Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
can't be triggered from Python code.
function can be called recursively.
This was discussed in issue1020188.
In python codebase, all occurrences of Py_[X]DECREF(xxx->yyy) are suspect,
except when they appear in tp_new or tp_dealloc functions, or when
the member cannot be of a user-defined class.
Note that tp_init is not safe.
I do have a (crashing) example for every changed line.
Is it worth adding them to the test suite?
Example:
class SpecialStr(str):
def __del__(self):
s.close()
import cStringIO
s = cStringIO.StringIO(SpecialStr("text"))
s.close() # Segfault
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 *.
truncate() left the stream position unchanged, which meant the
"truncated" data didn't go away:
>>> io.write('abc')
>>> io.truncate(0)
>>> io.write('xyz')
>>> io.getvalue()
'abcxyz'
Patch by Dima Dorfman.
The writelines() method now accepts any iterable argument and writes
the lines one at a time rather than using ''.join(lines) followed by
a single write. Results in considerable memory savings and makes
the method suitable for use with generator expressions.
Unicode objects are currently taken as binary data by the write()
method. This is not what Unicode users expect, nor what the
StringIO.py code does. Until somebody adds a way to specify binary or
text mode for cStringIO objects, change the format string to use "t#"
instead of "s#", so that it will request the "text buffer" version.
This will try the default encoding for Unicode objects.
This is *not* a 2.2 bugfix (since it *is* a semantic change).
The doc string for cStringIO suggested that str() of a StringIO object
was equivalent to getvalue(). This was never true, so repair the doc
string. (doctest would have helped here.)
Bug fix candidate for any past versions.
type.__module__ behavior.
This adds the module name and a dot in front of the type name in every
type object initializer, except for built-in types (and those that
already had this). Note that it touches lots of Mac modules -- I have
no way to test these but the changes look right. Apologies if they're
not. This also touches the weakref docs, which contains a sample type
object initializer. It also touches the mmap test output, because the
mmap type's repr is included in that output. It touches object.h to
put the correct description in a comment.
casts with a variable oself that has the proper type. A smart
compiler may put this thing into a register.
(I'm not sure what good this does except satisfy my desire to
understand this function; I got a report about an uninitialized read
from Insure++ about this function and it hurt my eyes to even look at
it. I gotta run away or I'll get tempted to reformat the entire
file...)
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