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Fred Drake 1cb560a653 Do more to be compatible with Windows/CygWin. Make error messages more
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
Fred Drake 9443dc31c1 Remove the use of the "cat" program. This improves portability to non-Unix
platforms.

This is part the response to SF patch #429611.
2001-08-10 20:12:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 8a7b59e7b4 Added this LaTeX style file to the package since not all LaTeX installations
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
Fred Drake d635e3c468 Added a warning about reference cycles and memory consumption to the
section on functions which return stack frames.

This closes SF bug #449258.
2001-08-10 17:37:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 6d8d72b0cb Usage fix, problem reported by Keith Briggs. 2001-08-10 16:15:08 +00:00
Fred Drake e89659c02d Added documentation for the new rich comparison support.
This closes SF patch #428320.

Added documentation for the new floordiv() and truediv() functions.
This is part of SF bug #449093.

Re-organized the listing of functions to get better logical grouping.
2001-08-10 15:55:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 024ef6f493 Remove the bogus flags parameter from the PyFile_WriteString() signature;
it has no such parameter.

This closes SF bug #449761.
2001-08-10 14:27:38 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 9b75dca192 Expose nl_langinfo through locale where available. 2001-08-10 13:58:50 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 8cc965c1fb Patch #448474: Add support for tell() and seek() to gzip.GzipFile. 2001-08-09 07:21:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 0197858f62 Added documentation for PyNumber_*FloorDivide(), PyNumber_*TrueDivide(),
PyInterpreterState_*Head(), PyInterpreterState_Next(), and
PyThreadState_Next().

Wrapped some long lines, added some others.
2001-08-08 19:14:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 03590c6bdc Reference counting information for PyNumber_*FloorDivide() and
PyNumber_*TrueDivide().
2001-08-08 18:50:18 +00:00
Fred Drake e54acfd8b2 Add option to push the development docs to SF without announcing, for
when the changes are just too small.
2001-08-08 05:41:01 +00:00
Fred Drake ecab00176f More names.... 2001-08-08 05:39:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 3a5ec57456 Clean up some of the markup here -- be more consistent in the use of
semantic labels instead of presentational markup.
2001-08-08 05:39:29 +00:00
Fred Drake a7d608d1cf "Thin" version of floor division docs: add // to the list of operators
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
Andrew M. Kuchling 8c69c91be3 Document two new items
Correct error noticed by Keith Briggs
Re-indent a paragraph
2001-08-07 14:28:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 58212724f2 Add a comment on time.time() returning non-decreasing values except when
the clock is set back.

This closes SF bug #447945.
2001-08-05 15:43:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis c9908c4f5c Document IPv6 changes. Contributed by itojun. 2001-08-04 22:22:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 53765753c4 Lots of new text and example code on embedding Python in C, contributed
by Albert Hofkamp.  Some editing has been done for style and markup
consistency.

This also supplies an example of importing modules and calling a function
defined in the module, so this closes SF bug #440037 as well.

(The long example code was moved to a separate file so that it would
format properly.)
2001-08-04 01:58:36 +00:00
Fred Drake b3cc29b493 Note that the mimetypes.MimeTypes class was added in Python 2.2. 2001-08-04 00:48:49 +00:00
Fred Drake d5efb17086 Add documentation for the new aspects of the mimetypes module.
This closes the SF bug (feature request) #439710.
2001-08-03 21:03:14 +00:00
Fred Drake d86038d1be Apply the new \mailheader macro where appropriate, and fix a few small
markup inconsistencies.
2001-08-03 18:39:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 7eac0cb04c Define the \mailheader macro and document conventions for using it. 2001-08-03 18:36:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 30cf118cf7 Minor markup nits and slight style-guide conformance changes. 2001-08-03 17:11:33 +00:00
Jack Jansen cb60dae6a1 Documented the runtimemodel attribute. 2001-08-03 13:19:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 5d54879647 Fix some of the example code; the reference objects do not support a
get() method; just calling them is sufficient.  (There was a get() method
for this in an early version of the implementation.)

Reported by Mats Wichmann.
2001-08-03 03:50:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 8dd6ffd0ec User-defined methods *can* contain things other than user-defined functions
as the callable, so use more flexible language.
2001-08-02 21:34:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 51629c245a Add a caveat about boundary conditions and RE concatenation, so that the
documents do not make an overly-strong assertion about the properties of
RE concatenation.

Add an example of RE{m,} syntax and what it will and will not match.
2001-08-02 20:52:00 +00:00
Fred Drake f90490ef94 Move away from apply() to using extended call syntax for some example
fragments when discussing equivalence of thhe C API to what a Python
programmer sees.

Added descriptions of PyEval_SetProfile() and PyEval_SetTrace().
2001-08-02 18:00:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 044bb4d22a Explain that __init__() methods do not get to return values. 2001-08-02 15:53:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 388f37e6f6 Add anentry for the distutils.sysconfig module docs. 2001-08-02 15:13:58 +00:00
Fred Drake ab70b38367 Update some incorrect comments about the bdist commands that exist.
Add an entry for the distutils.sysconfig module docs.
2001-08-02 15:13:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 25376c4f8b Documentation for the distutils.sysconfig module. 2001-08-02 15:12:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 905dc558f1 Cleaned up the description of readline.set_completer().
Thanks to Nathaniel Gray for reporting the confusion.
2001-08-01 21:42:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 236ddd6834 Added more names. 2001-08-01 17:19:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 20c94913de Minor re-wording in the exaplantion of sequence comparisons.
This closes SF bug #445749.
2001-08-01 17:17:13 +00:00
Fred Drake e74f8de385 Added an example of a string value for the replacement parameter to
re.sub().
This closes SF bug #446136.

Fixed description of RE modifiers so that RE{#} and RE{#,} are more
clearly described and disambiguated (plain RE{#} had not been described
at all).  Reported by Jeremy Craven via email.
2001-08-01 16:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 630a63cafd Fix description of buffer_info(), and add a note that there is a better
way...

This closes SF bug #444842.
2001-08-01 16:50:49 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 77707673f4 Move C-level changes into a section of their own
Add string.ascii_letters
Remove duplicate MBCS paragraph
2001-07-31 15:51:16 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f4ccf587f6 Rewrite MBCS paragraph following MH's suggestions, and credit him
Note new Windows installer
2001-07-31 01:11:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 43211ecda2 Make some adjustments to the markup, and fix up some style-guide issues. 2001-07-29 03:41:23 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 66b6e192b9 Patch #416224: add readline completion to cmd.Cmd. 2001-07-28 14:44:03 +00:00
Greg Ward 54f65094c3 Typo fix. 2001-07-26 21:01:21 +00:00
Tim Peters 7321ec437b SF bug #444510: int() should guarantee truncation.
It's guaranteed now, assuming the platform modf() works correctly.
2001-07-26 20:02:17 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 4f1cd8bdcb Patch #411138: Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774. 2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 41d7d58cc4 trivial rewording in footnote 5. 2001-07-25 16:18:19 +00:00
Fred Drake d61e3eab44 Add entry for the new distutils section. 2001-07-24 16:20:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 4fefcc3ce4 Overview comments for the distutils package, with links to the distutils
manuals for more information.  This is being added to make it easier to
find the documentation for the distutils code.
2001-07-24 16:19:24 +00:00
Fred Drake f1b3de8d5c Add labels to all \section and \subsection headings for use in references. 2001-07-24 14:38:34 +00:00
Fred Drake c547b46c06 Be more specific about corner cases in the description of the $ RE syntax,
and include an example where the MULTILINE flag makes a real difference.

This closes SF bug #441600.
2001-07-23 21:14:59 +00:00