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Fred Drake
8d2c0c2ab4 Fixed minor nits, added index entries to make these easier to find for people
not familiar with Unix terminology.
1999-03-16 16:40:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
658cef0141 Preliminary mhlib and telnetlib documents from Skip Montanaro -- thanks, Skip! 1999-03-15 15:44:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
bf5a6d2eb4 Fixed tons of small markup problems. 1999-03-12 19:57:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
b3a20bc44c Added availabililty annotations to respond to concerns of /F. 1999-03-12 18:34:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
93503ca57b Fixup the module keys. There were some problems with hosting / processing
file HTML files on Windows machines do to case insensitivity.
1999-03-12 16:24:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
be110c1706 Updates based on comments from /F. 1999-03-12 15:27:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
35c3ffdc3f Fixed description of WSTOPSIG(), added WTERMSIG(). Problem reported
by Jonathan Giddy <jon@dgs.monash.edu.au>.
1999-03-04 14:08:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
a54a887f66 "\platform{UNIX}" should really be spelled "\platform{Unix}". 1999-03-02 17:03:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
f6863c1909 Added \platform annotations. 1999-03-02 16:37:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
43b34da656 extract_tb(): Only describe this function once. Problem reported by
Jonathan Giddy <jon@dgs.monash.edu.au>.
1999-02-26 18:51:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
390636382a Typo: "Availabilty" --> "Availability"
Thanks to /F!
1999-02-26 14:05:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
51027c4173 Added note about comments, from Christopher Petrilli. 1999-02-24 22:36:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
16e81f4484 Update some of the top comments and shorten title of the first
section.
1999-02-24 19:57:14 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
f2b4554403 Document the correct class hierarchy for SystemExit. It is not an
error and so it derives from Exception and not SystemError.
1999-02-24 00:27:14 +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
00a3a65cc0 Refer to the right RFC in the intro. 1999-02-22 17:12:42 +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
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
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
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
951eea4733 atof() description: Add information about accepting 'NaN' to produce
the NaN value.
1999-02-18 03:49:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
85a59dd68b The _O_* constants are defined as O_* in the os module. 1999-02-16 19:41:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
9329e5ec75 Remove "_" from the P_* symbols used with the spawn*() functions. 1999-02-16 19:40:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
c7b72dbbca Added chapter on Windows modules, including msvcrt and winsound. 1999-02-16 19:18:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
aa1afa8d30 Added availability notes for samefile(), sameopenfile(), samestat()
since these are not available on Windows.
1999-02-15 16:34:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
9474d86242 Make sure all HTML pages generated from this section have reasonable
names.

Markup nits.
1999-02-12 22:05:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
2d2b6a0074 Markup nits. 1999-02-12 20:40:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
28bc711f5f Added section for MimeWriter, contributed by Christopher Petrilli
<petrilli@amber.org>.

This spells the end of another whole section in the undoc chapter!
1999-02-12 19:26:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
26b698fa4d Document <complex #>.conjugate(). 1999-02-12 18:27:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
ce67f06491 Update documentation to reflect changes to Queue.py by Tim Peters. 1999-02-08 18:43:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
d673d481f5 Document sameopenfile(), samestat(). 1999-02-03 22:31:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
0256c1f453 Document splitdrive().
For all split*(), these split path *into* pairs, not split path *in*
pairs.  "Into" can be used for transformations, "in" is for
containment.
1999-02-03 19:24:44 +00:00