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Guido van Rossum
51a6c9055c Added docs for dumbdbm (AMK), and misc small fixes. 1997-05-09 02:23:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7e691de948 Document return value of wait[pid]() more carefully.
Document how to get exit status of a popen() command.
1997-05-09 02:22:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e4f347e779 Document "" and "<broadcast>". 1997-05-09 02:21:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5bbf0f7c93 Some updates (AMK at work, added resource.c). 1997-04-30 19:41:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
dfb4120ea1 Add zlib 1997-04-30 19:40:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
412154f3c7 Updated web ref and version#. Folded some long lines. 1997-04-30 19:39:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
04bc9d6e67 zlib by AMK 1997-04-30 18:12:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e9a0732cd1 Note that passing a filename to uu.{en,de}code() is deprecated. 1997-04-27 21:29:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e76b7a8fcd Added fnmatch, base64 and quopri, received from Andrew Kuchling. 1997-04-27 21:25:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
150853861a Various status updates. 1997-04-03 23:49:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
fc5ee0f980 Added site 1997-04-03 22:43:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
571391b963 New stuff by AMK. 1997-04-03 22:41:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
387c575d5c Small grammatical touchups:
Para. 1:  ...that reads and writes a string buffer...
			      ^		 ^

	Para. 3:  ...can be called at any time to retrieve the...
				  XXXXXXXXXXXX       ^^^^^
		  ...entire contents of the entire ``file'' ...
		     ^^^^^^^		   XXXXXXX

Guido, I hope I'm not stomping too far afield, but these seem pretty clear
to me.
1997-04-02 14:51:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
f643e3ff7e Spell Unix, not UNIX. 1997-04-02 06:06:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e8d94a8c10 Horrible hack to split up code '--' to prevent
latex2html from collapsing it into '-'.
1997-04-02 06:05:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
1cd26f2fc0 Add complex().
Update int(), long(), float() to support string conversions.
1997-04-02 06:04:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
740eb8265f Add cross-refs for int() to atoi() etc.
Change replace() arguments; remove replace1().
1997-04-02 05:56:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8d2893b5b2 Added a list of the main undocumented extension modules. 1997-03-27 20:57:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7f3b0421de Added docs for UserDict,UserList 1997-03-27 14:56:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
b6a80262e1 Added docs for glob and mailcap 1997-03-25 22:09:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e6d579ddbc Added docs for glob 1997-03-25 22:07:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
20af95b433 Added docs for mailcap 1997-03-25 22:01:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
c8a80cdbad Added docs for replace() and replace1(). 1997-03-25 16:41:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e8e87999ab Remove untrue statement about . and .. being included in list of names
passed to walk() visitor.
1997-03-25 15:25:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7b7c578616 Add optional 4th argument to [r]find and [r]index (end of slice). 1997-03-14 04:13:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
612316f016 Add a rough list of undocumented stuff at the end. 1997-03-14 04:12:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
1f8cee2521 Hint about [\] trick to avoid quad backslashes. 1997-03-14 04:10:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3978d75cca Added intern() 1997-03-03 16:03:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
38e2ec4f14 Added ref to StringIO docs. 1997-03-03 16:03:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3ff7317857 Correct two typos 1997-03-03 16:02:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
cda3d7d0e7 Added (minimal) StringIO docs. 1997-03-03 16:01:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
20e4210ec4 Fix up indentation of examples to use 4 spaces instead of tabs. 1997-02-28 16:37:49 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
7574587587 Document the new join() semantics. 1997-02-18 21:53:53 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
736bb0659f Added a paragraph to describe clear_cache(), and why it's necessary. 1997-02-18 18:59:37 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
cd77df64e6 Document the new get_syntax() function. 1997-02-18 18:54:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6fb6f10a96 Added doco for ratecv. 1997-02-14 15:59:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
43d287ad73 (libparser.tex): Fix typo found by Mark Hammond. 1997-01-22 14:25:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5cd752028c Describe new ("unsigned") behavior of hex() and oct(). 1997-01-14 18:44:23 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
fe27a50847 Added warning that gethostname() doesn't always return fqdn, and show
how to find it using gethostbyaddr().
1997-01-11 17:04:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
0d2971badb Document that sys.builtin_module_names is now a tuple. 1997-01-06 23:01:02 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
d44be3fdb7 very minor typo 1997-01-03 20:19:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
653071731a 'I' and 'L' now always return a Python long. 1997-01-03 19:21:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
b0b8181622 Added unsigned data formats (B, H, I, L). 1997-01-03 19:20:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
dbadd558b5 Describe standard float/double support.
Rewrite example to be an interactive session
1997-01-03 04:20:09 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
6717030dc9 setkey method's argument is no longer optional (it used to be a no-op
when missing).
1997-01-02 19:48:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
591bbb1572 (libformatter.tex): Document the flush() method on the writer. 1996-12-31 20:51:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3dd68d3364 Added libstat.tex 1996-12-31 02:24:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
125434665b Document the new extensions. 1996-12-31 02:22:14 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
f308c0f1fc From reading the source, it turns out that the setkey() method can
take an optional string key, but if key is not given, the method does
nothing!  In the rewrite (see upcoming check-in), I left things this
way, but here I document that this is the case.
1996-12-23 23:34:17 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
e5a43a405d Describe open(2) exported constants 1996-12-19 23:50:34 +00:00