Complete log of changes since 1.5a3 at the end.
This commit is contained in:
Guido van Rossum
parent
a11b041537
commit
522578e90f
156
Misc/NEWS
156
Misc/NEWS
|
|
@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ Drake.
|
|||
determine whether an interactively entered command is complete or not,
|
||||
distinguishing incomplete from invalid input.
|
||||
|
||||
- There is now a library module xdr.py which can read and write the
|
||||
- There is now a library module xdrlib.py which can read and write the
|
||||
XDR data format as used by Sun RPC, for example. It uses the struct
|
||||
module.
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -742,28 +742,159 @@ The following changes have been made to the source base after the
|
|||
release of 1.5a3. These need to be merged into their respective
|
||||
categories for the next release.
|
||||
|
||||
- regrtest.py is slightly more verbose, printing the name of each test
|
||||
as it runs them.
|
||||
- faqwiz.py: version 0.8; Recognize https:// as URL; <html>...</html>
|
||||
feature; better install instructions; removed faqmain.py (which was an
|
||||
older version).
|
||||
|
||||
- nntplib.py: Fixed some bugs reported by Lars Wirzenius (to Debian)
|
||||
about the treatment of lines starting with '.'. Added a minimal test
|
||||
function.
|
||||
|
||||
- struct module: ignore most whitespace in format strings.
|
||||
|
||||
- urllib.py: close the socket and temp file in URLopener.retrieve() so
|
||||
that multiple retrievals using the same connection work.
|
||||
|
||||
- Three new C API functions:
|
||||
|
||||
- int PyErr_GivenExceptionMatches(obj1, obj2)
|
||||
|
||||
Returns 1 if obj1 and obj2 are the same object, or if obj1 is an
|
||||
instance of type obj2, or of a class derived from obj2
|
||||
|
||||
- int PyErr_ExceptionMatches(obj)
|
||||
|
||||
Higher level wrapper around PyErr_GivenExceptionMatches() which uses
|
||||
PyErr_Occurred() as obj1. This will be the more commonly called
|
||||
function.
|
||||
|
||||
- void PyErr_NormalizeException(typeptr, valptr, tbptr)
|
||||
|
||||
Normalizes exceptions, and places the normalized values in the
|
||||
arguments. If type is not a class, this does nothing. If type is a
|
||||
class, then it makes sure that value is an instance of the class by:
|
||||
|
||||
1. if instance is of the type, or a class derived from type, it does
|
||||
nothing.
|
||||
|
||||
2. otherwise it instantiates the class, using the value as an
|
||||
argument. If value is None, it uses an empty arg tuple, and if
|
||||
the value is a tuple, it uses just that.
|
||||
|
||||
- Demo/metaclasses: new demo subdir explains metaclasses (read
|
||||
index.html in a browser).
|
||||
|
||||
- core interpreter: remove the distinction between tuple and list
|
||||
unpacking; allow an arbitrary sequence on the right hand side of any
|
||||
unpack instruction. (UNPACK_LIST and UNPACK_TUPLE now do the same
|
||||
thing, which should really be called UNPACK_SEQUENCE.)
|
||||
|
||||
- classes: Allow assignments to an instance's __dict__ or __class__,
|
||||
so you can change ivars (including shared ivars -- shock horror) and
|
||||
change classes dynamically. Also make the check on read-only
|
||||
attributes of classes less draconic -- only the specials names
|
||||
__dict__, __bases__, __name__ and __{get,set,del}attr__ can't be
|
||||
assigned.
|
||||
|
||||
- Two new built-in functions: issubclass() and isinstance(). Both
|
||||
take classes as their second arguments. The former takes a class as
|
||||
the first argument and returns true iff first is second, or is a
|
||||
subclass of second. The latter takes any object as the first argument
|
||||
and returns true iff first is an instance of the second, or any
|
||||
subclass of second.
|
||||
|
||||
- configure: Added configuration tests for presence of alarm(),
|
||||
pause(), and getpwent().
|
||||
|
||||
- Doc/Makefile: changed latex2html targets.
|
||||
|
||||
- classes: Reverse the search order for the Don Beaudry hook so that
|
||||
the first class with an applicable hook wins. Makes more sense.
|
||||
|
||||
- Changed the checks made in Py_Initialize() and Py_Finalize(). It is
|
||||
now legal to call these more than once. The first call to
|
||||
Py_Initialize() initializes, the first call to Py_Finalize()
|
||||
finalizes. There's also a new API, Py_IsInitalized() which checks
|
||||
whether we are already initialized (in case you want to leave things
|
||||
as they were).
|
||||
|
||||
- Completely disable the declarations for malloc(), realloc() and
|
||||
free(). Any 90's C compiler has these in header files, and the tests
|
||||
to decide whether to suppress the declarations kept failing on some
|
||||
platforms.
|
||||
|
||||
- *Before* (instead of after) signalmodule.o is added, remove both
|
||||
intrcheck.o and sigcheck.o. This should get rid of warnings in ar or
|
||||
ld on various systems.
|
||||
|
||||
- Added reop to PC/config.c
|
||||
|
||||
- configure: Decided to use -Aa -D_HPUX_SOURCE on HP-UX platforms.
|
||||
Removed outdated HP-UX comments from README. Added Cray T3E comments.
|
||||
|
||||
- Various renames of statically defined functions that had name
|
||||
conflicts on some systems, e.g. strndup (GNU libc), join (Cray),
|
||||
roundup (sys/types.h).
|
||||
|
||||
- urllib.py: Interpret three slashes in file: URL as local file (for
|
||||
Netscape on Windows/Mac).
|
||||
|
||||
- copy.py: Make sure the objects returned by __getinitargs__() are
|
||||
kept alive (in the memo) to avoid a certain kind of nasty crash. (Not
|
||||
easily reproducable because it requires a later call to
|
||||
__getinitargs__() to return a tuple that happens to be allocated at
|
||||
the same address.)
|
||||
|
||||
- Added definition of AR to toplevel Makefile. Renamed @buildno temp
|
||||
file to buildno1.
|
||||
|
||||
- Moved Include/assert.h to Parser/assert.h, which seems to be the
|
||||
only place where it's needed.
|
||||
|
||||
- Alas, the thread support for _tkinter didn't work. Withdrew it.
|
||||
|
||||
- Tweaked the dictionary lookup code again for some more speed
|
||||
(Vladimir Marangozov).
|
||||
|
||||
- NT build: Changed the way python15.lib is included in the other
|
||||
projects. Per Mark Hammond's suggestion, add it to the extra libs in
|
||||
Settings instead of to the project's source files.
|
||||
|
||||
- regrtest.py: Change default verbosity so that there are only three
|
||||
levels left: -q, default and -v. In default mode, the name of each
|
||||
test is now printed. -v is the same as the old -vv. -q is more quiet
|
||||
than the old default mode.
|
||||
|
||||
- Removed the old FAQ from the distribution. You now have to get it
|
||||
from the web!
|
||||
|
||||
- Removed the PC/make_nt.in file from the distribution; it is no
|
||||
longer needed.
|
||||
|
||||
- Changed the build sequence so that shared modules are built last.
|
||||
This fixes things for AIX and doesn't hurt elsewhere.
|
||||
|
||||
- Improved test for GNU MP v1 in mpzmodule.c
|
||||
|
||||
- fileobject.c: ftell() on Linux discards all buffered data; changed
|
||||
read() code to use lseek() instead
|
||||
read() code to use lseek() instead to get the same effect
|
||||
|
||||
- configure.in, configure, importdl.c: NeXT sharedlib fixes
|
||||
|
||||
- tupleobject.c: PyTuple_SetItem asserts refcnt==1
|
||||
|
||||
- resource.c: Change how and when to declare getpagesize() and
|
||||
getrlimit()
|
||||
|
||||
- mpzmodule.c: CPP hack to support GMP 1.x for real
|
||||
- resource.c: Different strategy regarding whether to declare
|
||||
getrusage() and getpagesize() -- #ifdef doesn't work, Linux has
|
||||
conflicting decls in its headers. Choice: only declare the return
|
||||
type, not the argument prototype, and not on Linux.
|
||||
|
||||
- importdl.c, configure*: set sharedlib extensions properly for NeXT
|
||||
|
||||
- configure*, Makefile.in, Modules/Makefile.pre.in: AIX shared libraries
|
||||
fixed; moved addition of PURIFY to LINKCC to configure
|
||||
|
||||
- reopmodule.c, regexmodule.c, regexpr.c, zlibmodule.c: casts to shut
|
||||
up Mac compiler
|
||||
- reopmodule.c, regexmodule.c, regexpr.c, zlibmodule.c: needed casts
|
||||
added to shup up various compilers.
|
||||
|
||||
- _tkinter.c: removed buggy mac #ifndef
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -771,10 +902,9 @@ up Mac compiler
|
|||
|
||||
- PC/make_nt.in: deleted
|
||||
|
||||
- test_time.py, test_strftime.py: tweaks to catch %Z
|
||||
- test_time.py, test_strftime.py: tweaks to catch %Z (which may return
|
||||
"")
|
||||
|
||||
- test_rotor.py: print b -> print `b`
|
||||
|
||||
- Tkinter.py: (tagOrId) -> (tagOrId,)
|
||||
|
||||
- faqwiz.py: Recognize https:// as URL
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
Loading…
Reference in New Issue