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Fred Drake
31ec33ed60 Work around problems with HTML conversion by making the break and
tbreak synopses be all on one line (each).  Known problem, most
recently reported by Barry Scott <barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>.
1999-04-13 21:36:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
bfb092eb86 Misspellling: "occurance" --> "occurrence" 1999-04-09 19:57:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7969f31c4d Updated documentation by Per Cederqvist. I've added back the
documentation sendmail() to reflect the changes by The Dragon
(see smtplib.py checkin).
1999-04-07 15:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
4f21d54764 Added more "See also" entries, + 1 inline hyperlink. 1999-04-05 22:18:12 +00:00
Fred Drake
ea003fcc2a Fixed latex2html weirdness with footnotes. 1999-04-05 21:59:15 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
45b0aeda3c correct version info for zlib.
add note about module failing with old versions of the library.

update comment that explains that this doc is *still* out of date
1999-04-05 21:55:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
9aa8543c84 open() description: Made it more clear that 'b' should always be
added to the mode value for binary files to improve
	portability.

Fixed latex2html weirdness with a couple of footnotes.
1999-04-05 21:22:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
01553706bf Added a few items to the "See also" sections at Guido's prompting. Made
more references to other modules in the text hyperlinks for the HTML and
PDF versions.
1999-04-05 19:46:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
50ae47b0de Removed bosities around example code; not sure where that stuff crept
in!
1999-04-05 19:26:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
1dc3a501a6 Made improvements based on changes just made and comments from
Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@csd.uwm.edu>.
1999-04-05 19:00:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
806a467fbf Where rfc822.Message is mentioned, add a link to the rfc822 module. 1999-03-27 05:45:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
cb1f2420ea Document complex() with string arg. 1999-03-25 21:23:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5fc9c869dd SIGTERM is no longer caught to call sys.exitfunc.
This change was made long ago but the documentation was never updated.
1999-03-25 20:30:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
e82f5b3d6e Added note about ftpmirror.py, since that seems to be one of the most
requested Python tools/examples.
1999-03-25 05:04:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8be229650d Document new builtin buffer(). Greg Stein. 1999-03-19 19:10:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
596766772e Documented FTP.set_pasv(). 1999-03-18 16:08:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
154d909993 Note that abspath() was added in 1.5.2. 1999-03-17 22:25:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
8d2c0c2ab4 Fixed minor nits, added index entries to make these easier to find for people
not familiar with Unix terminology.
1999-03-16 16:40:01 +00:00
Fred Drake
658cef0141 Preliminary mhlib and telnetlib documents from Skip Montanaro -- thanks, Skip! 1999-03-15 15:44:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
bf5a6d2eb4 Fixed tons of small markup problems. 1999-03-12 19:57:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
b3a20bc44c Added availabililty annotations to respond to concerns of /F. 1999-03-12 18:34:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
93503ca57b Fixup the module keys. There were some problems with hosting / processing
file HTML files on Windows machines do to case insensitivity.
1999-03-12 16:24:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
be110c1706 Updates based on comments from /F. 1999-03-12 15:27:35 +00:00
Fred Drake
35c3ffdc3f Fixed description of WSTOPSIG(), added WTERMSIG(). Problem reported
by Jonathan Giddy <jon@dgs.monash.edu.au>.
1999-03-04 14:08:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
a54a887f66 "\platform{UNIX}" should really be spelled "\platform{Unix}". 1999-03-02 17:03:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
f6863c1909 Added \platform annotations. 1999-03-02 16:37:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
43b34da656 extract_tb(): Only describe this function once. Problem reported by
Jonathan Giddy <jon@dgs.monash.edu.au>.
1999-02-26 18:51:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
390636382a Typo: "Availabilty" --> "Availability"
Thanks to /F!
1999-02-26 14:05:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
51027c4173 Added note about comments, from Christopher Petrilli. 1999-02-24 22:36:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
16e81f4484 Update some of the top comments and shorten title of the first
section.
1999-02-24 19:57:14 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
f2b4554403 Document the correct class hierarchy for SystemExit. It is not an
error and so it derives from Exception and not SystemError.
1999-02-24 00:27:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
1ec71cb556 Incorporated updates to describe geturl() by Sjoerd Mullender
<Sjoerd.Mullender@cwi.nl>.
1999-02-22 22:42:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
00a3a65cc0 Refer to the right RFC in the intro. 1999-02-22 17:12:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
7d9b13325d Other chapter titles refer to collections of modules as "Services"; do
the same here.
1999-02-22 14:48:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
fab41f1788 BabylMailbox description: Properly escape the backslashes in the
string representations.
1999-02-22 14:26:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
b63e77ccb0 Oops, used a \label twice - fix one of them. 1999-02-22 14:14:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
180b68b3cf More reasonable section titles. 1999-02-22 13:45:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
76991ec75a Shorten section title. 1999-02-20 05:20:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
199b79c37b Added descriptions for BabylMailbox and Maildir (Qmail) mailbox
objects.
1999-02-20 05:04:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
67d229ea76 Shorten section title. 1999-02-20 04:51:16 +00:00
Fred Drake
bbac43223c Shorten a few section titles. 1999-02-20 00:14:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
da57365337 Give subsections reasonable file names in the HTML. 1999-02-19 23:48:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
342501142d Added an index entry. 1999-02-19 23:45:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
56f8185a53 Shortened the short synopsis -- too long. 1999-02-19 22:59:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
9f03380d1c Use more current approach to recording authors. 1999-02-19 22:56:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
c60047575d Shortened the short synopsis -- way too long. 1999-02-19 22:33:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
d8a41e6391 Fix an amazing number of typos & malformed sentences reported by Detlef
Lannert <lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de>.
1999-02-19 17:54:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
f6346345b0 Noted that the module was added in 1.5.2. 1999-02-19 15:46:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
4e7c205470 Update description of what modules "look like" when printed. 1999-02-19 15:30:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
cd71aa2a38 Use current approach to record documentation author. 1999-02-18 21:13:03 +00:00