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Georg Brandl
ac958ce05e #9397: remove mention of dbm.bsd which does not exist anymore. 2010-07-29 14:46:07 +00:00
Georg Brandl
933b974a41 Use correct directive and name. 2010-07-29 14:36:11 +00:00
Georg Brandl
436ccdc7e7 #9407: document configparser.Error. 2010-07-29 14:32:22 +00:00
Georg Brandl
470a123910 #1090076: explain the behavior of *vars* in get() better. 2010-07-29 14:17:12 +00:00
Georg Brandl
46aa5c5ba1 #3874: document HTMLParser.unknown_decl(). 2010-07-29 13:38:37 +00:00
Georg Brandl
8dcaa7396f #9411: allow selecting an encoding for configparser files. Also adds a new test config file to test special cases. 2010-07-29 12:17:40 +00:00
Georg Brandl
c62a704189 #6538: fix regex documentation again -- use fictional class names "regex" and "match" but do not document them as classes, remove 1.5 compat info and use new default argument syntax where possible. 2010-07-29 11:49:05 +00:00
Georg Brandl
ebeb44d8d3 Remove Python 1.5 compatibility note. 2010-07-29 11:15:36 +00:00
Georg Brandl
96a60ae90c #1682942: add some ConfigParser features: alternate delimiters, alternate comments, empty lines in values. Also enhance the docs with more examples and mention SafeConfigParser before ConfigParser. Patch by Lukas Langa, review by myself, Eric and Ezio. 2010-07-28 13:13:46 +00:00
Florent Xicluna
f1046ca817 Issue #4770: Restrict binascii module to accept only bytes (as specified).
And fix the email package to encode to ASCII instead of ``raw-unicode-escape`` before ASCII-to-binary decoding.
2010-07-27 21:20:15 +00:00
Alexander Belopolsky
c02cc2707a Issue #9384: python -m tkinter will now display a simple demo applet. 2010-07-27 14:16:32 +00:00
Alexander Belopolsky
f39f62802d Added versionadded entry for the annotate argument. 2010-07-26 18:27:49 +00:00
Georg Brandl
571a953590 Fix indentation in example. 2010-07-26 17:00:20 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
3f911a16db Reword paragraph 2010-07-26 13:08:58 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
57a7c3df85 #7637: fix a grammar error; simplify a sentence 2010-07-26 12:54:02 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
ea64a6a4ca #7637: clarify description of encoding parameter 2010-07-25 23:23:30 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
4d4d1ce7a7 #1495229: update the type names used by the XML DOM mapping 2010-07-25 22:57:12 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
9c71f90329 Put listdir default argument into declaration. 2010-07-24 10:09:11 +00:00
Richard Jones
803ef8a694 Implementation for issue 4184
Changes the previously private attributes to make them public, increasing the potential for extending the library in user code. Backward-compatible and documented.
2010-07-24 09:51:40 +00:00
Brett Cannon
030244aaf9 Mention in the fnmatch docs that meta-characters in translate cannot be quoted.
Closes issue 9358. Thanks to Brian Brazil for the patch.
2010-07-23 16:58:21 +00:00
Georg Brandl
a5eacee237 Fix some markup glitches. 2010-07-23 16:55:26 +00:00
Brett Cannon
a57edd0e9e Clarify the wording for threading.is_alive() to not suggest something is
"roughly" done.

Closes issue 9339. Thanks Brian Brazil for the patch.
2010-07-23 12:26:35 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
c9e1c7d97f Issue #6095: Make directory argument to os.listdir optional.
Patch by Virgil Dupras.
2010-07-23 12:16:41 +00:00
Brett Cannon
3a4e50cb7e Document the fact that the 'test' package is meant only for use by Python
itself and not by others.

Closes issue 9255.
2010-07-23 11:31:31 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou
de5b02430b Remove outdated mention of deprecated functions in the string module - they have been removed in 3.x. 2010-07-21 15:54:48 +00:00
Brett Cannon
6dfbff3ff3 Minor clarification about importlib.abc.SourceLoader.get_filename. 2010-07-21 09:48:31 +00:00
Georg Brandl
55353ca6dc pydoc.pager does not promise to use $PAGER. 2010-07-19 08:02:46 +00:00
Georg Brandl
70f355d13e Clarify. 2010-07-19 06:52:35 +00:00
Jean-Paul Calderone
7f54dce9bd Document the extra epoll flags 2010-07-18 16:30:31 +00:00
Jean-Paul Calderone
7f94f392a0 There is no method named "register(fd, eventmask)"; fix markup to just indicate this is code. 2010-07-18 16:13:27 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson
d319ad5c1a nest method and attribute doc 2010-07-18 14:27:02 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson
0b9fb808a0 use classmethod 2010-07-18 14:23:36 +00:00
Georg Brandl
86e78d1f2d #9110: update to ContextDecorator doc. 2010-07-18 13:43:32 +00:00
Georg Brandl
02053ee3b9 #9279: remove the pdb.doc file, put its contents in pdb.__doc__. Also sync this and the pdb docs, introduce a new directive for pdb commands and a role to link to them. 2010-07-18 10:11:03 +00:00
Alexander Belopolsky
929d384058 Issue #9268: Add annotation option to pickletools.dis 2010-07-17 15:51:21 +00:00
Stefan Krah
fc9e08de3a High byte is the exit status. 2010-07-14 10:16:11 +00:00
Georg Brandl
e767e047c8 #9258: fix copy-paste errors. 2010-07-14 08:00:22 +00:00
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
9c558bcfd1 Fix documentation typo: wprite() -> write(). 2010-07-13 14:47:01 +00:00
Georg Brandl
85f2177f6d Add bytes in literal_eval doc. 2010-07-13 06:38:10 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou
c779515a75 Fix definition of len() and indexing for memoryview objects (part of #7696). 2010-07-12 20:01:52 +00:00
Georg Brandl
db4e939206 Use raw string literals for regexes containing backlash. 2010-07-12 09:06:13 +00:00
Mark Dickinson
c762242cca Include versionadded in (c)math.isfinite docs (thanks Ezio Melotti). Other minor doc cleanups. 2010-07-11 19:47:37 +00:00
Mark Dickinson
8e0c996873 Issue #9165: Add math.isfinite and cmath.isfinite. 2010-07-11 17:38:24 +00:00
Georg Brandl
05bfcc590d #7935: cross-reference to ast.literal_eval() from eval() docs. 2010-07-11 09:42:10 +00:00
Georg Brandl
492f3fc272 Allow set literals in literal_eval(). 2010-07-11 09:41:21 +00:00
Georg Brandl
e40ee509e3 #9184: fix default value for "buffering" param of open(). 2010-07-11 09:33:39 +00:00
Georg Brandl
0104bcdb80 #6774: explain shutdown() behavior varying with platform. 2010-07-11 09:23:11 +00:00
Senthil Kumaran
aba088e01d Issue2007: Removing reference to MSIE Cookie handling by mechanize. Suggested by John J Lee. 2010-07-11 05:01:52 +00:00
R. David Murray
522c32a7e3 Add missing docs for re module 'purge' function. 2010-07-10 14:23:36 +00:00
R. David Murray
0425a8ea72 Fix 'refleak' introduced by fnmatch cache purge tests.
This introduces a 'purge' function for the fnmatch module analogous
to the 'purge' function in the re module.
2010-07-10 13:52:13 +00:00