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* Add a note that the quoteattr() function is useful for HTML and SGMLFred Drake2001-08-101-0/+2
| | | | attributes as well.
* Added a warning about reference cycles and memory consumption to theFred Drake2001-08-101-0/+10
| | | | | | section on functions which return stack frames. This closes SF bug #449258.
* Usage fix, problem reported by Keith Briggs.Fred Drake2001-08-101-1/+1
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* Added documentation for the new rich comparison support.Fred Drake2001-08-101-73/+147
| | | | | | | | | This closes SF patch #428320. Added documentation for the new floordiv() and truediv() functions. This is part of SF bug #449093. Re-organized the listing of functions to get better logical grouping.
* Expose nl_langinfo through locale where available.Martin v. Löwis2001-08-101-0/+119
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* Patch #448474: Add support for tell() and seek() to gzip.GzipFile.Martin v. Löwis2001-08-091-2/+2
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* Clean up some of the markup here -- be more consistent in the use ofFred Drake2001-08-081-9/+9
| | | | semantic labels instead of presentational markup.
* Add a comment on time.time() returning non-decreasing values except whenFred Drake2001-08-051-1/+3
| | | | | | the clock is set back. This closes SF bug #447945.
* Document IPv6 changes. Contributed by itojun.Martin v. Löwis2001-08-042-29/+206
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* Note that the mimetypes.MimeTypes class was added in Python 2.2.Fred Drake2001-08-041-0/+2
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* Add documentation for the new aspects of the mimetypes module.Fred Drake2001-08-031-1/+70
| | | | This closes the SF bug (feature request) #439710.
* Apply the new \mailheader macro where appropriate, and fix a few smallFred Drake2001-08-035-54/+57
| | | | markup inconsistencies.
* Fix some of the example code; the reference objects do not support aFred Drake2001-08-031-3/+3
| | | | | | | get() method; just calling them is sufficient. (There was a get() method for this in an early version of the implementation.) Reported by Mats Wichmann.
* Add a caveat about boundary conditions and RE concatenation, so that theFred Drake2001-08-021-9/+12
| | | | | | | documents do not make an overly-strong assertion about the properties of RE concatenation. Add an example of RE{m,} syntax and what it will and will not match.
* Cleaned up the description of readline.set_completer().Fred Drake2001-08-011-4/+7
| | | | Thanks to Nathaniel Gray for reporting the confusion.
* Added an example of a string value for the replacement parameter toFred Drake2001-08-011-44/+60
| | | | | | | | | re.sub(). This closes SF bug #446136. Fixed description of RE modifiers so that RE{#} and RE{#,} are more clearly described and disambiguated (plain RE{#} had not been described at all). Reported by Jeremy Craven via email.
* Fix description of buffer_info(), and add a note that there is a betterFred Drake2001-08-011-6/+15
| | | | | | way... This closes SF bug #444842.
* Make some adjustments to the markup, and fix up some style-guide issues.Fred Drake2001-07-291-17/+17
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* Patch #416224: add readline completion to cmd.Cmd.Martin v. Löwis2001-07-281-1/+23
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* Typo fix.Greg Ward2001-07-261-1/+1
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* SF bug #444510: int() should guarantee truncation.Tim Peters2001-07-261-3/+1
| | | | It's guaranteed now, assuming the platform modf() works correctly.
* Patch #411138: Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774.Martin v. Löwis2001-07-262-3/+3
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* trivial rewording in footnote 5.Skip Montanaro2001-07-251-2/+2
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* Add entry for the new distutils section.Fred Drake2001-07-241-0/+1
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* Overview comments for the distutils package, with links to the distutilsFred Drake2001-07-241-0/+37
| | | | | manuals for more information. This is being added to make it easier to find the documentation for the distutils code.
* Be more specific about corner cases in the description of the $ RE syntax,Fred Drake2001-07-231-4/+7
| | | | | | and include an example where the MULTILINE flag makes a real difference. This closes SF bug #441600.
* When explaining the enterabs() method, using the modern spelling of apply(),Fred Drake2001-07-231-3/+3
| | | | and relax the type of the argument list from tuple to sequence.
* Remove self-reference from the anydbm module.Fred Drake2001-07-231-1/+0
| | | | This closes SF patch #443788.
* Typo: Added missing "if".Fred Drake2001-07-231-1/+1
| | | | This is part of SF patch #442788.
* Add StopIteration to the list of exceptions *not* derived from StandardError.Fred Drake2001-07-231-3/+4
| | | | | Slightly re-word discussion of SystemExit and fork(). This is part of SF patch #443788.
* Convert the use of apply(f, args) to the new spelling: f(*args).Fred Drake2001-07-231-1/+1
| | | | This is part of SF patch #443788.
* Add a missing "\" to the markup.Fred Drake2001-07-201-1/+1
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* Added the constants ascii_letters, ascii_lowercase, and ascii_uppercaseFred Drake2001-07-201-3/+25
| | | | | to the string module. This was determined to be the right approach in SF bug #226706.
* apply patch item #416254Piers Lauder2001-07-201-3/+48
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* Added function xml.sax.saxutils.quoteattr().Fred Drake2001-07-191-2/+22
| | | | This closes SF bug #440351. It should not be moved to Python 2.1.1.
* Remove some false statements.Fred Drake2001-07-191-4/+2
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* Fix a few typosAndrew M. Kuchling2001-07-191-3/+3
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* "Make small changes, but carry a big diff."Fred Drake2001-07-181-248/+247
| | | | | | | Minor local consistency adjustments. A couple of small tweaks to the setdlopenflags() description. For setprofile() and settrace(), convert some references to become hyperlinks in the HTML version.
* Add some symbolic names to support hyperlinked references.Fred Drake2001-07-181-2/+2
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* Made a few minor style & markup changes to the new {get,set}dlopenflags()Fred Drake2001-07-181-15/+17
| | | | descriptions; added availability notes.
* Patch #412229: Add functions sys.getdlopenflags and sys.setdlopenflags.Martin v. Löwis2001-07-181-0/+21
| | | | Add dlopenflags to PyInterpreterState, and use it in dlopen calls.
* Update the availability information for os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile(), andFred Drake2001-07-171-1/+3
| | | | os.tmpnam().
* Fix a couple of minor markup nits.Fred Drake2001-07-171-5/+5
| | | | | Footnotes should be added *after* punctuation, not before. (Yes, this should be merged with the descr branch. Sorry, Tim!)
* Updated the documentation in several respects:Barry Warsaw2001-07-161-14/+46
| | | | | | | | | | | - This module, despite its name, now should conform to RFC 2822, the update to RFC 822. - This module doesn't just represent "email headers", but entire email messages. - Added documentation for other useful public functions such as quote(), unquote(), praseaddr(), and dump_address_pair().
* Revise the description of time.clock() so that it correctly describes theFred Drake2001-07-161-5/+11
| | | | | | Windows version of the function as well as the Unix flavor. This fixes SF bug #441357.
* Minor changes to match the style guide.Fred Drake2001-07-1421-72/+79
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* Correct a couple of errors noted by Alex Martelli.Fred Drake2001-07-141-3/+3
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* Remove comments about XML and HTML; those sections are noFred Drake2001-07-141-2/+1
| | | | | | longer part of this chapter. Minor change to match the style guide.
* Add entry for xmlrpclib documentation.Fred Drake2001-07-121-0/+1
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* Several markup adjustments so this will format and be more consistent withFred Drake2001-07-121-35/+45
| | | | the rest of the documnentation.
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