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r60131 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 12:13:29 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 3 lines
#1351692: in pprint, always call format() for dict and list items to enable
custom formatting of contents via subclassing PrettyPrinter.
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r60133 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 12:43:03 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1178141: add addinfourl.code to get http status code from urllib.
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r60134 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 13:05:43 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 4 lines
#856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` env var when checking for proxies
in urllib and using the other ``_proxy`` env vars.
Original patch by Donovan Baarda.
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r60135 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 13:18:17 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 4 lines
#1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in ftp mode,
returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Original patch from Phil Knirsch.
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r60136 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 13:57:47 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#799369: document possible sys.platform values.
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r60137 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 14:08:37 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#652749: document the constants added to the builtins by site.py.
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r60138 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 14:59:46 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1648: add sys.gettrace() and sys.getprofile().
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r60139 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 15:17:42 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink.
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r60140 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 15:20:02 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
Fix test_pyclbr after urllib change.
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r60141 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-20 15:28:28 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Fixed a wrong assumption in configure.in and Include/pyport.h. The is finite function is not called isfinite() but finite(). Sorry, my fault. :)
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r60142 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 15:31:27 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1876: fix typos in test_operator.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/constants.rst b/Doc/library/constants.rst
index 3870874..12b56f8 100644
--- a/Doc/library/constants.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/constants.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
Built-in Constants
==================
@@ -52,3 +51,28 @@
This constant is true if Python was not started with an :option:`-O` option.
Assignments to :const:`__debug__` are illegal and raise a :exc:`SyntaxError`.
See also the :keyword:`assert` statement.
+
+
+Constants added by the :mod:`site` module
+-----------------------------------------
+
+The :mod:`site` module (which is imported automatically during startup, except
+if the :option:`-S` command-line option is given) adds several constants to the
+built-in namespace. They are useful for the interactive interpreter shell and
+should not be used in programs.
+
+.. data:: quit([code=None])
+ exit([code=None])
+
+ Objects that when printed, print a message like "Use quit() or Ctrl-D
+ (i.e. EOF) to exit", and when called, raise :exc:`SystemExit` with the
+ specified exit code, and when .
+
+.. data:: copyright
+ license
+ credits
+
+ Objects that when printed, print a message like "Type license() to see the
+ full license text", and when called, display the corresponding text in a
+ pager-like fashion (one screen at a time).
+