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1332 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake 15861b2a41 Update portability information for the spawn*() functions and related
constants.  Someone will need to fill in information on the spawn*()
functions that aren't listed.
2000-02-29 05:19:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 0baf773c44 Added entry for libtabnanny.tex. 2000-02-23 15:44:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 155348be33 Initial version from Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>, with minor
consistency changes and a note that the API may change in the future.
2000-02-23 15:44:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 1e862e8a37 Update the description of int() to include the radix parameter;
omission noted on c.l.py by Aahz Maruch.

Swapped the order of the descriptions of int() and intern() so that
int() comes first (the functions are in alphabetic order).
2000-02-17 17:45:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8006d316bc Added docs for new crc32() function. By Jim Ahlstrom.
(Fred, please check.)
2000-02-16 21:13:37 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 41d84631ba Document the API changes to the nntplib module (exceptions become
classes, NNTP.__init__() grows a new optional argument to set reader
mode on the server).
2000-02-10 20:26:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 2bb43a20ce The dircmp module is now obsolete. 2000-02-03 15:27:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 76e6da38c0 Document GetoptError and label error an alias. 1999-12-21 22:50:05 +00:00
Fred Drake b9bdfc6a23 Document 1.5.2+ aspects of the NotANumber exception. (Note that this
is in the development branch, not the maintenance branch!)
1999-12-21 18:45:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 89ab163479 Document that the |mode| parameter to open() is optional and explain how
the default value is determined.
1999-12-21 18:31:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 88f6ca2ce9 Document getgroups(), getlogin(), fpathconf(), pathconf(),
pathconf_names, confstr(), confstr_names, sysconf(), sysconf_names.
1999-12-15 19:39:04 +00:00
Fred Drake d16b5abc07 Markup consistency nits that Guido didn't check. ;-) 1999-12-13 23:34:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5f7a28cdf8 Doc update from Piers Lauder see changes for imaplib.py version 2.16. 1999-12-13 23:29:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 18f7a45324 Document the new stuff in the os module. 1999-12-09 22:11:43 +00:00
Fred Drake d4d4ba3fd2 Update link to PythonWare library page. 1999-12-01 18:44:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 7424242c1c Removed last XXX comment; no further action needed on this one. 1999-11-17 16:09:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 55e93964e6 Preliminary documentation for turtle module (Tk), by Moshe Zadka.
Fixed up a few TeXisms and markup nits, but otherwise unchanged.
Somewhat raw.
1999-11-15 17:03:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 37f1574f2e Use \citetitle and \programopt as appropriate. 1999-11-10 16:21:37 +00:00
Fred Drake ebe0341109 Use \citetitle instead of \emph. 1999-11-09 20:11:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 356d0ceb7e Use \citetitle in one place. 1999-11-09 20:10:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 268df27c9a Use the new markup as apporpriate. 1999-11-09 19:45:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 6e9ea59a43 Use \programopt in one place. 1999-11-09 19:44:44 +00:00
Fred Drake d290c10890 Use \programopt in one place. 1999-11-09 18:03:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 6cf186b867 pathes --> paths; typo reported by Gerry Wiener <gerry@ucar.edu>. 1999-10-29 17:51:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 47a27b6640 Make references to new filecmp module hyperlinks now that there's
documentation.
1999-10-29 17:25:59 +00:00
Fred Drake adf2dbfced Added section for filecmp. 1999-10-29 17:24:12 +00:00
Fred Drake c7b5b3c998 filecmp documentation from Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>. 1999-10-29 17:23:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 7eaf6828cb Added deprecation notes, in case anyone decides to read these anyway. 1999-10-26 16:31:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 143db4b041 cmp and cmpcache are now obsolete, so don't include their
documentation sections.
1999-10-26 16:28:04 +00:00
Fred Drake a8052a3113 Added cmp and cmpcache to the "Obsolete" section. 1999-10-26 16:27:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 714fd26a2f Documented Beep() function. 1999-10-22 21:08:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 39d4a0237a Fixed typo in explanation of abspath(); noticed by Paul Prescod
<paul@prescod.net>.
1999-10-18 14:10:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 933d5a7c6e os.name: Note that 'java' is one of the registered names. 1999-09-17 14:38:39 +00:00
Fred Drake e6fb1c4bd3 Added documentation for inet_aton() and inet_ntoa(), from Ben
Gertzfield <che@debian.org> (with minor changes).

(Should have been here instead of in the branch in the first place,
since these weren't in for the 1.5.2 release.)
1999-09-16 15:50:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 244ad3ca15 Name the parameter to expr() and suite() "source" instead of "string". 1999-09-09 14:16:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e7f19200e8 Doco update from Sjoerd Mullender. 1999-08-26 15:57:44 +00:00
Fred Drake b68a125d64 Added additional index entries.
Minor markup nits.
1999-08-24 20:16:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 76dd228f52 whrandom should come immediately after random, not before. 1999-08-23 20:12:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 7eba1d8bbe Tell what the result objects are (based on comment from the list). 1999-08-19 17:00:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b3fc9d148d Added disclaimer to the sleep() function. 1999-08-19 14:42:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 31e5e37196 Explain the possible range of values for the pid parameter to
waitpid().
1999-08-13 13:36:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 68921dfa31 In note mentioning [].remove()'s exception, tell what exception is
raised.  Prompted by Barry's whining.  ;-0
1999-08-09 17:05:12 +00:00
Fred Drake d3fbdfd007 Add index entries for open():
buffer size, I/O
	I/O control, buffering
	line-buffered I/O
	unbuffered I/O
1999-08-05 13:43:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 8c9fc00f8d Add index entry "I/O control, buffering" for fdopen(). 1999-08-05 13:41:31 +00:00
Fred Drake a94f6762bc Add index entry "I/O control, buffering" for makefile(). 1999-08-05 13:41:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 068bdb181d Change the directory tree walking example to use clearer variable
names, some suggested by Joe Ellsworth.
1999-08-03 21:52:29 +00:00
Fred Drake c71b802c47 Markup nits.
Adjust examples to use the object interface instead of the function
interface.
1999-08-02 14:30:52 +00:00
Fred Drake ce201128b0 Fixed hyperlink references to the __builtin__ and __main__ modules;
error reported by Dale Nagata <DNagata@creo.com>.
1999-08-02 14:13:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 8d21243c3e Added description of optional parameter to UserDict constructor.
Omission reported by Barry Warsaw.
1999-07-26 15:45:52 +00:00
Fred Drake de5d5ce7bc Update getattr() description to document the optional third
parameter.  Thanks to Barry Warsaw for pointing out the oversight.
1999-07-22 19:21:45 +00:00