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Fred Drake
adf2dbfced Added section for filecmp. 1999-10-29 17:24:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
c7b5b3c998 filecmp documentation from Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>. 1999-10-29 17:23:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
7eaf6828cb Added deprecation notes, in case anyone decides to read these anyway. 1999-10-26 16:31:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
143db4b041 cmp and cmpcache are now obsolete, so don't include their 
documentation sections.
 1999-10-26 16:28:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
a8052a3113 Added cmp and cmpcache to the "Obsolete" section. 1999-10-26 16:27:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
714fd26a2f Documented Beep() function. 1999-10-22 21:08:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
39d4a0237a Fixed typo in explanation of abspath(); noticed by Paul Prescod 
<paul@prescod.net>.
 1999-10-18 14:10:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
933d5a7c6e os.name: Note that 'java' is one of the registered names. 1999-09-17 14:38:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
e6fb1c4bd3 Added documentation for inet_aton() and inet_ntoa(), from Ben 
Gertzfield <che@debian.org> (with minor changes).

(Should have been here instead of in the branch in the first place,
since these weren't in for the 1.5.2 release.)
 1999-09-16 15:50:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
244ad3ca15 Name the parameter to expr() and suite() "source" instead of "string". 1999-09-09 14:16:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e7f19200e8 Doco update from Sjoerd Mullender. 1999-08-26 15:57:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
b68a125d64 Added additional index entries. 
Minor markup nits.
 1999-08-24 20:16:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
76dd228f52 whrandom should come immediately after random, not before. 1999-08-23 20:12:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
7eba1d8bbe Tell what the result objects are (based on comment from the list). 1999-08-19 17:00:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
b3fc9d148d Added disclaimer to the sleep() function. 1999-08-19 14:42:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
31e5e37196 Explain the possible range of values for the pid parameter to 
waitpid().
 1999-08-13 13:36:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
68921dfa31 In note mentioning [].remove()'s exception, tell what exception is 
raised.  Prompted by Barry's whining.  ;-0
 1999-08-09 17:05:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
d3fbdfd007 Add index entries for open(): 
buffer size, I/O
	I/O control, buffering
	line-buffered I/O
	unbuffered I/O
 1999-08-05 13:43:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
8c9fc00f8d Add index entry "I/O control, buffering" for fdopen(). 1999-08-05 13:41:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
a94f6762bc Add index entry "I/O control, buffering" for makefile(). 1999-08-05 13:41:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
068bdb181d Change the directory tree walking example to use clearer variable 
names, some suggested by Joe Ellsworth.
 1999-08-03 21:52:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
c71b802c47 Markup nits. 
Adjust examples to use the object interface instead of the function
interface.
 1999-08-02 14:30:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
ce201128b0 Fixed hyperlink references to the __builtin__ and __main__ modules; 
error reported by Dale Nagata <DNagata@creo.com>.
 1999-08-02 14:13:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
8d21243c3e Added description of optional parameter to UserDict constructor. 
Omission reported by Barry Warsaw.
 1999-07-26 15:45:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
de5d5ce7bc Update getattr() description to document the optional third 
parameter.  Thanks to Barry Warsaw for pointing out the oversight.
 1999-07-22 19:21:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
5d48e458e4 typo: privide --> provide 
Reported by Nadim Ghaznavi <nadim@ghaznavi.com>.
 1999-07-20 13:21:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
6db897c52c Move chdir() and getcwd() descriptions to "Files and Directories" with 
a pointer from the "Process Parameters" section.  Based on comments
from Aahz Maruch, Tim Peters, and GvR.
 1999-07-12 16:49:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
3a4ceb707d Several methods return tuples, not lists. 1999-07-07 14:04:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
363d67c2e6 Move some misc. comments from the example section to the main section. 
Use the lowercase versions of the method names in the example, since
that's what's documented (Greg Stein's suggestion).  Add a blank line
after the import line for clarity.
 1999-07-07 13:42:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
1508970a47 dir() method description revised based on comments from Greg Stein. 1999-07-07 13:36:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
6166b871a2 Missing space; reported by Robert Kern <kernr@ncifcrf.gov>. 1999-07-06 21:00:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
d5dfe984e7 Fix a number of minor problems pointed out by /F. 1999-07-06 15:50:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
0d6e6e0b39 Fixed typo reported by /F; thanks! 1999-07-06 15:43:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
82ac24ffb0 Minor markup nit. 1999-07-02 14:29:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
0452007dcc Added entry for asyncore module. 1999-07-02 14:27:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
41796918af Fix a few markup nits, improve some index entries. 1999-07-02 14:25:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
7d80779532 New documentation from Chris Petrilli <petrilli@amber.org>. 1999-07-02 14:25:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
227020894a For spawn*(), point to the magic constants; some readers have a hard 
time finding the bindings.
 1999-07-02 14:01:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
e4694eba0f Removed entries for several modules which have been documented. 
Updated comments on several remaining modules.
 1999-07-01 20:42:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
4c8d83f311 Documentation for dl module from Moshe. 1999-07-01 20:40:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
44a7a7c5d0 Added entry for dl module. 1999-07-01 20:39:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
85b5683307 Remove extraneous "contains" -- pointed out by Daniel Barclay 
<danielb@digitalfocus.com>.

Added credit to Martin von Loewis for creating the module and
documentation.
 1999-07-01 16:31:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
859dc53a52 Per Frank Stajano's suggestion, state explicitly that the functions 
described in the sub-sections are directly available at the module
level.  He found this confusing.
 1999-07-01 13:54:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
b216060627 Make the reference to the os module in the module synopsis (for the 
table at the front of the chapter) a hyperlink.
 1999-07-01 13:53:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
3d0971e33e For "Matching vs. Searching", remove comment that the section is 
incomplete; I don't remember what else I thought I was going to put
in, but it looks o.k. to me know.
 1999-06-29 21:21:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
6bf37debb9 Added some minor prose before the descriptions of the data attributes 
to make it clear that these are instance attributes, not module data.
 1999-06-29 18:13:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
abc64b74c8 Added entry for pty module. 1999-06-29 18:12:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
a4b5d58790 pty documentation from Moshe; with small edits. 1999-06-29 18:11:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
31d10cbe26 Improve description of the example. 1999-06-29 17:08:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
f5213c2a3d Usage nit: a bunch of "nor"s should have been a single "or". 
Make reference to the copy_reg module a hyperlink.
 1999-06-29 16:02:12 +00:00