The attached patch enables Cygwin Python to
build cleanly against the latest Cygwin Tcl/Tk
which is based on Tcl/Tk 8.3. It also prevents
building against the real X headers, if installed.
The staticforward define was needed to support certain broken C
compilers (notably SCO ODT 3.0, perhaps early AIX as well) botched the
static keyword when it was used with a forward declaration of a static
initialized structure. Standard C allows the forward declaration with
static, and we've decided to stop catering to broken C compilers. (In
fact, we expect that the compilers are all fixed eight years later.)
I'm leaving staticforward and statichere defined in object.h as
static. This is only for backwards compatibility with C extensions
that might still use it.
XXX I haven't updated the documentation.
work with Mac OS X Aqua-Tk, all nicely within ifdefs.
The process is not for the faint of heart, though: you need to download
and install the (alfa) Aqua-Tk, obtain a few needed X11 headers from
somewhere else and then everything builds. To run scripts using Tkinter
you must build with --enable-framework, build Python.app in Mac/OSX
and run your Tkinter scripts with that. Then, about half the tests in
Demo/tkinter work (or at least do something).
Checking this in anyway because it shouldn't break anything, and newer
versions of Aqua-Tk will streamline the process.
- 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.
Direct use of interp->result is deprecated; changing this to
Tcl_GetStringResult(interp) everywhere fixed the problem of losing the
error message with TclError exceptions, on Windows.
http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=113803&group_id=5470
Add Unicode support and error handling to AsString(). Both AsString()
and Merge() now return NULL and set a proper Python exception
condition when an error happens; Merge() and other callers of
AsString() check for errors from AsString(). Also fixed cleanup in
Merge() and Tkapp_Call() return cleanup code; the fv array was not
necessarily completely initialized, causing calls to ckfree() with
garbage arguments!
(Also reindented some lines that were longer than 80 chars and
reformatted some code that used an alien coding standard.)
and a couple of functions that were missed in the previous batches. Not
terribly tested, but very carefully scrutinized, three times.
All these were found by the little findkrc.py that I posted to python-dev,
which means there might be more lurking. Cases such as this:
long
func(a, b)
long a;
long b; /* flagword */
{
and other cases where the last ; in the argument list isn't followed by a
newline and an opening curly bracket. Regexps to catch all are welcome, of
course ;)
The common technique for printing out a pointer has been to cast to a long
and use the "%lx" printf modifier. This is incorrect on Win64 where casting
to a long truncates the pointer. The "%p" formatter should be used instead.
The problem as stated by Tim:
> Unfortunately, the C committee refused to define what %p conversion "looks
> like" -- they explicitly allowed it to be implementation-defined. Older
> versions of Microsoft C even stuck a colon in the middle of the address (in
> the days of segment+offset addressing)!
The result is that the hex value of a pointer will maybe/maybe not have a 0x
prepended to it.
Notes on the patch:
There are two main classes of changes:
- in the various repr() functions that print out pointers
- debugging printf's in the various thread_*.h files (these are why the
patch is large)
Closes SourceForge patch #100505.
this patch adds a fast _flatten function to the _tkinter
module, and imports it from Tkinter.py (if available).
this speeds up canvas operations like create_line and
create_polygon. for example, a create_line with 5000
vertices runs about 50 times faster with this patch in
place.
instead. This seems more robust than returning an Unicode string with
some unconverted charcters in it.
This still doesn't support getting truly binary data out of Tcl, since
we look for the trailing null byte; but the old (pre-Unicode) code did
this too, so apparently there's no need. (Plus, I really don't feel
like finding out how Tcl deals with this in each version.)
1. In Tcl 8.2 and later, use Tcl_NewUnicodeObj() when passing a Python
Unicode object rather than going through UTF-8. (This function
doesn't exist in Tcl 8.1, so there the original UTF-8 code is still
used; in Tcl 8.0 there is no support for Unicode.) This assumes that
Tcl_UniChar is the same thing as Py_UNICODE; a run-time error is
issued if this is not the case.
2. In Tcl 8.1 and later (i.e., whenever Tcl supports Unicode), when a
string returned from Tcl contains bytes with the top bit set, we
assume it is encoded in UTF-8, and decode it into a Unicode string
object.
Notes:
- Passing Unicode strings to Tcl 8.0 does not do the right thing; this
isn't worth fixing.
- When passing an 8-bit string to Tcl 8.1 or later that has bytes with
the top bit set, Tcl tries to interpret it as UTF-8; it seems to fall
back on Latin-1 for non-UTF-8 bytes. I'm not sure what to do about
this besides telling the user to disambiguate such strings by
converting them to Unicode (forcing the user to be explicit about the
encoding).
- Obviously it won't be possible to get binary data out of Tk this
way. Do we need that ability? How to do it?
For more comments, read the patches@python.org archives.
For documentation read the comments in mymalloc.h and objimpl.h.
(This is not exactly what Vladimir posted to the patches list; I've
made a few changes, and Vladimir sent me a fix in private email for a
problem that only occurs in debug mode. I'm also holding back on his
change to main.c, which seems unnecessary to me.)
None in an argument list *terminates* the argument list: further
arguments are *ignored*. This isn't kosher, but too much code relies
on it, implicitly. For example, IDLE was pretty broken.
This was originally submitted by Martin von Loewis as part of his
Unicode patch; all I did was add special cases for Python int and
float objects and rearrange the object type tests somewhat to speed up
the common cases (string, int, float, tuple, unicode, object).
Jason Tishler
Martin v. Löwis
Mark Hammond
Jeremy Hylton
Neal Norwitz
Jack Jansen
Tim Peters
Guido van Rossum
Peter Schneider-Kamp
Thomas Wouters
Andrew M. Kuchling
Fred Drake