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25 years agoChange the example of configuring for large file support under Solaris
Fred Drake [Wed, 26 May 1999 13:03:34 +0000 (13:03 +0000)]
Change the example of configuring for large file support under Solaris
to use `getconf LFS_CFLAGS`.  Steve Clift (the author of the section
and large file support) agrees that this is the right thing to do.

25 years agoEugene Dvurechenski <jno@glas.net> says:
Barry Warsaw [Wed, 26 May 1999 04:02:18 +0000 (04:02 +0000)]
Eugene Dvurechenski <jno@glas.net> says:

    there is "su" top level domain still maintained in ex-USSR.  at
    least "*.msk.su" zone (Moscow, USSR) is still in use.

25 years ago"proces" --> "process"; reported by Gerry Wiener <gerry@ucar.edu>.
Fred Drake [Tue, 25 May 1999 13:42:26 +0000 (13:42 +0000)]
"proces" --> "process"; reported by Gerry Wiener <gerry@ucar.edu>.

Added some index entries.

25 years ago(py-electric-backspace): I'm not sure this function should be special
Barry Warsaw [Mon, 24 May 1999 21:43:37 +0000 (21:43 +0000)]
(py-electric-backspace): I'm not sure this function should be special
casing when py-honor-comment-indentation is nil, but this could be a
religious issue with some.  Seems to me we should still be dedenting
such comment lines one level.

25 years ago(py-parse-state): When running under Emacs -- which doesn't have
Barry Warsaw [Mon, 24 May 1999 19:57:32 +0000 (19:57 +0000)]
(py-parse-state): When running under Emacs -- which doesn't have
buffer-syntactic-context -- just short circuit the TQS test by jumping
to point-min and doing the test from there.  For long files, this will
be faster than looping with a re-search-backwards.

25 years ago(py-statement-closes-block-p): Add a py-goto-initial-line which fixes
Barry Warsaw [Mon, 24 May 1999 18:37:57 +0000 (18:37 +0000)]
(py-statement-closes-block-p): Add a py-goto-initial-line which fixes
indentation when the return value is a multiline sexp:

def bug():
    try:
        if 2>1:
            return (11+
                    12)

        else:   #XXX
            return 12
    except:
        return 13

25 years agoOliver Steele writes:
Just van Rossum [Fri, 21 May 1999 21:42:27 +0000 (21:42 +0000)]
Oliver Steele writes:
"""Despite the best intentions of Anarchie and Internet Explorer, I often end
up with Python source files (and other text files that I'd like to edit with
PythonIDE) that use '\n' instead of '\r' as a line separator (and therefore
sh

25 years agoOn HP-UX, -rpath is another option taking an argument that needs to go
Guido van Rossum [Fri, 21 May 1999 19:18:49 +0000 (19:18 +0000)]
On HP-UX, -rpath is another option taking an argument that needs to go
to the libs variable.  Reported by Albert Chin-A-Young.

25 years agoAndy Dustman writes:
Guido van Rossum [Fri, 21 May 1999 16:12:30 +0000 (16:12 +0000)]
Andy Dustman writes:

I noticed while watching (with lsof) my forking SocketServer app running
that I would get multiple processes listening to the socket. For the most
part, this doesn't hurt things, but if you terminate the server, this can
prevent it from restarting because it cannot bind to the port due to any
running children which also have the socket open. The following one-liner
fixes this.

25 years agoRename History to IdleHistory.
Guido van Rossum [Fri, 21 May 1999 04:46:17 +0000 (04:46 +0000)]
Rename History to IdleHistory.
Add isatty() to pseudo files.

25 years agoMake initial stack viewer wider
Guido van Rossum [Fri, 21 May 1999 04:45:45 +0000 (04:45 +0000)]
Make initial stack viewer wider

25 years agoNew wishes
Guido van Rossum [Fri, 21 May 1999 04:45:20 +0000 (04:45 +0000)]
New wishes

25 years agoMuch improved autoindent and handling of tabs,
Guido van Rossum [Fri, 21 May 1999 04:38:27 +0000 (04:38 +0000)]
Much improved autoindent and handling of tabs,
by Tim Peters.

25 years agoMap .js to application/x-javascript.
Fred Drake [Thu, 20 May 1999 12:52:04 +0000 (12:52 +0000)]
Map .js to application/x-javascript.

25 years agoEnhanced docstring and some comments.
Fred Drake [Wed, 19 May 1999 17:37:37 +0000 (17:37 +0000)]
Enhanced docstring and some comments.

_begin_macro_rx:  Fixed RE that didn't properly allow a space after
  the name of the macro.  This affects the conversion
  of the tutorial.

25 years agoModify to perform "---" to "&mdash;" conversion outside of
Fred Drake [Tue, 18 May 1999 17:34:51 +0000 (17:34 +0000)]
Modify to perform "---" to "&mdash;" conversion outside of
verbatim-like environments.  The list of verbatim-like environments is
a defined by a variable in main().

25 years agoRemove the "---" to "&mdash;" conversion; this is wrong in verbatim
Fred Drake [Tue, 18 May 1999 17:33:01 +0000 (17:33 +0000)]
Remove the "---" to "&mdash;" conversion; this is wrong in verbatim
environments.  Move the conversion to esis2sgml.py.

25 years agoSET_LINE_NO ==> SET_LINENO
Fred Drake [Mon, 17 May 1999 20:57:07 +0000 (20:57 +0000)]
SET_LINE_NO ==> SET_LINENO

Reported by Corran Webster <cwebster@math.tamu.edu>.

25 years agoAdded "Learning Python" to the books section.
Fred Drake [Mon, 17 May 1999 19:35:01 +0000 (19:35 +0000)]
Added "Learning Python" to the books section.

Updated comments on the documentation.

25 years agoAdded paragraph explaininng the text/binary flavors of some methods,
Fred Drake [Mon, 17 May 1999 16:35:15 +0000 (16:35 +0000)]
Added paragraph explaininng the text/binary flavors of some methods,
to make it easier for people to find what they're looking for.

25 years agoDocument \e, \url.
Fred Drake [Mon, 17 May 1999 16:33:54 +0000 (16:33 +0000)]
Document \e, \url.
Add a few more comments about mkhowto.

Based on comments from Albert <hat@se-46.wpa.wtb.tue.nl>.

25 years agoDon't \input boilerplate.tex, fill in the real stuff. 3rd party
Fred Drake [Mon, 17 May 1999 16:02:38 +0000 (16:02 +0000)]
Don't \input boilerplate.tex, fill in the real stuff.  3rd party
documents probably aren't written by Guido.  ;-)

25 years agoAttempted to clarify usage of the \declaremodule macro somewhat;
Fred Drake [Mon, 17 May 1999 15:22:45 +0000 (15:22 +0000)]
Attempted to clarify usage of the \declaremodule macro somewhat;
Michael Hudson's documentation for bytecodehacks exhibits incorrect
usage.

Added some comments about how to set up the mkhowto script for use
with documents not contained in the documentation source tree.

25 years agodefine_module(): Check the module type for validity before using.
Fred Drake [Mon, 17 May 1999 15:00:32 +0000 (15:00 +0000)]
define_module():  Check the module type for validity before using.
  This reflects the changes made in
  ../texinputs/python.sty.

25 years ago\declaremodule: Typo.
Fred Drake [Mon, 17 May 1999 14:57:26 +0000 (14:57 +0000)]
\declaremodule:  Typo.

25 years ago\declaremodule: Make this more robust. Only attempt to add an index
Fred Drake [Mon, 17 May 1999 14:47:10 +0000 (14:47 +0000)]
\declaremodule:  Make this more robust.  Only attempt to add an index
 entry based on the module type if the type is known.
 Otherwise, spit out a warning the the module type
 parameter was bad and generate a "plain" index entry.

 Without this, the bad module type was emitted as
 text.

Problem noticed by processing Michael Hudson's docs for
bytecodehacks.

25 years agoThe conversion temporary files should not be ignored here anymore,
Fred Drake [Thu, 13 May 1999 18:57:28 +0000 (18:57 +0000)]
The conversion temporary files should not be ignored here anymore,
since they shouldn't be here.  Only ignore the output tarballs in this
directory.

25 years agoPOP3.uidl(): Update description based on comments from Piers Lauder
Fred Drake [Thu, 13 May 1999 18:48:14 +0000 (18:48 +0000)]
POP3.uidl():  Update description based on comments from Piers Lauder
      <piers@cs.su.oz.au>.

25 years agoPOP3.uidl(): Update docstring based on comments from Piers Lauder
Fred Drake [Thu, 13 May 1999 18:47:25 +0000 (18:47 +0000)]
POP3.uidl():  Update docstring based on comments from Piers Lauder
      <piers@cs.su.oz.au>.

25 years agoPyCObject_FromVoidPtr(): Clarify that the destr function will only be
Fred Drake [Thu, 13 May 1999 18:41:14 +0000 (18:41 +0000)]
PyCObject_FromVoidPtr():  Clarify that the destr function will only be
  called on destruction is non-NULL.

25 years agoSmall nits around some of the index entries.
Fred Drake [Thu, 13 May 1999 18:38:11 +0000 (18:38 +0000)]
Small nits around some of the index entries.

When refering to chapters, use \ref, don't hardcode the chapter
number.

25 years agomake_index_entry(): Remove. Not only did this override the
Fred Drake [Thu, 13 May 1999 18:36:54 +0000 (18:36 +0000)]
make_index_entry():  Remove.  Not only did this override the
     l2hinit.perl version of the function (which
     overrode a version in latex2html), but
     do_cmd_index() was overridden.  Since
     do_cmd_index() was the only caller, we can trash
     this.

define_indexing_macro():  New function used during setup to support
  more dynamic dispatch for indexing.

process_index_macros():  New function; implement dynamic dispatching
 of indexing support functions, allowing many
 targets used in indexing to be shared by
 multiple index entries.  I.e., something like
 \index{foo}\bifuncindex{bar} can now share a
 single target anchor.

These indexing changes reduce the amount of clutter in the generated
HTML files.  In the reference manual, this cuts the number of targets
by 44%.  Targets are less affected when generated by environments
rather than macros.

25 years agomake_index_entry(): Remove. This is overridden in python.perl and
Fred Drake [Thu, 13 May 1999 16:41:19 +0000 (16:41 +0000)]
make_index_entry():  Remove.  This is overridden in python.perl and
     was never called in this incarnation.  The
     other version is simpler as well.

25 years agoRemoved old comments.
Fred Drake [Thu, 13 May 1999 16:20:30 +0000 (16:20 +0000)]
Removed old comments.

25 years agoChange the look of \seemodule output to fit in better.
Fred Drake [Tue, 11 May 1999 15:42:51 +0000 (15:42 +0000)]
Change the look of \seemodule output to fit in better.

25 years agoMove the "See also:" section so it appears are part of the top HTML
Fred Drake [Tue, 11 May 1999 15:15:54 +0000 (15:15 +0000)]
Move the "See also:" section so it appears are part of the top HTML
page of the section.

25 years agoAdded module references; minor grammatical fixes.
Fred Drake [Tue, 11 May 1999 15:14:15 +0000 (15:14 +0000)]
Added module references; minor grammatical fixes.
All suggested by Eric Raymond.

25 years agoAdded missing comma, reported by Eric Raymond.
Fred Drake [Tue, 11 May 1999 13:45:37 +0000 (13:45 +0000)]
Added missing comma, reported by Eric Raymond.

25 years agoLots of adjustments to deal with the document content now being stored
Fred Drake [Mon, 10 May 1999 19:36:52 +0000 (19:36 +0000)]
Lots of adjustments to deal with the document content now being stored
in a fragment rather than the main document object.

25 years agoSome more fixes.
Fred Drake [Mon, 10 May 1999 19:36:03 +0000 (19:36 +0000)]
Some more fixes.

Add controls for some of the esoteric indexing macros.

25 years agoFixed some index entries.
Fred Drake [Mon, 10 May 1999 13:43:22 +0000 (13:43 +0000)]
Fixed some index entries.

In the __coerce__ description, None should be returned if the
conversion is *impossible*, not *possible*.  Reported by Robert Kern
<kernr@ncifcrf.gov>.

25 years agoExtendedEsisBuilder.push(): Override inherited definition. We don't
Fred Drake [Fri, 7 May 1999 21:14:28 +0000 (21:14 +0000)]
ExtendedEsisBuilder.push():  Override inherited definition.  We don't
want to push nodes into the document, but into a document
fragment, since we're not necesarily working with something
that's well-formed.

25 years agoFix some bugs introduced in the previous checkin.
Fred Drake [Fri, 7 May 1999 21:12:21 +0000 (21:12 +0000)]
Fix some bugs introduced in the previous checkin.

25 years agoDefine & use a Conversion object. It's still really ugly, but at
Fred Drake [Fri, 7 May 1999 19:59:02 +0000 (19:59 +0000)]
Define & use a Conversion object.  It's still really ugly, but at
least there's a token object in here now!  ;-)

25 years agoUpdated connect_ex() documentation based on comments in the newgroup
Fred Drake [Thu, 6 May 1999 22:03:50 +0000 (22:03 +0000)]
Updated connect_ex() documentation based on comments in the newgroup
(M.-A. Lemburg and GvR).

25 years agoMake it work for "manual" documents as well as "howto" documents.
Fred Drake [Thu, 6 May 1999 19:37:38 +0000 (19:37 +0000)]
Make it work for "manual" documents as well as "howto" documents.
This still doesn't understand anything about multiple source files or
checking time dependencies.

25 years agoReflect recent patch for float % and divmod() by Tim Peters. Content
Fred Drake [Thu, 6 May 1999 14:46:35 +0000 (14:46 +0000)]
Reflect recent patch for float % and divmod() by Tim Peters.  Content
updates by Tim Peters, markup by FLD.

25 years agoTim Peters writes:
Guido van Rossum [Thu, 6 May 1999 14:26:34 +0000 (14:26 +0000)]
Tim Peters writes:

1. Fixes float divmod so that the quotient it returns is always an integral
value.

2. Fixes float % and float divmod so that the remainder always gets the
right sign (the current code uses a "are the signs different?" test that
doesn't work half the time <wink> when the product of the divisor and the
remainder underflows to 0).

25 years agoNathan Paul Simons noticed that the grid_remove() method was missing.
Guido van Rossum [Wed, 5 May 1999 23:03:48 +0000 (23:03 +0000)]
Nathan Paul Simons noticed that the grid_remove() method was missing.
(The difference between grid_remove() and grid_forget() is that the
former remembers the options for the slave.)

25 years agoRegression test for date format code, by Mike Meyer.
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 19:57:01 +0000 (19:57 +0000)]
Regression test for date format code, by Mike Meyer.
(I tweaked it slightly so examples are allowed to have no date too.)

25 years agoNo need to import find(). (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 18:16:23 +0000 (18:16 +0000)]
No need to import find().  (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)

25 years agoNo need to import os or string. (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 18:14:16 +0000 (18:14 +0000)]
No need to import os or string.  (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)

25 years agoNo need to import sys. (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 18:13:51 +0000 (18:13 +0000)]
No need to import sys.  (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)

25 years agoTypo. (Andrew Dalke, without kjpylint)
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 18:13:29 +0000 (18:13 +0000)]
Typo.  (Andrew Dalke, without kjpylint)

25 years agoNo need to import string. (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 18:13:00 +0000 (18:13 +0000)]
No need to import string.  (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)

25 years agoNo need to import os in test(). (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 18:12:36 +0000 (18:12 +0000)]
No need to import os in test().  (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)

25 years agoGet rid of confusing 'global' statement in global code.
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 18:12:08 +0000 (18:12 +0000)]
Get rid of confusing 'global' statement in global code.
(Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)

25 years agoNo need to import sys or string. (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 18:10:37 +0000 (18:10 +0000)]
No need to import sys or string.  (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)

25 years agoClarify why we define disco. Suggested by Andrew Dalke.
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 18:09:53 +0000 (18:09 +0000)]
Clarify why we define disco.  Suggested by Andrew Dalke.

25 years agoClarify why we define error. Suggested by Andrew Dalke.
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 18:09:26 +0000 (18:09 +0000)]
Clarify why we define error.  Suggested by Andrew Dalke.

25 years agoNo need to import sys or linecache. (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 18:08:16 +0000 (18:08 +0000)]
No need to import sys or linecache.  (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)

25 years agoNo need to import gmtime, ctime, asctime.
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 18:07:40 +0000 (18:07 +0000)]
No need to import gmtime, ctime, asctime.
Make error an alias for ValueError.
(Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)

25 years agoClarify why there are dynamic imports in AudioDev().
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 18:04:07 +0000 (18:04 +0000)]
Clarify why there are dynamic imports in AudioDev().
This will enlighten Andrew Dalke; I don't know about kjpylint. :-)

25 years agoThe _comp_data() function never worked, it contained a reference to
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 18:02:44 +0000 (18:02 +0000)]
The _comp_data() function never worked, it contained a reference to
undefined 'nframes'.  Should be self._nframes.  (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)

25 years agoNo need to import sys, time, socket or SocketServer. (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 18:01:31 +0000 (18:01 +0000)]
No need to import sys, time, socket or SocketServer.  (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)

25 years agoNo need to import sys, time, or socket. (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 18:00:48 +0000 (18:00 +0000)]
No need to import sys, time, or socket.  (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)

25 years agoNo need to import rfc822. (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 18:00:20 +0000 (18:00 +0000)]
No need to import rfc822.  (Andrew Dalke & kjpylint)

25 years agoTim Peters writes:
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 15:49:52 +0000 (15:49 +0000)]
Tim Peters writes:

I'm still unsure, but couldn't stand the virtual event trickery so tried a
different sin (adding undo_block_start/stop methods to the Text instance in
EditorWindow.py).  Like it or not, it's efficient and works <wink>.  Better
idea?

Give the attached a whirl.  Even if you hate the implementation, I think
you'll like the results.  Think I caught all the "block edit" cmds,
including Format Paragraph, plus subtler ones involving smart indents and
backspacing.

25 years agoTim Peters writes:
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 15:38:56 +0000 (15:38 +0000)]
Tim Peters writes:

[W]hile trying to dope out how redirection works, stumbled into two
possible glitches.  In the first, it doesn't appear to make sense to try to
rename a command that's already been destroyed; in the second, the name
"previous" doesn't really bring to mind "ignore the previous value" <wink>.

25 years agoThe case-insensitive _Environ class was lacking a case-insensitive has_key().
Guido van Rossum [Mon, 3 May 1999 15:23:24 +0000 (15:23 +0000)]
The case-insensitive _Environ class was lacking a case-insensitive has_key().

25 years agoMake sure latex2html doesn't produce a hard link between foo/foo.html
Fred Drake [Mon, 3 May 1999 14:29:07 +0000 (14:29 +0000)]
Make sure latex2html doesn't produce a hard link between foo/foo.html
and foo/index.html.  Make a copy instead.  (Appearantly some tar
openers on non-Unixlike systems can't handle hard links.)

25 years agoMake sure latex2html doesn't produce a hard link from $part/$part.html
Fred Drake [Mon, 3 May 1999 14:27:45 +0000 (14:27 +0000)]
Make sure latex2html doesn't produce a hard link from $part/$part.html
and $part/index.html.  Make a copy instead.  (Appearantly some tar
openers on non-Unixlike systems can't handle hard links.)

25 years agoThe 'copy_file()' and 'copy_tree()' functions in util.py now have
Greg Ward [Sun, 2 May 1999 21:42:05 +0000 (21:42 +0000)]
The 'copy_file()' and 'copy_tree()' functions in util.py now have
meaningful return values: respectively, whether the copy was done, and
the list of files that were copied.  This meant some trivial changes in
core.py as well: the Command methods that mirror 'copy_file()' and
'copy_tree()' have to pass on their return values.

25 years agoRearranged things so that compilation of .py files is the responsibility
Greg Ward [Sun, 2 May 1999 21:39:13 +0000 (21:39 +0000)]
Rearranged things so that compilation of .py files is the responsibility
of the 'install_py' command rather than 'build_py'.  Obviously, this
meant that the 'build_py' and 'install_py' modules had to change; less
obviously, so did 'install' and 'build', since these higher-level
commands must make options available to control the lower-level
commands, and some compilation-related options had to migrate with the
code.

25 years agoupdates for latest release
Barry Warsaw [Sat, 1 May 1999 16:27:23 +0000 (16:27 +0000)]
updates for latest release

25 years agoSupport for using idle as a package.
Guido van Rossum [Fri, 30 Apr 1999 19:39:25 +0000 (19:39 +0000)]
Support for using idle as a package.

25 years agoRevert constraint on the GIF wildcard; we missed a few!
Fred Drake [Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:58:45 +0000 (15:58 +0000)]
Revert constraint on the GIF wildcard; we missed a few!

25 years agoAvoid listing files more than once (e.g. foomodule.so has two hits:
Guido van Rossum [Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:14:05 +0000 (15:14 +0000)]
Avoid listing files more than once (e.g. foomodule.so has two hits:
once for foo + module.so, once for foomodule + .so).

25 years agoAdded top navigation bar for consistency and color. There's not a lot
Fred Drake [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 19:54:08 +0000 (19:54 +0000)]
Added top navigation bar for consistency and color.  There's not a lot
there, but the "modules" icon is active.

25 years agomake_nav_panel(): Remove the spurious NAME="tex2html\d+" attributes
Fred Drake [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 19:06:56 +0000 (19:06 +0000)]
make_nav_panel():  Remove the spurious NAME="tex2html\d+" attributes
   added to the anchors in the navigation bars.  These
   are added somewhere deep with l2h, and are stupid.

25 years agoAdded wcnew target to run the "wcnew" version of webchecker.
Fred Drake [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 19:04:55 +0000 (19:04 +0000)]
Added wcnew target to run the "wcnew" version of webchecker.

25 years agoUse the new module-key for the FL module when hyperlinking (the old
Fred Drake [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 18:42:18 +0000 (18:42 +0000)]
Use the new module-key for the FL module when hyperlinking (the old
one caused problems on case-insensitive file systems).

25 years agoFor the tutorial, use numeric node names and split by chapter.
Fred Drake [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 18:29:38 +0000 (18:29 +0000)]
For the tutorial, use numeric node names and split by chapter.

25 years agoNasty hack to add a --numeric parameter to skip the use of "logical"
Fred Drake [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 18:28:48 +0000 (18:28 +0000)]
Nasty hack to add a --numeric parameter to skip the use of "logical"
names.

25 years agoMove index.html rules to the end since it wedges font-lock.
Fred Drake [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:04:21 +0000 (17:04 +0000)]
Move index.html rules to the end since it wedges font-lock.

Remember to delete index.html for clobber since it is now generated..

25 years agoAdded index entries for operator precedence; suggestion from Randall
Fred Drake [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:43:42 +0000 (16:43 +0000)]
Added index entries for operator precedence; suggestion from Randall
Hopper <rhh@vislab.epa.gov>.

25 years agoMake sure the global module index is added to the HTML tarball.
Fred Drake [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:44:49 +0000 (15:44 +0000)]
Make sure the global module index is added to the HTML tarball.

25 years agoGenerate index.html from index.html.in. This avoids having to modify the
Fred Drake [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:42:19 +0000 (15:42 +0000)]
Generate index.html from index.html.in.  This avoids having to modify the
index to update the version number; boilerplate.tex remains the only document
source for this information.

25 years agoConstrain a wildcard a little more.
Fred Drake [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:32:27 +0000 (15:32 +0000)]
Constrain a wildcard a little more.

25 years agoDon't point readers to rand, point to random! And make it a hyperlink
Fred Drake [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:41:17 +0000 (13:41 +0000)]
Don't point readers to rand, point to random!  And make it a hyperlink
while you're at it.

Also, when discussing order of reading, make it clear that chapter 2
is assumed background material for the remainder of the manual.
That's needed for terminology if nothing else!

25 years agoExplain comments at the start of chapter 3. This is needed since they
Fred Drake [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:20:25 +0000 (13:20 +0000)]
Explain comments at the start of chapter 3.  This is needed since they
appear in the examples without any further explanation, and the
tutorial doesn't have this information explicit anywhere else.
Omission reported by Jon Black <jblack@Ridgeway-Sys.com>.

25 years agoMinor nits, partly in response to comments from Jonathan Black
Fred Drake [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:57:32 +0000 (12:57 +0000)]
Minor nits, partly in response to comments from Jonathan Black
<jblack@Ridgeway-Sys.com>.

25 years agoMike Meyer reports a bug in his patch (several months ago) that
Guido van Rossum [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:50:36 +0000 (12:50 +0000)]
Mike Meyer reports a bug in his patch (several months ago) that
accepts long month names.  One essential line was missing.  Fixed now.

25 years agoAnnotate a couple of entries further.
Fred Drake [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 04:23:37 +0000 (04:23 +0000)]
Annotate a couple of entries further.

25 years agoFill in a few holes in the "Very High Level" chapter.
Fred Drake [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 04:20:46 +0000 (04:20 +0000)]
Fill in a few holes in the "Very High Level" chapter.

25 years agoAlways use "section" when referring to sections of a document, not "Section".
Fred Drake [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 02:47:40 +0000 (02:47 +0000)]
Always use "section" when referring to sections of a document, not "Section".

25 years agoClarify that the Modules/ directory is in an unpacked source
Fred Drake [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 02:44:50 +0000 (02:44 +0000)]
Clarify that the Modules/ directory is in an unpacked source
distribution; this is not clear for Windows users.

25 years agoUpdate starship URLs.
Fred Drake [Thu, 29 Apr 1999 02:30:04 +0000 (02:30 +0000)]
Update starship URLs.

25 years agoMessage.getheader(): Fixed grammatical error in docstring.
Fred Drake [Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:17:38 +0000 (21:17 +0000)]
Message.getheader():  Fixed grammatical error in docstring.

Message.getheaders():  Method to get list of all values for each
       instance of a named header.  See docstring for more.

25 years agoAdd a scale widget and command line options to set the output volume.
Barry Warsaw [Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:32:46 +0000 (19:32 +0000)]
Add a scale widget and command line options to set the output volume.

Bump version number 1.0