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What's New in Python 2.6
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:Author: A.M. Kuchling
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:Date: |today|
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.. % $Id: whatsnew26.tex 55963 2007-06-13 18:07:49Z guido.van.rossum $
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.. % Rules for maintenance:
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.. % * Anyone can add text to this document. Do not spend very much time
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.. % on the wording of your changes, because your text will probably
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.. % get rewritten to some degree.
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.. % * The maintainer will go through Misc/NEWS periodically and add
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.. % changes; it's therefore more important to add your changes to
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.. % Misc/NEWS than to this file.
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.. %
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.. % * This is not a complete list of every single change; completeness
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.. % is the purpose of Misc/NEWS. Some changes I consider too small
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.. % or esoteric to include. If such a change is added to the text,
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.. % I'll just remove it. (This is another reason you shouldn't spend
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.. % too much time on writing your addition.)
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.. %
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.. % * If you want to draw your new text to the attention of the
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.. % maintainer, add 'XXX' to the beginning of the paragraph or
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.. % section.
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.. %
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.. % * It's OK to just add a fragmentary note about a change. For
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.. % example: "XXX Describe the transmogrify() function added to the
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.. % socket module." The maintainer will research the change and
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.. % write the necessary text.
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.. %
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.. % * You can comment out your additions if you like, but it's not
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.. % necessary (especially when a final release is some months away).
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.. %
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.. % * Credit the author of a patch or bugfix. Just the name is
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.. % sufficient; the e-mail address isn't necessary.
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.. %
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.. % * It's helpful to add the bug/patch number as a comment:
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.. % % Patch 12345
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.. % XXX Describe the transmogrify() function added to the socket
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.. % module.
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.. % (Contributed by P.Y. Developer.)
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.. %
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.. % This saves the maintainer the effort of going through the SVN log
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.. % when researching a change.
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This article explains the new features in Python 2.6. No release date for
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Python 2.6 has been set; it will probably be released in mid 2008.
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This article doesn't attempt to provide a complete specification of the new
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features, but instead provides a convenient overview. For full details, you
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should refer to the documentation for Python 2.6. If you want to understand the
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complete implementation and design rationale, refer to the PEP for a particular
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new feature.
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.. % Compare with previous release in 2 - 3 sentences here.
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.. % add hyperlink when the documentation becomes available online.
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.. % ======================================================================
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.. % Large, PEP-level features and changes should be described here.
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.. % Should there be a new section here for 3k migration?
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.. % Or perhaps a more general section describing module changes/deprecation?
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.. % sets module deprecated
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.. % ======================================================================
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Other Language Changes
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======================
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Here are all of the changes that Python 2.6 makes to the core Python language.
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Merged revisions 57778-58052 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r57820 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 08:59:27 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Document new shorthand notation for index entries.
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r57827 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 10:47:51 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Fix subitem markup.
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r57833 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-08-31 12:01:07 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
Mark registry components as 64-bit on Win64.
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r57854 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:23 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
deprecate use of FakeSocket
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r57855 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:46 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
remove mentions of socket.ssl in comments
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r57856 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:03:31 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
remove use of non-existent SSLFakeSocket in apparently untested code
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r57859 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-01 08:36:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
Will backport to 2.5.
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r57865 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 09:51:24 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix RST link (backport from Py3k).
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r57876 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 17:49:49 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Document sets' ">" and "<" operations (backport from py3k).
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r57878 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-01 19:40:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Added a note and examples to explain that re.split does not split on an
empty pattern match. (issue 852532).
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r57879 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:18:09 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix wrong function names.
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r57880 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:34:05 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix typo.
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r57889 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:31:59 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Markup fix
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r57892 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:43:36 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Add various items
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r57895 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:17:58 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Wording change
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r57896 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:18:31 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Add more items
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r57904 | ronald.oussoren | 2007-09-02 11:46:07 +0200 (Sun, 02 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Macosx: this patch ensures that the value of MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET used
by the Makefile is also used at configure-time.
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r57925 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-03 09:16:46 +0200 (Mon, 03 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix #883466: don't allow Unicode as arguments to quopri and uu codecs.
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r57936 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 01:33:04 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.6.x.
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r57954 | mark.summerfield | 2007-09-04 10:16:15 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Added cross-references plus a note about dict & list shallow copying.
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r57958 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 11:51:57 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Document that we rely on the OS to release the crypto
context. Fixes #1626801.
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r57960 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 15:13:14 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
get_completion_type to readline.
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r57961 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 16:19:28 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original
source encoding. Will backport to 2.5.
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r57972 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 20:17:36 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script pybuildbot.identify
to include some information about the build environment.
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r57973 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 21:05:38 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Remove whitespace at eol.
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r57975 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 22:46:02 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
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r57980 | bill.janssen | 2007-09-05 02:46:27 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 1 line
SSL certificate distinguished names should be represented by tuples
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r57985 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 08:39:17 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #1105: Explain that one needs to build the solution
to get dependencies right.
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r57987 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-05 09:51:21 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference.
There are probably a number of places that are open to attacks
such as the following one, in bltinmodule.c:min_max().
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r57991 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 13:47:34 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to
a readonly source.
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r57993 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-05 15:36:44 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Backport from Py3k: Bug #1684991: explain lookup semantics for __special__ methods (new-style classes only).
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r58004 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 10:30:51 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Patch #1733973 by peaker:
ptrace_enter_call() assumes no exception is currently set.
This assumption is broken when throwing into a generator.
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r58006 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 11:30:38 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference.
This attack is against ceval.c:IMPORT_NAME, which calls an
object (__builtin__.__import__) without holding a reference to it.
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r58013 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-06 16:49:56 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Backport from 3k: #1116: fix reference to old filename.
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r58021 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-06 22:26:20 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Fix typo: c_float represents to C float type.
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r58022 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-07 00:29:06 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
If this is correct for py3k branch and it's already in the release25-maint
branch, seems like it ought to be on the trunk as well.
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r58023 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-09-07 00:59:59 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Apply the fix from Issue1112 to make this test more robust and keep
windows happy.
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r58031 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 05:17:50 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Make uuid1 and uuid4 tests conditional on whether ctypes can be imported;
implementation of either function depends on ctypes but uuid as a whole does
not.
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r58032 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 06:18:30 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines
Fix a crasher where Python code managed to infinitely recurse in C code without
ever going back out to Python code in PyObject_Call(). Required introducing a
static RuntimeError instance so that normalizing an exception there is no
reliance on a recursive call that would put the exception system over the
recursion check itself.
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r58034 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 08:32:17 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Add a 'c_longdouble' type to the ctypes module.
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r58035 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:30:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Remove unneeded #include.
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r58036 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:33:24 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines
Backport from py3k branch:
Add a workaround for a strange bug on win64, when _ctypes is compiled
with the SDK compiler. This should fix the failing
Lib\ctypes\test\test_as_parameter.py test.
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r58037 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-07 16:14:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix a wrong indentation for sublists.
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r58043 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-07 22:10:49 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
#1095: ln -f doesn't work portably, fix in Makefile.
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r58049 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-08 02:34:17 +0200 (Sat, 08 Sep 2007) | 1 line
be explicit about the actual location of the missing file
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2007-09-08 14:39:28 -03:00
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* The :func:`complex` constructor now accepts strings containing
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parenthesized complex numbers, letting ``complex(repr(cmplx))``
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will now round-trip values. For example, ``complex('(3+4j)')``
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now returns the value (3+4j).
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.. % Patch 1491866
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* The string :meth:`translate` method now accepts ``None`` as the
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translation table parameter, which is treated as the identity
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transformation. This makes it easier to carry out operations
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that only delete characters. (Contributed by Bengt Richter.)
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.. % Patch 1193128
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2007-08-15 11:28:22 -03:00
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* An obscure change: when you use the the :func:`locals` function inside a
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:keyword:`class` statement, the resulting dictionary no longer returns free
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variables. (Free variables, in this case, are variables referred to in the
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:keyword:`class` statement that aren't attributes of the class.)
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.. % ======================================================================
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Optimizations
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* Internally, a bit is now set in type objects to indicate some of the standard
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built-in types. This speeds up checking if an object is a subclass of one of
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these types. (Contributed by Neal Norwitz.)
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The net result of the 2.6 optimizations is that Python 2.6 runs the pystone
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benchmark around XX% faster than Python 2.5.
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.. % ======================================================================
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New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
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As usual, Python's standard library received a number of enhancements and bug
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fixes. Here's a partial list of the most notable changes, sorted alphabetically
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by module name. Consult the :file:`Misc/NEWS` file in the source tree for a more
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complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details.
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* A new data type in the :mod:`collections` module: :class:`NamedTuple(typename,
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fieldnames)` is a factory function that creates subclasses of the standard tuple
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whose fields are accessible by name as well as index. For example::
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var_type = collections.NamedTuple('variable',
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'id name type size')
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var = var_type(1, 'frequency', 'int', 4)
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print var[0], var.id # Equivalent
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print var[2], var.type # Equivalent
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(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.)
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* A new method in the :mod:`curses` module: for a window, :meth:`chgat` changes
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the display characters for a certain number of characters on a single line. ::
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# Boldface text starting at y=0,x=21
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# and affecting the rest of the line.
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stdscr.chgat(0,21, curses.A_BOLD)
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(Contributed by Fabian Kreutz.)
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Merged revisions 57778-58052 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r57820 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 08:59:27 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Document new shorthand notation for index entries.
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r57827 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 10:47:51 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Fix subitem markup.
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r57833 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-08-31 12:01:07 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
Mark registry components as 64-bit on Win64.
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r57854 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:23 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
deprecate use of FakeSocket
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r57855 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:46 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
remove mentions of socket.ssl in comments
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r57856 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:03:31 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
remove use of non-existent SSLFakeSocket in apparently untested code
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r57859 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-01 08:36:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
Will backport to 2.5.
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r57865 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 09:51:24 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix RST link (backport from Py3k).
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r57876 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 17:49:49 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Document sets' ">" and "<" operations (backport from py3k).
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r57878 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-01 19:40:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Added a note and examples to explain that re.split does not split on an
empty pattern match. (issue 852532).
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r57879 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:18:09 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix wrong function names.
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r57880 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:34:05 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix typo.
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r57889 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:31:59 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Markup fix
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r57892 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:43:36 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Add various items
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r57895 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:17:58 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Wording change
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r57896 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:18:31 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Add more items
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r57904 | ronald.oussoren | 2007-09-02 11:46:07 +0200 (Sun, 02 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Macosx: this patch ensures that the value of MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET used
by the Makefile is also used at configure-time.
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r57925 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-03 09:16:46 +0200 (Mon, 03 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix #883466: don't allow Unicode as arguments to quopri and uu codecs.
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r57936 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 01:33:04 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.6.x.
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r57954 | mark.summerfield | 2007-09-04 10:16:15 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Added cross-references plus a note about dict & list shallow copying.
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r57958 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 11:51:57 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Document that we rely on the OS to release the crypto
context. Fixes #1626801.
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r57960 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 15:13:14 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
get_completion_type to readline.
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r57961 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 16:19:28 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original
source encoding. Will backport to 2.5.
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r57972 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 20:17:36 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script pybuildbot.identify
to include some information about the build environment.
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r57973 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 21:05:38 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Remove whitespace at eol.
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r57975 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 22:46:02 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
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r57980 | bill.janssen | 2007-09-05 02:46:27 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 1 line
SSL certificate distinguished names should be represented by tuples
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r57985 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 08:39:17 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #1105: Explain that one needs to build the solution
to get dependencies right.
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r57987 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-05 09:51:21 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference.
There are probably a number of places that are open to attacks
such as the following one, in bltinmodule.c:min_max().
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r57991 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 13:47:34 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to
a readonly source.
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r57993 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-05 15:36:44 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Backport from Py3k: Bug #1684991: explain lookup semantics for __special__ methods (new-style classes only).
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r58004 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 10:30:51 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Patch #1733973 by peaker:
ptrace_enter_call() assumes no exception is currently set.
This assumption is broken when throwing into a generator.
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r58006 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 11:30:38 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference.
This attack is against ceval.c:IMPORT_NAME, which calls an
object (__builtin__.__import__) without holding a reference to it.
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r58013 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-06 16:49:56 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Backport from 3k: #1116: fix reference to old filename.
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r58021 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-06 22:26:20 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Fix typo: c_float represents to C float type.
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r58022 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-07 00:29:06 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
If this is correct for py3k branch and it's already in the release25-maint
branch, seems like it ought to be on the trunk as well.
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r58023 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-09-07 00:59:59 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Apply the fix from Issue1112 to make this test more robust and keep
windows happy.
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r58031 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 05:17:50 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Make uuid1 and uuid4 tests conditional on whether ctypes can be imported;
implementation of either function depends on ctypes but uuid as a whole does
not.
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r58032 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 06:18:30 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines
Fix a crasher where Python code managed to infinitely recurse in C code without
ever going back out to Python code in PyObject_Call(). Required introducing a
static RuntimeError instance so that normalizing an exception there is no
reliance on a recursive call that would put the exception system over the
recursion check itself.
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r58034 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 08:32:17 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Add a 'c_longdouble' type to the ctypes module.
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r58035 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:30:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Remove unneeded #include.
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r58036 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:33:24 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines
Backport from py3k branch:
Add a workaround for a strange bug on win64, when _ctypes is compiled
with the SDK compiler. This should fix the failing
Lib\ctypes\test\test_as_parameter.py test.
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r58037 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-07 16:14:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix a wrong indentation for sublists.
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r58043 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-07 22:10:49 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
#1095: ln -f doesn't work portably, fix in Makefile.
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r58049 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-08 02:34:17 +0200 (Sat, 08 Sep 2007) | 1 line
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r57820 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 08:59:27 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Document new shorthand notation for index entries.
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r57827 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 10:47:51 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Fix subitem markup.
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r57833 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-08-31 12:01:07 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
Mark registry components as 64-bit on Win64.
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r57854 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:23 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
deprecate use of FakeSocket
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r57855 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:46 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
remove mentions of socket.ssl in comments
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r57856 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:03:31 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
remove use of non-existent SSLFakeSocket in apparently untested code
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r57859 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-01 08:36:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
Will backport to 2.5.
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r57865 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 09:51:24 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix RST link (backport from Py3k).
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r57876 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 17:49:49 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Document sets' ">" and "<" operations (backport from py3k).
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r57878 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-01 19:40:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Added a note and examples to explain that re.split does not split on an
empty pattern match. (issue 852532).
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r57879 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:18:09 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix wrong function names.
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r57880 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:34:05 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix typo.
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r57889 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:31:59 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Markup fix
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r57892 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:43:36 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Add various items
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r57895 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:17:58 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Wording change
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r57896 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:18:31 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Add more items
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r57904 | ronald.oussoren | 2007-09-02 11:46:07 +0200 (Sun, 02 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Macosx: this patch ensures that the value of MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET used
by the Makefile is also used at configure-time.
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r57925 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-03 09:16:46 +0200 (Mon, 03 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix #883466: don't allow Unicode as arguments to quopri and uu codecs.
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r57936 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 01:33:04 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.6.x.
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r57954 | mark.summerfield | 2007-09-04 10:16:15 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Added cross-references plus a note about dict & list shallow copying.
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r57958 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 11:51:57 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Document that we rely on the OS to release the crypto
context. Fixes #1626801.
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r57960 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 15:13:14 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
get_completion_type to readline.
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r57961 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 16:19:28 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original
source encoding. Will backport to 2.5.
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r57972 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 20:17:36 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script pybuildbot.identify
to include some information about the build environment.
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r57973 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 21:05:38 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Remove whitespace at eol.
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r57975 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 22:46:02 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
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r57980 | bill.janssen | 2007-09-05 02:46:27 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 1 line
SSL certificate distinguished names should be represented by tuples
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r57985 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 08:39:17 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #1105: Explain that one needs to build the solution
to get dependencies right.
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r57987 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-05 09:51:21 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference.
There are probably a number of places that are open to attacks
such as the following one, in bltinmodule.c:min_max().
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r57991 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 13:47:34 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to
a readonly source.
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r57993 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-05 15:36:44 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Backport from Py3k: Bug #1684991: explain lookup semantics for __special__ methods (new-style classes only).
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r58004 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 10:30:51 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Patch #1733973 by peaker:
ptrace_enter_call() assumes no exception is currently set.
This assumption is broken when throwing into a generator.
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r58006 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 11:30:38 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference.
This attack is against ceval.c:IMPORT_NAME, which calls an
object (__builtin__.__import__) without holding a reference to it.
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r58013 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-06 16:49:56 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Backport from 3k: #1116: fix reference to old filename.
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r58021 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-06 22:26:20 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Fix typo: c_float represents to C float type.
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r58022 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-07 00:29:06 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
If this is correct for py3k branch and it's already in the release25-maint
branch, seems like it ought to be on the trunk as well.
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r58023 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-09-07 00:59:59 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Apply the fix from Issue1112 to make this test more robust and keep
windows happy.
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r58031 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 05:17:50 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Make uuid1 and uuid4 tests conditional on whether ctypes can be imported;
implementation of either function depends on ctypes but uuid as a whole does
not.
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r58032 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 06:18:30 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines
Fix a crasher where Python code managed to infinitely recurse in C code without
ever going back out to Python code in PyObject_Call(). Required introducing a
static RuntimeError instance so that normalizing an exception there is no
reliance on a recursive call that would put the exception system over the
recursion check itself.
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r58034 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 08:32:17 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Add a 'c_longdouble' type to the ctypes module.
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r58035 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:30:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Remove unneeded #include.
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r58036 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:33:24 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines
Backport from py3k branch:
Add a workaround for a strange bug on win64, when _ctypes is compiled
with the SDK compiler. This should fix the failing
Lib\ctypes\test\test_as_parameter.py test.
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r58037 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-07 16:14:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix a wrong indentation for sublists.
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r58043 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-07 22:10:49 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
#1095: ln -f doesn't work portably, fix in Makefile.
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r58049 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-08 02:34:17 +0200 (Sat, 08 Sep 2007) | 1 line
be explicit about the actual location of the missing file
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Merged revisions 57778-58052 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r57820 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 08:59:27 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Document new shorthand notation for index entries.
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r57827 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 10:47:51 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Fix subitem markup.
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r57833 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-08-31 12:01:07 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
Mark registry components as 64-bit on Win64.
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r57854 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:23 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
deprecate use of FakeSocket
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r57855 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:46 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
remove mentions of socket.ssl in comments
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r57856 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:03:31 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
remove use of non-existent SSLFakeSocket in apparently untested code
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r57859 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-01 08:36:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
Will backport to 2.5.
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r57865 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 09:51:24 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix RST link (backport from Py3k).
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r57876 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 17:49:49 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Document sets' ">" and "<" operations (backport from py3k).
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r57878 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-01 19:40:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Added a note and examples to explain that re.split does not split on an
empty pattern match. (issue 852532).
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r57879 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:18:09 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix wrong function names.
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r57880 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:34:05 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix typo.
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r57889 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:31:59 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Markup fix
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r57892 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:43:36 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Add various items
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r57895 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:17:58 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Wording change
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r57896 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:18:31 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Add more items
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r57904 | ronald.oussoren | 2007-09-02 11:46:07 +0200 (Sun, 02 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Macosx: this patch ensures that the value of MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET used
by the Makefile is also used at configure-time.
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r57925 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-03 09:16:46 +0200 (Mon, 03 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix #883466: don't allow Unicode as arguments to quopri and uu codecs.
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r57936 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 01:33:04 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.6.x.
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r57954 | mark.summerfield | 2007-09-04 10:16:15 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Added cross-references plus a note about dict & list shallow copying.
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r57958 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 11:51:57 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Document that we rely on the OS to release the crypto
context. Fixes #1626801.
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r57960 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 15:13:14 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
get_completion_type to readline.
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r57961 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 16:19:28 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original
source encoding. Will backport to 2.5.
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r57972 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 20:17:36 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script pybuildbot.identify
to include some information about the build environment.
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r57973 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 21:05:38 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Remove whitespace at eol.
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r57975 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 22:46:02 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
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r57980 | bill.janssen | 2007-09-05 02:46:27 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 1 line
SSL certificate distinguished names should be represented by tuples
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r57985 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 08:39:17 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #1105: Explain that one needs to build the solution
to get dependencies right.
........
r57987 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-05 09:51:21 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference.
There are probably a number of places that are open to attacks
such as the following one, in bltinmodule.c:min_max().
........
r57991 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 13:47:34 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to
a readonly source.
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r57993 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-05 15:36:44 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Backport from Py3k: Bug #1684991: explain lookup semantics for __special__ methods (new-style classes only).
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r58004 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 10:30:51 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Patch #1733973 by peaker:
ptrace_enter_call() assumes no exception is currently set.
This assumption is broken when throwing into a generator.
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r58006 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 11:30:38 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference.
This attack is against ceval.c:IMPORT_NAME, which calls an
object (__builtin__.__import__) without holding a reference to it.
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r58013 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-06 16:49:56 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Backport from 3k: #1116: fix reference to old filename.
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r58021 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-06 22:26:20 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Fix typo: c_float represents to C float type.
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r58022 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-07 00:29:06 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
If this is correct for py3k branch and it's already in the release25-maint
branch, seems like it ought to be on the trunk as well.
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r58023 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-09-07 00:59:59 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Apply the fix from Issue1112 to make this test more robust and keep
windows happy.
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r58031 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 05:17:50 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Make uuid1 and uuid4 tests conditional on whether ctypes can be imported;
implementation of either function depends on ctypes but uuid as a whole does
not.
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r58032 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 06:18:30 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines
Fix a crasher where Python code managed to infinitely recurse in C code without
ever going back out to Python code in PyObject_Call(). Required introducing a
static RuntimeError instance so that normalizing an exception there is no
reliance on a recursive call that would put the exception system over the
recursion check itself.
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r58034 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 08:32:17 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Add a 'c_longdouble' type to the ctypes module.
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r58035 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:30:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Remove unneeded #include.
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r58036 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:33:24 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines
Backport from py3k branch:
Add a workaround for a strange bug on win64, when _ctypes is compiled
with the SDK compiler. This should fix the failing
Lib\ctypes\test\test_as_parameter.py test.
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r58037 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-07 16:14:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix a wrong indentation for sublists.
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r58043 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-07 22:10:49 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
#1095: ln -f doesn't work portably, fix in Makefile.
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r58049 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-08 02:34:17 +0200 (Sat, 08 Sep 2007) | 1 line
be explicit about the actual location of the missing file
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context manager that supports temporarily changing environment variables and
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automatically restores them to their old values. (Contributed by Brett Cannon.)
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r57820 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 08:59:27 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Document new shorthand notation for index entries.
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r57827 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 10:47:51 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines
Fix subitem markup.
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r57833 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-08-31 12:01:07 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
Mark registry components as 64-bit on Win64.
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r57854 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:23 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
deprecate use of FakeSocket
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r57855 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:46 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
remove mentions of socket.ssl in comments
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r57856 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:03:31 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line
remove use of non-existent SSLFakeSocket in apparently untested code
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r57859 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-01 08:36:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
Will backport to 2.5.
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r57865 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 09:51:24 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix RST link (backport from Py3k).
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r57876 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 17:49:49 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Document sets' ">" and "<" operations (backport from py3k).
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r57878 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-01 19:40:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Added a note and examples to explain that re.split does not split on an
empty pattern match. (issue 852532).
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r57879 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:18:09 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix wrong function names.
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r57880 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:34:05 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix typo.
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r57889 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:31:59 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Markup fix
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r57892 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:43:36 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Add various items
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r57895 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:17:58 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Wording change
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r57896 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:18:31 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Add more items
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r57904 | ronald.oussoren | 2007-09-02 11:46:07 +0200 (Sun, 02 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Macosx: this patch ensures that the value of MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET used
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r57925 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-03 09:16:46 +0200 (Mon, 03 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Fix #883466: don't allow Unicode as arguments to quopri and uu codecs.
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r57936 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 01:33:04 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.6.x.
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r57954 | mark.summerfield | 2007-09-04 10:16:15 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Added cross-references plus a note about dict & list shallow copying.
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r57958 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 11:51:57 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Document that we rely on the OS to release the crypto
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r57960 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 15:13:14 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
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r57961 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 16:19:28 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original
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r57972 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 20:17:36 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script pybuildbot.identify
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r57973 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 21:05:38 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Remove whitespace at eol.
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r57975 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 22:46:02 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
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r57980 | bill.janssen | 2007-09-05 02:46:27 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 1 line
SSL certificate distinguished names should be represented by tuples
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r57985 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 08:39:17 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #1105: Explain that one needs to build the solution
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r57987 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-05 09:51:21 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference.
There are probably a number of places that are open to attacks
such as the following one, in bltinmodule.c:min_max().
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r57991 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 13:47:34 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to
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r57993 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-05 15:36:44 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Backport from Py3k: Bug #1684991: explain lookup semantics for __special__ methods (new-style classes only).
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r58004 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 10:30:51 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Patch #1733973 by peaker:
ptrace_enter_call() assumes no exception is currently set.
This assumption is broken when throwing into a generator.
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r58006 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 11:30:38 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference.
This attack is against ceval.c:IMPORT_NAME, which calls an
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r58013 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-06 16:49:56 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
Backport from 3k: #1116: fix reference to old filename.
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r58021 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-06 22:26:20 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 1 line
Fix typo: c_float represents to C float type.
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r58022 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-07 00:29:06 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 3 lines
If this is correct for py3k branch and it's already in the release25-maint
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r58023 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-09-07 00:59:59 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Apply the fix from Issue1112 to make this test more robust and keep
windows happy.
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r58031 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 05:17:50 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines
Make uuid1 and uuid4 tests conditional on whether ctypes can be imported;
implementation of either function depends on ctypes but uuid as a whole does
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r58032 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 06:18:30 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines
Fix a crasher where Python code managed to infinitely recurse in C code without
ever going back out to Python code in PyObject_Call(). Required introducing a
static RuntimeError instance so that normalizing an exception there is no
reliance on a recursive call that would put the exception system over the
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r58034 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 08:32:17 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line
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r58035 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:30:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line
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r58036 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:33:24 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines
Backport from py3k branch:
Add a workaround for a strange bug on win64, when _ctypes is compiled
with the SDK compiler. This should fix the failing
Lib\ctypes\test\test_as_parameter.py test.
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r58037 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-07 16:14:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 2 lines
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#1095: ln -f doesn't work portably, fix in Makefile.
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