Fred Drake
39d4a0237a
Fixed typo in explanation of abspath(); noticed by Paul Prescod
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<paul@prescod.net>.
1999-10-18 14:10:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
933d5a7c6e
os.name: Note that 'java' is one of the registered names.
1999-09-17 14:38:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
e6fb1c4bd3
Added documentation for inet_aton() and inet_ntoa(), from Ben
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Gertzfield <che@debian.org> (with minor changes).
(Should have been here instead of in the branch in the first place,
since these weren't in for the 1.5.2 release.)
1999-09-16 15:50:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
244ad3ca15
Name the parameter to expr() and suite() "source" instead of "string".
1999-09-09 14:16:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e7f19200e8
Doco update from Sjoerd Mullender.
1999-08-26 15:57:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
b68a125d64
Added additional index entries.
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Minor markup nits.
1999-08-24 20:16:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
76dd228f52
whrandom should come immediately after random, not before.
1999-08-23 20:12:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
7eba1d8bbe
Tell what the result objects are (based on comment from the list).
1999-08-19 17:00:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
b3fc9d148d
Added disclaimer to the sleep() function.
1999-08-19 14:42:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
31e5e37196
Explain the possible range of values for the pid parameter to
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waitpid().
1999-08-13 13:36:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
68921dfa31
In note mentioning [].remove()'s exception, tell what exception is
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raised. Prompted by Barry's whining. ;-0
1999-08-09 17:05:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
d3fbdfd007
Add index entries for open():
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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
8c9fc00f8d
Add index entry "I/O control, buffering" for fdopen().
1999-08-05 13:41:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
a94f6762bc
Add index entry "I/O control, buffering" for makefile().
1999-08-05 13:41:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
068bdb181d
Change the directory tree walking example to use clearer variable
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names, some suggested by Joe Ellsworth.
1999-08-03 21:52:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
c71b802c47
Markup nits.
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Adjust examples to use the object interface instead of the function
interface.
1999-08-02 14:30:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
ce201128b0
Fixed hyperlink references to the __builtin__ and __main__ modules;
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error reported by Dale Nagata <DNagata@creo.com>.
1999-08-02 14:13:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
8d21243c3e
Added description of optional parameter to UserDict constructor.
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Omission reported by Barry Warsaw.
1999-07-26 15:45:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
de5d5ce7bc
Update getattr() description to document the optional third
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parameter. Thanks to Barry Warsaw for pointing out the oversight.
1999-07-22 19:21:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
5d48e458e4
typo: privide --> provide
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Reported by Nadim Ghaznavi <nadim@ghaznavi.com>.
1999-07-20 13:21:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
6db897c52c
Move chdir() and getcwd() descriptions to "Files and Directories" with
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a pointer from the "Process Parameters" section. Based on comments
from Aahz Maruch, Tim Peters, and GvR.
1999-07-12 16:49:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
3a4ceb707d
Several methods return tuples, not lists.
1999-07-07 14:04:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
363d67c2e6
Move some misc. comments from the example section to the main section.
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Use the lowercase versions of the method names in the example, since
that's what's documented (Greg Stein's suggestion). Add a blank line
after the import line for clarity.
1999-07-07 13:42:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
1508970a47
dir() method description revised based on comments from Greg Stein.
1999-07-07 13:36:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
6166b871a2
Missing space; reported by Robert Kern <kernr@ncifcrf.gov>.
1999-07-06 21:00:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
d5dfe984e7
Fix a number of minor problems pointed out by /F.
1999-07-06 15:50:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
0d6e6e0b39
Fixed typo reported by /F; thanks!
1999-07-06 15:43:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
82ac24ffb0
Minor markup nit.
1999-07-02 14:29:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
0452007dcc
Added entry for asyncore module.
1999-07-02 14:27:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
41796918af
Fix a few markup nits, improve some index entries.
1999-07-02 14:25:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
7d80779532
New documentation from Chris Petrilli <petrilli@amber.org>.
1999-07-02 14:25:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
227020894a
For spawn*(), point to the magic constants; some readers have a hard
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time finding the bindings.
1999-07-02 14:01:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
e4694eba0f
Removed entries for several modules which have been documented.
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Updated comments on several remaining modules.
1999-07-01 20:42:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
4c8d83f311
Documentation for dl module from Moshe.
1999-07-01 20:40:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
44a7a7c5d0
Added entry for dl module.
1999-07-01 20:39:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
85b5683307
Remove extraneous "contains" -- pointed out by Daniel Barclay
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<danielb@digitalfocus.com>.
Added credit to Martin von Loewis for creating the module and
documentation.
1999-07-01 16:31:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
859dc53a52
Per Frank Stajano's suggestion, state explicitly that the functions
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described in the sub-sections are directly available at the module
level. He found this confusing.
1999-07-01 13:54:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
b216060627
Make the reference to the os module in the module synopsis (for the
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table at the front of the chapter) a hyperlink.
1999-07-01 13:53:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
3d0971e33e
For "Matching vs. Searching", remove comment that the section is
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incomplete; I don't remember what else I thought I was going to put
in, but it looks o.k. to me know.
1999-06-29 21:21:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
6bf37debb9
Added some minor prose before the descriptions of the data attributes
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to make it clear that these are instance attributes, not module data.
1999-06-29 18:13:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
abc64b74c8
Added entry for pty module.
1999-06-29 18:12:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
a4b5d58790
pty documentation from Moshe; with small edits.
1999-06-29 18:11:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
31d10cbe26
Improve description of the example.
1999-06-29 17:08:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
f5213c2a3d
Usage nit: a bunch of "nor"s should have been a single "or".
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Make reference to the copy_reg module a hyperlink.
1999-06-29 16:02:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
8ad2703bfb
Minor wording change in section title.
1999-06-29 16:00:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
ac00c4c1c6
byteswap() method: Tell *what* exception gets raised when the type
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cannot be byteswapped.
1999-06-29 15:58:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
9118f7cfc4
Remove unnecessary comma.
1999-06-29 15:53:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
9e0b6229f6
Comment out XXX comment; this needn't appear in the formatted
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versions. XXX comments only need to be grep-able.
1999-06-29 15:45:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
ef1a029d4c
Add note about not being able to use this module with modules not
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implemented in Python.
1999-06-29 15:43:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
4886c66daf
Moshe: Remove extraneous "and".
1999-06-29 14:57:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
e4d78189e8
Added entries for mutex and nis modules.
1999-06-27 15:02:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
7fefba5c13
NIS documentation from Moshe.
1999-06-27 15:01:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
2231357aa6
Mutex documentation from Moshe.
1999-06-27 15:00:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
7a65a26f81
Separate documentation of SUNAUDIODEV from sunaudiodev; this mirrors
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similar constructs elsewhere (al/AL, gl/GL/DEVICE).
1999-06-27 14:53:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
14ae4b48fb
Fix some typos.
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Add an index entry.
1999-06-25 19:13:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
c4e3bf9b5e
Add entries for the sched module.
1999-06-25 18:54:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
7e990323b4
Moshe's section on the sched module, with edits.
1999-06-25 18:52:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
60b66e1f7b
Update to Sjoerd's documentation of the chunk module, with some
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additions from Moshe's version. Used my table for describing the
chunk format, and added some markup and index entries.
1999-06-25 17:52:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
cf6905f986
Clarify the example by explicitly importing the fcntl module -- this
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avoid being fooled into thinking that fcntl and FCNTL are the same
thing -- they aren't! (fcntl is the extension, FCNTL.py is h2py
output that defines all the constants).
(XXX The example is still weird -- I think there's a more portable way
to do locking now. That's for someone else to fix...)
1999-06-24 17:58:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
7c2426439e
Removed tty module entry.
1999-06-23 17:31:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
1b2dc9045e
Add entries for tty module.
1999-06-23 17:29:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
0bccd73be0
Updates from Moshe, again edited by me. Describe the parameters to
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border() using a table instead of text for ease of comprehension.
1999-06-23 17:28:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
92f3f41424
Added "See Also" section for termios module.
1999-06-23 15:12:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
ae4d5c23f5
Various updates.
1999-06-23 14:56:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
66239d5530
tty module documentation from Moshe, with some editing and an added
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"See also" section.
1999-06-23 14:30:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
af81a509c3
Added more sections...
1999-06-23 13:34:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
b742a42bc0
Two more from Moshe!
1999-06-23 13:33:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
707f8e67b9
Added entry for the chunk module.
1999-06-22 18:50:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
97793ab6b9
New section from Moshe Zadka, modified by FLD for markup, some
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additional content.
1999-06-22 18:49:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
0f871dc39e
Added some "See also" references to htmllib docs.
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Documented htmlentitydefs.
1999-06-21 21:20:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
2cd31dc3ea
Added entry for curses module.
1999-06-21 21:14:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
a4070cef5e
Preliminary documentation for the curses module by Moshe Zadka, with
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lots of markup fixes and some English nits fixed.
Still needs real review. Some of the function signatures used in this
module are really bad! (Two leading optional parameters? Ugh!)
1999-06-21 21:13:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
d5d55ea02e
Fix a markup error.
1999-06-21 18:36:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
4755e7d5c1
Three more modules documented by Moshe!
1999-06-21 18:25:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
6f49e0a154
Added a few minor comments, mostly to discourage documentation of
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really old modules that may become obsolete.
1999-06-18 19:58:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
a88ef00a50
Further clarfication of the system-dependence of the system() return
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value, based on comments from Tim Peters.
1999-06-18 19:11:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
46e1a32edf
Re-categorize the dump module as obsolete.
1999-06-18 17:12:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
354e98222c
fpformat has been documented for at least a week now!
1999-06-18 15:21:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
26921da2c9
Small markup & usage adjustments.
1999-06-17 18:58:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
173ba5e3bc
Minor markup nits.
1999-06-17 17:09:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
97c2fa03e5
Small English usage nits.
1999-06-17 16:38:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
7487c02209
Small markup and English usage nits.
1999-06-17 16:10:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
26da2840ac
Add/remove entries due to additional sections from Moshe.
1999-06-17 15:12:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
64bc94e3ec
New module documentation sections from Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>!
1999-06-17 15:11:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
c46864e982
Misc. changes related to the new sections.
1999-06-14 19:49:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
7df4dd7de2
Add entry for the fpformat module.
1999-06-11 18:36:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
1739d2f9ee
Documentation for the fpformat module by Moshe Zadka
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<mzadka@geocities.com>.
1999-06-11 18:31:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
4d5c87ba11
Declare the "util" module obsolete.
1999-06-10 21:17:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
ae0f292576
Fix typo reported by Robert Kern <kernr@ncifcrf.gov>.
1999-06-10 15:03:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
66ab4e8af2
Patch by Jim Fulton to document the new parse_qls().
1999-06-10 03:11:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
4727456d46
Add doc for timegm().
1999-06-09 15:11:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
7088df4c56
Removed old comments.
1999-05-13 16:20:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
184e8360e8
Added module references; minor grammatical fixes.
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All suggested by Eric Raymond.
1999-05-11 15:14:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
9ade7e0110
Added missing comma, reported by Eric Raymond.
1999-05-11 13:45:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
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
c0fcbc1ac6
Update starship URLs.
1999-04-29 02:30:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
505c49199a
Added "See also" reference to PyOpenGL.
1999-04-27 18:05:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
dcf17f3860
mhlib is now documented.
1999-04-23 22:24:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
a4966647ec
Markup consistency.
1999-04-23 22:22:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
1c7cd63a2b
Nits.
1999-04-23 22:03:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
957ac3fadb
Add section for the sha module.
1999-04-23 21:52:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
4aa4f30759
Work-around LaTeX2HTML space-dropping bug.
1999-04-23 17:30:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
deb7e096d3
Logical markup.
1999-04-23 17:11:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
806764bee4
No, __repr__() does not accept a parameter other than self.
1999-04-23 17:03:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
eea97ea063
Shorten the section title.
1999-04-23 16:07:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
86bd5e48c3
Shorten the section title.
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Fix a couple of grammatical errors.
1999-04-23 16:02:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
ae35aa8b63
Added "See also" sections linking to binascii.
1999-04-23 15:52:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
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
Fred Drake
ffbe68723a
Make internal module references hyperlinks wherever it makes sense.
1999-04-22 21:23:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
7b8b125fa6
Remove bogus characters in code sample.
1999-04-22 21:19:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
fcf94d4edd
Work around LaTeX2HTML comment-handling bug.
1999-04-22 20:55:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
4a406c619b
Shorten the section title.
1999-04-22 20:52:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
c8c40ff699
Added a "See also" section with some external references.
1999-04-22 20:16:02 +00:00