Fred Drake
960fdf9ac3
Added the constants ascii_letters, ascii_lowercase, and ascii_uppercase
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to the string module. This was determined to be the right approach in
SF bug #226706 .
2001-07-20 18:38:26 +00:00
Fred Drake
e9735ac215
Remove all mentions of the strop module -- it has been pronounced Evil.
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(The string "strop" is found in the rexec documentation, but that should
not be changed until strop is actually removed or rexec no longer allows
it.)
2001-05-10 15:05:03 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
be0630282e
Fix doubled word
2000-12-26 16:14:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
15f06661c1
Added deprecation notices to atof(), atoi(), and atol(), recommending
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use of the float(), int(), and long() built-ins instead.
Fixed minor markup nit elsewhere (use of \optional).
2000-10-04 13:59:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
fffe5dbc47
Fixed a number of small problems reported by Detlef Lannert
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<lannert@uni-duesseldorf.de >.
2000-09-21 05:25:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
480abc2751
Document the "printable" and "punctuation" constants added to the string
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module.
2000-09-18 16:48:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
1b194f927d
Add a reference to the material on string methods.
2000-09-09 05:34:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
a4ca07cc8c
Minor grammatical fix
2000-06-21 01:48:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
0682be4524
letters:
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Fix description; lowercase and uppercase are strings, not
functions! Noted by Randall Hopper <aa8vb@yahoo.com >.
maketrans():
Minor markup nits in description.
2000-04-10 18:35:49 +00:00
Fred Drake
a7ce52b03a
Typo reported by Gerry Wiener <wiener@rap.ucar.edu>:
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items -> item
The returned list will then have one more items than the number of
non-overlapping occurrences of the separator in the string.
1999-05-27 17:18:08 +00:00
Fred Drake
ffbe68723a
Make internal module references hyperlinks wherever it makes sense.
1999-04-22 21:23:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
70a66c9d6d
Add notes to __builtin__.float() and string.atof() that the NaN and Inf
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results are possible but non-portable.
1999-02-18 16:08:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
951eea4733
atof() description: Add information about accepting 'NaN' to produce
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the NaN value.
1999-02-18 03:49:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
9700e9becc
Document the default for tabsize in expandtabs().
1999-01-25 22:31:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
e848976fba
Clarify descriptions of some operations; it's not always clear that
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strings are not actually modified. Problem reported by Dr. Peter
Stoehr <peter.stoehr@weihenstephan.org >.
1998-12-21 18:56:13 +00:00
Fred Drake
295da24eaf
New section header style.
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Fix up a few synopses.
1998-08-10 19:42:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
b91e934cf1
Adjusted to use the new module synopsis support macros.
1998-07-23 17:59:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
a3eebe60dc
Add warning about use of lowercase/uppercase with maketrans().
1998-06-11 16:03:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
8e729ec31a
Caught a few more spurious \setindexsubitem macros....
1998-04-07 22:06:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
3a0351cf85
Remove all uses of \sectcode; we can now use logical markup everywhere.
1998-04-04 07:23:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
d275de985a
Remove obsolete lines like this:
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\setindexsubitem{(in module frobnitz)}
These are no longer needed when present before any other \setindexsubitem{}
in the module section. The indexsubitem is now set by \bimodindex and
\stmodindex.
1998-04-04 05:56:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
cce1090d49
Change "\," to just "," in function signatures. This is easier to maintain,
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works better with LaTeX2HTML, and allows some simplification of the python.sty
macros.
1998-03-17 06:33:25 +00:00
Fred Drake
1947991c2f
Remove all \bcode / \ecode cruft; this is no longer needed. See previous
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checkin of myformat.sty.
Change "\renewcommand{\indexsubitem}{(...)}" to "\setindexsubitem{(...)}"
everywhere.
Some other minor nits that I happened to come across.
1998-02-13 06:58:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
ad37e9e77d
Clarify that capwords() removes leading/trailing whitespace.
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Remove references to regsub, which is obsolescent.
1998-02-02 03:01:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
6d2bdb682d
Fixed index module reference.
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Changed references to regex/regsub modules to point to re.
1997-12-16 04:04:25 +00:00