PEP 683 (immortal objects) revealed some ways in which the Python documentation has been unnecessarily coupled to the implementation details of reference counts. In the end users should focus on reference ownership, including taking references and releasing them, rather than on how many reference counts an object has.
This change updates the documentation to reflect that perspective. It also updates the docs relative to immortal objects in a handful of places.
This is a tiny typo fix of package definition in glossary.
According to https://devguide.python.org/documentation/help-documenting/ simple typos don’t require issues of their own, but, instead, a pull request can by submitted directly.
Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:AlexWaygood
* Some handlers were wrongly described as text-encoding only, but actually they can also be used in text-decoding.
* Add more description to each handler.
* Add two REPL examples.
* Add indexes for Error Handler's name.
Co-authored-by: Kyle Stanley <aeros167@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>
It is now considered a historical accident that e.g. `for` loops and the `iter()` built-in function do not require the iterators they work with to define `__iter__`, only `__next__`.
Replace sentence with confusing "pseudo-module" with two sentences
separating future statements and the __future__ module.
Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Enhance the documentation of the Python startup, filesystem encoding
and error handling, locale encoding. Add a new "Python UTF-8 Mode"
section.
* Add "locale encoding" and "filesystem encoding and error handler"
to the glossary
* Remove documentation from Include/cpython/initconfig.h: move it to
Doc/c-api/init_config.rst.
* Doc/c-api/init_config.rst:
* Document command line options and environment variables
* Document default values.
* Add a new "Python UTF-8 Mode" section in Doc/library/os.rst.
* Add warnings to Py_DecodeLocale() and Py_EncodeLocale() docs.
* Document how Python selects the filesystem encoding and error
handler at a single place: PyConfig.filesystem_encoding and
PyConfig.filesystem_errors.
* PyConfig: move orig_argv member at the right place.
This shows users that they can use the actual types. Using deprecated types is confusing.
This also prefers colections.abc.Sized instead of the alias typing.Sized. I guess the aliases were created to make it convenient to import all collections related types from the same place.
This should be backported to 3.9.
Automerge-Triggered-By: @gvanrossum
Sphinx 3 requires to refer to terms with the exact case.
For example, fix the Sphinx 3 warning:
Doc/library/pkgutil.rst:71: WARNING: term Loader not found in case
sensitive match.made a reference to loader instead.
* Add a glossary entry for the term "callback"
* Link to it in loop.call_soon() and in the "Concurrency and Multithreading" section
Co-authored-by: Kyle Stanley <aeros167@gmail.com>
