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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2011-02-25 10:18:11 (GMT)
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-rw-r--r--Doc/ACKS.txt1
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/collections.rst4
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/ctypes.rst5
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/optparse.rst124
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/ssl.rst25
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/string.rst8
-rw-r--r--Doc/tools/sphinxext/indexcontent.html2
-rw-r--r--Doc/tools/sphinxext/static/basic.css6
8 files changed, 129 insertions, 46 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/ACKS.txt b/Doc/ACKS.txt
index a2a10a0..73d4e13 100644
--- a/Doc/ACKS.txt
+++ b/Doc/ACKS.txt
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ docs@python.org), and we'll be glad to correct the problem.
* Andrew MacIntyre
* Vladimir Marangozov
* Vincent Marchetti
+ * Westley Martínez
* Laura Matson
* Daniel May
* Rebecca McCreary
diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst
index 1ed96b9..260de6c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/collections.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst
@@ -918,7 +918,7 @@ ABC Inherits Abstract Methods Mixin
:class:`Sized` ``__len__``
:class:`Callable` ``__call__``
-:class:`Sequence` :class:`Sized`, ``__getitem__`` ``__contains__``. ``__iter__``, ``__reversed__``.
+:class:`Sequence` :class:`Sized`, ``__getitem__`` ``__contains__``. ``__iter__``, ``__reversed__``,
:class:`Iterable`, ``index``, and ``count``
:class:`Container`
@@ -927,7 +927,7 @@ ABC Inherits Abstract Methods Mixin
and ``insert`` ``remove``, and ``__iadd__``
:class:`Set` :class:`Sized`, ``__le__``, ``__lt__``, ``__eq__``, ``__ne__``,
- :class:`Iterable`, ``__gt__``, ``__ge__``, ``__and__``, ``__or__``
+ :class:`Iterable`, ``__gt__``, ``__ge__``, ``__and__``, ``__or__``,
:class:`Container` ``__sub__``, ``__xor__``, and ``isdisjoint``
:class:`MutableSet` :class:`Set` ``add`` and Inherited Set methods and
diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
index c822e7d..6e54b62 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -216,6 +216,8 @@ Fundamental data types
+----------------------+----------------------------------------+----------------------------+
| ctypes type | C type | Python type |
+======================+========================================+============================+
+| :class:`c_bool` | :c:type:`_Bool` | bool (1) |
++----------------------+----------------------------------------+----------------------------+
| :class:`c_char` | :ctype:`char` | 1-character bytes object |
+----------------------+----------------------------------------+----------------------------+
| :class:`c_wchar` | :ctype:`wchar_t` | 1-character string |
@@ -254,6 +256,9 @@ Fundamental data types
| :class:`c_void_p` | :ctype:`void *` | int or ``None`` |
+----------------------+----------------------------------------+----------------------------+
+(1)
+ The constructor accepts any object with a truth value.
+
All these types can be created by calling them with an optional initializer of
the correct type and value::
diff --git a/Doc/library/optparse.rst b/Doc/library/optparse.rst
index 06a6ae7..87ec4de 100644
--- a/Doc/library/optparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/optparse.rst
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ and :mod:`optparse` will print out a brief summary of your script's options:
.. code-block:: text
- usage: <yourscript> [options]
+ Usage: <yourscript> [options]
- options:
+ Options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-f FILE, --file=FILE write report to FILE
-q, --quiet don't print status messages to stdout
@@ -486,9 +486,9 @@ following to standard output:
.. code-block:: text
- usage: <yourscript> [options] arg1 arg2
+ Usage: <yourscript> [options] arg1 arg2
- options:
+ Options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --verbose make lots of noise [default]
-q, --quiet be vewwy quiet (I'm hunting wabbits)
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ help message:
is then printed before the detailed option help.
If you don't supply a usage string, :mod:`optparse` uses a bland but sensible
- default: ``"usage: %prog [options]"``, which is fine if your script doesn't
+ default: ``"Usage: %prog [options]"``, which is fine if your script doesn't
take any positional arguments.
* every option defines a help string, and doesn't worry about line-wrapping---
@@ -544,12 +544,33 @@ help message:
default value. If an option has no default value (or the default value is
``None``), ``%default`` expands to ``none``.
+Grouping Options
+++++++++++++++++
+
When dealing with many options, it is convenient to group these options for
better help output. An :class:`OptionParser` can contain several option groups,
each of which can contain several options.
-Continuing with the parser defined above, adding an :class:`OptionGroup` to a
-parser is easy::
+An option group is obtained using the class :class:`OptionGroup`:
+
+.. class:: OptionGroup(parser, title, description=None)
+
+ where
+
+ * parser is the :class:`OptionParser` instance the group will be insterted in
+ to
+ * title is the group title
+ * description, optional, is a long description of the group
+
+:class:`OptionGroup` inherits from :class:`OptionContainer` (like
+:class:`OptionParser`) and so the :meth:`add_option` method can be used to add
+an option to the group.
+
+Once all the options are declared, using the :class:`OptionParser` method
+:meth:`add_option_group` the group is added to the previously defined parser.
+
+Continuing with the parser defined in the previous section, adding an
+:class:`OptionGroup` to a parser is easy::
group = OptionGroup(parser, "Dangerous Options",
"Caution: use these options at your own risk. "
@@ -561,20 +582,73 @@ This would result in the following help output:
.. code-block:: text
- usage: [options] arg1 arg2
+ Usage: <yourscript> [options] arg1 arg2
+
+ Options:
+ -h, --help show this help message and exit
+ -v, --verbose make lots of noise [default]
+ -q, --quiet be vewwy quiet (I'm hunting wabbits)
+ -f FILE, --filename=FILE
+ write output to FILE
+ -m MODE, --mode=MODE interaction mode: novice, intermediate, or
+ expert [default: intermediate]
+
+ Dangerous Options:
+ Caution: use these options at your own risk. It is believed that some
+ of them bite.
+
+ -g Group option.
+
+A bit more complete example might invole using more than one group: still
+extendind the previous example::
+
+ group = OptionGroup(parser, "Dangerous Options",
+ "Caution: use these options at your own risk. "
+ "It is believed that some of them bite.")
+ group.add_option("-g", action="store_true", help="Group option.")
+ parser.add_option_group(group)
+
+ group = OptionGroup(parser, "Debug Options")
+ group.add_option("-d", "--debug", action="store_true",
+ help="Print debug information")
+ group.add_option("-s", "--sql", action="store_true",
+ help="Print all SQL statements executed")
+ group.add_option("-e", action="store_true", help="Print every action done")
+ parser.add_option_group(group)
+
+that results in the following output:
+
+.. code-block:: text
+
+ Usage: <yourscript> [options] arg1 arg2
+
+ Options:
+ -h, --help show this help message and exit
+ -v, --verbose make lots of noise [default]
+ -q, --quiet be vewwy quiet (I'm hunting wabbits)
+ -f FILE, --filename=FILE
+ write output to FILE
+ -m MODE, --mode=MODE interaction mode: novice, intermediate, or expert
+ [default: intermediate]
+
+ Dangerous Options:
+ Caution: use these options at your own risk. It is believed that some
+ of them bite.
+
+ -g Group option.
+
+ Debug Options:
+ -d, --debug Print debug information
+ -s, --sql Print all SQL statements executed
+ -e Print every action done
+
+Another interesting method, in particular when working programmatically with
+option groups is:
- options:
- -h, --help show this help message and exit
- -v, --verbose make lots of noise [default]
- -q, --quiet be vewwy quiet (I'm hunting wabbits)
- -fFILE, --file=FILE write output to FILE
- -mMODE, --mode=MODE interaction mode: one of 'novice', 'intermediate'
- [default], 'expert'
+.. method:: OptionParser.get_option_group(opt_str)
- Dangerous Options:
- Caution: use of these options is at your own risk. It is believed that
- some of them bite.
- -g Group option.
+ Return, if defined, the :class:`OptionGroup` that has the title or the long
+ description equals to *opt_str*
.. _optparse-printing-version-string:
@@ -646,14 +720,14 @@ Consider the first example above, where the user passes ``4x`` to an option
that takes an integer::
$ /usr/bin/foo -n 4x
- usage: foo [options]
+ Usage: foo [options]
foo: error: option -n: invalid integer value: '4x'
Or, where the user fails to pass a value at all::
$ /usr/bin/foo -n
- usage: foo [options]
+ Usage: foo [options]
foo: error: -n option requires an argument
@@ -1155,9 +1229,9 @@ must specify for any option using that action.
.. code-block:: text
- usage: foo.py [options]
+ Usage: foo.py [options]
- options:
+ Options:
-h, --help Show this help message and exit
-v Be moderately verbose
--file=FILENAME Input file to read data from
@@ -1352,7 +1426,7 @@ it resolves the situation by removing ``-n`` from the earlier option's list of
option strings. Now ``--dry-run`` is the only way for the user to activate
that option. If the user asks for help, the help message will reflect that::
- options:
+ Options:
--dry-run do no harm
[...]
-n, --noisy be noisy
@@ -1368,7 +1442,7 @@ existing OptionParser::
At this point, the original ``-n``/``--dry-run`` option is no longer
accessible, so :mod:`optparse` removes it, leaving this help text::
- options:
+ Options:
[...]
-n, --noisy be noisy
--dry-run new dry-run option
diff --git a/Doc/library/ssl.rst b/Doc/library/ssl.rst
index 2902318..ff7a016 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ssl.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ssl.rst
@@ -460,11 +460,11 @@ To test for the presence of SSL support in a Python installation, user code
should use the following idiom::
try:
- import ssl
+ import ssl
except ImportError:
- pass
+ pass
else:
- [ do something that requires SSL support ]
+ ... # do something that requires SSL support
Client-side operation
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -553,16 +553,15 @@ Then you'd read data from the ``connstream`` and do something with it till you
are finished with the client (or the client is finished with you)::
def deal_with_client(connstream):
-
- data = connstream.read()
- # null data means the client is finished with us
- while data:
- if not do_something(connstream, data):
- # we'll assume do_something returns False
- # when we're finished with client
- break
- data = connstream.read()
- # finished with client
+ data = connstream.read()
+ # null data means the client is finished with us
+ while data:
+ if not do_something(connstream, data):
+ # we'll assume do_something returns False
+ # when we're finished with client
+ break
+ data = connstream.read()
+ # finished with client
And go back to listening for new client connections.
diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst
index 5696e91..b2d0bba 100644
--- a/Doc/library/string.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/string.rst
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ implementation as the built-in :meth:`format` method.
The :class:`Formatter` class has the following public methods:
- .. method:: format(format_string, *args, *kwargs)
+ .. method:: format(format_string, *args, **kwargs)
:meth:`format` is the primary API method. It takes a format template
string, and an arbitrary set of positional and keyword argument.
@@ -306,10 +306,10 @@ The meaning of the various alignment options is as follows:
| Option | Meaning |
+=========+==========================================================+
| ``'<'`` | Forces the field to be left-aligned within the available |
- | | space (this is the default). |
+ | | space (this is the default for most objects). |
+---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``'>'`` | Forces the field to be right-aligned within the |
- | | available space. |
+ | | available space (this is the default for numbers). |
+---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``'='`` | Forces the padding to be placed after the sign (if any) |
| | but before the digits. This is used for printing fields |
@@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ Using type-specific formatting::
Nesting arguments and more complex examples::
>>> for align, text in zip('<^>', ['left', 'center', 'right']):
- ... '{0:{align}{fill}16}'.format(text, fill=align, align=align)
+ ... '{0:{fill}{align}16}'.format(text, fill=align, align=align)
...
'left<<<<<<<<<<<<'
'^^^^^center^^^^^'
diff --git a/Doc/tools/sphinxext/indexcontent.html b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/indexcontent.html
index 10a070c..30963c3 100644
--- a/Doc/tools/sphinxext/indexcontent.html
+++ b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/indexcontent.html
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<table class="contentstable" align="center"><tr>
<td width="50%">
<p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("whatsnew/" + version) }}">What's new in Python {{ version }}?</a><br/>
- <span class="linkdescr">or <a href="{{ pathto("whatsnew/index") }}">all "What's new" documents</a> since 2.0</span></span></p>
+ <span class="linkdescr">or <a href="{{ pathto("whatsnew/index") }}">all "What's new" documents</a> since 2.0</span></p>
<p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("tutorial/index") }}">Tutorial</a><br/>
<span class="linkdescr">start here</span></p>
<p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("library/index") }}">Library Reference</a><br/>
diff --git a/Doc/tools/sphinxext/static/basic.css b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/static/basic.css
index 8977187..2b47622 100644
--- a/Doc/tools/sphinxext/static/basic.css
+++ b/Doc/tools/sphinxext/static/basic.css
@@ -257,6 +257,10 @@ table.docutils td, table.docutils th {
background-color: #eef;
}
+table.docutils td p.last, table.docutils th p.last {
+ margin-bottom: 0;
+}
+
table.field-list td, table.field-list th {
border: 0 !important;
}
@@ -342,7 +346,7 @@ p.deprecated {
}
.footnote:target {
- background-color: #ffa
+ background-color: #ffa;
}
.impl-detail {