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1536 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake 81c1735809 Add item to the list of limitations that points out the lack of support
for authenticated proxies.  This is noted elsewhere, but this makes it
easier to find.

Fix typo where it was already mentioned.

This closes SourceForge bug #110619.
2000-09-15 04:12:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 4dfad57235 Add a reference to the sha module, noting that SHA is considered more
secure.  Suggested by Erno Kuusela <erno@iki.fi>.
2000-09-14 21:47:32 +00:00
Fred Drake b9fd468ded Convert "See also" section to use \seetitle. 2000-09-14 21:46:22 +00:00
Fred Drake 6ba0a3c30a Denis S. Otkidach <ods@users.sourceforge.net>:
Minor fix in documentation of code module.
(Clarifies output destination for default implementation of the write()
method.)
2000-09-14 20:42:53 +00:00
Fred Drake 7a666b83c8 Remove reference to the stdwin-based windowed debugger, since stdwin
is gone.

Make a module reference into a hyperlink.
2000-09-14 20:32:17 +00:00
Fred Drake d5d0435617 Use \shortversion in a number of places.
This partially addresses SourceForge bug #114318.
2000-09-14 20:24:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 1fe3b82371 Avoid reference to specific versions of Python where possible.
This partially addresses SourceForge bug #114318.
2000-09-14 18:25:41 +00:00
Fred Drake 66d32b1e12 Add some index entries to make it easier to find information on
%-formatting of strings.
2000-09-14 17:57:42 +00:00
Barry Warsaw ddef8887db Include a link to Francois's po-utils. 2000-09-13 12:04:47 +00:00
Fred Drake ae86d43f11 Add a reference item pointing to the Namespaces in XML recommendation.
Convert the existing reference items to \seetitle markup.
2000-09-12 17:53:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 1349437e4c When referring to namespaces, always say "namespaces" instead of
"name spaces".

Inconsistency noted by Keith Briggs <keith.briggs@bt.com>.
2000-09-12 16:23:48 +00:00
Fred Drake 88fa9627b1 Some updates and fix a bunch of really small consistency nits. 2000-09-11 05:23:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 1b194f927d Add a reference to the material on string methods. 2000-09-09 05:34:06 +00:00
Fred Drake f96e0d203b Various clarifications and minor nits fixed. Affected descriptions of
input(), locals(), reload(), unicode(), and zip().
2000-09-09 03:33:42 +00:00
Fred Drake 1172a85175 Really minor consistency nit. 2000-09-09 03:31:17 +00:00
Fred Drake 66571cc20c Improve a couple of references to the language reference, making them
hyperlinks to relevant sections.

Clarify the conditions under which the "softspace" attribute of file-like
objects can "just work" (with relation to overriding of attribute access
in user-defined classes).
2000-09-09 03:30:34 +00:00
Fred Drake 7acb21866c Minor clarifications in the introductory paragraph. 2000-09-09 03:28:00 +00:00
Fred Drake e544191397 Add \modulesynopsis for inclusion in the list of modules at the beginning
of the chapter.

Add explanation that this is only available when the cycle detector is
enabled at build time.
2000-09-09 03:26:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 1c4efad770 Move the "See also" section to a location more consistent with other
module sections.  Properly mark the name of the module in the content
of the reference there.
2000-09-09 03:25:11 +00:00
Fred Drake 621d2bee1c Move description of UserString.MutableString to a location more typical
of the arrangement of other modules.
2000-09-09 03:23:50 +00:00
Fred Drake d0726c3cd9 \file is not allowed in section titles -- converting to PDF fails due to
weird macro-expansion issues.  A better solution may be available in the
future, but this will do for now.

Add an index entry.  More should probably be added as well.
2000-09-07 18:55:08 +00:00
Fred Drake 88c023b863 Remove comment about -X and string exceptions. Error noted by
Justin D. Pettit <jpettit@raznick.com>.
2000-09-07 16:33:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 6300bd42a4 Added note about Python version this was added for. 2000-09-07 14:01:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 77a6c9ece5 Minor markup nits around use of \optional. 2000-09-07 14:00:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 8b2e8f846c Added a \versionadded statement to the getfqdn() description. 2000-09-06 02:22:16 +00:00
Fred Drake 8ff4cd7512 Minor markup revisions for consistency with the rest of the documentation. 2000-09-05 13:50:21 +00:00
Fred Drake 0d83f68fc9 Added entry for mmap module. 2000-09-05 13:49:30 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 21fbd540ed Document the new optional argument "rest" on the transfercmd(),
ntransfercmd(), and retrbinary() commands.  This closes SF patch
#101187.
2000-09-01 06:32:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 65faf118b6 Fix markup error and minor consistency nit. 2000-08-31 19:35:56 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton ee5adfbae6 add user-modifiable recursion_limit
ceval.c:
    define recurion_limit (static), default value is 2500
    define Py_GetRecursionLimit and Py_SetRecursionLimit
    raise RuntimeError if limit is exceeded
PC/config.h:
    remove plat-specific definition
sysmodule.c:
    add sys.(get|set)recursionlimit
2000-08-31 19:23:01 +00:00
Fred Drake aef0e890b5 Document the limitation that urllib does not work with proxies which
require authenication.  This is an implementation limitation rather than
required behavior, and may be fixed in the future.

This closes SourceForge bug #111725.
2000-08-31 17:23:35 +00:00
Fred Drake 4c3f797128 UNARY_NEG is supposed to be UNARY_NEGATIVE (spotted by Charles Waldman
<cgw@fnal.gov>).

Fix minor problem with EXTENDED_ARG description markup..
2000-08-31 16:26:35 +00:00
Sjoerd Mullender 1c8feae411 New method getnamespace.
Since the application never gets to see the namespace abbreviation
used in the XML document, but some applications may need to know them,
we provide this method.
2000-08-31 10:27:00 +00:00
Fred Drake fcab76350a Relocate the popen2 documentation since it is now substantially more
portable.
2000-08-31 06:09:26 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 7b828a6a56 doc changes to parallel changes to calendar.py module 2000-08-30 14:02:25 +00:00
Fred Drake d576e9df5f Markup revisions. Nothing was actually required to be able to format it,
but many conventions were broken.
2000-08-30 04:19:20 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 28b815f28a Oops, spell MAL's name right. 2000-08-30 03:28:17 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 0691a6b8ed Documentation for the gettext module. 2000-08-30 03:27:10 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 058365aec5 Added libgettext.tex 2000-08-30 03:26:17 +00:00
Moshe Zadka a1a4b5916b Closing patch #101120 -- After everyone agreed. 2000-08-25 21:47:56 +00:00
Fred Drake 0308ff8652 Add reference to RFC 2396 in "See also" section.
Minor cleanups.
2000-08-25 17:29:35 +00:00
Fred Drake dfca4dc503 Revised documentation relevant to SourceForge patch #100837
(simplify making HTTP POST requests).

Added documentation of URLopener.version and how it can be overridden.
2000-08-25 05:13:42 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 99a3701618 Documentation for poll() interface (SF patch #100852) 2000-08-25 01:21:28 +00:00
Thomas Wouters 12bba852a9 Rough and incomplete documentation on augmented assignment, which follows
shortly. Markup also needs checking.
2000-08-24 20:06:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3d0c77b37c Addresses the other half of Bug #112634 -- the documentation suggested
that you can set self.version *after* calling the base class __init__.
In fact it must be done *before*.

(Fred, maybe the version class variable should be documented now?)
2000-08-24 16:20:32 +00:00
Fred Drake 45ca3331d9 Move references to RFCs to a "See also" section for consistency with
other sections of the library reference.
2000-08-24 04:58:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 9fa4d61bcc Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>:
Documentation updates for urlretrieve() and URLopener.retrieve(), to
reflect Randall Hopper's patch for those functions.

This closes SourceForge patch #100837.
2000-08-24 01:06:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 093272ea85 Charles G. Waldman <cgw@fnal.gov>:
Update the dis module documentation to reflect the EXTENDED_ARG opcode.
2000-08-24 00:37:50 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 297bf7ceb5 update commonprefix doc to make sure user is aware it works
character-by-character and that that behavior may result in it returning
prefixes that are not valid paths
2000-08-23 16:58:32 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 9087688581 Describe the new PRINT_ITEM_TO and PRINT_NEWLINE_TO opcodes. 2000-08-21 17:19:00 +00:00