172 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Raymond Hettinger	9028928156	Forward port doc updates for builtin functions.	2011-06-01 16:17:23 -07:00
Éric Araujo	c5069e0070	Merge doc touch-ups and fixes for #9831 and #9223 from 3.1	2011-05-29 00:29:56 +02:00
Éric Araujo	f33de71514	Minor doc addition for clarity	2011-05-27 04:42:47 +02:00
Raymond Hettinger	30439b23c0	Document default fmtspec. Fix inaccurate note. Document exceptions.	2011-05-11 10:47:27 -07:00
Georg Brandl	2a39b71ecc	Replace sys.maxint mention by sys.maxsize.	2010-12-28 09:16:12 +00:00
Georg Brandl	46402378ca	Fix markup errors.	2010-12-04 19:06:18 +00:00
Georg Brandl	8334fd9285	Add an "optimize" parameter to compile() to control the optimization level, and provide an interface to it in py_compile, compileall and PyZipFile.	2010-12-04 10:26:46 +00:00
Georg Brandl	38e117d20a	Fix punctuation.	2010-12-03 17:19:27 +00:00
Nick Coghlan	37ee850b10	Issue 2690: Add support for slicing and negative indices to range objects (includes precalculation and storage of the range length). ... Refer to the tracker issue for the language moratorium implications of this change	2010-12-03 14:26:13 +00:00
Ezio Melotti	1de911592e	Add callable() to the built-in functions table.	2010-11-28 04:18:54 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou	e71362d3de	Issue #10518: Bring back the callable() builtin. ... Approved by Guido (BDFL) and Georg (RM).	2010-11-27 22:00:11 +00:00
Georg Brandl	ab32fec83c	Merged revisions 85572-85573,85606,85609-85622,85624,85626-85627,85629,85631,85633,85635-85636,85638-85639,85641-85642 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r85572 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-16 20:51:05 +0200 (Sa, 16 Okt 2010) | 1 line #10122: typo fix. ........ r85573 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-16 20:53:08 +0200 (Sa, 16 Okt 2010) | 1 line #10124: typo fix. ........ r85606 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 08:32:59 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line #10058: tweak wording about exception returns. ........ r85609 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 11:19:03 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line #8556: use less confusing mapping key in example. ........ r85610 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 11:23:05 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line #8686: remove potentially confusing wording that does not add any value. ........ r85611 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 11:33:24 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line #8811: small fixes to sqlite3 docs. ........ r85612 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 11:37:54 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line #8855: add shelve security warning. ........ r85613 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 11:43:35 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line Fix hmac docs: it takes and returns bytes, except for hexdigest(). ........ r85614 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 11:46:11 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line #8968: add actual name of token constants. ........ r85615 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:05:13 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line #459007: merge info from PC/getpathp.c and using/windows.rst to document the forming of sys.path under Windows. ........ r85616 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:07:29 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line Fix copy-paste error in example. ........ r85617 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:09:06 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line #5212: md5 weaknesses do not affect hmac, so remove the note about that. ........ r85618 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:14:38 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line #9086: correct wrong terminology about linking with pythonXY.dll. ........ r85619 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:15:50 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line Make file names consistent. ........ r85620 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:22:28 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line Remove second parser module example; it referred to non-readily-available example files, and this kind of discovery is much better done with the AST nowadays anyway. ........ r85621 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:24:54 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line #9105: move pickle warning to a bit more prominent location. ........ r85622 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:28:04 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line #9112: document error() and exit() methods of ArgumentParser. ........ r85624 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:34:28 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line Some markup and style fixes in argparse docs. ........ r85626 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:38:20 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line #9117: fix syntax for class definition. ........ r85627 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:44:11 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line #9138: reword introduction to classes in Python. ........ r85629 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:51:45 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line #5962: clarify sys.exit() vs. threads. ........ r85631 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:53:54 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line Fix capitalization. ........ r85633 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 12:59:41 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line #9204: remove mentions of removed types in the types module. ........ r85635 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 13:03:22 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line #5121: fix claims about default values leading to segfaults. ........ r85636 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 13:06:14 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line #9237: document sys.call_tracing(). ........ r85638 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 13:13:37 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line Port changes to pickle docs apparently lost in py3k. ........ r85639 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 13:23:56 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line Make twisted example a bit more logical. ........ r85641 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 13:29:07 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line Fix documentation of dis.opmap direction. ........ r85642 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-17 13:36:28 +0200 (So, 17 Okt 2010) | 1 line #9730: fix example. ........	2010-11-26 08:49:15 +00:00
Ezio Melotti	3188b2082e	Merged revisions 86737 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r86737 | ezio.melotti | 2010-11-25 00:02:18 +0200 (Thu, 25 Nov 2010) | 1 line Add NEWS entry for r86732 and fix double function in the table. ........	2010-11-24 22:04:22 +00:00
Ezio Melotti	17f9b3d289	Add NEWS entry for r86732 and fix double function in the table.	2010-11-24 22:02:18 +00:00
Ezio Melotti	42cc06ebf4	Merged revisions 86732 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r86732 | ezio.melotti | 2010-11-24 22:18:02 +0200 (Wed, 24 Nov 2010) | 1 line #10299: Add a table that lists all the built-in functions in functions.rst ........	2010-11-24 20:54:01 +00:00
Ezio Melotti	f21c7ed39d	#10299: Add a table that lists all the built-in functions in functions.rst	2010-11-24 20:18:02 +00:00
Éric Araujo	da825ab2dd	Merged revisions 86670 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r86670 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-22 04:09:19 +0100 (lun., 22 nov. 2010) | 5 lines Remove unnecessary `object` base class in docs (#10366). Also add a note about inheritance from `object` being default. ........	2010-11-22 03:18:24 +00:00
Éric Araujo	28053fb174	Remove unnecessary `object` base class in docs (#10366). ... Also add a note about inheritance from `object` being default.	2010-11-22 03:09:19 +00:00
Mark Dickinson	47c74ac977	Issue #10488: Bring documentation for 'float' builtin up to date.	2010-11-21 21:09:58 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou	60d8684e4f	Merged revisions 86603 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r86603 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-11-20 20:36:05 +0100 (sam., 20 nov. 2010) | 3 lines In 3.x, bytearray is akin to bytes, not str. ........	2010-11-20 19:36:35 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou	b85b3afad0	In 3.x, bytearray is akin to bytes, not str.	2010-11-20 19:36:05 +00:00
Alexander Belopolsky	689aa6d3fa	Merged revisions 86526 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r86526 | alexander.belopolsky | 2010-11-18 13:50:13 -0500 (Thu, 18 Nov 2010) | 1 line Issue 7828: Fixed chr() and ord() documentation for wide characters ........	2010-11-18 18:52:11 +00:00
Alexander Belopolsky	5d4dd3eeb2	Issue 7828: Fixed chr() and ord() documentation for wide characters	2010-11-18 18:50:13 +00:00
Éric Araujo	f7b5fa521e	Merged revisions 86249 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r86249 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 07:30:16 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines Fix typo ........	2010-11-06 06:31:00 +00:00
Éric Araujo	8f9626b08b	Fix typo	2010-11-06 06:30:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger	30bf6e836e	Issue 7447: Improve docs for sum().	2010-10-31 21:27:50 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger	b373799e05	Issue 7447: Improve docs for sum().	2010-10-31 21:23:24 +00:00
Georg Brandl	8e4ddcfaea	#10122: typo fix.	2010-10-16 18:51:05 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger	066e7a974a	Issue #10029: Fix sample code in the docs for zip().	2010-10-10 05:56:57 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger	2f08df3690	Issue #10029: Fix sample code in the docs for zip().	2010-10-10 05:54:39 +00:00
Georg Brandl	e5e6bc68f9	Merged revisions 85276 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r85276 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-06 12:35:24 +0200 (Mi, 06 Okt 2010) | 1 line Fix the suspicious builder not to write CRLF, update suspicious file and add instructions to Makefile. ........	2010-10-06 10:43:34 +00:00
Georg Brandl	682d7e0e07	Fix errors found by "make suspicious".	2010-10-06 10:26:05 +00:00
Georg Brandl	4009c9edfc	Merged revisions 82805-82806,83523-83527,83536,83538,83542,83546-83548,83550-83555,83558,83560 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r82805 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:42:10 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line #7935: cross-reference to ast.literal_eval() from eval() docs. ........ r82806 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 12:22:44 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line #9223: link to Command class reference, and move Command interface docs nearer to class docs. ........ r83523 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:06:18 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line #9209 and #7781: fix two crashes in pstats interactive browser. ........ r83524 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:20:23 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line #9428: fix running scripts from profile/cProfile with their own name and the right namespace. Same fix as for trace.py in #1690103. ........ r83525 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:36:24 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line Get rid of spurious "threading" entries in trace output. ........ r83526 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:40:22 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line Fix softspace relic. ........ r83527 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:48:46 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line #3821: beginnings of a trace.py unittest. ........ r83536 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 19:49:25 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line #8578: mention danger of not incref'ing weak referenced object. ........ r83538 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 20:10:13 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line #6928: fix class docs w.r.t. new metaclasses. ........ r83542 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 20:56:54 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line Move test_SimpleHTTPServer into test_httpservers. ........ r83546 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:16:34 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line #7973: Fix distutils options spelling. ........ r83547 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:19:26 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line #7386: add example that shows that trailing path separators are stripped. ........ r83548 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:23:34 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line #8172: how does one use a property? ........ r83550 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:32:43 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line #9451: strengthen warning about __*__ special name usage. ........ r83551 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:35:06 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line Remove XXX comment that was displayed. ........ r83552 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:36:36 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line #9438: clarify that constant names also cannot be assigned as attributes. ........ r83553 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:39:17 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line Remove redundant information. ........ r83554 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:43:05 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line #7280: note about nasmw.exe. ........ r83555 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:44:48 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line #8861: remove unused variable. ........ r83558 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:05:19 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line #8648: document UTF-7 codec functions. ........ r83560 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 22:16:18 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line #9087: update json docstrings -- unicode and long do not exist anymore. ........	2010-10-06 08:26:09 +00:00
Georg Brandl	914a218fbe	Merged revisions 82629,82632,82724,82757-82758,82760-82763,82798-82799,82801 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r82629 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-07 20:51:43 +0200 (Mi, 07 Jul 2010) | 1 line Make comment out of an awkward note. ........ r82632 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-07 21:04:36 +0200 (Mi, 07 Jul 2010) | 1 line Turn more notes into comments. ........ r82724 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-09 09:33:15 +0200 (Fr, 09 Jul 2010) | 1 line 2.7 is now stable. ........ r82757 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 10:58:37 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line Fix markup. ........ r82758 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 12:23:40 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line Emphasize role of count for Pascal string. ........ r82760 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 12:39:57 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line #3214: improve description of duck-typing in glossary. ........ r82761 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 13:40:13 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line #1434090: properly append child in expatbuilder doctype handler. ........ r82762 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 13:51:06 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line #8338: fix outdated class name. ........ r82763 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-10 14:01:34 +0200 (Sa, 10 Jul 2010) | 1 line #8456: fix signature of sqlite3.connect(). ........ r82798 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:23:11 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line #6774: explain shutdown() behavior varying with platform. ........ r82799 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:26:57 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line Fix typo. ........ r82801 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:33:39 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line #9184: fix default value for "buffering" param of open(). ........	2010-10-06 08:13:26 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger	476a31ef1e	Issue 9802: Document min()/max() sort stability	2010-09-14 23:13:42 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson	f8a08d9d36	Merged revisions 84359-84360 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r84359 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-08-30 07:46:09 -0500 (Mon, 30 Aug 2010) | 1 line sync open() doc ........ r84360 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-08-30 08:19:53 -0500 (Mon, 30 Aug 2010) | 1 line rewrite and move open() docs only to functions.rst ........	2010-08-30 13:27:30 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson	6b4fa776ac	rewrite and move open() docs only to functions.rst	2010-08-30 13:19:53 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson	4e4ffb1181	sync open() doc	2010-08-30 12:46:09 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson	17689991e6	only catch AttributeError in hasattr() #9666	2010-08-24 03:26:23 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson	7ac98ae3b3	wrap	2010-08-17 17:52:02 +00:00
Georg Brandl	67b21b7547	Consistency check for versionadded/changed directives.	2010-08-17 15:07:14 +00:00
Georg Brandl	7528b9b8ac	#8172: how does one use a property?	2010-08-02 19:23:34 +00:00
Mark Dickinson	7ce3f2ccdd	Merged revisions 83277 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r83277 | mark.dickinson | 2010-07-30 14:13:02 +0100 (Fri, 30 Jul 2010) | 1 line Add note about surprising behaviour from round function. ........	2010-07-30 13:13:54 +00:00
Mark Dickinson	c4fbcdc4c8	Add note about surprising behaviour from round function.	2010-07-30 13:13:02 +00:00
Georg Brandl	05bfcc590d	#7935: cross-reference to ast.literal_eval() from eval() docs.	2010-07-11 09:42:10 +00:00
Georg Brandl	e40ee509e3	#9184: fix default value for "buffering" param of open().	2010-07-11 09:33:39 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson	dfaaae980f	Merged revisions 81572 via svnmerge from ... svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r81572 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-05-27 17:32:22 -0500 (Thu, 27 May 2010) | 1 line correct default value in signature ........	2010-05-27 22:36:14 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson	2550346cac	correct default value in signature	2010-05-27 22:32:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger	c50846aaef	Forward port total_ordering() and cmp_to_key().	2010-04-05 18:56:31 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger	46fca0773d	Document sorting HowTo	2010-04-02 00:25:45 +00:00