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Martin v. Löwis a32c994129 Always generate floats for stat_result; fix configure test. 2002-09-09 16:17:47 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 94717ed1d4 Patch #606592: Subsecond timestamps in stat_result. 2002-09-09 14:24:16 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 5ccaf8f129 Apply diff3.txt (plus additional documentation)
from SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/554192

This adds two new functions to mimetypes:
guess_all_extensions() which returns a list of all known
extensions for a mime type, and add_type() which adds one
mapping between a mime type and an extension.
2002-09-06 16:15:58 +00:00
Neal Norwitz b567392bbf SF bug # 585792, Invalid mmap crashes Python interpreter
Raise ValueError if user passes a size to mmap which is larger
than the file.
2002-09-05 21:48:07 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 7165af23e6 Added "that" to correct grammar, the rest is due to wrapping 2002-09-05 21:42:24 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 979c74b969 added a bit about the change to the thread ticker 2002-09-03 21:25:14 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 8e790e7007 expose PYTHON_API_VERSION macro as sys.api_version. Closes patch # 601456. 2002-09-03 13:25:17 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 3aeb632c31 PEP 293 implemention (from SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/432401) 2002-09-02 13:14:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 45ec02aed1 SF patch 576101, by Oren Tirosh: alternative implementation of
interning.  I modified Oren's patch significantly, but the basic idea
and most of the implementation is unchanged.  Interned strings created
with PyString_InternInPlace() are now mortal, and you must keep a
reference to the resulting string around; use the new function
PyString_InternImmortal() to create immortal interned strings.
2002-08-19 21:43:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d8ab35c933 News about sets. (There's no documentation; if someone wants to
convert the doc strings to LaTeX, be my guest.)
2002-08-19 16:25:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f2f2a2c130 Fix spelling errors and note the addition of operator.pow() 2002-08-19 14:25:03 +00:00
Tim Peters 012c0a393a Newly-relaxed limits on random.randrange(). Also added some info about
Karatsuba's better cache behavior with extremely large multiplicands.
2002-08-16 03:40:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f808b891d6 Mention warnings about defining None. 2002-08-16 03:38:10 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson dd32a91cc0 This is my patch
[ 587993 ] SET_LINENO killer

Remove SET_LINENO.  Tracing is now supported by inspecting co_lnotab.

Many sundry changes to document and adapt to this change.
2002-08-15 14:59:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum add88060c1 Add notes about universal newlines. 2002-08-15 14:01:14 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fdb8648327 Add news about Fred's change to Py_InitModule4(). 2002-08-14 21:20:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9be8946a3e Add news about FutureWarning and PEP 237 stage B0.
Tim predicts that we might as well call this CassandraWarning.
2002-08-14 16:11:30 +00:00
Tim Peters 6000464d08 Added new function k_lopsided_mul(), which is much more efficient than
k_mul() when inputs have vastly different sizes, and a little more
efficient when they're close to a factor of 2 out of whack.

I consider this done now, although I'll set up some more correctness
tests to run overnight.
2002-08-12 22:01:34 +00:00
Tim Peters d64c1def7c k_mul() and long_mul(): I'm confident that the Karatsuba algorithm is
correct now, so added some final comments, did some cleanup, and enabled
it for all long-int multiplies.  The KARAT envar no longer matters,
although I left some #if 0'ed code in there for my own use (temporary).
k_mul() is still much slower than x_mul() if the inputs have very
differenent sizes, and that still needs to be addressed.
2002-08-12 17:36:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e343878eec New news about __class__ assignment restrictions and speed-up of
new-style object creation/deallocation.

Moved all news about type/class unification and new-stype classes to a
separate section at the top.
2002-08-12 03:42:03 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 6c70fca8b1 Revert what looks like a typo from the last checkin 2002-08-12 03:33:32 +00:00
Tim Peters 5af4e6c739 Cautious introduction of a patch that started from
SF 560379:  Karatsuba multiplication.
Lots of things were changed from that.  This needs a lot more testing,
for correctness and speed, the latter especially when bit lengths are
unbalanced.  For now, the Karatsuba code gets invoked if and only if
envar KARAT exists.
2002-08-12 02:31:19 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg cc8764ca9d Add C API PyUnicode_FromOrdinal() which exposes unichr() at C level.
u'%c' will now raise a ValueError in case the argument is an
integer outside the valid range of Unicode code point ordinals.

Closes SF bug #593581.
2002-08-11 12:23:04 +00:00
Mark Hammond 8f3afc7cd3 Clarify that the interruptable popen fixes aren't used under Win9x. 2002-08-10 06:26:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bffb2efee0 Credit to Oren for the file-iterator patch. 2002-08-09 17:17:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum deb0936795 News about the tempfile rewrite. 2002-08-09 17:16:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d81a9834f7 News about Neil's fix to correctly invoke __rmul__. 2002-08-09 15:57:34 +00:00
Barry Warsaw d79f683772 Describe new "str1 in str2" behavior. 2002-08-06 17:01:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b57089cdf8 Files are now their own iterator. The xreadlines method and module
are obsolete.
2002-08-06 16:20:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 40813b1dbc Typo: "now" --> "the new" 2002-08-05 15:24:19 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 98ce7b7ef1 IDLE support for PEP 263. 2002-08-05 15:11:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum de392d3f3f Add a small description of PEP 263. 2002-08-05 14:17:20 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 00f1e3f5a5 Patch #534304: Implement phase 1 of PEP 263. 2002-08-04 17:29:52 +00:00
Andrew MacIntyre 161ad0e16b OS/2 EMX now supported 2002-08-04 07:25:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4a57c33dff Adding the heap queue algorithm, per discussion in python-dev last
week.
2002-08-02 18:05:20 +00:00
Tim Peters f47630ff54 A blurb about the sort implementation. 2002-08-01 02:34:51 +00:00
Thomas Heller 085358a3e2 New functions for extension writers on Windows:
PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErr(), PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename().

Similar to PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename() and
PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(), but they allow to specify
the exception type to raise. Available on Windows.

See SF patch #576458.
2002-07-29 14:27:41 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 0cec0ffc78 Patch #573770: Implement lchown. 2002-07-28 16:33:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2d5389c08f News about StopIteration as a "sink state". 2002-07-23 03:44:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 79f0a106e6 Add news about strptime and socket.setdefaulttimeout(). 2002-07-23 03:32:08 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 1389f3e059 Move DL_IMPORT/DL_EXPORT to Build section, I think this is the correct place 2002-07-22 13:21:10 +00:00
Mark Hammond a5083ec3b3 Add note about DL_IMPORT deprecation.
[ 583894 ] doc DL_IMPORT/DL_EXPORT changes
2002-07-22 12:53:16 +00:00
Mark Hammond c0e35158fb Add a blurb on the 3 Windows bugs I worked on over the last couple of days. 2002-07-16 01:32:30 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 58e2ff2e81 Mention new encoding. 2002-07-12 14:40:04 +00:00
Tim Peters 7c321a80f9 The Py_REF_DEBUG/COUNT_ALLOCS/Py_TRACE_REFS macro minefield: added
more trivial lexical helper macros so that uses of these guys expand
to nothing at all when they're not enabled.  This should help sub-
standard compilers that can't do a good job of optimizing away the
previous "(void)0" expressions.

Py_DECREF:  There's only one definition of this now.  Yay!  That
was that last one in the family defined multiple times in an #ifdef
maze.

Py_FatalError():  Changed the char* signature to const char*.

_Py_NegativeRefcount():  New helper function for the Py_REF_DEBUG
expansion of Py_DECREF.  Calling an external function cuts down on
the volume of generated code.  The previous inline expansion of abort()
didn't work as intended on Windows (the program often kept going, and
the error msg scrolled off the screen unseen).  _Py_NegativeRefcount
calls Py_FatalError instead, which captures our best knowledge of
how to abort effectively across platforms.
2002-07-09 02:57:01 +00:00
Tim Peters c6a3ff634a SF bug 578752: COUNT_ALLOCS vs heap types
Repair segfaults and infinite loops in COUNT_ALLOCS builds in the
presence of new-style (heap-allocated) classes/types.

Bugfix candidate.  I'll backport this to 2.2.  It's irrelevant in 2.1.
2002-07-08 22:11:52 +00:00
Tim Peters 943382c8e5 Removed WITH_CYCLE_GC #ifdef-ery. Holes:
+ I'm not sure what to do about configure.in.  Left it alone.

+ Ditto pyexpat.c.  Fred or Martin will know what to do.
2002-07-07 03:59:34 +00:00
Tim Peters 1de41bfbc0 Stop trying to cater to platforms with a broken HUGE_VAL definition. It
breaks other platforms (in this case, the hack for broken Cray systems in
turn caused failure on a Mac system broken in a different way).
2002-07-03 03:31:20 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 7d650ca83b Implement the encoding argument for toxml and toprettyxml.
Document toprettyxml.
2002-06-30 15:05:00 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5a04aec384 Fix SF bug 546434 -- buffer slice type inconsistent. 2002-06-25 00:25:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c7c36503eb Mention private vars in __slots__. 2002-06-21 01:29:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fe0ca4a0f5 Mention pymemcompat.h. 2002-06-18 21:20:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f925782dae Minor tweaks to existing items (radian/degree, and UTF-16 readers.. 2002-06-18 20:43:18 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 3430d70e03 Apply diff2.txt from SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/566999
This patch enhances Python/import.c/find_module() so
that unicode objects found in sys.path will be treated
as legal directory names (The current code ignores
anything that is not a str). The unicode name is
converted to str using Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding.
2002-06-17 10:43:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9562bcf3bc Add Oren Tirosh and news about his patch. 2002-06-14 21:31:18 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 57454e57f8 This introduces stricter library/header file checking for the Berkeley DB
library.  Since multiple versions can be installed simultaneously, it's
crucial that you only select libraries and header files which are compatible
with each other.  Version checking is done from highest version to lowest.
Building using version 1 of Berkeley DB is disabled by default because of
the hash file bugs people keep rediscovering.  It can be enabled by
uncommenting a few lines in setup.py.  Closes patch 553108.
2002-06-14 20:30:31 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 1f68fc7fa5 SF bug # 493951 string.{starts,ends}with vs slices
Handle negative indices similar to slices.
2002-06-14 00:50:42 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 606edc1d97 Patch #568235: Add posix.setpgid. 2002-06-13 21:09:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2e82e717e6 Changed the extended slice example to show that you can reverse a
string with a [::-1] slice.
2002-06-13 11:41:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c5fe5eb8d2 SF bug 567538: Generator can crash the interpreter (Finn Bock).
This was a simple typo.  Strange that the compiler didn't catch it!
Instead of WHY_CONTINUE, two tests used CONTINUE_LOOP, which isn't a
why_code at all, but an opcode; but even though 'why' is declared as
an enum, comparing it to an int is apparently not even worth a
warning -- not in gcc, and not in VC++. :-(

Will fix in 2.2 too.
2002-06-12 03:45:21 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 5efaf7eac8 This is my nearly two year old patch
[ 400998 ] experimental support for extended slicing on lists

somewhat spruced up and better tested than it was when I wrote it.

Includes docs & tests.  The whatsnew section needs expanding, and arrays
should support extended slices -- later.
2002-06-11 10:55:12 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f90ae20354 Patch #488073: AtheOS port. 2002-06-11 06:22:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9f7549bfc7 Record the latest fixes. 2002-06-10 21:39:42 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a3fb4f7816 Patch #505375: Make doc strings optional. 2002-06-09 13:33:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5033c8e309 Add timeout mode. Clarify gnu_getopt. 2002-06-07 12:40:52 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 446a25fa3c Patch 473512: add GNU style scanning as gnu_getopt. 2002-06-06 10:58:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9923ffe2c0 Address SF bug 519621: slots weren't traversed by GC.
While I was at it, I added a tp_clear handler and changed the
tp_dealloc handler to use the clear_slots helper for the tp_clear
handler.

Also tightened the rules for slot names: they must now be proper
identifiers (ignoring the dirty little fact that <ctype.h> is locale
sensitive).

Also set mp->flags = READONLY for the __weakref__ pseudo-slot.

Most of this is a 2.2 bugfix candidate; I'll apply it there myself.
2002-06-04 19:52:53 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson b0dc1a38a1 Fiddle wording. 2002-06-04 18:27:35 +00:00
Neal Norwitz b5b5a260ea Fix SF bug #557436, TclError is a str should be an Exception
Make Tkinter.TclError derive from Exception, it was a string.
2002-06-04 17:14:07 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 474458da48 Add constants BOM_UTF8, BOM_UTF16, BOM_UTF16_LE, BOM_UTF16_BE,
BOM_UTF32, BOM_UTF32_LE and BOM_UTF32_BE that represent the Byte
Order Mark in UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings for little and
big endian systems.

The old names BOM32_* and BOM64_* were off by a factor of 2.

This closes SF bug http://www.python.org/sf/555360
2002-06-04 15:16:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2e4e02620b Surprising fix for SF bug 563060: module can be used as base class.
Change the module constructor (module_init) to have the signature
__init__(name:str, doc=None); this prevents the call from type_new()
to succeed.  While we're at it, prevent repeated calling of
module_init for the same module from leaking the dict, changing the
semantics so that __dict__ is only initialized if NULL.

Also adding a unittest, test_module.py.

This is an incompatibility with 2.2, if anybody was instantiating the
module class before, their argument list was probably empty; so this
can't be backported to 2.2.x.
2002-06-04 05:58:34 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 32a7e7f6b6 Change name from string to basestring 2002-05-31 19:58:02 +00:00
Neal Norwitz d68f5171eb As discussed on python-dev, add a mechanism to indicate features
that are in the process of deprecation (PendingDeprecationWarning).
Docs could be improved.
2002-05-29 15:54:55 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 34f20eac98 This is patch
[ 559250 ] more POSIX signal stuff

Adds support (and docs and tests and autoconfery) for posix signal
mask handling -- sigpending, sigprocmask and sigsuspend.
2002-05-27 15:08:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cacfc07d08 - A new type object, 'string', is added. This is a common base type
for 'str' and 'unicode', and can be used instead of
  types.StringTypes, e.g. to test whether something is "a string":
  isinstance(x, string) is True for Unicode and 8-bit strings.  This
  is an abstract base class and cannot be instantiated directly.
2002-05-24 19:01:59 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 47f3e2cb6c Add a bit of news about the email package fixes. 2002-05-20 00:14:24 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 87f59eeb0a Noted SF patch 552452 adding degree/radian conversions to mathmodule.c. 2002-05-13 04:17:32 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9b1df1db68 Noted change in ftplib 1.68 closing SF patch 553277. 2002-05-12 06:07:21 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer c9abc1de6b Remove news about PyMalloc_*. Do we need to say anything about
pymalloc?
2002-05-08 14:14:41 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 01f94bda38 Patch #552433: Special-case tuples. Avoid sub-type checking for lists.
Avoid checks for negative indices and duplicate checks for support of
the sequence protocol.
2002-05-08 08:44:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 21b23b09a2 Fix typos 2002-05-07 20:58:03 +00:00
Tim Peters 46c04e140c random.gauss() uses a piece of hidden state used by nothing else,
and the .seed() and .whseed() methods failed to reset it.  In other
words, setting the seed didn't completely determine the sequence of
results produced by random.gauss().  It does now.  Programs repeatedly
mixing calls to a seed method with calls to gauss() may see different
results now.

Bugfix candidate (random.gauss() has always been broken in this way),
despite that it may change results.
2002-05-05 20:40:00 +00:00
Fred Drake d0ba636541 Added notes related to the removal of deprecated features of the xrange type. 2002-05-02 21:28:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 7d28b73ec1 Added note about using the documentation build tools under Cygwin. 2002-05-02 21:17:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 7f781c9aab Add Pickler.clear_memo() so the pickle and cPickle modules are more similar. 2002-05-01 20:33:53 +00:00
Tim Peters 81b9251d59 Mostly in SequenceMatcher.{__chain_b, find_longest_match}:
This now does a dynamic analysis of which elements are so frequently
repeated as to constitute noise.  The primary benefit is an enormous
speedup in find_longest_match, as the innermost loop can have factors
of 100s less potential matches to worry about, in cases where the
sequences have many duplicate elements.  In effect, this zooms in on
sequences of non-ubiquitous elements now.

While I like what I've seen of the effects so far, I still consider
this experimental.  Please give it a try!
2002-04-29 01:37:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 26dd830123 Clarify that the strip changes also apply to Unicode. 2002-04-26 20:11:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7dab2426ca - New builtin function enumerate(x), from PEP 279. Example:
enumerate("abc") is an iterator returning (0,"a"), (1,"b"), (2,"c").
  The argument can be an arbitrary iterable object.
2002-04-26 19:40:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 517c7d4fd3 PyNumber_CoerceEx: this took a shortcut (not doing anything) when the
left and right type were of the same type and not classic instances.

This shortcut is dangerous for proxy types, because it means that
coerce(Proxy(1), Proxy(2.1)) leaves Proxy(1) unchanged rather than
turning it into Proxy(1.0).

In an ever-so-slight change of semantics, I now only take the shortcut
when the left and right types are of the same type and don't have the
CHECKTYPES feature.  It so happens that classic instances have this
flag, so the shortcut is still skipped in this case (i.e. nothing
changes for classic instances).  Proxies also have this flag set
(otherwise implementing numeric operations on proxies would become
nightmarish) and this means that the shortcut is also skipped there,
as desired.  It so happens that int, long and float also have this
flag set; that means that e.g. coerce(1, 1) will now invoke
int_coerce().  This is fine: int_coerce() can deal with this, and I'm
not worried about the performance; int_coerce() is only invoked when
the user explicitly calls coerce(), which should be rarer than rare.
2002-04-26 02:49:14 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer 89e3ee0ccf If Py_OptimizeFlag is false then always evaluate assert conditions, don't
test __debug__ at runtime.  Closes SF patch #548833.
2002-04-26 01:58:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 256705bca7 SF patch 546244 by John Williams: add Text.dump() method. 2002-04-23 13:29:43 +00:00
Anthony Baxter 8388895fe4 SF patch [ 545523 ] patch for 514433 bsddb.dbopen (NULL)
closes SF #514433

can now pass 'None' as the filename for the bsddb.*open functions,
and you'll get an in-memory temporary store.

docs are ripped out of the bsddb dbopen man page. Fred may want to
clean them up.

Considering this for 2.2, but not 2.1.
2002-04-23 02:11:05 +00:00
Tim Peters 639295f0a5 Enable universal newlines on Windows. Note that NEWS needs more words! 2002-04-21 07:30:30 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 1ec71ea48e Added note about new distutils commands. 2002-04-17 20:33:40 +00:00
Tim Peters 08e7295ef8 Windows installer: disabled Wise's "delete in-use files" uninstall
option.  It was the cause of at least one way UNWISE.EXE could vanish
(install a python; uninstall it; install it again; reboot the machine;
abracadabra the uinstaller is gone).

Bugfix candidate, but I'll backport it myself.
2002-04-16 20:48:01 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 068325ef92 Apply the second version of SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/536241
Add a method zfill to str, unicode and UserString and change
Lib/string.py accordingly.

This activates the zfill version in unicodeobject.c that was
commented out and implements the same in stringobject.c. It also
adds the test for unicode support in Lib/string.py back in and
uses repr() instead() of str() (as it was before Lib/string.py 1.62)
2002-04-15 13:36:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 862fe3c52e Add news about deprecated complex ops. 2002-04-15 12:36:47 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 06a83e90aa Patch #543447: Add posix.mknod. 2002-04-14 10:19:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4904204158 News for strip methods. 2002-04-13 00:59:05 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer 9344b14828 Add news about memory managent APIs changing. 2002-04-12 23:00:08 +00:00