Fred Drake
bbf7a407e8
Added note about non-support of UNC paths on Windows.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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organization.
2001-09-26 22:21:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
a6a885b6aa
Start making some markup adjustments; Barry has indicated he will work on
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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"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:
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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cgi.FieldStorage class.
This closes SF patch #453691 .
2001-09-11 16:27:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
05a73b1f9a
Update link to the PyOpenGL project in the "gl" module docs.
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This closes SF bug #459256 .
2001-09-06 19:23:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
00bb329521
Document the built-in iter() function.
2001-09-06 19:04:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
a20c265aba
Added an additional link to NIST information on secure hashing.
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This closes SF bug #458785 .
2001-09-06 18:59:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
4d17b303bb
Several updates to cover omissions noted by Rich Salz.
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This closes SF bug #458771 .
2001-09-06 15:51:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
f5072b9314
Document the "unixfrom" attribute of the rfc822.Message class.
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Based on a patch by Skip Montanaro, this closes SF bug #458885 .
2001-09-06 15:07:55 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
b0162f9afc
Patch #416079 : fix the debug string output when receiving telnet commands.
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added all the telnet options known to arpa/telnet.h
added all the options registered with IANA as of today
added the possibility for the user to have it's own option negotiation callback
2001-09-06 08:51:38 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
bb5a465ca9
typo...
2001-09-05 19:27:13 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
44f8696171
Patch #428326 : New class threading.Timer.
2001-09-05 13:44:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
757f7809e1
Add more detail to the descriptions of the shutil functions.
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This closes SF bug #458223 .
2001-09-04 18:26:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
c05fc7dd9d
Added documentation for sys.maxunicode and sys.warnoptions.
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Fixed a markup error which caused an em dash to be presented as a minus sign.
This closes SF bug #458350 .
2001-09-04 18:18:36 +00:00
Tim Peters
32f453eaa4
New restriction on pow(x, y, z): If z is not None, x and y must be of
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integer types, and y must be >= 0. See discussion at
http://sf.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=457066&group_id=5470&atid=105470
2001-09-03 08:35:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
b86677079d
Move the long minidom example to a separate file; \verbatiminput does the
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right thing with page breaks in long examples, while the verbatim
environment does not. This causes the example to wrap to the next page
instead of overwriting the page footer and bottom margin.
2001-09-02 06:07:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
481cf2c064
Added the "Host" header to the "GET" example.
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This closes SF bug #457100 .
2001-09-01 02:35:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
3c0fc84b15
Update the links to the FIPS document that defines the Secure Hash
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Algorithm. This closes SF bug #454917 .
2001-08-30 14:42:40 +00:00
Tim Peters
692323488b
Add a new function imp.lock_held(), and use it to skip test_threaded_import
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when that test is doomed to deadlock.
2001-08-30 05:16:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
d800cff80d
Added explanation that [...] * n generates shallow copies of [...], so
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the contents will be shared by multiple references.
This closes SF bug #455694 .
2001-08-28 14:56:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
5cb29a49c8
Fix a number of minor markup errors, and improve the consistency a bit.
2001-08-28 14:25:03 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
46ccd1dae5
Plant a mention in the description of backreferences of the fact that
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while \0 doesn't do what one might expect, \g<0> does.
2001-08-28 12:50:03 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson
53da317801
Docs for the PEP 264 changes.
2001-08-27 20:02:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
88e0b5bee0
SF patch #454553 by Walter Dörwald: auto-guess content-type header for
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ftp urls.
2001-08-23 13:38:15 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
0f10f84028
indicate that mktime is platform-dependent. See SF bug 434143.
2001-08-22 12:44:27 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
5ff41d16a8
indicate that the years for which the calendar function will work are
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platform dependent. See SF bug 434143.
2001-08-22 12:43:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
31d833d575
Added documentation for BoundedSemaphore(), contributed by Skip Montanaro.
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This closes SF patch #452836 .
2001-08-20 18:49:00 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
29bb115bae
Clean up some argument profiles, enrich the docstring.
2001-08-20 13:16:30 +00:00
Tim Peters
dbec7d2c16
Improve Windows time.clock() blurb; was missing return type and unit.
2001-08-19 01:38:03 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
b60f2d0977
Framework code for compilerlike scripts.
2001-08-18 09:24:38 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
dbfe5e8507
Document that uu.decode() will always raise a uu.Error if out_file
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isn't given, and the file in the uu header already exists. Also add a
description of the uu.Error exception class.
2001-08-17 20:01:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
739282da83
Re-write the description of the os.spawn*() functions, and cover the
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whole family instead of just two.
This closes SF bug #451630 .
2001-08-16 21:21:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
ce575bac5e
Fix a minor typo and mark an exception name that was missed.
2001-08-14 21:51:50 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
5ef99a0bc5
Describe the new semantics for setting and deleting a function's
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__dict__ attribute. Deleting it, or setting it to a non-dictionary
result in a TypeError. Note that getting it the first time magically
initializes it to an empty dict so that func.__dict__ will always
appear to be a dictionary (never None).
Closes SF bug #446645 .
2001-08-14 18:22:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
280f7253e4
Insert omitted "the".
2001-08-14 11:42:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
bf781a95c0
Add the smtpd module to the list of undocumented modules; Barry needs to
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write the documentation for this module.
2001-08-14 11:38:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
6943a29cbf
David Goodger <dgoodger@atsautomation.com>:
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Documentation for difflib/ndiff refactoring: more of the ndiff functionality
has been moved to the underlying library (difflib).
This closes SF patch #445413 .
2001-08-13 19:31:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
84e58ab722
For the escape() function, added a reference to the quoteattrs() function
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in xml.sax.saxutils, since that is the right function to use for quoting
attribute values.
This closes SF bug #444707 .
Cleaned up a variety of other minor markup errors.
2001-08-11 03:28:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
1cf0f1751f
Add a note that the quoteattr() function is useful for HTML and SGML
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attributes as well.
2001-08-10 22:14:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
d635e3c468
Added a warning about reference cycles and memory consumption to the
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section on functions which return stack frames.
This closes SF bug #449258 .
2001-08-10 17:37:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
6d8d72b0cb
Usage fix, problem reported by Keith Briggs.
2001-08-10 16:15:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
e89659c02d
Added documentation for the new rich comparison support.
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This closes SF patch #428320 .
Added documentation for the new floordiv() and truediv() functions.
This is part of SF bug #449093 .
Re-organized the listing of functions to get better logical grouping.
2001-08-10 15:55:09 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
9b75dca192
Expose nl_langinfo through locale where available.
2001-08-10 13:58:50 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
8cc965c1fb
Patch #448474 : Add support for tell() and seek() to gzip.GzipFile.
2001-08-09 07:21:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
3a5ec57456
Clean up some of the markup here -- be more consistent in the use of
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semantic labels instead of presentational markup.
2001-08-08 05:39:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
58212724f2
Add a comment on time.time() returning non-decreasing values except when
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the clock is set back.
This closes SF bug #447945 .
2001-08-05 15:43:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
c9908c4f5c
Document IPv6 changes. Contributed by itojun.
2001-08-04 22:22:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
b3cc29b493
Note that the mimetypes.MimeTypes class was added in Python 2.2.
2001-08-04 00:48:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
d5efb17086
Add documentation for the new aspects of the mimetypes module.
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This closes the SF bug (feature request) #439710 .
2001-08-03 21:03:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
d86038d1be
Apply the new \mailheader macro where appropriate, and fix a few small
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markup inconsistencies.
2001-08-03 18:39:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
5d54879647
Fix some of the example code; the reference objects do not support a
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get() method; just calling them is sufficient. (There was a get() method
for this in an early version of the implementation.)
Reported by Mats Wichmann.
2001-08-03 03:50:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
51629c245a
Add a caveat about boundary conditions and RE concatenation, so that the
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documents do not make an overly-strong assertion about the properties of
RE concatenation.
Add an example of RE{m,} syntax and what it will and will not match.
2001-08-02 20:52:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
905dc558f1
Cleaned up the description of readline.set_completer().
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Thanks to Nathaniel Gray for reporting the confusion.
2001-08-01 21:42:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
e74f8de385
Added an example of a string value for the replacement parameter to
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re.sub().
This closes SF bug #446136 .
Fixed description of RE modifiers so that RE{#} and RE{#,} are more
clearly described and disambiguated (plain RE{#} had not been described
at all). Reported by Jeremy Craven via email.
2001-08-01 16:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
630a63cafd
Fix description of buffer_info(), and add a note that there is a better
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way...
This closes SF bug #444842 .
2001-08-01 16:50:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
43211ecda2
Make some adjustments to the markup, and fix up some style-guide issues.
2001-07-29 03:41:23 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
66b6e192b9
Patch #416224 : add readline completion to cmd.Cmd.
2001-07-28 14:44:03 +00:00
Greg Ward
54f65094c3
Typo fix.
2001-07-26 21:01:21 +00:00
Tim Peters
7321ec437b
SF bug #444510 : int() should guarantee truncation.
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It's guaranteed now, assuming the platform modf() works correctly.
2001-07-26 20:02:17 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
4f1cd8bdcb
Patch #411138 : Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774 .
2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
41d7d58cc4
trivial rewording in footnote 5.
2001-07-25 16:18:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
d61e3eab44
Add entry for the new distutils section.
2001-07-24 16:20:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
4fefcc3ce4
Overview comments for the distutils package, with links to the distutils
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manuals for more information. This is being added to make it easier to
find the documentation for the distutils code.
2001-07-24 16:19:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
c547b46c06
Be more specific about corner cases in the description of the $ RE syntax,
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and include an example where the MULTILINE flag makes a real difference.
This closes SF bug #441600 .
2001-07-23 21:14:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
6fd3b22847
When explaining the enterabs() method, using the modern spelling of apply(),
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and relax the type of the argument list from tuple to sequence.
2001-07-23 19:28:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
6fdb90c0ca
Remove self-reference from the anydbm module.
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This closes SF patch #443788 .
2001-07-23 19:22:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
8a2adcf812
Typo: Added missing "if".
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This is part of SF patch #442788 .
2001-07-23 19:20:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
c046e97dc2
Add StopIteration to the list of exceptions *not* derived from StandardError.
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Slightly re-word discussion of SystemExit and fork().
This is part of SF patch #443788 .
2001-07-23 19:19:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
63bc2e0fcb
Convert the use of apply(f, args) to the new spelling: f(*args).
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This is part of SF patch #443788 .
2001-07-23 19:16:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
f69868f304
Add a missing "\" to the markup.
2001-07-20 19:03:44 +00:00