Michael W. Hudson
98305a0d34
Take Tim's work on file.truncate out of 2.2.1 again.
2002-03-17 15:55:50 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson
fe69139f7e
Backport Tim's work on getting file.truncate working better on Win32.
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"cvs diff | patch" managed to stick the NEWS item in the 2.2 final
section! I wonder which silly man wrote patch <wink>.
2002-03-16 18:19:33 +00:00
Fred Drake
9fcd9b2b1f
Added index entries similar to some recommended by Skip, and used the word
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"interpolation" in the text, to make the string formatting material easier to
find.
This closes SF bug #487165 .
2001-12-28 04:37:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
6048ce95a9
Added documentation for str.decode().
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This closes SF bug #490823 .
2001-12-10 16:43:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
b38784e4a0
Slightly improved indexing for the string-% operator, thanks to comments
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from Skip Montanaro. There is one weirdness in the final index for HTML, but
that is low priority.
2001-12-03 22:15:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
14f5c5fa01
Make no assumption about how modules are built when referring to them; this
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can vary by platform and installation.
Based on suggestion to python-docs.
2001-12-03 18:33:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
3570551d6f
Remove most references to __members__ and __methods__, leaving only one pair
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of references that now state that these attributes have been removed,
directing the reader to the dir() function.
This closes SF bug #456420 .
2001-12-03 17:32:27 +00:00
Fred Drake
c37b65ee10
Clean up some markup cruft. A number of the macros that take no
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parameters (like \UNIX) are commonly entered using an empty group to
separate the markup from a following inter-word space; this is not
needed when the next character is punctuation, or the markup is the
last thing in the enclosing group. These cases were marked
inconsistently; the empty group is now *only* used when needed.
2001-11-28 07:26:15 +00:00
Fred Drake
99de218cfc
Promote file objects out of the "Other Objects" category, so they become
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visible in the table of contents.
2001-10-30 06:23:14 +00:00
Tim Peters
003047a5f2
Mention the new file() builtin in the section on file objects.
2001-10-30 05:54:04 +00:00
Fred Drake
ef428a292a
Explain what [].insert() does when the target index is negative.
2001-10-26 18:57:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
0aa811c527
Use the \note and \warning macros where appropriate.
2001-10-20 04:24:09 +00:00
Tim Peters
599db7de63
The list.sort() docs require a function that returns -1, 0 or +1. That's
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never been true, and in particular implies cmp() can't be used(!). Get
closer to the truth.
2001-09-29 01:08:19 +00:00
Tim Peters
2c9aa5ea8d
Generalize file.writelines() to allow iterable objects.
2001-09-23 04:06:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
038d26410d
Note that files are iterable; describe what the iterator returns.
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This closes SF bug #463738 .
2001-09-22 04:34:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
d800cff80d
Added explanation that [...] * n generates shallow copies of [...], so
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the contents will be shared by multiple references.
This closes SF bug #455694 .
2001-08-28 14:56:05 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
5ef99a0bc5
Describe the new semantics for setting and deleting a function's
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__dict__ attribute. Deleting it, or setting it to a non-dictionary
result in a TypeError. Note that getting it the first time magically
initializes it to an empty dict so that func.__dict__ will always
appear to be a dictionary (never None).
Closes SF bug #446645 .
2001-08-14 18:22:24 +00:00
Greg Ward
54f65094c3
Typo fix.
2001-07-26 21:01:21 +00:00
Skip Montanaro
41d7d58cc4
trivial rewording in footnote 5.
2001-07-25 16:18:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
907e76b620
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
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translation more difficult, as well as reading the English more
difficult for non-native speakers.
2001-07-06 20:30:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
5fe2c139d5
List constraints on xrange() objects.
2001-07-05 15:27:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3f56166b1a
Rip out the fancy behaviors of xrange that nobody uses: repeat, slice,
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contains, tolist(), and the start/stop/step attributes. This includes
removing the 4th ('repeat') argument to PyRange_New().
2001-07-05 13:27:48 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
e9218a1a8e
Remove the restriction on a mapping's .update() method.
2001-06-26 20:32:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
4a6c5c568f
Fixed reference to table notes for {}.keys() and {}.items() -- these
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references did not get updated when the notes were renumbered in a
previous update.
This fixes SF bug #432208 .
2001-06-12 03:31:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
c6d8f8d2ac
Add descriptions of {}.iteritems(), {}.iterkeys(), and {}.itervalues()
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in the table of mapping object operations. Re-numbered the list of
notes to reflect the move of the "Added in version 2.2." note to the list
of notes instead of being inserted into the last column of the table.
2001-05-25 04:24:37 +00:00
