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91 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Marc-André Lemburg b5507ecd3c Additional test and documentation for the unicode() changes.
This patch should also be applied to the 2.2b1 trunk.
2001-10-19 12:02:29 +00:00
Fred Drake e0063d20a7 Update the documentation for the isinstance() function to reflect recent
changes in the implementation.
Indented all descriptions consistently.
2001-10-09 19:31:08 +00:00
Tim Peters 3899d74c10 Make clear that tuple() accepts the same kind of arguments as list(). 2001-10-04 06:53:20 +00:00
Tim Peters af5910f025 The execfile() docs imply it acts on locals same as exec. But in truth
it acts more like assigning to keys in locals(), i.e. modifications to
function locals aren't reflected in the locals when execfile() returns.
2001-09-30 06:32:59 +00:00
Tim Peters 1c33daf143 Correct docs for long(float). 2001-09-30 06:18:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0d68246f01 Fix two typos in the text about compile(), and add two caveats from
recent user feedback: you must end the input with \n and you must use
\n, not \r\n to represent line endings.
2001-09-29 14:28:52 +00:00
Tim Peters 2e29bfbe1a Document new file() constructor, with the body of open()'s text, plus a
"new in 2.2" blurb at the end.  Replace open()'s text by pointing back
to file().
2001-09-20 19:55:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 00bb329521 Document the built-in iter() function. 2001-09-06 19:04:29 +00:00
Tim Peters 32f453eaa4 New restriction on pow(x, y, z): If z is not None, x and y must be of
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
Michael W. Hudson 53da317801 Docs for the PEP 264 changes. 2001-08-27 20:02:17 +00:00
Tim Peters 7321ec437b SF bug #444510: int() should guarantee truncation.
It's guaranteed now, assuming the platform modf() works correctly.
2001-07-26 20:02:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bf5a774bcb On int/long to the negative int/long power, let float handle it
instead of raising an error.  This was one of the two issues that the
VPython folks were particularly problematic for their students.  (The
other one was integer division...)  This implements (my) SF patch
#440487.
2001-07-12 11:27:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 91f2f26d75 Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
translation more difficult, as well as reading the English more
difficult for non-native speakers.
2001-07-06 19:28:48 +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
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
Marc-André Lemburg 6f77667a64 Backed out the unistr() builtin. 2001-01-19 21:36:19 +00:00
Fred Drake bc0b260a77 Minor markup cleaning, and one required fix in the unistr() description. 2001-01-18 18:09:07 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg ad7c98e264 This patch adds a new builtin unistr() which behaves like str()
except that it always returns Unicode objects.

A new C API PyObject_Unicode() is also provided.

This closes patch #101664.

Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg. Copyright assigned to Guido van Rossum.
2001-01-17 17:09:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 9c15fa7a0f Description of long(): A string parameter is no longer required to be
*decimal*.

This closes SF bug #127273.
2001-01-04 05:09:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 17383b9ad7 Added information about the %r string formatting conversion. Added note
about the interpretation of radix 0 for int(), and added description of
the optional radix argument for long().  Based on comments from Reuben
Sumner <rasumner@users.sourceforge.net>.

This closes bug #121672.
2000-11-17 19:44:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 1349437e4c When referring to namespaces, always say "namespaces" instead of
"name spaces".

Inconsistency noted by Keith Briggs <keith.briggs@bt.com>.
2000-09-12 16:23:48 +00:00
Fred Drake f96e0d203b Various clarifications and minor nits fixed. Affected descriptions of
input(), locals(), reload(), unicode(), and zip().
2000-09-09 03:33:42 +00:00
Fred Drake e581bb30c4 Small cleanups, and note when zip() entered the menagerie. 2000-08-17 22:30:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 8b168ba505 int() description: Fix markup to avoid image generation for math mode.
zip() description:  Fix broken markup, three small markup consistency nits,
	and one really minor usage nit.  Introduce use of \moreargs instead
	of hardcoding "..." with \optional.
2000-08-03 17:29:13 +00:00
Barry Warsaw faefa2a885 Both PEP 201 Lockstep Iteration and SF patch #101030 have been
accepted by the BDFL.

Added documentation for zip() builtin.
2000-08-03 15:46:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 30f76ffd00 Update version numbering from 1.6 to 2.0. 2000-06-30 16:06:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 8aa3bd9098 Make it clear that id() can return either a long integer or a plain integer. 2000-06-29 03:46:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 343301aaa4 unichr(),
unicode():  Added \versionadded{} annotations.
2000-04-06 15:06:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 665dd704a3 Note the exception raised when parameter to chr() is out of range. 2000-04-06 14:45:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 33d51841a3 Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
Documentation for unichr(), unicode(), update for ord().
2000-04-06 14:43:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 1e862e8a37 Update the description of int() to include the radix parameter;
omission noted on c.l.py by Aahz Maruch.

Swapped the order of the descriptions of int() and intern() so that
int() comes first (the functions are in alphabetic order).
2000-02-17 17:45:52 +00:00
Fred Drake d3fbdfd007 Add index entries for open():
buffer size, I/O
	I/O control, buffering
	line-buffered I/O
	unbuffered I/O
1999-08-05 13:43:08 +00:00
Fred Drake de5d5ce7bc Update getattr() description to document the optional third
parameter.  Thanks to Barry Warsaw for pointing out the oversight.
1999-07-22 19:21:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 697c779d98 Adjust indexing for __import__(); based on comments by Stefan Franke
<sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-06-10 22:09:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 1ea7c75687 Reflect recent patch for float % and divmod() by Tim Peters. Content
updates by Tim Peters, markup by FLD.
1999-05-06 14:46:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 9aa8543c84 open() description: Made it more clear that 'b' should always be
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
Guido van Rossum cb1f2420ea Document complex() with string arg. 1999-03-25 21:23:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8be229650d Document new builtin buffer(). Greg Stein. 1999-03-19 19:10:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 70a66c9d6d Add notes to __builtin__.float() and string.atof() that the NaN and Inf
results are possible but non-portable.
1999-02-18 16:08:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 951eea4733 atof() description: Add information about accepting 'NaN' to produce
the NaN value.
1999-02-18 03:49:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 87e611e441 Replace the docs for reduce with an adaptation of its docstring, which
was actually clearer!
1999-01-06 23:10:51 +00:00
Fred Drake d83675f344 "singed" --> "signed" (3 places)
Noticed by Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>.
1998-12-07 17:13:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8c2da61811 Add explicit example on how to import a submodule of a package using
__import__ and getattr().
1998-12-04 15:32:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5eabf3823b Clarify that min and max also take multiple arguments. 1998-11-25 18:53:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 2510d22048 Clarify the default buffering for open(). (Comment from Andrew Dalke
<dalke@bioreason.com>).
1998-11-02 18:57:34 +00:00
Barry Warsaw b2031f72d3 Document that apply() can now take any sequence in argument 2. 1998-10-01 15:35:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 607f802886 round(): Mark the second (optional) parameter as optional, since it's
described that way.

setattr():  Clarify that the attribute doesn't need to exist to be set.
1998-08-24 20:30:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 295da24eaf New section header style.
Fix up a few synopses.
1998-08-10 19:42:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5fdd119aba Clarify the + and b mode characters for open() a bit. 1998-07-29 21:05:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a7874d1505 Revert the change of revision 1.30. While it's in general a laudable
goal to use isinstance(x, y) instead of comparing type(x) to y, it
doesn't make sense to change this in the example code for the type()
builtin...
1998-06-22 14:07:36 +00:00