Marc-André Lemburg
3e3eacb5fc
Fixed "u#" parser marker to pass through Unicode objects as-is without
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going through the buffer interface API.
Added tests for this to the _testcapi module and updated docs.
2002-01-09 16:21:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
5f29319197
Replace the "Cookbook approach" with the approach documented in
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PC/example_nt/readme.txt; this one does not rely on any external scripts.
This "fixes" SF bug #221671 and most of SF bug #225003 .
2001-12-13 17:20:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
145b479508
Added discussion of protecting against screwing up the exception state in
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an object's deallocator, including an example of how to do this.
2001-12-11 19:28:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
44b3f76adf
More info about the cycle detector.
2001-12-07 17:57:56 +00:00
Tim Peters
874c4f0f99
Trivial spelling repair on new cyclic garbage text.
2001-12-07 17:51:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
024e647972
Added more information about reference counting limitations and the cycle
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detector.
This closes SF bug #484950 .
2001-12-07 17:30:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
92024d1a99
Clarify the description of the creation of an owned reference from an API
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function.
This closes SF bug #486657 .
2001-11-29 07:16:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
99181ac64e
Add an index entry for the discussion of PyEval_CallObject().
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This is related to SF bug #485165 .
2001-11-29 05:02:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
c37b65ee10
Clean up some markup cruft. A number of the macros that take no
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parameters (like \UNIX) are commonly entered using an empty group to
separate the markup from a following inter-word space; this is not
needed when the next character is punctuation, or the markup is the
last thing in the enclosing group. These cases were marked
inconsistently; the empty group is now *only* used when needed.
2001-11-28 07:26:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
ef6373a4f6
Exhibit good form in C code: always provide docstrings in method tables, and
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always fill in all slots of table entries.
Fixed a few minor markup errors.
2001-11-17 06:50:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
0aa811c527
Use the \note and \warning macros where appropriate.
2001-10-20 04:24:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7a59445e37
Document required return values -1, 0, 1 for tp_compare handler, as
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suggested in SF patch #424475 . Also document exception return.
2001-10-16 20:32:05 +00:00
Tim Peters
d38b1c74f3
SF [ #466125 ] PyLong_AsLongLong works for any integer.
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Generalize PyLong_AsLongLong to accept int arguments too. The real point
is so that PyArg_ParseTuple's 'L' code does too. That code was
undocumented (AFAICT), so documented it.
2001-09-30 05:09:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
3ab0ac7cd4
Remove comment that no longer applies.
2001-09-26 22:26:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
396ca574dd
Document the rule that Python.h must be included before any standard
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headers. This is the final checkin for SF bug #458768 .
2001-09-06 16:30:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
9b88b4c9e8
Do not #include <stdio.h> since Python.h already does that.
2001-09-06 16:20:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
adaca02f9e
Use the standard argument convention for main(), and conform to the
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Python/C style guide.
2001-09-06 16:17:24 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
da21ce3e31
On Fred's suggestion, convert sprintf() examples to use
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PyString_FromFormat(). Also fixed one grammar problem, and a few
other mark-up issues. Sample code not checked.
2001-08-29 01:41:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
cc8f44b884
Split "Extending & Embedding" into separate files, one per chapter.
2001-08-20 19:30:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Martin v. Löwis
4f1cd8bdcb
Patch #411138 : Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774 .
2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
7a889ceb1e
Minor change to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:27:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
15e33d828c
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
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translation more difficult, as well as reading the English more
difficult for non-native speakers.
2001-07-06 06:49:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
d5df09cfb6
Update to include the license information in a less annoying place.
2001-06-20 21:37:34 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg
6f15e5796e
Added new parser markers 'et' and 'et#' which do not recode string
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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
f531ad698c
Markup nit: For the Python documents, we use \empt instead of \textit.
2001-03-19 04:19:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
93fe96a3c8
Py_BuildValue(): Add "D" conversion to create a Python complex value from
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a Py_complex C value.
Patch by Walter Dörwald.
This closes SF patch #407148 .
2001-03-12 21:06:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
80d4c07775
There was a real leak in the "export a C API" example; fix that one.
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(There are too many initspam() functions; they need to be renamed
post-beta.)
2001-03-02 19:48:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
0539bfaaa4
There is no longer a -X option to the interpreter, so remove the comments
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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
f6a9617ba0
Michael Hudson <mwh21@cam.ac.uk>:
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New material on defining extension types. Thanks!
(Small markup adjustments made, but this is mostly as received.)
2001-02-19 19:22:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
bcb09fa33f
Worked around bug SF #125880 : changed the text of three sections that
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really nasty TeX source to "bleed" into the PDF "bookmarks".
2001-01-22 18:38:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
0ac000cd54
Updates to reflect pending changes to the XML conversion process.
2000-11-22 16:42:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
aa126e1e21
Corrected a number of typos reported by Gilles Civario
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<gcivario@users.sourceforge.net>.
This closes bug #122562 .
2000-11-17 18:20:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
4bc0aed3a6
Fix cut & paste error that describes three paramters when there are only
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two [bug #119729 ].
Update use of distutils.sysconfig that "broke" when Greg W. changed the API
[bug #119645 ].
2000-11-02 21:49:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
585698aa59
All acknowledgements have been moved to the Doc/ACKS file.
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Adjusted to reflect the rename of Setup.in to Setup.dist.
Added pointer to the "Distributing Python Modules" manual in the
appropriate place.
2000-10-26 17:19:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
4dc1a6d6ba
Added some comments on the interaction of reload() and extension modules.
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Based on comments from Chris Barker <cbarker@jps.net>.
2000-10-02 22:38:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
ed773ef78d
Include the new text on reporting bugs in a few useful places.
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This closes SourceForge bug #114792 .
2000-09-21 21:35:22 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg
3578b77312
Special case the "s#" PyArg_Parse() token for Unicode objects:
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"s#" will now return a pointer to the default encoded string data
of the Unicode object instead of a pointer to the raw UTF-16
data.
The latter is still available via PyObject_AsReadBuffer().
2000-09-21 21:08:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
1c25803647
Add a brief section on linking Python as an embedded scripting language.
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This closes SourceForge bug #110833 .
2000-09-08 22:54:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
4e15945fff
Markup errors: \cfuntion -> \cfunction
2000-08-11 17:09:23 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg
8b9835cdb2
Added descriptions of the new parser markers for PyArg_ParseTuple().
2000-08-03 19:38:07 +00:00
Greg Stein
c2844af87b
needs a space
2000-07-09 16:27:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
a83b68a143
Remove the only Py_PROTO in the docs.
2000-07-09 03:35:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
1739be50cb
Small grammatical correction from Frank Stajano. Added comment with
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suggestion from Frank for an example and further explanation.
2000-06-30 17:58:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
ec105d0993
Enhanced memory-reference information in the description of Py_BuildValue(),
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based on response from Frank Stajano <fstajano@uk.research.att.com>.
2000-06-28 16:15:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
2b9e180ec3
Added memory-reference information to the description of Py_BuildValue(),
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based on comments from Frank Stajano <fstajano@uk.research.att.com>.
2000-06-28 15:32:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
65e69002a2
Oops, better also note that the module initialization function must be
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extern "C" for C++.
2000-05-10 20:36:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
2d54523551
Section "The Module's Method Table and Initialization Function":
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Explain that the name of the initialization function must be
init<module>(). Omission noted by Daniel Kozan
<crum@dev-group.com>.
2000-05-10 20:33:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
25871c001f
Brian Hooper <brian_takashi@hotmail.com>:
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Added 'u' and 'u#' tags for PyArg_ParseTuple - these turn a
PyUnicodeObject argument into a Py_UNICODE * buffer, or a Py_UNICODE *
buffer plus a length with the '#'. Also added an analog to 'U'
for Py_BuildValue.
2000-05-03 15:17:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
3c3507fd4f
Documentation patch describing the 'u' and 'u#' format specifiers,
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from Brian Hooper <brian_takashi@hotmail.com>.
2000-04-28 14:43:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
54fd8452a1
Merge in changes from the 1.5.2p2 release.
2000-04-03 04:54:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
9fa76f1090
Use \citetitle in several places, and \programopt where appropriate.
1999-11-10 16:01:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
8779f648d2
Added descriptions of the t#, w, and w# PyArg_ParseTuple() format
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characters; these are the ones for the buffer interface.
1999-08-27 15:28:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
82ac24ffb0
Minor markup nit.
1999-07-02 14:29:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
a48a083edb
Added paragraph about potential re-initialization of extension
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modules; responding to suggestion by Robin Boerdijk
<Robin.Boerdijk@nl.origin-it.com>.
1999-06-18 19:17:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
5f342ac2a7
Always use "section" when referring to sections of a document, not "Section".
1999-04-29 02:47:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
a4a90ddeac
Clarify that the Modules/ directory is in an unpacked source
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distribution; this is not clear for Windows users.
1999-04-29 02:44:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
c0fcbc1ac6
Update starship URLs.
1999-04-29 02:30:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
52e2d51ef3
Fixed latex2html weirdness for a footnote.
1999-04-05 21:26:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
dc12ec8ca0
Fix a number of typos and small grammatical nits pointed out by Detlef
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Lannert <lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
Added a comment explaining the cast in the method table for the
keyword arguments sample code, in response to another comment by
Detlef.
1999-03-09 18:36:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
ba21d10d9b
Added note about *static* after description of *shared*.
1999-02-22 18:21:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
9226d8e8a8
Removed "This will be discussed later." where it's not. Reported by
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Clay Spence <cspence@sarnoff.com>; see entry in ../TODO.
1999-02-22 14:55:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
29fb54f0ca
Update note about the (...) format specifier for PyArg_ParseTuple().
1999-02-18 03:50:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
8e0151725d
Small updates and grammatical adjustments.
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Remove comment about this manual being out of date from the abstract.
1999-02-17 18:12:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
33698f818b
Removed old dynamic linking chapter.
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Integrated information on Windows DLLs from Chris Phoenix (Thanks!).
Added "Acknowledgements" area to thank contributing authors.
1999-02-16 23:06:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
3de61bc13f
Integrated notes on building extension modules on Windows, by Neil
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Schemenauer <neil_schemenauer@transcanada.com>.
Thanks, Neil!
1999-02-16 21:14:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
abfd7d6701
Small grammatical fix; missing comma.
1999-02-16 17:34:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
295fb434ed
Make it clear that Demo/embed/ is from the source distribution.
1999-02-16 17:29:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
ec9fbe90be
Added section "Providing a C API for an Extension Module" by Konrad
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Hinsen.
"\C{}" --> "C"
1999-02-15 16:20:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
f9918f25b1
Minor nit to prevent dropping a space in the HTML generation.
1999-02-05 18:30:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
d358afeec0
Document 'N' format character for Py_BuildValue -- like 'O' but doesn't INCREF.
1998-12-23 05:02:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
2f8592cbea
Ignore the byproducts of SGML/XML conversions for now.
1998-12-01 18:58:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
e743fd01ac
Rationalize a word-space markup to not break in the LaTeX->*ML
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conversion tools currently being constructed.
Add a chapter from Jim Fulton on using Misc/Makefile.pre.in. Still
preliminary. The "Dynamic Loading" chapter needs to be updated (and
possibly removed, since it's no longer an issue for most (any?)
users.
1998-11-24 17:07:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
5e8aa549d1
Update the example in "Calling Python Functions from C" to use
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METH_VARARGS conventions and PyArg_ParseTuple(), and document the flag
and where to look for PyArg_ParseTuple() info.
Response to comment from Don Bashford <bashford@scripps.edu>.
1998-11-16 18:34:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
9f86b662d1
Update to use a separate page for front matter.
1998-07-28 21:55:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
b85fbec83b
"ZeroDevisionError" --> "ZeroDivisionError"
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Thanks, AMK!
1998-04-13 00:50:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
e7957184d2
Change \sectcode to logical markup.
1998-04-04 07:17:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
dc40904a32
Hyphenate "built-in" for consistency.
1998-04-02 18:54:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
b789c70d05
Minor markup nits.
1998-04-02 16:19:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
a0dbddfcc0
Markup consistency nits.
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Fix indentation in code sample in PyArg_ParseTuple() section.
Added one index entry.
Fix include file reference in "Shared Libraries" to print <...> instead of
the upside-down versions of ! and ?.
1998-04-02 06:50:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
f3aa0e0627
Revert the index stuff to work better with LaTeX2HTML.
1998-03-17 06:23:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
7d20ffe245
Adjust the index inclusion for the new index support.
1998-03-09 16:39:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
cd05ca9762
Remove unnecessary blank line in long code sample.
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Remove a confusing article.
1998-03-07 05:32:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
3fe985fc28
Simplify some of the escaping around ']' in \item[...] markup in light of
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a fix to LaTeX2HTML from Ross Moore. Yeah!
1998-03-04 03:51:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
6659c30b67
Convert LaTeX support to create a new class of documents. HTML generation
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now requires LaTeX2HTML 98.1p1 or newer (& and is still in progress).
This means that doing things to change the formatting of the manuals (at the
"normal user" level, like A4 paper), can happen in just one place, rather
than in each document file.
1998-03-03 22:02:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
40e72f7fbd
Fix typo.
1998-03-03 19:37:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
d7bb3032c1
Marked reference to the Python Library Reference with \emph{}.
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Changed sample module creation of an exception to use PyErr_NewException().
Logical markup.
1998-03-03 17:52:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
3da06a69b9
Marked references to the other manuals as \emph{} in the abstract.
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Added \label{}s for logical addressing.
1998-02-26 18:49:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
2474d68548
Fix up description of 'S' format; as Dave Ascher pointed out, it
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was ungrammatical to the point of saying the opposite of what it
should say.
1998-02-26 17:07:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
628f59814e
Make sure the ']' in the content of the \item[] isn't used as the ending ']'.
1998-02-25 15:48:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
1aedbd8b0a
"--" --> "---" in two places.
1998-02-16 14:47:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
1e11a5c117
Remove \bcode / \ecode everywhere.
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Make all the indentations in {verbatim} environments have column 0 of the
listing in column 0 of the file.
Remove pagenumbering / pagestyle cruft.
1998-02-13 07:11:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
afcd589027
Retract the statement that all functions called by Python (even method
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defs) need to be declared extern "C" -- it seems to have no basis in
truth (any more?).
1998-02-05 19:59:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
b6e5032d9c
Added description of "D" format for PyArg_ParseTuple(), including example
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use with function name provided as well.
Wrapped up PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords() description and provided example
based on Geoff Philbrick's example to the mailing list.
1998-02-04 20:26:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
ca6567fb3f
Use \url{} to mark URLs.
1998-01-22 20:44:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
53396f66c1
Consistency: In two \section{} headers, change {\tt ...} to \sectcode{...}.
1998-01-19 02:48:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
af8a015c93
Consistency: "{\bf ...}" ==> "\strong{...}"
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"{\em ...}" ==> "\emph{...}"
Not at all sure what to do with "{\rm ...}".
Leaving it for now.
1998-01-14 14:51:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
4d4f9e726a
Removed \mytableofcontents; just use \tableofcontents.
1998-01-13 22:25:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
dca8792b52
Added openright option the the \documentclass{} for each of the manuals.
1998-01-13 16:53:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
0fd8268189
Revise prologue and frontmatter to use latex2e (not in 2.09 compatibility
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mode) and take advantage of changes in myformat.sty.
Change "C" to "\C{}" and "\code{NULL}" to "\NULL{}" everywhere for consistency
and control.
Started a description of PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords().
1998-01-09 05:39:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
fdacc58bfe
Added pointer to api.tex and note about the out-of-date-ness of this
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document.
1997-10-07 14:40:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
98046b90d0
Minor typo only.
1997-08-14 19:50:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e47da0ae04
AMK's megapatch:
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* \bcode, \ecode added everywhere
* \label{module-foo} added everywhere
* A few \seealso sections added.
* Indentation fixed inside verbatim in lib*tex files
1997-07-17 16:34:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
debf2e8a53
Fix dropped word.
1997-07-17 15:58:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
9231c8f176
Made a start with api.tex, the Python-C API Reference Manual.
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Removed extref.tex (which provided the starting point).
Also removed qua.tex, which is out of date and no longer needed.
1997-05-15 21:43:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7e924dd10d
Correct typo in PyArg_ParseTuple example.
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Add reference to DLD 3.3 at http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/DLD.html .
1997-02-10 16:51:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
d16ddb610a
Typos reported by Tamito Kajiyama.
1996-12-13 02:38:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
305ed11a74
Remove mention of HAVE_CONFIG_H
1996-08-19 22:59:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
267e80d4d4
Added doco for abstract interface
1996-08-09 21:01:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
ed39cd05c2
change warning about C++
1995-10-08 00:17:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7ec5957022
typo bf should be \bf
1995-04-07 15:35:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
b92112da0e
yet a better introduction
1995-03-20 14:24:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
f23e0fe3be
micro change
1995-03-18 11:04:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5049bcb164
another round (sigh :-( )
1995-03-13 16:55:23 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
16cd7f9f12
Moved author and date to boilerplate.tex.
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Added copyright.tex to all files.
Added descr of check_interval to libsys.tex.
Corrected lotsa typos in tut.tex (thanks to George M. Sipe).
Corrected mktuple (should be newtupleobject) example in ext.tex.
1994-10-06 10:29:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
16d6e7109d
Lots of small corrections by Andrew Kuchling (plus all new rotor docs)
1994-08-08 12:30:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6938f06047
Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunk
1994-08-01 12:22:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
fbee23e55b
Documented the fact that IRIX 5.x also supports Sun style shared
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libraries.
1994-01-01 17:32:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
83eb962528
* {lib,ref,ext,tut}.tex: added explicit \date{<date> \\ <release>}.
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* lib2.tex: change bogus \\var to \var.
1993-11-23 16:28:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6f0132f490
* text2latex.py: call main() instead of always processing ext.tex.
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* Makefile: added 'ext' to 'all' target
* ext.tex: more changes towards a readable text
* lib4.tex (posix): added set{uid,gid}
* lib2.tex (array): restored doc for typecode and itemsize (which were
there but not visible for dir())
1993-11-19 13:13:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
db65a6ce55
* ext.tex: did most of the tedious changes from plain ASCII text to LaTeX.
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* text2latex.py: automatically put function names in \code{}.
* lib.tex, ref.tex, ext.tex, qua.tex, tut.tex: use new P.O.Box number in
address.
1993-11-05 17:11:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7a2dba2a00
* ext.tex: documentation for extending, reference counts, and embedding
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(formerly ../misc/{EXTENDING,REFCNT,EMBEDDING}). Also affects Makefile.
* text2latex.py: script to do part of the conversion from an plain ASCI
text file (in my particular style) to LaTeX.
(Chapter/section/subsection headers, and verbatim sections.)
* partparse.py, texipre.dat, fix.el, Makefile: Minor cleanup of latex ->
info conversion process (at least it works again, and with less
debugging output). Removed fix.sh.
* lib1.tex (section{Built-in Functions}): adapt description of str() and
repr() to new situation.
* lib3.tex (Module os): added exec*() variants.
* lib3.tex (Module posix): added execve().
* lib2.tex (Module array): documented reality; remove typecode and
itemsize, add byteswap, rename read/write to fromfile/tofile, and
re-alphabetized.
* lib1.tex (Built-in Functions): renamed bagof() to filter().
1993-11-05 14:45:11 +00:00