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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-07-31 18:18:27 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-07-31 18:18:27 (GMT)
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Organized a little bit; merged in some items from the 1.5.2p2 branch that
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PYTHON DOCUMENTATION TO-DO LIST -*- indented-text -*-
===============================
+General
+-------
+
+* Figure out HTMLHelp generation for the Windows world.
+
+* Straighten out random/whrandom. Things are generally in the right
+ place, but need to respond to comments in email from Jan Kim
+ <kim@mpiz-koeln.mpg.de>.
+
+
+Python/C API
+------------
* The "Very High Level Interface" in the API document has been
requested; I guess it wouldn't hurt to fill in a bit there. Request
@@ -9,17 +21,34 @@ PYTHON DOCUMENTATION TO-DO LIST -*- indented-text -*-
* Describe implementing types in C, including use of the 'self'
parameter to the method implementation function. (Missing material
mentioned in the Extending & Embedding manual, section 1.1; problem
- reported by Clay Spence <cspence@sarnoff.com>.)
+ reported by Clay Spence <cspence@sarnoff.com>.) Heavily impacts one
+ chapter of the Python/C API manual.
+
+* Missing PyArg_ParseTuple(), PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(),
+ Py_BuildValue(). Information requested by Greg Kochanski
+ <gpk@bell-labs.com>. PyEval_EvalCode() has also been requested.
+
+Extending & Embedding
+---------------------
+
+* More information is needed about building dynamically linked
+ extensions in C++. Specifically, the extensions must be linked
+ against the C++ libraries (and possibly runtime). Also noted by
+ Albert Hofkamp <a.hofkamp@wtb.tue.nl>.
-* In the extensions manual, more information is needed about building
- dynamically linked extensions in C++. Specifically, the extensions
- must be linked against the C++ libraries (and possibly runtime).
- Also noted by Albert Hofkamp <a.hofkamp@wtb.tue.nl>.
+Reference Manual
+----------------
-* Python/C API reference missing PyArg_ParseTuple(),
- PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(), Py_BuildValue(). Information
- requested by Greg Kochanski <gpk@bell-labs.com>. PyEval_EvalCode()
- has also been requested.
+* Document the Extended Call Syntax in the language reference.
+ [Jeremy Hylton]
+
+* Document new comparison support for recursive objects (lang. ref.?
+ library ref.? (cmp() function). [Jeremy Hylton]
+
+Library Reference
+-----------------
+
+* urllib2 module reference. [Jeremy Hylton]
* Update the pickle documentation to describe all of the current
behavior; only a subset is described. __reduce__, etc. Partial
@@ -27,15 +56,15 @@ PYTHON DOCUMENTATION TO-DO LIST -*- indented-text -*-
* Update the code/codeop module documentation.
-* Figure out HTMLHelp generation for the Windows world.
-
-* Straighten out random/whrandom.
-
-* Update the filecmp documentation (Moshe?).
-
* Update the httplib documentation to match Greg Stein's HTTP/1.1
support and new classes. (Greg, this is yours!)
+Tutorial
+--------
+
+* Update tutorial to use string methods and talk about backward
+ compatibility of same.
+
NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE
---------------------
@@ -45,7 +74,8 @@ NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE
<lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>. This one will be hard; probably not
really worth the pain. (Only an issue at all when a header-letter
and the first index entry get separated -- can change as soon as we
- change the index entries in the text.)
+ change the index entries in the text.) Also only a problem in the
+ print version.
* Fix problem with howto documents getting the last module synopsis
twice (in \localmoduletable) so we can get rid of the ugly 'uniq'