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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-01-04 05:59:37 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-01-04 05:59:37 (GMT) |
commit | 288927f426b51cd2e051451184ecfb3223094728 (patch) | |
tree | 3a6c439d4414e66d32e8a68e3eb4c958f2ef5aa9 /Doc | |
parent | 316ef7c57428134cce5cfea73bdc674f4e316622 (diff) | |
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Markup nit: Command line options should be marked with \programopt.
Other minor markup nits fixed.
Make reference to PyErr_Warn() a hyperlink.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libwarnings.tex b/Doc/lib/libwarnings.tex index 218c860..ffb0afb 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libwarnings.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libwarnings.tex @@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ \declaremodule{standard}{warnings} \modulesynopsis{Issue warning messages and control their disposition.} - \index{warnings} +\versionadded{2.1} Warning messages are typically issued in situations where it is useful to alert the user of some condition in a program, where that condition @@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ program uses an obsolete module. Python programmers issue warnings by calling the \function{warn()} function defined in this module. (C programmers use -\code{PyErr_Warn()}). +\cfunction{PyErr_Warn()}; see the +\citetitle[../api/exceptionHandling.html]{Python/C API Reference +Manual} for details). Warning messages are normally written to \code{sys.stderr}, but their disposition can be changed flexibly, from ignoring all warnings to @@ -50,7 +52,7 @@ categories. This categorization is useful to be able to filter out groups of warnings. The following warnings category classes are currently defined: -\begin{tableii}{l|l}{code}{Class}{Description} +\begin{tableii}{l|l}{exception}{Class}{Description} \lineii{Warning}{This is the base class of all warning category classes. It itself a subclass of Exception.} @@ -92,21 +94,21 @@ form (\var{action}, \var{message}, \var{category}, \var{module}, \item \var{action} is one of the following strings: - \begin{tableii}{l|l}{code}{value}{disposition} + \begin{tableii}{l|l}{code}{Value}{Disposition} - \lineii{\code{"error"}}{turn matching warnings into exceptions} + \lineii{"error"}{turn matching warnings into exceptions} - \lineii{\code{"ignore"}}{never print matching warnings} + \lineii{"ignore"}{never print matching warnings} - \lineii{\code{"always"}}{always print matching warnings} + \lineii{"always"}{always print matching warnings} - \lineii{\code{"default"}}{print the first occurrence of matching + \lineii{"default"}{print the first occurrence of matching warnings for each location where the warning is issued} - \lineii{\code{"module"}}{print the first occurrence of matching + \lineii{"module"}{print the first occurrence of matching warnings for each module where the warning is issued} - \lineii{\code{"once"}}{print only the first occurrence of matching + \lineii{"once"}{print only the first occurrence of matching warnings, regardless of location} \end{tableii} @@ -130,9 +132,9 @@ Since the \exception{Warning} class is derived from the built-in \exception{Exception} class, to turn a warning into an error we simply raise \code{category(message)}. -The warnings filter is initialized by \samp{-W} options passed to the -Python interpreter command line. The interpreter saves the arguments -for all \samp{-W} options without interpretation in +The warnings filter is initialized by \programopt{-W} options passed +to the Python interpreter command line. The interpreter saves the +arguments for all \programopt{-W} options without interpretation in \code{sys.warnoptions}; the \module{warnings} module parses these when it is first imported (invalid options are ignored, after printing a message to \code{sys.stderr}). @@ -187,6 +189,6 @@ arguments default to a value that matches everything. \begin{funcdesc}{resetwarnings}{} Reset the warnings filter. This discards the effect of all previous -calls to \function{filterwarnings()}, including that of the \samp{-W} -command line options. +calls to \function{filterwarnings()}, including that of the +\programopt{-W} command line options. \end{funcdesc} |