[ 1124295 ] Function's __name__ no longer accessible in restricted mode
which I introduced with a bit of mindless copy-paste when making
__name__ writable. You can't assign to __name__ in restricted mode,
which I'm going to pretend was intentional :)
_some_ user-defined class instance. That it was also an exception isn't
interesting, but does interfere with Michael Hudson's new-style exception
patch. This just changes the doctest example, to use an instance of a
non-exception class.
* Use +=
* Replace loop logic with str.splitlines equivalent
* Don't use variable names that shadow tuple, list, and str
* Use dict.get instead of equivalent try/except
* Minor loop logic simplications
has never worked and no one has complained. It is still possible to set a
default tabs (v. spaces) indent 'manually' via config-main.def (or to turn on
tabs for the current EditorWindow via the Format menu) but IDLE will encourage
indentation via spaces.
Enable setting the indentation width using the Options dialog.
Bug # 783877
Remove some commented out old code from configDialog.py (related to old
methods for invoking the HelpBrowser).
M EditorWindow.py
M NEWS.txt
M configHandler.py
2. Restore use of set_indentation_params(), was dead code since
Autoindent.py was merged into EditorWindow.py.
3. Make usetabs, indentwidth, tabwidth, context_use_ps1 instance vars
and set in EditorWindow.__init__()
4. In PyShell.__init__() set usetabs, indentwidth and context_use_ps1
explicitly (config() is eliminated).
5. Add Tabnanny check when Module is Run/F5, not just when Checked.
6. Discourage using an indent width other than 8 when using tabs to
indent Python code.
M EditorWindow.py
M NEWS.txt
M PyShell.py
M ScriptBinding.py
PyNumber_Check, rather than trying to convert to a float. Reimplemented
writer - now raises exceptions when it sees a quotechar but neither
doublequote or escapechar are set. Doublequote results are now more
consistent (eg, single quote should generate """", rather than "",
which is ambiguous).
when this limit is reached. Limit defaults to 128k, and is changed
by module set_field_limit() method. Previously, an unmatched quote
character could result in the entire file being read into the field
buffer, potentially exhausting virtual memory.
was done because we were previously performing validation of the dialect
from python, but this is now down within the C module. Also, the method
we were using to detect classes did not work with new-style classes.
a delimiter. Previously, the 'network location' (<authority> in RFC 2396) would
become 'www.example.com?query=spam', while RFC 2396 does not allow a '?' in
<authority>. See bug #548176 for further discussion.
properties, and custom descriptors.
* removed special handling of properties
* added special handling of data descriptors - All data descriptors are grouped
together in a section. For each item, the attribute name and doc string, if
present, is displayed.
* disabled display of __slots__ attribute - since slots are descriptors, they
are listed in the section described above
Thanks to John Belmonte for the patch!
`glob.glob()` currently calls itself recursively to build a list of matches of
the dirname part of the pattern and then filters by the basename part. This is
effectively BFS. ``glob.glob('*/*/*/*/*/foo')`` will build a huge list of all
directories 5 levels deep even if only a handful of them contain a ``foo``
entry. A generator-based recusion would never have to store these list at once
by implementing DFS. This patch converts the `glob` function to an `iglob`
recursive generator . `glob()` now just returns ``list(iglob(pattern))``.
I also cleaned up the code a bit (reduced duplicate `has_magic()` checks and
created a second `glob0` helper func so that the main loop need not be
duplicated).
Thanks to Cherniavsky Beni for the patch!
test_threading.test_foreign_thread(): new test does a basic check that
"foreign" threads can using the threading module, and that they create
a _DummyThread instance in at least one use case. This isn't a very
good test, since a thread created by thread.start_new_thread() isn't
particularly "foreign".
_Thread.__init__) was never used. This is a waste since locks use OS
primitives that are in limited supply. So the lock is deleted in
_DummyThread.__init__ .
Closes bug #1089632.
something (overridable through Install-command entry)
- Hidden status is now determined by flavor == hidden, not by
missing Download-URL. Hidden packages behave like installer packages.
- Made some error messages a bit more understandable.
Because there's new functionality the version has been upped to 0.5.
- using a different database for non-final releases should only be done
for X.Y.0. Non-final micro releases can use the default database just fine,
as they are required to be backward compatible.
to make using "-undefined dynamic_lookup" for linking extensions more
automatic on 10.3 and later. So if we're on that platform and
MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is not set we now set it to the current OSX
version during configure. Additionally, distutils will pick up the
configure-time value by default.
Will backport.
Pass the full URL to find_user_password(), in particular so that hosts
with port numbers can be looked up.
Also specify the digest algorithm, even if it's MD5. Titus Brown
verified that this fixes a problem with LiveJournal.
trying to return a complete line even if a size parameter was given (see
http://www.python.org/sf/1076985). This leads to buffer overflows with long
source lines under Windows if e.g. cp1252 is used as the source encoding.
This patch reverts the behaviour of readline() to something that behaves more
like Python 2.3: If a size parameter is given, read() is called only once.
As a side effect of this, readline() now supports all types of linebreaks
supported by unicode.splitlines().
Note that the tokenizer is still broken and it's possible to provoke segfaults
(see http://www.python.org/sf/1089395).
* Improve algorithm -- no more O(n) steps except sched.cancel().
* Improve thread safety of sched.run() and sched.empty()
(other threads could alter the queue between the time the queue was
first checked and when the lead event was deleted).
* Localize variable access in sched.run() to minimize overhead.
more. Thanks to Simon Percivall!
The patch makes changes to inspect.py in two places:
* the pattern to match against functions at line 436 is
modified: lambdas should be matched even if not
preceded by whitespace, as long as "lambda" isn't part
of another word.
* the BlockFinder class is heavily modified. Changes are:
- checking for "def", "class" or "lambda" names
before setting self.started to True. Then checking the
same line for word characters after the colon (if the
colon is on that line). If so, and the line does not
end with a line continuation marker, raise EndOfBlock
immediately.
- adding self.passline to show that the line is to be
included and no more checking is necessary on that
line. Since a NEWLINE token is not generated when a
line continuation marker exists, this allows getsource
to continue with these functions even if the following
line would not be indented.
Also add a bunch of
'quite-unlikely-to-occur-in-real-life-but-working-anyway' tests.
Tools/i18n/makelocalealias.py, a tool to parse the X11 locale
alias file); the encoding lookup was enhanced to use Python's
encoding alias table
As sige-effect, this fixes SF bug [ 1080864 ] locale.py doesn't recognize
valid locale setting.
smtplib can not log in to some server using command AUTH PLAIN, it sends
``user\0user\0pass'' to the server, but ``\0user\0pass'' has better
compatibility.
is pointless.
Also add a note to the docs for the 'test' package that test cases should check
first that any conditions needed in the operating system are met before having
a test run.
Closes bug #1077302. THanks, Ian Holsman.
caused by a self._input.readline() call that wasn't checking for the
NeedsMoreData marker.
msg_43.txt contains a message that illustrates the problem, when
email.message_from_*() is called. That interface uses the Parser API, which
splits reads into 8192 byte chunks. It so happens that for the test message,
the 8192 chunk falls inside a message/delivery-status, which is where in the
FeedParser the readline() call was that didn't check for NeedsMoreData.
I also added an assert to unreadline() so it'll be more evident if an attempt
to push back NeedsMoreData ever happens again.
Bump the email package version number.
in a newline, and it's an end boundary, the FeedParser wasn't recognizing it
as such. Tweak the regexp to make the ending linesep optional.
For grins, clear self._partial when closing the BufferedSubFile.
Added a test case.
(http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC41).
Also check whether onerror has actually been called so this test will
fail on assertion instead of on trying to chmod a non-existent file.
button) caused IDLE to fail on restart (no new keyset was created in
config-keys.cfg). Also true for Theme/highlights. Python Bug 1064535.
M configDialog.py
__getitem__() methods: compute only the new spellings needed to satisfy
the given indexing object. This is purely an optimization (it should
have no effect on visible semantics).
regrtest.py: skip rgbimg and imageop as they are not built on 64-bit systems.
_tkinter.c: replace %.8x with %p for printing pointers.
setup.py: add lib64 into the library directories.
showing that doctest's pdb.set_trace() support was dramatically broken.
doctest.py _OutputRedirectingPdb.trace_dispatch(): Return a local trace
function instead of (implicitly) None. Else interaction with pdb was
bizarre, noticing only 'call' events. Amazingly, the existing set_trace()
tests didn't care.
reliably on WinME with FAT32.
* Native speaker rewrite of the comment block.
* Removed unnecessary backslashes from the multi-line function defintions.
In cyclic gc, clear weakrefs to unreachable objects before allowing any
Python code (weakref callbacks or __del__ methods) to run.
This is a critical bugfix, affecting all versions of Python since weakrefs
were introduced. I'll backport to 2.3.
exposed in header files. Fixed a few comments in these headers.
As we might have expected, writing down invariants systematically exposed a
(minor) bug. In this case, function objects have a writeable func_code
attribute, which could be set to code objects with the wrong number of
free variables. Calling the resulting function segfaulted the interpreter.
Added a corresponding test.
of the year, and day of the week. Was not taking into consideration properly
the issue of when %U is used for the week of the year but the year starts on
Monday.
Closes bug #1045381 again.
(Contributed by Facundo Batista.)
Code simplification by eliminating the unnecessary and error-prone
convolutions for the previously weird sign convention in _WorkRep().
Makes the code more understandable, more reliable, and a bit faster.
The underlying bug still exists, but also existed in 2.3.4:
import.c's load_source_module() returns NULL if
PyOS_GetLastModificationTime() returns -1, but
PyOS_GetLastModificationTime() doesn't set any exception when it returns
-1, and neither does load_source_module() when it gets back -1. This
leads to "SystemError: NULL result without error in PyObject_Call"
on an import that fails in this way.
- Added a chunk of plist data as generated by Cocoa's NSDictionary and
verify we output the same (including formatting)
- Changed the "literal" plist code to match the raw test data
Peepholer could be fooled into misidentifying a tuple_of_constants.
Added code to count consecutive occurrences of LOAD_CONST.
Use the count to weed out the misidentified cases.
Added a unittest.
the indentation of a comment block to be ignored when reformatting the
block, leading to overly long reformatted lines (too wide by an amount
equal to the indentation width). Looks like a typo in the original
patch, a 1-character repair.
Turns out the mysterious "expected output" file contained exactly N dots,
because test_poll() has a loop that *usually* went around N times,
printing one dot on each loop trip. But there's no guarantee of that,
because the exact value of N depended on the vagaries of scheduling
time.sleep()s across two different processes. So stopped printing dots,
and got rid of the expected output file. Add a loop counter instead,
and verify that the loop goes around at least a couple of times. Also
cut the minimum time needed for this test from 4 seconds to 1.
tester that a DOS box is expected to flash. Slash the sleep from 2
seconds to a quarter second (why would we want to wait 2 seconds just
to stare at a DOS box?).
what this is trying to do. If it's necessary for it to create > 1000
processes, it should be controlled by a new resource and not run by
default on Windows.
display a test's docstring as "the name" of the test. So changed most
test docstrings to comments, and removed the clearly useless ones. Now
unittest reports the actual names of the test methods.
Bug fixes:
* Use fresh copy of globals/locals so the script being debugged can't access
the pdb namespace (e.g.: p line_prefix will no longer work).
* Remove pdb.py's path from sys.path. Having it in there is normally not a
problem, but it could prove irritating when messing with PYTHONPATH or
invoking pdb via /usr/bin/pdf.
* You can now set a breakpoint on the script being debugged, even if the script
doesn't end with a '.py' extension. Also, setting breakpoints with absolute
paths now works reliably.
Enhancements:
* Go directly to the first line of the script.
* Enter post-mortem debugging if the script being debugged doesn't catch an
exception.
* Restart the script being debugged and preserve debugger state when the script
being debugged exits.
Cleanup:
* Moved the __main__ method into a main() function.
* Kill the (undocumented, not in __all__) mainmodule/mainpyfile globals, add a
mainpyfile attribute to pdb.
Thanks Ilya Sandler for the patch!
popen2.popen2/3/4 functions can be a sequence. All texts are a variation on the
following:
On \UNIX, \var{cmd} may be a sequence, in which case arguments will be passed
directly to the program without shell intervention (as with
\function{os.spawnv()}). If \var{cmd} is a string it will be passed to the shell
(as with \function{os.system()}).
capturing_preamble but we found a StartBoundaryNotFoundDefect, we need to
consume all lines from the current position to the EOF, which we'll set as the
epilogue of the current message. If we're not at EOF when we return from
here, the outer message's capturing_preamble assertion will fail.
calling .lower() on it. This fixes the problem described in SF patch # 866982
where in the tr_TR.ISO-8859-9 locale, 'I'.lower() isn't 'i'. unicodes are
locale insensitive.
The shutils.rmtree() implementation uses an excessive amount of memory when
deleting large directory hierarchies. Before actually deleting any files, it
builds up a list of (function, filename) tuples for all the files that it is
going to remove.
Briefly (from the NEWS file):
- Updates for the email package:
+ All deprecated APIs that in email 2.x issued warnings have been removed:
_encoder argument to the MIMEText constructor, Message.add_payload(),
Utils.dump_address_pair(), Utils.decode(), Utils.encode()
+ New deprecations: Generator.__call__(), Message.get_type(),
Message.get_main_type(), Message.get_subtype(), the 'strict' argument to
the Parser constructor. These will be removed in email 3.1.
+ Support for Python earlier than 2.3 has been removed (see PEP 291).
+ All defect classes have been renamed to end in 'Defect'.
+ Some FeedParser fixes; also a MultipartInvariantViolationDefect will be
added to messages that claim to be multipart but really aren't.
+ Updates to documentation.
deque_item(): a performance bug: the linked list of blocks was followed
from the left in most cases, because the test (i < (deque->len >> 1)) was
after "i %= BLOCKLEN".
deque_clear(): replaced a call to deque_len() with deque->len; not sure what
this call was here for, nor if all compilers under the sun would inline it.
deque_traverse(): I belive that it could be called by the GC when the deque
has leftblock==rightblock==NULL, because it is tracked before the first block
is allocated (though closely before). Still, a C extension module subclassing
deque could provide its own tp_alloc that could trigger a GC collection after
the PyObject_GC_Track()...
deque_richcompare(): rewrote to cleanly check for end-of-iterations instead of
relying on deque.__iter__().next() to succeed exactly len(deque) times -- an
assumption which can break if deques are subclassed. Added a test.
I wonder if the length should be explicitely bounded to INT_MAX, with
OverflowErrors, as in listobject.c. On 64-bit machines, adding more than
INT_MAX in the deque will result in trouble. (Note to anyone/me fixing
this: carefully check for overflows if len is close to INT_MAX in the
following functions: deque_rotate(), deque_item(), deque_ass_item())
request. Tim says that "correct 'fuzzy' comparison of floats cannot
be automated." (The motivation behind adding the new option
was verifying interactive examples in Python's latex documentation;
several such examples use numbers that don't print consistently on
different platforms.)
Also, add a testcase.
Formerly, the list_extend() code used several local variables to remember
its state across iterations. Since an iteration could call arbitrary
Python code, it was possible for the list state to be changed. The new
code uses dynamic structure references instead of C locals. So, they
are always up-to-date.
After list_resize() is called, its size has been updated but the new
cells are filled with NULLs. These needed to be filled before arbitrary
iteration code was called; otherwise, that code could attempt to modify
a list that was in a semi-invalid state. The solution was to change
the ob->size field back to a value reflecting the actual number of valid
cells.
its documentation.
* Documented that the compiled re methods are supposed to be more full
featured than their simpilified function counterparts.
* Documented the existing start and stop position arguments for the
findall() and finditer() methods of compiled regular expression objects.
* Added an optional flags argument to the re.findall() and re.finditer()
functions. This aligns their API with that for re.search() and
re.match().
When an integer is compared to a float now, the int isn't coerced to float.
This avoids spurious overflow exceptions and insane results. This should
compute correct results, without raising spurious exceptions, in all cases
now -- although I expect that what happens when an int/long is compared to
a NaN is still a platform accident.
Note that we had potential problems here even with "short" ints, on boxes
where sizeof(long)==8. There's #ifdef'ed code here to handle that, but
I can't test it as intended. I tested it by changing the #ifdef to
trigger on my 32-bit box instead.
I suppose this is a bugfix candidate, but I won't backport it. It's
long-winded (for speed) and messy (because the problem is messy). Note
that this also depends on a previous 2.4 patch that introduced
_Py_SwappedOp[] as an extern.
displaying a set of classes from one module it doesn't matter, but if you
are displaying a large class tree from multiple modules it improves the
display to sort by module.name.
all examples in a given text file. (analagous to "testmod")
- Minor docstring fixes.
- Added module_relative parameter to DocTestFile/DocTestSuite, which
controls whether paths are module-relative & os-independent, or
os-specific.
(Contributed by Nick Coghlan.)
Various code cleanups and optimizations (saves about 40% on testsuite
execution time and on the telco benchmark).
* caches results of various operations on self (esp. checks for being
a special value).
* _WorkRep now uses ints and longs for intermediate computations.
- Fixed bug in handling of absolute paths.
- If run from an interactive session, make paths relative to the
directory containing sys.argv[0] (since __main__ doesn't have
a __file__ attribute).
of the Template.delimiter attribute, we make use of the delimiter in the
escaped group, and in the safe_substitute() method more robust.
Now, .delimiter should be the unescaped delimiter literal, e.g. '$' or '&', or
whatever. The _TemplateMetaclass will re.escape() this value when it builds
the pattern.
* The parameterization of "delimiter" was incomplete.
* safe_substitute's code for braced delimiters should only be executed
when braced is not None.
* Invalid pattern group names now raise a ValueError. Formerly, the
convert code would fall off the end and improperly return None.
Beefed-up tests.
* Test delimiter override for all paths in substitute and safe_substitute.
* Alter unittest invocation to match other modules (now it itemizes the
tests as they are run).
Renamed the new generator at Trevor's recommendation.
The name HardwareRandom suggested a bit more than it
delivered (no radioactive decay detectors or such).
with default False for testmod(). The real point of introducing this was
so that output from doctest.master.summarize() would be the same as in
2.3, and doctest.master in 2.4 is a backward-compatability hack used only
by testmod().
- Template no longer inherits from unicode.
- SafeTemplate is removed. Now Templates have both a substitute() and a
safe_substitute() method, so we don't need separate classes. No more
__mod__() operator.
- Adopt Tim Peter's idea for giving Template a metaclass, which makes the
delimiter, the identifier pattern, or the entire pattern easy to override
and document, while retaining efficiency of class-time compilation of the
regexp.
- More informative ValueError messages which will help a user narrow down the
bogus delimiter to the line and column in the original string (helpful for
long triple quoted strings).
decoding incomplete input (when the input stream is temporarily exhausted).
codecs.StreamReader now implements buffering, which enables proper
readline support for the UTF-16 decoders. codecs.StreamReader.read()
has a new argument chars which specifies the number of characters to
return. codecs.StreamReader.readline() and codecs.StreamReader.readlines()
have a new argument keepends. Trailing "\n"s will be stripped from the lines
if keepends is false. Added C APIs PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8Stateful and
PyUnicode_DecodeUTF16Stateful.
SF patch #1015989
The basic idea of this patch is to compute lineno attributes for all AST nodes. The actual
implementation lead to a lot of restructing and code cleanup.
The generated AST nodes now have an optional lineno argument to constructor. Remove the
top-level asList(), since it didn't seem to serve any purpose. Add an __iter__ to ast nodes.
Use isinstance() instead of explicit type tests.
Change transformer to use the new lineno attribute, which replaces three lines of code with one.
Use universal newlines so that we can get rid of special-case code for line endings. Use
lookup_node() in a few more frequently called, but simple com_xxx methods(). Change string
exception to class exception.
Several functions adopted the strategy of altering a full lengthed
string copy and resizing afterwards. That would fail if the initial
string was short enough (0 or 1) to be interned. Interning precluded
the subsequent resizing operation.
The solution was to make sure the initial string was at least two
characters long.
Added tests to verify that all binascii functions do not crater when
given an empty string argument.
"all or none" to "all or some".
This provides much greater test coverage without eating much time.
It also makes it more likely that routine regression testing will
unearth bugs.
in the new docs.
DocTestRunner.__run: Separate the determination of the example outcome
from reporting that outcome, to squash brittle code duplication and
excessive nesting.
ldexp. Both methods are exact, and return the same results. Turns out
multiplication is a few (but just a few) percent faster on my box.
They're both significantly faster than using struct with a Q format
to convert bytes to a 64-bit long (struct.unpack() appears to lose due
to the tuple creation/teardown overhead), and calling _hexlify is
significantly faster than doing bytes.encode('hex'). So we appear to
have hit a local minimum (wrt speed) here.
components without division and without roundoff error for properly
sized mantissas (i.e. on systems with 53 or more mantissa bits per
float). Eliminates the previous implementation's rounding bias as
aptly demonstrated by Tim Peters.
to unittest, so make it official: new module constants COMPARISON_FLAGS
and REPORTING_FLAGS, which are bitmasks or'ing together the relevant
individual option flags.
set_unittest_reportflags(): Reworked to use REPORTING_FLAGS, and
simplified overly complicated flag logic.
class FakeModule: Removed this; neither documented nor used.
1) When a breakpoint is set via a function name:
- the breakpoint gets the lineno of the def statement
- a new funcname attribute is attached to the breakpoint
2) bdb.effective() calls new function checkfuncname() to handle:
- def statement is executed: don't break.
- a first executable line of a function with a breakpoint on the lineno of the
def statement is reached: break.
This fixes bugs 976878, 926369 and 875404. Thanks Ilya Sandler.
this module imports itself explicitly from test (so the "file names"
current doctest synthesizes for examples don't vary depending on how
test_generators is run).
s.join([t]) is t
for (s, t) in (str, str), (unicode, unicode), and (str, unicode).
For (unicode, str), verify that it's *not* t (the result is promoted
to unicode instead). Also verify that when t is a subclass of str or
unicode that "the right thing" happens.
- Improvements to interactive debugging support:
- Changed the replacement pdb.set_trace to redirect stdout to the
real stdout *only* during interactive debugging; stdout from code
continues to go to the fake stdout.
- When the interactive debugger gets to the end of an example,
automatically continue.
- Use a replacement linecache.getlines that will return source lines
from doctest examples; this makes the source available to the
debugger for interactive debugging.
- In test_doctest, use a specialized _FakeOutput class instead of a
temporary file to fake stdin for the interactive interpreter.
and intervening text strings.
- Removed DocTestParser.get_program(): use script_from_examples()
instead.
- Fixed bug in DocTestParser._INDENT_RE
- Fixed bug in DocTestParser._min_indent
- Moved _want_comment() to the utility function section
actual output into lines created spurious empty lines at the ends of
each. Those matched, but the fancy diffs had surprising line counts (1
larger than expected), and tests kept having to slam <BLANKLINE> into the
expected output to account for this. Using the splitlines() string method
with keepends=True instead accomplishes what was intended directly.
While a fancy diff can be confusing in the presence of ellipses, so far
I'm finding (2-0-0) that it's much more a major aid in narrowing down the
possibilities when an ellipsis-slinging test fails. So we no longer
refuse to do a fancy diff just because of ellipses.
This isn't ideal; it's just better.
rather than an expected output string. This gives the
output_difference method access to more information, such as the
indentation of the example, which might be useful.
NDIFF_DIFF->REPORT_NDIFF. This establishes the naming convention that
all reporting options should begin with "REPORT_" (since reporting
options are a different class from output comparison options; but they
are both set in optionflags).
to be more consistent with report_failure()
- If `want` or `got` is empty, then print "Expected nothing\n" or
"Got nothing\n" rather than "Expected:\n" or "Got:\n"
- Got rid of _tag_msg
* Add comment bars segregating this code from the rest.
* Improve readability of the re pattern with indentation and comments on
the same line.
* Replace the groupdict() and get() pair with a direct call to group()
which does the same thing.
exception message, or None if no exception is expected); and moved
exception parsing from DocTestRunner to DocTestParser. This is
architecturally cleaner, since it moves all parsing work to
DocTestParser; and it should make it easier for code outside
DocTestRunner (notably debugging code) to properly handle expected
exceptions.
a traceback message. I.e., examples that raise exceptions may no
longer generate pre-exception output. This restores the behavior of
doctest in python 2.3. The ability to check pre-exception output is
being removed because it makes the documentation simpler; and because
there are very few use cases for it.
This patch includes test cases and documentation updates, as well as NEWS file
updates.
This patch also updates the sre modules so that they don't import the string
module, breaking direct circular imports.
happen in 2.3, but nobody noticed it still was getting generated (the
warning was disabled by default). OverflowWarning and
PyExc_OverflowWarning should be removed for 2.5, and left notes all over
saying so.
* Make a pass to eliminate NOPs. Produce code that is more readable,
more compact, and a tiny bit faster. Makes the peepholer more flexible
in the scope of allowable transformations.
* With Guido's okay, bumped up the magic number so that this patch gets
widely exercised before the alpha goes out.
(Patch contributed by Nick Coghlan.)
Now joining string subtypes will always return a string.
Formerly, if there were only one item, it was returned unchanged.