Add a more informative message for the common user mistake of subclassing
from a module name rather than another class (i.e. random instead of
random.random).
(Code contributed by Jiwon Seo.)
The documentation portion of the patch is being re-worked and will be
checked-in soon. Likewise, PEP 289 will be updated to reflect Guido's
rationale for the design decisions on binding behavior (as described in
in his patch comments and in discussions on python-dev).
The test file, test_genexps.py, is written in doctest format and is
meant to exercise all aspects of the the patch. Further additions are
welcome from everyone. Please stress test this new feature as much as
possible before the alpha release.
pre-increment forms to post-increment forms. Post-incrementing
also eliminates the need for negative array indices for oparg fetches.
* In exception handling code, check for class based exceptions before
the older string based exceptions.
BINARY_SUBSCR:
* invert test for normal case fall through
* eliminate err handling code by jumping to slow_case
LOAD_LOCALS:
* invert test for normal case fall through
* continue instead of break for the non-error case
STORE_NAME and DELETE_NAME:
* invert test for normal case fall through
LOAD_NAME:
* continue instead of break for the non-error case
DELETE_FAST:
* invert test for normal case fall through
LOAD_DEREF:
* invert test for normal case fall through
* continue instead of break for the non-error case
tests of "why" against WHY_YIELD became useless. This patch removes them,
but assert()s that why != WHY_YIELD everywhere such a test was removed.
The test suite ran fine under a debug build (i.e., the asserts never
triggered).
* Defer error handling for wrong number of arguments to the
unpack_iterable() function. Cuts the code size almost in half.
* Replace function calls to PyList_Size() and PyTuple_Size() with
their smaller and faster macro counterparts.
* Move the constant structure references outside of the inner loops.
(Contributed by Andrew I MacIntyre.)
disables opcode prediction when dynamic execution
profiling is in effect, so the profiling counters at
the top of the main interpreter loop in eval_frame()
are updated for each opcode.
Simplified version of Neal Norwitz's patch which adds gotos for
opcodes that set "why". This skips a number of tests where the
outcome of the tests are known in advance.
comments about why both calls to cyclic gc here can cause problems.
I'll backport to 2.3 maint. Since the calls were introduced in 2.3,
that will be the end of it.
and left shifts. (Thanks to Kalle Svensson for SF patch 849227.)
This addresses most of the remaining semantic changes promised by
PEP 237, except for repr() of a long, which still shows the trailing
'L'. The PEP appears to promise warnings for operations that
changed semantics compared to Python 2.3, but this is not
implemented; we've suffered through enough warnings related to
hex/oct literals and I think it's best to be silent now.
* Install the unittests, docs, newsitem, include file, and makefile update.
* Exercise the new functions whereever sets.py was being used.
Includes the docs for libfuncs.tex. Separate docs for the types are
forthcoming.
The embed2.diff patch solves the user's problem by exporting the missing
symbols from the Python core so Python can be embedded in another Cygwin
application (well, at lest vim).
Cygwin's pthread_sigmask() implementation appears to be buggy. This
patch works around this problem by using sigprocmask() instead.
This patch is implemented in a general way so it could be used by other
platforms too. If this approach is deemed too risky, then I can work up
a patch that just hacks Python/thread_pthread.h for Cygwin.
Note that I tested this patch against 2.3c1 under Red Hat Linux 8.0 too.
[snip]
And finally, I need someone to regenerate pyconfig.h.in and configure
with the same versions of the autotools that are normally used by
Python.
Neal kindly regenerated pyconfig.h.in and configure for me.
If the initial import of warnings fails, clear the error. When the module
is actually needed, if the original import failed, see if it has managed
to find its way to sys.modules yet and if so, remember it.
Fixes for three related bugs, including errors that caused a script to
be ignored without printing an error message. The key problem was a bad
interaction between syntax warnings and syntax errors. If an
exception was already set when a warning was issued, the warning could
clobber the exception.
The PyErr_Occurred() check in issue_warning() isn't entirely
satisfying (the caller should know whether there was already an
error), but a better solution isn't immediately obvious.
Bug fix candidate.
behavior, creating many threads very quickly. A long debugging session
revealed that the Windows implementation of PyThread_start_new_thread()
was choked with "laziness" errors:
1. It checked MS _beginthread() for a failure return, but when that
happened it returned heap trash as the function result, instead of
an id of -1 (the proper error-return value).
2. It didn't consider that the Win32 CreateSemaphore() can fail.
3. When creating a great many threads very quickly, it's quite possible
that any particular bootstrap call can take virtually any amount of
time to return. But the code waited for a maximum of 5 seconds, and
didn't check to see whether the semaphore it was waiting for got
signaled. If it in fact timed out, the function could again return
heap trash as the function result. This is actually what confused
the test program, as the heap trash usually turned out to be 0, and
then multiple threads all got id 0 simultaneously, confusing the
hell out of threading.py's _active dict (mapping id to thread
object). A variety of baffling behaviors followed from that.
WRT #1 and #2, error returns are checked now, and "thread.error: can't
start new thread" gets raised now if a new thread (or new semaphore)
can't be created. WRT #3, we now wait for the semaphore without a
timeout.
Also removed useless local vrbls, folded long lines, and changed callobj
to a stack auto (it was going thru malloc/free instead, for no discernible
reason).
Bugfix candidate.
A new API (only accessible from C) to interrupt a thread by sending it
an exception. This is not always effective, but might help some people.
Requested by Just van Rossum and Alex Martelli. It is intentional
that you have to write your own C extension to call it from Python.
Docs will have to wait.
It depended on the previously removed basic block checker to
prevent a jump into the middle of the transformed block.
Clears SF 757818: tuple assignment -- SystemError: unknown opcode
The compiler was reseting the list comprehension tmpname counter for each function, but the symtable was using the same counter for the entire module. Repair by move tmpname into the symtable entry.
Bugfix candidate.
[ 708901 ] Lineno calculation sometimes broken
A one line patch to compile.c and a rather-more-than-one-line patch
to test_dis. Hey ho.
Possibly a backport candidate -- tho' lnotab is less used in 2.2...
* Can now test for basic blocks.
* Optimize inverted comparisions.
* Optimize unary_not followed by a conditional jump.
* Added a new opcode, NOP, to keep code size constant.
* Applied NOP to previous transformations where appropriate.
Note, the NOP would not be necessary if other functions were
added to re-target jump addresses and update the co_lnotab mapping.
That would yield slightly faster and cleaner bytecode at the
expense of optimizer simplicity and of keeping it decoupled
from the line-numbering structure.
particular leaving the traceback object (and everything reachable
from it) alive throughout shutdown. The patch is mostly from Guido.
Bugfix candidate.
new line.
New pvt API function _Py_PrintReferenceAddresses(): Prints only the
addresses and refcnts of the live objects. This is always safe to call,
because it has no dependence on Python's C API.
Py_Finalize(): If envar PYTHONDUMPREFS is set, call (the new)
_Py_PrintReferenceAddresses() right before dumping final pymalloc stats.
We can't print the reprs of the objects here because too much of the
interpreter has been shut down. You need to correlate the addresses
displayed here with the object reprs printed by the earlier
PYTHONDUMPREFS call to _Py_PrintReferences().
New functions:
unsigned long PyInt_AsUnsignedLongMask(PyObject *);
unsigned PY_LONG_LONG) PyInt_AsUnsignedLongLongMask(PyObject *);
unsigned long PyLong_AsUnsignedLongMask(PyObject *);
unsigned PY_LONG_LONG) PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLongMask(PyObject *);
New and changed format codes:
b unsigned char 0..UCHAR_MAX
B unsigned char none **
h unsigned short 0..USHRT_MAX
H unsigned short none **
i int INT_MIN..INT_MAX
I * unsigned int 0..UINT_MAX
l long LONG_MIN..LONG_MAX
k * unsigned long none
L long long LLONG_MIN..LLONG_MAX
K * unsigned long long none
Notes:
* New format codes.
** Changed from previous "range-and-a-half" to "none"; the
range-and-a-half checking wasn't particularly useful.
New test test_getargs2.py, to verify all this.
PYTHONDUMPREFS output after most teardown. Attempts to use
PYTHONDUMPREFS with the Zope3 test suite died with Py_FatalError(),
since _Py_PrintReferences() can end up executing arbitrary Python code
(for objects that override __repr__), and that requires an intact
interpreter.
even farther down, to just before the call to
_PyObject_DebugMallocStats(). This required the following changes:
- pystate.c, PyThreadState_GetDict(): changed not to raise an
exception or issue a fatal error when no current thread state is
available, but simply return NULL without raising an exception
(ever).
- object.c, Py_ReprEnter(): when PyThreadState_GetDict() returns NULL,
don't raise an exception but return 0. This means that when
printing a container that's recursive, printing will go on and on
and on. But that shouldn't happen in the case we care about (see
first bullet).
- Updated Misc/NEWS and Doc/api/init.tex to reflect changes to
PyThreadState_GetDict() definition.
the code erroneously decrefed the istep argument in an error case. This
caused a co_consts tuple to lose a float constant prematurely, which
eventually caused gc to try executing static data in floatobject.c (don't
ask <wink>). So reworked this extensively to ensure refcount correctness.
- range() now works even if the arguments are longs with magnitude
larger than sys.maxint, as long as the total length of the sequence
fits. E.g., range(2**100, 2**101, 2**100) is the following list:
[1267650600228229401496703205376L]. (SF patch #707427.)
return. Setting an exception can mess with the exception state, and
continuing is definitely wrong (since type is dereferenced later on).
Some code that calls this seems to be prepared for a NULL exception
type, so let's be safe rather than sorry and simply assume there's
nothing to normalize in this case.
Raymond Hettinger
Martin v. Löwis
Fred Drake
Anthony Baxter
Tim Peters
Jeremy Hylton
Andrew MacIntyre
Armin Rigo
Nicholas Bastin
Hye-Shik Chang
Skip Montanaro
Michael W. Hudson
Guido van Rossum
Jack Jansen
Alex Martelli
Walter Dörwald
Jason Tishler
Neil Schemenauer
Mark Hammond
Neal Norwitz
Thomas Heller