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* Minor change to match the style guide.Fred Drake2001-07-141-1/+1
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* Change the grammar productions to use the new productionlist environment;Fred Drake2001-07-065-261/+410
| | | | | this supports a hyperlinked version of the grammar that can make tracking down details and definitions a little easier.
* Fix typoAndrew M. Kuchling2001-06-231-1/+1
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* Remove some bogus trailing whitespace.Fred Drake2001-06-231-2/+2
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* Fix minor markup nits.Fred Drake2001-06-232-6/+2
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* Use a named reference to another chapter instead of hard coding theFred Drake2001-06-231-2/+2
| | | | | chapter number. This also makes the reference a hyperlink in the HTML version.
* Fix a very minor (but annoying when looking for things!) markup nit.Fred Drake2001-06-237-0/+43
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* Add "yeild" to the list of keywords.Fred Drake2001-06-231-2/+18
| | | | Fix a very minor (but annoying when looking for things!) markup nit.
* Update to include the license information in a less annoying place.Fred Drake2001-06-201-0/+3
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* Update a "Programmer's note" about lambda forms and scoping to reflectFred Drake2001-06-051-5/+19
| | | | the availability of nested scoping in Python 2.1 and 2.2.
* Bring the notes on the relationship between __cmp__(), __eq__(), andFred Drake2001-05-291-10/+15
| | | | | | | __hash__() up to date (re: use of objects which define these methods as dictionary keys). This closes SF bug #427698.
* Fix typo reported in SF bug #427783.Fred Drake2001-05-291-1/+1
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* Make sure we include all of Python's numeric types in the data modelFred Drake2001-05-141-1/+2
| | | | | | description, so that the introduction of complex is not a surprise. This closes SF bug #423429.
* Fix typo reported by David Goodger. This closes SF patch #422383.Fred Drake2001-05-101-1/+1
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* Fix the operator precedence table: exponentiation binds tighter thanFred Drake2001-05-091-2/+2
| | | | | | negation. This closes SF bug #421999.
* Implement, test and document "key in dict" and "key not in dict".Guido van Rossum2001-04-202-4/+11
| | | | | | | | | I know some people don't like this -- if it's really controversial, I'll take it out again. (If it's only Alex Martelli who doesn't like it, that doesn't count as "real controversial" though. :-) That's why this is a separate checkin from the iterators stuff I'm about to check in next.
* Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping.Fred Drake2001-04-131-1/+1
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* Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping.Fred Drake2001-04-131-51/+56
| | | | Wrap some long lines and fix some markup nits.
* Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported byFred Drake2001-04-121-1/+1
| | | | Ping on the Doc-SIG mailing list.
* Typo: "ariables" --> "variables"Fred Drake2001-03-281-1/+1
| | | | This fixes SF bug #411118.
* Add nested scopes spec to appendix.Jeremy Hylton2001-03-233-32/+134
| | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* No quotes around the "future" in the first use of the term "futureFred Drake2001-03-231-1/+1
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* Include the futures appendix.Fred Drake2001-03-231-0/+3
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* Revise the markup so that this formats and uses markup consistently withFred Drake2001-03-231-28/+32
| | | | the rest of the documentation.
* Add some initial text for the appendix on future statements and nested scopes.Jeremy Hylton2001-03-231-0/+149
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* Note that assignments to __debug__ are illegalJeremy Hylton2001-03-231-0/+2
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* Revert to ver 1.22, which was the version before the nested scopesJeremy Hylton2001-03-231-91/+106
| | | | | docs were introduced. This loses a few small changes, but Fred says that's okay.
* Do not refer to "sub-modules" since that is not a defined term.Fred Drake2001-03-061-7/+8
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* Re-word the explanation of the in/not in operators for increased contentFred Drake2001-03-061-6/+14
| | | | | | | and clarity. Add a footnote to the information on the possibility of shadowing builtins with locals & module globals.
* Updates to describe function attributes.Barry Warsaw2001-02-271-4/+12
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* Sequence indexes are non-negative, not natural (0 is not a natural number).Fred Drake2001-02-221-32/+32
| | | | | | Reported by Daniel May <mayds@ecn.purdue.edu>. De-tabified everywhere.
* Feeble attempt to repair obsolete info about hex escapes.Tim Peters2001-02-141-4/+2
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* Minor markup adjustments.Fred Drake2001-02-021-15/+13
| | | | | Move some index entries next to what they are referring to for better "targetting".
* Allow 'continue' inside 'try' clauseJeremy Hylton2001-02-011-9/+11
| | | | SF patch 102989 by Thomas Wouters
* Remove spurious "\end{description}" that caused formatting to fail.Fred Drake2001-02-011-2/+0
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* update section 4.1 to describe nested scopesJeremy Hylton2001-02-011-94/+83
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* Remove note about the compiler not checking for two kinds of illegalJeremy Hylton2001-01-301-5/+0
| | | | imports. It checks for them now.
* Typo: coplete --> completeFred Drake2001-01-261-1/+1
| | | | This closes SF bug #129759.
* Updated note about collection of cyclic garbage, based on comments fromFred Drake2001-01-221-3/+6
| | | | Chris Ryland.
* Document rich comparisons.Guido van Rossum2001-01-181-5/+42
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* Fix a variety of minor nits and typos caught by Chris RylandFred Drake2001-01-141-7/+7
| | | | <cpr@emsoftware.com>.
* Steve Holden <sholden@holdenweb.com>:Fred Drake2001-01-091-13/+13
| | | | Clarify the handling of characters following backslashes in raw strings.
* __rcmp__() description: Changed to indicate that this is no longerFred Drake2001-01-041-8/+1
| | | | | | | | supported as of Python 2.1. We still need to have an entry for this since it is reasonable for users to want to understand existing code. This closes SF bug #122715.
* Document the NotImplemented object.Neil Schemenauer2001-01-041-0/+9
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* Improve description of else clause of the try/except/else statement.Fred Drake2001-01-021-6/+11
| | | | This closes (again!) bug #127098.
* Change documentation of 'else' clause of 'try/except' to make clear that itThomas Wouters2000-12-311-3/+5
| | | | | | | | doesn't get triggered by 'return', 'break' or 'continue'. If the 'try-inside-continue' patch does not get accepted before next release, the 'or continue' should be removed ;P Closes SF patch #103045 and SF bug #127098.
* Fix typoAndrew M. Kuchling2000-12-191-1/+1
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* Updated string literals description to encompass Unicode literals and theFred Drake2000-12-191-11/+24
| | | | | additional escape sequences defined for Unicode. This closes bug #117158.
* Clarify __repr__ and __str__.Guido van Rossum2000-12-191-7/+10
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* Additional docs for __iadd__ and family, closing SF bug #117178 and SF patchThomas Wouters2000-12-111-0/+26
| | | | #102169.
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