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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2000-02-04 15:39:30 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2000-02-04 15:39:30 (GMT)
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Actually, the previous batch's comment should have been different;
*this* set of patches is Ka-Ping's final sweep: The attached patches update the standard library so that all modules have docstrings beginning with one-line summaries. A new docstring was added to formatter. The docstring for os.py was updated to mention nt, os2, ce in addition to posix, dos, mac.
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diff --git a/Lib/os.py b/Lib/os.py
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+++ b/Lib/os.py
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
-"""os.py -- either mac, dos or posix depending on what system we're on.
+"""OS routines for Mac, DOS, NT, or Posix depending on what system we're on.
This exports:
- - all functions from either posix or mac, e.g., os.unlink, os.stat, etc.
- - os.path is either module posixpath or macpath
- - os.name is either 'posix' or 'mac'
+ - all functions from posix, nt, dos, os2, mac, or ce, e.g. unlink, stat, etc.
+ - os.path is one of the modules posixpath, ntpath, macpath, or dospath
+ - os.name is 'posix', 'nt', 'dos', 'os2', 'mac', or 'ce'
- os.curdir is a string representing the current directory ('.' or ':')
- os.pardir is a string representing the parent directory ('..' or '::')
- os.sep is the (or a most common) pathname separator ('/' or ':' or '\\')
- - os.altsep is the alternatte pathname separator (None or '/')
+ - os.altsep is the alternate pathname separator (None or '/')
- os.pathsep is the component separator used in $PATH etc
+ - os.linesep is the line separator in text files ('\r' or '\n' or '\r\n')
- os.defpath is the default search path for executables
Programs that import and use 'os' stand a better chance of being