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Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake
2ea30f4d8c Add warning that last() and previous() don't work for hashtable
databases (opened using hashopen()), as noted by Skip Montanaro on
comp.lang.python.
1999-04-22 14:06:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
b9f1f6d90b Misc. markup nits.
All sections get reasonable file names in the HTML output.
1999-04-21 21:43:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
2dabd811cd Fix markup typo. 1999-04-21 21:33:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
d146edfaf1 Mark the "Notes:" sections under tables the same way it's done
elsewhere in the library reference.
1999-04-21 21:15:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
b11d108cdc The version information here was checked good in 1999, not 199. ;-)
Added "See also" reference to zlib home page, even though it's
mentioned in the text.
1999-04-21 18:44:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
2799f9d09a Reflow paragraph to work around LaTeX2HTML dropping a space.
Make all references to the os module hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 18:33:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
6d20caa2ce Reflow paragraph to work around LaTeX2HTML dropping a space. 1999-04-21 18:17:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
543e19d923 Small nits, more hyperlinks.
Added more information for cStringIO.
1999-04-21 18:15:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
048b75bd9a Make references to whrandom hyperlinks. 1999-04-21 18:14:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
ec6baaf618 Small markup nits. 1999-04-21 18:13:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
54f2fdd1ad Make the names of the referenced modules hyperlinks; they had not been
marked at all.
1999-04-21 18:10:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
02e8c0fd2d Nits. Reference to signal module becomes a hyperlink. 1999-04-21 18:01:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
283c588402 Work around LaTeX2HTML comment-handling bug. 1999-04-21 17:57:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
318c0b131f Logical markup nits.
Make references to other modules hyperlinks.
1999-04-21 17:29:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
c3845a14d3 Logical markup & other small nits. 1999-04-21 17:18:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
11bc8cfee3 Explain *why* the copytree() implementation is presented as the
example!
1999-04-21 17:08:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
e688aec707 Textual references to the glob module can be hyperlinks. 1999-04-21 17:04:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
737aa552f4 Markup nit to fixed dropped space in HTML output. 1999-04-21 17:01:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
4747f7f61d Markup nits. 1999-04-21 16:41:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
4f6e4fbc1d Added "See also" reference to xdrlib.
Markup nits.
1999-04-21 16:38:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
69fa56327a Markup nits. 1999-04-21 16:29:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
8307e21a2a Mark the references to module names use \module or \refmodule (the
closing paragraph used \code).
1999-04-21 16:29:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6ed122a334 Important fix mentioned by The Dragon De Monsyne: the sendmail()
method does _not_ disconnect the connection when it throws a
SMTPHeloError!
1999-04-21 16:19:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
a889add5d6 Oops; minor nit in example: none of the other interactive examples
show the "trailing" prompt, so don't show it here!
1999-04-21 16:00:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
3d815bd1c7 Added link to xdrlib module in "See also" section. 1999-04-21 15:57:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
c3fcd6fa0e Added index entry for "file objects"; this is appearantly referenced
somewhere in the Reference Manual, and someone tried to locate it via
the index.  Report on the omission by Stefan Franke
<sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-04-21 13:58:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
7ceb5777d7 Added doc for the "module" attribute on the class descriptor objects;
omission repoorted by Glyn Webster <glyn@ninz.org.nz>.
1999-04-20 18:18:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
ad56dafd62 Added example use of pack_list() to help explain the pack_item
parameter.  Lack of clarity reported by Matthew Gallagher
<hew@hons.cs.usyd.edu.au>.
1999-04-20 13:41:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
4ae52694c9 Updated to reflect additions. 1999-04-19 21:21:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
32c562bdec colorsys docs from David Ascher. 1999-04-19 21:20:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
9d15881744 bsddb docs from Skip Montanaro; added interesting links. 1999-04-19 21:19:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
e9af64c373 Remove superfluous index entry for posix.popen(); no longer
appropriate since popen() is only documented in os.
1999-04-16 19:00:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
dac9a4e3db Added link to Fredrik Lundh's online Tkinter reference material. 1999-04-16 18:26:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
31bfbc6bff Minor nits, include author info. 1999-04-16 14:03:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
0ebd5483be Removed dbhash from the undocumented list. 1999-04-15 16:05:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
666255f5ac Document the dbhash module, and link to it from appropriate places. 1999-04-15 15:11:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
f4cbada3f9 Correct documentation for <file>.read(); Python makes a serious
best-effort to return 'size' bytes.  Point out that this may mean
multiple fread() calls.  Reported by Anders Hammarquist
<iko@iko.pp.se> via the Debian crew.
1999-04-14 14:31:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
e331356ff7 Fix availability declaration for popen2 module; report by Barry Scott
<barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 22:03:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
b9971b9964 Minor cleanup. 1999-04-13 21:39:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
592dd78408 Fix availability declaration for stat module; report by Barry Scott
<barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 21:38:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
31ec33ed60 Work around problems with HTML conversion by making the break and
tbreak synopses be all on one line (each).  Known problem, most
recently reported by Barry Scott <barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 21:36:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
bfb092eb86 Misspellling: "occurance" --> "occurrence" 1999-04-09 19:57:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7969f31c4d Updated documentation by Per Cederqvist. I've added back the
documentation sendmail() to reflect the changes by The Dragon
(see smtplib.py checkin).
1999-04-07 15:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
4f21d54764 Added more "See also" entries, + 1 inline hyperlink. 1999-04-05 22:18:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
ea003fcc2a Fixed latex2html weirdness with footnotes. 1999-04-05 21:59:15 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
45b0aeda3c correct version info for zlib.
add note about module failing with old versions of the library.

update comment that explains that this doc is *still* out of date
1999-04-05 21:55:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
9aa8543c84 open() description: Made it more clear that 'b' should always be
added to the mode value for binary files to improve
	portability.

Fixed latex2html weirdness with a couple of footnotes.
1999-04-05 21:22:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
01553706bf Added a few items to the "See also" sections at Guido's prompting. Made
more references to other modules in the text hyperlinks for the HTML and
PDF versions.
1999-04-05 19:46:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
50ae47b0de Removed bosities around example code; not sure where that stuff crept
in!
1999-04-05 19:26:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
1dc3a501a6 Made improvements based on changes just made and comments from
Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@csd.uwm.edu>.
1999-04-05 19:00:54 +00:00