Commit Graph

730 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Just van Rossum 01875ebaec Broke the zipimport/PEP 302 news item into two separate items. 2002-12-31 10:22:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9a2eda5ea5 Dedent a paragraph that was accidentally aligned with a preceding
nested list.
2002-12-31 02:12:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a3b8953233 News about zipimport. 2002-12-30 22:59:32 +00:00
Jack Jansen 8bb80dbe10 Added a note about the move of Mac/Lib to Lib/plat-mac. 2002-12-30 22:42:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum acd738feb3 SF patch 659809, by Daniel Brotsky: fix Makefile.pre to use config
env.

This adds @CFLAGS@  and @CPPFLAGS@ to the end of the respective
variable definitions.  It also adds $(LDFLAGS) to the $(CC) invocation
to build $(PGEN).
2002-12-30 21:04:23 +00:00
Barry Warsaw c27f4bd423 A short note about the versions of BerkeleyDB we now support 2002-12-30 21:03:26 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer b983aa0003 Add news about fix for bug #624807. 2002-12-30 20:22:23 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 497e5c4f8e Update the email package news. 2002-12-30 19:27:08 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 40f6217092 SF patch 658251: Install a C implementation of the Mersenne Twister as the
core generator for random.py.
2002-12-29 23:03:38 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger af72d5221f Add newsitem for the two new unittest methods.
Also, made some whitespace cleanup.
2002-12-29 20:14:11 +00:00
Just van Rossum 8982595870 Backing out patch #642578 in anticipation of final acceptance of PEP 302. 2002-12-25 23:13:34 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e11b510a5b SF 658405: calendar.py to rely on the datetime module instead of the time
module.

The code is shorter, more readable, faster, and dramatically increases the
range of acceptable dates.

Also, used the floor division operator in leapdays().
2002-12-25 16:37:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 633d90c7a3 Oops. Roll back that last change. It wasn't ready for release. :-( 2002-12-23 16:51:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9c8a0866c9 Add warning for assignment to None, True and False. This is patch
549213 by Jeremy (checking in for him since he's away and busy).
2002-12-23 16:35:23 +00:00
Jack Jansen ae3cb6cf29 Got rid of Mac/Relnotes, and started on mac-specific release notes in NEWS. 2002-12-23 11:25:49 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson cfd3884882 This is Richie Hindle's patch
[ 643835 ] Set Next Statement for Python debuggers

with a few tweaks by me: adding an unsigned or two, mentioning that
not all jumps are allowed in the doc for pdb, adding a NEWS item and
a note to whatsnew, and AuCTeX doing something cosmetic to libpdb.tex.
2002-12-17 16:15:34 +00:00
Tim Peters e820cb60a3 Blurb about new datetime module. 2002-12-16 20:57:22 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 786ddb29c9 Fixed bug
[#521782] unreliable file.read() error handling

* Objects/fileobject.c
  (file_read): Clear errors before leaving the loop in all situations,
  and also check if some data was read before exiting the loop with an
  EWOULDBLOCK exception.

* Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
* Objects/fileobject.c
  Document that sometimes a read() operation can return less data than
  what the user asked, if running in non-blocking mode.

* Misc/NEWS
  Document the fix.
2002-12-16 18:12:53 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 17c5a33582 Use "dictionary literals" instead of "dictionaries", as suggested by Just. 2002-12-16 14:09:22 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 78429a6aa6 Fixing bug
[#448679] Left to right

* Python/compile.c
  (com_dictmaker): Reordered evaluation of dictionaries to follow strict
  LTR evaluation.

* Lib/compiler/pycodegen.py
  (CodeGenerator.visitDict): Reordered evaluation of dictionaries to
  follow strict LTR evaluation.

* Doc/ref/ref5.tex
  Documented the general LTR evaluation order idea.

* Misc/NEWS
  Documented change in evaluation order of dictionaries.
2002-12-16 13:54:02 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer d5ae01a803 Applying patch
[#636769] Fix for major rexec bugs

* Lib/rexec.py
  (FileBase): Added 'xreadlines' and '__iter__' to allowed file methods.
  (FileWrapper.__init__): Removed unnecessary self.f variable, which gave
  direct access to the file object.
  (RExec): Added 'xreadlines' and '_weakref' to allowed modules.
  (RExec.r_open): Convert string subclasses to a real string classes
  before doing comparisons with mode parameter.

* Lib/ihooks.py
  (BasicModuleImporter.import_module/reload/unload): Convert the module
  name to a real string before working with it.
  (ModuleImporter.import_module/import_it/reload): Convert the module
  name to a real strings before working with it.

* Misc/NEWS
  Document the change.
2002-12-16 13:11:57 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 866964c3a3 Apply SF patch 652930: Add optional base argument to math.log(x[, base]). 2002-12-14 19:51:34 +00:00
Thomas Heller 1b3b49d132 Mention the bdist_wininst postinstall script. 2002-12-12 19:13:44 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 20b91358e5 News item for the change to turn _codecs into a builtin module. 2002-12-12 18:01:43 +00:00
Walter Dörwald d9a6ad3beb Enhance issubclass() and PyObject_IsSubclass() so that a tuple is
supported as the second argument. This has the same meaning as
for isinstance(), i.e. issubclass(X, (A, B)) is equivalent
to issubclass(X, A) or issubclass(X, B). Compared to isinstance(),
this patch does not search the tuple recursively for classes, i.e.
any entry in the tuple that is not a class, will result in a
TypeError.

This closes SF patch #649608.
2002-12-12 16:41:44 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger ef8b9c6616 Docs were added about a month ago 2002-12-09 08:56:06 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 3bf99e3e87 Add support for binary pickles to the shelve module. In some situations
this can result in significantly smaller files.  All classes as well as the
open function now accept an optional binary parameter, which defaults to
False for backward compatibility.  Added a small test suite, updated the
libref documentation (including documenting the exported classes and fixing
a few other nits) and added a note about the change to Misc/NEWS.
2002-12-08 18:36:24 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 79acb9edfa Patch #614055: Support OpenVMS. 2002-12-06 12:48:53 +00:00
Mark Hammond c3de008d62 _ssl.pyd added for Windows. 2002-12-03 06:16:08 +00:00
Just van Rossum 6a8c51837a The new imp.[gs]et_frozenmodules() will be utterly redundant if the
zipfile import stuff get in. I'll probably back it out again.
2002-12-01 21:43:13 +00:00
Just van Rossum 3eb166b49b Slightly improved version of patch #642578: "Expose PyImport_FrozenModules
in imp". This adds two functions to the imp module: get_frozenmodules()
and set_frozenmodules().
2002-11-29 20:47:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c0d3f4e445 Rephrase dict.fromkeys() news. 2002-11-27 13:10:40 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e33d3df030 SF Patch 643443. Added dict.fromkeys(iterable, value=None), a class
method for constructing new dictionaries from sequences of keys.
2002-11-27 07:29:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 4dd0f7ef7a Add a way to say "use any resource except A". For example, to run
allow the use of any resource except bsddb, give the option
"-uall,-bsddb".
2002-11-26 21:44:56 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 8c8aa5d666 Rename want_objects to wantobjects throughout, for consistency. 2002-11-26 21:39:48 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 96bc3b4d74 This is not part of my patch
[ 635933 ] make some type attrs writable

but should have been!

News about the above.
2002-11-26 14:48:23 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 50905d0ffb Fix typo 2002-11-26 12:31:09 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ffad633af9 Patch #518625: Return objects in Tkinter. 2002-11-26 09:28:05 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 1456fde6a0 Fixed bug
[#495695] webbrowser.py: selection of browser

* Lib/webbrowser.py
  Only include graphic browsers in _tryorder if DISPLAY is set. Also,
  included skipstone support, as suggested by Fred in the mentioned bug.

* Misc/NEWS
  Mention fix and skipstone inclusion.
2002-11-25 17:25:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 677bde2dd1 Patch #626485: Support Unicode normalization. 2002-11-23 22:08:15 +00:00
Tim Peters 84c7a3f328 Try linking the static Sleepycat lib into _bsddb.pyd. Hard to say
whether this is a correct thing to do:

+ There are linker warnings (see PCbuild\readme.txt).
+ test_bsddb passes, in both release and debug builds now.
+ test_bsddb3 has several failures, but it did before too.

Also made pythoncore a dependency of the _bsddb project, updated
build instructions, added database conversion XXX to NEWS, and fiddled
the Windows installer accordingly.
2002-11-23 18:48:06 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ef7fe2e813 Implement names for CJK unified ideographs. Add name to KeyError output.
Verify that the lookup for an existing name succeeds.
2002-11-23 18:01:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8b1e74b274 Touch up the news for dict() keyword args. 2002-11-23 16:28:12 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 7d41e29c58 Patch #626548: Support Hangul syllable names. 2002-11-23 12:22:32 +00:00
Just van Rossum a797d8150d Patch #642500 with slight modifications: allow keyword arguments in
dict() constructor. Example:
  >>> dict(a=1, b=2)
  {'a': 1, 'b': 2}
  >>>
2002-11-23 09:45:04 +00:00
Tim Peters 19cf4ee69d More bsddb-on-Windows fiddling:
+ News blurb, but as much XXX as news.
+ Updated installer (install the new bsddb package, and the Berkeley DLL;
  still don't know how to fold that into _bsddb.pyd).
+ Fleshed out build instructions.
+ Debug Python still blows up.
2002-11-23 03:49:08 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 0d1fdea8ef Patch #494845: Support string concatenation, detect non-string data,
add globbing support, find modules by name instead of by file.
2002-11-22 08:36:54 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 4581cfa326 Patch #486438: Make module argument to testmod optional. 2002-11-22 08:23:09 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f86e8ef33e Patch #550765: Add daemon_threads flag. 2002-11-22 08:08:44 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis d899605e30 Patch #633547: Support plural forms. Do TODOs in test suite. 2002-11-21 21:45:32 +00:00
Walter Dörwald a1a61f92a2 Fix typo. 2002-11-19 21:20:25 +00:00
Walter Dörwald f171540ab8 Change int() so that passing a string, unicode, float or long argument
that is outside the integer range no longer raises OverflowError, but
returns a long object instead.

This fixes SF bug http://www.python.org/sf/635115
2002-11-19 20:49:15 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ef546b347d Document PyBSDDB import. 2002-11-19 08:12:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1d2674051b Comment on PyNumber_Check(). 2002-11-18 16:27:16 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer 6c19476168 Note that PyNumber_Check() returns true for string and unicode objects. 2002-11-18 16:19:39 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e0373f8179 Fix minor nits
Trim excess whitespace off one line
2002-11-15 14:42:34 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 545c250970 Add Optik news. 2002-11-15 13:19:58 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 7994716b6b SF patch #520382: Expand shelve.py to have a full dictionary interface
and add a mixin to UserDict.py to make it easier to implement a full
dictionary interface.
2002-11-15 06:46:14 +00:00
Tim Peters 857fb4c136 Windows blurb about new Tcl/Tk release shipped on Windows. 2002-11-14 23:31:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fda0674f09 News about the logging module. 2002-11-13 16:29:18 +00:00
Tim Peters b9099c3df4 SF patch 637176: list.sort crasher
Armin Rigo's Draconian but effective fix for

SF bug 453523: list.sort crasher

slightly fiddled to catch more cases of list mutation.  The dreaded
internal "immutable list type" is gone!  OTOH, if you look at a list
*while* it's being sorted now, it will appear to be empty.  Better
than a core dump.
2002-11-12 22:08:10 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f24eb35d18 SF patch 629637: Add sample(population, k) method to the random module.
Used for random sampling without replacement.
2002-11-12 17:41:57 +00:00
Tim Peters 37dfb01766 Added a blurb about the change to sys.version under MSVC. 2002-11-11 19:51:33 +00:00
Thomas Heller 95cb7e4ae5 NEWS entry for the changed fdopen function. 2002-11-07 16:23:55 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer c523b04b0f Fixed sre bug "[#581080] Provoking infinite scanner loops".
This bug happened because: 1) the scanner_search and scanner_match methods
were not checking the buffer limits before increasing the current pointer;
and 2) SRE_SEARCH was using "if (ptr == end)" as a loop break, instead of
"if (ptr >= end)".

* Modules/_sre.c
  (SRE_SEARCH): Check for "ptr >= end" to break loops, so that we don't
  hang forever if a pointer passing the buffer limit is used.
  (scanner_search,scanner_match): Don't increment the current pointer
  if we're going to pass the buffer limit.

* Misc/NEWS
  Mention the fix.
2002-11-07 03:28:56 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis dc46175dc3 Add --check-tkinter to setup.py. Install IDLE. Fixes #634078. 2002-11-06 21:59:33 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer fbceb01ef0 Fixed bug "[#466200] ability to specify a 'verify' script".
* Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py
  (bdist_rpm.initialize_options): Included verify_script attribute.
  (bdist_rpm.finalize_package_data): Ensure that verify_script is a filename.
  (bdist_rpm._make_spec_file): Included verify_script in script_options
  tuple.

* Misc/NEWS
  Mention change.
2002-11-06 18:44:26 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 4dbf192f2b Add next() and __iter__() methods to StreamReader, StreamReaderWriter
and StreamRecoder.

This closes SF bug #634246.
2002-11-06 16:53:44 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 4e7be06a65 Fixed bug #470582, using a modified version of patch #527371,
from Greg Chapman.

* Modules/_sre.c
  (lastmark_restore): New function, implementing algorithm to restore
  a state to a given lastmark. In addition to the similar algorithm used
  in a few places of SRE_MATCH, restore lastindex when restoring lastmark.
  (SRE_MATCH): Replace lastmark inline restoring by lastmark_restore(),
  function. Also include it where missing. In SRE_OP_MARK, set lastindex
  only if i > lastmark.

* Lib/test/re_tests.py
* Lib/test/test_sre.py
  Included regression tests for the fixed bugs.

* Misc/NEWS
  Mention fixes.
2002-11-06 14:06:53 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 5d8d618c95 Add an entry for pdb's new `pp' command. 2002-11-05 22:41:33 +00:00
Tim Peters 9288f95cb5 Another round on SF patch 618135: gzip.py and files > 2G
The last round boosted "the limit" from 2GB to 4GB.  This round gets
rid of the 4GB limit.  For files > 4GB, gzip stores just the last 32
bits of the file size, and now we play along with that too.  Tested
by hand (on a 6+GB file) on Win2K.

Boosting from 2GB to 4GB was arguably enough "a bugfix".  Going beyond
that smells more like "new feature" to me.
2002-11-05 20:38:55 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer f8ca8364c9 Patch implementing bz2 module.
* setup.py
  (PyBuildExt.detect_modules): Included bz2 module detection.

* Modules/bz2module.c
* Lib/test/test_bz2.py
* Doc/lib/libbz2.tex
  Included files implementing, testing, and documenting bz2 module.

* Doc/Makefile.deps
* Doc/lib/lib.tex
  Include references to libbz2.tex.

* Misc/NEWS
  (Library): Mention distutils' c++ linkage patch, and new bz2 module.
2002-11-05 16:50:05 +00:00
Tim Peters fb0ea525d5 Related to SF patch 618135: gzip.py and files > 2G.
Fixed the signed/unsigned confusions when dealing with files >= 2GB.
4GB is still a hard limitation of the gzip file format, though.

Testing this was a bitch on Win98SE due to frequent system freezes.  It
didn't freeze while running gzip, it kept freezing while trying to *create*
a > 2GB test file!  This wasn't Python's doing.  I don't know of a
reasonable way to test this functionality in regrtest.py, so I'm not
checking in a test case (a test case would necessarily require creating
a 2GB+ file first, using gzip to zip it, using gzip to unzip it again,
and then compare before-and-after; so >4GB free space would be required,
and a loooong time; I did all this "by hand" once).

Bugfix candidate, I guess.
2002-11-04 19:50:11 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 1da9c57c74 Patch #630829: Don't block on IAC, process suboptions. 2002-11-04 09:56:00 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f0a4668e6f Add getpreferredencoding. Support @euro modifiers. Fixes #554676.
The @euro part is backported to 2.2.3.
2002-11-03 17:20:12 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 94a83fdc15 Fix SF #632624, test_resource failure on alpha/64bit
Return PyLongs instead ot PyInts.
On alphas, 9223372036854775807 became -1.
2002-11-02 17:46:24 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 74b51ac1e5 Patch #613256: Add nescape method to xml.sax.saxutils. 2002-10-26 14:50:45 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 080689c3f6 Document patch #512981. 2002-10-26 14:42:02 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a19bfe07e0 Correct stat_result float time stamps entry. 2002-10-16 18:28:36 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 77ac429eff Patch #572628: Optional timeouts for put and get. 2002-10-15 15:11:13 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis b24e3477dc Patch #621891: Add askopenfile{name}s. 2002-10-13 10:28:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 2ec362717b Patch #621205: Tkinter updates for tk8.4. 2002-10-13 10:22:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cafe0eefc3 Back out news about SF patch 479898 -- it's withdrawn. 2002-10-11 11:47:28 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 6ce1315bd3 Patch #612602: Streamline configure methods. 2002-10-10 14:36:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2b492b61c6 News about repr() and 8-bit characters, and setlocale() in the
readline module.
2002-10-09 21:40:48 +00:00
Mark Hammond 8696ebcd28 Add os.path.supports_unicode_filenames for all platforms,
sys.getwindowsversion() on Windows (new enahanced Tim-proof <wink>
version), and fix test_pep277.py in a few minor ways.
Including doc and NEWS entries.
2002-10-08 02:44:31 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis e9ce0b0fea Patch #448038: Add move(). Report errors from copytree as in shutil.Error. 2002-10-07 13:23:24 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a844f2d165 Document patch #594001. 2002-10-05 09:46:48 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 97047e219f News item about the new encoding normalization scheme. 2002-10-04 11:55:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ba60297a0a Mention droped support for Tcl/Tk 8.0 and 8.1. 2002-10-01 18:18:58 +00:00
Skip Montanaro a2a07bce89 fix a couple nits with my use of ReST 2002-09-30 15:23:01 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6b3db551be Disable building of the fpectl module -- it's dangerous or useless
except in the hands of experts.  Will backport to 2.2.2.
2002-09-25 15:02:44 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 4a38583456 reference the new NEWS.help file 2002-09-20 17:08:52 +00:00
Skip Montanaro e5d7f7f3af ReST-ification of the NEWS file. While the total number of changes are
fairly large, most are caused by reformatting section and subsection
headings.  The changes fall into the following categories:

    * reformatted section and subsection headers.

    * escaped isolated asterisks which would be interpreted as starting bold
      or italic text (e.g. "void (*)(PyObject \*)").

    * quoted stuff that looks like internal references but isn't
      (e.g. ``PyCmp_``).

    * changed visually balanced quotes to just use apostrophes
      (e.g. "'string'" instead of "`string'").

    * introduced and indenting multiline chunks of code.

    * created one table (search for "New codecs").
2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 923e4ef049 The SGI demos are gone. 2002-09-17 20:58:59 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 4cb2204851 migrate news about 2.1 and earlier releases from NEWS to HISTORY in
preparation for ReST-ification of NEWS.  (Also tests checkin ability
from my new Powerbook.  woohoo!)
2002-09-17 20:55:31 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 658009afdb Make BadPickleGet a class. Fixes #609164. 2002-09-16 17:26:24 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a32c994129 Always generate floats for stat_result; fix configure test. 2002-09-09 16:17:47 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 94717ed1d4 Patch #606592: Subsecond timestamps in stat_result. 2002-09-09 14:24:16 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 5ccaf8f129 Apply diff3.txt (plus additional documentation)
from SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/554192

This adds two new functions to mimetypes:
guess_all_extensions() which returns a list of all known
extensions for a mime type, and add_type() which adds one
mapping between a mime type and an extension.
2002-09-06 16:15:58 +00:00
Neal Norwitz b567392bbf SF bug # 585792, Invalid mmap crashes Python interpreter
Raise ValueError if user passes a size to mmap which is larger
than the file.
2002-09-05 21:48:07 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 7165af23e6 Added "that" to correct grammar, the rest is due to wrapping 2002-09-05 21:42:24 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 979c74b969 added a bit about the change to the thread ticker 2002-09-03 21:25:14 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 8e790e7007 expose PYTHON_API_VERSION macro as sys.api_version. Closes patch # 601456. 2002-09-03 13:25:17 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 3aeb632c31 PEP 293 implemention (from SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/432401) 2002-09-02 13:14:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 45ec02aed1 SF patch 576101, by Oren Tirosh: alternative implementation of
interning.  I modified Oren's patch significantly, but the basic idea
and most of the implementation is unchanged.  Interned strings created
with PyString_InternInPlace() are now mortal, and you must keep a
reference to the resulting string around; use the new function
PyString_InternImmortal() to create immortal interned strings.
2002-08-19 21:43:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d8ab35c933 News about sets. (There's no documentation; if someone wants to
convert the doc strings to LaTeX, be my guest.)
2002-08-19 16:25:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f2f2a2c130 Fix spelling errors and note the addition of operator.pow() 2002-08-19 14:25:03 +00:00
Tim Peters 012c0a393a Newly-relaxed limits on random.randrange(). Also added some info about
Karatsuba's better cache behavior with extremely large multiplicands.
2002-08-16 03:40:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f808b891d6 Mention warnings about defining None. 2002-08-16 03:38:10 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson dd32a91cc0 This is my patch
[ 587993 ] SET_LINENO killer

Remove SET_LINENO.  Tracing is now supported by inspecting co_lnotab.

Many sundry changes to document and adapt to this change.
2002-08-15 14:59:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum add88060c1 Add notes about universal newlines. 2002-08-15 14:01:14 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fdb8648327 Add news about Fred's change to Py_InitModule4(). 2002-08-14 21:20:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9be8946a3e Add news about FutureWarning and PEP 237 stage B0.
Tim predicts that we might as well call this CassandraWarning.
2002-08-14 16:11:30 +00:00
Tim Peters 6000464d08 Added new function k_lopsided_mul(), which is much more efficient than
k_mul() when inputs have vastly different sizes, and a little more
efficient when they're close to a factor of 2 out of whack.

I consider this done now, although I'll set up some more correctness
tests to run overnight.
2002-08-12 22:01:34 +00:00
Tim Peters d64c1def7c k_mul() and long_mul(): I'm confident that the Karatsuba algorithm is
correct now, so added some final comments, did some cleanup, and enabled
it for all long-int multiplies.  The KARAT envar no longer matters,
although I left some #if 0'ed code in there for my own use (temporary).
k_mul() is still much slower than x_mul() if the inputs have very
differenent sizes, and that still needs to be addressed.
2002-08-12 17:36:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e343878eec New news about __class__ assignment restrictions and speed-up of
new-style object creation/deallocation.

Moved all news about type/class unification and new-stype classes to a
separate section at the top.
2002-08-12 03:42:03 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 6c70fca8b1 Revert what looks like a typo from the last checkin 2002-08-12 03:33:32 +00:00
Tim Peters 5af4e6c739 Cautious introduction of a patch that started from
SF 560379:  Karatsuba multiplication.
Lots of things were changed from that.  This needs a lot more testing,
for correctness and speed, the latter especially when bit lengths are
unbalanced.  For now, the Karatsuba code gets invoked if and only if
envar KARAT exists.
2002-08-12 02:31:19 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg cc8764ca9d Add C API PyUnicode_FromOrdinal() which exposes unichr() at C level.
u'%c' will now raise a ValueError in case the argument is an
integer outside the valid range of Unicode code point ordinals.

Closes SF bug #593581.
2002-08-11 12:23:04 +00:00
Mark Hammond 8f3afc7cd3 Clarify that the interruptable popen fixes aren't used under Win9x. 2002-08-10 06:26:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bffb2efee0 Credit to Oren for the file-iterator patch. 2002-08-09 17:17:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum deb0936795 News about the tempfile rewrite. 2002-08-09 17:16:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d81a9834f7 News about Neil's fix to correctly invoke __rmul__. 2002-08-09 15:57:34 +00:00
Barry Warsaw d79f683772 Describe new "str1 in str2" behavior. 2002-08-06 17:01:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b57089cdf8 Files are now their own iterator. The xreadlines method and module
are obsolete.
2002-08-06 16:20:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 40813b1dbc Typo: "now" --> "the new" 2002-08-05 15:24:19 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 98ce7b7ef1 IDLE support for PEP 263. 2002-08-05 15:11:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum de392d3f3f Add a small description of PEP 263. 2002-08-05 14:17:20 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 00f1e3f5a5 Patch #534304: Implement phase 1 of PEP 263. 2002-08-04 17:29:52 +00:00
Andrew MacIntyre 161ad0e16b OS/2 EMX now supported 2002-08-04 07:25:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4a57c33dff Adding the heap queue algorithm, per discussion in python-dev last
week.
2002-08-02 18:05:20 +00:00
Tim Peters f47630ff54 A blurb about the sort implementation. 2002-08-01 02:34:51 +00:00
Thomas Heller 085358a3e2 New functions for extension writers on Windows:
PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErr(), PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename().

Similar to PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename() and
PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(), but they allow to specify
the exception type to raise. Available on Windows.

See SF patch #576458.
2002-07-29 14:27:41 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 0cec0ffc78 Patch #573770: Implement lchown. 2002-07-28 16:33:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2d5389c08f News about StopIteration as a "sink state". 2002-07-23 03:44:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 79f0a106e6 Add news about strptime and socket.setdefaulttimeout(). 2002-07-23 03:32:08 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 1389f3e059 Move DL_IMPORT/DL_EXPORT to Build section, I think this is the correct place 2002-07-22 13:21:10 +00:00
Mark Hammond a5083ec3b3 Add note about DL_IMPORT deprecation.
[ 583894 ] doc DL_IMPORT/DL_EXPORT changes
2002-07-22 12:53:16 +00:00
Mark Hammond c0e35158fb Add a blurb on the 3 Windows bugs I worked on over the last couple of days. 2002-07-16 01:32:30 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 58e2ff2e81 Mention new encoding. 2002-07-12 14:40:04 +00:00
Tim Peters 7c321a80f9 The Py_REF_DEBUG/COUNT_ALLOCS/Py_TRACE_REFS macro minefield: added
more trivial lexical helper macros so that uses of these guys expand
to nothing at all when they're not enabled.  This should help sub-
standard compilers that can't do a good job of optimizing away the
previous "(void)0" expressions.

Py_DECREF:  There's only one definition of this now.  Yay!  That
was that last one in the family defined multiple times in an #ifdef
maze.

Py_FatalError():  Changed the char* signature to const char*.

_Py_NegativeRefcount():  New helper function for the Py_REF_DEBUG
expansion of Py_DECREF.  Calling an external function cuts down on
the volume of generated code.  The previous inline expansion of abort()
didn't work as intended on Windows (the program often kept going, and
the error msg scrolled off the screen unseen).  _Py_NegativeRefcount
calls Py_FatalError instead, which captures our best knowledge of
how to abort effectively across platforms.
2002-07-09 02:57:01 +00:00
Tim Peters c6a3ff634a SF bug 578752: COUNT_ALLOCS vs heap types
Repair segfaults and infinite loops in COUNT_ALLOCS builds in the
presence of new-style (heap-allocated) classes/types.

Bugfix candidate.  I'll backport this to 2.2.  It's irrelevant in 2.1.
2002-07-08 22:11:52 +00:00
Tim Peters 943382c8e5 Removed WITH_CYCLE_GC #ifdef-ery. Holes:
+ I'm not sure what to do about configure.in.  Left it alone.

+ Ditto pyexpat.c.  Fred or Martin will know what to do.
2002-07-07 03:59:34 +00:00
Tim Peters 1de41bfbc0 Stop trying to cater to platforms with a broken HUGE_VAL definition. It
breaks other platforms (in this case, the hack for broken Cray systems in
turn caused failure on a Mac system broken in a different way).
2002-07-03 03:31:20 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 7d650ca83b Implement the encoding argument for toxml and toprettyxml.
Document toprettyxml.
2002-06-30 15:05:00 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5a04aec384 Fix SF bug 546434 -- buffer slice type inconsistent. 2002-06-25 00:25:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c7c36503eb Mention private vars in __slots__. 2002-06-21 01:29:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fe0ca4a0f5 Mention pymemcompat.h. 2002-06-18 21:20:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f925782dae Minor tweaks to existing items (radian/degree, and UTF-16 readers.. 2002-06-18 20:43:18 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 3430d70e03 Apply diff2.txt from SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/566999
This patch enhances Python/import.c/find_module() so
that unicode objects found in sys.path will be treated
as legal directory names (The current code ignores
anything that is not a str). The unicode name is
converted to str using Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding.
2002-06-17 10:43:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9562bcf3bc Add Oren Tirosh and news about his patch. 2002-06-14 21:31:18 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 57454e57f8 This introduces stricter library/header file checking for the Berkeley DB
library.  Since multiple versions can be installed simultaneously, it's
crucial that you only select libraries and header files which are compatible
with each other.  Version checking is done from highest version to lowest.
Building using version 1 of Berkeley DB is disabled by default because of
the hash file bugs people keep rediscovering.  It can be enabled by
uncommenting a few lines in setup.py.  Closes patch 553108.
2002-06-14 20:30:31 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 1f68fc7fa5 SF bug # 493951 string.{starts,ends}with vs slices
Handle negative indices similar to slices.
2002-06-14 00:50:42 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 606edc1d97 Patch #568235: Add posix.setpgid. 2002-06-13 21:09:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2e82e717e6 Changed the extended slice example to show that you can reverse a
string with a [::-1] slice.
2002-06-13 11:41:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c5fe5eb8d2 SF bug 567538: Generator can crash the interpreter (Finn Bock).
This was a simple typo.  Strange that the compiler didn't catch it!
Instead of WHY_CONTINUE, two tests used CONTINUE_LOOP, which isn't a
why_code at all, but an opcode; but even though 'why' is declared as
an enum, comparing it to an int is apparently not even worth a
warning -- not in gcc, and not in VC++. :-(

Will fix in 2.2 too.
2002-06-12 03:45:21 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 5efaf7eac8 This is my nearly two year old patch
[ 400998 ] experimental support for extended slicing on lists

somewhat spruced up and better tested than it was when I wrote it.

Includes docs & tests.  The whatsnew section needs expanding, and arrays
should support extended slices -- later.
2002-06-11 10:55:12 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f90ae20354 Patch #488073: AtheOS port. 2002-06-11 06:22:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9f7549bfc7 Record the latest fixes. 2002-06-10 21:39:42 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a3fb4f7816 Patch #505375: Make doc strings optional. 2002-06-09 13:33:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5033c8e309 Add timeout mode. Clarify gnu_getopt. 2002-06-07 12:40:52 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 446a25fa3c Patch 473512: add GNU style scanning as gnu_getopt. 2002-06-06 10:58:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9923ffe2c0 Address SF bug 519621: slots weren't traversed by GC.
While I was at it, I added a tp_clear handler and changed the
tp_dealloc handler to use the clear_slots helper for the tp_clear
handler.

Also tightened the rules for slot names: they must now be proper
identifiers (ignoring the dirty little fact that <ctype.h> is locale
sensitive).

Also set mp->flags = READONLY for the __weakref__ pseudo-slot.

Most of this is a 2.2 bugfix candidate; I'll apply it there myself.
2002-06-04 19:52:53 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson b0dc1a38a1 Fiddle wording. 2002-06-04 18:27:35 +00:00
Neal Norwitz b5b5a260ea Fix SF bug #557436, TclError is a str should be an Exception
Make Tkinter.TclError derive from Exception, it was a string.
2002-06-04 17:14:07 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 474458da48 Add constants BOM_UTF8, BOM_UTF16, BOM_UTF16_LE, BOM_UTF16_BE,
BOM_UTF32, BOM_UTF32_LE and BOM_UTF32_BE that represent the Byte
Order Mark in UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings for little and
big endian systems.

The old names BOM32_* and BOM64_* were off by a factor of 2.

This closes SF bug http://www.python.org/sf/555360
2002-06-04 15:16:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2e4e02620b Surprising fix for SF bug 563060: module can be used as base class.
Change the module constructor (module_init) to have the signature
__init__(name:str, doc=None); this prevents the call from type_new()
to succeed.  While we're at it, prevent repeated calling of
module_init for the same module from leaking the dict, changing the
semantics so that __dict__ is only initialized if NULL.

Also adding a unittest, test_module.py.

This is an incompatibility with 2.2, if anybody was instantiating the
module class before, their argument list was probably empty; so this
can't be backported to 2.2.x.
2002-06-04 05:58:34 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 32a7e7f6b6 Change name from string to basestring 2002-05-31 19:58:02 +00:00
Neal Norwitz d68f5171eb As discussed on python-dev, add a mechanism to indicate features
that are in the process of deprecation (PendingDeprecationWarning).
Docs could be improved.
2002-05-29 15:54:55 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 34f20eac98 This is patch
[ 559250 ] more POSIX signal stuff

Adds support (and docs and tests and autoconfery) for posix signal
mask handling -- sigpending, sigprocmask and sigsuspend.
2002-05-27 15:08:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cacfc07d08 - A new type object, 'string', is added. This is a common base type
for 'str' and 'unicode', and can be used instead of
  types.StringTypes, e.g. to test whether something is "a string":
  isinstance(x, string) is True for Unicode and 8-bit strings.  This
  is an abstract base class and cannot be instantiated directly.
2002-05-24 19:01:59 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 47f3e2cb6c Add a bit of news about the email package fixes. 2002-05-20 00:14:24 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 87f59eeb0a Noted SF patch 552452 adding degree/radian conversions to mathmodule.c. 2002-05-13 04:17:32 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9b1df1db68 Noted change in ftplib 1.68 closing SF patch 553277. 2002-05-12 06:07:21 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer c9abc1de6b Remove news about PyMalloc_*. Do we need to say anything about
pymalloc?
2002-05-08 14:14:41 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 01f94bda38 Patch #552433: Special-case tuples. Avoid sub-type checking for lists.
Avoid checks for negative indices and duplicate checks for support of
the sequence protocol.
2002-05-08 08:44:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 21b23b09a2 Fix typos 2002-05-07 20:58:03 +00:00
Tim Peters 46c04e140c random.gauss() uses a piece of hidden state used by nothing else,
and the .seed() and .whseed() methods failed to reset it.  In other
words, setting the seed didn't completely determine the sequence of
results produced by random.gauss().  It does now.  Programs repeatedly
mixing calls to a seed method with calls to gauss() may see different
results now.

Bugfix candidate (random.gauss() has always been broken in this way),
despite that it may change results.
2002-05-05 20:40:00 +00:00
Fred Drake d0ba636541 Added notes related to the removal of deprecated features of the xrange type. 2002-05-02 21:28:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 7d28b73ec1 Added note about using the documentation build tools under Cygwin. 2002-05-02 21:17:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 7f781c9aab Add Pickler.clear_memo() so the pickle and cPickle modules are more similar. 2002-05-01 20:33:53 +00:00
Tim Peters 81b9251d59 Mostly in SequenceMatcher.{__chain_b, find_longest_match}:
This now does a dynamic analysis of which elements are so frequently
repeated as to constitute noise.  The primary benefit is an enormous
speedup in find_longest_match, as the innermost loop can have factors
of 100s less potential matches to worry about, in cases where the
sequences have many duplicate elements.  In effect, this zooms in on
sequences of non-ubiquitous elements now.

While I like what I've seen of the effects so far, I still consider
this experimental.  Please give it a try!
2002-04-29 01:37:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 26dd830123 Clarify that the strip changes also apply to Unicode. 2002-04-26 20:11:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7dab2426ca - New builtin function enumerate(x), from PEP 279. Example:
enumerate("abc") is an iterator returning (0,"a"), (1,"b"), (2,"c").
  The argument can be an arbitrary iterable object.
2002-04-26 19:40:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 517c7d4fd3 PyNumber_CoerceEx: this took a shortcut (not doing anything) when the
left and right type were of the same type and not classic instances.

This shortcut is dangerous for proxy types, because it means that
coerce(Proxy(1), Proxy(2.1)) leaves Proxy(1) unchanged rather than
turning it into Proxy(1.0).

In an ever-so-slight change of semantics, I now only take the shortcut
when the left and right types are of the same type and don't have the
CHECKTYPES feature.  It so happens that classic instances have this
flag, so the shortcut is still skipped in this case (i.e. nothing
changes for classic instances).  Proxies also have this flag set
(otherwise implementing numeric operations on proxies would become
nightmarish) and this means that the shortcut is also skipped there,
as desired.  It so happens that int, long and float also have this
flag set; that means that e.g. coerce(1, 1) will now invoke
int_coerce().  This is fine: int_coerce() can deal with this, and I'm
not worried about the performance; int_coerce() is only invoked when
the user explicitly calls coerce(), which should be rarer than rare.
2002-04-26 02:49:14 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer 89e3ee0ccf If Py_OptimizeFlag is false then always evaluate assert conditions, don't
test __debug__ at runtime.  Closes SF patch #548833.
2002-04-26 01:58:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 256705bca7 SF patch 546244 by John Williams: add Text.dump() method. 2002-04-23 13:29:43 +00:00
Anthony Baxter 8388895fe4 SF patch [ 545523 ] patch for 514433 bsddb.dbopen (NULL)
closes SF #514433

can now pass 'None' as the filename for the bsddb.*open functions,
and you'll get an in-memory temporary store.

docs are ripped out of the bsddb dbopen man page. Fred may want to
clean them up.

Considering this for 2.2, but not 2.1.
2002-04-23 02:11:05 +00:00
Tim Peters 639295f0a5 Enable universal newlines on Windows. Note that NEWS needs more words! 2002-04-21 07:30:30 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 1ec71ea48e Added note about new distutils commands. 2002-04-17 20:33:40 +00:00
Tim Peters 08e7295ef8 Windows installer: disabled Wise's "delete in-use files" uninstall
option.  It was the cause of at least one way UNWISE.EXE could vanish
(install a python; uninstall it; install it again; reboot the machine;
abracadabra the uinstaller is gone).

Bugfix candidate, but I'll backport it myself.
2002-04-16 20:48:01 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 068325ef92 Apply the second version of SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/536241
Add a method zfill to str, unicode and UserString and change
Lib/string.py accordingly.

This activates the zfill version in unicodeobject.c that was
commented out and implements the same in stringobject.c. It also
adds the test for unicode support in Lib/string.py back in and
uses repr() instead() of str() (as it was before Lib/string.py 1.62)
2002-04-15 13:36:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 862fe3c52e Add news about deprecated complex ops. 2002-04-15 12:36:47 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 06a83e90aa Patch #543447: Add posix.mknod. 2002-04-14 10:19:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4904204158 News for strip methods. 2002-04-13 00:59:05 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer 9344b14828 Add news about memory managent APIs changing. 2002-04-12 23:00:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c69343b69a News about dict.pop(). 2002-04-12 19:22:48 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 688357e035 Patch #512005: getrusage() returns struct-like object. 2002-04-08 21:28:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0986d8250f - A type can now inherit its metatype from its base type. Previously,
when PyType_Ready() was called, if ob_type was found to be NULL, it
  was always set to &PyType_Type; now it is set to base->ob_type,
  where base is tp_base, defaulting to &PyObject_Type.

- PyType_Ready() accidentally did not inherit tp_is_gc; now it does.

Bugfix candidate.
2002-04-08 01:38:42 +00:00