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* Worked around bug SF #125880: changed the text of three sections thatFred Drake2001-01-221-3/+3
| | | | really nasty TeX source to "bleed" into the PDF "bookmarks".
* Clean up the docs for the "random" module according to comments from TimFred Drake2001-01-221-90/+71
| | | | | | Peters. This closes SF bug #125919.
* Add reference to PEP 232.Andrew M. Kuchling2001-01-221-7/+34
| | | | | | | Use correct flag name Py_TPFLAGS_CHECKTYPES Mention that numeric methods can return Py_NotImplemented (NAS) Mention optional arguments in time modules (TW) Various minor rewrites and additional attributions
* Remove the dollar sign from the formatting of environment variables --Fred Drake2001-01-221-3/+3
| | | | | too Unix-specific, and not really needed. (Already fixed the HTML formatting, but forgot to mention it in the checkin for python.perl 1.94.)
* Make "PythonLabs" bold.Fred Drake2001-01-221-1/+1
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* Updated note about collection of cyclic garbage, based on comments fromFred Drake2001-01-221-3/+6
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* Minor markup adjustment.Fred Drake2001-01-221-2/+1
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* Fix \seepep handling -- correct URL to the online PEP repository on SF isFred Drake2001-01-221-27/+39
| | | | | | | | | | | | now generated. (SF bug #129692.) Patch from Anthon van der Neut <anthon@mnt.org>: Work around the removal of content-less paired tags used for name anchors in some places. (SF bug #116008.) Move some class attributes from an artificial SPAN element to otherwise "useful" elements that are being generated anyway. Added the class "versionnote", used for \deprecated, \versionadded, \versionchanged.
* Fill out various transcripts and XXX bits, thanks to the WMATA.Andrew M. Kuchling2001-01-221-18/+137
| | | | | | The only missing section is the Nested Scopes section, which has to wait to see if a patch is actually committed. (Plus any other notable changes that get made or backed out between now and 2.1final, of course...)
* Beginning of a "What's New in Python 2.1" articleAndrew M. Kuchling2001-01-221-0/+253
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* Make the 'time' argument to the timemodule functions strftime, asctime,Thomas Wouters2001-01-191-12/+17
| | | | | | ctime, gmtime and localtime optional, defaulting to 'the current time' in all cases. Adjust docs, add news item. Also convert all argument-handling to METH_VARARGS. Closes SF patch #103265.
* Fixed a bunch of typos caught by Gilles Civario.Fred Drake2001-01-191-17/+20
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* Clarify comments about returning None using a return without an expression;Fred Drake2001-01-191-3/+2
| | | | | | this is not hard to explain! Closes SF bug #129345.
* Backed out the unistr() builtin.Marc-André Lemburg2001-01-191-7/+0
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* Minor markup cleaning, and one required fix in the unistr() description.Fred Drake2001-01-181-7/+7
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* Document rich comparisons.Guido van Rossum2001-01-181-5/+42
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* correct typo - closes bug #129205Skip Montanaro2001-01-181-1/+1
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* Fix the example (it didn't seem to reflect reality).Ka-Ping Yee2001-01-181-12/+14
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* Undoing the whitespace patches which sneaked into the earlier patch.Marc-André Lemburg2001-01-171-6/+6
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* This patch adds a new builtin unistr() which behaves like str()Marc-André Lemburg2001-01-172-6/+20
| | | | | | | | | | except that it always returns Unicode objects. A new C API PyObject_Unicode() is also provided. This closes patch #101664. Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg. Copyright assigned to Guido van Rossum.
* Add a missing newline in an example; caught by Chris RylandFred Drake2001-01-171-1/+2
| | | | <cpr@emsoftware.com>.
* Document xreadlines() method. (Forgot to check this in before!)Guido van Rossum2001-01-171-0/+4
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* Fix a few small markup/consistency nits.Fred Drake2001-01-161-6/+8
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* push_source() and pop_source() entry points for shlex instances.Eric S. Raymond2001-01-161-3/+22
| | | | | These basically just make available to the user what userhook() does to the source stack. Documentation included.
* effbot caught a typo!Barry Warsaw2001-01-151-3/+3
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* Document function attributes for both the function type and the methodBarry Warsaw2001-01-151-0/+38
| | | | | | type. The method documentation also includes a new brief discussion of `bound' vs. `unbound' and why setting an attr on a bound method is a TypeError. Includes Skip's suggested text.
* Fixing author's email address.Barry Warsaw2001-01-151-2/+2
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* Document changed default to passive mode.Guido van Rossum2001-01-151-1/+2
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* Document filterwarnings(..., append=<bool>).Guido van Rossum2001-01-141-2/+4
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* Fix a variety of minor nits and typos caught by Chris RylandFred Drake2001-01-141-7/+7
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* Added note that this module was added in Python 2.1.Fred Drake2001-01-121-0/+3
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* Updated descriptions to incorporate additional information from Tim Peters.Fred Drake2001-01-111-11/+13
| | | | This mostly closes SF bug #128251.
* Document \code{import} in pth files.Martin v. Löwis2001-01-111-1/+1
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* Fixed minor markup nits for consistency with the rest of the libraryFred Drake2001-01-111-5/+5
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* Added pointer on POP3 variations.Eric S. Raymond2001-01-111-0/+4
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* Implementation of PEP-0217.Moshe Zadka2001-01-111-0/+9
| | | | This closes the PEP, and patch 103170
* Corrections and additions to the documentation for POP3 and IMAP libraryEric S. Raymond2001-01-112-9/+31
| | | | support, based on my fetchmail experience.
* SourceForge patch #103140, checked in at fdrake's invitation. Minor fixes andEric S. Raymond2001-01-104-9/+22
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* Fix a typo, remove one copy of a duplicated name.Fred Drake2001-01-101-2/+1
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* Remove bogus "echo" command.Fred Drake2001-01-091-1/+0
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* Added documentation for the xreadlines module & related changes. TheFred Drake2001-01-095-6/+67
| | | | documentation was written by Jeff Epler (thanks!).
* Added a --global-module-index option to specify a (possibly relative) URLFred Drake2001-01-093-2/+18
| | | | | | | | | to the Global Module Index for a set of documents. This is used to include a reference to the global index from the per-document module indexes, so that it is just a little easier to find. (Someone suggested this, but I do not remember who. Please let me know if it was you -- thanks!)
* Miscellaneous updates.Fred Drake2001-01-091-3/+3
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* Steve Holden <sholden@holdenweb.com>:Fred Drake2001-01-092-13/+14
| | | | Clarify the handling of characters following backslashes in raw strings.
* Added names.Fred Drake2001-01-091-0/+2
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* Added missing word; fixed minor nits.Fred Drake2001-01-091-4/+4
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* Added entry for fpectl module documentation.Fred Drake2001-01-091-1/+2
| | | | | Moved the mutex docs to be adjacent to the sched docs, since these are meant to be used together (if they are used at all!).
* Added entry for fpectl module documentation.Fred Drake2001-01-091-0/+1
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* Documentation for the fpectl module, from Lee Busby. (Thanks!)Fred Drake2001-01-091-0/+122
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* Explain that long options are matched based on a unique prefix rather thanFred Drake2001-01-081-1/+8
| | | | | | requiring the whole option to be typed out. This closes SF bug #126863.