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* Issue #14245: Improve floating-point entry in FAQ. Thanks Zbyszek ↵Mark Dickinson2012-05-131-37/+26
| | | | Jędrzejewski-Szmek for some of the wording.
* #14770: improve the library FAQ.Ezio Melotti2012-05-131-54/+45
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* Removed outdated statement about pickle's and marshal's relative performance.Antoine Pitrou2012-05-101-8/+0
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* Closes #14306: clarify expensiveness of try-except and update code snippetGeorg Brandl2012-03-171-5/+5
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* Closes #14305: fix typo.Georg Brandl2012-03-141-2/+2
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* Update mention of Subversion in the FAQ.Éric Araujo2012-02-121-1/+1
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* Issue #13528: rework the performance question in the programming FAQAntoine Pitrou2011-12-091-153/+62
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* Remove obsolete references to bsddbAntoine Pitrou2011-12-041-46/+0
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* Streamline mention of sorted()Antoine Pitrou2011-12-031-4/+4
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* Break down and refine memory management questionAntoine Pitrou2011-12-031-41/+34
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* Reformulate answer, and remove off-topic discussion of bytecode in a ↵Antoine Pitrou2011-12-031-32/+17
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* Fix compatibility statement.Antoine Pitrou2011-12-031-1/+1
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* Remove outdated question (the bsddb module isn't included anymore)Antoine Pitrou2011-12-031-35/+0
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* Refine FAQ entry for catching stdoutAntoine Pitrou2011-12-031-6/+15
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* Advocate PyTuple_Pack instead of manual building of tuplesAntoine Pitrou2011-12-031-6/+1
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* Remove outdate FAQ contentAntoine Pitrou2011-12-031-32/+8
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* Streamline FAQ entry about the ternary operator, and suggest using ↵Antoine Pitrou2011-12-031-54/+20
| | | | io.StringIO for a mutable unicode container.
* Remove references to psyco, which is mostly unmaintained and doesn't work ↵Antoine Pitrou2011-12-032-18/+4
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* Mention the new GTK+ 3 bindings.Antoine Pitrou2011-12-031-2/+6
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* Clarify concatenation behaviour of immutable strings, and remove explicitAntoine Pitrou2011-11-251-0/+26
| | | | mention of the CPython optimization hack.
* Update dead references from py.org/dev/faq to the devguide (#13176)Éric Araujo2011-10-141-9/+3
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* Adapt/remove mentions of functions gone in 3.xÉric Araujo2011-09-012-10/+1
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* Fix some misuses of Sphinx roles and one typoÉric Araujo2011-09-012-2/+2
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* Close #12838: fix range() call.Georg Brandl2011-08-251-1/+1
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* Mention asyncore and Twisted in the library FAQ.Antoine Pitrou2011-02-051-1/+8
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* Mention concurrent.futures and update answers about the GIL.Antoine Pitrou2011-02-051-21/+27
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* Update test of "why is Python installed" FAQ.Antoine Pitrou2011-02-051-5/+5
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* Mention Cython and remove obsolete alternativesAntoine Pitrou2011-02-053-12/+11
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* Update info in the GUI FAQAntoine Pitrou2011-02-051-12/+18
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* Merge branches/pep-0384.Martin v. Löwis2010-12-031-1/+1
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* Make file names consistent.Georg Brandl2010-10-171-1/+1
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* #9086: correct wrong terminology about linking with pythonXY.dll.Georg Brandl2010-10-171-11/+11
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* Fix errors found by "make suspicious".Georg Brandl2010-10-062-2/+2
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* Migrate to Sphinx 1.0 C language constructs.Georg Brandl2010-10-064-31/+31
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* #9582 - add a missing "are" and reflow the line.Brian Curtin2010-09-231-2/+2
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* #9911: doc copyedits.Georg Brandl2010-09-212-2/+2
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* Add cross-references to the glossary entry for file objects.Antoine Pitrou2010-09-151-2/+2
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* Update file-related information in the FAQ.Antoine Pitrou2010-09-151-19/+27
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* Typo fix.Georg Brandl2010-08-141-2/+2
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* Fix Issue7007 - Use percent-encoded consistently instead of URL Encoded ↵Senthil Kumaran2010-08-091-1/+1
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* Take care of duplicate target name warnings.Georg Brandl2010-07-121-5/+3
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* Merged revisions ↵Benjamin Peterson2010-06-271-18/+23
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Markup fixes to use :exc:, :option: in a few places. (Glitch: unittest.main's -c ends up a link to the Python interpreter's -c option. Should we skip using :option: for that switch, or disable the auto-linking somehow?) ........ r80607 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-28 20:45:41 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line Add various unittest items ........ r80608 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-28 22:18:05 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line update pypy description ........ r80609 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-28 22:30:59 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line update pypy url ........ r80642 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 19:49:09 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line Always add space after RFC; reword paragraph ........ r80643 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 19:52:31 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 6 lines Reword paragraph to make its meaning clearer. Antoine Pitrou: is my version of the paragraph still correct? R. David Murray: is this more understandable than the previous version? ........ r80644 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 20:02:15 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line Fix typos ........ r80645 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 20:32:47 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line Markup fix; clarify by adding 'in that order' ........ r80646 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 20:33:40 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line Add various items; rearrange unittest section a bit ........ r80651 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-30 08:46:55 -0500 (Fri, 30 Apr 2010) | 1 line Minor grammar re-wording ........ r80652 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-30 08:47:34 -0500 (Fri, 30 Apr 2010) | 1 line Add item ........ r80674 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-30 20:19:16 -0500 (Fri, 30 Apr 2010) | 1 line Add various items ........ r80684 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-01 07:05:52 -0500 (Sat, 01 May 2010) | 1 line Minor grammar fix ........ r80685 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-01 07:06:51 -0500 (Sat, 01 May 2010) | 1 line Describe memoryview ........ r80686 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-05-01 07:16:39 -0500 (Sat, 01 May 2010) | 4 lines Fix attribution. Travis didn't do much and he did a bad work. (yes, this is a sensitive subject, sorry) ........ r80748 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-03 20:24:22 -0500 (Mon, 03 May 2010) | 1 line Add some more items; the urlparse change is added twice ........ r80852 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-05 20:09:47 -0500 (Wed, 05 May 2010) | 1 line Reword paragraph; fix filename, which should be pyconfig.h ........ r80854 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-05 20:10:56 -0500 (Wed, 05 May 2010) | 1 line Add various items ........ r80870 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 09:14:09 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line Describe ElementTree 1.3; rearrange new-module sections; describe dict views as sets; small edits and items ........ r80872 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 12:21:59 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line Add 2 items; record ideas for two initial sections; clarify wording ........ r80873 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 12:27:57 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line Change section title; point to unittest2 ........ r80907 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 20:45:14 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line Add a new section on the development plan; add an item ........ r80915 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-05-07 05:15:51 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 3 lines Fix some markup and a class name. Also, wrap a long line. ........ r80916 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-07 06:30:47 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 1 line Re-word text ........ r80951 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-07 20:15:26 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 1 line Add two items ........ r80952 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-07 20:35:55 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 1 line Get accents correct ........ r80976 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-08 08:28:03 -0500 (Sat, 08 May 2010) | 1 line Add logging.dictConfig example; give up on writing a Ttk example ........ r80977 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-08 08:29:46 -0500 (Sat, 08 May 2010) | 1 line Markup fixes ........ r80985 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-08 10:39:46 -0500 (Sat, 08 May 2010) | 7 lines Write summary of the 2.7 release; rewrite the future section some more; mention PYTHONWARNINGS env. var; tweak some examples for readability. And with this commit, the "What's New" is done... except for a complete read-through to polish the text, and fixing any reported errors, but those tasks can easily wait until after beta2. ........ r81038 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-05-09 16:09:40 -0500 (Sun, 09 May 2010) | 1 line finish clause ........ r81039 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 09:18:27 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line Markup fix; re-word a sentence ........ r81040 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 09:20:12 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line Use title case ........ r81042 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 10:03:35 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line Link to unittest2 article ........ r81053 | florent.xicluna | 2010-05-10 14:59:22 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 2 lines Add a link on maketrans(). ........ r81070 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 18:13:41 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line Fix typo ........ r81104 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-11 19:38:44 -0500 (Tue, 11 May 2010) | 1 line Revision pass: lots of edits, typo fixes, rearrangements ........ r81105 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-11 19:40:47 -0500 (Tue, 11 May 2010) | 1 line Let's call this done ........ r81114 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-12 08:56:07 -0500 (Wed, 12 May 2010) | 1 line Grammar fix ........ r81125 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-12 13:56:48 -0500 (Wed, 12 May 2010) | 1 line #8696: add documentation for logging.config.dictConfig (PEP 391) ........ r81245 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-16 18:31:16 -0500 (Sun, 16 May 2010) | 1 line Add cross-reference to later section ........ r81285 | vinay.sajip | 2010-05-18 03:16:27 -0500 (Tue, 18 May 2010) | 1 line Fixed minor typo in ReST markup. ........ r81402 | vinay.sajip | 2010-05-21 12:41:34 -0500 (Fri, 21 May 2010) | 1 line Updated logging documentation with more dictConfig information. ........ r81463 | georg.brandl | 2010-05-22 03:17:23 -0500 (Sat, 22 May 2010) | 1 line #8785: less confusing description of regex.find*. ........ r81516 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-25 08:34:08 -0500 (Tue, 25 May 2010) | 1 line Add three items ........ r81562 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-27 08:22:53 -0500 (Thu, 27 May 2010) | 1 line Rewrite wxWidgets section ........ r81563 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-27 08:30:09 -0500 (Thu, 27 May 2010) | 1 line Remove top-level 'General Questions' section, pushing up the questions it contains ........ r81567 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-27 16:29:59 -0500 (Thu, 27 May 2010) | 1 line Add item ........ r81593 | georg.brandl | 2010-05-29 03:46:18 -0500 (Sat, 29 May 2010) | 1 line #8616: add new turtle demo "nim". ........ r81635 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-01 02:25:23 -0500 (Tue, 01 Jun 2010) | 1 line Put docs for RegexObject.search() before RegexObject.match() to mirror re.search() and re.match() order. ........ r81680 | vinay.sajip | 2010-06-03 17:34:42 -0500 (Thu, 03 Jun 2010) | 1 line Issue #8890: Documentation changed to avoid reference to temporary files. ........ r81681 | sean.reifschneider | 2010-06-03 20:51:26 -0500 (Thu, 03 Jun 2010) | 2 lines Issue8810: Clearing up docstring for tzinfo.utcoffset. ........ r81684 | vinay.sajip | 2010-06-04 08:41:02 -0500 (Fri, 04 Jun 2010) | 1 line Issue #8890: Documentation changed to avoid reference to temporary files - other cases covered. ........ r81801 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-07 08:38:40 -0500 (Mon, 07 Jun 2010) | 1 line #8875: Remove duplicated paragraph ........ r81888 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-10 20:54:58 -0500 (Thu, 10 Jun 2010) | 1 line Add a few more items ........ r81931 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 01:26:54 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line Fix punctuation. ........ r81932 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 01:28:58 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line Document that an existing directory raises in mkdir(). ........ r81933 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 01:45:33 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line Update version in README. ........ r81939 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:45:01 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line Use newer toctree syntax. ........ r81940 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:45:28 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line Add document on how to build. ........ r81941 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:45:58 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line Fix gratuitous indentation. ........ r81942 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:46:03 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line Update README. ........ r81963 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-12 15:00:55 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line Grammar fix ........ r81984 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-14 10:58:39 -0500 (Mon, 14 Jun 2010) | 1 line #8993: fix reference. ........ r81991 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-14 19:38:58 -0500 (Mon, 14 Jun 2010) | 1 line Add another bunch of items ........ r82120 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-20 16:45:45 -0500 (Sun, 20 Jun 2010) | 1 line Note that Python 3.x isn't covered; add forward ref. for UTF-8; note error in 2.5 and up ........ r82188 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-06-23 19:02:46 -0500 (Wed, 23 Jun 2010) | 1 line remove reverted changed ........ r82264 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:47:47 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line Confusing punctuation. ........ r82265 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:49:23 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line Use designated syntax for optional grammar element. ........ r82266 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:51:44 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line Fix URL. ........ r82267 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:55:38 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line Two typos. ........
* Merged revisions 80009 via svnmerge fromBrian Curtin2010-04-121-1/+6
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