Fred Drake
2cba0f641f
Improve description of else clause of the try/except/else statement.
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This closes (again!) bug #127098 .
2001-01-02 19:22:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
cc97f8c609
Fix up an awkward sentence, pointed out by Chris Ryland <cpr@emsoftware.com>.
2001-01-01 20:33:06 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
8e2b6b5cc7
Change documentation of 'else' clause of 'try/except' to make clear that it
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doesn't get triggered by 'return', 'break' or 'continue'. If the
'try-inside-continue' patch does not get accepted before next release, the
'or continue' should be removed ;P
Closes SF patch #103045 and SF bug #127098 .
2000-12-31 22:52:59 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
be0630282e
Fix doubled word
2000-12-26 16:14:32 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
8694cc42ab
Remove redundant reference to tab (since it = 'horizontal tab')
2000-12-26 16:09:37 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
e6bf85845f
Document ERR and OK
2000-12-26 15:58:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
1dea760ca1
Make sure subsections are formatted into HTML pages with reasonable names.
2000-12-25 06:19:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
f08cbb1771
Added information on the ExternalEntityParserCreate() method.
2000-12-23 22:19:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
5caee408b8
Add 'see also' link to curses.panel
2000-12-22 22:06:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
676634beda
Added documentation for the panel wrapper module
2000-12-22 21:57:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
e412e7a3a0
Fix lots of small markup nits.
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Wrapped some long lines.
2000-12-21 17:04:31 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
68a6f5a0a2
Document the window.overlay() and .overwrite() methods
2000-12-21 16:25:44 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
68abe832b9
Fix typo
2000-12-19 14:09:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5db5ba1ee3
Document the warnings module.
2000-12-19 06:01:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
dea764d7f1
Updated string literals description to encompass Unicode literals and the
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additional escape sequences defined for Unicode.
This closes bug #117158 .
2000-12-19 04:52:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
1367b83797
Document warning categories.
2000-12-19 04:27:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
035f7e88c8
Clarify __repr__ and __str__.
2000-12-19 04:18:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
5b56765fe7
Added documentation on the ErrorHandler interface.
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This closes bug #126034 .
2000-12-19 04:07:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e22e4b2b59
Oops. The value "0 or +1" for the category argument of PyErr_Warn()
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doesn't work. Make it 0. (Although it really *should* be 0 or +1 --
the refcount is incremented when it is raised as an exception, but not
otherwise.)
2000-12-19 03:58:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
9a18a7ed03
Document Pyerr_Warn().
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Add an XXX comment at the beginning expressing disappointment over the
confusing way refcount behavior of arguments is documented.
2000-12-19 03:53:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3dbb406335
Document Pyerr_Warn().
2000-12-19 03:53:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
2b6d7bc151
Do not talk about "real" numbers; talk about "floats" or "floating point
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numbers" instead; we have not described "reals" anywhere else in the
documentation, and this is not the place to change the story!
Reported by Keith Briggs <keith.briggs@bt.com>.
2000-12-18 13:50:24 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer
e9e860faf3
Add support for gdbm2 open flags ('s' and 'u'). Add module constant
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open_flags which contains the flags supported by gdbm. Closes patch
#102802 .
2000-12-17 07:14:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
5100133685
urlretrieve() description included explanation of "data" parameter, but
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did not include it in the signature.
Fixed some markup nits.
2000-12-15 23:57:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
065cba1281
Added documentation for random.shuffle().
2000-12-15 19:07:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
29c45a5e91
Grant Griffin <grant.griffin@honeywell.com>:
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Clarify that invert() is a *bitwise* operation.
2000-12-15 05:41:49 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
4fb588240f
Document napms()
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Add reference to demo directory
2000-12-15 01:03:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
de77bc5468
For the title page, insert the package version number before the date.
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This makes the title area more like the title are of the top-level
index, and puts the information more people are interested in first.
2000-12-14 18:36:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
f0b315478b
Update information on the locking() function, added the needed constants.
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(Thanks for the info, Tim!)
2000-12-14 03:11:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
48971198c5
Finish a sentence that was left half-written!
2000-12-13 22:36:02 +00:00
Moshe Zadka
dd802208a7
Changing allow_reuse_address's default value, and documenting it.
2000-12-13 20:39:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
24d6da3eae
Added "stub" documentation for xml.dom.pulldom for Paul to fill out with
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useful explanations.
2000-12-13 19:34:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
bc9c1b15cc
Added descriptions of the defined exceptions and their mapping to the
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DOM recommendation.
2000-12-13 17:38:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
ff63f2023d
"Documentation" for {}.popitem().
2000-12-12 22:03:47 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
dc90cc2b15
Additional docs for __iadd__ and family, closing SF bug #117178 and SF patch
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#102169 .
2000-12-11 23:11:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
2a22200ab4
Adjust explanation of operator precedence summary -- exponentiation groups
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from right to left!
Closes bug #125391 .
2000-12-11 22:39:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
ed911b8cfb
Added link to HTML version of the NumPy documentation.
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This closes bug #124943 .
2000-12-11 20:57:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
5255c791cc
select.select(): Add note that though this function accepts empty lists,
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using *only* empty lists may not be acceptable on all
platforms, with the specific caveat that it does not
work on Windows. Also clarified list of acceptable
objects that may be in the lists, to let the user know
that file objects are not usable here on Windows.
2000-12-11 15:50:07 +00:00
Fred Drake
9a29dd6580
Lots of small improvements and bits of added information on the DOM API.
2000-12-08 06:54:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
c3b18d7ca8
Fix error noted by Gerrit Holl (old; had been buried in my INBOX):
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sequence repitition works just fine with long integers now, so we
should not say that only plain integers are allowed.
2000-12-07 04:54:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
0c47559352
Added a note that objects which emulate built-in types should only
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implement as many of the relevant methods as make sense for the particular
information being modelled.
2000-12-07 04:49:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
16942f2224
Lots of additional information. Not done, but much better.
2000-12-07 04:47:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
4c12ee866b
Another name!
2000-12-07 00:06:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
fd4d29cf5d
Typo caught by Jim Tittsler <jwt@onjapan.net>: They --> The
2000-12-07 00:03:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
b62966c175
Note that, as of Python 1.6, the .returns_unicode attribute on parser
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objects can be modified at any point with the expected results.
2000-12-07 00:00:21 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
b6a54d2a2c
_getframe(): New sys module function for getting at the stack frame.
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Implements and closes SF patch #102106 , with Guido's suggested
documentation changes.
2000-12-06 21:47:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
21e4dd0492
Two typos caught by /F; thanks!
2000-12-04 22:29:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
e119c8fc61
Added a comment for ContentHandler.characters() explaining how to migrate
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SAX1 code to SAX2, based on bug #123695 .
2000-12-04 22:04:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
57657bce94
Update Moshe Zadka's email address to one works and might last a while.
2000-12-01 15:25:23 +00:00
Moshe Zadka
5725d1eb03
Backing out my changes.
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Improved version coming soon to a Source Forge near you!
2000-11-30 19:30:21 +00:00