it seems harmless for other platforms. It plays tricks with the name
of the library used to link with. Apparently DG/UX really wants a
shared library to link with if it wants shared modules to use symbols
from the library. I'm not sure why this wasn't an issue with 1.4;
DG/UX seems to be the only platform where moving to a single library
made things harder!
BTW This adds a target to create libpython$(VERSION).so; however this
target is *only* for DG/UX.
- Loading non-binary string pickles checks for insecure
strings. This is needed because cPickle (still)
uses a restricted eval to parse non-binary string pickles.
This change is needed to prevent untrusted
pickles like::
"S'hello world'*2000000\012p0\012."
from hosing an application.
- User-defined types can now support unpickling without
executing a constructor.
The second value returned from __reduce__ can now be None,
rather than an argument tuple. On unpickling, if the second
value returned from __reduce__ during pickling was None, then
rather than calling the first value returned from __reduce__,
directly, the __basicnew__ method of the first value returned
from __reduce__ is called without arguments.
- New option -x, to skip first line of script
- Use the correct platform-specific delimiter and library location in
the usage message
(Also removed two blank lines and moved one line around so that each
part of the usage message is again under 512 bytes and the whole usage
message still fits in 23 lines.)
the default build on Linux (because it requires -lcrypt which isn't
availabel everywhere).
Some improvements to the _tkinter build line suggested by Case Roole.
maxsplit which is implemented in string.py but wasn't here. The
reference manual doesn't define what happens when maxsplit is negative
or larger than the number of occurrences, but in either case, I
implemented this as all get replaced. Default value is zero which
replaces all occurrences.
signal handlers in a fork()ed child process when Python is compiled with
thread support. The bug was reported by Scott <scott@chronis.icgroup.com>.
What happens is that after a fork(), the variables used by the signal
module to determine whether this is the main thread or not are bogus,
and it decides that no thread is the main thread, so no signals will
be delivered.
The solution is the addition of PyOS_AfterFork(), which fixes the signal
module's variables. A dummy version of the function is present in the
intrcheck.c source file which is linked when the signal module is not
used.
to inside floatsleep(). This is necessary because floatsleep() does
the error handling and it must have grabbed the interpreter lock and
thread state before it can do so.
save and restore the tstate, but explicitly calling
PyEval_SaveThread() does reset it! While I think about how to fix
this for real, here's a fix that avoids getting a fatal error.
(1) Use PyErr_NewException("module.class", NULL, NULL) to create the
exception object.
(2) Remove all calls to Py_FatalError(); instead, return or
ignore the errors -- the import code now checks PyErr_Occurred()
after calling a module's init function, so it's no longer a
fatal error for the initialization to fail.
Also did some small cleanups, e.g. removed unnecessary test for
"already initialized" from initfpectl(), and unified
initposix()/initnt().
I haven't checked this very thoroughly, so while the changes are
pretty trivial -- beware of untested code!
This one works! However it requires using a modified version of
tclNotify.c (provided), which requires access to the Tcl source
to compile it. In order to enable this hack, add the following
to the Setup line for _tkinter:
tclNotify.c -DHAVE_PYTCL_WAITUNTILEVENT -I$(TCL)/generic
where TCL points to the source tree of Tcl 8.0. Other versions
of Tcl are not supported.
The tclNotify.c file is copyrighted by Sun Microsystems; the
licensing terms are in the file license.terms. According to this
file, no further permission to distribute this is required,
provided the file license.terms is included. Hence, I am checking
that in, too.
maps errno numbers to errno names (e.g. EINTR), and errorcode maps
them to message strings. (The latter is redundant because
the new call posix.strerror() now does the same, but alla...)
set_completer(function)
parse_and_bind(string)
read_init_file(filename)
The first is the most exciting feature: with an appropriate Python
completer function, it can do dynamic completion based on the contents
of your namespace!
Added 'p' format character for Pascal string (i.e. leading length
byte). This uses the count prefix line 's' does, except that the
count includes the length byte; i.e. '10p' takes 10 bytes packed but
has space for a length byte and 9 data bytes.
1. Fix bug in (de)compression objects. The final string resize used
zst.total_out to determine the length of the string, but the
(de)compression object will output data a little bit at a time, which
means total_out is not the string size. Fix: save original value of
total_out at the start of the call.
2. Be sure to Py_DECREF the result value if you exit with an
exception.
3. Use PyInt_FromLong instead of Py_BuildValue
4. include more constants from the zlib header file
5. Use PyErr_Format instead of using a local buffer and sprintf.
dealloc() functions contained code to free/DECREF the buffer
(there were differences between I and O objects but the logic bug was
the same). Fixed this be setting the buffer pointer to NULL and
testing for that. (This also makes it safe to call close() more than
once.)
XXX Worry: what if you try to read() or write() once the thing is
closed?
Guido van Rossum
Barry Warsaw
Fred Drake
Jeremy Hylton