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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex index 062e3e8..1d4df67 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ def my_import(name): \indexii{Boolean}{type} \versionadded{2.2.1} - \versionchanged[If no argument is given, this function returns + \versionchanged[If no argument is given, this function returns \constant{False}]{2.3} \end{funcdesc} @@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ class C: that differentiate between binary and text files (else it is ignored). If the file cannot be opened, \exception{IOError} is raised. - + In addition to the standard \cfunction{fopen()} values \var{mode} may be \code{'U'} or \code{'rU'}. If Python is built with universal newline support (the default) the file is opened as a text file, but @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ class C: \var{mode} \code{'U'} is the same as normal text mode. Note that file objects so opened also have an attribute called \member{newlines} which has a value of \code{None} (if no newlines - have yet been seen), \code{'\e n'}, \code{'\e r'}, \code{'\e r\e n'}, + have yet been seen), \code{'\e n'}, \code{'\e r'}, \code{'\e r\e n'}, or a tuple containing all the newline types seen. If \var{mode} is omitted, it defaults to \code{'r'}. When opening a @@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ class C: the inner sets should also be \class{frozenset} objects. If \var{iterable} is not specified, returns a new empty set, \code{frozenset([])}. - \versionadded{2.4} + \versionadded{2.4} \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{getattr}{object, name\optional{, default}} @@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ class C: \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{object}{} - Return a new featureless object. \function{object()} is a base + Return a new featureless object. \function{object()} is a base for all new style classes. It has the methods that are common to all instances of new style classes. \versionadded{2.2} @@ -901,7 +901,7 @@ except NameError: must be immutable. To represent sets of sets, the inner sets should be \class{frozenset} objects. If \var{iterable} is not specified, returns a new empty set, \code{set([])}. - \versionadded{2.4} + \versionadded{2.4} \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{setattr}{object, name, value} @@ -931,7 +931,7 @@ except NameError: Return a new sorted list from the items in \var{iterable}. The optional arguments \var{cmp}, \var{key}, and \var{reverse} have the same meaning as those for the \method{list.sort()} method. - \versionadded{2.4} + \versionadded{2.4} \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{staticmethod}{function} @@ -1099,6 +1099,12 @@ It's a function them) except when a very large range is used on a memory-starved machine or when all of the range's elements are never used (such as when the loop is usually terminated with \keyword{break}). + + \note{\function{xrange()} is intended to be simple and fast. + Implementations may impose restrictions to achieve this. + The C implementation of Python restricts all arguments to + native C longs ("short" Python integers), and also requires + that that number of elements fit in a native C long.} \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{zip}{\optional{seq1, \moreargs}} @@ -1114,11 +1120,11 @@ It's a function \versionchanged[Formerly, \function{zip()} required at least one argument and \code{zip()} raised a \exception{TypeError} instead of returning - an empty list.]{2.4} + an empty list.]{2.4} \end{funcdesc} -% --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +% --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \section{Non-essential Built-in Functions \label{non-essential-built-in-funcs}} |