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r74277 | sean.reifschneider | 2009-08-01 18:54:55 -0500 (Sat, 01 Aug 2009) | 3 lines
- Issue #6624: yArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
NUL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
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r74321 | guilherme.polo | 2009-08-05 11:51:41 -0500 (Wed, 05 Aug 2009) | 1 line
Easier reference to find (at least while svn continues being used).
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r74323 | guilherme.polo | 2009-08-05 18:48:26 -0500 (Wed, 05 Aug 2009) | 1 line
Typo.
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r74326 | jesse.noller | 2009-08-05 21:05:56 -0500 (Wed, 05 Aug 2009) | 1 line
Fix issue 4660: spurious task_done errors in multiprocessing, remove doc note for from_address
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r74355 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-08-12 12:02:37 -0500 (Wed, 12 Aug 2009) | 2 lines
comment typo fix
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r74465 | vinay.sajip | 2009-08-15 18:23:12 -0500 (Sat, 15 Aug 2009) | 1 line
Added section on logging to one file from multiple processes.
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r74467 | vinay.sajip | 2009-08-15 18:34:47 -0500 (Sat, 15 Aug 2009) | 1 line
Refined section on logging to one file from multiple processes.
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r74488 | vinay.sajip | 2009-08-17 08:14:37 -0500 (Mon, 17 Aug 2009) | 1 line
Further refined section on logging to one file from multiple processes.
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r74492 | r.david.murray | 2009-08-17 14:26:49 -0500 (Mon, 17 Aug 2009) | 2 lines
Issue 6685: 'toupper' -> 'upper' in cgi doc example explanation.
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r74513 | skip.montanaro | 2009-08-18 09:37:52 -0500 (Tue, 18 Aug 2009) | 1 line
missing module ref (issue6723)
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r74531 | vinay.sajip | 2009-08-20 17:04:32 -0500 (Thu, 20 Aug 2009) | 1 line
Added section on exceptions raised during logging.
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r74549 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-08-24 12:42:36 -0500 (Mon, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line
fix pdf building by teaching latex the right encoding package
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r74553 | r.david.murray | 2009-08-26 20:04:59 -0500 (Wed, 26 Aug 2009) | 2 lines
Remove leftover text from end of sentence.
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r74625 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-01 17:27:57 -0500 (Tue, 01 Sep 2009) | 1 line
remove the check that classmethod's argument is a callable
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r74632 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-03 02:27:26 -0500 (Thu, 03 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#6828: fix wrongly highlighted blocks.
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r74643 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-04 01:59:20 -0500 (Fri, 04 Sep 2009) | 2 lines
Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser names in the webbrowser module.
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r74644 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-04 02:55:14 -0500 (Fri, 04 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#5047: remove Monterey support from configure.
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r74647 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-04 03:17:04 -0500 (Fri, 04 Sep 2009) | 2 lines
Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments as documented.
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r74652 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-04 06:25:37 -0500 (Fri, 04 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#6756: add some info about the "acct" parameter.
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r74666 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-05 04:04:09 -0500 (Sat, 05 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#6841: remove duplicated word.
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r74671 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-05 11:47:17 -0500 (Sat, 05 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#6843: add link from filterwarnings to where the meaning of the arguments is covered.
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r74727 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-08 18:04:22 -0500 (Tue, 08 Sep 2009) | 1 line
#6865 fix ref counting in initialization of pwd module
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r74739 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-11 02:55:20 -0500 (Fri, 11 Sep 2009) | 1 line
Move function back to its section.
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
index b279f71..8db19da 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
@@ -150,7 +150,6 @@
4.0
>>> abs(a) # sqrt(a.real**2 + a.imag**2)
5.0
- >>>
In interactive mode, the last printed expression is assigned to the variable
``_``. This means that when you are using Python as a desk calculator, it is
@@ -164,7 +163,6 @@
113.0625
>>> round(_, 2)
113.06
- >>>
This variable should be treated as read-only by the user. Don't explicitly
assign a value to it --- you would create an independent local variable with the
@@ -212,12 +210,32 @@
Note that newlines still need to be embedded in the string using ``\n``; the
newline following the trailing backslash is discarded. This example would print
-the following::
+the following:
+
+.. code-block:: text
This is a rather long string containing
several lines of text just as you would do in C.
Note that whitespace at the beginning of the line is significant.
+Or, strings can be surrounded in a pair of matching triple-quotes: ``"""`` or
+``'''``. End of lines do not need to be escaped when using triple-quotes, but
+they will be included in the string. ::
+
+ print """
+ Usage: thingy [OPTIONS]
+ -h Display this usage message
+ -H hostname Hostname to connect to
+ """
+
+produces the following output:
+
+.. code-block:: text
+
+ Usage: thingy [OPTIONS]
+ -h Display this usage message
+ -H hostname Hostname to connect to
+
If we make the string literal a "raw" string, ``\n`` sequences are not converted
to newlines, but the backslash at the end of the line, and the newline character
in the source, are both included in the string as data. Thus, the example::
@@ -227,7 +245,9 @@
print(hello)
-would print::
+would print:
+
+.. code-block:: text
This is a rather long string containing\n\
several lines of text much as you would do in C.