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Martin v. Löwis
01f94bda38 Patch #552433: Special-case tuples. Avoid sub-type checking for lists.
Avoid checks for negative indices and duplicate checks for support of
the sequence protocol.
2002-05-08 08:44:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
1624bc051f Move 'Tips and Tricks' to be the last section 2002-05-07 21:03:45 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
3b98dc16e9 Add section on Setup file
Updates for 2.2
Remove references to Makefile.pre.in build method
2002-05-07 21:02:35 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
517109b11e More filling out 2002-05-07 21:01:16 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
821013ef2c Write two sections, and write some partial text for some other sections 2002-05-06 17:46:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
d05c74f42d Add a note explaining the interaction between unbuffered input and
xreadlines.xreadlines().
This closes SF patch #552804.
2002-05-06 16:02:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
bfc18bdf03 Integrated SF patch #539487 by Matthias Klose:
This patch adds Milan Zamazal's conversion script and
modifies the mkinfo script to build the info doc files
from the LaTeX sources.  Currently, the mac, doc and
inst TeX files are not handled.
Explicitly checks for GNU Emacs 21.
2002-05-03 04:50:51 +00:00
Tim Peters
a3b0b298e6 Boost the list of stop words, by merging in the little list Jeremy
just checked into Zope's ZCTextIndex branch.  This reduces the size
of the .chm file by about 100KB.
2002-05-02 21:59:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
b9032018ff Update the xrange object description to reflect the removal of deprecated
features.
2002-05-02 21:37:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
7d28b73ec1 Added note about using the documentation build tools under Cygwin. 2002-05-02 21:17:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
77c18951fb Remove the warning about the Cygwin directions not working -- the latest
change to Doc/tools/node2label.pl (revision 1.13) makes this work.
2002-05-02 21:10:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
fe3db7d6f0 Work around limitation of Cygwin Perl: To avoid a permission denial, we need
to do the inplace-edit with a backup file.  A quick test leads me to
believe this is sufficient to allow building the documentation on Cygwin;
a full test is in progress.
2002-05-02 20:42:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
a030c768af Many minor markup adjustments for consistency. 2002-05-02 17:55:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
4d707a5d08 Remove extra period produced by previous change. 2002-05-02 17:54:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
9546772ccd Correct Moshe's e-mail address
Point to PEP 100 for MAL's Unicode proposal
Fix URL for XML HOWTO
Bump version number
2002-05-02 14:48:26 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
2a1598035d Note that NameError's message also changed in 2.0 2002-05-02 14:37:14 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
e7bd876f9d Message for NameError has changed 2002-05-02 14:31:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
4b270518b7 Correct information on support for repietition & concatenation for buffer
and xrange objects.
This closes SF bug #550555.
2002-05-02 05:56:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
eb2b8334d5 Added some notes on setting up the documentation tools on Cygwin. 2002-05-01 22:05:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
5a55c49c8c Added more style for major warnings. 2002-05-01 22:03:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
7f781c9aab Add Pickler.clear_memo() so the pickle and cPickle modules are more similar. 2002-05-01 20:33:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
56aa6280f6 list_documented_items(): Basic implementation.
This still does not work well since ctags does not do a good job with the
Python headers, appearantly due to the DL_IMPORT macro.  ;-(
2002-05-01 17:25:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
a65375c3e3 Explain what os.read() returns at end of file.
This closes SF bug #550409.  Applying to release21-maint & release22-maint.
2002-05-01 03:31:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
7938fab285 Add missing right-parenthesis. 2002-05-01 03:23:03 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
d268183044 moved from Tools/scripts (was only at rev 1.1 - no changes yet - so I simply
removed it from there and added it here)
2002-04-30 16:25:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
52cc670711 Add a note about when the "%r" formatting code was added. 2002-04-30 14:54:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
af93c4c8d9 Added a missing "|" in the grammar productions used in the reference manual
(reported by François Pinard).
Added some missing "_" characters in the same cluster of productions.
Added missing floor division operator in m_expr production, and mention
floor division in the relevant portion of the text.
2002-04-30 02:18:51 +00:00
Thomas Heller
541703b18f Typo: whcar_t should be wchar_t.
Bugfix candidate? Don't know how this is handled in the docs.
2002-04-29 17:28:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
b803f7013c Add some items, and remove a note to myself 2002-04-29 15:42:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
432425e834 Small markup adjustments for consistency. 2002-04-29 15:17:16 +00:00
Tim Peters
81b9251d59 Mostly in SequenceMatcher.{__chain_b, find_longest_match}:
This now does a dynamic analysis of which elements are so frequently
repeated as to constitute noise.  The primary benefit is an enormous
speedup in find_longest_match, as the innermost loop can have factors
of 100s less potential matches to worry about, in cases where the
sequences have many duplicate elements.  In effect, this zooms in on
sequences of non-ubiquitous elements now.

While I like what I've seen of the effects so far, I still consider
this experimental.  Please give it a try!
2002-04-29 01:37:32 +00:00
Tim Peters
5de9842b34 Repair widespread misuse of _PyString_Resize. Since it's clear people
don't understand how this function works, also beefed up the docs.  The
most common usage error is of this form (often spread out across gotos):

	if (_PyString_Resize(&s, n) < 0) {
		Py_DECREF(s);
		s = NULL;
		goto outtahere;
	}

The error is that if _PyString_Resize runs out of memory, it automatically
decrefs the input string object s (which also deallocates it, since its
refcount must be 1 upon entry), and sets s to NULL.  So if the "if"
branch ever triggers, it's an error to call Py_DECREF(s):  s is already
NULL!  A correct way to write the above is the simpler (and intended)

	if (_PyString_Resize(&s, n) < 0)
		goto outtahere;

Bugfix candidate.
2002-04-27 18:44:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
d3e6678713 Slightly expand and clarify the differences between getegid(), getgid(),
getpgrp(), and setpgid().
This closes SF bug #547939.
2002-04-26 20:59:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
a7bb2b9b30 Be more consistent, both internally and with recommended practice.
This closes SF bug #547953.
2002-04-26 20:44:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
38f71973e5 Documentation for the enumerate() function/type.
This closes SF patch #547162.
2002-04-26 20:29:44 +00:00
Thomas Heller
8da4b59221 Fix a small mistake and complete some function prototypes.
SF Patch #547813.
2002-04-24 06:35:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
99d17006c1 Add text about circular references caused by storing frames in local
variables.  This closes SF bug #543148.
2002-04-23 21:21:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
ed9e453eb7 Minor change to an index entry. 2002-04-23 20:04:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
b957bc3dcc Clarify the return value of PyObject_IsInstance(). 2002-04-23 18:15:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
106c1a0e7a WCOREDUMP(), WIFCONTINUED(), WCONTINUED, WUNTRACED: New.
isatty(), WIFEXITED(), WIFSIGNALED(), WIFSTOPPED(): Changed to return
    bools instead of ints.
2002-04-23 15:58:02 +00:00
Anthony Baxter
8388895fe4 SF patch [ 545523 ] patch for 514433 bsddb.dbopen (NULL)
closes SF #514433

can now pass 'None' as the filename for the bsddb.*open functions,
and you'll get an in-memory temporary store.

docs are ripped out of the bsddb dbopen man page. Fred may want to
clean them up.

Considering this for 2.2, but not 2.1.
2002-04-23 02:11:05 +00:00
Walter Dörwald
de02bcb265 Apply patch diff.txt from SF feature request
http://www.python.org/sf/444708

This adds the optional argument for str.strip
to unicode.strip too and makes it possible
to call str.strip with a unicode argument
and unicode.strip with a str argument.
2002-04-22 17:42:37 +00:00
Tim Peters
4a0db06edf Hack around the "2.1.6 Blank lines" bug in a way that the TOC still
displays a recognizable section title (there are extra blanks at the
end of it now, due to the nested anchor, but that's fine).
2002-04-21 04:44:11 +00:00
Tim Peters
dc374e034a Give the Help viewer a font-size button. This isn't documented by MS,
but is documented by others on the web, and the defn of the magic flag
needed appears in MS's htmlhelp.h header file.
2002-04-21 02:01:01 +00:00
Tim Peters
c8490c70cd Move "everything left one": the TOC now shows each doc directory as a
distinct top-level node.  Before they were all nested under an artificial
top-level node, uselessly chewing up horizontal space, and ensuring that
the only thing the user saw in the TOC upon opening the file was a single
collapsed top-level folder.
2002-04-20 21:34:34 +00:00
Tim Peters
4545407746 Stopped all warnings from the HTML Help Compiler, by generating proper
HTML (or, at least, proper in its view).  The TOC file is now identical
to what the HTML compiler itself generates, except for whitespace and
a glitch identified below.  The pretty-printing done by prechm.py is
pretty much destroyed for now; if you need it pretty-printed, just make
the Help Compiler save the files (it's got its own idea of pretty-
printing anyway).

Glitch:  The title of Ref Man "2.1.6 Blank lines" shows up as a blank
for now.  This is because the relevant entry in ref/index.html contains
nested anchors, and pychm really has no idea what to do with that.  I
hacked it for now to avoid any error messages or worse insanity, and
filed a bug report against the docs.
2002-04-20 20:26:26 +00:00
Tim Peters
e21095e3c5 Widespread: Used classes in a more natural way. Added convenience
methods to squash code duplication.  Simplified several overly complex
chunks of logic.  Built output strings more with string interpolation
instead of infix '+'.  Added comments.  Exploited recent Python features
(chiefly bool and augmented assignment).
2002-04-20 08:36:42 +00:00
Tim Peters
d9a10509ac Replaced the fiddly 5-tuples with a new Book convenience class, allowing
to reference fields via names instead of meaningless little integers.
This turned up one case where the wrong little integer was being used,
in informative progress output.  Fixed that too.
2002-04-20 03:25:02 +00:00
Tim Peters
8d62ad7ffd Fixed a comment. 2002-04-20 02:56:20 +00:00
Tim Peters
661e49231a All over: get rid of blanks before colons that open code blocks. 2002-04-20 02:39:44 +00:00