value, so the programmer will have to catch OverflowError. I'm not sure
what /F's perspective is on this. Perhaps it should be caught and mapped to
an xmlrpclib-specific exception. None of the other type-specific dump
methods seem to do any exception handling though.
call, or via setting an instance or class vrbl.
Rewrote the calibration docs.
Modern boxes are so friggin' fast, and a profiler event does so much work
anyway, that the cost of looking up an instance vrbl (the bias constant)
per profile event just isn't a big deal.
the problem that slots weren't inherited properly. override_slots()
no longer exists; in its place comes fixup_slot_dispatchers() which
does more and different work and is table-based. (Eventually I want
this table also to replace all the little tab_foo tables.)
Also add a wrapper for __delslice__; this required a change in
test_descrtut.py.
When checking for strings use,
! if isinstance(uri, (types.StringType, types.UnicodeType)):
Also get rid of some dodgy code that tried to guess whether attributes
were callable or not.
without the Py_TPFLAGS_CHECKTYPES flag) in the wrappers. This
required a few changes in test_descr.py to cope with the fact that the
complex type has __int__, __long__ and __float__ methods that always
raise an exception.
actual run of the profiler, instead of timing a simplified simulation of
part of what the profiler does. It computes a constant about 60% higher
on my Win98SE box than the old method, and the new constant appears much
more realistic. Deleted the undocumented simple(), instrumented(), and
profiler_simulation() methods (which existed only to support the previous
calibration method).
this type of test fails, vereq() does a better job of reporting than
verify().
Change vereq(x, y) to use "not x == y" rather than "x != y" -- it
makes a difference is some overloading tests.
Most of this code was old enough to vote. Examples of cleanups:
+ Backslashes were used for line continuation even inside unclosed
bracket structures, from back in the days that was still needed.
+ There was no use of % formats, and e.g. the old fpformat module was
still used to format floats "by hand" in conjunction with rjust().
+ There was even use of a do-nothing .ignore() method to tack on to the
end of a chain of method calls, else way back when Python would print
the non-None result (as it does now in an interactive session -- it
*used* to do that in batch mode too).
+ Perhaps controversial (although I can't imagine why for real <wink>),
used augmented assignment where helpful. Stuff like
self.total_calls = self.total_calls + other.total_calls
is just plain harder to follow than
self.total_calls += other.total_calls
seriously wrong. This started out by just fixing the docs, but then it
occurred to me that the doc confusion propagated into misleading vrbl names
too, so I also renamed those to match reality. As a result, INO the time
computations are much easier to understand now (within the limitations of
vast quantities of 3-character names <wink>).
many types were subclassable but had a xxx_dealloc function that
called PyObject_DEL(self) directly instead of deferring to
self->ob_type->tp_free(self). It is permissible to set tp_free in the
type object directly to _PyObject_Del, for non-GC types, or to
_PyObject_GC_Del, for GC types. Still, PyObject_DEL was a tad faster,
so I'm fearing that our pystone rating is going down again. I'm not
sure if doing something like
void xxx_dealloc(PyObject *self)
{
if (PyXxxCheckExact(self))
PyObject_DEL(self);
else
self->ob_type->tp_free(self);
}
is any faster than always calling the else branch, so I haven't
attempted that -- however those types whose own dealloc is fancier
(int, float, unicode) do use this pattern.
This patch allows ConfigParser.getboolean() to interpret TRUE,
FALSE, YES, NO, ON and OFF instead just '0' and '1'.
While just allowing '0' and '1' sounds more correct users often
demand to use more descriptive directives in configuration
files. Instead of forcing every programmer do brew his own
solution a system should include the batteries for this.
[My modification to the patch is a slight rewording of the docstring
and use of lowercase instead of uppercase templates. The code is
still case sensitive. GvR.]
optional, and default to `localhost' and ports 8025 and 25
respectively.
SMTPChannel.__init__(): Calculate __fqdn using socket.getfqdn()
instead of gethostby*() and friends. This allows us to run this
script even if we don't have access to dns (assuming the localhost is
configured properly).
Also, restore my precious page breaks. Hands off, oh Whitespace
Normalizer!