1611 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Fred Drake
c79ac00ea7 Adjust so that the copyright statements remain at the front but all the long
licenses move to the back, so as not to annoy as many readers.
2001-06-21 18:45:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
87ce6acc77 Fix an improperly placed comma. 2001-06-14 13:58:44 +00:00
Fred Drake
21c9df7641 For os.stat() & friends, note that the time fields are returned as
floating-point values.
2000-10-14 05:46:11 +00:00
Fred Drake
602aa77d2f Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
Documentation for the codec base classes.
Lots of markup adjustments by FLD.

This closes SourceForge bug #115308, patch #101877.
2000-10-12 20:50:55 +00:00
Fred Drake
babe326c65 Added entries for new files of SAX documentation. 2000-10-12 20:07:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
014f0e3394 Massive addition of SAX documentation from Martin von Loewis
<loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de>.

Reorganized to be more like other parts of the documentation in its
arrangement, but with few content changes.

This closes SourceForge patch #101850.
2000-10-12 20:05:09 +00:00
Fred Drake
93615657ec Document the exceptions that now get raised on invalid parameters. 2000-10-11 22:27:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
6fe9bacb8c Make sure methods of ZipFile objects are in alphabetical order; the logical
groupings are still maintained.  Based on a comment by Steve Holden
<sholden@holdenweb.com>.
2000-10-11 18:56:00 +00:00
Fred Drake
2c4f554b78 Fixed a large number of small problems, mostly noted by Detlef Lannert
<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
2000-10-10 22:00:03 +00:00
Fred Drake
66c9f0781d Note that the UserString/MutableString classes are far less efficient
than the built-in string types (suggested by Moshe Zadka
<moshez@math.huji.ac.il>).

Clarified what "can be converted to a string" means.

Fixed a few markup nits.
2000-10-10 20:58:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
ef52f601ed Revise the examples not to use the "from socket import *", and adjust
one comment in the example for clarity.
2000-10-10 20:36:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
0fc6a67307 Remove duplicated text from urlopen() description, noted by Ka-Ping
Yee <ping@lfw.org> and probably others as well.
2000-10-10 20:23:10 +00:00
Fred Drake
3ece71327f Make it clear that copy_reg.pickle() should not be used for classes, but
only for extension types.

This partially fixes SourceForge bug #116295.
2000-10-10 18:36:02 +00:00
Fred Drake
f8ca7d88c6 Fixed lots of small nits caught by Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>. 2000-10-10 17:03:45 +00:00
Fred Drake
2d34cd3ecf Minor nit fixes based on suggestions from Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>.
Added "See also" section with relevant RFC references.
2000-10-10 17:02:34 +00:00
Fred Drake
25407882ea Better synopsis based on suggestion from Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>. 2000-10-10 16:59:53 +00:00
Fred Drake
4d3714b5c6 Better synopses based on suggestions from Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>. 2000-10-10 16:56:41 +00:00
Fred Drake
6ff7aec2ab Move the documentation for the mutex module to be with the threading
and queue-management modules, since that is where the general context
for use in most cases.
2000-10-10 16:46:36 +00:00
Fred Drake
17a2b640e4 Work around annoyances in LaTeX2HTML. 2000-10-09 18:12:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
955e03bd68 Push xmllib to the end of the markup chapter since it is deprecated. 2000-10-09 18:11:24 +00:00
Fred Drake
3383792c74 Denis S. Otkidach <ods@users.sourceforge.net>:
Correct description of leapdays() function.

This closes SourceForge patch #101840.
2000-10-09 15:27:31 +00:00
Fred Drake
c2bac8745d Include more information from the docstrings. 2000-10-06 21:07:14 +00:00
Fred Drake
519744409b Fix really bad typo, noted by Neil Schemenauer <nas@arctrix.com>. 2000-10-06 20:16:50 +00:00
Fred Drake
c6243e4e08 Add notes on the requirements for subclasses.
This closes SourceForge bug #115928.
2000-10-06 20:04:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
2e06c209dc Revise the versioning information to say that this was revised in 1.6,
not added then, and note what the change was (ncurses, change to a package).
2000-10-06 20:01:23 +00:00