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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