From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 04:48:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify that the softspace attribute is used by print for state management,
X-Git-Tag: v2.0b2~180
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=51f53df4c85e08e16263b0be5e2888043e850178;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Clarify that the softspace attribute is used by print for state management,
not as a user-controlled parameter.
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
index dcdee876e601..ad3120ebbae4 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
@@ -1132,6 +1132,9 @@ zero.  This will be automatic for most classes implemented in Python
 (care may be needed for objects that override attribute access); types
 implemented in C will have to provide a writable
 \member{softspace} attribute.
+\strong{Note:}  This attribute is not used to control the
+\keyword{print} statement, but to allow the implementation of
+\keyword{print} to keep track of its internal state.
 \end{memberdesc}
 
 \subsubsection{Internal Objects \label{typesinternal}}