to pypaper.sty.
Added the use of the "avant" package to use AvantGarde for the sans-serif
font instead of the helvetica font loaded by the "times" package.
conversions. Formerly, for example, int('-') would return 0 instead
of raising ValueError, and int(' 0') would raise ValueError
(complaining about a null byte!) instead of 0...
PythonCmd_Error() but failed to return. The error wasn't very likely
(only when we run out of memory) but since the check is there we might
as well return the error. (I think that Barry introduced this buglet
when he added error checks everywhere.)
keyword argument can be used to direct it somewhere else. Also
documented all the other functions in this module, and even added a
little example.
# Haven't tested the latex for correctness -- all latex installations
# appear broken.
+ Took the "list" argument out of the other functions that no longer need
it. This speeds things up a little more.
+ Small comment changes in accord with that.
+ Exploited the now-safe ability to cache values in the partitioning loop.
Makes no timing difference on my flavor of Pentium, but this machine ran out
of registers 12 iterations ago. It should yield a small speedup on a RISC
machine, and not hurt in any case.
instead of testing whether the list changed size after each
comparison, temporarily set the type of the list to an immutable list
type. This should allow continued use of the list for legitimate
purposes but disallows all operations that can change it in any way.
(Changes to the internals of list items are not caught, of cause;
that's not possible to detect, and it's not necessary to protect the
sort code, either.)
From: Dan Pierson <dan@remote.control.com>
To: "Mark Hammond (E-mail)" <MHammond@skippinet.com.au>,
"Guido van Rossum (E-mail)" <guido@cnri.reston.va.us>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 17:25:07 -0400
RegistryQueryValue requires that its fourth argument be initialized to
the length of the buffer being passed in, this wasn't being done. I
also split the call and status test into two lines with a local variable
so that I could look at the status in the debugger.
# from my PC at home, but it can't send email :-(
Add a clarifying comment about the new ENTER_OVERLAP and
LEAVE_OVERLAP_TCL macros; get rid of all the bogus tests for deleted
interpreters (Tcl already tests for this; they were left over from an
earlier misguided attempt to fix the threading).
There were some serious problem with the thread-safety code.
The basic problem was that often the result was gotten out of
the Tcl interpreter object after releasing the Tcl lock.
Of course, another thread might have changed the return value
already, and this was indeed happening. (Amazing what trying
it on a different thread implementation does!)
The solution is to grab the Python lock without releasing the
Tcl lock, so it's safe to create a string object or set the
exceptions from the Tcl interpreter. Once that's done, the
Tcl lock is released.
Note that it's now legal to acquire the Python lock while the
the Tcl lock is held; but the reverse is not true: the Python
lock must be released before the Tcl lock is acquired. This
in order to avoid deadlines. Fortunately, there don't seem to
be any problems with this.
(The "sort of" is because it uses kbhit() to detect that the user
starts typing, and then no events are processed until they hit
return.)
Also fixed a nasty locking bug: EventHook() is called without the Tcl
lock set, so it can't use the ENTER_PYTHON and LEAVE_PYTHON macros,
which manipulate both the Python and the Tcl lock. I now only acquire
and release the Python lock.
(Haven't tested this on Unix yet...)
Guido van Rossum
Fred Drake
Andrew M. Kuchling
Jack Jansen