History¶

Development

• Merge in fixes to the select module examples from Michael Schurter.

1.132

• 24 Oct 2010, rewrite ConfigParser

1.131

• 17 Oct 2010, sqlite3
• Updates to xml.etree.ElementTree
• Updates to resource
• Updates to subprocess
• Updates to sys
• Re-generate platform example output on more modern systems.
• Updates to threading
• Updates to dircache

1.130

• 10 Oct 2010, random
• Updates to contextlib.
• Updates to logging.
• Updates to mmap.
• Added more details about dialects to csv.
• Updates to difflib.
• Updates to multiprocessing.
• Updates to optparse.
• Updates to pkgutil.

1.129

• 3 Oct 2010, select

1.128.1

• 29 Sept 2010, Corrected the OrderedDict equality example.

1.128

• 28 Sept 2010, Updated collections to add OrderedDict and Counter, as well as the rename argument to namedtuple.

1.127

• 26 Sept 2010, socket

1.126

• 19 Sept 2010, sysconfig

1.125

• 12 Sept 2010, pdb

1.124.1

• 9 Sept 2010, Updated packaging to fix installation errors.

1.124

• 5 Sept 2010, re

1.123

• 29 Aug 2010, codecs

1.122

• 22 Aug 2010, math

1.121

• 15 Aug 2010, doctest

1.120

• 8 Aug 2010, argparse

1.119

• 11 July 2010, gc

1.118.1

• Updates to locale

1.118

• Roberto Pauletto’s Italian translation has moved to http://robyp.x10hosting.com/
• 27 June 2010, site

1.117a

• Added LifoQueue and PriorityQueue examples to Queue.
• Completed an editing pass of the entire document, tweaking wording and formatting.

1.117

• Updated fileinput example to use xml.etree.ElementTree. Added an example to show how to get the filename and line number being processed.

1.116

• 21 Mar 2010, Creating XML Documents
• Fixed example in 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, Parsing XML Documents

1.114

• 7 Mar 2010, tabnanny

1.113

• 30 Jan 2010, cgitb
• Added reference to presentation about using PyObjC to read/write binary plist files to plist.

1.112

• 29 Nov 2009, 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, sys, continued with Modules and Imports

1.110

• 15 Nov 2009, sys, continued with Low-level Thread Support

1.109

• 8 Nov 2009, sys, continued with Tracing a Program As It Runs

1.108

• 1 Nov 2009, sys, continued with Exception Handling

1.107

• 25 Oct 2009, sys, continued with Memory Management and Limits

1.106

• 18 Oct 2009, sys, continued with Runtime Environment

1.105

• 12 Oct 2009, sys started with Interpreter Settings

1.104

• 20 Sept 2009, resource

1.103

• 5 Sept 2009, fractions

1.102

• 30 Aug 2009, decimal

1.101

• 23 Aug 2009, dis

1.100

• 9 Aug 2009, pydoc
• Add pipes example to subprocess.
• Add circular reference example to pickle.
• Use the Sphinx text builder to create clean plaintext files for use with motw command line app.
• Use pydoc pager() to show plaintext help from The motw Command Line Interface.
• Add built-in function motw() so that importing PyMOTW into your interactive session makes it easy to get to the examples interactively. See Using PyMOTW with the Interactive Interpreter.

1.99

• 2 Aug 2009, Add In-Memory Data Structures article.

1.98

• Added link to Roberto Pauletto’s Italian translation.
• 27 July 2009, Add Text Processing Tools article.

1.97

• 19 July 2009, urllib2

1.96

• 12 July 2009, File Access

1.95

• 5 July 2009, 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 1.1.
• 28 June 2009, pyclbr

1.93

• 21 Jun 2009, robotparser

1.92

• 14 June 2009, gettext
• Added Windows info to platform, courtesy of Scott Lyons.
• Added process group example to subprocess, courtesy of Scott Leerssen.

1.91

• Add Data Persistence and Exchange 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 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, json
• updated daemon process examples in multiprocessing

1.89

• 28 April 2009, multiprocessing (part 2, communication and MapReduce example)

1.88

• 19 April 2009, 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 collections.

1.87.1

• Added dialect example to csv to show how to parse files with |-delimited fields.

1.87

• 5 Apr 2009, pipes
• Converted PEP links to use pep role.
• Converted RFC references to use rfc role.
• Updated examples in warnings and 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, asynchat
• Move to bitbucket.org for DVCS hosting
• Updated description of uuid4() in uuid based on feedback via O’Reilly blog comment.

1.85

• 1 Mar 2009, 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, tarfile
• Updated DictWriter example in csv based on feedback from Trilok Khairnar.
• Cleaned up use of cog in a few older modules

1.83

• 15 Feb 2009, grp
• Continue converting older articles to use cog.

1.82

• 8 Feb 2009, pwd
• Fix set_unixfrom() examples in mailbox article based on feedback from Tom Lynn.
• Add this history section

1.81

• 18 Jan 2009, compileall

1.80

• 4 Jan 2009, bz2

1.79

• 28 Dec 2008, zlib.

1.78.1

• Updated gzip examples to avoid using built-in names for local variables.

1.78

• 7 Dec 2008, gzip.

1.77

• 30 Nov 2008, readline and rlcompleter

1.76

• 9 Nov 2008, array

1.75

• 2 Nov 2008, struct.

1.74.1

• Update formatting of several modules to make them more consistent.

1.74

• 19 Oct 2008, smtpd.

1.73

• 12 Oct 2008, trace

1.72

• 5 Oct 2008, smtplib

1.71

• 26 Sept 2008, mailbox

1.70.4

• Update formatting of several modules and fix the examples on the difflib page.

1.70.3

• 21 Sept 2008 imaplib

1.70.2

• 21 Sept 2008 imaplib

1.70.1

• 21 Sept 2008 imaplib (markup fixed).

1.70

• 21 Sept 2008, imaplib.

1.69

• 14 Sept 2008, anydbm and related modules.

1.68

• Sept 12, 2008, exceptions

1.67.1

• minor changes to accommodate site redesign

1.67

• 31 Aug 2008, overing profile, cProfile, and pstats.

1.66.1

• Fix a logic bug in the code that prints the currently registered signals.

1.66

• 17 Aug 2008, signal

1.65

• 10 Aug 2008, adding Sphinx-generated documentation all of the modules covered so far.

1.64

• 3 Aug 2008 webbrowser

1.63

• 27 July 2008, uuid

1.62

• 20 July 2008 base64.

1.61

• 6 July 2008, xmlrpclib.

1.60

• 29 June 2008, SimpleXMLRPCServer

1.59

• 22 June 2008, warnings

1.58

• 15 June 2008, platform

1.57

• 8 June 2008, dircache.

1.56

• 1 June 2008, Cookie

1.55

• 25 May 2008, contextlib

1.54

• 18 May 2008, traceback.

1.53

• 11 May 2008, heapq.

1.52

• 4 May 2008, cmd.

1.51

• 27 Apr 2008, functools.

1.50

• 20 Apr 2008, filecmp.

1.49

• 13 April 2008, fnmatch.

1.48

• 4 April 2008, operator.

1.47

• 30 March 2008, urllib.

1.46

• 23 March 2008, collections.

1.45

• PyCon 2008 edition for 16 Mar 2008, datetime.

1.44

• 9 Mar 2008, time

1.43

• 2 March 2008, EasyDialogs.

1.42

• 24 Feb 2008 imp.

1.41

• 17 Feb 2008, pkgutil.

1.40

• 10 Feb 2008, tempfile.

1.39

• 3 Feb 2008, string.

1.38

• 26 Jan 2008, os.path.

1.37

• 19 Jan 2008, hashlib.

1.36

• 13 Jan 2008, threading

1.35

• 6 Jan 2008, weakref.

1.34

• 30 Dec 2007, mmap.

1.33.1

• Correction for release 1.33 for 22 Dec 2007 the zipimport module.

1.33

• 22 Dec 2007, zipimport.

1.32

• 16 Dec 2007 zipfile.

1.31

• 9 Dec 2007, BaseHTTPServer

1.30

• Dec 2, 2007 SocketServer

1.29

• Nov 25, 2007 inspect.

1.28

• Nov 15, 2007 urlparse

1.27

• 10 Nov 2007, pprint

1.26

• 4 Nov 2007, shutils

1.25

• 28 Oct 2007, commands

1.24

• 20 Oct 2007, itertools

1.23

• Added another difflib example based on comments on that post.

1.22

• 14 Oct 2007, shlex.

1.21

• 7 Oct 2007, difflib.

1.20

• 30 Sept 2007, copy

1.19

• 25 Sept 2007, sched

1.18

• 20 September 2007, timeit

1.17

• 12 Sept 2007, hmac

1.16

• 3 Sept 2007, unittest

1.15

• 27 Aug, 2007 optparse.

1.14

• 20 Aug 2007, csv

1.13

• 12 Aug 2007, getopt.

1.12

• August 5, 2007, shelve

1.11

• July 30, 2007, glob

1.10

• July 22, 2007, calendar

1.9

• July 15, 2007, getpass

1.8

• July 8, 2007, atexit

1.7

• July 1, 2007, subprocess

1.6

• June 24, 2007, pickle

1.5

• June 17, 2007, wrapping up the os module.

1.4

• June 10, 2007, os module files and directories.

1.3

• June 3, 2007, continuing coverage of os

1.2

• May 27, 2007, os

1.1

• May 20, 2007, locale

1.0

• First packaged release, includes fileinput, ConfigParser, Queue, StringIO, textwrap, linecache, bisect, and logging.