Fred Drake
9081bb1d21
Added documentation for the SSL interface, contributed by Gerhard Häring.
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This closes SF patch #461337 .
2001-09-25 15:48:11 +00:00
Tim Peters
2c9aa5ea8d
Generalize file.writelines() to allow iterable objects.
2001-09-23 04:06:05 +00:00
Tim Peters
8a9c284437
Make difflib.ndiff() and difflib.Differ.compare() generators. This
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restores the 2.1 ability of Tools/scripts/ndiff.py to start producing
output before the entire comparison is complete.
2001-09-22 21:30:22 +00:00
Tim Peters
e0b2d7ac9a
Add a function to compute a class's method resolution order. This is
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easy for 2.2 new-style classes, but trickier for classic classes, and
different approaches are needed "depending". The function will allow
later code to treat all flavors of classes uniformly.
2001-09-22 06:10:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
038d26410d
Note that files are iterable; describe what the iterator returns.
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This closes SF bug #463738 .
2001-09-22 04:34:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
c69205526a
Added reference to Tutorial section on user-defined exceptions for
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information on defining new exceptions.
This closes SF bug #443559 .
2001-09-21 21:12:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
e0af35eb69
Fill in a few more descriptions for xml.parsers.expat.
2001-09-20 20:43:28 +00:00
Tim Peters
2e29bfbe1a
Document new file() constructor, with the body of open()'s text, plus a
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"new in 2.2" blurb at the end. Replace open()'s text by pointing back
to file().
2001-09-20 19:55:29 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg
494f2aea8e
Docs and News item for the codecs.py additions.
2001-09-19 11:33:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
83eeef4b06
SF patch #461781 by Chris Lawrence: os.path.realpath - Resolve symlinks:
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Once upon a time, I put together a little function
that tries to find the canonical filename for a given
pathname on POSIX. I've finally gotten around to
turning it into a proper patch with documentation.
On non-POSIX, I made it an alias for 'abspath', as
that's the behavior on POSIX when no symlinks are
encountered in the path.
Example:
>>> os.path.realpath('/usr/bin/X11/X')
'/usr/X11R6/bin/X'
2001-09-17 15:16:09 +00:00
Tim Peters
5b7759f9db
Fixed typo in new 'p' description.
2001-09-15 18:16:27 +00:00
Tim Peters
88091aae7e
SF bug [ #461674 ] struct 'p' format doesn't work (maybe)
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Rewrote the 'p' description.
2001-09-15 18:09:22 +00:00
Tim Peters
ad2dc3fc44
Update the warning about transporting marshals across boxes with different
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ideas about sizeof(long).
2001-09-14 20:40:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
f2a5f3f721
Markup adjustments for consistency.
2001-09-14 17:48:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
f7fcf5eea6
SF patch #461413 (Gerhard Häring): Add STARTTLS feature to smtplib
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This patch adds the features from RFC 2487 (Secure SMTP
over TLS) to the smtplib module:
- A starttls() function
- Wrapper classes that simulate enough of sockets and
files for smtplib, but really wrap a SSLObject
- reset the list of known SMTP extensions at each call
of ehlo(). This should have been the case anyway.
2001-09-14 16:08:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
b9a96282f1
Admit that we'll never add the args for a "call" event to the profile
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and trace functions; this now declares that None will be passed for the
"call" event.
This closes SF bug/suggestion #460315 .
2001-09-13 16:56:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
098d7fae39
Document clearly that the only way to retrieve the return code from the
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child processes is to use the Popen3 and Popen4 classes.
This fixes SF bug #460512 .
2001-09-11 19:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
1c66f8965a
Added entry for the hmac module.
2001-09-11 16:59:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
aae8da18fd
Documentation for the new login() method of the smtplib.SMTP class,
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contributed by Gerhard Häring.
This is part of SF patch #460112 .
2001-09-11 16:58:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
42706803cd
Documentation for the new hmac module, contributed by Gerhard Häring.
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This is part of SF patch #460112 .
2001-09-11 16:56:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
2732cb4269
Added documentation on the getfirst() and getlist() methods of the
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cgi.FieldStorage class.
This closes SF patch #453691 .
2001-09-11 16:27:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
05a73b1f9a
Update link to the PyOpenGL project in the "gl" module docs.
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This closes SF bug #459256 .
2001-09-06 19:23:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
00bb329521
Document the built-in iter() function.
2001-09-06 19:04:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
a20c265aba
Added an additional link to NIST information on secure hashing.
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This closes SF bug #458785 .
2001-09-06 18:59:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
4d17b303bb
Several updates to cover omissions noted by Rich Salz.
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This closes SF bug #458771 .
2001-09-06 15:51:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
f5072b9314
Document the "unixfrom" attribute of the rfc822.Message class.
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Based on a patch by Skip Montanaro, this closes SF bug #458885 .
2001-09-06 15:07:55 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
b0162f9afc
Patch #416079 : fix the debug string output when receiving telnet commands.
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added all the telnet options known to arpa/telnet.h
added all the options registered with IANA as of today
added the possibility for the user to have it's own option negotiation callback
2001-09-06 08:51:38 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
bb5a465ca9
typo...
2001-09-05 19:27:13 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
44f8696171
Patch #428326 : New class threading.Timer.
2001-09-05 13:44:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
757f7809e1
Add more detail to the descriptions of the shutil functions.
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This closes SF bug #458223 .
2001-09-04 18:26:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
c05fc7dd9d
Added documentation for sys.maxunicode and sys.warnoptions.
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Fixed a markup error which caused an em dash to be presented as a minus sign.
This closes SF bug #458350 .
2001-09-04 18:18:36 +00:00
Tim Peters
32f453eaa4
New restriction on pow(x, y, z): If z is not None, x and y must be of
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integer types, and y must be >= 0. See discussion at
http://sf.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=457066&group_id=5470&atid=105470
2001-09-03 08:35:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
b86677079d
Move the long minidom example to a separate file; \verbatiminput does the
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right thing with page breaks in long examples, while the verbatim
environment does not. This causes the example to wrap to the next page
instead of overwriting the page footer and bottom margin.
2001-09-02 06:07:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
481cf2c064
Added the "Host" header to the "GET" example.
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This closes SF bug #457100 .
2001-09-01 02:35:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
3c0fc84b15
Update the links to the FIPS document that defines the Secure Hash
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Algorithm. This closes SF bug #454917 .
2001-08-30 14:42:40 +00:00
Tim Peters
692323488b
Add a new function imp.lock_held(), and use it to skip test_threaded_import
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when that test is doomed to deadlock.
2001-08-30 05:16:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
d800cff80d
Added explanation that [...] * n generates shallow copies of [...], so
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the contents will be shared by multiple references.
This closes SF bug #455694 .
2001-08-28 14:56:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
5cb29a49c8
Fix a number of minor markup errors, and improve the consistency a bit.
2001-08-28 14:25:03 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
46ccd1dae5
Plant a mention in the description of backreferences of the fact that
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while \0 doesn't do what one might expect, \g<0> does.
2001-08-28 12:50:03 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson
53da317801
Docs for the PEP 264 changes.
2001-08-27 20:02:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
88e0b5bee0
SF patch #454553 by Walter Dörwald: auto-guess content-type header for
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ftp urls.
2001-08-23 13:38:15 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
0f10f84028
indicate that mktime is platform-dependent. See SF bug 434143.
2001-08-22 12:44:27 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
5ff41d16a8
indicate that the years for which the calendar function will work are
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platform dependent. See SF bug 434143.
2001-08-22 12:43:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
31d833d575
Added documentation for BoundedSemaphore(), contributed by Skip Montanaro.
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This closes SF patch #452836 .
2001-08-20 18:49:00 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
29bb115bae
Clean up some argument profiles, enrich the docstring.
2001-08-20 13:16:30 +00:00
Tim Peters
dbec7d2c16
Improve Windows time.clock() blurb; was missing return type and unit.
2001-08-19 01:38:03 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
b60f2d0977
Framework code for compilerlike scripts.
2001-08-18 09:24:38 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
dbfe5e8507
Document that uu.decode() will always raise a uu.Error if out_file
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isn't given, and the file in the uu header already exists. Also add a
description of the uu.Error exception class.
2001-08-17 20:01:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
739282da83
Re-write the description of the os.spawn*() functions, and cover the
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whole family instead of just two.
This closes SF bug #451630 .
2001-08-16 21:21:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
ce575bac5e
Fix a minor typo and mark an exception name that was missed.
2001-08-14 21:51:50 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
5ef99a0bc5
Describe the new semantics for setting and deleting a function's
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__dict__ attribute. Deleting it, or setting it to a non-dictionary
result in a TypeError. Note that getting it the first time magically
initializes it to an empty dict so that func.__dict__ will always
appear to be a dictionary (never None).
Closes SF bug #446645 .
2001-08-14 18:22:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
280f7253e4
Insert omitted "the".
2001-08-14 11:42:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
bf781a95c0
Add the smtpd module to the list of undocumented modules; Barry needs to
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write the documentation for this module.
2001-08-14 11:38:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
6943a29cbf
David Goodger <dgoodger@atsautomation.com>:
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Documentation for difflib/ndiff refactoring: more of the ndiff functionality
has been moved to the underlying library (difflib).
This closes SF patch #445413 .
2001-08-13 19:31:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
84e58ab722
For the escape() function, added a reference to the quoteattrs() function
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in xml.sax.saxutils, since that is the right function to use for quoting
attribute values.
This closes SF bug #444707 .
Cleaned up a variety of other minor markup errors.
2001-08-11 03:28:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
1cf0f1751f
Add a note that the quoteattr() function is useful for HTML and SGML
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attributes as well.
2001-08-10 22:14:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
d635e3c468
Added a warning about reference cycles and memory consumption to the
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section on functions which return stack frames.
This closes SF bug #449258 .
2001-08-10 17:37:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
6d8d72b0cb
Usage fix, problem reported by Keith Briggs.
2001-08-10 16:15:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
e89659c02d
Added documentation for the new rich comparison support.
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This closes SF patch #428320 .
Added documentation for the new floordiv() and truediv() functions.
This is part of SF bug #449093 .
Re-organized the listing of functions to get better logical grouping.
2001-08-10 15:55:09 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
9b75dca192
Expose nl_langinfo through locale where available.
2001-08-10 13:58:50 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
8cc965c1fb
Patch #448474 : Add support for tell() and seek() to gzip.GzipFile.
2001-08-09 07:21:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
3a5ec57456
Clean up some of the markup here -- be more consistent in the use of
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semantic labels instead of presentational markup.
2001-08-08 05:39:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
58212724f2
Add a comment on time.time() returning non-decreasing values except when
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the clock is set back.
This closes SF bug #447945 .
2001-08-05 15:43:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
c9908c4f5c
Document IPv6 changes. Contributed by itojun.
2001-08-04 22:22:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
b3cc29b493
Note that the mimetypes.MimeTypes class was added in Python 2.2.
2001-08-04 00:48:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
d5efb17086
Add documentation for the new aspects of the mimetypes module.
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This closes the SF bug (feature request) #439710 .
2001-08-03 21:03:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
d86038d1be
Apply the new \mailheader macro where appropriate, and fix a few small
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markup inconsistencies.
2001-08-03 18:39:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
5d54879647
Fix some of the example code; the reference objects do not support a
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get() method; just calling them is sufficient. (There was a get() method
for this in an early version of the implementation.)
Reported by Mats Wichmann.
2001-08-03 03:50:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
51629c245a
Add a caveat about boundary conditions and RE concatenation, so that the
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documents do not make an overly-strong assertion about the properties of
RE concatenation.
Add an example of RE{m,} syntax and what it will and will not match.
2001-08-02 20:52:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
905dc558f1
Cleaned up the description of readline.set_completer().
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Thanks to Nathaniel Gray for reporting the confusion.
2001-08-01 21:42:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
e74f8de385
Added an example of a string value for the replacement parameter to
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re.sub().
This closes SF bug #446136 .
Fixed description of RE modifiers so that RE{#} and RE{#,} are more
clearly described and disambiguated (plain RE{#} had not been described
at all). Reported by Jeremy Craven via email.
2001-08-01 16:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
630a63cafd
Fix description of buffer_info(), and add a note that there is a better
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way...
This closes SF bug #444842 .
2001-08-01 16:50:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
43211ecda2
Make some adjustments to the markup, and fix up some style-guide issues.
2001-07-29 03:41:23 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
66b6e192b9
Patch #416224 : add readline completion to cmd.Cmd.
2001-07-28 14:44:03 +00:00
Greg Ward
54f65094c3
Typo fix.
2001-07-26 21:01:21 +00:00
Tim Peters
7321ec437b
SF bug #444510 : int() should guarantee truncation.
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It's guaranteed now, assuming the platform modf() works correctly.
2001-07-26 20:02:17 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
4f1cd8bdcb
Patch #411138 : Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774 .
2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
41d7d58cc4
trivial rewording in footnote 5.
2001-07-25 16:18:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
d61e3eab44
Add entry for the new distutils section.
2001-07-24 16:20:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
4fefcc3ce4
Overview comments for the distutils package, with links to the distutils
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manuals for more information. This is being added to make it easier to
find the documentation for the distutils code.
2001-07-24 16:19:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
c547b46c06
Be more specific about corner cases in the description of the $ RE syntax,
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and include an example where the MULTILINE flag makes a real difference.
This closes SF bug #441600 .
2001-07-23 21:14:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
6fd3b22847
When explaining the enterabs() method, using the modern spelling of apply(),
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and relax the type of the argument list from tuple to sequence.
2001-07-23 19:28:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
6fdb90c0ca
Remove self-reference from the anydbm module.
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This closes SF patch #443788 .
2001-07-23 19:22:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
8a2adcf812
Typo: Added missing "if".
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This is part of SF patch #442788 .
2001-07-23 19:20:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
c046e97dc2
Add StopIteration to the list of exceptions *not* derived from StandardError.
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Slightly re-word discussion of SystemExit and fork().
This is part of SF patch #443788 .
2001-07-23 19:19:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
63bc2e0fcb
Convert the use of apply(f, args) to the new spelling: f(*args).
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This is part of SF patch #443788 .
2001-07-23 19:16:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
f69868f304
Add a missing "\" to the markup.
2001-07-20 19:03:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
960fdf9ac3
Added the constants ascii_letters, ascii_lowercase, and ascii_uppercase
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to the string module. This was determined to be the right approach in
SF bug #226706 .
2001-07-20 18:38:26 +00:00
Piers Lauder
a3a1668904
apply patch item #416254
2001-07-20 11:04:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
acd32d3be5
Added function xml.sax.saxutils.quoteattr().
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This closes SF bug #440351 . It should not be moved to Python 2.1.1.
2001-07-19 16:10:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
53d285a9af
Remove some false statements.
2001-07-19 03:49:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
28bafb8b5d
Fix a few typos
2001-07-19 01:17:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
72182027a8
"Make small changes, but carry a big diff."
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Minor local consistency adjustments.
A couple of small tweaks to the setdlopenflags() description.
For setprofile() and settrace(), convert some references to become
hyperlinks in the HTML version.
2001-07-18 17:52:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
1a2302b3b2
Add some symbolic names to support hyperlinked references.
2001-07-18 17:40:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
5d808fba00
Made a few minor style & markup changes to the new {get,set}dlopenflags()
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descriptions; added availability notes.
2001-07-18 16:35:05 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
f0473d511b
Patch #412229 : Add functions sys.getdlopenflags and sys.setdlopenflags.
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Add dlopenflags to PyInterpreterState, and use it in dlopen calls.
2001-07-18 16:17:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
efaef13c81
Update the availability information for os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile(), and
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os.tmpnam().
2001-07-17 20:39:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
e78661bf90
Fix a couple of minor markup nits.
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Footnotes should be added *after* punctuation, not before.
(Yes, this should be merged with the descr branch. Sorry, Tim!)
2001-07-17 05:17:58 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
95400a28e4
Updated the documentation in several respects:
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- This module, despite its name, now should conform to RFC 2822, the
update to RFC 822.
- This module doesn't just represent "email headers", but entire email
messages.
- Added documentation for other useful public functions such as
quote(), unquote(), praseaddr(), and dump_address_pair().
2001-07-16 20:47:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
687a17deaa
Revise the description of time.clock() so that it correctly describes the
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Windows version of the function as well as the Unix flavor.
This fixes SF bug #441357 .
2001-07-16 15:40:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
8ee679f0ce
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
4124a0b343
Correct a couple of errors noted by Alex Martelli.
2001-07-14 02:46:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
7fc8abb396
Remove comments about XML and HTML; those sections are no
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longer part of this chapter.
Minor change to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:44:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
3d97e35a20
Add entry for xmlrpclib documentation.
2001-07-12 23:40:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
5ddf7adf84
Several markup adjustments so this will format and be more consistent with
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the rest of the documnentation.
2001-07-12 23:39:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
f4bdb57e15
Fix return value for m.group() for groups not in the part of the RE that
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matched; reported by Paul Moore.
Wrapped several long lines.
2001-07-12 14:13:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
bf5a774bcb
On int/long to the negative int/long power, let float handle it
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instead of raising an error. This was one of the two issues that the
VPython folks were particularly problematic for their students. (The
other one was integer division...) This implements (my) SF patch
#440487 .
2001-07-12 11:27:16 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
e304bb9eec
First version of xmlrpclib docs. Probably has markup errors; is not complete,
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could probably stand to have some of the internal things like Marshaller
documented. But I think it does a decent job on the entry points and
externally visible things.
Fred and Fredrik, do your stuff! You both need to proof this.
2001-07-12 02:39:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
682d5f3cda
Follow the recommended practices for keystroke representation; this
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improves internal consistency in the documentation.
2001-07-12 02:09:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
9bbc933fcb
Added information about the timeout parameter to the poll() method for
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polling objects. This closes SF bug #439823 .
Fixed a minor markup bug.
2001-07-11 18:48:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
907e76b620
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
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translation more difficult, as well as reading the English more
difficult for non-native speakers.
2001-07-06 20:30:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
ab1df4fe88
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
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translation more difficult, as well as reading the English more
difficult for non-native speakers.
Add an index entry for the Telnet protocol.
Always refer to the protocol as Telnet instead of telnet.
2001-07-06 20:23:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
91f2f26d75
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
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translation more difficult, as well as reading the English more
difficult for non-native speakers.
2001-07-06 19:28:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
45c23e61d8
Explain the exit code for the wait() method, including a reference to
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the os.W*() functions used to interpret the return value.
This fixes SF bug #429361 .
2001-07-06 17:17:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
bcd1df746d
The fpectl module does not work on Windows, so remove Windows from the
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\platform statement.
Also fix a minor style consistency nit in an example.
2001-07-05 21:17:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
a939911345
Fix a markup error: do not omit a method's parameter list if it is
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empty.
2001-07-05 21:14:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
25211f5724
Added more information on the differences between the htmllib and HTMLParser
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modules.
2001-07-05 16:34:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5fe2c139d5
List constraints on xrange() objects.
2001-07-05 15:27:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3f56166b1a
Rip out the fancy behaviors of xrange that nobody uses: repeat, slice,
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contains, tolist(), and the start/stop/step attributes. This includes
removing the 4th ('repeat') argument to PyRange_New().
2001-07-05 13:27:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
20006b2d51
Marked the parameters to Stats.print_*() as optional.
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This closes SF bug #438032 .
2001-07-02 21:22:39 +00:00
Tim Peters
4efb6e9643
Turns out Neil didn't intend for *all* of his gen-branch work to get
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committed.
tokenize.py: I like these changes, and have tested them extensively
without even realizing it, so I just updated the docstring and the docs.
tabnanny.py: Also liked this, but did a little code fiddling. I should
really rewrite this to *exploit* generators, but that's near the bottom
of my effort/benefit scale so doubt I'll get to it anytime soon (it
would be most useful as a non-trivial example of ideal use of generators;
but test_generators.py has already grown plenty of food-for-thought
examples).
inspect.py: I'm sure Ping intended for this to continue running even
under 1.5.2, so I reverted this to the last pre-gen-branch version. The
"bugfix" I checked in in-between was actually repairing a bug *introduced*
by the conversion to generators, so it's OK that the reverted version
doesn't reflect that checkin.
2001-06-29 23:51:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
0c209047ba
Correct a markup error for an accented character.
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Reported by Milan Zamazal <pdm@zamazal.org>.
2001-06-29 16:25:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
58c95391fa
Removed some stray periods, and fix up a number of visible markup
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consistency errors (mostly omitted "()" at the end of function and
method names).
Reported by Milan Zamazal <pdm@zamazal.org>.
2001-06-29 16:21:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
f29ca18df3
SourceForge bug #437041 :
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Use a portable format in the example that creates a timestamp suitable for
use in email, also updating it and the footnote from RFC 822 to RFC 2822.
2001-06-29 15:39:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
9f9bd6af78
Simplify an example based on comment from Thomas Holenstein <thomas@hex.ch>:
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Do not use an extra flag variable to test only once in one subsequent if
statement.
2001-06-29 14:59:01 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
69940973db
Remove duplicate ', ' in dbhash.open()'s argument list.
2001-06-27 13:49:59 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
e9218a1a8e
Remove the restriction on a mapping's .update() method.
2001-06-26 20:32:59 +00:00
Tim Peters
3e7b1a04a0
Teach the types module about generators. Thanks to James Althoff on the
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Iterators list for bringing it up!
2001-06-25 19:46:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
b037d33245
Updated link to zlib's home page.
2001-06-25 15:30:13 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
e7e03cd0cf
Fix typo
2001-06-23 16:26:44 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
ff00fdae23
Correct erroneous description of precmd.
2001-06-23 14:42:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
8058bfa6fc
Contributed updates from Harald Hanche-Olsen, giving details of the branch
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cuts for the complex math functions. Includes a brief description of
what branch cuts are.
2001-06-23 03:16:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
307cb05764
Re-organize a little, clean up some markup.
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Added some comments about sys.exit(), SystemExit, and preventing restricted
code from exiting the interpreter.
This closes SF bug #434743 .
2001-06-22 18:21:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
f66cb5d0eb
Corrected an error in the information on supporting weak references in
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extension types (the docs reflected a development version of the API).
This closes SF bug #435066 .
2001-06-22 17:20:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
93438bf0a2
Fix & clean up the information about building Python with large file support
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for Linux.
This closes SF bug #434975 .
2001-06-22 16:01:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
d5df09cfb6
Update to include the license information in a less annoying place.
2001-06-20 21:37:34 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
6016e39250
Document the new encodestring() and decodestring() functions. Also,
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add some description of what the quotetabs argument does for the
encode*() functions. Finally, add a "see also" pointing to the base64
module.
2001-06-19 19:44:42 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
918f2c722a
Document that filter is added in 2.2.
2001-06-16 08:14:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
54d10fd2cd
Add a version annotation for the Q and q format codes.
2001-06-15 14:13:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
8fcd4b5ab3
Fix an improperly placed comma.
2001-06-14 13:57:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
4a6c5c568f
Fixed reference to table notes for {}.keys() and {}.items() -- these
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references did not get updated when the notes were renumbered in a
previous update.
This fixes SF bug #432208 .
2001-06-12 03:31:56 +00:00
Tim Peters
7a3bfc3a47
Added q/Q standard (x-platform 8-byte ints) mode in struct module.
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This completes the q/Q project.
longobject.c _PyLong_AsByteArray: The original code had a gross bug:
the most-significant Python digit doesn't necessarily have SHIFT
significant bits, and you really need to count how many copies of the sign
bit it has else spurious overflow errors result.
test_struct.py: This now does exhaustive std q/Q testing at, and on both
sides of, all relevant power-of-2 boundaries, both positive and negative.
NEWS: Added brief dict news while I was at it.
2001-06-12 01:22:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
0b9bc20e66
Add the appropriate availability annotations for the popen*() family of
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functions -- these are not available on traditional Mac OS platforms.
Corrected the version annotations for the spawn*() functions and related
constants; these were added in Python 1.6, not 1.5.2.
2001-06-11 18:25:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
046f4d810d
Fixed parameter order for os.popen2(), os.popen3(), and os.popen(4). Added
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a reference to these functions and popen() from the "Process Management"
section.
Based on a suggestion from comp.lang.python.
2001-06-11 15:21:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
c115835457
Fix recent changes so that this section will format again.
2001-06-11 14:55:01 +00:00
Tim Peters
7b9542a3f7
Initial support for 'q' and 'Q' struct format codes: for now, only in
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native mode, and only when config #defines HAVE_LONG_LONG. Standard mode
will eventually treat them as 8-byte ints across all platforms, but that
likely requires a new set of routines in longobject.c first (while
sizeof(long) >= 4 is guaranteed by C, there's nothing in C we can rely
on x-platform to hold 8 bytes of int, so we'll have to roll our own;
I'm thinking of a simple pair of conversion functions, Python long
to/from sized vector of unsigned bytes; that may be useful for GMP
conversions too; std q/Q would call them with size fixed at 8).
test_struct.py: In addition to adding some native-mode 'q' and 'Q' tests,
got rid of unused code, and repaired a non-portable assumption about
native sizeof(short) (it isn't 2 on some Cray boxes).
libstruct.tex: In addition to adding a bit of 'q'/'Q' docs (more needed
later), removed an erroneous footnote about 'I' behavior.
2001-06-10 23:40:19 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
1dc98c44fe
add warning about situation where code may be executed twice, once when
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module is __main__ and once when module is imported.
2001-06-08 14:40:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
62f9d7c021
In the section on extending the profiler, add some additional discussion
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about setting up the dispatch table, and update the OldProfile and
HotProfile classes to the current implementations, showing the adjusted
construction for the dispatch table.
2001-06-08 05:04:19 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
e2ccb89513
Document filter.
2001-06-07 19:01:24 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
e24fef0dd2
Fix bug #422702 : Make flag argument to open optional, and document it that way.
2001-06-05 05:33:19 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
b9d973dac5
is -> if in rename description
2001-06-04 15:31:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
81e142b907
Document os.getenv().
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This closes SF bug #429059 .
2001-05-31 20:27:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
c19f39272e
Some general cleanup of the threading module documentation, including
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fixing the reference to Thread.getDeamon() (should be isDaemon()).
This closes SF bug #429070 .
2001-05-31 20:24:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
6cba3d0e64
Added entry for HTMLParser documentation.
2001-05-30 04:59:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
3b755d43ac
Michel Pelletier <michel@digicool.com>:
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Documentation for the HTMLParser module, with small changes by FLD.
2001-05-30 04:59:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
dc9e7e42c8
readlink() description: Added note that the return value may be either
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absolute or relative.
remove(), rename() descriptions: Give more information about the cross-
platform behavior of these functions, so single-platform developers
can be aware of the potential issues when writing portable code.
This closes SF patch #426598 .
2001-05-29 18:13:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
c80d4dd695
The parameter to the listen() method is not optional, but was marked as
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optional in the documentation.
This closes SF bug #427985 .
2001-05-29 15:37:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
56a71eee65
Add a version annotation for splitdrive(); old, but as long as I managed
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to end up with the information, it is better recorded than lost.
2001-05-25 16:21:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
c6d8f8d2ac
Add descriptions of {}.iteritems(), {}.iterkeys(), and {}.itervalues()
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in the table of mapping object operations. Re-numbered the list of
notes to reflect the move of the "Added in version 2.2." note to the list
of notes instead of being inserted into the last column of the table.
2001-05-25 04:24:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
98cfab6523
One more update related to the new get() and setdefault() methods on the
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Message object.
2001-05-22 22:00:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
6b4593e338
Update to add get() and setdefault() as supported mapping operations, and
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add a list of the mapping methods which are not supported (per Barry's
comments).
2001-05-22 15:12:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
706314909b
Add some clarifications about the mapping interface presented by
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rfc822.Message objects, based on comments from Barry.
2001-05-22 14:36:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
1400baa5d6
Add a "See also" section with useful links. More should be added giving
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pointers to information about the other mailbox formats; if anyone can
provide the information needed, please let me know!
2001-05-21 21:23:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
e9719fe1a7
Fix bug in smtplib example: the prompt said to end the message with ^D,
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but doing so raised EOFError. This makes it work as advertised and
converts to string methods where reasonable.
This closes SF bug #424776 .
2001-05-20 12:26:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
c0dac1a58c
Beef up the unicode() description a bit, based on material from AMK's
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"What's New in Python ..." documents.
2001-05-15 15:27:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
ba7e2c8a27
Add some text to make the dircmp object section more readable, and move
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some stuff around.
2001-05-11 17:01:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
886f113ba9
--sigh--
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Finish the last set of changes to these files so the conversion does not
break.
2001-05-11 15:49:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
47852467f5
Markup adjustments to avoid getting junk in the index.
2001-05-11 15:46:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
96d7a70630
Replace "\begin{classdesc}{SomeClass}{\unspecified}" with
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"\begin{classdesc*}{SomeClass}" -- the rendering of \unspecified was
identical to \moreargs, so this helps clarify things just a little.
2001-05-11 01:08:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
e7ec1efe50
Fix typo in weakref.proxy() documentation.
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This closes SF bug #423087 .
2001-05-10 17:22:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
791c351b3d
Update example to no longer use the FCNTL module.
2001-05-10 15:57:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
e9735ac215
Remove all mentions of the strop module -- it has been pronounced Evil.
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(The string "strop" is found in the rexec documentation, but that should
not be changed until strop is actually removed or rexec no longer allows
it.)
2001-05-10 15:05:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
d0de57cfbb
Update the fcntl module documentation.
2001-05-09 21:09:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
bda3a59a93
Itamar Shtull-Trauring <python@itamarst.org>:
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Updates zipfile.ZipFile docs to mention the fact that you can create a
ZipFile instance from an arbitrary file-like object.
This closes patch #418011 .
2001-05-09 19:57:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
c116b82b77
Work around limitations of the module synopsis table generation to avoid
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leaking LaTeX2HTML's internal string munging.
This fixes SF bug #420399 .
2001-05-09 15:50:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
a7c9ac6544
There is no IMAP class in the imaplib module; the class is IMAP4.
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There is no imap module; refer to imaplib instead, since it exists.
Move the "See Also:" section in front of the sub-sections, for
consistency with other portions of the library reference.
This closes the library reference portion of SF bug #420216 .
2001-05-09 03:49:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
1ef24e1b30
Note that when inplace=1 existing backup files will be removed silently.
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Closes SF bug #420230 .
2001-05-09 03:24:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
a6140be7b3
Michael Hudson <mwh21@cam.ac.uk>:
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Documentation update to reflect changes to the termios module (noting
that the termios functions can take a file object as well as a file
descriptor).
This closes the documentation portion of SF patch #417081 .
2001-05-08 05:37:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
f42cc45f1b
The general iteration support is part of 2.2, not 2.1 -- fixed the version
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annotations!
Also fixed a typo noted by Neil S.
2001-05-03 04:39:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
9cfe1824c2
Add documentation for the StopIteration exception.
2001-05-03 04:30:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
287c4cb43a
State that Mailbox objects are iterator objects.
2001-05-02 20:22:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
eacdec6b38
Update the filter() and list() descriptions to include information about
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the support for containers and iteration.
2001-05-02 20:19:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
93656e76f9
Added section describing the iterator protocol.
2001-05-02 20:18:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8b3d6ca3df
At the suggestion of Peter Funk, document 'key in dict' and 'key not
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in dict' after has_key(), with a \versionadded{2.2} note.
2001-04-23 13:22:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
82f93c693d
Only document <file>.xreadlines() once; added version annotation.
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This closes SF bug #417943 .
2001-04-22 01:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
4cacec5393
Fix a number of minor markup errors.
2001-04-21 05:56:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
0dbb4fba4c
Implement, test and document "key in dict" and "key not in dict".
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I know some people don't like this -- if it's really controversial,
I'll take it out again. (If it's only Alex Martelli who doesn't like
it, that doesn't count as "real controversial" though. :-)
That's why this is a separate checkin from the iterators stuff I'm
about to check in next.
2001-04-20 16:50:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
1aec3a16f3
Add versioning notes: many of the signatures changed to allow the time
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used to be omitted (meaning use the current time) as of Python 2.1.
Users who need cross-version portability need to know things like this.
2001-04-19 04:55:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
bc524c4e9f
Cut-&-paste-o noted by Wolfgang Teschner: decompressobj() returns
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*DE*compression objects, not compression objects!
2001-04-18 20:16:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
895aa9da4c
Suggestion from Keith Briggs: refer to RE objects consistently instead of
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introducing a new term ("regex") without defining it.
2001-04-18 17:26:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
293f77af6f
Add note about the version in which GetoptError was added -- this can
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bite people interested in 1.5.2 compatibility.
2001-04-18 03:18:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
c054c75582
Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping.
2001-04-13 17:25:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
a3e56a6ceb
Minor markup adjustments.
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Turn reference to the cmd module into a hyperlink.
2001-04-13 14:34:58 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
4f3980d3cb
Added a test main to the pstats library that can help you browse profile dumps.
2001-04-13 00:23:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
47f11ce591
Added warning that FancyURLopener prompts the user on the terminal when
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basic authentication is needed.
Added documentation for FancyURLopener.prompt_user_passwd(), explaining
that subclasses should provide more appropriate behavior for the hosting
environment.
2001-04-12 20:26:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
62a26699c4
Added module synopsis for the chapter summary.
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Added documentation for TestCase.assertRaises().
Added text for "Mapping concepts to classes", and merged it into the
front matter instead of separating it into a new section.
Removed use of "assert" in examples.
Update the descriptions to reflect further changes from discussions on
the pyunit-interest list.
Added documentation for the defaultTestLoader object and the
TestLoader methods.
Added the assert*() names for the TestCase helper methods.
2001-04-12 19:34:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
e20bd19f86
Convert several \seetext references to \seerfc and \seetitle versions.
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These format somewhat better and include more semantic information in the
source.
2001-04-12 16:47:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
0056a427bb
Added a lot of text from Steve Purcell's HTML documentation.
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Updated reference material substantially based on discussions on the
pyunit-interest mailing list (not all changes are in the code in CVS
yet).
2001-04-12 04:50:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
b942c2f788
Fixed bug in example.
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This closes SF bug #415522 .
Also fix markup error in text following the example.
2001-04-11 21:33:47 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
c3cbbaf513
Added some additional documentation describing how BabylMailbox
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actually works (it returns a message containing the visible headers,
not the original headers). Doc change approved by Fred; closes SF bug
#412230 .
2001-04-11 20:12:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
eedf985056
Include a synopsis for the chapter overview.
2001-04-11 19:17:11 +00:00
Moshe Zadka
2bd0d88360
Fixing bug 405999 -- clarifying differences between Python's
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getopt and GNU getopt -- Python is like classical UNIX getopt.
2001-04-11 07:33:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
29be70195a
Added definition of "test fixture".
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Added description of optional parameter to the TestSuite constructor.
Added descriptions of the TestLoader and TextTestRunner classes.
Added method descriptions for the TestCase class.
2001-04-10 22:25:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
ac154a17a3
Remove the mapping() function from the documentation.
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Add a description of the ReferenceError exception.
2001-04-10 19:57:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
da00cda9fa
Add note that difflib was added in Python 2.1.
2001-04-10 19:56:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
cfac6d23fd
Normalize tabs to spaces.
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Update the attribution for the "Curses Programming with Python" How-To.
Change the way the reference to the Demo/curses/ directory is marked up.
2001-04-10 18:49:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
6fda3ac474
Add reference to the DDJ article discussing a similar algorithm.
2001-04-10 18:41:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
90a72f8dcd
Add documentation for getmoduleinfo() and getmodulename().
2001-04-10 15:12:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
819815abea
Fix typo in example (\b should be \n in string literal).
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This closes SF bug #414279 .
2001-04-09 15:57:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
9c846366ee
Fix a number of bugs and omissions in the AddressList documentation, most
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noted by Steve Holden.
This closes SF bug #413876 .
2001-04-09 15:42:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
501d90471d
Add entry for unittest documentation.
2001-04-07 05:42:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
b9ad228798
Start of documentation for the unittest module. Some of this comes from
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Steve Purcell's documentation, and a lot of it is written based on
using PyUnit and reading the implementation.
There is more to come, but I want to get this check in before I have a
disk crash or anything else bad happens.
2001-04-07 05:41:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
4cf1227e56
Change {\em ...} to \emph{...} for consistency with the rest of the Python
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documentation.
2001-04-05 18:31:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
f459d852e5
Add some information about what to expect of the DocumentType's
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.internalSubset attribute based on a clarification from the www-dom
list.
2001-04-05 18:30:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
659f377ed9
Add entry for curses.panel documentation.
2001-03-29 22:23:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
14631f674f
Fix serious markup errors.
2001-03-29 22:22:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
cb83988151
Added example use of weak references, contributed by Tim Peters.
2001-03-28 21:15:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
21e036ccca
Add a note that the "kfm" controller supports "konqueror" as well as the
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old KDE 1 "kfm" command.
2001-03-26 16:17:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
c8da0f966f
Document use_rawinput. (Although now that I think more about it, a
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better solution would have been to factor out the raw_input() call and
make it into an overridable method. Oh well, maybe later...)
2001-03-24 19:17:35 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
aa90adcfb9
Add nested scopes spec to appendix.
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Add new opcodes LOAD_CLOSURE, LOAD_DEREF, STORE_DEREF, MAKE_CLOSURE to
docs for dis module.
Add docs for new function and code members in Sec. 3 of ref manual.
They're present regardless of whether nested scopes are used.
Remove description of default argument hack from Sec. 7 of the ref
manual and refer the reader to the appendix.
2001-03-23 17:23:50 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee
ce7298ab42
Explain the difference between NL and NEWLINE.
2001-03-23 05:22:12 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee
c608fb6389
Give a slightly better explanation of excepthook.
2001-03-23 05:17:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
5e0dfaccd1
Update to the most recent weakref changes.
2001-03-23 04:36:02 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee
b5c5132d1a
Add sys.excepthook.
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Update docstring and library reference section on 'sys' module.
New API PyErr_Display, just for displaying errors, called by excepthook.
Uncaught exceptions now call sys.excepthook; if that fails, we fall back
to calling PyErr_Display directly.
Also comes with sys.__excepthook__ and sys.__displayhook__.
2001-03-23 02:46:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
4e6d09e369
Moved the description of the tzparse module to the "Obsolete" section
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and note that it fails when the TZ environment variable is not set.
This closes SF bug #409683 .
2001-03-20 23:13:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
b15bbc8d3d
Add documentation for SGMLParser.handle_decl().
2001-03-16 20:39:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
f0ebbe0bd0
Re-order some method descriptions for a more logical grouping.
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(Based on reader comment!)
2001-03-08 22:46:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
990b0fec1a
Update documentation to reflect the shift to NetrcParseError instead of
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SyntaxError.
2001-03-06 06:55:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
93c867139f
Lots of organizational changes for consistency with the rest of the
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documentation.
Fix a few small markup nits.
2001-03-02 20:39:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
043d5e5514
For copyfile(), be explicit that src and dst are file names; that was only
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implied.
2001-03-02 16:46:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
7606e4d00e
Added entry for urllib2 documentation.
2001-03-01 19:54:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
f89ad5ed6b
Document configuration flags to compile for large file support on
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certain Linux systems.
2001-03-01 18:29:57 +00:00
Moshe Zadka
8a18e99008
Checking in patch 404826 -- urllib2 enhancements and documentations.
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(please not that the library reference does *not* include the
urllib2 documnetation -- that will wiat for Fred)
2001-03-01 08:40:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
56ba72a563
Document warn_explicit().
2001-02-28 23:34:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
7840a9cb99
Add entry for the inspect module.
2001-02-28 23:02:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
6dbd382ec8
Clean up some of the markup for consistency, wrap some long lines.
2001-02-28 23:01:38 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
58177b9975
added description of NL token
2001-02-28 22:05:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
969ab2710a
Update documentation for termios module; do not refer to the TERMIOS module
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for constant definitions.
Add a deprecation to the TERMIOS module.
2001-02-27 22:01:15 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
5e1633365d
Patch #403985 : Add support for weak-keyed dictionaries
2001-02-27 18:36:56 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee
6397c7c9a9
inspect: a module for getting information out of live Python objects
2001-02-27 14:43:21 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
d4614e8371
Updates to the semantics of function and method attributes.
2001-02-27 03:32:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
07e6c505ad
Minor adjustments, including markup corrections.
2001-02-23 19:15:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
447f545322
Fix extra backslash in example.
2001-02-23 19:13:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
afdc8fc0ad
Fix up the markup in some recently-added portions of the text.
2001-02-23 19:10:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
19f3c52347
Work around the broken formatting of sys.ps1 prompts in running text.
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Move sample sessions to the left margin of the file for consistency;
formatting can adjust the margin if needed.
This closes SF bug #133213 .
2001-02-22 23:15:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
7c30de65f4
Remove documentation for the soundex module; the module is no longer
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included with Python.
2001-02-22 21:25:20 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
7edbd4ffb4
Patch #103885 : Add dynamic registration and lookup of DOM implementations.
2001-02-22 14:05:50 +00:00
Tim Peters
754ba589b7
Improve accuracy. In the .tex file, note the new "% BUG:" comments: an
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extra backslash is getting displayed in the generated HTML.
2001-02-20 11:24:35 +00:00
Tim Peters
f0768c822b
Added missing \item. See also bug 133213, about damaged HTML generated
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for \code(">>>"); don't know how to fix that one.
2001-02-20 10:57:30 +00:00
Tim Peters
e79af273e8
Flesh out PlaySound() docs enough so that SND_ALIAS isn't hopelessly confusing.
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If someone knows how to turn the new table of guaranteed-registered system
sounds into a LaTeX table, be my guest.
2001-02-20 10:02:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
5b0705d266
ConfigParser.optionxform(): Document this since it is available for
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sub-classes and application code to override.
2001-02-19 22:37:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
15bc404ca8
Added entries for difflib documentation.
2001-02-19 16:32:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
baf71422b8
Documentation for the difflib module, converted from the module docstrings.
2001-02-19 16:31:02 +00:00
Tim Peters
373d151666
More typos. libwinsound.tex typo noted by Peter Funk (thanks!).
2001-02-19 08:36:41 +00:00
Tim Peters
25a9ce371c
Take a tour of hell's seedier neighborhoods to try to make winsound.Beep()
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do something non-useless on Win9X boxes. WinME unknown to me. Someone with
NT/2000 make sure it still works there!
2001-02-19 07:06:36 +00:00
Tim Peters
c4089d84d8
In the example showing the irrelevance of start columns, restore that the
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start columns differ (editing had pushed them all into column 0).
2001-02-17 18:03:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
f3262b72ca
Add entries for the doctest documentation.
2001-02-17 17:33:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
7eb1463bb3
Make a variety of minor markup adjustments.
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Close some environments so that this will actually format.
2001-02-17 17:32:41 +00:00
Tim Peters
7688229f7c
SF patch #103808 : doctest.py docs
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Checking in Moshe's patch after rewrapping some paragraphs (to consume
fewer columns) and repairing that I/2.**J lost the I.
2001-02-17 05:58:44 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
04f1d37471
mention the use of the maxtries attribute of FancyURLopener in bounding
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redirection recursion.
2001-02-15 17:00:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
bf416fa0dd
Document default blocksize for storbinary().
2001-02-15 13:53:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
523ec5709b
Make some clarifications and corrections based on comments from Guido.
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Fix a few markup nits.
Work around a LaTeX2HTML nuisance.
2001-02-15 05:37:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
15862f50e5
Add a note to Node.isSameNode() that it is based on the DOM Level 3 working
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draft. I'm not sure that's important, but Uche thinks it is.
2001-02-14 20:39:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
1d8ad2b1de
Updated to reflect the additional information and interfaces exported in
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pyexpat.c revision 2.40.
2001-02-14 18:54:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
162c6a637a
Reflect change in traceback format:
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"innermost last" --> "most recent call last"
2001-02-14 03:20:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
e7d7e6c879
Fix two typos
2001-02-14 02:39:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
5ed1dac4c0
Update documentation for pyexpat (xml.parsers.expat), to reflect the new
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support for Expat 1.95.*.
2001-02-08 15:40:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
cf2636696d
Fix markup typo in a {verbatim} environment (there should not be any!);
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caught by Eric Raymond.
2001-02-03 14:35:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
40e43bfaf7
Document Node.isSameNode().
2001-02-03 01:20:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
f891404e1a
Move the whrandom section back to the documented modules section; this
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gives people a chance to see the depracation notice.
2001-02-03 01:17:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
269625f67a
Revise the deprecation note for the whrandom module to be correct and a
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little more formal.
2001-02-03 01:12:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
6270031f4e
Adjustments to the text of the UnixMailbox description. Added
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PortableUnixMailbox as a separate class as well (this also generates
the right index entry).
2001-02-02 03:51:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
57d943ad38
Move the whrandom entry to the "Obsolete Modules" appendix.
2001-02-02 02:45:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
844bd5b4a9
Minor markup adjustments.
2001-02-02 02:42:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
68b6417c5a
Added a warning at the top saying that user code should not use the
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whrandom module directly.
2001-02-02 02:41:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
d0946da701
Fix some markup breakage that prevented formatting; re-wrapped a couple of
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wide paragraphs.
2001-02-01 15:53:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
36154b2dbf
Added entry for weakref documentation.
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Moved commented-out entries for obsolete module to an appendix, still
commented out.
2001-02-01 05:21:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
ebcf6a8573
Documentation for the weakref module.
2001-02-01 05:20:20 +00:00
Tim Peters
0de88fc4b1
Change random.seed() so that it can get at the full range of possible
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internal states. Put the old .seed() (which could only get at about
the square root of the # of possibilities) under the new name .whseed(),
for bit-level compatibility with older versions. This occurred to me
while reviewing effbot's book (he found himself stumbling over .seed()
more than once there ...).
2001-02-01 04:59:18 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
30dbd1429a
Document the two changes to the mailbox.py module:
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- All constructors grow an optional argument `factory' which is a
callable used when new message instances are created by the next()
methods. Defaults to the rfc822.Message class.
- A new subclass of UnixMailbox is added, called PortableUnixMailbox.
It's identical to UnixMailbox, but uses a more portable test for
From_ delimiter lines. With PortableUnixMailbox, any line that
starts with "From " is considered a delimiter (this should really
check for two newlines before the F, but it doesn't.
2001-01-31 22:14:01 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
b416290d5d
Some rewriting of the "Internationalizing your programs and modules"
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subsection to include a discussion of the msgfmt.py program.
2001-01-31 21:21:45 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
3229b859fb
More on noutrefresh() and scroll().
2001-01-29 06:39:33 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
4fda21ba6b
updated to document use of sequences of two-element tuples as inputs
2001-01-28 21:18:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
c37f5b3296
Adjust documentation for new.instance() to reflect that the second
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parameter may be omitted or None.
2001-01-28 17:23:05 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
9ca35ec97a
Instructive example for strftime(); how to generate RFC822 dates.
2001-01-28 00:56:54 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
e7213c7a80
Emphasis that instantiating this class doesn't consume the message body.
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Fix some unclear language in the description of the addrlist member.
2001-01-27 10:56:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
66f98b45cd
Fix a number of typos found by Guido.
2001-01-26 20:51:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
8c071d4388
Massively improved documentation for string formatting operations,
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primarily from Evelyn Mitchell (thanks!).
This closes SF patch #103412 .
2001-01-26 20:48:35 +00:00
Tim Peters
e360d9507a
The combo of getstate/setstate/jumpahead is very powerful, but needs
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examples to flesh it out for the uninitiated. Here they are.
2001-01-26 10:00:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
29052482d1
Removed references to Python 1.5.3; that was a "tentative" number I used
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in the docs to indicate the next version before we decided on 1.6.
Adjusted winsound.Beep() description slightly as well.
2001-01-25 17:29:18 +00:00
Tim Peters
517ce23183
Clarify winsound.beep docs, in response to c.l.py beep brouhahalet.
2001-01-25 09:33:48 +00:00
Tim Peters
d52269bfd0
Fix bugs introduced by rewrite (in particular, time-based initialization
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got broken). Also added new method .jumpahead(N). This finally gives us
a semi-decent answer to how Python's RNGs can be used safely and efficiently
in multithreaded programs (although it requires the user to use the new
machinery!).
2001-01-25 06:23:18 +00:00
Tim Peters
d7b5e88e8e
Reworked random.py so that it no longer depends on, and offers all the
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functionality of, whrandom.py. Also closes all the "XXX" todos in
random.py. New frequently-requested functions/methods getstate() and
setstate(). All exported functions are now bound methods of a hidden
instance. Killed all unintended exports. Updated the docs.
FRED: The more I fiddle the docs, the less I understand the exact
intended use of the \var, \code, \method tags. Please review critically.
GUIDO: See email. I updated NEWS as if whrandom were deprecated; I
think it should be.
2001-01-25 03:36:26 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
83125775e0
A \begin{funcdesc} was closed with an \end{methoddesc}.
2001-01-25 00:39:16 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
21f37e1b88
Fixed a bug where \& was needed.
2001-01-25 00:38:15 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
8ee1a4bdeb
Provide a much better (and complete!) description of the lockf()
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function, based on an eyeballing of the code.
2001-01-25 00:36:54 +00:00
Tim Peters
902446a28d
Supply long-missing docs for random.seed(). Extensive rewrite of module
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intro docs.
*************** Fred: check my LaTeX! Also, the docs for whrandom should
*************** be moved into Obsolete Modules.
2001-01-24 23:06:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
9368a12011
Fix an obvious usage nit I should have caught myself on the previous
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change to this file. Thanks, /F!
2001-01-24 18:19:40 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee
fa004ad36c
Show '\011', '\012', and '\015' as '\t', '\n', '\r' in strings.
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Switch from octal escapes to hex escapes for other nonprintable characters.
2001-01-24 17:19:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
b1b6a11b28
AttributeList --> NamedNodeMap
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Since there is no such thing as an AttributeList, don't say "attributes"
is one.
2001-01-24 16:17:15 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh
0110d3b2ad
new unicodedata functions (name, lookup)
2001-01-24 08:10:07 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
eda28445c0
documented (new) optional doseq parameter to urlencode.
2001-01-24 06:36:06 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
f79cb2db3e
Expose the autoraise capability. Improve the documentation.
2001-01-23 13:49:44 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
aeb5532ca0
Oops...finish a mangled sentence.
2001-01-23 13:22:28 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
f7f185116a
Rewrite webbrowser.py to fix various bugs following Ka-Ping Yee's
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complaints. The new version moves most of its initialization to
package load time; it's simpler, faster, smaller, and adds support for
Mozilla and Links. Interpretation of the BROWSER variable now works
and is documented. The open_new entry point and methods are marked
"deprecated; may be removed in 2.1".
2001-01-23 13:16:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
dc40ac0fe0
Added link to the "Python Codecs" project at SourceForge.
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Changed markup of the list of values for the list of meaningful "errors"
values.
2001-01-22 20:17:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
0f564eaceb
Change some wording to make this work with PDF generation -- using a PDF
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hyperlink at the start of the paragraph confused pdflatex; it saw the
link start while still in vertical mode, which is not allowed. Including
text before the link forces horizontal mode.
2001-01-22 19:06:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
5f0decf0d3
Clean up the docs for the "random" module according to comments from Tim
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Peters.
This closes SF bug #125919 .
2001-01-22 18:18:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
ef8cd7ca99
Minor markup adjustment.
2001-01-22 17:42:32 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
fe385251f4
Make the 'time' argument to the timemodule functions strftime, asctime,
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ctime, gmtime and localtime optional, defaulting to 'the current time' in
all cases. Adjust docs, add news item. Also convert all argument-handling to
METH_VARARGS. Closes SF patch #103265 .
2001-01-19 23:16:56 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg
6f77667a64
Backed out the unistr() builtin.
2001-01-19 21:36:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
bc0b260a77
Minor markup cleaning, and one required fix in the unistr() description.
2001-01-18 18:09:07 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
9483bed6d9
correct typo - closes bug #129205
2001-01-18 10:44:08 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee
3a9582fbe5
Fix the example (it didn't seem to reflect reality).
2001-01-18 07:50:17 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg
ad7c98e264
This patch adds a new builtin unistr() which behaves like str()
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except that it always returns Unicode objects.
A new C API PyObject_Unicode() is also provided.
This closes patch #101664 .
Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg. Copyright assigned to Guido van Rossum.
2001-01-17 17:09:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
90badd1286
Add a missing newline in an example; caught by Chris Ryland
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<cpr@emsoftware.com>.
2001-01-17 05:12:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
20ab9e9c0a
Document xreadlines() method. (Forgot to check this in before!)
2001-01-17 01:18:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
25be1931a0
Fix a few small markup/consistency nits.
2001-01-16 20:52:41 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
bd1a489759
push_source() and pop_source() entry points for shlex instances.
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These basically just make available to the user what userhook()
does to the source stack. Documentation included.
2001-01-16 14:18:55 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
83ad5015cb
effbot caught a typo!
2001-01-15 20:51:40 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
773d9f09be
Document function attributes for both the function type and the method
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type. The method documentation also includes a new brief discussion
of `bound' vs. `unbound' and why setting an attr on a bound method is
a TypeError. Includes Skip's suggested text.
2001-01-15 20:28:50 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
a770e866d6
Fixing author's email address.
2001-01-15 17:08:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
97d3b93c2f
Document changed default to passive mode.
2001-01-15 16:37:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
77b20f099e
Document filterwarnings(..., append=<bool>).
2001-01-14 14:10:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
1beb3d204f
Added note that this module was added in Python 2.1.
2001-01-12 22:57:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
ca7e1ee01a
Updated descriptions to incorporate additional information from Tim Peters.
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This mostly closes SF bug #128251 .
2001-01-11 22:49:49 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
a177c40daf
Document \code{import} in pth files.
2001-01-11 22:07:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
49c9ac30a4
Fixed minor markup nits for consistency with the rest of the library
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reference.
2001-01-11 16:02:08 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
ab78beca2f
Added pointer on POP3 variations.
2001-01-11 10:22:34 +00:00
Moshe Zadka
f68f2fec7d
Implementation of PEP-0217.
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This closes the PEP, and patch 103170
2001-01-11 05:41:27 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
5ac97957f7
Corrections and additions to the documentation for POP3 and IMAP library
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support, based on my fetchmail experience.
2001-01-11 04:19:52 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
8321026ff4
SourceForge patch #103140 , checked in at fdrake's invitation. Minor fixes and
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additions to library docs.#
2001-01-10 19:34:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
3c48ef7de8
Added documentation for the xreadlines module & related changes. The
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documentation was written by Jeff Epler (thanks!).
2001-01-09 22:47:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
986eafdc2b
Added missing word; fixed minor nits.
2001-01-09 20:54:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
37f1b34b62
Added entry for fpectl module documentation.
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Moved the mutex docs to be adjacent to the sched docs, since these are
meant to be used together (if they are used at all!).
2001-01-09 20:52:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
a5e7ad99d5
Documentation for the fpectl module, from Lee Busby. (Thanks!)
2001-01-09 20:38:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
45b1d6a831
Explain that long options are matched based on a unique prefix rather than
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requiring the whole option to be typed out.
This closes SF bug #126863 .
2001-01-08 16:05:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
e1d4715a6f
Update explanation of the set_location() method to indicate that in
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BTree databases, the key need not be in the database. Also, tell about
the exception if the key is not in the DB for other DB types.
This closes SF bug #127377 .
2001-01-05 06:44:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
4e18f07613
Based on comments from Guido, do not describe bisect() and insert() as
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being "for backward compatibility." Also revert to using bisect() in the
example, since Guido thinks that is the best recommendation for typical
usage.
2001-01-04 14:18:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
288927f426
Markup nit: Command line options should be marked with \programopt.
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Other minor markup nits fixed.
Make reference to PyErr_Warn() a hyperlink.
2001-01-04 05:59:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
b162d188f6
Fix typo spotted by Detlef Lannert <lannert@users.sourceforge.net>.
2001-01-04 05:48:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
19ae78302e
Added information about the interaction of opening a file in append mode
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and seek() in the description of seek().
This closes SF bug #126850 .
2001-01-04 05:16:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
22e9a5eaec
Markup nit: OK and ERR should be marked \constant in running text.
2001-01-04 05:14:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
2a72712efe
Update documentation to include the new functions, and use the more
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explicitly-named bisect_right() in the example code.
This closes SF bug #127055 .
2001-01-04 05:12:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
9c15fa7a0f
Description of long(): A string parameter is no longer required to be
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*decimal*.
This closes SF bug #127273 .
2001-01-04 05:09:16 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
be0630282e
Fix doubled word
2000-12-26 16:14:32 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
8694cc42ab
Remove redundant reference to tab (since it = 'horizontal tab')
2000-12-26 16:09:37 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
e6bf85845f
Document ERR and OK
2000-12-26 15:58:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
1dea760ca1
Make sure subsections are formatted into HTML pages with reasonable names.
2000-12-25 06:19:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
f08cbb1771
Added information on the ExternalEntityParserCreate() method.
2000-12-23 22:19:05 +00:00