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* document Stats.dump_stats(), new for Python 2.3Fred Drake2003-05-141-0/+8
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* Add optional 'onerror' argument to os.walk(), to control errorGuido van Rossum2003-05-131-1/+9
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* [Bug #732124] Clarify .pos, .endpos by saying 'method' instead of 'function'Andrew M. Kuchling2003-05-131-18/+19
| | | | Also, put match() description before search(); search() refers to match()
* [Bug #729817] Document the rexec and Bastion modules as deadAndrew M. Kuchling2003-05-133-19/+17
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* Fix typoAndrew M. Kuchling2003-05-131-1/+1
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* Fix and add reference to urllib.urlencode for parse_qsl? functions.Brett Cannon2003-05-131-1/+5
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* Fix minor typos.Raymond Hettinger2003-05-124-5/+5
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* - object is a class type, not a functionFred Drake2003-05-101-3/+4
| | | | | - when marking a function, the trailing () should be included consistently
* Fix unbalanced parethesis.Raymond Hettinger2003-05-102-2/+2
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* Missing parenthesis found by texcheck.pyRaymond Hettinger2003-05-103-4/+4
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* Patch #612627: Add encoding attribute to file objects, and determineMartin v. Löwis2003-05-101-0/+14
| | | | the terminal encoding on Windows and Unix.
* Fix missing parenthesis.Raymond Hettinger2003-05-101-1/+1
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* Fixed spacing and unbalanced brackets or parenthesis.Raymond Hettinger2003-05-105-6/+7
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* Make this format again.Fred Drake2003-05-091-10/+12
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* add a note about accessing user-defined functions with an import statementSkip Montanaro2003-05-091-0/+17
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* Make this format again.Fred Drake2003-05-091-5/+7
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* - remove bogus \end{description}Fred Drake2003-05-091-3/+2
| | | | - fix two typos
* Clarify the dedent() example a bit by indenting the input lines unevenly.Greg Ward2003-05-081-4/+4
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* SF patch #598163 (Ville Vainio, vvainio@users.sourceforge.net):Greg Ward2003-05-081-4/+29
| | | | document dedent() function.
* Library documentation for the 'test' package. Still needs to be checked by ↵Brett Cannon2003-05-072-0/+276
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* add a note about the undocumented bsddb185 moduleSkip Montanaro2003-05-062-0/+12
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* Refer reader to platform library docs for specific semantics.Jeremy Hylton2003-05-051-3/+6
| | | | Resolves SF bugs 697989, 697988, 697986.
* Scattered wording and typographical improvements (up to but notGreg Ward2003-05-031-113/+91
| | | | including the "Callback Options" section).
* Rename "The Tao of Option Parsing" section to "Philosophy".Greg Ward2003-05-031-30/+30
| | | | Remove first-person usage from it. Various wording tweaks.
* Use True/False instead of 1/0 when talking about store_true/store_false.Greg Ward2003-05-031-13/+12
| | | | | Particularly important since they now store True and False rather than 1 and 0!
* Add a big comment about cross-platform issues (especially OpenBSD).Greg Ward2003-05-031-7/+33
| | | | | | This should be turned into a footnote by someone who actually understands OSS and its relationship to Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc.
* Use TeX quotes -- ``foo'' -- as appropriate.Greg Ward2003-05-031-39/+39
| | | | Remove whitespace around em-dashes.
* Fix various markup errors: use \longprogramopt{} more, and use itGreg Ward2003-05-031-11/+12
| | | | correctly. (Closes SF #731689.) Use \emph{} in a few places.
* Use \versionchanged, not \versionadded.Martin v. Löwis2003-05-031-1/+1
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* Patch #731514: Update recursion documentation to mention simple recursion.Martin v. Löwis2003-05-031-11/+14
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* Patch #711902: Cause pydoc to show data descriptor __doc__ strings.Martin v. Löwis2003-05-031-0/+25
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* The previous made the stop argument optional.Raymond Hettinger2003-05-021-10/+7
| | | | It is better to be explicit and just allow stop to be None.
* SF bug #730685: itertools.islice stop argument is not optionalRaymond Hettinger2003-05-021-10/+13
| | | | | * itertools.islice() stop argument did not perform as documented. * beefed-up test suite
* At the site of an indexed reference to print, point to the relevantFred Drake2003-04-301-1/+5
| | | | documentation. Closes SF bug #723136.
* - comment out \moduleauthor that broke formatting until the formattingFred Drake2003-04-301-15/+28
| | | | | tools can be fixed; added XXX comment - general markup fixes
* - clean up some extra punctuation hidden in indexing markupFred Drake2003-04-291-13/+10
| | | | | - fix a typo and one markup nit - normalize whitespace
* Clarify that the timeout argument to read_until() is in seconds.Fred Drake2003-04-291-1/+2
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* SF bug #729096: getopt online documentation example improvementRaymond Hettinger2003-04-291-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | A newbie found it difficult to translate the exampe into a case that used only short options or long options but not both. He tried to shorten the tuple search but forgot the trailing comma, The appropriate pattern is an equality check. Revised the example to point him in the right direction. Backport candidate.
* Add comment that urlopen opens local files without universal newlinesBrett Cannon2003-04-291-8/+8
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* Reworded fabs() for consistency with the others. Noted that allTim Peters2003-04-281-2/+3
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* walk() docs: Emphasize that the recursive-delete example is dangerous.Tim Peters2003-04-281-0/+2
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* SF bug 728097: tmpnam problems on windows 2.3b, breaks test.test_os.Tim Peters2003-04-281-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | tmpnam() appears essentially useless on Windows, and it finally broke the test for Irmen de Jong. Read the long new comment in test_tmpnam() for details. Since the MS implementation is insane, it might be good if we supplied a different implementation. Bugfix candidate.
* walk() docs: Worked "walking" into the description and the text. AddedTim Peters2003-04-281-1/+18
| | | | a brief example where bottom-up walking is essential.
* Clarified new text about math exceptions.Tim Peters2003-04-261-4/+9
| | | | Bugfix candidate.
* Add note about platform-specific behavior arising from discussion on bugSkip Montanaro2003-04-261-1/+11
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* organizational and markup cleansingFred Drake2003-04-251-76/+81
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* - add availability statements for some of the new APIsFred Drake2003-04-251-38/+38
| | | | - lots of general cleanup
* Add modified versions of the examples from Sean ReifschneiderFred Drake2003-04-251-0/+36
| | | | (SF patch #545480).
* Fix a copy-paste error: the paragraph about inet_ntop's use was copiedGuido van Rossum2003-04-251-2/+2
| | | | literally from inet_pton.
* reflect csv's change back to a module. Document the new sniffer api.Skip Montanaro2003-04-251-20/+14
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