46e1a32edf
Re-categorize the dump module as obsolete.
1999-06-18 17:12:15 +00:00
354e98222c
fpformat has been documented for at least a week now!
1999-06-18 15:21:25 +00:00
26921da2c9
Small markup & usage adjustments.
1999-06-17 18:58:02 +00:00
e019789962
Correction: the parameters of new.instance() are type-checked.
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Edited several of the descriptions for English usage and more
consistent style.
1999-06-17 18:15:07 +00:00
de69ae1753
Updated version from Moshe, with a re-written warning about the
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side-effect of cmpcache.cmp() using statcache.stat() internally.
1999-06-17 17:40:52 +00:00
173ba5e3bc
Minor markup nits.
1999-06-17 17:09:23 +00:00
97c2fa03e5
Small English usage nits.
1999-06-17 16:38:18 +00:00
7487c02209
Small markup and English usage nits.
1999-06-17 16:10:39 +00:00
26da2840ac
Add/remove entries due to additional sections from Moshe.
1999-06-17 15:12:16 +00:00
64bc94e3ec
New module documentation sections from Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>!
1999-06-17 15:11:35 +00:00
e55702b024
Added note to __not__() description that this operation is defined
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only by the interpreter core and is not overridable by objects.
Based on comment from David Ascher on the list.
1999-06-15 20:56:40 +00:00
1e4402998f
Several new index entries to make find this easier.
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Noted that name=value is allowed in addition to name: value.
1999-06-15 17:30:59 +00:00
c46864e982
Misc. changes related to the new sections.
1999-06-14 19:49:50 +00:00
21572fdcb6
New sections from Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>.
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These document CGIHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer, and linecache.
1999-06-14 19:47:47 +00:00
7df4dd7de2
Add entry for the fpformat module.
1999-06-11 18:36:42 +00:00
1739d2f9ee
Documentation for the fpformat module by Moshe Zadka
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<mzadka@geocities.com>.
1999-06-11 18:31:00 +00:00
2f9790195b
Added 'ce' to the list of "registered" values for os.name.
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Make references to the posix module hyperlinks.
1999-06-11 18:28:37 +00:00
9c5cc14d23
Some clarifications on operations for mapping types, based on comments
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from Gerry Weiner <gerry@ucar.edu>.
1999-06-10 22:37:34 +00:00
697c779d98
Adjust indexing for __import__(); based on comments by Stefan Franke
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<sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-06-10 22:09:20 +00:00
28b1770521
Improve index entry for "import"; responding to comments by Stefan
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Franke <sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-06-10 22:08:16 +00:00
06a73f042a
Work around latex2html problem; reported by Gerrit Holl
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<gerrit.holl@pobox.com>.
1999-06-10 21:23:31 +00:00
4d5c87ba11
Declare the "util" module obsolete.
1999-06-10 21:17:11 +00:00
7a62128722
At David Ascher's request, clarify that os.system() always returns 0
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on Win95 & Win98.
1999-06-10 15:07:05 +00:00
ae0f292576
Fix typo reported by Robert Kern <kernr@ncifcrf.gov>.
1999-06-10 15:03:07 +00:00
66ab4e8af2
Patch by Jim Fulton to document the new parse_qls().
1999-06-10 03:11:41 +00:00
4727456d46
Add doc for timegm().
1999-06-09 15:11:58 +00:00
5fac2ab220
Fix availability clause; mention availability of similar functionality
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for Windows using win32pipe.
1999-06-01 17:55:52 +00:00
3aa70d63b9
Document the "pid" attribute of the Popen3 class.
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Use memberdesc instead of datadesc to document object attributes.
This gets the index right.
1999-05-27 17:50:59 +00:00
a7ce52b03a
Typo reported by Gerry Wiener <wiener@rap.ucar.edu>:
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items -> item
The returned list will then have one more items than the number of
non-overlapping occurrences of the separator in the string.
1999-05-27 17:18:08 +00:00
abc8cc63ce
Move some \index entries around so we can avoid using empty comments;
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empty comments trigger a bug in LaTeX2HTML.
Problem reported by Gerry Wiener <gerry@ucar.edu>.
1999-05-26 16:15:17 +00:00
82f355a36a
Change the example of configuring for large file support under Solaris
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to use `getconf LFS_CFLAGS`. Steve Clift (the author of the section
and large file support) agrees that this is the right thing to do.
1999-05-26 13:03:34 +00:00
6b330ba857
"proces" --> "process"; reported by Gerry Wiener <gerry@ucar.edu>.
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Added some index entries.
1999-05-25 13:42:26 +00:00
338da93734
SET_LINE_NO ==> SET_LINENO
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Reported by Corran Webster <cwebster@math.tamu.edu>.
1999-05-17 20:57:07 +00:00
33378da964
Added paragraph explaininng the text/binary flavors of some methods,
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to make it easier for people to find what they're looking for.
1999-05-17 16:35:15 +00:00
dbc2d08ff5
POP3.uidl(): Update description based on comments from Piers Lauder
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<piers@cs.su.oz.au>.
1999-05-13 18:48:14 +00:00
7088df4c56
Removed old comments.
1999-05-13 16:20:30 +00:00
03c05a5192
Move the "See also:" section so it appears are part of the top HTML
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page of the section.
1999-05-11 15:15:54 +00:00
184e8360e8
Added module references; minor grammatical fixes.
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All suggested by Eric Raymond.
1999-05-11 15:14:15 +00:00
9ade7e0110
Added missing comma, reported by Eric Raymond.
1999-05-11 13:45:37 +00:00
b0bc7f2d6c
Updated connect_ex() documentation based on comments in the newgroup
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(M.-A. Lemburg and GvR).
1999-05-06 22:03:50 +00:00
1ea7c75687
Reflect recent patch for float % and divmod() by Tim Peters. Content
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updates by Tim Peters, markup by FLD.
1999-05-06 14:46:35 +00:00
673c65e500
Use the new module-key for the FL module when hyperlinking (the old
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one caused problems on case-insensitive file systems).
1999-04-29 18:42:18 +00:00
d03e9e34de
Don't point readers to rand, point to random! And make it a hyperlink
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while you're at it.
Also, when discussing order of reading, make it clear that chapter 2
is assumed background material for the remainder of the manual.
That's needed for terminology if nothing else!
1999-04-29 13:41:17 +00:00
0e1de8bd6b
Minor nits, partly in response to comments from Jonathan Black
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<jblack@Ridgeway-Sys.com>.
1999-04-29 12:57:32 +00:00
5f342ac2a7
Always use "section" when referring to sections of a document, not "Section".
1999-04-29 02:47:40 +00:00
c0fcbc1ac6
Update starship URLs.
1999-04-29 02:30:04 +00:00
ea0020571f
Use \rfc to mark some remaining RFC references.
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Remove comment about full name bug in getaddrlist(); this has been
fixed for a while now.
Work around LaTeX2HTML space-dropping bug.
Mention that the fp attribute can be used to read the message body.
1999-04-28 18:11:09 +00:00
505c49199a
Added "See also" reference to PyOpenGL.
1999-04-27 18:05:06 +00:00
dcf17f3860
mhlib is now documented.
1999-04-23 22:24:12 +00:00
a4966647ec
Markup consistency.
1999-04-23 22:22:27 +00:00
1c7cd63a2b
Nits.
1999-04-23 22:03:00 +00:00
957ac3fadb
Add section for the sha module.
1999-04-23 21:52:18 +00:00
154fc6dcf7
Patch from Greg Ward adding descriptions of S_IMODE() and S_IFMT(),
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and an explanation of why any of stat.S_*() would be used instead of
os.path.is*(). (With some really small enhancements by me.)
1999-04-23 20:54:57 +00:00
24aca83dbd
Fixed typo and font-control problem reported by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-04-23 20:33:59 +00:00
29cf682b71
Clarifications on the first(), next(), and previous() functions, based
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on comments from Detlef Lannert <lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-04-23 20:32:59 +00:00
861192120b
Fix a grammatical error reported by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-04-23 20:07:02 +00:00
16214fb017
Fix a couple of grammatical errors reported by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-04-23 20:00:53 +00:00
4aa4f30759
Work-around LaTeX2HTML space-dropping bug.
1999-04-23 17:30:40 +00:00
87b8f318b0
Fixed some logical markup nits.
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Added a pointer to Grail in the see-also section, since it's used as
an example.
1999-04-23 17:26:24 +00:00
deb7e096d3
Logical markup.
1999-04-23 17:11:53 +00:00
806764bee4
No, __repr__() does not accept a parameter other than self.
1999-04-23 17:03:21 +00:00
0fbec55e23
Shorten the section title.
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Adjust markup to be a little more consistent with the rest of the
document.
1999-04-23 16:44:53 +00:00
eea97ea063
Shorten the section title.
1999-04-23 16:07:38 +00:00
86bd5e48c3
Shorten the section title.
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Fix a couple of grammatical errors.
1999-04-23 16:02:30 +00:00
7475e04fad
Work around a space-dropping problem in LaTeX2HTML.
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Clarify the usage of a parameter.
1999-04-23 15:57:23 +00:00
ae35aa8b63
Added "See also" sections linking to binascii.
1999-04-23 15:52:18 +00:00
ee4d54ea33
Refer to the binhex module, not the non-existent hexbin module.
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Added a "See also" section.
1999-04-23 15:42:36 +00:00
26f7cfe9c7
Fix some glaring markup consistency problems (presentation was
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broken).
Added a "See also" section.
1999-04-23 15:41:53 +00:00
812860e81d
Hack places where '--' should appear as literal output but the -- was
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(properly) converted to - by LaTeX2HTML.
1999-04-23 14:46:18 +00:00
ffbe68723a
Make internal module references hyperlinks wherever it makes sense.
1999-04-22 21:23:22 +00:00
7b8b125fa6
Remove bogus characters in code sample.
1999-04-22 21:19:53 +00:00
fcf94d4edd
Work around LaTeX2HTML comment-handling bug.
1999-04-22 20:55:59 +00:00
4a406c619b
Shorten the section title.
1999-04-22 20:52:44 +00:00
c8c40ff699
Added a "See also" section with some external references.
1999-04-22 20:16:02 +00:00
4e28c593ad
Markup nits.
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Make module references hyperlinks.
1999-04-22 18:25:47 +00:00
b7168c3a07
Clean up lots of mark up.
1999-04-22 17:53:37 +00:00
79936fe73f
Added descriptions of the various exceptions, based on the docstrings.
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Various small cleanups.
1999-04-22 17:23:34 +00:00
c8993aad10
Logical markup and small nits.
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Don't refer to the STDWIN chapter; chances are really good it wasn't
included. ;-)
1999-04-22 16:50:40 +00:00
12a956921f
Make some module references hyperlinks.
1999-04-22 16:47:27 +00:00
b774550ba5
Minor logical markup nits.
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Make some module references hyperlinks.
1999-04-22 16:46:18 +00:00
dd6c6d9b0a
Clean up some mark up.
1999-04-22 16:45:26 +00:00
e2effbd32d
Fix minor (English) usage nits.
1999-04-22 16:21:09 +00:00
bcd5454d63
Reference to urllib module can be a hyperlink.
1999-04-22 16:17:45 +00:00
4429772ea3
Fix dropped space in the HTML output.
1999-04-22 16:15:34 +00:00
babdda53d5
Make reference to the socket module a hyperlink.
1999-04-22 16:03:30 +00:00
bf0f4346af
Shorten the section title.
1999-04-22 15:53:35 +00:00
47894d2858
Don't describe this module as being a popen() wrapper; that's a little
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confusing. This is clearly Unix-specific; label it as such.
1999-04-22 15:19:01 +00:00
a694e00085
Remove \platform declaration; this module is generic.
1999-04-22 15:14:11 +00:00
5254a6d682
Move stat to the Generic chapter.
1999-04-22 15:01:44 +00:00
ca69a03dd6
Don't refer to the system documentation as "man pages"; too
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Unix-centric. Note that this can be used with the output of
os.fstat() as well as os.stat() and os.lstat().
1999-04-22 14:55:43 +00:00
2ea30f4d8c
Add warning that last() and previous() don't work for hashtable
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databases (opened using hashopen()), as noted by Skip Montanaro on
comp.lang.python.
1999-04-22 14:06:36 +00:00
b9f1f6d90b
Misc. markup nits.
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All sections get reasonable file names in the HTML output.
1999-04-21 21:43:17 +00:00
2dabd811cd
Fix markup typo.
1999-04-21 21:33:24 +00:00
d146edfaf1
Mark the "Notes:" sections under tables the same way it's done
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elsewhere in the library reference.
1999-04-21 21:15:35 +00:00
b11d108cdc
The version information here was checked good in 1999, not 199. ;-)
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Added "See also" reference to zlib home page, even though it's
mentioned in the text.
1999-04-21 18:44:41 +00:00
2799f9d09a
Reflow paragraph to work around LaTeX2HTML dropping a space.
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Make all references to the os module hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 18:33:47 +00:00
6d20caa2ce
Reflow paragraph to work around LaTeX2HTML dropping a space.
1999-04-21 18:17:11 +00:00
543e19d923
Small nits, more hyperlinks.
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Added more information for cStringIO.
1999-04-21 18:15:22 +00:00
048b75bd9a
Make references to whrandom hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 18:14:22 +00:00
ec6baaf618
Small markup nits.
1999-04-21 18:13:31 +00:00
54f2fdd1ad
Make the names of the referenced modules hyperlinks; they had not been
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marked at all.
1999-04-21 18:10:08 +00:00
02e8c0fd2d
Nits. Reference to signal module becomes a hyperlink.
1999-04-21 18:01:14 +00:00
283c588402
Work around LaTeX2HTML comment-handling bug.
1999-04-21 17:57:15 +00:00
318c0b131f
Logical markup nits.
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Make references to other modules hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 17:29:14 +00:00
c3845a14d3
Logical markup & other small nits.
1999-04-21 17:18:04 +00:00
11bc8cfee3
Explain *why* the copytree() implementation is presented as the
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example!
1999-04-21 17:08:51 +00:00
e688aec707
Textual references to the glob module can be hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 17:04:43 +00:00
737aa552f4
Markup nit to fixed dropped space in HTML output.
1999-04-21 17:01:15 +00:00
4747f7f61d
Markup nits.
1999-04-21 16:41:40 +00:00
4f6e4fbc1d
Added "See also" reference to xdrlib.
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Markup nits.
1999-04-21 16:38:53 +00:00
69fa56327a
Markup nits.
1999-04-21 16:29:57 +00:00
8307e21a2a
Mark the references to module names use \module or \refmodule (the
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closing paragraph used \code).
1999-04-21 16:29:18 +00:00
6ed122a334
Important fix mentioned by The Dragon De Monsyne: the sendmail()
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method does _not_ disconnect the connection when it throws a
SMTPHeloError!
1999-04-21 16:19:16 +00:00
a889add5d6
Oops; minor nit in example: none of the other interactive examples
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show the "trailing" prompt, so don't show it here!
1999-04-21 16:00:24 +00:00
3d815bd1c7
Added link to xdrlib module in "See also" section.
1999-04-21 15:57:29 +00:00
c3fcd6fa0e
Added index entry for "file objects"; this is appearantly referenced
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somewhere in the Reference Manual, and someone tried to locate it via
the index. Report on the omission by Stefan Franke
<sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-04-21 13:58:17 +00:00
7ceb5777d7
Added doc for the "module" attribute on the class descriptor objects;
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omission repoorted by Glyn Webster <glyn@ninz.org.nz>.
1999-04-20 18:18:53 +00:00
ad56dafd62
Added example use of pack_list() to help explain the pack_item
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parameter. Lack of clarity reported by Matthew Gallagher
<hew@hons.cs.usyd.edu.au>.
1999-04-20 13:41:14 +00:00
4ae52694c9
Updated to reflect additions.
1999-04-19 21:21:28 +00:00
32c562bdec
colorsys docs from David Ascher.
1999-04-19 21:20:13 +00:00
9d15881744
bsddb docs from Skip Montanaro; added interesting links.
1999-04-19 21:19:21 +00:00
e9af64c373
Remove superfluous index entry for posix.popen(); no longer
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appropriate since popen() is only documented in os.
1999-04-16 19:00:48 +00:00
dac9a4e3db
Added link to Fredrik Lundh's online Tkinter reference material.
1999-04-16 18:26:22 +00:00
31bfbc6bff
Minor nits, include author info.
1999-04-16 14:03:32 +00:00
0ebd5483be
Removed dbhash from the undocumented list.
1999-04-15 16:05:29 +00:00
666255f5ac
Document the dbhash module, and link to it from appropriate places.
1999-04-15 15:11:40 +00:00
f4cbada3f9
Correct documentation for <file>.read(); Python makes a serious
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best-effort to return 'size' bytes. Point out that this may mean
multiple fread() calls. Reported by Anders Hammarquist
<iko@iko.pp.se> via the Debian crew.
1999-04-14 14:31:53 +00:00
e331356ff7
Fix availability declaration for popen2 module; report by Barry Scott
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<barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 22:03:26 +00:00
b9971b9964
Minor cleanup.
1999-04-13 21:39:31 +00:00
592dd78408
Fix availability declaration for stat module; report by Barry Scott
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<barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 21:38:02 +00:00
31ec33ed60
Work around problems with HTML conversion by making the break and
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tbreak synopses be all on one line (each). Known problem, most
recently reported by Barry Scott <barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 21:36:44 +00:00
bfb092eb86
Misspellling: "occurance" --> "occurrence"
1999-04-09 19:57:09 +00:00
7969f31c4d
Updated documentation by Per Cederqvist. I've added back the
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documentation sendmail() to reflect the changes by The Dragon
(see smtplib.py checkin).
1999-04-07 15:56:51 +00:00
4f21d54764
Added more "See also" entries, + 1 inline hyperlink.
1999-04-05 22:18:12 +00:00
ea003fcc2a
Fixed latex2html weirdness with footnotes.
1999-04-05 21:59:15 +00:00
45b0aeda3c
correct version info for zlib.
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add note about module failing with old versions of the library.
update comment that explains that this doc is *still* out of date
1999-04-05 21:55:21 +00:00
9aa8543c84
open() description: Made it more clear that 'b' should always be
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added to the mode value for binary files to improve
portability.
Fixed latex2html weirdness with a couple of footnotes.
1999-04-05 21:22:41 +00:00
01553706bf
Added a few items to the "See also" sections at Guido's prompting. Made
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more references to other modules in the text hyperlinks for the HTML and
PDF versions.
1999-04-05 19:46:21 +00:00
50ae47b0de
Removed bosities around example code; not sure where that stuff crept
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in!
1999-04-05 19:26:16 +00:00
1dc3a501a6
Made improvements based on changes just made and comments from
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Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@csd.uwm.edu>.
1999-04-05 19:00:54 +00:00
806a467fbf
Where rfc822.Message is mentioned, add a link to the rfc822 module.
1999-03-27 05:45:46 +00:00
cb1f2420ea
Document complex() with string arg.
1999-03-25 21:23:26 +00:00
5fc9c869dd
SIGTERM is no longer caught to call sys.exitfunc.
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This change was made long ago but the documentation was never updated.
1999-03-25 20:30:00 +00:00
e82f5b3d6e
Added note about ftpmirror.py, since that seems to be one of the most
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requested Python tools/examples.
1999-03-25 05:04:17 +00:00
8be229650d
Document new builtin buffer(). Greg Stein.
1999-03-19 19:10:14 +00:00
596766772e
Documented FTP.set_pasv().
1999-03-18 16:08:54 +00:00
154d909993
Note that abspath() was added in 1.5.2.
1999-03-17 22:25:11 +00:00
8d2c0c2ab4
Fixed minor nits, added index entries to make these easier to find for people
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not familiar with Unix terminology.
1999-03-16 16:40:01 +00:00
658cef0141
Preliminary mhlib and telnetlib documents from Skip Montanaro -- thanks, Skip!
1999-03-15 15:44:18 +00:00
bf5a6d2eb4
Fixed tons of small markup problems.
1999-03-12 19:57:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
Guido van Rossum
Jeremy Hylton