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* Added a lot of text from Steve Purcell's HTML documentation.Fred Drake2001-04-121-29/+251
| | | | | | Updated reference material substantially based on discussions on the pyunit-interest mailing list (not all changes are in the code in CVS yet).
* Fixed bug in example.Fred Drake2001-04-111-2/+2
| | | | | | This closes SF bug #415522. Also fix markup error in text following the example.
* Added some additional documentation describing how BabylMailboxBarry Warsaw2001-04-111-4/+12
| | | | | | actually works (it returns a message containing the visible headers, not the original headers). Doc change approved by Fred; closes SF bug #412230.
* Include a synopsis for the chapter overview.Fred Drake2001-04-111-0/+1
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* Fixing bug 405999 -- clarifying differences between Python'sMoshe Zadka2001-04-111-0/+4
| | | | getopt and GNU getopt -- Python is like classical UNIX getopt.
* Added definition of "test fixture".Fred Drake2001-04-101-2/+142
| | | | | | | | Added description of optional parameter to the TestSuite constructor. Added descriptions of the TestLoader and TextTestRunner classes. Added method descriptions for the TestCase class.
* Remove the mapping() function from the documentation.Fred Drake2001-04-101-25/+15
| | | | Add a description of the ReferenceError exception.
* Add note that difflib was added in Python 2.1.Fred Drake2001-04-101-0/+3
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* Normalize tabs to spaces.Fred Drake2001-04-101-4/+6
| | | | | | Update the attribution for the "Curses Programming with Python" How-To. Change the way the reference to the Demo/curses/ directory is marked up.
* Add reference to the DDJ article discussing a similar algorithm.Fred Drake2001-04-101-0/+9
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* Add documentation for getmoduleinfo() and getmodulename().Fred Drake2001-04-101-0/+23
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* Fix typo in example (\b should be \n in string literal).Fred Drake2001-04-091-1/+1
| | | | This closes SF bug #414279.
* Fix a number of bugs and omissions in the AddressList documentation, mostFred Drake2001-04-091-10/+23
| | | | | | | noted by Steve Holden. This closes SF bug #413876.
* Add entry for unittest documentation.Fred Drake2001-04-071-0/+1
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* Start of documentation for the unittest module. Some of this comes fromFred Drake2001-04-071-0/+266
| | | | | | | | Steve Purcell's documentation, and a lot of it is written based on using PyUnit and reading the implementation. There is more to come, but I want to get this check in before I have a disk crash or anything else bad happens.
* Change {\em ...} to \emph{...} for consistency with the rest of the PythonFred Drake2001-04-051-1/+1
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* Add some information about what to expect of the DocumentType'sFred Drake2001-04-051-0/+2
| | | | | .internalSubset attribute based on a clarification from the www-dom list.
* Add entry for curses.panel documentation.Fred Drake2001-03-291-0/+1
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* Fix serious markup errors.Fred Drake2001-03-291-11/+11
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* Added example use of weak references, contributed by Tim Peters.Fred Drake2001-03-281-0/+22
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* Add a note that the "kfm" controller supports "konqueror" as well as theFred Drake2001-03-261-1/+3
| | | | old KDE 1 "kfm" command.
* Document use_rawinput. (Although now that I think more about it, aGuido van Rossum2001-03-241-1/+6
| | | | | better solution would have been to factor out the raw_input() call and make it into an overridable method. Oh well, maybe later...)
* Add nested scopes spec to appendix.Jeremy Hylton2001-03-231-0/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | Add new opcodes LOAD_CLOSURE, LOAD_DEREF, STORE_DEREF, MAKE_CLOSURE to docs for dis module. Add docs for new function and code members in Sec. 3 of ref manual. They're present regardless of whether nested scopes are used. Remove description of default argument hack from Sec. 7 of the ref manual and refer the reader to the appendix.
* Explain the difference between NL and NEWLINE.Ka-Ping Yee2001-03-231-1/+4
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* Give a slightly better explanation of excepthook.Ka-Ping Yee2001-03-231-4/+6
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* Update to the most recent weakref changes.Fred Drake2001-03-231-11/+4
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* Add sys.excepthook.Ka-Ping Yee2001-03-231-3/+24
| | | | | | | | Update docstring and library reference section on 'sys' module. New API PyErr_Display, just for displaying errors, called by excepthook. Uncaught exceptions now call sys.excepthook; if that fails, we fall back to calling PyErr_Display directly. Also comes with sys.__excepthook__ and sys.__displayhook__.
* Moved the description of the tzparse module to the "Obsolete" sectionFred Drake2001-03-201-4/+5
| | | | | | and note that it fails when the TZ environment variable is not set. This closes SF bug #409683.
* Add documentation for SGMLParser.handle_decl().Fred Drake2001-03-161-0/+10
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* Re-order some method descriptions for a more logical grouping.Fred Drake2001-03-081-25/+25
| | | | (Based on reader comment!)
* Update documentation to reflect the shift to NetrcParseError instead ofFred Drake2001-03-061-2/+10
| | | | SyntaxError.
* Lots of organizational changes for consistency with the rest of theFred Drake2001-03-021-225/+289
| | | | | | documentation. Fix a few small markup nits.
* For copyfile(), be explicit that src and dst are file names; that was onlyFred Drake2001-03-021-2/+3
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* Added entry for urllib2 documentation.Fred Drake2001-03-011-0/+1
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* Document configuration flags to compile for large file support onGuido van Rossum2001-03-011-1/+9
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* Checking in patch 404826 -- urllib2 enhancements and documentations.Moshe Zadka2001-03-011-0/+501
| | | | | (please not that the library reference does *not* include the urllib2 documnetation -- that will wiat for Fred)
* Document warn_explicit().Guido van Rossum2001-02-281-0/+10
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* Add entry for the inspect module.Fred Drake2001-02-281-0/+1
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* Clean up some of the markup for consistency, wrap some long lines.Fred Drake2001-02-281-45/+50
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* added description of NL tokenSkip Montanaro2001-02-281-1/+4
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* Update documentation for termios module; do not refer to the TERMIOS moduleFred Drake2001-02-271-30/+27
| | | | | | for constant definitions. Add a deprecation to the TERMIOS module.
* Patch #403985: Add support for weak-keyed dictionariesMartin v. Löwis2001-02-271-16/+36
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* inspect: a module for getting information out of live Python objectsKa-Ping Yee2001-02-271-0/+261
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* Updates to the semantics of function and method attributes.Barry Warsaw2001-02-271-14/+18
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* Minor adjustments, including markup corrections.Fred Drake2001-02-231-5/+6
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* Fix extra backslash in example.Fred Drake2001-02-231-4/+1
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* Fix up the markup in some recently-added portions of the text.Fred Drake2001-02-231-26/+27
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* Work around the broken formatting of sys.ps1 prompts in running text.Fred Drake2001-02-221-46/+48
| | | | | | | Move sample sessions to the left margin of the file for consistency; formatting can adjust the margin if needed. This closes SF bug #133213.
* Remove documentation for the soundex module; the module is no longerFred Drake2001-02-222-76/+32
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* Patch #103885: Add dynamic registration and lookup of DOM implementations.Martin v. Löwis2001-02-221-0/+30
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