In C++, it's an error to pass a string literal to a char* function
without a const_cast(). Rather than require every C++ extension
module to put a cast around string literals, fix the API to state the
const-ness.
I focused on parts of the API where people usually pass literals:
PyArg_ParseTuple() and friends, Py_BuildValue(), PyMethodDef, the type
slots, etc. Predictably, there were a large set of functions that
needed to be fixed as a result of these changes. The most pervasive
change was to make the keyword args list passed to
PyArg_ParseTupleAndKewords() to be a const char *kwlist[].
One cast was required as a result of the changes: A type object
mallocs the memory for its tp_doc slot and later frees it.
PyTypeObject says that tp_doc is const char *; but if the type was
created by type_new(), we know it is safe to cast to char *.
[ 526072 ] pickling os.stat results round II
structseq's constructors can now take "invisible" fields in a dict.
Gave the constructors better error messages.
their __reduce__ method puts these fields in a dict.
(this is all in aid of getting os.stat_result's to pickle portably)
Also fixes
[ 526039 ] devious code can crash structseqs
Thought needed about how much of this counts as a bugfix. Certainly
#526039 needs to be fixed.
Martin v. Löwis
Jeremy Hylton
Tim Peters
Neal Norwitz
Neil Schemenauer
Michael W. Hudson
Barry Warsaw
Guido van Rossum