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Jack Jansen
fda3058827 Removed an erronous comment about alias files. 2001-09-10 08:55:25 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
26c39bf1b5 Add section on long integer changes
Add removal of 3-arg pow() for floats
Rewrite introduction a bit
2001-09-10 03:20:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
2872e8a654 Do not rebuild html-$(RELEASE).tar every time we need to use it. 2001-09-06 19:35:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
c93cf676da Bump version number. 2001-09-06 19:28:06 +00:00
Fred Drake
05a73b1f9a Update link to the PyOpenGL project in the "gl" module docs.
This closes SF bug #459256.
2001-09-06 19:23:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
00bb329521 Document the built-in iter() function. 2001-09-06 19:04:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
7feae2d28c Bump version number. 2001-09-06 19:02:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
a20c265aba Added an additional link to NIST information on secure hashing.
This closes SF bug #458785.
2001-09-06 18:59:43 +00:00
Fred Drake
ba5c41d4c5 Clarified the interaction between string literals and continuation lines.
Fixes bug reported as SF bug #453728.
2001-09-06 18:41:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
8b09f4985c Make the examples for "Default Argument Values" more presentable and
less hostile to newbie use at the interactive prompt.
This is in response to SF bug #458654.
2001-09-06 18:21:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
9c75ff785a Fix parameter for PyInt_Check().
Add refcount information for other recently documented APIs.
2001-09-06 18:06:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
f8d7a5d391 Document the PyMethod_* type object, functions, and macros. 2001-09-06 17:12:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
396ca574dd Document the rule that Python.h must be included before any standard
headers.  This is the final checkin for SF bug #458768.
2001-09-06 16:30:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
9b88b4c9e8 Do not #include <stdio.h> since Python.h already does that. 2001-09-06 16:20:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
adaca02f9e Use the standard argument convention for main(), and conform to the
Python/C style guide.
2001-09-06 16:17:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
4d17b303bb Several updates to cover omissions noted by Rich Salz.
This closes SF bug #458771.
2001-09-06 15:51:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
f5072b9314 Document the "unixfrom" attribute of the rfc822.Message class.
Based on a patch by Skip Montanaro, this closes SF bug #458885.
2001-09-06 15:07:55 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
b0162f9afc Patch #416079: fix the debug string output when receiving telnet commands.
added all the telnet options known to arpa/telnet.h
added all the options registered with IANA as of today
added the possibility for the user to have it's own option negotiation callback
2001-09-06 08:51:38 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
bb5a465ca9 typo... 2001-09-05 19:27:13 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
7c82a3e0fc Patch #449815: Set filesystemencoding based on CODESET. 2001-09-05 17:09:48 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
2f0047af3b Note some changes that I need to write about 2001-09-05 14:53:31 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
44f8696171 Patch #428326: New class threading.Timer. 2001-09-05 13:44:54 +00:00
Tim Peters
7eea37e831 At Guido's suggestion, here's a new C API function, PyObject_Dir(), like
__builtin__.dir().  Moved the guts from bltinmodule.c to object.c.
2001-09-04 22:08:56 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
33a3b63e21 Correction: the Borland C port isn't fully operational yet 2001-09-04 21:25:58 +00:00
Fred Drake
757f7809e1 Add more detail to the descriptions of the shutil functions.
This closes SF bug #458223.
2001-09-04 18:26:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
c05fc7dd9d Added documentation for sys.maxunicode and sys.warnoptions.
Fixed a markup error which caused an em dash to be presented as a minus sign.
This closes SF bug #458350.
2001-09-04 18:18:36 +00:00
Tim Peters
32f453eaa4 New restriction on pow(x, y, z): If z is not None, x and y must be of
integer types, and y must be >= 0.  See discussion at
http://sf.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=457066&group_id=5470&atid=105470
2001-09-03 08:35:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
b86677079d Move the long minidom example to a separate file; \verbatiminput does the
right thing with page breaks in long examples, while the verbatim
environment does not.  This causes the example to wrap to the next page
instead of overwriting the page footer and bottom margin.
2001-09-02 06:07:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
481cf2c064 Added the "Host" header to the "GET" example.
This closes SF bug #457100.
2001-09-01 02:35:23 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
0e03f588f5 Add Jack Jansen's explanation of the MacOS X changes 2001-08-30 21:30:16 +00:00
Tim Peters
d507dab91f SF patch #455966: Allow leading 0 in float/imag literals.
Consequences for Jython still unknown (but raised on Jython-Dev).
2001-08-30 20:51:59 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer
55cdc88c09 Update documentation for GC API. Closes SF patch #421893. 2001-08-30 15:24:17 +00:00
Fred Drake
3c0fc84b15 Update the links to the FIPS document that defines the Secure Hash
Algorithm.  This closes SF bug #454917.
2001-08-30 14:42:40 +00:00
Tim Peters
692323488b Add a new function imp.lock_held(), and use it to skip test_threaded_import
when that test is doomed to deadlock.
2001-08-30 05:16:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
f9dc04341d Fix a minor markup typo. 2001-08-29 02:34:10 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
da21ce3e31 On Fred's suggestion, convert sprintf() examples to use
PyString_FromFormat().  Also fixed one grammar problem, and a few
other mark-up issues.  Sample code not checked.
2001-08-29 01:41:58 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
0ab31b8562 Add METH_O and METH_NOARGS change
Rewrite snprintf() item a bit
Bump version number
2001-08-29 01:16:54 +00:00
Fred Drake
b5f17f2dc5 Revise comments about TeX & LaTeX for accuracy.
This closes SF bug #456222.
2001-08-28 18:09:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
d800cff80d Added explanation that [...] * n generates shallow copies of [...], so
the contents will be shared by multiple references.

This closes SF bug #455694.
2001-08-28 14:56:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
5cb29a49c8 Fix a number of minor markup errors, and improve the consistency a bit. 2001-08-28 14:25:03 +00:00
Eric S. Raymond
46ccd1dae5 Plant a mention in the description of backreferences of the fact that
while \0 doesn't do what one might expect, \g<0> does.
2001-08-28 12:50:03 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
8c64a54f75 Refcount info for PyString_FromFormat() and PyString_FromFormatV().
Closes SF patch #455666.
2001-08-28 02:32:04 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
c86aa57f58 Documentation for PyString_FromFormat() and PyString_FromFormatV().
Closes SF patch #455666.
2001-08-28 02:31:28 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson
53da317801 Docs for the PEP 264 changes. 2001-08-27 20:02:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
88e0b5bee0 SF patch #454553 by Walter Dörwald: auto-guess content-type header for
ftp urls.
2001-08-23 13:38:15 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
0f10f84028 indicate that mktime is platform-dependent. See SF bug 434143. 2001-08-22 12:44:27 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
5ff41d16a8 indicate that the years for which the calendar function will work are
platform dependent.  See SF bug 434143.
2001-08-22 12:43:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
16bb41934c New \grammartoken markup, similar to \token but allowed everywhere. 2001-08-20 21:36:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
2a274a7e41 Add another name. 2001-08-20 21:33:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
cc8f44b884 Split "Extending & Embedding" into separate files, one per chapter. 2001-08-20 19:30:29 +00:00