Fred Drake
4bde97f190
Add fileinput section under Misc. Services.
1998-04-04 05:50:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
35ca0d69e1
Document fileinput.
1998-04-04 04:20:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
07bcd99873
Start at updating the template a little bit. There's a lot of stuff that's
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just not here yet.
1998-04-03 21:25:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
791468f731
Some clarifications of out-of-range group indexes/names
1998-04-03 20:07:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
61885924b1
Lots of markup consistency nits.
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Logical markup.
1998-04-03 07:16:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
6251c169c6
Small nits.
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One more index entry.
Be more specific about an exception raised by range().
1998-04-03 07:15:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
8efde2197b
Several minor markup nits.
1998-04-03 07:13:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
9f6aec870e
"alternative" is a noun, use "alternate" for the adjective.
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Minor nits.
1998-04-03 07:12:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
14c198b146
Talk about some minor nits...
1998-04-03 07:11:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
395e8e4860
Capitalize "Python" for consistency.
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Describe UserDict and UserList individually so they aren't too hideous in
the presentation.
1998-04-03 07:10:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
7932a6bf8c
Small markup nits.
1998-04-03 07:09:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
d59db4f974
Small consistency nits.
1998-04-03 07:06:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
2123774287
Capitalize "Python" for consistency.
1998-04-03 07:06:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
e6cedb362c
New index entries.
1998-04-03 07:05:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
3f1c4720b5
Use {methoddesc} as appropriate.
1998-04-03 07:04:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
5dabeed4ea
Index entries.
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Consistency nits.
1998-04-03 07:02:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
d0a40cb4cf
Added comment crediting Sue Williams with this documentation section (the
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ACKS file should be checked....).
1998-04-03 06:56:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
55e3cbd115
Fix one typo.
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Add a manpage reference.
Add an index entry.
1998-04-03 06:54:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
74810d5abb
Nits.
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Add {excdesc} for zlib.error.
Use {methoddesc} where appropriate.
1998-04-03 06:49:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
c3486318e0
Add index entry for GzipFile class.
1998-04-03 06:48:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
d678cb7a6c
Logical markup.
1998-04-03 06:35:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
9fee071ab6
Markup consistency.
1998-04-03 06:21:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
5bfe4850cf
Consistency: Don't use module name when referring to functions defined
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in the same module.
1998-04-03 06:14:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
2cfc835b7b
Minor nits.
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Lots of index entries.
1998-04-03 06:12:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
4e6688747c
Consistency nits:
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Use math-mode pi instead of mixing forms.
Use spaces around relational operators.
1998-04-03 06:04:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
76547c5631
Minor nits.
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Moved IGNORECASE & friends to "top level" definitions following compile(),
since there is no other case of nesting in the manual.
Use {memberdesc} and {methoddesc} as appropriate.
1998-04-03 05:59:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
dff21a6b93
Minor nits.
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Indent code sample to use 4-space indents.
1998-04-03 05:42:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
5bd7fccef9
Minor nits.
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Index entry.
1998-04-03 05:31:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
6a79be8db8
Capitalize "Python" for consistency.
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Add an index entry.
1998-04-03 03:47:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
930f134fc9
Logical markup.
1998-04-03 03:44:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
dd1f52b0c4
Use {seealso} environment to refer to the struct module.
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Document ArrayType.
Use {memberdesc} and {methoddesc} environments, as appropriate.
Minor nits.
1998-04-03 03:35:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
3a18f3ba38
Hyphenate "built-in" for consistency.
1998-04-02 19:36:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
dc40904a32
Hyphenate "built-in" for consistency.
1998-04-02 18:54:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
da70ee1fae
Use methoddesc and memberdesc, as needed.
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Added description of BastionClass, since it is referred to in the Bastion
description as subclassable.
1998-04-02 18:51:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
182bd2d176
Use methoddesc instead of funcdesc to describe the only method.
1998-04-02 18:50:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
0a73d4db51
Removed reference to ni module.
1998-04-02 18:46:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
9ac80cb5bd
Removed references to ni.
1998-04-02 18:45:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
b401637bd8
Markup nits, index entries.
1998-04-02 18:44:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
674e0fd7a8
Be more specific about where in RFC 1421 to look, since it's not at all
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obvious when taking a quick look.
Say "base64" instead of "base-64", since that seems to be how it's referred
to in other RFCs.
1998-04-02 16:24:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
9e9c89e67c
Some nits.
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Fixed quoting in third paragraph of the findmatch() description.
1998-04-02 15:53:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e9625e86b8
AMK's version from the latest pypcre distribution. This clarifies a
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few things and adds docs for what happens to escapes in replacement
strings.
1998-04-02 01:32:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
8fe533e6a0
Use the new {methoddesc} and {memberdesc} environments as appropriate.
1998-03-27 05:27:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
f76abb51ef
Make sure both hyphens of a long-option show up in the HTML output.
1998-03-27 00:37:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
685ef4e604
According to Tim Peters, there should be 'print' statements in one
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particular example.
1998-03-17 14:37:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
cce1090d49
Change "\," to just "," in function signatures. This is easier to maintain,
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works better with LaTeX2HTML, and allows some simplification of the python.sty
macros.
1998-03-17 06:33:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
f3aa0e0627
Revert the index stuff to work better with LaTeX2HTML.
1998-03-17 06:23:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
d98329cdf0
Logical markup.
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Convert a {description} list to a {tableii} environment.
1998-03-16 06:38:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
1a855fad30
Markup nits.
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Adjusted some index entries.
1998-03-16 05:23:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
abdea226dc
Adjusted an index entry.
1998-03-16 05:22:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
52405c899a
Added an index entry.
1998-03-16 05:21:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
7bf5e0828f
Use {classdesc} consistently.
1998-03-16 05:07:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
c9808b3af2
Logical markup.
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Emphasized title "4Sight User's Guide".
1998-03-15 02:04:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
5f874d618f
Markup nits.
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Some additional index entries.
1998-03-15 01:59:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
bd9ded8190
Logical markup.
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Replace ugly {description} with a {tableii}, for the what() return values.
1998-03-14 20:09:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
434493b207
Logical markup.
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Replace ugly {description} with a {tableii}, for the option descriptions.
1998-03-14 19:47:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
a891230688
Logical markup, using {classdesc} as appropriate.
1998-03-14 07:08:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
f9e1f658ed
Logical markup.
1998-03-14 07:00:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
2e495c93b0
Logical markup, using {classdesc} as appropriate.
1998-03-14 06:48:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
be2b6d7f42
Logical markup.
1998-03-14 06:40:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
ff79a21119
Logical markup.
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Use {classdesc} environments to describe the constructors, and place them
at the top.
1998-03-14 06:30:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
cdea8a3c60
Logical markup.
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Wrap general Message class description in a {classdesc} instead of nothing at
all.
1998-03-14 06:17:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
0f51fff57e
Logical markup.
1998-03-14 06:16:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
3b5da76182
Logical markup.
1998-03-12 15:33:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
2dde74c778
Logical markup.
1998-03-12 14:42:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
51375ae07b
Use {classdesc} instead of {funcdesc} for HTMLParser.
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Clean up index reference to SGMLParser class.
1998-03-12 14:39:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
6ef871ce2f
Logical markup.
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Lots of nits in both.
1998-03-12 06:52:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
7be8fcb42a
Use \envvar{FOO} instead of \code{\$FOO}.
1998-03-12 06:47:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
4e7e11abe5
Use \withsubitem{} for indexing extra-module functions.
1998-03-12 06:46:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
371ecc0c1b
Use \withsubitem{} for indexing functions from other modules. This fixes
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things in the index.
1998-03-12 06:44:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
6a1eefe535
Logical markup.
1998-03-12 06:04:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
a2e9818467
Logical markup.
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Improve some index entries.
1998-03-12 05:54:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
c71585e069
Logical markup.
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Markup consistency.
Removed incorrect \setindexsubitem{}.
1998-03-12 05:33:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
bc8ad5bdeb
Replace lists of attributes for code and frame objects with a reference to the
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Python Reference Manual.
1998-03-11 06:29:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
fdbd51db8b
Logical markup.
1998-03-11 06:24:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
60ba44750f
Logical markup.
1998-03-11 06:18:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
295eaa84b0
Logical markup.
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Changed example to use "import posixfile" instead of "from posixfile import *"
since only one symbol was used.
1998-03-11 06:11:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
e42f595e5c
Logical markup.
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Made references to constants in other TERMIOS module explicit in termios
description.
Removed superfluous backslash from example.
1998-03-11 06:00:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
db9693ec97
Logical markup.
1998-03-11 05:50:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
75aae9ad89
Logical markup.
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Added information on the exception attributes when exceptions are classes.
1998-03-11 05:29:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
b30d0164bf
Logical markup.
1998-03-10 05:41:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
4ef3329259
Logical markup.
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Correct misuse of indexsubutem.
Describe the Queue class using {classdesc}{Queue}, not {funcdesc}{__init__}.
1998-03-10 05:32:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
8aee0e0356
Add some more labels for logical addressing.
1998-03-10 05:21:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
d883ca1dcb
Logical markup.
1998-03-10 05:20:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
193338afeb
Logical markup.
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Convert one bulleted list to a {tableii} environment; the other should
probably be converted, but I haven't decided to what.
1998-03-10 04:23:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
2cb1074937
Use a {datadesc} environment to describe errorcode.
1998-03-10 03:53:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
92f31f1260
Logical markup.
1998-03-10 03:38:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
a44d74086c
Logical markup.
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Use {funcdesc} and {excdesc} to describe the module, not just running text.
1998-03-10 03:36:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
c4f15af7de
Logical markup. small nits.
1998-03-10 03:17:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
7d20ffe245
Adjust the index inclusion for the new index support.
1998-03-09 16:39:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
2eda4ca4df
Markup adjustments.
1998-03-08 08:13:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
cd14a87c02
Mark the journal title.
1998-03-08 08:02:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
23bc85a8a6
Correct spelling of emdash.
1998-03-08 07:56:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
7ddd043191
Moved solitary "see also" paragraph into a {seealso} environment, and told
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why the reader should see also.
1998-03-08 07:44:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
013ad9869e
Cleaned up some remaining markup nits.
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Andrew: In description of (?iLmsx), you say it matches the empty string and
sets the corresponding flag. Is this correct? Or does it only set the flag?
1998-03-08 07:38:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
8fab8cf211
Logical markup.
1998-03-08 07:14:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
b991f8d2e0
Some logical markup.
1998-03-08 07:09:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
b55f9d3dfc
Small nits.
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Don't run into the right margin.
1998-03-08 07:03:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
cc444e39e5
Nits.
1998-03-08 06:47:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
bccc64020e
Logical markup.
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Spell emdash right.
1998-03-08 06:41:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
0c2af2bef6
Spell emdash with three hyphens.
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Minor nits.
1998-03-08 06:28:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
266b4c1506
Logical markup.
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Index entry.
1998-03-08 06:12:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
c07ae9f4d2
Some logical markup.
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Combine function pairs: add() and __add__() go together. This way they
share a single description and use less space.
1998-03-08 05:56:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
0fd72ee369
Logical markup.
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Don't prepend the module name when referring to functions or data in the same
module.
Correct the description of "modules".
1998-03-08 05:43:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
580eb26044
Logical markup, a couple of index entries.
1998-03-08 05:41:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
4074896a1e
Add reference to the copy_reg module in the See Also: section.
1998-03-06 21:27:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
859c797a48
Fix the URL for the regex-to-re HOWTO.
1998-03-06 15:11:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
2135117542
Oops, I *thoughT* I had seen a better address for Andrew....
1998-03-05 20:06:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
8b8eae3e68
Updated URL & email addresses related to the PCT.
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Andrew, plase check to make sure these are the ones you want used and get
back to me; this stuff will be "published" in the near future.
1998-03-05 20:04:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
6659c30b67
Convert LaTeX support to create a new class of documents. HTML generation
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now requires LaTeX2HTML 98.1p1 or newer (& and is still in progress).
This means that doing things to change the formatting of the manuals (at the
"normal user" level, like A4 paper), can happen in just one place, rather
than in each document file.
1998-03-03 22:02:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
53525379da
Logical markup.
1998-03-03 21:56:15 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
9bdc436aaa
Added msvcrt.
1998-03-03 02:00:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
92e31944f4
Deprecate the read() and write() methods.
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Don't refer to them from the fromfile() and tofile() methods.
1998-02-27 16:21:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
8a13525274
Updates by AMK.
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Markup corrected, logical markup.
1998-02-27 15:19:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
8fa5eb8784
Logical markup.
1998-02-27 05:23:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
540e13dd1e
Derive the name of the modules .ind from the jobname.
1998-02-25 15:31:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
d10d0faaa5
Logical markup.
1998-02-24 21:43:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
78f6aac73e
Clean up some stuff in the {seealso} at the end. This avoids a little nit
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(which causes processing to fail) when using the LaTeX hyperref package.
1998-02-23 21:31:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
a705da7aa0
Marked the unmarked AttributeError. (AMK)
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"Protect the class instance" --> "Protect the object" It works for anything
with attributes to look up! (AMK)
Logical markup.
1998-02-23 14:42:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
71f894ad56
"streans" --> "streams" (AMK)
1998-02-23 14:37:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
eb72a275b4
Add a period to "Written by James Roskind"
1998-02-22 20:42:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
d028ca989a
Fixed and extended the example; the original example contained some
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bogus code.
1998-02-22 04:41:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3ffb715032
Added two subsections with extra hints and details, even for
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extensions and embedding programs.
1998-02-22 04:23:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
2c8aa650a8
Added \label{}s for logical addressing.
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Logical markup.
1998-02-20 06:03:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
d67e12e65c
Added \label{}s for logical addressing.
1998-02-20 05:49:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
505d80b39d
Jeff Kunce writes (and he is right):
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Also, I just ran across a [possible] minor glitch
in the library documentation for site.py. It says:
"For example, suppose sys.prefix and
sys.exec_prefix are set to `/usr/local'. The
Python 1.5 library is then installed in
`/usr/local/lib/python1.5'. Suppose this has a
subdirectory `/usr/local/python1.5/site-packages'
with three subsubdirectories, `foo', `bar' and
`spam'..."
I think it should be:
"...Suppose this has a subdirectory
`/usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages' with..."
^^^^
1998-02-19 21:02:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
0cf0cfbaa9
Adjusted \label{} for *consistent* logical addressing.
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Logical markup.
1998-02-19 20:59:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
c83db33781
Added \label{} for logical addressing.
1998-02-19 20:50:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
c3e4549012
Added \label{} for logical addressing.
1998-02-19 20:22:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
83efb54562
Added \label{} for logical addressing.
1998-02-19 20:07:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
83c1a39c4b
Separate chapter and section.
1998-02-19 18:59:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
1aabe5e4d1
Separate binhex and binuu documentation from binascii. Support better
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module addressing in HTML.
1998-02-19 18:29:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
c92740708d
Adjust grouping for the "b(reak)" command syntax description. This is
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required to get the info generation back in operation, yet again.
1998-02-19 15:18:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
20e01966f5
Logical markup.
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Several uses of "\^" could be simplified; this fixes part of the info
generation process.
1998-02-19 15:09:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
ea8006a865
\nodename{} must immediately follow \chapter{} to be handled correctly;
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adding the \label{} broke that.
1998-02-19 14:00:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
75bfb0f7bb
{fulllineitems} is now an environment; use it as such.
1998-02-19 06:32:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
802a202d0d
Logical markup.
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Changed {funcdesc} to {classdesc}. This is a test case for {classdesc}.
1998-02-19 06:26:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
a73033fcc2
Feature added by Bill van Melle: when no timezone is present, assume
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local time -- that's better than failure.
1998-02-19 00:28:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
026d9626df
Consistent spelling: "time zone" -> "timezone".
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Clarify that the sign of the timezone offset returned by
parsedate_tz() is the opposite of time.timezone.
1998-02-18 21:47:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
b4efb6c8cb
Separate Mac user interface modules into separate files, to better support
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bookmarkable module sections in the HTML.
1998-02-18 17:19:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
b0df567897
Separate the parse, symbol, and token documentation into separate files.
1998-02-18 15:59:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
710c035c05
Added \label{} for logical addressing.
1998-02-18 15:47:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
31ecd50d02
Added \label{} for logical addressing.
1998-02-18 15:40:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
af0bfbee46
Added \label{} for logical addressing.
...
Logical markup.
1998-02-18 15:39:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
1f3ab1cb6c
Added \label{} for logical addressing.
1998-02-18 15:22:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
55fca54ebb
Added \label{} for logical addressing.
...
Logical markup.
1998-02-18 15:21:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
12918af83e
Added \label{} for logical addressing.
1998-02-18 15:10:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
ddf03bf8e1
Added \label{} for logical addressing.
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Logical markup.
1998-02-18 15:05:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
1931c0c961
Add normpath(). Clarify normcase(). (Note -- this doc section
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probably needs more work, describing new functions and the differences
between unix/mac/win.
1998-02-18 14:00:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8cf94e608e
Add mktime_tz(). Add () to a function reference in parsedate_tz().
1998-02-18 05:09:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
57b5e42c0c
Added \label{} for logical addressing.
1998-02-17 22:30:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
e2f194b57d
Use \manpage{} markup for referencing a UNIX man page.
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Added index entry for DES cipher.
1998-02-17 22:24:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
8ecc705ba4
Added comment explaining the only warning produced by makeindex, since there
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doesn't appear to be a way to fix that's reasonable.
1998-02-17 20:31:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
7154d382c3
Update indexsubitem for file attributes correctly.
1998-02-17 02:11:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
a200faac55
\nodename{} must appear immediately after \section{} for the info conversion.
1998-02-17 02:10:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
fac431e7d5
NNTP.xgtitle() description: Add a missing ")" from the response value
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description.
NNTP.xover() description: Adjust some markup for consistency.
1998-02-16 21:57:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
009ab92c12
Made the area for wildcards in the description wider, so we don't invade the
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left margin.
1998-02-16 21:37:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
75fc045bf5
Fixed formatting of the program name for crypt.
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Added another index entry.
1998-02-16 21:36:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
ad51192a4f
In the example file name, use the current Python version, not a hardcoded
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value.
Use logical markup.
1998-02-16 21:25:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
2705e801d9
For the lists which describe the regular expression syntax, increase the
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width available so we don't run into the left page margin.
1998-02-16 21:21:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
b0f77d65db
Use \version to get the current Python version number, where possible. This
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can only be done in the running text, and not in {verbatim} environments.
1998-02-16 20:58:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
7506298dfb
Mark up filename extensions consistently.
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Logical markup.
1998-02-16 20:40:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
b666c15c4a
Normalization of markup.
1998-02-13 22:22:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
6e99adb1c9
Don't capitalize identifiers at the beginning of the sentence; re-write to
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place them elsewhere so they get the right capitalization.
1998-02-13 22:17:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
01dbb88831
Fix some markup so that the right characters are printed.
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"EOF" --> "\EOF{}"
1998-02-13 22:13:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
4a1efb63a9
Capitalize subsection title.
1998-02-13 22:10:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
ab875b9a32
Make one paragraph wrap a little better.
1998-02-13 22:07:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
a19bb9bbcf
Capitalize first word in sentences, use periods at end.
1998-02-13 21:57:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
86b5dcec86
Change {datadesc} environments with empty descriptions to \dataline{}s; this
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removes extra vertical space from the list of names, and makes the display
more similar to that used in the socket module, where several constants share
a description.
1998-02-13 21:55:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
fc931ecf92
In description of sound_similar(), break up the markup for long
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\code{} at each embedded space, so that the words will wrap. This keeps
it from being too ugly.
1998-02-13 21:49:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
315b5d8a7f
In description of __import__, second paragraph, break up the markup for long
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\code{} at each embedded space, so that the words will wrap. This keeps it
from running off the side of the page, and is only slightly weird.
1998-02-13 21:26:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
83bd081920
Minor stuff:
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Explain what happens when a negative shift count is used (what exception).
Mark the title "Python Reference Manual" as \emph{}, for consistency.
"info" --> "information"
Tell more about the data attributes of file objects, using the {datadesc}
environment.
When refering the user to the language reference for information about
internal types, tell what internal types to expect information on.
1998-02-13 20:59:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
fb74a463ad
Add "Pretty Good Privacy" as well as "PGP" to the index.
1998-02-13 14:52:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
c9c456ef69
In add_label_data() description, use "\samp{}" instead of "``\code{...}''"
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to indicate the interpreted letters from the format string.
1998-02-13 14:48:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
7f6e2c45ec
Use "\samp{...}" instead of "``\code{...}''" when showing markup fragments
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in the running text.
For computed attribute and method names (where there's a \var{} part to
the name), use the non-indexing forms of \datadesc{} and \funcdesc{}.
This doesn't change the printed output, but removes 3 rejections from the
makeindex run and allows the LaTeX2HTML support to exclude these from the
index.
1998-02-13 14:38:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
b441eb84d3
Use "\samp{...}" instead of "``\code{...}''" when showing markup fragments
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in the running text.
For computed method names (where there's a \var{} part to the name), use
the non-indexing form of \funcdesc{}. This doesn't change the printed
output, but removes 3 rejections from the makeindex run and allows the
LaTeX2HTML support to exclude these from the index.
1998-02-13 14:37:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
2a4646c660
Remove obsolete pagenumbering / pagestyle cruft.
1998-02-13 07:08:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
1947991c2f
Remove all \bcode / \ecode cruft; this is no longer needed. See previous
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checkin of myformat.sty.
Change "\renewcommand{\indexsubitem}{(...)}" to "\setindexsubitem{(...)}"
everywhere.
Some other minor nits that I happened to come across.
1998-02-13 06:58:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
da62398139
Correct description of BUILD_SLICE.
1998-02-12 03:53:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
dd1f6cc402
Mark opcode arguments \var{} in the running text.
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In IMPORT_NAME description: "is not affect:" --> "is not affected:"
1998-02-12 03:32:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
71c1ef34bf
Remove second index entry for UserList.
1998-02-12 03:10:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
692b87db15
Added \nodename; added index entry for UserList.
1998-02-11 23:00:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
f6a7b443c2
Added entries for stat, commands modules.
1998-02-11 22:58:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6d659b3e51
Added entries for re, soundex modules.
1998-02-11 22:57:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
38e0df330b
Some subtleties suggested by Tamito Kajiyama, including an added
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\nodename macro for a section with a very underscriptive title.
1998-02-11 22:55:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
f5370f4019
Turn the space in [\^ ...] into a hard space: [\^\ ...].
1998-02-11 22:52:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
1c974db134
Split UserDict and UserList on two separate lines; added entries for
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modules symbol and token.
1998-02-11 22:36:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
ee833cca7b
Don't break a long line at an unpleasant point.
1998-02-11 22:34:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8b0927eddc
Added missing entry for cmath.
1998-02-11 22:33:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
c57aff20e3
Replace $math$ with \code{}.
1998-02-11 22:33:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
c4452fd08f
Swap ni and imp (so they are in the same order as their sections are).
1998-02-11 22:32:23 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
34122fa99c
Remove a spurious space from the title.
1998-02-11 22:31:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
526467ce0a
Removed all references to the \rfcindex{} macro; now only \rfc{} is used.
1998-02-10 21:42:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
1624a507e6
Oops, missed a \POSIX{} in an index entry.
1998-02-09 22:12:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
88223904c8
Add some index entries; switch to logical markup.
1998-02-09 20:52:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
65b32f7f74
Consistently use \POSIX{} to denote POSIX. There were at least two different
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ways to do it previously (not counting module names).
1998-02-09 20:27:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
41785fb864
Do the right magic to make \ABC{} get sorted correctly in the index.
1998-02-09 20:16:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
19b97b13fa
Do the right magic to make \UNIX{} get sorted correctly in the index.
1998-02-09 20:16:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
c58912426e
Use the new RFC macros wherever RFCs are referenced by number. No other
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changes.
1998-02-09 19:16:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8083c176a3
Add a note about rounding up of readlines()' sizehint to 8K.
1998-02-08 22:51:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6e91c6a344
Document getrefcount().
1998-02-07 21:17:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
31c4ed75fc
Remove commented-out \itembreak.
1998-02-06 22:26:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
c660233cfb
Update two of the \indexsubitem values to use singular rather than plural form
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of "variable": each individual variable should be identified as a single
variable and not a collection in the index.
1998-02-06 22:19:23 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8e1e68de49
Add ref to errno module, and change ref to posix.error to os.error.
1998-02-06 15:18:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
f499e09f94
Add ref to errno module.
1998-02-06 15:18:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
8aad4c80b3
Added missing "{" for "\code <?stuff?>}".
1998-02-03 23:12:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
ad37e9e77d
Clarify that capwords() removes leading/trailing whitespace.
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Remove references to regsub, which is obsolescent.
1998-02-02 03:01:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
c45c2f3dc1
Add S_ISBLK().
1998-01-29 22:03:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
02505e4850
New version of xmllib from Sjoerd.
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The main incompatibility is that the error reporting method is now
called as
parser.syntax_error(msg)
instead of
parser.syntax_error(lineno, msg)
This new version also has some code to deal with the <?xml?> and
<!DOCTYPE> tags at the start of an XML document.
The documentation has been updated, and a small test module has been
created.
1998-01-29 14:55:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7570669a08
Add a note explaining that multiplying a sequence with a negative
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number is the same as multiplying it with zero, and yields an empty
sequence.
1998-01-27 19:09:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
16f88454f1
Use \url{} to mark a URL.
1998-01-22 20:47:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
ff3f0d0a5c
Use \url{} to mark URLs, \email{} to mark an email address.
1998-01-22 20:45:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
7c418ed89c
Added descriptions for log() and log10().
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Clarified that floor() and ceil() return reals. Same for the integer part
returned by modf().
Some markup consistency changes.
1998-01-22 17:37:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
ed79783bb2
Converted to use new macros. This example demonstrate \method{} and, more
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importantly, \url{}.
1998-01-22 16:11:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
55f4492859
Converted to use semantic markup. This is an example of how many of the new
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constructs should be used.
1998-01-22 15:56:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
0f35495563
Add entry for copy_reg module.
1998-01-21 05:04:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
6eb9f10063
Removed entry for copy_reg module.
1998-01-21 05:00:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
2d754437d4
Add entry for copy_reg module.
1998-01-21 04:58:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
1abf0df5b4
Simple documentation of the copy_reg module.
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Guido, you should probably look at this. The pickle documentation is out of
date; I don't see anything about the __reduce__() stuff or the
__safe_for_unpickling__ attribute.
1998-01-21 04:58:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
d1cc9c2b92
Update comment about relative URL internet draft to reflect current RFC status;
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index references the appropriate RFCs.
Consistency: Always use trailing "()" on function names in running text.
1998-01-21 04:55:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
61b0452626
Added a bunch of "concept" index entries.
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Use trailing "()" on function names in running text.
1998-01-20 05:52:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
a46f84d293
Added index entry and \label{} for exceptions module. This isn't in the
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normal modules portion of the manual, but that's the basic effect of this
section with the 1.5 change in exception support.
1998-01-20 05:26:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
73a973bf8d
Always mark variables in the "Notes" following a table the same way as in the
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tables: \var{}
Add a couple of index entries to the File Objects section.
1998-01-20 05:20:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
cbe50f4829
Removed bogus index entry for the type() built-in.
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Marked title of the Python Reference Manual as \emph{}, like other Python
manual titles.
1998-01-20 05:12:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
9eb5e5097e
Consistency: "{\it ...}" ==> "\emph{...}"
1998-01-20 04:54:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
c520b695fe
The soundex module is built-in, not standard.
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"--" ==> "---"
1998-01-20 04:45:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
ca12b9df7b
Consistency: {\it ...} ==> \emph{...}
1998-01-20 04:43:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
dd17d1ce62
ni is a standard module, not a built-in module. The only other reference to
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it already got it right.
1998-01-20 04:40:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
bac354cd80
Consistency: (Yes, I know this section is not formatted by default, and
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isn't likely to be of much interest these days....)
{\tt ...} ==> \code{...}
Added \label{module-blat} for the two supporting modules.
Added index entries for referred-to modules.
1998-01-20 04:32:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
46503922a0
Various updates to the effect that the group argument is always optional.
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Also documented that groups() now always returns a tuple.
1998-01-19 23:14:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
8095ebfc4a
Consistency: Replaced 4 {\it ...} with \emph{...}.
1998-01-19 04:02:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
94e8f690dd
Consistency: Replaced one {\tt ...} with \code{...}.
1998-01-19 02:55:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
b6ce6427e8
Consistency: In two places, change {\it ...} to \emph{...}.
1998-01-19 02:51:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
b660b63edf
Use \emph{} for all references to the other documents, not just some of them.
1998-01-16 16:34:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
5081b227f1
Ouch: "accounces" ==> "announces"
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(In description of AbstractWriter class.)
1998-01-15 05:49:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
af8a015c93
Consistency: "{\bf ...}" ==> "\strong{...}"
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"{\em ...}" ==> "\emph{...}"
Not at all sure what to do with "{\rm ...}".
Leaving it for now.
1998-01-14 14:51:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
b215137224
Added the standard \label{module-*} for the two supporting modules.
1998-01-14 05:47:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
8ac34c2928
Consistency: "Unix" ==> "\UNIX{}"
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Always include the comma *inside* the \optional{} markup!
1998-01-13 22:41:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
4d4f9e726a
Removed \mytableofcontents; just use \tableofcontents.
1998-01-13 22:25:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
a809064166
Consistency: "Unix" ==> "\UNIX{}"
1998-01-13 19:10:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
6862b46b70
Consistency: "unix" ==> "\UNIX{}"
1998-01-13 19:03:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
c9dc5151b6
Consistency: "unix" ==> "\UNIX{}"
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Added \label{} for referring to the module.
1998-01-13 19:01:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
efc1e0f43b
Consistency:
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"Unix" ==> "\UNIX{}"
1998-01-13 19:00:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
18f9f539f2
Removed obsolete \kwindex{} call.
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Added "user configuration file", ".pythonrc.py file" to the index.
Made reference to site module a {seealso} environment.
1998-01-13 18:45:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
2b67bee8e1
Added "module search path" to the index.
1998-01-13 18:35:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
cf75754357
Removed obsolete \kwindex{} calls.
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Added "module search path" to the index.
"Unix" ==> "\UNIX{}"
1998-01-13 18:34:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
dca8792b52
Added openright option the the \documentclass{} for each of the manuals.
1998-01-13 16:53:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
023f87fbf8
Lots of minor markup nits, all consistency related.
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Consistently use trailing "()" on function / method names.
Wrapped some long lines.
1998-01-12 19:16:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
97546399c7
Document maxsplit arg for split(), with incompatibility note about 1.5
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release bug.
Document groups() changed behaviour (now always returns tuple).
1998-01-12 18:58:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
054f8fd12c
Wrapped some long lines.
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Added trailing "()" for function and method names.
Added index entries for referenced modules.
1998-01-12 18:28:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
74947ac473
Modify command descriptions to use \optional{} instead of ad-hoc markup.
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There are still weirdnesses, but less of them.
1998-01-12 15:38:30 +00:00