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* Adjust so that the copyright statements remain at the front but all the longFred Drake2001-06-211-0/+4
| | | | licenses move to the back, so as not to annoy as many readers.
* Fix an improperly placed comma.Fred Drake2001-06-141-1/+1
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* For os.stat() & friends, note that the time fields are returned asFred Drake2000-10-141-1/+3
| | | | floating-point values.
* Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:Fred Drake2000-10-121-10/+276
| | | | | | | Documentation for the codec base classes. Lots of markup adjustments by FLD. This closes SourceForge bug #115308, patch #101877.
* Added entries for new files of SAX documentation.Fred Drake2000-10-121-0/+3
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* Massive addition of SAX documentation from Martin von LoewisFred Drake2000-10-124-3/+731
| | | | | | | | | <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de>. Reorganized to be more like other parts of the documentation in its arrangement, but with few content changes. This closes SourceForge patch #101850.
* Document the exceptions that now get raised on invalid parameters.Fred Drake2000-10-111-2/+5
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* Make sure methods of ZipFile objects are in alphabetical order; the logicalFred Drake2000-10-111-4/+4
| | | | | groupings are still maintained. Based on a comment by Steve Holden <sholden@holdenweb.com>.
* Fixed a large number of small problems, mostly noted by Detlef LannertFred Drake2000-10-109-30/+30
| | | | <lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
* Note that the UserString/MutableString classes are far less efficientFred Drake2000-10-101-18/+22
| | | | | | | | | than the built-in string types (suggested by Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>). Clarified what "can be converted to a string" means. Fixed a few markup nits.
* Revise the examples not to use the "from socket import *", and adjustFred Drake2000-10-101-5/+7
| | | | one comment in the example for clarity.
* Remove duplicated text from urlopen() description, noted by Ka-PingFred Drake2000-10-101-16/+0
| | | | Yee <ping@lfw.org> and probably others as well.
* Make it clear that copy_reg.pickle() should not be used for classes, butFred Drake2000-10-101-5/+6
| | | | | | only for extension types. This partially fixes SourceForge bug #116295.
* Fixed lots of small nits caught by Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>.Fred Drake2000-10-1016-38/+40
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* Minor nit fixes based on suggestions from Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>.Fred Drake2000-10-101-4/+14
| | | | Added "See also" section with relevant RFC references.
* Better synopsis based on suggestion from Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>.Fred Drake2000-10-101-2/+3
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* Better synopses based on suggestions from Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>.Fred Drake2000-10-102-5/+4
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* Move the documentation for the mutex module to be with the threadingFred Drake2000-10-101-1/+1
| | | | | and queue-management modules, since that is where the general context for use in most cases.
* Work around annoyances in LaTeX2HTML.Fred Drake2000-10-092-2/+2
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* Push xmllib to the end of the markup chapter since it is deprecated.Fred Drake2000-10-091-1/+1
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* Denis S. Otkidach <ods@users.sourceforge.net>:Fred Drake2000-10-091-1/+1
| | | | | | Correct description of leapdays() function. This closes SourceForge patch #101840.
* Include more information from the docstrings.Fred Drake2000-10-061-7/+49
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* Fix really bad typo, noted by Neil Schemenauer <nas@arctrix.com>.Fred Drake2000-10-061-1/+1
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* Add notes on the requirements for subclasses.Fred Drake2000-10-061-0/+19
| | | | This closes SourceForge bug #115928.
* Revise the versioning information to say that this was revised in 1.6,Fred Drake2000-10-061-1/+3
| | | | not added then, and note what the change was (ncurses, change to a package).
* Made a number of revisions suggested by Fredrik Lundh.Fred Drake2000-10-061-12/+33
| | | | | Revised the first paragraph so it doesn't sound like it was written when 7-bit strings were assumed; note that Unicode strings can be used.
* It turns out that Guido does not like or encourage the use of the termFred Drake2000-10-062-3/+3
| | | | | "disciplines" for the __*__() methods, so they should be referred to as "methods" or "special methods", as appropriate in context.
* is_zipfile() description: Use the same name for the parameter as theFred Drake2000-10-061-3/+3
| | | | | | | code, in case someone wants to use it as a keyword paramter. ZIP_DEFLATED description: Do not reveal the specific value of the constant, since code should only use the symbolic name.
* Document the lookbehind assertions (closing bug#115119)Andrew M. Kuchling2000-10-051-0/+15
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* Document expand() method of MatchObjectsAndrew M. Kuchling2000-10-051-0/+9
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* - update Neil's email addressNeil Schemenauer2000-10-041-2/+2
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* Added deprecation notices to atof(), atoi(), and atol(), recommendingFred Drake2000-10-041-1/+4
| | | | | | use of the float(), int(), and long() built-ins instead. Fixed minor markup nit elsewhere (use of \optional).
* Added \versionchanged comment to os.popen() noting that it was unreliableFred Drake2000-10-041-0/+6
| | | | | | | in earlier versions of Python; this is useful information for people interested in writing code that is portable across Python versions. Suggested by Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>.
* Use \obindex{...} instead of \indexii{...}{type} in many places; this isFred Drake2000-10-041-17/+16
| | | | more consistent with other index entries in the documentation.
* Remove old note that os.popen() on Windows is unreliable; this is noFred Drake2000-10-031-3/+1
| | | | longer true.
* Jim Ahlstrom sent a few corrections to my changes. (Thanks!)Fred Drake2000-10-031-20/+27
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* Replace minimal \seetext references with better annotated \seerfcFred Drake2000-10-031-7/+8
| | | | | references, telling the reader more about what to expect at the other end of the links.
* Add deprecation note since the XML support is shaping up.Fred Drake2000-10-021-0/+3
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* Substantially revised documentation for the zipfile module, partially basedFred Drake2000-10-021-60/+164
| | | | | | on revised text from Jim Ahlstrom <jim@interet.com>. This closes SourceForge bug #115681.
* Minor usage fix.Fred Drake2000-10-021-3/+5
| | | | | Add a note that some way of reliably detecting the use of KDE would be really nice.
* Add documentation and warnings for the isCallable(), isMappingType(),Fred Drake2000-10-021-0/+50
| | | | | | isNumberType(), and isSequenceType() functions. This closes SourceForge bug #115789.
* Fixed spelling of module; closes bug 115712.Martin v. Löwis2000-09-301-1/+1
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* Replace to XXX notes to add references with real references.Fred Drake2000-09-301-2/+7
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* os.startfile() documentation, based on text from Tim Peters.Fred Drake2000-09-291-0/+18
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* Updated documentation relating to the various flavors of popen[234]()Fred Drake2000-09-282-24/+79
| | | | for Windows & Unix.
* Add regex and regsub to the list of undocumented obsolete modules.Fred Drake2000-09-281-0/+12
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* Update the documentation for ConfigParser to match the recent changes.Fred Drake2000-09-271-2/+13
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* regex and regsub are obsolete and Evil, so don't include them in the club.Fred Drake2000-09-251-2/+2
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* Updates from Fredrik Lundh <effbot@telia.com> about Unicode-relatedFred Drake2000-09-251-31/+43
| | | | behavior.
* Add obsolescence note to the module descriptions that get added to theFred Drake2000-09-252-3/+4
| | | | | list of module synopses at the front of the chapter; based on a comment from Aahz <aahz@panix.com>.