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2021 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Tim Peters 2c9aa5ea8d Generalize file.writelines() to allow iterable objects. 2001-09-23 04:06:05 +00:00
Tim Peters 8a9c284437 Make difflib.ndiff() and difflib.Differ.compare() generators. This
restores the 2.1 ability of Tools/scripts/ndiff.py to start producing
output before the entire comparison is complete.
2001-09-22 21:30:22 +00:00
Tim Peters e0b2d7ac9a Add a function to compute a class's method resolution order. This is
easy for 2.2 new-style classes, but trickier for classic classes, and
different approaches are needed "depending".  The function will allow
later code to treat all flavors of classes uniformly.
2001-09-22 06:10:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 038d26410d Note that files are iterable; describe what the iterator returns.
This closes SF bug #463738.
2001-09-22 04:34:48 +00:00
Fred Drake c69205526a Added reference to Tutorial section on user-defined exceptions for
information on defining new exceptions.
This closes SF bug #443559.
2001-09-21 21:12:30 +00:00
Fred Drake e0af35eb69 Fill in a few more descriptions for xml.parsers.expat. 2001-09-20 20:43:28 +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
Marc-André Lemburg 494f2aea8e Docs and News item for the codecs.py additions. 2001-09-19 11:33:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 83eeef4b06 SF patch #461781 by Chris Lawrence: os.path.realpath - Resolve symlinks:
Once upon a time, I put together a little function
   that tries to find the canonical filename for a given
   pathname on POSIX. I've finally gotten around to
   turning it into a proper patch with documentation.
   On non-POSIX, I made it an alias for 'abspath', as
   that's the behavior on POSIX when no symlinks are
   encountered in the path.

   Example:
   >>> os.path.realpath('/usr/bin/X11/X')
   '/usr/X11R6/bin/X'
2001-09-17 15:16:09 +00:00
Tim Peters 5b7759f9db Fixed typo in new 'p' description. 2001-09-15 18:16:27 +00:00
Tim Peters 88091aae7e SF bug [#461674] struct 'p' format doesn't work (maybe)
Rewrote the 'p' description.
2001-09-15 18:09:22 +00:00
Tim Peters ad2dc3fc44 Update the warning about transporting marshals across boxes with different
ideas about sizeof(long).
2001-09-14 20:40:13 +00:00
Fred Drake f2a5f3f721 Markup adjustments for consistency. 2001-09-14 17:48:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f7fcf5eea6 SF patch #461413 (Gerhard Häring): Add STARTTLS feature to smtplib
This patch adds the features from RFC 2487 (Secure SMTP
   over TLS) to the smtplib module:

   - A starttls() function
   - Wrapper classes that simulate enough of sockets and
     files for smtplib, but really wrap a SSLObject
   - reset the list of known SMTP extensions at each call
     of ehlo(). This should have been the case anyway.
2001-09-14 16:08:44 +00:00
Fred Drake b9a96282f1 Admit that we'll never add the args for a "call" event to the profile
and trace functions; this now declares that None will be passed for the
"call" event.
This closes SF bug/suggestion #460315.
2001-09-13 16:56:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 098d7fae39 Document clearly that the only way to retrieve the return code from the
child processes is to use the Popen3 and Popen4 classes.
This fixes SF bug #460512.
2001-09-11 19:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 1c66f8965a Added entry for the hmac module. 2001-09-11 16:59:42 +00:00
Fred Drake aae8da18fd Documentation for the new login() method of the smtplib.SMTP class,
contributed by Gerhard Häring.
This is part of SF patch #460112.
2001-09-11 16:58:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 42706803cd Documentation for the new hmac module, contributed by Gerhard Häring.
This is part of SF patch #460112.
2001-09-11 16:56:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 2732cb4269 Added documentation on the getfirst() and getlist() methods of the
cgi.FieldStorage class.
This closes SF patch #453691.
2001-09-11 16:27:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 05a73b1f9a Update link to the PyOpenGL project in the "gl" module docs.
This closes SF bug #459256.
2001-09-06 19:23:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 00bb329521 Document the built-in iter() function. 2001-09-06 19:04:29 +00:00
Fred Drake a20c265aba Added an additional link to NIST information on secure hashing.
This closes SF bug #458785.
2001-09-06 18:59:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 4d17b303bb Several updates to cover omissions noted by Rich Salz.
This closes SF bug #458771.
2001-09-06 15:51:56 +00:00
Fred Drake f5072b9314 Document the "unixfrom" attribute of the rfc822.Message class.
Based on a patch by Skip Montanaro, this closes SF bug #458885.
2001-09-06 15:07:55 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis b0162f9afc Patch #416079: fix the debug string output when receiving telnet commands.
added all the telnet options known to arpa/telnet.h
added all the options registered with IANA as of today
added the possibility for the user to have it's own option negotiation callback
2001-09-06 08:51:38 +00:00
Skip Montanaro bb5a465ca9 typo... 2001-09-05 19:27:13 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 44f8696171 Patch #428326: New class threading.Timer. 2001-09-05 13:44:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 757f7809e1 Add more detail to the descriptions of the shutil functions.
This closes SF bug #458223.
2001-09-04 18:26:27 +00:00
Fred Drake c05fc7dd9d Added documentation for sys.maxunicode and sys.warnoptions.
Fixed a markup error which caused an em dash to be presented as a minus sign.
This closes SF bug #458350.
2001-09-04 18:18:36 +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
Fred Drake b86677079d Move the long minidom example to a separate file; \verbatiminput does the
right thing with page breaks in long examples, while the verbatim
environment does not.  This causes the example to wrap to the next page
instead of overwriting the page footer and bottom margin.
2001-09-02 06:07:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 481cf2c064 Added the "Host" header to the "GET" example.
This closes SF bug #457100.
2001-09-01 02:35:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 3c0fc84b15 Update the links to the FIPS document that defines the Secure Hash
Algorithm.  This closes SF bug #454917.
2001-08-30 14:42:40 +00:00
Tim Peters 692323488b Add a new function imp.lock_held(), and use it to skip test_threaded_import
when that test is doomed to deadlock.
2001-08-30 05:16:13 +00:00
Fred Drake d800cff80d Added explanation that [...] * n generates shallow copies of [...], so
the contents will be shared by multiple references.

This closes SF bug #455694.
2001-08-28 14:56:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 5cb29a49c8 Fix a number of minor markup errors, and improve the consistency a bit. 2001-08-28 14:25:03 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond 46ccd1dae5 Plant a mention in the description of backreferences of the fact that
while \0 doesn't do what one might expect, \g<0> does.
2001-08-28 12:50:03 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 53da317801 Docs for the PEP 264 changes. 2001-08-27 20:02:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 88e0b5bee0 SF patch #454553 by Walter Dörwald: auto-guess content-type header for
ftp urls.
2001-08-23 13:38:15 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 0f10f84028 indicate that mktime is platform-dependent. See SF bug 434143. 2001-08-22 12:44:27 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 5ff41d16a8 indicate that the years for which the calendar function will work are
platform dependent.  See SF bug 434143.
2001-08-22 12:43:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 31d833d575 Added documentation for BoundedSemaphore(), contributed by Skip Montanaro.
This closes SF patch #452836.
2001-08-20 18:49:00 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond 29bb115bae Clean up some argument profiles, enrich the docstring. 2001-08-20 13:16:30 +00:00
Tim Peters dbec7d2c16 Improve Windows time.clock() blurb; was missing return type and unit. 2001-08-19 01:38:03 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond b60f2d0977 Framework code for compilerlike scripts. 2001-08-18 09:24:38 +00:00
Barry Warsaw dbfe5e8507 Document that uu.decode() will always raise a uu.Error if out_file
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
Fred Drake 739282da83 Re-write the description of the os.spawn*() functions, and cover the
whole family instead of just two.


This closes SF bug #451630.
2001-08-16 21:21:28 +00:00
Fred Drake ce575bac5e Fix a minor typo and mark an exception name that was missed. 2001-08-14 21:51:50 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 5ef99a0bc5 Describe the new semantics for setting and deleting a function's
__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