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| author | Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de> | 2008-01-06 17:05:40 (GMT) |
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| committer | Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de> | 2008-01-06 17:05:40 (GMT) |
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Merged revisions 59774-59783 via svnmerge from
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r59774 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 16:41:50 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1501: document that 0**0 == 1.
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r59775 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 16:48:20 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#759525: document that dir() doesn't return metaclass attrs when given a class as arg.
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r59776 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 16:55:26 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1615275: clarify return object types of different tempfile factories.
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r59777 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 17:01:26 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1727024: document that Popen.returncode is set by Popen.poll/wait.
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r59778 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 17:04:56 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1686390: add example for csv.Sniffer use.
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r59779 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 17:12:39 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1559684: document that shutil.copy* doesn't copy all metadata on Posix and Windows too.
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r59780 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 17:17:56 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1582: document __reversed__, patch by Mark Russell.
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r59781 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 17:22:56 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1499: Document compile() exceptions.
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r59782 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 17:49:50 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1325: Add docs and tests for zipimporter.archive and zipimporter.prefix.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 9463ba7..e7add3a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -232,6 +232,9 @@ available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. can be found as the :attr:`compiler_flag` attribute on the :class:`_Feature` instance in the :mod:`__future__` module. + This function raises :exc:`SyntaxError` if the compiled source is invalid, + and :exc:`TypeError` if the source contains null bytes. + .. function:: complex([real[, imag]]) @@ -313,7 +316,8 @@ available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. Because :func:`dir` is supplied primarily as a convenience for use at an interactive prompt, it tries to supply an interesting set of names more than it tries to supply a rigorously or consistently defined set of names, and its - detailed behavior may change across releases. + detailed behavior may change across releases. For example, metaclass attributes + are not in the result list when the argument is a class. .. function:: divmod(a, b) @@ -907,9 +911,10 @@ available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. .. function:: reversed(seq) - Return a reverse :term:`iterator`. *seq* must be an object which supports - the sequence protocol (the :meth:`__len__` method and the :meth:`__getitem__` - method with integer arguments starting at ``0``). + Return a reverse :term:`iterator`. *seq* must be an object which has + a :meth:`__reversed__` method or supports the sequence protocol (the + :meth:`__len__` method and the :meth:`__getitem__` method with integer + arguments starting at ``0``). .. function:: round(x[, n]) |