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* Added doubled word warnings.Raymond Hettinger2003-08-251-1/+1
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* SF patch#786531 'the the' typo. Contributed by George YoshidaRaymond Hettinger2003-08-121-1/+1
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* Fix representation of ^= operator in __ixor__() documentation.Fred Drake2003-07-231-1/+1
| | | | Closes SF bug #776181. Should be backported.
* Minor corrections.Raymond Hettinger2003-07-171-1/+1
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* - improve the description of how user-defined methodFred Drake2003-07-171-25/+85
| | | | | | | | objects get made - improve the description of attribute retrieval from classes and class instances - add brief documentation of static method and class method objects.
* Clarify the lack of relationship between rich comparison operators.Raymond Hettinger2003-07-161-0/+5
| | | | Prompted by a discussion on comp.lang.python.
* Indexing is a mess; try to get the link targets closer to the relevantFred Drake2003-07-152-14/+11
| | | | text. There needs to be a better way.
* Try to clean up some indexing relevant to the import statement.Fred Drake2003-07-151-3/+3
| | | | Pertains to SF bug #518989.
* Discuss calling new-style types.Fred Drake2003-07-151-1/+9
| | | | Closes SF bug #453683.
* Minor fixes to punctuation and grammar.Raymond Hettinger2003-06-291-5/+5
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* Add definitions of the test and testlist symbols in the grammar soFred Drake2003-06-271-0/+5
| | | | | there are no gaps in the definitions. Closes SF bug #726150.
* * Markup nits for the Invoking Descriptors sectionRaymond Hettinger2003-06-271-7/+121
| | | | | | | * Documented __slots__ * Documented __metaclass__ Shamelessly plagarized from Guido's tutorial.
* SF patch #760792: "wo" in "word" now valid but not documented as suchRaymond Hettinger2003-06-261-4/+7
| | | | | | Revised version of a contribution from Gerrit Holl. Update the docs for the extended behavior of __contains__
* * Fixed an unmatched parenthesis early in the text.Raymond Hettinger2003-06-261-2/+10
| | | | | * Clarified the meaning of lexicographic sequence ordering as discussed on comp.lang.python: http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e163c9f9ba114493
* remove _ from label: LaTeX rejects this due to all the magic we use toFred Drake2003-06-261-1/+1
| | | | get the _ character to format like a normal character
* * Document how descriptors are invoked.Raymond Hettinger2003-06-251-3/+63
| | | | * Fix minor parenthesis matching errors in ref3.tex.
* Patch #755683: Document that there might be a maximum indentation limit.Martin v. Löwis2003-06-211-1/+3
| | | | Fixes #700827
* SF patch #751038 fixing SF bug#750092: exec doesn't need newlineRaymond Hettinger2003-06-181-6/+0
| | | | Patch contributed by Steven Taschuk.
* Add explicit text for where an obindex call for generators was since obindex ↵Brett Cannon2003-06-151-1/+2
| | | | does not cause output of its argument.
* SF bug #749759: comparisons yield bool not intRaymond Hettinger2003-06-061-1/+1
| | | | Minor documentation fix.
* SF bug #719367, string exceptions are deprecatedNeal Norwitz2003-05-292-12/+5
| | | | Remove references to string based exceptions in the doc.
* Oops. License is still an appendix.Jeremy Hylton2003-05-281-0/+2
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* Appendix was removed.Jeremy Hylton2003-05-281-3/+0
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* *** empty log message ***Jeremy Hylton2003-05-281-160/+0
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* Move future statement here from appendix a.Jeremy Hylton2003-05-211-0/+78
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* Add a specific mention of the term "operator overloading" and add anFred Drake2003-05-121-1/+4
| | | | index entry. Suggested to python-docs.
* Add a space after expression to be consistentNeal Norwitz2003-04-101-1/+1
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* Fix symbol in grammar; this should fix some hyperlinking in the HTMLFred Drake2003-03-311-1/+1
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* - apply SF patch #700798: fixes and cleanups for descriptor infoFred Drake2003-03-201-13/+13
| | | | - use a TeX "tie" to prevent word-wrapping in "section x.y"-like text
* I thought it was common practice to check things compiled beforeMichael W. Hudson2003-03-051-5/+5
| | | | | | | checking them in? Oh well, this fixes various obvious mistakes and changes a subsubsubsection (which doesn't exist) into a subsubsection (which does). I'm not sure this matches the intent, but it seems to read OK on a quick skim.
* SF doc patch #692001, properties and __getattribute__. I added someGuido van Rossum2003-02-281-8/+54
| | | | stuff, and changed 'property' to 'descriptor'.
* Document __module__.Jeremy Hylton2003-01-311-3/+11
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* Fix typo reported to python-docs.Fred Drake2003-01-251-1/+1
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* Fix typoRaymond Hettinger2003-01-191-1/+1
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* SF patch #634866: Alex Martelli's corrections to the ref manual.Raymond Hettinger2003-01-193-48/+101
| | | | | Backport candidate. All but one or two of these changes are applicable to 2.2.2.
* Patch #662454: import a.b as c is ok, fixes #660811.Martin v. Löwis2003-01-161-5/+1
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* SF bug #661848 and #631055: Clarify use of __all__.Raymond Hettinger2003-01-061-1/+4
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* This is Richie Hindle's patchMichael W. Hudson2002-12-171-5/+7
| | | | | | | | [ 643835 ] Set Next Statement for Python debuggers with a few tweaks by me: adding an unsigned or two, mentioning that not all jumps are allowed in the doc for pdb, adding a NEWS item and a note to whatsnew, and AuCTeX doing something cosmetic to libpdb.tex.
* Fixing bugGustavo Niemeyer2002-12-161-0/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [#448679] Left to right * Python/compile.c (com_dictmaker): Reordered evaluation of dictionaries to follow strict LTR evaluation. * Lib/compiler/pycodegen.py (CodeGenerator.visitDict): Reordered evaluation of dictionaries to follow strict LTR evaluation. * Doc/ref/ref5.tex Documented the general LTR evaluation order idea. * Misc/NEWS Documented change in evaluation order of dictionaries.
* Revise the __all__ index entry a touch.Fred Drake2002-12-071-1/+1
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* Add __all__ to Reference Manual index.Raymond Hettinger2002-12-071-0/+1
| | | | Closes SF 643227.
* * Doc/ref/ref5.texGustavo Niemeyer2002-11-261-1/+1
| | | | Fixed minor bug preventing documentation compilation.
* Repaired inaccuracies in the % docs. In particular, we don't (and can't)Tim Peters2002-11-241-3/+14
| | | | | | | guarantee abs(x%y) < abs(y) in all cases when a float is involved. math.fmod() should, though, so noted that too. Bugfix candidate. Someone should check the LaTeX here first, though.
* Update: Older versions of Python crashed when calling repr()Fred Drake2002-11-131-3/+5
| | | | | | (including the implied call using back-ticks) of a recursive object, but this is no longer the case. Reported by Manus Hand via email.
* Closes SF bug #634069 reporting the docs on the ** operator were outRaymond Hettinger2002-11-081-4/+14
| | | | of date and did not reflect the current CPython implementation.
* Relocate an index entry so named anchors are not generated in a section head.Fred Drake2002-10-241-1/+2
| | | | Closes SF bug #546579.
* Added cross-references to related material on exceptions.Fred Drake2002-10-181-9/+13
| | | | | | | Closes SF bug #217195. Make sure section numbers wrap together with the preceeding word ("section").
* Added cross-references to related material on exceptions.Fred Drake2002-10-181-0/+3
| | | | Closes SF bug #217195.
* Make sure section numbers wrap together with the preceeding wordFred Drake2002-10-181-2/+3
| | | | ("section").
* Clarify deprecation of the floor div operator, modulo operator,Raymond Hettinger2002-10-111-5/+4
| | | | | | and divmod() function for complex numbers. Closes SF Bug 621708: Unclear deprecation.