Organized a little bit; merged in some items from the 1.5.2p2 branch that

freddrake · freddrake · commit e39dab6ce103 · 2000-07-31T18:18:27.000Z
did not get handled.
diff --git a/Doc/TODO b/Doc/TODO
@@ -1,6 +1,18 @@
 PYTHON DOCUMENTATION TO-DO LIST			-*- indented-text -*-
 ===============================
 
+General
+-------
+
+* Figure out HTMLHelp generation for the Windows world.
+
+* Straighten out random/whrandom.  Things are generally in the right
+  place, but need to respond to comments in email from Jan Kim
+  <kim@mpiz-koeln.mpg.de>.
+
+
+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 
@@ -9,33 +21,50 @@ PYTHON DOCUMENTATION TO-DO LIST			-*- indented-text -*-
 * 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>.)
+  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>.
 
-* In the extensions manual, 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
+----------------
 
-* Python/C API reference missing PyArg_ParseTuple(),
-  PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(), Py_BuildValue().  Information
-  requested by Greg Kochanski <gpk@bell-labs.com>.  PyEval_EvalCode()
-  has also been requested.
+* 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
+-----------------
+
+* urllib2 module reference.  [Jeremy Hylton]
 
 * 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 code/codeop module documentation.
 
-* Figure out HTMLHelp generation for the Windows world.
-
-* Straighten out random/whrandom.
-
-* Update the filecmp documentation (Moshe?).
-
 * 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
 ---------------------
@@ -45,7 +74,8 @@ NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE
   <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.)
+  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'
