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Fred Drake
54e6294197 A number of small adjustments. 2001-12-11 19:40:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
145b479508 Added discussion of protecting against screwing up the exception state in
an object's deallocator, including an example of how to do this.
2001-12-11 19:28:22 +00:00
Tim Peters
f582b82fe9 SF bug #491415 PyDict_UpdateFromSeq2() unused
PyDict_UpdateFromSeq2():  removed it.
PyDict_MergeFromSeq2():  made it public and documented it.
PyDict_Merge() docs:  updated to reveal <wink> that the second
argument can be any mapping object.
2001-12-11 18:51:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
c82bd7281f Save a new version of the productionlist environment for safe-keeping; this
will be replaced shortly.  See the comments for more details.
2001-12-11 18:47:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
1d3e6c15ce Fix whitespace in example of bad indentation: a comment indicated that one
line was not indented at all, so the example is no longer indented at all.
All of the errors being shown remain.

Typo: characteru --> character
2001-12-11 17:46:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
cf72abab8c Update link to the SAX homepage. 2001-12-10 18:10:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
6048ce95a9 Added documentation for str.decode().
This closes SF bug #490823.
2001-12-10 16:43:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
146483964e Patch supplied by Burton Radons for his own SF bug #487390: Modifying
type.__module__ behavior.

This adds the module name and a dot in front of the type name in every
type object initializer, except for built-in types (and those that
already had this).  Note that it touches lots of Mac modules -- I have
no way to test these but the changes look right.  Apologies if they're
not.  This also touches the weakref docs, which contains a sample type
object initializer.  It also touches the mmap test output, because the
mmap type's repr is included in that output.  It touches object.h to
put the correct description in a comment.
2001-12-08 18:02:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
73f0a4ecd7 Script to generate the table of distribution packages, plugging in the size
information automatically.
2001-12-08 00:26:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
f9d580346b Add change notes where im_class is discussed, since the exact meaning changes
with Python 2.2.
2001-12-07 23:13:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
b62f0e1a7b Correct the description of im_class. (Fred, this is changed in 2.2.
Should this be labeled as changed?  How?)
2001-12-07 22:03:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
7961930595 Revise description of dumbdbm.open() to reflect that the flag argument is
ignored and that mode was ignored before Python 2.2.
This closes SF bug #490098.
2001-12-07 21:56:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
8b7bb7a0f2 Describe the behavior of the read() method when the list of filenames
includes files that do not exist, explain the intended use of the interface,
and show how to ensure an expected file really exists.
This closes SF bug #490399.
2001-12-07 21:35:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
c6259d73c2 Another name. 2001-12-07 18:27:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
44b3f76adf More info about the cycle detector. 2001-12-07 17:57:56 +00:00
Tim Peters
874c4f0f99 Trivial spelling repair on new cyclic garbage text. 2001-12-07 17:51:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
024e647972 Added more information about reference counting limitations and the cycle
detector.
This closes SF bug #484950.
2001-12-07 17:30:40 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
038215ab0c Use an immutable tuple for __slots instead of a mutable list
Bump version number
2001-12-07 14:22:13 +00:00
Tim Peters
b404145936 s/it/if/ in descriptions of spawn mode argument. 2001-12-06 23:37:17 +00:00
Tim Peters
c7cb69263d For ratecv, document that None should be the initial state argument (when
I was squashing spurious overflows in the implementation, I got hung up
on this point).
2001-12-06 23:16:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
32a3587345 Document that PyString_FromString() cannot take NULL as a parameter.
This closes SF bug #489872.
2001-12-06 20:38:15 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
22d35a7337 [Bug #459270] Fix incorrect filename for system-wide config file 2001-12-06 16:34:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
a16433b14e Re-enabled debugging prints in poplib & documented the set_debuglevel()
method.
This closes SF patch #486079.
2001-12-05 22:37:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
d761662b66 asyncore.loop() description contributed by Skip Montanaro.
This closes SF bug #489513.
2001-12-05 21:37:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
c2f496a138 Add a note to the description of the interaction between the softspace
attribute of file objects, the print statement, and other file operations.
This closes SF bug #484857.

Fix minor markup nits.
2001-12-05 05:46:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
39368c1053 Added documentation of the sendall() method, and a note to the send() method
that it does not guarantee that all data is sent.
This closes SF patch #474307.
2001-12-05 05:25:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
d2a557e51e Added entry for the "cgitb" module docs. 2001-12-04 22:48:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
6e70e8b401 Documentation for the "cgitb" module. 2001-12-04 22:47:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
4ed6be7107 Import the keyword module instead of relying on our own list of
reserved words.  No longer need to import string.
2001-12-04 20:39:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
41c6719fe4 Put the keywords back in alphabetical order. Apparently somebody
didn't use reswords.py, as the comment clearly states. :-(
2001-12-04 20:38:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
ecd8157a2c Include a warning that scripts should not have the same name as standard
modules, or the module cannot be properly imported.  (Based on a suggestion
sent to python-docs.)

Update the displayed dir() of the sys and __builtin__ module with Python 2.2.
2001-12-04 19:47:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
6016dbecca Talk about str() in the discussion of string representations of values, and
give examples for which str() and repr() yield different results.
This closes SF bug #485446.
2001-12-04 19:20:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
bb7775a6ae Fix SF bug #479967: Appearantly I broke something that made the index
insertion work.  This fix makes things at least somewhat more explicit, and
adds a little sanity checking (and verbosity!) to
add_bbl_and_idx_dummy_commands().
2001-12-04 17:03:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
97e3201220 Add a note that the rgbimg module is only built on 32-bit machines (prompted
by a question to webmaster).
Re-wrapped a long line.
2001-12-04 16:49:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
b48b6d0737 Remove meaningless comment. 2001-12-04 16:32:04 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
db5a93cd6a Update docs to reflect new compile() and compileFile() 2001-12-04 02:48:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
b38784e4a0 Slightly improved indexing for the string-% operator, thanks to comments
from Skip Montanaro.  There is one weirdness in the final index for HTML, but
that is low priority.
2001-12-03 22:15:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
fcf94681ed Update lambda description to reflect nested scopes. This was noted by
Andrew Koenig.
2001-12-03 21:47:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
1a76386194 Added documentation on the ScrolledText module. 2001-12-03 21:18:30 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
c54fc3179f Oops! Forgot the value parameter. 2001-12-03 20:58:29 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
9455df2a5a Add __delete__ method of properties
Reflow paragraph
2001-12-03 20:55:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
1da50f6c6e Add a scalar product to the example list comprehensions based on a suggestion
sent to python-docs.
2001-12-03 18:54:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
5172adca81 Minor clarification of the zip() description, based on a comment sent to
python-docs.
2001-12-03 18:35:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
14f5c5fa01 Make no assumption about how modules are built when referring to them; this
can vary by platform and installation.
Based on suggestion to python-docs.
2001-12-03 18:33:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
1722e4a952 Re-word the intro slightly to avoid reader misunderstanding: strings are not
mutable!  We do not want to shock anyone.
This closes SF bug #483805.

Re-factor so that the description of the "access" keyword parameter is not
repeated in both the descriptions of mmap().  Also, only make sure the first
description of mmap() appears in the index.  The the index link is followed,
the first is now used to locate the page on the screen; chances are really good
both will be visible.  This avoids the problem that the index entry for the
second is selected and the first version is not visible, making the reader
consider that mmap() is not available on Windows.
2001-12-03 18:27:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
551ffae30c Clarify that the Python runtime may behave mysteriously when an exception
is not handled properly.
This closes SF bug #485153.
2001-12-03 17:56:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
3570551d6f Remove most references to __members__ and __methods__, leaving only one pair
of references that now state that these attributes have been removed,
directing the reader to the dir() function.
This closes SF bug #456420.
2001-12-03 17:32:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
f07125ee53 PyErr_Format() does not return a new reference; it always returns NULL.
This closes SF bug #488387.
2001-12-03 16:36:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
b22c6720aa Clean up some material that is not part of the standard documentation.
This closes SF bug #487308.
2001-12-03 06:12:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
c7b78381da Another name. 2001-12-02 15:13:35 +00:00