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Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake
6e1fecc28a Update URL to unicode.org's FTP site using an HTTP URL to the same
document.
2000-09-16 13:46:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
315b9e0ac1 Update *both* uses of the URL to the zlib home page, and use the version
advertised as the canonical form.
2000-09-16 06:18:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
ab2f9f766f Update link to the zlib homepage. 2000-09-16 05:07:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
f29107447a Update the link to Andrew Kuchling's crypto code. 2000-09-16 05:02:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
91fc9319fa Update link to the FIPS PUB 180-1 (PDF is available, but not PostScript). 2000-09-16 04:59:33 +00:00
Tim Peters
78fc0b57df Fixed legit gripe from c.l.py that math.fmod docs aren't confusing enough.
FRED, please check my monkey-see-monkey-do Tex fiddling!
2000-09-16 03:54:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
7c25f3df85 Add some comments on the available implementations that this module can
use.

Change the list of flag values for open() to a table.

Markup consistency nits.
2000-09-15 21:31:31 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
6634b14f3b add cross reference to mimetools module 2000-09-15 18:20:20 +00:00
Fred Drake
6e5184fe6a Update comments in the second paragraph, discussing versioning issues
related to the BSD DB library.  Based on comments from Mark Summerfield
<summer@netcraft.com>.
2000-09-15 15:19:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
81c1735809 Add item to the list of limitations that points out the lack of support
for authenticated proxies.  This is noted elsewhere, but this makes it
easier to find.

Fix typo where it was already mentioned.

This closes SourceForge bug #110619.
2000-09-15 04:12:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
4dfad57235 Add a reference to the sha module, noting that SHA is considered more
secure.  Suggested by Erno Kuusela <erno@iki.fi>.
2000-09-14 21:47:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
b9fd468ded Convert "See also" section to use \seetitle. 2000-09-14 21:46:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
6ba0a3c30a Denis S. Otkidach <ods@users.sourceforge.net>:
Minor fix in documentation of code module.
(Clarifies output destination for default implementation of the write()
method.)
2000-09-14 20:42:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
7a666b83c8 Remove reference to the stdwin-based windowed debugger, since stdwin
is gone.

Make a module reference into a hyperlink.
2000-09-14 20:32:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
d5d0435617 Use \shortversion in a number of places.
This partially addresses SourceForge bug #114318.
2000-09-14 20:24:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
1fe3b82371 Avoid reference to specific versions of Python where possible.
This partially addresses SourceForge bug #114318.
2000-09-14 18:25:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
66d32b1e12 Add some index entries to make it easier to find information on
%-formatting of strings.
2000-09-14 17:57:42 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
ddef8887db Include a link to Francois's po-utils. 2000-09-13 12:04:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
ae86d43f11 Add a reference item pointing to the Namespaces in XML recommendation.
Convert the existing reference items to \seetitle markup.
2000-09-12 17:53:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
1349437e4c When referring to namespaces, always say "namespaces" instead of
"name spaces".

Inconsistency noted by Keith Briggs <keith.briggs@bt.com>.
2000-09-12 16:23:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
88fa9627b1 Some updates and fix a bunch of really small consistency nits. 2000-09-11 05:23:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
1b194f927d Add a reference to the material on string methods. 2000-09-09 05:34:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
f96e0d203b Various clarifications and minor nits fixed. Affected descriptions of
input(), locals(), reload(), unicode(), and zip().
2000-09-09 03:33:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
1172a85175 Really minor consistency nit. 2000-09-09 03:31:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
66571cc20c Improve a couple of references to the language reference, making them
hyperlinks to relevant sections.

Clarify the conditions under which the "softspace" attribute of file-like
objects can "just work" (with relation to overriding of attribute access
in user-defined classes).
2000-09-09 03:30:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
7acb21866c Minor clarifications in the introductory paragraph. 2000-09-09 03:28:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
e544191397 Add \modulesynopsis for inclusion in the list of modules at the beginning
of the chapter.

Add explanation that this is only available when the cycle detector is
enabled at build time.
2000-09-09 03:26:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
1c4efad770 Move the "See also" section to a location more consistent with other
module sections.  Properly mark the name of the module in the content
of the reference there.
2000-09-09 03:25:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
621d2bee1c Move description of UserString.MutableString to a location more typical
of the arrangement of other modules.
2000-09-09 03:23:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
d0726c3cd9 \file is not allowed in section titles -- converting to PDF fails due to
weird macro-expansion issues.  A better solution may be available in the
future, but this will do for now.

Add an index entry.  More should probably be added as well.
2000-09-07 18:55:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
88c023b863 Remove comment about -X and string exceptions. Error noted by
Justin D. Pettit <jpettit@raznick.com>.
2000-09-07 16:33:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
6300bd42a4 Added note about Python version this was added for. 2000-09-07 14:01:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
77a6c9ece5 Minor markup nits around use of \optional. 2000-09-07 14:00:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
8b2e8f846c Added a \versionadded statement to the getfqdn() description. 2000-09-06 02:22:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
8ff4cd7512 Minor markup revisions for consistency with the rest of the documentation. 2000-09-05 13:50:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
0d83f68fc9 Added entry for mmap module. 2000-09-05 13:49:30 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
21fbd540ed Document the new optional argument "rest" on the transfercmd(),
ntransfercmd(), and retrbinary() commands.  This closes SF patch
#101187.
2000-09-01 06:32:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
65faf118b6 Fix markup error and minor consistency nit. 2000-08-31 19:35:56 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
ee5adfbae6 add user-modifiable recursion_limit
ceval.c:
    define recurion_limit (static), default value is 2500
    define Py_GetRecursionLimit and Py_SetRecursionLimit
    raise RuntimeError if limit is exceeded
PC/config.h:
    remove plat-specific definition
sysmodule.c:
    add sys.(get|set)recursionlimit
2000-08-31 19:23:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
aef0e890b5 Document the limitation that urllib does not work with proxies which
require authenication.  This is an implementation limitation rather than
required behavior, and may be fixed in the future.

This closes SourceForge bug #111725.
2000-08-31 17:23:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
4c3f797128 UNARY_NEG is supposed to be UNARY_NEGATIVE (spotted by Charles Waldman
<cgw@fnal.gov>).

Fix minor problem with EXTENDED_ARG description markup..
2000-08-31 16:26:35 +00:00
Sjoerd Mullender
1c8feae411 New method getnamespace.
Since the application never gets to see the namespace abbreviation
used in the XML document, but some applications may need to know them,
we provide this method.
2000-08-31 10:27:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
fcab76350a Relocate the popen2 documentation since it is now substantially more
portable.
2000-08-31 06:09:26 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
7b828a6a56 doc changes to parallel changes to calendar.py module 2000-08-30 14:02:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
d576e9df5f Markup revisions. Nothing was actually required to be able to format it,
but many conventions were broken.
2000-08-30 04:19:20 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
28b815f28a Oops, spell MAL's name right. 2000-08-30 03:28:17 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
0691a6b8ed Documentation for the gettext module. 2000-08-30 03:27:10 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
058365aec5 Added libgettext.tex 2000-08-30 03:26:17 +00:00
Moshe Zadka
a1a4b5916b Closing patch #101120 -- After everyone agreed. 2000-08-25 21:47:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
0308ff8652 Add reference to RFC 2396 in "See also" section.
Minor cleanups.
2000-08-25 17:29:35 +00:00