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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libos.tex | 22 |
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex index 0e1633b..15829fd 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex @@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX, Windows. (Note that \code{\var{child_stdin}, \var{child_stdout}, and \var{child_stderr}} are named from the point of view of the child -process, i.e. \var{child_stdin} is the child's standard input.) +process, so \var{child_stdin} is the child's standard input.) This functionality is also available in the \refmodule{popen2} module using functions of the same names, but the return values of those @@ -1008,7 +1008,7 @@ the time of creation on Windows): \versionchanged [If \function{stat_float_times} returns true, the time values are floats, measuring seconds. Fractions of a second may be reported if the system supports that. On Mac OS, the times are always -floats. See \function{stat_float_times} for further discussion. ]{2.3} +floats. See \function{stat_float_times} for further discussion]{2.3} On some \UNIX{} systems (such as Linux), the following attributes may also be available: @@ -1018,8 +1018,8 @@ also be available: \member{st_flags} (user defined flags for file). On other \UNIX{} systems (such as FreeBSD), the following attributes -may be available (but may be only filled out of root tries to -use them: +may be available (but may be only filled out if root tries to +use them): \member{st_gen} (file generation number), \member{st_birthtime} (time of file creation). @@ -1069,9 +1069,9 @@ Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX, Windows. \begin{funcdesc}{stat_float_times}{\optional{newvalue}} Determine whether \class{stat_result} represents time stamps as float -objects. If newval is True, future calls to stat() return floats, if -it is False, future calls return ints. If newval is omitted, return -the current setting. +objects. If \var{newvalue} is \code{True}, future calls to \function{stat()} +return floats, if it is \code{False}, future calls return ints. +If \var{newvalue} is omitted, return the current setting. For compatibility with older Python versions, accessing \class{stat_result} as a tuple always returns integers. @@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ For compatibility with older Python versions, accessing which do not work correctly with floating point time stamps can use this function to restore the old behaviour]{2.5} -The resolution of the timestamps (i.e. the smallest possible fraction) +The resolution of the timestamps (that is the smallest possible fraction) depends on the system. Some systems only support second resolution; on these systems, the fraction will always be zero. @@ -1224,7 +1224,7 @@ false is ineffective, because in bottom-up mode the directories in By default errors from the \code{os.listdir()} call are ignored. If optional argument \var{onerror} is specified, it should be a function; -it will be called with one argument, an os.error instance. It can +it will be called with one argument, an \exception{OSError} instance. It can report the error to continue with the walk, or raise the exception to abort the walk. Note that the filename is available as the \code{filename} attribute of the exception object. @@ -1833,8 +1833,8 @@ Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX. \begin{funcdesc}{getloadavg}{} Return the number of processes in the system run queue averaged over -the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes or raises OSError if the load average -was unobtainable. +the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes or raises \exception{OSError} if the load +average was unobtainable. \versionadded{2.3} \end{funcdesc} |