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r59442 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-09 22:15:07 +0100 (Sun, 09 Dec 2007) | 5 lines
Two fixes in DocXMLRPCServer:
* remove parameter default that didn't make sense
* properly escape values in output
Thanks to Jeff Wheeler from GHOP!
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r59444 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-09 23:38:26 +0100 (Sun, 09 Dec 2007) | 2 lines
Add Jeff Wheeler.
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r59445 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-09 23:39:12 +0100 (Sun, 09 Dec 2007) | 2 lines
Add DocXMLRPCServer test from GHOP task #136, written by Jeff Wheeler.
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r59447 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-10 16:12:41 +0100 (Mon, 10 Dec 2007) | 1 line
Added wide char api variants of getch and putch to msvcrt module. The wide char methods are required to fix #1578 in py3k. I figured out that they might be useful in 2.6, too.
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r59448 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-10 16:39:09 +0100 (Mon, 10 Dec 2007) | 1 line
Stupid save all didn't safe it all ...
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diff --git a/Doc/library/msvcrt.rst b/Doc/library/msvcrt.rst
index d43bb4c..9fa49da 100644
--- a/Doc/library/msvcrt.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/msvcrt.rst
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
Further documentation on these functions can be found in the Platform API
documentation.
+The module implements both the normal and wide char variants of the console I/O
+api. The normal API deals only with ASCII characters and is of limited use
+for internationalized applications. The wide char API should be used where
+ever possible
.. _msvcrt-files:
@@ -94,6 +98,13 @@
return the keycode. The :kbd:`Control-C` keypress cannot be read with this
function.
+
+.. function:: getwch()
+
+ Wide char variant of `func:getch`, returns unicode.
+
+ ..versionadded:: 2.6
+
.. function:: getche()
@@ -101,16 +112,37 @@
printable character.
+.. function:: getwche()
+
+ Wide char variant of `func:getche`, returns unicode.
+
+ ..versionadded:: 2.6
+
+
.. function:: putch(char)
Print the character *char* to the console without buffering.
+
+.. function:: putwch(unicode_char)
+
+ Wide char variant of `func:putch`, accepts unicode.
+
+ ..versionadded:: 2.6
+
.. function:: ungetch(char)
Cause the character *char* to be "pushed back" into the console buffer; it will
be the next character read by :func:`getch` or :func:`getche`.
+
+.. function:: ungetwch(unicode_char)
+
+ Wide char variant of `func:ungetch`, accepts unicode.
+
+ ..versionadded:: 2.6
+
.. _msvcrt-other: