74 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Georg Brandl
d50fe7216d Fix suspicious markup in the docs. 2013-03-23 16:00:41 +01:00
Gregory P. Smith
4b52ae8f97 Clean up references to the no longer existing PyString_ APIs in our docs. 2013-03-22 13:43:30 -07:00
Ezio Melotti
7449231eca #16862: remove outdated statements about Stackless. 2013-01-05 07:37:47 +02:00
Ezio Melotti
9beeefbb45 Cleanup a few minor things. 2013-01-05 07:36:54 +02:00
Ezio Melotti
19cdee891e Fix example by making the exception inherit from Exception. 2013-01-05 06:53:27 +02:00
Ezio Melotti
cad8b0ff8e #13094: add Programming FAQ entry about the behavior of closures. 2013-01-05 00:50:46 +02:00
Chris Jerdonek
b43099464a Add additional links and index entries for "argument" and "parameter".
This adds to the work done for issue #15990 (i.e. f44b8d69e5fc and the
commits referenced there).
2012-12-25 14:54:44 -08:00
Brian Curtin
655b0c462f Fix #14901. Update the Windows FAQ.
Patch by Ashish Nitin Patil.
2012-12-16 23:58:09 -06:00
Chris Jerdonek
c2a7fd60e1 Improve argument/parameter documentation (issue #15990).
This commit adds "parameter" to the glossary, improves and consolidates the
"argument" glossary entry, and adds a question to the FAQ on the difference
between arguments and parameters.
2012-11-28 02:29:33 -08:00
Chris Jerdonek
4ed4b1c7fe Improve FAQ link in documentation (for issue #16435). 2012-11-09 17:52:30 -08:00
Chris Jerdonek
8b7f9f581d Remove unneeded "Release" and "Date" markers from doc index pages. 2012-10-28 11:08:26 -07:00
Ezio Melotti
694f2331c6 Fix a few quotes/backslashes. 2012-09-20 09:47:03 +03:00
Mark Dickinson
ba3b0d84bd Issue #14245: Improve floating-point entry in FAQ. Thanks Zbyszek Jędrzejewski-Szmek for some of the wording. 2012-05-13 21:00:35 +01:00
Ezio Melotti
b35480e1d2 #14770: improve the library FAQ. 2012-05-13 20:14:04 +03:00
Antoine Pitrou
cc6c673a69 Removed outdated statement about pickle's and marshal's relative performance. 2012-05-10 15:18:20 +02:00
Georg Brandl
12c3cd7c1f Closes #14306: clarify expensiveness of try-except and update code snippet 2012-03-17 16:58:05 +01:00
Georg Brandl
300a691026 Closes #14305: fix typo. 2012-03-14 22:40:08 +01:00
Éric Araujo
01a2215727 Update mention of Subversion in the FAQ.
If I grepped correctly, this was the last outdated place.
2012-02-12 04:49:45 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou
432259feea Issue #13528: rework the performance question in the programming FAQ 2011-12-09 23:10:31 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou
ae44b7a099 Remove obsolete references to bsddb 2011-12-05 00:41:19 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou
dec0f21efc Streamline mention of sorted() 2011-12-03 23:08:57 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou
c561a9adac Break down and refine memory management question 2011-12-03 23:06:50 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou
17bd792cd3 Reformulate answer, and remove off-topic discussion of bytecode in a question about compiling to C. 2011-12-03 22:56:02 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou
cc809a286a Fix compatibility statement. 2011-12-03 22:39:13 +01:00
Antoine Pitrou
748799a0a6 Remove outdated question (the bsddb module isn't included anymore) 2011-12-03 22:37:14 +01:00