Two interesting problems in nis_maplist(). First, it is possible that
clnt_create() will return NULL. This was being caught, but no Python
error was being set. I use clnt_spcreateerror() to generate the value
of the exception.
But why would clnt_create() fail? It's because no server was being
found. And why was this? It was because nis_maplist() tried only to
get the NIS master for the first map in the aliases list, which is
passwd.byname, and guess what? That's the one NIS map CNRI does *not*
export! So the yp_master() call was failing to return a valid
server. I now cycle through all the map aliases until I find a valid
master. If not, a different exception is set.
I'm not sure this is the completely correct way to do all this, but
short of rewriting the entire nismodule.c (to expose the proper API to
Python), it should do the trick.
careful about these.
* arraymodule.c: added 8 byte swap; added 'i' format character; added
reverse() method; rename read/write to fromfile/tofile.
* config.c: Set version to 0.9.9++.
* rotormodule.c (r_rand): declare k1..k5 as unsigned longs so the shifts
will have a well-defined effect independent of word size.
* bltinmodule.c: renamed bagof() to filter().
Added $(SYSDEF) to its build rule in Makefile.
* cgensupport.[ch], modsupport.[ch]: removed some old stuff. Also
changed files that still used it... And made several things static
that weren't but should have been... And other minor cleanups...
* listobject.[ch]: add external interfaces {set,get}listslice
* socketmodule.c: fix bugs in new send() argument parsing.
* sunaudiodevmodule.c: added flush() and close().
Barry Warsaw
Guido van Rossum