PEP 683 (immortal objects) revealed some ways in which the Python documentation has been unnecessarily coupled to the implementation details of reference counts. In the end users should focus on reference ownership, including taking references and releasing them, rather than on how many reference counts an object has.
This change updates the documentation to reflect that perspective. It also updates the docs relative to immortal objects in a handful of places.
Declare the following functions as macros, since they are actually
macros. It avoids a warning on "TYPE" or "macro" argument.
* PyMem_New()
* PyMem_Resize()
* PyModule_AddIntMacro()
* PyModule_AddStringMacro()
* PyObject_GC_New()
* PyObject_GC_NewVar()
* PyObject_New()
* PyObject_NewVar()
Add C standard C types to nitpick_ignore in Doc/conf.py:
* int64_t
* uint64_t
* uintptr_t
No longer ignore non existing "__int" type in nitpick_ignore.
Update Doc/tools/.nitignore
* Use new-style index directive ('module') - C API
* Use new-style index directive ('module') - Library
* Use new-style index directive ('module') - Reference
* Use new-style index directive ('module') - Tutorial
* Uncomment module removal in pairindextypes
* Use new-style index directive ('module') - C API
* Use new-style index directive ('module') - Library
* Use new-style index directive ('module') - Reference
* Make sure that the current exception is always normalized.
* Remove redundant type and traceback fields for the current exception.
* Add new API functions: PyErr_GetRaisedException, PyErr_SetRaisedException
* Add new API functions: PyException_GetArgs, PyException_SetArgs
* Remove redundant footnote ref: the footnote has been removed
* Fix footnote ref to match footnote
* Convert footnotes into reST footnotes: will error if missing
* C API docs: move PyErr_SetImportErrorSubclass docs
It was in the section about warnings, but it makes more sense to
put it with PyErr_SetImportError.
* C API docs: document closeit argument to PyRun_AnyFileExFlags
It was already documented for PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags.
* textual fixes to unicode docs
* Move paragraph about tp_dealloc into tp_dealloc section
* __aiter__ returns an async iterator, not an awaitable
Enhance the documentation of the Python startup, filesystem encoding
and error handling, locale encoding. Add a new "Python UTF-8 Mode"
section.
* Add "locale encoding" and "filesystem encoding and error handler"
to the glossary
* Remove documentation from Include/cpython/initconfig.h: move it to
Doc/c-api/init_config.rst.
* Doc/c-api/init_config.rst:
* Document command line options and environment variables
* Document default values.
* Add a new "Python UTF-8 Mode" section in Doc/library/os.rst.
* Add warnings to Py_DecodeLocale() and Py_EncodeLocale() docs.
* Document how Python selects the filesystem encoding and error
handler at a single place: PyConfig.filesystem_encoding and
PyConfig.filesystem_errors.
* PyConfig: move orig_argv member at the right place.
For example, fix the following Sphinx 3 errors:
Doc/c-api/buffer.rst:102: WARNING: Error in declarator or parameters
Invalid C declaration: Expected identifier in nested name. [error at 5]
void \*obj
-----^
Doc/c-api/arg.rst:130: WARNING: Unparseable C cross-reference: 'PyObject*'
Invalid C declaration: Expected end of definition. [error at 8]
PyObject*
--------^
The modified documentation is compatible with Sphinx 2 and Sphinx 3.
Reflecting changes to the code, removed weakref.ReferenceError from weakref.rst and exceptions.rst.
Issue submitter provided evidence that the `weakref.ReferenceError` alias for `ReferenceError` was removed from the code in 2007. Working with @gvanrossum at PyCascades CPython sprint we looked at the code and confirmed that `weakref.ReferenceError` was no longer in `weakref.py`.
Based on that analysis I removed references `weakref.ReferenceError` from the two documents where it was still being referenced: `weakref.rst` and `exceptions.rst`.
https://bugs.python.org/issue38374
CC @encukou
I'm also adding Petr Viktorin as contributor for vectorcall in the "what's new" section.
https://bugs.python.org/issue36974
Automerge-Triggered-By: @encukou
Automerge-Triggered-By: @encukou
bpo-3605, bpo-38733: Optimize _PyErr_Occurred(): remove "tstate ==
NULL" test.
Py_FatalError() no longer calls PyErr_Occurred() if called without
holding the GIL. So PyErr_Occurred() no longer has to support
tstate==NULL case.
_Py_CheckFunctionResult(): use directly _PyErr_Occurred() to avoid
explicit "!= NULL" test.
Provide Py_EnterRecursiveCall() and Py_LeaveRecursiveCall() as
regular functions for the limited API. Previously, there were defined
as macros, but these macros didn't work with the limited API which
cannot access PyThreadState.recursion_depth field.
Remove _Py_CheckRecursionLimit from the stable ABI.
Add Include/cpython/ceval.h header file.
Alex Waygood
Petr Viktorin
Wei-Hsiang (Matt) Wang
Xie Yanbo
Serhiy Storchaka
bssyousefi
Skip Montanaro
Irit Katriel
Heinz-Alexander Fuetterer
Eric Snow
Victor Stinner
Erlend E. Aasland
Adam Turner
Hugo van Kemenade
Erlend E. Aasland
Mark Shannon
Jelle Zijlstra
Sunny Bean
Inada Naoki
Ikko Ashimine
Antoine Pitrou
Daniel Hahler
Roger Hurwitz
Jeroen Demeyer