Raymond Hettinger
f62444ab16
Fix links and typos.
2003-12-05 07:53:50 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
ec3402f287
Fix typo
2003-12-05 06:39:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
8850c8785f
Fix link
2003-12-03 22:33:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
8772d4e4c3
Add a standard library tour
2003-12-03 22:23:46 +00:00
Walter Dörwald
7bafa9f340
Fix typo. (From SF bug #853064 )
2003-12-03 10:34:57 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
25695282a5
Convert a 0/1 to False/True.
2003-12-02 07:38:30 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
d4462300db
Nits from a review of the documentation update.
2003-11-26 17:52:45 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
65674b80fc
Documentation for set objects.
2003-11-18 17:50:34 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
dc62aeca4c
Add a new looping idiom
2003-11-07 01:30:58 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
8ed69e3389
SF #829941 , update tutorial, built-in types can be base classes since 2.2
2003-10-25 14:15:54 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
f12f32421f
Don't make promises about about the visibility of the induction variable.
2003-10-21 18:42:21 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
95cf84a4f3
Patch #821093 : Fix various typos.
2003-10-19 07:32:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
984920bbad
Make the embedded hyperlinks work.
2003-09-28 19:03:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
43b5e40795
* Fix markup.
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* Fix entry order:
- >>> before ...
- __slots__ in the S section (like __future__ is in the F section)
Need to test the repaired(?) link to Guido's webpage.
Still needs to have the module reference links made relative to
the module directory instead of the tut directory. That will
require Fred's magic touch.
2003-09-27 20:19:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
d4a1419f53
Lots of markup corrections. Some are minor, but others are not: the
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contents of an \item should not be enclosed in a group!
2003-09-27 18:59:43 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
5a25aa6c4a
Fix spelling and add markup.
2003-09-27 05:42:14 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
40d4bc5934
Add a glossary to the tutorial. Also generate an index. At the moment this
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mostly only references glossary entries.
2003-09-24 16:53:02 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
757dedc1a3
first cut at a glossary
2003-09-24 16:51:23 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
16434b5e25
Fix whitespace in example
2003-09-24 03:58:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
f5c87c4d99
- added many links into the library reference
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- removed use of the string module
- fixed some broken markup
2003-09-11 06:06:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
626d472edd
- add several links into the library reference
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- update a couple of URLs to point to more recent portions of
python.org
2003-09-11 04:28:13 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
57d71289a1
SF patch #797868 : Tutorial, sec. 5.1.4 could contain an extra example
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(Revised from the original patch contributed by Michal Pasternak.)
Also, make a couple minor fixups elsewhere.
2003-08-30 23:21:32 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
c2a5cb2327
Fix typo.
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Thou shalt not count to two unless proceeding to the number three.
2003-08-23 03:49:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
236ffba400
Adjust some horizontal indentation to be consistent with the style used
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throughout the documentation.
2003-08-16 06:30:47 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer
90b182c16c
Don't introduce map(None, ...) in the tutorial. In practice, zip() is
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usually preferred.
2003-08-14 22:57:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
c7a26562f9
SF patch#786531 'the the' typo. Contributed by George Yoshida
2003-08-12 00:01:17 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
0eec08794c
Explain argument unpacking
2003-08-08 23:32:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
b233e54409
Nits.
2003-07-15 23:16:01 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
6122d0267f
SF patch #726751 : Clarify docs for except target assignment
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Brett found that the tutorial didn't really explain what was happening
with exception targets. Hopefully, this sheds some light on the subject.
2003-07-12 01:05:37 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
fa6cce1fdd
Minor fixups and added sections for iterators and generators.
2003-07-11 18:58:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
dfda8d79ee
- explain about making Python scripts executable on Unix in more
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detail
- fix minor markup nit
2003-07-07 21:00:29 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
8ee006097f
SF #751062 : Tutorial: remove string exceptions, add parnassus, #posts
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(Contributed by Gerritt Holl)
* Remove the last mentions of string exceptions
* Reference a third-party repository of programs
* Minor clarification of comp.lang.py posting volumes
2003-07-01 06:19:34 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
ccd615c1a7
SF bug #762990 : Awful Grammar in Python Tutorial
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Fixed a nit.
2003-06-30 04:27:31 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
32a5e878d7
minor wordsmithing
2003-06-29 16:01:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
ded8e740df
Correct markup errors that prevented formatting.
2003-06-28 11:50:34 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
7928f388c4
Explain source encodings. Fixes #683486 .
2003-06-28 08:11:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
2664cbbeba
Remove heading from orphan section.
2003-06-20 14:27:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
3a8fbe7eec
Include "instances of most classes" in a warning about mutable objects
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as default values of function/method parameters.
2003-06-18 17:14:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
6bab183d4e
Markup nits.
2003-05-20 15:28:58 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
a02469f969
More message updates and minor fixes.
2003-05-07 17:49:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
a2f84ceda5
Update traceback message
2003-05-07 17:11:15 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
45a9c93236
add missing parens - verified w/ interpreter - sorry to dismiss your comment
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Fred
2003-05-07 16:01:43 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
b4f12424a5
replace most uses of `...` by repr(...), noting that `...` is discouraged,
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but convenient in interactive sessions.
2003-05-07 15:29:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
03e929e7e0
Fix some markup nits.
2003-04-22 14:30:53 +00:00
Alex Martelli
a70b19147f
Adding new built-in function sum, with docs and tests.
2003-04-22 08:12:33 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
60de2e837f
SF bug #699237 : Tutorial uses omitted slice indices before explaining them
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Moved up the explanation of slice default arguments.
2003-03-12 04:46:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
46d3dc37e4
- New function sys.exc_clear() clears the current exception. This is
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rarely needed, but can sometimes be useful to release objects
referenced by the traceback held in sys.exc_info()[2]. (SF patch
#693195.) Thanks to Kevin Jacobs!
2003-03-01 03:20:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
d0c7137c8b
Chapter titles that get split over multiple lines in the typeset
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formats can't have whitespace after the last non-blank character (bug
in LaTeX?); fix up a couple of instances of this.
Update an email address.
2002-10-28 19:28:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
7fbd01262c
Clarify packages in tutorial. Closes SF bug #616211 .
2002-10-26 03:13:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
55803bca98
Describe __path__ along with the rest of the package description.
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Closes SF bug #626554 .
2002-10-22 21:00:44 +00:00