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Author SHA1 Message Date
Neil Schemenauer d2c1abe5ed Update for install-sh (SF #103717). 2001-02-10 20:10:52 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 9f8cdf58a2 Patches for AIX. Checked by Benjamin Collar. 2001-02-09 09:59:06 +00:00
Tim Peters 909bc1cf63 SF bug #131225: sys.winver is still '2.0' in python 2.1a2.
SF patch #103683: Alternative dll version resources.
Changes similar to the patch.  MarkH should review.
File version and Product version text strings now 2.1a2.
64-bit file and product version numbers are now
    PY_MAJOR_VERSION, PY_MINOR_VERSION, messy, PYTHON_API_VERSION
where
    messy = PY_MICRO_VERSION*1000 + PY_RELEASE_LEVEL*10 + PY_RELEASE_SERIAL
Updated company name to "Digital Creations 2".
Copyright now lists Guido; "C in a circle" symbol used instead of (C).
Comments added so this is less likely to get flubbed again, and
#if/#error guys added to trigger if the version number manipulations
above overflow.
2001-02-09 07:02:22 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 0872d9d2c2 Fixed UnboundLocalError for nested scopes 2001-02-05 17:36:46 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis e214baa209 Fix binfmt_register documentation to always register the right magic. 2001-02-04 22:37:56 +00:00
Tim Peters d66595fe42 Renamed _testXXX to _testcapiXXX. Jack is my hero -- good call! 2001-02-04 03:09:53 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer 693291ba23 Superseded by $(srcdir)/Makefile.pre.in. 2001-02-03 17:18:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ba38123b75 Clarify the news item about "from M import X" if "M is not a real
module" after a complaint from Tim.
2001-02-03 15:06:40 +00:00
Tim Peters b16c56f0ba Teach Windows build and installer about new _symtable module/DLL. 2001-02-02 21:24:51 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton d6b1cf9a55 Fix spelling errors.
Add note about _symtable.
Add note that 'from ... import *' restriction may go away -- and move
the whole entry closer to the top, because it might bite people.
2001-02-02 20:06:28 +00:00
Tim Peters 9ea17ac595 Patch derived from Trent's 101162: a Python/C API testing framework.
STILL NEEDS UNIX BUILD CHANGES.
2001-02-02 05:57:15 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 4c4fda0f57 add info about Grant Edwards' raw packet support 2001-02-02 03:29:24 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 0072d5aa33 continue now allowed in try block 2001-02-01 22:53:15 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 4589bd82da Add item about nested scopes.
Revise item about restriction on 'from ... import *'.  It was in the
wrong section and the section restriction was removed.
2001-02-01 20:38:45 +00:00
Fred Drake fb9d712721 Added comments about the weak reference support. 2001-02-01 20:00:40 +00:00
Tim Peters 0de88fc4b1 Change random.seed() so that it can get at the full range of possible
internal states.  Put the old .seed() (which could only get at about
the square root of the # of possibilities) under the new name .whseed(),
for bit-level compatibility with older versions.  This occurred to me
while reviewing effbot's book (he found himself stumbling over .seed()
more than once there ...).
2001-02-01 04:59:18 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 30dbd1429a Document the two changes to the mailbox.py module:
- All constructors grow an optional argument `factory' which is a
  callable used when new message instances are created by the next()
  methods.  Defaults to the rfc822.Message class.

- A new subclass of UnixMailbox is added, called PortableUnixMailbox.
  It's identical to UnixMailbox, but uses a more portable test for
  From_ delimiter lines.  With PortableUnixMailbox, any line that
  starts with "From " is considered a delimiter (this should really
  check for two newlines before the F, but it doesn't.
2001-01-31 22:14:01 +00:00
Tim Peters ee826f88c9 Docs for new Windows zlib build procedure. 2001-01-31 19:39:44 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 69c327988a add note about two kinds of illegal imports that are now checked 2001-01-30 01:27:28 +00:00
Moshe Zadka 6af0ce0501 Added news of function comparison and hashing by identity 2001-01-29 06:41:00 +00:00
Tim Peters 0149e84af2 SF bug #130306: statcache.py full of thread problems.
Fixed the thread races.  Function forget_dir was also utterly Unix-specific.
2001-01-28 05:07:00 +00:00
Tim Peters 547397c45b SF bug http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=130242&group_id=5470
SF patch http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=103453&group_id=5470
PyMember_Set of T_CHAR always raises exception.
Unfortunately, this is a use of a C API function that Python itself never makes, so
there's no .py test I can check in to verify this stays fixed.  But the fault in the
code is obvious, and Dave Cole's patch just as obviously fixes it.
2001-01-27 06:20:08 +00:00
Tim Peters 40ead76ed6 Added news about repr(string). 2001-01-27 05:35:26 +00:00
Tim Peters 85e2e4742d SF bug 130030: Claim of bad betavariate algorithm. 2001-01-26 06:49:56 +00:00
Tim Peters d52269bfd0 Fix bugs introduced by rewrite (in particular, time-based initialization
got broken).  Also added new method .jumpahead(N).  This finally gives us
a semi-decent answer to how Python's RNGs can be used safely and efficiently
in multithreaded programs (although it requires the user to use the new
machinery!).
2001-01-25 06:23:18 +00:00
Tim Peters d7b5e88e8e Reworked random.py so that it no longer depends on, and offers all the
functionality of, whrandom.py.  Also closes all the "XXX" todos in
random.py.  New frequently-requested functions/methods getstate() and
setstate().  All exported functions are now bound methods of a hidden
instance.  Killed all unintended exports.  Updated the docs.
FRED:  The more I fiddle the docs, the less I understand the exact
intended use of the \var, \code, \method tags.  Please review critically.
GUIDO:  See email.  I updated NEWS as if whrandom were deprecated; I
think it should be.
2001-01-25 03:36:26 +00:00
Barry Warsaw bbd89b66b1 PyObject_Dump() -> _PyObject_Dump()
PyGC_Dump() -> _PyGC_Dump()
2001-01-24 04:18:13 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 39e44d7a9c A few useful definitions if you're using gdb. Copy to ~/.gdbinit to
pull it in automatically.
2001-01-23 16:25:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1e33bdcb76 Added notes about setup.py and cygwin build; removed note about
the previous auto-configuring modules feature (already obsolete :-).
2001-01-23 03:17:00 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c201bf46b9 Get rid of weird @SET_CXX@ macro occurrence. 2001-01-23 01:53:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 89a27ec01c A few more contributors. 2001-01-23 00:06:20 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg ebb195b270 Updating NEWS to match the current state of affairs. 2001-01-20 10:34:52 +00:00
Thomas Wouters fe385251f4 Make the 'time' argument to the timemodule functions strftime, asctime,
ctime, gmtime and localtime optional, defaulting to 'the current time' in
all cases. Adjust docs, add news item. Also convert all argument-handling to
METH_VARARGS. Closes SF patch #103265.
2001-01-19 23:16:56 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f5c9e86333 Add Jason Tishler to the ACKS file 2001-01-19 16:29:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a88479f0e3 - Add note about complex numbers.
- Changed description of rich comparisons to emphasize that < and >
  (etc.) are each other's reflection.  Also use this word in the note
  about the demise of __rcmp__.
2001-01-18 14:28:08 +00:00
Tim Peters 691e0e95de Variant of SF patch 103252: Startup optimize: read *.pyc as string, not with getc(). 2001-01-18 04:39:16 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg ad7c98e264 This patch adds a new builtin unistr() which behaves like str()
except that it always returns Unicode objects.

A new C API PyObject_Unicode() is also provided.

This closes patch #101664.

Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg. Copyright assigned to Guido van Rossum.
2001-01-17 17:09:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f98eda01ab News item for rich comparisons.
(I'm going to check in some more uses of rich comparisons, but the
basic feature should be in place now.)
2001-01-17 15:54:45 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 573b54125d Add a NEWS item about function attributes. 2001-01-15 20:43:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 051e335d42 Add note about new and improved xrange(). 2001-01-15 19:11:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum da91f227ec Add note about ftplib defaulting to passive mode. 2001-01-15 16:36:08 +00:00
Tim Peters f29b64d243 Use the "MS" getline hack (fgets()) by default on non-get_unlocked
platforms.  See NEWS for details.
2001-01-15 06:33:19 +00:00
Tim Peters b9e202b2dc Added Jeffery Collins. 2001-01-14 05:04:40 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling f6f3a89fbd Mention new curses.panel module 2001-01-13 14:53:34 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 10a2787313 Document extensions to .pth files. 2001-01-13 09:54:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1cc8f83666 News about from...import. 2001-01-12 16:25:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ae72d87822 Typo. 2001-01-11 15:00:14 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f61f166bca Added a whole slew of news items. Not striving for completeness --
I've skipped all bugfixes, Unicode, distutils changes.  But this
should be a start!
2001-01-10 20:13:55 +00:00
Tim Peters 742bb6f9fd Clarification of new bisect module functions. 2001-01-05 08:05:32 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis be4c0f56a2 Recognize pyc files even if they don't end in pyc.
Patch #103067 with modifications as discussed in email.
2001-01-04 20:30:56 +00:00