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Peter Schneider-Kamp 5a65c2d436 added count, extend, index, pop and remove to arraymodule 2000-07-31 20:52:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 4640e13259 Change as suggested by Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>: 
Move around the navigational links on the left-hand side of the navigation
bar to be more like the cursor keys.
 2000-07-31 20:13:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 3d83fc3ab1 Change as suggested by Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>: 
Create a hyperlink between the language reference and documentation for
the built in functions.
 2000-07-31 20:08:23 +00:00
Fred Drake e39dab6ce1 Organized a little bit; merged in some items from the 1.5.2p2 branch that 
did not get handled.
 2000-07-31 18:18:27 +00:00
Fred Drake e7aa5dc5bb Update to indicate the appropriate version of LaTeX2HTML. Update pointer 
for retrieving new versions.
 2000-07-31 17:56:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 85d14c9d02 Many changes to work with newer versions of LaTeX2HTML. This has been 
tested with version 99.2beta8.
 2000-07-31 17:53:45 +00:00
Fred Drake 1915754ec9 Small changes to reflect changes in LaTeX2HTML support for newer versions 
of LaTeX2HTML.
 2000-07-31 17:47:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 1e75e1776f Two minor nits from Gerry Weiner (no working email address) about 
describing the methods of dictionaries.
 2000-07-31 16:34:46 +00:00
Fred Drake b8aa2619c7 Always pass the split level to LaTeX2HTML as a command line option since 
newer versions only process one initialization file, and do so at a
different time than previous versions.
 2000-07-31 15:55:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 578a3f9638 Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>: 
Document new method in shutil (copyfileobj).
Minor clarification by Fred.
 2000-07-31 15:45:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 885082ca67 Update, 'cause Guido said it should be this way. 2000-07-31 14:31:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 10853c9835 Finally fixed the much-reported bug about "~" in a couple of example. 
This time, it was reported by Skip.
 2000-07-28 13:51:27 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond b924bd4610 Second round of curses documentation improvements. Completes and extends 
documentation for function keys, special characters.
 2000-07-27 21:10:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 518e55c7f2 Rip out the information about the PSA, since the fate of that is not 
certain.

Update the information about the mailing list, using the python.org
address instead of cwi.nl, and point to the pipermail archives.  Also
update the daily average message count (at the risk of scaring people
off), using the mail archive at http://www.egroups.com/group/python-list
for the first half of 2000 for statistical information.
 2000-07-27 20:55:12 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 1962fb59f3 Document tiget{flag,num,str} 2000-07-26 02:59:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 1cb3a9ecef Add entries for the distutils documents to the directories table. 2000-07-25 19:27:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 498c18f4d0 Only use one initialization file for LaTeX2HTML; more recent versions only 
use the last one specified on the command line instead of all of them.
Smaller changes to reflect updated support.
 2000-07-24 23:03:32 +00:00
Fred Drake e1b304db37 Fix small typos and markup consistency nits. 2000-07-24 19:35:52 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond 6899660a81 First round of curses documentation improvements; correct errors, flesh out 
entry point descriptions.
 2000-07-24 03:28:40 +00:00
Skip Montanaro d372521ec0 added doc for isatty() 2000-07-19 17:30:58 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 7cb1524586 added documentation for new functions {get,set}_history_length 2000-07-19 16:56:26 +00:00
Thomas Wouters f9b526dbfd More of Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes. The only ones left now are the 
distutils patches, which I'll leave to the distutils maintainers.

Tip: review the patch like this:

grep "^[\!+-] " <patchfile>

To get a quick and easy way to review the actual changes. Most of the
changes are single-line ones, anyway.
 2000-07-16 19:05:38 +00:00
Thomas Wouters f8316638af Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes for the Library Reference. I hope 
SourceForge doesn't choke on this batch :-)

I'm not entirely sure this is 100% correct. The patch changes an
\index{persistency} to \index{presistence}, and I don't know what \index{}
does. But it seems to do so persi--er, consistently, so I hope it isn't a
problem.
 2000-07-16 19:01:10 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond f868de6491 Document the second round of ConfigParser changes. 2000-07-14 15:00:02 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 8c46b30e0a Document PyObject_AsFileDescriptor 2000-07-13 23:58:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 91826ed2a9 Improve the descriptions of expected exceptions for __getitem__(), 
__setitem__(), and __delitem__().  Based on related comments from
Barry Warsaw.
 2000-07-13 04:57:58 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 8d2f2b2db2 From Sam Rushing's Medusa, via SF patch #100858: add & document 
os.seteuid(), os.setegid(), os.setreuid(), os.setregid().
 2000-07-13 01:26:58 +00:00
Fred Drake bdcf91fda0 Documentation for the gc module. Text from Neil Schemenauer 
<nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca>, markup & minor revisions from Fred
Drake.
 2000-07-12 04:22:53 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond 7ae3a5e79d Resynchronize the TeX docs with (a) the module docstring, and (b) my recent 
fix to the code to make it behave like the module docstring.
 2000-07-12 02:56:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 7399b9e6e4 Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>: 
Update the "in" / "not in" description to accomodate the current use
of the __contains__() discipline.  This patch also incorporates
suggestions from Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>, minor markup
revisions from Fred Drake, and some rewording of the first affected
paragraph (also from Fred).

Closes SourceForge patch #100831.
 2000-07-11 19:43:47 +00:00
Fred Drake acab3d61e9 Change the table in the pyexpat.errors module to a series of datadesc 
elements (since the table was pretty screwed up); this is how it is done
elsewhere in the manual.

I could use some help creating descriptions of the specific error
identifiers (input conditions that lead to each error, etc.).
 2000-07-11 16:30:30 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond 417c489def Give ConfigParser the capability to set as well as read options, and to write 
a representation of the configuration state in .ini format that can be read
back in by a future read() call.  Thus this class is now a back end
for .ini editors as well as parsers.

This patch is complete and tested, but exposes a bug in the ConfigParser
implementation which I have not yet fixed.  Because case information is
discarded during parsing, the output of write() has its case smashed.

I wrote this for a SourceForge interface script called forgetool.
Documentation for the new entry points included.
 2000-07-10 18:11:00 +00:00
Greg Stein c2844af87b needs a space 2000-07-09 16:27:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 08d87c6de1 Document addition of webbrowser.py 
Mention the ANSIfication of the source.
 2000-07-09 15:05:15 +00:00
Fred Drake a83b68a143 Remove the only Py_PROTO in the docs. 2000-07-09 03:35:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 146b28086f Minor revisions similar to some information in the new docstrings. 2000-07-08 16:59:03 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 35e8afb76e Rearrange order of sections 
Fix some incorrect module names
 2000-07-08 12:06:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 5443c49fbb Markup improvements in sections relating to interactive behavior. 
Clarify some of the details of readline-related configuration.
 2000-07-08 05:18:54 +00:00
Fred Drake c826ecbf8f Add an entry for the KDE File Manager support from Peter Funk. 2000-07-07 17:08:40 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 4707320566 Added new APIs and fixed some other Unicode ones (missing * or 
extra ' ').
 2000-07-07 15:48:54 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 5a20b21fb1 Added docs for the new Unicode and string APIs. 2000-07-07 15:47:06 +00:00
Fred Drake e4dbb86ab8 New module webbrowser. Easy-to-use controller objects to make using a 
Web browser as a help/information browser easy across platforms.
 2000-07-07 03:36:12 +00:00
Fred Drake aa7524cf1f Clean up markup to be more like recommended practice; only small changes 
needed.
 2000-07-06 18:37:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 29fa30ea6b Correct a markup nit that caused a space to be dropped from the HTML 
version (actually a LaTeX2HTML bug), and clarified a sentence in the
mktime() description based entirely on comments from Grant Griffin
<grant.griffin@honeywell.com>.
 2000-07-06 18:09:02 +00:00
Fred Drake e1a85f5e4a Minor changes. Explain that for class exceptions, use excdesc but do not 
document the constructor parameters.  Need a better way, but this will do
for now.
 2000-07-06 16:12:47 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 8968a8292f modified template to demonstrate subsection for examples. 2000-07-06 13:43:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 5802e48033 Added some further description to the usage of the seealso environment. 
Documented the \seerfc and \seeurl macros used in that environment as well.
 2000-07-06 05:24:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 3c62d9e656 Several small changes, mostly to the markup, to improve consistency and 
internal hyperlinking.  Move some things around, also for consistency
with other modules ("See also" stuff tends to live at the \section level,
before sub-sections, etc.).
 2000-07-06 04:51:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 14ea85f325 Add entry for readline documentation. 2000-07-06 04:47:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 011028cf74 Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@oratrix.nl>: 
Updates for recent changes in xmllib.
 2000-07-06 04:45:14 +00:00
Fred Drake d14423abe2 Correct typo in description of the machine name parameter to the 
ConnectRegistry() function; there is no trailing period!
 2000-07-06 04:38:37 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 63099f911f added seealso pointing reader at readline example which uses atexit. 2000-07-06 03:26:39 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 510ca1d338 simple-minded readline section doc based upon module's doc strings. 2000-07-06 03:25:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 191a28218f Typo: "This table table" -> "This table is" 
Noted by Nicholas Spies <ns11@voicenet.com>.
 2000-07-06 00:50:42 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 0915165096 added warning about incompatibility with other codes' use of sys.exitfunc. 2000-07-05 23:11:26 +00:00
Fred Drake b5316188ee Created a new chapter on structured markup processing, including the 
existing SGML, HTML, & XML support, and providing a home for the new
XML support as it becomes documented.
 2000-07-05 02:24:39 +00:00
Fred Drake c05cbb0527 Wrapped some long lines. 
Cleaned up the table of error constants defined in pyexpat.errors; an
extra pair of braces had pretty much destroyed the table!  (Not sure why.)
Moved the pyexpat.errors module documentation into a \section with the
proper headers for a module.
 2000-07-05 02:03:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 25e7cee1c8 get_starttag_text(): Document this method. 2000-07-03 14:32:04 +00:00
Fred Drake ae96aab1fe Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>: 
Update the API docs for the new macros Py_UNICODE_ISALPHA() and
Py_UNICODE_ISALNUM().
 2000-07-03 13:38:10 +00:00
Fred Drake 52dc76c81f Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>: 
This patch implements relative-path semantics for the "source" facility resembling
those of cpp(1), documents the change, and improves the shlex test main to
make it easier to test this feature.  Along the way, it fixes a name error
in the existing docs.

[Additional documentation markup changes for consistency by FLD.]
 2000-07-03 09:56:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 353aaadd9b Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>: 
Substantial updates to reflect Moshe's Gordon's enhancements to the
module.

Additional changes from Fred to reflect his changes to the module as well.
 2000-07-03 08:24:49 +00:00
Fred Drake fcc95a4d04 Tim-blessed documentation for math.frexp(). 2000-07-03 06:38:17 +00:00
Fred Drake c3a65982a3 others --> other's (possessive) 
Usage error noted by Grant Griffin <grant.griffin@iowegian.com>.
 2000-07-01 17:47:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 506a7a87ff Send a "ARTICLE" --> Send an "ARTICLE" 
Usage error noted by Grant Griffin <grant.griffin@iowegian.com>.
 2000-07-01 17:43:19 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 791b366f8f Added more changes from /F 2000-07-01 15:04:18 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling fed4f1e9c5 Changes from Moshe: 
- distutils: Windows installers are already working

- string methods: .join() seems to be the concensus, so it should probably
  be docommented

- filecmp.py supersedes cmp, cmpcache and dircmp

- winreg is completely new: _winreg is an adaptation of what used to be in
  win32api, and winreg is a Python implementation which adds OO syntax.
  Perhaps you know that, but the text is misleading.
 2000-07-01 12:33:43 +00:00
Fred Drake d95f4e1a0d Martin von Loewis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de>: 
Correct typo that caused a well-formedness failure.
 2000-07-01 06:26:44 +00:00
Fred Drake b906d2ee66 Do not build the "longhtml" version for pre-release versions. 2000-07-01 02:37:37 +00:00
Fred Drake 1cd3c14034 The new copyright / license. 2000-07-01 01:41:55 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling a6161edf02 Refer to "Authors", plural 2000-07-01 00:23:02 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 8357c4c9c6 Update the version number in an example 2000-07-01 00:14:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 70ba382788 Updated the URL for Python 2.0 2000-07-01 00:13:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fd71b9e9d4 Change copyright notice. 2000-06-30 23:50:40 +00:00
Fred Drake f857ac97e9 Ignore the generated api.tex. 2000-06-30 19:25:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 1739be50cb Small grammatical correction from Frank Stajano. Added comment with 
suggestion from Frank for an example and further explanation.
 2000-06-30 17:58:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 46346ec14e Try to make sure \code always uses roman (non-italic) text. 
Change a 1.6 version number used in a an example in a comment to 2.0.
 2000-06-30 17:57:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 30f76ffd00 Update version numbering from 1.6 to 2.0. 2000-06-30 16:06:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 633a8d90d5 Update authors email address and corporate affiliation. 2000-06-30 15:54:18 +00:00
Fred Drake e06f0f9a13 Uncomment some additions from Vladimir pertinent to 2.0 but not 1.5.2. 2000-06-30 15:52:39 +00:00
Fred Drake aad1d4b8f2 Update the release number & date, Guido's employer. 2000-06-30 15:35:16 +00:00
Fred Drake f0e88980f3 Document randrange(). 2000-06-30 15:32:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 2e7cbc2cda Fix an icon width; a "32" became a "3" somehow, and that did not look 
as nice. ;)
 2000-06-30 15:30:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 62cdd96acb Credit /F in a few places 
Mention the GC module
Add MH's explanation of the Windows crash
Add atexit.py
 2000-06-30 12:46:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 57a2f7f8ef Change description of altzone to not refer to the "0th meridian". 2000-06-30 04:24:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 9a748aa832 Say "manual page", not "man page", when referring to the Unix manual. 2000-06-30 04:21:41 +00:00
Fred Drake abbc7344a4 Make sure to note that this module was added for Python 2.0! 2000-06-30 03:50:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 6e71cdd9f1 Reflect the name change to _winreg; we still need documentation for the 
new winreg module.
 2000-06-30 03:45:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 01df453f16 Update Python version numbers from 1.6 to 2.0 where appropriate. 
Make some references between the distutils documents hyperlinks using
the \citetitle markup.
 2000-06-30 03:36:41 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 730067effc Finished the GC section. 
Removed all but one XXX.
Replaced 1.6 with 2.0.
Various minor corrections and additions.
 2000-06-30 01:44:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling efc43d4478 Document recently-added mouse-related functions 2000-06-30 01:05:39 +00:00
Fred Drake cc7371c437 Removed --l2h-config option; it introduced unnecessary complexity and 
is not needed anywhere.
 2000-06-29 23:01:40 +00:00
Fred Drake d04038d9d2 Update comments relating to the removal of the -X option and of string 
exceptions in the interpreter and standard library.
 2000-06-29 20:15:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 8aa3bd9098 Make it clear that id() can return either a long integer or a plain integer. 2000-06-29 03:46:46 +00:00
Fred Drake 0f353ed90d Add update of httplib docs to reflect Greg Stein's recent updates. 
Greg, this is yours!
 2000-06-29 03:33:28 +00:00
Fred Drake ab43fcad5f Give Moshe some work to do. 2000-06-28 22:13:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 5c529d3f3e Add a "See also:" link to the curses.ascii module. 2000-06-28 22:11:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 589f44b9d0 Made the title of the Examples subsection plural! 2000-06-28 22:09:20 +00:00
Fred Drake be93a8332e Added note that the atexit module was added for Python 1.6. 2000-06-28 22:07:55 +00:00
Fred Drake 6f2a5efec9 Added entry for the curses.ascii module. 2000-06-28 22:05:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 5ccd4b2a54 Added entries for the curses.ascii module. 2000-06-28 22:03:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 4e716fa0ac Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>: 
Added an example of using an HTTP POST request.
 2000-06-28 21:51:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 7388f730a3 Support constant as a font name for the first column of a table using the 
tableii & friends markup family.
 2000-06-28 21:06:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 35c09f2e51 Revise the description of when functions retrieved from class instances 
are and are not turned into bound methods; some confusion was noted by
Andrew Dalke.

In particular, it has to be noted that functions located on the class
instance are not turned into any sort of method, only those which are
found via the underlying class.
 2000-06-28 20:15:47 +00:00
Fred Drake c82634c13c Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>: 
Documentation updates related to the addition of openpty() and forkpty().
 2000-06-28 17:27:48 +00:00
Fred Drake ec105d0993 Enhanced memory-reference information in the description of Py_BuildValue(), 
based on response from Frank Stajano <fstajano@uk.research.att.com>.
 2000-06-28 16:15:08 +00:00
Fred Drake cabbc3be5b Added documentation for PyOS_AfterFork(). 2000-06-28 15:53:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 2b9e180ec3 Added memory-reference information to the description of Py_BuildValue(), 
based on comments from Frank Stajano <fstajano@uk.research.att.com>.
 2000-06-28 15:32:29 +00:00
Fred Drake c19425d520 Added the atexit module and documentation from Skip Montanaro 
<skip@mojam.com>.  Revisions to the markup to make it pass LaTeX, added
an index entry and a reference from the sys.exitfunc documentation.

This closes SourceForge patch #100620.
 2000-06-28 15:07:31 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 69db0e4a0b Added section on cycle GC 
Various minor fixes
 2000-06-28 02:16:00 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling af5b76677f Changed obsolete e-mail alias 2000-06-27 03:16:04 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f57d7b9e30 Dcoumentation for ascii.py. I've changed two references from ascii to 
curses.ascii.
 2000-06-26 23:59:24 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 662d76ee7b Fix typos and errors noticed by Skip Montanaro 2000-06-25 14:32:48 +00:00
Greg Ward 1bbe32982d Minor wording tweaks. 
Kludged the extra-wide table that summarizes the manifest template language
  (works with LaTeX, but is an *evil* kludge and could well break LaTeX2HTML
  or similar...).
 2000-06-25 03:14:13 +00:00
Greg Ward 370248d705 Some clarifications to the 'A simple example' section. 2000-06-24 01:45:47 +00:00
Greg Ward 19c67f83ad Fixed a grab-bag of typos spotted by Detlef Lannert. 2000-06-24 01:33:16 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling a4ca07cc8c Minor grammatical fix 2000-06-21 01:48:46 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d24ff44f06 Document .timeout() method and .typeahead() function 2000-06-21 01:42:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 1d15869534 Markup consistency nits. 2000-06-18 05:21:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 0adfb45b9a Make changes and clarifications suggested by Mark Hammond 2000-06-18 04:17:38 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b8050697b8 Documentation for the mmap module: proofreaders welcomed 2000-06-17 22:39:05 +00:00
Fred Drake 992fe5a83e Updates from Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@leburg.com> for the Unicode support. 2000-06-16 21:04:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 1c2d06acaf Added reference count information for PySequence_List(). 2000-06-16 20:00:04 +00:00
Fred Drake a8455abcf8 Documented PySequence_List() and PySequence_Tuple(). 
Added a bit more documentation in the chapter on building extension types,
including Py_FindMethod() documentation.

Several minor consistency nits were fixed.
 2000-06-16 19:58:42 +00:00
Fred Drake c3fd45fe80 do_cmd_textasciitilde(): New function. 2000-06-15 22:41:48 +00:00
Fred Drake e57a11441e Fix markup error that hid a tilde character; reported long ago by 
Carl Feynman <carlf@abinitio.com>.
 2000-06-15 20:07:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 9e759dfc31 Michael Hudson <mwh21@cam.ac.uk>: 
This patch corrects a little glitch and two outright errors.

(Including one reported earlier by Thomas Wouters.)
 2000-06-15 18:44:30 +00:00
Fred Drake fb79ffae4d Hook in the documentation for the unicodedata module. 2000-06-13 20:51:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 28b294459d Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>: 
Documentation for the unicodedata module (massaged by Fred for minor
consistency issues).
 2000-06-13 20:50:50 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 6b14eebae6 Documentation for the pyexpat module. 2000-06-11 02:42:07 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling c0328f014b Mention setting the default encoding 
Add IDLE section from MZ
 2000-06-10 15:11:20 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling a5bbb0089a List more deleted modules. 
Add request for feedback.
 2000-06-10 02:41:46 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 6c3cd8dd6a Filled in the sections on new and deleted modules. 
Bumped version number.
 2000-06-10 02:24:31 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 7f6270d97e Minor fixes, additions to notes 2000-06-09 02:48:18 +00:00
Fred Drake d1a65ff40b Added preliminary documentation for the winreg module, 
by Mark Hammond <markh@activestate.com>.

Limited markup & consistency revisions by FLD.
 2000-06-07 04:07:48 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b853ea0541 Latex formatting fixes 2000-06-03 03:06:58 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling fa33a4e494 Patches from Moshe, w/ AMK's revisions 
Wrote Unicode section
 2000-06-03 02:52:40 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 5b8311e3c1 Filled out the "Core Changes" section. 2000-05-31 03:28:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 6c16019136 Fixed typo noted by Guido Kollerie <gkoller@cs.vu.nl> in example code. 2000-05-30 14:39:45 +00:00
Greg Ward 3e7b133c95 Added concrete example of when separate build and install might be 
useful (suggested by Moshe Zadka).
 2000-05-30 03:00:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 25bfd0e8d0 Article about 1.6 new features 2000-05-27 11:28:26 +00:00
Fred Drake b80a777859 Added documentation for gettempprefix(). 
Deprecated direct access to template.
Added note about past need to modify template so that legacy code has a
better chance of being understood, noting that the requirement to reset
template after os.fork() disappeared in 1.5.2.
 2000-05-26 19:32:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 0233075fce Added documentation for TemporaryFile() and the siffix parameter to mktemp(). 
Removed obsolete comments about this module not creating or removing actual
files.
Removed obsolete comment about users needing to set template to None after
calling os.fork().
 2000-05-26 19:05:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 99d707af47 Piers Lauder <piers@cs.su.oz.au>: 
I've added an extra comment about quoting arguments to
IMAP4 commands. Also changed the command descriptions
to show optional extra commands where appropriate.

Fred Drake:
Added example usage for the search() method based on comments from
<Lucas.DeJonge@awtpl.com.au>; elaborated error handling information
when arguments are missing from search() and uid().
 2000-05-26 04:08:37 +00:00
Greg Ward 6153fa19ce Guido's rewording of my definition of "root package", with an addition by me. 2000-05-26 02:24:28 +00:00
Greg Ward 59d382e482 A grab-bag of wording tweakage. 2000-05-26 01:04:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 51060be2f8 Remove unused "import curses". 2000-05-24 14:33:26 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f1dc5fa2c8 Updated docs to list all the new methods and functions. The docs are 
now complete, but probably still not very helpful or friendly.

Note: two very large tables (of key names, and of character names) were
added; these tables format terribly, and need some reworking.
 2000-05-23 16:46:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 7cb42cd070 From Greg Ward <gward@python.net>: 
Typo:  "dictionairy" --> "dictionary" (twice).
 2000-05-23 02:28:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 8c5cedee69 New description for math.frexp() -- poor description noted by 
Francois Pinard.
 2000-05-18 05:07:38 +00:00
Gregory P. Smith 147e5f3c65 Doc patch from Bastein Kleineidam: start to describe the 'install' command 
family, including the new 'install_scripts' and 'install_data' commands.
 2000-05-12 00:58:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c9a5f343bc The addition of rint() (by Peter Schneider-Kamp; I forgot to mention 
that before) in the previous patch has one problem; rint() is not in
the C math library on all platforms (e.g. not for VC++).  Make it
conditional on HAVE_RINT.
 2000-05-11 18:42:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 71260b846e Added math.rint() -- round according to current IEEE754 mode 2000-05-11 18:19:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 65e69002a2 Oops, better also note that the module initialization function must be 
extern "C" for C++.
 2000-05-10 20:36:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 2d54523551 Section "The Module's Method Table and Initialization Function": 
Explain that the name of the initialization function must be
        init<module>().  Omission noted by Daniel Kozan
        <crum@dev-group.com>.
 2000-05-10 20:33:18 +00:00
Fred Drake 625d70a7a6 Fix references to the built-in compile() that don't include the 
filename parameter.  Noted by Randall Hopper <aa8vb@yahoo.com>.
 2000-05-09 17:10:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 35784dff6a Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>: 
The intent is that this diff adds a link to the rfc822 module doc and
an index reference to this module under the rfc822 heading.

Fred, based on a suggestion from Grant Griffin <grant.griffin@honeywell.com>:
Added link to the MIME FAQ, so people can more easily get more
information about the subject of the module.
 2000-05-09 16:23:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 51313f164c Define \seeurl in the seealso environment. Two parameters: url, why. 2000-05-09 16:18:44 +00:00
Fred Drake ef4d111b2a do_cmd_seeurl(): New function. 2000-05-09 16:17:51 +00:00
Fred Drake d85f05940e read() method: clarify that strings are accepted and interpreted 
reasonably.

readfp() method:  added documentation.
 2000-05-09 15:06:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 3d69c0e440 Someone found the examples of poor practice on socket addresses! 
Spotted by Greg Kochanski <gpk@bell-labs.com>.
 2000-05-03 19:40:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 25871c001f Brian Hooper <brian_takashi@hotmail.com>: 
Added 'u' and 'u#' tags for PyArg_ParseTuple - these turn a
PyUnicodeObject argument into a Py_UNICODE * buffer, or a Py_UNICODE *
buffer plus a length with the '#'.  Also added an analog to 'U'
for Py_BuildValue.
 2000-05-03 15:17:02 +00:00
Fred Drake ae08853fb0 Clarify status of connection of a new instance; it *is* connected if 
you pass server information to the constructor.  Error noted by Pedro
Diaz Jimenez <diazjimenez@ctv.es>.
 2000-05-03 15:11:47 +00:00
Fred Drake c26cc91c0c Added descriptions of \versionadded and \versionchanged. 2000-05-02 17:43:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 52e7684af1 do_cmd_versionchanged(): 
Added support for optional parameter explaining the change
        that was made in the specified version.
 2000-05-02 17:37:42 +00:00
Fred Drake e06d025e00 Use \versionchanged to indicate when the second parameter to utime() 
was allowed to be None.
 2000-05-02 17:29:35 +00:00
Fred Drake a6e8339e61 \versionchanged: Added optional parameter for explanation of change. 2000-05-02 17:28:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d67ddbbec1 Eric Raymond: 
(1) Added and documented the capability for shlex to handle
lexical-level inclusion and a stack of input sources.  Also, the input
stream member is now documented, and the constructor takes an optional
source-filename.  The class provides facilities to generate error
messages that track file and line number.

(2) Add a convenience function to generate C-compiler style error
leaders.
 2000-05-01 20:14:47 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 93a8eacde5 Document the new additional signature for utime(). In addition to the 
previous functionality utime(path, (atime, mtime)), now allowed is
utime(path, None) which sets the file's times to the current time.
 2000-05-01 16:18:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 40ee7acb95 \file and \filenq should not be used in section titles; they are not 
sufficiently robust to survive the creation of bookmarks in the PDF
format.
 2000-04-28 18:17:23 +00:00
Fred Drake 20bab56118 Don't worry about the output dirs for the distutils manuals. 2000-04-28 17:45:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 8187cb9664 Added distutils manuals. 
Made the attributes more XHTML-friendly.
 2000-04-28 17:43:12 +00:00
Greg Ward e78298a6bd Stripped leading 'sec:' from all section labels -- generates bad filenames, 
bad link URLs in HTML, etc.
 2000-04-28 17:12:24 +00:00
Greg Ward e9792c4563 When building HTML releases, refer to */*.css and */*.html instead of 
???/*.css and ???/*.html -- need to pick up the Distutils manuals!
 2000-04-28 17:09:17 +00:00
Greg Ward 3abb104356 Added the Distutils manuals. 2000-04-28 17:05:41 +00:00
Greg Ward 0784c335f3 Added the Distutils manuals: inst and dist. 2000-04-28 17:03:26 +00:00
Greg Ward 0862f800d0 Added 'inst' and 'dist' -- the two Distutils manuals. 2000-04-28 16:53:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 3c3507fd4f Documentation patch describing the 'u' and 'u#' format specifiers, 
from Brian Hooper <brian_takashi@hotmail.com>.
 2000-04-28 14:43:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 638ae9d0bb Support for the special macros used by the distutils documentation. 2000-04-27 21:27:49 +00:00
Greg Ward 38c28e379c Added a note to the section on 'exec' about the need for a trailing newline 
in certain circumstances.  (Apparently, this is a CPython problem.)
 2000-04-27 18:32:02 +00:00
Fred Drake ac308d0a6f Added a "See also:" section that exhibits the \seerfc markup. 2000-04-26 18:20:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 64b72b6f4f Define \seerfc within the seealso environment. 2000-04-26 18:13:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 37cc0c0e9f ref_module_index_helper(): Use "my" instead of "local". 
get_rfc_url():  New function; returns the URL for a numbered IETF RFC.

do_cmd_rfc():  Use get_rfc_url() instead of hard-coding in the HTML
               formatting.

do_cmd_seerfc():  New function.

do_env_definitions():  Small change to avoid "local".
 2000-04-26 18:05:24 +00:00
Fred Drake c009d198db Removed some extraneous and confusing parenthesized expressions. 
Noted by Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>.
 2000-04-25 21:09:10 +00:00
Greg Ward 4a9e72266d Added section headers for "Extending the Distutils" section (just 
a reminder to myself).
 2000-04-25 02:57:36 +00:00
Greg Ward 87da1ea127 Patch from Andrew Kuchling: document the new multiple pattern feature in the 
manifest template.
 2000-04-21 04:35:25 +00:00
Greg Ward d5767a5e43 Reformatted wide paragraphs. 2000-04-19 22:48:09 +00:00
Greg Ward 4eaa3bfed0 Reverted '\var' in the "standard installation location" table to '\filevar'. 
Reformatted wide paragraphs.
 2000-04-19 22:44:25 +00:00
Greg Ward c402fa122f Dropped '\tilde' and '\bslash' definitions. 2000-04-19 22:40:34 +00:00
Greg Ward 4756e5fb1c Changed '\tilde' and '\bslash' to the standard '\textasciitilde' and 
'\textbackslash'.
 2000-04-19 22:40:12 +00:00
Greg Ward 95da443447 Removed '\package' definition. 2000-04-19 22:36:33 +00:00
Greg Ward 1ecc251538 Changed '\package' to \module'. 2000-04-19 22:36:24 +00:00
Greg Ward a021acacfb Changed '\option' to '\longprogramopt' wherever it referred to a command-line 
option.
 2000-04-19 22:34:11 +00:00
Fred Drake cebda6f5f0 Added documentation for WindowsError; omission noted by Michal Bozon 
<bozon@natur.cuni.cz>.

(Mark Hammond, other Python/Windows cognoscenti: please check this!)
 2000-04-17 17:42:00 +00:00
Fred Drake e99d1dbc74 Clarify the description of the else clause for try/except, and add an 
explanation of why you'd want to use it.

Based on a question from Michael Simcich <msimcich@accesstools.com>.
 2000-04-17 14:56:31 +00:00
Greg Ward 46b98e35fd Various wording/formattin tweaks. 
Started spewing "Creating Built Distributions" section.
 2000-04-14 01:53:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 9cf7587fdc Update change to version_info structure. 2000-04-13 17:51:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 4d65d73686 Document hexversion (incompletely explained) and version_info (easily 
explained).
 2000-04-13 16:54:17 +00:00
Greg Ward 502d2b4615 Added note about usual default prefix under Linux (thanks to Peter Funk 
for the idea).
 2000-04-12 14:20:15 +00:00
Greg Ward 822a86a955 Trying to placate Fred: redefine \tilde and \bslash; document everything. 
Still some not-quite-standard definitions in here that I have to fix.
 2000-04-12 01:44:35 +00:00
Greg Ward d5faa7ea08 Changed the table of per-platform default installation locations to be 
more consistent with the rest of the Python docs.
 2000-04-12 01:42:19 +00:00
Fred Drake ee775a194c Make use of \longprogramopt where appropriate. 2000-04-11 19:46:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 2b85341776 Elaborate descriptions of \e, \module. 
Describe policy on vertical lines in tables.
 2000-04-11 19:08:30 +00:00
Fred Drake ce44498ba8 Revise the description of \programopt, document \longprogramopt. 2000-04-11 18:52:52 +00:00
Fred Drake 493624941a \longprogramopt: New macro. 2000-04-11 18:47:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 0cd6021339 do_cmd_longprogramopt(): New function. 2000-04-11 18:46:59 +00:00
Greg Ward 08c68fc82d LaTeX macros for the Distutils manuals. 
Perhaps these should be added to the standard Python style file?
 2000-04-11 02:01:52 +00:00
Greg Ward c392caa390 Spewed a bunch more verbiage. 
Lots of scattered wording changes.
 2000-04-11 02:00:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 8520cc2328 Added reference count information for Py_FindMethod(). 2000-04-10 19:38:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 7357770153 Yet another markup nit: functions that are part of the Python/C API 
are still C functions, and should be marked.
 2000-04-10 18:50:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 37f41565a8 PyErr_Format(): 
Remove statement that the return value is always NULL; this is
        generated by the formatting.
 2000-04-10 18:46:22 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 98605b54b4 document PyErr_Format 2000-04-10 18:40:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 0682be4524 letters: 
Fix description; lowercase and uppercase are strings, not
        functions!  Noted by Randall Hopper <aa8vb@yahoo.com>.

maketrans():
        Minor markup nits in description.
 2000-04-10 18:35:49 +00:00
Fred Drake 8394595f3b Add to the comment a description of the "null" value for returned 
PyObject* values.
 2000-04-10 18:29:21 +00:00
Fred Drake c2578c5bb6 load_refcounts(), 
do_env_cfuncdesc():  Support the "null" value for the refcounts field
        in refcounts.dat.
 2000-04-10 18:26:45 +00:00
Fred Drake db2764d941 The reference count field for PyErr_NoMemory() and 
PyErr_SetFromErrno() should be "null".
 2000-04-10 18:25:09 +00:00
Fred Drake 5e872de6c7 If the refcount field is "null", that's ok; the value will be None. 2000-04-10 18:24:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 729eca1b9d For functions which return a PyObject* but use "null" for the 
reference count field, state that the return value is always NULL.

(Useful for some PyErr_*() flavors.)
 2000-04-10 18:23:47 +00:00
Fred Drake 0a863da1f8 cfuncdesc environment: 
When processing the optional parameter, don't append any text;
        let the pre-processor supply all of it.
 2000-04-10 18:21:38 +00:00
Fred Drake adb272ceee do_cmd_datalineni(): New function, to implement the non-indexing form 
of \dataline.
 2000-04-10 17:47:14 +00:00
Greg Ward c248baecb3 Moved definition of \XXX command out to distutils.sty. 2000-04-09 20:55:35 +00:00
Greg Ward 6002ffc38c Wrote the introduction (including several subsections). 
Started writing the "Standard Build and Install" section.
 2000-04-09 20:54:50 +00:00
Greg Ward facb8dbaeb Fixed so LaTeX can actually process it, and so it looks like the other 
Distutils manual.
 2000-04-09 04:32:40 +00:00
Greg Ward 16aafcd85b Got started for real on this manual. Completely untested and unread -- just 
checking it in so I can move things around in the CVS repository.
 2000-04-09 04:06:44 +00:00
Greg Ward 7593eb3267 Extracted a bunch of Distutils-specific commands and macros to distutils.sty 
(also needed by inst.tex).
 2000-04-09 03:59:15 +00:00
Fred Drake 9164f88657 Fix Skip's email address in his attribution! (Thanks, Skip!) 2000-04-08 04:53:29 +00:00
Fred Drake e7a8c972d8 Added support for the "Long HTML" version to the build/packaging 
process.
 2000-04-07 16:27:15 +00:00
Fred Drake c2c46c3751 New example from Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>. 2000-04-07 16:09:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 46f14580cb Describe the purpose of the "long HTML" package. 2000-04-07 14:47:27 +00:00
Fred Drake cff5482d37 Mark RELEASE with the release level ("a2"). 2000-04-06 18:38:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 69ca950d1f Make sure the \declaremodule uses the right name for the module! 
Clean up several markup problems & inconsistencies.
 2000-04-06 16:09:59 +00:00
Fred Drake 343301aaa4 unichr(), 
unicode():  Added \versionadded{} annotations.
 2000-04-06 15:06:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 0b72116812 Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>: 
Added UnicodeType.
 2000-04-06 15:05:04 +00:00
Fred Drake 56ced2a7e4 Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>: 
Added note that Unicode strings are picklable.
 2000-04-06 15:04:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 5828ad6963 Revised / removed comments about string exceptions (relating to the 
standard exceptions), added documentation of UnboundLocalError.
 2000-04-06 15:03:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 3cb793e8e8 Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>: 
Added UnicodeError description.
 2000-04-06 14:48:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 61098f201e Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>: 
Add Unicode strings to the list of marshalable types.
 2000-04-06 14:47:20 +00:00
Fred Drake 665dd704a3 Note the exception raised when parameter to chr() is out of range. 2000-04-06 14:45:19 +00:00
Fred Drake 33d51841a3 Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>: 
Documentation for unichr(), unicode(), update for ord().
 2000-04-06 14:43:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 2097ef126b Added entry for codecs module. 2000-04-06 14:26:43 +00:00
Fred Drake 98f8a3d8da Added codecs entry here as part of String Services. 2000-04-06 14:25:28 +00:00
Fred Drake b7979c756c Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>: 
codecs module documentation, with some preliminary markup
adjustments from FLD.
 2000-04-06 14:21:58 +00:00
Fred Drake 9dc30bb956 Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>: 
Tutorial information about Unicode strings in Python, with some markup
adjustments from FLD.
 2000-04-06 14:17:03 +00:00
Fred Drake a4cd2611f4 Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>: 
API documentation for Unicode support from C.
 2000-04-06 14:10:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 8b3ce9e099 But don't do the funny \UNICODE macro; we're trying to get away from 
those markups!  <with-mixed-feelings>
 2000-04-06 14:00:14 +00:00
Fred Drake f0aff8e759 Patch from Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>: 
Added Unicode type to the language reference.
 2000-04-06 13:57:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 6d5c6bdb25 Removed bogus connect() call in SMTP example; reported by Travis 
B. Hartwell <slt5v@cc.usu.edu>.

Removed second copy of the "See also" section!
 2000-04-05 22:12:06 +00:00
Fred Drake 71b04dab58 Added reference to the multifile module from the "See also" section 
in the mimetools documentation.
Suggested by Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>.
 2000-04-05 22:05:15 +00:00
Fred Drake d1a56f4235 Noted by Guido: 
Fixed up descriptions of altzone and timezone not to refer to the
0th meridian, which doesn't exist.  Reference is now to UTC.
 2000-04-05 15:06:03 +00:00
Fred Drake 898915d7e2 Noted by Guido: 
Directionality of up/down were confused.
 2000-04-05 15:01:36 +00:00
Fred Drake 43b89b637f Noted by Guido: 
Note in the "Caveats" section should refer to the exit() function, not
exit_thread().
 2000-04-05 15:00:38 +00:00