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2519 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrew M. Kuchling e3fb22bd4a [Patch #633635 from David M. Cooke]
Make docs accurate; getch() in nodelay mode returns -1
2002-11-06 14:17:21 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 110aa50cc2 Fix minor wording and 2 typos 2002-11-05 23:55:27 +00:00
Neal Norwitz fad265e651 Whoops, fix the typo correctly this time 2002-11-05 22:46:39 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 75f36b7040 Document the new `pp' command. 2002-11-05 22:41:16 +00:00
Neal Norwitz c2f7757ef5 Fix minor typos 2002-11-05 22:37:58 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a288a234ec Document that images go away when they go away. Fixes #632323. 2002-11-05 22:11:50 +00:00
Fred Drake 18c7d98bd1 Fix a few minor nits. Still need to actually proofread this. 2002-11-05 17:54:02 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer f8ca8364c9 Patch implementing bz2 module.
* setup.py
  (PyBuildExt.detect_modules): Included bz2 module detection.

* Modules/bz2module.c
* Lib/test/test_bz2.py
* Doc/lib/libbz2.tex
  Included files implementing, testing, and documenting bz2 module.

* Doc/Makefile.deps
* Doc/lib/lib.tex
  Include references to libbz2.tex.

* Misc/NEWS
  (Library): Mention distutils' c++ linkage patch, and new bz2 module.
2002-11-05 16:50:05 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 22610da481 Document symbolic constants for commands. 2002-11-04 17:41:18 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 1da9c57c74 Patch #630829: Don't block on IAC, process suboptions. 2002-11-04 09:56:00 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f0a4668e6f Add getpreferredencoding. Support @euro modifiers. Fixes #554676.
The @euro part is backported to 2.2.3.
2002-11-03 17:20:12 +00:00
Neal Norwitz cf57e50989 Fix SF #632864, Typo string instead of sting in LibDoc. Will backport. 2002-11-03 13:13:20 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 034c749ff4 Fix SF #618146, overflow error in calendar module
Will backport.
2002-11-03 00:13:42 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 1a7a894d90 Move introductory sentence to where it belongs. 2002-11-02 13:32:07 +00:00
Fred Drake 9482d2591a Update example for the type() function to use the currently accepted
preference of using "is" instead of "==" to compare types, use
built-in names where available, and point to the isinstance()
function.
Closes SF bug #632196.
2002-11-01 21:33:44 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 3adefccdcb Use personal e-mail address 2002-10-30 21:08:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 4e303aad05 Add notes to the asctime() and ctime() descriptions to make it
explicit that locale information is not used.  There wasn't anything
that implied it was, but this has confused users.
2002-10-30 18:17:03 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 74b51ac1e5 Patch #613256: Add nescape method to xml.sax.saxutils. 2002-10-26 14:50:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 0eebd5cef9 Implement a safer and more predictable interpolation approach.
Closes SF bug #511737.
2002-10-25 21:52:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 97d5f05221 Update to reflect the refactoring into the RawConfigParser and
ConfigParser classes.
2002-10-25 20:20:58 +00:00
Fred Drake f596826673 - The "-" format flag overrides the "0" flag, not the "-" flag.
- Documented the alternate forms, which were claimed to be documented
  but were not.
2002-10-25 16:55:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 50276abd9b Update an example to use the DOM implementation object. Explain that
the parse() and parseString() functions use a separate parser, not
actually implement a parser.  (This is a common question.)
2002-10-24 19:36:04 +00:00
Fred Drake ff287cfb4c Point to the PyXML package as an extended version of the "xml" package
that can provide this fuctionality.

Note that the docs for the xml.dom and xml.sax packages are the
definitiona of the Python bindings for the DOM and SAX interfaces.
2002-10-23 20:58:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 88f015dc88 Moved description of _urlopener adjacent to the related functions.
Added missing import to example code.

Added documentation for pathname2url(), url2pathname().
Closes SF bug #623196.
2002-10-22 21:58:06 +00:00
Fred Drake d6cf8bea0a Modify example to use string methods instead of the string module. 2002-10-22 20:31:22 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh 019bd4a6c1 terminology 2002-10-22 18:26:28 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh 1303c7cb16 add support for basic authentication, based on patch #624180
by Phillip J. Eby
2002-10-22 18:23:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 7d428ecc57 Clarify what versions of Windows are supported, and add Linux
specifically.
2002-10-22 15:06:49 +00:00
Fredrik Lundh e7c38d48ff fixed the mail address in the documentation, too... 2002-10-19 20:22:56 +00:00
Fred Drake d8eeeae4a6 Fix reference to the Fetchmail FAQ:
- URL was missing an "m"
- markup for tilde was wrong
- URL was marked as the title
- actual title was omitted

"make webcheck" didn't catch this; not sure why.

Removed some spurious end-of-line whitespace.
2002-10-18 16:50:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 5f2c1d27b9 Typo(!): "normal" -> "number" 2002-10-17 19:23:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 98ef20d5e4 Document urldefrag(). 2002-10-16 20:07:54 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f607bdaa77 Add PyStructSequence_UnnamedField. Add stat_float_times.
Use integers in stat tuple, optionally floats in named fields.
2002-10-16 18:27:39 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 77ac429eff Patch #572628: Optional timeouts for put and get. 2002-10-15 15:11:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 16ecb2160f Fix tildes in URLs. Closes SF bug #614821. 2002-10-12 15:02:46 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 36a4d8c20e Remove mentionings of DOS. 2002-10-10 18:24:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 5430f4e9c8 Document when unittest was added to Python. 2002-10-10 16:16:25 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 6f0f961741 Update email micro release number. 2002-10-10 15:58:19 +00:00
Barry Warsaw df88b9fadf Document that the Charset constructor coerces its argument to lower
case.
2002-10-10 15:23:38 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 57ce1430b2 Document that get_content_charset() coerces its return value to lower
case.
2002-10-10 15:22:16 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis dbe3f76270 Patch #569139: Implementation of major, minor and makedev. 2002-10-10 14:27:30 +00:00
Fred Drake aa02c8441b Accept Armin's documentation patch for SF bug #558179.
Adjusted some markup to make the descriptions more consistent.
2002-10-09 22:33:23 +00:00
Mark Hammond 8696ebcd28 Add os.path.supports_unicode_filenames for all platforms,
sys.getwindowsversion() on Windows (new enahanced Tim-proof <wink>
version), and fix test_pep277.py in a few minor ways.
Including doc and NEWS entries.
2002-10-08 02:44:31 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis e9ce0b0fea Patch #448038: Add move(). Report errors from copytree as in shutil.Error. 2002-10-07 13:23:24 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a844f2d165 Document patch #594001. 2002-10-05 09:46:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 0ba5541a0e Add a comment to the top of the file explaining why the file is here. 2002-10-01 18:20:16 +00:00
Barry Warsaw dd868d32e0 nits 2002-10-01 15:29:09 +00:00
Barry Warsaw de6977f441 Added an introduction. 2002-10-01 15:13:29 +00:00
Fred Drake c61617320f Stub document for the stand-alone email package distribution.
Barry, please add a reasonable abstract!
2002-10-01 14:38:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 6516e14968 Minor style nit for referring to other attributes of the same class
from an attributes description.
2002-10-01 14:29:58 +00:00