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  r64119 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-06-11 14:53:14 +0200 (mer., 11 juin 2008) | 1 line

  Note PEP 371 section
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  r64147 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-06-11 22:04:30 +0200 (mer., 11 juin 2008) | 2 lines

  update ACKS and NEWs for multiprocessing
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  r64150 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-11 22:28:06 +0200 (mer., 11 juin 2008) | 2 lines

  Can we agree to put dots at entry ends? Thanks.
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  r64165 | armin.rigo | 2008-06-12 11:50:58 +0200 (jeu., 12 juin 2008) | 3 lines

  Sounds obvious, but I didn't even realize that you can put non-string
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  r64219 | neal.norwitz | 2008-06-13 08:00:46 +0200 (ven., 13 juin 2008) | 1 line

  Check for memory alloc failure
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  r64220 | neal.norwitz | 2008-06-13 08:02:26 +0200 (ven., 13 juin 2008) | 3 lines

  Fix some memory dealloc problems when exceptions occur.
  It caused: "Fatal Python error: UNREF invalid object" in the DoubleTest.
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  r64221 | neal.norwitz | 2008-06-13 08:03:25 +0200 (ven., 13 juin 2008) | 3 lines

  Fix typo in method name.  The LT class implemented less than.  The LE class
  should implement less than or equal to (as the code does).
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  r64229 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-13 15:26:54 +0200 (ven., 13 juin 2008) | 2 lines

  Clarification.
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  r64230 | robert.schuppenies | 2008-06-13 15:29:37 +0200 (ven., 13 juin 2008) | 2 lines

  Fixed: sys.getsizeof does not take the actual length of the tuples into account.
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  r64233 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-06-13 17:11:50 +0200 (ven., 13 juin 2008) | 2 lines

  platform.uname now tries to fill empty values even when os.uname is present
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  r64235 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-06-13 17:41:09 +0200 (ven., 13 juin 2008) | 1 line

  set svn:ignore on multiprocessing
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  r64253 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-06-13 21:38:18 +0200 (ven., 13 juin 2008) | 1 line

  Typo fixes
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  r64278 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-06-14 16:24:47 +0200 (sam., 14 juin 2008) | 2 lines

  Disable UAC by default.
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  r64280 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-06-14 19:34:09 +0200 (sam., 14 juin 2008) | 3 lines

  silence the test when it is skipped on some platforms.  should fix a
  buildbot.
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  r64301 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-15 21:54:36 +0200 (dim., 15 juin 2008) | 2 lines

  Forward-port new test from r64300.
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  r64303 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-06-16 03:42:40 +0200 (lun., 16 juin 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 3116: fix quadratic behavior in marshal.dumps().
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  r64320 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-16 23:00:47 +0200 (lun., 16 juin 2008) | 2 lines

  Add Jesse Noller to the developers list.
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  r64328 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-17 11:01:35 +0200 (mar., 17 juin 2008) | 2 lines

  Split the HTML index.
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  r64338 | vinay.sajip | 2008-06-17 13:02:14 +0200 (mar., 17 juin 2008) | 1 line

  Bug #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for the patch).
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  r64339 | vinay.sajip | 2008-06-17 13:04:02 +0200 (mar., 17 juin 2008) | 1 line

  Updated with fix for #3126.
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README.txt

Python Documentation README
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This directory contains the reStructuredText (reST) sources to the Python
documentation.  You don't need to build them yourself, prebuilt versions are
available at http://docs.python.org/download/.

Documentation on the authoring Python documentation, including information about
both style and markup, is available in the "Documenting Python" chapter of the
documentation.  There's also a chapter intended to point out differences to
those familiar with the previous docs written in LaTeX.


Building the docs
=================

You need to install Python 2.4 or higher (but Python 3.0 is not supported yet);
the toolset used to build the docs are written in Python.  The toolset used
to build the documentation is called *Sphinx*, it is not included in this
tree, but maintained separately in the Python Subversion repository.  Also
needed are Jinja, a templating engine (included in Sphinx as a Subversion
external), and optionally Pygments, a code highlighter.


Using make
----------

Luckily, a Makefile has been prepared so that on Unix, provided you have
installed Python and Subversion, you can just run ::

   make html

to check out the necessary toolset in the `tools/` subdirectory and build the
HTML output files.  To view the generated HTML, point your favorite browser at
the top-level index `build/html/index.html` after running "make".

To use a Python interpreter that's not called ``python``, use the standard
way to set Makefile variables, using e.g. ::

   make html PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.5

Available make targets are:

 * "html", which builds standalone HTML files for offline viewing.

 * "web", which builds files usable with the Sphinx.web application (used to
   serve the docs online at http://docs.python.org/).

 * "htmlhelp", which builds HTML files and a HTML Help project file usable to
   convert them into a single Compiled HTML (.chm) file -- these are popular
   under Microsoft Windows, but very handy on every platform.

   To create the CHM file, you need to run the Microsoft HTML Help Workshop
   over the generated project (.hhp) file.

 * "latex", which builds LaTeX source files that can be run with "pdflatex"
   to produce PDF documents.

 * "text", which builds a plain text file for each source file.

 * "linkcheck", which checks all external references to see whether they are
   broken, redirected or malformed, and outputs this information to stdout
   as well as a plain-text (.txt) file.

 * "changes", which builds an overview over all versionadded/versionchanged/
   deprecated items in the current version. This is meant as a help for the
   writer of the "What's New" document.

 * "coverage", which builds a coverage overview for standard library modules
   and C API.

 * "pydoc-topics", which builds a Python module containing a dictionary
   with plain text documentation for the labels defined in
   `tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py` -- pydoc needs these to show topic
   and keyword help.

A "make update" updates the Subversion checkouts in `tools/`.


Without make
------------

You'll need to checkout the Sphinx package to the `tools/` directory::

   svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/doctools/trunk/sphinx tools/sphinx

Then, you need to install Docutils 0.4 (the SVN snapshot won't work), either
by checking it out via ::

   svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/external/docutils-0.4/docutils tools/docutils

or by installing it from http://docutils.sf.net/.

You can optionally also install Pygments, either as a checkout via :: 

   svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/external/Pygments-0.9/pygments tools/pygments

or from PyPI at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pygments.


Then, make an output directory, e.g. under `build/`, and run ::

   python tools/sphinx-build.py -b<builder> . build/<outputdirectory>

where `<builder>` is one of html, web or htmlhelp (for explanations see the make
targets above).


Contributing
============

For bugs in the content, the online version at http://docs.python.org/ has a
"suggest change" facility that can be used to correct errors in the source text
and submit them as a patch to the maintainers.

Bugs in the toolset should be reported in the Python bug tracker at
http://bugs.python.org/.

You can also send a mail to the Python Documentation Team at docs@python.org,
and we will process your request as soon as possible.

If you want to help the Documentation Team, you are always welcome.  Just send
a mail to docs@python.org.


Copyright notice
================

The Python source is copyrighted, but you can freely use and copy it
as long as you don't change or remove the copyright notice:

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Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Python Software Foundation.
All rights reserved.

Copyright (c) 2000 BeOpen.com.
All rights reserved.

Copyright (c) 1995-2000 Corporation for National Research Initiatives.
All rights reserved.

Copyright (c) 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum.
All rights reserved.

See the file "license.rst" for information on usage and redistribution
of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
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