Previously, if you hit ctl-c while the pager was active, the python that
launched the subprocess for the pager would see the KeyboardInterrupt in the
__exit__ method of the subprocess context manager where it was waiting for the
subprocess to complete, ending the wait. This would leave the pager running,
while the interactive interpreter, after handling the exception by printing
it, would go back to trying to post a prompt...but the pager would generally
have the terminal in raw mode, and in any case would be still trying to read
from stdin. On some systems, even exiting python at that point would not
restore the terminal mode. The problem with raw mode could also happen if
ctl-C was hit when pydoc was called from the shell command line and the pager
was active.
Instead, we now wait on the subprocess in a loop, ignoring KeyboardInterrupt
just like the pager does, until the pager actually exits.
(Note: this was a regression relative to python2...in python2 the pager
is called via system, and system does not return until the pager exits.)
Add also a new _PyTime_AsMicroseconds() function.
threading.TIMEOUT_MAX is now be smaller: only 292 years instead of 292,271
years on 64-bit system for example. Sorry, your threads will hang a *little
bit* shorter. Call me if you want to ensure that your locks wait longer, I can
share some tricks with you.
* _PyTime_AsTimeval() now ensures that tv_usec is always positive
* _PyTime_AsTimespec() now ensures that tv_nsec is always positive
* _PyTime_AsTimeval() now returns an integer on overflow instead of raising an
exception
* Rename _PyTime_FromObject() to _PyTime_FromSecondsObject()
* Add _PyTime_AsNanosecondsObject() and _testcapi.pytime_fromsecondsobject()
* Add unit tests
Use time.gmtime() instead of time.sleep(), because time.sleep() is no more
declared with METH_VARARGS but with METH_O. time.gmtime() is still declared
with METH_VARARGS and so it is called with PyCFunction_Call() which is the
target of the test_gdb unit test.
In practice, _PyTime_t is a number of nanoseconds. Its C type is a 64-bit
signed number. It's integer value is in the range [-2^63; 2^63-1]. In seconds,
the range is around [-292 years; +292 years]. In term of Epoch timestamp
(1970-01-01), it can store a date between 1677-09-21 and 2262-04-11.
The API has a resolution of 1 nanosecond and use integer number. With a
resolution on 1 nanosecond, 64-bit IEEE 754 floating point numbers loose
precision after 194 days. It's not the case with this API. The drawback is
overflow for values outside [-2^63; 2^63-1], but these values are unlikely for
most Python modules, except of the datetime module.
New functions:
- _PyTime_GetMonotonicClock()
- _PyTime_FromObject()
- _PyTime_AsMilliseconds()
- _PyTime_AsTimeval()
This change uses these new functions in time.sleep() to avoid rounding issues.
The new API will be extended step by step, and the old API will be removed step
by step. Currently, some code is duplicated just to be able to move
incrementally, instead of pushing a large change at once.
in debug mode to detect bugs earlier.
_PyUnicodeWriter_Finish() doesn't check if the read only string is consistent,
whereas it does check consistency for strings built by itself.
Flushing sys.stdout and sys.stderr in Py_FatalError() can call again
Py_FatalError(). Add a reentrant flag to detect this case and just abort at the
second call.
R David Murray
Serhiy Storchaka
Victor Stinner
Benjamin Peterson
Brett Cannon
Steve Dower