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71 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
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 044bb4d22a Explain that __init__() methods do not get to return values. 2001-08-02 15:53:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 6e5e1d924c Minor change to match the style guide. 2001-07-14 02:12:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 2829f1cf99 Fix a very minor (but annoying when looking for things!) markup nit. 2001-06-23 05:27:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 597bc1d46f Bring the notes on the relationship between __cmp__(), __eq__(), and
__hash__() up to date (re: use of objects which define these methods
as dictionary keys).

This closes SF bug #427698.
2001-05-29 16:02:35 +00:00
Fred Drake b3384d3555 Make sure we include all of Python's numeric types in the data model
description, so that the introduction of complex is not a surprise.

This closes SF bug #423429.
2001-05-14 16:04:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0dbb4fba4c Implement, test and document "key in dict" and "key not in dict".
I know some people don't like this -- if it's really controversial,
I'll take it out again.  (If it's only Alex Martelli who doesn't like
it, that doesn't count as "real controversial" though. :-)

That's why this is a separate checkin from the iterators stuff I'm
about to check in next.
2001-04-20 16:50:40 +00:00
Fred Drake fb8ffe6b5e Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping.
Wrap some long lines and fix some markup nits.
2001-04-13 15:54:41 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton aa90adcfb9 Add nested scopes spec to appendix.
Add new opcodes LOAD_CLOSURE, LOAD_DEREF, STORE_DEREF, MAKE_CLOSURE to
docs for dis module.

Add docs for new function and code members in Sec. 3 of ref manual.
They're present regardless of whether nested scopes are used.

Remove description of default argument hack from Sec. 7 of the ref
manual and refer the reader to the appendix.
2001-03-23 17:23:50 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 7a5e80e801 Updates to describe function attributes. 2001-02-27 03:36:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 230d17d0d1 Sequence indexes are non-negative, not natural (0 is not a natural number).
Reported by Daniel May <mayds@ecn.purdue.edu>.

De-tabified everywhere.
2001-02-22 21:28:04 +00:00
Fred Drake c8e8281fb6 Updated note about collection of cyclic garbage, based on comments from
Chris Ryland.
2001-01-22 17:46:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ab782dd6cc Document rich comparisons. 2001-01-18 15:17:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 445f832060 __rcmp__() description: Changed to indicate that this is no longer
supported as of Python 2.1.  We still need to
                         have an entry for this since it is reasonable
                         for users to want to understand existing code.

This closes SF bug #122715.
2001-01-04 15:11:48 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer 48c2eb9165 Document the NotImplemented object. 2001-01-04 01:25:50 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 68abe832b9 Fix typo 2000-12-19 14:09:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 035f7e88c8 Clarify __repr__ and __str__. 2000-12-19 04:18:13 +00:00
Thomas Wouters dc90cc2b15 Additional docs for __iadd__ and family, closing SF bug #117178 and SF patch
#102169.
2000-12-11 23:11:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 0c47559352 Added a note that objects which emulate built-in types should only
implement as many of the relevant methods as make sense for the particular
information being modelled.
2000-12-07 04:49:34 +00:00
Fred Drake f89259786a Denis S. Otkidach <ods@users.sourceforge.net>:
Show how code can be written to handle __getslice__ & friends in a way that
is compatible with pre-2.0 versions of Python while still working with the
"new" way of handling slicing.

Additional explanation added by Fred Drake.

This closes SourceForge patch #101388.
2000-09-21 22:27:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 31575ce817 Note that __getitem__() may receive a slice object as the index;
reported by Detlef Lannert <lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
2000-09-21 05:28:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 8d27f898b2 Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>:
Document the __contains__() method.
(Patch slightly modified by FLD.)

This closes SourceForge patch #101387.
2000-09-19 18:21:25 +00:00
Thomas Wouters 12bba852a9 Rough and incomplete documentation on augmented assignment, which follows
shortly. Markup also needs checking.
2000-08-24 20:06:04 +00:00
Fred Drake a00738259f Adjust the way __getslice__() is marked as deprecated; this will also
stand out more.
2000-08-18 02:42:14 +00:00
Thomas Wouters 1d75a79c00 Apply SF patch #101029: call __getitem__ with a proper slice object if there
is no __getslice__ available. Also does the same for C extension types.
Includes rudimentary documentation (it could use a cross reference to the
section on slice objects, I couldn't figure out how to do that) and a test
suite for all Python __hooks__ I could think of, including the new
behaviour.
2000-08-17 22:37:32 +00:00
Thomas Wouters f9b526dbfd More of Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes. The only ones left now are the
distutils patches, which I'll leave to the distutils maintainers.

Tip: review the patch like this:

grep "^[\!+-] " <patchfile>

To get a quick and easy way to review the actual changes. Most of the
changes are single-line ones, anyway.
2000-07-16 19:05:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 91826ed2a9 Improve the descriptions of expected exceptions for __getitem__(),
__setitem__(), and __delitem__().  Based on related comments from
Barry Warsaw.
2000-07-13 04:57:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 35c09f2e51 Revise the description of when functions retrieved from class instances
are and are not turned into bound methods; some confusion was noted by
Andrew Dalke.

In particular, it has to be noted that functions located on the class
instance are not turned into any sort of method, only those which are
found via the underlying class.
2000-06-28 20:15:47 +00:00
Fred Drake e57a11441e Fix markup error that hid a tilde character; reported long ago by
Carl Feynman <carlf@abinitio.com>.
2000-06-15 20:07:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 8b3ce9e099 But don't do the funny \UNICODE macro; we're trying to get away from
those markups!  <with-mixed-feelings>
2000-04-06 14:00:14 +00:00
Fred Drake f0aff8e759 Patch from Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
Added Unicode type to the language reference.
2000-04-06 13:57:21 +00:00
Fred Drake e15956b465 Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release. 2000-04-03 04:51:13 +00:00
Fred Drake e15eb35fd0 Use \citetitle as appropriate. 1999-11-10 16:13:25 +00:00
Fred Drake b894370f6a Fixed some index entries.
In the __coerce__ description, None should be returned if the
conversion is *impossible*, not *possible*.  Reported by Robert Kern
<kernr@ncifcrf.gov>.
1999-05-10 13:43:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 8cdee961bf Dictionaries are created using the "{...}" notation, not the "..."
notation.  Problem reported by Magnus L. Hetland <mlh@idt.ntnu.no>.
1999-02-23 18:50:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 264bd59221 1. Clarify that immutability isn't entirely the same as unchangeable
value (because of immutable containers containing mutable objects).

2. Document that func_code, func_defaults and func_doc / __doc__ are
now writable.
1999-02-23 16:40:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 15988fdbbb Documented __complex__(), made sure all the discipline names hit the
index.
1999-02-12 18:14:57 +00:00
Fred Drake ae3e574170 "numberic" --> "numeric", two places 1999-01-28 23:21:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 4856d01797 Removed a lot of unnecessary comment markers which cause unexplained
numbers to appear in the HTML version of the manual.
1999-01-12 04:15:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 78eebfdbf4 Remove two remaining {\tt ...} constructs. 1998-11-25 19:09:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 1e42d8aaab Massive change to just about every construct that impacts the index.
Blame it on Just.  ;-)
1998-11-25 17:58:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 3041b0715b Remove an unnecessary "%" character that seems to cause a minor glitch
with the latest latex2html.
1998-10-21 00:25:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 82385872e9 Fix some confusion in the __repr__() and __str__() descriptions.
Reported by Lorenzo M. Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>.
1998-10-01 20:40:43 +00:00
Fred Drake d82575d5bf Markup changes in the section on disciplines to match method descriptions
a little better, and produce better HTML.

Add some index entries.
1998-08-28 20:03:12 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 92a6ed9940 Minor refilling of a paragraph... 1998-08-07 16:33:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 70da192f63 im_function --> im_func 1998-08-07 16:28:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 61c7728cc9 Make sure all chapters, sections, and subsections have a \label to give them
semantic file names in the HTML.  No more node#.html files!
1998-07-28 19:34:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7c0240f112 e.g. -> e.g., 1998-07-24 15:36:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum dfb658c386 'name space' -> 'namespace' 1998-07-23 17:54:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 83b2f8ad3d Lots of changes copied from the FrameMaker version. Also documented
some previously undocumented features.
1998-07-23 17:12:46 +00:00