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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1999-04-05 21:59:15 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1999-04-05 21:59:15 (GMT) |
commit | ea003fcc2abcee4c79b4e9ce98da0c5ef69fd47d (patch) | |
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Fixed latex2html weirdness with footnotes.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libmarshal.tex b/Doc/lib/libmarshal.tex index 75f929a..1fa746d 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libmarshal.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libmarshal.tex @@ -11,13 +11,13 @@ values in a binary format. The format is specific to Python, but independent of machine architecture issues (e.g., you can write a Python value to a file on a PC, transport the file to a Sun, and read it back there). Details of the format are undocumented on purpose; -it may change between Python versions (although it rarely does).% -\footnote{The name of this module stems from a bit of terminology used -by the designers of Modula-3 (amongst others), who use the term -``marshalling'' for shipping of data around in a self-contained form. -Strictly speaking, ``to marshal'' means to convert some data from -internal to external form (in an RPC buffer for instance) and -``unmarshalling'' for the reverse process.} +it may change between Python versions (although it rarely +does).\footnote{The name of this module stems from a bit of + terminology used by the designers of Modula-3 (amongst others), who + use the term ``marshalling'' for shipping of data around in a + self-contained form. Strictly speaking, ``to marshal'' means to + convert some data from internal to external form (in an RPC buffer for + instance) and ``unmarshalling'' for the reverse process.} This is not a general ``persistency'' module. For general persistency and transfer of Python objects through RPC calls, see the modules @@ -46,12 +46,12 @@ transfer plain Python integers, such values are silently truncated. This particularly affects the use of very long integer literals in Python modules --- these will be accepted by the parser on such machines, but will be silently be truncated when the module is read -from the \file{.pyc} instead.% -\footnote{A solution would be to refuse such literals in the parser, -since they are inherently non-portable. Another solution would be to -let the \module{marshal} module raise an exception when an integer -value would be truncated. At least one of these solutions will be -implemented in a future version.} +from the \file{.pyc} instead.\footnote{ + A solution would be to refuse such literals in the parser, + since they are inherently non-portable. Another solution would be to + let the \module{marshal} module raise an exception when an integer + value would be truncated. At least one of these solutions will be + implemented in a future version.} There are functions that read/write files as well as functions operating on strings. |