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PYTHON DOCUMENTATION TO-DO LIST -*- indented-text -*- =============================== General ------- * Figure out HTMLHelp generation for the Windows world. Python/C API ------------ * 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 <a.hofkamp@wtb.tue.nl>. (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 <cspence@sarnoff.com>.) Heavily impacts one chapter of the Python/C API manual. * Missing PyArg_ParseTuple(), PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(), Py_BuildValue(). Information requested by Greg Kochanski <gpk@bell-labs.com>. PyEval_EvalCode() has also been requested. Extending & Embedding --------------------- * 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 <a.hofkamp@wtb.tue.nl>. Reference Manual ---------------- * 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 ----------------- * Update the pickle documentation to describe all of the current behavior; only a subset is described. __reduce__, etc. Partial update submitted by Jim Kerr <jbkerr@sr.hp.com>. * Update the httplib documentation to match Greg Stein's HTTP/1.1 support and new classes. (Greg, this is yours!) Tutorial -------- * Update tutorial to use string methods and talk about backward compatibility of same. NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE --------------------- * In the indexes, some subitem entries are separated from the item entries by column- or page-breaks. Reported by Lorenzo M. Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>. 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.)