cpython/PCbuild8
Thomas Wouters 4d70c3d9dd Partially merge trunk into p3yk. The removal of Mac/Tools is confusing svn
merge in bad ways, so I'll have to merge that extra-carefully (probably manually.)

Merged revisions 46495-46605 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r46495 | tim.peters | 2006-05-28 03:52:38 +0200 (Sun, 28 May 2006) | 2 lines

  Added missing svn:eol-style property to text files.
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  r46497 | tim.peters | 2006-05-28 12:41:29 +0200 (Sun, 28 May 2006) | 3 lines

  PyErr_Display(), PyErr_WriteUnraisable():  Coverity found a cut-and-paste
  bug in both:  `className` was referenced before being checked for NULL.
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  r46499 | fredrik.lundh | 2006-05-28 14:06:46 +0200 (Sun, 28 May 2006) | 5 lines

  needforspeed: added Py_MEMCPY macro (currently tuned for Visual C only),
  and use it for string copy operations.  this gives a 20% speedup on some
  string benchmarks.
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  r46501 | michael.hudson | 2006-05-28 17:51:40 +0200 (Sun, 28 May 2006) | 26 lines

  Quality control, meet exceptions.c.

  Fix a number of problems with the need for speed code:

  One is doing this sort of thing:

      Py_DECREF(self->field);
      self->field = newval;
      Py_INCREF(self->field);

  without being very sure that self->field doesn't start with a
  value that has a __del__, because that almost certainly can lead
  to segfaults.

  As self->args is constrained to be an exact tuple we may as well
  exploit this fact consistently.  This leads to quite a lot of
  simplification (and, hey, probably better performance).

  Add some error checking in places lacking it.

  Fix some rather strange indentation in the Unicode code.

  Delete some trailing whitespace.

  More to come, I haven't fixed all the reference leaks yet...
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  r46502 | george.yoshida | 2006-05-28 18:39:09 +0200 (Sun, 28 May 2006) | 3 lines

  Patch #1080727: add "encoding" parameter to doctest.DocFileSuite
  Contributed by Bjorn Tillenius.
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  r46503 | martin.v.loewis | 2006-05-28 18:57:38 +0200 (Sun, 28 May 2006) | 4 lines

  Rest of patch #1490384: Commit icon source, remove
  claim that Erik von Blokland is the author of the
  installer picture.
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  r46504 | michael.hudson | 2006-05-28 19:40:29 +0200 (Sun, 28 May 2006) | 16 lines

  Quality control, meet exceptions.c, round two.

  Make some functions that should have been static static.

  Fix a bunch of refleaks by fixing the definition of
  MiddlingExtendsException.

  Remove all the __new__ implementations apart from
  BaseException_new.  Rewrite most code that needs it to cope with
  NULL fields (such code could get excercised anyway, the
  __new__-removal just makes it more likely).  This involved
  editing the code for WindowsError, which I can't test.

  This fixes all the refleaks in at least the start of a regrtest
  -R :: run.
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  r46505 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2006-05-28 19:46:58 +0200 (Sun, 28 May 2006) | 10 lines

  Initial version of systimes - a module to provide platform dependent
  performance measurements.

  The module is currently just a proof-of-concept implementation, but
  will integrated into pybench once it is stable enough.

  License: pybench license.
  Author: Marc-Andre Lemburg.
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  r46507 | armin.rigo | 2006-05-28 21:13:17 +0200 (Sun, 28 May 2006) | 15 lines

  ("Forward-port" of r46506)

  Remove various dependencies on dictionary order in the standard library
  tests, and one (clearly an oversight, potentially critical) in the
  standard library itself - base64.py.

  Remaining open issues:
   * test_extcall is an output test, messy to make robust
   * tarfile.py has a potential bug here, but I'm not familiar
     enough with this code.  Filed in as SF bug #1496501.
   * urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgr() returns a random result if there is more
     than one matching root path.  I'm asking python-dev for
     clarification...
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  r46508 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-28 22:11:45 +0200 (Sun, 28 May 2006) | 4 lines

  The empty string is a valid import path.
   (fixes #1496539)
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  r46509 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-28 22:23:12 +0200 (Sun, 28 May 2006) | 3 lines

  Patch #1496206: urllib2 PasswordMgr ./. default ports
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  r46510 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-28 22:57:09 +0200 (Sun, 28 May 2006) | 3 lines

  Fix refleaks in UnicodeError get and set methods.
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  r46511 | michael.hudson | 2006-05-28 23:19:03 +0200 (Sun, 28 May 2006) | 3 lines

  use the UnicodeError traversal and clearing functions in UnicodeError
  subclasses.
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  r46512 | thomas.wouters | 2006-05-28 23:32:12 +0200 (Sun, 28 May 2006) | 4 lines


  Make last patch valid C89 so Windows compilers can deal with it.
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  r46513 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-28 23:42:54 +0200 (Sun, 28 May 2006) | 3 lines

  Fix ref-antileak in _struct.c which eventually lead to deallocating None.
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  r46514 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-28 23:57:35 +0200 (Sun, 28 May 2006) | 4 lines

  Correct None refcount issue in Mac modules. (Are they
  still used?)
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  r46515 | armin.rigo | 2006-05-29 00:07:08 +0200 (Mon, 29 May 2006) | 3 lines

  A clearer error message when passing -R to regrtest.py with
  release builds of Python.
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  r46516 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-29 00:14:04 +0200 (Mon, 29 May 2006) | 3 lines

  Fix C function calling conventions in _sre module.
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  r46517 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-29 00:34:51 +0200 (Mon, 29 May 2006) | 3 lines

  Convert audioop over to METH_VARARGS.
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  r46518 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-29 00:38:57 +0200 (Mon, 29 May 2006) | 3 lines

  METH_NOARGS functions do get called with two args.
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  r46519 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-29 11:46:51 +0200 (Mon, 29 May 2006) | 4 lines

  Fix refleak in socketmodule. Replace bogus Py_BuildValue calls.
  Fix refleak in exceptions.
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  r46520 | nick.coghlan | 2006-05-29 14:43:05 +0200 (Mon, 29 May 2006) | 7 lines

  Apply modified version of Collin Winter's patch #1478788

  Renames functional extension module to _functools and adds a Python
  functools module so that utility functions like update_wrapper can be
  added easily.
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  r46522 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-29 15:53:16 +0200 (Mon, 29 May 2006) | 3 lines

  Convert fmmodule to METH_VARARGS.
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  r46523 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-29 16:13:21 +0200 (Mon, 29 May 2006) | 3 lines

  Fix #1494605.
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  r46524 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-29 16:28:05 +0200 (Mon, 29 May 2006) | 3 lines

  Handle PyMem_Malloc failure in pystrtod.c. Closes #1494671.
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  r46525 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-29 16:33:55 +0200 (Mon, 29 May 2006) | 3 lines

  Fix compiler warning.
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  r46526 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-29 16:39:00 +0200 (Mon, 29 May 2006) | 3 lines

  Fix #1494787 (pyclbr counts whitespace as superclass name)
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  r46527 | bob.ippolito | 2006-05-29 17:47:29 +0200 (Mon, 29 May 2006) | 1 line

  simplify the struct code a bit (no functional changes)
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  r46528 | armin.rigo | 2006-05-29 19:59:47 +0200 (Mon, 29 May 2006) | 2 lines

  Silence a warning.
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  r46529 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-29 21:39:45 +0200 (Mon, 29 May 2006) | 3 lines

  Correct some value converting strangenesses.
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  r46530 | nick.coghlan | 2006-05-29 22:27:44 +0200 (Mon, 29 May 2006) | 1 line

  When adding a module like functools, it helps to let SVN know about the file.
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  r46531 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-29 22:52:54 +0200 (Mon, 29 May 2006) | 4 lines

  Patches #1497027 and #972322: try HTTP digest auth first,
  and watch out for handler name collisions.
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  r46532 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-29 22:57:01 +0200 (Mon, 29 May 2006) | 3 lines

  Add News entry for last commit.
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  r46533 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-29 23:04:52 +0200 (Mon, 29 May 2006) | 4 lines

  Make use of METH_O and METH_NOARGS where possible.
  Use Py_UnpackTuple instead of PyArg_ParseTuple where possible.
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  r46534 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-29 23:58:42 +0200 (Mon, 29 May 2006) | 3 lines

  Convert more modules to METH_VARARGS.
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  r46535 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-30 00:00:30 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 3 lines

  Whoops.
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  r46536 | fredrik.lundh | 2006-05-30 00:42:07 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 4 lines

  fixed "abc".count("", 100) == -96 error (hopefully, nobody's relying on
  the current behaviour ;-)
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  r46537 | bob.ippolito | 2006-05-30 00:55:48 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 1 line

  struct: modulo math plus warning on all endian-explicit formats for compatibility with older struct usage (ugly)
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  r46539 | bob.ippolito | 2006-05-30 02:26:01 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 1 line

  Add a length check to aifc to ensure it doesn't write a bogus file
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  r46540 | tim.peters | 2006-05-30 04:25:25 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 10 lines

  deprecated_err():  Stop bizarre warning messages when the tests
  are run in the order:

      test_genexps (or any other doctest-based test)
      test_struct
      test_doctest

  The `warnings` module needs an advertised way to save/restore
  its internal filter list.
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  r46541 | tim.peters | 2006-05-30 04:26:46 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 2 lines

  Whitespace normalization.
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  r46542 | tim.peters | 2006-05-30 04:30:30 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 2 lines

  Set a binary svn:mime-type property on this UTF-8 encoded file.
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  r46543 | neal.norwitz | 2006-05-30 05:18:50 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 1 line

  Simplify further by using AddStringConstant
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  r46544 | tim.peters | 2006-05-30 06:16:25 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 6 lines

  Convert relevant dict internals to Py_ssize_t.

  I don't have a box with nearly enough RAM, or an OS,
  that could get close to tickling this, though (requires
  a dict w/ at least 2**31 entries).
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  r46545 | neal.norwitz | 2006-05-30 06:19:21 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 1 line

  Remove stray | in comment
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  r46546 | neal.norwitz | 2006-05-30 06:25:05 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 1 line

  Use Py_SAFE_DOWNCAST for safety.  Fix format strings.  Remove 2 more stray | in comment
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  r46547 | neal.norwitz | 2006-05-30 06:43:23 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 1 line

  No DOWNCAST is required since sizeof(Py_ssize_t) >= sizeof(int) and Py_ReprEntr returns an int
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  r46548 | tim.peters | 2006-05-30 07:04:59 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 3 lines

  dict_print():  Explicitly narrow the return value
  from a (possibly) wider variable.
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  r46549 | tim.peters | 2006-05-30 07:23:59 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 5 lines

  dict_print():  So that Neal & I don't spend the rest of
  our lives taking turns rewriting code that works ;-),
  get rid of casting illusions by declaring a new variable
  with the obvious type.
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  r46550 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-30 09:04:55 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 3 lines

  Restore exception pickle support. #1497319.
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  r46551 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-30 09:13:29 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 3 lines

  Add a test case for exception pickling. args is never NULL.
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  r46552 | neal.norwitz | 2006-05-30 09:21:10 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 1 line

  Don't fail if the (sub)pkgname already exist.
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  r46553 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-30 09:34:45 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 3 lines

  Disallow keyword args for exceptions.
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  r46554 | neal.norwitz | 2006-05-30 09:36:54 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 5 lines

  I'm impatient.  I think this will fix a few more problems with the buildbots.
  I'm not sure this is the best approach, but I can't think of anything better.
  If this creates problems, feel free to revert, but I think it's safe and
  should make things a little better.
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  r46555 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-30 10:17:00 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 4 lines

  Do the check for no keyword arguments in __init__ so that
  subclasses of Exception can be supplied keyword args
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  r46556 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-30 10:47:19 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 3 lines

  Convert test_exceptions to unittest.
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  r46557 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-05-30 14:52:01 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 1 line

  Add SoC name, and reorganize this section a bit
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  r46559 | tim.peters | 2006-05-30 17:53:34 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 11 lines

  PyLong_FromString():  Continued fraction analysis (explained in
  a new comment) suggests there are almost certainly large input
  integers in all non-binary input bases for which one Python digit
  too few is initally allocated to hold the final result.  Instead
  of assert-failing when that happens, allocate more space.  Alas,
  I estimate it would take a few days to find a specific such case,
  so this isn't backed up by a new test (not to mention that such
  a case may take hours to run, since conversion time is quadratic
  in the number of digits, and preliminary attempts suggested that
  the smallest such inputs contain at least a million digits).
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  r46560 | fredrik.lundh | 2006-05-30 19:11:48 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 3 lines

  changed find/rfind to return -1 for matches outside the source string
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  r46561 | bob.ippolito | 2006-05-30 19:37:54 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 1 line

  Change wrapping terminology to overflow masking
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  r46562 | fredrik.lundh | 2006-05-30 19:39:58 +0200 (Tue, 30 May 2006) | 3 lines

  changed count to return 0 for slices outside the source string
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  r46568 | tim.peters | 2006-05-31 01:28:02 +0200 (Wed, 31 May 2006) | 2 lines

  Whitespace normalization.
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  r46569 | brett.cannon | 2006-05-31 04:19:54 +0200 (Wed, 31 May 2006) | 5 lines

  Clarify wording on default values for strptime(); defaults are used when better
  values cannot be inferred.

  Closes bug #1496315.
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  r46572 | neal.norwitz | 2006-05-31 09:43:27 +0200 (Wed, 31 May 2006) | 1 line

  Calculate smallest properly (it was off by one) and use proper ssize_t types for Win64
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  r46573 | neal.norwitz | 2006-05-31 10:01:08 +0200 (Wed, 31 May 2006) | 1 line

  Revert last checkin, it is better to do make distclean
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  r46574 | neal.norwitz | 2006-05-31 11:02:44 +0200 (Wed, 31 May 2006) | 3 lines

  On 64-bit platforms running test_struct after test_tarfile would fail
  since the deprecation warning wouldn't be raised.
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  r46575 | thomas.heller | 2006-05-31 13:37:58 +0200 (Wed, 31 May 2006) | 3 lines

  PyTuple_Pack is not available in Python 2.3, but ctypes must stay
  compatible with that.
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  r46576 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-05-31 15:18:56 +0200 (Wed, 31 May 2006) | 1 line

  'functional' module was renamed to 'functools'
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  r46577 | kristjan.jonsson | 2006-05-31 15:35:41 +0200 (Wed, 31 May 2006) | 1 line

  Fixup the PCBuild8 project directory.  exceptions.c have moved to Objects, and the functionalmodule.c has been replaced with _functoolsmodule.c.  Other minor changes to .vcproj files and .sln to fix compilation
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  r46578 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-05-31 16:08:48 +0200 (Wed, 31 May 2006) | 15 lines

  [Bug #1473048]
  SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer don't look at
  the path of the HTTP request at all; you can POST or
  GET from / or /RPC2 or /blahblahblah with the same results.
  Security scanners that look for /cgi-bin/phf will therefore report
  lots of vulnerabilities.

  Fix: add a .rpc_paths attribute to the SimpleXMLRPCServer class,
  and report a 404 error if the path isn't on the allowed list.

  Possibly-controversial aspect of this change: the default makes only
  '/' and '/RPC2' legal.  Maybe this will break people's applications
  (though I doubt it).  We could just set the default to an empty tuple,
  which would exactly match the current behaviour.
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  r46579 | andrew.kuchling | 2006-05-31 16:12:47 +0200 (Wed, 31 May 2006) | 1 line

  Mention SimpleXMLRPCServer change
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  r46580 | tim.peters | 2006-05-31 16:28:07 +0200 (Wed, 31 May 2006) | 2 lines

  Trimmed trailing whitespace.
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  r46581 | tim.peters | 2006-05-31 17:33:22 +0200 (Wed, 31 May 2006) | 4 lines

  _range_error():  Speed and simplify (there's no real need for
  loops here).  Assert that size_t is actually big enough, and
  that f->size is at least one.  Wrap a long line.
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  r46582 | tim.peters | 2006-05-31 17:34:37 +0200 (Wed, 31 May 2006) | 2 lines

  Repaired error in new comment.
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  r46584 | neal.norwitz | 2006-06-01 07:32:49 +0200 (Thu, 01 Jun 2006) | 4 lines

  Remove ; at end of macro.  There was a compiler recently that warned
  about extra semi-colons.  It may have been the HP C compiler.
  This file will trigger a bunch of those warnings now.
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  r46585 | georg.brandl | 2006-06-01 08:39:19 +0200 (Thu, 01 Jun 2006) | 3 lines

  Correctly unpickle 2.4 exceptions via __setstate__ (patch #1498571)
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  r46586 | georg.brandl | 2006-06-01 10:27:32 +0200 (Thu, 01 Jun 2006) | 3 lines

  Correctly allocate complex types with tp_alloc. (bug #1498638)
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  r46587 | georg.brandl | 2006-06-01 14:30:46 +0200 (Thu, 01 Jun 2006) | 2 lines

  Correctly dispatch Faults in loads (patch #1498627)
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  r46588 | georg.brandl | 2006-06-01 15:00:49 +0200 (Thu, 01 Jun 2006) | 3 lines

  Some code style tweaks, and remove apply.
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  r46589 | armin.rigo | 2006-06-01 15:19:12 +0200 (Thu, 01 Jun 2006) | 5 lines

  [ 1497053 ] Let dicts propagate the exceptions in user __eq__().

  [ 1456209 ] dictresize() vulnerability ( <- backport candidate ).
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  r46590 | tim.peters | 2006-06-01 15:41:46 +0200 (Thu, 01 Jun 2006) | 2 lines

  Whitespace normalization.
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  r46591 | tim.peters | 2006-06-01 15:49:23 +0200 (Thu, 01 Jun 2006) | 2 lines

  Record bugs 1275608 and 1456209 as being fixed.
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  r46592 | tim.peters | 2006-06-01 15:56:26 +0200 (Thu, 01 Jun 2006) | 5 lines

  Re-enable a new empty-string test added during the NFS sprint,
  but disabled then because str and unicode strings gave different
  results.  The implementations were repaired later during the
  sprint, but the new test remained disabled.
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  r46594 | tim.peters | 2006-06-01 17:50:44 +0200 (Thu, 01 Jun 2006) | 7 lines

  Armin committed his patch while I was reviewing it (I'm sure
  he didn't know this), so merged in some changes I made during
  review.  Nothing material apart from changing a new `mask` local
  from int to Py_ssize_t.  Mostly this is repairing comments that
  were made incorrect, and adding new comments.  Also a few
  minor code rewrites for clarity or helpful succinctness.
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  r46599 | neal.norwitz | 2006-06-02 06:45:53 +0200 (Fri, 02 Jun 2006) | 1 line

  Convert docstrings to comments so regrtest -v prints method names
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  r46600 | neal.norwitz | 2006-06-02 06:50:49 +0200 (Fri, 02 Jun 2006) | 2 lines

  Fix memory leak found by valgrind.
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  r46601 | neal.norwitz | 2006-06-02 06:54:52 +0200 (Fri, 02 Jun 2006) | 1 line

  More memory leaks from valgrind
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  r46602 | neal.norwitz | 2006-06-02 08:23:00 +0200 (Fri, 02 Jun 2006) | 11 lines

  Patch #1357836:

  Prevent an invalid memory read from test_coding in case the done flag is set.
  In that case, the loop isn't entered.  I wonder if rather than setting
  the done flag in the cases before the loop, if they should just exit early.

  This code looks like it should be refactored.

  Backport candidate (also the early break above if decoding_fgets fails)
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  r46603 | martin.blais | 2006-06-02 15:03:43 +0200 (Fri, 02 Jun 2006) | 1 line

  Fixed struct test to not use unittest.
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  r46605 | tim.peters | 2006-06-03 01:22:51 +0200 (Sat, 03 Jun 2006) | 10 lines

  pprint functions used to sort a dict (by key) if and only if
  the output required more than one line.  "Small" dicts got
  displayed in seemingly random order (the hash-induced order
  produced by dict.__repr__).  None of this was documented.
  Now pprint functions always sort dicts by key, and the docs
  promise it.

  This was proposed and agreed to during the PyCon 2006 core
  sprint -- I just didn't have time for it before now.
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readme.txt

Building Python using VC++ 8.0
-------------------------------------
This directory is used to build Python for Win32 platforms, e.g. Windows
95, 98 and NT.  It requires Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0
(a.k.a. Visual Studio 2005).
(For other Windows platforms and compilers, see ../PC/readme.txt.)

All you need to do is open the workspace "pcbuild.sln" in MSVC++, select
the Debug or Release setting (using "Solution Configuration" from
the "Standard" toolbar"), and build the projects.

The proper order to build subprojects:

1) pythoncore (this builds the main Python DLL and library files,
               python25.{dll, lib} in Release mode)
              NOTE:  in previous releases, this subproject was
              named after the release number, e.g. python20.

2) python (this builds the main Python executable,
           python.exe in Release mode)

3) the other subprojects, as desired or needed (note:  you probably don't
   want to build most of the other subprojects, unless you're building an
   entire Python distribution from scratch, or specifically making changes
   to the subsystems they implement, or are running a Python core buildbot
   test slave; see SUBPROJECTS below)

When using the Debug setting, the output files have a _d added to
their name:  python25_d.dll, python_d.exe, parser_d.pyd, and so on.

SUBPROJECTS
-----------
These subprojects should build out of the box.  Subprojects other than the
main ones (pythoncore, python, pythonw) generally build a DLL (renamed to
.pyd) from a specific module so that users don't have to load the code
supporting that module unless they import the module.

pythoncore
    .dll and .lib
pythoncore_pgo
	.dll and .lib, a variant of pythoncore that is optimized through a 
	Profile Guided Optimization (PGO), employing pybench as the profile
	case to optimize for. The results are produced as a python25.{dll,lib}
	in the subfolder 'pythoncore_pgo'. To use this instead of the 
	standard Python dll place this dll with the python.exe.
python
    .exe
pythonw
    pythonw.exe, a variant of python.exe that doesn't pop up a DOS box
_socket
    socketmodule.c
_testcapi
    tests of the Python C API, run via Lib/test/test_capi.py, and
    implemented by module Modules/_testcapimodule.c
pyexpat
    Python wrapper for accelerated XML parsing, which incorporates stable
    code from the Expat project:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/
select
    selectmodule.c
unicodedata
    large tables of Unicode data
winsound
    play sounds (typically .wav files) under Windows

The following subprojects will generally NOT build out of the box.  They
wrap code Python doesn't control, and you'll need to download the base
packages first and unpack them into siblings of PCbuilds's parent
directory; for example, if your PCbuild is  .......\dist\src\PCbuild\,
unpack into new subdirectories of dist\.

_tkinter
    Python wrapper for the Tk windowing system.  Requires building
    Tcl/Tk first.  Following are instructions for Tcl/Tk 8.4.12.

    Get source
    ----------
    In the dist directory, run
    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tcl8.4.12
    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tk8.4.12
    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tix-8.4.0

    Build Tcl first (done here w/ MSVC 7.1 on Windows XP)
    ---------------
    Use "Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003
         -> Visual Studio .NET Tools -> Visual Studio .NET 2003 Command Prompt"
    to get a shell window with the correct environment settings
    cd dist\tcl8.4.12\win
    nmake -f makefile.vc
    nmake -f makefile.vc INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk install

    XXX Should we compile with OPTS=threads?

    Optional:  run tests, via
        nmake -f makefile.vc test

        On WinXP Pro, wholly up to date as of 30-Aug-2004:
        all.tcl:        Total   10678   Passed  9969    Skipped 709     Failed  0
        Sourced 129 Test Files.

    Build Tk
    --------
    cd dist\tk8.4.12\win
    nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.12
    nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.12 INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk install

    XXX Should we compile with OPTS=threads?

    XXX Our installer copies a lot of stuff out of the Tcl/Tk install
    XXX directory.  Is all of that really needed for Python use of Tcl/Tk?

    Optional:  run tests, via
        nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.12 test

        On WinXP Pro, wholly up to date as of 30-Aug-2004:
        all.tcl:        Total   8420    Passed  6826    Skipped 1581    Failed  13
        Sourced 91 Test Files.
        Files with failing tests: canvImg.test scrollbar.test textWind.test winWm.test

   Built Tix
   ---------
   cd dist\tix-8.4.0\win
   nmake -f python.mak
   nmake -f python.mak install

bz2
    Python wrapper for the libbz2 compression library.  Homepage
        http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/
    Download the source from the python.org copy into the dist
    directory:

    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/bzip2-1.0.3

    A custom pre-link step in the bz2 project settings should manage to
    build bzip2-1.0.3\libbz2.lib by magic before bz2.pyd (or bz2_d.pyd) is
    linked in PCbuild\.
    However, the bz2 project is not smart enough to remove anything under
    bzip2-1.0.3\ when you do a clean, so if you want to rebuild bzip2.lib
    you need to clean up bzip2-1.0.3\ by hand.

    The build step shouldn't yield any warnings or errors, and should end
    by displaying 6 blocks each terminated with
        FC: no differences encountered

    All of this managed to build bzip2-1.0.3\libbz2.lib, which the Python
    project links in.


_bsddb
    To use the version of bsddb that Python is built with by default, invoke
    (in the dist directory)

     svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/db-4.4.20


    Then open a VS.NET 2003 shell, and invoke:

       devenv db-4.4.20\build_win32\Berkeley_DB.sln /build Release /project db_static

    and do that a second time for a Debug build too:

       devenv db-4.4.20\build_win32\Berkeley_DB.sln /build Debug /project db_static

    Alternatively, if you want to start with the original sources,
    go to Sleepycat's download page:
        http://www.sleepycat.com/downloads/releasehistorybdb.html

    and download version 4.4.20.

    With or without strong cryptography? You can choose either with or
    without strong cryptography, as per the instructions below.  By
    default, Python is built and distributed WITHOUT strong crypto.

    Unpack the sources; if you downloaded the non-crypto version, rename
    the directory from db-4.4.20.NC to db-4.4.20.

    Now apply any patches that apply to your version.

    Open
        dist\db-4.4.20\docs\index.html

    and follow the "Windows->Building Berkeley DB with Visual C++ .NET"
    instructions for building the Sleepycat
    software.  Note that Berkeley_DB.dsw is in the build_win32 subdirectory.
    Build the "db_static" project, for "Release" mode.

    To run extensive tests, pass "-u bsddb" to regrtest.py.  test_bsddb3.py
    is then enabled.  Running in verbose mode may be helpful.

    XXX The test_bsddb3 tests don't always pass, on Windows (according to
    XXX me) or on Linux (according to Barry).  (I had much better luck
    XXX on Win2K than on Win98SE.)  The common failure mode across platforms
    XXX is
    XXX     DBAgainError: (11, 'Resource temporarily unavailable -- unable
    XXX                         to join the environment')
    XXX
    XXX and it appears timing-dependent.  On Win2K I also saw this once:
    XXX
    XXX test02_SimpleLocks (bsddb.test.test_thread.HashSimpleThreaded) ...
    XXX Exception in thread reader 1:
    XXX Traceback (most recent call last):
    XXX File "C:\Code\python\lib\threading.py", line 411, in __bootstrap
    XXX    self.run()
    XXX File "C:\Code\python\lib\threading.py", line 399, in run
    XXX    apply(self.__target, self.__args, self.__kwargs)
    XXX File "C:\Code\python\lib\bsddb\test\test_thread.py", line 268, in
    XXX                  readerThread
    XXX    rec = c.next()
    XXX DBLockDeadlockError: (-30996, 'DB_LOCK_DEADLOCK: Locker killed
    XXX                                to resolve a deadlock')
    XXX
    XXX I'm told that DBLockDeadlockError is expected at times.  It
    XXX doesn't cause a test to fail when it happens (exceptions in
    XXX threads are invisible to unittest).

    Building for Win64:
    - open a VS.NET 2003 command prompt
    - run the SDK setenv.cmd script, passing /RETAIL and the target
      architecture (/SRV64 for Itanium, /X64 for AMD64)
    - build BerkeleyDB with the solution configuration matching the
      target ("Release IA64" for Itanium, "Release AMD64" for AMD64), e.g.
    devenv db-4.4.20\build_win32\Berkeley_DB.sln /build "Release AMD64" /project db_static /useenv

_sqlite3
    Python wrapper for SQLite library.
    
    Get the source code through
    
    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/sqlite-source-3.3.4
    
    To use the extension module in a Python build tree, copy sqlite3.dll into
    the PCbuild folder.

_ssl
    Python wrapper for the secure sockets library.

    Get the source code through

    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/openssl-0.9.8a

    Alternatively, get the latest version from http://www.openssl.org.
    You can (theoretically) use any version of OpenSSL you like - the
    build process will automatically select the latest version.

    You must also install ActivePerl from
        http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/
    as this is used by the OpenSSL build process.  Complain to them <wink>.

    The MSVC project simply invokes PCBuild/build_ssl.py to perform
    the build.  This Python script locates and builds your OpenSSL
    installation, then invokes a simple makefile to build the final .pyd.

    build_ssl.py attempts to catch the most common errors (such as not
    being able to find OpenSSL sources, or not being able to find a Perl
    that works with OpenSSL) and give a reasonable error message.
    If you have a problem that doesn't seem to be handled correctly
    (eg, you know you have ActivePerl but we can't find it), please take
    a peek at build_ssl.py and suggest patches.  Note that build_ssl.py
    should be able to be run directly from the command-line.

    build_ssl.py/MSVC isn't clever enough to clean OpenSSL - you must do
    this by hand.

Building for Itanium
--------------------

The project files support a ReleaseItanium configuration which creates
Win64/Itanium binaries. For this to work, you need to install the Platform
SDK, in particular the 64-bit support. This includes an Itanium compiler
(future releases of the SDK likely include an AMD64 compiler as well).
In addition, you need the Visual Studio plugin for external C compilers,
from http://sf.net/projects/vsextcomp. The plugin will wrap cl.exe, to
locate the proper target compiler, and convert compiler options
accordingly. The project files require atleast version 0.8.

Building for AMD64
------------------

The build process for the ReleaseAMD64 configuration is very similar
to the Itanium configuration; make sure you use the latest version of
vsextcomp.

Building Python Using the free MS Toolkit Compiler
--------------------------------------------------

The build process for Visual C++ can be used almost unchanged with the free MS
Toolkit Compiler. This provides a way of building Python using freely
available software.

Requirements

    To build Python, the following tools are required:

    * The Visual C++ Toolkit Compiler
        from http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/
    * A recent Platform SDK
        from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=484269e2-3b89-47e3-8eb7-1f2be6d7123a
    * The .NET 1.1 SDK
        from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9b3a2ca6-3647-4070-9f41-a333c6b9181d

    [Does anyone have better URLs for the last 2 of these?]

    The toolkit compiler is needed as it is an optimising compiler (the
    compiler supplied with the .NET SDK is a non-optimising version). The
    platform SDK is needed to provide the Windows header files and libraries
    (the Windows 2003 Server SP1 edition, typical install, is known to work -
    other configurations or versions are probably fine as well). The .NET 1.1
    SDK is needed because it contains a version of msvcrt.dll which links to
    the msvcr71.dll CRT. Note that the .NET 2.0 SDK is NOT acceptable, as it
    references msvcr80.dll.

    All of the above items should be installed as normal.

    If you intend to build the openssl (needed for the _ssl extension) you
    will need the C runtime sources installed as part of the platform SDK.

    In addition, you will need Nant, available from
    http://nant.sourceforge.net. The 0.85 release candidate 3 version is known
    to work. This is the latest released version at the time of writing. Later
    "nightly build" versions are known NOT to work - it is not clear at
    present whether future released versions will work.

Setting up the environment

    Start a platform SDK "build environment window" from the start menu. The
    "Windows XP 32-bit retail" version is known to work.

    Add the following directories to your PATH:
        * The toolkit compiler directory
        * The SDK "Win64" binaries directory
	* The Nant directory
    Add to your INCLUDE environment variable:
        * The toolkit compiler INCLUDE directory
    Add to your LIB environment variable:
        * The toolkit compiler LIB directory
	* The .NET SDK Visual Studio 2003 VC7\lib directory

    The following commands should set things up as you need them:

        rem Set these values according to where you installed the software
        set TOOLKIT=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003
        set SDK=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK
        set NET=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003
        set NANT=C:\Utils\Nant

        set PATH=%TOOLKIT%\bin;%PATH%;%SDK%\Bin\win64;%NANT%\bin
        set INCLUDE=%TOOLKIT%\include;%INCLUDE%
        set LIB=%TOOLKIT%\lib;%NET%\VC7\lib;%LIB%

    The "win64" directory from the SDK is added to supply executables such as
    "cvtres" and "lib", which are not available elsewhere. The versions in the
    "win64" directory are 32-bit programs, so they are fine to use here.

    That's it. To build Python (the core only, no binary extensions which
    depend on external libraries) you just need to issue the command

        nant -buildfile:python.build all

    from within the PCBuild directory.

Extension modules

    To build those extension modules which require external libraries
    (_tkinter, bz2, _bsddb, _sqlite3, _ssl) you can follow the instructions
    for the Visual Studio build above, with a few minor modifications. These
    instructions have only been tested using the sources in the Python
    subversion repository - building from original sources should work, but
    has not been tested.

    For each extension module you wish to build, you should remove the
    associated include line from the excludeprojects section of pc.build.

    The changes required are:

    _tkinter
        The tix makefile (tix-8.4.0\win\makefile.vc) must be modified to
	remove references to TOOLS32. The relevant lines should be changed to
	read:
            cc32 = cl.exe
            link32 = link.exe
            include32 = 
	The remainder of the build instructions will work as given.

    bz2
        No changes are needed

    _bsddb
        The file db.build should be copied from the Python PCBuild directory
	to the directory db-4.4.20\build_win32.

	The file db_static.vcproj in db-4.4.20\build_win32 should be edited to
	remove the string "$(SolutionDir)" - this occurs in 2 places, only
	relevant for 64-bit builds. (The edit is required as otherwise, nant
	wants to read the solution file, which is not in a suitable form).

	The bsddb library can then be build with the command
	    nant -buildfile:db.build all
	run from the db-4.4.20\build_win32 directory.

    _sqlite3
        No changes are needed. However, in order for the tests to succeed, a
	copy of sqlite3.dll must be downloaded, and placed alongside
	python.exe.

    _ssl
        The documented build process works as written. However, it needs a
	copy of the file setargv.obj, which is not supplied in the platform
	SDK. However, the sources are available (in the crt source code). To
	build setargv.obj, proceed as follows:

        Copy setargv.c, cruntime.h and internal.h from %SDK%\src\crt to a
	temporary directory.
	Compile using "cl /c /I. /MD /D_CRTBLD setargv.c"
	Copy the resulting setargv.obj to somewhere on your LIB environment
	(%SDK%\lib is a reasonable place).

	With setargv.obj in place, the standard build process should work
	fine.

YOUR OWN EXTENSION DLLs
-----------------------
If you want to create your own extension module DLL, there's an example
with easy-to-follow instructions in ../PC/example/; read the file
readme.txt there first.