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Guido van Rossum 77f6a65eb0 Add the 'bool' type and its values 'False' and 'True', as described in
PEP 285.  Everything described in the PEP is here, and there is even
some documentation.  I had to fix 12 unit tests; all but one of these
were printing Boolean outcomes that changed from 0/1 to False/True.
(The exception is test_unicode.py, which did a type(x) == type(y)
style comparison.  I could've fixed that with a single line using
issubtype(x, type(y)), but instead chose to be explicit about those
places where a bool is expected.

Still to do: perhaps more documentation; change standard library
modules to return False/True from predicates.
2002-04-03 22:41:51 +00:00
Tim Peters 8044055d82 Somebody made list.__dict__ grow a '__doc__' key, but apparently didn't
run the test suite afterwards.  Either that, or whether '__doc__' shows
up is platform-dependent!
2002-02-19 04:25:19 +00:00
Tim Peters a427a2b8d0 Rename "dictionary" (type and constructor) to "dict". 2001-10-29 22:25:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7b9144b2ee Halfway checkin. This is still messy, but it's beginning to address
the problem that slots weren't inherited properly.  override_slots()
no longer exists; in its place comes fixup_slot_dispatchers() which
does more and different work and is table-based.  (Eventually I want
this table also to replace all the little tab_foo tables.)

Also add a wrapper for __delslice__; this required a change in
test_descrtut.py.
2001-10-09 19:39:46 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3926a63d05 - Provisional support for pickling new-style objects. (*)
- Made cls.__module__ writable.

- Ensure that obj.__dict__ is returned as {}, not None, even upon first
  reference; it simply springs into life when you ask for it.

(*) The pickling support is provisional for the following reasons:

- It doesn't support classes with __slots__.

- It relies on additional support in copy_reg.py: the C method
  __reduce__, defined in the object class, really calls calling
  copy_reg._reduce(obj).  Eventually the Python code in copy_reg.py
  needs to be migrated to C, but I'd like to experiment with the
  Python implementation first.  The _reduce() code also relies on an
  additional helper function, _reconstructor(), defined in
  copy_reg.py; this should also be reimplemented in C.
2001-09-25 16:25:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a4cb78874c Change repr() of a new-style class to say <class 'ClassName'> rather
than <type 'ClassName'>.  Exception: if it's a built-in type or an
extension type, continue to call it <type 'ClassName>.  Call me a
wimp, but I don't want to break more user code than necessary.
2001-09-25 03:56:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 867a8d2e26 Change the name of the __getattr__ special method for new-style
classes to __getattribute__, to make it crystal-clear that it doesn't
have the same semantics as overriding __getattr__ on classic classes.

This is a halfway checkin -- I'll proceed to add a __getattr__ hook
that works the way it works in classic classes.
2001-09-21 19:29:08 +00:00
Tim Peters a0a6222509 Teach regrtest how to pass on doctest failure msgs. This is done via a
horridly inefficient hack in regrtest's Compare class, but it's about as
clean as can be:  regrtest has to set up the Compare instance before
importing a test module, and by the time the module *is* imported it's too
late to change that decision.  The good news is that the more tests we
convert to unittest and doctest, the less the inefficiency here matters.
Even now there are few tests with large expected-output files (the new
cost here is a Python-level call per .write() when there's an expected-
output file).
2001-09-09 06:12:01 +00:00
Tim Peters 90ba8d9c80 Force "test." into the start of the module name, inherited by class and
type reprs, to accomodate the way Jack runs tests on the Mac.
2001-09-09 01:21:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8bce4acb17 Rename 'getset' to 'property'. 2001-09-06 21:56:42 +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 95c99e57b3 Made a doctest out of the examples in Guido's type/class tutorial. 2001-09-03 01:24:30 +00:00