particular, negative indexes work and they are limited by the actual length
of the names they represent (weekday and month names). This closes bug
#503202.
As promised in my response to the bug report, I'm not really fixing
it; in fact, one could argule over what the proper fix should do.
Instead, I'm adding a little magic that raises TypeError if you try to
pickle an instance of a class that has __slots__ but doesn't define or
override __getstate__. This is done by adding a bozo __getstate__
that always raises TypeError.
Bugfix candidate (also the checkin to typeobject.c, of course).
and (b) stop trying to prevent file growth.
Beef up the file.truncate() docs.
Change test_largefile.py to stop assuming that f.truncate() moves the
file pointer to the truncation point, and to verify instead that it leaves
the file position alone. Remove the test for what happens when a
specified size exceeds the original file size (it's ill-defined, according
to the Single Unix Spec).
dropping MS's inadequate _chsize() function. This was inspired by
SF patch 498109 ("fileobject truncate support for win32"), which I
rejected.
libstdtypes.tex: Someone who knows should update the availability
blurb. For example, if it's available on Linux, it would be good to
say so.
test_largefile: Uncommented the file.truncate() tests, and reworked to
do more. The old comment about "permission errors" in the truncation
tests under Windows was almost certainly due to that the file wasn't open
for *write* access at this point, so of course MS wouldn't let you
truncate it. I'd be appalled if a Unixish system did.
CAUTION: Someone should run this test on Linux (etc) too. The
truncation part was commented out before. Note that test_largefile isn't
run by default.
Adapter from SF patch 528038; fixes SF bug 527816.
The wrapper for __nonzero__ should be wrap_inquiry rather than
wrap_unaryfunc, since the slot returns an int, not a PyObject *.
In August, Greg said this looked good, so I'm going ahead with it.
The fix is different from the one in the bug report. Instead of using
a regular expression to extract the host from the url, I use
urlparse.urlsplit.
Martin commented that the patch doesn't address URLs that have basic
authentication username and password in the header. I don't see any
code anywhere in httplib that supports this feature, so I'm not going
to address it for this fix.
Bug fix candidate.
asyncore.poll, the select fails with EINTR, which the
code catches. However, the code fails to clear the
r/w/e arrays (like poll3 does), which means it acts as
if every descriptor had received all possible events.
Bug report and patch by Cesar Eduardo Barros
mmap_find_method(): this obtained the string to find via s#, but it
ignored its length, acting as if it were \0-terminated instead.
Someone please run on Linux too (the extended test_mmap works on Windows).
Bugfix candidate.
Fred Drake
Skip Montanaro
Martin v. Löwis
Jack Jansen
Michael W. Hudson
Neal Norwitz
Guido van Rossum
Tim Peters
Steven M. Gava
Jeremy Hylton
Andrew M. Kuchling
Piers Lauder
Barry Warsaw
Andrew MacIntyre