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
3d815bd1c7
Added link to xdrlib module in "See also" section.
1999-04-21 15:57:29 +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
0ebd5483be
Removed dbhash from the undocumented list.
1999-04-15 16:05:29 +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
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
bfb092eb86
Misspellling: "occurance" --> "occurrence"
1999-04-09 19:57:09 +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
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
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
806a467fbf
Where rfc822.Message is mentioned, add a link to the rfc822 module.
1999-03-27 05:45:46 +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
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
Guido van Rossum
8be229650d
Document new builtin buffer(). Greg Stein.
1999-03-19 19:10:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
596766772e
Documented FTP.set_pasv().
1999-03-18 16:08:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
154d909993
Note that abspath() was added in 1.5.2.
1999-03-17 22:25:11 +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
658cef0141
Preliminary mhlib and telnetlib documents from Skip Montanaro -- thanks, Skip!
1999-03-15 15:44:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
bf5a6d2eb4
Fixed tons of small markup problems.
1999-03-12 19:57:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
b3a20bc44c
Added availabililty annotations to respond to concerns of /F.
1999-03-12 18:34:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
93503ca57b
Fixup the module keys. There were some problems with hosting / processing
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file HTML files on Windows machines do to case insensitivity.
1999-03-12 16:24:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
be110c1706
Updates based on comments from /F.
1999-03-12 15:27:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
35c3ffdc3f
Fixed description of WSTOPSIG(), added WTERMSIG(). Problem reported
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by Jonathan Giddy <jon@dgs.monash.edu.au>.
1999-03-04 14:08:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
a54a887f66
"\platform{UNIX}" should really be spelled "\platform{Unix}".
1999-03-02 17:03:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
f6863c1909
Added \platform annotations.
1999-03-02 16:37:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
43b34da656
extract_tb(): Only describe this function once. Problem reported by
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Jonathan Giddy <jon@dgs.monash.edu.au>.
1999-02-26 18:51:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
390636382a
Typo: "Availabilty" --> "Availability"
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Thanks to /F!
1999-02-26 14:05:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
51027c4173
Added note about comments, from Christopher Petrilli.
1999-02-24 22:36:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
16e81f4484
Update some of the top comments and shorten title of the first
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section.
1999-02-24 19:57:14 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
f2b4554403
Document the correct class hierarchy for SystemExit. It is not an
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error and so it derives from Exception and not SystemError.
1999-02-24 00:27:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
1ec71cb556
Incorporated updates to describe geturl() by Sjoerd Mullender
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<Sjoerd.Mullender@cwi.nl>.
1999-02-22 22:42:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
00a3a65cc0
Refer to the right RFC in the intro.
1999-02-22 17:12:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
7d9b13325d
Other chapter titles refer to collections of modules as "Services"; do
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the same here.
1999-02-22 14:48:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
fab41f1788
BabylMailbox description: Properly escape the backslashes in the
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string representations.
1999-02-22 14:26:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
b63e77ccb0
Oops, used a \label twice - fix one of them.
1999-02-22 14:14:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
180b68b3cf
More reasonable section titles.
1999-02-22 13:45:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
76991ec75a
Shorten section title.
1999-02-20 05:20:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
199b79c37b
Added descriptions for BabylMailbox and Maildir (Qmail) mailbox
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objects.
1999-02-20 05:04:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
67d229ea76
Shorten section title.
1999-02-20 04:51:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
bbac43223c
Shorten a few section titles.
1999-02-20 00:14:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
da57365337
Give subsections reasonable file names in the HTML.
1999-02-19 23:48:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
342501142d
Added an index entry.
1999-02-19 23:45:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
56f8185a53
Shortened the short synopsis -- too long.
1999-02-19 22:59:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
9f03380d1c
Use more current approach to recording authors.
1999-02-19 22:56:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
c60047575d
Shortened the short synopsis -- way too long.
1999-02-19 22:33:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
d8a41e6391
Fix an amazing number of typos & malformed sentences reported by Detlef
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Lannert <lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-02-19 17:54:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
f6346345b0
Noted that the module was added in 1.5.2.
1999-02-19 15:46:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
4e7c205470
Update description of what modules "look like" when printed.
1999-02-19 15:30:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
cd71aa2a38
Use current approach to record documentation author.
1999-02-18 21:13:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
2a2f1fe4d5
Record module & documentation author.
1999-02-18 21:10:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
6b103f1e12
Documentation for pyclbr and tokenize modules.
1999-02-18 21:06:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
4d358b5d23
Added sections for pyclbr and tokenize.
1999-02-18 20:40:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
7c829b3179
Remove the "Parsing Python" section. Hurray!
1999-02-18 20:39:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
70a66c9d6d
Add notes to __builtin__.float() and string.atof() that the NaN and Inf
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results are possible but non-portable.
1999-02-18 16:08:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
951eea4733
atof() description: Add information about accepting 'NaN' to produce
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the NaN value.
1999-02-18 03:49:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
85a59dd68b
The _O_* constants are defined as O_* in the os module.
1999-02-16 19:41:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
9329e5ec75
Remove "_" from the P_* symbols used with the spawn*() functions.
1999-02-16 19:40:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
c7b72dbbca
Added chapter on Windows modules, including msvcrt and winsound.
1999-02-16 19:18:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
aa1afa8d30
Added availability notes for samefile(), sameopenfile(), samestat()
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since these are not available on Windows.
1999-02-15 16:34:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
9474d86242
Make sure all HTML pages generated from this section have reasonable
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names.
Markup nits.
1999-02-12 22:05:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
2d2b6a0074
Markup nits.
1999-02-12 20:40:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
28bc711f5f
Added section for MimeWriter, contributed by Christopher Petrilli
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<petrilli@amber.org>.
This spells the end of another whole section in the undoc chapter!
1999-02-12 19:26:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
26b698fa4d
Document <complex #>.conjugate().
1999-02-12 18:27:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
ce67f06491
Update documentation to reflect changes to Queue.py by Tim Peters.
1999-02-08 18:43:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
d673d481f5
Document sameopenfile(), samestat().
1999-02-03 22:31:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
0256c1f453
Document splitdrive().
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For all split*(), these split path *into* pairs, not split path *in*
pairs. "Into" can be used for transformations, "in" is for
containment.
1999-02-03 19:24:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
0c9608cf1b
Portability fix for [f]statvfs() return tuple: no longer return the
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f_fsid field, since it's not a scalar on all systems supporting this
call (in particular, it's a tuple of two longs on AIX). Since it's
not particularly useful, just nuke it. Adapted the doc strings too.
1999-02-03 16:32:37 +00:00