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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1999-04-21 18:13:31 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1999-04-21 18:13:31 (GMT) |
commit | ec6baaf6181b2373ef8dc7ecf5d69ac9d4173527 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex index a03a7bf..f831ac8 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ \section{\module{os} --- Miscellaneous OS interfaces} -\declaremodule{standard}{os} +\declaremodule{standard}{os} \modulesynopsis{Miscellaneous OS interfaces.} @@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ This module searches for an OS dependent built-in module like as found there. The design of all Python's built-in OS dependent modules is such that as long as the same functionality is available, it uses the same interface; e.g., the function -\code{os.stat(\var{path})} returns stat information about \var{path} -in the same format (which happens to have originated with the \POSIX{} -interface). +\code{os.stat(\var{path})} returns stat information about \var{path} in +the same format (which happens to have originated with the +\POSIX{} interface). Extensions peculiar to a particular OS are also available through the \module{os} module, but using them is of course a threat to @@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ Availability: Windows. \begin{funcdesc}{system}{command} Execute the command (a string) in a subshell. This is implemented by calling the Standard C function \cfunction{system()}, and has the -same limitations. Changes to \code{posix.environ}, \code{sys.stdin} +same limitations. Changes to \code{posix.environ}, \code{sys.stdin}, etc.\ are not reflected in the environment of the executed command. The return value is the exit status of the process encoded in the format specified for \function{wait()}. @@ -700,9 +700,9 @@ Return a 5-tuple of floating point numbers indicating accumulated (CPU or other) times, in seconds. The items are: user time, system time, children's user time, children's system time, and elapsed real time since a fixed -point in the past, in that order. See the \UNIX{} -manual page \manpage{times}{2} or the corresponding Windows Platform -API documentation. +point in the past, in that order. See the \UNIX{} manual page +\manpage{times}{2} or the corresponding Windows Platform API +documentation. Availability: \UNIX{}, Windows. \end{funcdesc} @@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ doesn't have a \code{'PATH'} key. \begin{datadesc}{linesep} The string used to separate (or, rather, terminate) lines on the -current platform. This may be a single character, e.g. \code{'\e n'} -for \POSIX{} or \code{'\e r'} for MacOS, or multiple characters, -e.g. \code{'\e r\e n'} for MS-DOS and MS Windows. +current platform. This may be a single character, +e.g.\ \code{'\e n'} for \POSIX{} or \code{'\e r'} for MacOS, or multiple +characters, e.g.\ \code{'\e r\e n'} for MS-DOS and MS Windows. \end{datadesc} |