Fred Drake
18d8d5a708
Fix minor usage and consistency nits.
2001-09-18 17:58:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
ed5a7ca5ee
Work around a LaTeX2HTML bug that caused the "m" in "mutable" to be dropped
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in one place.
2001-09-10 15:16:08 +00:00
Tim Peters
d507dab91f
SF patch #455966 : Allow leading 0 in float/imag literals.
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Consequences for Jython still unknown (but raised on Jython-Dev).
2001-08-30 20:51:59 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson
53da317801
Docs for the PEP 264 changes.
2001-08-27 20:02:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
c0cf726d8c
Add material about the "r" and "u" prefixes for string literals; should
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be reviewed for clarity.
Work around a bogosity in the HTML version of the escape sequences table
conversion.
2001-08-14 21:43:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
3e2aca48bd
Add information about __floordiv__() and __truediv__() methods for
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implementing numeric objects in Python.
2001-08-14 20:28:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
a7d608d1cf
"Thin" version of floor division docs: add // to the list of operators
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and //= to the list of other delimiter tokens.
I'll work on it again when it's not so late...
2001-08-08 05:37:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
8dd6ffd0ec
User-defined methods *can* contain things other than user-defined functions
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as the callable, so use more flexible language.
2001-08-02 21:34:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
044bb4d22a
Explain that __init__() methods do not get to return values.
2001-08-02 15:53:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
9079164bdf
Removed unnecessary section "Unicode literals"; all the discussion is
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already present in the "String literals" section, including comments on
the "u" prefix and the additional escape sequences used for Unicode.
This relates to SF bug #442526 .
2001-07-20 15:33:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
0825dc2427
Fix typo in description of raw strings: "value" --> "valid"
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This closes SF bug #443059 .
2001-07-20 14:32:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
6e5e1d924c
Minor change to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:12:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
cb4638a278
Change the grammar productions to use the new productionlist environment;
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this supports a hyperlinked version of the grammar that can make tracking
down details and definitions a little easier.
2001-07-06 22:49:53 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
e7e03cd0cf
Fix typo
2001-06-23 16:26:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
be9d10edbb
Remove some bogus trailing whitespace.
2001-06-23 06:16:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
93852ef3c8
Fix minor markup nits.
2001-06-23 06:06:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
deda9f3420
Use a named reference to another chapter instead of hard coding the
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chapter number. This also makes the reference a hyperlink in the HTML
version.
2001-06-23 06:06:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
2829f1cf99
Fix a very minor (but annoying when looking for things!) markup nit.
2001-06-23 05:27:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
f5eae668a8
Add "yeild" to the list of keywords.
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Fix a very minor (but annoying when looking for things!) markup nit.
2001-06-23 05:26:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
d5df09cfb6
Update to include the license information in a less annoying place.
2001-06-20 21:37:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
88382696f4
Update a "Programmer's note" about lambda forms and scoping to reflect
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the availability of nested scoping in Python 2.1 and 2.2.
2001-06-05 02:17:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
597bc1d46f
Bring the notes on the relationship between __cmp__(), __eq__(), and
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__hash__() up to date (re: use of objects which define these methods
as dictionary keys).
This closes SF bug #427698 .
2001-05-29 16:02:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
b9879e1020
Fix typo reported in SF bug #427783 .
2001-05-29 15:44:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
b3384d3555
Make sure we include all of Python's numeric types in the data model
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description, so that the introduction of complex is not a surprise.
This closes SF bug #423429 .
2001-05-14 16:04:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
7c116d7acb
Fix typo reported by David Goodger. This closes SF patch #422383 .
2001-05-10 15:09:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
b8ac0096b2
Fix the operator precedence table: exponentiation binds tighter than
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negation.
This closes SF bug #421999 .
2001-05-09 16:51:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
0dbb4fba4c
Implement, test and document "key in dict" and "key not in dict".
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I know some people don't like this -- if it's really controversial,
I'll take it out again. (If it's only Alex Martelli who doesn't like
it, that doesn't count as "real controversial" though. :-)
That's why this is a separate checkin from the iterators stuff I'm
about to check in next.
2001-04-20 16:50:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
62effc1127
Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping.
2001-04-13 15:55:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
fb8ffe6b5e
Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping.
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Wrap some long lines and fix some markup nits.
2001-04-13 15:54:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
24e7a29292
Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by
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Ping on the Doc-SIG mailing list.
2001-04-12 12:37:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
e2645775d1
Typo: "ariables" --> "variables"
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This fixes SF bug #411118 .
2001-03-28 16:55:53 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
aa90adcfb9
Add nested scopes spec to appendix.
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Add new opcodes LOAD_CLOSURE, LOAD_DEREF, STORE_DEREF, MAKE_CLOSURE to
docs for dis module.
Add docs for new function and code members in Sec. 3 of ref manual.
They're present regardless of whether nested scopes are used.
Remove description of default argument hack from Sec. 7 of the ref
manual and refer the reader to the appendix.
2001-03-23 17:23:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
a9d0450f72
No quotes around the "future" in the first use of the term "future
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statement".
2001-03-23 16:47:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
557c1ae150
Include the futures appendix.
2001-03-23 16:21:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
39778b705d
Revise the markup so that this formats and uses markup consistently with
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the rest of the documentation.
2001-03-23 16:20:46 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
324cc6ee0e
Add some initial text for the appendix on future statements and nested scopes.
2001-03-23 15:29:54 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
2c84fc8a7d
Note that assignments to __debug__ are illegal
2001-03-23 14:34:06 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
e702481d38
Revert to ver 1.22, which was the version before the nested scopes
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docs were introduced. This loses a few small changes, but Fred says
that's okay.
2001-03-23 14:05:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
859eb62108
Do not refer to "sub-modules" since that is not a defined term.
2001-03-06 07:34:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
ac79e95167
Re-word the explanation of the in/not in operators for increased content
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and clarity.
Add a footnote to the information on the possibility of shadowing builtins
with locals & module globals.
2001-03-06 07:32:11 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
7a5e80e801
Updates to describe function attributes.
2001-02-27 03:36:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
230d17d0d1
Sequence indexes are non-negative, not natural (0 is not a natural number).
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Reported by Daniel May <mayds@ecn.purdue.edu>.
De-tabified everywhere.
2001-02-22 21:28:04 +00:00
Tim Peters
7530208d8b
Feeble attempt to repair obsolete info about hex escapes.
2001-02-14 04:03:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
667c9e46ca
Minor markup adjustments.
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Move some index entries next to what they are referring to for better
"targetting".
2001-02-02 02:43:18 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
3faa52ecc4
Allow 'continue' inside 'try' clause
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SF patch 102989 by Thomas Wouters
2001-02-01 22:48:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
c2e35e6f37
Remove spurious "\end{description}" that caused formatting to fail.
2001-02-01 15:37:56 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
0eb107068a
update section 4.1 to describe nested scopes
2001-02-01 03:50:59 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
10f8ba4fc6
Remove note about the compiler not checking for two kinds of illegal
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imports. It checks for them now.
2001-01-30 01:25:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
2f4453af6a
Typo: coplete --> complete
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This closes SF bug #129759 .
2001-01-26 15:27:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
c8e8281fb6
Updated note about collection of cyclic garbage, based on comments from
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Chris Ryland.
2001-01-22 17:46:18 +00:00