Fred Drake
807354f3b6
Add a note that divmod() with complex numbers is deprecated.
2002-06-20 21:10:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
dce695aa4e
Added reference to the Expat home page.
2002-06-20 21:06:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
f4bf7aa292
Typo: bites --> bytes
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(Hanging around small kids too much...;)
2002-06-18 20:38:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Piers Lauder
3fca291a52
Add IMAP4 QUOTA extension methods
2002-06-17 07:07:20 +00:00
Steve Holden
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
585775bf11
Document the Binary.data attribute.
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This closes SF bug #562878 .
2002-06-14 00:33:02 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
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
Neal Norwitz
cc5c6947a6
Add "version added" for getpgid
2002-06-13 21:19:25 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
606edc1d97
Patch #568235 : Add posix.setpgid.
2002-06-13 21:09:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
fea59e7f76
The opcode FOR_LOOP no longer exists.
2002-06-13 17:59:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Guido van Rossum
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
Fred Drake
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
Guido van Rossum
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
Michael W. Hudson
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
Guido van Rossum
a861d552c3
Document that the key should not contain null bytes.
2002-06-10 19:42:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
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
Guido van Rossum
715b861d94
Clarify the interaction between timeout/non-blocking mode, makefile
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and fromfd.
2002-06-07 12:38:23 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
62a7f63a24
Fix typo
2002-06-07 12:36:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
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
Neal Norwitz
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
Fred Drake
1a06fb0605
Fix typo spotted by Fredrik Lundh.
2002-06-06 22:19:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
6c6d662760
Fix some markup errors and adjust wording slightly.
2002-06-06 21:57:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
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
Martin v. Löwis
446a25fa3c
Patch 473512: add GNU style scanning as gnu_getopt.
2002-06-06 10:58:36 +00:00
Walter Dörwald
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
Guido van Rossum
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
Fred Drake
9b414ac93e
Update links and information on PyQt/PyKDE.
2002-05-31 18:21:56 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
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
Michael W. Hudson
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
Fred Drake
92bf9dacc9
Markup adjustments; fix the names of modules referenced in an expression.
2002-05-23 21:07:19 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
c32f0336e0
Deprecated Random.cunifvariate clearing bug 506647. Also, added docstrings.
2002-05-23 19:44:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
7779b208ae
Remove spurious "()" from the __str__() description.
2002-05-22 20:44:03 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
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
Fred Drake
c58507582b
Added a version annotation for StringTypes.
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Added documentation for BooleanType.
2002-05-22 02:44:24 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
c421ad4a35
Minor typo: Message.getall() -> Message.get_all()
2002-05-22 01:22:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
6cf09f0792
Patch 543387. Document deprecation of complex %, //,and divmod().
2002-05-21 18:19:49 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
97394bc795
Patch 533291. Deprecate None return form of __reduce__.
2002-05-21 17:22:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Raymond Hettinger
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
Raymond Hettinger
b07fa39edf
Added missing index entries for mapping methods. Closes patch #548693 .
2002-05-15 15:45:25 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
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
Raymond Hettinger
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
Raymond Hettinger
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
4d707a5d08
Remove extra period produced by previous change.
2002-05-02 17:54:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
7f781c9aab
Add Pickler.clear_memo() so the pickle and cPickle modules are more similar.
2002-05-01 20:33:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
7938fab285
Add missing right-parenthesis.
2002-05-01 03:23:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
52cc670711
Add a note about when the "%r" formatting code was added.
2002-04-30 14:54:47 +00:00
Tim Peters
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
38f71973e5
Documentation for the enumerate() function/type.
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This closes SF patch #547162 .
2002-04-26 20:29:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Anthony Baxter
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
Walter Dörwald
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
Skip Montanaro
b02ea65f92
typo
2002-04-17 19:33:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
933f159a2f
Add a version annotation for the help() function.
2002-04-17 12:54:04 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
6c7bc31089
added small clarification to the descriptions of encode() and decode()
2002-04-16 15:12:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
e19a5bcc7b
Be consistent in presenting the signatures.
2002-04-15 19:46:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
154985587b
Add docs for os.fchdir().
2002-04-15 19:41:27 +00:00
Walter Dörwald
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
Martin v. Löwis
06a83e90aa
Patch #543447 : Add posix.mknod.
2002-04-14 10:19:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
d4c0e5fd5b
BDFL agreed with Tim: rehabilitate randint().
2002-04-12 20:01:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e027d9818f
Add Raymond Hettinger's d.pop(). See SF patch 539949.
2002-04-12 15:11:59 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
81bdc93d2f
Explain octal escapes. Fixes #542226 .
2002-04-11 12:24:12 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
2854c478be
Remove mention of 'pre' module
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(2.2 bugfix candidate?)
2002-04-10 21:28:31 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
3b2625ff82
document all the valid encoding values
2002-04-10 04:37:09 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
6b35370c65
Update docs for bool changes by Guido around April 6
2002-04-09 18:15:00 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
688357e035
Patch #512005 : getrusage() returns struct-like object.
2002-04-08 21:28:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Neal Norwitz
d3dab2b192
Update doc to reflect Tim's changes to bool.
2002-04-05 02:21:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
a2c2595024
Add a version annotation regarding the urlopen(proxies={...}).
2002-04-04 20:58:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Neal Norwitz
ce5df49957
SF 539024, Fix broken link to numpy
2002-04-04 14:02:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
8d62e94761
Minor wording change.
2002-03-28 21:06:17 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
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
Fred Drake
47cdf6fb6f
Add documentation on the hasfree data object.
2002-03-28 19:34:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
e3a3ceb2b1
Minor consistency adjustments.
2002-03-28 12:40:45 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
2e64c34850
Expose C library's gettext. Fixes #516412 .
2002-03-27 18:49:02 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
3787c9d94c
Added description of binhex.Error.
2002-03-25 16:37:56 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
1e962cb61b
document InvalidURL exception
2002-03-24 16:55:57 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer
ccbb0edf0e
Add local_hostname to SMTP.__init__().
2002-03-24 15:41:40 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer
79f181395b
Add more example exceptions that unpickling can raise.
2002-03-22 22:16:03 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
e22d3dfcc1
Fix grammar
2002-03-21 12:58:54 +00:00
Walter Dörwald
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
Neal Norwitz
1abca4a515
SF# 522426, add doc for common parameter for filecmp.cmpfiles()
2002-03-20 18:55:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
a8b663806b
Remove extra verb; reported by Detlef Lannert.
2002-03-18 16:45:01 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
5c137c2251
Patch #495598 : add an -q (quiet) option to pycompile.
2002-03-18 12:44:08 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
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
Martin v. Löwis
587c98c863
Patch #430706 : Persistent connections in BaseHTTPServer.
2002-03-17 18:37:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
8e0c82a35f
Fix stupid typo in example.
2002-03-16 14:01:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Skip Montanaro
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
Fred Drake
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
Tim Peters
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
Tim Peters
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
Andrew M. Kuchling
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
Piers Lauder
a4f8313cbb
add SSL class submitted by Tino Lange
2002-03-08 01:53:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
da8a6dd072
Added missing version annotation for dict().
2002-03-06 02:29:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Skip Montanaro
a8e1d81bdc
add simple example of avoiding backtracking
2002-03-04 23:08:28 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
29001ff234
Patch #523268 , #522027 : return enhanced tuples.
2002-03-01 10:47:37 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
dbd55b3737
Patch #523268 , #522027 : return enhanced tuples.
2002-03-01 10:38:44 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
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
Fred Drake
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
Tim Peters
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
Greg Ward
f8b1f2431b
Grammar tweak.
2002-02-22 21:24:32 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
ba902fda3c
SF #515041 , Update path for 2.3
2002-02-19 02:58:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
e73ad2a21f
Use the standard expression for the availability statement for alarm().
2002-02-15 20:59:43 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
8d1fdafd89
note that the alarm function is not available on Windows.
2002-02-15 20:36:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Tim Peters
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
Skip Montanaro
c318260a71
added handle_error method description
2002-01-31 17:32:24 +00:00
Tim Peters
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
Martin v. Löwis
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
Fred Drake
744f67fb62
Add keyword.kwlist to the public API.
2002-01-24 16:38:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
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
Thomas Heller
3d62f8ca35
Fix a simple typo. Has this to be fixed also in other branches?
2002-01-14 08:37:39 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
a55ffaeee9
Add a per-message fallback mechanism for translations.
2002-01-11 06:58:49 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
1be6419871
Add fallback argument to translation(). Request fallbacks on install.
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Fixes #500595 .
2002-01-11 06:33:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
d93d68bd13
Fix minor typo reported in SF patch #497951 .
2002-01-05 01:52:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
ef338ec5f9
More index entries.
2001-12-26 19:48:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
dce2e1161a
Fix typo in httplib example.
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This fixes SF bug #495221 .
2001-12-21 03:52:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
4b1b3bfac1
Add entry for the pydoc documentation.
2001-12-18 16:32:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
0c0b5305ae
Mark the mpz module deprecated as of Python 2.2.
2001-12-16 01:54:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
c57772870b
Add a link to the mxNumber package.
2001-12-15 20:37:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
b40501b05e
Add link to the gmpy project.
2001-12-15 18:37:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
dda7dcb3f7
Add a missing "cycle".
2001-12-14 21:19:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
a0b767625b
Minor adjustments.
2001-12-13 04:25:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
cf72abab8c
Update link to the SAX homepage.
2001-12-10 18:10:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
6048ce95a9
Added documentation for str.decode().
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This closes SF bug #490823 .
2001-12-10 16:43:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
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
Fred Drake
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
Guido van Rossum
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Tim Peters
b404145936
s/it/if/ in descriptions of spawn mode argument.
2001-12-06 23:37:17 +00:00
Tim Peters
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
d2a557e51e
Added entry for the "cgitb" module docs.
2001-12-04 22:48:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
6e70e8b401
Documentation for the "cgitb" module.
2001-12-04 22:47:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Jeremy Hylton
db5a93cd6a
Update docs to reflect new compile() and compileFile()
2001-12-04 02:48:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
1a76386194
Added documentation on the ScrolledText module.
2001-12-03 21:18:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
0467775715
Add description of tkCommonDialog.
2001-11-30 19:24:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
89d63cc450
Minor adjustments to markup for the getDOMImplementation() description.
2001-11-30 16:58:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
44b6f84e56
More information about Tix support, contributed by Mike Clarkson.
2001-11-29 21:09:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
ed0a71911c
Neil Schemenauer suggested a small improvement to one of the example REs.
2001-11-29 20:23:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
389aa17ad3
writeline() --> writelines()
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This closes SF bug #487147 .
2001-11-29 19:04:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
b03d0cc45e
Typo, spotted by Detlef Lannert.
2001-11-26 21:39:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
fcb05ab512
Tk-related modules should no longer be listed here.
2001-11-26 21:38:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
2744f43f71
Fix typo, extra markup constructs.
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This closes SF bug #485252 .
2001-11-26 21:30:36 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
560da62fc7
Rename get_referents to get_referrers. Fixes #483815 .
2001-11-24 09:24:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Barry Warsaw
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
Fred Drake
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
Tim Peters
af0a883041
Relatively large expansion of the docs for gc.garbage.
2001-11-18 04:51:17 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
0c0565dd7f
Toughen up the security warnings a bit.
2001-11-16 22:28:17 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
5545219bf6
Document the urlsplit() and urlunsplit() functions.
2001-11-16 03:22:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Barry Warsaw
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
Barry Warsaw
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
Barry Warsaw
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
Fred Drake
fd4f069b12
The turtle docs will be moving to another location in the Tkinter chapter.
2001-11-15 22:10:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
53556861df
Add entries for the new Tkinter chapter.
2001-11-15 17:25:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Tim Peters
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
Fred Drake
da4ffeecf5
No need to have documentation for a module which not accepted in the library.
2001-11-09 21:45:55 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
3b0c82a2f1
Updated the documentation for formatdate().
2001-11-09 17:08:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
1a670c8414
Adjust the module synopsis to avoid margin overruns in the PDF format.
2001-11-06 22:14:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
5976816698
Remove stray quotes; probably left over from conversion from docstrings.
2001-11-06 22:11:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
806d332f02
Remove extra period.
2001-11-06 22:10:47 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
1f774b062e
Update obsolete e-mail address, and remove myself as a module author
2001-11-05 21:34:36 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
4794f0b234
Update obsolete e-mail address
2001-11-05 21:31:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
47ccfe2d8f
Remove obsolete e-mail address
2001-11-05 21:31:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
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
Barry Warsaw
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
Andrew M. Kuchling
c44403995e
Remove email*.tex subsections; they're all \input by email.tex
2001-11-05 01:55:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
43dc1fc926
Minor grammar and typo fixes
2001-11-05 01:55:03 +00:00
Tim Peters
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
Tim Peters
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
Andrew M. Kuchling
bc4a1c2588
[Patch #476612 ] Change docs to describe PEP247 interface
2001-11-02 21:44:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
d9272d6f11
Add deprecation notice to statcache.
2001-11-02 20:20:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
b4ea9d0502
Promote built-in functions to come before built-in types.
2001-10-30 06:22:02 +00:00
Tim Peters
003047a5f2
Mention the new file() builtin in the section on file objects.
2001-10-30 05:54:04 +00:00
Tim Peters
a427a2b8d0
Rename "dictionary" (type and constructor) to "dict".
2001-10-29 22:25:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
41cf5e0069
Remove unused variable.
2001-10-26 19:50:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
ef428a292a
Explain what [].insert() does when the target index is negative.
2001-10-26 18:57:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
7408da54e2
Many, many small fixes and improvements, most suggested by Detlef Lannert.
2001-10-26 17:40:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
ef7d08a661
Some style changes and typo fixes.
2001-10-26 15:04:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
de3d060eb2
Typo: destuction --> destruction
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Reported by Thomas Heller.
2001-10-26 11:27:54 +00:00
Tim Peters
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
3a2c462436
Minor textual adjustment, and style-guide conformance (no use of "iff").
2001-10-26 03:00:39 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
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
Fred Drake
61f794918f
Typo: NamedNodeList --> NamedNodeMap
2001-10-25 20:42:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
0559d95fd6
Minor revision of the text.
2001-10-24 21:10:52 +00:00
Tim Peters
98791affc8
Doc and NEWS changes due to Jeremy adding traceback objects to gc.
2001-10-23 01:59:54 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
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
Fred Drake
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
Andrew M. Kuchling
9dbc0bcf9d
Update description of border()
2001-10-20 16:07:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
0aa811c527
Use the \note and \warning macros where appropriate.
2001-10-20 04:24:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Marc-André Lemburg
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
Barry Warsaw
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
Guido van Rossum
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
Fredrik Lundh
a5e616510e
changed misleading argument name
2001-10-18 20:58:25 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
ca836f7e65
Function descriptions must end as well as start!
2001-10-18 14:26:08 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
c405133fce
Elaborate on types and meaning of the setgroups arguments.
2001-10-18 14:07:12 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
61c5edf6fc
Expose setgroups. Fixes feature request #468116 .
2001-10-18 04:06:00 +00:00
Tim Peters
61acf067ac
SF bug [ #471111 ] inspect.getframeinfo() needs docs.
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TeX-ified its docstring.
2001-10-16 23:01:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
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
Jeremy Hylton
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
Fred Drake
ab9b238ced
Fix a few usage and style-guide conformance issues.
2001-10-16 19:22:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Jeremy Hylton
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
Barry Warsaw
c7f8b86307
Describe the HeaderParser class.
2001-10-11 15:45:05 +00:00
Tim Peters
8cd015c701
A copy-and-paste job forget the "paste" half.
2001-10-09 20:54:23 +00:00
Tim Peters
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
Barry Warsaw
dca939899d
Fix minor cut-and-paste typo.
2001-10-09 19:37:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Barry Warsaw
a55d132f08
Add documentation for the MIMEAudio class/module, contributed by
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Anthony Baxter.
2001-10-09 19:14:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
6959a2fcd7
Note that the values for Boolean options are case-insensitive.
2001-10-09 14:58:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Tim Peters
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
Fred Drake
8c2c3d301b
Update the documentation to reflect the changes to ReferenceError.
2001-10-06 06:10:54 +00:00
Tim Peters
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
Martin v. Löwis
244edc8985
Add chroot call. Implements feature #459267 .
2001-10-04 22:44:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
fcc16330a4
Update a couple of old addresses that point to CNRI.
2001-10-04 20:40:07 +00:00
Tim Peters
3899d74c10
Make clear that tuple() accepts the same kind of arguments as list().
2001-10-04 06:53:20 +00:00
Tim Peters
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
6c81e2a44f
"boolean" --> "Boolean" (per the style guide).
2001-10-01 17:04:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
fe95e65668
Straighten out some markup.
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"boolean" --> "Boolean" (per the style guide).
2001-10-01 17:03:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
e9ba525c2b
Clarify comments about mailbox objects being iterable.
2001-10-01 15:49:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e7877df595
Docs for SF patch #462628
2001-10-01 13:50:15 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
0daad598d0
Patch #462122 : add readline startup and pre_event hooks.
2001-09-30 21:09:59 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
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
Tim Peters
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
Tim Peters
1c33daf143
Correct docs for long(float).
2001-09-30 06:18:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
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
Skip Montanaro
a1c3662e84
forgot to mark use of StringType and UnicodeType in the text.
2001-09-29 13:53:21 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
c7ba0c4c24
added description of StringTypes object
2001-09-29 13:49:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
2b05ca3454
Minor markup improvement.
2001-09-29 05:01:59 +00:00
Tim Peters
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
e486e0d066
Preliminary documentation for the SimpleXMLRPCServer module.
2001-09-28 22:02:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
3c10c68c0e
Use consistent version annotations instead of something ad hoc.
2001-09-28 16:57:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
33f4d6d1db
Add entries for the email and compiler packages.
2001-09-27 20:11:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
90e687863b
Markup adjustments.
2001-09-27 20:09:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
3fc291a1d7
Fix some markup errors.
2001-09-27 04:17:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Barry Warsaw
c5f8fe3a27
Updates do email package documentation for markup, style, and
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organization.
2001-09-26 22:21:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Barry Warsaw
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
c0765c2381
Minor changes.
2001-09-25 16:32:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Tim Peters
2c9aa5ea8d
Generalize file.writelines() to allow iterable objects.
2001-09-23 04:06:05 +00:00
Tim Peters
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
Tim Peters
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
e0af35eb69
Fill in a few more descriptions for xml.parsers.expat.
2001-09-20 20:43:28 +00:00
Tim Peters
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
Marc-André Lemburg
494f2aea8e
Docs and News item for the codecs.py additions.
2001-09-19 11:33:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
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
Tim Peters
5b7759f9db
Fixed typo in new 'p' description.
2001-09-15 18:16:27 +00:00
Tim Peters
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
Tim Peters
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
Fred Drake
f2a5f3f721
Markup adjustments for consistency.
2001-09-14 17:48:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
f7fcf5eea6
SF patch #461413 (Gerhard Häring): Add STARTTLS feature to smtplib
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This patch adds the features from RFC 2487 (Secure SMTP
over TLS) to the smtplib module:
- A starttls() function
- Wrapper classes that simulate enough of sockets and
files for smtplib, but really wrap a SSLObject
- reset the list of known SMTP extensions at each call
of ehlo(). This should have been the case anyway.
2001-09-14 16:08:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
b9a96282f1
Admit that we'll never add the args for a "call" event to the profile
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and trace functions; this now declares that None will be passed for the
"call" event.
This closes SF bug/suggestion #460315 .
2001-09-13 16:56:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
1c66f8965a
Added entry for the hmac module.
2001-09-11 16:59:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
aae8da18fd
Documentation for the new login() method of the smtplib.SMTP class,
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contributed by Gerhard Häring.
This is part of SF patch #460112 .
2001-09-11 16:58:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
42706803cd
Documentation for the new hmac module, contributed by Gerhard Häring.
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This is part of SF patch #460112 .
2001-09-11 16:56:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
2732cb4269
Added documentation on the getfirst() and getlist() methods of the
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cgi.FieldStorage class.
This closes SF patch #453691 .
2001-09-11 16:27:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
05a73b1f9a
Update link to the PyOpenGL project in the "gl" module docs.
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This closes SF bug #459256 .
2001-09-06 19:23:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
00bb329521
Document the built-in iter() function.
2001-09-06 19:04:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
a20c265aba
Added an additional link to NIST information on secure hashing.
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This closes SF bug #458785 .
2001-09-06 18:59:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
4d17b303bb
Several updates to cover omissions noted by Rich Salz.
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This closes SF bug #458771 .
2001-09-06 15:51:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
f5072b9314
Document the "unixfrom" attribute of the rfc822.Message class.
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Based on a patch by Skip Montanaro, this closes SF bug #458885 .
2001-09-06 15:07:55 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
b0162f9afc
Patch #416079 : fix the debug string output when receiving telnet commands.
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added all the telnet options known to arpa/telnet.h
added all the options registered with IANA as of today
added the possibility for the user to have it's own option negotiation callback
2001-09-06 08:51:38 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
bb5a465ca9
typo...
2001-09-05 19:27:13 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
44f8696171
Patch #428326 : New class threading.Timer.
2001-09-05 13:44:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
757f7809e1
Add more detail to the descriptions of the shutil functions.
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This closes SF bug #458223 .
2001-09-04 18:26:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
c05fc7dd9d
Added documentation for sys.maxunicode and sys.warnoptions.
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Fixed a markup error which caused an em dash to be presented as a minus sign.
This closes SF bug #458350 .
2001-09-04 18:18:36 +00:00
Tim Peters
32f453eaa4
New restriction on pow(x, y, z): If z is not None, x and y must be of
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integer types, and y must be >= 0. See discussion at
http://sf.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=457066&group_id=5470&atid=105470
2001-09-03 08:35:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
b86677079d
Move the long minidom example to a separate file; \verbatiminput does the
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right thing with page breaks in long examples, while the verbatim
environment does not. This causes the example to wrap to the next page
instead of overwriting the page footer and bottom margin.
2001-09-02 06:07:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
481cf2c064
Added the "Host" header to the "GET" example.
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This closes SF bug #457100 .
2001-09-01 02:35:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
3c0fc84b15
Update the links to the FIPS document that defines the Secure Hash
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Algorithm. This closes SF bug #454917 .
2001-08-30 14:42:40 +00:00
Tim Peters
692323488b
Add a new function imp.lock_held(), and use it to skip test_threaded_import
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when that test is doomed to deadlock.
2001-08-30 05:16:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
d800cff80d
Added explanation that [...] * n generates shallow copies of [...], so
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the contents will be shared by multiple references.
This closes SF bug #455694 .
2001-08-28 14:56:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
5cb29a49c8
Fix a number of minor markup errors, and improve the consistency a bit.
2001-08-28 14:25:03 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
46ccd1dae5
Plant a mention in the description of backreferences of the fact that
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while \0 doesn't do what one might expect, \g<0> does.
2001-08-28 12:50:03 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson
53da317801
Docs for the PEP 264 changes.
2001-08-27 20:02:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
88e0b5bee0
SF patch #454553 by Walter Dörwald: auto-guess content-type header for
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ftp urls.
2001-08-23 13:38:15 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
0f10f84028
indicate that mktime is platform-dependent. See SF bug 434143.
2001-08-22 12:44:27 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
5ff41d16a8
indicate that the years for which the calendar function will work are
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platform dependent. See SF bug 434143.
2001-08-22 12:43:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
31d833d575
Added documentation for BoundedSemaphore(), contributed by Skip Montanaro.
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This closes SF patch #452836 .
2001-08-20 18:49:00 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
29bb115bae
Clean up some argument profiles, enrich the docstring.
2001-08-20 13:16:30 +00:00
Tim Peters
dbec7d2c16
Improve Windows time.clock() blurb; was missing return type and unit.
2001-08-19 01:38:03 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
b60f2d0977
Framework code for compilerlike scripts.
2001-08-18 09:24:38 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
dbfe5e8507
Document that uu.decode() will always raise a uu.Error if out_file
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isn't given, and the file in the uu header already exists. Also add a
description of the uu.Error exception class.
2001-08-17 20:01:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
ce575bac5e
Fix a minor typo and mark an exception name that was missed.
2001-08-14 21:51:50 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
5ef99a0bc5
Describe the new semantics for setting and deleting a function's
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__dict__ attribute. Deleting it, or setting it to a non-dictionary
result in a TypeError. Note that getting it the first time magically
initializes it to an empty dict so that func.__dict__ will always
appear to be a dictionary (never None).
Closes SF bug #446645 .
2001-08-14 18:22:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
280f7253e4
Insert omitted "the".
2001-08-14 11:42:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
bf781a95c0
Add the smtpd module to the list of undocumented modules; Barry needs to
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write the documentation for this module.
2001-08-14 11:38:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
6943a29cbf
David Goodger <dgoodger@atsautomation.com>:
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Documentation for difflib/ndiff refactoring: more of the ndiff functionality
has been moved to the underlying library (difflib).
This closes SF patch #445413 .
2001-08-13 19:31:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
84e58ab722
For the escape() function, added a reference to the quoteattrs() function
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in xml.sax.saxutils, since that is the right function to use for quoting
attribute values.
This closes SF bug #444707 .
Cleaned up a variety of other minor markup errors.
2001-08-11 03:28:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
1cf0f1751f
Add a note that the quoteattr() function is useful for HTML and SGML
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attributes as well.
2001-08-10 22:14:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
d635e3c468
Added a warning about reference cycles and memory consumption to the
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section on functions which return stack frames.
This closes SF bug #449258 .
2001-08-10 17:37:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
6d8d72b0cb
Usage fix, problem reported by Keith Briggs.
2001-08-10 16:15:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
e89659c02d
Added documentation for the new rich comparison support.
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This closes SF patch #428320 .
Added documentation for the new floordiv() and truediv() functions.
This is part of SF bug #449093 .
Re-organized the listing of functions to get better logical grouping.
2001-08-10 15:55:09 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
9b75dca192
Expose nl_langinfo through locale where available.
2001-08-10 13:58:50 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
8cc965c1fb
Patch #448474 : Add support for tell() and seek() to gzip.GzipFile.
2001-08-09 07:21:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
3a5ec57456
Clean up some of the markup here -- be more consistent in the use of
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semantic labels instead of presentational markup.
2001-08-08 05:39:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
58212724f2
Add a comment on time.time() returning non-decreasing values except when
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the clock is set back.
This closes SF bug #447945 .
2001-08-05 15:43:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
c9908c4f5c
Document IPv6 changes. Contributed by itojun.
2001-08-04 22:22:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
b3cc29b493
Note that the mimetypes.MimeTypes class was added in Python 2.2.
2001-08-04 00:48:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
d5efb17086
Add documentation for the new aspects of the mimetypes module.
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This closes the SF bug (feature request) #439710 .
2001-08-03 21:03:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
d86038d1be
Apply the new \mailheader macro where appropriate, and fix a few small
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markup inconsistencies.
2001-08-03 18:39:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
5d54879647
Fix some of the example code; the reference objects do not support a
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get() method; just calling them is sufficient. (There was a get() method
for this in an early version of the implementation.)
Reported by Mats Wichmann.
2001-08-03 03:50:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
51629c245a
Add a caveat about boundary conditions and RE concatenation, so that the
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documents do not make an overly-strong assertion about the properties of
RE concatenation.
Add an example of RE{m,} syntax and what it will and will not match.
2001-08-02 20:52:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
905dc558f1
Cleaned up the description of readline.set_completer().
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Thanks to Nathaniel Gray for reporting the confusion.
2001-08-01 21:42:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
e74f8de385
Added an example of a string value for the replacement parameter to
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re.sub().
This closes SF bug #446136 .
Fixed description of RE modifiers so that RE{#} and RE{#,} are more
clearly described and disambiguated (plain RE{#} had not been described
at all). Reported by Jeremy Craven via email.
2001-08-01 16:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
630a63cafd
Fix description of buffer_info(), and add a note that there is a better
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way...
This closes SF bug #444842 .
2001-08-01 16:50:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
43211ecda2
Make some adjustments to the markup, and fix up some style-guide issues.
2001-07-29 03:41:23 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
66b6e192b9
Patch #416224 : add readline completion to cmd.Cmd.
2001-07-28 14:44:03 +00:00
Greg Ward
54f65094c3
Typo fix.
2001-07-26 21:01:21 +00:00
Tim Peters
7321ec437b
SF bug #444510 : int() should guarantee truncation.
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It's guaranteed now, assuming the platform modf() works correctly.
2001-07-26 20:02:17 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
4f1cd8bdcb
Patch #411138 : Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774 .
2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
41d7d58cc4
trivial rewording in footnote 5.
2001-07-25 16:18:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
d61e3eab44
Add entry for the new distutils section.
2001-07-24 16:20:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
4fefcc3ce4
Overview comments for the distutils package, with links to the distutils
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manuals for more information. This is being added to make it easier to
find the documentation for the distutils code.
2001-07-24 16:19:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
c547b46c06
Be more specific about corner cases in the description of the $ RE syntax,
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and include an example where the MULTILINE flag makes a real difference.
This closes SF bug #441600 .
2001-07-23 21:14:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
6fd3b22847
When explaining the enterabs() method, using the modern spelling of apply(),
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and relax the type of the argument list from tuple to sequence.
2001-07-23 19:28:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
6fdb90c0ca
Remove self-reference from the anydbm module.
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This closes SF patch #443788 .
2001-07-23 19:22:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
8a2adcf812
Typo: Added missing "if".
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This is part of SF patch #442788 .
2001-07-23 19:20:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
c046e97dc2
Add StopIteration to the list of exceptions *not* derived from StandardError.
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Slightly re-word discussion of SystemExit and fork().
This is part of SF patch #443788 .
2001-07-23 19:19:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
63bc2e0fcb
Convert the use of apply(f, args) to the new spelling: f(*args).
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This is part of SF patch #443788 .
2001-07-23 19:16:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
f69868f304
Add a missing "\" to the markup.
2001-07-20 19:03:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
960fdf9ac3
Added the constants ascii_letters, ascii_lowercase, and ascii_uppercase
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to the string module. This was determined to be the right approach in
SF bug #226706 .
2001-07-20 18:38:26 +00:00
Piers Lauder
a3a1668904
apply patch item #416254
2001-07-20 11:04:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
acd32d3be5
Added function xml.sax.saxutils.quoteattr().
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This closes SF bug #440351 . It should not be moved to Python 2.1.1.
2001-07-19 16:10:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
53d285a9af
Remove some false statements.
2001-07-19 03:49:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
28bafb8b5d
Fix a few typos
2001-07-19 01:17:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
72182027a8
"Make small changes, but carry a big diff."
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Minor local consistency adjustments.
A couple of small tweaks to the setdlopenflags() description.
For setprofile() and settrace(), convert some references to become
hyperlinks in the HTML version.
2001-07-18 17:52:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
1a2302b3b2
Add some symbolic names to support hyperlinked references.
2001-07-18 17:40:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
5d808fba00
Made a few minor style & markup changes to the new {get,set}dlopenflags()
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descriptions; added availability notes.
2001-07-18 16:35:05 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
f0473d511b
Patch #412229 : Add functions sys.getdlopenflags and sys.setdlopenflags.
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Add dlopenflags to PyInterpreterState, and use it in dlopen calls.
2001-07-18 16:17:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
e78661bf90
Fix a couple of minor markup nits.
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Footnotes should be added *after* punctuation, not before.
(Yes, this should be merged with the descr branch. Sorry, Tim!)
2001-07-17 05:17:58 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
95400a28e4
Updated the documentation in several respects:
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- This module, despite its name, now should conform to RFC 2822, the
update to RFC 822.
- This module doesn't just represent "email headers", but entire email
messages.
- Added documentation for other useful public functions such as
quote(), unquote(), praseaddr(), and dump_address_pair().
2001-07-16 20:47:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
687a17deaa
Revise the description of time.clock() so that it correctly describes the
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Windows version of the function as well as the Unix flavor.
This fixes SF bug #441357 .
2001-07-16 15:40:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
8ee679f0ce
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
4124a0b343
Correct a couple of errors noted by Alex Martelli.
2001-07-14 02:46:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
7fc8abb396
Remove comments about XML and HTML; those sections are no
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longer part of this chapter.
Minor change to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:44:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
3d97e35a20
Add entry for xmlrpclib documentation.
2001-07-12 23:40:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
5ddf7adf84
Several markup adjustments so this will format and be more consistent with
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the rest of the documnentation.
2001-07-12 23:39:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
f4bdb57e15
Fix return value for m.group() for groups not in the part of the RE that
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matched; reported by Paul Moore.
Wrapped several long lines.
2001-07-12 14:13:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
bf5a774bcb
On int/long to the negative int/long power, let float handle it
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instead of raising an error. This was one of the two issues that the
VPython folks were particularly problematic for their students. (The
other one was integer division...) This implements (my) SF patch
#440487 .
2001-07-12 11:27:16 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
e304bb9eec
First version of xmlrpclib docs. Probably has markup errors; is not complete,
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could probably stand to have some of the internal things like Marshaller
documented. But I think it does a decent job on the entry points and
externally visible things.
Fred and Fredrik, do your stuff! You both need to proof this.
2001-07-12 02:39:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
682d5f3cda
Follow the recommended practices for keystroke representation; this
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improves internal consistency in the documentation.
2001-07-12 02:09:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
9bbc933fcb
Added information about the timeout parameter to the poll() method for
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polling objects. This closes SF bug #439823 .
Fixed a minor markup bug.
2001-07-11 18:48:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
ab1df4fe88
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.
Add an index entry for the Telnet protocol.
Always refer to the protocol as Telnet instead of telnet.
2001-07-06 20:23:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
91f2f26d75
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 19:28:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
45c23e61d8
Explain the exit code for the wait() method, including a reference to
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the os.W*() functions used to interpret the return value.
This fixes SF bug #429361 .
2001-07-06 17:17:12 +00:00