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  r77952 | mark.dickinson | 2010-02-03 10:50:14 -0600 (Wed, 03 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Fix test_inspect.py data to match recent change to inspect_fodder.py (r77942).
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  r78030 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-02-06 14:14:10 -0600 (Sat, 06 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  check type_getattro for correctness in a descriptor corner case
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  r78102 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-07 19:35:35 -0600 (Sun, 07 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Move distutils into its own subsection; add various items
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  r78104 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-08 07:22:24 -0600 (Mon, 08 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Add two items; move a subsection
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  r78107 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-02-08 14:25:47 -0600 (Mon, 08 Feb 2010) | 3 lines

  Clarify and correct description for ccbench and iobench.
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  r78206 | r.david.murray | 2010-02-16 11:55:26 -0600 (Tue, 16 Feb 2010) | 3 lines

  Make the references to Popen in the description of Call
  and check_call into links.
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  r78216 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-18 08:16:48 -0600 (Thu, 18 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Add various items
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  r78296 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-21 20:08:45 -0600 (Sun, 21 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Re-word
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  r78297 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-21 20:29:10 -0600 (Sun, 21 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  #7076: mention SystemRandom class near start of the module docs; reword change description for clarity.  Noted by Shawn Ligocki.
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  r78328 | jack.diederich | 2010-02-22 12:17:16 -0600 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  fixes issue #7530, serve_forever()
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  r78331 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-22 12:38:23 -0600 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Fix comment typo
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  r78332 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-22 12:42:07 -0600 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 2 lines

  #7627: MH.remove() would fail if the MH mailbox was locked;
  it would call _unlock_file() and pass it a closed file object.  Noted by Rob Austein.
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  r78336 | jack.diederich | 2010-02-22 13:55:22 -0600 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  fixes issue #1522237, bad init check in _threading_local
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  r78339 | jack.diederich | 2010-02-22 15:27:38 -0600 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  * fix issue#7476
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  r78343 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-02-22 16:48:41 -0600 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 10 lines

  #2560: remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from my_fgets() in Parser/myreadline.c.
  Noted by Joseph Armbruster; patch by Jessica McKellar.

  The original code was 'for (;;) {...}', where ... ended
  with a 'return -2' statement and did not contain a 'break' or 'continue'
  statement.  Therefore, the body of the loop is always executed once.

  Once upon a time there was a 'continue' in the loop, but it was removed in
  rev36346, committed by mwh on Wed Jul 7 17:44:12 2004.
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  r78378 | jack.diederich | 2010-02-23 11:23:30 -0600 (Tue, 23 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  fixup markup error
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  r78379 | jack.diederich | 2010-02-23 13:34:06 -0600 (Tue, 23 Feb 2010) | 1 line

   issue#6442 use in operator instead of has_key
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  r78415 | dirkjan.ochtman | 2010-02-23 22:00:52 -0600 (Tue, 23 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #7733: add explicit reference in asyncore docs.
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  r78559 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-03-01 13:45:21 -0600 (Mon, 01 Mar 2010) | 1 line

  #7637: update discussion of minidom.unlink() and garbage collection
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  r78717 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-03-05 21:13:33 -0600 (Fri, 05 Mar 2010) | 1 line

  settscdump is definitely an implementation detail
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  r78791 | andrew.kuchling | 2010-03-08 06:00:39 -0600 (Mon, 08 Mar 2010) | 1 line

  Add various items
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Doc/distutils/sourcedist.rst

@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ Notes:
    requires the :program:`compress` program. Notice that this format is now
    pending for deprecation and will be removed in the future versions of Python.
 
-When using any ``tar`` format (``gztar``, ``bztar``, ``ztar`` or ``tar``), you
+When using any ``tar`` format (``gztar``, ``bztar``, ``ztar`` or
-can specify under Unix the ``owner`` and ``group`` names that will be set for
+``tar``) under Unix, you can specify the ``owner`` and ``group`` names
-each member of the archive.
+that will be set for each member of the archive.
 
 For example, if you want all files of the archive to be owned by root::
 

Doc/library/asyncore.rst

@@ -201,7 +201,8 @@ any that have been added to the map during asynchronous service) is closed.
    .. method:: bind(address)
 
       Bind the socket to *address*.  The socket must not already be bound.  (The
-      format of *address* depends on the address family --- see above.)  To mark
+      format of *address* depends on the address family --- refer to the
+      :mod:`socket` documentation for more information.)  To mark
       the socket as re-usable (setting the :const:`SO_REUSEADDR` option), call
       the :class:`dispatcher` object's :meth:`set_reuse_addr` method.
 

Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst

@@ -1131,7 +1131,7 @@ their parent process exits.  The manager classes are defined in the
 
    Create a BaseManager object.
 
-   Once created one should call :meth:`start` or :meth:`serve_forever` to ensure
+   Once created one should call :meth:`start` or ``get_server().serve_forever()`` to ensure
    that the manager object refers to a started manager process.
 
    *address* is the address on which the manager process listens for new
@@ -1147,10 +1147,6 @@ their parent process exits.  The manager classes are defined in the
       Start a subprocess to start the manager.  If *initializer* is not ``None``
       then the subprocess will call ``initializer(*initargs)`` when it starts.
 
-   .. method:: serve_forever()
-
-      Run the server in the current process.
-
    .. method:: get_server()
 
       Returns a :class:`Server` object which represents the actual server under

Doc/library/random.rst

@@ -35,6 +35,18 @@ basic generator of your own devising: in that case, override the :meth:`random`,
 Optionally, a new generator can supply a :meth:`getrandbits` method --- this
 allows :meth:`randrange` to produce selections over an arbitrarily large range.
 
+As an example of subclassing, the :mod:`random` module provides the
+:class:`WichmannHill` class that implements an alternative generator in pure
+Python.  The class provides a backward compatible way to reproduce results from
+earlier versions of Python, which used the Wichmann-Hill algorithm as the core
+generator.  Note that this Wichmann-Hill generator can no longer be recommended:
+its period is too short by contemporary standards, and the sequence generated is
+known to fail some stringent randomness tests.  See the references below for a
+recent variant that repairs these flaws.
+
+The :mod:`random` module also provides the :class:`SystemRandom` class which
+uses the system function :func:`os.urandom` to generate random numbers
+from sources provided by the operating system.
 
 Bookkeeping functions:
 

Doc/library/subprocess.rst

@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ This module also defines four shortcut functions:
    Run command with arguments.  Wait for command to complete, then return the
    :attr:`returncode` attribute.
 
-   The arguments are the same as for the Popen constructor.  Example::
+   The arguments are the same as for the :class:`Popen` constructor.  Example::
 
       >>> retcode = subprocess.call(["ls", "-l"])
 
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ This module also defines four shortcut functions:
    :exc:`CalledProcessError` object will have the return code in the
    :attr:`returncode` attribute.
 
-   The arguments are the same as for the Popen constructor.  Example::
+   The arguments are the same as for the :class:`Popen` constructor.  Example::
 
       >>> subprocess.check_call(["ls", "-l"])
       0

Doc/library/sys.rst

@@ -816,6 +816,10 @@ always available.
    available only if Python was compiled with :option:`--with-tsc`. To understand
    the output of this dump, read :file:`Python/ceval.c` in the Python sources.
 
+   .. impl-detail::
+      This function is intimately bound to CPython implementation details and
+      thus not likely to be implemented elsewhere.
+
 
 .. data:: stdin
           stdout

Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst

@@ -82,22 +82,12 @@ document: the one that holds all others.  Here is an example program::
    dom3 = parseString("<myxml>Some data</myxml>")
    assert dom3.documentElement.tagName == "myxml"
 
-When you are finished with a DOM, you should clean it up.  This is necessary
+When you are finished with a DOM tree, you may optionally call the
-because some versions of Python do not support garbage collection of objects
+:meth:`unlink` method to encourage early cleanup of the now-unneeded
-that refer to each other in a cycle.  Until this restriction is removed from all
+objects.  :meth:`unlink` is a :mod:`xml.dom.minidom`\ -specific
-versions of Python, it is safest to write your code as if cycles would not be
+extension to the DOM API that renders the node and its descendants are
-cleaned up.
+essentially useless.  Otherwise, Python's garbage collector will
-
+eventually take care of the objects in the tree.
-The way to clean up a DOM is to call its :meth:`unlink` method::
-
-   dom1.unlink()
-   dom2.unlink()
-   dom3.unlink()
-
-:meth:`unlink` is a :mod:`xml.dom.minidom`\ -specific extension to the DOM API.
-After calling :meth:`unlink` on a node, the node and its descendants are
-essentially useless.
-
 
 .. seealso::
 

Lib/mailbox.py

@@ -882,17 +882,9 @@ class MH(Mailbox):
                 raise KeyError('No message with key: %s' % key)
             else:
                 raise
-        try:
+        else:
-            if self._locked:
-                _lock_file(f)
-            try:
-                f.close()
-                os.remove(os.path.join(self._path, str(key)))
-            finally:
-                if self._locked:
-                    _unlock_file(f)
-        finally:
             f.close()
+            os.remove(path)
 
     def __setitem__(self, key, message):
         """Replace the keyed message; raise KeyError if it doesn't exist."""

Lib/pipes.py

@@ -253,10 +253,13 @@ _safechars = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + '!@%_-+=:,./' # Safe unquote
 _funnychars = '"`$\\'                           # Unsafe inside "double quotes"
 
 def quote(file):
+    ''' return a shell-escaped version of the file string '''
     for c in file:
         if c not in _safechars:
             break
     else:
+        if not file:
+            return "''"
         return file
     if '\'' not in file:
         return '\'' + file + '\''

Lib/test/test_descr.py

@@ -4164,6 +4164,15 @@ order (MRO) for bases """
         x.a = 42
         self.assertEqual(x.a, 42)
 
+        # Also check type_getattro for correctness.
+        class Meta(type):
+            pass
+        class X(object):
+            __metaclass__ = Meta
+        X.a = 42
+        Meta.a = Descr("a")
+        self.assertEqual(X.a, 42)
+
     def test_getattr_hooks(self):
         # issue 4230
 

Lib/test/test_inspect.py

@@ -166,12 +166,12 @@ class TestInterpreterStack(IsTestBase):
 
     def test_trace(self):
         self.assertEqual(len(git.tr), 3)
-        self.assertEqual(revise(*git.tr[0][1:]),
+        self.assertEqual(git.tr[0][1:], (modfile, 43, 'argue',
-             (modfile, 43, 'argue', ['            spam(a, b, c)\n'], 0))
+                                         ['            spam(a, b, c)\n'], 0))
-        self.assertEqual(revise(*git.tr[1][1:]),
+        self.assertEqual(git.tr[1][1:], (modfile, 9, 'spam',
-             (modfile, 9, 'spam', ['    eggs(b + d, c + f)\n'], 0))
+                                         ['    eggs(b + d, c + f)\n'], 0))
-        self.assertEqual(revise(*git.tr[2][1:]),
+        self.assertEqual(git.tr[2][1:], (modfile, 18, 'eggs',
-             (modfile, 18, 'eggs', ['    q = y / 0\n'], 0))
+                                         ['    q = y / 0\n'], 0))
 
     def test_frame(self):
         args, varargs, varkw, locals = inspect.getargvalues(mod.fr)

Lib/test/test_mailbox.py

@@ -968,6 +968,13 @@ class TestMH(TestMailbox):
         key0 = self._box.add(msg0)
         refmsg0 = self._box.get_message(key0)
 
+    def test_issue7627(self):
+        msg0 = mailbox.MHMessage(self._template % 0)
+        key0 = self._box.add(msg0)
+        self._box.lock()
+        self._box.remove(key0)
+        self._box.unlock()
+
     def test_pack(self):
         # Pack the contents of the mailbox
         msg0 = mailbox.MHMessage(self._template % 0)

Lib/test/test_pipes.py

@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ class SimplePipeTests(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertEqual(pipes.quote("test%s'name'" % u),
                               '"test\\%s\'name\'"' % u)
 
+        self.assertEqual(pipes.quote(''), "''")
+
     def testRepr(self):
         t = pipes.Template()
         self.assertEqual(repr(t), "<Template instance, steps=[]>")

Misc/ACKS

@@ -832,6 +832,7 @@ Blake Winton
 Jean-Claude Wippler
 Frank Wierzbicki
 Lars Wirzenius
+John Wiseman
 Chris Withers
 Stefan Witzel
 Irek Wlizlo

Modules/_cursesmodule.c

@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ PyCurses_ConvertToChtype(PyObject *obj, chtype *ch)
   return 1;
 }
 
-/* Function versions of the 3 functions for tested whether curses has been
+/* Function versions of the 3 functions for testing whether curses has been
    initialised or not. */
    
 static int func_PyCursesSetupTermCalled(void)

Parser/myreadline.c

@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ static int
 my_fgets(char *buf, int len, FILE *fp)
 {
 	char *p;
-	for (;;) {
 	if (PyOS_InputHook != NULL)
 		(void)(PyOS_InputHook)();
 	errno = 0;
@@ -94,8 +93,6 @@ my_fgets(char *buf, int len, FILE *fp)
 		return 1; /* Interrupt */
 	}
 	return -2; /* Error */
-	}
-	/* NOTREACHED */
 }