Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
693a2c6581
Script to locate uses of \module where the module referred to is not
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the module being documented at that point in the documentation; these
are candidates for conversion to \refmodule, which produces a
hyperlink in the HTML and PDF versions of the output.
1999-04-22 13:08:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
e0208cc83c
Add a couple of items.
1999-04-22 13:05:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
adade928be
Fill in a lot of the blanks. Add a start to the LaTeX primer section.
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Use Python-traditional XXX comments instead of square brackets that
aren't as obvious or usefully grepable.
1999-04-22 13:05:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
30a535c0f7
Added support for adding environment/macro parameters more cleanly:
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\op adds an optional parameter, and \p adds a required parameter.
These are only defined in the context of the parameter list parameter
of the envdesc and macrodesc environments.
1999-04-22 13:03:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
2dabd811cd
Fix markup typo.
1999-04-21 21:33:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
6d20caa2ce
Reflow paragraph to work around LaTeX2HTML dropping a space.
1999-04-21 18:17:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
543e19d923
Small nits, more hyperlinks.
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Added more information for cStringIO.
1999-04-21 18:15:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
048b75bd9a
Make references to whrandom hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 18:14:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
ec6baaf618
Small markup nits.
1999-04-21 18:13:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
02e8c0fd2d
Nits. Reference to signal module becomes a hyperlink.
1999-04-21 18:01:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
283c588402
Work around LaTeX2HTML comment-handling bug.
1999-04-21 17:57:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
318c0b131f
Logical markup nits.
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Make references to other modules hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 17:29:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
c3845a14d3
Logical markup & other small nits.
1999-04-21 17:18:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
11bc8cfee3
Explain *why* the copytree() implementation is presented as the
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example!
1999-04-21 17:08:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
e688aec707
Textual references to the glob module can be hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 17:04:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
737aa552f4
Markup nit to fixed dropped space in HTML output.
1999-04-21 17:01:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
4747f7f61d
Markup nits.
1999-04-21 16:41:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
4f6e4fbc1d
Added "See also" reference to xdrlib.
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Markup nits.
1999-04-21 16:38:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
69fa56327a
Markup nits.
1999-04-21 16:29:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Guido van Rossum
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
ca675e491b
do_cmd_funcline(): Remove some bogus generated stuff from the output
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(some text was only intended for the index).
1999-04-21 15:58:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
3d815bd1c7
Added link to xdrlib module in "See also" section.
1999-04-21 15:57:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
085b8121eb
Fix some remaining index & consistency nits. (Many data member
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references were being omitted from the general index.)
1999-04-21 14:00:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
4ae52694c9
Updated to reflect additions.
1999-04-19 21:21:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
32c562bdec
colorsys docs from David Ascher.
1999-04-19 21:20:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
9d15881744
bsddb docs from Skip Montanaro; added interesting links.
1999-04-19 21:19:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
e9af64c373
Remove superfluous index entry for posix.popen(); no longer
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appropriate since popen() is only documented in os.
1999-04-16 19:00:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
dac9a4e3db
Added link to Fredrik Lundh's online Tkinter reference material.
1999-04-16 18:26:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
31bfbc6bff
Minor nits, include author info.
1999-04-16 14:03:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
511281ac00
In list of sequence comparison examples, "=" should be "==". Reported
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by Mirko Liss <n89553@hrz.uni-paderborn.de>.
1999-04-16 13:17:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
0ebd5483be
Removed dbhash from the undocumented list.
1999-04-15 16:05:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
460f1dd6b7
Add libdbhash.tex.
1999-04-15 15:12:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
666255f5ac
Document the dbhash module, and link to it from appropriate places.
1999-04-15 15:11:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
f4cbada3f9
Correct documentation for <file>.read(); Python makes a serious
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best-effort to return 'size' bytes. Point out that this may mean
multiple fread() calls. Reported by Anders Hammarquist
<iko@iko.pp.se> via the Debian crew.
1999-04-14 14:31:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
e79f5c1d2b
Use the standard stylesheet here as well.
1999-04-14 14:28:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
6ab98325f7
Use the tools/mkdvi.sh script to generate DVI and PDF output for the
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library reference now that it's sufficiently capable.
1999-04-14 14:04:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
c260c0bcdb
Further refinement, to allow this to handle the library reference as
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well as the other "manual" documents.
1999-04-14 13:13:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
011f6fca31
Typo: "Otherwose" --> "Otherwise" (reported by Joakim Sernbrant
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<joakim.sernbrant@front.se>).
Misc. small fixes to the logical markup.
1999-04-14 12:52:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
79d41ccdd3
Add some support for the module index, so this can be used to build
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the .aux file for any of the "manual" class documents.
1999-04-14 05:02:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
7a64b355c1
For now, comment out the \ignorePlatformAnnotation; the global index
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doesn't really work with this.
1999-04-13 22:19:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
9444df0844
Don't include the verbatim style; the default handling is better.
1999-04-13 22:17:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
1cc5899742
Fix problem of LaTeX leakage in the module synopsis tables at the
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beginning of chapters. Known problem reported by Barry Scott
<barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 22:08:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
e331356ff7
Fix availability declaration for popen2 module; report by Barry Scott
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<barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 22:03:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
b9971b9964
Minor cleanup.
1999-04-13 21:39:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
592dd78408
Fix availability declaration for stat module; report by Barry Scott
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<barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 21:38:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
31ec33ed60
Work around problems with HTML conversion by making the break and
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tbreak synopses be all on one line (each). Known problem, most
recently reported by Barry Scott <barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 21:36:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
cc10e0469a
Just in case a copy of the documentation gets released somehow...
1999-04-13 21:22:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
07bd1d1b7b
Ignore the doc/ directory ("Documenting Python").
1999-04-12 15:41:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
bfb092eb86
Misspellling: "occurance" --> "occurrence"
1999-04-09 19:57:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
2e1094e4ef
Use #!/usr/bin/env python instead of #!/usr/local/bin/python.
1999-04-09 14:53:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7969f31c4d
Updated documentation by Per Cederqvist. I've added back the
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documentation sendmail() to reflect the changes by The Dragon
(see smtplib.py checkin).
1999-04-07 15:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
4f21d54764
Added more "See also" entries, + 1 inline hyperlink.
1999-04-05 22:18:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
ea003fcc2a
Fixed latex2html weirdness with footnotes.
1999-04-05 21:59:15 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
45b0aeda3c
correct version info for zlib.
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add note about module failing with old versions of the library.
update comment that explains that this doc is *still* out of date
1999-04-05 21:55:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
93aa0f23a7
Fixed latex2html weirdness with footnotes.
1999-04-05 21:39:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
b55ce1e8b6
Fixed latex2html weirdness with footnotes.
1999-04-05 21:32:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
52e2d51ef3
Fixed latex2html weirdness for a footnote.
1999-04-05 21:26:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
9aa8543c84
open() description: Made it more clear that 'b' should always be
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added to the mode value for binary files to improve
portability.
Fixed latex2html weirdness with a couple of footnotes.
1999-04-05 21:22:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
01553706bf
Added a few items to the "See also" sections at Guido's prompting. Made
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more references to other modules in the text hyperlinks for the HTML and
PDF versions.
1999-04-05 19:46:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
766e0cbde1
Added "doc" target to match the other document-prefix targets.
1999-04-05 19:28:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
50ae47b0de
Removed bosities around example code; not sure where that stuff crept
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in!
1999-04-05 19:26:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
1dc3a501a6
Made improvements based on changes just made and comments from
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Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@csd.uwm.edu>.
1999-04-05 19:00:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
275e83489e
Added "Documenting Python" to the index.
1999-03-30 13:43:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
2c4e009b66
Fixed a lot of the smaller nits identified in Guido's comments.
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Filled in some of the "blank" areas, and added another large blank
area for a LaTeX primer. (Still a lot to be done.)
1999-03-29 14:55:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
806a467fbf
Where rfc822.Message is mentioned, add a link to the rfc822 module.
1999-03-27 05:45:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
7c6a90de8a
Added some rules that affect those little "See also:" sections.
1999-03-25 22:22:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
bb584d3f6e
Be more stylesheet friendly.
1999-03-25 22:18:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
a608a1df87
Require the verbatim package (similar to the LaTeX version).
1999-03-25 22:17:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
cb1f2420ea
Document complex() with string arg.
1999-03-25 21:23:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5fc9c869dd
SIGTERM is no longer caught to call sys.exitfunc.
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This change was made long ago but the documentation was never updated.
1999-03-25 20:30:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
2cafcbb440
Remove \platformof support, since it's been removed from the LaTeX
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style sheet.
Small nits.
1999-03-25 16:57:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
e82f5b3d6e
Added note about ftpmirror.py, since that seems to be one of the most
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requested Python tools/examples.
1999-03-25 05:04:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
9b8afdee44
Use more recent option to \pdfdest to not change the zoom factor.
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This is in response to a comment from Wes Rishel <wes@rishel.com>.
1999-03-24 14:16:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8be229650d
Document new builtin buffer(). Greg Stein.
1999-03-19 19:10:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
7d5f5dd6aa
Added htmldoc, to generate the HTML for "Documenting Python".
1999-03-18 19:08:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
1468d77ff8
Add "Documenting Python" to the list of processed documents.
1999-03-18 19:07:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
03dffcce0e
LaTeX2HTML support for the ltxmarkup package.
1999-03-18 16:42:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
9466b9a10d
Add some (commented out) macros to change the page size to the size of
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typical published manuals, so people can more easily see what they're
really asking for. ;-)
Revise the verbatim environment: simple implementation, but more
compatible if a document also add \usepackage{verbatim} at the
beginning.
Declare \modindex, \bimodindex, \exmodindex, and \stmodindex
obsolete. These still work just fine, but \declaremodule should be
used instead. The obsolete macros will print a warning on standard
out.
1999-03-18 16:18:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
596766772e
Documented FTP.set_pasv().
1999-03-18 16:08:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
e3fd1064de
Make this simpler; don't care about the paper size. Require that the
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files exist in the current directory.
Add "Documenting Python" to the list of documents listed.
1999-03-18 14:57:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
154d909993
Note that abspath() was added in 1.5.2.
1999-03-17 22:25:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
90fc0a71a5
Be sure "make" understands the "doc" target is phony.
1999-03-17 16:06:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
8d2c0c2ab4
Fixed minor nits, added index entries to make these easier to find for people
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not familiar with Unix terminology.
1999-03-16 16:40:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
c43e6a2f31
Ignore some more files kept by mkhowto --keep.
1999-03-16 16:14:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
15087437d5
Add support for "Documenting Python".
1999-03-16 16:11:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
8df362cf97
Removed the embedded sections showing module documentation; just
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\input the module template.
1999-03-16 16:10:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
acffaee46e
New document: "Documenting Python".
1999-03-16 16:09:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
1d8f07acbd
Markup for documenting LaTeX macros and environments.
1999-03-16 16:08:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
f03fdbc063
Added the new sections from Skip Montanaro.
1999-03-15 15:47:30 +00:00