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Georg Brandl
9b4e5820cb #7116: str.join() takes an iterable. 2009-10-14 18:48:32 +00:00
Georg Brandl
647e9d2652 #7126: os.environ changes *do* take effect in subprocesses started with os.system(). 2009-10-14 15:57:46 +00:00
Georg Brandl
5ffa146fde Fix markup. 2009-10-13 18:10:59 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
5c4e6ebbf5 Various link, textual, and markup fixes 2009-10-13 16:11:49 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
7fe65a0a94 Link to PEP 2009-10-13 15:49:33 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson
526bec21d0 platform we don't care about 2009-10-12 01:26:07 +00:00
Georg Brandl
a4314c2b21 Fix broken links found by "make linkcheck". scipy.org seems to be done right now, so I could not verify links going there. 2009-10-11 20:16:16 +00:00
Georg Brandl
6728c5a762 Add the Python FAQ lists to the documentation. Copied from sandbox/faq. Many thanks to AMK for the preparation work. 2009-10-11 18:31:23 +00:00
Vinay Sajip
1c77b7f84c Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler and tidied up some anachronisms in the code. 2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00:00
Mark Dickinson
d5a713ec30 Issue #7051: Clarify behaviour of 'g' and 'G'-style formatting. 2009-10-08 20:02:25 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
85ea4bf781 Remove two notes 2009-10-05 22:45:39 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
fa6a4271c1 Backport r73983: Document the thousands separator. 2009-10-05 22:42:56 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
b6f0128c63 Use standard comma punctuation; reword some sentences in the docs 2009-10-05 22:32:48 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
400054e59e Reword sentence 2009-10-05 22:31:11 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
5a9c40b21c Add various items 2009-10-05 22:30:22 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
915b1206f2 Note side benefit of socket.create_connection() 2009-10-05 21:25:35 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
f6e3d7d585 Document 'skip' parameter to constructor 2009-10-05 21:25:03 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
f5852f59d9 Fix narkup 2009-10-05 21:24:35 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
3fab04078d Wording fix 2009-10-05 21:24:20 +00:00
Mark Dickinson
530df33eac Issue #7028: Add note to hex() builtin docs pointing to float.hex(). 2009-10-03 10:14:34 +00:00
Tarek Ziadé
1b48671ef1 #6516 added owner/group support for tarfiles in Distutils 2009-10-02 23:49:48 +00:00
Georg Brandl
f895cf5d33 #7031: Add TestCase.assertIsInstance and negated method. 2009-10-01 20:59:31 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou
c9062ca308 Sync the 2.x io docs with py3k, with a small note as to the distinction
between bytes streams and text streams.
2009-10-01 17:08:03 +00:00
Gregory P. Smith
657024cd26 Mention issue6972 in extractall docs about overwriting things outside of
the supplied path.
2009-09-29 21:56:31 +00:00
Philip Jenvey
8b9020458a #5329: fix os.popen* regression from 2.5: don't execute commands as a sequence
through the shell. also document the correct subprocess replacement for this
case
patch from Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala
2009-09-29 19:10:15 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger
13305f681b Issue 7008: Better document str.title and show how to work around the apostrophe problem. 2009-09-29 18:53:24 +00:00
Mark Dickinson
b93fff0a57 Issue #3366: Add gamma function to math module.
(lgamma, erf and erfc to follow).
2009-09-28 18:54:55 +00:00
Michael Foord
17565e5b7b Documentation improvement for load_tests protocol in unittest. Issue 6515. 2009-09-27 20:08:23 +00:00
Vinay Sajip
4780c9a0e0 Tidied up name of parameter in StreamHandler 2009-09-26 14:53:32 +00:00
Ezio Melotti
9aac2455ab #7000: document "sep" in capwords. Add a few tests 2009-09-26 11:20:53 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson
afdbe3d661 comment out ugly xxx 2009-09-26 02:57:59 +00:00
Ezio Melotti
2fd3592e70 improved phrasing, markup and example 2009-09-23 21:36:39 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson
ca66cb5ce0 fix typos/rephrase 2009-09-22 22:15:28 +00:00
Brett Cannon
2f75572f44 Fix a minor doc syntax typo. 2009-09-22 20:04:24 +00:00
Vinay Sajip
f778bec8ed Fixed a typo, and added sections on optimization and using arbitrary objects as messages. 2009-09-22 17:23:41 +00:00
Georg Brandl
ac87077b37 Fix encoding name. 2009-09-22 10:55:08 +00:00
Doug Hellmann
1d18b5b929 Fix markup for external links. 2009-09-20 20:44:13 +00:00
Ronald Oussoren
9f20d9d0ee Issue 6877: this patch makes it possible to link the readline extension
to the libedit emulation of the readline API on OSX 10.5 or later.

This also adds a minimal testsuite for readline to check that the
history manipuation functions have the same interface with both
C libraries.
2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00:00
Ezio Melotti
4b017bbac0 #6881 - fixed wrong return type; improved the formatting 2009-09-20 07:10:39 +00:00
Georg Brandl
f4da666880 Fix references to threading.enumerate(). 2009-09-19 12:04:16 +00:00
Georg Brandl
592c58d356 #6946: fix duplicate index entries for datetime classes. 2009-09-19 10:42:34 +00:00
Georg Brandl
579a358e61 #6930: clarify description about byteorder handling in UTF decoder routines. 2009-09-18 21:35:59 +00:00
Georg Brandl
54967d994a #6925: rewrite docs for locals() and vars() a bit. 2009-09-18 21:21:41 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson
332d721750 add keyword arguments support to str/unicode encode and decode #6300 2009-09-18 21:14:55 +00:00
Georg Brandl
4d94d31b6d #6936: for interactive use, quit() is just fine. 2009-09-18 07:22:41 +00:00
Georg Brandl
b926ebb896 Make the optparse doc style a bit more standard: use standard description units for attrs/methods/etc., and use the correct referencing roles. 2009-09-17 17:14:04 +00:00
Georg Brandl
7842a41f5c Remove duplicate doc of enable/disable_interspersed_args. 2009-09-17 16:26:06 +00:00
Georg Brandl
304d3966ee #6932: remove paragraph that advises relying on __del__ being called. 2009-09-17 16:15:53 +00:00
Georg Brandl
bc3777d85e String values should be shown with quotes, to avoid confusion with constants. 2009-09-17 10:23:02 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson
6fedc5252d rationalize a bit 2009-09-17 03:27:33 +00:00