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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2003-09-05 15:50:20 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2003-09-05 15:50:20 (GMT) |
commit | 74530ff4f9d9405d4aaf639ab1b6cb103892aca7 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuture.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuture.tex index 12b131a..a374591 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libfuture.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libfuture.tex @@ -25,13 +25,14 @@ Each statement in \file{__future__.py} is of the form: -\begin{verbatim} -FeatureName = "_Feature(" OptionalRelease "," MandatoryRelease "," - CompilerFlag ")" -\end{verbatim} +\begin{alltt} +FeatureName = "_Feature(" \var{OptionalRelease} "," \var{MandatoryRelease} "," + \var{CompilerFlag} ")" +\end{alltt} -where, normally, OptionalRelease is less then MandatoryRelease, and -both are 5-tuples of the same form as \code{sys.version_info}: +where, normally, \var{OptionalRelease} is less than +\var{MandatoryRelease}, and both are 5-tuples of the same form as +\code{sys.version_info}: \begin{verbatim} (PY_MAJOR_VERSION, # the 2 in 2.1.0a3; an int @@ -42,28 +43,27 @@ both are 5-tuples of the same form as \code{sys.version_info}: ) \end{verbatim} -OptionalRelease records the first release in which the feature was -accepted. +\var{OptionalRelease} records the first release in which the feature +was accepted. -In the case of MandatoryReleases that have not yet occurred, -MandatoryRelease predicts the release in which the feature will become -part of the language. +In the case of a \var{MandatoryRelease} that has not yet occurred, +\var{MandatoryRelease} predicts the release in which the feature will +become part of the language. -Else MandatoryRelease records when the feature became part of the -language; in releases at or after that, modules no longer need a +Else \var{MandatoryRelease} records when the feature became part of +the language; in releases at or after that, modules no longer need a future statement to use the feature in question, but may continue to -use such imports. +use such imports. -MandatoryRelease may also be \code{None}, meaning that a planned +\var{MandatoryRelease} may also be \code{None}, meaning that a planned feature got dropped. Instances of class \class{_Feature} have two corresponding methods, \method{getOptionalRelease()} and \method{getMandatoryRelease()}. -CompilerFlag is the (bitfield) flag that should be passed in the +\var{CompilerFlag} is the (bitfield) flag that should be passed in the fourth argument to the builtin function \function{compile()} to enable the feature in dynamically compiled code. This flag is stored in the \member{compiler_flag} attribute on \class{_Future} instances. No feature description will ever be deleted from \module{__future__}. - |