bag. It's clearly wrong for classic classes, at heart because a classic
class doesn't have a __class__ attribute, and I'm unclear on whether
that's feature or bug. I'll repair this once I find out (in the
meantime, dir() applied to classic classes won't find the base classes,
while dir() applied to a classic-class instance *will* find the base
classes but not *their* base classes).
Please give the new dir() a try and see whether you love it or hate it.
The new dir([]) behavior is something I could come to love. Here's
something to hate:
>>> class C:
... pass
...
>>> c = C()
>>> dir(c)
['__doc__', '__module__']
>>>
The idea that an instance has a __doc__ attribute is jarring (of course
it's really c.__class__.__doc__ == C.__doc__; likewise for __module__).
OTOH, the code already has too many special cases, and dir(x) doesn't
have a compelling or clear purpose when x isn't a module.
mapping object", in the same sense dict.update(x) requires of x (that x
has a keys() method and a getitem).
Questionable: The other type constructors accept a keyword argument, so I
did that here too (e.g., dictionary(mapping={1:2}) works). But type_call
doesn't pass the keyword args to the tp_new slot (it passes NULL), it only
passes them to the tp_init slot, so getting at them required adding a
tp_init slot to dicts. Looks like that makes the normal case (i.e., no
args at all) a little slower (the time it takes to call dict.tp_init and
have it figure out there's nothing to do).
64-bit INTs on 32-bit boxes (where they become longs). Also exploit that
int(str) and long(str) will ignore a trailing newline (saves creating a
new string at the Python level).
pickletester.py: Simulate reading a pickle produced by a 64-bit box.
recent classobject.c change. When calling an unbound method with no
instances as first argument, the error message has changed. The
message now contains the class name, but the output text being
compared to is too generic, so skip printing it.
lambda (anonymous functions?), function, xrange, buffer, cell (need to
fill in), and (some) descriptor types.
Also added a new test case for testing repr truncation fixes.
flag, which specifies external or resource intensive tests to
perform. This is used by test_largefile and test_socket_ssl.
-u/--use takes a comma separated list of flags, currently supported:
largefile, network.
usage(): New function. Note that the semantics of main() have changed
slightly; instead of returning an error code, it raises a
SystemExit (via sys.exit()) with the given error code.
main(): use_large_resources => use_resources
Also, added support for long-option alternative to the short
options.
_expectations: Added test_socket_ssl to the list of expectedly skipped
tests.
requires(): New function which can be used to `assert' that a specific
-u/--use resource flag is present. Raises a TestSkipped if not.
This is used in test_largefile and test_socket_ssl to enable
external or resource consumptive tests that are normally
disabled.
to stdout. Repaired by not printing at all except in verbose mode.
Made the test about 6x faster -- envelope analysis showed it took time
proportional to the square of the # of tasks. Now it's linear.
module has to deal with "class" HTML-as-deployed as well as XHTML, so we
cannot be as strict as XHTML allows.
This closes SF bug #453059, but uses a different fix than suggested in
the bug comments.
Tim Peters
Guido van Rossum
Fred Drake
Jack Jansen
Jeremy Hylton
Barry Warsaw
Finn Bock