Fred Drake
ba5c41d4c5
Clarified the interaction between string literals and continuation lines.
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Fixes bug reported as SF bug #453728 .
2001-09-06 18:41:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
8b09f4985c
Make the examples for "Default Argument Values" more presentable and
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less hostile to newbie use at the interactive prompt.
This is in response to SF bug #458654 .
2001-09-06 18:21:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
9c75ff785a
Fix parameter for PyInt_Check().
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Add refcount information for other recently documented APIs.
2001-09-06 18:06:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
f8d7a5d391
Document the PyMethod_* type object, functions, and macros.
2001-09-06 17:12:44 +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
Fred Drake
4d17b303bb
Several updates to cover omissions noted by Rich Salz.
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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.
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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.
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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
7c82a3e0fc
Patch #449815 : Set filesystemencoding based on CODESET.
2001-09-05 17:09:48 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
2f0047af3b
Note some changes that I need to write about
2001-09-05 14:53:31 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
44f8696171
Patch #428326 : New class threading.Timer.
2001-09-05 13:44:54 +00:00
Tim Peters
7eea37e831
At Guido's suggestion, here's a new C API function, PyObject_Dir(), like
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__builtin__.dir(). Moved the guts from bltinmodule.c to object.c.
2001-09-04 22:08:56 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
33a3b63e21
Correction: the Borland C port isn't fully operational yet
2001-09-04 21:25:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
757f7809e1
Add more detail to the descriptions of the shutil functions.
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This closes SF bug #458223 .
2001-09-04 18:26:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
c05fc7dd9d
Added documentation for sys.maxunicode and sys.warnoptions.
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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
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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
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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.
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This closes SF bug #457100 .
2001-09-01 02:35:23 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
0e03f588f5
Add Jack Jansen's explanation of the MacOS X changes
2001-08-30 21:30:16 +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
Neil Schemenauer
55cdc88c09
Update documentation for GC API. Closes SF patch #421893 .
2001-08-30 15:24:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
3c0fc84b15
Update the links to the FIPS document that defines the Secure Hash
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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
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when that test is doomed to deadlock.
2001-08-30 05:16:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
f9dc04341d
Fix a minor markup typo.
2001-08-29 02:34:10 +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
Andrew M. Kuchling
0ab31b8562
Add METH_O and METH_NOARGS change
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Rewrite snprintf() item a bit
Bump version number
2001-08-29 01:16:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
b5f17f2dc5
Revise comments about TeX & LaTeX for accuracy.
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This closes SF bug #456222 .
2001-08-28 18:09:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
d800cff80d
Added explanation that [...] * n generates shallow copies of [...], so
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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
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while \0 doesn't do what one might expect, \g<0> does.
2001-08-28 12:50:03 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
8c64a54f75
Refcount info for PyString_FromFormat() and PyString_FromFormatV().
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Closes SF patch #455666 .
2001-08-28 02:32:04 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
c86aa57f58
Documentation for PyString_FromFormat() and PyString_FromFormatV().
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Closes SF patch #455666 .
2001-08-28 02:31:28 +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
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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
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platform dependent. See SF bug 434143.
2001-08-22 12:43:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
16bb41934c
New \grammartoken markup, similar to \token but allowed everywhere.
2001-08-20 21:36:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
2a274a7e41
Add another name.
2001-08-20 21:33:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
cc8f44b884
Split "Extending & Embedding" into separate files, one per chapter.
2001-08-20 19:30:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
31d833d575
Added documentation for BoundedSemaphore(), contributed by Skip Montanaro.
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This closes SF patch #452836 .
2001-08-20 18:49:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
0e40c3d012
Document PyTuple_GET_SIZE(), removing confusing sentence from PyDict_Copy()
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description.
This fixes SF bug #453111 .
2001-08-20 16:48:59 +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
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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
2dc07946bf
Make sure that ampersand escaping is still performed on the contents of
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local module tables (the lists of modules documented within a chapter,
inserted at the beginning of the chapter). If this is not done here,
the text is not part of the resulting documents when latex2html does the
processing normally.
This fixes a little bit more of SF bug #451556 .
2001-08-17 17:20:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
cb19976f1a
fix_font(): Instead of using a long if/elsif cluster, use a bloody
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dictionary. Added some entries to the dictionary to fix part of
SF bug #451556 .
2001-08-16 21:56:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
457c4190f9
Fix typo reported by Joonas Paalasmaa: dada-->data
2001-08-16 21:25:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
739282da83
Re-write the description of the os.spawn*() functions, and cover the
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whole family instead of just two.
This closes SF bug #451630 .
2001-08-16 21:21:28 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
e3eb1f2b23
Patch #427190 : Implement and use METH_NOARGS and METH_O.
2001-08-16 13:15:00 +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
87731762f2
Dave Kuhlman has contributed a nice improvement to the "Defining New Types"
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section of the Extending & Embedding manual -- thanks!
2001-08-15 19:00:29 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
94a7eba9db
Note addition of cleanfuture.py
2001-08-15 15:55:48 +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
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
0cac5f697b
Added some examples of table markup.
2001-08-14 21:36:19 +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
d3ba10f4b5
Clarify the prompt in an example.
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This closes SF bug #450633 .
2001-08-14 19:55:42 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
5ef99a0bc5
Describe the new semantics for setting and deleting a function's
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__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
Fred Drake
680cabb225
Add "exceptions" to the list of fundamental modules
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created by Py_Initialize().
This closes SF bug #450621 .
2001-08-14 15:32:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
280f7253e4
Insert omitted "the".
2001-08-14 11:42:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
bf781a95c0
Add the smtpd module to the list of undocumented modules; Barry needs to
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write the documentation for this module.
2001-08-14 11:38:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
6943a29cbf
David Goodger <dgoodger@atsautomation.com>:
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Documentation for difflib/ndiff refactoring: more of the ndiff functionality
has been moved to the underlying library (difflib).
This closes SF patch #445413 .
2001-08-13 19:31:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
84e58ab722
For the escape() function, added a reference to the quoteattrs() function
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in xml.sax.saxutils, since that is the right function to use for quoting
attribute values.
This closes SF bug #444707 .
Cleaned up a variety of other minor markup errors.
2001-08-11 03:28:41 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
9e9c1358e8
Add section on PEP 238 changes
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Minor grammatical changes, reformattings, and an error fix from Keith Briggs
2001-08-11 03:06:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
1cf0f1751f
Add a note that the quoteattr() function is useful for HTML and SGML
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attributes as well.
2001-08-10 22:14:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
11ee90289c
Added documentation for PyDict_Update() and PyDict_Merge().
2001-08-10 21:31:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
1cb560a653
Do more to be compatible with Windows/CygWin. Make error messages more
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informative when a child process dies with an error.
This is a variation of parts of SF patch #429611 .
2001-08-10 20:17:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
9443dc31c1
Remove the use of the "cat" program. This improves portability to non-Unix
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platforms.
This is part the response to SF patch #429611 .
2001-08-10 20:12:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
8a7b59e7b4
Added this LaTeX style file to the package since not all LaTeX installations
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have it, especially on non-Unix platforms. (MikTeX in particular does not
have it.)
This is part of the response to SF patch #429611 .
2001-08-10 19:47:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
d635e3c468
Added a warning about reference cycles and memory consumption to the
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section on functions which return stack frames.
This closes SF bug #449258 .
2001-08-10 17:37:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
6d8d72b0cb
Usage fix, problem reported by Keith Briggs.
2001-08-10 16:15:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
e89659c02d
Added documentation for the new rich comparison support.
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This closes SF patch #428320 .
Added documentation for the new floordiv() and truediv() functions.
This is part of SF bug #449093 .
Re-organized the listing of functions to get better logical grouping.
2001-08-10 15:55:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
024ef6f493
Remove the bogus flags parameter from the PyFile_WriteString() signature;
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it has no such parameter.
This closes SF bug #449761 .
2001-08-10 14:27:38 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
9b75dca192
Expose nl_langinfo through locale where available.
2001-08-10 13:58:50 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
8cc965c1fb
Patch #448474 : Add support for tell() and seek() to gzip.GzipFile.
2001-08-09 07:21:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
0197858f62
Added documentation for PyNumber_*FloorDivide(), PyNumber_*TrueDivide(),
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PyInterpreterState_*Head(), PyInterpreterState_Next(), and
PyThreadState_Next().
Wrapped some long lines, added some others.
2001-08-08 19:14:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
03590c6bdc
Reference counting information for PyNumber_*FloorDivide() and
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PyNumber_*TrueDivide().
2001-08-08 18:50:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
e54acfd8b2
Add option to push the development docs to SF without announcing, for
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when the changes are just too small.
2001-08-08 05:41:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
ecab00176f
More names....
2001-08-08 05:39:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
3a5ec57456
Clean up some of the markup here -- be more consistent in the use of
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semantic labels instead of presentational markup.
2001-08-08 05:39:29 +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
Andrew M. Kuchling
8c69c91be3
Document two new items
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Correct error noticed by Keith Briggs
Re-indent a paragraph
2001-08-07 14:28:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
58212724f2
Add a comment on time.time() returning non-decreasing values except when
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the clock is set back.
This closes SF bug #447945 .
2001-08-05 15:43:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
c9908c4f5c
Document IPv6 changes. Contributed by itojun.
2001-08-04 22:22:45 +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
Fred Drake
b3cc29b493
Note that the mimetypes.MimeTypes class was added in Python 2.2.
2001-08-04 00:48:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
d5efb17086
Add documentation for the new aspects of the mimetypes module.
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This closes the SF bug (feature request) #439710 .
2001-08-03 21:03:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
d86038d1be
Apply the new \mailheader macro where appropriate, and fix a few small
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markup inconsistencies.
2001-08-03 18:39:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
7eac0cb04c
Define the \mailheader macro and document conventions for using it.
2001-08-03 18:36:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
30cf118cf7
Minor markup nits and slight style-guide conformance changes.
2001-08-03 17:11:33 +00:00
Jack Jansen
cb60dae6a1
Documented the runtimemodel attribute.
2001-08-03 13:19:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
5d54879647
Fix some of the example code; the reference objects do not support a
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get() method; just calling them is sufficient. (There was a get() method
for this in an early version of the implementation.)
Reported by Mats Wichmann.
2001-08-03 03:50:28 +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
51629c245a
Add a caveat about boundary conditions and RE concatenation, so that the
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documents do not make an overly-strong assertion about the properties of
RE concatenation.
Add an example of RE{m,} syntax and what it will and will not match.
2001-08-02 20:52:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
f90490ef94
Move away from apply() to using extended call syntax for some example
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fragments when discussing equivalence of thhe C API to what a Python
programmer sees.
Added descriptions of PyEval_SetProfile() and PyEval_SetTrace().
2001-08-02 18:00:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
044bb4d22a
Explain that __init__() methods do not get to return values.
2001-08-02 15:53:05 +00:00