closing patch 552452 and
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feature request 426539.
2002-05-13 03:52:47 +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
d05c74f42d
Add a note explaining the interaction between unbuffered input and
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xreadlines.xreadlines().
This closes SF patch #552804 .
2002-05-06 16:02:42 +00:00
b9032018ff
Update the xrange object description to reflect the removal of deprecated
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features.
2002-05-02 21:37:23 +00:00
4d707a5d08
Remove extra period produced by previous change.
2002-05-02 17:54:18 +00:00
4b270518b7
Correct information on support for repietition & concatenation for buffer
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and xrange objects.
This closes SF bug #550555 .
2002-05-02 05:56:04 +00:00
7f781c9aab
Add Pickler.clear_memo() so the pickle and cPickle modules are more similar.
2002-05-01 20:33:53 +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
7938fab285
Add missing right-parenthesis.
2002-05-01 03:23:03 +00:00
52cc670711
Add a note about when the "%r" formatting code was added.
2002-04-30 14:54:47 +00:00
81b9251d59
Mostly in SequenceMatcher.{__chain_b, find_longest_match}:
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This now does a dynamic analysis of which elements are so frequently
repeated as to constitute noise. The primary benefit is an enormous
speedup in find_longest_match, as the innermost loop can have factors
of 100s less potential matches to worry about, in cases where the
sequences have many duplicate elements. In effect, this zooms in on
sequences of non-ubiquitous elements now.
While I like what I've seen of the effects so far, I still consider
this experimental. Please give it a try!
2002-04-29 01:37:32 +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
a7bb2b9b30
Be more consistent, both internally and with recommended practice.
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This closes SF bug #547953 .
2002-04-26 20:44:14 +00:00
38f71973e5
Documentation for the enumerate() function/type.
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This closes SF patch #547162 .
2002-04-26 20:29:44 +00:00
99d17006c1
Add text about circular references caused by storing frames in local
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variables. This closes SF bug #543148 .
2002-04-23 21:21:20 +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
8388895fe4
SF patch [ 545523 ] patch for 514433 bsddb.dbopen (NULL)
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closes SF #514433
can now pass 'None' as the filename for the bsddb.*open functions,
and you'll get an in-memory temporary store.
docs are ripped out of the bsddb dbopen man page. Fred may want to
clean them up.
Considering this for 2.2, but not 2.1.
2002-04-23 02:11:05 +00:00
de02bcb265
Apply patch diff.txt from SF feature request
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http://www.python.org/sf/444708
This adds the optional argument for str.strip
to unicode.strip too and makes it possible
to call str.strip with a unicode argument
and unicode.strip with a str argument.
2002-04-22 17:42:37 +00:00
b02ea65f92
typo
2002-04-17 19:33:06 +00:00
933f159a2f
Add a version annotation for the help() function.
2002-04-17 12:54:04 +00:00
6c7bc31089
added small clarification to the descriptions of encode() and decode()
2002-04-16 15:12:10 +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
068325ef92
Apply the second version of SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/536241
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Add a method zfill to str, unicode and UserString and change
Lib/string.py accordingly.
This activates the zfill version in unicodeobject.c that was
commented out and implements the same in stringobject.c. It also
adds the test for unicode support in Lib/string.py back in and
uses repr() instead() of str() (as it was before Lib/string.py 1.62)
2002-04-15 13:36:47 +00:00
06a83e90aa
Patch #543447 : Add posix.mknod.
2002-04-14 10:19:44 +00:00
8b1c47bb8b
Document the optional argument to the .strip(), .rstrip(), .strip() string
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methods.
Part of SF feature #444708 .
2002-04-13 02:43:39 +00:00
d4c0e5fd5b
BDFL agreed with Tim: rehabilitate randint().
2002-04-12 20:01:47 +00:00
e027d9818f
Add Raymond Hettinger's d.pop(). See SF patch 539949.
2002-04-12 15:11:59 +00:00
81bdc93d2f
Explain octal escapes. Fixes #542226 .
2002-04-11 12:24:12 +00:00
2854c478be
Remove mention of 'pre' module
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(2.2 bugfix candidate?)
2002-04-10 21:28:31 +00:00
3b2625ff82
document all the valid encoding values
2002-04-10 04:37:09 +00:00
6b35370c65
Update docs for bool changes by Guido around April 6
2002-04-09 18:15:00 +00:00
688357e035
Patch #512005 : getrusage() returns struct-like object.
2002-04-08 21:28:20 +00:00
bc82ab1c9f
Do not call "knee" a standard module, and point to the new location.
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This addresses the issue in SF bug #515745 .
2002-04-08 05:22:30 +00:00
d3dab2b192
Update doc to reflect Tim's changes to bool.
2002-04-05 02:21:09 +00:00
a2c2595024
Add a version annotation regarding the urlopen(proxies={...}).
2002-04-04 20:58:02 +00:00
5ca3a08cc0
The rest of the documentation for manual proxy configuration for a basic
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urlopen().
This is part of SF patch #523415 .
2002-04-04 20:34:36 +00:00
d21670328c
Documentation for manual proxy configuration, by Andy Gimblett.
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This closes SF patch #523415 .
2002-04-04 20:09:50 +00:00
ce5df49957
SF 539024, Fix broken link to numpy
2002-04-04 14:02:45 +00:00
77f6a65eb0
Add the 'bool' type and its values 'False' and 'True', as described in
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PEP 285. Everything described in the PEP is here, and there is even
some documentation. I had to fix 12 unit tests; all but one of these
were printing Boolean outcomes that changed from 0/1 to False/True.
(The exception is test_unicode.py, which did a type(x) == type(y)
style comparison. I could've fixed that with a single line using
issubtype(x, type(y)), but instead chose to be explicit about those
places where a bool is expected.
Still to do: perhaps more documentation; change standard library
modules to return False/True from predicates.
2002-04-03 22:41:51 +00:00
aee113d368
Add an experimental mechanism to support extending the pprint formatting.
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Partly responds to SF bug #505152 .
2002-04-02 05:08:35 +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
d5a072f2eb
Fix up the documentation of the type codes to give both the C and Python
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types for each code, and give the actual C types.
Clarified the support for slice operations and note when some TypeError
exceptions are raised.
This closes SF bugs 518767 and 536469.
2002-04-01 23:05:10 +00:00
8d62e94761
Minor wording change.
2002-03-28 21:06:17 +00:00
bb6bbc45c0
add exception class hierarchy. This should probably be done differently,
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but at least the content is there.
2002-03-28 20:53:22 +00:00
47cdf6fb6f
Add documentation on the hasfree data object.
2002-03-28 19:34:53 +00:00
e3a3ceb2b1
Minor consistency adjustments.
2002-03-28 12:40:45 +00:00
2e64c34850
Expose C library's gettext. Fixes #516412 .
2002-03-27 18:49:02 +00:00
8a79727b53
add seealso referring to site module doc where people can learn how to
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extend sys.path using .pth files.
2002-03-27 17:29:50 +00:00
57f8e06e4f
Document the finditer() function and method.
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This closes SF bug #520904 .
Explain that many of the escapes supported by string literals are also
supported by the RE compiler, and list which ones.
This closes SF bug #529923 .
2002-03-25 20:22:59 +00:00
3787c9d94c
Added description of binhex.Error.
2002-03-25 16:37:56 +00:00
1e962cb61b
document InvalidURL exception
2002-03-24 16:55:57 +00:00
ccbb0edf0e
Add local_hostname to SMTP.__init__().
2002-03-24 15:41:40 +00:00
79f181395b
Add more example exceptions that unpickling can raise.
2002-03-22 22:16:03 +00:00
e22d3dfcc1
Fix grammar
2002-03-21 12:58:54 +00:00
b25c2b0a4a
[Apply SF patch #504943 ]
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This patch makes it possible to pass Warning instances as the first
argument to warnings.warn. In this case the category argument
will be ignored. The message text used will be str(warninginstance).
2002-03-21 10:38:40 +00:00
1abca4a515
SF# 522426, add doc for common parameter for filecmp.cmpfiles()
2002-03-20 18:55:09 +00:00
1268678395
Adjust some poor wording in the text that explains what events are used
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for (reported by Keith Briggs).
Wrap some very long lines.
2002-03-19 14:37:44 +00:00
2f31d561d5
Clarify that copy_reg.pickle() is not intended for use with "classic" classes.
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This was stated before, but a minor grammatical error made it difficult to be
sure of the meaning.
This closes SF bug #530143 .
2002-03-19 03:33:33 +00:00
a8b663806b
Remove extra verb; reported by Detlef Lannert.
2002-03-18 16:45:01 +00:00
5c137c2251
Patch #495598 : add an -q (quiet) option to pycompile.
2002-03-18 12:44:08 +00:00
10acc8f9e2
added note that xmlrpclib won't marshal instances of subclasses of the
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builtin types
2002-03-17 23:15:02 +00:00
587c98c863
Patch #430706 : Persistent connections in BaseHTTPServer.
2002-03-17 18:37:22 +00:00
8e0c82a35f
Fix stupid typo in example.
2002-03-16 14:01:12 +00:00
f275803fe9
Clarify the descriptions of the positive and negative lookbehind assertions.
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Added examples of positive lookbehind assertions.
This closes SF bug #529708 .
2002-03-16 05:58:12 +00:00
dc8d40717c
update text to refer to ServerProxy class in preference to Server, which is
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only retained for backward compatibility with older versions of the library.
2002-03-14 17:35:25 +00:00
f981617645
"level" keyword argument in example should be "stacklevel".
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This closes SF bug #517684 .
2002-03-12 19:49:31 +00:00
8f01b680c8
Change Windows file.truncate() to (a) restore the original file position,
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and (b) stop trying to prevent file growth.
Beef up the file.truncate() docs.
Change test_largefile.py to stop assuming that f.truncate() moves the
file pointer to the truncation point, and to verify instead that it leaves
the file position alone. Remove the test for what happens when a
specified size exceeds the original file size (it's ill-defined, according
to the Single Unix Spec).
2002-03-12 03:04:44 +00:00
fb05db2cae
file_truncate(): provide full "large file" support on Windows, by
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dropping MS's inadequate _chsize() function. This was inspired by
SF patch 498109 ("fileobject truncate support for win32"), which I
rejected.
libstdtypes.tex: Someone who knows should update the availability
blurb. For example, if it's available on Linux, it would be good to
say so.
test_largefile: Uncommented the file.truncate() tests, and reworked to
do more. The old comment about "permission errors" in the truncation
tests under Windows was almost certainly due to that the file wasn't open
for *write* access at this point, so of course MS wouldn't let you
truncate it. I'd be appalled if a Unixish system did.
CAUTION: Someone should run this test on Linux (etc) too. The
truncation part was commented out before. Note that test_largefile isn't
run by default.
2002-03-11 00:24:00 +00:00
10b3eac278
[Bug #486527 ] Note that the caller has to ensure there are no control
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characters in strings being passed via XML-RPC.
Fix some typos.
2.2.1 bugfix candidate.
2002-03-08 17:46:02 +00:00
a4f8313cbb
add SSL class submitted by Tino Lange
2002-03-08 01:53:24 +00:00
da8a6dd072
Added missing version annotation for dict().
2002-03-06 02:29:30 +00:00
9479c958c5
Remove extra indenatation from sample interpreter session.
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Remove whitespace from the middle of an inline RE example; it was OK for
the typeset formats, but LaTeX2HTML is more touchy about this.
2002-03-05 04:02:39 +00:00
a8e1d81bdc
add simple example of avoiding backtracking
2002-03-04 23:08:28 +00:00
29001ff234
Patch #523268 , #522027 : return enhanced tuples.
2002-03-01 10:47:37 +00:00
dbd55b3737
Patch #523268 , #522027 : return enhanced tuples.
2002-03-01 10:38:44 +00:00
9986633609
Patch 520694: arraymodule.c improvements:
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- make array.array a type
- add Py_UNICODE arrays
- support +=, *=
2002-03-01 10:27:01 +00:00
b6b2aa6c75
Fix error in explanation of the interaction between $ and MULTILINE mode.
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Reported by Steve Alexander.
2002-02-25 18:56:45 +00:00
9f4341b3b0
SF bug #501591 : dir() doc is old
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Bugfix candidate.
+ Updated dir() description to match actual 2.2 behavior.
+ Replaced the dir(sys) example with dir(struct), because the former
was way out of date and is bound to change frequently, while the
latter is stable.
+ Added a note cautioning that dir() is supplied primarily for
convenience at an interactive prompt (hoping to discourage its
use as the foundation of introspective code outside the core).
2002-02-23 04:40:15 +00:00
f8b1f2431b
Grammar tweak.
2002-02-22 21:24:32 +00:00
ba902fda3c
SF #515041 , Update path for 2.3
2002-02-19 02:58:54 +00:00
e73ad2a21f
Use the standard expression for the availability statement for alarm().
2002-02-15 20:59:43 +00:00
8d1fdafd89
note that the alarm function is not available on Windows.
2002-02-15 20:36:19 +00:00
928051fb26
The "%" character does not need to be escaped in verbatim environments.
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This closes SF bug #517811 .
2002-02-15 04:12:59 +00:00
7bc6f7ac7b
Consistently use \textasciicircum to produce a ^ character.
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LaTeX really falls flat on this one!
2002-02-14 15:19:30 +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
c318260a71
added handle_error method description
2002-01-31 17:32:24 +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
ef180dc3d0
Document that get_referrers can return unreachable but uncollected objects.
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Fixes #505453 .
2002-01-26 20:11:50 +00:00
744f67fb62
Add keyword.kwlist to the public API.
2002-01-24 16:38:53 +00:00
4f3a62d9bc
There's no need for typechecks on the second and third argument of
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new.instancemethod() -- the instancemethod object is now a perfectly
general container.
This fixes SF bug ##503091 (Pedro Rodriquez): new.instancemethod fails
for new classes
This is a 2.2.1 candidate.
2002-01-15 19:21:05 +00:00
3d62f8ca35
Fix a simple typo. Has this to be fixed also in other branches?
2002-01-14 08:37:39 +00:00
a55ffaeee9
Add a per-message fallback mechanism for translations.
2002-01-11 06:58:49 +00:00
1be6419871
Add fallback argument to translation(). Request fallbacks on install.
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Fixes #500595 .
2002-01-11 06:33:28 +00:00
7731ed47cb
Do not mask the name of a built-in function in example code.
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Based on comment sent to python-docs.
2002-01-05 04:00:03 +00:00
5e74d36f9d
Fix indentation error in example from the Tkinter Life Preserver.
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This closes SF bug #499505 .
2002-01-05 03:56:54 +00:00
d93d68bd13
Fix minor typo reported in SF patch #497951 .
2002-01-05 01:52:41 +00:00
c33e077838
SF patch #497420 (Eduardo Pérez): ftplib: ftp anonymous password
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Instead of sending the real user and host, use "anonymous@" (i.e. no
host name at all!) as the default anonymous FTP password. This avoids
privacy violations.
2001-12-28 20:54:28 +00:00
7c9a53dfc0
Elaborate the descriptions for onecmd(), precmd(), and postcmd() so they are
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useful.
2001-12-27 05:10:18 +00:00
fd7f115a0e
Fix wrongly-named formal parameters in three places: begin_y was used twice
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instead of begin_y and begin_x for derwin(), subpad(), and subwin().
Reported for derwin() by Eric Huss.
Added class annotations for the window methods so they would be properly
described in the index.
2001-12-26 22:08:44 +00:00
ab2dc1d730
Added index entries similar to some recommended by Skip, and used the word
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"interpolation" in the text, to make the string formatting material easier to
find.
This closes SF bug #487165 .
Bugfix: this should be applied for Python 2.2.1.
2001-12-26 20:06:40 +00:00
ef338ec5f9
More index entries.
2001-12-26 19:48:43 +00:00
39960f6ec9
Fix the erroneous availability annotation for s.makefile() from the last
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checkin (my fault!).
Wrap some long lines and fix some markup inconsistencies.
2001-12-22 19:07:58 +00:00
87fa3aa12c
Add notes that fromfd() and s.makefile() are Unix-specific.
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This fixes SF bug #495896 .
Fix up various markup consistency & style guide conformance nits.
2001-12-21 17:45:03 +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
dce2e1161a
Fix typo in httplib example.
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This fixes SF bug #495221 .
2001-12-21 03:52:04 +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
34a37b807a
Re-commit Ping's patch to the cgi and cgitb documentation, using the
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right version this time. Thanks, Ping!
(This was from SF patch #494582 , "\index -> \indexii" version.)
2001-12-20 17:13:09 +00:00
4b1b3bfac1
Add entry for the pydoc documentation.
2001-12-18 16:32:30 +00:00
96be564027
Add documentation for the pydoc module; contributed by Ka-Ping Yee.
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This closes SF patch #494622 .
2001-12-18 16:31:44 +00:00
732299ff63
Add documentation for the help() built-in; contributed by Ka-Ping Yee.
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This is part of SF patch #494622 .
2001-12-18 16:31:08 +00:00
e088970ce0
Merge in Ping's changes to the cgitb documentation, and add a version
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annotation as well.
This closes SF patch #494582 .
2001-12-18 15:51:55 +00:00
0c0b5305ae
Mark the mpz module deprecated as of Python 2.2.
2001-12-16 01:54:55 +00:00
c57772870b
Add a link to the mxNumber package.
2001-12-15 20:37:40 +00:00
b40501b05e
Add link to the gmpy project.
2001-12-15 18:37:24 +00:00
dda7dcb3f7
Add a missing "cycle".
2001-12-14 21:19:08 +00:00
526c7a0101
Ensure that complex() only accepts a string argument as the first arg,
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and only if there is no second arg.
This closes SF patch #479551 .
2001-12-13 19:52:22 +00:00
a0b767625b
Minor adjustments.
2001-12-13 04:25:37 +00:00
1529ef860e
Document that isleap() returns exactly 1 or 0, which is guaranteed by the
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docstring.
This closes SF bug #485794 .
Additional (very) small details were added.
2001-12-12 05:40:46 +00:00
cf72abab8c
Update link to the SAX homepage.
2001-12-10 18:10:37 +00:00
6048ce95a9
Added documentation for str.decode().
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This closes SF bug #490823 .
2001-12-10 16:43:08 +00:00
146483964e
Patch supplied by Burton Radons for his own SF bug #487390 : Modifying
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type.__module__ behavior.
This adds the module name and a dot in front of the type name in every
type object initializer, except for built-in types (and those that
already had this). Note that it touches lots of Mac modules -- I have
no way to test these but the changes look right. Apologies if they're
not. This also touches the weakref docs, which contains a sample type
object initializer. It also touches the mmap test output, because the
mmap type's repr is included in that output. It touches object.h to
put the correct description in a comment.
2001-12-08 18:02:58 +00:00
f9d580346b
Add change notes where im_class is discussed, since the exact meaning changes
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with Python 2.2.
2001-12-07 23:13:53 +00:00
b62f0e1a7b
Correct the description of im_class. (Fred, this is changed in 2.2.
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Should this be labeled as changed? How?)
2001-12-07 22:03:18 +00:00
7961930595
Revise description of dumbdbm.open() to reflect that the flag argument is
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ignored and that mode was ignored before Python 2.2.
This closes SF bug #490098 .
2001-12-07 21:56:13 +00:00
8b7bb7a0f2
Describe the behavior of the read() method when the list of filenames
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includes files that do not exist, explain the intended use of the interface,
and show how to ensure an expected file really exists.
This closes SF bug #490399 .
2001-12-07 21:35:57 +00:00
b404145936
s/it/if/ in descriptions of spawn mode argument.
2001-12-06 23:37:17 +00:00
c7cb69263d
For ratecv, document that None should be the initial state argument (when
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I was squashing spurious overflows in the implementation, I got hung up
on this point).
2001-12-06 23:16:09 +00:00
a16433b14e
Re-enabled debugging prints in poplib & documented the set_debuglevel()
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method.
This closes SF patch #486079 .
2001-12-05 22:37:21 +00:00
d761662b66
asyncore.loop() description contributed by Skip Montanaro.
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This closes SF bug #489513 .
2001-12-05 21:37:50 +00:00
39368c1053
Added documentation of the sendall() method, and a note to the send() method
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that it does not guarantee that all data is sent.
This closes SF patch #474307 .
2001-12-05 05:25:59 +00:00
d2a557e51e
Added entry for the "cgitb" module docs.
2001-12-04 22:48:17 +00:00
6e70e8b401
Documentation for the "cgitb" module.
2001-12-04 22:47:42 +00:00
97e3201220
Add a note that the rgbimg module is only built on 32-bit machines (prompted
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by a question to webmaster).
Re-wrapped a long line.
2001-12-04 16:49:00 +00:00
db5a93cd6a
Update docs to reflect new compile() and compileFile()
2001-12-04 02:48:52 +00:00
b38784e4a0
Slightly improved indexing for the string-% operator, thanks to comments
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from Skip Montanaro. There is one weirdness in the final index for HTML, but
that is low priority.
2001-12-03 22:15:56 +00:00
1a76386194
Added documentation on the ScrolledText module.
2001-12-03 21:18:30 +00:00
5172adca81
Minor clarification of the zip() description, based on a comment sent to
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python-docs.
2001-12-03 18:35:05 +00:00
14f5c5fa01
Make no assumption about how modules are built when referring to them; this
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can vary by platform and installation.
Based on suggestion to python-docs.
2001-12-03 18:33:13 +00:00
1722e4a952
Re-word the intro slightly to avoid reader misunderstanding: strings are not
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mutable! We do not want to shock anyone.
This closes SF bug #483805 .
Re-factor so that the description of the "access" keyword parameter is not
repeated in both the descriptions of mmap(). Also, only make sure the first
description of mmap() appears in the index. The the index link is followed,
the first is now used to locate the page on the screen; chances are really good
both will be visible. This avoids the problem that the index entry for the
second is selected and the first version is not visible, making the reader
consider that mmap() is not available on Windows.
2001-12-03 18:27:22 +00:00
3570551d6f
Remove most references to __members__ and __methods__, leaving only one pair
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of references that now state that these attributes have been removed,
directing the reader to the dir() function.
This closes SF bug #456420 .
2001-12-03 17:32:27 +00:00
b22c6720aa
Clean up some material that is not part of the standard documentation.
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This closes SF bug #487308 .
2001-12-03 06:12:23 +00:00
d745b4e7a4
Add reference to the "String Methods" section to make that information
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easier to find. Based on the comment from Steve Alexander on the
zope-coders mailing list.
2001-12-02 15:10:46 +00:00
0467775715
Add description of tkCommonDialog.
2001-11-30 19:24:49 +00:00
10cd315963
Change the chapter title to reflect the Tk affinity.
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Use the new seealso* environment in the section pointing out other GUI
toolkits.
2001-11-30 18:17:24 +00:00
89d63cc450
Minor adjustments to markup for the getDOMImplementation() description.
2001-11-30 16:58:15 +00:00
bd34b6bc3d
Added the convenience constants that are present in PyXML to make these
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more similar.
2001-11-30 15:37:33 +00:00
38f3b72f9f
Updated documentation for the new httplib interface, by Kalle Svensson.
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This closes SF bug #458447 .
2001-11-30 06:06:40 +00:00
44b6f84e56
More information about Tix support, contributed by Mike Clarkson.
2001-11-29 21:09:08 +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
ed0a71911c
Neil Schemenauer suggested a small improvement to one of the example REs.
2001-11-29 20:23:14 +00:00
389aa17ad3
writeline() --> writelines()
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This closes SF bug #487147 .
2001-11-29 19:04:50 +00:00
1cec7fab1d
New section of regular expression examples contributed by Skip Montanaro,
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with some extensions and changes from me.
This closes SF patch #472825 .
2001-11-29 08:45:22 +00:00
5107b4cf5f
Re-arrange the modules in the "Internet Data Handling" chapter to try to
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achieve a more sensible organization.
2001-11-28 07:50:45 +00:00
6a6bb1828b
Clarify that on some systems, lockf() using LOCK_EX requires that the file
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is opened for writing; this closes SF bug #485342 .
Added notes that file objects are also accepted in the place of file
descriptors.
2001-11-28 07:48:32 +00:00
48704ee478
Add synopsis for the SimpleXMLRPCServer module; used in the chapter-level
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list of modules.
2001-11-28 07:32:53 +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
b03d0cc45e
Typo, spotted by Detlef Lannert.
2001-11-26 21:39:40 +00:00
fcb05ab512
Tk-related modules should no longer be listed here.
2001-11-26 21:38:50 +00:00
2744f43f71
Fix typo, extra markup constructs.
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This closes SF bug #485252 .
2001-11-26 21:30:36 +00:00
560da62fc7
Rename get_referents to get_referrers. Fixes #483815 .
2001-11-24 09:24:51 +00:00
e70dbe0fc5
Update the platform notes for the CGIHTTPServer module; it works on more
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platforms now, and has since Python 2.0.
This closes SF bug #482943 .
2001-11-19 05:16:35 +00:00
7064d3b581
Fix the default value for feature_namespaces, per discussions on the XML-SIG
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mailing list. This causes the docs to match the default implementation.
2001-11-19 04:34:50 +00:00
69ab5836ae
Paul Rubin reminds me that of course a class's constructor /could/ get
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called, if the pickler found a __getinitargs__() method.
2001-11-18 16:24:01 +00:00
ebbd14d7c2
Clarified a couple of issues for the startElement*() handlers:
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- the attrs value may be re-used by the parser, so the implementation
cannot rely on owning the object.
- an element with no namespace encountered in namespace mode will have a URI
of None, not "" (startElementNS() only).
Fixed a couple of minor markup issues as well.
2001-11-18 04:58:28 +00:00
af0a883041
Relatively large expansion of the docs for gc.garbage.
2001-11-18 04:51:17 +00:00
0c0565dd7f
Toughen up the security warnings a bit.
2001-11-16 22:28:17 +00:00
5e17d20743
Add a clarification that the email package always deals in native line
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endings, and that it is smtplib's job to convert those to RFC 2821
line endings when sending the message.
2001-11-16 22:16:04 +00:00
666ca80b63
Clean up some markup a little bit more. Make this work with the PDF format,
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which is a little more strict than the other formats on some things (fixable,
but not tonight).
2001-11-16 06:02:55 +00:00
5545219bf6
Document the urlsplit() and urlunsplit() functions.
2001-11-16 03:22:15 +00:00
c66ff203bb
Switched a couple of sections around.
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Cleaned up some markup nits.
Add a few more of the Tk-related modules to the list of modules.
2001-11-16 01:05:27 +00:00
69b2d75fc7
A few minor updates to make it clear(er) that pickle should be used
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instead of marshal for object serialization.
Fred, please proofread!
2001-11-15 23:55:12 +00:00
f595fd975d
A massive rewrite affecting both the pickle and cPickle module
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documentation. This addresses previously undocumented parts of the
public interfaces, the differences between pickle and cPickle,
security concerns, and on and on.
Fred please proofread!
2001-11-15 23:39:07 +00:00
d44e7ad702
Minor updates to add more pointers to the pickle documentation, and to
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clarify some of the interface.
2001-11-15 23:37:26 +00:00
fd4f069b12
The turtle docs will be moving to another location in the Tkinter chapter.
2001-11-15 22:10:46 +00:00
482b9a8c0c
Clean up the descriptions of multi-signature functions so we do the right
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thing in the index.
2001-11-15 20:41:03 +00:00
53556861df
Add entries for the new Tkinter chapter.
2001-11-15 17:25:29 +00:00
7cf4e5b329
Tkinter chapter, contributed by Mike Clarkson. Based in part on the "Tkinter
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Life Preserver" by Matt Conway.
2001-11-15 17:22:04 +00:00
5ebfd36afa
CVS patch #477161 : New "access" keyword for mmap, from Jay T Miller.
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This gives mmap() on Windows the ability to create read-only, write-
through and copy-on-write mmaps. A new keyword argument is introduced
because the mmap() signatures diverged between Windows and Unix, so
while they (now) both support this functionality, there wasn't a way to
spell it in a common way without introducing a new spelling gimmick.
The old spellings are still accepted, so there isn't a backward-
compatibility issue here.
2001-11-13 23:11:19 +00:00
da4ffeecf5
No need to have documentation for a module which not accepted in the library.
2001-11-09 21:45:55 +00:00
3b0c82a2f1
Updated the documentation for formatdate().
2001-11-09 17:08:13 +00:00
30bd666c35
Cleaned up some markup stupidity and a usage problem reported by Detlef
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Lannert. Added descriptions of HTTP_PORT and HTTPS_PORT.
2001-11-09 05:03:05 +00:00
399bc8c281
Fix a variety of typographical, grammatical, and clarity problems reported
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by Detlef Lannert.
2001-11-09 03:49:29 +00:00
0b66310476
When referring to a formal parameter from the description, use the name given
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with the signature, not an ad hoc abbreviated form.
2001-11-07 06:28:47 +00:00
66ded524ba
apply() documentation: Remove a detail about the implementation that does
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not affect the API. Clean up the text about call syntax apply() is
equivalent to. Based on comments by Thomas Guettler.
2001-11-07 06:22:25 +00:00
1a670c8414
Adjust the module synopsis to avoid margin overruns in the PDF format.
2001-11-06 22:14:35 +00:00
10b81ce4e5
A variety of small cleanups, including one to avoid a margin overrun in the
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PDF version.
2001-11-06 22:13:19 +00:00
5976816698
Remove stray quotes; probably left over from conversion from docstrings.
2001-11-06 22:11:34 +00:00
806d332f02
Remove extra period.
2001-11-06 22:10:47 +00:00
1f774b062e
Update obsolete e-mail address, and remove myself as a module author
2001-11-05 21:34:36 +00:00
4794f0b234
Update obsolete e-mail address
2001-11-05 21:31:33 +00:00
47ccfe2d8f
Remove obsolete e-mail address
2001-11-05 21:31:15 +00:00
f010df4ee5
Update URL, and remove e-mail address reference (readers can get it from
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the Web page)
2001-11-05 21:30:10 +00:00
2bb077f630
Finally fleshed out the examples section with 4 code samples! Some of
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my own doing, some originally written by Matthew Dixon Cowles.
2001-11-05 17:50:53 +00:00
c44403995e
Remove email*.tex subsections; they're all \input by email.tex
2001-11-05 01:55:43 +00:00
43dc1fc926
Minor grammar and typo fixes
2001-11-05 01:55:03 +00:00
169ded0d68
Finish SF patch 477059: __del__ on new classes vs. GC.
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Just doc and NEWS here, about the change in gc.garbage meaning.
2001-11-03 19:57:21 +00:00
7533587d43
Improved error msg when a symbolic group name is redefined. Added docs
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and NEWS. Bugfix candidate? That's a dilemma for Anthony <wink>: /F
did fix a longstanding bug here, but the fix can cause code to raise an
exception that previously worked by accident.
2001-11-03 19:35:43 +00:00
bc4a1c2588
[Patch #476612 ] Change docs to describe PEP247 interface
2001-11-02 21:44:09 +00:00
d9272d6f11
Add deprecation notice to statcache.
2001-11-02 20:20:19 +00:00
67bd68392c
Make sure there are no weird nesting behaviors; the PDF version will not
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format if there are (building the "bookmarks" for the reader breaks).
2001-11-02 19:41:23 +00:00
99de218cfc
Promote file objects out of the "Other Objects" category, so they become
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visible in the table of contents.
2001-10-30 06:23:14 +00:00
b4ea9d0502
Promote built-in functions to come before built-in types.
2001-10-30 06:22:02 +00:00
003047a5f2
Mention the new file() builtin in the section on file objects.
2001-10-30 05:54:04 +00:00
a427a2b8d0
Rename "dictionary" (type and constructor) to "dict".
2001-10-29 22:25:45 +00:00
589abb7212
Add additional information on exceptions from time.mktime() and related to
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improper time tuples passed to various functions. Based on comments from
Andreas Jung.
2001-10-29 18:01:24 +00:00
e21e2bb121
Fix up a number of small problems with the DOM documentation.
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There's still a lot to do, but it's better now.
2001-10-26 20:09:49 +00:00
41cf5e0069
Remove unused variable.
2001-10-26 19:50:26 +00:00
ef428a292a
Explain what [].insert() does when the target index is negative.
2001-10-26 18:57:14 +00:00
d5be3b75dd
Add notes pointing out that these classes are kept for backward compatibility
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and suggeest that new code that does not require compatibility with older
Python versions subclass dictionary, list, or str.
2001-10-26 18:37:27 +00:00
7408da54e2
Many, many small fixes and improvements, most suggested by Detlef Lannert.
2001-10-26 17:40:22 +00:00
ef7d08a661
Some style changes and typo fixes.
2001-10-26 15:04:33 +00:00
de3d060eb2
Typo: destuction --> destruction
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Reported by Thomas Heller.
2001-10-26 11:27:54 +00:00
1fc240e851
Generalize dictionary() to accept a sequence of 2-sequences. At the
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outer level, the iterator protocol is used for memory-efficiency (the
outer sequence may be very large if fully materialized); at the inner
level, PySequence_Fast() is used for time-efficiency (these should
always be sequences of length 2).
dictobject.c, new functions PyDict_{Merge,Update}FromSeq2. These are
wholly analogous to PyDict_{Merge,Update}, but process a sequence-of-2-
sequences argument instead of a mapping object. For now, I left these
functions file static, so no corresponding doc changes. It's tempting
to change dict.update() to allow a sequence-of-2-seqs argument too.
Also changed the name of dictionary's keyword argument from "mapping"
to "x". Got a better name? "mapping_or_sequence_of_pairs" isn't
attractive, although more so than "mosop" <wink>.
abstract.h, abstract.tex: Added new PySequence_Fast_GET_SIZE function,
much faster than going thru the all-purpose PySequence_Size.
libfuncs.tex:
- Document dictionary().
- Fiddle tuple() and list() to admit that their argument is optional.
- The long-winded repetitions of "a sequence, a container that supports
iteration, or an iterator object" is getting to be a PITA. Many
months ago I suggested factoring this out into "iterable object",
where the definition of that could include being explicit about
generators too (as is, I'm not sure a reader outside of PythonLabs
could guess that "an iterator object" includes a generator call).
- Please check my curly braces -- I'm going blind <0.9 wink>.
abstract.c, PySequence_Tuple(): When PyObject_GetIter() fails, leave
its error msg alone now (the msg it produces has improved since
PySequence_Tuple was generalized to accept iterable objects, and
PySequence_Tuple was also stomping on the msg in cases it shouldn't
have even before PyObject_GetIter grew a better msg).
2001-10-26 05:06:50 +00:00
7f10cce4c1
Enforce a bit of markup consistency.
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When describing a Boolean return value, use "true" and "false" instead of
"1" and "0".
Style-guide conformance: no "iff" -- to obscure for many readers. ;-(
2001-10-26 03:04:23 +00:00
3a2c462436
Minor textual adjustment, and style-guide conformance (no use of "iff").
2001-10-26 03:00:39 +00:00
107771a228
Applying proposed patch for bug #474583 , optional support for
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non-standard but common types. Including Martin's suggestion to add
rejected non-standard types from patch #438790 . Specifically,
guess_type(), guess_extension(): Both the functions and the methods
grow an optional "strict" flag, defaulting to true, which determines
whether to recognize non-standard, but commonly found types or not.
Also, I sorted, reformatted, and culled duplicates from the big
types_map dictionary. Note that there are a few non-equivalent
duplicates (e.g. .cdf and .xls) for which the first will just get
thrown away. I didn't remove those though.
Finally, use of the module as a script as grown the -l and -e options
to toggle strictness and to do guess_extension(), respectively.
Doc and unittest updates too.
2001-10-25 21:49:18 +00:00
61f794918f
Typo: NamedNodeList --> NamedNodeMap
2001-10-25 20:42:57 +00:00
bc006af3d0
Make the deprecation notice use the same form as other such notices.
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This has sat around in a deprecated state for a *long* time!
2001-10-24 21:56:59 +00:00
0559d95fd6
Minor revision of the text.
2001-10-24 21:10:52 +00:00
98791affc8
Doc and NEWS changes due to Jeremy adding traceback objects to gc.
2001-10-23 01:59:54 +00:00
d05e051aa7
Fixed an example in the use of email.Utils.getaddresses(). The
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failobj has to be a list or the `+' can fail.
2001-10-22 20:53:45 +00:00
5d9a6b575c
Clarify that the resource module does not attempt to mask platform
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differences by defining symbols not defined on particular platforms.
This closes SF bug #473433 .
2001-10-22 14:18:23 +00:00
9dbc0bcf9d
Update description of border()
2001-10-20 16:07:41 +00:00
0aa811c527
Use the \note and \warning macros where appropriate.
2001-10-20 04:24:09 +00:00
aad8bb5d7a
When stating that some parameters to makefile() are similar to the open()
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parameters, given a hyperlink to the right part of the documentation to
make it easier to look those up. Also, refer to the file() function/
constructor instead of open() now that that is where the actual docs for
those parameters live.
This closes SF bug #472004 .
2001-10-19 17:22:29 +00:00
b5507ecd3c
Additional test and documentation for the unicode() changes.
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This patch should also be applied to the 2.2b1 trunk.
2001-10-19 12:02:29 +00:00
e736d93eab
Added a note about the somewhat kludgey behavior of the message
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epilogue, based on the discussion in this SF bug report:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=472481&group_id=25568&atid=384678
2001-10-19 04:34:42 +00:00
b6c1d5239c
SF patch #443759 : Add Interface to readline's add_history
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This was submitted by Moshe, but apparently he's too busy to check it
in himself. He wrote:
Here is a function in GNU readline called add_history,
which is used to manage the history list. Though Python
uses this function internally, it does not expose it to
the Python programmer. This patch adds direct interface
to this function with documentation.
This could be used by friendly modules to "seed" the
history with commands.
2001-10-19 01:18:43 +00:00
a5e616510e
changed misleading argument name
2001-10-18 20:58:25 +00:00
91b81c4802
Some minor clarifications for find()'s arguments based on SF bug
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#463572 . Closing.
2001-10-18 19:41:48 +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
ca836f7e65
Function descriptions must end as well as start!
2001-10-18 14:26:08 +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
61acf067ac
SF bug [ #471111 ] inspect.getframeinfo() needs docs.
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TeX-ified its docstring.
2001-10-16 23:01:06 +00:00
3c28863e08
Partial patch from SF #452266 , by Jason Petrone.
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This changes Pythread_start_thread() to return the thread ID, or -1
for an error. (It's technically an incompatible API change, but I
doubt anyone calls it.)
2001-10-16 21:13:49 +00:00
511e2cacc4
[ #403753 ] zlib decompress; uncontrollable memory usage
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Mostly by Toby Dickenson and Titus Brown.
Add an optional argument to a decompression object's decompress()
method. The argument specifies the maximum length of the return
value. If the uncompressed data exceeds this length, the excess data
is stored as the unconsumed_tail attribute. (Not to be confused with
unused_data, which is a separate issue.)
Difference from SF patch: Default value for unconsumed_tail is ""
rather than None. It's simpler if the attribute is always a string.
2001-10-16 20:39:49 +00:00
ab9b238ced
Fix a few usage and style-guide conformance issues.
2001-10-16 19:22:51 +00:00
64d7863797
Added information about setprofile() and settrace() hooks being thread-
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specific, and updated some of the comments about the profile hook.
This closes SF bug #471725 .
2001-10-16 14:54:22 +00:00
327798ca4a
Added notes to clarify that binascii.crc32(), zlib.crc32(), and
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zlib.adler32() are not suitable as general hash functions.
2001-10-15 13:45:49 +00:00
cb43c085e2
Document that keyfile and certfile are now optional.
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XXX Forgot to mention this in the last socketmodule.c checkin.
2001-10-11 16:17:22 +00:00
c7f8b86307
Describe the HeaderParser class.
2001-10-11 15:45:05 +00:00
8cd015c701
A copy-and-paste job forget the "paste" half.
2001-10-09 20:54:23 +00:00
659a60311d
Allow the profiler's calibration constant to be specified in the constructor
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call, or via setting an instance or class vrbl.
Rewrote the calibration docs.
Modern boxes are so friggin' fast, and a profiler event does so much work
anyway, that the cost of looking up an instance vrbl (the bias constant)
per profile event just isn't a big deal.
2001-10-09 20:51:19 +00:00
dca939899d
Fix minor cut-and-paste typo.
2001-10-09 19:37:51 +00:00
e0063d20a7
Update the documentation for the isinstance() function to reflect recent
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changes in the implementation.
Indented all descriptions consistently.
2001-10-09 19:31:08 +00:00
a55d132f08
Add documentation for the MIMEAudio class/module, contributed by
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Anthony Baxter.
2001-10-09 19:14:17 +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
6959a2fcd7
Note that the values for Boolean options are case-insensitive.
2001-10-09 14:58:24 +00:00
b35f0ce2b8
Update the description of getboolean() to reflect the changes made by
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SF patch #467580 .
2001-10-08 16:03:20 +00:00
0a1fc4e389
Remove code and docs for the OldProfile and HotProfile classes: code
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hasn't worked in years, docs were wrong, and they aren't interesting
anymore regardless.
2001-10-07 03:12:08 +00:00
8c2c3d301b
Update the documentation to reflect the changes to ReferenceError.
2001-10-06 06:10:54 +00:00
9835206268
A regexp example was rendered as
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foo\d
when it was clearly intended to render as
foo$
Fred, is this a right way to fix it? If not, the earlier place in the
same paragraph that does render as
foo$
is also wrong.
2001-10-05 20:06:47 +00:00
244edc8985
Add chroot call. Implements feature #459267 .
2001-10-04 22:44:26 +00:00
fcc16330a4
Update a couple of old addresses that point to CNRI.
2001-10-04 20:40:07 +00:00
3899d74c10
Make clear that tuple() accepts the same kind of arguments as list().
2001-10-04 06:53:20 +00:00
0481d24dd5
CVS patch [ #466628 ] Doc changes for doctest patch ( #466616 ), from
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Tim Hochberg. Doctest no longer searches imported objects.
2001-10-02 21:01:22 +00:00
d90f509b8f
Fredrik tells me the truefalse parameter for boolean() is not part of the
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public interface, so we can simplify the documentation.
2001-10-01 21:05:30 +00:00
6c81e2a44f
"boolean" --> "Boolean" (per the style guide).
2001-10-01 17:04:10 +00:00
fe95e65668
Straighten out some markup.
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"boolean" --> "Boolean" (per the style guide).
2001-10-01 17:03:48 +00:00
e9ba525c2b
Clarify comments about mailbox objects being iterable.
2001-10-01 15:49:56 +00:00
e7877df595
Docs for SF patch #462628
2001-10-01 13:50:15 +00:00
0daad598d0
Patch #462122 : add readline startup and pre_event hooks.
2001-09-30 21:09:59 +00:00
16dc7f44b1
Patch #462190 , patch #464070 : Support quoted printable in the binascii module.
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Decode and encode underscores for header style encoding. Fixes bug #463996 .
2001-09-30 20:32:11 +00:00
af5910f025
The execfile() docs imply it acts on locals same as exec. But in truth
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it acts more like assigning to keys in locals(), i.e. modifications to
function locals aren't reflected in the locals when execfile() returns.
2001-09-30 06:32:59 +00:00
1c33daf143
Correct docs for long(float).
2001-09-30 06:18:26 +00:00
0d68246f01
Fix two typos in the text about compile(), and add two caveats from
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recent user feedback: you must end the input with \n and you must use
\n, not \r\n to represent line endings.
2001-09-29 14:28:52 +00:00
a1c3662e84
forgot to mark use of StringType and UnicodeType in the text.
2001-09-29 13:53:21 +00:00
c7ba0c4c24
added description of StringTypes object
2001-09-29 13:49:41 +00:00
2b05ca3454
Minor markup improvement.
2001-09-29 05:01:59 +00:00
599db7de63
The list.sort() docs require a function that returns -1, 0 or +1. That's
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never been true, and in particular implies cmp() can't be used(!). Get
closer to the truth.
2001-09-29 01:08:19 +00:00
7988e0249c
Move XML-RPC-related docs to the "Internet Protocols" chapter.
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Add entry for the SimpleXMLRPCServer module.
2001-09-28 22:03:40 +00:00
e486e0d066
Preliminary documentation for the SimpleXMLRPCServer module.
2001-09-28 22:02:21 +00:00
3c10c68c0e
Use consistent version annotations instead of something ad hoc.
2001-09-28 16:57:16 +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
b387860c70
State that encode() and encodestring() append a newline to the input data
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if it does not already end with a newline.
This fixes SF bug #463330 .
2001-09-28 16:01:46 +00:00
33f4d6d1db
Add entries for the email and compiler packages.
2001-09-27 20:11:07 +00:00
90e687863b
Markup adjustments.
2001-09-27 20:09:39 +00:00
e2f9917f9f
Migrate the compiler documentation from the Tools/compiler/doc/ directory.
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Changes made to make it work in the new location.
2001-09-27 20:06:07 +00:00
3fc291a1d7
Fix some markup errors.
2001-09-27 04:17:20 +00:00
b802a1e7fa
Markup adjustment: \[...\] is math markup and does not translate well when
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used with text as was done here. Fixed so that the typeset version wraps
the warning text and the HTML version does not create images of the warning
text.
2001-09-27 04:16:27 +00:00
c5f8fe3a27
Updates do email package documentation for markup, style, and
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organization.
2001-09-26 22:21:52 +00:00
a6a885b6aa
Start making some markup adjustments; Barry has indicated he will work on
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this before we finish the integration, along with some restructuring.
2001-09-26 16:52:18 +00:00
5e634638e6
The email package documentation, currently organized the way I think
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Fred prefers. I'm not sure I like this organization, so it may change.
2001-09-26 05:23:47 +00:00
5055545fc0
Clarified some points about the interface to the mmap() function.
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This closes SF bug #448918 .
2001-09-25 19:00:08 +00:00
c0765c2381
Minor changes.
2001-09-25 16:32:02 +00:00
c825280ea5
Revise the example to be more resiliant in the face of continued use after
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the object has been pickled; don't mutate the instance dict in the
__getstate__() method. Other minor changes for style. Broke up the
displayed interactive session to get better page-breaking behavior for
typeset versions, and to point out an important aspect of the example.
This closes SF bug #453914 .
2001-09-25 16:29:17 +00:00
9081bb1d21
Added documentation for the SSL interface, contributed by Gerhard Häring.
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This closes SF patch #461337 .
2001-09-25 15:48:11 +00:00
2c9aa5ea8d
Generalize file.writelines() to allow iterable objects.
2001-09-23 04:06:05 +00:00
8a9c284437
Make difflib.ndiff() and difflib.Differ.compare() generators. This
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restores the 2.1 ability of Tools/scripts/ndiff.py to start producing
output before the entire comparison is complete.
2001-09-22 21:30:22 +00:00
e0b2d7ac9a
Add a function to compute a class's method resolution order. This is
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easy for 2.2 new-style classes, but trickier for classic classes, and
different approaches are needed "depending". The function will allow
later code to treat all flavors of classes uniformly.
2001-09-22 06:10:55 +00:00
038d26410d
Note that files are iterable; describe what the iterator returns.
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This closes SF bug #463738 .
2001-09-22 04:34:48 +00:00
c69205526a
Added reference to Tutorial section on user-defined exceptions for
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information on defining new exceptions.
This closes SF bug #443559 .
2001-09-21 21:12:30 +00:00
e0af35eb69
Fill in a few more descriptions for xml.parsers.expat.
2001-09-20 20:43:28 +00:00
2e29bfbe1a
Document new file() constructor, with the body of open()'s text, plus a
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"new in 2.2" blurb at the end. Replace open()'s text by pointing back
to file().
2001-09-20 19:55:29 +00:00
494f2aea8e
Docs and News item for the codecs.py additions.
2001-09-19 11:33:31 +00:00
83eeef4b06
SF patch #461781 by Chris Lawrence: os.path.realpath - Resolve symlinks:
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Once upon a time, I put together a little function
that tries to find the canonical filename for a given
pathname on POSIX. I've finally gotten around to
turning it into a proper patch with documentation.
On non-POSIX, I made it an alias for 'abspath', as
that's the behavior on POSIX when no symlinks are
encountered in the path.
Example:
>>> os.path.realpath('/usr/bin/X11/X')
'/usr/X11R6/bin/X'
2001-09-17 15:16:09 +00:00
5b7759f9db
Fixed typo in new 'p' description.
2001-09-15 18:16:27 +00:00
88091aae7e
SF bug [ #461674 ] struct 'p' format doesn't work (maybe)
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Rewrote the 'p' description.
2001-09-15 18:09:22 +00:00
ad2dc3fc44
Update the warning about transporting marshals across boxes with different
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ideas about sizeof(long).
2001-09-14 20:40:13 +00:00
f2a5f3f721
Markup adjustments for consistency.
2001-09-14 17:48:41 +00:00
Steve Holden
Neal Norwitz
Raymond Hettinger
Tim Peters
Fred Drake
Guido van Rossum
Skip Montanaro
Martin v. Löwis
Jeremy Hylton
Greg Ward
Piers Lauder
Michael W. Hudson
Walter Dörwald
Barry Warsaw
Anthony Baxter
Andrew M. Kuchling
Neil Schemenauer
Thomas Heller
Marc-André Lemburg
Fredrik Lundh