Currently, the "global interpreter lock" entry in the glossary mentions
that `-X gil 0` can be used to disable the GIL [1]. However, this is
invalid; the correct usage should be `-X gil=0`.
$ python -X gil 0 -c 'print("Hello, world")'
Fatal Python error: config_read_gil: PYTHON_GIL / -X gil must be "0" or "1"
Python runtime state: preinitialized
$ python -X gil=0 -c 'print("Hello, world")'
Hello, world
[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html#cmdoption-X
Signed-off-by: Ruoyu Zhong <zhongruoyu@outlook.com>
* Add definitions for "context", "current context", and "context
management protocol".
* Update related definitions to be consistent with the new
definitions.
* Restructure the documentation for the `contextvars.Context` class
to prepare for adding context manager support, and for consistency
with the definitions.
* Use `testcode` and `testoutput` to test the `Context.run` example.
* Expand the documentation for the `Py_CONTEXT_EVENT_ENTER` and
`Py_CONTEXT_EVENT_EXIT` events to clarify and to prepare for
planned changes.
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <1324225+hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>
The term "free variable" has unfortunately become genuinely
ambiguous over the years (presumably due to the names of
some relevant code object instance attributes).
While we can't eliminate that ambiguity at this late date, we can
at least alert people to the potential ambiguity by describing
both the formal meaning of the term and the common
alternative use as a direct synonym for "closure variable".
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Co-authored-by: Carol Willing <carolcode@willingconsulting.com>
Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Sergey B Kirpichev <skirpichev@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Carol Willing <carolcode@willingconsulting.com>
The term `Immutable` in the `sequence` entry of the glossary is used incorrectly, in fact dicts accepts hashable keys, which is not the same as immutable.
* expand on What's New entry for PEP 667 (including porting notes)
* define 'optimized scope' as a glossary term
* cover comprehensions and generator expressions in locals() docs
* review all mentions of "locals" in documentation (updating if needed)
* review all mentions of "f_locals" in documentation (updating if needed)
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.
Ruoyu Zhong
Richard Hansen
Alex Waygood
Alyssa Coghlan
Andrés Delfino
decorator-factory
Jelle Zijlstra
Petr Viktorin
Donghee Na
David Lowry-Duda
Sam Gross
Lincoln
Pablo Galindo Salgado
Hugo van Kemenade
Savannah Ostrowski
Carol Willing
Tushar Sadhwani
Skip Montanaro
Serhiy Storchaka
William Andrea
Victor Stinner
Adam Turner
Eric Snow
F3eQnxN3RriK
Nikita Sobolev
ab
MonadChains
Jeff Allen
Terry Jan Reedy
Ned Batchelder
Ma Lin
Inada Naoki
Géry Ogam
Brett Cannon
Steven Hsu
Mariusz Felisiak
larryhastings
kj