cpython/Misc
Christian Heimes fdab48ea2f Merged revisions 60094-60123 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

*** NOTE ***
I haven't merged the files in Doc/c-api/. I got too many conflicts. Georg,
please split them manually.

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  r60095 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 21:12:04 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Bug 1277: make Maildir use the user-provided factory instead of hard-wiring MaildirMessage.
  2.5.2 bugfix candidate.
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  r60097 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 21:22:13 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

  #1663329: add os.closerange() to close a range of fds,
  ignoring errors, and use this in subprocess to speed up
  subprocess creation in close_fds mode. Patch by Mike Klaas.
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  r60099 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 21:40:24 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #1411695: clarify behavior of xml.sax.utils.[un]escape.
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  r60101 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 21:47:59 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 7 lines

  Patch #1019808 from Federico Schwindt: Return correct socket error when
  a default timeout has been set, by using getsockopt() to get the error
  condition (instead of trying another connect() call, which seems to be
  a Linuxism).

  2.5 bugfix candidate, assuming no one reports any problems with this change.
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  r60102 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-19 21:49:02 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  fix comment typos, use not arg instead of arg == "", add test coverage
  for inside of the final if needquotes: within subprocess.list2cmdline().
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  r60103 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 21:53:07 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #1509: fix sqlite3 docstrings and docs w.r.t. cursor.fetchXXX methods.
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  r60104 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-19 21:57:59 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 6 lines

  Fixes issue1336 - a race condition could occur when forking if the gc
  kicked in during the critical section.  solution: disable gc during
  that section.  Patch contributed by jpa and updated by me to cover the
  race condition still existing what therve from twistedmatrix pointed
  out (already seen and fixed in twisted's own subprocess code).
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  r60105 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-19 22:00:37 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  note about r60104
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  r60106 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 22:00:38 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Bug 1296: restore text describing OptionGroup
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  r60109 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 23:08:21 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Split the monstrous C API manual files in smaller parts.
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  r60110 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 23:14:27 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Missed one big file to split up.
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  r60111 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-19 23:23:56 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 12 lines

  Undo an unnecessary else: and indentation that r60104 added.

  try:
    ...
  except:
    ...
    raise
  else:
    ...

  the else: is unecessary due to the blind except: with a raise.
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  r60115 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-19 23:49:37 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Fix issue 1300: Quote command line arguments that contain a '|' character in
  subprocess.list2cmdline (windows).
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  r60116 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-20 00:10:52 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Fixes/Accepts Patch for issue1189216 - Work properly with archives
  that have file headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
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  r60119 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-20 01:00:38 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Patch #1048820 from Stefan Wehr: add insert-mode editing to Textbox.
  Fix an off-by-one error I noticed.
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  r60120 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-20 01:12:19 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Add an interactive test script for exercising curses
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  r60121 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-20 02:21:03 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 7 lines

  Fix zipfile decryption.  The check for validity only worked on one
  type of encrypted zip files.  Files using extended local headers
  needed to compare the check byte against different values.  (according
  to reading the infozip unzip crypt.c source code)

  Fixes issue1003.
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  r60122 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-20 02:26:04 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  note for r60121
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  r60123 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-20 02:32:00 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

  Document that zipfile decryption is insanely slow and fix a typo and
  blatant lie in a docstring (it is not useful for security regardless of
  how you spell it).
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2008-01-20 09:06:41 +00:00
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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 59595-59604 via svnmerge from 2007-12-28 14:08:13 +00:00
ACKS Merged revisions 60094-60123 via svnmerge from 2008-01-20 09:06:41 +00:00
AIX-NOTES
HISTORY Fixing the spelling of "writeable" to "writable", particularly PyBUF_WRITEABLE. 2007-09-17 17:55:36 +00:00
NEWS Fix Issue #1769: Now int('- 1') or int('+ 1') is not allowed 2008-01-19 19:12:01 +00:00
NEWS.help
PURIFY.README Merge current trunk into p3yk. This includes the PyNumber_Index API change, 2006-08-21 19:07:27 +00:00
Porting
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
README.coverity Merged revisions 46753-51188 via svnmerge from 2006-08-11 14:57:12 +00:00
README.klocwork Merge current trunk into p3yk. This includes the PyNumber_Index API change, 2006-08-21 19:07:27 +00:00
README.valgrind Merge p3yk branch with the trunk up to revision 45595. This breaks a fair 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +00:00
RFD
SpecialBuilds.txt Four months of trunk changes (including a few releases...) 2006-12-13 04:49:30 +00:00
build.sh Merged revisions 57125-57128 via svnmerge from 2007-08-17 04:19:37 +00:00
cheatsheet Kill execfile(), use exec() instead 2007-08-12 00:43:29 +00:00
developers.txt Copied doc for reload() from trunk's function.rst to imp.rst 2008-01-07 17:19:16 +00:00
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
pymemcompat.h
python-config.in Bug #1074: make python-config with Py3k. 2007-09-01 07:27:37 +00:00
python-mode.el Kill execfile(), use exec() instead 2007-08-12 00:43:29 +00:00
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
valgrind-python.supp Merged revisions 55817-55961 via svnmerge from 2007-06-13 18:07:49 +00:00
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