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* Doco update from Sjoerd Mullender.Guido van Rossum1999-08-262-23/+29
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* Added additional index entries.Fred Drake1999-08-241-11/+14
| | | | Minor markup nits.
* whrandom should come immediately after random, not before.Fred Drake1999-08-231-1/+1
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* Tell what the result objects are (based on comment from the list).Fred Drake1999-08-191-4/+5
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* Added disclaimer to the sleep() function.Guido van Rossum1999-08-191-0/+5
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* Explain the possible range of values for the pid parameter toFred Drake1999-08-131-6/+14
| | | | waitpid().
* In note mentioning [].remove()'s exception, tell what exception isFred Drake1999-08-091-25/+21
| | | | raised. Prompted by Barry's whining. ;-0
* Add index entries for open():Fred Drake1999-08-051-1/+4
| | | | | | | buffer size, I/O I/O control, buffering line-buffered I/O unbuffered I/O
* Add index entry "I/O control, buffering" for fdopen().Fred Drake1999-08-051-0/+1
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* Add index entry "I/O control, buffering" for makefile().Fred Drake1999-08-051-3/+4
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* Change the directory tree walking example to use clearer variableGuido van Rossum1999-08-031-11/+14
| | | | names, some suggested by Joe Ellsworth.
* Markup nits.Fred Drake1999-08-021-40/+33
| | | | | Adjust examples to use the object interface instead of the function interface.
* Fixed hyperlink references to the __builtin__ and __main__ modules;Fred Drake1999-08-021-2/+2
| | | | error reported by Dale Nagata <DNagata@creo.com>.
* Added description of optional parameter to UserDict constructor.Fred Drake1999-07-261-2/+5
| | | | Omission reported by Barry Warsaw.
* Update getattr() description to document the optional thirdFred Drake1999-07-221-5/+7
| | | | parameter. Thanks to Barry Warsaw for pointing out the oversight.
* typo: privide --> provideFred Drake1999-07-201-1/+1
| | | | Reported by Nadim Ghaznavi <nadim@ghaznavi.com>.
* Move chdir() and getcwd() descriptions to "Files and Directories" withFred Drake1999-07-121-10/+16
| | | | | a pointer from the "Process Parameters" section. Based on comments from Aahz Maruch, Tim Peters, and GvR.
* Several methods return tuples, not lists.Fred Drake1999-07-071-4/+5
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* Move some misc. comments from the example section to the main section.Fred Drake1999-07-071-22/+22
| | | | | | Use the lowercase versions of the method names in the example, since that's what's documented (Greg Stein's suggestion). Add a blank line after the import line for clarity.
* dir() method description revised based on comments from Greg Stein.Fred Drake1999-07-071-6/+7
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* Missing space; reported by Robert Kern <kernr@ncifcrf.gov>.Fred Drake1999-07-061-1/+1
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* Fix a number of minor problems pointed out by /F.Fred Drake1999-07-061-7/+8
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* Fixed typo reported by /F; thanks!Fred Drake1999-07-061-1/+1
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* Minor markup nit.Fred Drake1999-07-021-2/+2
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* Added entry for asyncore module.Fred Drake1999-07-021-0/+1
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* Fix a few markup nits, improve some index entries.Fred Drake1999-07-021-38/+41
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* New documentation from Chris Petrilli <petrilli@amber.org>.Fred Drake1999-07-021-0/+197
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* For spawn*(), point to the magic constants; some readers have a hardFred Drake1999-07-021-2/+4
| | | | time finding the bindings.
* Removed entries for several modules which have been documented.Fred Drake1999-07-011-72/+55
| | | | Updated comments on several remaining modules.
* Documentation for dl module from Moshe.Fred Drake1999-07-011-0/+99
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* Added entry for dl module.Fred Drake1999-07-011-0/+1
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* Remove extraneous "contains" -- pointed out by Daniel BarclayFred Drake1999-07-011-1/+3
| | | | | | | <danielb@digitalfocus.com>. Added credit to Martin von Loewis for creating the module and documentation.
* Per Frank Stajano's suggestion, state explicitly that the functionsFred Drake1999-07-011-0/+14
| | | | | described in the sub-sections are directly available at the module level. He found this confusing.
* Make the reference to the os module in the module synopsis (for theFred Drake1999-07-011-1/+1
| | | | table at the front of the chapter) a hyperlink.
* For "Matching vs. Searching", remove comment that the section isFred Drake1999-06-291-8/+6
| | | | | incomplete; I don't remember what else I thought I was going to put in, but it looks o.k. to me know.
* Added some minor prose before the descriptions of the data attributesFred Drake1999-06-291-5/+12
| | | | to make it clear that these are instance attributes, not module data.
* Added entry for pty module.Fred Drake1999-06-291-0/+1
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* pty documentation from Moshe; with small edits.Fred Drake1999-06-291-0/+41
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* Improve description of the example.Fred Drake1999-06-291-4/+9
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* Usage nit: a bunch of "nor"s should have been a single "or".Fred Drake1999-06-291-5/+5
| | | | Make reference to the copy_reg module a hyperlink.
* Minor wording change in section title.Fred Drake1999-06-291-1/+1
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* byteswap() method: Tell *what* exception gets raised when the typeFred Drake1999-06-291-2/+3
| | | | cannot be byteswapped.
* Remove unnecessary comma.Fred Drake1999-06-291-1/+1
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* Comment out XXX comment; this needn't appear in the formattedFred Drake1999-06-291-1/+1
| | | | versions. XXX comments only need to be grep-able.
* Add note about not being able to use this module with modules notFred Drake1999-06-291-1/+3
| | | | implemented in Python.
* Moshe: Remove extraneous "and".Fred Drake1999-06-291-1/+1
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* Added entries for mutex and nis modules.Fred Drake1999-06-271-0/+2
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* NIS documentation from Moshe.Fred Drake1999-06-271-0/+48
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* Mutex documentation from Moshe.Fred Drake1999-06-271-0/+57
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* Separate documentation of SUNAUDIODEV from sunaudiodev; this mirrorsFred Drake1999-06-271-11/+24
| | | | similar constructs elsewhere (al/AL, gl/GL/DEVICE).