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r82301 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-06-28 00:32:30 +0200 (Mo, 28 Jun 2010) | 303 lines
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r80605 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-28 19:22:16 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line
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r80606 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-28 20:44:30 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 6 lines
Fix doubled 'the'.
Markup fixes to use :exc:, :option: in a few places.
(Glitch: unittest.main's -c ends up a link to the Python
interpreter's -c option. Should we skip using :option: for that
switch, or disable the auto-linking somehow?)
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r80607 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-28 20:45:41 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line
Add various unittest items
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r80608 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-28 22:18:05 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line
update pypy description
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r80609 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-28 22:30:59 -0500 (Wed, 28 Apr 2010) | 1 line
update pypy url
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r80642 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 19:49:09 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line
Always add space after RFC; reword paragraph
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r80643 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 19:52:31 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 6 lines
Reword paragraph to make its meaning clearer.
Antoine Pitrou: is my version of the paragraph still correct?
R. David Murray: is this more understandable than the previous version?
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r80644 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 20:02:15 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line
Fix typos
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r80645 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 20:32:47 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line
Markup fix; clarify by adding 'in that order'
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r80646 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-29 20:33:40 -0500 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 1 line
Add various items; rearrange unittest section a bit
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r80651 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-30 08:46:55 -0500 (Fri, 30 Apr 2010) | 1 line
Minor grammar re-wording
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r80652 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-30 08:47:34 -0500 (Fri, 30 Apr 2010) | 1 line
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r80674 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-04-30 20:19:16 -0500 (Fri, 30 Apr 2010) | 1 line
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r80684 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-01 07:05:52 -0500 (Sat, 01 May 2010) | 1 line
Minor grammar fix
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r80685 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-01 07:06:51 -0500 (Sat, 01 May 2010) | 1 line
Describe memoryview
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r80686 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-05-01 07:16:39 -0500 (Sat, 01 May 2010) | 4 lines
Fix attribution. Travis didn't do much and he did a bad work.
(yes, this is a sensitive subject, sorry)
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r80748 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-03 20:24:22 -0500 (Mon, 03 May 2010) | 1 line
Add some more items; the urlparse change is added twice
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r80852 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-05 20:09:47 -0500 (Wed, 05 May 2010) | 1 line
Reword paragraph; fix filename, which should be pyconfig.h
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r80854 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-05 20:10:56 -0500 (Wed, 05 May 2010) | 1 line
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r80870 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 09:14:09 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line
Describe ElementTree 1.3; rearrange new-module sections; describe dict views as sets; small edits and items
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r80872 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 12:21:59 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line
Add 2 items; record ideas for two initial sections; clarify wording
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r80873 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 12:27:57 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line
Change section title; point to unittest2
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r80907 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-06 20:45:14 -0500 (Thu, 06 May 2010) | 1 line
Add a new section on the development plan; add an item
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r80915 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-05-07 05:15:51 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 3 lines
Fix some markup and a class name. Also, wrap a long line.
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r80916 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-07 06:30:47 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 1 line
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r80951 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-07 20:15:26 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 1 line
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r80952 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-07 20:35:55 -0500 (Fri, 07 May 2010) | 1 line
Get accents correct
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r80976 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-08 08:28:03 -0500 (Sat, 08 May 2010) | 1 line
Add logging.dictConfig example; give up on writing a Ttk example
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r80977 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-08 08:29:46 -0500 (Sat, 08 May 2010) | 1 line
Markup fixes
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r80985 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-08 10:39:46 -0500 (Sat, 08 May 2010) | 7 lines
Write summary of the 2.7 release; rewrite the future section some more;
mention PYTHONWARNINGS env. var; tweak some examples for readability.
And with this commit, the "What's New" is done... except for a
complete read-through to polish the text, and fixing any reported errors,
but those tasks can easily wait until after beta2.
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r81038 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-05-09 16:09:40 -0500 (Sun, 09 May 2010) | 1 line
finish clause
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r81039 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 09:18:27 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line
Markup fix; re-word a sentence
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r81040 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 09:20:12 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line
Use title case
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r81042 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 10:03:35 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line
Link to unittest2 article
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r81053 | florent.xicluna | 2010-05-10 14:59:22 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 2 lines
Add a link on maketrans().
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r81070 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-10 18:13:41 -0500 (Mon, 10 May 2010) | 1 line
Fix typo
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r81104 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-11 19:38:44 -0500 (Tue, 11 May 2010) | 1 line
Revision pass: lots of edits, typo fixes, rearrangements
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r81105 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-11 19:40:47 -0500 (Tue, 11 May 2010) | 1 line
Let's call this done
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r81114 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-12 08:56:07 -0500 (Wed, 12 May 2010) | 1 line
Grammar fix
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r81125 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-12 13:56:48 -0500 (Wed, 12 May 2010) | 1 line
#8696: add documentation for logging.config.dictConfig (PEP 391)
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r81245 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-16 18:31:16 -0500 (Sun, 16 May 2010) | 1 line
Add cross-reference to later section
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r81285 | vinay.sajip | 2010-05-18 03:16:27 -0500 (Tue, 18 May 2010) | 1 line
Fixed minor typo in ReST markup.
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r81402 | vinay.sajip | 2010-05-21 12:41:34 -0500 (Fri, 21 May 2010) | 1 line
Updated logging documentation with more dictConfig information.
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r81463 | georg.brandl | 2010-05-22 03:17:23 -0500 (Sat, 22 May 2010) | 1 line
#8785: less confusing description of regex.find*.
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r81516 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-25 08:34:08 -0500 (Tue, 25 May 2010) | 1 line
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r81562 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-27 08:22:53 -0500 (Thu, 27 May 2010) | 1 line
Rewrite wxWidgets section
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r81563 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-27 08:30:09 -0500 (Thu, 27 May 2010) | 1 line
Remove top-level 'General Questions' section, pushing up the questions it contains
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r81567 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-05-27 16:29:59 -0500 (Thu, 27 May 2010) | 1 line
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r81593 | georg.brandl | 2010-05-29 03:46:18 -0500 (Sat, 29 May 2010) | 1 line
#8616: add new turtle demo "nim".
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r81635 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-01 02:25:23 -0500 (Tue, 01 Jun 2010) | 1 line
Put docs for RegexObject.search() before RegexObject.match() to mirror re.search() and re.match() order.
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r81680 | vinay.sajip | 2010-06-03 17:34:42 -0500 (Thu, 03 Jun 2010) | 1 line
Issue #8890: Documentation changed to avoid reference to temporary files.
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r81681 | sean.reifschneider | 2010-06-03 20:51:26 -0500 (Thu, 03 Jun 2010) | 2 lines
Issue8810: Clearing up docstring for tzinfo.utcoffset.
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r81684 | vinay.sajip | 2010-06-04 08:41:02 -0500 (Fri, 04 Jun 2010) | 1 line
Issue #8890: Documentation changed to avoid reference to temporary files - other cases covered.
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r81801 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-07 08:38:40 -0500 (Mon, 07 Jun 2010) | 1 line
#8875: Remove duplicated paragraph
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r81888 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-10 20:54:58 -0500 (Thu, 10 Jun 2010) | 1 line
Add a few more items
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r81931 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 01:26:54 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line
Fix punctuation.
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r81932 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 01:28:58 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line
Document that an existing directory raises in mkdir().
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r81933 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 01:45:33 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line
Update version in README.
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r81939 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:45:01 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line
Use newer toctree syntax.
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r81940 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:45:28 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line
Add document on how to build.
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r81941 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:45:58 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line
Fix gratuitous indentation.
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r81942 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-12 04:46:03 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line
Update README.
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r81963 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-12 15:00:55 -0500 (Sat, 12 Jun 2010) | 1 line
Grammar fix
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r81984 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-14 10:58:39 -0500 (Mon, 14 Jun 2010) | 1 line
#8993: fix reference.
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r81991 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-14 19:38:58 -0500 (Mon, 14 Jun 2010) | 1 line
Add another bunch of items
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r82120 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-06-20 16:45:45 -0500 (Sun, 20 Jun 2010) | 1 line
Note that Python 3.x isn't covered; add forward ref. for UTF-8; note error in 2.5 and up
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r82188 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-06-23 19:02:46 -0500 (Wed, 23 Jun 2010) | 1 line
remove reverted changed
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r82264 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:47:47 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line
Confusing punctuation.
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r82265 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:49:23 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line
Use designated syntax for optional grammar element.
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r82266 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:51:44 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line
Fix URL.
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r82267 | georg.brandl | 2010-06-27 05:55:38 -0500 (Sun, 27 Jun 2010) | 1 line
Two typos.
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diff --git a/Doc/faq/gui.rst b/Doc/faq/gui.rst
index 4761b7d..57e4049 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/gui.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/gui.rst
@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@
=====================
What platform-independent GUI toolkits exist for Python?
---------------------------------------------------------
+========================================================
Depending on what platform(s) you are aiming at, there are several.
.. XXX check links
Tkinter
-'''''''
+-------
Standard builds of Python include an object-oriented interface to the Tcl/Tk
widget set, called Tkinter. This is probably the easiest to install and use.
@@ -26,23 +26,26 @@
Unix platforms.
wxWindows
-'''''''''
+---------
-wxWindows is a portable GUI class library written in C++ that's a portable
-interface to various platform-specific libraries; wxWidgets is a Python
-interface to wxWindows. wxWindows supports Windows and MacOS; on Unix variants,
-it supports both GTk+ and Motif toolkits. wxWindows preserves the look and feel
-of the underlying graphics toolkit, and there is quite a rich widget set and
-collection of GDI classes. See `the wxWindows page <http://www.wxwindows.org>`_
-for more details.
+wxWidgets (http://www.wxwidgets.org) is a free, portable GUI class
+library written in C++ that provides a native look and feel on a
+number of platforms, with Windows, MacOS X, GTK, X11, all listed as
+current stable targets. Language bindings are available for a number
+of languages including Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.
-`wxWidgets <http://wxwidgets.org>`_ is an extension module that wraps many of
-the wxWindows C++ classes, and is quickly gaining popularity amongst Python
-developers. You can get wxWidgets as part of the source or CVS distribution of
-wxWindows, or directly from its home page.
+wxPython (http://www.wxpython.org) is the Python binding for
+wxwidgets. While it often lags slightly behind the official wxWidgets
+releases, it also offers a number of features via pure Python
+extensions that are not available in other language bindings. There
+is an active wxPython user and developer community.
+
+Both wxWidgets and wxPython are free, open source, software with
+permissive licences that allow their use in commercial products as
+well as in freeware or shareware.
Qt
-'''
+---
There are bindings available for the Qt toolkit (`PyQt
<http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/>`_) and for KDE (PyKDE). If
@@ -53,13 +56,13 @@
<http://www.trolltech.com>`_.
Gtk+
-''''
+----
PyGtk bindings for the `Gtk+ toolkit <http://www.gtk.org>`_ have been
implemented by by James Henstridge; see ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/python/.
FLTK
-''''
+----
Python bindings for `the FLTK toolkit <http://www.fltk.org>`_, a simple yet
powerful and mature cross-platform windowing system, are available from `the
@@ -67,7 +70,7 @@
FOX
-'''
+----
A wrapper for `the FOX toolkit <http://www.fox-toolkit.org/>`_ called `FXpy
<http://fxpy.sourceforge.net/>`_ is available. FOX supports both Unix variants
@@ -75,13 +78,13 @@
OpenGL
-''''''
+------
For OpenGL bindings, see `PyOpenGL <http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net>`_.
What platform-specific GUI toolkits exist for Python?
------------------------------------------------------
+========================================================
`The Mac port <http://python.org/download/mac>`_ by Jack Jansen has a rich and
ever-growing set of modules that support the native Mac toolbox calls. The port