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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/c-api/arg.rst | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/howto/unicode.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/pydoc.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/winsound.rst | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | setup.py | 3 |
7 files changed, 32 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/arg.rst b/Doc/c-api/arg.rst index 0c4be63..1b2ab8f 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/arg.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/arg.rst @@ -164,8 +164,9 @@ variable(s) whose address should be passed. them. Instead, the implementation assumes that the string object uses the encoding passed in as parameter. -``b`` (integer) [char] - Convert a Python integer to a tiny int, stored in a C :ctype:`char`. +``b`` (integer) [unsigned char] + Convert a nonnegative Python integer to an unsigned tiny int, stored in a C + :ctype:`unsigned char`. ``B`` (integer) [unsigned char] Convert a Python integer to a tiny int without overflow checking, stored in a C @@ -552,3 +553,8 @@ and the following format units are left untouched. If there is an error in the format string, the :exc:`SystemError` exception is set and *NULL* returned. + +.. cfunction:: PyObject* Py_VaBuildValue(const char *format, va_list vargs) + + Identical to :cfunc:`Py_BuildValue`, except that it accepts a va_list + rather than a variable number of arguments. diff --git a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst index 7440dda..3fb6e56 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst @@ -67,11 +67,10 @@ in various ways. There is a separate error indicator for each thread. .. cfunction:: int PyErr_GivenExceptionMatches(PyObject *given, PyObject *exc) - Return true if the *given* exception matches the exception in *exc*. If *exc* - is a class object, this also returns true when *given* is an instance of a - subclass. If *exc* is a tuple, all exceptions in the tuple (and recursively in - subtuples) are searched for a match. If *given* is *NULL*, a memory access - violation will occur. + Return true if the *given* exception matches the exception in *exc*. If + *exc* is a class object, this also returns true when *given* is an instance + of a subclass. If *exc* is a tuple, all exceptions in the tuple (and + recursively in subtuples) are searched for a match. .. cfunction:: void PyErr_NormalizeException(PyObject**exc, PyObject**val, PyObject**tb) diff --git a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst index a01d723..8200723 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ For a while people just wrote programs that didn't display accents. I remember looking at Apple ][ BASIC programs, published in French-language publications in the mid-1980s, that had lines like these:: - PRINT "FICHER EST COMPLETE." + PRINT "FICHIER EST COMPLETE." PRINT "CARACTERE NON ACCEPTE." Those messages should contain accents, and they just look wrong to someone who diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index dbaa64e..c2581c6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ The :mod:`multiprocessing` package mostly replicates the API of the .. attribute:: daemon - The process's daemon flag, a Boolean value. This must be called before + The process's daemon flag, a Boolean value. This must be set before :meth:`start` is called. The initial value is inherited from the creating process. @@ -1808,9 +1808,9 @@ Address Formats filesystem. * An ``'AF_PIPE'`` address is a string of the form - ``r'\\\\.\\pipe\\PipeName'``. To use :func:`Client` to connect to a named + :samp:`r'\\\\.\\pipe\\{PipeName}'`. To use :func:`Client` to connect to a named pipe on a remote computer called ServerName* one should use an address of the - form ``r'\\\\ServerName\\pipe\\PipeName'`` instead. + form :samp:`r'\\\\{ServerName}\\pipe\\{PipeName}'`` instead. Note that any string beginning with two backslashes is assumed by default to be an ``'AF_PIPE'`` address rather than an ``'AF_UNIX'`` address. diff --git a/Doc/library/pydoc.rst b/Doc/library/pydoc.rst index 41ea1c6..1701662 100644 --- a/Doc/library/pydoc.rst +++ b/Doc/library/pydoc.rst @@ -34,6 +34,13 @@ it contains the path separator for your operating system, such as a slash in Unix), and refers to an existing Python source file, then documentation is produced for that file. +.. note:: + + In order to find objects and their documentation, :mod:`pydoc` imports the + module(s) to be documented. Therefore, any code on module level will be + executed on that occasion. Use an ``if __name__ == '__main__':`` guard to + only execute code when a file is invoked as a script and not just imported. + Specifying a :option:`-w` flag before the argument will cause HTML documentation to be written out to a file in the current directory, instead of displaying text on the console. diff --git a/Doc/library/winsound.rst b/Doc/library/winsound.rst index dfe3c84..f42ff18 100644 --- a/Doc/library/winsound.rst +++ b/Doc/library/winsound.rst @@ -26,8 +26,9 @@ provided by Windows platforms. It includes functions and several constants. Call the underlying :cfunc:`PlaySound` function from the Platform API. The *sound* parameter may be a filename, audio data as a string, or ``None``. Its interpretation depends on the value of *flags*, which can be a bitwise ORed - combination of the constants described below. If the system indicates an error, - :exc:`RuntimeError` is raised. + combination of the constants described below. If the *sound* parameter is + ``None``, any currently playing waveform sound is stopped. If the system + indicates an error, :exc:`RuntimeError` is raised. .. function:: MessageBeep([type=MB_OK]) @@ -102,6 +103,10 @@ provided by Windows platforms. It includes functions and several constants. Stop playing all instances of the specified sound. + .. note:: + + This flag is not supported on modern Windows platforms. + .. data:: SND_ASYNC @@ -208,7 +208,8 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext): if missing: print() - print("Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules:") + print("Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build " + "these modules were not found:") print_three_column(missing) print("To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in" " detect_modules() for the module's name.") |