The chief benefit of this change is that requests will now use
HTTP/1.1 instead of HTTP/1.0. Bump the module version number as part
of the change.
There are two possible incompatibilities that we'll need to watch out
for when we get to an alpha release. We may get a different class of
exceptions out of httplib, and the do_open() method changed its
signature. The latter is only important if anyone actually subclasses
AbstractHTTPHandler.
John J. Lee writes: "the patch makes it possible to implement
functionality like HTTP cookie handling, Refresh handling,
etc. etc. using handler objects. At the moment urllib2's handler
objects aren't quite up to the job, which results in a lot of
cut-n-paste and subclassing. I believe the changes are
backwards-compatible, with the exception of people who've
reimplemented build_opener()'s functionality -- those people would
need to call opener.add_handler(HTTPErrorProcessor).
The main change is allowing handlers to implement
methods like:
http_request(request)
http_response(request, response)
In addition to the usual
http_open(request)
http_error{_*}(...)
"
Note that the change isn't well documented at least in part because
handlers aren't well documented at all. Need to fix this.
Add a bunch of new tests. It appears that none of these tests
actually use the network, so they don't need to be guarded by a
resource flag.
test_tuple.py and test_list.py. Common tests for tuple, list and UserList
are shared (in seq_tests.py and list_tests.py). Port tests to PyUnit.
(From SF patch #736962)
Original idea by Guido van Rossum.
Idea for skipable inner iterators by Raymond Hettinger.
Idea for argument order and identity function default by Alex Martelli.
Implementation by Hye-Shik Chang (with tweaks by Raymond Hettinger).
Use case: Sometimes 'compiling' source files (with SWIG, for example)
creates additionl files which included by later sources. The win32all
setup script requires this.
There is no SF item for this, but it was discussed on distutils-sig:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2003-November/003514.html
by request of Donovan Preston. In return, he promised to use this
to create a Python OSA component, which would turn Python
into a first-class OSA scripting language (like AppleScript itself).
for Big String). This should make the tests pass on Win98SE. Note
that the docs only promise lengths up to 2048. Unfortunately this no
longer tests for the segfault I was seeing earlier, but I'm confident
I've nailed that one. :-) Fixes SF 852281. Will backport to 2.3.
unicode filenames"
Reorganize tests into functions so more combinations of
unicode/encoded/ascii can be tested, and while I was at it, upgrade to
unittest based test.
implement its locking scheme, this module implements a crude link() by
way of copying the source to the destination provided the destination
doesn't already exist.
library search path to include the extension directory. Without this,
the curses_panel extension can't find the curses extension/DLL, which
exports some curses symbols to it.
and left shifts. (Thanks to Kalle Svensson for SF patch 849227.)
This addresses most of the remaining semantic changes promised by
PEP 237, except for repr() of a long, which still shows the trailing
'L'. The PEP appears to promise warnings for operations that
changed semantics compared to Python 2.3, but this is not
implemented; we've suffered through enough warnings related to
hex/oct literals and I think it's best to be silent now.
Andrew M. Kuchling
Hye-Shik Chang
Raymond Hettinger
Walter Dörwald
Jeremy Hylton
Neal Norwitz
Jack Jansen
Steve Purcell
Thomas Heller
Brett Cannon
Michael W. Hudson
Tim Peters
Mark Hammond
Guido van Rossum
Andrew MacIntyre
Martin v. Löwis