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r63562 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-05-23 17:06:50 +0200 (Fri, 23 May 2008) | 2 lines
Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
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r63570 | trent.nelson | 2008-05-23 22:33:14 +0200 (Fri, 23 May 2008) | 1 line
Introduce a user macro named $(externalsDir), which should point to the root directory of where all the external sources should live. Developers can change this value if their external sources live elsewhere. The default of '..\..' matches the current status quo.
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r63728 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-05-26 23:16:34 +0200 (Mon, 26 May 2008) | 4 lines
Fix issue2589: there was a potential integer overflow leading to
memory corruption on esoteric platforms and incorrect behavior on
normal platforms.
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r63734 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-05-27 00:07:28 +0200 (Tue, 27 May 2008) | 3 lines
Fix issue2588: Do not execute str[size-1] = '\0' when a 0 size is
passed in. (The assert won't prevent this in non-debug builds).
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r63784 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-29 10:38:23 +0200 (Thu, 29 May 2008) | 1 line
Fix two typos.
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r63788 | facundo.batista | 2008-05-29 18:39:26 +0200 (Thu, 29 May 2008) | 6 lines
Fixed the semantic of timeout for socket.create_connection and
all the upper level libraries that use it, including urllib2.
Added and fixed some tests, and changed docs correspondingly.
Thanks to John J Lee for the patch and the pusing, :)
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r63802 | mark.dickinson | 2008-05-30 04:46:53 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 2 lines
Fix typo in testSum
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r63817 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-30 20:20:50 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 8 lines
* Mark intermedidate computes values (hi, lo, yr) as volatile.
* Expand comments.
* Swap variable names in the sum_exact code so that x and y
are consistently chosen as the larger and smaller magnitude
values respectively.
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r63827 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-31 05:24:31 +0200 (Sat, 31 May 2008) | 1 line
Implement heapq in terms of less-than (to match list.sort()).
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r63839 | gerhard.haering | 2008-05-31 23:33:27 +0200 (Sat, 31 May 2008) | 2 lines
Fixed rowcount for SELECT statements. They're -1 now (again), for better DB-API 2.0 compliance.
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r63887 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-06-02 06:05:52 +0200 (Mon, 02 Jun 2008) | 4 lines
Fix issue 2782: be less strict about the format string type in strftime.
Accept unicode and anything else ParseTuple "s#" can deal with. This
matches the time.strftime behavior.
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r63975 | neal.norwitz | 2008-06-06 06:47:01 +0200 (Fri, 06 Jun 2008) | 3 lines
Aldo Cortesi confirmed this is still needed for OpenBSD 4.2 and 4.3.
(I didn't regen configure, since I don't have a working autoconf.)
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r63998 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-06-06 23:47:51 +0200 (Fri, 06 Jun 2008) | 1 line
Issue 3501: Make heapq support both __le__ and __lt__.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/telnetlib.rst b/Doc/library/telnetlib.rst
index 8c8ddbb..4fd8896 100644
--- a/Doc/library/telnetlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/telnetlib.rst
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@
:class:`Telnet` represents a connection to a Telnet server. The instance is
initially not connected by default; the :meth:`open` method must be used to
establish a connection. Alternatively, the host name and optional port
+ and timeout can be passed to the constructor, in which case the connection to
+ the server will be established before the constructor returns. The optional
+ *timeout* parameter specifies a timeout in seconds for the connection attempt (if
+ not specified, the global default timeout setting will be used).
+
number can be passed to the constructor, to, in which case the connection to
the server will be established before the constructor returns. The optional
*timeout* parameter specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations
@@ -123,8 +128,7 @@
Connect to a host. The optional second argument is the port number, which
defaults to the standard Telnet port (23). The optional *timeout* parameter
specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection
- attempt (if not specified, or passed as None, the global default timeout
- setting will be used).
+ attempt (if not specified, the global default timeout setting will be used).
Do not try to reopen an already connected instance.