On error, call(), check_call(), check_output() and getstatusoutput() functions
of the subprocess module now kill the process, read its status (to avoid
zombis) and close pipes.
This was discussed some months ago on python-dev. Having tons of links
to the definition of True would be annoying, contrary to links to e.g.
the nonlocal or with statements doc.
The right-hand part in [extension: foo] is now used as the name of the
extension module. (I changed the separator from = to : and allowed
whitespace to make the sections look nicer.)
This huge module is the heir of six distutils modules, and contains
a number of miscellaneous functions. I have attempted to help readers
of the source code with an annoted __all__. Removed or deprecated
functions have been removed from the documentation; I’m working on
another patch to document the remaining public functions.
For the curious:
The unzip_file and untar_file were used by (or intended to be used by)
“pysetup install path/to/archive.tar.gz”, but the code presently used
shutil.unpack_archive and an helper function, so I just deleted them.
They’re still in the repository if we need them in the future.
The find_packages function is not used anymore but I want to discuss
module and package auto-discovery (in “pysetup create”) again before
removing it.
subst_vars now lives in sysconfig; rfc822_escape is inlined in
packaging.metadata. Other functions are for internal use only, or
deprecated; I have left them out of __all__ and sprinkled TODO notes
for future cleanups.
- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to file.write()
- Issue #11241: subclasses of ctypes.Array can now be subclassed.
Windows does set the errno attribute to ENOENT, but the error message
displays the Windows error number (3 -> ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND), not the
errno number (2 -> ENOENT).
The Unix errno corresponding to 3 is ESRCH, explaining the confusion,
which can be seen in the following snippet:
>>> shutil.rmtree("foo")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "Z:\default\lib\shutil.py", line 272, in rmtree
onerror(os.listdir, path, sys.exc_info())
File "Z:\default\lib\shutil.py", line 270, in rmtree
names = os.listdir(path)
WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified:
'foo\\*.*'
>>> e = sys.last_value
>>> e.errno
2
>>> e.winerror
3
>>> errno.errorcode[2]
'ENOENT'
For reference, see PC/errmap.h and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms681382%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
There was already a test for this, but it was complicated and had a
subtle bug (custom command objects need to be put in dist.command_obj so
that other command objects may see them) that rendered it moot.
Éric Araujo
Victor Stinner
Charles-François Natali
Benjamin Peterson
Antoine Pitrou
Ezio Melotti
Ross Lagerwall
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc