bca60c07b3
Fix some rules broken by typos, others by the flattening of the makefile.
2001-02-28 22:59:37 +00:00
8bad993dd3
Add description of PEP235
...
Remove references to 2.1alpha
Update description of PEP229
2001-02-28 22:39:15 +00:00
74d18ed076
Cover pydoc
...
Update reference Python version to beta1
Rip out PEP 232 section
Add placeholders for PEP 236 and 235
Fix erroneous \filename references
2001-02-28 22:22:40 +00:00
bf140147d8
Document the object allocator
...
Minor sentence change
2001-02-28 22:10:07 +00:00
58177b9975
added description of NL token
2001-02-28 22:05:41 +00:00
969ab2710a
Update documentation for termios module; do not refer to the TERMIOS module
...
for constant definitions.
Add a deprecation to the TERMIOS module.
2001-02-27 22:01:15 +00:00
5e1633365d
Patch #403985 : Add support for weak-keyed dictionaries
2001-02-27 18:36:56 +00:00
6397c7c9a9
inspect: a module for getting information out of live Python objects
2001-02-27 14:43:21 +00:00
7a5e80e801
Updates to describe function attributes.
2001-02-27 03:36:30 +00:00
d4614e8371
Updates to the semantics of function and method attributes.
2001-02-27 03:32:35 +00:00
07e6c505ad
Minor adjustments, including markup corrections.
2001-02-23 19:15:56 +00:00
447f545322
Fix extra backslash in example.
2001-02-23 19:13:07 +00:00
3538c93f1a
Another name.
2001-02-23 19:11:45 +00:00
afdc8fc0ad
Fix up the markup in some recently-added portions of the text.
2001-02-23 19:10:41 +00:00
19f3c52347
Work around the broken formatting of sys.ps1 prompts in running text.
...
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
2f55b11bf7
cd to the html/ directory to generate the global module index so the links
...
to the module sections are right.
This was also broken when converting to a flat Makefile.
2001-02-22 23:12:37 +00:00
d27ed858c3
The ACKS file is in the current directory when converted to HTML; this was
...
broken when converting to a flat Makefile. ;-(
2001-02-22 23:06:21 +00:00
cb45bfd956
Remove entry for soundex module!
2001-02-22 23:00:20 +00:00
230d17d0d1
Sequence indexes are non-negative, not natural (0 is not a natural number).
...
Reported by Daniel May <mayds@ecn.purdue.edu>.
De-tabified everywhere.
2001-02-22 21:28:04 +00:00
7c30de65f4
Remove documentation for the soundex module; the module is no longer
...
included with Python.
2001-02-22 21:25:20 +00:00
7edbd4ffb4
Patch #103885 : Add dynamic registration and lookup of DOM implementations.
2001-02-22 14:05:50 +00:00
754ba589b7
Improve accuracy. In the .tex file, note the new "% BUG:" comments: an
...
extra backslash is getting displayed in the generated HTML.
2001-02-20 11:24:35 +00:00
f0768c822b
Added missing \item. See also bug 133213, about damaged HTML generated
...
for \code(">>>"); don't know how to fix that one.
2001-02-20 10:57:30 +00:00
e79af273e8
Flesh out PlaySound() docs enough so that SND_ALIAS isn't hopelessly confusing.
...
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
5b0705d266
ConfigParser.optionxform(): Document this since it is available for
...
sub-classes and application code to override.
2001-02-19 22:37:24 +00:00
f6a9617ba0
Michael Hudson <mwh21@cam.ac.uk>:
...
New material on defining extension types. Thanks!
(Small markup adjustments made, but this is mostly as received.)
2001-02-19 19:22:00 +00:00
842ab38d3d
No longer needed since the main Makefile is "flat".
2001-02-19 19:20:17 +00:00
f6bfe8e342
Convert to a "flat" Makefile.
2001-02-19 19:19:26 +00:00
50d1fcf61c
Add an option allowing the user to determine where the output HTML is built.
...
Provide a way to set the paper size by name instead of only supporting
separate options for each size.
2001-02-19 19:18:09 +00:00
f2502adfc1
Fix markup so this document will format.
2001-02-19 19:14:50 +00:00
c07012360e
This never saw much use, so remove it.
2001-02-19 19:11:12 +00:00
653809c122
Make the top-level index.html depend on the individual document index.html
...
files so that the date is properly updated on the front page.
2001-02-19 17:52:07 +00:00
5f52f7230c
Checked in with Andrew's blessing, I leave the comments with which
...
this was posted to distutils-sig in.
Here is what I've hacked together over some spare time
at the weekend. I would appreciate feedback, as I've told
before I'm neither a great author, nor native english speaker,
nor anything else.
Mostly I've completed (and written) docs for bdist_wininst
(where I'm an experert for), also I've started some stuff
for the data_files and scripts option.
Should I continue in this way? Would others like to jump in?
2001-02-19 17:48:03 +00:00
15bc404ca8
Added entries for difflib documentation.
2001-02-19 16:32:40 +00:00
baf71422b8
Documentation for the difflib module, converted from the module docstrings.
2001-02-19 16:31:02 +00:00
373d151666
More typos. libwinsound.tex typo noted by Peter Funk (thanks!).
2001-02-19 08:36:41 +00:00
25a9ce371c
Take a tour of hell's seedier neighborhoods to try to make winsound.Beep()
...
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
c4089d84d8
In the example showing the irrelevance of start columns, restore that the
...
start columns differ (editing had pushed them all into column 0).
2001-02-17 18:03:25 +00:00
f3262b72ca
Add entries for the doctest documentation.
2001-02-17 17:33:25 +00:00
7eb1463bb3
Make a variety of minor markup adjustments.
...
Close some environments so that this will actually format.
2001-02-17 17:32:41 +00:00
7688229f7c
SF patch #103808 : doctest.py docs
...
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
30537da0ec
Fix typo
...
Makefile.pre.in was added in 1.4
2001-02-17 00:42:56 +00:00
da23c4fef9
Fix two typos, and add some omitted \option{} markup
2001-02-17 00:38:48 +00:00
04f1d37471
mention the use of the maxtries attribute of FancyURLopener in bounding
...
redirection recursion.
2001-02-15 17:00:40 +00:00
bf416fa0dd
Document default blocksize for storbinary().
2001-02-15 13:53:40 +00:00
523ec5709b
Make some clarifications and corrections based on comments from Guido.
...
Fix a few markup nits.
Work around a LaTeX2HTML nuisance.
2001-02-15 05:37:51 +00:00
e4f1c3276a
Be more careful to avoid spurious output from the shell script that
...
unpacks the development version of the docs on SF.
2001-02-14 21:26:31 +00:00
8bcc4e8446
Commit this so CVS doesn't keep noticing the next version number.
2001-02-14 20:53:07 +00:00
15862f50e5
Add a note to Node.isSameNode() that it is based on the DOM Level 3 working
...
draft. I'm not sure that's important, but Uche thinks it is.
2001-02-14 20:39:15 +00:00
1d8ad2b1de
Updated to reflect the additional information and interfaces exported in
...
pyexpat.c revision 2.40.
2001-02-14 18:54:32 +00:00
7530208d8b
Feeble attempt to repair obsolete info about hex escapes.
2001-02-14 04:03:51 +00:00
162c6a637a
Reflect change in traceback format:
...
"innermost last" --> "most recent call last"
2001-02-14 03:20:18 +00:00
15ad28cf89
Finished the section on weak references
...
Mentioned doctest, difflib, sys._getframe(), and the change to use
PyImport_ImportModule() everywhere in C code
No more XXX!
2001-02-14 02:44:18 +00:00
e7d7e6c879
Fix two typos
2001-02-14 02:39:11 +00:00
5401996638
Update to properly explain that the default Unicode encoding is ASCII, &c.
2001-02-13 22:20:22 +00:00
498cb15306
Jon Nelson <jnelson@users.sourceforge.net>:
...
Make the documentation tools work with Python 1.5.2.
[Slightly modified from submitted patch. --FLD]
This closes SF bug #132005 .
2001-02-12 19:12:55 +00:00
a05460c148
PyTuple_*() functions take PyObject* parameters, not PyTupleObject* values.
...
This closes SF bug #131304 .
2001-02-12 17:38:18 +00:00
e38d481e77
Add a "description" meta tag that includes a version number.
2001-02-12 16:04:24 +00:00
b258bedb13
Jon Nelson <jnelson@users.sourceforge.net>:
...
Make the documentation tools compatibile with Python 2.0.
2001-02-12 15:30:22 +00:00
81b6ae7ef7
Create separate section for changes to the standard library
...
Make note about difflib and doctest
Bump version number
2001-02-11 16:55:39 +00:00
5ed1dac4c0
Update documentation for pyexpat (xml.parsers.expat), to reflect the new
...
support for Expat 1.95.*.
2001-02-08 15:40:33 +00:00
6a360bd3a7
Wrote section on nested scopes, and moved it to the front
...
Began a section on weak references
Various rewrites and paragraph refills
Added: non-recursive makefiles, repr() of strings now uses \n, raw socket I/O
Bumped version number
2001-02-05 02:47:52 +00:00
4e3f2752c5
Improve diagnostic output when an external command returns a non-zero exit
...
code, showing the transcript for that command.
This closes SF bug #129740 .
2001-02-04 15:20:26 +00:00
cf2636696d
Fix markup typo in a {verbatim} environment (there should not be any!);
...
caught by Eric Raymond.
2001-02-03 14:35:38 +00:00
40e43bfaf7
Document Node.isSameNode().
2001-02-03 01:20:01 +00:00
f891404e1a
Move the whrandom section back to the documented modules section; this
...
gives people a chance to see the depracation notice.
2001-02-03 01:17:41 +00:00
269625f67a
Revise the deprecation note for the whrandom module to be correct and a
...
little more formal.
2001-02-03 01:12:44 +00:00
f0e08ef9cb
Remove an now-false statement about there being only one type flag
...
defined.
2001-02-03 01:11:26 +00:00
24da47708d
Do not pass names of individual files to shutil.rmtree(); use os.unlink()
...
for that.
2001-02-02 15:48:00 +00:00
6270031f4e
Adjustments to the text of the UnixMailbox description. Added
...
PortableUnixMailbox as a separate class as well (this also generates
the right index entry).
2001-02-02 03:51:05 +00:00
57d943ad38
Move the whrandom entry to the "Obsolete Modules" appendix.
2001-02-02 02:45:08 +00:00
667c9e46ca
Minor markup adjustments.
...
Move some index entries next to what they are referring to for better
"targetting".
2001-02-02 02:43:18 +00:00
844bd5b4a9
Minor markup adjustments.
2001-02-02 02:42:31 +00:00
68b6417c5a
Added a warning at the top saying that user code should not use the
...
whrandom module directly.
2001-02-02 02:41:17 +00:00
3faa52ecc4
Allow 'continue' inside 'try' clause
...
SF patch 102989 by Thomas Wouters
2001-02-01 22:48:12 +00:00
d0946da701
Fix some markup breakage that prevented formatting; re-wrapped a couple of
...
wide paragraphs.
2001-02-01 15:53:24 +00:00
c2e35e6f37
Remove spurious "\end{description}" that caused formatting to fail.
2001-02-01 15:37:56 +00:00
36154b2dbf
Added entry for weakref documentation.
...
Moved commented-out entries for obsolete module to an appendix, still
commented out.
2001-02-01 05:21:46 +00:00
0d0e64861b
Add entry for weakref documentation.
2001-02-01 05:20:52 +00:00
ebcf6a8573
Documentation for the weakref module.
2001-02-01 05:20:20 +00:00
0de88fc4b1
Change random.seed() so that it can get at the full range of possible
...
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
0eb107068a
update section 4.1 to describe nested scopes
2001-02-01 03:50:59 +00:00
30dbd1429a
Document the two changes to the mailbox.py module:
...
- 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
b416290d5d
Some rewriting of the "Internationalizing your programs and modules"
...
subsection to include a discussion of the msgfmt.py program.
2001-01-31 21:21:45 +00:00
5599441bbf
Make HTML the default output format, since that is what people actually
...
want most of the time.
2001-01-30 22:30:01 +00:00
10f8ba4fc6
Remove note about the compiler not checking for two kinds of illegal
...
imports. It checks for them now.
2001-01-30 01:25:15 +00:00
4308d3c4b5
Add note about non-recursive Makefiles
...
Get Fred's name right
Add some XXX items that need to be written
2001-01-29 17:36:53 +00:00
3229b859fb
More on noutrefresh() and scroll().
2001-01-29 06:39:33 +00:00
4fda21ba6b
updated to document use of sequences of two-element tuples as inputs
2001-01-28 21:18:16 +00:00
c37f5b3296
Adjust documentation for new.instance() to reflect that the second
...
parameter may be omitted or None.
2001-01-28 17:23:05 +00:00
5838d0fc84
Document the PyInstance_*() functions and data.
2001-01-28 06:39:35 +00:00
9ca35ec97a
Instructive example for strftime(); how to generate RFC822 dates.
2001-01-28 00:56:54 +00:00
e7213c7a80
Emphasis that instantiating this class doesn't consume the message body.
...
Fix some unclear language in the description of the addrlist member.
2001-01-27 10:56:14 +00:00
66f98b45cd
Fix a number of typos found by Guido.
2001-01-26 20:51:32 +00:00
8c071d4388
Massively improved documentation for string formatting operations,
...
primarily from Evelyn Mitchell (thanks!).
This closes SF patch #103412 .
2001-01-26 20:48:35 +00:00
2f4453af6a
Typo: coplete --> complete
...
This closes SF bug #129759 .
2001-01-26 15:27:35 +00:00
e360d9507a
The combo of getstate/setstate/jumpahead is very powerful, but needs
...
examples to flesh it out for the uninitiated. Here they are.
2001-01-26 10:00:39 +00:00
8863460490
Add bzip2 archives back to the set of generated archives; we had way too
...
many reasonable requests to keep them around.
Bump version number.
2001-01-25 17:32:51 +00:00
29052482d1
Removed references to Python 1.5.3; that was a "tentative" number I used
...
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
cf069da57d
Update link to LaTeX2HTML web site.
2001-01-25 17:25:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
Andrew M. Kuchling
Skip Montanaro
Martin v. Löwis
Ka-Ping Yee
Barry Warsaw
Tim Peters
Thomas Heller
Guido van Rossum
Jeremy Hylton
Eric S. Raymond