PYTHON DOCUMENTATION TO-DO LIST -*- indented-text -*-
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General
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* Figure out HTMLHelp generation for the Windows world.
Python/C API
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* The "Very High Level Interface" in the API document has been
requested; I guess it wouldn't hurt to fill in a bit there. Request
by Albert Hofkamp <
[email protected]>. (Partly done.)
* Describe implementing types in C, including use of the 'self'
parameter to the method implementation function. (Missing material
mentioned in the Extending & Embedding manual, section 1.1; problem
reported by Clay Spence <
[email protected]>.) Heavily impacts one
chapter of the Python/C API manual.
* Missing PyArg_ParseTuple(), PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(),
Py_BuildValue(). Information requested by Greg Kochanski
<
[email protected]>. PyEval_EvalCode() has also been requested.
Extending & Embedding
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* More information is needed about building dynamically linked
extensions in C++. Specifically, the extensions must be linked
against the C++ libraries (and possibly runtime). Also noted by
Albert Hofkamp <
[email protected]>.
Reference Manual
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* Document the Extended Call Syntax in the language reference.
[Jeremy Hylton]
* Document new comparison support for recursive objects (lang. ref.?
library ref.? (cmp() function). [Jeremy Hylton]
Library Reference
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* Update the pickle documentation to describe all of the current
behavior; only a subset is described. __reduce__, etc. Partial
update submitted by Jim Kerr <
[email protected]>.
* Update the httplib documentation to match Greg Stein's HTTP/1.1
support and new classes. (Greg, this is yours!)
Tutorial
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* Update tutorial to use string methods and talk about backward
compatibility of same.
NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE
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* In the indexes, some subitem entries are separated from the item
entries by column- or page-breaks. Reported by Lorenzo M. Catucci
<
[email protected]>. This one will be hard; probably not
really worth the pain. (Only an issue at all when a header-letter
and the first index entry get separated -- can change as soon as we
change the index entries in the text.) Also only a problem in the
print version.
* Fix problem with howto documents getting the last module synopsis
twice (in \localmoduletable) so we can get rid of the ugly 'uniq'
hack in tools/mkhowto. (Probably not worth the trouble of fixing.)
