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diff --git a/Doc/tut.tex b/Doc/tut.tex index c29d3a7..ffe03d0 100644 --- a/Doc/tut.tex +++ b/Doc/tut.tex @@ -3276,7 +3276,8 @@ In this release, the built-in exceptions are still strings. Two new modules, \code{pickle} and \code{shelve}, support storage and retrieval of (almost) arbitrary Python objects on disk, using the \code{dbm} package. A third module, \code{copy}, provides flexible -object copying operations. +object copying operations. More information on these modules is +provided in the Library Reference Manual. \subsection{Persistent Objects} @@ -3308,9 +3309,6 @@ on files. The operation \code{shelve.open(filename)} returns a dictionary-like interface. Database keys are strings, objects stored in the database can be anything that \code{pickle} will handle. -More information on these modules can be glanced from their -documentation strings (see below). - \subsection{Copying Objects} The module \code{copy} exports two functions: \code{copy()} and @@ -3338,8 +3336,6 @@ as \code{pickle} --- user-defined classes can control how they are copied by providing methods named \code{__getinitargs__()}, \code{__getstate__()} and \code{__setstate__()}. -More info in the module's documentation string. - \section{Documentation Strings} @@ -3496,21 +3492,21 @@ this forms the basis for a future restricted execution mode. There is a growing number of modules available for writing WWW tools. The previous release already sported modules \code{gopherlib}, -\code{ftplib}, \code{httplib} and \code{urllib} (unifying the previous -three) for accessing data through the commonest WWW protocols. This -release also provides \code{cgi}, to ease the writing of server-side -scripts that use the Common Gateway Interface protocol, supported by -most WWW servers. The module \code{urlparse} provides precise parsing -of a URL string into its components (address scheme, network location, -path, parameters, query, and fragment identifier). - -There is no complete parser for HTML files yet, although the -\code{Demo/www} directory in the distribution contains some old code -that should be a start if you wanted to contribute one. -Unfortunately Python seems to be too slow for real-time parsing and -formatting of HTML such as required by interactive WWW browsers --- but -it's ideal for writing a ``robot'' (an automated WWW browser that -searches the web for information). +\code{ftplib}, \code{httplib} and \code{urllib} (which unifies the +other three) for accessing data through the commonest WWW protocols. +This release also provides \code{cgi}, to ease the writing of +server-side scripts that use the Common Gateway Interface protocol, +supported by most WWW servers. The module \code{urlparse} provides +precise parsing of a URL string into its components (address scheme, +network location, path, parameters, query, and fragment identifier). + +A rudimentary, parser for HTML files is available in the module +\code{htmllib}. It currently supports a subset of HTML 1.0 (if you +bring it up to date, I'd love to receive your fixes!). Unfortunately +Python seems to be too slow for real-time parsing and formatting of +HTML such as required by interactive WWW browsers --- but it's ideal +for writing a ``robot'' (an automated WWW browser that searches the +web for information). \section{Miscellaneous} |