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* Added warning that FancyURLopener prompts the user on the terminal whenFred Drake2001-04-121-0/+21
| | | | | | | | basic authentication is needed. Added documentation for FancyURLopener.prompt_user_passwd(), explaining that subclasses should provide more appropriate behavior for the hosting environment.
* Added module synopsis for the chapter summary.Fred Drake2001-04-121-67/+186
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Added documentation for TestCase.assertRaises(). Added text for "Mapping concepts to classes", and merged it into the front matter instead of separating it into a new section. Removed use of "assert" in examples. Update the descriptions to reflect further changes from discussions on the pyunit-interest list. Added documentation for the defaultTestLoader object and the TestLoader methods. Added the assert*() names for the TestCase helper methods.
* Convert several \seetext references to \seerfc and \seetitle versions.Fred Drake2001-04-123-19/+22
| | | | | These format somewhat better and include more semantic information in the source.
* Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported byFred Drake2001-04-121-1/+1
| | | | Ping on the Doc-SIG mailing list.
* Added a lot of text from Steve Purcell's HTML documentation.Fred Drake2001-04-121-29/+251
| | | | | | Updated reference material substantially based on discussions on the pyunit-interest mailing list (not all changes are in the code in CVS yet).
* Use "2.1c1" since that is what Guido used for the Python version number.Fred Drake2001-04-122-2/+2
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* Update to reflect the new string repr -- \n instead of \012. This is theFred Drake2001-04-121-5/+5
| | | | only documentation file that appears to be affected by the change!
* Markup nit: use \envvar to mark environment variables.Fred Drake2001-04-121-1/+1
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* When forming the <A> tag for a \seepep or \seerfc, make sure we stripFred Drake2001-04-121-1/+10
| | | | | | HTML markup from the string used as the title in the TITLE attribute. This fixes formatting in the "What's New in Python 2.1" document.
* Explain popitem()Andrew M. Kuchling2001-04-121-13/+16
| | | | | | Add Unixware 7 port Ready for RC1 Minor rewrites
* Fixed bug in example.Fred Drake2001-04-111-2/+2
| | | | | | This closes SF bug #415522. Also fix markup error in text following the example.
* Added some additional documentation describing how BabylMailboxBarry Warsaw2001-04-111-4/+12
| | | | | | actually works (it returns a message containing the visible headers, not the original headers). Doc change approved by Fred; closes SF bug #412230.
* Include a synopsis for the chapter overview.Fred Drake2001-04-111-0/+1
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* Fixing bug 405999 -- clarifying differences between Python'sMoshe Zadka2001-04-111-0/+4
| | | | getopt and GNU getopt -- Python is like classical UNIX getopt.
* Based on a comment by Konrad Hinsen on python-list:Fred Drake2001-04-111-4/+4
| | | | | | | | Change "EOF" to "end-of-file", on the premise that it is easier for new programmers to understand (at least a little). This does not attempt to explain "file or device attached to standard input."
* Added definition of "test fixture".Fred Drake2001-04-101-2/+142
| | | | | | | | Added description of optional parameter to the TestSuite constructor. Added descriptions of the TestLoader and TextTestRunner classes. Added method descriptions for the TestCase class.
* Typo: "BuildApple" --> "BuildApplet"Fred Drake2001-04-101-2/+5
| | | | Added reference to the webbrowser module from the nsremote description.
* Bump version numbers for upcoming release candidate.Fred Drake2001-04-102-2/+2
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* Update the XML conversion specification.Fred Drake2001-04-101-0/+2
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* Remove the mapping() function from the documentation.Fred Drake2001-04-101-25/+15
| | | | Add a description of the ReferenceError exception.
* Add note that difflib was added in Python 2.1.Fred Drake2001-04-101-0/+3
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* Normalize tabs to spaces.Fred Drake2001-04-101-4/+6
| | | | | | Update the attribution for the "Curses Programming with Python" How-To. Change the way the reference to the Demo/curses/ directory is marked up.
* Add reference to the DDJ article discussing a similar algorithm.Fred Drake2001-04-101-0/+9
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* Add corresponding support for the alltt environment to the HTML generator.Fred Drake2001-04-103-2/+48
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* Import the alltt package and wrap that environment in a similar way toFred Drake2001-04-101-0/+21
| | | | | the way we handle verbatim, so that it picks up the same indentation and minipage behavior.
* Add documentation for getmoduleinfo() and getmodulename().Fred Drake2001-04-101-0/+23
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* In the typeset versions, the legal notices had grown past the one-pageFred Drake2001-04-101-0/+5
| | | | size. This constrains them to fit in one page again.
* Fix typo in example (\b should be \n in string literal).Fred Drake2001-04-091-1/+1
| | | | This closes SF bug #414279.
* Fix a number of bugs and omissions in the AddressList documentation, mostFred Drake2001-04-091-10/+23
| | | | | | | noted by Steve Holden. This closes SF bug #413876.
* Correct the documentation for getreadbufferproc and getwritebufferproc.Greg Stein2001-04-071-5/+6
| | | | Fixes bug #233308 from Travis Oliphant.
* Add entry for unittest documentation.Fred Drake2001-04-072-0/+2
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* Start of documentation for the unittest module. Some of this comes fromFred Drake2001-04-071-0/+266
| | | | | | | | Steve Purcell's documentation, and a lot of it is written based on using PyUnit and reading the implementation. There is more to come, but I want to get this check in before I have a disk crash or anything else bad happens.
* Change {\em ...} to \emph{...} for consistency with the rest of the PythonFred Drake2001-04-051-1/+1
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* Add some information about what to expect of the DocumentType'sFred Drake2001-04-051-0/+2
| | | | | .internalSubset attribute based on a clarification from the www-dom list.
* Document PySequence_Size(), and describe PySequence_Length() as simply anFred Drake2001-04-041-1/+5
| | | | alternate name for the same function.
* Make reference to the Library Reference in the "What Now?" chapter aFred Drake2001-04-031-5/+7
| | | | | | | | hyperlink. Fix two English usage errors caught by Jan Wells: Changed "subsequence" to "sub-sequence" in two places, and avoid improper use of "hopefully" in the first paragraph of the "What Now?" chapter.
* Allow the <author/> element to appear before a paragraph without beingFred Drake2001-03-291-1/+1
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* Add entry for curses.panel documentation.Fred Drake2001-03-292-0/+2
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* Fix serious markup errors.Fred Drake2001-03-291-11/+11
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* Remove the spurious space of uncertain origin from the output for function,Fred Drake2001-03-291-10/+10
| | | | | method and constructor signatures. Suggested by Peter Funk on the Doc-SIG mailing list.
* Added example use of weak references, contributed by Tim Peters.Fred Drake2001-03-281-0/+22
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* Added documentation for PyObject_IsInstance() and PyObject_IsSubclass().Fred Drake2001-03-281-0/+36
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* Typo: "ariables" --> "variables"Fred Drake2001-03-281-1/+1
| | | | This fixes SF bug #411118.
* Fix a number of small issues; this closes SF bug #411063.Fred Drake2001-03-281-4/+4
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* Add a note that the "kfm" controller supports "konqueror" as well as theFred Drake2001-03-261-1/+3
| | | | old KDE 1 "kfm" command.
* Note missing explanationAndrew M. Kuchling2001-03-261-2/+2
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* Document use_rawinput. (Although now that I think more about it, aGuido van Rossum2001-03-241-1/+6
| | | | | better solution would have been to factor out the raw_input() call and make it into an overridable method. Oh well, maybe later...)
* Strengthen the constraints on calling PyObject_GC_Fini().Fred Drake2001-03-231-0/+5
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* Add nested scopes spec to appendix.Jeremy Hylton2001-03-234-32/+161
| | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* Remove the annoying __version__ definitions.Fred Drake2001-03-233-4/+0
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