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* Delete the LaTeX doc tree.Georg Brandl2007-08-151-246/+0
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* Merged revisions 53005-53303 via svnmerge fromThomas Wouters2007-01-091-1/+1
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This function returns a context manager that protects warnings.filter from being modified once the context is exited. ........ r53029 | george.yoshida | 2006-12-14 03:22:44 +0100 (Thu, 14 Dec 2006) | 2 lines Note that guard_warnings_filter was added in 2.6 ........ r53031 | vinay.sajip | 2006-12-14 09:53:55 +0100 (Thu, 14 Dec 2006) | 1 line Added news on recent changes to logging ........ r53032 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-14 19:57:53 +0100 (Thu, 14 Dec 2006) | 1 line [Patch #1599256 from David Watson] check that os.fsync is available before using it ........ r53042 | kurt.kaiser | 2006-12-15 06:13:11 +0100 (Fri, 15 Dec 2006) | 6 lines 1. Avoid hang when encountering a duplicate in a completion list. Bug 1571112. 2. Duplicate some old entries from Python's NEWS to IDLE's NEWS.txt M AutoCompleteWindow.py M NEWS.txt ........ r53048 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-18 18:12:31 +0100 (Mon, 18 Dec 2006) | 1 line [Bug #1618083] Add missing word; make a few grammar fixes ........ r53050 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-18 18:16:05 +0100 (Mon, 18 Dec 2006) | 1 line Bump version ........ r53051 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-18 18:22:07 +0100 (Mon, 18 Dec 2006) | 1 line [Bug #1616726] Fix description of generator.close(); if you raise some random exception, the exception is raised and doesn't trigger a RuntimeError ........ r53052 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-18 18:38:14 +0100 (Mon, 18 Dec 2006) | 1 line Describe new methods in Queue module ........ r53053 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-18 20:22:24 +0100 (Mon, 18 Dec 2006) | 1 line [Patch #1615868 by Lars Gustaebel] Use Py_off_t to fix BZ2File.seek() for offsets > 2Gb ........ r53057 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-18 22:29:07 +0100 (Mon, 18 Dec 2006) | 1 line Fix markup ........ r53063 | thomas.wouters | 2006-12-19 09:17:50 +0100 (Tue, 19 Dec 2006) | 5 lines Make sre's SubPattern objects accept slice objects like it already accepts simple slices. ........ r53065 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-19 15:13:05 +0100 (Tue, 19 Dec 2006) | 6 lines [Patch #1618455 by Ben Maurer] Improve speed of HMAC by using str.translate() instead of a more general XOR that has to construct a list. Slightly modified from Maurer's patch: the _strxor() function is no longer necessary at all. ........ r53066 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-19 15:28:23 +0100 (Tue, 19 Dec 2006) | 9 lines [Bug #1613651] Document socket.recv_into, socket.recvfrom_into Also, the text for recvfrom told you to read recv() for an explanation of the 'flags' argument, but recv() just pointed you at the man page. Copied the man-page text to recvfrom(), recvfrom_into, recv_into to avoid the pointless redirection. I don't have LaTeX on this machine; hope my markup is OK. ........ r53067 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-19 15:29:04 +0100 (Tue, 19 Dec 2006) | 1 line Comment typo ........ r53068 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-19 16:11:41 +0100 (Tue, 19 Dec 2006) | 1 line [Patch #1617413 from Dug Song] Fix HTTP Basic authentication via HTTPS ........ r53071 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-19 16:18:12 +0100 (Tue, 19 Dec 2006) | 1 line [Patch #1600491 from Jim Jewett] Describe how to build help files on Windows ........ r53073 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-19 16:43:10 +0100 (Tue, 19 Dec 2006) | 6 lines [Patch #1587139 by kxroberto] Protect lock acquisition/release with try...finally to ensure the lock is always released. This could use the 'with' statement, but the patch uses 'finally'. 2.5 backport candidate. ........ r53074 | vinay.sajip | 2006-12-19 19:29:11 +0100 (Tue, 19 Dec 2006) | 1 line Updated documentation for findCaller() to indicate that a 3-tuple is now returned, rather than a 2-tuple. ........ r53090 | georg.brandl | 2006-12-19 23:06:46 +0100 (Tue, 19 Dec 2006) | 3 lines Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid. ........ r53099 | raymond.hettinger | 2006-12-20 07:42:06 +0100 (Wed, 20 Dec 2006) | 5 lines Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big number Needs to be backported. ........ r53106 | georg.brandl | 2006-12-20 12:55:16 +0100 (Wed, 20 Dec 2006) | 3 lines Testcase for patch #1484695. ........ r53110 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-20 20:48:20 +0100 (Wed, 20 Dec 2006) | 17 lines [Apply length-checking.diff from bug #1599254] Add length checking to single-file mailbox formats: before doing a flush() on a mailbox, seek to the end and verify its length is unchanged, raising ExternalClashError if the file's length has changed. This fix avoids potential data loss if some other process appends to the mailbox file after the table of contents has been generated; instead of overwriting the modified file, you'll get the exception. I also noticed that the self._lookup() call in self.flush() wasn't necessary (everything that sets self._pending to True also calls self.lookup()), and replaced it by an assertion. 2.5 backport candidate. ........ r53112 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-20 20:57:10 +0100 (Wed, 20 Dec 2006) | 1 line [Bug #1619674] Make sum() use the term iterable, not sequence ........ r53113 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-20 20:58:11 +0100 (Wed, 20 Dec 2006) | 1 line Two grammar fixes ........ r53115 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-20 21:11:12 +0100 (Wed, 20 Dec 2006) | 5 lines Some other built-in functions are described with 'sequence' arguments that should really be 'iterable'; this commit changes them. Did I miss any? Did I introduce any errors? ........ r53117 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-20 21:20:42 +0100 (Wed, 20 Dec 2006) | 1 line [Bug #1619680] in_dll() arguments are documented in the wrong order ........ r53120 | neal.norwitz | 2006-12-21 05:38:00 +0100 (Thu, 21 Dec 2006) | 1 line Lars asked for permission on on python-dev for work on tarfile.py ........ r53125 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-21 14:40:29 +0100 (Thu, 21 Dec 2006) | 1 line Mention the os.SEEK_* constants ........ r53129 | walter.doerwald | 2006-12-21 19:06:30 +0100 (Thu, 21 Dec 2006) | 2 lines Fix typo. ........ r53131 | thomas.heller | 2006-12-21 19:30:56 +0100 (Thu, 21 Dec 2006) | 3 lines Fix wrong markup of an argument in a method signature. Will backport. ........ r53137 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-22 01:50:56 +0100 (Fri, 22 Dec 2006) | 1 line Typo fix ........ r53139 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-22 14:25:02 +0100 (Fri, 22 Dec 2006) | 1 line [Bug #737202; fix from Titus Brown] Make CGIHTTPServer work for scripts in sub-directories ........ r53141 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-22 16:04:45 +0100 (Fri, 22 Dec 2006) | 6 lines [Bug #802128] Make the mode argument of dumbdbm actually work the way it's described, and add a test for it. 2.5 bugfix candidate, maybe; arguably this patch changes the API of dumbdbm and shouldn't be added in a point-release. ........ r53142 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-22 16:16:58 +0100 (Fri, 22 Dec 2006) | 6 lines [Bug #802128 continued] Modify mode depending on the process umask. Is there really no other way to read the umask than to set it? Hope this works on Windows... ........ r53145 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-22 17:43:26 +0100 (Fri, 22 Dec 2006) | 1 line [Bug #776202] Apply Walter Doerwald's patch to use text mode for encoded files ........ r53146 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-22 19:41:42 +0100 (Fri, 22 Dec 2006) | 9 lines [Patch #783050 from Patrick Lynch] The emulation of forkpty() is incorrect; the master should close the slave fd. Added a test to test_pty.py that reads from the master_fd after doing a pty.fork(); without the fix it hangs forever instead of raising an exception. (<crossing fingers for the buildbots>) 2.5 backport candidate. ........ r53147 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-22 20:06:16 +0100 (Fri, 22 Dec 2006) | 1 line [Patch #827559 from Chris Gonnerman] Make SimpleHTTPServer redirect when a directory URL is missing the trailing slash; this lets relative links work. ........ r53149 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-22 20:21:27 +0100 (Fri, 22 Dec 2006) | 1 line Darn; this test works when you run test_pty.py directly, but fails when regrtest runs it (the os.read() raises os.error). I can't figure out the cause, so am commenting out the test. ........ r53150 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-22 22:48:19 +0100 (Fri, 22 Dec 2006) | 1 line Frak; this test also fails ........ r53153 | lars.gustaebel | 2006-12-23 17:40:13 +0100 (Sat, 23 Dec 2006) | 5 lines Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and tell() work correctly together with readline(). Will backport to 2.5. ........ r53155 | lars.gustaebel | 2006-12-23 18:57:23 +0100 (Sat, 23 Dec 2006) | 5 lines Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves under certain conditions. Will backport to 2.5. ........ r53159 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-27 04:25:31 +0100 (Wed, 27 Dec 2006) | 4 lines [Part of patch #1182394] Move the HMAC blocksize to be a class-level constant; this allows changing it in a subclass. To accommodate this, copy() now uses __class__. Also add some text to a comment. ........ r53160 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-12-27 04:31:24 +0100 (Wed, 27 Dec 2006) | 1 line [Rest of patch #1182394] Add ._current() method so that we can use the written-in-C .hexdigest() method ........ r53161 | lars.gustaebel | 2006-12-27 11:30:46 +0100 (Wed, 27 Dec 2006) | 4 lines Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj argument. Will backport to 2.5. ........ r53165 | neal.norwitz | 2006-12-28 05:39:20 +0100 (Thu, 28 Dec 2006) | 1 line Remove a stray (old) macro name left around (I guess) ........ r53188 | neal.norwitz | 2006-12-29 04:01:53 +0100 (Fri, 29 Dec 2006) | 1 line SF bug #1623890, fix argument name in docstring ........ r53200 | raymond.hettinger | 2006-12-30 05:01:17 +0100 (Sat, 30 Dec 2006) | 1 line For sets with cyclical reprs, emit an ellipsis instead of infinitely recursing. ........ r53232 | brett.cannon | 2007-01-04 01:23:49 +0100 (Thu, 04 Jan 2007) | 3 lines Add EnvironmentVarGuard to test.test_support. Provides a context manager to temporarily set or unset environment variables. ........ r53235 | neal.norwitz | 2007-01-04 07:25:31 +0100 (Thu, 04 Jan 2007) | 1 line SF #1627373, fix typo in CarbonEvt. ........ r53244 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-01-04 18:53:34 +0100 (Thu, 04 Jan 2007) | 1 line Fix stability of heapq's nlargest() and nsmallest(). ........ r53249 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-01-04 22:06:12 +0100 (Thu, 04 Jan 2007) | 3 lines Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to avoid relying on atexit. Will backport to 2.5. ........ r53252 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-01-05 02:59:42 +0100 (Fri, 05 Jan 2007) | 3 lines Support linking of the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x (will backport to 2.5) ........ r53253 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-01-05 03:06:17 +0100 (Fri, 05 Jan 2007) | 2 lines bump module version to match supported berkeleydb version ........ r53255 | neal.norwitz | 2007-01-05 06:25:22 +0100 (Fri, 05 Jan 2007) | 6 lines Prevent crash on shutdown which can occur if we are finalizing and the module dict has been cleared already and some object raises a warning (like in a __del__). Will backport. ........ r53258 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-01-05 08:21:35 +0100 (Fri, 05 Jan 2007) | 2 lines typo fix ........ r53260 | neal.norwitz | 2007-01-05 09:06:43 +0100 (Fri, 05 Jan 2007) | 1 line Add Collin Winter for access to update PEP 3107 ........ r53262 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-01-05 15:22:17 +0100 (Fri, 05 Jan 2007) | 1 line [Bug #1622533] Make docstrings raw strings because they contain control characters (\0, \1) ........ r53264 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-01-05 16:51:24 +0100 (Fri, 05 Jan 2007) | 1 line [Patch #1520904] Fix bsddb tests to write to the temp directory instead of the Lib/bsddb/test directory ........ r53279 | brett.cannon | 2007-01-05 22:45:09 +0100 (Fri, 05 Jan 2007) | 3 lines Silence a warning from gcc 4.0.1 by specifying a function's parameter list is 'void' instead of just a set of empty parentheses. ........ r53285 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-01-06 02:14:41 +0100 (Sat, 06 Jan 2007) | 2 lines SF# 1409443: Expand comment to cover the interaction between f->f_lasti and the PREDICT macros. ........ r53286 | anthony.baxter | 2007-01-06 05:45:54 +0100 (Sat, 06 Jan 2007) | 1 line update to (c) years to include 2007 ........ r53291 | neal.norwitz | 2007-01-06 22:24:35 +0100 (Sat, 06 Jan 2007) | 1 line Add Josiah to SF for maintaining asyncore/asynchat ........ r53293 | peter.astrand | 2007-01-07 09:53:46 +0100 (Sun, 07 Jan 2007) | 1 line Re-implemented fix for #1531862 once again, in a way that works with Python 2.2. Fixes bug #1603424. ........ r53295 | peter.astrand | 2007-01-07 15:34:16 +0100 (Sun, 07 Jan 2007) | 1 line Avoid O(N**2) bottleneck in _communicate_(). Fixes #1598181. ........ r53300 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-01-08 19:09:20 +0100 (Mon, 08 Jan 2007) | 1 line Fix zero-length corner case for iterating over a mutating deque. ........ r53301 | vinay.sajip | 2007-01-08 19:50:32 +0100 (Mon, 08 Jan 2007) | 4 lines Bare except clause removed from SMTPHandler.emit(). Now, only ImportError is trapped. Bare except clause removed from SocketHandler.createSocket(). Now, only socket.error is trapped. (SF #411881) ........ r53302 | vinay.sajip | 2007-01-08 19:51:46 +0100 (Mon, 08 Jan 2007) | 2 lines Bare except clause removed from LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and AttributeError are trapped. (SF #411881) ........ r53303 | vinay.sajip | 2007-01-08 19:52:36 +0100 (Mon, 08 Jan 2007) | 1 line Added entries about removal of some bare except clauses from logging. ........
* Update general copyright years to 2006.Georg Brandl2006-02-111-1/+1
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* Add FAQ on non-GNU make error. Update copyright date to 2004.Kurt B. Kaiser2004-07-111-1/+8
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* add a note about memory consumption and LaTeXFred Drake2004-01-131-0/+17
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* [Bug #850823] Fix broken linkAndrew M. Kuchling2003-12-231-1/+1
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* Typo: documnetation -> documentationThomas Heller2003-09-271-1/+1
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* point to the new location of the license informationFred Drake2003-09-271-1/+1
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* - update the documentation contact addressFred Drake2003-07-301-10/+1
| | | | - remove text about the long-moved Mac OS libref chapter
* Adding "use warnings" to .../Doc/perl/python.perl raisesKurt B. Kaiser2003-07-081-1/+1
| | | | the Perl requirement to 5.6.0 or later.
* Update copyright years.Fred Drake2003-06-291-1/+1
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* Fixed a typo and updated information about using the Times fonts whenFred Drake2002-07-081-4/+5
| | | | formatting PostScript documents. Reported by Dave Kuhlman.
* Add 2002 to PSF copyrights.Michael W. Hudson2002-02-271-1/+1
| | | | | Doc/README is odd; it assigns some copyright to the PSF in 2000, when I didn't think it existed...
* Lots of small updates, some long overdue.Fred Drake2001-07-181-24/+35
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* Update link to LaTeX2HTML web site.Fred Drake2001-01-251-2/+1
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* A variety of updates of out-of-date information.Fred Drake2001-01-221-21/+29
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* Noted that building the info version requires the HTML::Element package,Fred Drake2000-10-261-1/+8
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* Update some version information for tools based on prodding from Greg Ward.Fred Drake2000-08-311-12/+11
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* Update to indicate the appropriate version of LaTeX2HTML. Update pointerFred Drake2000-07-311-8/+6
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* Change copyright notice.Guido van Rossum2000-06-301-22/+7
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* Added 'inst' and 'dist' -- the two Distutils manuals.Greg Ward2000-04-281-0/+2
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* Merged in changes from 1.5.2p2 release.Fred Drake2000-04-041-0/+2
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* Oops, missed version number for pdfTeX. Updated.Fred Drake1999-03-031-3/+4
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* Lots of small updates.Fred Drake1999-03-031-11/+11
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* Update the comments on info files.Fred Drake1999-01-131-5/+5
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* Update information on the version of latex2html to use, includingFred Drake1999-01-041-2/+5
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* Fix typo in URL; reported by Michael Ernst <mernst@cs.washington.edu>.Fred Drake1998-09-101-1/+1
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* Added more informaton about the mkhowto.sh script.Fred Drake1998-08-121-3/+4
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* Some minor updates.Fred Drake1998-08-121-6/+10
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* Updated to reflect recent changes.Fred Drake1998-08-111-16/+20
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* Update.Fred Drake1998-07-291-16/+1
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* Update note about latex2html version required.Fred Drake1998-05-151-2/+3
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* Add comments about release status.Fred Drake1998-05-121-0/+15
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* Added a section about documentation for the Mac modules.Fred Drake1998-05-111-0/+14
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* Changed some comments.... no longer mention FrameMaker.Fred Drake1998-05-111-38/+20
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* Added note about current status of info generation.Fred Drake1998-04-091-0/+9
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* Mention the --help option to tools/mkhowto.sh.Fred Drake1998-04-031-1/+2
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* Clarified some comments about the requirements on the TeX installation.Fred Drake1998-03-271-2/+20
| | | | Added brief section on the howto support.
* Add copyright statement.Fred Drake1998-03-111-4/+56
| | | | Add section on using A4 paper, since that's a common request.
* Update URL to get Perl. (Anyone want to re-write LaTeX2HTML in Python? ;)Fred Drake1998-03-041-12/+31
| | | | Add comments about what to do about bugs.
* Overhaul.Fred Drake1998-03-031-26/+70
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* Add note about dropping latex 2.09 compatibility.Guido van Rossum1998-01-191-0/+1
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* Updated the README to the current status. Added a note about theGuido van Rossum1997-12-081-72/+32
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* Added pointer to framereader distribution.Guido van Rossum1996-12-181-1/+2
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* Adapted to migration of reference manual to Frame.Guido van Rossum1996-10-231-20/+24
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* adapted to modern times; added section of HTMLGuido van Rossum1995-03-201-21/+39
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* Merge alpha100 branch back to main trunkGuido van Rossum1994-08-011-33/+28
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* Incorporated Jan-Hein's changes and texinfo conversion.Guido van Rossum1992-12-081-1/+51
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* Change description of a4wide removalGuido van Rossum1992-04-061-5/+5
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* Made ready for releaseGuido van Rossum1992-04-051-10/+23
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