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Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake
d635e3c468 Added a warning about reference cycles and memory consumption to the
section on functions which return stack frames.

This closes SF bug #449258.
2001-08-10 17:37:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
6d8d72b0cb Usage fix, problem reported by Keith Briggs. 2001-08-10 16:15:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
e89659c02d Added documentation for the new rich comparison support.
This closes SF patch #428320.

Added documentation for the new floordiv() and truediv() functions.
This is part of SF bug #449093.

Re-organized the listing of functions to get better logical grouping.
2001-08-10 15:55:09 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
9b75dca192 Expose nl_langinfo through locale where available. 2001-08-10 13:58:50 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
8cc965c1fb Patch #448474: Add support for tell() and seek() to gzip.GzipFile. 2001-08-09 07:21:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
3a5ec57456 Clean up some of the markup here -- be more consistent in the use of
semantic labels instead of presentational markup.
2001-08-08 05:39:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
58212724f2 Add a comment on time.time() returning non-decreasing values except when
the clock is set back.

This closes SF bug #447945.
2001-08-05 15:43:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
c9908c4f5c Document IPv6 changes. Contributed by itojun. 2001-08-04 22:22:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
b3cc29b493 Note that the mimetypes.MimeTypes class was added in Python 2.2. 2001-08-04 00:48:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
d5efb17086 Add documentation for the new aspects of the mimetypes module.
This closes the SF bug (feature request) #439710.
2001-08-03 21:03:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
d86038d1be Apply the new \mailheader macro where appropriate, and fix a few small
markup inconsistencies.
2001-08-03 18:39:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
5d54879647 Fix some of the example code; the reference objects do not support a
get() method; just calling them is sufficient.  (There was a get() method
for this in an early version of the implementation.)

Reported by Mats Wichmann.
2001-08-03 03:50:28 +00:00
Fred Drake
51629c245a Add a caveat about boundary conditions and RE concatenation, so that the
documents do not make an overly-strong assertion about the properties of
RE concatenation.

Add an example of RE{m,} syntax and what it will and will not match.
2001-08-02 20:52:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
905dc558f1 Cleaned up the description of readline.set_completer().
Thanks to Nathaniel Gray for reporting the confusion.
2001-08-01 21:42:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
e74f8de385 Added an example of a string value for the replacement parameter to
re.sub().
This closes SF bug #446136.

Fixed description of RE modifiers so that RE{#} and RE{#,} are more
clearly described and disambiguated (plain RE{#} had not been described
at all).  Reported by Jeremy Craven via email.
2001-08-01 16:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
630a63cafd Fix description of buffer_info(), and add a note that there is a better
way...

This closes SF bug #444842.
2001-08-01 16:50:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
43211ecda2 Make some adjustments to the markup, and fix up some style-guide issues. 2001-07-29 03:41:23 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
66b6e192b9 Patch #416224: add readline completion to cmd.Cmd. 2001-07-28 14:44:03 +00:00
Greg Ward
54f65094c3 Typo fix. 2001-07-26 21:01:21 +00:00
Tim Peters
7321ec437b SF bug #444510: int() should guarantee truncation.
It's guaranteed now, assuming the platform modf() works correctly.
2001-07-26 20:02:17 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
4f1cd8bdcb Patch #411138: Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774. 2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
41d7d58cc4 trivial rewording in footnote 5. 2001-07-25 16:18:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
d61e3eab44 Add entry for the new distutils section. 2001-07-24 16:20:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
4fefcc3ce4 Overview comments for the distutils package, with links to the distutils
manuals for more information.  This is being added to make it easier to
find the documentation for the distutils code.
2001-07-24 16:19:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
c547b46c06 Be more specific about corner cases in the description of the $ RE syntax,
and include an example where the MULTILINE flag makes a real difference.

This closes SF bug #441600.
2001-07-23 21:14:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
6fd3b22847 When explaining the enterabs() method, using the modern spelling of apply(),
and relax the type of the argument list from tuple to sequence.
2001-07-23 19:28:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
6fdb90c0ca Remove self-reference from the anydbm module.
This closes SF patch #443788.
2001-07-23 19:22:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
8a2adcf812 Typo: Added missing "if".
This is part of SF patch #442788.
2001-07-23 19:20:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
c046e97dc2 Add StopIteration to the list of exceptions *not* derived from StandardError.
Slightly re-word discussion of SystemExit and fork().
This is part of SF patch #443788.
2001-07-23 19:19:39 +00:00
Fred Drake
63bc2e0fcb Convert the use of apply(f, args) to the new spelling: f(*args).
This is part of SF patch #443788.
2001-07-23 19:16:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
f69868f304 Add a missing "\" to the markup. 2001-07-20 19:03:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
960fdf9ac3 Added the constants ascii_letters, ascii_lowercase, and ascii_uppercase
to the string module.  This was determined to be the right approach in
SF bug #226706.
2001-07-20 18:38:26 +00:00
Piers Lauder
a3a1668904 apply patch item #416254 2001-07-20 11:04:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
acd32d3be5 Added function xml.sax.saxutils.quoteattr().
This closes SF bug #440351.  It should not be moved to Python 2.1.1.
2001-07-19 16:10:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
53d285a9af Remove some false statements. 2001-07-19 03:49:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
28bafb8b5d Fix a few typos 2001-07-19 01:17:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
72182027a8 "Make small changes, but carry a big diff."
Minor local consistency adjustments.
A couple of small tweaks to the setdlopenflags() description.
For setprofile() and settrace(), convert some references to become
hyperlinks in the HTML version.
2001-07-18 17:52:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
1a2302b3b2 Add some symbolic names to support hyperlinked references. 2001-07-18 17:40:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
5d808fba00 Made a few minor style & markup changes to the new {get,set}dlopenflags()
descriptions; added availability notes.
2001-07-18 16:35:05 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
f0473d511b Patch #412229: Add functions sys.getdlopenflags and sys.setdlopenflags.
Add dlopenflags to PyInterpreterState, and use it in dlopen calls.
2001-07-18 16:17:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
efaef13c81 Update the availability information for os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile(), and
os.tmpnam().
2001-07-17 20:39:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
e78661bf90 Fix a couple of minor markup nits.
Footnotes should be added *after* punctuation, not before.
(Yes, this should be merged with the descr branch.  Sorry, Tim!)
2001-07-17 05:17:58 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
95400a28e4 Updated the documentation in several respects:
- This module, despite its name, now should conform to RFC 2822, the
  update to RFC 822.

- This module doesn't just represent "email headers", but entire email
  messages.

- Added documentation for other useful public functions such as
  quote(), unquote(), praseaddr(), and dump_address_pair().
2001-07-16 20:47:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
687a17deaa Revise the description of time.clock() so that it correctly describes the
Windows version of the function as well as the Unix flavor.

This fixes SF bug #441357.
2001-07-16 15:40:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
8ee679f0ce Minor changes to match the style guide. 2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
4124a0b343 Correct a couple of errors noted by Alex Martelli. 2001-07-14 02:46:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
7fc8abb396 Remove comments about XML and HTML; those sections are no
longer part of this chapter.

Minor change to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:44:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
3d97e35a20 Add entry for xmlrpclib documentation. 2001-07-12 23:40:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
5ddf7adf84 Several markup adjustments so this will format and be more consistent with
the rest of the documnentation.
2001-07-12 23:39:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
f4bdb57e15 Fix return value for m.group() for groups not in the part of the RE that
matched; reported by Paul Moore.

Wrapped several long lines.
2001-07-12 14:13:43 +00:00