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1284 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake
8d21243c3e Added description of optional parameter to UserDict constructor.
Omission reported by Barry Warsaw.
1999-07-26 15:45:52 +00:00
Fred Drake
de5d5ce7bc Update getattr() description to document the optional third
parameter.  Thanks to Barry Warsaw for pointing out the oversight.
1999-07-22 19:21:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
5d48e458e4 typo: privide --> provide
Reported by Nadim Ghaznavi <nadim@ghaznavi.com>.
1999-07-20 13:21:42 +00:00
Fred Drake
6db897c52c Move chdir() and getcwd() descriptions to "Files and Directories" with
a pointer from the "Process Parameters" section.  Based on comments
from Aahz Maruch, Tim Peters, and GvR.
1999-07-12 16:49:30 +00:00
Fred Drake
3a4ceb707d Several methods return tuples, not lists. 1999-07-07 14:04:38 +00:00
Fred Drake
363d67c2e6 Move some misc. comments from the example section to the main section.
Use the lowercase versions of the method names in the example, since
that's what's documented (Greg Stein's suggestion).  Add a blank line
after the import line for clarity.
1999-07-07 13:42:56 +00:00
Fred Drake
1508970a47 dir() method description revised based on comments from Greg Stein. 1999-07-07 13:36:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
6166b871a2 Missing space; reported by Robert Kern <kernr@ncifcrf.gov>. 1999-07-06 21:00:18 +00:00
Fred Drake
d5dfe984e7 Fix a number of minor problems pointed out by /F. 1999-07-06 15:50:23 +00:00
Fred Drake
0d6e6e0b39 Fixed typo reported by /F; thanks! 1999-07-06 15:43:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
82ac24ffb0 Minor markup nit. 1999-07-02 14:29:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
0452007dcc Added entry for asyncore module. 1999-07-02 14:27:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
41796918af Fix a few markup nits, improve some index entries. 1999-07-02 14:25:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
7d80779532 New documentation from Chris Petrilli <petrilli@amber.org>. 1999-07-02 14:25:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
227020894a For spawn*(), point to the magic constants; some readers have a hard
time finding the bindings.
1999-07-02 14:01:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
e4694eba0f Removed entries for several modules which have been documented.
Updated comments on several remaining modules.
1999-07-01 20:42:57 +00:00
Fred Drake
4c8d83f311 Documentation for dl module from Moshe. 1999-07-01 20:40:21 +00:00
Fred Drake
44a7a7c5d0 Added entry for dl module. 1999-07-01 20:39:59 +00:00
Fred Drake
85b5683307 Remove extraneous "contains" -- pointed out by Daniel Barclay
<danielb@digitalfocus.com>.

Added credit to Martin von Loewis for creating the module and
documentation.
1999-07-01 16:31:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
859dc53a52 Per Frank Stajano's suggestion, state explicitly that the functions
described in the sub-sections are directly available at the module
level.  He found this confusing.
1999-07-01 13:54:40 +00:00
Fred Drake
b216060627 Make the reference to the os module in the module synopsis (for the
table at the front of the chapter) a hyperlink.
1999-07-01 13:53:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
3d0971e33e For "Matching vs. Searching", remove comment that the section is
incomplete; I don't remember what else I thought I was going to put
in, but it looks o.k. to me know.
1999-06-29 21:21:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
6bf37debb9 Added some minor prose before the descriptions of the data attributes
to make it clear that these are instance attributes, not module data.
1999-06-29 18:13:37 +00:00
Fred Drake
abc64b74c8 Added entry for pty module. 1999-06-29 18:12:22 +00:00
Fred Drake
a4b5d58790 pty documentation from Moshe; with small edits. 1999-06-29 18:11:22 +00:00