Raymond Hettinger
d3fe2395b4
Minor improvements to the threading introduction:
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* Expand the example to show a join.
* Mention the use case of I/O running concurrent with a computational
thread.
* Be a tad more forceful about recommending Queue over other approaches
to synchonization.
* Eliminate discussion around having a single interpreter. This is a
more advanced discussion that belongs in the library reference and
in a section on extending and embedding.
2004-08-16 05:11:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
830d8b8b80
fix markup nit
2004-08-09 14:06:58 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson
b6d9fc38e8
Patch:
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[ 1003863 ] adds an index entry for __all__ to the tutorial
2004-08-07 17:05:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
4ab0e9e541
revise wording to avoid confusion for non-native English speakers
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(second occurance of the same wording)
2004-07-21 17:36:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
20938f57ba
revise wording to avoid confusion for non-native English speakers
2004-07-21 17:18:19 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
44dc13bf3e
Fix decimal write-up nits.
2004-07-11 12:49:47 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
21f9fce968
Fix typo.
2004-07-10 16:11:03 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
9499658b61
Add a link to the decimal module docs.
2004-07-09 06:00:32 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
081483cd42
Fix markup and nits.
2004-07-08 09:33:00 +00:00
Tim Peters
74979664d0
Typo repair.
2004-07-07 02:32:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
1b89656d70
add omitted markup
2004-07-01 14:26:31 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
68a37ac841
* Fix typos.
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* Format an example so that the identation is more obvious.
* Add a section on the decimal module to the Brief Tour Part II.
2004-07-01 12:56:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
22ec5c3639
if we must argue over the/they, we can just remove the unecessary word
2004-06-03 17:19:25 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
2d1a2aa117
Fix typo: the-->they
2004-06-03 14:13:04 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
e148595504
Fixup spacing in an example.
2004-05-31 22:53:25 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
4ccf336e56
Fill-in the introductory paragraph for the library tour.
2004-05-26 13:57:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
846865bba6
Add a further tour of the standard library.
2004-05-26 13:52:59 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
a8aebcedf9
Follow official recommendation for domain names in examples.
2004-05-25 16:08:28 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
170a62221c
Add more docs for generator expressions.
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* Put in a brief, example driven tutorial entry.
* Use better examples in whatsnew24.tex.
2004-05-19 19:45:19 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
f1f0560832
Patch #940026 : Explain "in" when it is first used.
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Backported to 2.3.
2004-05-06 01:35:45 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
707483fdef
Update timeit example to reflect current performance.
2004-03-26 07:56:23 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
cbddabfd85
Remove 'now'
2004-03-21 22:12:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
f0ae4272b4
fix English usage error reported by Ken Fuchs
2004-02-24 16:13:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
e6ed33a6b3
fix minor markup error: \code{for} --> \keyword{for}
2004-02-12 14:35:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
b1e5b50531
SF 895560: minor typo
2004-02-12 09:50:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
42713109d9
use consistent email address for Tim
2003-12-30 16:15:35 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
a95e87a488
Guido grants a Christmas wish:
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sorted() becomes a regular function instead of a classmethod.
2003-12-17 21:38:26 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
b7a10d1bc5
Incorporate suggestions from Aahz.
2003-12-06 20:12:00 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
f62444ab16
Fix links and typos.
2003-12-05 07:53:50 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
ec3402f287
Fix typo
2003-12-05 06:39:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
8850c8785f
Fix link
2003-12-03 22:33:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
8772d4e4c3
Add a standard library tour
2003-12-03 22:23:46 +00:00
Walter Dörwald
7bafa9f340
Fix typo. (From SF bug #853064 )
2003-12-03 10:34:57 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
25695282a5
Convert a 0/1 to False/True.
2003-12-02 07:38:30 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
d4462300db
Nits from a review of the documentation update.
2003-11-26 17:52:45 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
65674b80fc
Documentation for set objects.
2003-11-18 17:50:34 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
dc62aeca4c
Add a new looping idiom
2003-11-07 01:30:58 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
8ed69e3389
SF #829941 , update tutorial, built-in types can be base classes since 2.2
2003-10-25 14:15:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
f12f32421f
Don't make promises about about the visibility of the induction variable.
2003-10-21 18:42:21 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
95cf84a4f3
Patch #821093 : Fix various typos.
2003-10-19 07:32:24 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
40d4bc5934
Add a glossary to the tutorial. Also generate an index. At the moment this
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mostly only references glossary entries.
2003-09-24 16:53:02 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
16434b5e25
Fix whitespace in example
2003-09-24 03:58:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
f5c87c4d99
- added many links into the library reference
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- removed use of the string module
- fixed some broken markup
2003-09-11 06:06:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
626d472edd
- add several links into the library reference
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- update a couple of URLs to point to more recent portions of
python.org
2003-09-11 04:28:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
57d71289a1
SF patch #797868 : Tutorial, sec. 5.1.4 could contain an extra example
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(Revised from the original patch contributed by Michal Pasternak.)
Also, make a couple minor fixups elsewhere.
2003-08-30 23:21:32 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
c2a5cb2327
Fix typo.
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Thou shalt not count to two unless proceeding to the number three.
2003-08-23 03:49:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
236ffba400
Adjust some horizontal indentation to be consistent with the style used
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throughout the documentation.
2003-08-16 06:30:47 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer
90b182c16c
Don't introduce map(None, ...) in the tutorial. In practice, zip() is
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usually preferred.
2003-08-14 22:57:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
c7a26562f9
SF patch#786531 'the the' typo. Contributed by George Yoshida
2003-08-12 00:01:17 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
0eec08794c
Explain argument unpacking
2003-08-08 23:32:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
b233e54409
Nits.
2003-07-15 23:16:01 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
6122d0267f
SF patch #726751 : Clarify docs for except target assignment
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Brett found that the tutorial didn't really explain what was happening
with exception targets. Hopefully, this sheds some light on the subject.
2003-07-12 01:05:37 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
fa6cce1fdd
Minor fixups and added sections for iterators and generators.
2003-07-11 18:58:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
dfda8d79ee
- explain about making Python scripts executable on Unix in more
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detail
- fix minor markup nit
2003-07-07 21:00:29 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
8ee006097f
SF #751062 : Tutorial: remove string exceptions, add parnassus, #posts
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(Contributed by Gerritt Holl)
* Remove the last mentions of string exceptions
* Reference a third-party repository of programs
* Minor clarification of comp.lang.py posting volumes
2003-07-01 06:19:34 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
ccd615c1a7
SF bug #762990 : Awful Grammar in Python Tutorial
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Fixed a nit.
2003-06-30 04:27:31 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
32a5e878d7
minor wordsmithing
2003-06-29 16:01:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
ded8e740df
Correct markup errors that prevented formatting.
2003-06-28 11:50:34 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
7928f388c4
Explain source encodings. Fixes #683486 .
2003-06-28 08:11:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
2664cbbeba
Remove heading from orphan section.
2003-06-20 14:27:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
3a8fbe7eec
Include "instances of most classes" in a warning about mutable objects
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as default values of function/method parameters.
2003-06-18 17:14:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
6bab183d4e
Markup nits.
2003-05-20 15:28:58 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
a02469f969
More message updates and minor fixes.
2003-05-07 17:49:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
a2f84ceda5
Update traceback message
2003-05-07 17:11:15 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
45a9c93236
add missing parens - verified w/ interpreter - sorry to dismiss your comment
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Fred
2003-05-07 16:01:43 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
b4f12424a5
replace most uses of `...` by repr(...), noting that `...` is discouraged,
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but convenient in interactive sessions.
2003-05-07 15:29:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
03e929e7e0
Fix some markup nits.
2003-04-22 14:30:53 +00:00
Alex Martelli
a70b19147f
Adding new built-in function sum, with docs and tests.
2003-04-22 08:12:33 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
60de2e837f
SF bug #699237 : Tutorial uses omitted slice indices before explaining them
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Moved up the explanation of slice default arguments.
2003-03-12 04:46:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
46d3dc37e4
- New function sys.exc_clear() clears the current exception. This is
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rarely needed, but can sometimes be useful to release objects
referenced by the traceback held in sys.exc_info()[2]. (SF patch
#693195.) Thanks to Kevin Jacobs!
2003-03-01 03:20:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
d0c7137c8b
Chapter titles that get split over multiple lines in the typeset
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formats can't have whitespace after the last non-blank character (bug
in LaTeX?); fix up a couple of instances of this.
Update an email address.
2002-10-28 19:28:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
7fbd01262c
Clarify packages in tutorial. Closes SF bug #616211 .
2002-10-26 03:13:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
55803bca98
Describe __path__ along with the rest of the package description.
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Closes SF bug #626554 .
2002-10-22 21:00:44 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
36a4d8c20e
Remove mentionings of DOS.
2002-10-10 18:24:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
44c42b9cf3
Added a tutorial note and example regarding the scope of loop variables
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in a list comprehension. Includes a justification and a comparision
to regular for-loops.
Closes SF bug 605047.
2002-09-06 18:06:04 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
a6e16a86c4
Replace all cases of "while 1" with "while True".
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Though slightly slower, has better clarity and teaching value.
2002-08-21 04:54:00 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson
dd32a91cc0
This is my patch
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[ 587993 ] SET_LINENO killer
Remove SET_LINENO. Tracing is now supported by inspecting co_lnotab.
Many sundry changes to document and adapt to this change.
2002-08-15 14:59:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
5c08a99b77
Remove a broken example of extreme backward compatibility; it is
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simply not relevant any more.
Closes SF bug #595032 .
2002-08-14 15:26:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
ae7ef57cba
GvR pointed out that only enclosing function bodies are part of nested scopes.
2002-08-07 20:20:52 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
861bb02448
Describe nested scopes in the tutorial. Closes SF bug 500704.
2002-08-07 16:09:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
33fd5f7e02
Fix typo reported to python-docs.
2002-06-26 21:25:15 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
07dc91800f
Close bug 480337: Dict used before dicts explained. Added explanation
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and examples of the dict() constructor.
2002-06-25 15:13:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
7951f60f45
Fix spacing in loop example
2002-06-25 03:17:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
55ad7f84a4
Completely revise markup for the list of list methods; the new markup matches
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the semantics and presentation used in the library reference.
Added an explanation of the use of [...] to denote optional arguments, since
this is the only use of this in a signature line.
Closes SF bug #567127 .
2002-06-11 02:56:17 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
d68f5171eb
As discussed on python-dev, add a mechanism to indicate features
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that are in the process of deprecation (PendingDeprecationWarning).
Docs could be improved.
2002-05-29 15:54:55 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
e7bd876f9d
Message for NameError has changed
2002-05-02 14:31:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
38f71973e5
Documentation for the enumerate() function/type.
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This closes SF patch #547162 .
2002-04-26 20:29:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
6cb64f9e46
"Shortcut" should be "short-circuit".
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This closes SF bug #526277 .
2002-03-08 00:54:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
c26467d53f
Revise cheeseshop example so that the order of the keyword output is
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completely determined by the example; dict insertion order and the string
hash algorithm no longer affect the output.
This fixes SF bug #509281 .
2002-01-29 14:53:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
23d45f4744
Fix up some examples in the tutorial so we don't contradict our own
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advice on docstrings.
This fixes SF bug #495601 .
2001-12-20 23:54:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
ecd8157a2c
Include a warning that scripts should not have the same name as standard
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modules, or the module cannot be properly imported. (Based on a suggestion
sent to python-docs.)
Update the displayed dir() of the sys and __builtin__ module with Python 2.2.
2001-12-04 19:47:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
6016dbecca
Talk about str() in the discussion of string representations of values, and
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give examples for which str() and repr() yield different results.
This closes SF bug #485446 .
2001-12-04 19:20:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
fcf94681ed
Update lambda description to reflect nested scopes. This was noted by
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Andrew Koenig.
2001-12-03 21:47:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
1da50f6c6e
Add a scalar product to the example list comprehensions based on a suggestion
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sent to python-docs.
2001-12-03 18:54:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
c37b65ee10
Clean up some markup cruft. A number of the macros that take no
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parameters (like \UNIX) are commonly entered using an empty group to
separate the markup from a following inter-word space; this is not
needed when the next character is punctuation, or the markup is the
last thing in the enclosing group. These cases were marked
inconsistently; the empty group is now *only* used when needed.
2001-11-28 07:26:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
a815916472
Fix thinko in a comment about seeking with a file object.
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Reported by Francesco Trentini.
2001-10-16 03:25:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
13af42822c
Exceptions in interactive examlpes did not always include the indication of
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the source file using "in ?".
Added a description of the bare "raise" statement.
Added more description and examples for user-defined exceptions; this
is part of a response to SF bug #443559 .
2001-09-21 21:10:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
ba5c41d4c5
Clarified the interaction between string literals and continuation lines.
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Fixes bug reported as SF bug #453728 .
2001-09-06 18:41:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
8b09f4985c
Make the examples for "Default Argument Values" more presentable and
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less hostile to newbie use at the interactive prompt.
This is in response to SF bug #458654 .
2001-09-06 18:21:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
d3ba10f4b5
Clarify the prompt in an example.
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This closes SF bug #450633 .
2001-08-14 19:55:42 +00:00