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r67952 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 18:42:40 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
#4752: actually use custom handler in example.
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r67953 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 19:20:04 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 3 lines
Patch #4739 by David Laban: add symbols to pydoc help topics,
so that ``help('@')`` works as expected.
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r67955 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 19:27:53 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 3 lines
Follow-up to r67746 in order to restore backwards-compatibility for
those who (monkey-)patch TextWrapper.wordsep_re with a custom RE.
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r67957 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 19:49:19 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
#4754: improve winsound documentation.
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r67958 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 20:02:59 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
#4682: 'b' is actually unsigned char.
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r67960 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 20:04:44 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
#4695: fix backslashery.
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r67961 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 20:06:04 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
Use :samp: role.
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r67963 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 20:11:15 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
#4671: document that pydoc imports modules.
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r67965 | antoine.pitrou | 2008-12-27 21:34:52 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 3 lines
Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
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r67967 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-27 23:18:58 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 1 line
fix markup
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r67970 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-12-28 02:52:58 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
Fix name mangling of PyUnicode_ClearFreeList.
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r67971 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-12-28 03:10:35 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
Sort UCS-2/UCS-4 name mangling list.
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r67973 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-12-28 03:58:22 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
Document Py_VaBuildValue.
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r67982 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-28 16:37:31 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 1 line
fix WORD_BIGEDIAN declaration in Universal builds; fixes #4060 and #4728
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r67988 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-12-28 20:40:56 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 1 line
Issue4064: architecture string for universal builds on OSX
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r67990 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-12-28 20:50:40 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 3 lines
Update the fix for issue4064 to deal correctly with all three variants of
universal builds that are presented by the configure script.
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r67995 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-28 22:16:07 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 1 line
#4763 PyErr_ExceptionMatches won't blow up with NULL arguments
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r68014 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-29 18:47:42 +0100 (Mon, 29 Dec 2008) | 1 line
#4764 set IOError.filename when trying to open a directory on POSIX platforms
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r68016 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-29 18:56:58 +0100 (Mon, 29 Dec 2008) | 1 line
#4764 in io.open, set IOError.filename when trying to open a directory on POSIX platforms
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r68030 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-29 22:38:14 +0100 (Mon, 29 Dec 2008) | 1 line
fix French
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r68057 | vinay.sajip | 2008-12-30 08:01:25 +0100 (Tue, 30 Dec 2008) | 1 line
Minor documentation change relating to NullHandler.
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r68061 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-30 11:15:49 +0100 (Tue, 30 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
#4778: attributes can't be called.
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r68112 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 00:48:39 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line
#4795 inspect.isgeneratorfunction() should return False instead of None
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r68115 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-01 05:04:41 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 1 line
simplfy code
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r68116 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 12:46:51 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
#4100: note that element children are not necessarily present on "start" events.
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r68117 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 12:53:55 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
#4156: make clear that "protocol" is to be replaced with the protocol name.
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r68118 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 13:00:19 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
#4185: clarify escape behavior of replacement strings.
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r68120 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 13:15:31 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 4 lines
#4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4
in struct's L format.
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r68121 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 13:43:33 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
Point to types module in new module deprecation notice.
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r68123 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 13:52:29 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
#4784: ... on three counts ...
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r68124 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 13:53:19 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
#4782: Fix markup error that hid load() and loads().
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r68125 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 14:02:09 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
#4776: add data_files and package_dir arguments.
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r68126 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 14:05:13 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
Handlers are in the `logging.handlers` module.
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r68127 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 14:14:49 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
#4767: Use correct submodules for all MIME classes.
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r68128 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-01 15:11:22 +0100 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 3 lines
Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator did not get collected.
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diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 179026b..dda0208 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1574,6 +1574,42 @@
'with': ('with', 'CONTEXTMANAGERS EXCEPTIONS yield'),
'yield': ('yield', ''),
}
+ # Either add symbols to this dictionary or to the symbols dictionary
+ # directly: Whichever is easier. They are merged later.
+ _symbols_inverse = {
+ 'STRINGS' : ("'", "'''", "r'", "u'", '"""', '"', 'r"', 'u"'),
+ 'OPERATORS' : ('+', '-', '*', '**', '/', '//', '%', '<<', '>>', '&',
+ '|', '^', '~', '<', '>', '<=', '>=', '==', '!=', '<>'),
+ 'COMPARISON' : ('<', '>', '<=', '>=', '==', '!=', '<>'),
+ 'UNARY' : ('-', '~'),
+ 'AUGMENTEDASSIGNMENT' : ('+=', '-=', '*=', '/=', '%=', '&=', '|=',
+ '^=', '<<=', '>>=', '**=', '//='),
+ 'BITWISE' : ('<<', '>>', '&', '|', '^', '~'),
+ 'COMPLEX' : ('j', 'J')
+ }
+ symbols = {
+ '%': 'OPERATORS FORMATTING',
+ '**': 'POWER',
+ ',': 'TUPLES LISTS FUNCTIONS',
+ '.': 'ATTRIBUTES FLOAT MODULES OBJECTS',
+ '...': 'ELLIPSIS',
+ ':': 'SLICINGS DICTIONARYLITERALS',
+ '@': 'def class',
+ '\\': 'STRINGS',
+ '_': 'PRIVATENAMES',
+ '__': 'PRIVATENAMES SPECIALMETHODS',
+ '`': 'BACKQUOTES',
+ '(': 'TUPLES FUNCTIONS CALLS',
+ ')': 'TUPLES FUNCTIONS CALLS',
+ '[': 'LISTS SUBSCRIPTS SLICINGS',
+ ']': 'LISTS SUBSCRIPTS SLICINGS'
+ }
+ for topic, symbols_ in _symbols_inverse.iteritems():
+ for symbol in symbols_:
+ topics = symbols.get(symbol, topic)
+ if topic not in topics:
+ topics = topics + ' ' + topic
+ symbols[symbol] = topics
topics = {
'TYPES': ('types', 'STRINGS UNICODE NUMBERS SEQUENCES MAPPINGS '
@@ -1717,10 +1753,12 @@
if type(request) is type(''):
if request == 'help': self.intro()
elif request == 'keywords': self.listkeywords()
+ elif request == 'symbols': self.listsymbols()
elif request == 'topics': self.listtopics()
elif request == 'modules': self.listmodules()
elif request[:8] == 'modules ':
self.listmodules(split(request)[1])
+ elif request in self.symbols: self.showsymbol(request)
elif request in self.keywords: self.showtopic(request)
elif request in self.topics: self.showtopic(request)
elif request: doc(request, 'Help on %s:')
@@ -1766,6 +1804,14 @@
''')
self.list(self.keywords.keys())
+ def listsymbols(self):
+ self.output.write('''
+Here is a list of the punctuation symbols which Python assigns special meaning
+to. Enter any symbol to get more help.
+
+''')
+ self.list(self.symbols.keys())
+
def listtopics(self):
self.output.write('''
Here is a list of available topics. Enter any topic name to get more help.
@@ -1773,7 +1819,7 @@
''')
self.list(self.topics.keys())
- def showtopic(self, topic):
+ def showtopic(self, topic, more_xrefs=''):
try:
import pydoc_topics
except ImportError:
@@ -1787,7 +1833,7 @@
self.output.write('no documentation found for %s\n' % repr(topic))
return
if type(target) is type(''):
- return self.showtopic(target)
+ return self.showtopic(target, more_xrefs)
label, xrefs = target
try:
@@ -1796,6 +1842,8 @@
self.output.write('no documentation found for %s\n' % repr(topic))
return
pager(strip(doc) + '\n')
+ if more_xrefs:
+ xrefs = (xrefs or '') + ' ' + more_xrefs
if xrefs:
import StringIO, formatter
buffer = StringIO.StringIO()
@@ -1803,6 +1851,11 @@
'Related help topics: ' + join(split(xrefs), ', ') + '\n')
self.output.write('\n%s\n' % buffer.getvalue())
+ def showsymbol(self, symbol):
+ target = self.symbols[symbol]
+ topic, _, xrefs = target.partition(' ')
+ self.showtopic(topic, xrefs)
+
def listmodules(self, key=''):
if key:
self.output.write('''