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* Backport 1.42 documenting impending deprecation in favor of the emailRaymond Hettinger2002-10-061-0/+5
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* Backport 1.13 documenting impending deprecation in favor of the emailRaymond Hettinger2002-10-061-1/+5
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* Backport 1.3 documenting impending deprecation in favor of the emailRaymond Hettinger2002-10-061-0/+5
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* Backport 1.23 documenting impending deprecation in favor to the emailRaymond Hettinger2002-10-061-0/+4
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* Backport 1.4 documenting the impending deprecation of xreadlines.Raymond Hettinger2002-10-061-0/+1
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* Backport 1.36 documenting Py2.3's impending deprecation of the non-tupleRaymond Hettinger2002-10-061-4/+8
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* Backport 1.108 documenting Py2.3's impending deprecation of divmod()Raymond Hettinger2002-10-061-0/+3
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* Backport 1.94:Raymond Hettinger2002-10-051-4/+10
| | | | Patch 543387. Document deprecation of complex %, //,and divmod().
* Backport 1.100: Discussion of Stop Iteration in the Iterator Protocol.Raymond Hettinger2002-10-051-0/+7
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* Backport 1.88 and 1.87:Raymond Hettinger2002-10-051-7/+11
| | | | Update docs to reflect that \b considers underscore to be part of a word.
* Backport 1.19:Raymond Hettinger2002-10-051-2/+3
| | | | Document that the key should not contain null bytes.
* Backport 1.30 and 1.29:Raymond Hettinger2002-10-051-1/+4
| | | | | | Markup adjustments; fix the names of modules referenced in an expression. Deprecated Random.cunifvariate clearing bug 506647.
* Backporting of email 2.4 from Python 2.3. Many newly added modules,Barry Warsaw2002-10-048-644/+696
| | | | | | | | some updated modules, updated documentation, and updated tests. Note that Lib/test/regrtest.py added test_email_codecs to the expected skips for all platforms. Also note that test_email_codecs.py differs slightly from its Python 2.3 counterpart due to the difference in package location for TestSkipped.
* This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create branchcvs2svn2002-10-047-0/+831
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* Another try at clarifying what goes into and comes out of Unicode objects.Fred Drake2002-09-241-4/+0
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* Clarify that len() of a Unicode string returns the number of storage units,Fred Drake2002-09-241-0/+4
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* This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create branchcvs2svn2002-09-221-0/+254
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* Fix typo reported by Paul Clifford.Fred Drake2002-09-121-1/+3
| | | | Note that there is no str.joinfields(), use str.join() instead.
* Revise text about the level of DOM support, and provide pointers toFred Drake2002-09-111-29/+38
| | | | | | | | the work of the XML-SIG in the main body of the text. Incorporates changes made by Martin von Löwis in revision 1.20 on the trunk. Modify the markup in a few places to avoid wrapping lines in bad places, and just general cleanliness.
* Clarify who maintains Tkinter and who maintains Tk.Fred Drake2002-09-101-3/+4
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* Fix typoRaymond Hettinger2002-09-041-1/+1
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* Fix typoRaymond Hettinger2002-09-041-1/+1
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* Note change in behavior from 1.5.2. The new argument to NameError isRaymond Hettinger2002-08-271-2/+2
| | | | | | an error message and not just the missing name. Closes SF Bug 599869.
* Add strong security warning about the rexec module.Fred Drake2002-08-271-5/+17
| | | | | | Closes SF patch #600861. Minor markup changes.
* Correct documentation of allow_reuse_address to match the actual script.Raymond Hettinger2002-08-251-1/+1
| | | | Closes SF bug 599681.
* Fix typo reported to python-docs.Fred Drake2002-08-231-1/+1
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* backport gvanrossum's checkin ofMichael W. Hudson2002-08-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | revision 1.86 of libos.tex SF bug 563750 (Alex Martelli): posix_tmpfile(): The file returned by tmpfile() has mode w+b, so use that in the call to PyFile_FromFile(). Bugfix candidate.
* backport bwarsaw's checkin ofMichael W. Hudson2002-08-231-1/+1
| | | | | | revision 1.6 of emailutil.tex Minor typo: Message.getall() -> Message.get_all()
* Add a note that apply() is needed since the extended call syntax isFred Drake2002-08-221-0/+2
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* Clarify that even though some of the relevant specifications define theFred Drake2002-08-211-8/+10
| | | | | | | order in which form variables should be encoded in a request, a CGI script should not rely on that since a client may not conform to those specs, or they may not be relevant to the request. Closes SF bug #596866.
* Clarify the endpos argument to the rx.match() method.Fred Drake2002-08-201-2/+6
| | | | Closes SF bug #597177.
* Extend some comments on the order of values in the returns fromFred Drake2002-08-191-8/+14
| | | | dict.items/keys/values/iteritems/iterkeys/itervalues().
* Described responsibilty of weakly referenced extension types to initializeRaymond Hettinger2002-08-071-2/+23
| | | | | the weakreflist to NULL in the constructor and to fill the tp_flags slot with Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_WEAKREFS. Closes SF bug 586583.
* Documented os.fsync and os.fdatasync. Closes SF bug 584695.Raymond Hettinger2002-08-071-0/+11
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* Clarify that the bool instances are acceptable return values fromFred Drake2002-08-071-3/+7
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* Added references to the email package.Fred Drake2002-08-063-0/+9
| | | | Closes SF bug #586937.
* SF patch #591305 Documentation err in bytecode defsNeal Norwitz2002-08-051-1/+1
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* SF patch #581414: info reader bugFred Drake2002-07-301-1/+3
| | | | | | | | The "Matching vs. Searching" Info node is unreachable from the Info program (but is fine in Emacs's Info mode). This patch seems to fix it. This is the only occurrence where the info reader fails, so probably it could be addressed in the python docs as a workaround. Forwarded the report to the info maintainer.
* Small clarifications when referring to the sys.exc_* variables so thatFred Drake2002-07-251-15/+15
| | | | | | readers are not given the wrong impression that they should be using those on a regualar basis. This closes SF bug #585598.
* reduce(): Clarified what is returned in the case of a sequence 1 item long andFred Drake2002-07-171-6/+6
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* Clarify the return value of __nonzero__(): It *must* be an integer.Fred Drake2002-07-121-3/+3
| | | | Closes SF bug #579991.
* Document gc.get_objects().Fred Drake2002-07-101-0/+6
| | | | Closes SF bug #578308.
* Note that unicode() can raise LookupError for unknown codecs.Fred Drake2002-07-091-1/+2
| | | | Closes SF bug #513666.
* Fix typo reported by Kent Engström, and a bunch of broken markup.Fred Drake2002-07-081-11/+11
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* Fix typo: "an Unicode string" --> "a Unicode string"Fred Drake2002-07-081-2/+2
| | | | Clarify the return value when the parameter is a Unicode object.
* Add annotations that describe the change in the "errors" and "failures"Fred Drake2002-07-021-0/+4
| | | | attributes of the TestResult.
* Update the documentation of the errors and failures attributes of theFred Drake2002-07-021-6/+48
| | | | | | TestResult object. Add an example of how to get even more information for apps that can use it. Closes SF bug #558278.
* Fixed bug 574978 shutil example out of sync with source codeRaymond Hettinger2002-06-301-2/+1
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* Fix bug 575221 referred to dictionary type instead of dict.Raymond Hettinger2002-06-301-1/+1
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* Clarify the version information for the unicode() built-in.Fred Drake2002-06-291-6/+9
| | | | Closes SF bug #575272.