Commit b55ce1e8 authored by Fred Drake's avatar Fred Drake

Fixed latex2html weirdness with footnotes.

parent 52e2d51e
......@@ -70,12 +70,12 @@ bind the class or function name in the defining block), and targets
that are identifiers if occurring in an assignment, \keyword{for} loop
header, or in the second position of an \keyword{except} clause
header. Local names are searched only on the local namespace; global
names are searched only in the global and built-in namespace.%
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\footnote{If the code block contains \keyword{exec} statements or the
construct ``\samp{from \ldots import *}'', the semantics of local
names change: local name lookup first searches the local namespace,
then the global namespace and the built-in namespace.}
names are searched only in the global and built-in
namespace.\footnote{
If the code block contains \keyword{exec} statements or the construct
``\samp{from \ldots import *}'', the semantics of local names change:
local name lookup first searches the local namespace, then the global
namespace and the built-in namespace.}
A target occurring in a \keyword{del} statement is also considered bound
for this purpose (though the actual semantics are to ``unbind'' the
......@@ -159,11 +159,11 @@ it is used for both.
The built-in functions \function{globals()} and \function{locals()} returns a
dictionary representing the current global and local namespace,
respectively. The effect of modifications to this dictionary on the
namespace are undefined.%
\footnote{The current implementations return the dictionary actually
used to implement the namespace, \emph{except} for functions, where
the optimizer may cause the local namespace to be implemented
differently, and \function{locals()} returns a read-only dictionary.}
namespace are undefined.\footnote{
The current implementations return the dictionary actually used to
implement the namespace, \emph{except} for functions, where the
optimizer may cause the local namespace to be implemented differently,
and \function{locals()} returns a read-only dictionary.}
\section{Exceptions\label{exceptions}}
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......@@ -718,8 +718,8 @@ corresponding items.
\item
Mappings (dictionaries) are compared through lexicographic
comparison of their sorted (key, value) lists.%
\footnote{This is expensive since it requires sorting the keys first,
comparison of their sorted (key, value) lists.\footnote{
This is expensive since it requires sorting the keys first,
but it is about the only sensible definition. An earlier version of
Python compared dictionaries by identity only, but this caused
surprises because people expected to be able to test a dictionary for
......@@ -739,8 +739,8 @@ true if and only if there exists an index \var{i} such that
\code{\var{x} = \var{y}[\var{i}]}.
\code{\var{x} not in \var{y}} yields the inverse truth value. The
exception \exception{TypeError} is raised when \var{y} is not a sequence,
or when \var{y} is a string and \var{x} is not a string of length one.%
\footnote{The latter restriction is sometimes a nuisance.}
or when \var{y} is a string and \var{x} is not a string of length
one.\footnote{The latter restriction is sometimes a nuisance.}
\opindex{in}
\opindex{not in}
\indexii{membership}{test}
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......@@ -305,9 +305,9 @@ default value, the corresponding argument may be omitted from a call,
in which case the parameter's default value is substituted. If a
parameter has a default value, all following parameters must also have
a default value --- this is a syntactic restriction that is not
expressed by the grammar.%
\footnote{Currently this is not checked; instead,
\code{def f(a=1, b)} is interpreted as \code{def f(a=1, b=None)}.}
expressed by the grammar.\footnote{
Currently this is not checked; instead, \code{def f(a=1, b)} is
interpreted as \code{def f(a=1, b=None)}.}
\indexiii{default}{parameter}{value}
\strong{Default parameter values are evaluated when the function
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