Greg Ward
c316d0d391
Lots of wordsmithing and typographical improvement.
2003-05-23 02:44:46 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
e41195fab6
Add documentation for __future__
2003-05-21 21:45:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
15eac1f95c
Fix markup nits.
2003-05-20 16:21:51 +00:00
Tim Peters
dbaf04ead6
Straighten out the docs for os.system(); the Unix and Windows behaviors
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really can't be smushed together.
Bugfix candidate.
2003-05-20 16:15:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
e5a55519a8
Remove unused line numbers from example code.
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Line numbering of examples is not used elsewhere.
2003-05-20 15:21:08 +00:00
Brett Cannon
235d1efe12
Add docs for key_file and cert_file arguments for HTTPSConnection. Copied from socket.ssl docs.
2003-05-20 02:56:35 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
7789237331
* Correct Sniffer doc to correspond to the implementation.
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* Add optional delimiters arg to Sniffer.sniff() which restricts the set of
candidate field delimiters.
2003-05-19 15:33:36 +00:00
Walter Dörwald
9e46abed50
Fix array.array.insert(), so that it treats negative indices as
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being relative to the end of the array, just like list.insert() does.
This closes SF bug #739313 .
2003-05-18 03:15:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8f512a22cd
Add docs for MessageBeep.
2003-05-16 01:42:22 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
7696344182
[Bug #471893 ] Replace security material with a warning against unpickling
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untrusted data.
2003-05-14 16:51:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
126d366ea6
document Stats.dump_stats(), new for Python 2.3
2003-05-14 14:29:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
bf1bef820c
Add optional 'onerror' argument to os.walk(), to control error
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handling.
2003-05-13 18:01:19 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
c85bf58276
[Bug #732124 ] Clarify .pos, .endpos by saying 'method' instead of 'function'
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Also, put match() description before search(); search() refers to match()
2003-05-13 14:40:24 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
eabd9a1314
[Bug #729817 ] Document the rexec and Bastion modules as dead
2003-05-13 14:16:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
032bd0a9a8
Fix typo
2003-05-13 14:13:58 +00:00
Brett Cannon
1213bdd16d
Fix and add reference to urllib.urlencode for parse_qsl? functions.
2003-05-13 02:50:36 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
bf3a75283c
Fix minor typos.
2003-05-12 03:23:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
8f53cdcfce
- object is a class type, not a function
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- when marking a function, the trailing () should be included
consistently
2003-05-10 19:46:39 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
b4c1d9be8f
Fix unbalanced parethesis.
2003-05-10 08:51:28 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
0dfd7a9361
Missing parenthesis found by texcheck.py
2003-05-10 07:40:56 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
5467d4c0e3
Patch #612627 : Add encoding attribute to file objects, and determine
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the terminal encoding on Windows and Unix.
2003-05-10 07:10:12 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
eca984fcce
Fix missing parenthesis.
2003-05-10 04:21:08 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
52136a8bea
Fixed spacing and unbalanced brackets or parenthesis.
2003-05-10 03:35:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
9f545c489a
Make this format again.
2003-05-09 19:10:12 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
a30dffbb53
add a note about accessing user-defined functions with an import statement
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in the setup parameter
2003-05-09 18:21:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
3ec4dfd812
Make this format again.
2003-05-09 18:18:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
8b6ed26dc7
- remove bogus \end{description}
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- fix two typos
2003-05-09 15:04:56 +00:00
Greg Ward
86e1790cad
Clarify the dedent() example a bit by indenting the input lines unevenly.
2003-05-08 02:12:35 +00:00
Greg Ward
8f6329c547
SF patch #598163 (Ville Vainio, vvainio@users.sourceforge.net):
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document dedent() function.
2003-05-08 02:09:49 +00:00
Brett Cannon
066f3928b2
Library documentation for the 'test' package. Still needs to be checked by Fred.
2003-05-07 22:02:17 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
6d9f45bc3f
add a note about the undocumented bsddb185 module
2003-05-06 20:40:17 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
6cb52ddc3c
Refer reader to platform library docs for specific semantics.
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Resolves SF bugs 697989, 697988, 697986.
2003-05-05 16:46:26 +00:00
Greg Ward
d72312857e
Scattered wording and typographical improvements (up to but not
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including the "Callback Options" section).
2003-05-03 21:22:58 +00:00
Greg Ward
649625bc05
Rename "The Tao of Option Parsing" section to "Philosophy".
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Remove first-person usage from it. Various wording tweaks.
2003-05-03 20:41:37 +00:00
Greg Ward
1f53517a8c
Use True/False instead of 1/0 when talking about store_true/store_false.
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Particularly important since they now store True and False rather than 1
and 0!
2003-05-03 20:13:08 +00:00
Greg Ward
c50b088cfd
Add a big comment about cross-platform issues (especially OpenBSD).
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This should be turned into a footnote by someone who actually
understands OSS and its relationship to Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD,
etc.
2003-05-03 19:45:47 +00:00
Greg Ward
bf8f1b55a8
Use TeX quotes -- ``foo'' -- as appropriate.
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Remove whitespace around em-dashes.
2003-05-03 19:41:45 +00:00
Greg Ward
b4e3319302
Fix various markup errors: use \longprogramopt{} more, and use it
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correctly. (Closes SF #731689.) Use \emph{} in a few places.
2003-05-03 19:16:36 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
ec31047c0c
Use \versionchanged, not \versionadded.
2003-05-03 10:59:13 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
7829e5661c
Patch #731514 : Update recursion documentation to mention simple recursion.
2003-05-03 10:57:53 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
e59e2bab8f
Patch #711902 : Cause pydoc to show data descriptor __doc__ strings.
2003-05-03 09:09:02 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
341deb74e7
The previous made the stop argument optional.
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It is better to be explicit and just allow stop to be None.
2003-05-02 19:44:20 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
14ef54cd83
SF bug #730685 : itertools.islice stop argument is not optional
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* itertools.islice() stop argument did not perform as documented.
* beefed-up test suite
2003-05-02 19:04:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
90fc0b356f
At the site of an indexed reference to print, point to the relevant
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documentation. Closes SF bug #723136 .
2003-04-30 16:44:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
d4be747e1e
- comment out \moduleauthor that broke formatting until the formatting
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tools can be fixed; added XXX comment
- general markup fixes
2003-04-30 15:02:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
c95628e3f2
- clean up some extra punctuation hidden in indexing markup
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- fix a typo and one markup nit
- normalize whitespace
2003-04-29 13:56:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
83c19ee06b
Clarify that the timeout argument to read_until() is in seconds.
2003-04-29 13:39:05 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
6e887bb05f
SF bug #729096 : getopt online documentation example improvement
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A newbie found it difficult to translate the exampe into a
case that used only short options or long options but not both.
He tried to shorten the tuple search but forgot the trailing comma,
The appropriate pattern is an equality check.
Revised the example to point him in the right direction.
Backport candidate.
2003-04-29 04:35:36 +00:00
Brett Cannon
a2f8737faf
Add comment that urlopen opens local files without universal newlines
2003-04-29 04:11:12 +00:00
Tim Peters
a1af767c4d
Reworded fabs() for consistency with the others. Noted that all
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return values are floats.
2003-04-28 21:32:03 +00:00