55cdc88c09
Update documentation for GC API. Closes SF patch #421893 .
2001-08-30 15:24:17 +00:00
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
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
f9dc04341d
Fix a minor markup typo.
2001-08-29 02:34:10 +00:00
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
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
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
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
5cb29a49c8
Fix a number of minor markup errors, and improve the consistency a bit.
2001-08-28 14:25:03 +00:00
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
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
c86aa57f58
Documentation for PyString_FromFormat() and PyString_FromFormatV().
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Closes SF patch #455666 .
2001-08-28 02:31:28 +00:00
53da317801
Docs for the PEP 264 changes.
2001-08-27 20:02:17 +00:00
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
0f10f84028
indicate that mktime is platform-dependent. See SF bug 434143.
2001-08-22 12:44:27 +00:00
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
16bb41934c
New \grammartoken markup, similar to \token but allowed everywhere.
2001-08-20 21:36:38 +00:00
2a274a7e41
Add another name.
2001-08-20 21:33:41 +00:00
cc8f44b884
Split "Extending & Embedding" into separate files, one per chapter.
2001-08-20 19:30:29 +00:00
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
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
29bb115bae
Clean up some argument profiles, enrich the docstring.
2001-08-20 13:16:30 +00:00
dbec7d2c16
Improve Windows time.clock() blurb; was missing return type and unit.
2001-08-19 01:38:03 +00:00
b60f2d0977
Framework code for compilerlike scripts.
2001-08-18 09:24:38 +00:00
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
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
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
457c4190f9
Fix typo reported by Joonas Paalasmaa: dada-->data
2001-08-16 21:25:24 +00:00
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
e3eb1f2b23
Patch #427190 : Implement and use METH_NOARGS and METH_O.
2001-08-16 13:15:00 +00:00
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
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
94a7eba9db
Note addition of cleanfuture.py
2001-08-15 15:55:48 +00:00
ce575bac5e
Fix a minor typo and mark an exception name that was missed.
2001-08-14 21:51:50 +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
0cac5f697b
Added some examples of table markup.
2001-08-14 21:36:19 +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
d3ba10f4b5
Clarify the prompt in an example.
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This closes SF bug #450633 .
2001-08-14 19:55:42 +00:00
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
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
280f7253e4
Insert omitted "the".
2001-08-14 11:42:13 +00:00
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
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
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
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
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
11ee90289c
Added documentation for PyDict_Update() and PyDict_Merge().
2001-08-10 21:31:12 +00:00
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
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
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
Neil Schemenauer
Fred Drake
Tim Peters
Barry Warsaw
Andrew M. Kuchling
Eric S. Raymond
Michael W. Hudson
Guido van Rossum
Skip Montanaro
Martin v. Löwis