cpython/Misc
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  r61431 | vinay.sajip | 2008-03-16 22:35:58 +0100 (So, 16 Mär 2008) | 1 line

  Clarified documentation on use of shutdown().
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  r61433 | mark.summerfield | 2008-03-17 09:28:15 +0100 (Mo, 17 Mär 2008) | 5 lines

  Added a footnote to each pointing out that for XML output if an encoding
  string is given it should conform to the appropriate XML standards---for
  example, "UTF-8" is okay, but "UTF8" is not.
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  r61434 | eric.smith | 2008-03-17 12:01:01 +0100 (Mo, 17 Mär 2008) | 7 lines

  Issue 2264: empty float presentation type needs to have at least one digit past the decimal point.

  Added "Z" format_char to PyOS_ascii_formatd to support empty float presentation type.
  Renamed buf_size in PyOS_ascii_formatd to more accurately reflect it's meaning.
  Modified format.__float__ to use the new "Z" format as the default.
  Added test cases.
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  r61435 | eric.smith | 2008-03-17 13:14:29 +0100 (Mo, 17 Mär 2008) | 2 lines

  Reformated lines > 79 chars.
  Deleted unused macro ISXDIGIT.
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  r61436 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-03-17 15:40:53 +0100 (Mo, 17 Mär 2008) | 13 lines

  Allow Gnu gcc's to build python on OSX by removing -Wno-long-double,
  -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd from configure.
   * r22183 added -no-cpp-precomp, which
     http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-12/msg00368.html claims hasn't been
     needed since gcc-3.1.
   * r25607 added -Wno-long-double to avoid a warning in
     Include/objimpl.h (issue 525481). The long double is still there,
     but OSX 10.4's gcc no longer warns about it.
   * r33666 fixed issue 775892 on OSX 10.3 by adding -mno-fused-madd,
     which changed the sign of some float 0s. Tim Peters said it wasn't
     a real issue anyway, and it no longer causes test failures.
  Fixes issue #1779871.
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  r61439 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-03-17 17:31:57 +0100 (Mo, 17 Mär 2008) | 2 lines

  Add Trent Nelson.
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  r61444 | travis.oliphant | 2008-03-17 18:36:12 +0100 (Mo, 17 Mär 2008) | 1 line

  Add necessary headers to back-port new buffer protocol to Python 2.6
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  r61449 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-03-17 19:48:05 +0100 (Mo, 17 Mär 2008) | 8 lines

  Force zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 to return a signed integer on all platforms
  regardless of the native sizeof(long) used in the integer object.

  This somewhat odd behavior of returning a signed is maintained in 2.x for
  compatibility reasons of always returning an integer rather than a long object.

  Fixes Issue1202 for Python 2.6
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  r61450 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-17 20:02:45 +0100 (Mo, 17 Mär 2008) | 3 lines

  Use a buffer large enough to ensure we don't overrun, even if the value
  is outside the range we expect.
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  r61453 | steven.bethard | 2008-03-17 20:33:11 +0100 (Mo, 17 Mär 2008) | 1 line

  Document unicode.isnumeric() and unicode.isdecimal() (issue2326)
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  r61458 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-17 21:22:43 +0100 (Mo, 17 Mär 2008) | 5 lines

  Issue 2321: reduce memory usage (increase the memory that is returned
  to the system) by using pymalloc for the data of unicode objects.

  Will backport.
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  r61465 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-03-17 22:55:30 +0100 (Mo, 17 Mär 2008) | 2 lines

  Add David Wolever.
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  r61468 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-03-18 01:20:01 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 3 lines

  Fix the IOError message text when opening a file with an invalid filename.
  Error reported by Ilan Schnell.
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  r61471 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-18 02:00:07 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 2 lines

  Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to use unittest.
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  r61472 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-03-18 02:09:59 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix build on platforms that don't have intptr_t. Patch by Joseph Armbruster.
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  r61473 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-18 02:50:25 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 2 lines

  Convert test_dummy_threading and test_dbm to unittest.
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  r61474 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-18 02:58:56 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 2 lines

  Move test_extcall to doctest.
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  r61480 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-18 04:46:22 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 2 lines

  test_errno was a no-op test; now it actually tests things and uses unittest.
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  r61483 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-18 05:09:00 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 3 lines

  Remove our implementation of memmove() and strerror(); both are in the C89
  standard library.
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  r61484 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-18 05:16:06 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 2 lines

  The output directory for tests that compare against stdout is now gone!
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  r61488 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-03-18 05:29:35 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 2 lines

  Block the "socket.ssl() is deprecated" warning from test_socket_ssl.
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  r61495 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-03-18 05:56:06 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 4 lines

  Speed test_thread up from 51.328s to 0.081s by reducing its sleep times. We
  still sleep at all to make it likely that all threads are active at the same
  time.
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  r61496 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-03-18 06:12:41 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 4 lines

  Speed up test_dict by about 10x by only checking selected dict literal sizes,
  instead of every integer from 0 to 400. Exhaustive testing wastes time without
  providing enough more assurance that the code is correct.
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  r61498 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-18 06:20:29 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 1 line

  Try increasing the timeout to reduce the flakiness of this test.
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  r61503 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-18 06:43:04 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 2 lines

  Improve the error message for a test that failed on the S-390 Debian buildbot.
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  r61504 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-03-18 06:45:40 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 3 lines

  Add a -S/--slow flag to regrtest to have it print the 10 slowest tests with
  their times.
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  r61507 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-18 07:03:46 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 1 line

  Add some info to the failure messages
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  r61509 | trent.nelson | 2008-03-18 08:02:12 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 2286: bump up the stack size of the 64-bit debug python_d.exe to 2100000.  The default value of 200000 causes a stack overflow at 1965 iterations of r_object() in marshal.c, 35 iterations before the 2000 limit enforced by MAX_MARSHAL_STACK_DEPTH.
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  r61510 | trent.nelson | 2008-03-18 08:32:47 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 5 lines

  The behaviour of winsound.Beep() seems to differ between different versions of Windows when there's either:
      a) no sound card entirely
      b) legacy beep driver has been disabled
      c) the legacy beep driver has been uninstalled
  Sometimes RuntimeErrors are raised, sometimes they're not.  If _have_soundcard() returns False, don't expect winsound.Beep() to raise a RuntimeError, as this clearly isn't the case, as demonstrated by the various Win32 XP buildbots.
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  r61515 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-03-18 13:20:15 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 2 lines

  norwitz-amd64 (gentoo) has EREMOTEIO.
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  r61516 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-03-18 13:45:37 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 2 lines

  Add more Linux error codes.
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  r61517 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-03-18 14:05:03 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 2 lines

  Add WSA errors.
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  r61518 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-03-18 14:16:05 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 2 lines

  Note that the stderr output of the test is intentional.
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RPM Merge current trunk into p3yk. This includes the PyNumber_Index API change, 2006-08-21 19:07:27 +00:00
Vim Merged revisions 60383-60407 via svnmerge from 2008-01-29 12:18:50 +00:00
ACKS Patch from jbalogh fixes issue #2282 (misnamed seekable() method). 2008-03-17 20:35:15 +00:00
AIX-NOTES The fix to use . was incorporated 2003-06-08 02:25:17 +00:00
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NEWS - A new pickle protocol (protocol 3) is added with explicit support 2008-03-17 22:56:06 +00:00
NEWS.help Bug #1014775: update NEWS.help for changes in docutils. 2004-08-30 14:33:25 +00:00
PURIFY.README Merge current trunk into p3yk. This includes the PyNumber_Index API change, 2006-08-21 19:07:27 +00:00
Porting Patch #411138: Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774. 2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
README Remove support for BeOS 2007-08-17 12:57:41 +00:00
README.OpenBSD Add some notes about a recurring problem with OpenBSD 2006-01-09 07:29:03 +00:00
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RFD Initial revision 1994-01-26 10:20:16 +00:00
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find_recursionlimit.py Run 2to3's print fixer over some places that had been missed. 2007-08-30 18:39:28 +00:00
gdbinit Get gdb macros working with unicode and PyVarObject change 2007-08-27 02:49:29 +00:00
indent.pro Some new files... 1994-09-14 14:06:46 +00:00
pymemcompat.h Fix grammatically inept comment. 2002-08-22 13:36:11 +00:00
python-config.in Bug #1074: make python-config with Py3k. 2007-09-01 07:27:37 +00:00
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python.man Get rid of xreadlines() (methods). 2006-03-17 08:29:44 +00:00
setuid-prog.c Fixing the spelling of "writeable" to "writable", particularly PyBUF_WRITEABLE. 2007-09-17 17:55:36 +00:00
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vgrindefs Patch #1550800: make exec a function. 2006-09-06 06:51:57 +00:00

README

Python Misc subdirectory
========================

This directory contains files that wouldn't fit in elsewhere.  Some
documents are only of historic importance.

Files found here
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ACKS		Acknowledgements
AIX-NOTES	Notes for building Python on AIX
cheatsheet	Quick summary of Python by Ken Manheimer
find_recursionlimit.py  Script to find a value for sys.maxrecursionlimit
gdbinit		Handy stuff to put in your .gdbinit file, if you use gdb
HISTORY		News from previous releases -- oldest last
HPUX-NOTES	Notes about dynamic loading under HP-UX
indent.pro	GNU indent profile approximating my C style
NEWS		News for this release (for some meaning of "this")
Porting		Mini-FAQ on porting to new platforms
PURIFY.README	Information for Purify users
pymemcompat.h	Memory interface compatibility file.
python.man	UNIX man page for the python interpreter
python-mode.el	Emacs mode for editing Python programs
README		The file you're reading now
README.valgrind	Information for Valgrind users, see valgrind-python.supp
RFD		Request For Discussion about a Python newsgroup
RPM		(Old) tools to build RPMs
SpecialBuilds.txt     Describes extra symbols you can set for debug builds
setuid-prog.c	C helper program for set-uid Python scripts
vgrindefs	Python configuration for vgrind (a generic pretty printer)
valgrind-python.supp	Valgrind suppression file, see README.valgrind