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Author SHA1 Message Date
Skip Montanaro ffe455c3a2 + "context manager" 2007-12-08 15:23:31 +00:00
Georg Brandl e40a6a85ee Add examples to the datetime documentation. Written for GHOP by "h4wk.cz". 2007-12-08 11:23:13 +00:00
Georg Brandl e7d118a5a1 Fix markup in whatsnew, use new directive in ACKS. 2007-12-08 11:05:05 +00:00
Georg Brandl 013d574183 Update to windows doc from Robert. 2007-12-07 15:16:57 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger ba9eea5aaa Don't have the docs berate themselves. Keep a professional tone.
If a todo is needed, put it in the tracker.
2007-12-07 01:53:01 +00:00
Georg Brandl d6b20dc54f Better re.split examples. 2007-12-06 09:45:39 +00:00
Georg Brandl 2b92f6bab3 Diverse markup fixes. 2007-12-06 01:52:24 +00:00
Georg Brandl 923ad7a948 Add another GHOP student to ACKS. 2007-12-06 00:24:23 +00:00
Georg Brandl 749fddc093 Add Ross Light, a GHOP student, to ACKs. 2007-12-05 21:52:40 +00:00
Georg Brandl 0b60a14f13 Another markup fix. 2007-12-05 20:03:57 +00:00
Georg Brandl 45c088c2e7 Fix markup. 2007-12-05 19:49:21 +00:00
Georg Brandl b8df156ab5 Add examples to re docs. Written for GHOP by Dan Finnie. 2007-12-05 18:30:48 +00:00
Georg Brandl 722e1011c9 Add examples to csv, pprint and traceback docs.
Written by Ross for GHOP.
2007-12-05 17:56:50 +00:00
Georg Brandl c37f288ec6 Add tutorial and examples to logging docs, from GHOP student "oscar8thegrouch". 2007-12-04 17:46:27 +00:00
Georg Brandl 21c666501b Fix duplicate label and a typo. 2007-12-04 16:50:28 +00:00
Christian Heimes 1206a227c9 Added warning that make install may overwrite or masquerade the default python binary. Use make altinstall instead.
A native English speaker may want to rephrase the paragraph. ;)
2007-12-04 16:36:20 +00:00
Georg Brandl d95a1ee652 Add "Python on Unix" document, mostly written for GHOP
by Shriphani Palakodety.
2007-12-04 16:10:02 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 6e751f4ffa Grammar fix 2007-12-03 21:28:41 +00:00
Georg Brandl 0a0cf16de9 Add examples to the xmlrpclib docs.
Written for GHOP by Josip Dzolonga.
2007-12-03 20:03:46 +00:00
Christian Heimes 44eeaec173 Patch #1537 from Chad Austin
Change GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to BaseException
(This time I'm applying the patch to the correct sandbox.)
2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00:00
Georg Brandl cbcfe4f3e4 #1548: fix apostroph placement. 2007-12-03 19:57:02 +00:00
Facundo Batista bd5b623257 Two small fixes. Issue 1547. 2007-12-03 19:49:54 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 6b449f4f2b Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects created
on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a consequence
of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6 cannot be loaded
in Python 2.5.
2007-12-03 19:20:02 +00:00
Georg Brandl f19b951126 Add documentation for PySys_* functions.
Written by Charlie Shepherd for GHOP. Also fixes #1245.
2007-12-02 21:58:54 +00:00
Georg Brandl 968a3e570d Fix a sentence I missed before. Do not merge to 3k. 2007-12-02 18:17:50 +00:00
Georg Brandl 584265b001 Add more entries to the glossary.
Written by Jeff Wheeler for GHOP.
2007-12-02 14:58:50 +00:00
Georg Brandl b15a8df519 Convert bdb.rst line endings to Unix style. 2007-12-02 14:37:29 +00:00
Georg Brandl fefcd4ec40 Add example to mmap docs.
Written for GHOP by Rafal Rawicki.
2007-12-02 14:34:34 +00:00
Georg Brandl 87983f24cf Add "Using Python on Windows" document, by Robert Lehmann.
Written for GHOP.
2007-12-01 23:12:45 +00:00
Georg Brandl 39bd059e42 Add examples to the ElementTree documentation.
Written by h4wk.cz for GHOP.
2007-12-01 22:42:46 +00:00
Georg Brandl ebb035ef29 Add a few refcount data entries. 2007-12-01 22:27:56 +00:00
Georg Brandl 16f1df91ce Document PyEval_* functions from ceval.c.
Credits to Michael Sloan from GHOP.
2007-12-01 22:24:47 +00:00
Christian Heimes 3e76d9346b Added one more missing versionadded tag 2007-12-01 15:40:22 +00:00
Georg Brandl 861320d5a7 Add versionadded tags missing in r59254. Do NOT merge to Py3k. 2007-12-01 13:23:04 +00:00
Christian Heimes dfdfaab1c5 Feature #1534
Added PyFloat_GetMax(), PyFloat_GetMin() and PyFloat_GetInfo() to the float API.
Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00:00
Georg Brandl 81ddc1a69b Move lchmod() docs to correct place, and add versionadded tags. 2007-11-30 22:04:45 +00:00
Christian Heimes 3628187b66 Fix for feature request #1528 Add os.fchmod
Georg Brandl has added fchmod() and fchown(). I've contributed lchown but I'm not able to test it on Linux. However it should be available on Mac and some other flavors of Unix.
I've made a quick test of fchmod() and fchown() on my system. They are working as expected.
2007-11-30 21:11:28 +00:00
Georg Brandl 82225b7737 Add more examples to the wsgiref docs.
From GHOP by Josip Dzolonga.
2007-11-29 23:00:03 +00:00
Georg Brandl 430e3620b6 Add examples to the ConfigParser documentation.
Credits go to Thomas Lamb, who wrote this as a task in the GHOP contest.
2007-11-29 17:02:34 +00:00
Georg Brandl 9d83daa03d Fix reference target. 2007-11-29 17:01:20 +00:00
Christian Heimes d7b333779a Added py3kwarning to the documentation of the sys module. 2007-11-28 08:02:36 +00:00
Christian Heimes 28104c58d2 Expose Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning as discussed in #1504
Also added a warning.warnpy3k() as convenient method for Python 3.x related deprecation warnings.
2007-11-27 23:16:44 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis c8dfd588c2 Bug #1494: Document that appendChild removes first. 2007-11-24 18:33:40 +00:00
Georg Brandl b67da6ed2b #1735632: add O_NOATIME constant to os module.
Also document a few other O_ constants that were missing from documentation.
2007-11-24 13:56:09 +00:00
Georg Brandl f8b6abd972 #1355: remove mention of PyXML from xml.dom docs. 2007-11-24 11:42:14 +00:00
Georg Brandl 586edab279 #1467: fix documentation for TestResult.add{Error,Failure}. 2007-11-24 11:39:13 +00:00
Georg Brandl 439f250c00 #1344: document that you need to open std{in,out,err} with PIPE if you want
communicate() to work as described.
2007-11-24 11:31:46 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f7b462f696 Add item 2007-11-23 13:37:39 +00:00
Facundo Batista c0458830fb Fixed detail in add_type() explanation (issue 1463). 2007-11-19 16:30:24 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 76e4d62822 Use a slightly more recent version than 1.5.2b2. 2007-11-19 01:46:20 +00:00
Brett Cannon 5cf449cfb2 Remove a confusing sentence about pth files and which directories are searched
for them.

Closes issue #1431.  Thanks Giambattista Bloisi for the help.
2007-11-17 07:07:29 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 8465ae8cea Fix signature in example 2007-11-17 01:51:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger bc693491eb Add example for use cases requiring default values. 2007-11-15 22:39:34 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 7c3738e11c Example of multiple replacements. 2007-11-15 03:16:09 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 213ae014db Fixup example in docs. 2007-11-15 02:58:20 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5681cbce81 Small improvement to the implementation of __replace__(). 2007-11-15 02:55:42 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger eeeb9c4445 Accept Issac Morland's suggestion for __replace__ to allow multiple replacements
(suprisingly, this simplifies the signature, improves clarity, and is comparably fast).
Update the docs to reflect a previous change to the function name.
Add an example to the docs showing how to override the default __repr__ method.
2007-11-15 02:44:53 +00:00
Georg Brandl b5b6f3c46e Remove dead link from random docs. 2007-11-14 13:59:09 +00:00
Georg Brandl 03c1d1e9c4 Remove duplication of "this". 2007-11-11 15:16:16 +00:00
Georg Brandl 87426cb151 Fix misleading example. 2007-11-09 13:08:48 +00:00
Georg Brandl 07c19eaa20 Fix seealso link to sets docs. Do not merge to Py3k. 2007-11-09 12:31:43 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 1760c8a017 Add set.isdisjoint() 2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 12e94200c0 Fix marshal's incorrect handling of subclasses of builtin types (backport candidate). 2007-11-07 01:13:09 +00:00
Gregory P. Smith e1ac4f1930 Fixes Issue 1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when using
hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384 and sha512).
2007-11-06 00:19:03 +00:00
Mark Summerfield 91f9429bc3 Clarified the fact that you can have comments for individual archive
members even though comments to the archive itself aren't currently
supported.
2007-11-05 14:38:50 +00:00
Mark Summerfield aea6e5913b Added cross-references between the various archive file formats. 2007-11-05 09:22:48 +00:00
Georg Brandl 9c466baa01 Fix syntax for versionchanged markup. 2007-11-04 17:43:49 +00:00
Skip Montanaro d469ff1e6a Note change to get_dialect semantics in 2.5. Will backport to 2.5. 2007-11-04 15:56:52 +00:00
Georg Brandl 7c3e79f67f Make "hashable" a glossary entry and clarify docs on __cmp__, __eq__ and __hash__.
I hope the concept of hashability is better understandable now.
Thanks to Tim Hatch for pointing out the flaws here.
2007-11-02 20:06:17 +00:00
Mark Summerfield ac3d429edc Added more file-handling related cross-references. 2007-11-02 08:24:59 +00:00
Georg Brandl 744b32a544 Fix markup glitch. 2007-11-01 20:37:02 +00:00
Georg Brandl 03b15c67ff #1364: os.lstat is available on Windows too, as an alias to os.stat. 2007-11-01 17:19:33 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 405884cd62 Sets are marshalable. 2007-10-31 22:15:49 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 84e26b6d5d Clarify the reasons why pickle is almost always better than marshal 2007-10-31 21:57:58 +00:00
Georg Brandl 706132bbae Make example about hiding None return values at the prompt clearer. 2007-10-30 17:57:12 +00:00
Georg Brandl f4ef23f8c1 Use correct markup. 2007-10-30 17:51:18 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 98f40b1fcd Update URL for Pygments. 0.8.1 is no longer available 2007-10-27 22:32:21 +00:00
Georg Brandl 1a94ec2664 Bug #1287: make os.environ.pop() work as expected. 2007-10-24 21:40:38 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 6d57c827a7 Update name 2007-10-23 20:55:47 +00:00
Georg Brandl fef8be66e3 Update Pygments version from externals. 2007-10-23 18:21:35 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 530042816c Bug #1313, fix typo (wrong variable name) in example. 2007-10-23 05:44:27 +00:00
Travis E. Oliphant 8feafab346 Add phuang patch from Issue 708374 which adds offset parameter to mmap module. 2007-10-23 02:40:56 +00:00
Georg Brandl a739503881 Add :term:s for "new-style class". 2007-10-21 12:15:05 +00:00
Georg Brandl e7a0990113 Add :term:s for iterator. 2007-10-21 12:10:28 +00:00
Georg Brandl cf3fb25932 Add :term: for generators. 2007-10-21 10:52:38 +00:00
Georg Brandl bb75e4e5d2 Unify "file-descriptor" to "file descriptor". 2007-10-21 10:46:24 +00:00
Georg Brandl 5e52db035d Add :term:s for descriptors. 2007-10-21 10:45:46 +00:00
Georg Brandl 5c174bbd84 Add markup to new function descriptions. 2007-10-21 10:32:54 +00:00
Georg Brandl 63fa168326 Unify "byte code" to "bytecode". Also sprinkle :term: markup for it. 2007-10-21 10:24:20 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 27a4498fca Use correct header line 2007-10-20 19:39:35 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e34d2895f2 Various items 2007-10-20 19:35:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 529b1a91ce Fix protocol name 2007-10-20 19:25:37 +00:00
Georg Brandl 3507333909 Even more clarification. 2007-10-20 19:08:36 +00:00
Georg Brandl c5004f39fd Clarify -E docs. 2007-10-20 19:05:45 +00:00
Georg Brandl 45af56d330 Add entry to ACKS. 2007-10-20 18:39:25 +00:00
Georg Brandl 1cddfed08d Change title, for now. 2007-10-20 18:33:20 +00:00
Georg Brandl 59d121af67 * Add new toplevel chapter, "Using Python." (how to install,
configure and setup python on different platforms -- at least
  in theory.)
* Move the Python on Mac docs in that chapter.
* Add a new chapter about the command line invocation, by stargaming.
2007-10-20 18:08:14 +00:00
Georg Brandl a147bf9a08 Document new directive "envvar". 2007-10-20 17:51:39 +00:00
Georg Brandl e36a652d0c Make a path more Unix-standardy. 2007-10-20 15:21:22 +00:00
Georg Brandl dd197e95c7 Document new "cmdoption" directive. 2007-10-20 13:36:24 +00:00