cpython/Misc
Guido van Rossum 7ad2d1eb8e Add __del__ callbacks. They are too useful to leave out.
XXX Remaining problems:

- The GC module doesn't know about these; I think it has its reasons
  to disallow calling __del__, but for now, __del__ on new-style
  objects is called when the GC module discards an object, for better
  or for worse.

- The code to call a __del__ handler is really ridiculously
  complicated, due to all the different debug #ifdefs.  I've copied
  this from the similar code in classobject.c, so I'm pretty sure I
  did it right, but it's not pretty. :-(

- No tests yet.
2001-10-29 22:11:00 +00:00
..
RPM Update a beopen.com e-mail 2001-08-13 15:14:13 +00:00
ACKS Fix two typos, one noted by Noah Spurrier in SF bug #475166, the 2001-10-26 03:38:46 +00:00
AIX-NOTES Rename Setup.in to Setup.dist, and assume that configure will create 2000-10-26 17:07:40 +00:00
BeOS-NOTES Completely revamped BeOS notes, by Donn Cave (SF patch 411834). 2001-04-10 21:51:29 +00:00
BeOS-setup.py This is for BeOS users who want to build all the modules. It's 2001-04-10 21:50:09 +00:00
HISTORY Added release dates (in some cases detemined by looking at the mtime 2000-09-04 17:24:24 +00:00
HPUX-NOTES Added note about libpython1.5.a. 1997-07-19 20:44:33 +00:00
NEWS Add __del__ callbacks. They are too useful to leave out. 2001-10-29 22:11:00 +00:00
PURIFY.README Updated for Python 1.5, including my experiences with Purify on 1997-10-07 15:50:58 +00:00
Porting Patch #411138: Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774. 2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
README Updated this README to reality. 2001-10-26 15:01:16 +00:00
RFD Initial revision 1994-01-26 10:20:16 +00:00
cheatsheet Update cheatsheet to 2.0 from Brunning/Gruet's quick reference 2001-08-06 17:43:49 +00:00
find_recursionlimit.py script that reports a fairly safe recursionlimit for a specific platform 2000-08-31 19:24:17 +00:00
gdbinit PyObject_Dump() -> _PyObject_Dump() 2001-01-24 04:18:13 +00:00
indent.pro Some new files... 1994-09-14 14:06:46 +00:00
python-mode.el (py-version): Hopefully fixed my XEmacs settings so this doesn't get 2001-07-06 20:27:29 +00:00
python.man SF patch #467455 : Enhanced environment variables, by Toby Dickenson. 2001-10-12 22:17:56 +00:00
setuid-prog.c correct bogus instructions 'ccoment out' -> 'uncomment' 1998-09-10 20:18:09 +00:00
unicode.txt Replace the text with a link to the PEP-ified version. 2001-06-27 17:14:04 +00:00
vgrindefs Add 'yield' as a keyword 2001-08-06 17:42:53 +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
----------------

ACKS		Acknowledgements
AIX-NOTES	Notes for building Python on AIX
BeOS-NOTES	Notes for building on BeOS
BeOS-setup.py	setup.py replacement for BeOS, see BeOS-NOTES
HISTORY		News from previous releases -- oldest last
HPUX-NOTES	Notes about dynamic loading under HP-UX
NEWS		News for this release
PURIFY.README	Information for Purify users
Porting		Mini-FAQ on porting to new platforms
README		The file you're reading now
RFD		Request For Discussion about a Python newsgroup
RPM		(Old) tools to build RPMs
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
indent.pro	GNU indent profile approximating my C style
python-mode.el	Emacs mode for editing Python programs
python.man	UNIX man page for the python interpreter
setuid-prog.c	C helper program for set-uid Python scripts
unicode.txt	Marc-Andre Lemburg's specification of the Unicode API
vgrindefs	Python configuration for vgrind (a generic pretty printer)