diff --git a/Doc/howto/regex.rst b/Doc/howto/regex.rst index 8f39eeb5264..07a8b561d01 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/regex.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/regex.rst @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ devoted to discussing various metacharacters and what they do. Here's a complete list of the metacharacters; their meanings will be discussed in the rest of this HOWTO. :: - . ^ $ * + ? { [ ] \ | ( ) + . ^ $ * + ? { } [ ] \ | ( ) The first metacharacters we'll look at are ``[`` and ``]``. They're used for specifying a character class, which is a set of characters that you wish to diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncore.rst b/Doc/library/asyncore.rst index aa16acaa189..31c1aa154f3 100644 --- a/Doc/library/asyncore.rst +++ b/Doc/library/asyncore.rst @@ -284,7 +284,8 @@ implement its socket handling:: asyncore.dispatcher.__init__(self) self.create_socket() self.connect( (host, 80) ) - self.buffer = bytes('GET %s HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n' % path, 'ascii') + self.buffer = bytes('GET %s HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: %s\r\n\r\n' % + (path, host), 'ascii') def handle_connect(self): pass diff --git a/Doc/library/curses.rst b/Doc/library/curses.rst index 369571a2b15..1ca22c843c6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/curses.rst +++ b/Doc/library/curses.rst @@ -1173,6 +1173,9 @@ Several constants are available to specify character cell attributes: +------------------+-------------------------------+ | ``A_NORMAL`` | Normal attribute. | +------------------+-------------------------------+ +| ``A_REVERSE`` | Reverse background and | +| | foreground colors. | ++------------------+-------------------------------+ | ``A_STANDOUT`` | Standout mode. | +------------------+-------------------------------+ | ``A_UNDERLINE`` | Underline mode. | diff --git a/Doc/library/locale.rst b/Doc/library/locale.rst index e5f5f849674..dd6f9547f7e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/locale.rst +++ b/Doc/library/locale.rst @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ The :mod:`locale` module defines the following exception and functions: .. data:: D_T_FMT Get a string that can be used as a format string for :func:`strftime` to - represent time and date in a locale-specific way. + represent date and time in a locale-specific way. .. data:: D_FMT @@ -246,12 +246,17 @@ The :mod:`locale` module defines the following exception and functions: .. data:: ERA_D_T_FMT - Get a format string for :func:`strftime` to represent dates and times in a + Get a format string for :func:`strftime` to represent date and time in a locale-specific era-based way. .. data:: ERA_D_FMT - Get a format string for :func:`strftime` to represent time in a + Get a format string for :func:`strftime` to represent a date in a + locale-specific era-based way. + + .. data:: ERA_T_FMT + + Get a format string for :func:`strftime` to represent a time in a locale-specific era-based way. .. data:: ALT_DIGITS diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 3d268f9a08c..6fab5c63eed 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -2322,7 +2322,7 @@ copying. Memory is generally interpreted as simple bytes. .. class:: memoryview(obj) Create a :class:`memoryview` that references *obj*. *obj* must support the - buffer protocol. Builtin objects that support the buffer protocol include + buffer protocol. Built-in objects that support the buffer protocol include :class:`bytes` and :class:`bytearray`. A :class:`memoryview` has the notion of an *element*, which is the diff --git a/Doc/library/turtle.rst b/Doc/library/turtle.rst index 692746fad1d..e995a7c0c3d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/turtle.rst +++ b/Doc/library/turtle.rst @@ -2306,9 +2306,11 @@ The demo scripts are: | bytedesign | complex classical | :func:`tracer`, delay,| | | turtle graphics pattern | :func:`update` | +----------------+------------------------------+-----------------------+ -| chaos | graphs verhust dynamics, | world coordinates | -| | proves that you must not | | -| | trust computers' computations| | +| chaos | graphs Verhulst dynamics, | world coordinates | +| | shows that computer's | | +| | computations can generate | | +| | results sometimes against the| | +| | common sense expectations | | +----------------+------------------------------+-----------------------+ | clock | analog clock showing time | turtles as clock's | | | of your computer | hands, ontimer | diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst index 0aadbb973bf..a375117dac8 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst @@ -119,9 +119,6 @@ square brackets, is recursively defined as follows. * If the target list is a comma-separated list of targets: The object must be an iterable with the same number of items as there are targets in the target list, and the items are assigned, from left to right, to the corresponding targets. - (This rule is relaxed as of Python 1.5; in earlier versions, the object had to - be a tuple. Since strings are sequences, an assignment like ``a, b = "xy"`` is - now legal as long as the string has the right length.) * If the target list contains one target prefixed with an asterisk, called a "starred" target: The object must be a sequence with at least as many items @@ -991,10 +988,3 @@ pre-existing bindings in the local scope. :pep:`3104` - Access to Names in Outer Scopes The specification for the :keyword:`nonlocal` statement. - - -.. rubric:: Footnotes - -.. [#] It may occur within an :keyword:`except` or :keyword:`else` clause. The - restriction on occurring in the :keyword:`try` clause is implementor's - laziness and will eventually be lifted. diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst index d94bfe07dd8..b35cc8051a6 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst @@ -19,18 +19,16 @@ the :func:`print` function. (A third way is using the :meth:`write` method of file objects; the standard output file can be referenced as ``sys.stdout``. See the Library Reference for more information on this.) -.. index:: module: string - Often you'll want more control over the formatting of your output than simply printing space-separated values. There are two ways to format your output; the first way is to do all the string handling yourself; using string slicing and concatenation operations you can create any layout you can imagine. The -standard module :mod:`string` contains some useful operations for padding +string type has some methods that perform useful operations for padding strings to a given column width; these will be discussed shortly. The second way is to use the :meth:`str.format` method. -The :mod:`string` module contains a class Template which offers yet another way -to substitute values into strings. +The :mod:`string` module contains a :class:`~string.Template` class which offers +yet another way to substitute values into strings. One question remains, of course: how do you convert values to strings? Luckily, Python has ways to convert any value to a string: pass it to the :func:`repr`