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r63066 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 10:56:04 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
#2709 followup: better description of Tk's pros and cons.
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r63067 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 11:05:13 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
#1326: document and test zipimporter.archive and zipimporter.prefix.
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r63068 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 11:07:39 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
#2816: clarify error messages for EOF while scanning strings.
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r63069 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 11:17:41 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 3 lines
#2787: Flush stdout after writing test name, helpful when running
hanging or long-running tests. Patch by Adam Olsen.
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r63070 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 11:20:16 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 3 lines
#2803: fix wrong invocation of heappush in seldom-reached code.
Thanks to Matt Harden.
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r63073 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-11 12:38:07 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
broaden .bzrignore
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r63076 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-05-11 15:15:52 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 1 line
Add message to test assertion
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r63083 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-05-11 16:08:33 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 1 line
Try setting HOME env.var to fix test on Win32
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r63092 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 16:53:55 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
#2809 followup: even better split docstring.
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r63094 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 17:03:42 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 4 lines
- #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in rlcompleter's
``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and ignored.
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r63095 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 17:16:37 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
Clarify os.strerror()s exception behavior.
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r63097 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 17:34:10 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
#2535: remove duplicated method.
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r63104 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-05-11 19:04:27 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
Moved the Queue module stub in lib-old.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index 55e007a..951474f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -274,7 +274,8 @@
.. function:: strerror(code)
Return the error message corresponding to the error code in *code*.
- Availability: Unix, Windows.
+ On platforms where :cfunc:`strerror` returns ``NULL`` when given an unknown
+ error number, :exc:`ValueError` is raised. Availability: Unix, Windows.
.. function:: umask(mask)
diff --git a/Doc/library/othergui.rst b/Doc/library/othergui.rst
index ab4efdb..2d4ea37 100644
--- a/Doc/library/othergui.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/othergui.rst
@@ -69,10 +69,9 @@
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932394621>`_, by Noel Rappin and
Robin Dunn.
-PyGTK, PyQt, and wxPython, all have a modern look and feel and far more
-widgets and better documentation than Tkinter. In addition,
-there are many other GUI toolkits for Python, both cross-platform, and
-platform-specific. See the `GUI Programming
+PyGTK, PyQt, and wxPython, all have a modern look and feel and more
+widgets than Tkinter. In addition, there are many other GUI toolkits for
+Python, both cross-platform, and platform-specific. See the `GUI Programming
<http://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming>`_ page in the Python Wiki for a
much more complete list, and also for links to documents where the
different GUI toolkits are compared.
diff --git a/Doc/library/rlcompleter.rst b/Doc/library/rlcompleter.rst
index cec1e86..01efb03 100644
--- a/Doc/library/rlcompleter.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/rlcompleter.rst
@@ -61,5 +61,6 @@
If called for a dotted name, it will try to evaluate anything without obvious
side-effects (functions will not be evaluated, but it can generate calls to
:meth:`__getattr__`) up to the last part, and find matches for the rest via the
- :func:`dir` function.
+ :func:`dir` function. Any exception raised during the evaluation of the
+ expression is caught, silenced and :const:`None` is returned.
diff --git a/Doc/library/tk.rst b/Doc/library/tk.rst
index 8451f6d..944687b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tk.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tk.rst
@@ -22,11 +22,12 @@
mechanism which allows Python and Tcl to interact.
:mod:`Tkinter`'s chief virtues are that it is fast, and that it usually comes
-bundled with Python. Although it has been used to create some very good
-applications, including IDLE, its standard documentation is weak (but there
-are some good books and tutorials), and it has an outdated look and
-feel. For more modern, better documented, and much more extensive GUI
-libraries, see the :ref:`other-gui-packages` section.
+bundled with Python. Although its standard documentation is weak, good
+material is available, which includes: references, tutorials, a book and
+others. :mod:`Tkinter` is also famous for having an outdated look and feel,
+which has been vastly improved in Tk 8.5. Nevertheless, there are many other
+GUI libraries that you could be interested in. For more information about
+alternatives, see the :ref:`other-gui-packages` section.
.. toctree::
diff --git a/Doc/library/zipimport.rst b/Doc/library/zipimport.rst
index 8972c06..82383bf 100644
--- a/Doc/library/zipimport.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/zipimport.rst
@@ -59,17 +59,14 @@
.. class:: zipimporter(archivepath)
- Create a new zipimporter instance. *archivepath* must be a path to a ZIP file.
+ Create a new zipimporter instance. *archivepath* must be a path to a ZIP
+ file, or to a specific path within a ZIP file. For example, an *archivepath*
+ of :file:`foo/bar.zip/lib` will look for modules in the :file:`lib` directory
+ inside the ZIP file :file:`foo/bar.zip` (provided that it exists).
+
:exc:`ZipImportError` is raised if *archivepath* doesn't point to a valid ZIP
archive.
- *archivepath* can also contain a path within the ZIP file -- the importer
- object will then look under that path instead of the ZIP file root. For
- example, an *archivepath* of :file:`foo/bar.zip/lib` will look for modules
- in the :file:`lib` directory inside the ZIP file :file:`foo/bar.zip`
- (provided that it exists).
-
-
.. method:: find_module(fullname[, path])
Search for a module specified by *fullname*. *fullname* must be the fully
@@ -114,13 +111,19 @@
.. attribute:: archive
- The file name of the importer's associated ZIP file.
+ The file name of the importer's associated ZIP file, without a possible
+ subpath.
.. attribute:: prefix
- The path within the ZIP file where modules are searched; see
- :class:`zipimporter` for details.
+ The subpath within the ZIP file where modules are searched. This is the
+ empty string for zipimporter objects which point to the root of the ZIP
+ file.
+
+ The :attr:`archive` and :attr:`prefix` attributes, when combined with a
+ slash, equal the original *archivepath* argument given to the
+ :class:`zipimporter` constructor.
.. _zipimport-examples: