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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2008-03-31 01:51:45 (GMT)
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r62021 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-03-28 18:11:01 -0500 (Fri, 28 Mar 2008) | 2 lines NIL => NULL ........ r62029 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-03-28 20:42:31 -0500 (Fri, 28 Mar 2008) | 3 lines Correctly call the base class tearDown(); otherwise running test_logging twice produce the errors we see on all buildbots ........ r62035 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-29 05:42:07 -0500 (Sat, 29 Mar 2008) | 1 line Be explicit about what efficient means. ........ r62036 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-29 06:46:18 -0500 (Sat, 29 Mar 2008) | 2 lines Fix capitalization. ........ r62037 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-03-29 07:42:54 -0500 (Sat, 29 Mar 2008) | 5 lines lib2to3 should install a logging handler only when run as a main program, not when used as a library. This may please the buildbots, which fail when test_lib2to3 is run before test_logging. ........ r62043 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-03-29 10:24:25 -0500 (Sat, 29 Mar 2008) | 3 lines #2503 make singletons compared with "is" not == or != Thanks to Wummel for the patch ........ r62044 | gerhard.haering | 2008-03-29 14:11:52 -0500 (Sat, 29 Mar 2008) | 2 lines Documented the lastrowid attribute. ........ r62052 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-03-30 14:35:10 -0500 (Sun, 30 Mar 2008) | 2 lines Updated README regarding doc formats ........ r62053 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-30 14:41:39 -0500 (Sun, 30 Mar 2008) | 2 lines The other download formats will be available for 2.6 too. ........
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@@ -37,6 +37,14 @@ Documentation for Python 3000 is online, updated twice a day:
http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/
+All documentation is also available online at the Python web site
+(http://docs.python.org/, see below). It is available online for occasional
+reference, or can be downloaded in many formats for faster access. The
+documentation is downloadable in HTML, PostScript, PDF, LaTeX (through 2.5), and
+reStructuredText (2.6+) formats; the LaTeX and reStructuredText versions are
+primarily for documentation authors, translators, and people with special
+formatting requirements.
+
This is a work in progress; please help improve it!
The design documents for Python 3000 are also online. While the
@@ -77,6 +85,12 @@ For a more detailed change log, read Misc/NEWS (though this file, too,
is incomplete, and also doesn't list anything merged in from the 2.6
release under development).
+Proposals for enhancement
+------------------------------
+
+If you have a proposal to change Python, it's best to submit a Python
+Enhancement Proposal (PEP) first. All current PEPs, as well as guidelines for
+submitting a new PEP, are listed at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/.
Converting From Python 2.x to 3.0
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