VP IDLE version depended on VP's ExecBinding.py and spawn.py to get the
path to the Windows Doc directory (relative to python.exe). Removed this
conflicting code in favor of py-cvs updates which on Windows use a hard
coded path relative to the location of this module. py-cvs updates include
support for webbrowser.py. Module still has BrowserControl.py for 1.5.2
support.
At this point, the differences wrt py-cvs relate to menu functionality.
particular, str(long) and repr(long) use base 10, and that gets a factor
of 4 speedup). Another factor of 2 can be gotten by refactoring divrem1 to
support in-place division, but that started getting messy so I'm leaving
that out.
Note: browser.py was renamed BrowserControl.py 10 May 2000. It provides a
collection of classes and convenience functions to control external
browsers "for 1.5.2 support". It was removed from py-cvs 18 April 2001.
Although this is a one-character change, more work needs to be done:
the compiler can get rid of a lot of non-nested-scopes code, the
documentation needs to be updated, the future statement can be
simplified, etc.
But this change enables the nested scope semantics everywhere, and
that's the important part -- we can now test code for compatibility
with nested scopes by default.
(Tim & I should agree on where to add new additions: I add them at the
top, Tim adds them at the bottom. I like the top better because folks
who occasionally check out the NEWS file will see the latest news
first.)
instead of raising an error. This was one of the two issues that the
VPython folks were particularly problematic for their students. (The
other one was integer division...) This implements (my) SF patch
#440487.
raising an error. This was one of the two issues that the VPython
folks were particularly problematic for their students. (The other
one was integer division...) This implements (my) SF patch #440487.
raising an error. This was one of the two issues that the VPython
folks were particularly problematic for their students. (The other
one was integer division...) This implements (my) SF patch #440487.
could probably stand to have some of the internal things like Marshaller
documented. But I think it does a decent job on the entry points and
externally visible things.
Fred and Fredrik, do your stuff! You both need to proof this.
Also note that it isn't just Linux nice() that is broken: at least FreeBSD
and BSDI also have this problem. os.nice() should probably just be emulated
using getpriority()/setpriority(), if they are available, but I'll get to
that later.
Kurt B. Kaiser
Tim Peters
Fred Drake
Jack Jansen
Neil Schemenauer
Guido van Rossum
Steven M. Gava
Eric S. Raymond
Thomas Wouters
Andrew M. Kuchling