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author | Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> | 2011-08-19 01:19:36 (GMT) |
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committer | Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> | 2011-08-19 01:19:36 (GMT) |
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-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/atexit.rst | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/cmd.rst | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/collections.rst | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/functions.rst | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/optparse.rst | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/string.rst | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/sysconfig.rst | 9 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/zipfile.rst | 7 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst index 11f87fc..af40888 100644 --- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst @@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ .. moduleauthor:: Steven Bethard <steven.bethard@gmail.com> .. sectionauthor:: Steven Bethard <steven.bethard@gmail.com> -**Source code:** :source:`Lib/argparse.py` - .. versionadded:: 3.2 +**Source code:** :source:`Lib/argparse.py` + -------------- The :mod:`argparse` module makes it easy to write user-friendly command-line @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Parsing arguments :class:`ArgumentParser` parses arguments through the :meth:`~ArgumentParser.parse_args` method. This will inspect the command line, -convert each arg to the appropriate type and then invoke the appropriate action. +convert each argument to the appropriate type and then invoke the appropriate action. In most cases, this means a simple :class:`Namespace` object will be built up from attributes parsed out of the command line:: @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ This can be achieved by passing ``False`` as the ``add_help=`` argument to --foo FOO foo help The help option is typically ``-h/--help``. The exception to this is -if the ``prefix_chars=`` is specified and does not include ``'-'``, in +if the ``prefix_chars=`` is specified and does not include ``-``, in which case ``-h`` and ``--help`` are not valid options. In this case, the first character in ``prefix_chars`` is used to prefix the help options:: @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ the help options:: prefix_chars ^^^^^^^^^^^^ -Most command-line options will use ``'-'`` as the prefix, e.g. ``-f/--foo``. +Most command-line options will use ``-`` as the prefix, e.g. ``-f/--foo``. Parsers that need to support different or additional prefix characters, e.g. for options like ``+f`` or ``/foo``, may specify them using the ``prefix_chars=`` argument @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ to the ArgumentParser constructor:: Namespace(bar='Y', f='X') The ``prefix_chars=`` argument defaults to ``'-'``. Supplying a set of -characters that does not include ``'-'`` will cause ``-f/--foo`` options to be +characters that does not include ``-`` will cause ``-f/--foo`` options to be disallowed. @@ -778,7 +778,7 @@ single action to be taken. The ``nargs`` keyword argument associates a different number of command-line arguments with a single action. The supported values are: -* N (an integer). N arguments from the command line will be gathered together into a +* ``N`` (an integer). ``N`` arguments from the command line will be gathered together into a list. For example:: >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() @@ -790,11 +790,11 @@ values are: Note that ``nargs=1`` produces a list of one item. This is different from the default, in which the item is produced by itself. -* ``'?'``. One arg will be consumed from the command line if possible, and - produced as a single item. If no command-line arg is present, the value from +* ``'?'``. One argument will be consumed from the command line if possible, and + produced as a single item. If no command-line argument is present, the value from default_ will be produced. Note that for optional arguments, there is an additional case - the option string is present but not followed by a - command-line arg. In this case the value from const_ will be produced. Some + command-line argument. In this case the value from const_ will be produced. Some examples to illustrate this:: >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() @@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ values are: * ``'+'``. Just like ``'*'``, all command-line args present are gathered into a list. Additionally, an error message will be generated if there wasn't at - least one command-line arg present. For example:: + least one command-line argument present. For example:: >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='PROG') >>> parser.add_argument('foo', nargs='+') @@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ values are: PROG: error: too few arguments If the ``nargs`` keyword argument is not provided, the number of arguments consumed -is determined by the action_. Generally this means a single command-line arg +is determined by the action_. Generally this means a single command-line argument will be consumed and a single item (not a list) will be produced. @@ -866,7 +866,7 @@ the various :class:`ArgumentParser` actions. The two most common uses of it are (like ``-f`` or ``--foo``) and ``nargs='?'``. This creates an optional argument that can be followed by zero or one command-line arguments. When parsing the command line, if the option string is encountered with no - command-line arg following it, the value of ``const`` will be assumed instead. + command-line argument following it, the value of ``const`` will be assumed instead. See the nargs_ description for examples. The ``const`` keyword argument defaults to ``None``. @@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ default All optional arguments and some positional arguments may be omitted at the command line. The ``default`` keyword argument of :meth:`~ArgumentParser.add_argument`, whose value defaults to ``None``, -specifies what value should be used if the command-line arg is not present. +specifies what value should be used if the command-line argument is not present. For optional arguments, the ``default`` value is used when the option string was not present at the command line:: @@ -889,8 +889,8 @@ was not present at the command line:: >>> parser.parse_args(''.split()) Namespace(foo=42) -For positional arguments with nargs_ ``='?'`` or ``'*'``, the ``default`` value -is used when no command-line arg was present:: +For positional arguments with nargs_ equal to ``?`` or ``*``, the ``default`` value +is used when no command-line argument was present:: >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() >>> parser.add_argument('foo', nargs='?', default=42) @@ -976,8 +976,8 @@ choices Some command-line arguments should be selected from a restricted set of values. These can be handled by passing a container object as the ``choices`` keyword argument to :meth:`~ArgumentParser.add_argument`. When the command line is -parsed, arg values will be checked, and an error message will be displayed if -the arg was not one of the acceptable values:: +parsed, argument values will be checked, and an error message will be displayed if +the argument was not one of the acceptable values:: >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='PROG') >>> parser.add_argument('foo', choices='abc') @@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ value as the "name" of each object. By default, for positional argument actions, the dest_ value is used directly, and for optional argument actions, the dest_ value is uppercased. So, a single positional argument with ``dest='bar'`` will that argument will be referred to as ``bar``. A single -optional argument ``--foo`` that should be followed by a single command-line arg +optional argument ``--foo`` that should be followed by a single command-line argument will be referred to as ``FOO``. An example:: >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() @@ -1152,10 +1152,10 @@ attribute is determined by the ``dest`` keyword argument of For optional argument actions, the value of ``dest`` is normally inferred from the option strings. :class:`ArgumentParser` generates the value of ``dest`` by -taking the first long option string and stripping away the initial ``'--'`` +taking the first long option string and stripping away the initial ``--`` string. If no long option strings were supplied, ``dest`` will be derived from -the first short option string by stripping the initial ``'-'`` character. Any -internal ``'-'`` characters will be converted to ``'_'`` characters to make sure +the first short option string by stripping the initial ``-`` character. Any +internal ``-`` characters will be converted to ``_`` characters to make sure the string is a valid attribute name. The examples below illustrate this behavior:: @@ -1187,7 +1187,7 @@ The parse_args() method created and how they are assigned. See the documentation for :meth:`add_argument` for details. - By default, the arg strings are taken from :data:`sys.argv`, and a new empty + By default, the argument strings are taken from :data:`sys.argv`, and a new empty :class:`Namespace` object is created for the attributes. @@ -1258,15 +1258,15 @@ it exits and prints the error along with a usage message:: PROG: error: extra arguments found: badger -Arguments containing ``"-"`` -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +Arguments containing ``-`` +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The :meth:`~ArgumentParser.parse_args` method attempts to give errors whenever the user has clearly made a mistake, but some situations are inherently -ambiguous. For example, the command-line arg ``'-1'`` could either be an +ambiguous. For example, the command-line argument ``-1`` could either be an attempt to specify an option or an attempt to provide a positional argument. The :meth:`~ArgumentParser.parse_args` method is cautious here: positional -arguments may only begin with ``'-'`` if they look like negative numbers and +arguments may only begin with ``-`` if they look like negative numbers and there are no options in the parser that look like negative numbers:: >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='PROG') @@ -1299,7 +1299,7 @@ there are no options in the parser that look like negative numbers:: usage: PROG [-h] [-1 ONE] [foo] PROG: error: argument -1: expected one argument -If you have positional arguments that must begin with ``'-'`` and don't look +If you have positional arguments that must begin with ``-`` and don't look like negative numbers, you can insert the pseudo-argument ``'--'`` which tells :meth:`~ArgumentParser.parse_args` that everything after that is a positional argument:: @@ -1417,7 +1417,7 @@ Sub-commands >>> parser_b = subparsers.add_parser('b', help='b help') >>> parser_b.add_argument('--baz', choices='XYZ', help='baz help') >>> - >>> # parse some arg lists + >>> # parse some argument lists >>> parser.parse_args(['a', '12']) Namespace(bar=12, foo=False) >>> parser.parse_args(['--foo', 'b', '--baz', 'Z']) @@ -1426,8 +1426,8 @@ Sub-commands Note that the object returned by :meth:`parse_args` will only contain attributes for the main parser and the subparser that was selected by the command line (and not any other subparsers). So in the example above, when - the ``"a"`` command is specified, only the ``foo`` and ``bar`` attributes are - present, and when the ``"b"`` command is specified, only the ``foo`` and + the ``a`` command is specified, only the ``foo`` and ``bar`` attributes are + present, and when the ``b`` command is specified, only the ``foo`` and ``baz`` attributes are present. Similarly, when a help message is requested from a subparser, only the help diff --git a/Doc/library/atexit.rst b/Doc/library/atexit.rst index 8d79a1d..15b55e8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/atexit.rst +++ b/Doc/library/atexit.rst @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ .. moduleauthor:: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> .. sectionauthor:: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> +**Source code:** :source:`Lib/atexit.py` + +-------------- The :mod:`atexit` module defines functions to register and unregister cleanup functions. Functions thus registered are automatically executed upon normal diff --git a/Doc/library/cmd.rst b/Doc/library/cmd.rst index d45c0e7..c1cda5b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/cmd.rst +++ b/Doc/library/cmd.rst @@ -205,6 +205,9 @@ Instances of :class:`Cmd` subclasses have some public instance variables: :mod:`readline`, on systems that support it, the interpreter will automatically support :program:`Emacs`\ -like line editing and command-history keystrokes.) + +.. _cmd-example: + Cmd Example ----------- diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst index 14ccffb..768519e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/collections.rst +++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ - :mod:`collections` --- Container datatypes ========================================== @@ -977,7 +976,7 @@ original insertion position is changed and moved to the end:: del self[key] OrderedDict.__setitem__(self, key, value) -An ordered dictionary can combined with the :class:`Counter` class +An ordered dictionary can be combined with the :class:`Counter` class so that the counter remembers the order elements are first encountered:: class OrderedCounter(Counter, OrderedDict): diff --git a/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst b/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst index 3bd4531..f401f93 100644 --- a/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst +++ b/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst @@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ .. module:: concurrent.futures :synopsis: Execute computations concurrently using threads or processes. +.. versionadded:: 3.2 + **Source code:** :source:`Lib/concurrent/futures/thread.py` and :source:`Lib/concurrent/futures/process.py` -.. versionadded:: 3.2 - -------------- The :mod:`concurrent.futures` module provides a high-level interface for diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index edff106..3b6fdc3 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -624,7 +624,8 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. .. function:: isinstance(object, classinfo) Return true if the *object* argument is an instance of the *classinfo* - argument, or of a (direct or indirect) subclass thereof. If *object* is not + argument, or of a (direct, indirect or :term:`virtual <abstract base + class>`) subclass thereof. If *object* is not an object of the given type, the function always returns false. If *classinfo* is not a class (type object), it may be a tuple of type objects, or may recursively contain other such tuples (other sequence types are not @@ -634,7 +635,8 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. .. function:: issubclass(class, classinfo) - Return true if *class* is a subclass (direct or indirect) of *classinfo*. A + Return true if *class* is a subclass (direct, indirect or :term:`virtual + <abstract base class>`) of *classinfo*. A class is considered a subclass of itself. *classinfo* may be a tuple of class objects, in which case every entry in *classinfo* will be checked. In any other case, a :exc:`TypeError` exception is raised. diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst b/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst index 27d2efd..3911d4d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst +++ b/Doc/library/logging.handlers.rst @@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ possible, while any potentially slow operations (such as sending an email via -.. queue-listener: +.. _queue-listener: QueueListener ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ diff --git a/Doc/library/optparse.rst b/Doc/library/optparse.rst index fddc1fb..7d2d91b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/optparse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/optparse.rst @@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ .. moduleauthor:: Greg Ward <gward@python.net> .. sectionauthor:: Greg Ward <gward@python.net> +.. deprecated:: 3.2 + The :mod:`optparse` module is deprecated and will not be developed further; + development will continue with the :mod:`argparse` module. + **Source code:** :source:`Lib/optparse.py` -------------- -.. deprecated:: 2.7 - The :mod:`optparse` module is deprecated and will not be developed further; - development will continue with the :mod:`argparse` module. - :mod:`optparse` is a more convenient, flexible, and powerful library for parsing command-line options than the old :mod:`getopt` module. :mod:`optparse` uses a more declarative style of command-line parsing: you create an instance of diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst index 3f9ec0b..2443180 100644 --- a/Doc/library/string.rst +++ b/Doc/library/string.rst @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ .. module:: string :synopsis: Common string operations. +**Source code:** :source:`Lib/string.py` + +-------------- .. seealso:: @@ -11,10 +14,6 @@ :ref:`string-methods` -**Source code:** :source:`Lib/string.py` - --------------- - String constants ---------------- diff --git a/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst b/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst index 1e89bd0..5b2509a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst @@ -3,15 +3,16 @@ .. module:: sysconfig :synopsis: Python's configuration information -.. moduleauthor:: Tarek Ziade <tarek@ziade.org> -.. sectionauthor:: Tarek Ziade <tarek@ziade.org> +.. moduleauthor:: Tarek Ziadé <tarek@ziade.org> +.. sectionauthor:: Tarek Ziadé <tarek@ziade.org> + .. index:: single: configuration information -**Source code:** :source:`Lib/sysconfig.py` - .. versionadded:: 3.2 +**Source code:** :source:`Lib/sysconfig.py` + -------------- The :mod:`sysconfig` module provides access to Python's configuration diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst index c77a679..aece714 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst @@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ pair: URL; parsing pair: relative; URL +**Source code:** :source:`Lib/urllib/parse.py` + +-------------- + This module defines a standard interface to break Uniform Resource Locator (URL) strings up in components (addressing scheme, network location, path etc.), to combine the components back into a URL string, and to convert a "relative URL" diff --git a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst index 3282054..019a894 100644 --- a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst @@ -30,15 +30,16 @@ The module defines the following items: .. exception:: BadZipFile - The error raised for bad ZIP files (old name: ``zipfile.error``). + The error raised for bad ZIP files. .. versionadded:: 3.2 .. exception:: BadZipfile - This is an alias for :exc:`BadZipFile` that exists for compatibility with - Python versions prior to 3.2. Usage is deprecated. + Alias of :exc:`BadZipFile`, for compatibility with older Python versions. + + .. deprecated:: 3.2 .. exception:: LargeZipFile |