Fred Drake
3a2cda876b
Minor revisions to clarify the status of xreadlines(), change the way
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iteration support was documented; the docs for __iter__() were just
confusing.
2002-11-15 16:38:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
88eed70fc8
Mention that the MRO algorithm changes in 2.3
2002-11-15 14:37:46 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
b60ea3f01f
Mention change in MRO
2002-11-15 14:37:10 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
7994716b6b
SF patch #520382 : Expand shelve.py to have a full dictionary interface
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and add a mixin to UserDict.py to make it easier to implement a full
dictionary interface.
2002-11-15 06:46:14 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
3a7f405f5b
Draft a section on modifying Python's path. I'm not sure where
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this section fits best in inst.tex's organization; Fred or someone, feel
free to move it.
2002-11-15 02:52:44 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
24d5a5281a
Add section on Optik
2002-11-14 23:40:42 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
366c10c5c0
Finish up the logging section
2002-11-14 23:07:57 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
28f2f88c31
Add partial section on the logging package; not finished yet.
2002-11-14 14:14:16 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
4ebe2e3914
add liblogging
2002-11-14 03:58:20 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
649698f72e
initial rough cut at documentation of logging module. This is basically
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just a conversion of pydoc.help(logging).
2002-11-14 03:57:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
66abcee948
Integrate updates to the GNU info conversion.
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This includes SF patch #590352 and additional support for more of the custom
markup.
2002-11-13 19:31:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
b02f0dfbe9
- Committing the modified signature lines I've been using for a long
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time in http://www.python.org/dev/doc/ . There have been no bug
reports on these for a long time now.
- Remove local "use" statement that duplicates a top-level "use".
2002-11-13 19:16:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
bad460790e
Document struct_time and the field names.
2002-11-13 19:05:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
4400509aaa
Add \funcline, \funclineni, and \methodlineni to the list of functions
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that are processed before their arguments.
Closes SF bug #637807 .
2002-11-13 17:55:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
a5a173efbf
Fix broken markup.
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Closes SF bug #637807 .
2002-11-13 17:48:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
2c184e7eea
Typo: it's --> its
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Closes SF bug #637810 .
2002-11-13 15:56:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
ce5619e8a1
Update: Older versions of Python crashed when calling repr()
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(including the implied call using back-ticks) of a recursive object,
but this is no longer the case.
Reported by Manus Hand via email.
2002-11-13 15:32:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
674dae245a
Clarify that PyImport_AddModule() and PyImport_ExecCodeModule() don't
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add any package support structure even if a dotted-name is passed for
the module.
Closes SF bug #424106 .
2002-11-13 15:13:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
5c4cf1587b
Normalize whitespace.
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Fix a number of markup consistency buglets.
2002-11-13 14:59:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
8a61f499dc
Fill out the 'Porting' section
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Add random.sample()
2002-11-13 13:24:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
3d03968c75
Clarified meaning of \w and \W with respect to the UNICODE and LOCALE flags.
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Closes SF bug #635595 .
2002-11-12 23:12:54 +00:00
Tim Peters
b9099c3df4
SF patch 637176: list.sort crasher
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Armin Rigo's Draconian but effective fix for
SF bug 453523: list.sort crasher
slightly fiddled to catch more cases of list mutation. The dreaded
internal "immutable list type" is gone! OTOH, if you look at a list
*while* it's being sorted now, it will appear to be empty. Better
than a core dump.
2002-11-12 22:08:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
4b9ed2f346
Clarified documentation of tempnam().
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Closes SF bug #635656 .
2002-11-12 22:07:11 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
cab94a19f6
Update text to refer to 2.2.2
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Remove an XXX item: I'm not going to write a section on the email package
at this point
2002-11-12 18:59:20 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
71dd790ad2
Remove extra word
2002-11-12 18:45:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
f24eb35d18
SF patch 629637: Add sample(population, k) method to the random module.
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Used for random sampling without replacement.
2002-11-12 17:41:57 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
0da7f39a7c
Closes SF bug #634069 reporting the docs on the ** operator were out
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of date and did not reflect the current CPython implementation.
2002-11-08 05:30:23 +00:00
Walter Dörwald
430b1563dd
Add documentation for the PEP 293 functionality:
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The errors attribute can be changed after the reader/writer
is created.
For encoding there are two additional errors values:
"xmlcharrefreplace" and "backslashreplace".
These values can be extended via register_error().
2002-11-07 22:33:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
b5f41dedeb
Minor markup adjustments.
2002-11-07 17:13:03 +00:00
Thomas Heller
5b470e0a3a
Document the changed fdopen behaviour.
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(Hope the markup is ok).
2002-11-07 16:33:44 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
572aae32f1
Old change (probably suggested by Jason Tishler) The GNU/Windows compiler is now called MinGW
2002-11-06 14:34:50 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
e3fb22bd4a
[Patch #633635 from David M. Cooke]
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Make docs accurate; getch() in nodelay mode returns -1
2002-11-06 14:17:21 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
110aa50cc2
Fix minor wording and 2 typos
2002-11-05 23:55:27 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
fad265e651
Whoops, fix the typo correctly this time
2002-11-05 22:46:39 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
75f36b7040
Document the new `pp' command.
2002-11-05 22:41:16 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
c2f7757ef5
Fix minor typos
2002-11-05 22:37:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
71f5acdd1e
Minor cleanups, markup.
2002-11-05 22:19:45 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
a288a234ec
Document that images go away when they go away. Fixes #632323 .
2002-11-05 22:11:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
18c7d98bd1
Fix a few minor nits. Still need to actually proofread this.
2002-11-05 17:54:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
cc6cc5ddff
Fix minor markup nits.
2002-11-05 16:52:50 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer
f8ca8364c9
Patch implementing bz2 module.
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* setup.py
(PyBuildExt.detect_modules): Included bz2 module detection.
* Modules/bz2module.c
* Lib/test/test_bz2.py
* Doc/lib/libbz2.tex
Included files implementing, testing, and documenting bz2 module.
* Doc/Makefile.deps
* Doc/lib/lib.tex
Include references to libbz2.tex.
* Misc/NEWS
(Library): Mention distutils' c++ linkage patch, and new bz2 module.
2002-11-05 16:50:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
bc5e3cc34f
Use personal e-mail address; update date; various small edits; add a name to acks
2002-11-05 00:26:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
7a82b8c736
Bring back the patch/bug count paragraph.
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Correct source of *strip() changes
Small rewrites.
2002-11-04 20:17:24 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
dc3f7e12ee
Mention distutil changes
2002-11-04 20:05:10 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
22610da481
Document symbolic constants for commands.
2002-11-04 17:41:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
2eba52fefb
Thinking on comp.text.tex seems to be that it's better to override
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\@makefntext than \@footnotetext, so we'll do that instead.
2002-11-04 16:29:31 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
1da9c57c74
Patch #630829 : Don't block on IAC, process suboptions.
2002-11-04 09:56:00 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
f0a4668e6f
Add getpreferredencoding. Support @euro modifiers. Fixes #554676 .
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The @euro part is backported to 2.2.3.
2002-11-03 17:20:12 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
cf57e50989
Fix SF #632864 , Typo string instead of sting in LibDoc. Will backport.
2002-11-03 13:13:20 +00:00
Neal Norwitz
1aca2d0cb3
Fix SF # 518775, buffer object API description truncated
2002-11-03 02:56:27 +00:00