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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tim Peters 0963803dcb Added section for 2.3 final; moved IDLE news into it that I inserted in
a wrong place over the weekend.
2003-07-29 00:10:29 +00:00
Tim Peters c794a1cb2f Gave the main NEWS file its own IDLE section, and populated it with a
blurb about ZoneAlarm (etc) nags.
2003-07-27 20:23:49 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 0517c9aea6 Updated news for 2.3c2. 2003-07-25 01:09:40 +00:00
Tim Peters 6560a254ea Update version numbers and dates for 2.3c2 -- we won't be able to do this
during the day tomorrow, so doing it earlier than I'd like.
2003-07-24 00:15:46 +00:00
Jack Jansen e004041e96 Bugfix for #775892: added -mno-fused-madd to BASECFLAGS on MacOSX.
This makes test_coercion pass on Panther.

Also added a note to NEWS that pythonw works again (it was broken in rc1).
2003-07-23 22:17:28 +00:00
Thomas Heller 354e3d90d3 Change the zipimport implementation to accept files containing
arbitrary bytes before the actual zip compatible archive.  Zipfiles
containing comments at the end of the file are still not supported.

Add a testcase to test_zipimport, and update NEWS.

This closes sf #775637 and sf #669036.
2003-07-22 18:10:15 +00:00
Tim Peters 291f14e3d3 Windows fix: When PYTHONCASEOK is set, or for any other reason imports
are satisfied in a case-insensitive manner, the attempt to import (the
non-existent) fcntl gets satisfied by FCNTL.py instead, and the tempfile
module defines a Unix-specific _set_cloexec() function in that case.  As
a result, temp files can't be created then (blows up with an AttributeError
trying to reference fcntl.fcntl).  This just popped up in the spambayes
project, where there is no apparent workaround (which is why I'm pushing
this in now).
2003-07-22 02:50:01 +00:00
Fred Drake 01a4312a77 Added note about the pyexpat memory leak fix. 2003-07-21 17:17:10 +00:00
Tim Peters 6a627250d2 Merge 23c1-branch back into the head. Barry will send email about the
New Plan (releases to be made off the head, ongoing random 2.4 stuff
to be done on a short-lived branch, provided anyone is motivated enough
to create one).
2003-07-21 14:25:23 +00:00
Barry Warsaw d71a5511a4 Minor typo 2003-07-20 18:00:54 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton b434d49876 Oh, well. 2003-07-18 20:57:04 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 0ed18c2917 Forgot the release date. 2003-07-18 20:10:02 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 8aca417483 The rest of the news. 2003-07-17 19:19:05 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton ca9e21c9c6 Partial progress on NEWS. 2003-07-17 17:57:58 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer af4c5059d5 Remove code that tried to warn about shadowing builtin names after a
module had been compiled.  It gives too many spurious warnings.
2003-07-16 22:19:24 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 6c733d3711 Add mmap bugfix; typo and grammar fixes 2003-07-16 20:11:34 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 71adf7e9d8 Doctest now examines all docstrings by default. Previously, it would
skip over functions with private names (as indicated by the underscore
naming convention).  The old default created too much of a risk that
user tests were being skipped inadvertently.  Note, this change could
break code in the unlikely case that someone had intentionally put
failing tests in the docstrings of private functions.  The breakage
is easily fixable by specifying the old behavior when calling testmod()
or Tester().  The more likely case is that the silent failure was
unintended and that the user needed to be informed so the test could be
fixed.
2003-07-16 19:25:22 +00:00
Tim Peters 7a6c733c3b Make close() identical to __del__() for a dumbdbm database. Make
closing idempotent (it used to raise a nuisance exception on the 2nd
close attempt).

Bugfix candidate?  Probably, but arguable.
2003-07-13 17:21:10 +00:00
Tim Peters 0320464583 Repaired typos in comments. 2003-07-13 02:37:05 +00:00
Tim Peters d7472ec13a Fixed critical shutdown race in _Database._commit.
Related to SF patch 723231 (which pointed out the problem, but didn't
fix it, just shut up the warning msg -- which was pointing out a dead-
serious bug!).

Bugfix candidate.
2003-07-13 02:22:03 +00:00
Tim Peters e5e065b669 New function sys.getcheckinterval(), to complement setcheckinterval(). 2003-07-06 18:36:54 +00:00
Tim Peters 2e7e7df969 An Anonymous Coward on c.l.py posted a little program with bizarre
behavior, creating many threads very quickly.  A long debugging session
revealed that the Windows implementation of PyThread_start_new_thread()
was choked with "laziness" errors:

1. It checked MS _beginthread() for a failure return, but when that
   happened it returned heap trash as the function result, instead of
   an id of -1 (the proper error-return value).

2. It didn't consider that the Win32 CreateSemaphore() can fail.

3. When creating a great many threads very quickly, it's quite possible
   that any particular bootstrap call can take virtually any amount of
   time to return.  But the code waited for a maximum of 5 seconds, and
   didn't check to see whether the semaphore it was waiting for got
   signaled.  If it in fact timed out, the function could again return
   heap trash as the function result.  This is actually what confused
   the test program, as the heap trash usually turned out to be 0, and
   then multiple threads all got id 0 simultaneously, confusing the
   hell out of threading.py's _active dict (mapping id to thread
   object).  A variety of baffling behaviors followed from that.

WRT #1 and #2, error returns are checked now, and "thread.error: can't
start new thread" gets raised now if a new thread (or new semaphore)
can't be created.  WRT #3, we now wait for the semaphore without a
timeout.

Also removed useless local vrbls, folded long lines, and changed callobj
to a stack auto (it was going thru malloc/free instead, for no discernible
reason).

Bugfix candidate.
2003-07-04 04:40:45 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 3c0f2c91ad Fix SF bug #763637, 2.3b2 unpack tuple of wrong size in after_cancel
Tk 8.4 may return different values than 8.3.  This fix should handle
either version.
2003-07-01 21:12:47 +00:00
Tim Peters 59aba128a5 Make the classes exposed by threading.py new-style classes. This is
mostly for convenience and to aid debugging.
2003-07-01 20:01:55 +00:00
Neal Norwitz e7dfe21bed Fix SF bug #763023, difflib.py: ratio() zero division not caught
Backport candidate
2003-07-01 14:59:46 +00:00
Brett Cannon 20def8bb19 Make temporary change of using _strptime for time.strptime permanent.
Flesh out docs to better explain time.strptime (closes bug #697990).
2003-07-01 05:16:08 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 592c4cc460 SF bug 753592, websucker bug
Pass the proper variable when the user supplies a directory.
Will backport.
2003-07-01 04:14:28 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d693a81595 Fix SF 762891: "del p[key]" on proxy object raises SystemError() 2003-06-30 04:18:48 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 562a855da0 Merge branch updates back into the main trunk 2003-06-30 03:35:06 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton b752c27801 Add several news items for changes I made since b1. 2003-06-29 17:25:39 +00:00
Tim Peters 5e2ed818b7 Removed XXX comments about missing threading.py functions. 2003-06-29 17:12:30 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 883f22321a Added news about os.environ['PYTHONINSPECT'] = 'yes' 2003-06-29 17:10:11 +00:00
Tim Peters c98ccfd29f Typo repair. 2003-06-29 16:56:38 +00:00
Tim Peters 685e69739e Provide dummy (do-nothing) settrace() and setprofile() functions until
Jeremy can check in the real things.
2003-06-29 16:50:06 +00:00
Tim Peters 2740944361 Filled in release date; repaired grammar in a news item. 2003-06-29 16:18:08 +00:00
Tim Peters db3756dade Some nifty doctest extensions from Jim Fulton, currently used in Zope3.
I won't have time to write real docs, but spent a lot of time adding
comments to his code and fleshing out the exported functions' docstrings.
There's probably opportunity to consolidate how docstrings get extracted
too, and the new code for that is probably better than the old code for
that (which strained mightily to recover from 2.2's new class/type
gimmicks).
2003-06-29 05:30:48 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 643bcecad0 SF patch #760257: add socket.timeout exception 2003-06-29 03:29:42 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger c0fac96c29 SF patch #756996: Bare except in ZipFile.testzip()
(Contributed by Steven Taschuk)

Replaces a bare except that caused all errors to be mis-reported as
archive errors.

Added a related NEWS item.
2003-06-27 22:25:03 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 6f3eaa67e5 SF patch #761519: Fixes for bugs 760703 and 757821
SF bug #760703: SocketHandler and LogRecord don't work well together
SF bug #757821: logging module docs

Applied Vinay Sajip's patch with a few minor fixups and a NEWS item.

Patched __init__.py - added new function
makeLogRecord (for bug report 760703).

Patched handlers.py - updated some docstrings and
deleted some old commented-out code.

Patched test_logging.py to make use of makeLogRecord.

Patched liblogging.tex to fill documentation gaps (both
760703 and bug 757821).
2003-06-27 21:43:39 +00:00
Tim Peters 6ebe61fa80 A hack to ease compatibility with pre-2.3 Pythons: by default, doctest
now accepts "True" when a test expects "1", and similarly for "False"
versus "0".  This is un-doctest-like, but on balance makes it much
more pleasant to write doctests that pass under 2.2 and 2.3.  I expect
it to go away again, when 2.2 is forgotten.  In the meantime, there's
a new doctest module constant that can be passed to a new optional
argument, if you want to turn this behavior off.

Note that this substitution is very simple-minded:  the expected and
actual outputs have to consist of single tokens.  No attempt is made,
e.g., to accept [True, False] when a test expects [1, 0].  This is a
simple hack for simple tests, and I intend to keep it that way.
2003-06-27 20:48:05 +00:00
Tim Peters faa697a5c9 2.3b2 on Windows will ship with Tcl/Tk 8.4.3. Note: this still didn't
fix the hangs on Win98SE when starting IDLE via "python" from a DOS box,
but did appear to make them harder to provoke.  I closed that bug report
as being hopeless (and if someone wants to open it again, don't dare
assign it to me again <0.1 wink>).
2003-06-22 01:42:20 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 364ca40c2a SF Patch 569574 - enhancements to cgitb for plain text display 2003-06-17 12:58:31 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger d05abdec7b SF #754014: list.index() should accept optional start, end arguments
Also, modified UserList.index() to match and expanded the related tests.
2003-06-17 05:05:49 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton e0c3112ae7 Add item about new threading module functions. 2003-06-16 20:38:15 +00:00
Jack Jansen f5e23ff3c6 Added two mac items (pimp auto-update and OSA property access). 2003-06-16 13:53:40 +00:00
Tim Peters cda32b7d1d mimetools.choose_boundary() news. 2003-06-15 23:13:35 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis b8c084e82c Support keyword and topics help in cli(). Fixes #715782. 2003-06-14 09:03:46 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ba8f5ff76c Copy builtin functions as atomic. Fixes #746304. Will backport to 2.2. 2003-06-14 07:10:06 +00:00
Brett Cannon 4e64d78bbb dummy_thread modified to have interrupt_main and to behave appropriately when
called.

Added announcement in Misc/NEWS for thread.interrupt_main and mention of
dummy_thread's change.
2003-06-13 23:44:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ce74f8ae96 News about the new IDLE (is more needed?). News about SF patch
751998.
2003-06-13 20:37:23 +00:00