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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.
* The Python/C API deals in PyObject*, not PyDictObject*.Fred Drake2001-01-081-12/+12
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* Update explanation of the set_location() method to indicate that inFred Drake2001-01-051-1/+7
| | | | | | | BTree databases, the key need not be in the database. Also, tell about the exception if the key is not in the DB for other DB types. This closes SF bug #127377.
* Fix the bugfix for SF bug #127151 -- make sure we map "previous_page" toFred Drake2001-01-041-0/+7
| | | | "previous" and "next_page" to "next". This way the proper icons are found.
* __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.
* Based on comments from Guido, do not describe bisect() and insert() asFred Drake2001-01-041-5/+5
| | | | | | being "for backward compatibility." Also revert to using bisect() in the example, since Guido thinks that is the best recommendation for typical usage.