have differing refcount semantics. If anyone sees a prettier way to
acheive the same ends, then please go for it.
I think this is the first time I've ever used Py_XINCREF.
* Fixes an incorrect variable in a PyDict_CheckExact.
* Allow general mapping locals arguments for the execfile() function
and exec statement.
* Add tests.
[ 960406 ] unblock signals in threads
although the changes do not correspond exactly to any patch attached to
that report.
Non-main threads no longer have all signals masked.
A different interface to readline is used.
The handling of signals inside calls to PyOS_Readline is now rather
different.
These changes are all a bit scary! Review and cross-platform testing
much appreciated.
The builtin eval() function now accepts any mapping for the locals argument.
Time sensitive steps guarded by PyDict_CheckExact() to keep from slowing
down the normal case. My timings so no measurable impact.
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).
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.
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.
Michael W. Hudson
Raymond Hettinger
Neal Norwitz
Martin v. Löwis
Nicholas Bastin
Armin Rigo
Tim Peters
Skip Montanaro
Jack Jansen
Jeremy Hylton
Guido van Rossum
Neil Schemenauer