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Fred Drake
a88ef00a50 Further clarfication of the system-dependence of the system() return
value, based on comments from Tim Peters.
1999-06-18 19:11:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
46e1a32edf Re-categorize the dump module as obsolete. 1999-06-18 17:12:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
354e98222c fpformat has been documented for at least a week now! 1999-06-18 15:21:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
26921da2c9 Small markup & usage adjustments. 1999-06-17 18:58:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
924b42de9c When looking for things that might be modules, include *module.c from
the Modules/ directory.  Most of the remaining undocumented modules
seem to be living there.
1999-06-17 18:49:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
e019789962 Correction: the parameters of new.instance() are type-checked.
Edited several of the descriptions for English usage and more
consistent style.
1999-06-17 18:15:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
de69ae1753 Updated version from Moshe, with a re-written warning about the
side-effect of cmpcache.cmp() using statcache.stat() internally.
1999-06-17 17:40:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
173ba5e3bc Minor markup nits. 1999-06-17 17:09:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
97c2fa03e5 Small English usage nits. 1999-06-17 16:38:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
7487c02209 Small markup and English usage nits. 1999-06-17 16:10:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
873f0297c3 Add reminder that wave.open() documentation should be updated for the
next Python release.
1999-06-17 15:20:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
551d2b14e7 Add entries due to additional sections from Moshe. 1999-06-17 15:12:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
26da2840ac Add/remove entries due to additional sections from Moshe. 1999-06-17 15:12:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
64bc94e3ec New module documentation sections from Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>! 1999-06-17 15:11:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
e55702b024 Added note to __not__() description that this operation is defined
only by the interpreter core and is not overridable by objects.

Based on comment from David Ascher on the list.
1999-06-15 20:56:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
1e4402998f Several new index entries to make find this easier.
Noted that name=value is allowed in addition to name: value.
1999-06-15 17:30:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
42120eaca5 Added entries for new sections from Moshe. 1999-06-14 19:52:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
c46864e982 Misc. changes related to the new sections. 1999-06-14 19:49:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
21572fdcb6 New sections from Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>.
These document CGIHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer, and linecache.
1999-06-14 19:47:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
7df4dd7de2 Add entry for the fpformat module. 1999-06-11 18:36:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
1739d2f9ee Documentation for the fpformat module by Moshe Zadka
<mzadka@geocities.com>.
1999-06-11 18:31:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
2f9790195b Added 'ce' to the list of "registered" values for os.name.
Make references to the posix module hyperlinks.
1999-06-11 18:28:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
5eb992beed Last night's scribbles:
- Revise abstract based on Guido's comments from way back.
- Point out that LaTeX is a structured system & we're using it that
  way.
- Add a small section on marking up code examples.
1999-06-11 14:25:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
9c5cc14d23 Some clarifications on operations for mapping types, based on comments
from Gerry Weiner <gerry@ucar.edu>.
1999-06-10 22:37:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
697c779d98 Adjust indexing for __import__(); based on comments by Stefan Franke
<sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-06-10 22:09:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
28b1770521 Improve index entry for "import"; responding to comments by Stefan
Franke <sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-06-10 22:08:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
06a73f042a Work around latex2html problem; reported by Gerrit Holl
<gerrit.holl@pobox.com>.
1999-06-10 21:23:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
4d5c87ba11 Declare the "util" module obsolete. 1999-06-10 21:17:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
f64f8a0877 Fixed typo reported by Bennett Benson
<BennettBenson@mn.mediaone.net>.
1999-06-10 15:30:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
7a62128722 At David Ascher's request, clarify that os.system() always returns 0
on Win95 & Win98.
1999-06-10 15:07:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
ae0f292576 Fix typo reported by Robert Kern <kernr@ncifcrf.gov>. 1999-06-10 15:03:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
66ab4e8af2 Patch by Jim Fulton to document the new parse_qls(). 1999-06-10 03:11:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
4727456d46 Add doc for timegm(). 1999-06-09 15:11:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
5fac2ab220 Fix availability clause; mention availability of similar functionality
for Windows using win32pipe.
1999-06-01 17:55:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
f1882422d2 Oops, forgot to remove the individual module indexes for lib & mac now
that there's a Global Module Index; there can be only one!
1999-05-27 21:56:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
3c27ec2c05 Add <hr> after top navigation bar; now looks more like the rest of the
navigation bars in the HTML output.
1999-05-27 21:52:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
d2a727feee Hack: make sure LaTeX2HTML doesn't change -- to - in mkhowto
description.
1999-05-27 21:45:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
3aa70d63b9 Document the "pid" attribute of the Popen3 class.
Use memberdesc instead of datadesc to document object attributes.
This gets the index right.
1999-05-27 17:50:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
a7ce52b03a Typo reported by Gerry Wiener <wiener@rap.ucar.edu>:
items -> item

The returned list will then have one more items than the number of
non-overlapping occurrences of the separator in the string.
1999-05-27 17:18:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
abc8cc63ce Move some \index entries around so we can avoid using empty comments;
empty comments trigger a bug in LaTeX2HTML.

Problem reported by Gerry Wiener <gerry@ucar.edu>.
1999-05-26 16:15:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
82f355a36a Change the example of configuring for large file support under Solaris
to use `getconf LFS_CFLAGS`.  Steve Clift (the author of the section
and large file support) agrees that this is the right thing to do.
1999-05-26 13:03:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
6b330ba857 "proces" --> "process"; reported by Gerry Wiener <gerry@ucar.edu>.
Added some index entries.
1999-05-25 13:42:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
0eb7b2a659 Enhanced docstring and some comments.
_begin_macro_rx:  Fixed RE that didn't properly allow a space after
		  the name of the macro.  This affects the conversion
		  of the tutorial.
1999-05-19 17:37:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
c4811d8208 Modify to perform "---" to "&mdash;" conversion outside of
verbatim-like environments.  The list of verbatim-like environments is
a defined by a variable in main().
1999-05-18 17:34:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
c41e1e5f5e Remove the "---" to "&mdash;" conversion; this is wrong in verbatim
environments.  Move the conversion to esis2sgml.py.
1999-05-18 17:33:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
338da93734 SET_LINE_NO ==> SET_LINENO
Reported by Corran Webster <cwebster@math.tamu.edu>.
1999-05-17 20:57:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
33378da964 Added paragraph explaininng the text/binary flavors of some methods,
to make it easier for people to find what they're looking for.
1999-05-17 16:35:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
d1fb77970d Document \e, \url.
Add a few more comments about mkhowto.

Based on comments from Albert <hat@se-46.wpa.wtb.tue.nl>.
1999-05-17 16:33:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
4f52867d95 Don't \input boilerplate.tex, fill in the real stuff. 3rd party
documents probably aren't written by Guido.  ;-)
1999-05-17 16:02:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
87f768e20b Attempted to clarify usage of the \declaremodule macro somewhat;
Michael Hudson's documentation for bytecodehacks exhibits incorrect
usage.

Added some comments about how to set up the mkhowto script for use
with documents not contained in the documentation source tree.
1999-05-17 15:22:45 +00:00