d04592a46b
Rename $PYTHON_VERSION to $PACKAGE_VERSION; this is the version number for
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whatever is being documented, not necessarily Python. (These tools are
also used for the How-To documents, etc.)
2000-10-25 16:15:13 +00:00
e4359952c0
Remove some HTML from the PYTHONDOCS fragment defined here.
2000-10-25 16:12:04 +00:00
6a11960ed4
Minor addition; add a little formatting to the release information that
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will be added to Doc/perl/l2hinit.perl shortly.
2000-10-25 16:10:46 +00:00
7ceab739d0
Make this actually work now that the tool is checked in here instead of
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just sitting around in my working directory.
2000-10-24 19:59:55 +00:00
277a21150b
Added entries for the xml.dom.minidom module.
2000-10-24 02:35:42 +00:00
669d36f02c
Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>:
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Documentation for the xml.dom.minidom module & Python DOM API.
FLD: I have revised the markup in some places and added a few minor
details to Paul's text, but that's it. Given the substantial
structural differences with the bulk of the presentation, I will be
making additional revisions over the next few days.
2000-10-24 02:34:45 +00:00
f61eac425a
Remove second horizontal line below table headers; it is just too
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distracting.
2000-10-24 02:18:30 +00:00
8902442e2f
Added exception to the rule that the buffer returned by PyString_AsString()
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and PyString_AsStringAndSize() for strings that were just created using
PyString_FromStringAndSize(NULL, n).
This closes bug #117377 .
Added warning about passing NULL to the concrete object functions; many of
them use the appropriate Py<Type>_Check() test, but do not check for NULL.
"de-allocated" --> "deallocated"
2000-10-23 16:00:54 +00:00
246f65f2bb
Correct the name of a parameter in the description of the register()
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function.
This closes bug #117467 .
2000-10-23 15:41:13 +00:00
0579eb042c
More names.
2000-10-22 03:23:58 +00:00
8c2fd49cc3
Added missing entry for invert() function.
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Added table mapping abstract operations to syntax to functions, based on
a suggestion from Bob Weiner <weiner@beopen.com>.
2000-10-22 03:19:30 +00:00
7ef2ba796b
Minor tweaks to catch up with the current code in a few spots.
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Wrote the "Distutils Configuration Files" section.
2000-10-22 01:40:08 +00:00
d097d48200
Flesh out the "LaTeX Primer" some more.
2000-10-20 20:51:31 +00:00
860106ae90
Update the display of some floating point values at the interactive prompt
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to reflect current behavior.
This closes SourceForge bug #117305 .
Made a reference to the library reference a hyperlink.
Fixed some minor markup nits.
2000-10-20 03:03:18 +00:00
a577aa2003
Remove the bzip2 archives from the "distfiles" target. There are not
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enough downloads to keep this around.
2000-10-19 13:25:15 +00:00
4a41f54958
Two more names.
2000-10-19 05:58:03 +00:00
692565c9e9
Helper scripts used in published the "development" snapshots of the
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Python documentation.
2000-10-19 05:54:51 +00:00
63568aa9bb
Revise the capitalization policy of \versionchanged explanation; the
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explanation must now be capitalized. This is more consistent with the
\see* explanation fields.
Added a lot of material to the "LaTeX Primer" section.
2000-10-19 05:36:10 +00:00
4a152630ca
Capitalize first letter of an explanation for a \versionchanged
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annotation.
2000-10-19 05:33:46 +00:00
a8d10785f1
Correction from David Bolen: the Windows version no longer crashes
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on trying to import a 1.5 module
Bump the document version number
2000-10-19 01:42:33 +00:00
75afc0b914
Document the .lastindex and .lastgroup attributes of MatchObject
2000-10-18 23:08:13 +00:00
ba0a989988
Make all the \seemodule explanations consistent: start with a capitalized
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letter and end with proper punctuation. "Documenting Python" will be
updated accordingly so that this will be editorial policy for the Python
documentation.
2000-10-18 17:43:06 +00:00
510dfbad3d
Capitalize & use periods for \seemodule explanation parameter.
2000-10-18 16:47:52 +00:00
ad6f2c8007
Bump version number -- this document is pretty much finished!
2000-10-17 13:02:42 +00:00
b4b401eda3
Update the links to the NumPy website and documentation, based on a
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comment from Janko Hauser <jhauser@ifm.uni-kiel.de>.
2000-10-17 04:58:01 +00:00
f155170f09
Correct form of FourThought's name
2000-10-16 14:19:21 +00:00
89fb035248
For PyErr_Format(), note that the exception parameter can be a string or
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class, but not an instance (since an instance will be created using the
formatted message string as the constructor parameter).
2000-10-14 05:49:30 +00:00
3c8c2f9b77
Adjust the Macintosh manual to have the formatting dependencies for
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manuals instead of howtos.
2000-10-14 05:47:17 +00:00
21c9df7641
For os.stat() & friends, note that the time fields are returned as
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floating-point values.
2000-10-14 05:46:11 +00:00
e764968649
Update dependencies for the Macintosh manual.
2000-10-14 05:44:32 +00:00
c25296a916
Update to include all the new chapters & sections.
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Convert from a howto to a manual, so we can *have* chapters!
Comment out the macconsole module documentation; Think C seems to have
disappeared.
2000-10-14 05:41:17 +00:00
c7babad2a0
Remove everything that is not module documentation.
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It is no longer needed here.
2000-10-14 05:39:08 +00:00
8e850ee0f2
Fix some internal references that I botched.
2000-10-14 05:24:20 +00:00
45aa573186
Chapter on how to use MacPython, by Bob Savage <bobsavage@mac.com>.
2000-10-14 05:09:42 +00:00
4d0d621b66
Chapters on Mac Toolbox modules and other undocumented modules, ready to
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be filled in with real information. Contributed by Chris Barker
<cbarker@jps.net>.
2000-10-14 05:08:34 +00:00
1bd905e901
Documentation for the aepack and aetypes modules, by Vincent Marchetti
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<vincem@en.com>.
2000-10-14 05:06:24 +00:00
8f6ca1518a
Chris Barker <cbarker@jps.net>:
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Small fixes.
2000-10-14 04:59:12 +00:00
eab58af841
Chris Barker <cbarker@jps.net>:
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Various updates and additions.
2000-10-14 04:56:52 +00:00
26fbd8b692
Chris Barker <cbarker@jps.net>:
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Small clarification, remove the assertion that the module is temporary.
2000-10-14 04:55:15 +00:00
658865c370
Chris Barker <cbarker@jps.net>:
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Added summary of the strengths and weaknesses of the FrameWork module
and fixed some typos.
2000-10-14 04:53:31 +00:00
f459a09e9a
Wrap a long line.
2000-10-14 04:49:36 +00:00
b6441e78fb
More names.
2000-10-14 04:47:53 +00:00
eecdc7f47e
A bunch of nits fix and some additional information added by Chris
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Barker <cbarker@jps.net>.
2000-10-14 04:45:22 +00:00
9d62943f24
Center the top line of the license page, to make it look just a little bit
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cleaner.
2000-10-14 04:07:49 +00:00
91eb3e8558
Update the release number and date.
2000-10-13 15:35:27 +00:00
602aa77d2f
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
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Documentation for the codec base classes.
Lots of markup adjustments by FLD.
This closes SourceForge bug #115308 , patch #101877 .
2000-10-12 20:50:55 +00:00
babe326c65
Added entries for new files of SAX documentation.
2000-10-12 20:07:09 +00:00
014f0e3394
Massive addition of SAX documentation from Martin von Loewis
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<loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de>.
Reorganized to be more like other parts of the documentation in its
arrangement, but with few content changes.
This closes SourceForge patch #101850 .
2000-10-12 20:05:09 +00:00
ec1722e8d4
Various minor additions and clarifications, mostly suggested by Jeremy
2000-10-12 03:04:22 +00:00
7486c6b0ef
Comment out a separator line, since all the others are commented out,
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and it would look kind of silly if typeset.
2000-10-12 02:49:12 +00:00
6032c48b47
Add new section on the XML package. (This was the only major new 2.0 feature
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left that wasn't covered. The article is therefore now essentially complete.)
A few minor changes
2000-10-12 02:37:14 +00:00
93615657ec
Document the exceptions that now get raised on invalid parameters.
2000-10-11 22:27:51 +00:00
6fe9bacb8c
Make sure methods of ZipFile objects are in alphabetical order; the logical
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groupings are still maintained. Based on a comment by Steve Holden
<sholden@holdenweb.com>.
2000-10-11 18:56:00 +00:00
2c4f554b78
Fixed a large number of small problems, mostly noted by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
2000-10-10 22:00:03 +00:00
66c9f0781d
Note that the UserString/MutableString classes are far less efficient
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than the built-in string types (suggested by Moshe Zadka
<moshez@math.huji.ac.il>).
Clarified what "can be converted to a string" means.
Fixed a few markup nits.
2000-10-10 20:58:48 +00:00
ef52f601ed
Revise the examples not to use the "from socket import *", and adjust
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one comment in the example for clarity.
2000-10-10 20:36:29 +00:00
0fc6a67307
Remove duplicated text from urlopen() description, noted by Ka-Ping
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Yee <ping@lfw.org> and probably others as well.
2000-10-10 20:23:10 +00:00
77b76b6db6
Substantially revise to handle the fact that Python CVS is no longer in a
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file-system accessible repository. Add a little bit of smarts to convert
the cvsroot to an anonymous cvsroot the real one requires an authenticated
login to SourceForge; this avoids the SSH startup delay when doing the
checkout or export to get a fresh copy of the tree.
2000-10-10 19:35:40 +00:00
3ece71327f
Make it clear that copy_reg.pickle() should not be used for classes, but
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only for extension types.
This partially fixes SourceForge bug #116295 .
2000-10-10 18:36:02 +00:00
f8ca7d88c6
Fixed lots of small nits caught by Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>.
2000-10-10 17:03:45 +00:00
2d34cd3ecf
Minor nit fixes based on suggestions from Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>.
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Added "See also" section with relevant RFC references.
2000-10-10 17:02:34 +00:00
25407882ea
Better synopsis based on suggestion from Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>.
2000-10-10 16:59:53 +00:00
4d3714b5c6
Better synopses based on suggestions from Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>.
2000-10-10 16:56:41 +00:00
6ff7aec2ab
Move the documentation for the mutex module to be with the threading
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and queue-management modules, since that is where the general context
for use in most cases.
2000-10-10 16:46:36 +00:00
87d4a03ad7
Do not forget to build the acks.html file when building "all"!
2000-10-09 18:56:23 +00:00
17a2b640e4
Work around annoyances in LaTeX2HTML.
2000-10-09 18:12:29 +00:00
955e03bd68
Push xmllib to the end of the markup chapter since it is deprecated.
2000-10-09 18:11:24 +00:00
ecbd2aaa02
Another name.
2000-10-09 18:08:56 +00:00
3383792c74
Denis S. Otkidach <ods@users.sourceforge.net>:
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Correct description of leapdays() function.
This closes SourceForge patch #101840 .
2000-10-09 15:27:31 +00:00
77878413ba
Hush the nanny.
2000-10-07 12:50:05 +00:00
5d64421c23
Fix a couple of places where the descriptions of *_GET_SIZE() macros said
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they were similar to *_GetSize(); should be similar to *_Size().
Error noted by William Park <parkw@better.net>.
2000-10-07 12:31:50 +00:00
c2bac8745d
Include more information from the docstrings.
2000-10-06 21:07:14 +00:00
3a844a2822
Another name.
2000-10-06 21:00:40 +00:00
519744409b
Fix really bad typo, noted by Neil Schemenauer <nas@arctrix.com>.
2000-10-06 20:16:50 +00:00
c6243e4e08
Add notes on the requirements for subclasses.
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This closes SourceForge bug #115928 .
2000-10-06 20:04:48 +00:00
2e06c209dc
Revise the versioning information to say that this was revised in 1.6,
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not added then, and note what the change was (ncurses, change to a package).
2000-10-06 20:01:23 +00:00
062ea2e70b
Made a number of revisions suggested by Fredrik Lundh.
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Revised the first paragraph so it doesn't sound like it was written
when 7-bit strings were assumed; note that Unicode strings can be used.
2000-10-06 19:59:22 +00:00
d88d0a1d5b
It turns out that Guido does not like or encourage the use of the term
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"disciplines" for the __*__() methods, so they should be referred to as
"methods" or "special methods", as appropriate in context.
2000-10-06 19:39:47 +00:00
476491396e
Use the cvsinfo module instead of a module stuff off in my personal
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collection.
2000-10-06 16:37:47 +00:00
72fbd8264c
Support module to help work with checked-out CVS trees.
2000-10-06 16:36:48 +00:00
5d63a39983
is_zipfile() description: Use the same name for the parameter as the
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code, in case someone wants to use it as a keyword paramter.
ZIP_DEFLATED description: Do not reveal the specific value of the
constant, since code should only use the symbolic name.
2000-10-06 15:29:56 +00:00
50a22a4cad
Added a name.
2000-10-06 15:25:01 +00:00
410cb6be8f
The _PyTuple_Resize() last_is_sticky flag must now always be false.
2000-10-05 19:38:24 +00:00
9351dd2084
Document the lookbehind assertions (closing bug#115119)
2000-10-05 15:22:28 +00:00
7a90db6131
Document expand() method of MatchObjects
2000-10-05 12:35:29 +00:00
85788edca4
Better add at least a short docstring to the module!
2000-10-05 05:20:55 +00:00
6522192c0b
Add a link to the new acks.html file.
2000-10-05 05:17:29 +00:00
3705e59c04
Add rules for generating the acks.html file at the top of the document tree.
2000-10-05 05:16:56 +00:00
702f2d763e
Ignore the acks.html file, since it is generated.
2000-10-05 05:16:12 +00:00
f23431da11
New script to convert the ACKS file to a nicely formatted HTML file.
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Uses the new support module.
2000-10-05 05:15:29 +00:00
01a110be57
Use the new support module instead of including all the getopt
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processing and style information directly.
2000-10-05 05:14:26 +00:00
ca2b2e04e1
Factor out some of the presentation and shared code from mkmodindex and
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a mkackshtml (not yet checked in).
2000-10-05 05:11:57 +00:00
4beff43e45
List of acknowledgements culled from CVS checkin logs and memory.
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The documentation ACKS list will be maintained separately from the
CPython ACKS list.
2000-10-05 04:05:30 +00:00
559b5c8892
Update for next planned release.
2000-10-05 03:24:00 +00:00
b2c2c9e977
- update Neil's email address
2000-10-04 16:34:09 +00:00
15f06661c1
Added deprecation notices to atof(), atoi(), and atol(), recommending
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use of the float(), int(), and long() built-ins instead.
Fixed minor markup nit elsewhere (use of \optional).
2000-10-04 13:59:52 +00:00
c71c23e392
Added \versionchanged comment to os.popen() noting that it was unreliable
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in earlier versions of Python; this is useful information for people
interested in writing code that is portable across Python versions.
Suggested by Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>.
2000-10-04 13:57:27 +00:00
63eb6300a9
Remove styling information that conflicts with or duplicates the stylesheet;
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different browsers resolve the conflicts differently, and the "proper"
resolution is not what we actually want.
Reported by Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>.
2000-10-04 13:39:24 +00:00
d44dc3ca6f
Rewrites to section on new development process, after Usenet discussion
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of the text
2000-10-04 12:40:44 +00:00
0b4e25d0c0
Use \obindex{...} instead of \indexii{...}{type} in many places; this is
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more consistent with other index entries in the documentation.
2000-10-04 04:21:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
Greg Ward
Andrew M. Kuchling
Neil Schemenauer