module is available, interrupts always go to the main thread.)
* Calling :func:`sys.exit` or raising the :exc:`SystemExit` exception is
- equivalent to calling :func:`exit`.
+ equivalent to calling :func:`_thread.exit`.
* Not all built-in functions that may block waiting for I/O allow other threads
to run. (The most popular ones (:func:`time.sleep`, :meth:`file.read`,
name, together with a few common aliases, and the languages for which the
encoding is likely used. Neither the list of aliases nor the list of languages
is meant to be exhaustive. Notice that spelling alternatives that only differ in
-case or use a hyphen instead of an underscore are also valid aliases.
+case or use a hyphen instead of an underscore are also valid aliases; therefore,
+e.g. ``'utf-8'`` is a valid alias for the ``'utf_8'`` codec.
Many of the character sets support the same languages. They vary in individual
characters (e.g. whether the EURO SIGN is supported or not), and in the
The returned function prototype creates functions that use the standard C
calling convention. The function will release the GIL during the call. If
*use_errno* is set to True, the ctypes private copy of the system
- :data:`errno` variable is exchanged with the real :data:`errno` value bafore
+ :data:`errno` variable is exchanged with the real :data:`errno` value before
and after the call; *use_last_error* does the same for the Windows error
code.
.. function:: log(x[, base])
- Return the logarithm of *x* to the given *base*. If the *base* is not specified,
- return the natural logarithm of *x* (that is, the logarithm to base *e*).
+ With one argument, return the natural logarithm of *x* (to base *e*).
+
+ With two arguments, return the logarithm of *x* to the given *base*,
+ calculated as ``log(x)/log(base)``.
.. function:: log1p(x)
.. function:: log10(x)
- Return the base-10 logarithm of *x*.
+ Return the base-10 logarithm of *x*. This is usually more accurate
+ than ``log(x, 10)``.
.. function:: pow(x, y)
the list of arguments to process (default: ``sys.argv[1:]``)
``values``
- object to store option arguments in (default: a new instance of optparse.Values)
+ object to store option arguments in (default: a new instance of
+ :class:`optparse.Values`)
and the return values are
``options``
- the same object that was passed in as ``options``, or the optparse.Values
+ the same object that was passed in as ``values``, or the optparse.Values
instance created by :mod:`optparse`
``args``
the leftover positional arguments after all options have been processed
The most common usage is to supply neither keyword argument. If you supply
-``options``, it will be modified with repeated ``setattr()`` calls (roughly one
+``values``, it will be modified with repeated ``setattr()`` calls (roughly one
for every option argument stored to an option destination) and returned by
:meth:`parse_args`.
.. function:: remove(path)
- Remove the file *path*. If *path* is a directory, :exc:`OSError` is raised; see
- :func:`rmdir` below to remove a directory. This is identical to the
- :func:`unlink` function documented below. On Windows, attempting to remove a
- file that is in use causes an exception to be raised; on Unix, the directory
- entry is removed but the storage allocated to the file is not made available
- until the original file is no longer in use. Availability: Unix,
+ Remove (delete) the file *path*. If *path* is a directory, :exc:`OSError` is
+ raised; see :func:`rmdir` below to remove a directory. This is identical to
+ the :func:`unlink` function documented below. On Windows, attempting to
+ remove a file that is in use causes an exception to be raised; on Unix, the
+ directory entry is removed but the storage allocated to the file is not made
+ available until the original file is no longer in use. Availability: Unix,
Windows.
.. function:: rmdir(path)
- Remove the directory *path*. Availability: Unix, Windows.
+ Remove (delete) the directory *path*. Only works when the directory is
+ empty, otherwise, :exc:`OSError` is raised. In order to remove whole
+ directory trees, :func:`shutil.rmtree` can be used. Availability: Unix,
+ Windows.
.. function:: stat(path)
.. function:: unlink(path)
- Remove the file *path*. This is the same function as :func:`remove`; the
- :func:`unlink` name is its traditional Unix name. Availability: Unix,
- Windows.
+ Remove (delete) the file *path*. This is the same function as
+ :func:`remove`; the :func:`unlink` name is its traditional Unix
+ name. Availability: Unix, Windows.
.. function:: utime(path, times)
exception to be raised.
The *handler* is called with two arguments: the signal number and the current
- stack frame (``None`` or a frame object; for a description of frame objects, see
- the reference manual section on the standard type hierarchy or see the attribute
- descriptions in the :mod:`inspect` module).
+ stack frame (``None`` or a frame object; for a description of frame objects,
+ see the :ref:`description in the type hierarchy <frame-objects>` or see the
+ attribute descriptions in the :mod:`inspect` module).
.. _signal-example:
.. method:: update(other, ...)
set |= other | ...
- Update the set, adding elements from *other*.
+ Update the set, adding elements from all others.
.. method:: intersection_update(other, ...)
set &= other & ...
- Update the set, keeping only elements found in it and *other*.
+ Update the set, keeping only elements found in it and all others.
.. method:: difference_update(other, ...)
set -= other | ...
their implementation of the context management protocol. See the
:mod:`contextlib` module for some examples.
-Python's :term:`generator`\s and the ``contextlib.contextfactory`` :term:`decorator`
+Python's :term:`generator`\s and the ``contextlib.contextmanager`` :term:`decorator`
provide a convenient way to implement these protocols. If a generator function is
-decorated with the ``contextlib.contextfactory`` decorator, it will return a
+decorated with the ``contextlib.contextmanager`` decorator, it will return a
context manager implementing the necessary :meth:`__enter__` and
:meth:`__exit__` methods, rather than the iterator produced by an undecorated
generator function.
If a code object represents a function, the first item in :attr:`co_consts` is
the documentation string of the function, or ``None`` if undefined.
+ .. _frame-objects:
+
Frame objects
.. index:: object: frame
.. _tut-scopes:
-Python Scopes and Name Spaces
-=============================
+Python Scopes and Namespaces
+============================
Before introducing classes, I first have to tell you something about Python's
scope rules. Class definitions play some neat tricks with namespaces, and you
:keyword:`del` statement. For example, ``del modname.the_answer`` will remove
the attribute :attr:`the_answer` from the object named by ``modname``.
-Name spaces are created at different moments and have different lifetimes. The
+Namespaces are created at different moments and have different lifetimes. The
namespace containing the built-in names is created when the Python interpreter
starts up, and is never deleted. The global namespace for a module is created
when the module definition is read in; normally, module namespaces also last
attribute that is a function object, a method object is created by packing
(pointers to) the instance object and the function object just found together in
an abstract object: this is the method object. When the method object is called
-with an argument list, it is unpacked again, a new argument list is constructed
-from the instance object and the original argument list, and the function object
-is called with this new argument list.
+with an argument list, a new argument list is constructed from the instance
+object and the argument list, and the function object is called with this new
+argument list.
.. _tut-remarks:
Truida Wiedijk
Felix Wiemann
Gerry Wiener
+Frank Wierzbicki
Bryce "Zooko" Wilcox-O'Hearn
John Williams
Sue Williams
- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
+- Issue #6801 : symmetric_difference_update also accepts |.
+ Thanks to Carl Chenet.
+
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