diff Doc/lib/libstring.tex @ 15009:9847b486d15f legacy-trunk

Added deprecation notices to atof(), atoi(), and atol(), recommending use of the float(), int(), and long() built-ins instead. Fixed minor markup nit elsewhere (use of \optional).
author Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
date Wed, 04 Oct 2000 13:59:52 +0000
parents ac6df0494c58
children 1690755c5986
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--- a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex	Wed Oct 04 13:57:27 2000 +0000
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex	Wed Oct 04 13:59:52 2000 +0000
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
 The functions defined in this module are:
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{atof}{s}
+  \deprecated{2.0}{Use the \function{float()} built-in function.}
   Convert a string to a floating point number.  The string must have
   the standard syntax for a floating point literal in Python,
   optionally preceded by a sign (\samp{+} or \samp{-}).  Note that
@@ -85,6 +86,7 @@
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{atoi}{s\optional{, base}}
+  \deprecated{2.0}{Use the \function{int()} built-in function.}
   Convert string \var{s} to an integer in the given \var{base}.  The
   string must consist of one or more digits, optionally preceded by a
   sign (\samp{+} or \samp{-}).  The \var{base} defaults to 10.  If it
@@ -99,6 +101,7 @@
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{atol}{s\optional{, base}}
+  \deprecated{2.0}{Use the \function{long()} built-in function.}
   Convert string \var{s} to a long integer in the given \var{base}.
   The string must consist of one or more digits, optionally preceded
   by a sign (\samp{+} or \samp{-}).  The \var{base} argument has the
@@ -121,7 +124,7 @@
   trailing whitespace.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
-\begin{funcdesc}{expandtabs}{s, \optional{tabsize}}
+\begin{funcdesc}{expandtabs}{s\optional{, tabsize}}
   Expand tabs in a string, i.e.\ replace them by one or more spaces,
   depending on the current column and the given tab size.  The column
   number is reset to zero after each newline occurring in the string.