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Fred Drake
4755e7d5c1 Three more modules documented by Moshe! 1999-06-21 18:25:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
6f49e0a154 Added a few minor comments, mostly to discourage documentation of
really old modules that may become obsolete.
1999-06-18 19:58:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
a48a083edb Added paragraph about potential re-initialization of extension
modules; responding to suggestion by Robin Boerdijk
<Robin.Boerdijk@nl.origin-it.com>.
1999-06-18 19:17:28 +00:00
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