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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
Guido van Rossum c69343b69a News about dict.pop(). 2002-04-12 19:22:48 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 688357e035 Patch #512005: getrusage() returns struct-like object. 2002-04-08 21:28:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0986d8250f - A type can now inherit its metatype from its base type. Previously,
when PyType_Ready() was called, if ob_type was found to be NULL, it
  was always set to &PyType_Type; now it is set to base->ob_type,
  where base is tp_base, defaulting to &PyObject_Type.

- PyType_Ready() accidentally did not inherit tp_is_gc; now it does.

Bugfix candidate.
2002-04-08 01:38:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8ace1ab53a - Changed new-style class instantiation so that when C's __new__
method returns something that's not a C instance, its __init__ is
  not called.  [SF bug #537450]
2002-04-06 01:05:01 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 181e41ad40 Some more news. 2002-04-06 00:23:25 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 4179a01bb7 Comment about UTF-16 changes. 2002-04-05 12:15:05 +00:00
Tim Peters 3318792e5f SF bug 497854: Short-cuts missing for All Users
Fix Windows-specific install glitch.  Tested on Win2K, but I can't test
on XP.
Already checked in to the release22-maint branch.
2002-04-04 20:02:04 +00:00
Fred Drake fed7e85791 Add note about changes in xml.sax.expatreader. 2002-04-04 19:36:15 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 4626009493 Added note about updated freeze.py Tool. 2002-04-04 16:17:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 47834463d0 Add a note about bool. 2002-04-04 15:21:33 +00:00
Tim Peters 8deda70b16 Eliminate DONT_SHARE_SHORT_STRINGS. 2002-03-30 10:06:07 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 1142de3f5b Patch #527027: Allow building python as shared library. 2002-03-29 16:28:31 +00:00
Tim Peters 1f7df3595a Remove the CACHE_HASH and INTERN_STRINGS preprocessor symbols. 2002-03-29 03:29:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 95b62a6dd4 News for SF #535905. 2002-03-29 01:07:24 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 2e64c34850 Expose C library's gettext. Fixes #516412. 2002-03-27 18:49:02 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 0c766a0bb6 Change sys_exit to use METH_VARARGS.
sys.exit() now requires 0-1 arguments.  Previously 2+ arguments were allowed.
2002-03-27 13:03:09 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer 9d50d138e7 Add news about pymalloc being enabled. 2002-03-22 17:06:59 +00:00
Walter Dörwald b25c2b0a4a [Apply SF patch #504943]
This patch makes it possible to pass Warning instances as the first
argument to warnings.warn. In this case the category argument
will be ignored. The message text used will be str(warninginstance).
2002-03-21 10:38:40 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 5c137c2251 Patch #495598: add an -q (quiet) option to pycompile. 2002-03-18 12:44:08 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 587c98c863 Patch #430706: Persistent connections in BaseHTTPServer. 2002-03-17 18:37:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8c84255316 "Fix" for SF bug #520644: __slots__ are not pickled.
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).
2002-03-14 23:05:54 +00:00
Tim Peters fbf74f2acc News about zlib-1.1.4. 2002-03-14 19:06:01 +00:00
Tim Peters fb05db2cae file_truncate(): provide full "large file" support on Windows, by
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.
2002-03-11 00:24:00 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis cfeb3b6ab8 Patch #50002: Display line information for bad \x escapes:
- recognize "SyntaxError"s by the print_file_and_line attribute.
- add the syntaxerror attributes to all exceptions in compile.c.
Fixes #221791
2002-03-03 21:30:27 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 29001ff234 Patch #523268, #522027: return enhanced tuples. 2002-03-01 10:47:37 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 9986633609 Patch 520694: arraymodule.c improvements:
- make array.array a type
- add Py_UNICODE arrays
- support +=, *=
2002-03-01 10:27:01 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis b2c92f44d4 Patch #511193: Implement killpg in posixmodule. 2002-02-16 23:35:41 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg a5d2b4cb18 Break SSL support out of _socket module and place it into a new
helper module _ssl.

The support for the RAND_* APIs in _ssl is now only enabled
for OpenSSL 0.9.5 and up since they were added in that
release.

Note that socketmodule.* should really be renamed to _socket.* --
unfortunately, this seems to lose the CVS history of the file.

Please review and test... I was only able to test the header file
chaos in socketmodule.c/h on Linux. The test run through fine
and compiles don't give errors or warnings.

WARNING: This patch does *not* include changes to the various
non-Unix build process files.
2002-02-16 18:23:30 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 37aa580742 News about the new alias support. 2002-02-10 21:42:47 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg e92e0a944e Add news about PYC magic and changes to UTF-8 codec. 2002-02-09 11:28:43 +00:00
Tim Peters ab034fab03 Implement os.waitpid() for Windows, in a way that's compatible with Linux
where their capabilities intersect.  Would be nice if people using non-
MSVC compilers (Borland etc) took a whack at doing something similar for
them (this code relies on the MS _cwait function).
2002-02-01 11:27:43 +00:00
Tim Peters 11bd9944e5 New tempfile and os.open() gimmicks for Windows. 2002-02-01 00:52:29 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 9668b933e3 Patch #414775: Add --skip-build option to bdist command. 2002-01-12 11:27:42 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a55ffaeee9 Add a per-message fallback mechanism for translations. 2002-01-11 06:58:49 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 1be6419871 Add fallback argument to translation(). Request fallbacks on install.
Fixes #500595.
2002-01-11 06:33:28 +00:00
Fred Drake 3673612754 Added item about the webbrowser security fix. 2002-01-10 13:50:31 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 3e3eacb5fc Fixed "u#" parser marker to pass through Unicode objects as-is without
going through the buffer interface API.

Added tests for this to the _testcapi module and updated docs.
2002-01-09 16:21:27 +00:00
Neal Norwitz e790eae7cf Improve grammar 2002-01-01 21:14:12 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 93227275dc Patch #497126: Always compile dl. 2002-01-01 20:18:30 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 7198a525f3 Patch #494783: Rename cmp_op enumerators. 2002-01-01 19:59:11 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 649b75954a SF Patch #494863, file.xreadlines() should raise ValueError if file is closed
This makes xreadlines behave like all other file methods
(other than close() which just returns).
2002-01-01 19:07:13 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a6e975801e Patch #497098: build support for GNU/Hurd. 2002-01-01 18:41:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 606fe4e79f SF patch #497420 (Eduardo Pérez): ftplib: ftp anonymous password
Instead of sending the real user and host, use "anonymous@" (i.e. no
host name at all!) as the default anonymous FTP password.  This avoids
privacy violations.
2001-12-28 20:57:14 +00:00
Tim Peters 10a3bb53a8 SF bug #495548: troublesome #define in pyport.h
Removed the ancient "#define ANY void".

Bugfix candidate?  Hard call.  The bug report claims the existence of
this #define creates conflicts with other packages, which is easy to
believe.  OTOH, some extension authors may still be relying on its
presence.  I'm afraid you can't win on this one.
2001-12-25 19:07:38 +00:00
Tim Peters af8446f823 Added 2.3a1 section. 2001-12-21 21:36:50 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 52acb49298 Merge of the release22 branch changes back into the trunk. 2001-12-21 20:04:22 +00:00
Tim Peters 909c091646 Post-release fiddling -- prep for 2.2 final. 2001-12-14 23:16:18 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 0655745ab0 Merge last minute 2.2c1 changes from branch to trunk. 2001-12-14 20:47:12 +00:00
Fred Drake 6c01e25d9f Note the tighter complex() parameter checking. 2001-12-14 17:08:12 +00:00
Tim Peters 6272dfd99f Update Windows buildno for 2.2c1.
Update 2.2c1 release data in NEWS.
2001-12-13 19:34:00 +00:00
Tim Peters bf72fe2650 Added -Qnew news about the test_coercion.py failure. That's the only test
that still fails under -Qnew, and is so tied to details of current
behavior that fixing it before new division becomes the default is
impractical.
2001-12-11 21:43:14 +00:00
Tim Peters f582b82fe9 SF bug #491415 PyDict_UpdateFromSeq2() unused
PyDict_UpdateFromSeq2():  removed it.
PyDict_MergeFromSeq2():  made it public and documented it.
PyDict_Merge() docs:  updated to reveal <wink> that the second
argument can be any mapping object.
2001-12-11 18:51:08 +00:00
Tim Peters 25059d30c3 SF patch #489173: Make os.spawnv not block the interpreter, from
Anthony Roach.
Release the global interpreter lock around platform spawn calls.
Bugfix candidate?  Hard to say; I favor "yes, bugfix".
These clearly *should* have been releasing the GIL all along, if for no
other reason than compatibility with the similar os.system().  But it's
possible some program out there is (a) multithreaded, (b) calling a spawn
function with P_WAIT, and (c) relying on the spawn call to block all their
threads until the spawned program completes.  I think it's very unlikely
anyone is doing that on purpose, but someone may be doing so by accident.
2001-12-07 20:35:43 +00:00
Jack Jansen 1999ef4973 Test wether we are building on a case-insensitive filesystem (such
as OSX HFS+) and if so add an extension to the python executable, but
only in the build directory, not on the installed python.
2001-12-06 21:47:20 +00:00
Jack Jansen ffa260fb54 sys.platform is now "darwin" without digits appended. 2001-12-06 21:14:00 +00:00
Tim Peters 3caca2326e SF bug #488514: -Qnew needs work
Big Hammer to implement -Qnew as PEP 238 says it should work (a global
option affecting all instances of "/").

pydebug.h, main.c, pythonrun.c:  define a private _Py_QnewFlag flag, true
iff -Qnew is passed on the command line.  This should go away (as the
comments say) when true division becomes The Rule.  This is
deliberately not exposed to runtime inspection or modification:  it's
a one-way one-shot switch to pretend you're using Python 3.

ceval.c:  when _Py_QnewFlag is set, treat BINARY_DIVIDE as
BINARY_TRUE_DIVIDE.

test_{descr, generators, zipfile}.py:  fiddle so these pass under
-Qnew too.  This was just a matter of s!/!//! in test_generators and
test_zipfile.  test_descr was trickier, as testbinop() is passed
assumptions that "/" is the same as calling a "__div__" method; put
a temporary hack there to call "__truediv__" instead when the method
name is "__div__" and 1/2 evaluates to 0.5.

Three standard tests still fail under -Qnew (on Windows; somebody
please try the Linux tests with -Qnew too!  Linux runs a whole bunch
of tests Windows doesn't):
    test_augassign
    test_class
    test_coercion
I can't stay awake longer to stare at this (be my guest).  Offhand
cures weren't obvious, nor was it even obvious that cures are possible
without major hackery.

Question:  when -Qnew is in effect, should calls to __div__ magically
change into calls to __truediv__?  See "major hackery" at tail end of
last paragraph <wink>.
2001-12-06 06:23:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 33bab01da6 Fix SF bug #489581: __slots__ leak.
It was easier than I thought, assuming that no other things contribute
to the instance size besides slots -- a pretty good bet.  With a test
suite, no less!
2001-12-05 22:45:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d331cb5502 At the PythonLabs meeting someone mentioned it would make Jim really
happy if one could delete the __dict__ attribute of an instance.  I
love to make Jim happy, so here goes...

- New-style objects now support deleting their __dict__.  This is for
  all intents and purposes equivalent to assigning a brand new empty
  dictionary, but saves space if the object is not used further.
2001-12-05 19:46:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cd7b7d6110 Add note about fixed hash() of mutable objects. 2001-12-04 21:02:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cdbbd0a59d New about super. 2001-12-03 15:46:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4b80085ddd Fix for SF bug #485678.
slot_tp_descr_set(): When deleting an attribute described by a
descriptor implemented in Python, the descriptor's __del__ method is
called by the slot_tp_descr_set dispatch function.  This is bogus --
__del__ already has a different meaning. Renaming this use of __del__
is renamed to __delete__.
2001-12-03 00:54:52 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 714d2e2487 Patch #487275: windows-1251 charset alias. 2001-12-02 12:26:03 +00:00
Tim Peters cffed4bc21 SF bug 486278 SystemError: Python/getargs.c:1086: bad.
vgetargskeywords():  Now that this routine is checking for bad input
(rather than dump core in some cases), some bad calls are raising errors
that previously "worked".  This patch makes the error strings more
revealing, and changes the exceptions from SystemError to RuntimeError
(under the theory that SystemError is more of a "can't happen!" assert-
like thing, and so inappropriate for bad arguments to a public C API
function).
2001-11-29 03:26:37 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 652e1917c6 Properly set static options for tixBalloon and tixResizeHandle.
Expose Tix.ResizeHandle.{detach_widget,hide,show}.
Update Tix demos.
2001-11-25 14:50:56 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 3a89b2b131 Patch #484847: Default to netscape.exe on OS/2. 2001-11-25 14:35:58 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 560da62fc7 Rename get_referents to get_referrers. Fixes #483815. 2001-11-24 09:24:51 +00:00
Tim Peters b3c9af17d9 Add skeleton for 2.2c1 news. 2001-11-17 00:21:57 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 012852ba7f Merged in NEWS changes from the r22b2 branch. 2001-11-16 16:17:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3fc08d23c7 Group dict[ionary] news together; and use dict() instead of
dictionary().
2001-11-15 20:33:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3d27df0734 Correct the description of mixed multiple inheritance: the code
special-cases classic classes, it doesn't do anything about other
cases where different metaclasses are involved (except for the trivial
case where one metaclass is a subclass of the others).  Also note that
it's metaclass, not metatype.
2001-11-15 20:27:54 +00:00
Tim Peters 76f7fe37bb News about mixing classic and new-style classes in MI. 2001-11-15 20:02:21 +00:00
Tim Peters 5ebfd36afa CVS patch #477161: New "access" keyword for mmap, from Jay T Miller.
This gives mmap() on Windows the ability to create read-only, write-
through and copy-on-write mmaps.  A new keyword argument is introduced
because the mmap() signatures diverged between Windows and Unix, so
while they (now) both support this functionality, there wasn't a way to
spell it in a common way without introducing a new spelling gimmick.
The old spellings are still accepted, so there isn't a backward-
compatibility issue here.
2001-11-13 23:11:19 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 249aaeda0a Add note about assignment to __debug__ being an error. 2001-11-09 21:06:24 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 25ee87cc50 Patch #478654: Expose tk_chooseDirectory.
Also delegate kw arguments through ** calls.
2001-11-07 22:38:08 +00:00
Tim Peters 7a33d8bb64 News about OS/2 Visual Age C++ patches. 2001-11-05 02:51:07 +00:00
Tim Peters 169ded0d68 Finish SF patch 477059: __del__ on new classes vs. GC.
Just doc and NEWS here, about the change in gc.garbage meaning.
2001-11-03 19:57:21 +00:00
Tim Peters 7533587d43 Improved error msg when a symbolic group name is redefined. Added docs
and NEWS.  Bugfix candidate?  That's a dilemma for Anthony <wink>:  /F
did fix a longstanding bug here, but the fix can cause code to raise an
exception that previously worked by accident.
2001-11-03 19:35:43 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis b7b3260128 Patch #471120: Improved doc strings and new wrappers. 2001-11-02 23:48:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 692adf19cb News and attribution for SF bug #473009. 2001-10-30 03:03:03 +00:00
Tim Peters a427a2b8d0 Rename "dictionary" (type and constructor) to "dict". 2001-10-29 22:25:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7ad2d1eb8e Add __del__ callbacks. They are too useful to leave out.
XXX Remaining problems:

- The GC module doesn't know about these; I think it has its reasons
  to disallow calling __del__, but for now, __del__ on new-style
  objects is called when the GC module discards an object, for better
  or for worse.

- The code to call a __del__ handler is really ridiculously
  complicated, due to all the different debug #ifdefs.  I've copied
  this from the similar code in classobject.c, so I'm pretty sure I
  did it right, but it's not pretty. :-(

- No tests yet.
2001-10-29 22:11:00 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 86443216b7 News about the socket type and the HP-UX port. 2001-10-27 22:28:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 12d955c830 Some news. 2001-10-26 14:56:06 +00:00
Tim Peters 1fc240e851 Generalize dictionary() to accept a sequence of 2-sequences. At the
outer level, the iterator protocol is used for memory-efficiency (the
outer sequence may be very large if fully materialized); at the inner
level, PySequence_Fast() is used for time-efficiency (these should
always be sequences of length 2).

dictobject.c, new functions PyDict_{Merge,Update}FromSeq2.  These are
wholly analogous to PyDict_{Merge,Update}, but process a sequence-of-2-
sequences argument instead of a mapping object.  For now, I left these
functions file static, so no corresponding doc changes.  It's tempting
to change dict.update() to allow a sequence-of-2-seqs argument too.

Also changed the name of dictionary's keyword argument from "mapping"
to "x".  Got a better name?  "mapping_or_sequence_of_pairs" isn't
attractive, although more so than "mosop" <wink>.

abstract.h, abstract.tex:  Added new PySequence_Fast_GET_SIZE function,
much faster than going thru the all-purpose PySequence_Size.

libfuncs.tex:
- Document dictionary().
- Fiddle tuple() and list() to admit that their argument is optional.
- The long-winded repetitions of "a sequence, a container that supports
  iteration, or an iterator object" is getting to be a PITA.  Many
  months ago I suggested factoring this out into "iterable object",
  where the definition of that could include being explicit about
  generators too (as is, I'm not sure a reader outside of PythonLabs
  could guess that "an iterator object" includes a generator call).
- Please check my curly braces -- I'm going blind <0.9 wink>.

abstract.c, PySequence_Tuple():  When PyObject_GetIter() fails, leave
its error msg alone now (the msg it produces has improved since
PySequence_Tuple was generalized to accept iterable objects, and
PySequence_Tuple was also stomping on the msg in cases it shouldn't
have even before PyObject_GetIter grew a better msg).
2001-10-26 05:06:50 +00:00
Barry Warsaw d970fe4022 I went back and figured out the release date for Python 2.2a1. 2001-10-25 21:53:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 491921467c Note updated RISCOS port. Remove reference in the 2.1 release notes
to os.extsep -- that variable actually didn't exist in that release!
2001-10-24 20:51:44 +00:00
Tim Peters 98791affc8 Doc and NEWS changes due to Jeremy adding traceback objects to gc. 2001-10-23 01:59:54 +00:00
Fred Drake cb7a6b5bf7 Added two very tardy notes about the 2.2b1 release, fixed a typo. 2001-10-22 18:41:51 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 15e0353715 Add curses-related news items 2001-10-22 16:37:10 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 51c18166bb Fix some typos 2001-10-22 01:47:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c8e5645f15 Methods of built-in types now properly check for keyword arguments
(formerly these were silently ignored).  The only built-in methods
that take keyword arguments are __call__, __init__ and __new__.
2001-10-22 00:43:43 +00:00
Tim Peters 84362bc74a The usual post-release fiddling. 2001-10-19 17:55:30 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg b5507ecd3c Additional test and documentation for the unicode() changes.
This patch should also be applied to the 2.2b1 trunk.
2001-10-19 12:02:29 +00:00
Barry Warsaw f6fb171c9d Last minute updates for changes since 2.2a4. Unless Fred wants to add
anything about the hotshot profiler, this file is ready for the 2.2b1
Windows build.
2001-10-19 05:35:40 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton cb4414366b Add entry for RAND_xxx() functions in socket module. 2001-10-19 03:40:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1c486099ad Note the Unicode changes from SF patch #470578. 2001-10-19 02:05:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c524d952da SF patch #460805 by Chris Gonnerman: Support for unsetenv()
This adds unsetenv to posix, and uses it in the __delitem__ method of
os.environ.

(XXX Should we change the preferred name for putenv to setenv, for
consistency?)
2001-10-19 01:31:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 98bf58f1c6 SF patch #462296: Add attributes to os.stat results; by Nick Mathewson.
This is a big one, touching lots of files.  Some of the platforms
aren't tested yet.  Briefly, this changes the return value of the
os/posix functions stat(), fstat(), statvfs(), fstatvfs(), and the
time functions localtime(), gmtime(), and strptime() from tuples into
pseudo-sequences.  When accessed as a sequence, they behave exactly as
before.  But they also have attributes like st_mtime or tm_year.  The
stat return value, moreover, has a few platform-specific attributes
that are not available through the sequence interface (because
everybody expects the sequence to have a fixed length, these couldn't
be added there).  If your platform's struct stat doesn't define
st_blksize, st_blocks or st_rdev, they won't be accessible from Python
either.

(Still missing is a documentation update.)
2001-10-18 20:34:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6c4bce3b5c Note stricter tp_compare return value requirements. 2001-10-18 19:20:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 934d2a4310 Add a note about changes related to the weak reference objects. 2001-10-18 18:18:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a5343ccd28 SF bug #471720: ThreadingMixIn/TCPServer forgets close
Solved with a helper method that calls finish_request() and then
close_request().  The code is by Max Neunhöffer.
2001-10-18 18:02:07 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 61c5edf6fc Expose setgroups. Fixes feature request #468116. 2001-10-18 04:06:00 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9074ef6081 Add fix for getattr(obj, name, default). Rearrange a few things. 2001-10-16 21:34:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3c28863e08 Partial patch from SF #452266, by Jason Petrone.
This changes Pythread_start_thread() to return the thread ID, or -1
for an error.  (It's technically an incompatible API change, but I
doubt anyone calls it.)
2001-10-16 21:13:49 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 6f543b606d Add note about new zlib feature. 2001-10-16 20:42:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3eea25c3fa Reword the text on the demise of __dynamic__ somewhat, correcting a
typo.
2001-10-16 00:46:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 687ae00460 Get rid of __defined__ and tp_defined -- there's no need to
distinguish __dict__ and __defined__ any more.  In the C structure,
tp_cache takes its place -- but this hasn't been implemented yet.
2001-10-15 22:03:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a8bcf80e7b Note about fix in list comprehensions. 2001-10-15 15:53:58 +00:00
Tim Peters 04cf1d31d9 Add item about new "Edit with IDLE" menu entry created by Windows installer. 2001-10-09 22:39:40 +00:00
Tim Peters 659a60311d Allow the profiler's calibration constant to be specified in the constructor
call, or via setting an instance or class vrbl.
Rewrote the calibration docs.
Modern boxes are so friggin' fast, and a profiler event does so much work
anyway, that the cost of looking up an instance vrbl (the bias constant)
per profile event just isn't a big deal.
2001-10-09 20:51:19 +00:00
Tim Peters cce092d046 A brand new implementation of Profile.calibrate(). This measures an
actual run of the profiler, instead of timing a simplified simulation of
part of what the profiler does.  It computes a constant about 60% higher
on my Win98SE box than the old method, and the new constant appears much
more realistic.  Deleted the undocumented simple(), instrumented(), and
profiler_simulation() methods (which existed only to support the previous
calibration method).
2001-10-09 05:31:56 +00:00
Tim Peters 0a1fc4e389 Remove code and docs for the OldProfile and HotProfile classes: code
hasn't worked in years, docs were wrong, and they aren't interesting
anymore regardless.
2001-10-07 03:12:08 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 16628c9709 Document addition of chroot. 2001-10-04 22:46:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 50fda3ba26 Make new classes dynamic by default. 2001-10-04 19:46:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c4b09b4417 Add note about profile fix. 2001-10-04 10:19:00 +00:00
Tim Peters 1c9ca8726e Added a little type/class NEWS. 2001-10-04 06:43:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ed554f6fc7 Note removal of Demo/dns, point to PyDNS. 2001-10-02 23:15:37 +00:00
Tim Peters 7402f791a4 SF patch [#466616] Exclude imported items from doctest,
from Tim Hochberg.  Also mucho fiddling to change the way doctest
determines whether a thing is a function, module or class.  Under 2.2,
this really requires the functions in inspect.py (e.g., types.ClassType
is close to meaningless now, if not outright misleading).
2001-10-02 03:53:41 +00:00
Tim Peters 1ce3cf7749 SF patch [#466877] SIGBREAK is missing from signal module.
Patch from Steve Scott to add SIGBREAK support (unique to Windows).
2001-10-01 17:58:40 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 5868fb8df1 Undo last checkin. 2001-10-01 17:04:03 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 2fa69d7984 Patch #426880: Implement Listbox itemcget and itemconfigure. 2001-10-01 10:09:31 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 0daad598d0 Patch #462122: add readline startup and pre_event hooks. 2001-09-30 21:09:59 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 16dc7f44b1 Patch #462190, patch #464070: Support quoted printable in the binascii module.
Decode and encode underscores for header style encoding. Fixes bug #463996.
2001-09-30 20:32:11 +00:00
Tim Peters d38b1c74f3 SF [#466125] PyLong_AsLongLong works for any integer.
Generalize PyLong_AsLongLong to accept int arguments too.  The real point
is so that PyArg_ParseTuple's 'L' code does too.  That code was
undocumented (AFAICT), so documented it.
2001-09-30 05:09:37 +00:00
Tim Peters abf925f6bf Post-release fiddling (prep for 2.2b1). 2001-09-28 21:53:42 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 647d5e8f4a Fixed a minor typo. 2001-09-28 17:01:02 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 86fbaf8e67 Merged changes from 22a4 branch. 2001-09-28 15:26:12 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg bf99017bbb Added note about new StringIO/cStringIO feature. 2001-09-27 14:17:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 808eea70ec Separate out the type/class-related news and reword some items.
Add news items about comparisons, repr(), __class__ assignment.
2001-09-25 04:15:41 +00:00
Tim Peters 66c1a525e0 Make properties discoverable from Python:
- property() now takes 4 keyword arguments:  fget, fset, fdel, doc.
  Note that the real purpose of the 'f' prefix is to make fdel fit in
  ('del' is a keyword, so can't used as a keyword argument name).

- These map to visible readonly attributes 'fget', 'fset', 'fdel',
  and '__doc__' in the property object.

- fget/fset/fdel weren't discoverable from Python before.

- __doc__ is new, and allows to associate a docstring with a property.
2001-09-24 21:17:50 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 2f60073d2d Added a note about the new email package. 2001-09-24 04:28:10 +00:00
Tim Peters 2c9aa5ea8d Generalize file.writelines() to allow iterable objects. 2001-09-23 04:06:05 +00:00
Tim Peters 8a9c284437 Make difflib.ndiff() and difflib.Differ.compare() generators. This
restores the 2.1 ability of Tools/scripts/ndiff.py to start producing
output before the entire comparison is complete.
2001-09-22 21:30:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 380bad1b4e Add note about __getattribute__. 2001-09-22 17:10:44 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 58b072d53f {String,cString}IO.StringIO's support iteration. 2001-09-22 04:44:21 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg aefd766eed Note about enhancements to unicode(). 2001-09-20 12:59:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c9ed5dc81c News about compiler and pydoc. 2001-09-20 05:30:24 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 2777c021fc Patch #462849: Pass Unicode objects to file's .write method. 2001-09-19 13:47:32 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 494f2aea8e Docs and News item for the codecs.py additions. 2001-09-19 11:33:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 624c8af706 All the news that fits, we print.
(Went through the logs looking for nuggets.  This is what I found.)
2001-09-18 15:21:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d8185ca43e Mention SMTP additions and hmac module. 2001-09-14 16:35:16 +00:00
Tim Peters 59c9a645e2 SF bug [#460467] file objects should be subclassable.
Preliminary support.  What's here works, but needs fine-tuning.
2001-09-13 05:38:56 +00:00
Tim Peters 1f47d11ff2 Added items about significant subclass bugfixes. 2001-09-12 23:40:29 +00:00
Tim Peters 9a9471ca1c Add info about Windows filesystem limits. 2001-09-11 23:18:51 +00:00
Tim Peters 16a77adfbd Generalize operator.indexOf (PySequence_Index) to work with any
iterable object.  I'm not sure how that got overlooked before!

Got rid of the internal _PySequence_IterContains, introduced a new
internal _PySequence_IterSearch, and rewrote all the iteration-based
"count of", "index of", and "is the object in it or not?" routines to
just call the new function.  I suppose it's slower this way, but the
code duplication was getting depressing.
2001-09-08 04:00:12 +00:00
Tim Peters b07352e8b7 The usual post-release fiddling. 2001-09-08 01:25:47 +00:00
Barry Warsaw d6c8ca6536 Merging 2.2a3 branch changes back into trunk 2001-09-07 18:13:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8d7234d1dc Rename 'getset' to 'property'. 2001-09-06 22:02:58 +00:00
Steve Purcell 6091cd61ce Added note of unittest.py changes that fixed bug 451309 2001-09-06 16:05:17 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis cb227c9850 Report patch #416079 changes. 2001-09-06 08:54:16 +00:00
Tim Peters 6e13a562ae Enable large file support on Win32 systems.
Curious:  the MS docs say stati64 etc are supported even on Win95, but
Win95 doesn't support a filesystem that allows partitions > 2 Gb.

test_largefile:  This was opening its test file in text mode.  I have no
idea how that worked under Win64, but it sure needs binary mode on Win98.
BTW, on Win98 test_largefile runs quickly (under a second).
2001-09-06 00:32:15 +00:00
Tim Peters a40c793d06 Rework the way we try to check for libm overflow, given that C99 no longer
requires that errno ever get set, and it looks like glibc is already
playing that game.  New rules:

+ Never use HUGE_VAL.  Use the new Py_HUGE_VAL instead.

+ Never believe errno.  If overflow is the only thing you're interested in,
  use the new Py_OVERFLOWED(x) macro.  If you're interested in any libm
  errors, use the new Py_SET_ERANGE_IF_OVERFLOW(x) macro, which attempts
  to set errno the way C89 said it worked.

Unfortunately, none of these are reliable, but they work on Windows and I
*expect* under glibc too.
2001-09-05 22:36:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 32aa5d2c0b Describe -E (which was added to 2.2a2). 2001-09-05 18:43:35 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 44f8696171 Patch #428326: New class threading.Timer. 2001-09-05 13:44:54 +00:00
Tim Peters 785261684e Return reasonable results for math.log(long) and math.log10(long) (we were
getting Infs, NaNs, or nonsense in 2.1 and before; in yesterday's CVS we
were getting OverflowError; but these functions always make good sense
for positive arguments, no matter how large).
2001-09-05 00:53:45 +00:00
Tim Peters 7eea37e831 At Guido's suggestion, here's a new C API function, PyObject_Dir(), like
__builtin__.dir().  Moved the guts from bltinmodule.c to object.c.
2001-09-04 22:08:56 +00:00
Tim Peters 9fffa3eea3 Raise OverflowError when appropriate on long->float conversion. Most of
the fiddling is simply due to that no caller of PyLong_AsDouble ever
checked for failure (so that's fixing old bugs).  PyLong_AsDouble is much
faster for big inputs now too, but that's more of a happy consequence
than a design goal.
2001-09-04 05:14:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 61c345fa37 Rename the -D option to -Q, to avoid a Jython option name conflict. 2001-09-04 03:26:15 +00:00
Tim Peters 32f453eaa4 New restriction on pow(x, y, z): If z is not None, x and y must be of
integer types, and y must be >= 0.  See discussion at
http://sf.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=457066&group_id=5470&atid=105470
2001-09-03 08:35:41 +00:00
Tim Peters 5d2b77cf31 Make dir() wordier (see the new docstring). The new behavior is a mixed
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.
2001-09-03 05:47:38 +00:00
Tim Peters b7da09099a Clarify the Borland situation, based on email from Stephen. 2001-09-02 23:01:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum aaf80c8c87 Add news about dictionary() constructor. 2001-09-02 13:44:35 +00:00
Tim Peters bdee63fff3 Start items w/ "-" instead of "+" (consistency w/ earlier versions).
Stephen Hansen reported via email that he didn't finish the port to
Borland C, so remove the old item saying it worked and add a new item
saying what I know; I've asked Stephen for more details.
2001-09-02 03:40:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ae45714ed3 Add various and sundry news items -- most mine, one Barry's, one
Michael Hudson's.
2001-08-31 18:31:35 +00:00
Tim Peters d507dab91f SF patch #455966: Allow leading 0 in float/imag literals.
Consequences for Jython still unknown (but raised on Jython-Dev).
2001-08-30 20:51:59 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer 4042c69b5e Add news about GC API change. Explain how to upgrade extension modules. 2001-08-30 15:38:01 +00:00
Tim Peters 692323488b Add a new function imp.lock_held(), and use it to skip test_threaded_import
when that test is doomed to deadlock.
2001-08-30 05:16:13 +00:00
Tim Peters 8211237db8 marshal.c r_long64: When reading a TYPE_INT64 value on a box with 32-bit
ints, convert to PyLong (rather than throwing away the high-order 32 bits).
2001-08-29 02:28:42 +00:00
Tim Peters c6d958192e Note change in fp literal syntax (e.g. "3e-" worked by accident before). 2001-08-28 20:56:27 +00:00
Tim Peters 402d5985d8 SF patch [ #455137 ] Makes popen work with COMMAND.COM on WNT, from
Brian Quinlan.
2001-08-27 06:37:48 +00:00
Tim Peters edc9931f56 "The usual" post-release fiddling. 2001-08-22 21:36:50 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 18b2ecfa9a Add an item about Tim's new installer. This didn't make it into the
2.2a2 release, but it's still worth mentioning.
2001-08-22 20:26:56 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 6f3410deaa More NEWS for 2.2a2. 2001-08-22 04:08:41 +00:00
Jack Jansen 32ce0cdd30 Added a note about --enable-framework on Mac OS X. 2001-08-21 19:28:20 +00:00
Tim Peters 6cd6a82db9 A fiddled version of the rest of Michael Hudson's SF patch
#449043 supporting __future__ in simulated shells
which implements PEP 264.
2001-08-17 22:11:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f86ddd2971 Add note on type/class unification. 2001-08-17 21:21:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 339d0f720e Patch #445762: Support --disable-unicode
- Do not compile unicodeobject, unicodectype, and unicodedata if Unicode is disabled
- check for Py_USING_UNICODE in all places that use Unicode functions
- disables unicode literals, and the builtin functions
- add the types.StringTypes list
- remove Unicode literals from most tests.
2001-08-17 18:39:25 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis e3eb1f2b23 Patch #427190: Implement and use METH_NOARGS and METH_O. 2001-08-16 13:15:00 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling b053209af7 Fix typo 2001-08-15 15:54:56 +00:00
Tim Peters 0afb60951d Add blurb about cleanfuture.py. Fix misspelling in an older item. 2001-08-15 06:06:44 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 9b3be7f5d9 Document the new semantics for setting and deleting a function's
__dict__ attribute.  Deleting it, or setting it to a non-dictionary
result in a TypeError.  Note that getting it the first time magically
initializes it to an empty dict so that func.__dict__ will always
appear to be a dictionary (never None).

Closes SF bug #446645.
2001-08-14 18:35:02 +00:00
Tim Peters 5e824c37d3 SF patch #445412 extract ndiff functionality to difflib, from
David Goodger.
2001-08-12 22:25:01 +00:00
Tim Peters c173137391 Derived from SF patch #446899 Permit import of .pyw under Windows, from
David Bolen.
2001-08-04 08:12:36 +00:00
Tim Peters 6d6c1a35e0 Merge of descr-branch back into trunk. 2001-08-02 04:15:00 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg d627791cf1 Moved the news items about C API topics down to the C API section. 2001-07-31 14:42:42 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 48dbfe9aa2 Add news item about Unicode API name mangling. 2001-07-31 14:37:40 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 888fac020c Add news items. 2001-07-31 14:24:31 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 66b6e192b9 Patch #416224: add readline completion to cmd.Cmd. 2001-07-28 14:44:03 +00:00
Fred Drake b7cea6324a Add item about the new xml.sax.saxutils.quoteaddr() function. 2001-07-21 12:25:10 +00:00
Tim Peters 20f51a7b38 Get started on 2.2a2 NEWS. 2001-07-21 02:31:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 960fdf9ac3 Added the constants ascii_letters, ascii_lowercase, and ascii_uppercase
to the string module.  This was determined to be the right approach in
SF bug #226706.
2001-07-20 18:38:26 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f0473d511b Patch #412229: Add functions sys.getdlopenflags and sys.setdlopenflags.
Add dlopenflags to PyInterpreterState, and use it in dlopen calls.
2001-07-18 16:17:16 +00:00
Tim Peters 11a0d10845 Typo repair. 2001-07-17 18:48:00 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 55a78992da - Add news about generators.
- Change header to 2.2a1.
- Add separator between 2.2 and 2.1 news.
2001-07-17 17:22:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c7e4aca56c Add xmlrpc.
(Tim & I should agree on where to add new additions: I add them at the
top, Tim adds them at the bottom.  I like the top better because folks
who occasionally check out the NEWS file will see the latest news
first.)
2001-07-12 11:54:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 643d3916d5 News about xrange(). 2001-07-05 14:46:25 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 51acc8d363 Add an item about the extension to {}.update() to allow generic
mapping objects as an argument.
2001-06-26 20:12:50 +00:00
Tim Peters d6d010b874 Teach the UNPACK_SEQUENCE opcode how to tease an iterable object into
giving up the goods.
NEEDS DOC CHANGES
2001-06-21 02:49:55 +00:00
Tim Peters 52e155e31b Reformat decl of new _PyString_Join. Add NEWS blurb about repr() speedup. 2001-06-16 05:42:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 83213cc0a0 Add new built-in 'help' which invokes pydoc.help (with a twist). 2001-06-12 16:48:52 +00:00
Tim Peters 7a3bfc3a47 Added q/Q standard (x-platform 8-byte ints) mode in struct module.
This completes the q/Q project.

longobject.c _PyLong_AsByteArray:  The original code had a gross bug:
the most-significant Python digit doesn't necessarily have SHIFT
significant bits, and you really need to count how many copies of the sign
bit it has else spurious overflow errors result.

test_struct.py:  This now does exhaustive std q/Q testing at, and on both
sides of, all relevant power-of-2 boundaries, both positive and negative.

NEWS:  Added brief dict news while I was at it.
2001-06-12 01:22:22 +00:00
Tim Peters 7b9542a3f7 Initial support for 'q' and 'Q' struct format codes: for now, only in
native mode, and only when config #defines HAVE_LONG_LONG.  Standard mode
will eventually treat them as 8-byte ints across all platforms, but that
likely requires a new set of routines in longobject.c first (while
sizeof(long) >= 4 is guaranteed by C, there's nothing in C we can rely
on x-platform to hold 8 bytes of int, so we'll have to roll our own;
I'm thinking of a simple pair of conversion functions, Python long
to/from sized vector of unsigned bytes; that may be useful for GMP
conversions too; std q/Q would call them with size fixed at 8).

test_struct.py:  In addition to adding some native-mode 'q' and 'Q' tests,
got rid of unused code, and repaired a non-portable assumption about
native sizeof(short) (it isn't 2 on some Cray boxes).

libstruct.tex:  In addition to adding a bit of 'q'/'Q' docs (more needed
later), removed an erroneous footnote about 'I' behavior.
2001-06-10 23:40:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c341580afd Added quopri codec. 2001-06-06 13:30:54 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ebf94db60b Report on fnmatch.filter. 2001-06-06 06:25:40 +00:00
Tim Peters eb28ef209e New collision resolution scheme: no polynomials, simpler, faster, less
code, less memory.  Tests have uncovered no drawbacks.  Christian and
Vladimir are the other two people who have burned many brain cells on the
dict code in recent years, and they like the approach too, so I'm checking
it in without further ado.
2001-06-02 05:27:19 +00:00
Tim Peters 4324aa3572 Cruft cleanup: Removed the unused last_is_sticky argument from the internal
_PyTuple_Resize().
2001-05-28 22:30:08 +00:00
Tim Peters 15d4929ae4 Implement an old idea of Christian Tismer's: use polynomial division
instead of multiplication to generate the probe sequence.  The idea is
recorded in Python-Dev for Dec 2000, but that version is prone to rare
infinite loops.

The value is in getting *all* the bits of the hash code to participate;
and, e.g., this speeds up querying every key in a dict with keys
 [i << 16 for i in range(20000)] by a factor of 500.  Should be equally
valuable in any bad case where the high-order hash bits were getting
ignored.

Also wrote up some of the motivations behind Python's ever-more-subtle
hash table strategy.
2001-05-27 07:39:22 +00:00
Tim Peters 1af03e98d9 Change list.extend() error msgs and NEWS to reflect that list.extend()
now takes any iterable argument, not only sequences.

NEEDS DOC CHANGES -- but I don't think we settled on a concise way to
say this stuff.
2001-05-26 19:37:54 +00:00
Barry Warsaw ffd674d400 - calendar.py uses month and day names based on the current locale. 2001-05-22 16:00:10 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 12e74b3cf2 Added NEWS item for the UTF-16 change. 2001-05-22 08:58:23 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg fab96cc2ff Add NEWS item for new string methods. 2001-05-15 18:38:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2e0a654f6e Add warnings to the strop module, for to those functions that really
*are* obsolete; three variables and the maketrans() function are not
(yet) obsolete.

Add a compensating warnings.filterwarnings() call to test_strop.py.

Add this to the NEWS.
2001-05-15 02:14:44 +00:00
Tim Peters 58e0a8c130 SF patch #418147 Fixes to allow compiling w/ Borland, from Stephen Hansen. 2001-05-14 22:32:33 +00:00
Tim Peters 95b3f78622 pprint's workhorse _safe_repr() function took time quadratic in the # of
elements when crunching a list, dict or tuple.  Now takes linear time
instead -- huge speedup for even moderately large containers, and the
code is notably simpler too.
Added some basic "is the output correct?" tests to test_pprint.
2001-05-14 18:39:41 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1bd797a257 Fix a typo, consistently spell ASCII in all caps, and insert blank
lines between paragraphs in Mark Hammond's news item about the default
encoding in posixmodule.  Resist the temptation to reflow paragraphs.
2001-05-14 13:53:38 +00:00
Tim Peters a814db579d SF bug[ #423781: pprint.isrecursive() broken. 2001-05-14 07:05:58 +00:00
Mark Hammond 2a0af79269 Add mention of the default file system encoding for Windows. 2001-05-14 03:09:36 +00:00
Tim Peters 2f228e75e4 Get rid of the superstitious "~" in dict hashing's "i = (~hash) & mask".
The comment following used to say:
	/* We use ~hash instead of hash, as degenerate hash functions, such
	   as for ints <sigh>, can have lots of leading zeros. It's not
	   really a performance risk, but better safe than sorry.
	   12-Dec-00 tim:  so ~hash produces lots of leading ones instead --
	   what's the gain? */
That is, there was never a good reason for doing it.  And to the contrary,
as explained on Python-Dev last December, it tended to make the *sum*
(i + incr) & mask (which is the first table index examined in case of
collison) the same "too often" across distinct hashes.

Changing to the simpler "i = hash & mask" reduced the number of string-dict
collisions (== # number of times we go around the lookup for-loop) from about
6 million to 5 million during a full run of the test suite (these are
approximate because the test suite does some random stuff from run to run).
The number of collisions in non-string dicts also decreased, but not as
dramatically.

Note that this may, for a given dict, change the order (wrt previous
releases) of entries exposed by .keys(), .values() and .items().  A number
of std tests suffered bogus failures as a result.  For dicts keyed by
small ints, or (less so) by characters, the order is much more likely to be
in increasing order of key now; e.g.,

>>> d = {}
>>> for i in range(10):
...    d[i] = i
...
>>> d
{0: 0, 1: 1, 2: 2, 3: 3, 4: 4, 5: 5, 6: 6, 7: 7, 8: 8, 9: 9}
>>>

Unfortunately. people may latch on to that in small examples and draw a
bogus conclusion.

test_support.py
    Moved test_extcall's sortdict() into test_support, made it stronger,
    and imported sortdict into other std tests that needed it.
test_unicode.py
    Excluced cp875 from the "roundtrip over range(128)" test, because
    cp875 doesn't have a well-defined inverse for unicode("?", "cp875").
    See Python-Dev for excruciating details.
Cookie.py
    Chaged various output functions to sort dicts before building
    strings from them.
test_extcall
    Fiddled the expected-result file.  This remains sensitive to native
    dict ordering, because, e.g., if there are multiple errors in a
    keyword-arg dict (and test_extcall sets up many cases like that), the
    specific error Python complains about first depends on native dict
    ordering.
2001-05-13 00:19:31 +00:00
Tim Peters d85e102337 Variant of patch #423262: Change module attribute get & set
Allow module getattr and setattr to exploit string interning, via the
previously null module object tp_getattro and tp_setattro slots.   Yields
a very nice speedup for things like random.random and os.path etc.
2001-05-11 21:51:48 +00:00
Tim Peters 95bf9390a4 SF bug #422121 Insecurities in dict comparison.
Fixed a half dozen ways in which general dict comparison could crash
Python (even cause Win98SE to reboot) in the presence of kay and/or
value comparison routines that mutate the dict during dict comparison.
Bugfix candidate.
2001-05-10 08:32:44 +00:00
Tim Peters 61dff2b285 Blurb about the increased precision of float literals in .pyc/.pyo files. 2001-05-08 15:43:37 +00:00
Tim Peters e63415ead8 SF patch #421922: Implement rich comparison for dicts.
d1 == d2 and d1 != d2 now work even if the keys and values in d1 and d2
don't support comparisons other than ==, and testing dicts for equality
is faster now (especially when inequality obtains).
2001-05-08 04:38:29 +00:00
Tim Peters 8572b4fedf Generalize zip() to work with iterators.
NEEDS DOC CHANGES.
More AttributeErrors transmuted into TypeErrors, in test_b2.py, and,
again, this strikes me as a good thing.
This checkin completes the iterator generalization work that obviously
needed to be done.  Can anyone think of others that should be changed?
2001-05-06 01:05:02 +00:00
Tim Peters 75f8e35ef4 Generalize PySequence_Count() (operator.countOf) to work with iterators. 2001-05-05 11:33:43 +00:00
Tim Peters 1434299a99 Remove redundant line. 2001-05-05 10:14:34 +00:00
Tim Peters de9725f135 Make 'x in y' and 'x not in y' (PySequence_Contains) play nice w/ iterators.
NEEDS DOC CHANGES
A few more AttributeErrors turned into TypeErrors, but in test_contains
this time.
The full story for instance objects is pretty much unexplainable, because
instance_contains() tries its own flavor of iteration-based containment
testing first, and PySequence_Contains doesn't get a chance at it unless
instance_contains() blows up.  A consequence is that
    some_complex_number in some_instance
dies with a TypeError unless some_instance.__class__ defines __iter__ but
does not define __getitem__.
2001-05-05 10:06:17 +00:00
Tim Peters 2cfe368283 Make unicode.join() work nice with iterators. This also required a change
to string.join(), so that when the latter figures out in midstream that
it really needs unicode.join() instead, unicode.join() can actually get
all the sequence elements (i.e., there's no guarantee that the sequence
passed to string.join() can be iterated over *again* by unicode.join(),
so string.join() must not pass on the original sequence object anymore).
2001-05-05 05:36:48 +00:00
Tim Peters 432b42aa4c Mark string.join() as done. Turns out string_join() works "for free" now,
because PySequence_Fast() started working for free as soon as
PySequence_Tuple() learned how to work with iterators.  For some reason
unicode.join() still doesn't work, though.
2001-05-05 04:24:43 +00:00
Tim Peters 6912d4ddf0 Generalize tuple() to work nicely with iterators.
NEEDS DOC CHANGES.
This one surprised me!  While I expected tuple() to be a no-brainer, turns
out it's actually dripping with consequences:
1. It will *allow* the popular PySequence_Fast() to work with any iterable
   object (code for that not yet checked in, but should be trivial).
2. It caused two std tests to fail.  This because some places used
   PyTuple_Sequence() (the C spelling of tuple()) as an indirect way to test
   whether something *is* a sequence.  But tuple() code only looked for the
   existence of sq->item to determine that, and e.g. an instance passed
   that test whether or not it supported the other operations tuple()
   needed (e.g., __len__).  So some things the tests *expected* to fail
   with an AttributeError now fail with a TypeError instead.  This looks
   like an improvement to me; e.g., test_coercion used to produce 559
   TypeErrors and 2 AttributeErrors, and now they're all TypeErrors.  The
   error details are more informative too, because the places calling this
   were *looking* for TypeErrors in order to replace the generic tuple()
   "not a sequence" msg with their own more specific text, and
   AttributeErrors snuck by that.
2001-05-05 03:56:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3e360db159 Add TODO item about x in y -- this should use iterators too, IMO. 2001-05-04 13:40:18 +00:00
Tim Peters 3e067578f6 Added reminders to make some remaining functions iterator-friendly. Feel
free to do one!
2001-05-04 04:43:42 +00:00
Tim Peters 15d81efb8a Generalize reduce() to work with iterators.
NEEDS DOC CHANGES.
2001-05-04 04:39:21 +00:00
Tim Peters 4e9afdca39 Generalize map() to work with iterators.
NEEDS DOC CHANGES.
Possibly contentious:  The first time s.next() yields StopIteration (for
a given map argument s) is the last time map() *tries* s.next().  That
is, if other sequence args are longer, s will never again contribute
anything but None values to the result, even if trying s.next() again
could yield another result.  This is the same behavior map() used to have
wrt IndexError, so it's the only way to be wholly backward-compatible.
I'm not a fan of letting StopIteration mean "try again later" anyway.
2001-05-03 23:54:49 +00:00
Tim Peters c307453162 Generalize max(seq) and min(seq) to work with iterators.
NEEDS DOC CHANGES.
2001-05-03 07:00:32 +00:00
Tim Peters 0e57abf0cd Generalize filter(f, seq) to work with iterators. This also generalizes
filter() to no longer insist that len(seq) be defined.
NEEDS DOC CHANGES.
2001-05-02 07:39:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1031582388 Add more news about iterators. 2001-05-01 20:54:30 +00:00
Tim Peters f553f89d45 Generalize list(seq) to work with iterators. This also generalizes list()
to no longer insist that len(seq) be defined.
NEEDS DOC CHANGES.
This is meant to be a model for how other functions of this ilk (max,
filter, etc) can be generalized similarly.  Feel encouraged to grab your
favorite and convert it!
Note some cute consequences:
    list(file) == file.readlines() == list(file.xreadlines())
    list(dict) == dict.keys()
    list(dict.iteritems()) = dict.items()
    list(xrange(i, j, k)) == range(i, j, k)
2001-05-01 20:45:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ffe13be84d Noted what's new in 2.1 (final).
Hopefully this is the last checkin for 2.1!
2001-04-16 18:46:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5b08f13a0c Added news for 2.1c2.
Greatly updated news for 2.1c1 (!).
2001-04-16 02:05:23 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4fb60361dc Note additions to pydoc and pstats. 2001-04-13 00:46:14 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c993272786 Note that __debug__ assignments are legal again. 2001-04-12 02:31:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 34d37dc5d2 Noted the improved RISCOS port and the new Unixware 7 port. 2001-04-11 21:03:32 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 11e89c72c1 Added news about the updated python-mode.el 2001-04-11 20:37:57 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 68ad64af87 Remove the backed-out version requirement 2001-03-31 02:42:42 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton f626db77df News items for my recent checkins 2001-03-23 14:18:27 +00:00
Fred Drake 4e262a9631 A small change to the C API for weakly-referencable types: Such types
must now initialize the extra field used by the weak-ref machinery to
NULL themselves, to avoid having to require PyObject_INIT() to check
if the type supports weak references and do it there.  This causes less
work to be done for all objects (the type object does not need to be
consulted to check for the Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_WEAKREFS bit).
2001-03-22 18:26:47 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 8e9972c215 Added news items for the Distutils 2001-03-22 15:42:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 053ae3502c Add some news for 2.1b2. I'd still like someone else to add news
about these packages:

- distutils

- xml
2001-03-22 14:17:21 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 0411f6f135 Add section on 2.1b2.
Report the addition of the Tix module.
2001-03-21 08:01:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e3955a8ce2 Add some more info about pydoc. (Can you see I'm excited?) 2001-03-02 14:05:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9d0fbdeaf7 Add big news item about nested scopes, __future__, and compile-time
warnings.
2001-03-02 14:00:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9089b2769e ROSCOS change. 2001-03-02 06:49:50 +00:00
Tim Peters 2fe289a21b Thank Jason Tishler and Steven Majewski for their help in the Cygwin and
MacOS X ports.  Change section header to beta 1.
2001-03-01 22:19:38 +00:00
Tim Peters 1eff79674b Added blurbs about difflib, doctest and Windows import (PEP 235). 2001-03-01 02:31:33 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling d6a1d79d16 Mention pydoc 2001-02-28 21:05:42 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer a35c688055 Add Vladimir Marangozov's object allocator. It is disabled by default. This
closes SF patch #401229.
2001-02-27 04:45:05 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 2a5130ed20 Document XML changes. 2001-02-27 04:21:58 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling debc352e9c Mention the removal of soundex.c 2001-02-22 15:53:21 +00:00
Tim Peters 25a9ce371c Take a tour of hell's seedier neighborhoods to try to make winsound.Beep()
do something non-useless on Win9X boxes.  WinME unknown to me.  Someone with
NT/2000 make sure it still works there!
2001-02-19 07:06:36 +00:00
Tim Peters 3389f1999a Fixed misspelling. 2001-02-18 08:48:49 +00:00
Tim Peters 1449585529 Bug #132921: None treated differently in cmp() / sort() in 2.1a2.
Just mentioning that in the NEWS file.
2001-02-18 08:28:33 +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
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 40ead76ed6 Added news about repr(string). 2001-01-27 05:35:26 +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
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
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
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
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
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
Tim Peters 36cdad12dd Fred, THIS NEEDS DOCS! The function docstrings tell the tale.
Christmas present to myself:  the bisect module didn't define what
happened if the new element was already in the list.  It so happens
that it inserted the new element "to the right" of all equal elements.
Since it wasn't defined, among other bad implications it was a mystery
how to use bisect to determine whether an element was already in the
list (I've seen code that *assumed* "to the right" without justification).
Added new methods bisect_left and insort_left that insert "to the left"
instead; made the old names bisect and insort aliases for the new names
bisect_right and insort_right; beefed up docstrings to explain what
these actually do; and added a std test for the bisect module.
2000-12-29 02:06:45 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling a1099be778 Fix typo 2000-12-15 01:16:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3661d39474 Describe {}.popitem(). 2000-12-12 22:10:31 +00:00
Tim Peters d92dfe0ef5 SF bug 110843: Low FD_SETSIZE limit on Win32 (PR#41). Boosted to 512. 2000-12-12 01:18:41 +00:00
Tim Peters 9940b800a4 Made the description of %[udxXo] formats of negative longs in 2.1 more accurate.
I suggested to Guido that %u be deprecated (it seems useless in Python to me).
2000-12-01 07:59:35 +00:00
Tim Peters a3a3a030af Fox for SF bug #123859: %[duxXo] long formats inconsistent. 2000-11-30 05:22:44 +00:00
Tim Peters adfb94fd79 Typo repair. 2000-10-16 20:51:33 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton d867a2cc21 revise xml comment 2000-10-16 20:41:38 +00:00
Fred Drake 1a640506ec Updated the XML package comment. 2000-10-16 20:27:25 +00:00
Tim Peters 989b7b91a1 Filled in math-module info; fixed a typo or two. 2000-10-16 20:24:53 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton d6e2023107 Add NEWS for 2.0 final (there are a few XXX comments that must be
addressed).

Fix a few nits in 2.0c1 news.
2000-10-16 20:08:38 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 6040aaa9a2 add note explaining what a release candidate is 2000-10-09 21:27:22 +00:00
Tim Peters 46446d6242 Repaired IDLE Unicode bug description.
Added tokenize.py bugfix info.
2000-10-09 21:19:31 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 32e20ff838 typo 2000-10-09 19:48:11 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 109212037b added better description of BeOS changes from Donn Cave 2000-10-09 18:34:12 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton ed9e644793 Summary of changes between 2.0b2 and 2.0c1 2000-10-09 18:26:42 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 625915eb4f typo 2000-10-02 13:43:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 9f11cf8811 Capitalized an "if" that should have been -- noted by Grant Griffin
<grant.griffin@honeywell.com>.
2000-09-29 17:54:40 +00:00
Fred Drake 45888ffbd4 Added a missing "is" -- noted by Grant Griffin
<grant.griffin@honeywell.com>.
2000-09-29 17:09:11 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 97693b0479 Fix GC news 2000-09-26 17:42:51 +00:00
Fred Drake 67233bc405 Fixed typo, description of changes to dbm module. 2000-09-26 16:40:27 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton fa2e2c1469 The rest of the news for 2.0b2 2000-09-26 16:31:30 +00:00
Fred Drake 64bb380c09 Elaborated the notes on the XML support.
In the limits.h comment, noted that INT_MAX and LONG_MAX are guaranteed
to be defined.

Noted that Reliant UNIX now gets proper API support for extension modules.
2000-09-26 16:21:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f62ed9c775 Fixed some typos, added some punctuation (e.g. consistently terminate
sentences with a period and put () after function/method names), and
filled in the blanks on mailbox and posixfile.  Noted <limits.h> change.
2000-09-26 11:16:10 +00:00
Tim Peters 482c021b6a New info and fixed some typos. 2000-09-26 06:33:09 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 1b6185941e partial list of changes between 2.0b1 and 2.0b2 2000-09-26 05:32:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 56db095018 Another typo (in the list comprehension example). 2000-09-06 23:34:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4338a284b8 Fix three typos. 2000-09-06 13:02:08 +00:00
Tim Peters 8b09233f93 Added Windows news. Also repeated 1.6 Windows news since most people getting
2.0b1 for Windows will not have bothered getting 1.6.  Also changed
"Changed, New, Obsolete Tools" to say "None" since nobody had put an entry
there.
2000-09-05 20:15:25 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 24c3d6080d All the NEWS that I could finish in 15 minutes (and then some)
Removed some attributions from the shorter entries in Changed Modules,
because that section is so long.
2000-09-05 19:36:26 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton bdebd54571 current progress on 2.0 NEWS 2000-09-05 18:28:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b1156badb4 The malloc rearrangement was actually already in 1.6. 2000-09-05 15:43:23 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 830ca2af5a Added readline news. (Skip) 2000-09-05 15:34:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e905e95721 Barry Warsaw: Fixed -+ operator. Added some new sections. Leave some
XXX notes for now.

I could use help here!!!!  Please mail me patches ASAP.  We may have
to put some of this off to 2.0final, but it's best to have it in shape
now...
2000-09-05 12:42:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f2ffce0518 Added the 2.0b1 news. 2000-09-05 04:38:34 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8ed602b6e2 Remove the 1.5.2 news. 2.0 news is still to be done. 2000-09-01 22:34:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b65a43a970 News for 1.5.2 (final). 1999-04-13 15:52:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 437cfe842f News for the 1.5.2c1 release. 1999-04-08 20:17:57 +00:00
Fred Drake 0df2188d08 Typo: "apparentlt" --> "apparently" 1999-02-22 15:38:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 74608e6a05 New in 1.5.2b2. 1999-02-18 16:02:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum de8b026148 Added shlex and netrc modules; added warning about urllib change
affecting subclasses (which Jeremy just found out).
1998-12-22 16:41:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e96bd3f60f News for 1.5.2b1. Moved news before 1.5.1 to HISTORY. 1998-12-21 21:45:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e8c10f90a7 All the news that's fit to print. In other words, it's 1.5.2a2 time. 1998-10-17 19:43:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 27b3bc3fbf Reordered the news to make it more accessible. Also removed some dups. 1998-08-11 18:42:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ab9d6f0be9 Got all the 1.5.2 news that's fit to print. Now we may need to
organize it better...
1998-08-10 22:01:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6ca3defcfa mini-faq on porting python 1998-08-10 16:36:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f5475c95a7 Checkpointing news for 1.5.2a1... (Not all done.) 1998-08-06 17:55:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fc8f5d1a7f typo (pwill -> will). 1998-08-04 22:58:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 974f295dd4 Some more new stuff. 1998-04-13 21:00:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c45cf02938 Added changes from 1.5 to 1.5.1.
The sections are now in a more useful order: the most recent changes
are listed first.
1998-04-10 20:06:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fbea1d35db Added from 1.5b2 to 1.5. 1997-12-31 00:04:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 105ff952bd Typed in the relevant changes since 1.5b1. 1997-12-11 20:35:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2888a12eed Add attributions to Jeffrey Ollie and Tim Peters for re.py. 1997-12-02 19:44:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7ea639b133 Added list of what's new in 1.5b1. Changed intro and some section titles. 1997-11-26 16:36:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9a513efffa Final touch -- Don's SGI_ABI patches. 1997-10-09 23:32:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 764a377cef Typo in description of news in errno; added setlocale() call. 1997-10-08 22:49:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b68b77f62d A few last-minute additions and some rearrangements and corrections.
What's "xlib"?  I took the line that mentioned it out.
1997-10-07 19:12:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 92664b890b Completed the changes between 1.5a3 and now. Not yet sorted though. 1997-10-07 00:12:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1f83ccee88 Done with adding changes from 1.4 till 1.5a3. 1997-10-06 21:04:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 522578e90f Complete log of changes since 1.5a3 at the end. 1997-08-28 03:43:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2da391f387 I'm tired -- checking in more news items. This isn't complete; I'm
about halfways.
1997-08-18 21:17:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 61000333bf Another checkpoint -- reorganized, in sections. 1997-08-15 04:39:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f0b69f01eb Checkpoint checkin of list of changes. Much more to follow, but it's
late...
1997-08-15 02:50:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5624abd086 Emptied (in expectation of a laundry list of what's new in 1.5). 1997-07-19 20:45:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7704bb7f32 Added last-minute changes. 1996-10-25 14:21:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 02afd080ec Added all current changes. 1996-10-22 02:16:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 52a42fe9e7 Remove the entry for private variables (it's supposed to be a surprise!) 1996-08-26 18:23:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5f9aa9e1f0 Some final changes. I'll give up on nicely reformatting and
structuring it, for now.
1996-08-26 18:22:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4a67a16d8f Added all changes in beta1 and beta3.
Still very rough (needs reordering etc.).
1996-08-26 02:40:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 64d376a670 New .pyc magic numnber, too. 1996-08-01 01:06:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ccdfce386a Exhaustive list of news in beta2 compared to beta1.
Now all we need to do is do the same for beta1 compared to 1.3.
1996-07-30 21:34:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c30e95f4b0 Moved 1.3 news to HISTORY; put some 1.4 news in NEWS 1996-07-30 18:53:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bf032a97b9 mention syslog upgrade 1995-10-11 19:28:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5e639d446c transcribed changes from tut.tex 1995-10-11 18:03:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0082c1a121 updates for final release of 1.2 1995-04-10 11:52:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 04cba5bcec the usual 1995-03-09 14:44:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5426ab33d9 1.2beta news 1995-01-17 17:00:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 635649f90f next release 1994-11-10 23:04:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ac5a4e39ca add hints about doco 1994-10-11 15:04:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1146c8736a final release date of release 1.1 is Oct 11 1994-10-10 18:05:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum aa25386fc2 Moved older news to HISTORY file 1994-10-06 17:18:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 061f182a16 For release 1.1 1994-10-06 16:03:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8c9736561b ACKS: some new names; NEWS: 1.0.3 1994-07-14 13:57:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5c74304731 News for 1.0.2 1994-05-04 13:10:17 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 617536e6cf Added news 1994-04-14 13:01:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5125908d2b Amrit Prem 1994-01-26 18:20:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a85d053135 Initial revision 1994-01-26 17:24:14 +00:00