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Martin v. Löwis 94717ed1d4 Patch #606592: Subsecond timestamps in stat_result. 2002-09-09 14:24:16 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 8a64d40949 Fix typo. Close SF Bug 606354. 2002-09-08 22:26:13 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 2c0d3224fc tightened up the definition of \b and \B some more based upon discussion
after the last checkin.
2002-09-07 18:48:14 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 5ccaf8f129 Apply diff3.txt (plus additional documentation)
from SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/554192

This adds two new functions to mimetypes:
guess_all_extensions() which returns a list of all known
extensions for a mime type, and add_type() which adds one
mapping between a mime type and an extension.
2002-09-06 16:15:58 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 2c519981fb update docs to reflect that \b considers underscore to be part of a word. 2002-09-06 14:38:23 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d918884bb8 Fix typo 2002-09-04 23:52:42 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger a04c3d86ae Fix typo 2002-09-04 15:12:07 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 8e790e7007 expose PYTHON_API_VERSION macro as sys.api_version. Closes patch # 601456. 2002-09-03 13:25:17 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 3aeb632c31 PEP 293 implemention (from SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/432401) 2002-09-02 13:14:32 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 53d58bb369 Further SET_LINENO reomval fixes. See comments in patch #587933.
Use a slightly different strategy to determine when not to call the line
trace function.  This removes the need for the RETURN_NONE opcode, so
that's gone again.  Update docs and comments to match.

Thanks to Neal and Armin!

Also add a test suite.  This should have come with the original patch...
2002-08-30 13:09:51 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9240be2a35 Note change in behavior from 1.5.2. The new argument to NameError is
an error message and not just the missing name.

Closes SF Bug 599869.
2002-08-27 23:53:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 80a04a4894 Add strong security warning about the rexec module.
Closes SF patch #600861.

Minor markup changes.
2002-08-27 16:46:06 +00:00
Tim Peters ea76c98014 Implemented <, <=, >, >= for sets, giving subset and proper-subset
meanings.  I did not add new, e.g., ispropersubset() methods; we're
going nuts on those, and, e.g., there was no "friendly name" for
== either.
2002-08-25 18:43:10 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 7ad09552d0 Correct documentation of allow_reuse_address to match the actual script.
Closes SF bug 599681.
2002-08-25 16:27:33 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e87ab3fefe Removed < <= > >= from the API. Implemented as comparisons of the
underlying dictionaries, there were no reasonable use cases (lexicographic
sorting of a list of sets is somewhat esoteric).  Frees the operators
for other uses (such as strict subset and superset comparisons).

Updated documentation and test suite accordingly.
2002-08-24 07:33:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 055be47b43 Fix typo reported to python-docs. 2002-08-23 21:19:53 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger fa8dd5f407 Fix markup and punctuation 2002-08-23 18:10:54 +00:00
Tim Peters b81b252fab s/_as_Temporarily_Immutable/_as_temporarily_immutable/g, because the
latter is what the code actually does.
2002-08-23 17:48:23 +00:00
Tim Peters 54fd3e6ffc pop(): An arbitrary element is removed, not a random element. 2002-08-23 17:45:43 +00:00
Fred Drake d10c6c949a Adjust the markup in a few places so this will actually format.
Remove the third column in the tables since it isn't used.
2002-08-23 17:22:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 584cb198f7 Load docs for sets.py 2002-08-23 15:18:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 5ec486b87a Add a note that apply() is needed since the extended call syntax is
completely equivalent.
2002-08-22 14:27:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 61cf4407be Added a main() function and support to run this module as a script.
Closes SF feature request #588768.
2002-08-21 20:56:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 5b09eeea89 Clarify that even though some of the relevant specifications define the
order in which form variables should be encoded in a request, a CGI script
should not rely on that since a client may not conform to those specs, or
they may not be relevant to the request.
Closes SF bug #596866.
2002-08-21 19:24:21 +00:00
Fred Drake ffefb1df56 Clarify the endpos argument to the rx.match() method.
Closes SF bug #597177.
2002-08-20 13:57:47 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 11b795cd0f Add versionadded for operator.pow 2002-08-19 22:38:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 017778332f Extend some comments on the order of values in the returns from
dict.items/keys/values/iteritems/iterkeys/itervalues().
2002-08-19 21:58:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 45ec02aed1 SF patch 576101, by Oren Tirosh: alternative implementation of
interning.  I modified Oren's patch significantly, but the basic idea
and most of the implementation is unchanged.  Interned strings created
with PyString_InternInPlace() are now mortal, and you must keep a
reference to the resulting string around; use the new function
PyString_InternImmortal() to create immortal interned strings.
2002-08-19 21:43:18 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5959c559df Added __pow__(a,b) to the operator module. Completes the pattern of
all operators having a counterpart in the operator module.

Closes SF bug #577513.
2002-08-19 03:19:09 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson dd32a91cc0 This is my patch
[ 587993 ] SET_LINENO killer

Remove SET_LINENO.  Tracing is now supported by inspecting co_lnotab.

Many sundry changes to document and adapt to this change.
2002-08-15 14:59:02 +00:00
Barry Warsaw b8c20a723f More updates describing FutureWarnings. 2002-08-14 16:40:54 +00:00
Tim Peters 2f238c1b22 mkstemp's last argument changed from binary=True to text=False. 2002-08-14 16:37:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 830a5151c1 Doc portion of SF 589982 (tempfile.py rewrite, by Zack Weinberg).
Fred, please review!
2002-08-09 16:16:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b2865919cc Document that heappop() and heapreplace() raise IndexError if the heap
is empty.
2002-08-07 18:56:08 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 22c001bd29 Described responsibilty of weakly referenced extension types to initialize
the weakreflist to NULL in the constructor and to fill the tp_flags
slot with Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_WEAKREFS.  Closes SF bug 586583.
2002-08-07 16:18:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 3cfdc3402e Documented os.fsync and os.fdatasync. Closes SF bug 584695. 2002-08-07 15:48:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 442c7c7743 Clarify that the bool instances are acceptable return values from
__nonzero__(), in response to SF bug #579991.
2002-08-07 15:40:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 95fa4ddf7b Change the markup a bit more; the parameter was not marked as \var in the
sample code, and the note was marked as a logical thing.
2002-08-07 12:39:33 +00:00
Steve Holden 63d5bead18 Fix markup errors. 2002-08-07 12:01:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 2d3c03df9a Added references to the email package.
Closes SF bug #586937.
2002-08-06 21:26:01 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 97c5fccd77 Remove mention of deprecated xreadlines method. 2002-08-06 17:03:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0fc01865f3 Document file.next(). Mark xreadlines obsolete (both method and
module).  (One thing remains to be done: the gzip class has an
xreadline method; this ought to be replaced by an iterator as well.)
2002-08-06 17:01:28 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 817918cc3c Committing patch #591250 which provides "str1 in str2" when str1 is a
string of longer than 1 character.
2002-08-06 16:58:21 +00:00
Steve Holden 545092b063 Add comment about os.path.walk()'s behavior with symbolic links. 2002-08-06 16:07:07 +00:00
Neal Norwitz e72a9a13a1 SF patch #591305 Documentation err in bytecode defs 2002-08-05 23:33:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger acb45d72b4 Note that True and False are pickable objects 2002-08-05 03:55:36 +00:00
Steve Holden c8389c91c2 Remove a syntax error in the example, spotted by Walter Hofman. 2002-08-04 15:27:25 +00:00
Tim Peters 0ad679ff0f Document new heapreplace() function. 2002-08-03 18:53:28 +00:00
Tim Peters 6e0da82a97 Document new heapify() function. 2002-08-03 18:02:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 1acab695a7 Minor markup changes. 2002-08-02 19:46:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 975121664e Add docs for heapq.py. 2002-08-02 18:03:24 +00:00
Skip Montanaro de994d9130 indicate that 'b' is added to the mode flag if not given 2002-08-02 17:20:46 +00:00
Tim Peters 74824584ef Added new footnote about list.sort() stability. Repaired footnote about
using sort() with comparison functions (it made reference to the non-
existent "builtin-in function sort()").

BTW, I changed list.sort's docstring to contain the word "stable" -- the
easiest way to tell whether a particular Python version's sort *is* stable
is to look for "stable" in the docstring.  I'm not sure whether to
advertise this <wink>.
2002-08-01 03:10:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 5b11bdd0ed SF patch #581414: info reader bug
The "Matching vs. Searching" Info node is unreachable from the Info
program (but is fine in Emacs's Info mode). This patch seems to fix
it.  This is the only occurrence where the info reader fails, so
probably it could be addressed in the python docs as a workaround.
Forwarded the report to the info maintainer.
2002-07-30 17:51:20 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 0cec0ffc78 Patch #573770: Implement lchown. 2002-07-28 16:33:45 +00:00
Fred Drake db40afaabe Small clarifications when referring to the sys.exc_* variables so that
readers are not given the wrong impression that they should be using those
on a regualar basis.
This closes SF bug #585598.
2002-07-25 21:11:23 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 403e351dfc Flesh out description of getlogin() and recommend against using it. 2002-07-24 15:32:25 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 1cfcafceb6 add versionadded to doc 2002-07-20 00:46:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 18eb8b85b3 Doc patch from SF 474274 (pure Python strptime by Brett Cannon). 2002-07-19 17:09:36 +00:00
Fred Drake f0b095d804 Added documentation for the buffer_text and related attributes of the
xmlparser object provided by pyexpat, new in Python 2.3.
2002-07-17 20:31:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 2095b9690f reduce(): Clarified what is returned in the case of a sequence 1 item long and
initial/default value.
2002-07-17 13:55:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9534e14033 Record the decision that StopIteration is a sink state (see recent
discussion in python-dev with subject "Termination of two-arg iter()").

Implementation will follow.
2002-07-16 19:53:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 54ed2d32f9 Clarify that the description of sys.path[0] is only valid upon program
start-up.
2002-07-15 16:08:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 3e59f72075 Clarify the return value of __nonzero__(): It *must* be an integer.
Closes SF bug #579991.
2002-07-12 17:15:10 +00:00
Fred Drake e4523c46b9 Document gc.get_objects().
Closes SF bug #578308.
2002-07-10 19:21:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 4254cbd29c Note that unicode() can raise LookupError for unknown codecs.
Closes SF bug #513666.
2002-07-09 05:25:46 +00:00
Fred Drake c6a525e993 Fix typo reported by Kent Engström, and a bunch of broken markup. 2002-07-08 14:42:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 50e1286c00 Fix typo: "an Unicode string" --> "a Unicode string"
Clarify the return value when the parameter is a Unicode object.
2002-07-08 14:29:05 +00:00
Steve Holden b1af86a1d7 Revise asyncore documentation and document asynchat for the first time. 2002-07-03 18:36:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 228f6e4e7a Fix up a few more consistency nits and incorrectly applied markup.
Further clarify the English-centricity of fix_sentence_endings.
2002-07-03 05:08:48 +00:00
Fred Drake c412617779 Add annotations that describe the change in the "errors" and "failures"
attributes of the TestResult.
2002-07-02 22:46:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 387c8b5f37 Update the documentation of the errors and failures attributes of the
TestResult object.  Add an example of how to get even more information for
apps that can use it.
Closes SF bug #558278.
2002-07-02 22:34:44 +00:00
Greg Ward 285f4a7db7 Don't list all the keyword args to the TextWrapper constructor in the
classdesc -- just use "..." with prose explaining the correspondence
between keyword args and instance attributes.

Document 'width' along with the other instance attributes.

Describe default values consistently.

Typo fixes.
2002-07-02 21:48:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 2c22e85ae7 Attempt to clarify removedirs().
Based on SF bug #574773.
2002-07-02 21:03:49 +00:00
Fred Drake ca23ee273e Deal with & remove the XXX comments.
Change the markup to be more like the rest of the documentation.
2002-07-02 20:37:12 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 7d650ca83b Implement the encoding argument for toxml and toprettyxml.
Document toprettyxml.
2002-06-30 15:05:00 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 550fd5d799 Fixed bug 574978 shutil example out of sync with source code 2002-06-30 04:43:20 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 8a9e8b6d0e Fix bug 575221 referred to dictionary type instead of dict. 2002-06-30 04:32:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 78e057a32a Clarify the version information for the unicode() built-in.
Closes SF bug #575272.
2002-06-29 16:06:47 +00:00
Greg Ward ae64f3adcd Add documentation for new textwrap module. 2002-06-29 02:38:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 2c813818c8 Clean up some markup. 2002-06-27 18:30:34 +00:00
Neal Norwitz dcd0500664 dis.dis() also supports modules 2002-06-26 22:32:47 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger ca0383d3a3 Fix bug #573916. Sender and recipients reversed in email example. 2002-06-26 07:51:32 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 763805dab2 add seealso link to the bisect module 2002-06-26 05:22:08 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 09d9f86c77 add /F's PriorityQueue example 2002-06-26 05:07:28 +00:00
Fred Drake c5e2792ab4 Talk about interfaces rather than implementation classes where appropriate.
Add hyperlinks to make the documentation on the Attributes and AttributesNS
interfaces more discoverable.
Closes SF bug #484603.
2002-06-25 17:10:50 +00:00
Fred Drake b6aa9cbb96 Added some more links to the "See also" section. 2002-06-25 16:58:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 7bc121a4fb When talking about interfaces, use the interface names, not the names
of the implementation classes.  (Remove the "Impl" from two names.)
2002-06-25 16:25:01 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f0236d7374 Fix typo 2002-06-25 15:26:59 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5ed3fa6578 Fix SF bug 568269 by enclosing 'computername' in a raw string 2002-06-25 04:53:05 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 563d12d145 SF # 572928 One word change for lib/libgettext.tex
Fix typo.
2002-06-24 02:22:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 53540ab071 Correct the RE equivalent of scanf()'s %x and %X patterns.
Closes SF bug #572169.
2002-06-22 01:07:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 473f46a853 Make the docs for string.capitalize() match those of str.capitalize()
(which makes it more clear).
Closes SF bug #571767.
2002-06-20 21:18:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 807354f3b6 Add a note that divmod() with complex numbers is deprecated. 2002-06-20 21:10:25 +00:00
Fred Drake dce695aa4e Added reference to the Expat home page. 2002-06-20 21:06:03 +00:00
Fred Drake f4bf7aa292 Typo: bites --> bytes
(Hanging around small kids too much...;)
2002-06-18 20:38:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 9ea01d415f Add description of the deadlock problem with child processes and pipes, and
hints about how to work around it.
Closes SF bug #530637.
2002-06-18 20:30:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 69d1fd2fdb Note the limitation that mime_decode_header() only works for Latin-1.
Closes SF bug #551912.
2002-06-18 18:51:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 7f59124693 Clarified documentation for os.access().
Patch contributed by Sean Reifschneider.
Closes SF patch #570618.
2002-06-18 16:15:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 28bdc624a8 Clarified description of error handling for shutil.rmtree().
This closes SF patch #569832.
2002-06-18 14:31:04 +00:00
Piers Lauder 3fca291a52 Add IMAP4 QUOTA extension methods 2002-06-17 07:07:20 +00:00
Steve Holden 1e4519faaa Make a start at describing the results of class/type unification
in the type documentation.
2002-06-14 09:16:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 6c123efe3d Refer the reader to the correct module for constant definitions.
This closes SF bug #550777.
2002-06-14 01:58:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 585775bf11 Document the Binary.data attribute.
This closes SF bug #562878.
2002-06-14 00:33:02 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 9c92b69a54 Use \code{True} (or False) instead of true/false.
Not sure if code is correct, but that is what's in this file.
I've seen \constant{True} in other places.
2002-06-14 00:27:13 +00:00
Neal Norwitz cc5c6947a6 Add "version added" for getpgid 2002-06-13 21:19:25 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 606edc1d97 Patch #568235: Add posix.setpgid. 2002-06-13 21:09:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fea59e7f76 The opcode FOR_LOOP no longer exists. 2002-06-13 17:59:51 +00:00
Fred Drake efb9097add Do not claim that getlocale() returns a tulpe; that is not always true.
Closes SF bug #568577.
2002-06-13 17:54:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 11ba094957 Major overhaul of timeout sockets:
- setblocking(0) and settimeout(0) are now equivalent, and ditto for
  setblocking(1) and settimeout(None).

- Don't raise an exception from internal_select(); let the final call
  report the error (this means you will get an EAGAIN error instead of
  an ETIMEDOUT error -- I don't care).

- Move the select to inside the Py_{BEGIN,END}_ALLOW_THREADS brackets,
  so other theads can run (this was a bug in the original code).

- Redid the retry logic in connect() and connect_ex() to avoid masking
  errors.  This probably doesn't work for Windows yet; I'll fix that
  next.  It may also fail on other platforms, depending on what
  retrying a connect does; I need help with this.

- Get rid of the retry logic in accept().  I don't think it was needed
  at all.  But I may be wrong.
2002-06-13 15:07:44 +00:00
Fred Drake e9996c6093 Add version annotations for some older changes to the calendar module.
Closes SF patch #567867.
2002-06-13 01:34:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e3fdc975c0 SF bug 567826. Document new opcodes:
['BINARY_FLOOR_DIVIDE', 'BINARY_TRUE_DIVIDE',
'INPLACE_FLOOR_DIVIDE', 'INPLACE_TRUE_DIVIDE', 'GET_ITER',
'YIELD_VALUE', 'FOR_ITER', 'CONTINUE_LOOP']
2002-06-12 15:33:08 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 5efaf7eac8 This is my nearly two year old patch
[ 400998 ] experimental support for extended slicing on lists

somewhat spruced up and better tested than it was when I wrote it.

Includes docs & tests.  The whatsnew section needs expanding, and arrays
should support extended slices -- later.
2002-06-11 10:55:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a861d552c3 Document that the key should not contain null bytes. 2002-06-10 19:42:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum db9198a8b5 SF bug 563750 (Alex Martelli): posix_tmpfile():
The file returned by tmpfile() has mode w+b, so use that in the call
to PyFile_FromFile().

Bugfix candidate.
2002-06-10 19:23:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 715b861d94 Clarify the interaction between timeout/non-blocking mode, makefile
and fromfd.
2002-06-07 12:38:23 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 62a7f63a24 Fix typo 2002-06-07 12:36:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fc9823b1a9 Clarify the interaction between blocking and timeouts. Explain that
fromfd() assumes a blocking non-timeout socket.
2002-06-07 03:39:21 +00:00
Neal Norwitz bdbd84fdac Add version info, and fix another typo and wording spotted by /F. I think this is what he meant. :-) 2002-06-06 22:24:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 1a06fb0605 Fix typo spotted by Fredrik Lundh. 2002-06-06 22:19:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 6c6d662760 Fix some markup errors and adjust wording slightly. 2002-06-06 21:57:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum be946bfea7 SF patch 555085 (timeout socket implementation) by Michael Gilfix.
I've made considerable changes to Michael's code, specifically to use
the select() system call directly and to store the timeout as a C
double instead of a Python object; internally, -1.0 (or anything
negative) represents the None from the API.

I'm not 100% sure that all corner cases are covered correctly, so
please keep an eye on this.  Next I'm going to try it Windows before
Tim complains.

No way is this a bugfix candidate. :-)
2002-06-06 21:51:01 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 446a25fa3c Patch 473512: add GNU style scanning as gnu_getopt. 2002-06-06 10:58:36 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 474458da48 Add constants BOM_UTF8, BOM_UTF16, BOM_UTF16_LE, BOM_UTF16_BE,
BOM_UTF32, BOM_UTF32_LE and BOM_UTF32_BE that represent the Byte
Order Mark in UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings for little and
big endian systems.

The old names BOM32_* and BOM64_* were off by a factor of 2.

This closes SF bug http://www.python.org/sf/555360
2002-06-04 15:16:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 59b2a74c75 SF bug 533625 (Armin Rigo). rexec: potential security hole
If a rexec instance allows writing in the current directory (a common
thing to do), there's a way to execute bogus bytecode.  Fix this by
not allowing imports from .pyc files (in a way that allows a site to
configure things so that .pyc files *are* allowed, if writing is not
allowed).

I'll apply this to 2.2 and 2.1 too.
2002-05-31 21:12:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 9b414ac93e Update links and information on PyQt/PyKDE. 2002-05-31 18:21:56 +00:00
Neal Norwitz d68f5171eb As discussed on python-dev, add a mechanism to indicate features
that are in the process of deprecation (PendingDeprecationWarning).
Docs could be improved.
2002-05-29 15:54:55 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 34f20eac98 This is patch
[ 559250 ] more POSIX signal stuff

Adds support (and docs and tests and autoconfery) for posix signal
mask handling -- sigpending, sigprocmask and sigsuspend.
2002-05-27 15:08:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 92bf9dacc9 Markup adjustments; fix the names of modules referenced in an expression. 2002-05-23 21:07:19 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c32f0336e0 Deprecated Random.cunifvariate clearing bug 506647. Also, added docstrings. 2002-05-23 19:44:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 7779b208ae Remove spurious "()" from the __str__() description. 2002-05-22 20:44:03 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 177b4a065f Jack's documentation for the U mode character on the file()
constructor, vetted by Barry.
2002-05-22 20:39:43 +00:00
Fred Drake c58507582b Added a version annotation for StringTypes.
Added documentation for BooleanType.
2002-05-22 02:44:24 +00:00
Barry Warsaw c421ad4a35 Minor typo: Message.getall() -> Message.get_all() 2002-05-22 01:22:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6cf09f0792 Patch 543387. Document deprecation of complex %, //,and divmod(). 2002-05-21 18:19:49 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 97394bc795 Patch 533291. Deprecate None return form of __reduce__. 2002-05-21 17:22:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 5ecb7aaa6a Add availability information for a couple of the types, and notes on writing
string-type tests for versions of Python built without Unicode support.
2002-05-21 14:28:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger cadc9fbd37 Patch 547037. Corrected documentation to match
actual module behavior for adding newlines.
2002-05-16 04:28:44 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger b07fa39edf Added missing index entries for mapping methods. Closes patch #548693. 2002-05-15 15:45:25 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 576474c5ae Closes SF bug 527139. Brings docs inline with random.py 1.29
which fixes the unnecessarily restricted method domain.
2002-05-13 23:49:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5359ad63ce Correct gammavariate's method name and domain.
Partial solution to SF bug 527139.
2002-05-13 22:40:38 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c045b49633 Added degrees() and radians() to mathmodule. Closing patch 552452 and
feature request 426539.
2002-05-13 03:52:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 1f89e2abcc Fix markup error that suppressed space.
Closes SF bug #554257.  Not relevant to older releases.
2002-05-10 12:37:56 +00:00
Fred Drake d05c74f42d Add a note explaining the interaction between unbuffered input and
xreadlines.xreadlines().
This closes SF patch #552804.
2002-05-06 16:02:42 +00:00
Fred Drake b9032018ff Update the xrange object description to reflect the removal of deprecated
features.
2002-05-02 21:37:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 4d707a5d08 Remove extra period produced by previous change. 2002-05-02 17:54:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 4b270518b7 Correct information on support for repietition & concatenation for buffer
and xrange objects.
This closes SF bug #550555.
2002-05-02 05:56:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 7f781c9aab Add Pickler.clear_memo() so the pickle and cPickle modules are more similar. 2002-05-01 20:33:53 +00:00
Fred Drake a65375c3e3 Explain what os.read() returns at end of file.
This closes SF bug #550409.  Applying to release21-maint & release22-maint.
2002-05-01 03:31:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 7938fab285 Add missing right-parenthesis. 2002-05-01 03:23:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 52cc670711 Add a note about when the "%r" formatting code was added. 2002-04-30 14:54:47 +00:00
Tim Peters 81b9251d59 Mostly in SequenceMatcher.{__chain_b, find_longest_match}:
This now does a dynamic analysis of which elements are so frequently
repeated as to constitute noise.  The primary benefit is an enormous
speedup in find_longest_match, as the innermost loop can have factors
of 100s less potential matches to worry about, in cases where the
sequences have many duplicate elements.  In effect, this zooms in on
sequences of non-ubiquitous elements now.

While I like what I've seen of the effects so far, I still consider
this experimental.  Please give it a try!
2002-04-29 01:37:32 +00:00
Fred Drake d3e6678713 Slightly expand and clarify the differences between getegid(), getgid(),
getpgrp(), and setpgid().
This closes SF bug #547939.
2002-04-26 20:59:40 +00:00
Fred Drake a7bb2b9b30 Be more consistent, both internally and with recommended practice.
This closes SF bug #547953.
2002-04-26 20:44:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 38f71973e5 Documentation for the enumerate() function/type.
This closes SF patch #547162.
2002-04-26 20:29:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 99d17006c1 Add text about circular references caused by storing frames in local
variables.  This closes SF bug #543148.
2002-04-23 21:21:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 106c1a0e7a WCOREDUMP(), WIFCONTINUED(), WCONTINUED, WUNTRACED: New.
isatty(), WIFEXITED(), WIFSIGNALED(), WIFSTOPPED(): Changed to return
    bools instead of ints.
2002-04-23 15:58:02 +00:00
Anthony Baxter 8388895fe4 SF patch [ 545523 ] patch for 514433 bsddb.dbopen (NULL)
closes SF #514433

can now pass 'None' as the filename for the bsddb.*open functions,
and you'll get an in-memory temporary store.

docs are ripped out of the bsddb dbopen man page. Fred may want to
clean them up.

Considering this for 2.2, but not 2.1.
2002-04-23 02:11:05 +00:00
Walter Dörwald de02bcb265 Apply patch diff.txt from SF feature request
http://www.python.org/sf/444708

This adds the optional argument for str.strip
to unicode.strip too and makes it possible
to call str.strip with a unicode argument
and unicode.strip with a str argument.
2002-04-22 17:42:37 +00:00
Skip Montanaro b02ea65f92 typo 2002-04-17 19:33:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 933f159a2f Add a version annotation for the help() function. 2002-04-17 12:54:04 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 6c7bc31089 added small clarification to the descriptions of encode() and decode() 2002-04-16 15:12:10 +00:00
Fred Drake e19a5bcc7b Be consistent in presenting the signatures. 2002-04-15 19:46:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 154985587b Add docs for os.fchdir(). 2002-04-15 19:41:27 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 068325ef92 Apply the second version of SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/536241
Add a method zfill to str, unicode and UserString and change
Lib/string.py accordingly.

This activates the zfill version in unicodeobject.c that was
commented out and implements the same in stringobject.c. It also
adds the test for unicode support in Lib/string.py back in and
uses repr() instead() of str() (as it was before Lib/string.py 1.62)
2002-04-15 13:36:47 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 06a83e90aa Patch #543447: Add posix.mknod. 2002-04-14 10:19:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 8b1c47bb8b Document the optional argument to the .strip(), .rstrip(), .strip() string
methods.
Part of SF feature #444708.
2002-04-13 02:43:39 +00:00
Fred Drake d4c0e5fd5b BDFL agreed with Tim: rehabilitate randint(). 2002-04-12 20:01:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e027d9818f Add Raymond Hettinger's d.pop(). See SF patch 539949. 2002-04-12 15:11:59 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 81bdc93d2f Explain octal escapes. Fixes #542226. 2002-04-11 12:24:12 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 2854c478be Remove mention of 'pre' module
(2.2 bugfix candidate?)
2002-04-10 21:28:31 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 3b2625ff82 document all the valid encoding values 2002-04-10 04:37:09 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 6b35370c65 Update docs for bool changes by Guido around April 6 2002-04-09 18:15:00 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 688357e035 Patch #512005: getrusage() returns struct-like object. 2002-04-08 21:28:20 +00:00
Fred Drake bc82ab1c9f Do not call "knee" a standard module, and point to the new location.
This addresses the issue in SF bug #515745.
2002-04-08 05:22:30 +00:00
Neal Norwitz d3dab2b192 Update doc to reflect Tim's changes to bool. 2002-04-05 02:21:09 +00:00
Fred Drake a2c2595024 Add a version annotation regarding the urlopen(proxies={...}). 2002-04-04 20:58:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 5ca3a08cc0 The rest of the documentation for manual proxy configuration for a basic
urlopen().
This is part of SF patch #523415.
2002-04-04 20:34:36 +00:00
Fred Drake d21670328c Documentation for manual proxy configuration, by Andy Gimblett.
This closes SF patch #523415.
2002-04-04 20:09:50 +00:00
Neal Norwitz ce5df49957 SF 539024, Fix broken link to numpy 2002-04-04 14:02:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 77f6a65eb0 Add the 'bool' type and its values 'False' and 'True', as described in
PEP 285.  Everything described in the PEP is here, and there is even
some documentation.  I had to fix 12 unit tests; all but one of these
were printing Boolean outcomes that changed from 0/1 to False/True.
(The exception is test_unicode.py, which did a type(x) == type(y)
style comparison.  I could've fixed that with a single line using
issubtype(x, type(y)), but instead chose to be explicit about those
places where a bool is expected.

Still to do: perhaps more documentation; change standard library
modules to return False/True from predicates.
2002-04-03 22:41:51 +00:00
Fred Drake aee113d368 Add an experimental mechanism to support extending the pprint formatting.
Partly responds to SF bug #505152.
2002-04-02 05:08:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 4dfb7a81c1 Explain that os.spawn*() return the process handle on Windows.
Clarify that os.waitpid() on Windows takes a process handle, not a process ID.
This closes SF bug #537582.
2002-04-01 23:30:47 +00:00
Fred Drake d5a072f2eb Fix up the documentation of the type codes to give both the C and Python
types for each code, and give the actual C types.

Clarified the support for slice operations and note when some TypeError
exceptions are raised.

This closes SF bugs 518767 and 536469.
2002-04-01 23:05:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 8d62e94761 Minor wording change. 2002-03-28 21:06:17 +00:00
Skip Montanaro bb6bbc45c0 add exception class hierarchy. This should probably be done differently,
but at least the content is there.
2002-03-28 20:53:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 47cdf6fb6f Add documentation on the hasfree data object. 2002-03-28 19:34:53 +00:00
Fred Drake e3a3ceb2b1 Minor consistency adjustments. 2002-03-28 12:40:45 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 2e64c34850 Expose C library's gettext. Fixes #516412. 2002-03-27 18:49:02 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 8a79727b53 add seealso referring to site module doc where people can learn how to
extend sys.path using .pth files.
2002-03-27 17:29:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 57f8e06e4f Document the finditer() function and method.
This closes SF bug #520904.

Explain that many of the escapes supported by string literals are also
supported by the RE compiler, and list which ones.
This closes SF bug #529923.
2002-03-25 20:22:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 3787c9d94c Added description of binhex.Error. 2002-03-25 16:37:56 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 1e962cb61b document InvalidURL exception 2002-03-24 16:55:57 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer ccbb0edf0e Add local_hostname to SMTP.__init__(). 2002-03-24 15:41:40 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer 79f181395b Add more example exceptions that unpickling can raise. 2002-03-22 22:16:03 +00:00
Neal Norwitz e22d3dfcc1 Fix grammar 2002-03-21 12:58:54 +00:00
Walter Dörwald b25c2b0a4a [Apply SF patch #504943]
This patch makes it possible to pass Warning instances as the first
argument to warnings.warn. In this case the category argument
will be ignored. The message text used will be str(warninginstance).
2002-03-21 10:38:40 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 1abca4a515 SF# 522426, add doc for common parameter for filecmp.cmpfiles() 2002-03-20 18:55:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 1268678395 Adjust some poor wording in the text that explains what events are used
for (reported by Keith Briggs).
Wrap some very long lines.
2002-03-19 14:37:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 2f31d561d5 Clarify that copy_reg.pickle() is not intended for use with "classic" classes.
This was stated before, but a minor grammatical error made it difficult to be
sure of the meaning.
This closes SF bug #530143.
2002-03-19 03:33:33 +00:00
Fred Drake a8b663806b Remove extra verb; reported by Detlef Lannert. 2002-03-18 16:45:01 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 5c137c2251 Patch #495598: add an -q (quiet) option to pycompile. 2002-03-18 12:44:08 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 10acc8f9e2 added note that xmlrpclib won't marshal instances of subclasses of the
builtin types
2002-03-17 23:15:02 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 587c98c863 Patch #430706: Persistent connections in BaseHTTPServer. 2002-03-17 18:37:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 8e0c82a35f Fix stupid typo in example. 2002-03-16 14:01:12 +00:00
Fred Drake f275803fe9 Clarify the descriptions of the positive and negative lookbehind assertions.
Added examples of positive lookbehind assertions.
This closes SF bug #529708.
2002-03-16 05:58:12 +00:00
Skip Montanaro dc8d40717c update text to refer to ServerProxy class in preference to Server, which is
only retained for backward compatibility with older versions of the library.
2002-03-14 17:35:25 +00:00
Fred Drake f981617645 "level" keyword argument in example should be "stacklevel".
This closes SF bug #517684.
2002-03-12 19:49:31 +00:00
Tim Peters 8f01b680c8 Change Windows file.truncate() to (a) restore the original file position,
and (b) stop trying to prevent file growth.

Beef up the file.truncate() docs.

Change test_largefile.py to stop assuming that f.truncate() moves the
file pointer to the truncation point, and to verify instead that it leaves
the file position alone.  Remove the test for what happens when a
specified size exceeds the original file size (it's ill-defined, according
to the Single Unix Spec).
2002-03-12 03:04:44 +00:00
Tim Peters fb05db2cae file_truncate(): provide full "large file" support on Windows, by
dropping MS's inadequate _chsize() function.  This was inspired by
SF patch 498109 ("fileobject truncate support for win32"), which I
rejected.

libstdtypes.tex:  Someone who knows should update the availability
blurb.  For example, if it's available on Linux, it would be good to
say so.

test_largefile:  Uncommented the file.truncate() tests, and reworked to
do more.  The old comment about "permission errors" in the truncation
tests under Windows was almost certainly due to that the file wasn't open
for *write* access at this point, so of course MS wouldn't let you
truncate it.  I'd be appalled if a Unixish system did.

CAUTION:  Someone should run this test on Linux (etc) too.  The
truncation part was commented out before.  Note that test_largefile isn't
run by default.
2002-03-11 00:24:00 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 10b3eac278 [Bug #486527] Note that the caller has to ensure there are no control
characters in strings being passed via XML-RPC.
Fix some typos.

2.2.1 bugfix candidate.
2002-03-08 17:46:02 +00:00
Piers Lauder a4f8313cbb add SSL class submitted by Tino Lange 2002-03-08 01:53:24 +00:00
Fred Drake da8a6dd072 Added missing version annotation for dict(). 2002-03-06 02:29:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 9479c958c5 Remove extra indenatation from sample interpreter session.
Remove whitespace from the middle of an inline RE example; it was OK for
the typeset formats, but LaTeX2HTML is more touchy about this.
2002-03-05 04:02:39 +00:00
Skip Montanaro a8e1d81bdc add simple example of avoiding backtracking 2002-03-04 23:08:28 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 29001ff234 Patch #523268, #522027: return enhanced tuples. 2002-03-01 10:47:37 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis dbd55b3737 Patch #523268, #522027: return enhanced tuples. 2002-03-01 10:38:44 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 9986633609 Patch 520694: arraymodule.c improvements:
- make array.array a type
- add Py_UNICODE arrays
- support +=, *=
2002-03-01 10:27:01 +00:00
Fred Drake b6b2aa6c75 Fix error in explanation of the interaction between $ and MULTILINE mode.
Reported by Steve Alexander.
2002-02-25 18:56:45 +00:00
Tim Peters 9f4341b3b0 SF bug #501591: dir() doc is old
Bugfix candidate.

+ Updated dir() description to match actual 2.2 behavior.

+ Replaced the dir(sys) example with dir(struct), because the former
  was way out of date and is bound to change frequently, while the
  latter is stable.

+ Added a note cautioning that dir() is supplied primarily for
  convenience at an interactive prompt (hoping to discourage its
  use as the foundation of introspective code outside the core).
2002-02-23 04:40:15 +00:00
Greg Ward f8b1f2431b Grammar tweak. 2002-02-22 21:24:32 +00:00
Neal Norwitz ba902fda3c SF #515041, Update path for 2.3 2002-02-19 02:58:54 +00:00
Fred Drake e73ad2a21f Use the standard expression for the availability statement for alarm(). 2002-02-15 20:59:43 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 8d1fdafd89 note that the alarm function is not available on Windows. 2002-02-15 20:36:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 928051fb26 The "%" character does not need to be escaped in verbatim environments.
This closes SF bug #517811.
2002-02-15 04:12:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 7bc6f7ac7b Consistently use \textasciicircum to produce a ^ character.
LaTeX really falls flat on this one!
2002-02-14 15:19:30 +00:00
Tim Peters ab034fab03 Implement os.waitpid() for Windows, in a way that's compatible with Linux
where their capabilities intersect.  Would be nice if people using non-
MSVC compilers (Borland etc) took a whack at doing something similar for
them (this code relies on the MS _cwait function).
2002-02-01 11:27:43 +00:00
Skip Montanaro c318260a71 added handle_error method description 2002-01-31 17:32:24 +00:00
Tim Peters c48a3ca161 Add new constants usable with os.popen() on Windows.
NOTE:  this seems a mess wrt which symbols are available on which
platforms.  I can't fix it, but I didn't add to it <wink>, and
included an XXX comment about names claimed to be available on
Windows that aren't.  If anyone can figure out the whole ugly truth,
I'm sure a better organization will suggest itself.
2002-01-30 05:49:46 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ef180dc3d0 Document that get_referrers can return unreachable but uncollected objects.
Fixes #505453.
2002-01-26 20:11:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 744f67fb62 Add keyword.kwlist to the public API. 2002-01-24 16:38:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4f3a62d9bc There's no need for typechecks on the second and third argument of
new.instancemethod() -- the instancemethod object is now a perfectly
general container.

This fixes SF bug ##503091 (Pedro Rodriquez): new.instancemethod fails
for new classes

This is a 2.2.1 candidate.
2002-01-15 19:21:05 +00:00
Thomas Heller 3d62f8ca35 Fix a simple typo. Has this to be fixed also in other branches? 2002-01-14 08:37:39 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a55ffaeee9 Add a per-message fallback mechanism for translations. 2002-01-11 06:58:49 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 1be6419871 Add fallback argument to translation(). Request fallbacks on install.
Fixes #500595.
2002-01-11 06:33:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 7731ed47cb Do not mask the name of a built-in function in example code.
Based on comment sent to python-docs.
2002-01-05 04:00:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 5e74d36f9d Fix indentation error in example from the Tkinter Life Preserver.
This closes SF bug #499505.
2002-01-05 03:56:54 +00:00
Fred Drake d93d68bd13 Fix minor typo reported in SF patch #497951. 2002-01-05 01:52:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c33e077838 SF patch #497420 (Eduardo Pérez): ftplib: ftp anonymous password
Instead of sending the real user and host, use "anonymous@" (i.e. no
host name at all!) as the default anonymous FTP password.  This avoids
privacy violations.
2001-12-28 20:54:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 7c9a53dfc0 Elaborate the descriptions for onecmd(), precmd(), and postcmd() so they are
useful.
2001-12-27 05:10:18 +00:00
Fred Drake fd7f115a0e Fix wrongly-named formal parameters in three places: begin_y was used twice
instead of begin_y and begin_x for derwin(), subpad(), and subwin().
Reported for derwin() by Eric Huss.

Added class annotations for the window methods so they would be properly
described in the index.
2001-12-26 22:08:44 +00:00
Fred Drake ab2dc1d730 Added index entries similar to some recommended by Skip, and used the word
"interpolation" in the text, to make the string formatting material easier to
find.
This closes SF bug #487165.
Bugfix: this should be applied for Python 2.2.1.
2001-12-26 20:06:40 +00:00
Fred Drake ef338ec5f9 More index entries. 2001-12-26 19:48:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 39960f6ec9 Fix the erroneous availability annotation for s.makefile() from the last
checkin (my fault!).
Wrap some long lines and fix some markup inconsistencies.
2001-12-22 19:07:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 87fa3aa12c Add notes that fromfd() and s.makefile() are Unix-specific.
This fixes SF bug #495896.

Fix up various markup consistency & style guide conformance nits.
2001-12-21 17:45:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 5c7983113c Add a reference to the signal module to the os.kill() description.
This closes SF bug #495609.
2001-12-21 03:58:47 +00:00
Fred Drake dce2e1161a Fix typo in httplib example.
This fixes SF bug #495221.
2001-12-21 03:52:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 8c8e871530 Fix the availability statement for the spawn*() functions to reflect the
actual availability on Windows.
This fixes SF bug #495191.
2001-12-20 17:24:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 34a37b807a Re-commit Ping's patch to the cgi and cgitb documentation, using the
right version this time.  Thanks, Ping!
(This was from SF patch #494582, "\index -> \indexii" version.)
2001-12-20 17:13:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 4b1b3bfac1 Add entry for the pydoc documentation. 2001-12-18 16:32:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 96be564027 Add documentation for the pydoc module; contributed by Ka-Ping Yee.
This closes SF patch #494622.
2001-12-18 16:31:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 732299ff63 Add documentation for the help() built-in; contributed by Ka-Ping Yee.
This is part of SF patch #494622.
2001-12-18 16:31:08 +00:00
Fred Drake e088970ce0 Merge in Ping's changes to the cgitb documentation, and add a version
annotation as well.
This closes SF patch #494582.
2001-12-18 15:51:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 0c0b5305ae Mark the mpz module deprecated as of Python 2.2. 2001-12-16 01:54:55 +00:00
Fred Drake c57772870b Add a link to the mxNumber package. 2001-12-15 20:37:40 +00:00
Fred Drake b40501b05e Add link to the gmpy project. 2001-12-15 18:37:24 +00:00
Fred Drake dda7dcb3f7 Add a missing "cycle". 2001-12-14 21:19:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 526c7a0101 Ensure that complex() only accepts a string argument as the first arg,
and only if there is no second arg.
This closes SF patch #479551.
2001-12-13 19:52:22 +00:00
Fred Drake a0b767625b Minor adjustments. 2001-12-13 04:25:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 1529ef860e Document that isleap() returns exactly 1 or 0, which is guaranteed by the
docstring.
This closes SF bug #485794.


Additional (very) small details were added.
2001-12-12 05:40:46 +00:00
Fred Drake cf72abab8c Update link to the SAX homepage. 2001-12-10 18:10:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 6048ce95a9 Added documentation for str.decode().
This closes SF bug #490823.
2001-12-10 16:43:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 146483964e Patch supplied by Burton Radons for his own SF bug #487390: Modifying
type.__module__ behavior.

This adds the module name and a dot in front of the type name in every
type object initializer, except for built-in types (and those that
already had this).  Note that it touches lots of Mac modules -- I have
no way to test these but the changes look right.  Apologies if they're
not.  This also touches the weakref docs, which contains a sample type
object initializer.  It also touches the mmap test output, because the
mmap type's repr is included in that output.  It touches object.h to
put the correct description in a comment.
2001-12-08 18:02:58 +00:00
Fred Drake f9d580346b Add change notes where im_class is discussed, since the exact meaning changes
with Python 2.2.
2001-12-07 23:13:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b62f0e1a7b Correct the description of im_class. (Fred, this is changed in 2.2.
Should this be labeled as changed?  How?)
2001-12-07 22:03:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 7961930595 Revise description of dumbdbm.open() to reflect that the flag argument is
ignored and that mode was ignored before Python 2.2.
This closes SF bug #490098.
2001-12-07 21:56:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 8b7bb7a0f2 Describe the behavior of the read() method when the list of filenames
includes files that do not exist, explain the intended use of the interface,
and show how to ensure an expected file really exists.
This closes SF bug #490399.
2001-12-07 21:35:57 +00:00
Tim Peters b404145936 s/it/if/ in descriptions of spawn mode argument. 2001-12-06 23:37:17 +00:00
Tim Peters c7cb69263d For ratecv, document that None should be the initial state argument (when
I was squashing spurious overflows in the implementation, I got hung up
on this point).
2001-12-06 23:16:09 +00:00
Fred Drake a16433b14e Re-enabled debugging prints in poplib & documented the set_debuglevel()
method.
This closes SF patch #486079.
2001-12-05 22:37:21 +00:00
Fred Drake d761662b66 asyncore.loop() description contributed by Skip Montanaro.
This closes SF bug #489513.
2001-12-05 21:37:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 39368c1053 Added documentation of the sendall() method, and a note to the send() method
that it does not guarantee that all data is sent.
This closes SF patch #474307.
2001-12-05 05:25:59 +00:00
Fred Drake d2a557e51e Added entry for the "cgitb" module docs. 2001-12-04 22:48:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 6e70e8b401 Documentation for the "cgitb" module. 2001-12-04 22:47:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 97e3201220 Add a note that the rgbimg module is only built on 32-bit machines (prompted
by a question to webmaster).
Re-wrapped a long line.
2001-12-04 16:49:00 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton db5a93cd6a Update docs to reflect new compile() and compileFile() 2001-12-04 02:48:52 +00:00
Fred Drake b38784e4a0 Slightly improved indexing for the string-% operator, thanks to comments
from Skip Montanaro.  There is one weirdness in the final index for HTML, but
that is low priority.
2001-12-03 22:15:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 1a76386194 Added documentation on the ScrolledText module. 2001-12-03 21:18:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 5172adca81 Minor clarification of the zip() description, based on a comment sent to
python-docs.
2001-12-03 18:35:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 14f5c5fa01 Make no assumption about how modules are built when referring to them; this
can vary by platform and installation.
Based on suggestion to python-docs.
2001-12-03 18:33:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 1722e4a952 Re-word the intro slightly to avoid reader misunderstanding: strings are not
mutable!  We do not want to shock anyone.
This closes SF bug #483805.

Re-factor so that the description of the "access" keyword parameter is not
repeated in both the descriptions of mmap().  Also, only make sure the first
description of mmap() appears in the index.  The the index link is followed,
the first is now used to locate the page on the screen; chances are really good
both will be visible.  This avoids the problem that the index entry for the
second is selected and the first version is not visible, making the reader
consider that mmap() is not available on Windows.
2001-12-03 18:27:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 3570551d6f Remove most references to __members__ and __methods__, leaving only one pair
of references that now state that these attributes have been removed,
directing the reader to the dir() function.
This closes SF bug #456420.
2001-12-03 17:32:27 +00:00
Fred Drake b22c6720aa Clean up some material that is not part of the standard documentation.
This closes SF bug #487308.
2001-12-03 06:12:23 +00:00
Fred Drake d745b4e7a4 Add reference to the "String Methods" section to make that information
easier to find.  Based on the comment from Steve Alexander on the
zope-coders mailing list.
2001-12-02 15:10:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 0467775715 Add description of tkCommonDialog. 2001-11-30 19:24:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 10cd315963 Change the chapter title to reflect the Tk affinity.
Use the new seealso* environment in the section pointing out other GUI
toolkits.
2001-11-30 18:17:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 89d63cc450 Minor adjustments to markup for the getDOMImplementation() description. 2001-11-30 16:58:15 +00:00
Fred Drake bd34b6bc3d Added the convenience constants that are present in PyXML to make these
more similar.
2001-11-30 15:37:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 38f3b72f9f Updated documentation for the new httplib interface, by Kalle Svensson.
This closes SF bug #458447.
2001-11-30 06:06:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 44b6f84e56 More information about Tix support, contributed by Mike Clarkson. 2001-11-29 21:09:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 6995bb61b6 Various cleanups & markup fixes, mostly relating to the stat and statvfs
result object changes.
2001-11-29 20:48:44 +00:00
Fred Drake ed0a71911c Neil Schemenauer suggested a small improvement to one of the example REs. 2001-11-29 20:23:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 389aa17ad3 writeline() --> writelines()
This closes SF bug #487147.
2001-11-29 19:04:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 1cec7fab1d New section of regular expression examples contributed by Skip Montanaro,
with some extensions and changes from me.
This closes SF patch #472825.
2001-11-29 08:45:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 5107b4cf5f Re-arrange the modules in the "Internet Data Handling" chapter to try to
achieve a more sensible organization.
2001-11-28 07:50:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 6a6bb1828b Clarify that on some systems, lockf() using LOCK_EX requires that the file
is opened for writing; this closes SF bug #485342.

Added notes that file objects are also accepted in the place of file
descriptors.
2001-11-28 07:48:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 48704ee478 Add synopsis for the SimpleXMLRPCServer module; used in the chapter-level
list of modules.
2001-11-28 07:32:53 +00:00
Fred Drake c37b65ee10 Clean up some markup cruft. A number of the macros that take no
parameters (like \UNIX) are commonly entered using an empty group to
separate the markup from a following inter-word space; this is not
needed when the next character is punctuation, or the markup is the
last thing in the enclosing group.  These cases were marked
inconsistently; the empty group is now *only* used when needed.
2001-11-28 07:26:15 +00:00
Fred Drake b03d0cc45e Typo, spotted by Detlef Lannert. 2001-11-26 21:39:40 +00:00
Fred Drake fcb05ab512 Tk-related modules should no longer be listed here. 2001-11-26 21:38:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 2744f43f71 Fix typo, extra markup constructs.
This closes SF bug #485252.
2001-11-26 21:30:36 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 560da62fc7 Rename get_referents to get_referrers. Fixes #483815. 2001-11-24 09:24:51 +00:00
Fred Drake e70dbe0fc5 Update the platform notes for the CGIHTTPServer module; it works on more
platforms now, and has since Python 2.0.
This closes SF bug #482943.
2001-11-19 05:16:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 7064d3b581 Fix the default value for feature_namespaces, per discussions on the XML-SIG
mailing list.  This causes the docs to match the default implementation.
2001-11-19 04:34:50 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 69ab5836ae Paul Rubin reminds me that of course a class's constructor /could/ get
called, if the pickler found a __getinitargs__() method.
2001-11-18 16:24:01 +00:00
Fred Drake ebbd14d7c2 Clarified a couple of issues for the startElement*() handlers:
- the attrs value may be re-used by the parser, so the implementation
  cannot rely on owning the object.
- an element with no namespace encountered in namespace mode will have a URI
  of None, not "" (startElementNS() only).

Fixed a couple of minor markup issues as well.
2001-11-18 04:58:28 +00:00
Tim Peters af0a883041 Relatively large expansion of the docs for gc.garbage. 2001-11-18 04:51:17 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 0c0565dd7f Toughen up the security warnings a bit. 2001-11-16 22:28:17 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 5e17d20743 Add a clarification that the email package always deals in native line
endings, and that it is smtplib's job to convert those to RFC 2821
line endings when sending the message.
2001-11-16 22:16:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 666ca80b63 Clean up some markup a little bit more. Make this work with the PDF format,
which is a little more strict than the other formats on some things (fixable,
but not tonight).
2001-11-16 06:02:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 5545219bf6 Document the urlsplit() and urlunsplit() functions. 2001-11-16 03:22:15 +00:00
Fred Drake c66ff203bb Switched a couple of sections around.
Cleaned up some markup nits.
Add a few more of the Tk-related modules to the list of modules.
2001-11-16 01:05:27 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 69b2d75fc7 A few minor updates to make it clear(er) that pickle should be used
instead of marshal for object serialization.

Fred, please proofread!
2001-11-15 23:55:12 +00:00
Barry Warsaw f595fd975d A massive rewrite affecting both the pickle and cPickle module
documentation.  This addresses previously undocumented parts of the
public interfaces, the differences between pickle and cPickle,
security concerns, and on and on.

Fred please proofread!
2001-11-15 23:39:07 +00:00
Barry Warsaw d44e7ad702 Minor updates to add more pointers to the pickle documentation, and to
clarify some of the interface.
2001-11-15 23:37:26 +00:00
Fred Drake fd4f069b12 The turtle docs will be moving to another location in the Tkinter chapter. 2001-11-15 22:10:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 482b9a8c0c Clean up the descriptions of multi-signature functions so we do the right
thing in the index.
2001-11-15 20:41:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 53556861df Add entries for the new Tkinter chapter. 2001-11-15 17:25:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 7cf4e5b329 Tkinter chapter, contributed by Mike Clarkson. Based in part on the "Tkinter
Life Preserver" by Matt Conway.
2001-11-15 17:22:04 +00:00
Tim Peters 5ebfd36afa CVS patch #477161: New "access" keyword for mmap, from Jay T Miller.
This gives mmap() on Windows the ability to create read-only, write-
through and copy-on-write mmaps.  A new keyword argument is introduced
because the mmap() signatures diverged between Windows and Unix, so
while they (now) both support this functionality, there wasn't a way to
spell it in a common way without introducing a new spelling gimmick.
The old spellings are still accepted, so there isn't a backward-
compatibility issue here.
2001-11-13 23:11:19 +00:00
Fred Drake da4ffeecf5 No need to have documentation for a module which not accepted in the library. 2001-11-09 21:45:55 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 3b0c82a2f1 Updated the documentation for formatdate(). 2001-11-09 17:08:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 30bd666c35 Cleaned up some markup stupidity and a usage problem reported by Detlef
Lannert.  Added descriptions of HTTP_PORT and HTTPS_PORT.
2001-11-09 05:03:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 399bc8c281 Fix a variety of typographical, grammatical, and clarity problems reported
by Detlef Lannert.
2001-11-09 03:49:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 0b66310476 When referring to a formal parameter from the description, use the name given
with the signature, not an ad hoc abbreviated form.
2001-11-07 06:28:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 66ded524ba apply() documentation: Remove a detail about the implementation that does
not affect the API.  Clean up the text about call syntax apply() is
equivalent to.  Based on comments by Thomas Guettler.
2001-11-07 06:22:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 1a670c8414 Adjust the module synopsis to avoid margin overruns in the PDF format. 2001-11-06 22:14:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 10b81ce4e5 A variety of small cleanups, including one to avoid a margin overrun in the
PDF version.
2001-11-06 22:13:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 5976816698 Remove stray quotes; probably left over from conversion from docstrings. 2001-11-06 22:11:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 806d332f02 Remove extra period. 2001-11-06 22:10:47 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 1f774b062e Update obsolete e-mail address, and remove myself as a module author 2001-11-05 21:34:36 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4794f0b234 Update obsolete e-mail address 2001-11-05 21:31:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 47ccfe2d8f Remove obsolete e-mail address 2001-11-05 21:31:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f010df4ee5 Update URL, and remove e-mail address reference (readers can get it from
the Web page)
2001-11-05 21:30:10 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 2bb077f630 Finally fleshed out the examples section with 4 code samples! Some of
my own doing, some originally written by Matthew Dixon Cowles.
2001-11-05 17:50:53 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling c44403995e Remove email*.tex subsections; they're all \input by email.tex 2001-11-05 01:55:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 43dc1fc926 Minor grammar and typo fixes 2001-11-05 01:55:03 +00:00
Tim Peters 169ded0d68 Finish SF patch 477059: __del__ on new classes vs. GC.
Just doc and NEWS here, about the change in gc.garbage meaning.
2001-11-03 19:57:21 +00:00
Tim Peters 7533587d43 Improved error msg when a symbolic group name is redefined. Added docs
and NEWS.  Bugfix candidate?  That's a dilemma for Anthony <wink>:  /F
did fix a longstanding bug here, but the fix can cause code to raise an
exception that previously worked by accident.
2001-11-03 19:35:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling bc4a1c2588 [Patch #476612] Change docs to describe PEP247 interface 2001-11-02 21:44:09 +00:00
Fred Drake d9272d6f11 Add deprecation notice to statcache. 2001-11-02 20:20:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 67bd68392c Make sure there are no weird nesting behaviors; the PDF version will not
format if there are (building the "bookmarks" for the reader breaks).
2001-11-02 19:41:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 99de218cfc Promote file objects out of the "Other Objects" category, so they become
visible in the table of contents.
2001-10-30 06:23:14 +00:00
Fred Drake b4ea9d0502 Promote built-in functions to come before built-in types. 2001-10-30 06:22:02 +00:00
Tim Peters 003047a5f2 Mention the new file() builtin in the section on file objects. 2001-10-30 05:54:04 +00:00
Tim Peters a427a2b8d0 Rename "dictionary" (type and constructor) to "dict". 2001-10-29 22:25:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 589abb7212 Add additional information on exceptions from time.mktime() and related to
improper time tuples passed to various functions.  Based on comments from
Andreas Jung.
2001-10-29 18:01:24 +00:00
Fred Drake e21e2bb121 Fix up a number of small problems with the DOM documentation.
There's still a lot to do, but it's better now.
2001-10-26 20:09:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 41cf5e0069 Remove unused variable. 2001-10-26 19:50:26 +00:00
Fred Drake ef428a292a Explain what [].insert() does when the target index is negative. 2001-10-26 18:57:14 +00:00
Fred Drake d5be3b75dd Add notes pointing out that these classes are kept for backward compatibility
and suggeest that new code that does not require compatibility with older
Python versions subclass dictionary, list, or str.
2001-10-26 18:37:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 7408da54e2 Many, many small fixes and improvements, most suggested by Detlef Lannert. 2001-10-26 17:40:22 +00:00
Fred Drake ef7d08a661 Some style changes and typo fixes. 2001-10-26 15:04:33 +00:00
Fred Drake de3d060eb2 Typo: destuction --> destruction
Reported by Thomas Heller.
2001-10-26 11:27:54 +00:00
Tim Peters 1fc240e851 Generalize dictionary() to accept a sequence of 2-sequences. At the
outer level, the iterator protocol is used for memory-efficiency (the
outer sequence may be very large if fully materialized); at the inner
level, PySequence_Fast() is used for time-efficiency (these should
always be sequences of length 2).

dictobject.c, new functions PyDict_{Merge,Update}FromSeq2.  These are
wholly analogous to PyDict_{Merge,Update}, but process a sequence-of-2-
sequences argument instead of a mapping object.  For now, I left these
functions file static, so no corresponding doc changes.  It's tempting
to change dict.update() to allow a sequence-of-2-seqs argument too.

Also changed the name of dictionary's keyword argument from "mapping"
to "x".  Got a better name?  "mapping_or_sequence_of_pairs" isn't
attractive, although more so than "mosop" <wink>.

abstract.h, abstract.tex:  Added new PySequence_Fast_GET_SIZE function,
much faster than going thru the all-purpose PySequence_Size.

libfuncs.tex:
- Document dictionary().
- Fiddle tuple() and list() to admit that their argument is optional.
- The long-winded repetitions of "a sequence, a container that supports
  iteration, or an iterator object" is getting to be a PITA.  Many
  months ago I suggested factoring this out into "iterable object",
  where the definition of that could include being explicit about
  generators too (as is, I'm not sure a reader outside of PythonLabs
  could guess that "an iterator object" includes a generator call).
- Please check my curly braces -- I'm going blind <0.9 wink>.

abstract.c, PySequence_Tuple():  When PyObject_GetIter() fails, leave
its error msg alone now (the msg it produces has improved since
PySequence_Tuple was generalized to accept iterable objects, and
PySequence_Tuple was also stomping on the msg in cases it shouldn't
have even before PyObject_GetIter grew a better msg).
2001-10-26 05:06:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 7f10cce4c1 Enforce a bit of markup consistency.
When describing a Boolean return value, use "true" and "false" instead of
"1" and "0".
Style-guide conformance:  no "iff" -- to obscure for many readers.  ;-(
2001-10-26 03:04:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 3a2c462436 Minor textual adjustment, and style-guide conformance (no use of "iff"). 2001-10-26 03:00:39 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 107771a228 Applying proposed patch for bug #474583, optional support for
non-standard but common types.  Including Martin's suggestion to add
rejected non-standard types from patch #438790.  Specifically,

guess_type(), guess_extension(): Both the functions and the methods
grow an optional "strict" flag, defaulting to true, which determines
whether to recognize non-standard, but commonly found types or not.

Also, I sorted, reformatted, and culled duplicates from the big
types_map dictionary.  Note that there are a few non-equivalent
duplicates (e.g. .cdf and .xls) for which the first will just get
thrown away.  I didn't remove those though.

Finally, use of the module as a script as grown the -l and -e options
to toggle strictness and to do guess_extension(), respectively.

Doc and unittest updates too.
2001-10-25 21:49:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 61f794918f Typo: NamedNodeList --> NamedNodeMap 2001-10-25 20:42:57 +00:00
Fred Drake bc006af3d0 Make the deprecation notice use the same form as other such notices.
This has sat around in a deprecated state for a *long* time!
2001-10-24 21:56:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 0559d95fd6 Minor revision of the text. 2001-10-24 21:10:52 +00:00
Tim Peters 98791affc8 Doc and NEWS changes due to Jeremy adding traceback objects to gc. 2001-10-23 01:59:54 +00:00
Barry Warsaw d05e051aa7 Fixed an example in the use of email.Utils.getaddresses(). The
failobj has to be a list or the `+' can fail.
2001-10-22 20:53:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 5d9a6b575c Clarify that the resource module does not attempt to mask platform
differences by defining symbols not defined on particular platforms.
This closes SF bug #473433.
2001-10-22 14:18:23 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 9dbc0bcf9d Update description of border() 2001-10-20 16:07:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 0aa811c527 Use the \note and \warning macros where appropriate. 2001-10-20 04:24:09 +00:00
Fred Drake aad8bb5d7a When stating that some parameters to makefile() are similar to the open()
parameters, given a hyperlink to the right part of the documentation to
make it easier to look those up.  Also, refer to the file() function/
constructor instead of open() now that that is where the actual docs for
those parameters live.
This closes SF bug #472004.
2001-10-19 17:22:29 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg b5507ecd3c Additional test and documentation for the unicode() changes.
This patch should also be applied to the 2.2b1 trunk.
2001-10-19 12:02:29 +00:00
Barry Warsaw e736d93eab Added a note about the somewhat kludgey behavior of the message
epilogue, based on the discussion in this SF bug report:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=472481&group_id=25568&atid=384678
2001-10-19 04:34:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b6c1d5239c SF patch #443759: Add Interface to readline's add_history
This was submitted by Moshe, but apparently he's too busy to check it
in himself.  He wrote:

    Here is a function in GNU readline called add_history,
    which is used to manage the history list. Though Python
    uses this function internally, it does not expose it to
    the Python programmer. This patch adds direct interface
    to this function with documentation.

    This could be used by friendly modules to "seed" the
    history with commands.
2001-10-19 01:18:43 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh a5e616510e changed misleading argument name 2001-10-18 20:58:25 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 91b81c4802 Some minor clarifications for find()'s arguments based on SF bug
#463572.  Closing.
2001-10-18 19:41:48 +00:00
Fred Drake db7287c0f5 Straighten out the exec*() function descriptions a bit, and clarify a few
points in the spawn*() description.
2001-10-18 18:58:30 +00:00
Fred Drake ca836f7e65 Function descriptions must end as well as start! 2001-10-18 14:26:08 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis c405133fce Elaborate on types and meaning of the setgroups arguments. 2001-10-18 14:07:12 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 61c5edf6fc Expose setgroups. Fixes feature request #468116. 2001-10-18 04:06:00 +00:00
Tim Peters 61acf067ac SF bug [#471111] inspect.getframeinfo() needs docs.
TeX-ified its docstring.
2001-10-16 23:01:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3c28863e08 Partial patch from SF #452266, by Jason Petrone.
This changes Pythread_start_thread() to return the thread ID, or -1
for an error.  (It's technically an incompatible API change, but I
doubt anyone calls it.)
2001-10-16 21:13:49 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 511e2cacc4 [ #403753 ] zlib decompress; uncontrollable memory usage
Mostly by Toby Dickenson and Titus Brown.

Add an optional argument to a decompression object's decompress()
method.  The argument specifies the maximum length of the return
value.  If the uncompressed data exceeds this length, the excess data
is stored as the unconsumed_tail attribute.  (Not to be confused with
unused_data, which is a separate issue.)

Difference from SF patch: Default value for unconsumed_tail is ""
rather than None.  It's simpler if the attribute is always a string.
2001-10-16 20:39:49 +00:00
Fred Drake ab9b238ced Fix a few usage and style-guide conformance issues. 2001-10-16 19:22:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 64d7863797 Added information about setprofile() and settrace() hooks being thread-
specific, and updated some of the comments about the profile hook.
This closes SF bug #471725.
2001-10-16 14:54:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 327798ca4a Added notes to clarify that binascii.crc32(), zlib.crc32(), and
zlib.adler32() are not suitable as general hash functions.
2001-10-15 13:45:49 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton cb43c085e2 Document that keyfile and certfile are now optional.
XXX Forgot to mention this in the last socketmodule.c checkin.
2001-10-11 16:17:22 +00:00
Barry Warsaw c7f8b86307 Describe the HeaderParser class. 2001-10-11 15:45:05 +00:00
Tim Peters 8cd015c701 A copy-and-paste job forget the "paste" half. 2001-10-09 20:54:23 +00:00
Tim Peters 659a60311d Allow the profiler's calibration constant to be specified in the constructor
call, or via setting an instance or class vrbl.
Rewrote the calibration docs.
Modern boxes are so friggin' fast, and a profiler event does so much work
anyway, that the cost of looking up an instance vrbl (the bias constant)
per profile event just isn't a big deal.
2001-10-09 20:51:19 +00:00
Barry Warsaw dca939899d Fix minor cut-and-paste typo. 2001-10-09 19:37:51 +00:00
Fred Drake e0063d20a7 Update the documentation for the isinstance() function to reflect recent
changes in the implementation.
Indented all descriptions consistently.
2001-10-09 19:31:08 +00:00
Barry Warsaw a55d132f08 Add documentation for the MIMEAudio class/module, contributed by
Anthony Baxter.
2001-10-09 19:14:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 938a8d723c Improve the documentation for the os.P_* constants used with the os.spawn*()
functions to include information about how they affect the operation of
those functions when used as the "mode" parameter.
This closes SF bug #468384.

Added warnings to the os.tempnam() and os.tmpnam() functions regarding their
security problem.  These warning mirror the warnings added to the runtime
by Skip Montanaro.
2001-10-09 18:07:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 6959a2fcd7 Note that the values for Boolean options are case-insensitive. 2001-10-09 14:58:24 +00:00
Fred Drake b35f0ce2b8 Update the description of getboolean() to reflect the changes made by
SF patch #467580.
2001-10-08 16:03:20 +00:00
Tim Peters 0a1fc4e389 Remove code and docs for the OldProfile and HotProfile classes: code
hasn't worked in years, docs were wrong, and they aren't interesting
anymore regardless.
2001-10-07 03:12:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 8c2c3d301b Update the documentation to reflect the changes to ReferenceError. 2001-10-06 06:10:54 +00:00
Tim Peters 9835206268 A regexp example was rendered as
foo\d
when it was clearly intended to render as
    foo$
Fred, is this a right way to fix it?  If not, the earlier place in the
same paragraph that does render as
    foo$
is also wrong.
2001-10-05 20:06:47 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 244edc8985 Add chroot call. Implements feature #459267. 2001-10-04 22:44:26 +00:00
Fred Drake fcc16330a4 Update a couple of old addresses that point to CNRI. 2001-10-04 20:40:07 +00:00
Tim Peters 3899d74c10 Make clear that tuple() accepts the same kind of arguments as list(). 2001-10-04 06:53:20 +00:00
Tim Peters 0481d24dd5 CVS patch [#466628] Doc changes for doctest patch (#466616), from
Tim Hochberg.  Doctest no longer searches imported objects.
2001-10-02 21:01:22 +00:00
Fred Drake d90f509b8f Fredrik tells me the truefalse parameter for boolean() is not part of the
public interface, so we can simplify the documentation.
2001-10-01 21:05:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 6c81e2a44f "boolean" --> "Boolean" (per the style guide). 2001-10-01 17:04:10 +00:00
Fred Drake fe95e65668 Straighten out some markup.
"boolean" --> "Boolean" (per the style guide).
2001-10-01 17:03:48 +00:00
Fred Drake e9ba525c2b Clarify comments about mailbox objects being iterable. 2001-10-01 15:49:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e7877df595 Docs for SF patch #462628 2001-10-01 13:50:15 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 0daad598d0 Patch #462122: add readline startup and pre_event hooks. 2001-09-30 21:09:59 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 16dc7f44b1 Patch #462190, patch #464070: Support quoted printable in the binascii module.
Decode and encode underscores for header style encoding. Fixes bug #463996.
2001-09-30 20:32:11 +00:00
Tim Peters af5910f025 The execfile() docs imply it acts on locals same as exec. But in truth
it acts more like assigning to keys in locals(), i.e. modifications to
function locals aren't reflected in the locals when execfile() returns.
2001-09-30 06:32:59 +00:00
Tim Peters 1c33daf143 Correct docs for long(float). 2001-09-30 06:18:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0d68246f01 Fix two typos in the text about compile(), and add two caveats from
recent user feedback: you must end the input with \n and you must use
\n, not \r\n to represent line endings.
2001-09-29 14:28:52 +00:00
Skip Montanaro a1c3662e84 forgot to mark use of StringType and UnicodeType in the text. 2001-09-29 13:53:21 +00:00
Skip Montanaro c7ba0c4c24 added description of StringTypes object 2001-09-29 13:49:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 2b05ca3454 Minor markup improvement. 2001-09-29 05:01:59 +00:00
Tim Peters 599db7de63 The list.sort() docs require a function that returns -1, 0 or +1. That's
never been true, and in particular implies cmp() can't be used(!).  Get
closer to the truth.
2001-09-29 01:08:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 7988e0249c Move XML-RPC-related docs to the "Internet Protocols" chapter.
Add entry for the SimpleXMLRPCServer module.
2001-09-28 22:03:40 +00:00
Fred Drake e486e0d066 Preliminary documentation for the SimpleXMLRPCServer module. 2001-09-28 22:02:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 3c10c68c0e Use consistent version annotations instead of something ad hoc. 2001-09-28 16:57:16 +00:00
Fred Drake bbf7a407e8 Added note about non-support of UNC paths on Windows.
This fixes SF bug #465447.
2001-09-28 16:14:18 +00:00
Fred Drake b387860c70 State that encode() and encodestring() append a newline to the input data
if it does not already end with a newline.
This fixes SF bug #463330.
2001-09-28 16:01:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 33f4d6d1db Add entries for the email and compiler packages. 2001-09-27 20:11:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 90e687863b Markup adjustments. 2001-09-27 20:09:39 +00:00
Fred Drake e2f9917f9f Migrate the compiler documentation from the Tools/compiler/doc/ directory.
Changes made to make it work in the new location.
2001-09-27 20:06:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 3fc291a1d7 Fix some markup errors. 2001-09-27 04:17:20 +00:00
Fred Drake b802a1e7fa Markup adjustment: \[...\] is math markup and does not translate well when
used with text as was done here.  Fixed so that the typeset version wraps
the warning text and the HTML version does not create images of the warning
text.
2001-09-27 04:16:27 +00:00
Barry Warsaw c5f8fe3a27 Updates do email package documentation for markup, style, and
organization.
2001-09-26 22:21:52 +00:00
Fred Drake a6a885b6aa Start making some markup adjustments; Barry has indicated he will work on
this before we finish the integration, along with some restructuring.
2001-09-26 16:52:18 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 5e634638e6 The email package documentation, currently organized the way I think
Fred prefers.  I'm not sure I like this organization, so it may change.
2001-09-26 05:23:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 5055545fc0 Clarified some points about the interface to the mmap() function.
This closes SF bug #448918.
2001-09-25 19:00:08 +00:00
Fred Drake c0765c2381 Minor changes. 2001-09-25 16:32:02 +00:00
Fred Drake c825280ea5 Revise the example to be more resiliant in the face of continued use after
the object has been pickled; don't mutate the instance dict in the
__getstate__() method.  Other minor changes for style.  Broke up the
displayed interactive session to get better page-breaking behavior for
typeset versions, and to point out an important aspect of the example.

This closes SF bug #453914.
2001-09-25 16:29:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 9081bb1d21 Added documentation for the SSL interface, contributed by Gerhard Häring.
This closes SF patch #461337.
2001-09-25 15:48:11 +00:00
Tim Peters 2c9aa5ea8d Generalize file.writelines() to allow iterable objects. 2001-09-23 04:06:05 +00:00
Tim Peters 8a9c284437 Make difflib.ndiff() and difflib.Differ.compare() generators. This
restores the 2.1 ability of Tools/scripts/ndiff.py to start producing
output before the entire comparison is complete.
2001-09-22 21:30:22 +00:00
Tim Peters e0b2d7ac9a Add a function to compute a class's method resolution order. This is
easy for 2.2 new-style classes, but trickier for classic classes, and
different approaches are needed "depending".  The function will allow
later code to treat all flavors of classes uniformly.
2001-09-22 06:10:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 038d26410d Note that files are iterable; describe what the iterator returns.
This closes SF bug #463738.
2001-09-22 04:34:48 +00:00
Fred Drake c69205526a Added reference to Tutorial section on user-defined exceptions for
information on defining new exceptions.
This closes SF bug #443559.
2001-09-21 21:12:30 +00:00
Fred Drake e0af35eb69 Fill in a few more descriptions for xml.parsers.expat. 2001-09-20 20:43:28 +00:00
Tim Peters 2e29bfbe1a Document new file() constructor, with the body of open()'s text, plus a
"new in 2.2" blurb at the end.  Replace open()'s text by pointing back
to file().
2001-09-20 19:55:29 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 494f2aea8e Docs and News item for the codecs.py additions. 2001-09-19 11:33:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 83eeef4b06 SF patch #461781 by Chris Lawrence: os.path.realpath - Resolve symlinks:
Once upon a time, I put together a little function
   that tries to find the canonical filename for a given
   pathname on POSIX. I've finally gotten around to
   turning it into a proper patch with documentation.
   On non-POSIX, I made it an alias for 'abspath', as
   that's the behavior on POSIX when no symlinks are
   encountered in the path.

   Example:
   >>> os.path.realpath('/usr/bin/X11/X')
   '/usr/X11R6/bin/X'
2001-09-17 15:16:09 +00:00
Tim Peters 5b7759f9db Fixed typo in new 'p' description. 2001-09-15 18:16:27 +00:00
Tim Peters 88091aae7e SF bug [#461674] struct 'p' format doesn't work (maybe)
Rewrote the 'p' description.
2001-09-15 18:09:22 +00:00
Tim Peters ad2dc3fc44 Update the warning about transporting marshals across boxes with different
ideas about sizeof(long).
2001-09-14 20:40:13 +00:00
Fred Drake f2a5f3f721 Markup adjustments for consistency. 2001-09-14 17:48:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f7fcf5eea6 SF patch #461413 (Gerhard Häring): Add STARTTLS feature to smtplib
This patch adds the features from RFC 2487 (Secure SMTP
   over TLS) to the smtplib module:

   - A starttls() function
   - Wrapper classes that simulate enough of sockets and
     files for smtplib, but really wrap a SSLObject
   - reset the list of known SMTP extensions at each call
     of ehlo(). This should have been the case anyway.
2001-09-14 16:08:44 +00:00
Fred Drake b9a96282f1 Admit that we'll never add the args for a "call" event to the profile
and trace functions; this now declares that None will be passed for the
"call" event.
This closes SF bug/suggestion #460315.
2001-09-13 16:56:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 098d7fae39 Document clearly that the only way to retrieve the return code from the
child processes is to use the Popen3 and Popen4 classes.
This fixes SF bug #460512.
2001-09-11 19:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 1c66f8965a Added entry for the hmac module. 2001-09-11 16:59:42 +00:00
Fred Drake aae8da18fd Documentation for the new login() method of the smtplib.SMTP class,
contributed by Gerhard Häring.
This is part of SF patch #460112.
2001-09-11 16:58:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 42706803cd Documentation for the new hmac module, contributed by Gerhard Häring.
This is part of SF patch #460112.
2001-09-11 16:56:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 2732cb4269 Added documentation on the getfirst() and getlist() methods of the
cgi.FieldStorage class.
This closes SF patch #453691.
2001-09-11 16:27:03 +00:00