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Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake 490d34dbad Move license information to a less annoying location in the document.
Add documentation for PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilename().
2001-06-20 21:39:12 +00:00
Fred Drake d5df09cfb6 Update to include the license information in a less annoying place. 2001-06-20 21:37:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 852f7951a2 Separate the copyright statements and license text; include some new
comments regarding the history of Python licensing from Guido.
2001-06-20 21:34:35 +00:00
Fred Drake f911a84d5a Separate the version number and release status into two separate values. 2001-06-20 21:33:13 +00:00
Fred Drake dce975c820 Update to use the newly separated values $PACKAGE_VERSION and $RELEASE_INFO.
Normalize all HTML attributes to be written as name="value" instead of
name='value'.
2001-06-20 21:31:36 +00:00
Fred Drake f1927a6d80 Added support for new \setreleaseinfo macro.
Normalize all generated HTML so that attribute names come out as
name="value" instead of name='value'.
Changed the target of RFC links to point to the hypertext RFCs at
www.faqs.org instead of the plain text RFCs at www.ietf.org.
2001-06-20 21:29:30 +00:00
Fred Drake c65218e1fd Add a little more support for describing version information. This
is not pretty, but does what is needed.
2001-06-20 21:17:09 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 6016e39250 Document the new encodestring() and decodestring() functions. Also,
add some description of what the quotetabs argument does for the
encode*() functions.  Finally, add a "see also" pointing to the base64
module.
2001-06-19 19:44:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 66eed24415 Add some information on the use of \verbatiminput to display sources from
an external file.
2001-06-18 14:59:58 +00:00
Tim Peters fa9e273442 Clarification in the fp appendix suggested on c.l.py by Michael Chermside.
Also replaced a *star* style emphasis in the Representation Error section
with an \emph{} thingie.
2001-06-17 21:57:17 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 918f2c722a Document that filter is added in 2.2. 2001-06-16 08:14:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 57e52ef076 Implement the \verbatiminput LaTeX macro; this contains more magic than
it should, but only enough that LaTeX2HTML doesn't bite us.
2001-06-15 21:31:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 54d10fd2cd Add a version annotation for the Q and q format codes. 2001-06-15 14:13:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 8fcd4b5ab3 Fix an improperly placed comma. 2001-06-14 13:57:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 66a0a0a9b6 Make the option processing more robust.
Add a -F option similar to "cvs commit -F <file>".
Add a -t option to allow specifying the prefix to the directory into which
the docs should be unpacked (useful when I start trying out new styles for
the presentation).
2001-06-12 13:31:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 4a6c5c568f Fixed reference to table notes for {}.keys() and {}.items() -- these
references did not get updated when the notes were renumbered in a
previous update.

This fixes SF bug #432208.
2001-06-12 03:31:56 +00:00
Tim Peters 7a3bfc3a47 Added q/Q standard (x-platform 8-byte ints) mode in struct module.
This completes the q/Q project.

longobject.c _PyLong_AsByteArray:  The original code had a gross bug:
the most-significant Python digit doesn't necessarily have SHIFT
significant bits, and you really need to count how many copies of the sign
bit it has else spurious overflow errors result.

test_struct.py:  This now does exhaustive std q/Q testing at, and on both
sides of, all relevant power-of-2 boundaries, both positive and negative.

NEWS:  Added brief dict news while I was at it.
2001-06-12 01:22:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 0b9bc20e66 Add the appropriate availability annotations for the popen*() family of
functions -- these are not available on traditional Mac OS platforms.

Corrected the version annotations for the spawn*() functions and related
constants; these were added in Python 1.6, not 1.5.2.
2001-06-11 18:25:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 046f4d810d Fixed parameter order for os.popen2(), os.popen3(), and os.popen(4). Added
a reference to these functions and popen() from the "Process Management"
section.

Based on a suggestion from comp.lang.python.
2001-06-11 15:21:48 +00:00
Fred Drake c115835457 Fix recent changes so that this section will format again. 2001-06-11 14:55:01 +00:00
Tim Peters 7b9542a3f7 Initial support for 'q' and 'Q' struct format codes: for now, only in
native mode, and only when config #defines HAVE_LONG_LONG.  Standard mode
will eventually treat them as 8-byte ints across all platforms, but that
likely requires a new set of routines in longobject.c first (while
sizeof(long) >= 4 is guaranteed by C, there's nothing in C we can rely
on x-platform to hold 8 bytes of int, so we'll have to roll our own;
I'm thinking of a simple pair of conversion functions, Python long
to/from sized vector of unsigned bytes; that may be useful for GMP
conversions too; std q/Q would call them with size fixed at 8).

test_struct.py:  In addition to adding some native-mode 'q' and 'Q' tests,
got rid of unused code, and repaired a non-portable assumption about
native sizeof(short) (it isn't 2 on some Cray boxes).

libstruct.tex:  In addition to adding a bit of 'q'/'Q' docs (more needed
later), removed an erroneous footnote about 'I' behavior.
2001-06-10 23:40:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 7bc50714fe Fix the attributions for the new floating point text. 2001-06-08 17:09:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 8c27d99941 Added credits in the right places. 2001-06-08 16:28:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 417d667dd9 Text from Tim & Guido discussing floating point arithmetic and what users
need to understand about the binary & decimal fp, so that representation
weirdness is documented somewhere.  This makes it easier to repond to "bug"
reports caused by user confusion & ignorance of the issues.

This closes SF patch #426208.
2001-06-08 16:24:58 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 1dc98c44fe add warning about situation where code may be executed twice, once when
module is __main__ and once when module is imported.
2001-06-08 14:40:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 62f9d7c021 In the section on extending the profiler, add some additional discussion
about setting up the dispatch table, and update the OldProfile and
HotProfile classes to the current implementations, showing the adjusted
construction for the dispatch table.
2001-06-08 05:04:19 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis e2ccb89513 Document filter. 2001-06-07 19:01:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 2a9bda9223 Typo: "descrition" --> "description"
Add reference to the documentation for the Python documentation markup.

Fixed up a couple of descriptions.

This closes SF bug #430627.
2001-06-06 16:02:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 9ccc0df52f Add references to the documentation for the Python documentation markup.
Suggested by the comments in SF bug #430627.
2001-06-06 15:59:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis e24fef0dd2 Fix bug #422702: Make flag argument to open optional, and document it that way. 2001-06-05 05:33:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 88382696f4 Update a "Programmer's note" about lambda forms and scoping to reflect
the availability of nested scoping in Python 2.1 and 2.2.
2001-06-05 02:17:02 +00:00
Skip Montanaro b9d973dac5 is -> if in rename description 2001-06-04 15:31:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 00d0cb6ec3 Explained more differences between PyList_SetItem() and PyList_SET_ITEM().
In particular, the affect on existing list content was not sufficiently
explained.

This closes SF bug #429554.
2001-06-03 03:12:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 81e142b907 Document os.getenv().
This closes SF bug #429059.
2001-05-31 20:27:46 +00:00
Fred Drake c19f39272e Some general cleanup of the threading module documentation, including
fixing the reference to Thread.getDeamon() (should be isDaemon()).

This closes SF bug #429070.
2001-05-31 20:24:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 6cba3d0e64 Added entry for HTMLParser documentation. 2001-05-30 04:59:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 3b755d43ac Michel Pelletier <michel@digicool.com>:
Documentation for the HTMLParser module, with small changes by FLD.
2001-05-30 04:59:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 9a374186fc New solution to the "Someone stuck a colon in that filename!" problem:
Allow colons in the labels used for internal references, but do not
expose them when generating filename.
2001-05-29 19:53:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 96a2a80065 Users of PySequence_GET_FAST() should get the length of the sequence using
PySequence_Size(), not PyObject_Size(): the later considers the mapping
methods as well as the sequence methods, which is not needed here.  Either
should be equally fast in this case, but PySequence_Size() offers a better
conceptual match.
2001-05-29 18:51:41 +00:00
Fred Drake dc9e7e42c8 readlink() description: Added note that the return value may be either
absolute or relative.

remove(), rename() descriptions:  Give more information about the cross-
    platform behavior of these functions, so single-platform developers
    can be aware of the potential issues when writing portable code.

This closes SF patch #426598.
2001-05-29 18:13:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 964c074a62 Hack to make this play nicer with *old* versions of Python: os.path.abspath()
was not available in Python 1.5.1.  (Yes, a user actually tried to use this
with that version of Python!)
2001-05-29 16:10:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 597bc1d46f Bring the notes on the relationship between __cmp__(), __eq__(), and
__hash__() up to date (re: use of objects which define these methods
as dictionary keys).

This closes SF bug #427698.
2001-05-29 16:02:35 +00:00
Fred Drake b9879e1020 Fix typo reported in SF bug #427783. 2001-05-29 15:44:27 +00:00
Fred Drake c80d4dd695 The parameter to the listen() method is not optional, but was marked as
optional in the documentation.

This closes SF bug #427985.
2001-05-29 15:37:45 +00:00
Fred Drake b2625eb10e Removed information on the old third parameter to _PyTuple_Resize().
Added information on PyIter_Check(), PyIter_Next(),
PyObject_Unicode(), PyString_AsDecodedObject(),
PyString_AsEncodedObject(), and PyThreadState_GetDict().
2001-05-29 15:34:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 404ac97207 If the input line does not contain enough fields, raise a meaningful
error.
2001-05-29 15:25:51 +00:00
Fred Drake fac312ff88 Do not start API descriptions with "Does the same, but ..." -- actually
state *which* other function the current one is like, even if the
descriptions are adjacent.

Revise the _PyTuple_Resize() description to reflect the removal of the
third parameter.
2001-05-29 15:13:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 56a71eee65 Add a version annotation for splitdrive(); old, but as long as I managed
to end up with the information, it is better recorded than lost.
2001-05-25 16:21:00 +00:00
Fred Drake c6d8f8d2ac Add descriptions of {}.iteritems(), {}.iterkeys(), and {}.itervalues()
in the table of mapping object operations.  Re-numbered the list of
notes to reflect the move of the "Added in version 2.2." note to the list
of notes instead of being inserted into the last column of the table.
2001-05-25 04:24:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 98cfab6523 One more update related to the new get() and setdefault() methods on the
Message object.
2001-05-22 22:00:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 6b4593e338 Update to add get() and setdefault() as supported mapping operations, and
add a list of the mapping methods which are not supported (per Barry's
comments).
2001-05-22 15:12:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 706314909b Add some clarifications about the mapping interface presented by
rfc822.Message objects, based on comments from Barry.
2001-05-22 14:36:30 +00:00
Tim Peters bd695a716d Changed all the examples with ugly platform-dependent float output to use
numbers that display nicely after repr().  From much doctest experience
with the same trick, I believe people find examples with simple fractions
easier to understand too:  they can usually check the results in their
head, and so feel confident about what they're seeing.  Not even I get a
warm feeling from a result that looks like 70330.345024097141 ...
2001-05-22 06:54:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 1400baa5d6 Add a "See also" section with useful links. More should be added giving
pointers to information about the other mailbox formats; if anyone can
provide the information needed, please let me know!
2001-05-21 21:23:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 8b0b8409ae Update output to reflect additional precision produced by the repr() of
floating point numbers in an interactive example.


Added comment to help explain control flow in the example code showing
how to check if a number is prime.

This closes SF bugs 419434 and 424552.
2001-05-21 16:55:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 24e621918b Add documentation for Py_Main() and PyThreadState_GetDict(). 2001-05-21 15:56:55 +00:00
Fred Drake fc43d00c17 Typo: "that" --> "than"
This closes SF bug #425320.
2001-05-21 15:03:35 +00:00
Fred Drake e9719fe1a7 Fix bug in smtplib example: the prompt said to end the message with ^D,
but doing so raised EOFError.  This makes it work as advertised and
converts to string methods where reasonable.

This closes SF bug #424776.
2001-05-20 12:26:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 09daff4596 Get Aahz listed correctly using his legal/professional name. 2001-05-20 05:29:01 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3b923fcff5 Add another item 2001-05-19 19:35:46 +00:00
Fred Drake c0dac1a58c Beef up the unicode() description a bit, based on material from AMK's
"What's New in Python ..." documents.
2001-05-15 15:27:53 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 2d9204199f This patch changes the way the string .encode() method works slightly
and introduces a new method .decode().

The major change is that strg.encode() will no longer try to convert
Unicode returns from the codec into a string, but instead pass along
the Unicode object as-is. The same is now true for all other codec
return types. The underlying C APIs were changed accordingly.

Note that even though this does have the potential of breaking
existing code, the chances are low since conversion from Unicode
previously took place using the default encoding which is normally
set to ASCII rendering this auto-conversion mechanism useless for
most Unicode encodings.

The good news is that you can now use .encode() and .decode() with
much greater ease and that the door was opened for better accessibility
of the builtin codecs.

As demonstration of the new feature, the patch includes a few new
codecs which allow string to string encoding and decoding (rot13,
hex, zip, uu, base64).

Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg. Copyright assigned to the PSF.
2001-05-15 12:00:02 +00:00
Fred Drake b3384d3555 Make sure we include all of Python's numeric types in the data model
description, so that the introduction of complex is not a surprise.

This closes SF bug #423429.
2001-05-14 16:04:22 +00:00
Fred Drake ba7e2c8a27 Add some text to make the dircmp object section more readable, and move
some stuff around.
2001-05-11 17:01:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 886f113ba9 --sigh--
Finish the last set of changes to these files so the conversion does not
break.
2001-05-11 15:49:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 47852467f5 Markup adjustments to avoid getting junk in the index. 2001-05-11 15:46:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 96d7a70630 Replace "\begin{classdesc}{SomeClass}{\unspecified}" with
"\begin{classdesc*}{SomeClass}" -- the rendering of \unspecified was
identical to \moreargs, so this helps clarify things just a little.
2001-05-11 01:08:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 9f2376de7a Document the new classdesc* environment, and the previously undocumented
excclassdesc environment.
2001-05-11 01:01:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 06a01e84b9 Define a new environment, classdesc*, which can be used to document a
class without providing any information about the constructor.  This
should be used for classes which only exist to act as containers rather
than as factories for instances.
2001-05-11 01:00:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 986badae1e Write a better synopsis for the Scrap module, and provide a link to
useful documentation on the Scrap Manager.
2001-05-10 22:37:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 0eeca6342f Actually include a synopsis line for the ColorPicker module. 2001-05-10 22:36:13 +00:00
Fred Drake e7ec1efe50 Fix typo in weakref.proxy() documentation.
This closes SF bug #423087.
2001-05-10 17:22:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 791c351b3d Update example to no longer use the FCNTL module. 2001-05-10 15:57:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 7c116d7acb Fix typo reported by David Goodger. This closes SF patch #422383. 2001-05-10 15:09:36 +00:00
Fred Drake e9735ac215 Remove all mentions of the strop module -- it has been pronounced Evil.
(The string "strop" is found in the rexec documentation, but that should
not be changed until strop is actually removed or rexec no longer allows
it.)
2001-05-10 15:05:03 +00:00
Fred Drake d0de57cfbb Update the fcntl module documentation. 2001-05-09 21:09:57 +00:00
Fred Drake bda3a59a93 Itamar Shtull-Trauring <python@itamarst.org>:
Updates zipfile.ZipFile docs to mention the fact that you can create a
ZipFile instance from an arbitrary file-like object.

This closes patch #418011.
2001-05-09 19:57:37 +00:00
Fred Drake b8ac0096b2 Fix the operator precedence table: exponentiation binds tighter than
negation.

This closes SF bug #421999.
2001-05-09 16:51:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 251ebe7d30 Remove items that have been done or are being tracked in the SourceForge
bug tracker.
2001-05-09 16:43:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 283b352d48 Update the directory names to match changes at SourceForge. 2001-05-09 16:33:34 +00:00
Fred Drake c116b82b77 Work around limitations of the module synopsis table generation to avoid
leaking LaTeX2HTML's internal string munging.

This fixes SF bug #420399.
2001-05-09 15:50:17 +00:00
Fred Drake caa79a9ee4 Minor adjustments to HTML for the module synopsis tables. 2001-05-09 15:32:14 +00:00
Fred Drake af922187ae Job.build_html(): Be more robust in ensuring about.html exists; copying
the right HTML file to the name about.html is needed even if the
    --numeric option was not given -- some other name may have been
    assigned due to some non-determinism in the algorithm use to perform
    name allocation.  ;-(

This closes the "About..." portion of SF bug #420216.
2001-05-09 04:03:16 +00:00
Fred Drake a7c9ac6544 There is no IMAP class in the imaplib module; the class is IMAP4.
There is no imap module; refer to imaplib instead, since it exists.
Move the "See Also:" section in front of the sub-sections, for
consistency with other portions of the library reference.

This closes the library reference portion of SF bug #420216.
2001-05-09 03:49:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 1ef24e1b30 Note that when inplace=1 existing backup files will be removed silently.
Closes SF bug #420230.
2001-05-09 03:24:55 +00:00
Fred Drake a6140be7b3 Michael Hudson <mwh21@cam.ac.uk>:
Documentation update to reflect changes to the termios module (noting
that the termios functions can take a file object as well as a file
descriptor).

This closes the documentation portion of SF patch #417081.
2001-05-08 05:37:52 +00:00
Fred Drake a8e0827614 Hmm... better add a version annotation for the Iterator Protocol section. 2001-05-07 17:47:07 +00:00
Fred Drake dbcaeda79a Added documentation for PyIter_Check() and PyIter_Next().
Wrapped a long line.
2001-05-07 17:42:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling a8defaae04 Skeletal version; I'm checking this in now so I can keep a list of changes,
but don't plan on actually writing any text until, ooh, say, July or
   thereabouts.
2001-05-05 16:37:29 +00:00
Fred Drake f42cc45f1b The general iteration support is part of 2.2, not 2.1 -- fixed the version
annotations!

Also fixed a typo noted by Neil S.
2001-05-03 04:39:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 9cfe1824c2 Add documentation for the StopIteration exception. 2001-05-03 04:30:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 287c4cb43a State that Mailbox objects are iterator objects. 2001-05-02 20:22:12 +00:00
Fred Drake eacdec6b38 Update the filter() and list() descriptions to include information about
the support for containers and iteration.
2001-05-02 20:19:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 93656e76f9 Added section describing the iterator protocol. 2001-05-02 20:18:03 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 6f15e5796e Added new parser markers 'et' and 'et#' which do not recode string
objects but instead assume that they use the requested encoding.

This is needed on Windows to enable opening files by passing in
Unicode file names.
2001-05-02 17:16:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 9188b2194a Correct two floating-point representations printed by the interpreter in
interactive examples.  Error noted by Dinu Gherman.
2001-04-25 21:03:20 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 8155e0e541 This patch originated from an idea by Martin v. Loewis who submitted a
patch for sharing single character Unicode objects.

Martin's patch had to be reworked in a number of ways to take Unicode
resizing into consideration as well. Here's what the updated patch
implements:

* Single character Unicode strings in the Latin-1 range are shared
  (not only ASCII chars as in Martin's original patch).

* The ASCII and Latin-1 codecs make use of this optimization,
  providing a noticable speedup for single character strings. Most
  Unicode methods can use the optimization as well (by virtue
  of using PyUnicode_FromUnicode()).

* Some code cleanup was done (replacing memcpy with Py_UNICODE_COPY)

* The PyUnicode_Resize() can now also handle the case of resizing
  unicode_empty which previously resulted in an error.

* Modified the internal API _PyUnicode_Resize() and
  the public PyUnicode_Resize() API to handle references to
  shared objects correctly. The _PyUnicode_Resize() signature
  changed due to this.

* Callers of PyUnicode_FromUnicode() may now only modify the Unicode
  object contents of the returned object in case they called the API
  with NULL as content template.

Note that even though this patch passes the regression tests, there
may still be subtle bugs in the sharing code.
2001-04-23 14:44:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8b3d6ca3df At the suggestion of Peter Funk, document 'key in dict' and 'key not
in dict' after has_key(), with a \versionadded{2.2} note.
2001-04-23 13:22:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 34b48e844e Update publish-to-SourceForge scripts to automatically determine if the
branch is the head (development) branch or a maintenance brach, and use
the appropriate target directory for each.
2001-04-22 06:20:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 82f93c693d Only document <file>.xreadlines() once; added version annotation.
This closes SF bug #417943.
2001-04-22 01:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake e99b97e58a encode(): Handle Latin-1 input characters better. 2001-04-21 06:01:53 +00:00
Fred Drake bda05564de Add support for <memberline/> (needs markup improvement!).
Update <versionadded/> to recent addition of optional explanatory text;
make the explanation text take the same attribute name for both
<versionadded/> and <versionchanged/>.
2001-04-21 06:00:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 4cacec5393 Fix a number of minor markup errors. 2001-04-21 05:56:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 056a71da76 The (fairly recent) \textasciicircum is not supported by LaTeX2HTML; add
support for it here.
2001-04-21 05:48:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0dbb4fba4c Implement, test and document "key in dict" and "key not in dict".
I know some people don't like this -- if it's really controversial,
I'll take it out again.  (If it's only Alex Martelli who doesn't like
it, that doesn't count as "real controversial" though. :-)

That's why this is a separate checkin from the iterators stuff I'm
about to check in next.
2001-04-20 16:50:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 1aec3a16f3 Add versioning notes: many of the signatures changed to allow the time
used to be omitted (meaning use the current time) as of Python 2.1.
Users who need cross-version portability need to know things like this.
2001-04-19 04:55:23 +00:00
Fred Drake bc524c4e9f Cut-&-paste-o noted by Wolfgang Teschner: decompressobj() returns
*DE*compression objects, not compression objects!
2001-04-18 20:16:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 895aa9da4c Suggestion from Keith Briggs: refer to RE objects consistently instead of
introducing a new term ("regex") without defining it.
2001-04-18 17:26:20 +00:00
Fred Drake f3848322ff Sync version number with the current CVS version.
(Note that the docs are also being maintained on the 2.1.1 maintenance
 branch, so users interested only in corrections and clarifications
 can get that.)
2001-04-18 05:22:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 3151f44d49 Add description of the "explanation" optional parameter added to the
\versionadded macro.

Note: this should not be merged into the 2.1 maintenance branch.
2001-04-18 05:19:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 4c6f17a537 Make a number of small clarifications and correct a whole bunch of typos,
all reported by Bruce Smith.
2001-04-18 05:12:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 635a7cfcbb Sync version number with the current CVS version.
(Note that the docs are also being maintained on the 2.1.1 maintenance
 branch, so users interested only in corrections and clarifications
 can get that.)
2001-04-18 05:02:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 293f77af6f Add note about the version in which GetoptError was added -- this can
bite people interested in 1.5.2 compatibility.
2001-04-18 03:18:57 +00:00
Fred Drake c2b29d0fee Added support for optional explanation parameter to the \versionadded
macro.

Refactored do_cmd_versionadded() and do_cmd_versionchanged() to do most
of the work in a helper function, with the do_cmd_*() wrappers just supplying
a portion of the replacement text.
2001-04-18 03:11:04 +00:00
Fred Drake fdfb05bb0b \versionadded: Add support for including an explanatory note along with
the versioning information, similar to \versionchanged.
2001-04-18 03:08:54 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 1fcd438956 Update document for the actual 2.1rc1 2001-04-16 02:27:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 3fee30407e Bump version number and set date. 2001-04-14 18:36:03 +00:00
Fred Drake fc4ee0a296 Add convenience targets that build all archive types for single formatting
versions.
2001-04-13 18:00:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 8d00a0ffc3 Michael Hudson:
Update docs for PyDict_Next() based on the most recent changes to the
dictionary code.

This closes SF patch #409864.
2001-04-13 17:55:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 0c4d468e39 Fixup some platform annotations. 2001-04-13 17:37:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 2441366930 Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping. 2001-04-13 17:32:49 +00:00
Fred Drake c054c75582 Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping. 2001-04-13 17:25:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 62effc1127 Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping. 2001-04-13 15:55:25 +00:00
Fred Drake fb8ffe6b5e Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping.
Wrap some long lines and fix some markup nits.
2001-04-13 15:54:41 +00:00
Fred Drake d20d8b319c Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping. 2001-04-13 14:52:39 +00:00
Fred Drake a3e56a6ceb Minor markup adjustments.
Turn reference to the cmd module into a hyperlink.
2001-04-13 14:34:58 +00:00
Fred Drake e1f3ed6b58 Update the helper scripts that push development docs to SourceForge;
this version avoids having to build a separate authenticated connection
to push the update-docs.sh script to SF.
2001-04-13 05:13:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 3de33697ef Add entry for ColorPicker documentation as well. 2001-04-13 04:50:01 +00:00
Fred Drake b6bdcb23df Documentation for Just's ColorPicker module, so the Mac OS guys get
something out of this documentation release as well.  ;-)
2001-04-13 04:49:30 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond 4f3980d3cb Added a test main to the pstats library that can help you browse profile dumps. 2001-04-13 00:23:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 47f11ce591 Added warning that FancyURLopener prompts the user on the terminal when
basic authentication is needed.

Added documentation for FancyURLopener.prompt_user_passwd(), explaining
that subclasses should provide more appropriate behavior for the hosting
environment.
2001-04-12 20:26:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 62a26699c4 Added module synopsis for the chapter summary.
Added documentation for TestCase.assertRaises().

Added text for "Mapping concepts to classes", and merged it into the
front matter instead of separating it into a new section.

Removed use of "assert" in examples.

Update the descriptions to reflect further changes from discussions on
the pyunit-interest list.

Added documentation for the defaultTestLoader object and the
TestLoader methods.

Added the assert*() names for the TestCase helper methods.
2001-04-12 19:34:38 +00:00
Fred Drake e20bd19f86 Convert several \seetext references to \seerfc and \seetitle versions.
These format somewhat better and include more semantic information in the
source.
2001-04-12 16:47:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 24e7a29292 Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by
Ping on the Doc-SIG mailing list.
2001-04-12 12:37:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 0056a427bb Added a lot of text from Steve Purcell's HTML documentation.
Updated reference material substantially based on discussions on the
pyunit-interest mailing list (not all changes are in the code in CVS
yet).
2001-04-12 04:50:06 +00:00
Fred Drake c790e08ac1 Use "2.1c1" since that is what Guido used for the Python version number. 2001-04-12 04:34:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 0c14961872 Update to reflect the new string repr -- \n instead of \012. This is the
only documentation file that appears to be affected by the change!
2001-04-12 04:26:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 9ad526fac3 Markup nit: use \envvar to mark environment variables. 2001-04-12 04:11:21 +00:00
Fred Drake e0197bfaeb When forming the <A> tag for a \seepep or \seerfc, make sure we strip
HTML markup from the string used as the title in the TITLE attribute.

This fixes formatting in the "What's New in Python 2.1" document.
2001-04-12 04:03:22 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling db7657d4e0 Explain popitem()
Add Unixware 7 port
Ready for RC1
Minor rewrites
2001-04-12 03:37:19 +00:00
Fred Drake b942c2f788 Fixed bug in example.
This closes SF bug #415522.

Also fix markup error in text following the example.
2001-04-11 21:33:47 +00:00
Barry Warsaw c3cbbaf513 Added some additional documentation describing how BabylMailbox
actually works (it returns a message containing the visible headers,
not the original headers).  Doc change approved by Fred; closes SF bug
#412230.
2001-04-11 20:12:33 +00:00
Fred Drake eedf985056 Include a synopsis for the chapter overview. 2001-04-11 19:17:11 +00:00
Moshe Zadka 2bd0d88360 Fixing bug 405999 -- clarifying differences between Python's
getopt and GNU getopt -- Python is like classical UNIX getopt.
2001-04-11 07:33:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 5d6e402e0c Based on a comment by Konrad Hinsen on python-list:
Change "EOF" to "end-of-file", on the premise that it is easier for
new programmers to understand (at least a little).

This does not attempt to explain "file or device attached to standard
input."
2001-04-11 04:38:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 29be70195a Added definition of "test fixture".
Added description of optional parameter to the TestSuite constructor.

Added descriptions of the TestLoader and TextTestRunner classes.

Added method descriptions for the TestCase class.
2001-04-10 22:25:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 8875c86a12 Typo: "BuildApple" --> "BuildApplet"
Added reference to the webbrowser module from the nsremote description.
2001-04-10 20:32:16 +00:00
Fred Drake c5287ac66a Bump version numbers for upcoming release candidate. 2001-04-10 20:19:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 20931fb3f4 Update the XML conversion specification. 2001-04-10 19:59:31 +00:00
Fred Drake ac154a17a3 Remove the mapping() function from the documentation.
Add a description of the ReferenceError exception.
2001-04-10 19:57:58 +00:00
Fred Drake da00cda9fa Add note that difflib was added in Python 2.1. 2001-04-10 19:56:09 +00:00
Fred Drake cfac6d23fd Normalize tabs to spaces.
Update the attribution for the "Curses Programming with Python" How-To.

Change the way the reference to the Demo/curses/ directory is marked up.
2001-04-10 18:49:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 6fda3ac474 Add reference to the DDJ article discussing a similar algorithm. 2001-04-10 18:41:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 86333606f6 Add corresponding support for the alltt environment to the HTML generator. 2001-04-10 17:13:39 +00:00
Fred Drake b5309a956e Import the alltt package and wrap that environment in a similar way to
the way we handle verbatim, so that it picks up the same indentation and
minipage behavior.
2001-04-10 15:53:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 90a72f8dcd Add documentation for getmoduleinfo() and getmodulename(). 2001-04-10 15:12:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 697c9c9c71 In the typeset versions, the legal notices had grown past the one-page
size.  This constrains them to fit in one page again.
2001-04-10 05:26:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 819815abea Fix typo in example (\b should be \n in string literal).
This closes SF bug #414279.
2001-04-09 15:57:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 9c846366ee Fix a number of bugs and omissions in the AddressList documentation, most
noted by Steve Holden.


This closes SF bug #413876.
2001-04-09 15:42:56 +00:00
Greg Stein 4d4d0034c0 Correct the documentation for getreadbufferproc and getwritebufferproc.
Fixes bug #233308 from Travis Oliphant.
2001-04-07 16:14:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 501d90471d Add entry for unittest documentation. 2001-04-07 05:42:14 +00:00
Fred Drake b9ad228798 Start of documentation for the unittest module. Some of this comes from
Steve Purcell's documentation, and a lot of it is written based on
using PyUnit and reading the implementation.

There is more to come, but I want to get this check in before I have a
disk crash or anything else bad happens.
2001-04-07 05:41:39 +00:00
Fred Drake 4cf1227e56 Change {\em ...} to \emph{...} for consistency with the rest of the Python
documentation.
2001-04-05 18:31:27 +00:00
Fred Drake f459d852e5 Add some information about what to expect of the DocumentType's
.internalSubset attribute based on a clarification from the www-dom
list.
2001-04-05 18:30:04 +00:00
Fred Drake c6a3cb4baf Document PySequence_Size(), and describe PySequence_Length() as simply an
alternate name for the same function.
2001-04-04 01:25:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 979d041b6f Make reference to the Library Reference in the "What Now?" chapter a
hyperlink.

Fix two English usage errors caught by Jan Wells:  Changed "subsequence"
to "sub-sequence" in two places, and avoid improper use of "hopefully" in
the first paragraph of the "What Now?" chapter.
2001-04-03 17:41:56 +00:00
Fred Drake c81d470648 Allow the <author/> element to appear before a paragraph without being
made a part of the paragraph.
2001-03-29 23:31:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 659f377ed9 Add entry for curses.panel documentation. 2001-03-29 22:23:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 14631f674f Fix serious markup errors. 2001-03-29 22:22:23 +00:00
Fred Drake c612a14e9e Remove the spurious space of uncertain origin from the output for function,
method and constructor signatures.  Suggested by Peter Funk on the Doc-SIG
mailing list.
2001-03-29 18:24:08 +00:00
Fred Drake cb83988151 Added example use of weak references, contributed by Tim Peters. 2001-03-28 21:15:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 58c8f9f631 Added documentation for PyObject_IsInstance() and PyObject_IsSubclass(). 2001-03-28 21:14:32 +00:00
Fred Drake e2645775d1 Typo: "ariables" --> "variables"
This fixes SF bug #411118.
2001-03-28 16:55:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 2bbc6974d0 Fix a number of small issues; this closes SF bug #411063. 2001-03-28 16:51:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 21e036ccca Add a note that the "kfm" controller supports "konqueror" as well as the
old KDE 1 "kfm" command.
2001-03-26 16:17:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 4240bc50f6 Note missing explanation 2001-03-26 13:34:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c8da0f966f Document use_rawinput. (Although now that I think more about it, a
better solution would have been to factor out the raw_input() call and
make it into an overridable method.  Oh well, maybe later...)
2001-03-24 19:17:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 8f6df46d40 Strengthen the constraints on calling PyObject_GC_Fini(). 2001-03-23 17:42:09 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton aa90adcfb9 Add nested scopes spec to appendix.
Add new opcodes LOAD_CLOSURE, LOAD_DEREF, STORE_DEREF, MAKE_CLOSURE to
docs for dis module.

Add docs for new function and code members in Sec. 3 of ref manual.
They're present regardless of whether nested scopes are used.

Remove description of default argument hack from Sec. 7 of the ref
manual and refer the reader to the appendix.
2001-03-23 17:23:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 7190247e0b Remove the annoying __version__ definitions. 2001-03-23 17:09:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 3e8f921fb9 Lots of small changes to make this work with the Python DOM bindings
(minidom in particular); it was using PyDOM which is now obsolete.

Only write the output file on success -- this avoids updating the timestamp
on the file on failure, which confuses "make".
2001-03-23 17:01:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 2262a80fb3 Pick up the "encode" function from esistools instead of defining our own
(broken) version.

Remove Conversion.err_write() -- use dbgmsg() consistently.
2001-03-23 16:53:34 +00:00
Fred Drake a9d0450f72 No quotes around the "future" in the first use of the term "future
statement".
2001-03-23 16:47:11 +00:00
Fred Drake f6c115ff2f Re-write to no longer depend on an old version of PyXML. This now
implements a SAX XMLReader interface instead of the old Builder interface
used with PyDOM (now obsolete).

This only depends on the standard library, not PyXML.
2001-03-23 16:42:08 +00:00
Fred Drake a4699a71b8 Pick the "escape" function from the standard library instead of from PyXML. 2001-03-23 16:38:12 +00:00
Fred Drake ce19496ec1 Add conversions for more of the markup -- not all of this was around when
this file was written!
2001-03-23 16:29:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 7621fa9147 Add entry for the futures appendix in the reference manual.
Correct the comment at the top of the file.
2001-03-23 16:23:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 557c1ae150 Include the futures appendix. 2001-03-23 16:21:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 39778b705d Revise the markup so that this formats and uses markup consistently with
the rest of the documentation.
2001-03-23 16:20:46 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 324cc6ee0e Add some initial text for the appendix on future statements and nested scopes. 2001-03-23 15:29:54 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 2c84fc8a7d Note that assignments to __debug__ are illegal 2001-03-23 14:34:06 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton e702481d38 Revert to ver 1.22, which was the version before the nested scopes
docs were introduced.  This loses a few small changes, but Fred says
that's okay.
2001-03-23 14:05:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 16a0b17460 Bump version number. 2001-03-23 12:12:05 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee ce7298ab42 Explain the difference between NL and NEWLINE. 2001-03-23 05:22:12 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee c608fb6389 Give a slightly better explanation of excepthook. 2001-03-23 05:17:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 5e0dfaccd1 Update to the most recent weakref changes. 2001-03-23 04:36:02 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ac1abe0bfe Add a paragraph about obmalloc turning up bugs in extension modules
Mention the new ports
2001-03-23 03:52:46 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling ef85cc84a0 Add section for PEP 241
Add PyUnit and sys.excepthook
2001-03-23 03:29:08 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee b5c5132d1a Add sys.excepthook.
Update docstring and library reference section on 'sys' module.
New API PyErr_Display, just for displaying errors, called by excepthook.
Uncaught exceptions now call sys.excepthook; if that fails, we fall back
    to calling PyErr_Display directly.
Also comes with sys.__excepthook__ and sys.__displayhook__.
2001-03-23 02:46:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 6909642d38 Bump the version number. 2001-03-22 17:01:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 15e07f4442 Update to the current state of the universe. 2001-03-22 17:00:05 +00:00
Fred Drake e28d8aef2d Be more clear about the specific rules for supporting the cyclic GC in an
extension object.  Also included an example showing exactly what needs to
be done and nothing else.

This closes SF bug #228591.
2001-03-22 16:30:17 +00:00
Fred Drake c392b570db Integrated an expanded version of some text from Neil Schemenauer about
supporting cyclic garbage collection.  (This is not all of it, but I'm
taking a break!)

Also fixed some markup nits.
2001-03-21 22:15:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 4e6d09e369 Moved the description of the tzparse module to the "Obsolete" section
and note that it fails when the TZ environment variable is not set.

This closes SF bug #409683.
2001-03-20 23:13:53 +00:00
Fred Drake f531ad698c Markup nit: For the Python documents, we use \empt instead of \textit. 2001-03-19 04:19:56 +00:00
Fred Drake b15bbc8d3d Add documentation for SGMLParser.handle_decl(). 2001-03-16 20:39:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 83e01bf6c8 Finally fill in the documentation for the PyDict_Next() function. It is
different enough to actually require an explanation.  ;-)

Fix a couple of PyDictObject* types that should be PyObject* types.
2001-03-16 15:41:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 1b0b2a4df2 Add some LaTeX magic so that Latin-1 characters do not get so badly
trashed.
2001-03-13 17:56:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 93fe96a3c8 Py_BuildValue(): Add "D" conversion to create a Python complex value from
a Py_complex C value.

Patch by Walter Dörwald.
This closes SF patch #407148.
2001-03-12 21:06:31 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 45bbda2593 Fix a further markup problem noted by FLD 2001-03-10 16:49:07 +00:00
Fred Drake f0ebbe0bd0 Re-order some method descriptions for a more logical grouping.
(Based on reader comment!)
2001-03-08 22:46:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 9eb41557ef Add more font flavors for <var> elements; the previous incarnation caused
some NT/IE5.5 users to see only boxes for these characters.  This might be
specific to NT Service Pack 6.
2001-03-08 22:17:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 859eb62108 Do not refer to "sub-modules" since that is not a defined term. 2001-03-06 07:34:00 +00:00
Fred Drake ac79e95167 Re-word the explanation of the in/not in operators for increased content
and clarity.

Add a footnote to the information on the possibility of shadowing builtins
with locals & module globals.
2001-03-06 07:32:11 +00:00
Fred Drake ce7129ea4e Turn "Python Documentation Central" into just "Documentation Central"; some
Web browsers tried to wrap lines in bad ways, so we avoid the problem by
putting fewer words on the page.
2001-03-06 07:28:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 2636572d76 Make sure the README files that contain page count information land in
the right directory (which actually exists).
2001-03-06 07:22:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 67fdaa4883 Correct typos in Ping's email address.
Remove premature use of negative indexes in string operation examples;
negative indexes have not been explained at that point, and the use of
negative indexes are not necessary for the examples.
2001-03-06 07:19:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 990b0fec1a Update documentation to reflect the shift to NetrcParseError instead of
SyntaxError.
2001-03-06 06:55:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 0c8f6643c6 Remove debugging "set -x". 2001-03-03 19:57:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 42119e49a9 Fix a few minor markup nits. 2001-03-03 19:47:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 6be838a0c0 Rene Liebscher <R.Liebscher@gmx.de>:
Added information on using non-Microsoft compilers on Windows.

[Minor edits for markup consistency. --FLD]
2001-03-03 19:18:01 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 61af5605fa Discuss PEP 236.
Update nested scope section.
2001-03-03 03:25:04 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 81df7be2a2 Update estimate bug and patch counts 2001-03-02 21:19:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 3f4e717c31 Revise the scripts I use to update the documentation on the SourceForge
site.  These now seem (slightly) more reliable, and easier to work with
since update-docs.sh no longer needs to be installed ahead of time on
my account at SF.
2001-03-02 21:05:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 93c867139f Lots of organizational changes for consistency with the rest of the
documentation.

Fix a few small markup nits.
2001-03-02 20:39:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 80d4c07775 There was a real leak in the "export a C API" example; fix that one.
(There are too many initspam() functions; they need to be renamed
post-beta.)
2001-03-02 19:48:06 +00:00
Fred Drake ab357ecf7f Label classes and exceptions explicitly in the documentation (for their
*desc environments).
2001-03-02 18:57:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 0539bfaaa4 There is no longer a -X option to the interpreter, so remove the comments
on how PyErr_NewException() behaves in that case.

Clarify why an owned reference is kept in an extension module's
variable that refers to the result of PyErr_NewException(); one reader
thought that was a leak.

Clean up some tabs and simplify some markup.
2001-03-02 18:15:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 043d5e5514 For copyfile(), be explicit that src and dst are file names; that was only
implied.
2001-03-02 16:46:42 +00:00
Fred Drake cfef0096f9 Job.build_html(): When formatting HTML into more than one HTML page, and
not doing the \label{foo} --> foo.html transformation (--numeric was
    specified on the command line), still look to see if there is an
    "About this document..." node and copy that to "about.html", since the
    page footers use that as the target.
2001-03-02 16:26:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 7606e4d00e Added entry for urllib2 documentation. 2001-03-01 19:54:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 8c011580ff Use larger chunks for the HTML version of the Distutils documentation. 2001-03-01 18:38:56 +00:00
Fred Drake a9a83e9ee3 Comment out section titles for sections that have not been written yet;
there is no need to clutter a reader's life with those useless things.

Suppress the "Contents" page for HTML; it is not needed for small documents
in the online environment since LaTeX2HTML generates lots of tables of links
anyway.

Various markup consistency nits.
2001-03-01 18:37:52 +00:00
Fred Drake a09262e860 Comment out section titles for sections that have not been written yet;
there is no need to clutter a reader's life with those useless things.

Make the snippets of Python code conform to the standard style.

Suppress the "Contents" page for HTML; it is not needed for small documents
in the online environment since LaTeX2HTML generates lots of tables of links
anyway.

Various markup consistency nits.
2001-03-01 18:35:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f89ad5ed6b Document configuration flags to compile for large file support on
certain Linux systems.
2001-03-01 18:29:57 +00:00
Moshe Zadka 8a18e99008 Checking in patch 404826 -- urllib2 enhancements and documentations.
(please not that the library reference does *not* include the
urllib2 documnetation -- that will wiat for Fred)
2001-03-01 08:40:42 +00:00
Fred Drake baee0d42c9 Bump the release number to 2.1b1. 2001-03-01 06:01:20 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 694e1816c2 Fix markup nit pointed out by FLD 2001-03-01 01:02:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1874c8f23b Document PyErr_WarnExplicit(). 2001-02-28 23:46:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 56ba72a563 Document warn_explicit(). 2001-02-28 23:34:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 7840a9cb99 Add entry for the inspect module. 2001-02-28 23:02:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 6dbd382ec8 Clean up some of the markup for consistency, wrap some long lines. 2001-02-28 23:01:38 +00:00
Fred Drake bca60c07b3 Fix some rules broken by typos, others by the flattening of the makefile. 2001-02-28 22:59:37 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 8bad993dd3 Add description of PEP235
Remove references to 2.1alpha
Update description of PEP229
2001-02-28 22:39:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 74d18ed076 Cover pydoc
Update reference Python version to beta1
Rip out PEP 232 section
Add placeholders for PEP 236 and 235
Fix erroneous \filename references
2001-02-28 22:22:40 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling bf140147d8 Document the object allocator
Minor sentence change
2001-02-28 22:10:07 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 58177b9975 added description of NL token 2001-02-28 22:05:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 969ab2710a Update documentation for termios module; do not refer to the TERMIOS module
for constant definitions.

Add a deprecation to the TERMIOS module.
2001-02-27 22:01:15 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 5e1633365d Patch #403985: Add support for weak-keyed dictionaries 2001-02-27 18:36:56 +00:00
Ka-Ping Yee 6397c7c9a9 inspect: a module for getting information out of live Python objects 2001-02-27 14:43:21 +00:00