Fred Drake
8d3312f4d1
Add documentation and warnings for the isCallable(), isMappingType(),
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isNumberType(), and isSequenceType() functions.
This closes SourceForge bug #115789 .
2000-10-02 03:36:18 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
d15a9427e8
Fixed spelling of module; closes bug 115712.
2000-09-30 17:04:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
58295dedf7
Replace to XXX notes to add references with real references.
2000-09-30 00:11:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
4ce4f2eedd
os.startfile() documentation, based on text from Tim Peters.
2000-09-29 04:15:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
8a9db99760
Updated documentation relating to the various flavors of popen[234]()
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for Windows & Unix.
2000-09-28 20:27:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
44774c9429
Add regex and regsub to the list of undocumented obsolete modules.
2000-09-28 05:31:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
33dde92ecf
Update the documentation for ConfigParser to match the recent changes.
2000-09-27 22:48:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
7f577e7fd4
regex and regsub are obsolete and Evil, so don't include them in the club.
2000-09-25 18:26:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
e53793bf4c
Updates from Fredrik Lundh <effbot@telia.com> about Unicode-related
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behavior.
2000-09-25 17:52:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
ef5781b8c8
Add obsolescence note to the module descriptions that get added to the
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list of module synopses at the front of the chapter; based on a comment
from Aahz <aahz@panix.com>.
2000-09-25 17:23:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
d79c33a47b
Minor cleanups, wrap long lines.
2000-09-25 14:14:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
7be3115860
Added explanation of the use of the first program argument passed to the
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exec*() family of functions.
2000-09-23 05:22:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
7fbc85c5c5
Rename the public interface from "pyexpat" to "xml.parsers.expat".
2000-09-23 04:47:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
c32741d1ab
Added warnings about platform vagaries to the strptime() documentation.
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This closes SourceForge bug #115146 .
2000-09-23 04:36:14 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer
544de1effb
- Add DEBUG_SAVEALL option. When enabled all garbage objects found by the
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collector will be saved in gc.garbage. This is useful for debugging a
program that creates reference cycles.
- Fix else statements in gcmodule.c to conform to Python coding standards.
2000-09-22 15:22:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
ed773ef78d
Include the new text on reporting bugs in a few useful places.
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This closes SourceForge bug #114792 .
2000-09-21 21:35:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
1bf4e93180
Convert the longest two tables from tableii to longtableii so they do not
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make too big a mess. One actually did not fit on a single page at all!
2000-09-21 16:04:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
fffe5dbc47
Fixed a number of small problems reported by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
2000-09-21 05:25:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
51f53df4c8
Clarify that the softspace attribute is used by print for state management,
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not as a user-controlled parameter.
2000-09-20 04:48:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
f5aa4ef07c
Add entries for the xml.sax documentation.
2000-09-20 02:54:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
e10ef74bb8
First cut at documentation for the xml.sax package (not including any
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sub-modules).
2000-09-20 02:52:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
752ba39a0b
Clarify a number of issues about the file-like object API based on
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discussion on python-dev.
2000-09-19 15:18:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
480abc2751
Document the "printable" and "punctuation" constants added to the string
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module.
2000-09-18 16:48:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
1675375a7c
Add missing \declaremodule for zipfile.
2000-09-18 16:21:11 +00:00
Tim Peters
1de8098ca6
Repaired some glitches in the MD5 and SHA docs; copied the descriptions of
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the MD5 methods into the SHA docs (substituting "sha" for "md5", of course,
and changing the stuff that depended on digest size accordingly).
Fred, don't trust me!
2000-09-18 15:34:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
5316ef4bbb
Added documentation for new functions.
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Deprecated sequenceIncludes().
Based on patch by Denis S. Otkidach <ods@users.sourceforge.net>,
this closes SourceForge patch #101390 .
2000-09-17 16:10:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
6e1fecc28a
Update URL to unicode.org's FTP site using an HTTP URL to the same
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document.
2000-09-16 13:46:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
315b9e0ac1
Update *both* uses of the URL to the zlib home page, and use the version
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advertised as the canonical form.
2000-09-16 06:18:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
ab2f9f766f
Update link to the zlib homepage.
2000-09-16 05:07:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
f29107447a
Update the link to Andrew Kuchling's crypto code.
2000-09-16 05:02:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
91fc9319fa
Update link to the FIPS PUB 180-1 (PDF is available, but not PostScript).
2000-09-16 04:59:33 +00:00
Tim Peters
78fc0b57df
Fixed legit gripe from c.l.py that math.fmod docs aren't confusing enough.
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FRED, please check my monkey-see-monkey-do Tex fiddling!
2000-09-16 03:54:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
7c25f3df85
Add some comments on the available implementations that this module can
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use.
Change the list of flag values for open() to a table.
Markup consistency nits.
2000-09-15 21:31:31 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
6634b14f3b
add cross reference to mimetools module
2000-09-15 18:20:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
6e5184fe6a
Update comments in the second paragraph, discussing versioning issues
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related to the BSD DB library. Based on comments from Mark Summerfield
<summer@netcraft.com>.
2000-09-15 15:19:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
81c1735809
Add item to the list of limitations that points out the lack of support
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for authenticated proxies. This is noted elsewhere, but this makes it
easier to find.
Fix typo where it was already mentioned.
This closes SourceForge bug #110619 .
2000-09-15 04:12:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
4dfad57235
Add a reference to the sha module, noting that SHA is considered more
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secure. Suggested by Erno Kuusela <erno@iki.fi>.
2000-09-14 21:47:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
b9fd468ded
Convert "See also" section to use \seetitle.
2000-09-14 21:46:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
6ba0a3c30a
Denis S. Otkidach <ods@users.sourceforge.net>:
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Minor fix in documentation of code module.
(Clarifies output destination for default implementation of the write()
method.)
2000-09-14 20:42:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
7a666b83c8
Remove reference to the stdwin-based windowed debugger, since stdwin
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is gone.
Make a module reference into a hyperlink.
2000-09-14 20:32:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
d5d0435617
Use \shortversion in a number of places.
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This partially addresses SourceForge bug #114318 .
2000-09-14 20:24:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
1fe3b82371
Avoid reference to specific versions of Python where possible.
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This partially addresses SourceForge bug #114318 .
2000-09-14 18:25:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
66d32b1e12
Add some index entries to make it easier to find information on
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%-formatting of strings.
2000-09-14 17:57:42 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
ddef8887db
Include a link to Francois's po-utils.
2000-09-13 12:04:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
ae86d43f11
Add a reference item pointing to the Namespaces in XML recommendation.
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Convert the existing reference items to \seetitle markup.
2000-09-12 17:53:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
1349437e4c
When referring to namespaces, always say "namespaces" instead of
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"name spaces".
Inconsistency noted by Keith Briggs <keith.briggs@bt.com>.
2000-09-12 16:23:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
88fa9627b1
Some updates and fix a bunch of really small consistency nits.
2000-09-11 05:23:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
1b194f927d
Add a reference to the material on string methods.
2000-09-09 05:34:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
f96e0d203b
Various clarifications and minor nits fixed. Affected descriptions of
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input(), locals(), reload(), unicode(), and zip().
2000-09-09 03:33:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
1172a85175
Really minor consistency nit.
2000-09-09 03:31:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
66571cc20c
Improve a couple of references to the language reference, making them
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hyperlinks to relevant sections.
Clarify the conditions under which the "softspace" attribute of file-like
objects can "just work" (with relation to overriding of attribute access
in user-defined classes).
2000-09-09 03:30:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
7acb21866c
Minor clarifications in the introductory paragraph.
2000-09-09 03:28:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
e544191397
Add \modulesynopsis for inclusion in the list of modules at the beginning
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of the chapter.
Add explanation that this is only available when the cycle detector is
enabled at build time.
2000-09-09 03:26:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
1c4efad770
Move the "See also" section to a location more consistent with other
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module sections. Properly mark the name of the module in the content
of the reference there.
2000-09-09 03:25:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
621d2bee1c
Move description of UserString.MutableString to a location more typical
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of the arrangement of other modules.
2000-09-09 03:23:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
d0726c3cd9
\file is not allowed in section titles -- converting to PDF fails due to
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weird macro-expansion issues. A better solution may be available in the
future, but this will do for now.
Add an index entry. More should probably be added as well.
2000-09-07 18:55:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
88c023b863
Remove comment about -X and string exceptions. Error noted by
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Justin D. Pettit <jpettit@raznick.com>.
2000-09-07 16:33:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
6300bd42a4
Added note about Python version this was added for.
2000-09-07 14:01:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
77a6c9ece5
Minor markup nits around use of \optional.
2000-09-07 14:00:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
8b2e8f846c
Added a \versionadded statement to the getfqdn() description.
2000-09-06 02:22:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
8ff4cd7512
Minor markup revisions for consistency with the rest of the documentation.
2000-09-05 13:50:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
0d83f68fc9
Added entry for mmap module.
2000-09-05 13:49:30 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
21fbd540ed
Document the new optional argument "rest" on the transfercmd(),
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ntransfercmd(), and retrbinary() commands. This closes SF patch
#101187 .
2000-09-01 06:32:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
65faf118b6
Fix markup error and minor consistency nit.
2000-08-31 19:35:56 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
ee5adfbae6
add user-modifiable recursion_limit
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ceval.c:
define recurion_limit (static), default value is 2500
define Py_GetRecursionLimit and Py_SetRecursionLimit
raise RuntimeError if limit is exceeded
PC/config.h:
remove plat-specific definition
sysmodule.c:
add sys.(get|set)recursionlimit
2000-08-31 19:23:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
aef0e890b5
Document the limitation that urllib does not work with proxies which
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require authenication. This is an implementation limitation rather than
required behavior, and may be fixed in the future.
This closes SourceForge bug #111725 .
2000-08-31 17:23:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
4c3f797128
UNARY_NEG is supposed to be UNARY_NEGATIVE (spotted by Charles Waldman
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<cgw@fnal.gov>).
Fix minor problem with EXTENDED_ARG description markup..
2000-08-31 16:26:35 +00:00
Sjoerd Mullender
1c8feae411
New method getnamespace.
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Since the application never gets to see the namespace abbreviation
used in the XML document, but some applications may need to know them,
we provide this method.
2000-08-31 10:27:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
fcab76350a
Relocate the popen2 documentation since it is now substantially more
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portable.
2000-08-31 06:09:26 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
7b828a6a56
doc changes to parallel changes to calendar.py module
2000-08-30 14:02:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
d576e9df5f
Markup revisions. Nothing was actually required to be able to format it,
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but many conventions were broken.
2000-08-30 04:19:20 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
28b815f28a
Oops, spell MAL's name right.
2000-08-30 03:28:17 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
0691a6b8ed
Documentation for the gettext module.
2000-08-30 03:27:10 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
058365aec5
Added libgettext.tex
2000-08-30 03:26:17 +00:00
Moshe Zadka
a1a4b5916b
Closing patch #101120 -- After everyone agreed.
2000-08-25 21:47:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
0308ff8652
Add reference to RFC 2396 in "See also" section.
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Minor cleanups.
2000-08-25 17:29:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
dfca4dc503
Revised documentation relevant to SourceForge patch #100837
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(simplify making HTTP POST requests).
Added documentation of URLopener.version and how it can be overridden.
2000-08-25 05:13:42 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
99a3701618
Documentation for poll() interface (SF patch #100852 )
2000-08-25 01:21:28 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
12bba852a9
Rough and incomplete documentation on augmented assignment, which follows
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shortly. Markup also needs checking.
2000-08-24 20:06:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3d0c77b37c
Addresses the other half of Bug #112634 -- the documentation suggested
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that you can set self.version *after* calling the base class __init__.
In fact it must be done *before*.
(Fred, maybe the version class variable should be documented now?)
2000-08-24 16:20:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
45ca3331d9
Move references to RFCs to a "See also" section for consistency with
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other sections of the library reference.
2000-08-24 04:58:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
9fa4d61bcc
Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>:
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Documentation updates for urlretrieve() and URLopener.retrieve(), to
reflect Randall Hopper's patch for those functions.
This closes SourceForge patch #100837 .
2000-08-24 01:06:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
093272ea85
Charles G. Waldman <cgw@fnal.gov>:
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Update the dis module documentation to reflect the EXTENDED_ARG opcode.
2000-08-24 00:37:50 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
297bf7ceb5
update commonprefix doc to make sure user is aware it works
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character-by-character and that that behavior may result in it returning
prefixes that are not valid paths
2000-08-23 16:58:32 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
9087688581
Describe the new PRINT_ITEM_TO and PRINT_NEWLINE_TO opcodes.
2000-08-21 17:19:00 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
120beb6b67
Strengthen the warning against using SerialCookie and SmartCookie.
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(If they're security holes, should they be documented at all?)
Minor rewrites.
2000-08-20 23:33:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
15446d344d
Add entry for Cookie module.
2000-08-19 16:55:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
e5c7352201
Make it format.
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Adjust markup for hyperlinking to the relevant RFCs.
Give it a little organization.
Minor nits.
2000-08-19 16:54:57 +00:00
Moshe Zadka
1b07f2bcf6
Initial revision. Markup unchecked.
2000-08-19 14:11:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
512bb72fb0
As pointed out by Denis S. Otkidach <den@analyt.chem.msu.ru>, xrange()
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returns an xrange object, not a range object, despite the name of the
source file they're implemented in.
In the list of comparison operators, list != before <>, since <> is
described as obsolescent.
2000-08-18 03:12:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
304faf944c
Fix a markup error that caused formatting to fail.
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Lots of minor markup adjustments as well.
2000-08-18 02:15:55 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
0690c86a2a
Document the returns_unicode attribute
2000-08-17 23:15:21 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
5215225ea1
Apply SF patch #101135 , adding 'import module as m' and 'from module import
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name as n'. By doing some twists and turns, "as" is not a reserved word.
There is a slight change in semantics for 'from module import name' (it will
now honour the 'global' keyword) but only in cases that are explicitly
undocumented.
2000-08-17 22:55:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
dd611b0070
A little more text, and some really minor cleanups.
2000-08-17 22:31:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
e581bb30c4
Small cleanups, and note when zip() entered the menagerie.
2000-08-17 22:30:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
b32aa5ecef
Revise the comments about the exceptions module to not refer to source
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code; it is not sufficiently readable now that it in written in C, and
is less likely to be available to end users.
2000-08-17 22:29:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
25699f99f4
Martin v. Loewis <martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>:
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Document opcodes added to support extended call syntax.
2000-08-17 22:19:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
5772c86816
Document socket.getfqdn().
2000-08-16 14:21:42 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
caa658d047
Apply SF patch #101151 , by Peter S-K, which fixes smtplib's passing of the
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'helo' and 'ehlo' message, and exports the 'make_fqdn' function. This
function should be moved to socket.py, if that module ever gets a Python
wrapper.
2000-08-15 19:30:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
d066f6d780
Fix markup bug that prevented formatting.
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Adjusted some markup for consistency with the rest of the documentation
and creation of the proper index entries.
2000-08-15 17:47:09 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
0be4346da6
Describe the b2a_hex() and a2b_hex() functions (a.k.a. hexlify() and
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unhexlify() respectively).
2000-08-15 06:08:00 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
4ef4be53ac
Added description of the md5.hexdigest() method.
2000-08-15 06:00:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
a2b6ad6e27
Guido pointed out that all names in the sys module have no underscore,
2000-08-15 04:24:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
68e2915fc7
Document the byte_order value in the sys module.
2000-08-14 15:47:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
107b9679c4
Document the range type, as suggested by Denis S. Otkidach
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<den@analyt.chem.msu.ru>.
2000-08-14 15:37:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
4de96c2fd8
Added Marc-Andre Lemburg's documentation for string methods, with some
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massaging for markup consistency. This closes SourceForge patch #101063 .
Added Unicode strings and buffer objects to the list of sequence types.
Small markup nits elsewhere.
2000-08-12 03:36:23 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
0be5aab04d
Merge UNPACK_LIST and UNPACK_TUPLE into a single UNPACK_SEQUENCE, since they
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did the same anyway.
I'm not sure what to do with Tools/compiler/compiler/* -- that isn't part of
distutils, is it ? Should it try to be compatible with old bytecode version ?
2000-08-11 22:15:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
46479d3740
Some minor clarifications and added some index entries.
2000-08-11 20:34:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
3ac977e39c
O_BINARY: Documented this constant; omission noted by David Ascher.
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access(): Corrected availability statement; error pointed out by
Tim Peters.
2000-08-11 20:19:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
a8e484c8f5
getopt(): revise description of long_options parameter slightly so it will
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be less confusing; add a paragraph separation so that comments about
the options and long_options parameters don't have references that
are easily misinterpreted.
Adjust the interactive examples to not need the string module.
Add an example showing how the module is commonly used in a script.
2000-08-11 19:55:06 +00:00
Peter Schneider-Kamp
10e1bf2f64
remove all occurence of math.rint() from the sources
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(and yes, "Currintly" also counts <0.5 wink>)
2000-08-10 04:23:30 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
65983372f0
More on noutrefresh.
2000-08-09 21:49:31 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
1ebd3f6c4b
Tweak curses.wrapper so it initializes colors if they are available.
2000-08-09 21:11:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
3fe9a98c95
Correct markup error.
2000-08-09 14:37:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
fc1f9229f4
Correct version number at which the curses.ascii module was introduced.
2000-08-09 14:36:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
ec4b2af6bb
Fix a few markup errors and lots of small consistency issues.
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Add "See also" link to curses.wrapper module from curses module.
2000-08-09 14:34:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8141cf5c76
Barry's patch to document the new setdefault() method. Slightly
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clarified the summary for default() in the table to indicate the side
effect.
2000-08-08 16:15:49 +00:00
Vladimir Marangozov
f9d20c3786
Neil Schemenauer: GC enable(), disable(), isenabled() interface.
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Small stylistic changes by VM:
- is_enabled() -> isenabled()
- static ... Py_<func> -> static ... gc_<func>
2000-08-06 22:45:31 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
5a007693c1
Documented curses.wrapper and curses.textpad.
2000-08-04 07:35:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
ed13b4a5a6
Break the "Python Services" chapter into two: "Python Runtime Services"
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(still at the start of the manual), and "Python Language Services" (late
in the manual). Moved "Restricted Execution" to just before "Python
Language Services."
2000-08-03 21:18:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
8b168ba505
int() description: Fix markup to avoid image generation for math mode.
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zip() description: Fix broken markup, three small markup consistency nits,
and one really minor usage nit. Introduce use of \moreargs instead
of hardcoding "..." with \optional.
2000-08-03 17:29:13 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
faefa2a885
Both PEP 201 Lockstep Iteration and SF patch #101030 have been
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accepted by the BDFL.
Added documentation for zip() builtin.
2000-08-03 15:46:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
6c7a46a2f0
Rob Hooft <rob@hooft.net>:
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Description of fcntl(): Added description of what can go wrong.
2000-08-02 20:53:51 +00:00
Mark Hammond
21a4764b9a
As requested by Fred - mention that in the future a winreg module may make a comeback.
2000-08-01 23:49:50 +00:00
Peter Schneider-Kamp
f917bf6080
fixing a minor spelling mistake
2000-08-01 00:07:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
fbd3b45bb7
Stop lying about [].pop() being experimental! There is no backing it out
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at this point.
2000-07-31 23:42:23 +00:00
Peter Schneider-Kamp
5a65c2d436
added count, extend, index, pop and remove to arraymodule
2000-07-31 20:52:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
1e75e1776f
Two minor nits from Gerry Weiner (no working email address) about
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describing the methods of dictionaries.
2000-07-31 16:34:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
578a3f9638
Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>:
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Document new method in shutil (copyfileobj).
Minor clarification by Fred.
2000-07-31 15:45:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
10853c9835
Finally fixed the much-reported bug about "~" in a couple of example.
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This time, it was reported by Skip.
2000-07-28 13:51:27 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
b924bd4610
Second round of curses documentation improvements. Completes and extends
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documentation for function keys, special characters.
2000-07-27 21:10:02 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
1962fb59f3
Document tiget{flag,num,str}
2000-07-26 02:59:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
e1b304db37
Fix small typos and markup consistency nits.
2000-07-24 19:35:52 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
6899660a81
First round of curses documentation improvements; correct errors, flesh out
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entry point descriptions.
2000-07-24 03:28:40 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
d372521ec0
added doc for isatty()
2000-07-19 17:30:58 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
7cb1524586
added documentation for new functions {get,set}_history_length
2000-07-19 16:56:26 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
f8316638af
Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes for the Library Reference. I hope
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SourceForge doesn't choke on this batch :-)
I'm not entirely sure this is 100% correct. The patch changes an
\index{persistency} to \index{presistence}, and I don't know what \index{}
does. But it seems to do so persi--er, consistently, so I hope it isn't a
problem.
2000-07-16 19:01:10 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
f868de6491
Document the second round of ConfigParser changes.
2000-07-14 15:00:02 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
8d2f2b2db2
From Sam Rushing's Medusa, via SF patch #100858 : add & document
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os.seteuid(), os.setegid(), os.setreuid(), os.setregid().
2000-07-13 01:26:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
bdcf91fda0
Documentation for the gc module. Text from Neil Schemenauer
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<nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca>, markup & minor revisions from Fred
Drake.
2000-07-12 04:22:53 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
7ae3a5e79d
Resynchronize the TeX docs with (a) the module docstring, and (b) my recent
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fix to the code to make it behave like the module docstring.
2000-07-12 02:56:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
acab3d61e9
Change the table in the pyexpat.errors module to a series of datadesc
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elements (since the table was pretty screwed up); this is how it is done
elsewhere in the manual.
I could use some help creating descriptions of the specific error
identifiers (input conditions that lead to each error, etc.).
2000-07-11 16:30:30 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
417c489def
Give ConfigParser the capability to set as well as read options, and to write
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a representation of the configuration state in .ini format that can be read
back in by a future read() call. Thus this class is now a back end
for .ini editors as well as parsers.
This patch is complete and tested, but exposes a bug in the ConfigParser
implementation which I have not yet fixed. Because case information is
discarded during parsing, the output of write() has its case smashed.
I wrote this for a SourceForge interface script called forgetool.
Documentation for the new entry points included.
2000-07-10 18:11:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
146b28086f
Minor revisions similar to some information in the new docstrings.
2000-07-08 16:59:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
c826ecbf8f
Add an entry for the KDE File Manager support from Peter Funk.
2000-07-07 17:08:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
e4dbb86ab8
New module webbrowser. Easy-to-use controller objects to make using a
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Web browser as a help/information browser easy across platforms.
2000-07-07 03:36:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
aa7524cf1f
Clean up markup to be more like recommended practice; only small changes
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needed.
2000-07-06 18:37:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
29fa30ea6b
Correct a markup nit that caused a space to be dropped from the HTML
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version (actually a LaTeX2HTML bug), and clarified a sentence in the
mktime() description based entirely on comments from Grant Griffin
<grant.griffin@honeywell.com>.
2000-07-06 18:09:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
3c62d9e656
Several small changes, mostly to the markup, to improve consistency and
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internal hyperlinking. Move some things around, also for consistency
with other modules ("See also" stuff tends to live at the \section level,
before sub-sections, etc.).
2000-07-06 04:51:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
14ea85f325
Add entry for readline documentation.
2000-07-06 04:47:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
011028cf74
Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@oratrix.nl>:
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Updates for recent changes in xmllib.
2000-07-06 04:45:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
d14423abe2
Correct typo in description of the machine name parameter to the
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ConnectRegistry() function; there is no trailing period!
2000-07-06 04:38:37 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
63099f911f
added seealso pointing reader at readline example which uses atexit.
2000-07-06 03:26:39 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
510ca1d338
simple-minded readline section doc based upon module's doc strings.
2000-07-06 03:25:26 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
0915165096
added warning about incompatibility with other codes' use of sys.exitfunc.
2000-07-05 23:11:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
b5316188ee
Created a new chapter on structured markup processing, including the
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existing SGML, HTML, & XML support, and providing a home for the new
XML support as it becomes documented.
2000-07-05 02:24:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
c05cbb0527
Wrapped some long lines.
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Cleaned up the table of error constants defined in pyexpat.errors; an
extra pair of braces had pretty much destroyed the table! (Not sure why.)
Moved the pyexpat.errors module documentation into a \section with the
proper headers for a module.
2000-07-05 02:03:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
25e7cee1c8
get_starttag_text(): Document this method.
2000-07-03 14:32:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
52dc76c81f
Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>:
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This patch implements relative-path semantics for the "source" facility resembling
those of cpp(1), documents the change, and improves the shlex test main to
make it easier to test this feature. Along the way, it fixes a name error
in the existing docs.
[Additional documentation markup changes for consistency by FLD.]
2000-07-03 09:56:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
353aaadd9b
Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>:
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Substantial updates to reflect Moshe's Gordon's enhancements to the
module.
Additional changes from Fred to reflect his changes to the module as well.
2000-07-03 08:24:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
fcc95a4d04
Tim-blessed documentation for math.frexp().
2000-07-03 06:38:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
c3a65982a3
others --> other's (possessive)
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Usage error noted by Grant Griffin <grant.griffin@iowegian.com>.
2000-07-01 17:47:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
506a7a87ff
Send a "ARTICLE" --> Send an "ARTICLE"
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Usage error noted by Grant Griffin <grant.griffin@iowegian.com>.
2000-07-01 17:43:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
30f76ffd00
Update version numbering from 1.6 to 2.0.
2000-06-30 16:06:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
f0e88980f3
Document randrange().
2000-06-30 15:32:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
57a2f7f8ef
Change description of altzone to not refer to the "0th meridian".
2000-06-30 04:24:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
9a748aa832
Say "manual page", not "man page", when referring to the Unix manual.
2000-06-30 04:21:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
abbc7344a4
Make sure to note that this module was added for Python 2.0!
2000-06-30 03:50:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
6e71cdd9f1
Reflect the name change to _winreg; we still need documentation for the
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new winreg module.
2000-06-30 03:45:40 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
efc43d4478
Document recently-added mouse-related functions
2000-06-30 01:05:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
8aa3bd9098
Make it clear that id() can return either a long integer or a plain integer.
2000-06-29 03:46:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
5c529d3f3e
Add a "See also:" link to the curses.ascii module.
2000-06-28 22:11:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
589f44b9d0
Made the title of the Examples subsection plural!
2000-06-28 22:09:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
be93a8332e
Added note that the atexit module was added for Python 1.6.
2000-06-28 22:07:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
6f2a5efec9
Added entry for the curses.ascii module.
2000-06-28 22:05:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
5ccd4b2a54
Added entries for the curses.ascii module.
2000-06-28 22:03:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
4e716fa0ac
Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>:
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Added an example of using an HTTP POST request.
2000-06-28 21:51:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
c82634c13c
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>:
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Documentation updates related to the addition of openpty() and forkpty().
2000-06-28 17:27:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
c19425d520
Added the atexit module and documentation from Skip Montanaro
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<skip@mojam.com>. Revisions to the markup to make it pass LaTeX, added
an index entry and a reference from the sys.exitfunc documentation.
This closes SourceForge patch #100620 .
2000-06-28 15:07:31 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
af5b76677f
Changed obsolete e-mail alias
2000-06-27 03:16:04 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
f57d7b9e30
Dcoumentation for ascii.py. I've changed two references from ascii to
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curses.ascii.
2000-06-26 23:59:24 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
a4ca07cc8c
Minor grammatical fix
2000-06-21 01:48:46 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
d24ff44f06
Document .timeout() method and .typeahead() function
2000-06-21 01:42:51 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
0adfb45b9a
Make changes and clarifications suggested by Mark Hammond
2000-06-18 04:17:38 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
b8050697b8
Documentation for the mmap module: proofreaders welcomed
2000-06-17 22:39:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
9e759dfc31
Michael Hudson <mwh21@cam.ac.uk>:
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This patch corrects a little glitch and two outright errors.
(Including one reported earlier by Thomas Wouters.)
2000-06-15 18:44:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
fb79ffae4d
Hook in the documentation for the unicodedata module.
2000-06-13 20:51:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
28b294459d
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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Documentation for the unicodedata module (massaged by Fred for minor
consistency issues).
2000-06-13 20:50:50 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
6b14eebae6
Documentation for the pyexpat module.
2000-06-11 02:42:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
d1a65ff40b
Added preliminary documentation for the winreg module,
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by Mark Hammond <markh@activestate.com>.
Limited markup & consistency revisions by FLD.
2000-06-07 04:07:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
6c16019136
Fixed typo noted by Guido Kollerie <gkoller@cs.vu.nl> in example code.
2000-05-30 14:39:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
b80a777859
Added documentation for gettempprefix().
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Deprecated direct access to template.
Added note about past need to modify template so that legacy code has a
better chance of being understood, noting that the requirement to reset
template after os.fork() disappeared in 1.5.2.
2000-05-26 19:32:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
0233075fce
Added documentation for TemporaryFile() and the siffix parameter to mktemp().
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Removed obsolete comments about this module not creating or removing actual
files.
Removed obsolete comment about users needing to set template to None after
calling os.fork().
2000-05-26 19:05:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
99d707af47
Piers Lauder <piers@cs.su.oz.au>:
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I've added an extra comment about quoting arguments to
IMAP4 commands. Also changed the command descriptions
to show optional extra commands where appropriate.
Fred Drake:
Added example usage for the search() method based on comments from
<Lucas.DeJonge@awtpl.com.au>; elaborated error handling information
when arguments are missing from search() and uid().
2000-05-26 04:08:37 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
f1dc5fa2c8
Updated docs to list all the new methods and functions. The docs are
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now complete, but probably still not very helpful or friendly.
Note: two very large tables (of key names, and of character names) were
added; these tables format terribly, and need some reworking.
2000-05-23 16:46:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
7cb42cd070
From Greg Ward <gward@python.net>:
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Typo: "dictionairy" --> "dictionary" (twice).
2000-05-23 02:28:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
8c5cedee69
New description for math.frexp() -- poor description noted by
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Francois Pinard.
2000-05-18 05:07:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
c9a5f343bc
The addition of rint() (by Peter Schneider-Kamp; I forgot to mention
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that before) in the previous patch has one problem; rint() is not in
the C math library on all platforms (e.g. not for VC++). Make it
conditional on HAVE_RINT.
2000-05-11 18:42:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
71260b846e
Added math.rint() -- round according to current IEEE754 mode
2000-05-11 18:19:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
625d70a7a6
Fix references to the built-in compile() that don't include the
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filename parameter. Noted by Randall Hopper <aa8vb@yahoo.com>.
2000-05-09 17:10:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
35784dff6a
Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>:
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The intent is that this diff adds a link to the rfc822 module doc and
an index reference to this module under the rfc822 heading.
Fred, based on a suggestion from Grant Griffin <grant.griffin@honeywell.com>:
Added link to the MIME FAQ, so people can more easily get more
information about the subject of the module.
2000-05-09 16:23:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
d85f05940e
read() method: clarify that strings are accepted and interpreted
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reasonably.
readfp() method: added documentation.
2000-05-09 15:06:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
3d69c0e440
Someone found the examples of poor practice on socket addresses!
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Spotted by Greg Kochanski <gpk@bell-labs.com>.
2000-05-03 19:40:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
ae08853fb0
Clarify status of connection of a new instance; it *is* connected if
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you pass server information to the constructor. Error noted by Pedro
Diaz Jimenez <diazjimenez@ctv.es>.
2000-05-03 15:11:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
e06d025e00
Use \versionchanged to indicate when the second parameter to utime()
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was allowed to be None.
2000-05-02 17:29:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
d67ddbbec1
Eric Raymond:
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(1) Added and documented the capability for shlex to handle
lexical-level inclusion and a stack of input sources. Also, the input
stream member is now documented, and the constructor takes an optional
source-filename. The class provides facilities to generate error
messages that track file and line number.
(2) Add a convenience function to generate C-compiler style error
leaders.
2000-05-01 20:14:47 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
93a8eacde5
Document the new additional signature for utime(). In addition to the
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previous functionality utime(path, (atime, mtime)), now allowed is
utime(path, None) which sets the file's times to the current time.
2000-05-01 16:18:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
40ee7acb95
\file and \filenq should not be used in section titles; they are not
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sufficiently robust to survive the creation of bookmarks in the PDF
format.
2000-04-28 18:17:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
ac308d0a6f
Added a "See also:" section that exhibits the \seerfc markup.
2000-04-26 18:20:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
cebda6f5f0
Added documentation for WindowsError; omission noted by Michal Bozon
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<bozon@natur.cuni.cz>.
(Mark Hammond, other Python/Windows cognoscenti: please check this!)
2000-04-17 17:42:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
9cf7587fdc
Update change to version_info structure.
2000-04-13 17:51:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
4d65d73686
Document hexversion (incompletely explained) and version_info (easily
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explained).
2000-04-13 16:54:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
ee775a194c
Make use of \longprogramopt where appropriate.
2000-04-11 19:46:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
0682be4524
letters:
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Fix description; lowercase and uppercase are strings, not
functions! Noted by Randall Hopper <aa8vb@yahoo.com>.
maketrans():
Minor markup nits in description.
2000-04-10 18:35:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
9164f88657
Fix Skip's email address in his attribution! (Thanks, Skip!)
2000-04-08 04:53:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
c2c46c3751
New example from Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>.
2000-04-07 16:09:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
69ca950d1f
Make sure the \declaremodule uses the right name for the module!
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Clean up several markup problems & inconsistencies.
2000-04-06 16:09:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
343301aaa4
unichr(),
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unicode(): Added \versionadded{} annotations.
2000-04-06 15:06:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
0b72116812
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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Added UnicodeType.
2000-04-06 15:05:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
56ced2a7e4
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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Added note that Unicode strings are picklable.
2000-04-06 15:04:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
5828ad6963
Revised / removed comments about string exceptions (relating to the
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standard exceptions), added documentation of UnboundLocalError.
2000-04-06 15:03:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
3cb793e8e8
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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Added UnicodeError description.
2000-04-06 14:48:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
61098f201e
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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Add Unicode strings to the list of marshalable types.
2000-04-06 14:47:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
665dd704a3
Note the exception raised when parameter to chr() is out of range.
2000-04-06 14:45:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
33d51841a3
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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Documentation for unichr(), unicode(), update for ord().
2000-04-06 14:43:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
98f8a3d8da
Added codecs entry here as part of String Services.
2000-04-06 14:25:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
b7979c756c
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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codecs module documentation, with some preliminary markup
adjustments from FLD.
2000-04-06 14:21:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
6d5c6bdb25
Removed bogus connect() call in SMTP example; reported by Travis
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B. Hartwell <slt5v@cc.usu.edu>.
Removed second copy of the "See also" section!
2000-04-05 22:12:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
71b04dab58
Added reference to the multifile module from the "See also" section
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in the mimetools documentation.
Suggested by Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>.
2000-04-05 22:05:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
d1a56f4235
Noted by Guido:
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Fixed up descriptions of altzone and timezone not to refer to the
0th meridian, which doesn't exist. Reference is now to UTC.
2000-04-05 15:06:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
898915d7e2
Noted by Guido:
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Directionality of up/down were confused.
2000-04-05 15:01:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
43b89b637f
Noted by Guido:
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Note in the "Caveats" section should refer to the exit() function, not
exit_thread().
2000-04-05 15:00:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
12ed36525a
Added "See also" section; from Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>
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(re-written).
2000-04-04 20:43:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
005f494a7f
Added "See also" section; from Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>.
2000-04-04 20:42:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
7d68690d8d
Added notes about the eventual disappearance of two-parameter bind(),
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connect(), and connect_ex().
I didn't make these deprecation notices since it was never a
documented feature.
2000-04-04 17:48:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
38e5d27cae
Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release.
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(Very rough.)
2000-04-03 20:13:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
6a0d844e76
UserString section:
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Small cleanups noted by Detlef Lannert
<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
Make the spelling of Unicode always uppercase.
2000-04-03 15:02:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
a22b576d05
UserString class from Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>.
2000-04-03 03:51:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
3c9f936eee
Two new sections. Preliminary.
2000-03-31 17:51:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
15861b2a41
Update portability information for the spawn*() functions and related
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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
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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;
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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.
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(Fred, please check.)
2000-02-16 21:13:37 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
41d84631ba
Document the API changes to the nntplib module (exceptions become
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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
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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
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the default value is determined.
1999-12-21 18:31:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
88f6ca2ce9
Document getgroups(), getlogin(), fpathconf(), pathconf(),
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pathconf_names, confstr(), confstr_names, sysconf(), sysconf_names.
1999-12-15 19:39:04 +00:00