Use case: Sometimes 'compiling' source files (with SWIG, for example)
creates additionl files which included by later sources. The win32all
setup script requires this.
There is no SF item for this, but it was discussed on distutils-sig:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2003-November/003514.html
by request of Donovan Preston. In return, he promised to use this
to create a Python OSA component, which would turn Python
into a first-class OSA scripting language (like AppleScript itself).
for Big String). This should make the tests pass on Win98SE. Note
that the docs only promise lengths up to 2048. Unfortunately this no
longer tests for the segfault I was seeing earlier, but I'm confident
I've nailed that one. :-) Fixes SF 852281. Will backport to 2.3.
unicode filenames"
Reorganize tests into functions so more combinations of
unicode/encoded/ascii can be tested, and while I was at it, upgrade to
unittest based test.
implement its locking scheme, this module implements a crude link() by
way of copying the source to the destination provided the destination
doesn't already exist.
library search path to include the extension directory. Without this,
the curses_panel extension can't find the curses extension/DLL, which
exports some curses symbols to it.
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.
isn't checked, and it *is* possible that a very large alloca() call is
made, e.g. when a large registry value is being read. I don't know if
alloca() in that case returns NULL or returns a pointer pointing outside
the stack, and I don't want to know -- I've simply replaced all calls to
alloca() with either PyMem_Malloc() or PyString_FromStringAndSize(NULL,)
as appropriate, followed by a size check. This addresses SF buf 851056.
Will backport to 2.3 next.
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.
Jack Jansen
Thomas Heller
Fred Drake
Raymond Hettinger
Brett Cannon
Michael W. Hudson
Tim Peters
Mark Hammond
Walter Dörwald
Guido van Rossum
Skip Montanaro
Andrew MacIntyre
Martin v. Löwis