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1114 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake 8307e21a2a Mark the references to module names use \module or \refmodule (the
closing paragraph used \code).
1999-04-21 16:29:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6ed122a334 Important fix mentioned by The Dragon De Monsyne: the sendmail()
method does _not_ disconnect the connection when it throws a
SMTPHeloError!
1999-04-21 16:19:16 +00:00
Fred Drake a889add5d6 Oops; minor nit in example: none of the other interactive examples
show the "trailing" prompt, so don't show it here!
1999-04-21 16:00:24 +00:00
Fred Drake 3d815bd1c7 Added link to xdrlib module in "See also" section. 1999-04-21 15:57:29 +00:00
Fred Drake c3fcd6fa0e Added index entry for "file objects"; this is appearantly referenced
somewhere in the Reference Manual, and someone tried to locate it via
the index.  Report on the omission by Stefan Franke
<sfranke@cdc-group.com>.
1999-04-21 13:58:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 7ceb5777d7 Added doc for the "module" attribute on the class descriptor objects;
omission repoorted by Glyn Webster <glyn@ninz.org.nz>.
1999-04-20 18:18:53 +00:00
Fred Drake ad56dafd62 Added example use of pack_list() to help explain the pack_item
parameter.  Lack of clarity reported by Matthew Gallagher
<hew@hons.cs.usyd.edu.au>.
1999-04-20 13:41:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 4ae52694c9 Updated to reflect additions. 1999-04-19 21:21:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 32c562bdec colorsys docs from David Ascher. 1999-04-19 21:20:13 +00:00
Fred Drake 9d15881744 bsddb docs from Skip Montanaro; added interesting links. 1999-04-19 21:19:21 +00:00
Fred Drake e9af64c373 Remove superfluous index entry for posix.popen(); no longer
appropriate since popen() is only documented in os.
1999-04-16 19:00:48 +00:00
Fred Drake dac9a4e3db Added link to Fredrik Lundh's online Tkinter reference material. 1999-04-16 18:26:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 31bfbc6bff Minor nits, include author info. 1999-04-16 14:03:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 0ebd5483be Removed dbhash from the undocumented list. 1999-04-15 16:05:29 +00:00
Fred Drake 666255f5ac Document the dbhash module, and link to it from appropriate places. 1999-04-15 15:11:40 +00:00
Fred Drake f4cbada3f9 Correct documentation for <file>.read(); Python makes a serious
best-effort to return 'size' bytes.  Point out that this may mean
multiple fread() calls.  Reported by Anders Hammarquist
<iko@iko.pp.se> via the Debian crew.
1999-04-14 14:31:53 +00:00
Fred Drake e331356ff7 Fix availability declaration for popen2 module; report by Barry Scott
<barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 22:03:26 +00:00
Fred Drake b9971b9964 Minor cleanup. 1999-04-13 21:39:31 +00:00
Fred Drake 592dd78408 Fix availability declaration for stat module; report by Barry Scott
<barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 21:38:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 31ec33ed60 Work around problems with HTML conversion by making the break and
tbreak synopses be all on one line (each).  Known problem, most
recently reported by Barry Scott <barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 21:36:44 +00:00
Fred Drake bfb092eb86 Misspellling: "occurance" --> "occurrence" 1999-04-09 19:57:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7969f31c4d Updated documentation by Per Cederqvist. I've added back the
documentation sendmail() to reflect the changes by The Dragon
(see smtplib.py checkin).
1999-04-07 15:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 4f21d54764 Added more "See also" entries, + 1 inline hyperlink. 1999-04-05 22:18:12 +00:00
Fred Drake ea003fcc2a Fixed latex2html weirdness with footnotes. 1999-04-05 21:59:15 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 45b0aeda3c correct version info for zlib.
add note about module failing with old versions of the library.

update comment that explains that this doc is *still* out of date
1999-04-05 21:55:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 9aa8543c84 open() description: Made it more clear that 'b' should always be
added to the mode value for binary files to improve
	portability.

Fixed latex2html weirdness with a couple of footnotes.
1999-04-05 21:22:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 01553706bf Added a few items to the "See also" sections at Guido's prompting. Made
more references to other modules in the text hyperlinks for the HTML and
PDF versions.
1999-04-05 19:46:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 50ae47b0de Removed bosities around example code; not sure where that stuff crept
in!
1999-04-05 19:26:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 1dc3a501a6 Made improvements based on changes just made and comments from
Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@csd.uwm.edu>.
1999-04-05 19:00:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 806a467fbf Where rfc822.Message is mentioned, add a link to the rfc822 module. 1999-03-27 05:45:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cb1f2420ea Document complex() with string arg. 1999-03-25 21:23:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5fc9c869dd SIGTERM is no longer caught to call sys.exitfunc.
This change was made long ago but the documentation was never updated.
1999-03-25 20:30:00 +00:00
Fred Drake e82f5b3d6e Added note about ftpmirror.py, since that seems to be one of the most
requested Python tools/examples.
1999-03-25 05:04:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8be229650d Document new builtin buffer(). Greg Stein. 1999-03-19 19:10:14 +00:00
Fred Drake 596766772e Documented FTP.set_pasv(). 1999-03-18 16:08:54 +00:00
Fred Drake 154d909993 Note that abspath() was added in 1.5.2. 1999-03-17 22:25:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 8d2c0c2ab4 Fixed minor nits, added index entries to make these easier to find for people
not familiar with Unix terminology.
1999-03-16 16:40:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 658cef0141 Preliminary mhlib and telnetlib documents from Skip Montanaro -- thanks, Skip! 1999-03-15 15:44:18 +00:00
Fred Drake bf5a6d2eb4 Fixed tons of small markup problems. 1999-03-12 19:57:38 +00:00
Fred Drake b3a20bc44c Added availabililty annotations to respond to concerns of /F. 1999-03-12 18:34:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 93503ca57b Fixup the module keys. There were some problems with hosting / processing
file HTML files on Windows machines do to case insensitivity.
1999-03-12 16:24:22 +00:00
Fred Drake be110c1706 Updates based on comments from /F. 1999-03-12 15:27:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 35c3ffdc3f Fixed description of WSTOPSIG(), added WTERMSIG(). Problem reported
by Jonathan Giddy <jon@dgs.monash.edu.au>.
1999-03-04 14:08:10 +00:00
Fred Drake a54a887f66 "\platform{UNIX}" should really be spelled "\platform{Unix}". 1999-03-02 17:03:42 +00:00
Fred Drake f6863c1909 Added \platform annotations. 1999-03-02 16:37:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 43b34da656 extract_tb(): Only describe this function once. Problem reported by
Jonathan Giddy <jon@dgs.monash.edu.au>.
1999-02-26 18:51:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 390636382a Typo: "Availabilty" --> "Availability"
Thanks to /F!
1999-02-26 14:05:02 +00:00
Fred Drake 51027c4173 Added note about comments, from Christopher Petrilli. 1999-02-24 22:36:44 +00:00
Fred Drake 16e81f4484 Update some of the top comments and shorten title of the first
section.
1999-02-24 19:57:14 +00:00
Barry Warsaw f2b4554403 Document the correct class hierarchy for SystemExit. It is not an
error and so it derives from Exception and not SystemError.
1999-02-24 00:27:14 +00:00