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r65659 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-08-12 15:45:21 -0500 (Tue, 12 Aug 2008) | 2 lines
Add Hirokazu Yamamoto.
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r65693 | georg.brandl | 2008-08-15 13:35:09 -0500 (Fri, 15 Aug 2008) | 2 lines
#3558: Attribute reference binds more tightly than subscription and call.
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r65700 | antoine.pitrou | 2008-08-15 16:03:21 -0500 (Fri, 15 Aug 2008) | 3 lines
#2676: email/message.py [Message.get_content_type]: Trivial regex hangs on pathological input
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r65702 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-08-15 18:14:00 -0500 (Fri, 15 Aug 2008) | 2 lines
document that waitpid raises OSError
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r65706 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-08-15 22:02:41 -0500 (Fri, 15 Aug 2008) | 1 line
fix markup
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r65707 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-08-15 22:13:07 -0500 (Fri, 15 Aug 2008) | 1 line
note how os.utime should be used for emulating touch
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r65761 | antoine.pitrou | 2008-08-17 08:06:29 -0500 (Sun, 17 Aug 2008) | 3 lines
fix ZipFile.testzip() to work with very large embedded files
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index 86d9a89..b95833c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -1076,15 +1076,16 @@
.. function:: utime(path, times)
- Set the access and modified times of the file specified by *path*. If *times* is
- ``None``, then the file's access and modified times are set to the current time.
- Otherwise, *times* must be a 2-tuple of numbers, of the form ``(atime, mtime)``
- which is used to set the access and modified times, respectively. Whether a
- directory can be given for *path* depends on whether the operating system
- implements directories as files (for example, Windows does not). Note that the
- exact times you set here may not be returned by a subsequent :func:`stat` call,
- depending on the resolution with which your operating system records access and
- modification times; see :func:`stat`.
+ Set the access and modified times of the file specified by *path*. If *times*
+ is ``None``, then the file's access and modified times are set to the current
+ time. (The effect is similar to running the Unix program :program:`touch` on
+ the path.) Otherwise, *times* must be a 2-tuple of numbers, of the form
+ ``(atime, mtime)`` which is used to set the access and modified times,
+ respectively. Whether a directory can be given for *path* depends on whether
+ the operating system implements directories as files (for example, Windows
+ does not). Note that the exact times you set here may not be returned by a
+ subsequent :func:`stat` call, depending on the resolution with which your
+ operating system records access and modification times; see :func:`stat`.
Availability: Macintosh, Unix, Windows.
@@ -1596,6 +1597,9 @@
``-1``, status is requested for any process in the process group ``-pid`` (the
absolute value of *pid*).
+ An :exc:`OSError` is raised with the value of errno when the syscall
+ returns -1.
+
On Windows: Wait for completion of a process given by process handle *pid*, and
return a tuple containing *pid*, and its exit status shifted left by 8 bits
(shifting makes cross-platform use of the function easier). A *pid* less than or
diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
index dab97e4..837eb89 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
@@ -1266,13 +1266,13 @@
+----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| ``**`` | Exponentiation |
+----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
-| ``x.attribute`` | Attribute reference |
-+----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| ``x[index]`` | Subscription |
+----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| ``x[index:index]`` | Slicing |
+----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
-| ``f(arguments...)`` | Function call |
+| ``x(arguments...)`` | Call |
++----------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------+
+| ``x.attribute`` | Attribute reference |
+----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| ``(expressions...)`` | Binding, tuple display, generator |
| | expressions |