History
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1.132
- 24 Oct 2010, rewrite :mod:`ConfigParser`
1.131
- 17 Oct 2010, :mod:`sqlite3`
- Updates to :mod:`xml.etree.ElementTree`
- Updates to :mod:`resource`
- Updates to :mod:`subprocess`
- Updates to :mod:`sys`
- Re-generate :mod:`platform` example output on more modern systems.
- Updates to :mod:`threading`
- Updates to :mod:`dircache`
1.130
- 10 Oct 2010, :mod:`random`
- Updates to :mod:`contextlib`.
- Updates to :mod:`logging`.
- Updates to :mod:`mmap`.
- Added more details about dialects to :mod:`csv`.
- Updates to :mod:`difflib`.
- Updates to :mod:`multiprocessing`.
- Updates to :mod:`optparse`.
- Updates to :mod:`pkgutil`.
1.129
- 3 Oct 2010, :mod:`select`
1.128.1
- 29 Sept 2010, Corrected the :class:`OrderedDict` equality example.
1.128
- 28 Sept 2010, Updated :mod:`collections` to add
:class:`OrderedDict` and :class:`Counter`, as well as the *rename*
argument to :class:`namedtuple`.
1.127
- 26 Sept 2010, :mod:`socket`
1.126
- 19 Sept 2010, :mod:`sysconfig`
1.125
- 12 Sept 2010, :mod:`pdb`
1.124.1
- 9 Sept 2010, Updated packaging to fix installation errors.
1.124
- 5 Sept 2010, :mod:`re`
1.123
- 29 Aug 2010, :mod:`codecs`
1.122
- 22 Aug 2010, :mod:`math`
1.121
- 15 Aug 2010, :mod:`doctest`
1.120
- 8 Aug 2010, :mod:`argparse`
1.119
- 11 July 2010, :mod:`gc`
1.118.1
- Updates to :mod:`locale`
1.118
- Roberto Pauletto's Italian translation has moved to
http://robyp.x10hosting.com/
- 27 June 2010, :mod:`site`
1.117a
- Added LifoQueue and PriorityQueue examples to :mod:`Queue`.
- Completed an editing pass of the entire document, tweaking wording
and formatting.
1.117
- Updated :mod:`fileinput` example to use
:mod:`xml.etree.ElementTree`. Added an example to show how to get
the filename and line number being processed.
1.116
- 21 Mar 2010, :ref:`xml.etree.ElementTree.creating`
- Fixed example in :ref:`abc-abstract-properties` so both the setter
and getter work. Thanks to Rune Hansen for pointing out the error
in the original version.
1.115
- 14 Mar 2010, :ref:`xml.etree.ElementTree.parsing`
1.114
- 7 Mar 2010, :mod:`tabnanny`
1.113
- 30 Jan 2010, :mod:`cgitb`
- Added reference to presentation about using PyObjC to read/write
binary plist files to :mod:`plist`.
1.112
- 29 Nov 2009, :mod:`plistlib`
1.111.1
- Clarify memory example based on comment from tartley.
- Fix core dump detection in commands_getstatusoutput.py.
Thanks to Felix Labrecque for pointing out that it was wrong.
1.111
- 23 Nov 2009, :mod:`sys`, continued with :ref:`sys-imports`
1.110
- 15 Nov 2009, :mod:`sys`, continued with :ref:`sys-threads`
1.109
- 8 Nov 2009, :mod:`sys`, continued with :ref:`sys-tracing`
1.108
- 1 Nov 2009, :mod:`sys`, continued with :ref:`sys-exceptions`
1.107
- 25 Oct 2009, :mod:`sys`, continued with :ref:`sys-limits`
1.106
- 18 Oct 2009, :mod:`sys`, continued with :ref:`sys-runtime`
1.105
- 12 Oct 2009, :mod:`sys` started with :ref:`sys-interpreter`
1.104
- 20 Sept 2009, :mod:`resource`
1.103
- 5 Sept 2009, :mod:`fractions`
1.102
- 30 Aug 2009, :mod:`decimal`
1.101
- 23 Aug 2009, :mod:`dis`
1.100
- 9 Aug 2009, :mod:`pydoc`
- Add pipes example to :mod:`subprocess`.
- Add circular reference example to :mod:`pickle`.
- Use the Sphinx text builder to create clean plaintext files for use with motw command line app.
- Use :mod:`pydoc` ``pager()`` to show plaintext help from :ref:`motw-cli`.
- Add built-in function ``motw()`` so that importing PyMOTW into your interactive session makes it easy to get to the examples interactively. See :ref:`motw-interactive`.
1.99
- 2 Aug 2009, Add :ref:`article-data-structures` article.
1.98
- Added link to Roberto Pauletto's Italian translation.
- 27 July 2009, Add :ref:`article-text-processing` article.
1.97
- 19 July 2009, :mod:`urllib2`
1.96
- 12 July 2009, :ref:`article-file-access`
1.95
- 5 July 2009, :mod:`abc`
- Rearrange packaging to install the HTML files.
- Add ``motw`` command line app to show PyMOTW article on a given module, similar to pydoc.
1.94
- Moved ``run_script()`` from pavement.py to `sphinxcontrib-paverutils <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinxcontrib-paverutils>`_ 1.1.
- 28 June 2009, :mod:`pyclbr`
1.93
- 21 Jun 2009, :mod:`robotparser`
1.92
- 14 June 2009, :mod:`gettext`
- Added Windows info to :mod:`platform`, courtesy of Scott Lyons.
- Added process group example to :mod:`subprocess`, courtesy of Scott Leerssen.
1.91
- Add :ref:`article-data-persistence` article.
- Correct link to library table of contents on python.org from about page. Thanks to Tetsuya Morimoto for pointing out the broken link.
- Add information about Tetsuya Morimoto's Japanese translation.
- Add link to jsonpickle on :mod:`json` article, courtesy of Sebastien Binet.
- Add time-stamps to HTML output
- Remove extraneous javascript file from web html template to avoid 404 errors
1.90
- 24 May 2009, :mod:`json`
- updated daemon process examples in :mod:`multiprocessing`
1.89
- 28 April 2009, :mod:`multiprocessing` (part 2, communication and MapReduce example)
1.88
- 19 April 2009, :mod:`multiprocessing` (part 1, basic usage)
- Upgraded to Python 2.6.2.
- Add options to blog command in pavement.py to let the user specify alternate input and output file names for the blog HTML.
- Added namedtuple example to :mod:`collections`.
1.87.1
- Added dialect example to :mod:`csv` to show how to parse files with ``|``-delimited fields.
1.87
- 5 Apr 2009, :mod:`pipes`
- Converted PEP links to use ``pep`` role.
- Converted RFC references to use ``rfc`` role.
- Updated examples in :mod:`warnings` and :mod:`string` to work with changes in Python 2.6.1.
1.86.1
- Updated working environment to use Paver 1.0b1.
- Corrected errors in ``*.rst`` files identified by update to new version of Paver that doesn't let cog errors slide.
- Added ignore_error option to run_script() in pavement.py so scripts with errors I'm expecting can be quietly ignored.
- Finished converting all articles to use cog, where appropriate.
1.86
- 14 Mar 2009, :mod:`asynchat`
- Move to bitbucket.org for DVCS hosting
- Updated description of ``uuid4()`` in :mod:`uuid` based on feedback via O'Reilly blog comment.
1.85
- 1 Mar 2009, :mod:`asyncore`
- Continue converting older articles to use cog.
- Fix subprocess examples so they work if the permissions on the "child" scripts haven't been changed from the default way they are installed.
1.84
- 22 Feb 2009, :mod:`tarfile`
- Updated DictWriter example in :mod:`csv` based on feedback from Trilok Khairnar.
- Cleaned up use of cog in a few older modules
1.83
- 15 Feb 2009, :mod:`grp`
- Continue converting older articles to use cog.
1.82
- 8 Feb 2009, :mod:`pwd`
- Fix ``set_unixfrom()`` examples in :mod:`mailbox` article based on feedback from Tom Lynn.
- Add this history section
1.81
- 18 Jan 2009, :mod:`compileall`
1.80
- 4 Jan 2009, :mod:`bz2`
1.79
- 28 Dec 2008, :mod:`zlib`.
1.78.1
- Updated :mod:`gzip` examples to avoid using built-in names for local variables.
1.78
- 7 Dec 2008, :mod:`gzip`.
1.77
- 30 Nov 2008, :mod:`readline` and :mod:`rlcompleter`
1.76
- 9 Nov 2008, :mod:`array`
1.75
- 2 Nov 2008, :mod:`struct`.
1.74.1
- Update formatting of several modules to make them more consistent.
1.74
- 19 Oct 2008, :mod:`smtpd`.
1.73
- 12 Oct 2008, :mod:`trace`
1.72
- 5 Oct 2008, :mod:`smtplib`
1.71
- 26 Sept 2008, :mod:`mailbox`
1.70.4
- Update formatting of several modules and fix the examples on the :mod:`difflib` page.
1.70.3
- 21 Sept 2008 :mod:`imaplib`
1.70.2
- 21 Sept 2008 :mod:`imaplib`
1.70.1
- 21 Sept 2008 :mod:`imaplib` (markup fixed).
1.70
- 21 Sept 2008, :mod:`imaplib`.
1.69
- 14 Sept 2008, :mod:`anydbm` and related modules.
1.68
- Sept 12, 2008, :mod:`exceptions`
1.67.1
- minor changes to accommodate site redesign
1.67
- 31 Aug 2008, overing :mod:`profile`, :mod:`cProfile`, and :mod:`pstats`.
1.66.1
- Fix a logic bug in the code that prints the currently registered signals.
1.66
- 17 Aug 2008, :mod:`signal`
1.65
- 10 Aug 2008, adding Sphinx-generated documentation all of the modules covered so far.
1.64
- 3 Aug 2008 :mod:`webbrowser`
1.63
- 27 July 2008, :mod:`uuid`
1.62
- 20 July 2008 :mod:`base64`.
1.61
- 6 July 2008, :mod:`xmlrpclib`.
1.60
- 29 June 2008, :mod:`SimpleXMLRPCServer`
1.59
- 22 June 2008, :mod:`warnings`
1.58
- 15 June 2008, :mod:`platform`
1.57
- 8 June 2008, :mod:`dircache`.
1.56
- 1 June 2008, :mod:`Cookie`
1.55
- 25 May 2008, :mod:`contextlib`
1.54
- 18 May 2008, :mod:`traceback`.
1.53
- 11 May 2008, :mod:`heapq`.
1.52
- 4 May 2008, :mod:`cmd`.
1.51
- 27 Apr 2008, :mod:`functools`.
1.50
- 20 Apr 2008, :mod:`filecmp`.
1.49
- 13 April 2008, :mod:`fnmatch`.
1.48
- 4 April 2008, :mod:`operator`.
1.47
- 30 March 2008, :mod:`urllib`.
1.46
- 23 March 2008, :mod:`collections`.
1.45
- PyCon 2008 edition for 16 Mar 2008, :mod:`datetime`.
1.44
- 9 Mar 2008, :mod:`time`
1.43
- 2 March 2008, :mod:`EasyDialogs`.
1.42
- 24 Feb 2008 :mod:`imp`.
1.41
- 17 Feb 2008, :mod:`pkgutil`.
1.40
- 10 Feb 2008, :mod:`tempfile`.
1.39
- 3 Feb 2008, :mod:`string`.
1.38
- 26 Jan 2008, :mod:`os.path`.
1.37
- 19 Jan 2008, :mod:`hashlib`.
1.36
- 13 Jan 2008, :mod:`threading`
1.35
- 6 Jan 2008, :mod:`weakref`.
1.34
- 30 Dec 2007, :mod:`mmap`.
1.33.1
- Correction for release 1.33 for 22 Dec 2007 the :mod:`zipimport` module.
1.33
- 22 Dec 2007, :mod:`zipimport`.
1.32
- 16 Dec 2007 :mod:`zipfile`.
1.31
- 9 Dec 2007, :mod:`BaseHTTPServer`
1.30
- Dec 2, 2007 :mod:`SocketServer`
1.29
- Nov 25, 2007 :mod:`inspect`.
1.28
- Nov 15, 2007 :mod:`urlparse`
1.27
- 10 Nov 2007, :mod:`pprint`
1.26
- 4 Nov 2007, :mod:`shutils`
1.25
- 28 Oct 2007, :mod:`commands`
1.24
- 20 Oct 2007, :mod:`itertools`
1.23
- Added another :mod:`difflib` example based on comments on that post.
1.22
- 14 Oct 2007, :mod:`shlex`.
1.21
- 7 Oct 2007, :mod:`difflib`.
1.20
- 30 Sept 2007, :mod:`copy`
1.19
- 25 Sept 2007, :mod:`sched`
1.18
- 20 September 2007, :mod:`timeit`
1.17
- 12 Sept 2007, :mod:`hmac`
1.16
- 3 Sept 2007, :mod:`unittest`
1.15
- 27 Aug, 2007 :mod:`optparse`.
1.14
- 20 Aug 2007, :mod:`csv`
1.13
- 12 Aug 2007, :mod:`getopt`.
1.12
- August 5, 2007, :mod:`shelve`
1.11
- July 30, 2007, :mod:`glob`
1.10
- July 22, 2007, :mod:`calendar`
1.9
- July 15, 2007, :mod:`getpass`
1.8
- July 8, 2007, :mod:`atexit`
1.7
- July 1, 2007, :mod:`subprocess`
1.6
- June 24, 2007, :mod:`pickle`
1.5
- June 17, 2007, wrapping up the :mod:`os` module.
1.4
- June 10, 2007, :mod:`os` module files and directories.
1.3
- June 3, 2007, continuing coverage of :mod:`os`
1.2
- May 27, 2007, :mod:`os`
1.1
- May 20, 2007, :mod:`locale`
1.0
- First packaged release, includes :mod:`fileinput`, :mod:`ConfigParser`, :mod:`Queue`, :mod:`StringIO`, :mod:`textwrap`, :mod:`linecache`, :mod:`bisect`, and :mod:`logging`.