Fred Drake
f96e0d203b
Various clarifications and minor nits fixed. Affected descriptions of
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input(), locals(), reload(), unicode(), and zip().
2000-09-09 03:33:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
1172a85175
Really minor consistency nit.
2000-09-09 03:31:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
66571cc20c
Improve a couple of references to the language reference, making them
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hyperlinks to relevant sections.
Clarify the conditions under which the "softspace" attribute of file-like
objects can "just work" (with relation to overriding of attribute access
in user-defined classes).
2000-09-09 03:30:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
7acb21866c
Minor clarifications in the introductory paragraph.
2000-09-09 03:28:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
e544191397
Add \modulesynopsis for inclusion in the list of modules at the beginning
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of the chapter.
Add explanation that this is only available when the cycle detector is
enabled at build time.
2000-09-09 03:26:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
1c4efad770
Move the "See also" section to a location more consistent with other
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module sections. Properly mark the name of the module in the content
of the reference there.
2000-09-09 03:25:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
621d2bee1c
Move description of UserString.MutableString to a location more typical
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of the arrangement of other modules.
2000-09-09 03:23:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
1c25803647
Add a brief section on linking Python as an embedded scripting language.
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This closes SourceForge bug #110833 .
2000-09-08 22:54:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
90f876798f
When building the HTML packages, make sure we pick up all the HTML files
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at the top level of the tree.
2000-09-08 21:54:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
a61bfa84c9
Add a general "About" page and link to it from the index page.
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This fixes SourceForge bug #113810 .
2000-09-08 21:53:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
6c8affe590
Remove an item that no longer needs to be done for 2.0.
2000-09-07 21:11:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
ae3a15c396
Make the HTML more XHTML-friendly.
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Small nits in the layout of the generated markup.
2000-09-07 20:07:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
31edf4defb
Wrap some long lines.
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Note that \file and \filenq do not work inside section titles.
2000-09-07 20:06:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
5cd0cefbd2
Remove the specific date -- back in development mode.
2000-09-07 18:56:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
d0726c3cd9
\file is not allowed in section titles -- converting to PDF fails due to
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weird macro-expansion issues. A better solution may be available in the
future, but this will do for now.
Add an index entry. More should probably be added as well.
2000-09-07 18:55:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
88c023b863
Remove comment about -X and string exceptions. Error noted by
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Justin D. Pettit <jpettit@raznick.com>.
2000-09-07 16:33:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
6300bd42a4
Added note about Python version this was added for.
2000-09-07 14:01:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
77a6c9ece5
Minor markup nits around use of \optional.
2000-09-07 14:00:51 +00:00
Greg Ward
b652897456
Greatly enhanced the section on creating built distributions; in
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particular wrote up creating RPMs in detail.
Other scattered improvements.
2000-09-07 02:40:37 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
4d46d38292
Add new section "What About Python 1.6?"
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Document some things in the 2.0 NEWS files that should be mentioned here.
2000-09-06 17:58:49 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
d500e44297
Removed mention of the winreg module, since it was deleted from 2.0b1
2000-09-06 12:30:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
8b2e8f846c
Added a \versionadded statement to the getfqdn() description.
2000-09-06 02:22:16 +00:00
Greg Ward
54589d4d97
General overhaul of the "Creating a Source Distribution" section --
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better explanation of manifest files, in particular.
2000-09-06 01:37:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
239e1d5e50
Fix mkhowto so that the bookmarks for the PDF work for both "howto" and
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"manual" class documents.
2000-09-05 21:45:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
8bdf0bf705
Fix PDF generation.
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The \\ introduced in the \author in boilerplate.tex broke the PDF
generation because line breaks are not allowed in the "Document Info"
metadata stored in the PDF file. This changes the line break to
a ", " (comma-space) in that context.
2000-09-05 15:19:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
82de71dae8
Minor nit to make this work a little better with the PDF generation fix.
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This does not change the HTML or PostScript output.
2000-09-05 15:11:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
8ff4cd7512
Minor markup revisions for consistency with the rest of the documentation.
2000-09-05 13:50:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
0d83f68fc9
Added entry for mmap module.
2000-09-05 13:49:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
c28425f4c6
Update license according to the LICENSE file in the source tree.
2000-09-05 04:32:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
05e4ef01a2
Set the date.
2000-09-05 03:13:38 +00:00
Greg Ward
47f99a6174
Fleshed out the section on the setup config file, setup.cfg.
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Added a few clarifying footnotes and cross-references.
Various minor tweaks.
2000-09-04 20:07:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
5e08a01a98
Various corrections pointed out by Detlef Lannert
2000-09-04 17:59:27 +00:00
Moshe Zadka
57a5932f13
Update documentation for PyErr_Format, because the function has changed.
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Connected to patch 100895
2000-09-01 09:47:20 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
21fbd540ed
Document the new optional argument "rest" on the transfercmd(),
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ntransfercmd(), and retrbinary() commands. This closes SF patch
#101187 .
2000-09-01 06:32:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
e0d9a83bea
Document PyImport_AppendInittab(), PyImport_ExtendInittab(), and
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struct _inittab.
This closes SourceForge bug #111499 .
2000-09-01 05:30:00 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
b709df3810
refactor __del__ exception handler into PyErr_WriteUnraisable
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add sanity check to gc: if an exception occurs during GC, call
PyErr_WriteUnraisable and then call Py_FatalEror.
2000-09-01 02:47:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
65faf118b6
Fix markup error and minor consistency nit.
2000-08-31 19:35:56 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
ee5adfbae6
add user-modifiable recursion_limit
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ceval.c:
define recurion_limit (static), default value is 2500
define Py_GetRecursionLimit and Py_SetRecursionLimit
raise RuntimeError if limit is exceeded
PC/config.h:
remove plat-specific definition
sysmodule.c:
add sys.(get|set)recursionlimit
2000-08-31 19:23:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
aef0e890b5
Document the limitation that urllib does not work with proxies which
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require authenication. This is an implementation limitation rather than
required behavior, and may be fixed in the future.
This closes SourceForge bug #111725 .
2000-08-31 17:23:35 +00:00
Greg Ward
e3cca26627
Added abstract.
2000-08-31 16:36:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
4c3f797128
UNARY_NEG is supposed to be UNARY_NEGATIVE (spotted by Charles Waldman
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<cgw@fnal.gov>).
Fix minor problem with EXTENDED_ARG description markup..
2000-08-31 16:26:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
7e861bd1b3
Update some version information for tools based on prodding from Greg Ward.
2000-08-31 15:29:38 +00:00
Greg Ward
1365a300a1
Get rid of "sec:" prefix that slipped into a couple of \label's.
2000-08-31 14:47:05 +00:00
Sjoerd Mullender
1c8feae411
New method getnamespace.
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Since the application never gets to see the namespace abbreviation
used in the XML document, but some applications may need to know them,
we provide this method.
2000-08-31 10:27:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
f730fc3e4e
Be a little more careful to avoid including style information in the
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generated markup.
Don't be careless with the navigation icons! We should use the blank
icon where there is not anyplace to go for a particular position in the
navigation bar.
2000-08-31 07:19:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
3eb7c126cd
Always room to remove more formatting from the HTML!
2000-08-31 07:15:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
501b926da9
Move common parameters to mkhowto to a variable, add up-link from the
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generated documents to the document index.
2000-08-31 07:00:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
dfa539d770
Add --up-link and --up-title parameters to allow linking the top level
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of the generated document to an external index. These correspond to the
-up_url and -up_title parameters of LaTeX2HTML.
2000-08-31 06:58:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
3be2074758
Push some table header formatting to the style sheet; this also helps
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separate some of the ties between l2hinit.perl and python.perl.
Revamp the "title page" construction to allow more flexibility.
2000-08-31 06:22:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
0154fea5f4
Remove obsolete scripts.
2000-08-31 06:15:30 +00:00