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| author | Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de> | 2008-01-19 16:21:02 (GMT) |
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| committer | Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de> | 2008-01-19 16:21:02 (GMT) |
| commit | 587c2bfedee6f6c5ee16b4e7eb5392d270a0c1a6 (patch) | |
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Merged revisions 60053-60078 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r60054 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-18 20:12:56 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Silence Coverity false alerts with CIDs #172, #183, #184
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r60057 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-18 21:56:30 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 3 lines
Fix an edge case whereby the __del__() method of a classic class could
create a new weakref to the object.
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r60058 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-18 22:14:58 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Better variable name in an example.
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r60063 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-19 00:05:40 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 3 lines
This got fixed for classic classes in r60057,
and backported to 2.5.2 in 60056.
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r60068 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-01-19 10:56:06 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 4 lines
Several tweaks: add construction from strings and .from_decimal(), change
__init__ to __new__ to enforce immutability, and remove "rational." from repr
and the parens from str.
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r60069 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 11:11:27 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
Fix markup.
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r60070 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 11:16:09 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 3 lines
Amend curses docs by info how to write non-ascii characters.
Thanks to Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven.
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r60071 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 11:18:07 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
Indentation normalization.
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r60073 | facundo.batista | 2008-01-19 13:32:27 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 5 lines
Fix issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
just-created (and empty) instance. Added tests for this. Thanks
Jonathan Share.
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r60074 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 14:33:20 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Polish sentence
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r60075 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-19 14:46:06 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Added unit test to verify that threading.local doesn't cause ref leaks. It seems that the thread local storage always keeps the storage of the last stopped thread alive. Can anybody comment on it, please?
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r60076 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-19 16:06:09 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Update for threading.local test.
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r60077 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 16:16:37 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Polish sentence
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r60078 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 16:22:16 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
Fix typos.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/curses.rst b/Doc/library/curses.rst index 07ccc55..7f82bca 100644 --- a/Doc/library/curses.rst +++ b/Doc/library/curses.rst @@ -16,6 +16,19 @@ for DOS, OS/2, and possibly other systems as well. This extension module is designed to match the API of ncurses, an open-source curses library hosted on Linux and the BSD variants of Unix. +.. note:: + + Since version 5.4, the ncurses library decides how to interpret non-ASCII data + using the ``nl_langinfo`` function. That means that you have to call + :func:`locale.setlocale` in the application and encode Unicode strings + using one of the system's available encodings. This example uses the + system's default encoding:: + + import locale + locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') + code = locale.getpreferredencoding() + + Then use *code* as the encoding for :meth:`str.encode` calls. .. seealso:: |