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* Use \versionchanged to indicate when the second parameter to utime()Fred Drake2000-05-021-2/+3
| | | | was allowed to be None.
* Eric Raymond:Guido van Rossum2000-05-011-2/+64
| | | | | | | | | | | (1) Added and documented the capability for shlex to handle lexical-level inclusion and a stack of input sources. Also, the input stream member is now documented, and the constructor takes an optional source-filename. The class provides facilities to generate error messages that track file and line number. (2) Add a convenience function to generate C-compiler style error leaders.
* Document the new additional signature for utime(). In addition to theBarry Warsaw2000-05-011-3/+6
| | | | | previous functionality utime(path, (atime, mtime)), now allowed is utime(path, None) which sets the file's times to the current time.
* \file and \filenq should not be used in section titles; they are notFred Drake2000-04-281-1/+1
| | | | | sufficiently robust to survive the creation of bookmarks in the PDF format.
* Added a "See also:" section that exhibits the \seerfc markup.Fred Drake2000-04-261-0/+7
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* Added documentation for WindowsError; omission noted by Michal BozonFred Drake2000-04-171-0/+10
| | | | | | <bozon@natur.cuni.cz>. (Mark Hammond, other Python/Windows cognoscenti: please check this!)
* Update change to version_info structure.Fred Drake2000-04-131-6/+7
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* Document hexversion (incompletely explained) and version_info (easilyFred Drake2000-04-131-0/+32
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* Make use of \longprogramopt where appropriate.Fred Drake2000-04-112-3/+3
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* letters:Fred Drake2000-04-101-4/+4
| | | | | | | | Fix description; lowercase and uppercase are strings, not functions! Noted by Randall Hopper <aa8vb@yahoo.com>. maketrans(): Minor markup nits in description.
* Fix Skip's email address in his attribution! (Thanks, Skip!)Fred Drake2000-04-081-1/+1
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* New example from Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>.Fred Drake2000-04-071-23/+29
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* Make sure the \declaremodule uses the right name for the module!Fred Drake2000-04-061-20/+22
| | | | Clean up several markup problems & inconsistencies.
* unichr(),Fred Drake2000-04-061-0/+2
| | | | unicode(): Added \versionadded{} annotations.
* Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:Fred Drake2000-04-061-0/+4
| | | | Added UnicodeType.
* Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:Fred Drake2000-04-061-1/+1
| | | | Added note that Unicode strings are picklable.
* Revised / removed comments about string exceptions (relating to theFred Drake2000-04-061-12/+17
| | | | standard exceptions), added documentation of UnboundLocalError.
* Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:Fred Drake2000-04-061-0/+5
| | | | Added UnicodeError description.
* Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:Fred Drake2000-04-061-5/+5
| | | | Add Unicode strings to the list of marshalable types.
* Note the exception raised when parameter to chr() is out of range.Fred Drake2000-04-061-1/+2
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* Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:Fred Drake2000-04-061-3/+20
| | | | Documentation for unichr(), unicode(), update for ord().
* Added codecs entry here as part of String Services.Fred Drake2000-04-061-0/+1
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* Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:Fred Drake2000-04-061-0/+126
| | | | | codecs module documentation, with some preliminary markup adjustments from FLD.
* Removed bogus connect() call in SMTP example; reported by TravisFred Drake2000-04-051-12/+0
| | | | | | B. Hartwell <slt5v@cc.usu.edu>. Removed second copy of the "See also" section!
* Added reference to the multifile module from the "See also" sectionFred Drake2000-04-051-0/+2
| | | | | in the mimetools documentation. Suggested by Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>.
* Noted by Guido:Fred Drake2000-04-051-7/+7
| | | | | Fixed up descriptions of altzone and timezone not to refer to the 0th meridian, which doesn't exist. Reference is now to UTC.
* Noted by Guido:Fred Drake2000-04-051-2/+2
| | | | Directionality of up/down were confused.
* Noted by Guido:Fred Drake2000-04-051-1/+1
| | | | | Note in the "Caveats" section should refer to the exit() function, not exit_thread().
* Added "See also" section; from Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>Fred Drake2000-04-041-1/+3
| | | | (re-written).
* Added "See also" section; from Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>.Fred Drake2000-04-041-0/+3
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* Added notes about the eventual disappearance of two-parameter bind(),Fred Drake2000-04-041-2/+13
| | | | | | | connect(), and connect_ex(). I didn't make these deprecation notices since it was never a documented feature.
* Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release.Fred Drake2000-04-0359-520/+1252
| | | | (Very rough.)
* UserString section:Fred Drake2000-04-031-6/+5
| | | | | | | Small cleanups noted by Detlef Lannert <lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>. Make the spelling of Unicode always uppercase.
* UserString class from Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>.Fred Drake2000-04-031-0/+49
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* Two new sections. Preliminary.Fred Drake2000-03-313-0/+239
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* Update portability information for the spawn*() functions and relatedFred Drake2000-02-291-4/+11
| | | | | constants. Someone will need to fill in information on the spawn*() functions that aren't listed.
* Added entry for libtabnanny.tex.Fred Drake2000-02-231-0/+1
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* Initial version from Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>, with minorFred Drake2000-02-231-0/+62
| | | | consistency changes and a note that the API may change in the future.
* Update the description of int() to include the radix parameter;Fred Drake2000-02-171-12/+16
| | | | | | | omission noted on c.l.py by Aahz Maruch. Swapped the order of the descriptions of int() and intern() so that int() comes first (the functions are in alphabetic order).
* Added docs for new crc32() function. By Jim Ahlstrom.Guido van Rossum2000-02-161-0/+12
| | | | (Fred, please check.)
* Document the API changes to the nntplib module (exceptions becomeBarry Warsaw2000-02-101-14/+40
| | | | | classes, NNTP.__init__() grows a new optional argument to set reader mode on the server).
* The dircmp module is now obsolete.Fred Drake2000-02-031-3/+3
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* Document GetoptError and label error an alias.Fred Drake1999-12-211-2/+9
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* Document 1.5.2+ aspects of the NotANumber exception. (Note that thisFred Drake1999-12-211-2/+5
| | | | is in the development branch, not the maintenance branch!)
* Document that the |mode| parameter to open() is optional and explain howFred Drake1999-12-212-10/+14
| | | | the default value is determined.
* Document getgroups(), getlogin(), fpathconf(), pathconf(),Fred Drake1999-12-151-1/+107
| | | | pathconf_names, confstr(), confstr_names, sysconf(), sysconf_names.
* Markup consistency nits that Guido didn't check. ;-)Fred Drake1999-12-131-6/+6
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* Doc update from Piers Lauder see changes for imaplib.py version 2.16.Guido van Rossum1999-12-131-0/+32
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* Document the new stuff in the os module.Fred Drake1999-12-091-2/+47
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* Update link to PythonWare library page.Fred Drake1999-12-011-2/+2
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