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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2007-08-17 00:24:54 +0000
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2007-08-17 00:24:54 +0000
commitbffc872828a4bf2e38d3fc81f05dabc81841ca50 (patch)
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downloadcpython-bffc872828a4bf2e38d3fc81f05dabc81841ca50.tar.gz
Manually patched a few things that didn't get merged in, but should.
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/library')
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/aifc.rst7
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/codeop.rst12
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/fileinput.rst6
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/logging.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/marshal.rst18
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/mimetools.rst1
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/multifile.rst1
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/rfc822.rst1
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/shutil.rst8
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/stringprep.rst1
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/unicodedata.rst6
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/zipfile.rst6
12 files changed, 43 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/aifc.rst b/Doc/library/aifc.rst
index 0cfcb52cec..7f7d7feeaf 100644
--- a/Doc/library/aifc.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/aifc.rst
@@ -16,9 +16,10 @@ AIFF is Audio Interchange File Format, a format for storing digital audio
samples in a file. AIFF-C is a newer version of the format that includes the
ability to compress the audio data.
-**Caveat:** Some operations may only work under IRIX; these will raise
-:exc:`ImportError` when attempting to import the :mod:`cl` module, which is only
-available on IRIX.
+.. warning::
+
+ Some operations may only work under IRIX; these will raise :exc:`ImportError`
+ when attempting to import the :mod:`cl` module, which is only available on IRIX.
Audio files have a number of parameters that describe the audio data. The
sampling rate or frame rate is the number of times per second the sound is
diff --git a/Doc/library/codeop.rst b/Doc/library/codeop.rst
index 8a730ec027..419e8735d1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/codeop.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/codeop.rst
@@ -46,11 +46,13 @@ To do just the former:
(``'single'``, the default) or as an expression (``'eval'``). Any other value
will cause :exc:`ValueError` to be raised.
- **Caveat:** It is possible (but not likely) that the parser stops parsing with a
- successful outcome before reaching the end of the source; in this case, trailing
- symbols may be ignored instead of causing an error. For example, a backslash
- followed by two newlines may be followed by arbitrary garbage. This will be
- fixed once the API for the parser is better.
+ .. warning::
+
+ It is possible (but not likely) that the parser stops parsing with a
+ successful outcome before reaching the end of the source; in this case,
+ trailing symbols may be ignored instead of causing an error. For example,
+ a backslash followed by two newlines may be followed by arbitrary garbage.
+ This will be fixed once the API for the parser is better.
.. class:: Compile()
diff --git a/Doc/library/fileinput.rst b/Doc/library/fileinput.rst
index d0a3ed903f..d45def1d20 100644
--- a/Doc/library/fileinput.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/fileinput.rst
@@ -149,10 +149,12 @@ and the backup file remains around; by default, the extension is ``'.bak'`` and
it is deleted when the output file is closed. In-place filtering is disabled
when standard input is read.
-**Caveat:** The current implementation does not work for MS-DOS 8+3 filesystems.
+.. warning::
+
+ The current implementation does not work for MS-DOS 8+3 filesystems.
-The two following opening hooks are provided by this module:
+The two following opening hooks are provided by this module:
.. function:: hook_compressed(filename, mode)
diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst
index 218fb0d8e7..7e8703ab47 100644
--- a/Doc/library/logging.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ instantiated directly, but always through the module-level function
Finds the caller's source filename and line number. Returns the filename, line
number and function name as a 3-element tuple.
- .. versionchanged:: 2.5
+ .. versionchanged:: 2.4
The function name was added. In earlier versions, the filename and line number
were returned as a 2-element tuple..
diff --git a/Doc/library/marshal.rst b/Doc/library/marshal.rst
index 010ebc3c77..6927067ab6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/marshal.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/marshal.rst
@@ -42,14 +42,16 @@ and dictionaries are only supported as long as the values contained therein are
themselves supported; and recursive lists and dictionaries should not be written
(they will cause infinite loops).
-**Caveat:** On machines where C's ``long int`` type has more than 32 bits (such
-as the DEC Alpha), it is possible to create plain Python integers that are
-longer than 32 bits. If such an integer is marshaled and read back in on a
-machine where C's ``long int`` type has only 32 bits, a Python long integer
-object is returned instead. While of a different type, the numeric value is the
-same. (This behavior is new in Python 2.2. In earlier versions, all but the
-least-significant 32 bits of the value were lost, and a warning message was
-printed.)
+.. warning::
+
+ On machines where C's ``long int`` type has more than 32 bits (such as the
+ DEC Alpha), it is possible to create plain Python integers that are longer
+ than 32 bits. If such an integer is marshaled and read back in on a machine
+ where C's ``long int`` type has only 32 bits, a Python long integer object
+ is returned instead. While of a different type, the numeric value is the
+ same. (This behavior is new in Python 2.2. In earlier versions, all but the
+ least-significant 32 bits of the value were lost, and a warning message was
+ printed.)
There are functions that read/write files as well as functions operating on
strings.
diff --git a/Doc/library/mimetools.rst b/Doc/library/mimetools.rst
index 603bec6ef2..8da385e0ce 100644
--- a/Doc/library/mimetools.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/mimetools.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
.. module:: mimetools
:synopsis: Tools for parsing MIME-style message bodies.
+ :deprecated:
.. deprecated:: 2.3
diff --git a/Doc/library/multifile.rst b/Doc/library/multifile.rst
index c36ccb7a0f..3e7922968b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multifile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multifile.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
.. module:: multifile
:synopsis: Support for reading files which contain distinct parts, such as some MIME data.
+ :deprecated:
.. sectionauthor:: Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/rfc822.rst b/Doc/library/rfc822.rst
index fa25ba5b1b..52df0130bf 100644
--- a/Doc/library/rfc822.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/rfc822.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
.. module:: rfc822
:synopsis: Parse 2822 style mail messages.
+ :deprecated:
.. deprecated:: 2.3
diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
index ef0758dc80..31d898a135 100644
--- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
@@ -17,9 +17,11 @@ The :mod:`shutil` module offers a number of high-level operations on files and
collections of files. In particular, functions are provided which support file
copying and removal.
-**Caveat:** On MacOS, the resource fork and other metadata are not used. For
-file copies, this means that resources will be lost and file type and creator
-codes will not be correct.
+.. warning::
+
+ On MacOS, the resource fork and other metadata are not used. For file copies,
+ this means that resources will be lost and file type and creator codes will
+ not be correct.
.. function:: copyfile(src, dst)
diff --git a/Doc/library/stringprep.rst b/Doc/library/stringprep.rst
index b0944e4373..d2f269c119 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stringprep.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stringprep.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
.. module:: stringprep
:synopsis: String preparation, as per RFC 3453
+ :deprecated:
.. moduleauthor:: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
.. sectionauthor:: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
diff --git a/Doc/library/unicodedata.rst b/Doc/library/unicodedata.rst
index 017d4ee785..ec788c5f06 100644
--- a/Doc/library/unicodedata.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/unicodedata.rst
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ the following functions:
based on the definition of canonical equivalence and compatibility equivalence.
In Unicode, several characters can be expressed in various way. For example, the
character U+00C7 (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA) can also be expressed as
- the sequence U+0043 (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C) U+0327 (COMBINING CEDILLA).
+ the sequence U+0327 (COMBINING CEDILLA) U+0043 (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C).
For each character, there are two normal forms: normal form C and normal form D.
Normal form D (NFD) is also known as canonical decomposition, and translates
@@ -126,6 +126,10 @@ the following functions:
(NFKC) first applies the compatibility decomposition, followed by the canonical
composition.
+ Even if two unicode strings are normalized and look the same to
+ a human reader, if one has combining characters and the other
+ doesn't, they may not compare equal.
+
.. versionadded:: 2.3
In addition, the module exposes the following constant:
diff --git a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
index 5e51bfc854..ccc3114c84 100644
--- a/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/zipfile.rst
@@ -168,11 +168,11 @@ ZipFile Objects
.. note::
If the ZipFile was created by passing in a file-like object as the first
- argument to the constructor, then the object returned by :meth:`open` shares the
+ argument to the constructor, then the object returned by :meth:`.open` shares the
ZipFile's file pointer. Under these circumstances, the object returned by
- :meth:`open` should not be used after any additional operations are performed
+ :meth:`.open` should not be used after any additional operations are performed
on the ZipFile object. If the ZipFile was created by passing in a string (the
- filename) as the first argument to the constructor, then :meth:`open` will
+ filename) as the first argument to the constructor, then :meth:`.open` will
create a new file object that will be held by the ZipExtFile, allowing it to
operate independently of the ZipFile.