log Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex @ 21467:4e35fa5d5708 legacy-trunk

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Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:31:08 +0000 Fred Drake Add documentation for the help() built-in; contributed by Ka-Ping Yee. legacy-trunk
Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:52:22 +0000 Fred Drake Ensure that complex() only accepts a string argument as the first arg, legacy-trunk
Mon, 03 Dec 2001 18:35:05 +0000 Fred Drake Minor clarification of the zip() description, based on a comment sent to legacy-trunk
Mon, 03 Dec 2001 17:32:27 +0000 Fred Drake Remove most references to __members__ and __methods__, leaving only one pair legacy-trunk
Wed, 07 Nov 2001 06:28:47 +0000 Fred Drake When referring to a formal parameter from the description, use the name given legacy-trunk
Wed, 07 Nov 2001 06:22:25 +0000 Fred Drake apply() documentation: Remove a detail about the implementation that does legacy-trunk
Mon, 29 Oct 2001 22:25:45 +0000 Tim Peters Rename "dictionary" (type and constructor) to "dict". legacy-trunk
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:04:33 +0000 Fred Drake Some style changes and typo fixes. legacy-trunk
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 05:06:50 +0000 Tim Peters Generalize dictionary() to accept a sequence of 2-sequences. At the legacy-trunk
Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:02:29 +0000 Marc-André Lemburg Additional test and documentation for the unicode() changes. legacy-trunk
Tue, 09 Oct 2001 19:31:08 +0000 Fred Drake Update the documentation for the isinstance() function to reflect recent legacy-trunk
Thu, 04 Oct 2001 06:53:20 +0000 Tim Peters Make clear that tuple() accepts the same kind of arguments as list(). legacy-trunk
Sun, 30 Sep 2001 06:32:59 +0000 Tim Peters The execfile() docs imply it acts on locals same as exec. But in truth legacy-trunk
Sun, 30 Sep 2001 06:18:26 +0000 Tim Peters Correct docs for long(float). legacy-trunk
Sat, 29 Sep 2001 14:28:52 +0000 Guido van Rossum Fix two typos in the text about compile(), and add two caveats from legacy-trunk
Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:55:29 +0000 Tim Peters Document new file() constructor, with the body of open()'s text, plus a legacy-trunk
Thu, 06 Sep 2001 19:04:29 +0000 Fred Drake Document the built-in iter() function. legacy-trunk
Mon, 03 Sep 2001 08:35:41 +0000 Tim Peters New restriction on pow(x, y, z): If z is not None, x and y must be of legacy-trunk
Mon, 27 Aug 2001 20:02:17 +0000 Michael W. Hudson Docs for the PEP 264 changes. legacy-trunk
Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:02:17 +0000 Tim Peters SF bug #444510: int() should guarantee truncation. legacy-trunk
Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:27:16 +0000 Guido van Rossum On int/long to the negative int/long power, let float handle it legacy-trunk
Fri, 06 Jul 2001 19:28:48 +0000 Fred Drake Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make legacy-trunk
Tue, 15 May 2001 15:27:53 +0000 Fred Drake Beef up the unicode() description a bit, based on material from AMK's legacy-trunk
Wed, 02 May 2001 20:19:19 +0000 Fred Drake Update the filter() and list() descriptions to include information about legacy-trunk
Fri, 19 Jan 2001 21:36:19 +0000 Marc-André Lemburg Backed out the unistr() builtin. legacy-trunk
Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:09:07 +0000 Fred Drake Minor markup cleaning, and one required fix in the unistr() description. legacy-trunk
Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:09:53 +0000 Marc-André Lemburg This patch adds a new builtin unistr() which behaves like str() legacy-trunk
Thu, 04 Jan 2001 05:09:16 +0000 Fred Drake Description of long(): A string parameter is no longer required to be legacy-trunk
Fri, 17 Nov 2000 19:44:14 +0000 Fred Drake Added information about the %r string formatting conversion. Added note legacy-trunk
Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:23:48 +0000 Fred Drake When referring to namespaces, always say "namespaces" instead of legacy-trunk
Sat, 09 Sep 2000 03:33:42 +0000 Fred Drake Various clarifications and minor nits fixed. Affected descriptions of legacy-trunk
Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:30:30 +0000 Fred Drake Small cleanups, and note when zip() entered the menagerie. legacy-trunk
Thu, 03 Aug 2000 17:29:13 +0000 Fred Drake int() description: Fix markup to avoid image generation for math mode. legacy-trunk
Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:46:17 +0000 Barry Warsaw Both PEP 201 Lockstep Iteration and SF patch #101030 have been legacy-trunk
Fri, 30 Jun 2000 16:06:19 +0000 Fred Drake Update version numbering from 1.6 to 2.0. legacy-trunk
Thu, 29 Jun 2000 03:46:46 +0000 Fred Drake Make it clear that id() can return either a long integer or a plain integer. legacy-trunk
Thu, 06 Apr 2000 15:06:03 +0000 Fred Drake unichr(), legacy-trunk
Thu, 06 Apr 2000 14:45:19 +0000 Fred Drake Note the exception raised when parameter to chr() is out of range. legacy-trunk
Thu, 06 Apr 2000 14:43:12 +0000 Fred Drake Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>: legacy-trunk
Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:45:52 +0000 Fred Drake Update the description of int() to include the radix parameter; legacy-trunk
Thu, 05 Aug 1999 13:43:08 +0000 Fred Drake Add index entries for open(): legacy-trunk
Thu, 22 Jul 1999 19:21:45 +0000 Fred Drake Update getattr() description to document the optional third legacy-trunk
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 22:09:20 +0000 Fred Drake Adjust indexing for __import__(); based on comments by Stefan Franke legacy-trunk
Thu, 06 May 1999 14:46:35 +0000 Fred Drake Reflect recent patch for float % and divmod() by Tim Peters. Content legacy-trunk
Mon, 05 Apr 1999 21:22:41 +0000 Fred Drake open() description: Made it more clear that 'b' should always be legacy-trunk
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:23:26 +0000 Guido van Rossum Document complex() with string arg. legacy-trunk
Fri, 19 Mar 1999 19:10:14 +0000 Guido van Rossum Document new builtin buffer(). Greg Stein. legacy-trunk
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:08:36 +0000 Fred Drake Add notes to __builtin__.float() and string.atof() that the NaN and Inf legacy-trunk
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 03:49:20 +0000 Fred Drake atof() description: Add information about accepting 'NaN' to produce legacy-trunk
Wed, 06 Jan 1999 23:10:51 +0000 Guido van Rossum Replace the docs for reduce with an adaptation of its docstring, which legacy-trunk
Mon, 07 Dec 1998 17:13:18 +0000 Fred Drake "singed" --> "signed" (3 places) legacy-trunk
Fri, 04 Dec 1998 15:32:17 +0000 Guido van Rossum Add explicit example on how to import a submodule of a package using legacy-trunk
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 18:53:05 +0000 Guido van Rossum Clarify that min and max also take multiple arguments. legacy-trunk
Mon, 02 Nov 1998 18:57:34 +0000 Fred Drake Clarify the default buffering for open(). (Comment from Andrew Dalke legacy-trunk
Thu, 01 Oct 1998 15:35:43 +0000 Barry Warsaw Document that apply() can now take any sequence in argument 2. legacy-trunk
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 20:30:07 +0000 Fred Drake round(): Mark the second (optional) parameter as optional, since it's legacy-trunk
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 19:42:37 +0000 Fred Drake New section header style. legacy-trunk
Wed, 29 Jul 1998 21:05:35 +0000 Guido van Rossum Clarify the + and b mode characters for open() a bit. legacy-trunk
Mon, 22 Jun 1998 14:07:36 +0000 Guido van Rossum Revert the change of revision 1.30. While it's in general a laudable legacy-trunk
Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:19:50 +0000 Fred Drake eval() example: Removed final interpreter prompt; other examples don't have legacy-trunk