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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2007-03-13 20:46:32 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2007-03-13 20:46:32 (GMT)
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Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
(backport)
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
index 63c1e31..c38e9fc 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
@@ -175,15 +175,15 @@ class C:
\code{\var{x} > \var{y}}.
\end{funcdesc}
-\begin{funcdesc}{compile}{string, filename, kind\optional{,
+\begin{funcdesc}{compile}{source, filename, mode\optional{,
flags\optional{, dont_inherit}}}
- Compile the \var{string} into a code object. Code objects can be
+ Compile the \var{source} into a code object. Code objects can be
executed by an \keyword{exec} statement or evaluated by a call to
\function{eval()}. The \var{filename} argument should
give the file from which the code was read; pass some recognizable value
if it wasn't read from a file (\code{'<string>'} is commonly used).
- The \var{kind} argument specifies what kind of code must be
- compiled; it can be \code{'exec'} if \var{string} consists of a
+ The \var{mode} argument specifies what kind of code must be
+ compiled; it can be \code{'exec'} if \var{source} consists of a
sequence of statements, \code{'eval'} if it consists of a single
expression, or \code{'single'} if it consists of a single
interactive statement (in the latter case, expression statements
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ class C:
The optional arguments \var{flags} and \var{dont_inherit}
(which are new in Python 2.2) control which future statements (see
- \pep{236}) affect the compilation of \var{string}. If neither is
+ \pep{236}) affect the compilation of \var{source}. If neither is
present (or both are zero) the code is compiled with those future
statements that are in effect in the code that is calling compile.
If the \var{flags} argument is given and \var{dont_inherit} is not