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author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-01-21 20:36:10 (GMT) |
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committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-01-21 20:36:10 (GMT) |
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Merged revisions 60151-60159,60161-60168,60170,60172-60173,60175 via svnmerge from
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r60151 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-21 14:11:15 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 1 line
A bunch of header files were not listed as dependencies for object files. Changes to files like Parser/parser.h weren't picked up by make.
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r60152 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 15:16:46 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 3 lines
#1087741: make mmap.mmap the type of mmap objects, not a
factory function. Allow it to be subclassed.
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r60153 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 15:18:14 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
mmap is an extension module.
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r60154 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 17:28:13 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
Fix example.
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r60155 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 17:34:07 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1555501: document plistlib and move it to the general library.
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r60156 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 17:36:00 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
Add a stub for bundlebuilder documentation.
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r60157 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 17:46:58 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
Removing bundlebuilder docs again -- it's not to be used anymore (see #779825).
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r60158 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 17:51:51 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#997912: acknowledge nested scopes in tutorial.
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r60159 | vinay.sajip | 2008-01-21 18:02:26 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Fix: #1836: Off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingFileHandler rollover calculation. Patch thanks to Kathryn M. Kowalski.
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r60161 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 18:13:03 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
Adapt pydoc to new doc URLs.
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r60162 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 18:17:00 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
Fix old link.
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r60163 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 18:22:06 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1726198: replace while 1: fp.readline() with file iteration.
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r60164 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 18:29:23 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
Clarify $ behavior in re docstring. #1631394.
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r60165 | vinay.sajip | 2008-01-21 18:39:22 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Minor documentation change - hyperlink tidied up.
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r60166 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 18:42:40 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1530959: change distutils build dir for --with-pydebug python builds.
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r60167 | vinay.sajip | 2008-01-21 19:16:05 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Updated to include news on recent logging fixes and documentation changes.
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r60168 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 19:35:49 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 3 lines
Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
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r60170 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 19:36:51 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
Add NEWS entry for #1882.
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r60172 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 19:41:24 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
Use original location of document, which has translations.
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r60173 | walter.doerwald | 2008-01-21 21:18:04 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
Follow PEP 8 in module docstring.
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r60175 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 21:20:53 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
Adapt to latest doctools refactoring.
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Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/library')
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/configparser.rst | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/fileformats.rst | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/logging.rst | 13 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/mmap.rst | 15 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/plistlib.rst | 124 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/pydoc.rst | 2 |
6 files changed, 143 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/configparser.rst b/Doc/library/configparser.rst index 979f351..28f2e59 100644 --- a/Doc/library/configparser.rst +++ b/Doc/library/configparser.rst @@ -420,3 +420,5 @@ The function ``opt_move`` below can be used to move options between sections:: # Create non-existent section config.add_section(section2) opt_move(config, section1, section2, option) + else: + config.remove_option(section1, option) diff --git a/Doc/library/fileformats.rst b/Doc/library/fileformats.rst index c0c2eed..d2f0639 100644 --- a/Doc/library/fileformats.rst +++ b/Doc/library/fileformats.rst @@ -16,3 +16,4 @@ that aren't markup languages or are related to e-mail. robotparser.rst netrc.rst xdrlib.rst + plistlib.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst index 923d9f2..ce574d0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/logging.rst +++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst @@ -1180,13 +1180,13 @@ also illustrates what dict-like behaviour is needed from an arbitrary "dict-like" object for use in the constructor:: import logging - + class ConnInfo: """ An example class which shows how an arbitrary class can be used as the 'extra' context information repository passed to a LoggerAdapter. """ - + def __getitem__(self, name): """ To allow this instance to look like a dict. @@ -1199,7 +1199,7 @@ also illustrates what dict-like behaviour is needed from an arbitrary else: result = self.__dict__.get(name, "?") return result - + def __iter__(self): """ To allow iteration over keys, which will be merged into @@ -1208,7 +1208,7 @@ also illustrates what dict-like behaviour is needed from an arbitrary keys = ["ip", "user"] keys.extend(self.__dict__.keys()) return keys.__iter__() - + if __name__ == "__main__": from random import choice levels = (logging.DEBUG, logging.INFO, logging.WARNING, logging.ERROR, logging.CRITICAL) @@ -2133,7 +2133,10 @@ LoggerAdapter Objects .. versionadded:: 2.6 :class:`LoggerAdapter` instances are used to conveniently pass contextual -information into logging calls. For a usage example , see context-info_. +information into logging calls. For a usage example , see the section on +`adding contextual information to your logging output`__. + +__ context-info_ .. class:: LoggerAdapter(logger, extra) diff --git a/Doc/library/mmap.rst b/Doc/library/mmap.rst index 37391d0..8ec9885 100644 --- a/Doc/library/mmap.rst +++ b/Doc/library/mmap.rst @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ substring by assigning to a slice: ``obj[i1:i2] = '...'``. You can also read and write data starting at the current file position, and :meth:`seek` through the file to different positions. -A memory-mapped file is created by the :func:`mmap` function, which is different +A memory-mapped file is created by the :class:`mmap` constructor, which is different on Unix and on Windows. In either case you must provide a file descriptor for a file opened for update. If you wish to map an existing Python file object, use its :meth:`fileno` method to obtain the correct value for the *fileno* @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ parameter. Otherwise, you can open the file using the :func:`os.open` function, which returns a file descriptor directly (the file still needs to be closed when done). -For both the Unix and Windows versions of the function, *access* may be +For both the Unix and Windows versions of the constructor, *access* may be specified as an optional keyword parameter. *access* accepts one of three values: :const:`ACCESS_READ`, :const:`ACCESS_WRITE`, or :const:`ACCESS_COPY` to specify readonly, write-through or copy-on-write memory respectively. *access* @@ -37,11 +37,10 @@ not update the underlying file. To map anonymous memory, -1 should be passed as the fileno along with the length. - -.. function:: mmap(fileno, length[, tagname[, access[, offset]]]) +.. class:: mmap(fileno, length[, tagname[, access[, offset]]]) **(Windows version)** Maps *length* bytes from the file specified by the file - handle *fileno*, and returns a mmap object. If *length* is larger than the + handle *fileno*, and creates a mmap object. If *length* is larger than the current size of the file, the file is extended to contain *length* bytes. If *length* is ``0``, the maximum length of the map is the current size of the file, except that if the file is empty Windows raises an exception (you cannot @@ -59,12 +58,12 @@ To map anonymous memory, -1 should be passed as the fileno along with the length *offset* must be a multiple of the ALLOCATIONGRANULARITY. -.. function:: mmap(fileno, length[, flags[, prot[, access[, offset]]]]) +.. class:: mmap(fileno, length[, flags[, prot[, access[, offset]]]]) :noindex: **(Unix version)** Maps *length* bytes from the file specified by the file descriptor *fileno*, and returns a mmap object. If *length* is ``0``, the - maximum length of the map will be the current size of the file when :func:`mmap` + maximum length of the map will be the current size of the file when :class:`mmap` is called. *flags* specifies the nature of the mapping. :const:`MAP_PRIVATE` creates a @@ -85,7 +84,7 @@ To map anonymous memory, -1 should be passed as the fileno along with the length be relative to the offset from the beginning of the file. *offset* defaults to 0. *offset* must be a multiple of the PAGESIZE or ALLOCATIONGRANULARITY. - This example shows a simple way of using :func:`mmap`:: + This example shows a simple way of using :class:`mmap`:: import mmap diff --git a/Doc/library/plistlib.rst b/Doc/library/plistlib.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..508f8e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Doc/library/plistlib.rst @@ -0,0 +1,124 @@ +:mod:`plistlib` --- Generate and parse MacOS X ``.plist`` files +=============================================================== + +.. module:: plistlib + :synopsis: Generate and parse MacOS X plist files. +.. moduleauthor:: Jack Jansen +.. sectionauthor:: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> +.. (harvested from docstrings in the original file) + +.. versionchanged:: 2.6 + This module was previously only available in the Mac-specific library, it is + now available for all platforms. + +.. index:: + pair: plist; file + single: property list + +This module provides an interface for reading and writing the "property list" +XML files used mainly by MacOS X. + +The property list (``.plist``) file format is a simple XML pickle supporting +basic object types, like dictionaries, lists, numbers and strings. Usually the +top level object is a dictionary. + +Values can be strings, integers, floats, booleans, tuples, lists, dictionaries +(but only with string keys), :class:`Data` or :class:`datetime.datetime` +objects. String values (including dictionary keys) may be unicode strings -- +they will be written out as UTF-8. + +The ``<data>`` plist type is supported through the :class:`Data` class. This is +a thin wrapper around a Python string. Use :class:`Data` if your strings +contain control characters. + +.. seealso:: + + `PList manual page <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/plist.5.html>` + Apple's documentation of the file format. + + +This module defines the following functions: + +.. function:: readPlist(pathOrFile) + + Read a plist file. *pathOrFile* may either be a file name or a (readable) + file object. Return the unpacked root object (which usually is a + dictionary). + + The XML data is parsed using the Expat parser from :mod:`xml.parsers.expat` + -- see its documentation for possible exceptions on ill-formed XML. + Unknown elements will simply be ignored by the plist parser. + + +.. function:: writePlist(rootObject, pathOrFile) + + Write *rootObject* to a plist file. *pathOrFile* may either be a file name + or a (writable) file object. + + A :exc:`TypeError` will be raised if the object is of an unsupported type or + a container that contains objects of unsupported types. + + +.. function:: readPlistFromString(data) + + Read a plist from a string. Return the root object. + + +.. function:: writePlistToString(rootObject) + + Return *rootObject* as a plist-formatted string. + + + +.. function:: readPlistFromResource(path[, restype='plst'[, resid=0]]) + + Read a plist from the resource with type *restype* from the resource fork of + *path*. Availability: MacOS X. + + +.. function:: writePlistToResource(rootObject, path[, restype='plst'[, resid=0]]) + + Write *rootObject* as a resource with type *restype* to the resource fork of + *path*. Availability: MacOS X. + + +The following class is available: + +.. class:: Data(data) + + Return a "data" wrapper object around the string *data*. This is used in + functions converting from/to plists to represent the ``<data>`` type + available in plists. + + It has one attribute, :attr:`data`, that can be used to retrieve the Python + string stored in it. + + +Examples +-------- + +Generating a plist:: + + pl = dict( + aString="Doodah", + aList=["A", "B", 12, 32.1, [1, 2, 3]], + aFloat = 0.1, + anInt = 728, + aDict=dict( + anotherString="<hello & hi there!>", + aUnicodeValue=u'M\xe4ssig, Ma\xdf', + aTrueValue=True, + aFalseValue=False, + ), + someData = Data("<binary gunk>"), + someMoreData = Data("<lots of binary gunk>" * 10), + aDate = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(time.gmtime())), + ) + # unicode keys are possible, but a little awkward to use: + pl[u'\xc5benraa'] = "That was a unicode key." + writePlist(pl, fileName) + +Parsing a plist:: + + pl = readPlist(pathOrFile) + print pl["aKey"] diff --git a/Doc/library/pydoc.rst b/Doc/library/pydoc.rst index 4d74397..41ea1c6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/pydoc.rst +++ b/Doc/library/pydoc.rst @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ documents precisely the version of the module you would get if you started the Python interpreter and typed ``import spam``. Module docs for core modules are assumed to reside in -http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/. This can be overridden by setting the +http://docs.python.org/library/. This can be overridden by setting the :envvar:`PYTHONDOCS` environment variable to a different URL or to a local directory containing the Library Reference Manual pages. |