Tim Peters
7530208d8b
Feeble attempt to repair obsolete info about hex escapes.
2001-02-14 04:03:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
667c9e46ca
Minor markup adjustments.
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Move some index entries next to what they are referring to for better
"targetting".
2001-02-02 02:43:18 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
3faa52ecc4
Allow 'continue' inside 'try' clause
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SF patch 102989 by Thomas Wouters
2001-02-01 22:48:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
c2e35e6f37
Remove spurious "\end{description}" that caused formatting to fail.
2001-02-01 15:37:56 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
0eb107068a
update section 4.1 to describe nested scopes
2001-02-01 03:50:59 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
10f8ba4fc6
Remove note about the compiler not checking for two kinds of illegal
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imports. It checks for them now.
2001-01-30 01:25:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
2f4453af6a
Typo: coplete --> complete
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This closes SF bug #129759 .
2001-01-26 15:27:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
c8e8281fb6
Updated note about collection of cyclic garbage, based on comments from
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Chris Ryland.
2001-01-22 17:46:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
ab782dd6cc
Document rich comparisons.
2001-01-18 15:17:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
34bafcc079
Fix a variety of minor nits and typos caught by Chris Ryland
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<cpr@emsoftware.com>.
2001-01-14 02:57:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
347a62505c
Steve Holden <sholden@holdenweb.com>:
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Clarify the handling of characters following backslashes in raw strings.
2001-01-09 21:38:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
445f832060
__rcmp__() description: Changed to indicate that this is no longer
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supported as of Python 2.1. We still need to
have an entry for this since it is reasonable
for users to want to understand existing code.
This closes SF bug #122715 .
2001-01-04 15:11:48 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer
48c2eb9165
Document the NotImplemented object.
2001-01-04 01:25:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
2cba0f641f
Improve description of else clause of the try/except/else statement.
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This closes (again!) bug #127098 .
2001-01-02 19:22:48 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
8e2b6b5cc7
Change documentation of 'else' clause of 'try/except' to make clear that it
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doesn't get triggered by 'return', 'break' or 'continue'. If the
'try-inside-continue' patch does not get accepted before next release, the
'or continue' should be removed ;P
Closes SF patch #103045 and SF bug #127098 .
2000-12-31 22:52:59 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
68abe832b9
Fix typo
2000-12-19 14:09:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
dea764d7f1
Updated string literals description to encompass Unicode literals and the
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additional escape sequences defined for Unicode.
This closes bug #117158 .
2000-12-19 04:52:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
035f7e88c8
Clarify __repr__ and __str__.
2000-12-19 04:18:13 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
dc90cc2b15
Additional docs for __iadd__ and family, closing SF bug #117178 and SF patch
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#102169 .
2000-12-11 23:11:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
2a22200ab4
Adjust explanation of operator precedence summary -- exponentiation groups
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from right to left!
Closes bug #125391 .
2000-12-11 22:39:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
c3b18d7ca8
Fix error noted by Gerrit Holl (old; had been buried in my INBOX):
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sequence repitition works just fine with long integers now, so we
should not say that only plain integers are allowed.
2000-12-07 04:54:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
0c47559352
Added a note that objects which emulate built-in types should only
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implement as many of the relevant methods as make sense for the particular
information being modelled.
2000-12-07 04:49:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
0ac000cd54
Updates to reflect pending changes to the XML conversion process.
2000-11-22 16:42:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
2ed27d3189
Note that readframes() returns data in linear format, even if the original
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is encoded in u-LAW format. Based on suggestion from Anthony Baxter
<anthony_baxter@users.sourceforge.net>.
This closes bug #122273 .
2000-11-17 19:05:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
f89259786a
Denis S. Otkidach <ods@users.sourceforge.net>:
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Show how code can be written to handle __getslice__ & friends in a way that
is compatible with pre-2.0 versions of Python while still working with the
"new" way of handling slicing.
Additional explanation added by Fred Drake.
This closes SourceForge patch #101388 .
2000-09-21 22:27:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
d68442b164
Lots of minor fixes, many suggested by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
2000-09-21 22:01:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
31575ce817
Note that __getitem__() may receive a slice object as the index;
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reported by Detlef Lannert <lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
2000-09-21 05:28:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
8d27f898b2
Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>:
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Document the __contains__() method.
(Patch slightly modified by FLD.)
This closes SourceForge patch #101387 .
2000-09-19 18:21:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
1156f62348
Many small clarifications, including many suggested by email.
2000-09-19 18:10:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
31f5550fbe
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>:
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Reference manual docs for augmented assignment.
This closes SourceForge patch #101418 .
2000-09-12 20:32:18 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
b655939d69
add index entries for list comprehensions
2000-09-11 16:31:55 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
33f785fc1e
Document "print >> None"
2000-08-29 04:57:34 +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
Skip Montanaro
323fe5df6a
fix list comprehension discussion to use \keyword macro instead of simply
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quoting keywords.
2000-08-23 17:03:34 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
46dfa5f4ed
require list comprehensions to start with a for clause
2000-08-22 02:43:07 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
8c0a242289
PEP 214, Extended print Statement, has been accepted by the BDFL.
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Document the extended print form. Fred, please double check the
markup!
2000-08-21 15:45:16 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
8bad612881
Disallow "import mod.submod as m", because the result is ambiguous. Does it
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load mod.submod as m, or mod as m ? Both can be achieved differently, and
unambiguously. Also attempt to document this restriction (editor
appreciated!)
Note that this is an artificial check during compile, because incorporating
this in the grammar is hard, and then adjusting the compiler to do the right
thing with the right nodes is harder.
2000-08-19 20:55:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
a00738259f
Adjust the way __getslice__() is marked as deprecated; this will also
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stand out more.
2000-08-18 02:42:14 +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
Thomas Wouters
1d75a79c00
Apply SF patch #101029 : call __getitem__ with a proper slice object if there
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is no __getslice__ available. Also does the same for C extension types.
Includes rudimentary documentation (it could use a cross reference to the
section on slice objects, I couldn't figure out how to do that) and a test
suite for all Python __hooks__ I could think of, including the new
behaviour.
2000-08-17 22:37:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
d341579178
Fix error made in applying Thomas's patch.
2000-08-15 18:44:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
a1e214a1ed
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>:
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Update the grammar to reflect the most recent changes to list
comprehensions.
2000-08-15 17:54:49 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
803d6e5451
list comprehensions. see
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http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=100654&group_id=5470
for details.
2000-08-12 18:09:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
3d83fc3ab1
Change as suggested by Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>:
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Create a hyperlink between the language reference and documentation for
the built in functions.
2000-07-31 20:08:23 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
f9b526dbfd
More of Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes. The only ones left now are the
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distutils patches, which I'll leave to the distutils maintainers.
Tip: review the patch like this:
grep "^[\!+-] " <patchfile>
To get a quick and easy way to review the actual changes. Most of the
changes are single-line ones, anyway.
2000-07-16 19:05:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
91826ed2a9
Improve the descriptions of expected exceptions for __getitem__(),
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__setitem__(), and __delitem__(). Based on related comments from
Barry Warsaw.
2000-07-13 04:57:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
7399b9e6e4
Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>:
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Update the "in" / "not in" description to accomodate the current use
of the __contains__() discipline. This patch also incorporates
suggestions from Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>, minor markup
revisions from Fred Drake, and some rewording of the first affected
paragraph (also from Fred).
Closes SourceForge patch #100831 .
2000-07-11 19:43:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
191a28218f
Typo: "This table table" -> "This table is"
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Noted by Nicholas Spies <ns11@voicenet.com>.
2000-07-06 00:50:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
35c09f2e51
Revise the description of when functions retrieved from class instances
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are and are not turned into bound methods; some confusion was noted by
Andrew Dalke.
In particular, it has to be noted that functions located on the class
instance are not turned into any sort of method, only those which are
found via the underlying class.
2000-06-28 20:15:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
e57a11441e
Fix markup error that hid a tilde character; reported long ago by
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Carl Feynman <carlf@abinitio.com>.
2000-06-15 20:07:25 +00:00