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* Issue #26778: Fixed "a/an/and" typos in code comment and documentation.Serhiy Storchaka2016-04-1711-14/+14
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* Fix typos in code comment and documentationMartin Panter2016-04-161-1/+1
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* Issue #26638: Fix links to some CLI optionsMartin Panter2016-04-163-9/+9
| | | | | Disable inappropriate links to Python interpreter options. Also make CLI section label in timeit less ambiguous.
* Issue #25314: Remove confused statement about const argumentMartin Panter2016-04-091-3/+3
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* Correct “an” → “a” with “Unicode”, “user”, “UTF”, etcMartin Panter2016-04-1510-11/+11
| | | | This affects documentation and code comments.
* Issue #26747: Document that InstanceTypes only works for old-style classesBerker Peksag2016-04-141-1/+1
| | | | Patch by Nan Wu.
* Issue #25496: Document compresslevel defaults to 9, by Hamza T KhanMartin Panter2016-04-131-2/+2
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* Clarify greedy-qualifier example, avoid HTML.Georg Brandl2016-04-121-4/+4
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* Closes #25910: fix dead and permanently redirected links in the docs. Thanks ↵Georg Brandl2016-02-2620-83/+78
| | | | to SilentGhost for the patch.
* Issue #6953: Rearrange and expand Readline module documentationMartin Panter2016-04-051-58/+114
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Group functions into six new subsections * Document the underlying Readline function or variable accessed * get_history_length() returns the history file limit * clear_history() is conditionally compiled in * Clarify zero and one bases for history item indexes * parse_and_bind() uses its argument directly as an init line * Change "command line" to "line buffer" for consistency * read_init_file() also executes the file * read_history_file() replaces the previous history * write_history_file() overwrites any existing file * Differentiate history file lines from history list items, which could be multi-line * Add more information about completion, also addressing Issue #10796 * libedit (Editline) may be used on any platform; detection is OS X specific
* Issue #26678: Fix datetime.tzinfo indexing and “tzinfo” attribute linksMartin Panter2016-04-011-50/+53
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* Remove redundant leading zeroes in PEP references.Serhiy Storchaka2016-03-312-2/+2
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* Issue #15660: Further clarify 0 prefix for width specifier in formats.Terry Jan Reedy2016-03-211-2/+4
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* Issue #23857: Implement PEP 493Nick Coghlan2016-03-201-0/+38
| | | | | | Adds a Python-2-only ssl module API and environment variable to configure the default handling of SSL/TLS certificates for HTTPS connections.
* #26250: document the sqlite3.Cursor.connection attribute. Initial patches ↵Ezio Melotti2016-03-181-0/+12
| | | | by Aviv Palivoda and Varpu Rantala.
* #25687: clarify that errors in tearDown increase the total number of ↵Ezio Melotti2016-03-131-4/+6
| | | | reported errors. Initial patch by HyeSoo Park.
* #26247: document Chrome/Chromium addition to webbrowser. Patch by Manvi B.Ezio Melotti2016-03-111-0/+11
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* Fix inspect.ismethod() docVictor Stinner2016-03-111-1/+2
| | | | | | | Closes #16851: Fix inspect.ismethod() doc, return also True if object is an unbound method. Patch written by Anna Koroliuk.
* Issue #15068: Got rid of excessive buffering in the fileinput module.Serhiy Storchaka2016-03-081-0/+6
| | | | The bufsize parameter is no longer used.
* Document another recipe for itertools: all_equal(). Inspired by David Beazley.Raymond Hettinger2016-03-071-0/+5
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* issue26484 - fix the broken table in the doc about len().Gregory P. Smith2016-03-051-1/+1
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* Issue 13573: Document that csv.writer uses str() for floats instead of repr().Raymond Hettinger2016-02-281-0/+1
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* Issue #22088: Clarify base-64 alphabets and which characters are discardedMartin Panter2016-02-231-6/+9
| | | | | | * There are only two base-64 alphabets defined by the RFCs, not three * Due to the internal translation, plus (+) and slash (/) are never discarded * standard_ and urlsafe_b64decode() discard characters as well
* Issue #26261: Clarify NamedTemporaryFile name attribute vs file.nameMartin Panter2016-02-221-1/+2
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* Fix errors in XML-RPC client example codeMartin Panter2016-02-221-3/+3
| | | | | * httplib.HTTP (deprecated and does not work) → HTTPConnection * Server (deprecated) → ServerProxy
* Issues #22468, #21996, #22208: Clarify gettarinfo() and TarInfo usageMartin Panter2016-02-191-6/+15
| | | | | | | * Make it more obvious gettarinfo() is based on stat(), and that non-ordinary files may need special care * Filename taken from fileobj.name; suggest dummy arcname as a workaround * Indicate TarInfo may be used directly, not just via gettarinfo()
* Closes #20169: fix inner links random doc.Georg Brandl2016-02-191-5/+6
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* Issue #15608: Improve socketserver module documentationMartin Panter2016-02-191-145/+195
| | | | | | | | | | * Add headings for each concrete and mix-in class and list methods and attributes under them * Fix class and method cross references * Changed RequestHandler to BaseRequestHandler and added class heading * Pull out Stream/DatagramRequestHandler definitions * Reordered the request handler setup(), handle(), finish() methods * Document constructor parameters for the server classes
* Issue #26304: Change "allows to <verb>" to "allows <verb>ing" or similarMartin Panter2016-02-103-20/+20
| | | | | The original form is incorrect grammar and feels awkward, even though the meaning is clear.
* Issues #26310, #26311: Fix typos in the documentationMartin Panter2016-02-102-3/+3
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* Clarify "cardinality of" as "number of elements in" as many readers doGregory P. Smith2016-02-082-2/+3
| | | | not have a math vocabulary.
* Issue #25179: Preparatory cleanup of existing docs on string formattingMartin Panter2016-02-083-15/+18
| | | | | | | | | * There was a link pointing to the section on the string.Formatter class (and multiple links in Python 3), when the section on the common format string syntax is probably more appropriate * Fix references to various format() functions and methods * Nested replacement fields may contain conversions and format specifiers, and this is tested in Python 3; see Issue #19729 for instance
* Issue #26244: Clarify default zlib compression level in documentationMartin Panter2016-02-031-2/+4
| | | | Based on patch by Aviv Palivoda.
* Issue #19023: Document ctypes array and pointer classesMartin Panter2016-01-291-4/+54
| | | | Also add some more tests. Based on patch by Sye van der Veen.
* Fix typo in test.rstBerker Peksag2016-01-251-1/+1
| | | | Reported by Mike Scalora on docs@p.o.
* Issue #18620: Improve Pool examples in multiprocessing documentationBerker Peksag2016-01-211-7/+32
| | | | | | | | | | A single call to Pool.apply_async() will create only one process. To use all of the pool's processes, it should be invoked multiple times: with Pool(processes=4) as pool: results = [pool.apply_async(func, ()) for i in range(4)] Patch by Davin Potts.
* issue25982 - Add a class definition for managers.Namespace in the ↵Senthil Kumaran2016-01-201-15/+16
| | | | multiprocessing docs.
* Issue26035 - Correct the argument names used in the docs of the traceback ↵Senthil Kumaran2016-01-161-48/+51
| | | | module. Make it consistent with module args.
* Issue #26127: Fix links in tokenize documentationMartin Panter2016-01-161-5/+5
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* Issue26097 - Fix the TextTestRunner documentation, mention all the arguments ↵Senthil Kumaran2016-01-151-2/+3
| | | | | | of the class. Patch contributed by Nicolas Évrard.
* #19006: fix wording in unittest docs.Ezio Melotti2016-01-121-2/+3
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* #25991: fix readline example to limit history size. Patch by Daniel Dye.Ezio Melotti2016-01-111-0/+3
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* delete old crypto prose (closes #26066)Benjamin Peterson2016-01-101-10/+0
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* fix typo in unittest docs (closes #26046)Benjamin Peterson2016-01-081-1/+1
| | | | Patch from Upendra Kumar.
* Issue #5501: Clarify that invoking freeze_support() on non-Windows platforms ↵Berker Peksag2016-01-071-2/+4
| | | | | | has no effect Patch by Davin Potts and Camilla Montonen.
* Backport documentation improvement.Senthil Kumaran2016-01-041-4/+3
| | | | | | Issue24898 - Improve str.find documentation. Simplify str.find explaination as per Georg Brandl's suggestion.
* Backport doc improvements for Issue21221 - Explain the usage of tm_isdstSenthil Kumaran2016-01-031-3/+6
| | | | | | attribute of mktime, with valid values and meaning. Patch contributed by Andrew Scheller.
* Fix grammar.Zachary Ware2016-01-011-1/+1
| | | | Reported by Anatoly Techtonik on docs@
* Issue #22088: Port base64 character ignoring doc and test from 857d9fe60169Martin Panter2015-12-141-3/+3
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* Issue #20837: Base-64 alphabet clarification from revision 1853679c6f71Martin Panter2015-12-141-1/+2
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