29bb115bae
Clean up some argument profiles, enrich the docstring.
2001-08-20 13:16:30 +00:00
dbec7d2c16
Improve Windows time.clock() blurb; was missing return type and unit.
2001-08-19 01:38:03 +00:00
b60f2d0977
Framework code for compilerlike scripts.
2001-08-18 09:24:38 +00:00
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
2dc07946bf
Make sure that ampersand escaping is still performed on the contents of
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local module tables (the lists of modules documented within a chapter,
inserted at the beginning of the chapter). If this is not done here,
the text is not part of the resulting documents when latex2html does the
processing normally.
This fixes a little bit more of SF bug #451556 .
2001-08-17 17:20:44 +00:00
cb19976f1a
fix_font(): Instead of using a long if/elsif cluster, use a bloody
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dictionary. Added some entries to the dictionary to fix part of
SF bug #451556 .
2001-08-16 21:56:24 +00:00
457c4190f9
Fix typo reported by Joonas Paalasmaa: dada-->data
2001-08-16 21:25:24 +00:00
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
e3eb1f2b23
Patch #427190 : Implement and use METH_NOARGS and METH_O.
2001-08-16 13:15:00 +00:00
ce1650f3a5
A large contribution from Dave Kuhlman describing what each of the slots
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in the type object is used for, for many of the more commonly used slots.
Thanks!
(But there is still a lot more to write on this topic.)
Markup and organizational changes by your friendly neighborhood
documentation czar.
2001-08-15 19:07:18 +00:00
87731762f2
Dave Kuhlman has contributed a nice improvement to the "Defining New Types"
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section of the Extending & Embedding manual -- thanks!
2001-08-15 19:00:29 +00:00
94a7eba9db
Note addition of cleanfuture.py
2001-08-15 15:55:48 +00:00
ce575bac5e
Fix a minor typo and mark an exception name that was missed.
2001-08-14 21:51:50 +00:00
c0cf726d8c
Add material about the "r" and "u" prefixes for string literals; should
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be reviewed for clarity.
Work around a bogosity in the HTML version of the escape sequences table
conversion.
2001-08-14 21:43:31 +00:00
0cac5f697b
Added some examples of table markup.
2001-08-14 21:36:19 +00:00
3e2aca48bd
Add information about __floordiv__() and __truediv__() methods for
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implementing numeric objects in Python.
2001-08-14 20:28:08 +00:00
d3ba10f4b5
Clarify the prompt in an example.
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This closes SF bug #450633 .
2001-08-14 19:55:42 +00:00
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
680cabb225
Add "exceptions" to the list of fundamental modules
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created by Py_Initialize().
This closes SF bug #450621 .
2001-08-14 15:32:16 +00:00
280f7253e4
Insert omitted "the".
2001-08-14 11:42:13 +00:00
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
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
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
9e9c1358e8
Add section on PEP 238 changes
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Minor grammatical changes, reformattings, and an error fix from Keith Briggs
2001-08-11 03:06:50 +00:00
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
11ee90289c
Added documentation for PyDict_Update() and PyDict_Merge().
2001-08-10 21:31:12 +00:00
1cb560a653
Do more to be compatible with Windows/CygWin. Make error messages more
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informative when a child process dies with an error.
This is a variation of parts of SF patch #429611 .
2001-08-10 20:17:09 +00:00
9443dc31c1
Remove the use of the "cat" program. This improves portability to non-Unix
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platforms.
This is part the response to SF patch #429611 .
2001-08-10 20:12:09 +00:00
8a7b59e7b4
Added this LaTeX style file to the package since not all LaTeX installations
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have it, especially on non-Unix platforms. (MikTeX in particular does not
have it.)
This is part of the response to SF patch #429611 .
2001-08-10 19:47:41 +00:00
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
6d8d72b0cb
Usage fix, problem reported by Keith Briggs.
2001-08-10 16:15:08 +00:00
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
024ef6f493
Remove the bogus flags parameter from the PyFile_WriteString() signature;
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it has no such parameter.
This closes SF bug #449761 .
2001-08-10 14:27:38 +00:00
9b75dca192
Expose nl_langinfo through locale where available.
2001-08-10 13:58:50 +00:00
8cc965c1fb
Patch #448474 : Add support for tell() and seek() to gzip.GzipFile.
2001-08-09 07:21:56 +00:00
0197858f62
Added documentation for PyNumber_*FloorDivide(), PyNumber_*TrueDivide(),
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PyInterpreterState_*Head(), PyInterpreterState_Next(), and
PyThreadState_Next().
Wrapped some long lines, added some others.
2001-08-08 19:14:53 +00:00
03590c6bdc
Reference counting information for PyNumber_*FloorDivide() and
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PyNumber_*TrueDivide().
2001-08-08 18:50:18 +00:00
e54acfd8b2
Add option to push the development docs to SF without announcing, for
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when the changes are just too small.
2001-08-08 05:41:01 +00:00
ecab00176f
More names....
2001-08-08 05:39:52 +00:00
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
a7d608d1cf
"Thin" version of floor division docs: add // to the list of operators
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and //= to the list of other delimiter tokens.
I'll work on it again when it's not so late...
2001-08-08 05:37:21 +00:00
8c69c91be3
Document two new items
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Correct error noticed by Keith Briggs
Re-indent a paragraph
2001-08-07 14:28:58 +00:00
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
c9908c4f5c
Document IPv6 changes. Contributed by itojun.
2001-08-04 22:22:45 +00:00
53765753c4
Lots of new text and example code on embedding Python in C, contributed
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by Albert Hofkamp. Some editing has been done for style and markup
consistency.
This also supplies an example of importing modules and calling a function
defined in the module, so this closes SF bug #440037 as well.
(The long example code was moved to a separate file so that it would
format properly.)
2001-08-04 01:58:36 +00:00
b3cc29b493
Note that the mimetypes.MimeTypes class was added in Python 2.2.
2001-08-04 00:48:49 +00:00
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
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
7eac0cb04c
Define the \mailheader macro and document conventions for using it.
2001-08-03 18:36:17 +00:00
30cf118cf7
Minor markup nits and slight style-guide conformance changes.
2001-08-03 17:11:33 +00:00
cb60dae6a1
Documented the runtimemodel attribute.
2001-08-03 13:19:56 +00:00
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
8dd6ffd0ec
User-defined methods *can* contain things other than user-defined functions
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as the callable, so use more flexible language.
2001-08-02 21:34:53 +00:00
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
f90490ef94
Move away from apply() to using extended call syntax for some example
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fragments when discussing equivalence of thhe C API to what a Python
programmer sees.
Added descriptions of PyEval_SetProfile() and PyEval_SetTrace().
2001-08-02 18:00:28 +00:00
044bb4d22a
Explain that __init__() methods do not get to return values.
2001-08-02 15:53:05 +00:00
388f37e6f6
Add anentry for the distutils.sysconfig module docs.
2001-08-02 15:13:58 +00:00
ab70b38367
Update some incorrect comments about the bdist commands that exist.
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Add an entry for the distutils.sysconfig module docs.
2001-08-02 15:13:15 +00:00
25376c4f8b
Documentation for the distutils.sysconfig module.
2001-08-02 15:12:07 +00:00
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
236ddd6834
Added more names.
2001-08-01 17:19:11 +00:00
20c94913de
Minor re-wording in the exaplantion of sequence comparisons.
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This closes SF bug #445749 .
2001-08-01 17:17:13 +00:00
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
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
77707673f4
Move C-level changes into a section of their own
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Add string.ascii_letters
Remove duplicate MBCS paragraph
2001-07-31 15:51:16 +00:00
f4ccf587f6
Rewrite MBCS paragraph following MH's suggestions, and credit him
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Note new Windows installer
2001-07-31 01:11:36 +00:00
43211ecda2
Make some adjustments to the markup, and fix up some style-guide issues.
2001-07-29 03:41:23 +00:00
66b6e192b9
Patch #416224 : add readline completion to cmd.Cmd.
2001-07-28 14:44:03 +00:00
54f65094c3
Typo fix.
2001-07-26 21:01:21 +00:00
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
4f1cd8bdcb
Patch #411138 : Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774 .
2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
41d7d58cc4
trivial rewording in footnote 5.
2001-07-25 16:18:19 +00:00
d61e3eab44
Add entry for the new distutils section.
2001-07-24 16:20:13 +00:00
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
f1b3de8d5c
Add labels to all \section and \subsection headings for use in references.
2001-07-24 14:38:34 +00:00
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
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
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
8a2adcf812
Typo: Added missing "if".
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This is part of SF patch #442788 .
2001-07-23 19:20:56 +00:00
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
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
3332778f35
Corrected a section reference (title was wrong).
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Added information on the return values of PyArg_ParseTuple() and
PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords().
2001-07-20 20:59:49 +00:00
88fdaa7c9e
Typo: PyArgs_ParseTuple --> PyArg_ParseTuple
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Moved the PyArg_Parse*(), Py_BuildValue() functions to the Utilities
chapter, added a minimal description and reference to the Extending
manual for Py_BuildValue().
2001-07-20 20:56:11 +00:00
6d988559a3
Added information on Py_BuildValue().
2001-07-20 20:55:31 +00:00
f69868f304
Add a missing "\" to the markup.
2001-07-20 19:03:44 +00:00
960fdf9ac3
Added the constants ascii_letters, ascii_lowercase, and ascii_uppercase
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to the string module. This was determined to be the right approach in
SF bug #226706 .
2001-07-20 18:38:26 +00:00
a6d2a04065
More Unicode corrections from MAL to match a post-2.2a1 change
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Mention additional new imaplib.py features
(Don't expect to see an updated version of the Web page until around the 28th
of July. Vacation time!)
2001-07-20 18:34:34 +00:00
9079164bdf
Removed unnecessary section "Unicode literals"; all the discussion is
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already present in the "String literals" section, including comments on
the "u" prefix and the additional escape sequences used for Unicode.
This relates to SF bug #442526 .
2001-07-20 15:33:23 +00:00
0825dc2427
Fix typo in description of raw strings: "value" --> "valid"
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This closes SF bug #443059 .
2001-07-20 14:32:28 +00:00
a3a1668904
apply patch item #416254
2001-07-20 11:04:19 +00:00
5120eac6c6
Bump release number to 1.00, while I'm at it
2001-07-20 03:22:00 +00:00
acd32d3be5
Added function xml.sax.saxutils.quoteattr().
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This closes SF bug #440351 . It should not be moved to Python 2.1.1.
2001-07-19 16:10:15 +00:00
ab01087109
Revise the Unicode section after getting comments from MAL, GvR, and others.
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Add new low-level API for interpreter introspection
Bump version number.
2001-07-19 14:59:53 +00:00
53d285a9af
Remove some false statements.
2001-07-19 03:49:33 +00:00
f5fec3c88a
Fill out the Unicode section, somewhat uncertainly
2001-07-19 01:48:08 +00:00
8cfa9055cf
Finish the "Other changes" section
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Bump version number
Insert a few blank lines here and there
2001-07-19 01:19:59 +00:00
28bafb8b5d
Fix a few typos
2001-07-19 01:17:15 +00:00
b39fa8a75b
Remove note about this being a draft document.
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Note the actual date of 2.1's release
2001-07-19 00:29:48 +00:00
5afb5e5c9c
Look to the future: bump the version number.
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Do more to ensure we don't do any more formatting than we need to.
Use separate targets for the distribution packages for paper-based and
non-paper-based formats; this avoids some extra packaging when a complete
distribution is being built with both paper sizes.
2001-07-18 21:17:29 +00:00
413bfb766e
2.2a1 is out; look to the future.
2001-07-18 21:06:06 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
Tim Peters
Barry Warsaw
Fred Drake
Martin v. Löwis
Andrew M. Kuchling
Jack Jansen
Greg Ward
Skip Montanaro
Piers Lauder