51a6c9055c
Added docs for dumbdbm (AMK), and misc small fixes.
1997-05-09 02:23:45 +00:00
7e691de948
Document return value of wait[pid]() more carefully.
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Document how to get exit status of a popen() command.
1997-05-09 02:22:59 +00:00
e4f347e779
Document "" and "<broadcast>".
1997-05-09 02:21:51 +00:00
5bbf0f7c93
Some updates (AMK at work, added resource.c).
1997-04-30 19:41:48 +00:00
dfb4120ea1
Add zlib
1997-04-30 19:40:10 +00:00
412154f3c7
Updated web ref and version#. Folded some long lines.
1997-04-30 19:39:21 +00:00
04bc9d6e67
zlib by AMK
1997-04-30 18:12:27 +00:00
e9a0732cd1
Note that passing a filename to uu.{en,de}code() is deprecated.
1997-04-27 21:29:51 +00:00
e76b7a8fcd
Added fnmatch, base64 and quopri, received from Andrew Kuchling.
1997-04-27 21:25:52 +00:00
150853861a
Various status updates.
1997-04-03 23:49:28 +00:00
fc5ee0f980
Added site
1997-04-03 22:43:02 +00:00
571391b963
New stuff by AMK.
1997-04-03 22:41:49 +00:00
387c575d5c
Small grammatical touchups:
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Para. 1: ...that reads and writes a string buffer...
^ ^
Para. 3: ...can be called at any time to retrieve the...
XXXXXXXXXXXX ^^^^^
...entire contents of the entire ``file'' ...
^^^^^^^ XXXXXXX
Guido, I hope I'm not stomping too far afield, but these seem pretty clear
to me.
1997-04-02 14:51:56 +00:00
f643e3ff7e
Spell Unix, not UNIX.
1997-04-02 06:06:03 +00:00
e8d94a8c10
Horrible hack to split up code '--' to prevent
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latex2html from collapsing it into '-'.
1997-04-02 06:05:07 +00:00
1cd26f2fc0
Add complex().
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Update int(), long(), float() to support string conversions.
1997-04-02 06:04:02 +00:00
740eb8265f
Add cross-refs for int() to atoi() etc.
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Change replace() arguments; remove replace1().
1997-04-02 05:56:16 +00:00
8d2893b5b2
Added a list of the main undocumented extension modules.
1997-03-27 20:57:52 +00:00
7f3b0421de
Added docs for UserDict,UserList
1997-03-27 14:56:18 +00:00
b6a80262e1
Added docs for glob and mailcap
1997-03-25 22:09:18 +00:00
e6d579ddbc
Added docs for glob
1997-03-25 22:07:53 +00:00
20af95b433
Added docs for mailcap
1997-03-25 22:01:35 +00:00
c8a80cdbad
Added docs for replace() and replace1().
1997-03-25 16:41:31 +00:00
e8e87999ab
Remove untrue statement about . and .. being included in list of names
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passed to walk() visitor.
1997-03-25 15:25:54 +00:00
7b7c578616
Add optional 4th argument to [r]find and [r]index (end of slice).
1997-03-14 04:13:56 +00:00
612316f016
Add a rough list of undocumented stuff at the end.
1997-03-14 04:12:52 +00:00
1f8cee2521
Hint about [\] trick to avoid quad backslashes.
1997-03-14 04:10:13 +00:00
3978d75cca
Added intern()
1997-03-03 16:03:27 +00:00
38e2ec4f14
Added ref to StringIO docs.
1997-03-03 16:03:05 +00:00
3ff7317857
Correct two typos
1997-03-03 16:02:32 +00:00
cda3d7d0e7
Added (minimal) StringIO docs.
1997-03-03 16:01:21 +00:00
20e4210ec4
Fix up indentation of examples to use 4 spaces instead of tabs.
1997-02-28 16:37:49 +00:00
7574587587
Document the new join() semantics.
1997-02-18 21:53:53 +00:00
736bb0659f
Added a paragraph to describe clear_cache(), and why it's necessary.
1997-02-18 18:59:37 +00:00
cd77df64e6
Document the new get_syntax() function.
1997-02-18 18:54:30 +00:00
6fb6f10a96
Added doco for ratecv.
1997-02-14 15:59:49 +00:00
43d287ad73
(libparser.tex): Fix typo found by Mark Hammond.
1997-01-22 14:25:21 +00:00
5cd752028c
Describe new ("unsigned") behavior of hex() and oct().
1997-01-14 18:44:23 +00:00
fe27a50847
Added warning that gethostname() doesn't always return fqdn, and show
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how to find it using gethostbyaddr().
1997-01-11 17:04:56 +00:00
0d2971badb
Document that sys.builtin_module_names is now a tuple.
1997-01-06 23:01:02 +00:00
d44be3fdb7
very minor typo
1997-01-03 20:19:05 +00:00
653071731a
'I' and 'L' now always return a Python long.
1997-01-03 19:21:53 +00:00
b0b8181622
Added unsigned data formats (B, H, I, L).
1997-01-03 19:20:52 +00:00
dbadd558b5
Describe standard float/double support.
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Rewrite example to be an interactive session
1997-01-03 04:20:09 +00:00
6717030dc9
setkey method's argument is no longer optional (it used to be a no-op
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when missing).
1997-01-02 19:48:00 +00:00
591bbb1572
(libformatter.tex): Document the flush() method on the writer.
1996-12-31 20:51:42 +00:00
3dd68d3364
Added libstat.tex
1996-12-31 02:24:54 +00:00
125434665b
Document the new extensions.
1996-12-31 02:22:14 +00:00
f308c0f1fc
From reading the source, it turns out that the setkey() method can
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take an optional string key, but if key is not given, the method does
nothing! In the rewrite (see upcoming check-in), I left things this
way, but here I document that this is the case.
1996-12-23 23:34:17 +00:00
e5a43a405d
Describe open(2) exported constants
1996-12-19 23:50:34 +00:00
e8e9ed176f
Docs for stat.py -- docs by Skip Montanaro.
1996-12-19 22:39:22 +00:00
fa5a6cff45
posix.open(): third argument (mode) is optional.
1996-12-19 22:38:56 +00:00
62ac99ebf5
Documented getprotobyname() interface.
1996-12-19 16:43:25 +00:00
ae0cd0b9b3
(libunix.tex): Change matching lib.tex: add line item for the resource
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module.
1996-12-19 12:20:54 +00:00
3c7b2dc02c
Added docs for Jeremy's resource module.
1996-12-18 18:37:05 +00:00
63a0c376ea
(libunix.tex): Changed two occurances of "Unix" to "\UNIX{}".
1996-12-16 22:12:33 +00:00
094579e677
(libtime.tex): Merged in changes from Tamito Kajiyama.
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(For those watching Python CVS messages: I checked in all of
Tamito's other changes, but the mail delivery failed since the
subject line was too long. The patch Tamito sent for the
documentation has been completely merged in.)
1996-12-13 22:09:52 +00:00
4b3f0312c9
(lib<all sorts of stuff>.tex):
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Merged in many typo corrections and fixes to support GNU info
processing; submitted by Tamito Kajiyama.
1996-12-13 22:04:31 +00:00
8d40c843c1
Added quote_plus() and unquote_plus(), to do space/plus substitutions
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for form field values.
Also corrected substitution example (the original changed the spelling
of "conolly" to "connolly" :).
1996-12-13 14:48:47 +00:00
21be147094
Added remark about time() and sleep()'s subsecond precision.
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Added hint about using clock() for benchmarks etc.
Removed non-portable strftime directives and field width, and added a
warning about non-standard features.
1996-12-12 17:59:37 +00:00
3486f27428
Added soundex (sigh)
1996-12-12 17:02:21 +00:00
843e712bda
Added descriptions of parsedate(), parsedate_tz(), getdate_tz()
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(all contributed by Andrew Kuchling).
1996-12-06 21:23:53 +00:00
61ed4db9e8
Added section for operator module (compiled Skip Montanaro).
1996-12-06 21:22:41 +00:00
9abe64a395
(libparser.tex): Added note that the line number for a terminal token
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indicates the line on which the token ends rather than starts
(a side effect of interpreting the parse tree nodes directly).
Maybe I'll fix this for Python 2.0.
1996-12-05 22:28:43 +00:00
102dc417bf
Describe the new Unpacker.get_buffer() method.
1996-12-04 22:05:42 +00:00
bda7ca7772
Added [nh]to[hn][sl]().
1996-12-02 17:24:10 +00:00
6240b0b773
Small nits only.
1996-10-24 22:49:13 +00:00
f73f79b5fd
Done with this for 1.4.
1996-10-24 22:14:06 +00:00
a5a4c2a7d8
Correct truncated paragraph.
1996-10-24 14:47:44 +00:00
36845ede60
Changed URL for PCT again.
1996-10-22 02:25:24 +00:00
6e308d7e40
Start new chapter on restricted execution.
1996-10-22 01:11:53 +00:00
095538dd10
Actual text submitted by AMK.
1996-10-22 01:11:19 +00:00
c3d090cd4b
Background chapter on restricted execution. Additional sections are
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rexec and bastion.
1996-10-22 01:10:56 +00:00
9b0581192d
Added embryonic description of fcntl.lockf(). Added pointer to that
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in posixfile (which is obsolescent).
1996-10-11 17:43:34 +00:00
4bf1296e05
(libtypes.tex): Correct reversal of two words in description of
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formatting strings.
1996-10-11 16:33:48 +00:00
1dde7b737c
Typos detected by Sjoerd
1996-10-11 15:57:17 +00:00
8f925959c6
(libhtmllib.tex, libsgmllib.tex, libformatter.tex):
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Improve indexing somewhat. Add small intros to the "implementations"
sections of the formatter module doc.
1996-10-09 16:13:22 +00:00
e1980ed1f8
(lib.tex, libwww.tex): Include the sgmlib chapter before the htmllib
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chapter to better reflect the relationship between the modules.
1996-10-09 14:36:54 +00:00
53e84d5342
(lib.tex): Added entry for formatter module.
1996-10-08 21:54:41 +00:00
08d301ec53
(libwww.tex): Added entry for formatter module.
1996-10-08 21:54:06 +00:00
e83b30d51e
(libformatter.tex): Added documentation for abstract writer/formatter model
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and implementation variants.
1996-10-08 21:53:33 +00:00
58d7f69168
(libhtmllib.tex): Revised documentation for HTML support.
1996-10-08 21:52:23 +00:00
42439ad738
(libsgmllib.tex): Revised documentation for SGML support.
1996-10-08 21:51:49 +00:00
3f247ade66
Nits corrected by Fred
1996-09-27 17:11:24 +00:00
4b7d5a49ab
(libparser.tex): Revised parser module documentation; improved logical
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organization.
1996-09-11 21:57:40 +00:00
2f666639f3
Added long getopt docs; by Fred
1996-09-11 21:26:29 +00:00
be0a8a6042
Added bastion and (dummy) rexec docs
1996-09-10 17:37:05 +00:00
8206fb9c4c
Final set of changes by Fred before 1.4beta3
1996-08-26 00:33:29 +00:00
4747887880
New batch from Fred
1996-08-21 14:32:37 +00:00
56b30ea664
Document actual behavior of splitext().
1996-08-19 23:00:50 +00:00
40006cfd9b
Added imghdr,xdrlib; reformatted Makefile somewhat
1996-08-19 22:58:03 +00:00
e5e55d784d
Added capitalize, capwords, lstrip, rstrip, and optional 3rd argument
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to split. Document new conventions for split(fields) and
join(fields), where the *fields variant is identical to the other.
1996-08-09 21:44:51 +00:00
0b3f9512ac
Added capwords, splitx, and optional 3rd argument to split/splitx.
1996-08-09 21:43:21 +00:00
12f0cc325a
Suggest using default values for __init__ arguments to make classes
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unpicklable.
1996-08-09 21:23:47 +00:00
4a5b27b525
Get rid of parrot dropping (spurious 'E')
1996-08-09 21:23:14 +00:00
91f87ca69b
Note that the values are ints.
1996-07-30 20:45:45 +00:00
8cf2db47ba
Moved description of mktime 9-tuple to top.
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Added description of strftime format string.
Minor small editing.
1996-07-30 18:32:04 +00:00
f4d0d5784a
Added maketrans() and optional 3rd arg to translate() (chars to delete).
1996-07-30 18:23:05 +00:00
a29cc97285
Document the *new* cgi.py
1996-07-30 18:22:07 +00:00
d61ad53c19
errno docs.
1996-07-30 18:21:37 +00:00
c0fcc44804
Added liberrno
1996-07-30 18:20:01 +00:00
761f7922ad
Updated pointers to Andrew Kuchlings fine software.
1996-07-23 18:16:56 +00:00
3317e63cbb
added parser module to overview
1996-07-21 02:22:12 +00:00
38e5088aa4
added plock
1996-07-21 02:21:49 +00:00
ed43073e00
Minute changes by Fred Drake
1996-07-21 02:21:31 +00:00
bbb1e26a67
Add docs for planned improved handling of the marshalling of
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unmarshallable objects.
1996-06-26 20:20:57 +00:00
1a5356006b
Added Andrew Kuchling's explanation of regexp's.
1996-06-26 19:43:22 +00:00
036eae6647
mktime returns a float now.
1996-06-26 19:25:12 +00:00
6076ea51e2
Added thread unsafety warning. Added optional retain arg to split.
1996-06-26 19:24:22 +00:00
7c2fdda0b3
Better and correct words for split().
1996-06-26 19:23:26 +00:00
1e8b63eb88
Document some process group stuff; mkdir mode arg optional; mkfifo.
1996-06-26 19:22:46 +00:00
db9a7bba22
Give correct length of string.
1996-06-26 19:21:58 +00:00
4d206541be
Slight update; file args are no longer optional.
1996-06-26 19:21:24 +00:00
50ec5c074a
Add flock; warn about lockdata system dependency when using fcntl.
1996-06-26 19:20:33 +00:00
316a430098
Removed some spurios biindex calls.
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Added description of file.truncate().
Added warning to write() about buffering.
1996-05-02 15:28:53 +00:00
59b328e11e
Added warning about behavior of open mode 'a' (or 'a+').
1996-05-02 15:16:59 +00:00
5c6e3738cd
Added lost docs for crypt module.
1996-04-10 16:18:20 +00:00
feeadef61e
document OverflowError exception on mktime()
1996-02-12 23:21:58 +00:00
264302de3e
atol supports trailing l/L if base is 0
1996-02-12 23:20:12 +00:00
c1715527fd
document non-BSD SIGCHLD behaviour
1996-02-12 23:18:51 +00:00
789742b8f8
change jars email
1996-02-12 23:17:40 +00:00
8c07bb4565
listdir no longer returns . or ..; added remove==unlink
1996-02-12 23:16:08 +00:00
71b1815c1d
hypot is now always supported
1996-02-12 23:14:36 +00:00
ca81470a15
add libparser.tex
1995-10-11 17:32:29 +00:00
4b73a06e92
Fred Drake's parser module
1995-10-11 17:30:04 +00:00
da53c5277c
Documented MACFS, macostools, EasyDialogs and FrameWork modules.
1995-10-10 14:43:20 +00:00
06cf5d0d4c
Added base64 codec docs
1995-10-10 14:41:03 +00:00
ab71c3fca0
Fixed typo.
1995-10-10 11:57:49 +00:00
fbe34faba9
syslog docs by steve clift
1995-10-09 20:49:57 +00:00
0568d5e92c
apply() third arg
1995-10-08 01:06:46 +00:00
26ee80947e
added strftime
1995-09-13 17:37:49 +00:00
f65f278b8f
added string.translate(s, table)
1995-09-13 17:37:21 +00:00
1e150618a3
add realtime as 5th item to os.times() return value
1995-09-13 17:36:35 +00:00
93cf55e369
HP-Prec is not 64-bit
1995-09-13 17:35:28 +00:00
7e183e902e
Documented new argument order.
1995-08-30 12:23:43 +00:00
4549b137e3
Documented binascii, binhex and uu modules. Put them in the
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Internet/WWW section, for lack of a better place.
1995-08-29 11:30:24 +00:00
ebed45fe0f
Documented MacOS module.
1995-08-14 13:40:05 +00:00
4518577b24
Fixed incorrect tex-code for readline
1995-08-14 13:38:36 +00:00
fe4254eb08
warn about bacslash-s lacking
1995-08-11 00:31:57 +00:00
0dbd1fd46e
correct description of integer division; describe optional read arg
1995-08-10 14:22:39 +00:00
3e43d8382c
clarify optional status
1995-08-10 14:21:49 +00:00
0bbbea15e6
typos only
1995-08-10 14:21:11 +00:00
95a5b9c949
correct description of list.insert()
1995-07-07 23:03:07 +00:00
d6ac380d39
fix bug in example (should close file at all times)
1995-07-07 23:01:27 +00:00
6b686e94a1
correct typo; document sys.platform
1995-07-07 23:00:35 +00:00
fb502e964f
documented globals() and locals()
1995-07-07 22:58:28 +00:00
0bf8475108
documented default flag, mode; changed gdbm into a pointer to dbm
1995-07-07 22:55:57 +00:00
96628a90c4
typos, layout and other small things
1995-04-10 11:34:00 +00:00
02ee80d408
minor things
1995-04-04 12:29:37 +00:00
25f6fcc550
more complete examples
1995-04-04 12:28:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
Fred Drake
Barry Warsaw
Jack Jansen