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Guido van Rossum
20ab9e9c0a Document xreadlines() method. (Forgot to check this in before!) 2001-01-17 01:18:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
25be1931a0 Fix a few small markup/consistency nits. 2001-01-16 20:52:41 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
bd1a489759 push_source() and pop_source() entry points for shlex instances.
These basically just make available to the user what userhook()
does to the source stack.  Documentation included.
2001-01-16 14:18:55 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
83ad5015cb effbot caught a typo! 2001-01-15 20:51:40 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
773d9f09be Document function attributes for both the function type and the method
type.  The method documentation also includes a new brief discussion
of `bound' vs. `unbound' and why setting an attr on a bound method is
a TypeError.  Includes Skip's suggested text.
2001-01-15 20:28:50 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
a770e866d6 Fixing author's email address. 2001-01-15 17:08:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
97d3b93c2f Document changed default to passive mode. 2001-01-15 16:37:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
77b20f099e Document filterwarnings(..., append=<bool>). 2001-01-14 14:10:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
1beb3d204f Added note that this module was added in Python 2.1. 2001-01-12 22:57:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
ca7e1ee01a Updated descriptions to incorporate additional information from Tim Peters.
This mostly closes SF bug #128251.
2001-01-11 22:49:49 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
a177c40daf Document \code{import} in pth files. 2001-01-11 22:07:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
49c9ac30a4 Fixed minor markup nits for consistency with the rest of the library
reference.
2001-01-11 16:02:08 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
ab78beca2f Added pointer on POP3 variations. 2001-01-11 10:22:34 +00:00
Moshe Zadka
f68f2fec7d Implementation of PEP-0217.
This closes the PEP, and patch 103170
2001-01-11 05:41:27 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
5ac97957f7 Corrections and additions to the documentation for POP3 and IMAP library
support, based on my fetchmail experience.
2001-01-11 04:19:52 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
8321026ff4 SourceForge patch #103140, checked in at fdrake's invitation. Minor fixes and
additions to library docs.#
2001-01-10 19:34:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
3c48ef7de8 Added documentation for the xreadlines module & related changes. The
documentation was written by Jeff Epler (thanks!).
2001-01-09 22:47:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
986eafdc2b Added missing word; fixed minor nits. 2001-01-09 20:54:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
37f1b34b62 Added entry for fpectl module documentation.
Moved the mutex docs to be adjacent to the sched docs, since these are
meant to be used together (if they are used at all!).
2001-01-09 20:52:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
a5e7ad99d5 Documentation for the fpectl module, from Lee Busby. (Thanks!) 2001-01-09 20:38:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
45b1d6a831 Explain that long options are matched based on a unique prefix rather than
requiring the whole option to be typed out.

This closes SF bug #126863.
2001-01-08 16:05:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
e1d4715a6f Update explanation of the set_location() method to indicate that in
BTree databases, the key need not be in the database.  Also, tell about
the exception if the key is not in the DB for other DB types.

This closes SF bug #127377.
2001-01-05 06:44:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
4e18f07613 Based on comments from Guido, do not describe bisect() and insert() as
being "for backward compatibility."  Also revert to using bisect() in the
example, since Guido thinks that is the best recommendation for typical
usage.
2001-01-04 14:18:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
288927f426 Markup nit: Command line options should be marked with \programopt.
Other minor markup nits fixed.

Make reference to PyErr_Warn() a hyperlink.
2001-01-04 05:59:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
b162d188f6 Fix typo spotted by Detlef Lannert <lannert@users.sourceforge.net>. 2001-01-04 05:48:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
19ae78302e Added information about the interaction of opening a file in append mode
and seek() in the description of seek().

This closes SF bug #126850.
2001-01-04 05:16:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
22e9a5eaec Markup nit: OK and ERR should be marked \constant in running text. 2001-01-04 05:14:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
2a72712efe Update documentation to include the new functions, and use the more
explicitly-named bisect_right() in the example code.

This closes SF bug #127055.
2001-01-04 05:12:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
9c15fa7a0f Description of long(): A string parameter is no longer required to be
*decimal*.

This closes SF bug #127273.
2001-01-04 05:09:16 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
be0630282e Fix doubled word 2000-12-26 16:14:32 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
8694cc42ab Remove redundant reference to tab (since it = 'horizontal tab') 2000-12-26 16:09:37 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
e6bf85845f Document ERR and OK 2000-12-26 15:58:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
1dea760ca1 Make sure subsections are formatted into HTML pages with reasonable names. 2000-12-25 06:19:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
f08cbb1771 Added information on the ExternalEntityParserCreate() method. 2000-12-23 22:19:05 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
5caee408b8 Add 'see also' link to curses.panel 2000-12-22 22:06:43 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
676634beda Added documentation for the panel wrapper module 2000-12-22 21:57:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
e412e7a3a0 Fix lots of small markup nits.
Wrapped some long lines.
2000-12-21 17:04:31 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
68a6f5a0a2 Document the window.overlay() and .overwrite() methods 2000-12-21 16:25:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5db5ba1ee3 Document the warnings module. 2000-12-19 06:01:23 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
1367b83797 Document warning categories. 2000-12-19 04:27:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
5b56765fe7 Added documentation on the ErrorHandler interface.
This closes bug #126034.
2000-12-19 04:07:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
2b6d7bc151 Do not talk about "real" numbers; talk about "floats" or "floating point
numbers" instead; we have not described "reals" anywhere else in the
documentation, and this is not the place to change the story!

Reported by Keith Briggs <keith.briggs@bt.com>.
2000-12-18 13:50:24 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer
e9e860faf3 Add support for gdbm2 open flags ('s' and 'u'). Add module constant
open_flags which contains the flags supported by gdbm.  Closes patch
#102802.
2000-12-17 07:14:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
5100133685 urlretrieve() description included explanation of "data" parameter, but
did not include it in the signature.

Fixed some markup nits.
2000-12-15 23:57:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
065cba1281 Added documentation for random.shuffle(). 2000-12-15 19:07:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
29c45a5e91 Grant Griffin <grant.griffin@honeywell.com>:
Clarify that invert() is a *bitwise* operation.
2000-12-15 05:41:49 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
4fb588240f Document napms()
Add reference to demo directory
2000-12-15 01:03:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
f0b315478b Update information on the locking() function, added the needed constants.
(Thanks for the info, Tim!)
2000-12-14 03:11:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
48971198c5 Finish a sentence that was left half-written! 2000-12-13 22:36:02 +00:00
Moshe Zadka
dd802208a7 Changing allow_reuse_address's default value, and documenting it. 2000-12-13 20:39:22 +00:00