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Fred Drake 70995830a6 markup corrections 2003-04-22 18:54:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 282be3ab89 - explain the start argument to sum()
- various adjustments to sum() markup and explanation
2003-04-22 14:52:08 +00:00
Alex Martelli a70b19147f Adding new built-in function sum, with docs and tests. 2003-04-22 08:12:33 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 48f3dcc93e - Changed shlex.split() method to have more useful and
meaningful parameters.
2003-04-20 01:57:03 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer cf146d31e7 - Included examples documenting how the lastindex member of
match objects work.
2003-04-20 01:48:59 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 153c9e493e Patch #553171: Add writeback parameter. Also add protocol parameter. 2003-04-19 20:59:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a26854095b - Several methods of nntplib.NNTP have grown an optional file argument
which specifies a file where to divert the command's output
  (already supported by the body() method).  (SF patch #720468)
  Thanks to Terry Carroll.
2003-04-19 18:04:57 +00:00
Barry Warsaw b05df5796a Added some more documentation to as_string() to make it clear that
it's a convenience only.  Give an example of what to do for more
flexibility.
2003-04-18 23:03:53 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 338bcbccfa Change email address. 2003-04-18 22:04:34 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis faf71ea5b3 Fix spelling of cedillas. 2003-04-18 21:48:56 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 07d4fb6f17 Correct methoddesc environments. 2003-04-18 21:48:13 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 281b2c6211 Patch #536883: SimpleXMLRPCServer auto-docing subclass. 2003-04-18 21:04:39 +00:00
Fred Drake cf6d74aedd - accepted (slightly) modified version of docs for the OptionGroup
class; closes SF patch #697941
- use em-dashes intead of en-dashes
- section references: use a "tie" between the word "section" and the
  section number, use quotation marks around section titles
- other minor markup corrections/cleanups
2003-04-18 15:50:13 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 2548c730c1 Implement IDNA (Internationalized Domain Names in Applications). 2003-04-18 10:39:54 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 10cf21802d Use True in a few more places.
Use isinstance(somestring, basestring) instead of type() as per PEP 8
2003-04-17 23:09:08 +00:00
Neal Norwitz a6bdf2aef6 Oops, missed updating doc to correct version for split 2003-04-17 23:07:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 30b6e8230b Added documentation for the handle_pi() method, based on SF patch #662464.
Closes SF bug #659188, patch #662464.
2003-04-17 22:36:52 +00:00
Fred Drake aa3b5d2ec5 markup banalities 2003-04-17 21:49:04 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 68d8cef89a Implemented posix-mode parsing support in shlex.py, as dicussed in
mailing list, and in patch #722686.
2003-04-17 21:31:33 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 1475c49211 Add version info for name2codepoint and codepoint2name 2003-04-16 13:21:06 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 5688b7ac3e Add two dictionaries to htmlentitydefs: name2codepoint maps
HTML entity names to Unicode codepoints (as integers).
codepoint2name is the reverse mapping. From SF patch #722017.
2003-04-16 09:46:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3a3cca5b82 - list.insert(i, x) now interprets negative i as it would be
interpreted by slicing, so negative values count from the end of the
  list.  This was the only place where such an interpretation was not
  placed on a list index.
2003-04-14 20:58:14 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 44c62ef5ee Typo fix 2003-04-14 15:32:18 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 125b9b0736 Back out of setting the default charset to iso-8859-1. 2003-04-11 21:28:10 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 06c7b62a83 Fix markup 2003-04-11 18:48:03 +00:00
Barry Warsaw a1ce93f87c From http://mail.python.org/pipermail/i18n-sig/2003-April/001557.html
- Expose NullTranslations and GNUTranslations to __all__

- Set the default charset to iso-8859-1.  It used to be None, which
would cause problems with .ugettext() if the file had no charset
parameter.  Arguably, the po/mo file would be broken, but I still think
iso-8859-1 is a reasonable default.

- Add a "coerce" default argument to GNUTranslations's constructor.  The
reason for this is that in Zope, we want all msgids and msgstrs to be
Unicode.  For the latter, we could use .ugettext() but there isn't
currently a mechanism for Unicode-ifying msgids.

The plan then is that the charset parameter specifies the encoding for
both the msgids and msgstrs, and both are decoded to Unicode when read.
For example, we might encode po files with utf-8. I think the GNU
gettext tools don't care.

Since this could potentially break code [*] that wants to use the
encoded interface .gettext(), the constructor flag is added, defaulting
to False.  Most code I suspect will want to set this to True and use
.ugettext().

- A few other minor changes from the Zope project, including asserting
that a zero-length msgid must have a Project-ID-Version header for it to
be counted as the metadata record.
2003-04-11 18:36:43 +00:00
Neal Norwitz ffe33b7f24 Attempt to make all the various string *strip methods the same.
* Doc - add doc for when functions were added
 * UserString
 * string object methods
 * string module functions
'chars' is used for the last parameter everywhere.

These changes will be backported, since part of the changes
have already been made, but they were inconsistent.
2003-04-10 22:35:32 +00:00
Fred Drake fcd845a7ed Lots of small markup adjustments. 2003-04-09 04:06:37 +00:00
Anthony Baxter fda5e27ec9 extra punctuation removed 2003-04-09 03:03:46 +00:00
Skip Montanaro d6e9fe386a + libtimeit 2003-04-09 01:39:06 +00:00
Skip Montanaro ca652746ff doc for timeit module/script - mostly just a recast of Tim's docstring 2003-04-09 01:38:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 2c2068c4d1 Added example of using positional and keyword args with atexit.register().
Based on a suggestion from a reader.
2003-04-08 17:46:53 +00:00
Fred Drake de7ad2caac Markup fix. 2003-04-08 17:37:47 +00:00
Tim Peters 730f5535ba s/referrents/referents/g. Gotta love that referrers remains rife with rs. 2003-04-08 17:17:17 +00:00
Tim Peters 0f81ab6d88 Finished implementing gc.get_referrents(): dealt with error and end
cases, wrote docs, added a test.
2003-04-08 16:39:48 +00:00
Anthony Baxter cb8ed53014 add note suggested by rhettinger about example. 2003-04-07 12:21:56 +00:00
Anthony Baxter b3303efec6 patch [ 698505 ] docs for hotshot module 2003-04-07 12:19:15 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 3ae0f7a7cf Replace criterium with criterion. Fixes #705120. 2003-03-27 16:59:38 +00:00
Barry Warsaw bfa893f3ac email is at version 2.5 now 2003-03-21 21:14:48 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 5fbf8362a3 include csv doc section - Fred, you may want to change the location 2003-03-20 23:35:00 +00:00
Skip Montanaro b4a0417e91 new CSV file processing module - see PEP 305 2003-03-20 23:29:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 4cee220ff3 - added example of using a comparison function with list.sort(), and
explained the construction of a [(key, value), ...] list as an
  alternative
- note that support for cmpfunc=None was added in 2.3
2003-03-20 22:17:59 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 2a403e8a7e add descriptions of {get,set}defaulttimeout. 2003-03-20 17:58:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 5c7b2487cd - explain what a UNC path is in the makedirs() description, since
they're actually mentioned there
- remove some extraneous paragraph separations
- \versionadded --> \versionchanged in one place
2003-03-20 17:39:38 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 43ed43bfc1 Take out my (long since disabled) POSIX signal mask handling code.
I'm not going to have the time or energy to get this working x-platform
-- anyone who does is welcome to the code!
2003-03-13 13:56:53 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 45c3941510 Update the package version number 2003-03-12 03:43:09 +00:00
Barry Warsaw a996d4f137 For email 2.5b1, we no longer add a trailing newline to
MIMEText.__init__()'s _text argument if it doesn't already end in a
newline.  This may be controversial.
2003-03-11 05:03:25 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 52b39f5b47 body_line_iterator() now takes a decode argument. 2003-03-11 04:40:14 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 20ebc37013 Describe what happens when decode=True and the payload has bogus
base64 data.
2003-03-10 16:13:50 +00:00
Greg Ward cd930f5258 openmixer()'s 'mode' parameter has been removed. 2003-03-10 03:18:19 +00:00
Greg Ward f882c77d70 Expand description of ossaudiodev.error exception.
Improve descriptions of open(), openmixer().
2003-03-10 03:05:21 +00:00
Greg Ward 3e34f59ce2 Rewrite intro paragraphs and add a "See also" box for the link to the
official OSS docs.

Markup fixes: change \code{} variously to \function{}, \method{}, or
\constant{} as appropriate.
2003-03-10 02:09:51 +00:00
Greg Ward 074472ba98 Fix two unformatted lists: one is now an 'enumerate' environment, the
other a 'tableii'.

Formatting/typo fix.
2003-03-10 00:24:42 +00:00
Greg Ward 41a28e374c Add libossaudiodev.tex. 2003-03-10 00:07:14 +00:00
Greg Ward 33bcd987dd Wrap all paragraphs to 72 columns.
Two spaces between sentences.
Fix em-dashes -- should be "---" not " - ".
Spelling fix.
2003-03-09 23:57:34 +00:00
Greg Ward 620e343c0a Documentation for the ossaudiodev module.
Initial revision supplied by Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale <wzdd@lardcave.net>
(emailed to me [gward@python.net] 2003-03-08 23:37 +1100).
2003-03-09 23:34:52 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 42182ebaf6 SF 698520: Iterator for urllib.URLOpener
Contributed by Brett Cannon.
2003-03-09 05:33:33 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger a3e1e4cd79 SF patch #693753: fix for bug 639806: default for dict.pop
(contributed by Michael Stone.)
2003-03-06 23:54:28 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 1a2c37316b Describe Charset.__repr__(). 2003-03-06 06:07:34 +00:00
Barry Warsaw f32e313914 Describe the new Header.encode() argument "splitchars". 2003-03-06 06:06:54 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 73d538b9c6 Always initialize Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding on Unix in Py_Initialize,
and not as a side effect of setlocale. Expose it as sys.getfilesystemencoding.
Adjust test case.
2003-03-05 15:13:47 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 9c20615d4f Back in June in revision 1.98 Steve (accidentally, presumably) wiped
out a month's worth of checkins to libstdtypes.tex (including my
extended slice docs).

I think this checkin merges them all back in, but if you make one of
these checkins:

    revision 1.97
    date: 2002/06/14 00:27:13;  author: nnorwitz
    Use \code{True} (or False) instead of true/false.
    Not sure if code is correct, but that is what's in this file.
    I've seen \constant{True} in other places.
    ----------------------------
    revision 1.95
    date: 2002/05/22 20:39:43;  author: bwarsaw
    Jack's documentation for the U mode character on the file()
    constructor, vetted by Barry.
    ----------------------------
    revision 1.94
    date: 2002/05/21 18:19:15;  author: rhettinger
    Patch 543387.  Document deprecation of complex %, //,and divmod().
    ----------------------------
    revision 1.93
    date: 2002/05/15 15:45:25;  author: rhettinger
    Added missing index entries for mapping methods.  Closes patch
    #548693.

some checking may be in order.
2003-03-05 14:42:09 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 69700ef573 Weaken recommendation of Friedl book; fix reference 2003-03-04 14:17:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 02a0b3b81a [bug #692016] update description of {m,n} modifier; you can omit the lower bound 2003-03-04 14:12:24 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 85f3227a74 [bug #696771] Remove misleading parenthetical aside 2003-03-04 14:07:51 +00:00
Just van Rossum 96b1c903f5 Patch #683592 revisited, after discussions with MvL:
- Implement the behavior as specified in PEP 277, meaning os.listdir()
  will only return unicode strings if it is _called_ with a unicode
  argument.
- And then return only unicode, don't attempt to convert to ASCII.
- Don't switch on Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, but simply use the
  default encoding if Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding is NULL. This means
  os.listdir() can now raise UnicodeDecodeError if the default encoding
  can't represent the directory entry. (This seems better than silcencing
  the error and fall back to a byte string.)
- Attempted to decribe the above in Doc/lib/libos.tex.
- Reworded the Misc/NEWS items to reflect the current situation.

This checkin also fixes bug #696261, which was due to os.listdir() not
using Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, like all file system calls are
supposed to.
2003-03-03 17:32:15 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson f008998668 Fix bug
[ 555817 ] Flawed fcntl.ioctl implementation.

with my patch that allows for an array to be mutated when passed
as the buffer argument to ioctl() (details complicated by
backwards compatibility considerations -- read the docs!).
2003-03-03 12:29:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 46d3dc37e4 - New function sys.exc_clear() clears the current exception. This is
rarely needed, but can sometimes be useful to release objects
  referenced by the traceback held in sys.exc_info()[2].  (SF patch
  #693195.)  Thanks to Kevin Jacobs!
2003-03-01 03:20:41 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 7aba3d471f Fix SF bug #691276, shutil.copytree documentation bug 2003-02-23 21:36:47 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 61fe64d5de User requested changes to the itertools module.
Subsumed times() into repeat().
Added cycle() and chain().
2003-02-23 04:40:07 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson f5dd753f4d I'm am the PyPy sprint waiting for a Grand Renaming so I killed a few
seconds making the doc for get_completer marginally less minimal :)
2003-02-21 20:11:09 +00:00
Neal Norwitz b7d1d3cf23 Add some minimal doc for get_completer added for patch 676342 2003-02-21 18:57:05 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 1b56de05d5 Fill in missing table entries. 2003-02-21 05:42:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger a97e4f3a49 SF bug #685775: turtle circle() documentation error 2003-02-21 03:14:08 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 1b18ba49ab Markup and nits. 2003-02-21 01:45:34 +00:00
Neal Norwitz d08baa9504 Add some notes about HIGHEST_PROTOCOL. 2003-02-21 00:26:33 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 6fa635df7a SF patch #687683, Patches to logging (updates from Vinay)
Mostly rename WARN -> WARNING
Other misc tweaks
Update tests (not in original patch)
2003-02-18 14:20:07 +00:00
Neal Norwitz f927f14eda Fix SF bug #687655, String formatting conversions misleading 2003-02-17 18:57:06 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 117910dc44 Migrate definitions of several platform-dependent path-related variables
into the relevant path modules.  See patch #686397.
2003-02-14 19:35:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 002a5de202 extsep description:
- avoid "e.g." in text
- record version information
(should be backported)
2003-02-14 06:39:37 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 47e46e2347 add missing description of os.extsep 2003-02-14 05:45:31 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2835e37be5 SF bug #663701: sets module review
Renamed hook methods to use the double underscore convention.
2003-02-14 03:42:11 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e544f6f682 SF bug #663701. The caret wasn't printing well in the PDF documentation. 2003-02-14 01:49:09 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 12d31e2e9d Try to doc the new pickle details being implemented as part of PEP 307.
Needs review.
2003-02-13 03:12:48 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 2294c0d4ec Cleanup from patch #683257:
Add missing INCREFs and re-indent returns to be consistent.
 Add \n\ for lines in docstring
 Add a pathetic test
 Add docs
2003-02-12 23:02:21 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer a33d0aa693 Unparenting BZ2File, as discussed in SF patch #661796.
* Modules/bz2module.c
  (BZ2FileObject): Now the structure includes a pointer to a file object,
   instead of "inheriting" one. Also, some members were copied from the
   PyFileObject structure to avoid dealing with the internals of that
   structure from outside fileobject.c.

  (Util_GetLine,Util_DropReadAhead,Util_ReadAhead,Util_ReadAheadGetLineSkip,
   BZ2File_write,BZ2File_writelines,BZ2File_init,BZ2File_dealloc,
   BZ2Comp_dealloc,BZ2Decomp_dealloc):
   	These functions were adapted to the change above.

  (BZ2File_seek,BZ2File_close): Use PyObject_CallMethod instead of
   getting the function attribute locally.

  (BZ2File_notsup): Removed, since it's not necessary anymore to overload
   truncate(), and readinto() with dummy functions.

  (BZ2File_methods): Added xreadlines() as an alias to BZ2File_getiter,
   and removed truncate() and readinto().

  (BZ2File_get_newlines,BZ2File_get_closed,BZ2File_get_mode,BZ2File_get_name,
   BZ2File_getset):
   	Implemented getters for "newlines", "mode", and "name".

  (BZ2File_members): Implemented "softspace" member.

  (BZ2File_init): Reworked to create a file instance instead of initializing
   itself as a file subclass. Also, pass "name" object untouched to the
   file constructor, and use PyObject_CallFunction instead of building the
   argument tuple locally.

  (BZ2File_Type): Set tp_new to PyType_GenericNew, tp_members to
   BZ2File_members, and tp_getset to BZ2File_getset.

  (initbz2): Do not set BZ2File_Type.tp_base nor BZ2File_Type.tp_new.


* Doc/lib/libbz2.tex
  Do not mention that BZ2File inherits from the file type.
2003-02-11 18:46:20 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson eb189934ce Fix so it compiles at least.
"make lib" takes a while, doesn't it?
2003-02-11 14:24:13 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson aab0260682 Remove erroneous period. 2003-02-10 19:21:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 60eca9331a C Code:
* Removed the ifilter flag wart by splitting it into two simpler functions.
* Fixed comment tabbing in C code.
* Factored module start-up code into a loop.

Documentation:
* Re-wrote introduction.
* Addede examples for quantifiers.
* Simplified python equivalent for islice().
* Documented split of ifilter().

Sets.py:
* Replace old ifilter() usage with new.
2003-02-09 06:40:58 +00:00
Tim Peters 07534a607b Comparison for timedelta, time, date and datetime objects: __eq__ and
__ne__ no longer complain if they don't know how to compare to the other
thing.  If no meaningful way to compare is known, saying "not equal" is
sensible.  This allows things like

    if adatetime in some_sequence:
and
    somedict[adatetime] = whatever

to work as expected even if some_sequence contains non-datetime objects,
or somedict non-datetime keys, because they only call __eq__.

It still complains (raises TypeError) for mixed-type comparisons in
contexts that require a total ordering, such as list.sort(), use as a
key in a BTree-based data structure, and cmp().
2003-02-07 22:50:28 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2012f174ea SF bug #681003: itertools issues
* Fixed typo in exception message for times()
* Filled in missing times_traverse()
* Document reasons that imap() did not adopt a None fill-in feature
* Document that count(sys.maxint) will wrap-around on overflow
* Add overflow test to islice()
* Check that starmap()'s argument returns a tuple
* Verify that imap()'s tuple re-use is safe
* Make a similar tuple re-use (with safety check) for izip()
2003-02-07 05:32:58 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 2b09bc4d57 Fix SF bug #675259, os.environ leaks under FreeBSD and Mac OS X
Even with the extra work to cleanup the env, *BSD still leaks.  Add a note.

Will backport.
2003-02-07 02:27:36 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 694d9b3541 Update doc to reflect code changes for obsoleting use_statcache parameter 2003-02-06 21:17:17 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 93cf58b015 Typo fixes 2003-02-06 18:04:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ba37524b7c Fix description of filterwarnings() parameters (error noted by Richard Jones at
http://mechanicalcat.net/cgi-bin/log/python/turning_warnings_off.html)
2003-02-06 14:38:45 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 292f56cd26 Provide version changed info 2003-02-06 05:02:39 +00:00
Anthony Baxter 983b008824 Updated version of [ 558544 ] cmd.py: add instance-specific stdin/out
This patch adds stdin, stdout as optional arguments to the cmd.Cmd
constructor (defaulting to sys.stdin, sys.stdout), and changes the Cmd
methods throughout to use self.stdout.write() and self.stdin.foo for
output and input. This allows much greater flexibility for using cmd -
for instance, hooking it into a telnet server.

Patch for library module and for documentation.
2003-02-06 01:45:11 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 570e35870a Markup fixes; in particular, the tables are now reasonable width 2003-02-05 21:15:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 604ade4ebd supports_unicode_filenames was not in the right location. 2003-02-04 19:13:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 57d575240c Update to better reflect the usage of struct_time instances throughout;
continuing to call these "time tuples" is misleading at best.
Closes SF bug #671731; will backport to 2.2.x.
2003-02-04 15:12:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4b37364fc8 Bug #678077: Suggest alternative to os.getlogin() 2003-02-03 15:36:26 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 96ef8115dd Move itertools module from the sandbox and into production. 2003-02-01 00:10:11 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 2e0b18af30 Change the treatment of positions returned by PEP293
error handers in the Unicode codecs: Negative
positions are treated as being relative to the end of
the input and out of bounds positions result in an
IndexError.

Also update the PEP and include an explanation of
this in the documentation for codecs.register_error.

Fixes a small bug in iconv_codecs: if the position
from the callback is negative *add* it to the size
instead of substracting it.

From SF patch #677429.
2003-01-31 17:19:08 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2adbb83a24 SF bug #671447: StringIO doc doesn't say it's sometimes read-only. 2003-01-31 05:17:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 008a36ac20 Fix markup error. 2003-01-30 22:22:59 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 301eb71fb9 Author markup: Andrew got to it first 2003-01-30 01:03:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 7934bc23a8 Move a footnote to the end of the sentence, so the note mark won't
interfere with the flow of the sentence.
2003-01-29 05:10:27 +00:00
Fred Drake c23e0192c9 More markup changes for consistency. 2003-01-28 22:09:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 68e6d57bb9 Various minor markup adjustments. 2003-01-28 22:02:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 0a9cc58c85 Adjust some of Skip's latest changes slightly; these really are things
that should stand out.
2003-01-27 16:32:04 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 13a28634ac * add \versionadded{} strings as appropriate
* remove doc for defunct IllegalKeywordArgument exception
* add note that HTTP class is for backward compatibility and refer reader to
  online docstrings for help
2003-01-27 15:00:38 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2ef85a729e Fix minor typos. 2003-01-25 21:46:53 +00:00
Neal Norwitz cd5c8c2120 SF #638299, LaTeX documentation for logging package
Replace existing doc with new version from Vinay.
Fixed markup and wrapped long lines from patch.
Needs review.
2003-01-25 21:29:41 +00:00
Neal Norwitz daae32721a Fix markup 2003-01-25 21:08:30 +00:00
Tim Peters 8d81a012ef date and datetime comparison: when we don't know how to
compare against "the other" argument, we raise TypeError,
in order to prevent comparison from falling back to the
default (and worse than useless, in this case) comparison
by object address.

That's fine so far as it goes, but leaves no way for
another date/datetime object to make itself comparable
to our objects.  For example, it leaves Marc-Andre no way
to teach mxDateTime dates how to compare against Python
dates.

Discussion on Python-Dev raised a number of impractical
ideas, and the simple one implemented here:  when we don't
know how to compare against "the other" argument, we raise
TypeError *unless* the other object has a timetuple attr.
In that case, we return NotImplemented instead, and Python
will give the other object a shot at handling the
comparison then.

Note that comparisons of time and timedelta objects still
suffer the original problem, though.
2003-01-24 22:36:34 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 6d9f9b3b67 Fred drives and fixes a formatting nit. 2003-01-24 17:33:30 +00:00
Tim Peters 2a44a8d332 SF bug 660872: datetimetz constructors behave counterintuitively (2.3a1).
This gives much the same treatment to datetime.fromtimestamp(stamp, tz) as
the last batch of checkins gave to datetime.now(tz):  do "the obvious"
thing with the tz argument instead of a senseless thing.
2003-01-23 20:53:10 +00:00
Tim Peters 10cadce41e Reimplemented datetime.now() to be useful. 2003-01-23 19:58:02 +00:00
Tim Peters f196a0a4dd "Premature" doc changes, for new astimezone() rules, and the new
tzinfo.fromutc() method.  The C code doesn't implement any of this
yet (well, not the C code on the machine I'm using now), nor does
the test suite reflect it.  The Python datetime.py implementation and
test suite in the sandbox do match these doc changes.  The C
implementation probably won't catch up before Thursday (Wednesday is
a scheduled "black hole" day this week <0.4 wink>).
2003-01-22 04:45:50 +00:00
Tim Peters b01c39bb94 SF bug 671779: Error in tzinfo.dst() docs
tzinfo dst() should return timedelta(0) if DST is not effect, not 0.
2003-01-21 16:44:27 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 1f7a271f0b more tweaks 2003-01-21 01:52:39 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 190613cee9 * document open() function
* promote the example and the documented restrictions to \subsection status
* document the flag parameter of the DbfilenameShelf class
2003-01-21 01:38:47 +00:00
Tim Peters 327098a613 New rule for tzinfo subclasses handling both standard and daylight time:
When daylight time ends, an hour repeats on the local clock (for example,
in US Eastern, the clock jumps from 1:59 back to 1:00 again).  Times in
the repeated hour are ambiguous.  A tzinfo subclass that wants to play
with astimezone() needs to treat times in the repeated hour as being
standard time.  astimezone() previously required that such times be
treated as daylight time.  There seems no killer argument either way,
but Guido wants the standard-time version, and it does seem easier the
new way to code both American (local-time based) and European (UTC-based)
switch rules, and the astimezone() implementation is simpler.
2003-01-20 22:54:38 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9543b34006 SF patch #670423: Add missing identity tests to operator.c 2003-01-18 23:22:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 42b567fce9 Fix a couple of markup errors. 2003-01-17 22:47:33 +00:00
Skip Montanaro a5caa6fcd9 reference the os module and the lock flags in the os.open() function.
(Someone please review what I wrote for accuracy.)
2003-01-15 21:08:19 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 3801ec7ff3 Document that __cmp__() is not defined for sets.
Note, that list.sort() is undefined for lists of sets.
Add the ... prompt to the example so it runs in doctest.
2003-01-15 15:46:05 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 0c6774d92b Patch #661719: Expose compilation errors as exceptions on request. 2003-01-15 11:51:06 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis d69663d300 Patch #473586: Implement CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler. 2003-01-15 11:37:23 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2bd1568d35 SF patch 664183 and SF bug 664044: Note that both u'%s' % 'x' and
'%s' % u'x'  return a unicode object.
2003-01-13 04:29:19 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 06daee9dd7 Try to make a sentance more readable. 2003-01-12 15:04:54 +00:00
Neal Norwitz e68fbc44aa SF #665570, curses causes interpreter crash
The interpreter doesn't crash, but it does call exit() in libncurses.
Add a note to this effect.

Will backport
2003-01-12 14:56:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 8ec17a0a8d Minor correction and clarification. 2003-01-11 23:15:47 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 3cb68a2512 Remove extra 'types'
Change a couple of list -> mylist
2003-01-10 13:52:30 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6fe1299b09 SF bug #652888: bad documentation for the "type" builtin
Clarified that not all types are included.  The OP was looking for a
StaticMethodType.

Also, added a note and example suggesting the use of int,str, etc.
instead of IntType, StrType, etc.

Renamed the crummy variable name in the example from "list" to "mylist".
2003-01-10 09:33:08 +00:00
Tim Peters 312141c51f Purged reference to defunct datetimetz. 2003-01-09 19:52:17 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 9b44571caa Various minor edits 2003-01-09 13:46:30 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 0f0e6b9d48 Markup fix 2003-01-09 12:51:50 +00:00
Tim Peters 003720235b Massive fiddling to reflect that datetimetz and timetz no longer exist.
WARNING:  It would be a minor miracle if the LaTeX stuff still worked.

s/field/member/ generally everywhere, to conform with most other usage in
the docs.

s/daylight savings time/daylight saving time/ generally everywhere,
because the latter spelling is anally correct.
2003-01-09 04:10:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 326c72a839 Add notes about the linuxaudiodev and ossaudiodev modules. 2003-01-08 07:21:53 +00:00
Greg Ward 19b6f60f5c There's no such method as has_option() -- should be has_extn(). 2003-01-08 03:04:42 +00:00
Barry Warsaw b6604b3e69 Document EX_OK and friends. 2003-01-07 22:43:25 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 051314f924 SF #664011, move tarfile module in docs 2003-01-07 22:36:04 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 8ef3d8d5d1 Fix spelling. 2003-01-06 18:41:01 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 488609e43a SF #642236, optparse LaTeX docs by Johannes Gijsbers 2003-01-06 16:51:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 11f89b75e1 Strike any hint that from-import-* could ever be reasonable; it's a
vile abomination and should be eradicated!
2003-01-06 16:38:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 2e3ae21060 Fix some nits Guido brought up last August:
- give subsection pages nicer names
- shorten some really long table cells; table cells can't wrap in the
  typeset version of the documentation
2003-01-06 15:50:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 2b0a3d33f8 Fix markup so this will format again. 2003-01-06 15:03:11 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9f5b07dd92 SF bug #592859: os.chmod is underdocumented
Document constants for permission bits.
2003-01-06 13:31:26 +00:00
Neal Norwitz b9ef4aea5e SF #651082, tarfile module implementation from Lars Gustäbel 2003-01-05 23:19:43 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 6d23b170cf Fix a typo 2003-01-05 22:20:51 +00:00
Tim Peters 75a6e3bd1a datetime_from_timet_and_us(): ignore leap seconds if the platform
localtime()/gmtime() insists on delivering them, + associated doc
changes.

Redid the docs for datetimtez.astimezone().
2003-01-04 18:17:36 +00:00
Tim Peters adf642038e A new implementation of astimezone() that does what we agreed on in all
cases, plus even tougher tests of that.  This implementation follows
the correctness proof very closely, and should also be quicker (yes,
I wrote the proof before the code, and the code proves the proof <wink>).
2003-01-04 06:03:15 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 69bf8f3f4e SF bug #655271: Slightly modify locals() doc
Clarify the operation of locals().
2003-01-04 02:16:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 2ca243368f SF bug #651149: Review libshelve.tex when possible
Minor fixes to markup, spelling, parameter names, and abbreviations.
2003-01-04 01:53:38 +00:00
Tim Peters 8827d0c338 Replaced the flawed "local time" example tzinfo class with the guts
of Guido's later Local.py (from the datetime sandbox).
2003-01-03 22:26:57 +00:00
Tim Peters 397301eccb The tzinfo methods utcoffset() and dst() must return a timedelta object
(or None) now.  In 2.3a1 they could also return an int or long, but that
was an unhelpfully redundant leftover from an earlier version wherein
they couldn't return a timedelta.  TOOWTDI.
2003-01-02 21:28:08 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 4abd5f0fce Allow list sort's comparison function to explicitly be None. See SF patch
661092.
2003-01-02 20:51:08 +00:00
Tim Peters 710fb1548a astimezone() internals: if utcoffset() returns a duration, complain if
dst() returns None (instead of treating that as 0).
2003-01-02 19:35:54 +00:00
Neal Norwitz e149798c7f Add some version info for new methods and class 2003-01-02 15:32:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 74bcac4cae - documented Ellipsis, NotImplemented
- minor markup changes
- indented for consistency with newer content
2003-01-02 05:13:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 45e482fd3d Document that apply() is deprecated. See:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-January/031556.html
2003-01-02 04:54:04 +00:00
Tim Peters f36151556f A quicker astimezone() implementation, rehabilitating an earlier
suggestion from Guido, along with a formal correctness proof of the
trickiest bit.  The intricacy of the proof reveals how delicate this
is, but also how robust the conclusion:  correctness doesn't rely on
dst() returning +- one hour (not all real time zones do!), it only
relies on:

1. That dst() returns a (any) non-zero value if and only if daylight
   time is in effect.

and

2. That the tzinfo subclass implements a consistent notion of time zone.

The meaning of "consistent" was a hidden assumption, which is now an
explicit requirement in the docs.  Alas, it's an unverifiable (by the
datetime implementation) requirement, but so it goes.
2003-01-01 21:51:37 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 0233bd9c7d mention built-in constants. 2003-01-01 20:37:14 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 1f041e7aa8 process libconsts.tex 2003-01-01 20:34:00 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 17804b1df4 new section - builtin constants 2003-01-01 20:33:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 0f8e543159 - use classdesc where we can (for better indexing)
- more style consistency crud
2002-12-31 18:31:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 436eadd455 General style conformance. Markup some unmarked constructs. 2002-12-31 18:13:11 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f621232c0d Use funcdesc instead of classdesc to be consistent with out sections. 2002-12-31 17:24:50 +00:00
Fred Drake e2c649126e Further cleanup of exceptions. All interpolation-related exceptions
now derive from InterpolationError, which is not raised directly (only
subclasses get raised).  This matches what the docs already said.
2002-12-31 17:23:27 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6222958500 Spelling fix 2002-12-31 16:37:03 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger cbd6cd2312 Add markup for time object.
Cleanup whitespace.
Fix unbalanced parenthesis.
2002-12-31 16:30:49 +00:00
Tim Peters 9532298c82 Removed the now-untrue (or soon-to-be untrue) part of the astimezone()
docs.  Replaced it with an XXX block, because the hoped-for treatment
of DST endcases remains unclear (Guido doesn't really like raising an
exception when it's impossible to deliver a correct result, but so
far I have no way in hand to consistently deliver a defined incorrect
result either).
2002-12-31 16:01:47 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond 2852cbaf26 Document the new ,netrc awareness in nntplib. 2002-12-31 15:28:44 +00:00
Fred Drake f91b4619e0 Barry raised reasonable objections to the macro name \mimeheader, so
we'll simply revert to \mailheader since there's no other good name.
2002-12-31 15:23:09 +00:00
Fred Drake f14730a49a - correct the deprecation markups so this formats again
- some minor cleanups
2002-12-31 15:10:49 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c5f5f87f74 Complete the markup for timedelta objects.
Fix a curly brace that should have been a paren.
2002-12-31 14:26:54 +00:00
Neal Norwitz f3edea5b90 Use the name (path) specified in the parameter list 2002-12-31 13:38:28 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 96a60e4af5 Patch #658927: Add getctime to os.path.
Document that getatime and getmtime may return floats.
2002-12-31 13:11:54 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 5c37a7717d Document standard encodings. 2002-12-31 12:39:07 +00:00
Neal Norwitz ee711092eb SmartCookie and SerialCookie were recently deprecated 2002-12-31 12:27:11 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 99448e5214 InterpolationSyntaxError was added in 2.3 2002-12-31 12:23:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2714706188 Phrase repair. 2002-12-31 04:41:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8e7ec7cec8 Minor markup and spelling repair. 2002-12-31 04:39:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 81e4aa7054 - re-mark ESR's warning about extended registry syntax
- document InterpolationSyntaxError
2002-12-30 23:50:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 740f80029c - fix use of \refmodule markup
- correct some module names, add hyperlinks
- wrap some long lines
2002-12-30 23:00:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2969233f9a Add dummy_thread[ing] sections and reference these from libthread[ing]. 2002-12-30 22:34:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ad50ca91a9 Brett Cannon's dummy_thread and dummy_threading modules (SF patch
622537), with some nitpicking editorial changes.
2002-12-30 22:30:22 +00:00
Fred Drake a37e5cce4b We're using strictly American spellings, so there's no diaresis over
the i in naive.

More markup fixups.
2002-12-30 21:26:42 +00:00
Tim Peters bad8ff089a A step on the way to making tzinfo classes writable by mortals: get rid
of the timetz case.  A tzinfo method will always see a datetimetz arg,
or None, now.  In the former case, it's still possible that it will get
a datetimetz argument belonging to a different timezone.  That will get
fixed next.
2002-12-30 20:52:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 9bdeee492a Clean up a table so it passes formatting. 2002-12-30 20:35:32 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 0de926fd12 Added the \var{} markup so the tables will look good. 2002-12-30 20:21:21 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6005a344ce Added markup upto line 233. 2002-12-30 20:01:24 +00:00
Barry Warsaw d1adc8a6af Describe the new `errors' argument to Header.__init__() and
Header.append()
2002-12-30 19:17:37 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling fa91858c6c More markup additions 2002-12-30 14:20:16 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d6d7cfaada Minor grammar fix, and clarification 2002-12-30 03:08:27 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling c97868ee2f Mark up more text 2002-12-30 03:06:45 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 40f6217092 SF patch 658251: Install a C implementation of the Mersenne Twister as the
core generator for random.py.
2002-12-29 23:03:38 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c7b076928c Incorporate Skip's suggestion to use SciPy's validation test near
equality.  Note, there is another flavor that compares to a given
number of significant digits rather than decimal places.  If there
is a demand, that could be added at a later date.
2002-12-29 17:59:24 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f8bcfb13f1 SF Bug 645777: list.extend() works with any iterable and is no longer
experimental.
2002-12-29 05:49:09 +00:00
Tim Peters 276a8f3b80 astimezone(): document that None is an OK argument. 2002-12-27 21:41:32 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond 56b3184e89 Added a useful warning to the documentation. 2002-12-27 20:05:36 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 33e94437ca Document killpg. 2002-12-27 10:21:19 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 438b534ad0 Patch #657889: Implement posix.getloadavg. 2002-12-27 10:16:42 +00:00
Tim Peters 60c76e4016 Make comparison and subtraction of aware objects ignore tzinfo if the
operands have identical tzinfo members (meaning object identity -- "is").
I misunderstood the intent here, reading wrong conclusion into
conflicting clues.
2002-12-27 00:41:11 +00:00
Just van Rossum 8982595870 Backing out patch #642578 in anticipation of final acceptance of PEP 302. 2002-12-25 23:13:34 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e11b510a5b SF 658405: calendar.py to rely on the datetime module instead of the time
module.

The code is shorter, more readable, faster, and dramatically increases the
range of acceptable dates.

Also, used the floor division operator in leapdays().
2002-12-25 16:37:19 +00:00
Tim Peters 80475bb4d2 Implemented datetime.astimezone() and datetimetz.astimezone(). 2002-12-25 07:40:55 +00:00
Tim Peters 52d134874f Removed blurb admonishing users to raise an exception if the datetime
argument to a tzinfo method doesn't have a matching tzinfo member.
2002-12-24 16:34:13 +00:00
Tim Peters 2483b61e03 Added note about technical pickle limitation on tzinfo instances. 2002-12-24 16:30:58 +00:00
Tim Peters 1cff9fc97c tzinfo.{utcoffset,dst} can return timedelta (or integer or None).
{timetz,datetimetz}.{uctcoffset,dst} do return timedelta (or None).
2002-12-24 16:25:29 +00:00
Tim Peters 12bf339aea Implemented .replace() methods for date, datetime, datetimetz, time and
timetz.
2002-12-24 05:41:27 +00:00
Tim Peters 29fb9c7e07 Brought the strftime explanation into synch with the plain-text sandbox
docs, and moved its section to the end (before the "C API" section,
which latter doesn't really belong in the Library manual).
2002-12-23 22:21:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 446f32367b Add in the datetime docs now that they pass LaTeX. Still ugly, but that can
be fixed.
2002-12-23 19:03:00 +00:00
Fred Drake bbdb250862 Lots of markup changes. This is still pretty sad, but passes LaTeX
and is mostly readable.
2002-12-23 18:58:06 +00:00
Fred Drake ce5200842e Move the examples of concrete tzinfo classes to a separate file, so the
verbatim environment does not bollux page breaking.
2002-12-23 18:52:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 4a80a3ec21 Added docs for (draft) pkgutil module. 2002-12-23 16:53:59 +00:00
Tim Peters 8ed8320827 Fixed longstanding bug in the description of strftime's %W code. 2002-12-20 17:15:39 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ca2623a2f9 Check in current, unfinished, draft of datetime docs
(Fred, don't bother to add to lib.tex or to proofread this yet.)
2002-12-18 14:59:11 +00:00
Fred Drake e0f02f0826 Fix some small markup nits. 2002-12-18 02:07:14 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 3e93b4d222 Fix typo spotted by Richie Hindle 2002-12-18 01:20:29 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson cfd3884882 This is Richie Hindle's patch
[ 643835 ] Set Next Statement for Python debuggers

with a few tweaks by me: adding an unsigned or two, mentioning that
not all jumps are allowed in the doc for pdb, adding a NEWS item and
a note to whatsnew, and AuCTeX doing something cosmetic to libpdb.tex.
2002-12-17 16:15:34 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 212b43f90c Add markup for base parameter 2002-12-17 01:24:11 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 046b8a7244 Fix SF # 641111, Undocumented side effect of eval
Try to clear up confusion about the current globals being copied
into a globals dict passed to eval().  This wording (more or less)
was suggested in bug report.  It should probably be made clearer.

Backport candidate.
2002-12-17 01:08:06 +00:00
Neal Norwitz e9ce25e512 Fix SF #642742, property() builtin not documented
Added doc for functions new to 2.2:  classmethod property staticmethod super
Taken from docstrings.  Could use review.
Hope there wasn't a reason why these shouldn't have been added.

Backport candidate.
2002-12-17 01:02:57 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 786ddb29c9 Fixed bug
[#521782] unreliable file.read() error handling

* Objects/fileobject.c
  (file_read): Clear errors before leaving the loop in all situations,
  and also check if some data was read before exiting the loop with an
  EWOULDBLOCK exception.

* Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
* Objects/fileobject.c
  Document that sometimes a read() operation can return less data than
  what the user asked, if running in non-blocking mode.

* Misc/NEWS
  Document the fix.
2002-12-16 18:12:53 +00:00
Just van Rossum edd179ee77 typo fix. 2002-12-15 13:14:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 866964c3a3 Apply SF patch 652930: Add optional base argument to math.log(x[, base]). 2002-12-14 19:51:34 +00:00
Walter Dörwald d9a6ad3beb Enhance issubclass() and PyObject_IsSubclass() so that a tuple is
supported as the second argument. This has the same meaning as
for isinstance(), i.e. issubclass(X, (A, B)) is equivalent
to issubclass(X, A) or issubclass(X, B). Compared to isinstance(),
this patch does not search the tuple recursively for classes, i.e.
any entry in the tuple that is not a class, will result in a
TypeError.

This closes SF patch #649608.
2002-12-12 16:41:44 +00:00
Just van Rossum b083cb3901 Patch #651621, approved by MvL.
This patch allows ZipFile.writestr() to be called with
an archive file name instead of a ZipInfo instance:

z = ZipFile("myarchive.zip", "w")
z.writestr("foo/baz/file.ext", data)
z.close()

I found the old writestr() method very inconvenient
for simple (but common) things.

If called with a file name instead of a ZipInfo
instance, the date_time is set to the current date/time,
which makes sense to me for anonymous data.
2002-12-12 12:23:32 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 0479104a91 Patch #651006: Better explain what component might be empty. 2002-12-11 12:55:53 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d2bef8256b Update comments about the performance of xrange(). 2002-12-11 07:14:03 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 3bf99e3e87 Add support for binary pickles to the shelve module. In some situations
this can result in significantly smaller files.  All classes as well as the
open function now accept an optional binary parameter, which defaults to
False for backward compatibility.  Added a small test suite, updated the
libref documentation (including documenting the exported classes and fixing
a few other nits) and added a note about the change to Misc/NEWS.
2002-12-08 18:36:24 +00:00
Fred Drake edb635ff5c Remove extra ")" in example. 2002-12-06 18:52:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 08d10f985e Typo: "dead lock" --> "deadlock" 2002-12-06 16:45:05 +00:00
Fred Drake a41b2bb981 Fix problem in example code. It's minor in this particular example,
but can lead to mysterious problems in real applications.
2002-12-03 22:57:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 7af24bd237 Fix example regular expressions that simulate scanf() constructs. 2002-12-03 18:49:17 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 71aa6d6db9 Patch #646824: Remove extra \end. 2002-12-03 18:09:02 +00:00
Just van Rossum 3eb166b49b Slightly improved version of patch #642578: "Expose PyImport_FrozenModules
in imp". This adds two functions to the imp module: get_frozenmodules()
and set_frozenmodules().
2002-11-29 20:47:40 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e33d3df030 SF Patch 643443. Added dict.fromkeys(iterable, value=None), a class
method for constructing new dictionaries from sequences of keys.
2002-11-27 07:29:33 +00:00
Fred Drake e9cfcef71e Clarify the interpretation of the __getstate__() return value for
new-style classes.
Closes SF bug #637941.
2002-11-27 05:26:46 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 057ab14e7d * libbz2.tex
Fixed minor typo, suggested by Drew Perttula <drewp@bigasterisk.com>.
2002-11-25 18:51:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 15353f5c64 Remove extra word 2002-11-25 16:01:08 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis b5c980b802 Add unidata_version. Bump generator version number. 2002-11-25 09:13:37 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 677bde2dd1 Patch #626485: Support Unicode normalization. 2002-11-23 22:08:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 6e596b6895 Added change note about returning a dictionary based on keyword
arguments.
2002-11-23 15:02:13 +00:00
Just van Rossum a797d8150d Patch #642500 with slight modifications: allow keyword arguments in
dict() constructor. Example:
  >>> dict(a=1, b=2)
  {'a': 1, 'b': 2}
  >>>
2002-11-23 09:45:04 +00:00
Fred Drake a191befb2d Clarify the default setting for daemon_threads. 2002-11-22 14:29:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 74f5a56c2c Fix markup. 2002-11-22 14:28:53 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 4581cfa326 Patch #486438: Make module argument to testmod optional. 2002-11-22 08:23:09 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f86e8ef33e Patch #550765: Add daemon_threads flag. 2002-11-22 08:08:44 +00:00
Piers Lauder d3c821ee71 added details of new IMAP4_stream class; emphasised meaning of data part of command results; added proxyauth command description 2002-11-22 05:47:39 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis d899605e30 Patch #633547: Support plural forms. Do TODOs in test suite. 2002-11-21 21:45:32 +00:00
Tim Peters 3350b5bfd9 NamedTemporaryFile: clarify behavior based on confusions noted by a
user, and spell out a x-platform use limitation.
2002-11-21 16:32:11 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 72f861657a Document additional error handling names available through PEP 293. 2002-11-19 21:51:35 +00:00
Walter Dörwald f171540ab8 Change int() so that passing a string, unicode, float or long argument
that is outside the integer range no longer raises OverflowError, but
returns a long object instead.

This fixes SF bug http://www.python.org/sf/635115
2002-11-19 20:49:15 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 311f419628 Improve comments. Clarify docs.
Replace "type(0)" with "int".
Replace "while 1" with "while True"
2002-11-18 09:01:24 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 8ddc176e2e Improve DictMixin.
Replaced docstring with comments.  Prevents subclass contamination.
Added the missing __cmp__() method and a test for __cmp__().
Used try/except style in preference to has_key() followed by a look-up.
Used iteritem() where possible to save creating a long key list and
   to save redundant lookups.
Expanded .update() to look for the most helpful methods first and gradually
   work down to a mininum expected interface.
Expanded documentation to be more clear on how to use the class.
2002-11-18 04:34:10 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 6141812820 correct typo detected by Lee Hansen 2002-11-17 11:09:50 +00:00
Fred Drake e55bec2566 Better note that str.zfill() was added in 2.2.2 as well. ;-( 2002-11-16 00:44:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 9171801de9 Document that a minor feature was added in 2.2.2. ;-(
Closes SF bug #639170.
2002-11-16 00:41:55 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 5654cc215a SF 639138, Ref. calendar module in time docs by John J Lee
Will backport.
2002-11-15 23:00:30 +00:00
Fred Drake c734b01759 Fix critical markup errors. 2002-11-15 18:49:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 3a2cda876b Minor revisions to clarify the status of xreadlines(), change the way
iteration support was documented; the docs for __iter__() were just
confusing.
2002-11-15 16:38:06 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 7994716b6b SF patch #520382: Expand shelve.py to have a full dictionary interface
and add a mixin to UserDict.py to make it easier to implement a full
dictionary interface.
2002-11-15 06:46:14 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 4ebe2e3914 add liblogging 2002-11-14 03:58:20 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 649698f72e initial rough cut at documentation of logging module. This is basically
just a conversion of pydoc.help(logging).
2002-11-14 03:57:19 +00:00
Fred Drake bad460790e Document struct_time and the field names. 2002-11-13 19:05:01 +00:00
Fred Drake a5a173efbf Fix broken markup.
Closes SF bug #637807.
2002-11-13 17:48:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 2c184e7eea Typo: it's --> its
Closes SF bug #637810.
2002-11-13 15:56:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 3d03968c75 Clarified meaning of \w and \W with respect to the UNICODE and LOCALE flags.
Closes SF bug #635595.
2002-11-12 23:12:54 +00:00
Tim Peters b9099c3df4 SF patch 637176: list.sort crasher
Armin Rigo's Draconian but effective fix for

SF bug 453523: list.sort crasher

slightly fiddled to catch more cases of list mutation.  The dreaded
internal "immutable list type" is gone!  OTOH, if you look at a list
*while* it's being sorted now, it will appear to be empty.  Better
than a core dump.
2002-11-12 22:08:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 4b9ed2f346 Clarified documentation of tempnam().
Closes SF bug #635656.
2002-11-12 22:07:11 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f24eb35d18 SF patch 629637: Add sample(population, k) method to the random module.
Used for random sampling without replacement.
2002-11-12 17:41:57 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 430b1563dd Add documentation for the PEP 293 functionality:
The errors attribute can be changed after the reader/writer
is created.

For encoding there are two additional errors values:
"xmlcharrefreplace" and "backslashreplace".

These values can be extended via register_error().
2002-11-07 22:33:17 +00:00
Fred Drake b5f41dedeb Minor markup adjustments. 2002-11-07 17:13:03 +00:00
Thomas Heller 5b470e0a3a Document the changed fdopen behaviour.
(Hope the markup is ok).
2002-11-07 16:33:44 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e3fb22bd4a [Patch #633635 from David M. Cooke]
Make docs accurate; getch() in nodelay mode returns -1
2002-11-06 14:17:21 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 110aa50cc2 Fix minor wording and 2 typos 2002-11-05 23:55:27 +00:00
Neal Norwitz fad265e651 Whoops, fix the typo correctly this time 2002-11-05 22:46:39 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 75f36b7040 Document the new `pp' command. 2002-11-05 22:41:16 +00:00
Neal Norwitz c2f7757ef5 Fix minor typos 2002-11-05 22:37:58 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a288a234ec Document that images go away when they go away. Fixes #632323. 2002-11-05 22:11:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 18c7d98bd1 Fix a few minor nits. Still need to actually proofread this. 2002-11-05 17:54:02 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer f8ca8364c9 Patch implementing bz2 module.
* setup.py
  (PyBuildExt.detect_modules): Included bz2 module detection.

* Modules/bz2module.c
* Lib/test/test_bz2.py
* Doc/lib/libbz2.tex
  Included files implementing, testing, and documenting bz2 module.

* Doc/Makefile.deps
* Doc/lib/lib.tex
  Include references to libbz2.tex.

* Misc/NEWS
  (Library): Mention distutils' c++ linkage patch, and new bz2 module.
2002-11-05 16:50:05 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 22610da481 Document symbolic constants for commands. 2002-11-04 17:41:18 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 1da9c57c74 Patch #630829: Don't block on IAC, process suboptions. 2002-11-04 09:56:00 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f0a4668e6f Add getpreferredencoding. Support @euro modifiers. Fixes #554676.
The @euro part is backported to 2.2.3.
2002-11-03 17:20:12 +00:00
Neal Norwitz cf57e50989 Fix SF #632864, Typo string instead of sting in LibDoc. Will backport. 2002-11-03 13:13:20 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 034c749ff4 Fix SF #618146, overflow error in calendar module
Will backport.
2002-11-03 00:13:42 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 1a7a894d90 Move introductory sentence to where it belongs. 2002-11-02 13:32:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 9482d2591a Update example for the type() function to use the currently accepted
preference of using "is" instead of "==" to compare types, use
built-in names where available, and point to the isinstance()
function.
Closes SF bug #632196.
2002-11-01 21:33:44 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3adefccdcb Use personal e-mail address 2002-10-30 21:08:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 4e303aad05 Add notes to the asctime() and ctime() descriptions to make it
explicit that locale information is not used.  There wasn't anything
that implied it was, but this has confused users.
2002-10-30 18:17:03 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 74b51ac1e5 Patch #613256: Add nescape method to xml.sax.saxutils. 2002-10-26 14:50:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 0eebd5cef9 Implement a safer and more predictable interpolation approach.
Closes SF bug #511737.
2002-10-25 21:52:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 97d5f05221 Update to reflect the refactoring into the RawConfigParser and
ConfigParser classes.
2002-10-25 20:20:58 +00:00
Fred Drake f596826673 - The "-" format flag overrides the "0" flag, not the "-" flag.
- Documented the alternate forms, which were claimed to be documented
  but were not.
2002-10-25 16:55:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 50276abd9b Update an example to use the DOM implementation object. Explain that
the parse() and parseString() functions use a separate parser, not
actually implement a parser.  (This is a common question.)
2002-10-24 19:36:04 +00:00
Fred Drake ff287cfb4c Point to the PyXML package as an extended version of the "xml" package
that can provide this fuctionality.

Note that the docs for the xml.dom and xml.sax packages are the
definitiona of the Python bindings for the DOM and SAX interfaces.
2002-10-23 20:58:32 +00:00