8ad2703bfb
Minor wording change in section title.
1999-06-29 16:00:22 +00:00
ac00c4c1c6
byteswap() method: Tell *what* exception gets raised when the type
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cannot be byteswapped.
1999-06-29 15:58:00 +00:00
9118f7cfc4
Remove unnecessary comma.
1999-06-29 15:53:52 +00:00
9e0b6229f6
Comment out XXX comment; this needn't appear in the formatted
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versions. XXX comments only need to be grep-able.
1999-06-29 15:45:09 +00:00
ef1a029d4c
Add note about not being able to use this module with modules not
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implemented in Python.
1999-06-29 15:43:02 +00:00
4886c66daf
Moshe: Remove extraneous "and".
1999-06-29 14:57:12 +00:00
e4d78189e8
Added entries for mutex and nis modules.
1999-06-27 15:02:37 +00:00
7fefba5c13
NIS documentation from Moshe.
1999-06-27 15:01:08 +00:00
2231357aa6
Mutex documentation from Moshe.
1999-06-27 15:00:41 +00:00
7a65a26f81
Separate documentation of SUNAUDIODEV from sunaudiodev; this mirrors
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similar constructs elsewhere (al/AL, gl/GL/DEVICE).
1999-06-27 14:53:11 +00:00
14ae4b48fb
Fix some typos.
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Add an index entry.
1999-06-25 19:13:36 +00:00
c4e3bf9b5e
Add entries for the sched module.
1999-06-25 18:54:30 +00:00
7e990323b4
Moshe's section on the sched module, with edits.
1999-06-25 18:52:44 +00:00
60b66e1f7b
Update to Sjoerd's documentation of the chunk module, with some
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additions from Moshe's version. Used my table for describing the
chunk format, and added some markup and index entries.
1999-06-25 17:52:17 +00:00
cf6905f986
Clarify the example by explicitly importing the fcntl module -- this
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avoid being fooled into thinking that fcntl and FCNTL are the same
thing -- they aren't! (fcntl is the extension, FCNTL.py is h2py
output that defines all the constants).
(XXX The example is still weird -- I think there's a more portable way
to do locking now. That's for someone else to fix...)
1999-06-24 17:58:44 +00:00
7c2426439e
Removed tty module entry.
1999-06-23 17:31:59 +00:00
1b2dc9045e
Add entries for tty module.
1999-06-23 17:29:02 +00:00
0bccd73be0
Updates from Moshe, again edited by me. Describe the parameters to
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border() using a table instead of text for ease of comprehension.
1999-06-23 17:28:01 +00:00
92f3f41424
Added "See Also" section for termios module.
1999-06-23 15:12:09 +00:00
ae4d5c23f5
Various updates.
1999-06-23 14:56:13 +00:00
66239d5530
tty module documentation from Moshe, with some editing and an added
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"See also" section.
1999-06-23 14:30:19 +00:00
af81a509c3
Added more sections...
1999-06-23 13:34:22 +00:00
b742a42bc0
Two more from Moshe!
1999-06-23 13:33:40 +00:00
707f8e67b9
Added entry for the chunk module.
1999-06-22 18:50:06 +00:00
97793ab6b9
New section from Moshe Zadka, modified by FLD for markup, some
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additional content.
1999-06-22 18:49:20 +00:00
0f871dc39e
Added some "See also" references to htmllib docs.
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Documented htmlentitydefs.
1999-06-21 21:20:56 +00:00
2cd31dc3ea
Added entry for curses module.
1999-06-21 21:14:30 +00:00
a4070cef5e
Preliminary documentation for the curses module by Moshe Zadka, with
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lots of markup fixes and some English nits fixed.
Still needs real review. Some of the function signatures used in this
module are really bad! (Two leading optional parameters? Ugh!)
1999-06-21 21:13:09 +00:00
d5d55ea02e
Fix a markup error.
1999-06-21 18:36:09 +00:00
4755e7d5c1
Three more modules documented by Moshe!
1999-06-21 18:25:49 +00:00
6f49e0a154
Added a few minor comments, mostly to discourage documentation of
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really old modules that may become obsolete.
1999-06-18 19:58:59 +00:00
a88ef00a50
Further clarfication of the system-dependence of the system() return
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value, based on comments from Tim Peters.
1999-06-18 19:11:25 +00:00
46e1a32edf
Re-categorize the dump module as obsolete.
1999-06-18 17:12:15 +00:00
354e98222c
fpformat has been documented for at least a week now!
1999-06-18 15:21:25 +00:00
26921da2c9
Small markup & usage adjustments.
1999-06-17 18:58:02 +00:00
e019789962
Correction: the parameters of new.instance() are type-checked.
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Edited several of the descriptions for English usage and more
consistent style.
1999-06-17 18:15:07 +00:00
de69ae1753
Updated version from Moshe, with a re-written warning about the
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side-effect of cmpcache.cmp() using statcache.stat() internally.
1999-06-17 17:40:52 +00:00
173ba5e3bc
Minor markup nits.
1999-06-17 17:09:23 +00:00
97c2fa03e5
Small English usage nits.
1999-06-17 16:38:18 +00:00
7487c02209
Small markup and English usage nits.
1999-06-17 16:10:39 +00:00
26da2840ac
Add/remove entries due to additional sections from Moshe.
1999-06-17 15:12:16 +00:00
64bc94e3ec
New module documentation sections from Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>!
1999-06-17 15:11:35 +00:00
e55702b024
Added note to __not__() description that this operation is defined
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only by the interpreter core and is not overridable by objects.
Based on comment from David Ascher on the list.
1999-06-15 20:56:40 +00:00
1e4402998f
Several new index entries to make find this easier.
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Noted that name=value is allowed in addition to name: value.
1999-06-15 17:30:59 +00:00
c46864e982
Misc. changes related to the new sections.
1999-06-14 19:49:50 +00:00
21572fdcb6
New sections from Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>.
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These document CGIHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer, and linecache.
1999-06-14 19:47:47 +00:00
7df4dd7de2
Add entry for the fpformat module.
1999-06-11 18:36:42 +00:00
1739d2f9ee
Documentation for the fpformat module by Moshe Zadka
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<mzadka@geocities.com>.
1999-06-11 18:31:00 +00:00
2f9790195b
Added 'ce' to the list of "registered" values for os.name.
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Make references to the posix module hyperlinks.
1999-06-11 18:28:37 +00:00
9c5cc14d23
Some clarifications on operations for mapping types, based on comments
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from Gerry Weiner <gerry@ucar.edu>.
1999-06-10 22:37:34 +00:00
697c779d98
Adjust indexing for __import__(); based on comments by Stefan Franke
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<sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-06-10 22:09:20 +00:00
28b1770521
Improve index entry for "import"; responding to comments by Stefan
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Franke <sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-06-10 22:08:16 +00:00
06a73f042a
Work around latex2html problem; reported by Gerrit Holl
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<gerrit.holl@pobox.com>.
1999-06-10 21:23:31 +00:00
4d5c87ba11
Declare the "util" module obsolete.
1999-06-10 21:17:11 +00:00
7a62128722
At David Ascher's request, clarify that os.system() always returns 0
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on Win95 & Win98.
1999-06-10 15:07:05 +00:00
ae0f292576
Fix typo reported by Robert Kern <kernr@ncifcrf.gov>.
1999-06-10 15:03:07 +00:00
66ab4e8af2
Patch by Jim Fulton to document the new parse_qls().
1999-06-10 03:11:41 +00:00
4727456d46
Add doc for timegm().
1999-06-09 15:11:58 +00:00
5fac2ab220
Fix availability clause; mention availability of similar functionality
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for Windows using win32pipe.
1999-06-01 17:55:52 +00:00
3aa70d63b9
Document the "pid" attribute of the Popen3 class.
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Use memberdesc instead of datadesc to document object attributes.
This gets the index right.
1999-05-27 17:50:59 +00:00
a7ce52b03a
Typo reported by Gerry Wiener <wiener@rap.ucar.edu>:
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items -> item
The returned list will then have one more items than the number of
non-overlapping occurrences of the separator in the string.
1999-05-27 17:18:08 +00:00
abc8cc63ce
Move some \index entries around so we can avoid using empty comments;
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empty comments trigger a bug in LaTeX2HTML.
Problem reported by Gerry Wiener <gerry@ucar.edu>.
1999-05-26 16:15:17 +00:00
82f355a36a
Change the example of configuring for large file support under Solaris
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to use `getconf LFS_CFLAGS`. Steve Clift (the author of the section
and large file support) agrees that this is the right thing to do.
1999-05-26 13:03:34 +00:00
6b330ba857
"proces" --> "process"; reported by Gerry Wiener <gerry@ucar.edu>.
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Added some index entries.
1999-05-25 13:42:26 +00:00
338da93734
SET_LINE_NO ==> SET_LINENO
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Reported by Corran Webster <cwebster@math.tamu.edu>.
1999-05-17 20:57:07 +00:00
33378da964
Added paragraph explaininng the text/binary flavors of some methods,
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to make it easier for people to find what they're looking for.
1999-05-17 16:35:15 +00:00
dbc2d08ff5
POP3.uidl(): Update description based on comments from Piers Lauder
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<piers@cs.su.oz.au>.
1999-05-13 18:48:14 +00:00
7088df4c56
Removed old comments.
1999-05-13 16:20:30 +00:00
03c05a5192
Move the "See also:" section so it appears are part of the top HTML
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page of the section.
1999-05-11 15:15:54 +00:00
184e8360e8
Added module references; minor grammatical fixes.
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All suggested by Eric Raymond.
1999-05-11 15:14:15 +00:00
9ade7e0110
Added missing comma, reported by Eric Raymond.
1999-05-11 13:45:37 +00:00
b0bc7f2d6c
Updated connect_ex() documentation based on comments in the newgroup
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(M.-A. Lemburg and GvR).
1999-05-06 22:03:50 +00:00
1ea7c75687
Reflect recent patch for float % and divmod() by Tim Peters. Content
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updates by Tim Peters, markup by FLD.
1999-05-06 14:46:35 +00:00
673c65e500
Use the new module-key for the FL module when hyperlinking (the old
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one caused problems on case-insensitive file systems).
1999-04-29 18:42:18 +00:00
d03e9e34de
Don't point readers to rand, point to random! And make it a hyperlink
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while you're at it.
Also, when discussing order of reading, make it clear that chapter 2
is assumed background material for the remainder of the manual.
That's needed for terminology if nothing else!
1999-04-29 13:41:17 +00:00
0e1de8bd6b
Minor nits, partly in response to comments from Jonathan Black
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<jblack@Ridgeway-Sys.com>.
1999-04-29 12:57:32 +00:00
5f342ac2a7
Always use "section" when referring to sections of a document, not "Section".
1999-04-29 02:47:40 +00:00
c0fcbc1ac6
Update starship URLs.
1999-04-29 02:30:04 +00:00
ea0020571f
Use \rfc to mark some remaining RFC references.
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Remove comment about full name bug in getaddrlist(); this has been
fixed for a while now.
Work around LaTeX2HTML space-dropping bug.
Mention that the fp attribute can be used to read the message body.
1999-04-28 18:11:09 +00:00
505c49199a
Added "See also" reference to PyOpenGL.
1999-04-27 18:05:06 +00:00
dcf17f3860
mhlib is now documented.
1999-04-23 22:24:12 +00:00
a4966647ec
Markup consistency.
1999-04-23 22:22:27 +00:00
1c7cd63a2b
Nits.
1999-04-23 22:03:00 +00:00
957ac3fadb
Add section for the sha module.
1999-04-23 21:52:18 +00:00
154fc6dcf7
Patch from Greg Ward adding descriptions of S_IMODE() and S_IFMT(),
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and an explanation of why any of stat.S_*() would be used instead of
os.path.is*(). (With some really small enhancements by me.)
1999-04-23 20:54:57 +00:00
24aca83dbd
Fixed typo and font-control problem reported by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-04-23 20:33:59 +00:00
29cf682b71
Clarifications on the first(), next(), and previous() functions, based
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on comments from Detlef Lannert <lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-04-23 20:32:59 +00:00
861192120b
Fix a grammatical error reported by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-04-23 20:07:02 +00:00
16214fb017
Fix a couple of grammatical errors reported by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-04-23 20:00:53 +00:00
4aa4f30759
Work-around LaTeX2HTML space-dropping bug.
1999-04-23 17:30:40 +00:00
87b8f318b0
Fixed some logical markup nits.
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Added a pointer to Grail in the see-also section, since it's used as
an example.
1999-04-23 17:26:24 +00:00
deb7e096d3
Logical markup.
1999-04-23 17:11:53 +00:00
806764bee4
No, __repr__() does not accept a parameter other than self.
1999-04-23 17:03:21 +00:00
0fbec55e23
Shorten the section title.
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Adjust markup to be a little more consistent with the rest of the
document.
1999-04-23 16:44:53 +00:00
eea97ea063
Shorten the section title.
1999-04-23 16:07:38 +00:00
86bd5e48c3
Shorten the section title.
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Fix a couple of grammatical errors.
1999-04-23 16:02:30 +00:00
7475e04fad
Work around a space-dropping problem in LaTeX2HTML.
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Clarify the usage of a parameter.
1999-04-23 15:57:23 +00:00
ae35aa8b63
Added "See also" sections linking to binascii.
1999-04-23 15:52:18 +00:00
ee4d54ea33
Refer to the binhex module, not the non-existent hexbin module.
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Added a "See also" section.
1999-04-23 15:42:36 +00:00
26f7cfe9c7
Fix some glaring markup consistency problems (presentation was
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broken).
Added a "See also" section.
1999-04-23 15:41:53 +00:00
812860e81d
Hack places where '--' should appear as literal output but the -- was
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(properly) converted to - by LaTeX2HTML.
1999-04-23 14:46:18 +00:00
ffbe68723a
Make internal module references hyperlinks wherever it makes sense.
1999-04-22 21:23:22 +00:00
7b8b125fa6
Remove bogus characters in code sample.
1999-04-22 21:19:53 +00:00
fcf94d4edd
Work around LaTeX2HTML comment-handling bug.
1999-04-22 20:55:59 +00:00
4a406c619b
Shorten the section title.
1999-04-22 20:52:44 +00:00
c8c40ff699
Added a "See also" section with some external references.
1999-04-22 20:16:02 +00:00
4e28c593ad
Markup nits.
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Make module references hyperlinks.
1999-04-22 18:25:47 +00:00
b7168c3a07
Clean up lots of mark up.
1999-04-22 17:53:37 +00:00
79936fe73f
Added descriptions of the various exceptions, based on the docstrings.
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Various small cleanups.
1999-04-22 17:23:34 +00:00
c8993aad10
Logical markup and small nits.
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Don't refer to the STDWIN chapter; chances are really good it wasn't
included. ;-)
1999-04-22 16:50:40 +00:00
12a956921f
Make some module references hyperlinks.
1999-04-22 16:47:27 +00:00
b774550ba5
Minor logical markup nits.
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Make some module references hyperlinks.
1999-04-22 16:46:18 +00:00
dd6c6d9b0a
Clean up some mark up.
1999-04-22 16:45:26 +00:00
e2effbd32d
Fix minor (English) usage nits.
1999-04-22 16:21:09 +00:00
bcd5454d63
Reference to urllib module can be a hyperlink.
1999-04-22 16:17:45 +00:00
4429772ea3
Fix dropped space in the HTML output.
1999-04-22 16:15:34 +00:00
babdda53d5
Make reference to the socket module a hyperlink.
1999-04-22 16:03:30 +00:00
bf0f4346af
Shorten the section title.
1999-04-22 15:53:35 +00:00
47894d2858
Don't describe this module as being a popen() wrapper; that's a little
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confusing. This is clearly Unix-specific; label it as such.
1999-04-22 15:19:01 +00:00
a694e00085
Remove \platform declaration; this module is generic.
1999-04-22 15:14:11 +00:00
5254a6d682
Move stat to the Generic chapter.
1999-04-22 15:01:44 +00:00
ca69a03dd6
Don't refer to the system documentation as "man pages"; too
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Unix-centric. Note that this can be used with the output of
os.fstat() as well as os.stat() and os.lstat().
1999-04-22 14:55:43 +00:00
2ea30f4d8c
Add warning that last() and previous() don't work for hashtable
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databases (opened using hashopen()), as noted by Skip Montanaro on
comp.lang.python.
1999-04-22 14:06:36 +00:00
b9f1f6d90b
Misc. markup nits.
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All sections get reasonable file names in the HTML output.
1999-04-21 21:43:17 +00:00
2dabd811cd
Fix markup typo.
1999-04-21 21:33:24 +00:00
d146edfaf1
Mark the "Notes:" sections under tables the same way it's done
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elsewhere in the library reference.
1999-04-21 21:15:35 +00:00
b11d108cdc
The version information here was checked good in 1999, not 199. ;-)
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Added "See also" reference to zlib home page, even though it's
mentioned in the text.
1999-04-21 18:44:41 +00:00
2799f9d09a
Reflow paragraph to work around LaTeX2HTML dropping a space.
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Make all references to the os module hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 18:33:47 +00:00
6d20caa2ce
Reflow paragraph to work around LaTeX2HTML dropping a space.
1999-04-21 18:17:11 +00:00
543e19d923
Small nits, more hyperlinks.
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Added more information for cStringIO.
1999-04-21 18:15:22 +00:00
048b75bd9a
Make references to whrandom hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 18:14:22 +00:00
ec6baaf618
Small markup nits.
1999-04-21 18:13:31 +00:00
54f2fdd1ad
Make the names of the referenced modules hyperlinks; they had not been
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marked at all.
1999-04-21 18:10:08 +00:00
02e8c0fd2d
Nits. Reference to signal module becomes a hyperlink.
1999-04-21 18:01:14 +00:00
283c588402
Work around LaTeX2HTML comment-handling bug.
1999-04-21 17:57:15 +00:00
318c0b131f
Logical markup nits.
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Make references to other modules hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 17:29:14 +00:00
c3845a14d3
Logical markup & other small nits.
1999-04-21 17:18:04 +00:00
11bc8cfee3
Explain *why* the copytree() implementation is presented as the
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example!
1999-04-21 17:08:51 +00:00
e688aec707
Textual references to the glob module can be hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 17:04:43 +00:00
737aa552f4
Markup nit to fixed dropped space in HTML output.
1999-04-21 17:01:15 +00:00
4747f7f61d
Markup nits.
1999-04-21 16:41:40 +00:00
4f6e4fbc1d
Added "See also" reference to xdrlib.
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Markup nits.
1999-04-21 16:38:53 +00:00
69fa56327a
Markup nits.
1999-04-21 16:29:57 +00:00
8307e21a2a
Mark the references to module names use \module or \refmodule (the
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closing paragraph used \code).
1999-04-21 16:29:18 +00:00
6ed122a334
Important fix mentioned by The Dragon De Monsyne: the sendmail()
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method does _not_ disconnect the connection when it throws a
SMTPHeloError!
1999-04-21 16:19:16 +00:00
a889add5d6
Oops; minor nit in example: none of the other interactive examples
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show the "trailing" prompt, so don't show it here!
1999-04-21 16:00:24 +00:00
3d815bd1c7
Added link to xdrlib module in "See also" section.
1999-04-21 15:57:29 +00:00
c3fcd6fa0e
Added index entry for "file objects"; this is appearantly referenced
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somewhere in the Reference Manual, and someone tried to locate it via
the index. Report on the omission by Stefan Franke
<sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-04-21 13:58:17 +00:00
7ceb5777d7
Added doc for the "module" attribute on the class descriptor objects;
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omission repoorted by Glyn Webster <glyn@ninz.org.nz>.
1999-04-20 18:18:53 +00:00
ad56dafd62
Added example use of pack_list() to help explain the pack_item
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parameter. Lack of clarity reported by Matthew Gallagher
<hew@hons.cs.usyd.edu.au>.
1999-04-20 13:41:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
Guido van Rossum