4ed6be7107
Import the keyword module instead of relying on our own list of
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reserved words. No longer need to import string.
2001-12-04 20:39:36 +00:00
41c6719fe4
Put the keywords back in alphabetical order. Apparently somebody
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didn't use reswords.py, as the comment clearly states. :-(
2001-12-04 20:38:44 +00:00
3570551d6f
Remove most references to __members__ and __methods__, leaving only one pair
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of references that now state that these attributes have been removed,
directing the reader to the dir() function.
This closes SF bug #456420 .
2001-12-03 17:32:27 +00:00
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
1336e99054
Fred observes that the typo was not the only problem with this sentence.
2001-11-14 21:38:13 +00:00
4a98f70a09
typo
2001-11-14 21:32:27 +00:00
08fd51509c
When describing "import *", add a level of indirection between "*" and the
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set of names imported (the "public names"), adding a definition of "public
names" that describes the use of __all__.
This closes SF bug #473986 .
Flesh out the vague reference to __import__().
2001-10-24 19:50:31 +00:00
0aa811c527
Use the \note and \warning macros where appropriate.
2001-10-20 04:24:09 +00:00
316141b333
Fix typo reported by Michael Soulier.
2001-10-18 15:22:23 +00:00
1350c07de3
Removed stray backslash (a typo -- my fault).
2001-10-01 20:25:26 +00:00
20524dbf36
The description of dictionary comparison was out of date. Rather than
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try to explain the complex general scheme we actually use now, I decided
to spell out only what equality means (which is easy to explain and
intuitive), leaving the other outcomes unspecified beyond consistency.
2001-10-01 20:22:45 +00:00
73921b0eec
Refer to the objects which define __len__(), __*item__(), and __iter__()
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as container objects rather than as mapping objects (in the index entries).
Change the section heading and intro sentence to be a little more general,
since that's how things have actually evolved.
2001-10-01 16:32:13 +00:00
18d8d5a708
Fix minor usage and consistency nits.
2001-09-18 17:58:20 +00:00
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
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
53da317801
Docs for the PEP 264 changes.
2001-08-27 20:02:17 +00:00
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
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
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
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
044bb4d22a
Explain that __init__() methods do not get to return values.
2001-08-02 15:53:05 +00:00
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
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
6e5e1d924c
Minor change to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:12:27 +00:00
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
e7e03cd0cf
Fix typo
2001-06-23 16:26:44 +00:00
be9d10edbb
Remove some bogus trailing whitespace.
2001-06-23 06:16:52 +00:00
93852ef3c8
Fix minor markup nits.
2001-06-23 06:06:52 +00:00
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
2829f1cf99
Fix a very minor (but annoying when looking for things!) markup nit.
2001-06-23 05:27:20 +00:00
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
d5df09cfb6
Update to include the license information in a less annoying place.
2001-06-20 21:37:34 +00:00
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
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
b9879e1020
Fix typo reported in SF bug #427783 .
2001-05-29 15:44:27 +00:00
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
7c116d7acb
Fix typo reported by David Goodger. This closes SF patch #422383 .
2001-05-10 15:09:36 +00:00
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
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
62effc1127
Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping.
2001-04-13 15:55:25 +00:00
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
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
e2645775d1
Typo: "ariables" --> "variables"
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This fixes SF bug #411118 .
2001-03-28 16:55:53 +00:00
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
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
557c1ae150
Include the futures appendix.
2001-03-23 16:21:15 +00:00
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
324cc6ee0e
Add some initial text for the appendix on future statements and nested scopes.
2001-03-23 15:29:54 +00:00
2c84fc8a7d
Note that assignments to __debug__ are illegal
2001-03-23 14:34:06 +00:00
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
859eb62108
Do not refer to "sub-modules" since that is not a defined term.
2001-03-06 07:34:00 +00:00
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
7a5e80e801
Updates to describe function attributes.
2001-02-27 03:36:30 +00:00
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
7530208d8b
Feeble attempt to repair obsolete info about hex escapes.
2001-02-14 04:03:51 +00:00
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
3faa52ecc4
Allow 'continue' inside 'try' clause
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SF patch 102989 by Thomas Wouters
2001-02-01 22:48:12 +00:00
c2e35e6f37
Remove spurious "\end{description}" that caused formatting to fail.
2001-02-01 15:37:56 +00:00
0eb107068a
update section 4.1 to describe nested scopes
2001-02-01 03:50:59 +00:00
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
2f4453af6a
Typo: coplete --> complete
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This closes SF bug #129759 .
2001-01-26 15:27:35 +00:00
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
ab782dd6cc
Document rich comparisons.
2001-01-18 15:17:06 +00:00
34bafcc079
Fix a variety of minor nits and typos caught by Chris Ryland
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<cpr@emsoftware.com>.
2001-01-14 02:57:14 +00:00
347a62505c
Steve Holden <sholden@holdenweb.com>:
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Clarify the handling of characters following backslashes in raw strings.
2001-01-09 21:38:16 +00:00
445f832060
__rcmp__() description: Changed to indicate that this is no longer
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supported as of Python 2.1. We still need to
have an entry for this since it is reasonable
for users to want to understand existing code.
This closes SF bug #122715 .
2001-01-04 15:11:48 +00:00
48c2eb9165
Document the NotImplemented object.
2001-01-04 01:25:50 +00:00
2cba0f641f
Improve description of else clause of the try/except/else statement.
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This closes (again!) bug #127098 .
2001-01-02 19:22:48 +00:00
8e2b6b5cc7
Change documentation of 'else' clause of 'try/except' to make clear that it
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doesn't get triggered by 'return', 'break' or 'continue'. If the
'try-inside-continue' patch does not get accepted before next release, the
'or continue' should be removed ;P
Closes SF patch #103045 and SF bug #127098 .
2000-12-31 22:52:59 +00:00
68abe832b9
Fix typo
2000-12-19 14:09:21 +00:00
dea764d7f1
Updated string literals description to encompass Unicode literals and the
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additional escape sequences defined for Unicode.
This closes bug #117158 .
2000-12-19 04:52:03 +00:00
035f7e88c8
Clarify __repr__ and __str__.
2000-12-19 04:18:13 +00:00
dc90cc2b15
Additional docs for __iadd__ and family, closing SF bug #117178 and SF patch
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#102169 .
2000-12-11 23:11:51 +00:00
2a22200ab4
Adjust explanation of operator precedence summary -- exponentiation groups
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from right to left!
Closes bug #125391 .
2000-12-11 22:39:24 +00:00
c3b18d7ca8
Fix error noted by Gerrit Holl (old; had been buried in my INBOX):
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sequence repitition works just fine with long integers now, so we
should not say that only plain integers are allowed.
2000-12-07 04:54:02 +00:00
0c47559352
Added a note that objects which emulate built-in types should only
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implement as many of the relevant methods as make sense for the particular
information being modelled.
2000-12-07 04:49:34 +00:00
0ac000cd54
Updates to reflect pending changes to the XML conversion process.
2000-11-22 16:42:37 +00:00
2ed27d3189
Note that readframes() returns data in linear format, even if the original
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is encoded in u-LAW format. Based on suggestion from Anthony Baxter
<anthony_baxter@users.sourceforge.net>.
This closes bug #122273 .
2000-11-17 19:05:12 +00:00
f89259786a
Denis S. Otkidach <ods@users.sourceforge.net>:
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Show how code can be written to handle __getslice__ & friends in a way that
is compatible with pre-2.0 versions of Python while still working with the
"new" way of handling slicing.
Additional explanation added by Fred Drake.
This closes SourceForge patch #101388 .
2000-09-21 22:27:16 +00:00
d68442b164
Lots of minor fixes, many suggested by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
2000-09-21 22:01:36 +00:00
31575ce817
Note that __getitem__() may receive a slice object as the index;
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reported by Detlef Lannert <lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
2000-09-21 05:28:26 +00:00
8d27f898b2
Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>:
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Document the __contains__() method.
(Patch slightly modified by FLD.)
This closes SourceForge patch #101387 .
2000-09-19 18:21:25 +00:00
1156f62348
Many small clarifications, including many suggested by email.
2000-09-19 18:10:05 +00:00
31f5550fbe
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>:
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Reference manual docs for augmented assignment.
This closes SourceForge patch #101418 .
2000-09-12 20:32:18 +00:00
b655939d69
add index entries for list comprehensions
2000-09-11 16:31:55 +00:00
33f785fc1e
Document "print >> None"
2000-08-29 04:57:34 +00:00
12bba852a9
Rough and incomplete documentation on augmented assignment, which follows
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shortly. Markup also needs checking.
2000-08-24 20:06:04 +00:00
323fe5df6a
fix list comprehension discussion to use \keyword macro instead of simply
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quoting keywords.
2000-08-23 17:03:34 +00:00
46dfa5f4ed
require list comprehensions to start with a for clause
2000-08-22 02:43:07 +00:00
8c0a242289
PEP 214, Extended print Statement, has been accepted by the BDFL.
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Document the extended print form. Fred, please double check the
markup!
2000-08-21 15:45:16 +00:00
8bad612881
Disallow "import mod.submod as m", because the result is ambiguous. Does it
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load mod.submod as m, or mod as m ? Both can be achieved differently, and
unambiguously. Also attempt to document this restriction (editor
appreciated!)
Note that this is an artificial check during compile, because incorporating
this in the grammar is hard, and then adjusting the compiler to do the right
thing with the right nodes is harder.
2000-08-19 20:55:02 +00:00
a00738259f
Adjust the way __getslice__() is marked as deprecated; this will also
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stand out more.
2000-08-18 02:42:14 +00:00
5215225ea1
Apply SF patch #101135 , adding 'import module as m' and 'from module import
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name as n'. By doing some twists and turns, "as" is not a reserved word.
There is a slight change in semantics for 'from module import name' (it will
now honour the 'global' keyword) but only in cases that are explicitly
undocumented.
2000-08-17 22:55:00 +00:00
1d75a79c00
Apply SF patch #101029 : call __getitem__ with a proper slice object if there
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is no __getslice__ available. Also does the same for C extension types.
Includes rudimentary documentation (it could use a cross reference to the
section on slice objects, I couldn't figure out how to do that) and a test
suite for all Python __hooks__ I could think of, including the new
behaviour.
2000-08-17 22:37:32 +00:00
d341579178
Fix error made in applying Thomas's patch.
2000-08-15 18:44:10 +00:00
a1e214a1ed
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>:
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Update the grammar to reflect the most recent changes to list
comprehensions.
2000-08-15 17:54:49 +00:00
803d6e5451
list comprehensions. see
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http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=100654&group_id=5470
for details.
2000-08-12 18:09:51 +00:00
3d83fc3ab1
Change as suggested by Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>:
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Create a hyperlink between the language reference and documentation for
the built in functions.
2000-07-31 20:08:23 +00:00
f9b526dbfd
More of Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes. The only ones left now are the
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distutils patches, which I'll leave to the distutils maintainers.
Tip: review the patch like this:
grep "^[\!+-] " <patchfile>
To get a quick and easy way to review the actual changes. Most of the
changes are single-line ones, anyway.
2000-07-16 19:05:38 +00:00
91826ed2a9
Improve the descriptions of expected exceptions for __getitem__(),
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__setitem__(), and __delitem__(). Based on related comments from
Barry Warsaw.
2000-07-13 04:57:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
Fred Drake
Jeremy Hylton
Tim Peters
Michael W. Hudson
Andrew M. Kuchling
Barry Warsaw
Neil Schemenauer
Thomas Wouters
Skip Montanaro