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r67245 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-17 23:05:19 +0100 (Mon, 17 Nov 2008) | 1 line
improve __hash__ docs
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r67277 | skip.montanaro | 2008-11-19 04:35:41 +0100 (Wed, 19 Nov 2008) | 1 line
patch from issue 1108
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r67289 | brett.cannon | 2008-11-19 21:29:39 +0100 (Wed, 19 Nov 2008) | 2 lines
Ignore .pyc and .pyo files.
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r67295 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-20 05:05:12 +0100 (Thu, 20 Nov 2008) | 1 line
move useful sys.settrace information to the function's documentation from the debugger
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r67301 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-20 22:25:31 +0100 (Thu, 20 Nov 2008) | 1 line
fix indentation and a sphinx warning
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r67302 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-20 22:44:23 +0100 (Thu, 20 Nov 2008) | 1 line
oops! didn't mean to disable that test
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r67303 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-20 23:06:22 +0100 (Thu, 20 Nov 2008) | 1 line
backport r67300
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r67307 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-11-21 00:34:31 +0100 (Fri, 21 Nov 2008) | 9 lines
Fixed issue #4233.
Changed semantic of _fileio.FileIO's close() method on file objects with closefd=False.
The file descriptor is still kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file.
The FileIO object also got a new readonly attribute closefd.
Approved by Barry
Backport of r67106 from the py3k branch
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r67330 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-22 09:34:14 +0100 (Sat, 22 Nov 2008) | 2 lines
#4364: fix attribute name on ctypes object.
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r67332 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-22 09:45:33 +0100 (Sat, 22 Nov 2008) | 2 lines
Fix typo.
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r67336 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-22 11:08:50 +0100 (Sat, 22 Nov 2008) | 2 lines
Fix error about "-*-" being mandatory in coding cookies.
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r67355 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-23 20:17:25 +0100 (Sun, 23 Nov 2008) | 2 lines
#4392: fix parameter name.
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r67359 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-23 22:57:30 +0100 (Sun, 23 Nov 2008) | 2 lines
#4399: fix typo.
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r67362 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-11-24 01:41:43 +0100 (Mon, 24 Nov 2008) | 2 lines
Document PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN for PyArg_ParseTuple.
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r67364 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-24 02:16:29 +0100 (Mon, 24 Nov 2008) | 2 lines
replace reference to debugger-hooks
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r67367 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-24 17:16:07 +0100 (Mon, 24 Nov 2008) | 2 lines
Fix typo.
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r67368 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-24 20:56:47 +0100 (Mon, 24 Nov 2008) | 2 lines
#4404: make clear what "path" is.
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r67370 | jeremy.hylton | 2008-11-24 23:00:29 +0100 (Mon, 24 Nov 2008) | 8 lines
Add unittests that verify documented behavior of public methods in Transport
class.
These methods can be overridden. The tests verify that the overridden
methods are called, and that changes to the connection have a visible
effect on the request.
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diff --git a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
index 21ae111..561ce29 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
@@ -410,9 +410,9 @@
The syntax is inspired by Emacs's notation for specifying variables local to a
file. Emacs supports many different variables, but Python only supports
-'coding'. The ``-*-`` symbols indicate that the comment is special; within
-them, you must supply the name ``coding`` and the name of your chosen encoding,
-separated by ``':'``.
+'coding'. The ``-*-`` symbols indicate to Emacs that the comment is special;
+they have no significance to Python but are a convention. Python looks for
+``coding: name`` or ``coding=name`` in the comment.
If you don't include such a comment, the default encoding used will be ASCII.
Versions of Python before 2.4 were Euro-centric and assumed Latin-1 as a default