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Fred Drake 739282da83 Re-write the description of the os.spawn*() functions, and cover the 
whole family instead of just two.


This closes SF bug #451630.
2001-08-16 21:21:28 +00:00
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.cvsignore
Updates to reflect pending changes to the XML conversion process.
2000-11-22 16:42:37 +00:00
distutils.tex
Overview comments for the distutils package, with links to the distutils
2001-07-24 16:19:24 +00:00
internet.tex
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
language.tex
Break the "Python Services" chapter into two: "Python Runtime Services"
2000-08-03 21:18:18 +00:00
lib.tex
Add entry for the new distutils section.
2001-07-24 16:20:13 +00:00
libaifc.tex
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
2001-07-06 19:28:48 +00:00
libal.tex
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liballos.tex
Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes for the Library Reference. I hope
2000-07-16 19:01:10 +00:00
libamoeba.tex
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libanydbm.tex
Remove self-reference from the anydbm module.
2001-07-23 19:22:42 +00:00
libarray.tex
Fix description of buffer_info(), and add a note that there is a better
2001-08-01 16:50:49 +00:00
libascii.tex
Work around limitations of the module synopsis table generation to avoid
2001-05-09 15:50:17 +00:00
libasyncore.tex
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
libatexit.tex
Move the "See also" section to a location more consistent with other
2000-09-09 03:25:11 +00:00
libaudioop.tex
Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes for the Library Reference. I hope
2000-07-16 19:01:10 +00:00
libbase64.tex
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
libbasehttp.tex
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
libbastion.tex
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libbinascii.tex
Work around limitations of the module synopsis table generation to avoid
2001-05-09 15:50:17 +00:00
libbinhex.tex
Make all the \seemodule explanations consistent: start with a capitalized
2000-10-18 17:43:06 +00:00
libbisect.tex
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
2001-07-06 19:28:48 +00:00
libbltin.tex
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libbsddb.tex
Update explanation of the set_location() method to indicate that in
2001-01-05 06:44:19 +00:00
libcalendar.tex
Work around limitations of the module synopsis table generation to avoid
2001-05-09 15:50:17 +00:00
libcd.tex
Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes for the Library Reference. I hope
2000-07-16 19:01:10 +00:00
libcfgparser.tex
ConfigParser.optionxform(): Document this since it is available for
2001-02-19 22:37:24 +00:00
libcgi.tex
For the escape() function, added a reference to the quoteattrs() function
2001-08-11 03:28:41 +00:00
libcgihttp.tex
Update Moshe Zadka's email address to one works and might last a while.
2000-12-01 15:25:23 +00:00
libchunk.tex
Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes for the Library Reference. I hope
2000-07-16 19:01:10 +00:00
libcmath.tex
Contributed updates from Harald Hanche-Olsen, giving details of the branch
2001-06-23 03:16:29 +00:00
libcmd.tex
Make some adjustments to the markup, and fix up some style-guide issues.
2001-07-29 03:41:23 +00:00
libcmp.tex
Removed references to Python 1.5.3; that was a "tentative" number I used
2001-01-25 17:29:18 +00:00
libcmpcache.tex
Removed references to Python 1.5.3; that was a "tentative" number I used
2001-01-25 17:29:18 +00:00
libcode.tex
Denis S. Otkidach <ods@users.sourceforge.net>:
2000-09-14 20:42:53 +00:00
libcodecs.tex
Added link to the "Python Codecs" project at SourceForge.
2001-01-22 20:17:54 +00:00
libcodeop.tex
Update Moshe Zadka's email address to one works and might last a while.
2000-12-01 15:25:23 +00:00
libcolorsys.tex
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libcommands.tex
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libcompileall.tex
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libcookie.tex
Removed some stray periods, and fix up a number of visible markup
2001-06-29 16:21:47 +00:00
libcopy.tex
Fix really bad typo, noted by Neil Schemenauer <nas@arctrix.com>.
2000-10-06 20:16:50 +00:00
libcopyreg.tex
Document the exceptions that now get raised on invalid parameters.
2000-10-11 22:27:51 +00:00
libcrypt.tex
Work around limitations of the module synopsis table generation to avoid
2001-05-09 15:50:17 +00:00
libcrypto.tex
Update the link to Andrew Kuchling's crypto code.
2000-09-16 05:02:24 +00:00
libcurses.tex
Follow the recommended practices for keystroke representation; this
2001-07-12 02:09:51 +00:00
libcursespanel.tex
Fix serious markup errors.
2001-03-29 22:22:23 +00:00
libdbhash.tex
Remove duplicate ', ' in dbhash.open()'s argument list.
2001-06-27 13:49:59 +00:00
libdbm.tex
Add some comments on the available implementations that this module can
2000-09-15 21:31:31 +00:00
libdifflib.tex
David Goodger <dgoodger@atsautomation.com>:
2001-08-13 19:31:59 +00:00
libdircache.tex
Update Moshe Zadka's email address to one works and might last a while.
2000-12-01 15:25:23 +00:00
libdis.tex
Work around the conversion of ">>" and "<<" to guillemets. Reported by Ping.
2001-04-13 17:25:38 +00:00
libdl.tex
Update Moshe Zadka's email address to one works and might last a while.
2000-12-01 15:25:23 +00:00
libdoctest.tex
Fix recent changes so that this section will format again.
2001-06-11 14:55:01 +00:00
liberrno.tex
Fixed lots of small nits caught by Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>.
2000-10-10 17:03:45 +00:00
libexcs.tex
Patch #411138: Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774.
2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
libfcntl.tex
Update the fcntl module documentation.
2001-05-09 21:09:57 +00:00
libfilecmp.tex
Add some text to make the dircmp object section more readable, and move
2001-05-11 17:01:32 +00:00
libfileinput.tex
Note that when inplace=1 existing backup files will be removed silently.
2001-05-09 03:24:55 +00:00
libfl.tex
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
libfm.tex
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libfnmatch.tex
Document that filter is added in 2.2.
2001-06-16 08:14:04 +00:00
libformatter.tex
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
libfpectl.tex
The fpectl module does not work on Windows, so remove Windows from the
2001-07-05 21:17:08 +00:00
libfpformat.tex
Update Moshe Zadka's email address to one works and might last a while.
2000-12-01 15:25:23 +00:00
libftplib.tex
Document IPv6 changes. Contributed by itojun.
2001-08-04 22:22:45 +00:00
libfuncs.tex
SF bug #444510: int() should guarantee truncation.
2001-07-26 20:02:17 +00:00
libgc.tex
- update Neil's email address
2000-10-04 16:34:09 +00:00
libgdbm.tex
Add support for gdbm2 open flags ('s' and 'u'). Add module constant
2000-12-17 07:14:13 +00:00
libgetopt.tex
Add note about the version in which GetoptError was added -- this can
2001-04-18 03:18:57 +00:00
libgetpass.tex
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libgettext.tex
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
2001-07-06 19:28:48 +00:00
libgl.tex
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libglob.tex
Work around annoyances in LaTeX2HTML.
2000-10-09 18:12:29 +00:00
libgopherlib.tex
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libgrp.tex
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libgzip.tex
Patch #448474: Add support for tell() and seek() to gzip.GzipFile.
2001-08-09 07:21:56 +00:00
libhtmllib.tex
Added more information on the differences between the htmllib and HTMLParser
2001-07-05 16:34:36 +00:00
libhtmlparser.tex
Added more information on the differences between the htmllib and HTMLParser
2001-07-05 16:34:36 +00:00
libhttplib.tex
Minor markup adjustment.
2001-01-22 17:42:32 +00:00
libimageop.tex
Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes for the Library Reference. I hope
2000-07-16 19:01:10 +00:00
libimaplib.tex
apply patch item #416254
2001-07-20 11:04:19 +00:00
libimgfile.tex
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libimghdr.tex
Fixed lots of small nits caught by Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>.
2000-10-10 17:03:45 +00:00
libimp.tex
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
2001-07-06 19:28:48 +00:00
libinspect.tex
Added a warning about reference cycles and memory consumption to the
2001-08-10 17:37:33 +00:00
libintro.tex
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
libjpeg.tex
Convert several \seetext references to \seerfc and \seetitle versions.
2001-04-12 16:47:17 +00:00
libkeyword.tex
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liblinecache.tex
Show '\011', '\012', and '\015' as '\t', '\n', '\r' in strings.
2001-01-24 17:19:08 +00:00
liblocale.tex
Expose nl_langinfo through locale where available.
2001-08-10 13:58:50 +00:00
libmailbox.tex
Apply the new \mailheader macro where appropriate, and fix a few small
2001-08-03 18:39:36 +00:00
libmailcap.tex
Clean up some of the markup here -- be more consistent in the use of
2001-08-08 05:39:29 +00:00
libmain.tex
A little more text, and some really minor cleanups.
2000-08-17 22:31:23 +00:00
libmarshal.tex
Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes for the Library Reference. I hope
2000-07-16 19:01:10 +00:00
libmath.tex
Do not talk about "real" numbers; talk about "floats" or "floating point
2000-12-18 13:50:24 +00:00
libmd5.tex
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
2001-07-06 19:28:48 +00:00
libmhlib.tex
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libmimetools.tex
Apply the new \mailheader macro where appropriate, and fix a few small
2001-08-03 18:39:36 +00:00
libmimetypes.tex
Note that the mimetypes.MimeTypes class was added in Python 2.2.
2001-08-04 00:48:49 +00:00
libmimewriter.tex
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libmimify.tex
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
2001-07-06 19:28:48 +00:00
libmisc.tex
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libmm.tex
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libmmap.tex
Updated descriptions to incorporate additional information from Tim Peters.
2001-01-11 22:49:49 +00:00
libmpz.tex
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libmsvcrt.tex
Update information on the locking() function, added the needed constants.
2000-12-14 03:11:24 +00:00
libmultifile.tex
Re-order some method descriptions for a more logical grouping.
2001-03-08 22:46:41 +00:00
libmutex.tex
Added missing word; fixed minor nits.
2001-01-09 20:54:15 +00:00
libnetrc.tex
Update documentation to reflect the shift to NetrcParseError instead of
2001-03-06 06:55:18 +00:00
libnew.tex
Adjust documentation for new.instance() to reflect that the second
2001-01-28 17:23:05 +00:00
libni.tex
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libnis.tex
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
2001-07-06 19:28:48 +00:00
libnntplib.tex
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libobjs.tex
Really minor consistency nit.
2000-09-09 03:31:17 +00:00
liboperator.tex
Added documentation for the new rich comparison support.
2001-08-10 15:55:09 +00:00
libos.tex
Re-write the description of the os.spawn*() functions, and cover the
2001-08-16 21:21:28 +00:00
libpanel.tex
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
libparser.tex
Show '\011', '\012', and '\015' as '\t', '\n', '\r' in strings.
2001-01-24 17:19:08 +00:00
libpdb.tex
Add some symbolic names to support hyperlinked references.
2001-07-18 17:40:19 +00:00
libpickle.tex
Capitalize & use periods for \seemodule explanation parameter.
2000-10-18 16:47:52 +00:00
libpipes.tex
Work around limitations of the module synopsis table generation to avoid
2001-05-09 15:50:17 +00:00
libpopen2.tex
Explain the exit code for the wait() method, including a reference to
2001-07-06 17:17:12 +00:00
libpoplib.tex
Insert omitted "the".
2001-08-14 11:42:13 +00:00
libposix.tex
Fix & clean up the information about building Python with large file support
2001-06-22 16:01:20 +00:00
libposixfile.tex
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libposixpath.tex
Add a version annotation for splitdrive(); old, but as long as I managed
2001-05-25 16:21:00 +00:00
libpprint.tex
Fixed lots of small nits caught by Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>.
2000-10-10 17:03:45 +00:00
libprofile.tex
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
2001-07-06 20:30:11 +00:00
libpty.tex
Update Moshe Zadka's email address to one works and might last a while.
2000-12-01 15:25:23 +00:00
libpwd.tex
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libpyclbr.tex
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libpycompile.tex
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libpyexpat.tex
Make some clarifications and corrections based on comments from Guido.
2001-02-15 05:37:51 +00:00
libpython.tex
Break the "Python Services" chapter into two: "Python Runtime Services"
2000-08-03 21:18:18 +00:00
libqueue.tex
Fixed lots of small nits caught by Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>.
2000-10-10 17:03:45 +00:00
libquopri.tex
Document the new encodestring() and decodestring() functions. Also,
2001-06-19 19:44:42 +00:00
librand.tex
Make all the \seemodule explanations consistent: start with a capitalized
2000-10-18 17:43:06 +00:00
librandom.tex
Fix a number of minor markup errors.
2001-04-21 05:56:06 +00:00
libre.tex
Add a caveat about boundary conditions and RE concatenation, so that the
2001-08-02 20:52:00 +00:00
libreadline.tex
Cleaned up the description of readline.set_completer().
2001-08-01 21:42:45 +00:00
libregex.tex
Add obsolescence note to the module descriptions that get added to the
2000-09-25 17:23:04 +00:00
libregsub.tex
Add obsolescence note to the module descriptions that get added to the
2000-09-25 17:23:04 +00:00
librepr.tex
Fixed lots of small nits caught by Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>.
2000-10-10 17:03:45 +00:00
libresource.tex
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
librestricted.tex
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
librexec.tex
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
librfc822.tex
Apply the new \mailheader macro where appropriate, and fix a few small
2001-08-03 18:39:36 +00:00
librgbimg.tex
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librlcompleter.tex
Usage fix, problem reported by Keith Briggs.
2001-08-10 16:15:08 +00:00
librobotparser.tex
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
librotor.tex
Show '\011', '\012', and '\015' as '\t', '\n', '\r' in strings.
2001-01-24 17:19:08 +00:00
libsched.tex
When explaining the enterabs() method, using the modern spelling of apply(),
2001-07-23 19:28:09 +00:00
libselect.tex
Added information about the timeout parameter to the poll() method for
2001-07-11 18:48:39 +00:00
libsgi.tex
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libsgmllib.tex
Added more information on the differences between the htmllib and HTMLParser
2001-07-05 16:34:36 +00:00
libsha.tex
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
2001-07-06 20:30:11 +00:00
libshelve.tex
Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes for the Library Reference. I hope
2000-07-16 19:01:10 +00:00
libshlex.tex
Work around limitations of the module synopsis table generation to avoid
2001-05-09 15:50:17 +00:00
libshutil.tex
For copyfile(), be explicit that src and dst are file names; that was only
2001-03-02 16:46:42 +00:00
libsignal.tex
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
2001-07-06 20:30:11 +00:00
libsimplehttp.tex
Update Moshe Zadka's email address to one works and might last a while.
2000-12-01 15:25:23 +00:00
libsite.tex
Document \code{import} in pth files.
2001-01-11 22:07:25 +00:00
libsmtplib.tex
Fix bug in smtplib example: the prompt said to end the message with ^D,
2001-05-20 12:26:04 +00:00
libsndhdr.tex
Fixed lots of small nits caught by Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>.
2000-10-10 17:03:45 +00:00
libsocket.tex
Document IPv6 changes. Contributed by itojun.
2001-08-04 22:22:45 +00:00
libsocksvr.tex
Changing allow_reuse_address's default value, and documenting it.
2000-12-13 20:39:22 +00:00
libsomeos.tex
Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes for the Library Reference. I hope
2000-07-16 19:01:10 +00:00
libstat.tex
Fixed minor markup nits for consistency with the rest of the library
2001-01-11 16:02:08 +00:00
libstatcache.tex
Update Moshe Zadka's email address to one works and might last a while.
2000-12-01 15:25:23 +00:00
libstatvfs.tex
Update Moshe Zadka's email address to one works and might last a while.
2000-12-01 15:25:23 +00:00
libstdtypes.tex
Describe the new semantics for setting and deleting a function's
2001-08-14 18:22:24 +00:00
libstdwin.tex
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
libstring.tex
Added the constants ascii_letters, ascii_lowercase, and ascii_uppercase
2001-07-20 18:38:26 +00:00
libstringio.tex
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
2001-07-06 20:30:11 +00:00
libstrings.tex
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libstruct.tex
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
2001-07-06 20:30:11 +00:00
libsun.tex
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libsunau.tex
Update Moshe Zadka's email address to one works and might last a while.
2000-12-01 15:25:23 +00:00
libsunaudio.tex
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libsymbol.tex
Make all the \seemodule explanations consistent: start with a capitalized
2000-10-18 17:43:06 +00:00
libsys.tex
Patch #411138: Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774.
2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
libsyslog.tex
Work around limitations of the module synopsis table generation to avoid
2001-05-09 15:50:17 +00:00
libtabnanny.tex
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libtelnetlib.tex
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
2001-07-06 20:23:02 +00:00
libtempfile.tex
Rob W. W. Hooft's spelling fixes for the Library Reference. I hope
2000-07-16 19:01:10 +00:00
libtermios.tex
Work around limitations of the module synopsis table generation to avoid
2001-05-09 15:50:17 +00:00
libthread.tex
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libthreading.tex
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
2001-07-06 20:30:11 +00:00
libtime.tex
Add a comment on time.time() returning non-decreasing values except when
2001-08-05 15:43:04 +00:00
libtoken.tex
Make all the \seemodule explanations consistent: start with a capitalized
2000-10-18 17:43:06 +00:00
libtokenize.tex
Turns out Neil didn't intend for *all* of his gen-branch work to get
2001-06-29 23:51:08 +00:00
libtraceback.tex
Reflect change in traceback format:
2001-02-14 03:20:18 +00:00
libtty.tex
Update Moshe Zadka's email address to one works and might last a while.
2000-12-01 15:25:23 +00:00
libturtle.tex
Update Moshe Zadka's email address to one works and might last a while.
2000-12-01 15:25:23 +00:00
libtypes.tex
Teach the types module about generators. Thanks to James Althoff on the
2001-06-25 19:46:25 +00:00
libundoc.tex
Add the smtpd module to the list of undocumented modules; Barry needs to
2001-08-14 11:38:35 +00:00
libunicodedata.tex
new unicodedata functions (name, lookup)
2001-01-24 08:10:07 +00:00
libunittest.tex
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
libunix.tex
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liburllib2.tex
Fix a markup error: do not omit a method's parameter list if it is
2001-07-05 21:14:03 +00:00
liburllib.tex
Apply the new \mailheader macro where appropriate, and fix a few small
2001-08-03 18:39:36 +00:00
liburlparse.tex
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
libuser.tex
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
2001-07-06 20:30:11 +00:00
libuserdict.tex
Fixed a large number of small problems, mostly noted by Detlef Lannert
2000-10-10 22:00:03 +00:00
libuu.tex
Make all the \seemodule explanations consistent: start with a capitalized
2000-10-18 17:43:06 +00:00
libwarnings.tex
Fix a minor typo and mark an exception name that was missed.
2001-08-14 21:51:50 +00:00
libwave.tex
Update Moshe Zadka's email address to one works and might last a while.
2000-12-01 15:25:23 +00:00
libweakref.tex
Fix some of the example code; the reference objects do not support a
2001-08-03 03:50:28 +00:00
libwebbrowser.tex
Remove some false statements.
2001-07-19 03:49:33 +00:00
libwhichdb.tex
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libwhrandom.tex
Revise the deprecation note for the whrandom module to be correct and a
2001-02-03 01:12:44 +00:00
libwinreg.tex
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
2001-07-06 20:30:11 +00:00
libwinsound.tex
Fix up the markup in some recently-added portions of the text.
2001-02-23 19:10:41 +00:00
libxdrlib.tex
Minor nit fixes based on suggestions from Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>.
2000-10-10 17:02:34 +00:00
libxmllib.tex
Minor changes to match the style guide.
2001-07-14 02:50:55 +00:00
libxmlrpclib.tex
Correct a couple of errors noted by Alex Martelli.
2001-07-14 02:46:01 +00:00
libxreadlines.tex
Added note that this module was added in Python 2.1.
2001-01-12 22:57:32 +00:00
libzipfile.tex
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
2001-07-06 20:30:11 +00:00
libzlib.tex
Updated link to zlib's home page.
2001-06-25 15:30:13 +00:00
markup.tex
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netdata.tex
Remove comments about XML and HTML; those sections are no
2001-07-14 02:44:43 +00:00
windows.tex
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xmldom.tex
Fix typo
2001-06-23 16:26:44 +00:00
xmldomminidom.tex
Change some wording to make this work with PDF generation -- using a PDF
2001-01-22 19:06:20 +00:00
xmldompulldom.tex
Added "stub" documentation for xml.dom.pulldom for Paul to fill out with
2000-12-13 19:34:38 +00:00
xmlsax.tex
Finish a sentence that was left half-written!
2000-12-13 22:36:02 +00:00
xmlsaxhandler.tex
Added documentation on the ErrorHandler interface.
2000-12-19 04:07:54 +00:00
xmlsaxreader.tex
Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
2001-07-06 20:30:11 +00:00
xmlsaxutils.tex
Add a note that the quoteattr() function is useful for HTML and SGML
2001-08-10 22:14:17 +00:00