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Guido van Rossum
264bd59221 1. Clarify that immutability isn't entirely the same as unchangeable
value (because of immutable containers containing mutable objects).

2. Document that func_code, func_defaults and func_doc / __doc__ are
now writable.
1999-02-23 16:40:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
1ec71cb556 Incorporated updates to describe geturl() by Sjoerd Mullender
<Sjoerd.Mullender@cwi.nl>.
1999-02-22 22:42:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
ba21d10d9b Added note about *static* after description of *shared*. 1999-02-22 18:21:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
00a3a65cc0 Refer to the right RFC in the intro. 1999-02-22 17:12:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
0fb7a37667 Reflect the released version. 1999-02-22 15:58:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
9226d8e8a8 Removed "This will be discussed later." where it's not. Reported by
Clay Spence <cspence@sarnoff.com>; see entry in ../TODO.
1999-02-22 14:55:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
7d9b13325d Other chapter titles refer to collections of modules as "Services"; do
the same here.
1999-02-22 14:48:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
8ece8041c5 Noted report of missing material in the extending & embedding manual,
as reported by Clay Spence <cspence@sarnoff.com>.
1999-02-22 14:37:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
c411fa6861 Revised description of blank line handling for the interpreter, based
on a comment from /F.
1999-02-22 14:32:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
fab41f1788 BabylMailbox description: Properly escape the backslashes in the
string representations.
1999-02-22 14:26:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
b63e77ccb0 Oops, used a \label twice - fix one of them. 1999-02-22 14:14:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
180b68b3cf More reasonable section titles. 1999-02-22 13:45:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
76991ec75a Shorten section title. 1999-02-20 05:20:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
199b79c37b Added descriptions for BabylMailbox and Maildir (Qmail) mailbox
objects.
1999-02-20 05:04:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
67d229ea76 Shorten section title. 1999-02-20 04:51:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
bbac43223c Shorten a few section titles. 1999-02-20 00:14:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
da57365337 Give subsections reasonable file names in the HTML. 1999-02-19 23:48:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
342501142d Added an index entry. 1999-02-19 23:45:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
50cdd97ec4 do_cmd_arabic(): Override the l2h-provided version to remove that
obnoxious <SPAN CLASS="arabic">...</SPAN> markup.
1999-02-19 23:04:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
df5d50d889 Specify the sizes of H? relative to the normal font size as
percentages; using "large", "x-large" makes them too big for
some troublemakers.  ;-)

(Not specifying them at all causes some browsers to make them the same
size as normal text.  ;-(  )
1999-02-19 23:03:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
56f8185a53 Shortened the short synopsis -- too long. 1999-02-19 22:59:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
9f03380d1c Use more current approach to recording authors. 1999-02-19 22:56:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
c60047575d Shortened the short synopsis -- way too long. 1999-02-19 22:33:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
d8a41e6391 Fix an amazing number of typos & malformed sentences reported by Detlef
Lannert <lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-02-19 17:54:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
f6346345b0 Noted that the module was added in 1.5.2. 1999-02-19 15:46:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
4e7c205470 Update description of what modules "look like" when printed. 1999-02-19 15:30:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
cd71aa2a38 Use current approach to record documentation author. 1999-02-18 21:13:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
2a2f1fe4d5 Record module & documentation author. 1999-02-18 21:10:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
6b103f1e12 Documentation for pyclbr and tokenize modules. 1999-02-18 21:06:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
4d358b5d23 Added sections for pyclbr and tokenize. 1999-02-18 20:40:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
7c829b3179 Remove the "Parsing Python" section. Hurray! 1999-02-18 20:39:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
3d7707a87d More files. 1999-02-18 20:39:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
93d762fc7a Mark <verbatim> elements that represent interactive sessions; these
become <interpreter-session> elements.
1999-02-18 16:32:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
997eec7cca Minor adjustments to reflect esis2sgml.py changes.
Added "esis" target to only generate the ESIS data.
1999-02-18 16:31:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
607aed7a2c Some adjustments, mostly to make it more general. 1999-02-18 16:30:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
4cc902f464 Make the _rmtt regular expression deal with the new CSS-friendly
changes to the HTML documentation.
1999-02-18 16:11:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
70a66c9d6d Add notes to __builtin__.float() and string.atof() that the NaN and Inf
results are possible but non-portable.
1999-02-18 16:08:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
29fb54f0ca Update note about the (...) format specifier for PyArg_ParseTuple(). 1999-02-18 03:50:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
951eea4733 atof() description: Add information about accepting 'NaN' to produce
the NaN value.
1999-02-18 03:49:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
127ed0a71e Updated list of standard exceptions in section 4.1. 1999-02-17 23:09:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
8e0151725d Small updates and grammatical adjustments.
Remove comment about this manual being out of date from the abstract.
1999-02-17 18:12:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
33698f818b Removed old dynamic linking chapter.
Integrated information on Windows DLLs from Chris Phoenix (Thanks!).

Added "Acknowledgements" area to thank contributing authors.
1999-02-16 23:06:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
2f7bfafe26 Remove all email addresses. 1999-02-16 22:51:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
3de61bc13f Integrated notes on building extension modules on Windows, by Neil
Schemenauer <neil_schemenauer@transcanada.com>.

Thanks, Neil!
1999-02-16 21:14:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
f6838c0f5e Copy in the stylesheet after latex2html is done. 1999-02-16 20:43:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
fcf57ad959 Copy in the stylesheet after latex2html is done. 1999-02-16 20:28:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
90fdda5404 Become more stylesheet-friendly. 1999-02-16 20:27:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
00d98ee5cc CSS style sheet for the documentation. 1999-02-16 20:27:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
63f217741e Bump release to 1.5.2b2. 1999-02-16 20:23:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
f43ce00531 Make sure errors get propogated. 1999-02-16 20:05:43 +00:00