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Author SHA1 Message Date
Raymond Hettinger 9543b34006 SF patch #670423: Add missing identity tests to operator.c 2003-01-18 23:22:20 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 0c6774d92b Patch #661719: Expose compilation errors as exceptions on request. 2003-01-15 11:51:06 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis d69663d300 Patch #473586: Implement CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler. 2003-01-15 11:37:23 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 50e92235e7 Explicitly raise an exception in __cmp__ -- this clarifies that cmp()
is not supported on sets.  (Unfortunately, sorting a list of sets may
still return random results because it uses < exclusively, but for
sets that inly implements a partial ordering.  Oh well.)
2003-01-14 16:45:04 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 1a9975014f Fix SF bug #667147, Segmentation fault printing str subclass
Fix infinite recursion which occurred when printing an object
whose __str__() returned self.

Will backport
2003-01-13 20:13:12 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 74a032ea1f SF #639945 was fixed in alpha 1 2003-01-10 23:29:48 +00:00
Neal Norwitz e931ed59d3 Fix SF bug # 602259, 3rd parameter for Tkinter.scan_dragto
Add the optional gain parameter and pass it to Tk.
2003-01-10 23:24:32 +00:00
Neal Norwitz df8b47fc80 SF #665913, Fix mmap module core dump with unix
Closing an mmap'ed file (calling munmap) twice on Solaris caused a core dump.
2003-01-10 20:57:54 +00:00
Tim Peters 0bf60bd67f Utterly minimal changes to collapse datetimetz into datetime, and timetz
into time.  This is little more than *exporting* the datetimetz object
under the name "datetime", and similarly for timetz.  A good implementation
of this change requires more work, but this is fully functional if you
don't stare too hard at the internals (e.g., right now a type named
"datetime" shows up as a base class of the type named "datetime").  The
docs also need extensive revision, not part of this checkin.
2003-01-08 20:40:01 +00:00
Jack Jansen 05d284b7aa Made "ascii" the default encoding for MacPython, as suggested by MvL, and ripped out my previous changes to test_unicode. Doing this for 2.3a1 should give people enough time to complain, if they want to, and then we can see whether we want to do anything about it. 2003-01-08 16:29:17 +00:00
Thomas Heller 6c64fa7dda Mention the change from patch #664376. 2003-01-08 15:14:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cd0c047619 Note about rexec.py and Bastion.py. This requires doc changes and
whatsnew updates as well.
2003-01-07 23:03:05 +00:00
Barry Warsaw f8ba39c4c0 A note about EX_OK and friends in the posixmodule. 2003-01-07 20:55:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6d0d3655af Fix from Michael Stone for SF bug #660476 and #513033 (bogus thread
state swaps in readline).
2003-01-07 20:34:19 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 4f442372cc SF feature #618024, urlparse fails on imap:// 2003-01-06 06:51:36 +00:00
Neal Norwitz b9ef4aea5e SF #651082, tarfile module implementation from Lars Gustäbel 2003-01-05 23:19:43 +00:00
Tim Peters 75a6e3bd1a datetime_from_timet_and_us(): ignore leap seconds if the platform
localtime()/gmtime() insists on delivering them, + associated doc
changes.

Redid the docs for datetimtez.astimezone().
2003-01-04 18:17:36 +00:00
Tim Peters adf642038e A new implementation of astimezone() that does what we agreed on in all
cases, plus even tougher tests of that.  This implementation follows
the correctness proof very closely, and should also be quicker (yes,
I wrote the proof before the code, and the code proves the proof <wink>).
2003-01-04 06:03:15 +00:00
Tim Peters 7702304885 Remark about datetime tzinfo examples. 2003-01-03 22:35:24 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis af6a27a704 Allow PyFile_GetLine() to return Unicode objects. Fixes #660165. 2003-01-03 19:16:14 +00:00
Neal Norwitz bb0246ac25 Fix SF #659228, 'realpath' function missing from os.path
Also added realpath = abspath for os2emx, similar to windows/mac
which also don't really implement realpath.

Backport candidate, I think?
2003-01-03 18:12:28 +00:00
Greg Ward 6c58d4643a Mention ossaudiodev. 2003-01-03 18:02:15 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 747f8060a6 Mention that imaplib now supports SSL -- this wasn't noted before. 2003-01-03 16:33:49 +00:00
David Goodger f349e26e4d Fixed markup. 2003-01-03 03:30:21 +00:00
Tim Peters 397301eccb The tzinfo methods utcoffset() and dst() must return a timedelta object
(or None) now.  In 2.3a1 they could also return an int or long, but that
was an unhelpfully redundant leftover from an earlier version wherein
they couldn't return a timedelta.  TOOWTDI.
2003-01-02 21:28:08 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 4abd5f0fce Allow list sort's comparison function to explicitly be None. See SF patch
661092.
2003-01-02 20:51:08 +00:00
Tim Peters 710fb1548a astimezone() internals: if utcoffset() returns a duration, complain if
dst() returns None (instead of treating that as 0).
2003-01-02 19:35:54 +00:00
Tim Peters 0123139d66 Added a section to record datetime changes. There's apparently going to
be an unbounded number of API changes <0.6 wink>.
2003-01-02 19:10:19 +00:00
Tim Peters bbc5d1674b SF bug 660795: logging missing from Python 2.3a1 for Windows.
Added the logging package.  In the meantime, Neal Norwitz added a
test_logging.py to the std test suite, which would have caught this
oversight in the Windows installer.
2003-01-02 16:02:27 +00:00
Skip Montanaro decc6a47df Split OPT make variable into OPT and BASECFLAGS. The latter contains those
compiler flags which are necessary to get a clean compile.  The former is
for user-specified optimizer, debug, trace fiddling.  See patch 640843.

Add /sw/lib and /sw/include to setup.py search paths on Darwin to take
advantage of fink goodies.

Add scriptsinstall target to Makefile to install certain scripts from
Tools/scripts directory.
2003-01-01 20:07:49 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 14e73b1864 Expose I_ constants. Auto-detect stropts.h. Properly configure the slave terminal. 2003-01-01 09:51:12 +00:00
Just van Rossum 5e156add1f modulefinder.py moved to Lib/ 2002-12-31 16:38:01 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ae5488609a Set the release date. 2002-12-31 15:47:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5ee95474c1 Revert SF patch 659809 -- it causes double options that can cause breakage. 2002-12-31 13:48:29 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis b96152c42e Add getloadavg. 2002-12-31 13:20:15 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 96a60e4af5 Patch #658927: Add getctime to os.path.
Document that getatime and getmtime may return floats.
2002-12-31 13:11:54 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 24a880b499 Patch #656590: /dev/ptmx support for ptys. 2002-12-31 12:55:15 +00:00
Just van Rossum 01875ebaec Broke the zipimport/PEP 302 news item into two separate items. 2002-12-31 10:22:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9a2eda5ea5 Dedent a paragraph that was accidentally aligned with a preceding
nested list.
2002-12-31 02:12:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a3b8953233 News about zipimport. 2002-12-30 22:59:32 +00:00
Jack Jansen 8bb80dbe10 Added a note about the move of Mac/Lib to Lib/plat-mac. 2002-12-30 22:42:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum acd738feb3 SF patch 659809, by Daniel Brotsky: fix Makefile.pre to use config
env.

This adds @CFLAGS@  and @CPPFLAGS@ to the end of the respective
variable definitions.  It also adds $(LDFLAGS) to the $(CC) invocation
to build $(PGEN).
2002-12-30 21:04:23 +00:00
Barry Warsaw c27f4bd423 A short note about the versions of BerkeleyDB we now support 2002-12-30 21:03:26 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer b983aa0003 Add news about fix for bug #624807. 2002-12-30 20:22:23 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 497e5c4f8e Update the email package news. 2002-12-30 19:27:08 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 40f6217092 SF patch 658251: Install a C implementation of the Mersenne Twister as the
core generator for random.py.
2002-12-29 23:03:38 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger af72d5221f Add newsitem for the two new unittest methods.
Also, made some whitespace cleanup.
2002-12-29 20:14:11 +00:00
Just van Rossum 8982595870 Backing out patch #642578 in anticipation of final acceptance of PEP 302. 2002-12-25 23:13:34 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e11b510a5b SF 658405: calendar.py to rely on the datetime module instead of the time
module.

The code is shorter, more readable, faster, and dramatically increases the
range of acceptable dates.

Also, used the floor division operator in leapdays().
2002-12-25 16:37:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 633d90c7a3 Oops. Roll back that last change. It wasn't ready for release. :-( 2002-12-23 16:51:42 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9c8a0866c9 Add warning for assignment to None, True and False. This is patch
549213 by Jeremy (checking in for him since he's away and busy).
2002-12-23 16:35:23 +00:00
Jack Jansen ae3cb6cf29 Got rid of Mac/Relnotes, and started on mac-specific release notes in NEWS. 2002-12-23 11:25:49 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson cfd3884882 This is Richie Hindle's patch
[ 643835 ] Set Next Statement for Python debuggers

with a few tweaks by me: adding an unsigned or two, mentioning that
not all jumps are allowed in the doc for pdb, adding a NEWS item and
a note to whatsnew, and AuCTeX doing something cosmetic to libpdb.tex.
2002-12-17 16:15:34 +00:00
Tim Peters e820cb60a3 Blurb about new datetime module. 2002-12-16 20:57:22 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 786ddb29c9 Fixed bug
[#521782] unreliable file.read() error handling

* Objects/fileobject.c
  (file_read): Clear errors before leaving the loop in all situations,
  and also check if some data was read before exiting the loop with an
  EWOULDBLOCK exception.

* Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
* Objects/fileobject.c
  Document that sometimes a read() operation can return less data than
  what the user asked, if running in non-blocking mode.

* Misc/NEWS
  Document the fix.
2002-12-16 18:12:53 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 17c5a33582 Use "dictionary literals" instead of "dictionaries", as suggested by Just. 2002-12-16 14:09:22 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 78429a6aa6 Fixing bug
[#448679] Left to right

* Python/compile.c
  (com_dictmaker): Reordered evaluation of dictionaries to follow strict
  LTR evaluation.

* Lib/compiler/pycodegen.py
  (CodeGenerator.visitDict): Reordered evaluation of dictionaries to
  follow strict LTR evaluation.

* Doc/ref/ref5.tex
  Documented the general LTR evaluation order idea.

* Misc/NEWS
  Documented change in evaluation order of dictionaries.
2002-12-16 13:54:02 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer d5ae01a803 Applying patch
[#636769] Fix for major rexec bugs

* Lib/rexec.py
  (FileBase): Added 'xreadlines' and '__iter__' to allowed file methods.
  (FileWrapper.__init__): Removed unnecessary self.f variable, which gave
  direct access to the file object.
  (RExec): Added 'xreadlines' and '_weakref' to allowed modules.
  (RExec.r_open): Convert string subclasses to a real string classes
  before doing comparisons with mode parameter.

* Lib/ihooks.py
  (BasicModuleImporter.import_module/reload/unload): Convert the module
  name to a real string before working with it.
  (ModuleImporter.import_module/import_it/reload): Convert the module
  name to a real strings before working with it.

* Misc/NEWS
  Document the change.
2002-12-16 13:11:57 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 866964c3a3 Apply SF patch 652930: Add optional base argument to math.log(x[, base]). 2002-12-14 19:51:34 +00:00
Thomas Heller 1b3b49d132 Mention the bdist_wininst postinstall script. 2002-12-12 19:13:44 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 20b91358e5 News item for the change to turn _codecs into a builtin module. 2002-12-12 18:01:43 +00:00
Walter Dörwald d9a6ad3beb Enhance issubclass() and PyObject_IsSubclass() so that a tuple is
supported as the second argument. This has the same meaning as
for isinstance(), i.e. issubclass(X, (A, B)) is equivalent
to issubclass(X, A) or issubclass(X, B). Compared to isinstance(),
this patch does not search the tuple recursively for classes, i.e.
any entry in the tuple that is not a class, will result in a
TypeError.

This closes SF patch #649608.
2002-12-12 16:41:44 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger ef8b9c6616 Docs were added about a month ago 2002-12-09 08:56:06 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 3bf99e3e87 Add support for binary pickles to the shelve module. In some situations
this can result in significantly smaller files.  All classes as well as the
open function now accept an optional binary parameter, which defaults to
False for backward compatibility.  Added a small test suite, updated the
libref documentation (including documenting the exported classes and fixing
a few other nits) and added a note about the change to Misc/NEWS.
2002-12-08 18:36:24 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 79acb9edfa Patch #614055: Support OpenVMS. 2002-12-06 12:48:53 +00:00
Mark Hammond c3de008d62 _ssl.pyd added for Windows. 2002-12-03 06:16:08 +00:00
Just van Rossum 6a8c51837a The new imp.[gs]et_frozenmodules() will be utterly redundant if the
zipfile import stuff get in. I'll probably back it out again.
2002-12-01 21:43:13 +00:00
Just van Rossum 3eb166b49b Slightly improved version of patch #642578: "Expose PyImport_FrozenModules
in imp". This adds two functions to the imp module: get_frozenmodules()
and set_frozenmodules().
2002-11-29 20:47:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c0d3f4e445 Rephrase dict.fromkeys() news. 2002-11-27 13:10:40 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger e33d3df030 SF Patch 643443. Added dict.fromkeys(iterable, value=None), a class
method for constructing new dictionaries from sequences of keys.
2002-11-27 07:29:33 +00:00
Fred Drake 4dd0f7ef7a Add a way to say "use any resource except A". For example, to run
allow the use of any resource except bsddb, give the option
"-uall,-bsddb".
2002-11-26 21:44:56 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 8c8aa5d666 Rename want_objects to wantobjects throughout, for consistency. 2002-11-26 21:39:48 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 96bc3b4d74 This is not part of my patch
[ 635933 ] make some type attrs writable

but should have been!

News about the above.
2002-11-26 14:48:23 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 50905d0ffb Fix typo 2002-11-26 12:31:09 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ffad633af9 Patch #518625: Return objects in Tkinter. 2002-11-26 09:28:05 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 1456fde6a0 Fixed bug
[#495695] webbrowser.py: selection of browser

* Lib/webbrowser.py
  Only include graphic browsers in _tryorder if DISPLAY is set. Also,
  included skipstone support, as suggested by Fred in the mentioned bug.

* Misc/NEWS
  Mention fix and skipstone inclusion.
2002-11-25 17:25:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 677bde2dd1 Patch #626485: Support Unicode normalization. 2002-11-23 22:08:15 +00:00
Tim Peters 84c7a3f328 Try linking the static Sleepycat lib into _bsddb.pyd. Hard to say
whether this is a correct thing to do:

+ There are linker warnings (see PCbuild\readme.txt).
+ test_bsddb passes, in both release and debug builds now.
+ test_bsddb3 has several failures, but it did before too.

Also made pythoncore a dependency of the _bsddb project, updated
build instructions, added database conversion XXX to NEWS, and fiddled
the Windows installer accordingly.
2002-11-23 18:48:06 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ef7fe2e813 Implement names for CJK unified ideographs. Add name to KeyError output.
Verify that the lookup for an existing name succeeds.
2002-11-23 18:01:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 8b1e74b274 Touch up the news for dict() keyword args. 2002-11-23 16:28:12 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 7d41e29c58 Patch #626548: Support Hangul syllable names. 2002-11-23 12:22:32 +00:00
Just van Rossum a797d8150d Patch #642500 with slight modifications: allow keyword arguments in
dict() constructor. Example:
  >>> dict(a=1, b=2)
  {'a': 1, 'b': 2}
  >>>
2002-11-23 09:45:04 +00:00
Tim Peters 19cf4ee69d More bsddb-on-Windows fiddling:
+ News blurb, but as much XXX as news.
+ Updated installer (install the new bsddb package, and the Berkeley DLL;
  still don't know how to fold that into _bsddb.pyd).
+ Fleshed out build instructions.
+ Debug Python still blows up.
2002-11-23 03:49:08 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 0d1fdea8ef Patch #494845: Support string concatenation, detect non-string data,
add globbing support, find modules by name instead of by file.
2002-11-22 08:36:54 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 4581cfa326 Patch #486438: Make module argument to testmod optional. 2002-11-22 08:23:09 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f86e8ef33e Patch #550765: Add daemon_threads flag. 2002-11-22 08:08:44 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis d899605e30 Patch #633547: Support plural forms. Do TODOs in test suite. 2002-11-21 21:45:32 +00:00
Walter Dörwald a1a61f92a2 Fix typo. 2002-11-19 21:20:25 +00:00
Walter Dörwald f171540ab8 Change int() so that passing a string, unicode, float or long argument
that is outside the integer range no longer raises OverflowError, but
returns a long object instead.

This fixes SF bug http://www.python.org/sf/635115
2002-11-19 20:49:15 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis ef546b347d Document PyBSDDB import. 2002-11-19 08:12:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1d2674051b Comment on PyNumber_Check(). 2002-11-18 16:27:16 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer 6c19476168 Note that PyNumber_Check() returns true for string and unicode objects. 2002-11-18 16:19:39 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling e0373f8179 Fix minor nits
Trim excess whitespace off one line
2002-11-15 14:42:34 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 545c250970 Add Optik news. 2002-11-15 13:19:58 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 7994716b6b SF patch #520382: Expand shelve.py to have a full dictionary interface
and add a mixin to UserDict.py to make it easier to implement a full
dictionary interface.
2002-11-15 06:46:14 +00:00
Tim Peters 857fb4c136 Windows blurb about new Tcl/Tk release shipped on Windows. 2002-11-14 23:31:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fda0674f09 News about the logging module. 2002-11-13 16:29:18 +00:00
Tim Peters b9099c3df4 SF patch 637176: list.sort crasher
Armin Rigo's Draconian but effective fix for

SF bug 453523: list.sort crasher

slightly fiddled to catch more cases of list mutation.  The dreaded
internal "immutable list type" is gone!  OTOH, if you look at a list
*while* it's being sorted now, it will appear to be empty.  Better
than a core dump.
2002-11-12 22:08:10 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f24eb35d18 SF patch 629637: Add sample(population, k) method to the random module.
Used for random sampling without replacement.
2002-11-12 17:41:57 +00:00
Tim Peters 37dfb01766 Added a blurb about the change to sys.version under MSVC. 2002-11-11 19:51:33 +00:00
Thomas Heller 95cb7e4ae5 NEWS entry for the changed fdopen function. 2002-11-07 16:23:55 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer c523b04b0f Fixed sre bug "[#581080] Provoking infinite scanner loops".
This bug happened because: 1) the scanner_search and scanner_match methods
were not checking the buffer limits before increasing the current pointer;
and 2) SRE_SEARCH was using "if (ptr == end)" as a loop break, instead of
"if (ptr >= end)".

* Modules/_sre.c
  (SRE_SEARCH): Check for "ptr >= end" to break loops, so that we don't
  hang forever if a pointer passing the buffer limit is used.
  (scanner_search,scanner_match): Don't increment the current pointer
  if we're going to pass the buffer limit.

* Misc/NEWS
  Mention the fix.
2002-11-07 03:28:56 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis dc46175dc3 Add --check-tkinter to setup.py. Install IDLE. Fixes #634078. 2002-11-06 21:59:33 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer fbceb01ef0 Fixed bug "[#466200] ability to specify a 'verify' script".
* Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py
  (bdist_rpm.initialize_options): Included verify_script attribute.
  (bdist_rpm.finalize_package_data): Ensure that verify_script is a filename.
  (bdist_rpm._make_spec_file): Included verify_script in script_options
  tuple.

* Misc/NEWS
  Mention change.
2002-11-06 18:44:26 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 4dbf192f2b Add next() and __iter__() methods to StreamReader, StreamReaderWriter
and StreamRecoder.

This closes SF bug #634246.
2002-11-06 16:53:44 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer 4e7be06a65 Fixed bug #470582, using a modified version of patch #527371,
from Greg Chapman.

* Modules/_sre.c
  (lastmark_restore): New function, implementing algorithm to restore
  a state to a given lastmark. In addition to the similar algorithm used
  in a few places of SRE_MATCH, restore lastindex when restoring lastmark.
  (SRE_MATCH): Replace lastmark inline restoring by lastmark_restore(),
  function. Also include it where missing. In SRE_OP_MARK, set lastindex
  only if i > lastmark.

* Lib/test/re_tests.py
* Lib/test/test_sre.py
  Included regression tests for the fixed bugs.

* Misc/NEWS
  Mention fixes.
2002-11-06 14:06:53 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 5d8d618c95 Add an entry for pdb's new `pp' command. 2002-11-05 22:41:33 +00:00
Tim Peters 9288f95cb5 Another round on SF patch 618135: gzip.py and files > 2G
The last round boosted "the limit" from 2GB to 4GB.  This round gets
rid of the 4GB limit.  For files > 4GB, gzip stores just the last 32
bits of the file size, and now we play along with that too.  Tested
by hand (on a 6+GB file) on Win2K.

Boosting from 2GB to 4GB was arguably enough "a bugfix".  Going beyond
that smells more like "new feature" to me.
2002-11-05 20:38:55 +00:00
Gustavo Niemeyer f8ca8364c9 Patch implementing bz2 module.
* setup.py
  (PyBuildExt.detect_modules): Included bz2 module detection.

* Modules/bz2module.c
* Lib/test/test_bz2.py
* Doc/lib/libbz2.tex
  Included files implementing, testing, and documenting bz2 module.

* Doc/Makefile.deps
* Doc/lib/lib.tex
  Include references to libbz2.tex.

* Misc/NEWS
  (Library): Mention distutils' c++ linkage patch, and new bz2 module.
2002-11-05 16:50:05 +00:00
Tim Peters fb0ea525d5 Related to SF patch 618135: gzip.py and files > 2G.
Fixed the signed/unsigned confusions when dealing with files >= 2GB.
4GB is still a hard limitation of the gzip file format, though.

Testing this was a bitch on Win98SE due to frequent system freezes.  It
didn't freeze while running gzip, it kept freezing while trying to *create*
a > 2GB test file!  This wasn't Python's doing.  I don't know of a
reasonable way to test this functionality in regrtest.py, so I'm not
checking in a test case (a test case would necessarily require creating
a 2GB+ file first, using gzip to zip it, using gzip to unzip it again,
and then compare before-and-after; so >4GB free space would be required,
and a loooong time; I did all this "by hand" once).

Bugfix candidate, I guess.
2002-11-04 19:50:11 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 1da9c57c74 Patch #630829: Don't block on IAC, process suboptions. 2002-11-04 09:56:00 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f0a4668e6f Add getpreferredencoding. Support @euro modifiers. Fixes #554676.
The @euro part is backported to 2.2.3.
2002-11-03 17:20:12 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 94a83fdc15 Fix SF #632624, test_resource failure on alpha/64bit
Return PyLongs instead ot PyInts.
On alphas, 9223372036854775807 became -1.
2002-11-02 17:46:24 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 74b51ac1e5 Patch #613256: Add nescape method to xml.sax.saxutils. 2002-10-26 14:50:45 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 080689c3f6 Document patch #512981. 2002-10-26 14:42:02 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a19bfe07e0 Correct stat_result float time stamps entry. 2002-10-16 18:28:36 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 77ac429eff Patch #572628: Optional timeouts for put and get. 2002-10-15 15:11:13 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis b24e3477dc Patch #621891: Add askopenfile{name}s. 2002-10-13 10:28:04 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 2ec362717b Patch #621205: Tkinter updates for tk8.4. 2002-10-13 10:22:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cafe0eefc3 Back out news about SF patch 479898 -- it's withdrawn. 2002-10-11 11:47:28 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 6ce1315bd3 Patch #612602: Streamline configure methods. 2002-10-10 14:36:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2b492b61c6 News about repr() and 8-bit characters, and setlocale() in the
readline module.
2002-10-09 21:40:48 +00:00
Mark Hammond 8696ebcd28 Add os.path.supports_unicode_filenames for all platforms,
sys.getwindowsversion() on Windows (new enahanced Tim-proof <wink>
version), and fix test_pep277.py in a few minor ways.
Including doc and NEWS entries.
2002-10-08 02:44:31 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis e9ce0b0fea Patch #448038: Add move(). Report errors from copytree as in shutil.Error. 2002-10-07 13:23:24 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a844f2d165 Document patch #594001. 2002-10-05 09:46:48 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 97047e219f News item about the new encoding normalization scheme. 2002-10-04 11:55:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum ba60297a0a Mention droped support for Tcl/Tk 8.0 and 8.1. 2002-10-01 18:18:58 +00:00
Skip Montanaro a2a07bce89 fix a couple nits with my use of ReST 2002-09-30 15:23:01 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6b3db551be Disable building of the fpectl module -- it's dangerous or useless
except in the hands of experts.  Will backport to 2.2.2.
2002-09-25 15:02:44 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 4a38583456 reference the new NEWS.help file 2002-09-20 17:08:52 +00:00
Skip Montanaro e5d7f7f3af ReST-ification of the NEWS file. While the total number of changes are
fairly large, most are caused by reformatting section and subsection
headings.  The changes fall into the following categories:

    * reformatted section and subsection headers.

    * escaped isolated asterisks which would be interpreted as starting bold
      or italic text (e.g. "void (*)(PyObject \*)").

    * quoted stuff that looks like internal references but isn't
      (e.g. ``PyCmp_``).

    * changed visually balanced quotes to just use apostrophes
      (e.g. "'string'" instead of "`string'").

    * introduced and indenting multiline chunks of code.

    * created one table (search for "New codecs").
2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 923e4ef049 The SGI demos are gone. 2002-09-17 20:58:59 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 4cb2204851 migrate news about 2.1 and earlier releases from NEWS to HISTORY in
preparation for ReST-ification of NEWS.  (Also tests checkin ability
from my new Powerbook.  woohoo!)
2002-09-17 20:55:31 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 658009afdb Make BadPickleGet a class. Fixes #609164. 2002-09-16 17:26:24 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a32c994129 Always generate floats for stat_result; fix configure test. 2002-09-09 16:17:47 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 94717ed1d4 Patch #606592: Subsecond timestamps in stat_result. 2002-09-09 14:24:16 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 5ccaf8f129 Apply diff3.txt (plus additional documentation)
from SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/554192

This adds two new functions to mimetypes:
guess_all_extensions() which returns a list of all known
extensions for a mime type, and add_type() which adds one
mapping between a mime type and an extension.
2002-09-06 16:15:58 +00:00
Neal Norwitz b567392bbf SF bug # 585792, Invalid mmap crashes Python interpreter
Raise ValueError if user passes a size to mmap which is larger
than the file.
2002-09-05 21:48:07 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 7165af23e6 Added "that" to correct grammar, the rest is due to wrapping 2002-09-05 21:42:24 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 979c74b969 added a bit about the change to the thread ticker 2002-09-03 21:25:14 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 8e790e7007 expose PYTHON_API_VERSION macro as sys.api_version. Closes patch # 601456. 2002-09-03 13:25:17 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 3aeb632c31 PEP 293 implemention (from SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/432401) 2002-09-02 13:14:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 45ec02aed1 SF patch 576101, by Oren Tirosh: alternative implementation of
interning.  I modified Oren's patch significantly, but the basic idea
and most of the implementation is unchanged.  Interned strings created
with PyString_InternInPlace() are now mortal, and you must keep a
reference to the resulting string around; use the new function
PyString_InternImmortal() to create immortal interned strings.
2002-08-19 21:43:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d8ab35c933 News about sets. (There's no documentation; if someone wants to
convert the doc strings to LaTeX, be my guest.)
2002-08-19 16:25:46 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger f2f2a2c130 Fix spelling errors and note the addition of operator.pow() 2002-08-19 14:25:03 +00:00
Tim Peters 012c0a393a Newly-relaxed limits on random.randrange(). Also added some info about
Karatsuba's better cache behavior with extremely large multiplicands.
2002-08-16 03:40:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f808b891d6 Mention warnings about defining None. 2002-08-16 03:38:10 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson dd32a91cc0 This is my patch
[ 587993 ] SET_LINENO killer

Remove SET_LINENO.  Tracing is now supported by inspecting co_lnotab.

Many sundry changes to document and adapt to this change.
2002-08-15 14:59:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum add88060c1 Add notes about universal newlines. 2002-08-15 14:01:14 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fdb8648327 Add news about Fred's change to Py_InitModule4(). 2002-08-14 21:20:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9be8946a3e Add news about FutureWarning and PEP 237 stage B0.
Tim predicts that we might as well call this CassandraWarning.
2002-08-14 16:11:30 +00:00
Tim Peters 6000464d08 Added new function k_lopsided_mul(), which is much more efficient than
k_mul() when inputs have vastly different sizes, and a little more
efficient when they're close to a factor of 2 out of whack.

I consider this done now, although I'll set up some more correctness
tests to run overnight.
2002-08-12 22:01:34 +00:00
Tim Peters d64c1def7c k_mul() and long_mul(): I'm confident that the Karatsuba algorithm is
correct now, so added some final comments, did some cleanup, and enabled
it for all long-int multiplies.  The KARAT envar no longer matters,
although I left some #if 0'ed code in there for my own use (temporary).
k_mul() is still much slower than x_mul() if the inputs have very
differenent sizes, and that still needs to be addressed.
2002-08-12 17:36:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e343878eec New news about __class__ assignment restrictions and speed-up of
new-style object creation/deallocation.

Moved all news about type/class unification and new-stype classes to a
separate section at the top.
2002-08-12 03:42:03 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 6c70fca8b1 Revert what looks like a typo from the last checkin 2002-08-12 03:33:32 +00:00
Tim Peters 5af4e6c739 Cautious introduction of a patch that started from
SF 560379:  Karatsuba multiplication.
Lots of things were changed from that.  This needs a lot more testing,
for correctness and speed, the latter especially when bit lengths are
unbalanced.  For now, the Karatsuba code gets invoked if and only if
envar KARAT exists.
2002-08-12 02:31:19 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg cc8764ca9d Add C API PyUnicode_FromOrdinal() which exposes unichr() at C level.
u'%c' will now raise a ValueError in case the argument is an
integer outside the valid range of Unicode code point ordinals.

Closes SF bug #593581.
2002-08-11 12:23:04 +00:00
Mark Hammond 8f3afc7cd3 Clarify that the interruptable popen fixes aren't used under Win9x. 2002-08-10 06:26:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bffb2efee0 Credit to Oren for the file-iterator patch. 2002-08-09 17:17:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum deb0936795 News about the tempfile rewrite. 2002-08-09 17:16:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum d81a9834f7 News about Neil's fix to correctly invoke __rmul__. 2002-08-09 15:57:34 +00:00
Barry Warsaw d79f683772 Describe new "str1 in str2" behavior. 2002-08-06 17:01:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum b57089cdf8 Files are now their own iterator. The xreadlines method and module
are obsolete.
2002-08-06 16:20:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 40813b1dbc Typo: "now" --> "the new" 2002-08-05 15:24:19 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 98ce7b7ef1 IDLE support for PEP 263. 2002-08-05 15:11:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum de392d3f3f Add a small description of PEP 263. 2002-08-05 14:17:20 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 00f1e3f5a5 Patch #534304: Implement phase 1 of PEP 263. 2002-08-04 17:29:52 +00:00
Andrew MacIntyre 161ad0e16b OS/2 EMX now supported 2002-08-04 07:25:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 4a57c33dff Adding the heap queue algorithm, per discussion in python-dev last
week.
2002-08-02 18:05:20 +00:00
Tim Peters f47630ff54 A blurb about the sort implementation. 2002-08-01 02:34:51 +00:00
Thomas Heller 085358a3e2 New functions for extension writers on Windows:
PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErr(), PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilename().

Similar to PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilename() and
PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(), but they allow to specify
the exception type to raise. Available on Windows.

See SF patch #576458.
2002-07-29 14:27:41 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 0cec0ffc78 Patch #573770: Implement lchown. 2002-07-28 16:33:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2d5389c08f News about StopIteration as a "sink state". 2002-07-23 03:44:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 79f0a106e6 Add news about strptime and socket.setdefaulttimeout(). 2002-07-23 03:32:08 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 1389f3e059 Move DL_IMPORT/DL_EXPORT to Build section, I think this is the correct place 2002-07-22 13:21:10 +00:00
Mark Hammond a5083ec3b3 Add note about DL_IMPORT deprecation.
[ 583894 ] doc DL_IMPORT/DL_EXPORT changes
2002-07-22 12:53:16 +00:00
Mark Hammond c0e35158fb Add a blurb on the 3 Windows bugs I worked on over the last couple of days. 2002-07-16 01:32:30 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg 58e2ff2e81 Mention new encoding. 2002-07-12 14:40:04 +00:00
Tim Peters 7c321a80f9 The Py_REF_DEBUG/COUNT_ALLOCS/Py_TRACE_REFS macro minefield: added
more trivial lexical helper macros so that uses of these guys expand
to nothing at all when they're not enabled.  This should help sub-
standard compilers that can't do a good job of optimizing away the
previous "(void)0" expressions.

Py_DECREF:  There's only one definition of this now.  Yay!  That
was that last one in the family defined multiple times in an #ifdef
maze.

Py_FatalError():  Changed the char* signature to const char*.

_Py_NegativeRefcount():  New helper function for the Py_REF_DEBUG
expansion of Py_DECREF.  Calling an external function cuts down on
the volume of generated code.  The previous inline expansion of abort()
didn't work as intended on Windows (the program often kept going, and
the error msg scrolled off the screen unseen).  _Py_NegativeRefcount
calls Py_FatalError instead, which captures our best knowledge of
how to abort effectively across platforms.
2002-07-09 02:57:01 +00:00
Tim Peters c6a3ff634a SF bug 578752: COUNT_ALLOCS vs heap types
Repair segfaults and infinite loops in COUNT_ALLOCS builds in the
presence of new-style (heap-allocated) classes/types.

Bugfix candidate.  I'll backport this to 2.2.  It's irrelevant in 2.1.
2002-07-08 22:11:52 +00:00
Tim Peters 943382c8e5 Removed WITH_CYCLE_GC #ifdef-ery. Holes:
+ I'm not sure what to do about configure.in.  Left it alone.

+ Ditto pyexpat.c.  Fred or Martin will know what to do.
2002-07-07 03:59:34 +00:00
Tim Peters 1de41bfbc0 Stop trying to cater to platforms with a broken HUGE_VAL definition. It
breaks other platforms (in this case, the hack for broken Cray systems in
turn caused failure on a Mac system broken in a different way).
2002-07-03 03:31:20 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 7d650ca83b Implement the encoding argument for toxml and toprettyxml.
Document toprettyxml.
2002-06-30 15:05:00 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 5a04aec384 Fix SF bug 546434 -- buffer slice type inconsistent. 2002-06-25 00:25:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c7c36503eb Mention private vars in __slots__. 2002-06-21 01:29:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum fe0ca4a0f5 Mention pymemcompat.h. 2002-06-18 21:20:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f925782dae Minor tweaks to existing items (radian/degree, and UTF-16 readers.. 2002-06-18 20:43:18 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 3430d70e03 Apply diff2.txt from SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/566999
This patch enhances Python/import.c/find_module() so
that unicode objects found in sys.path will be treated
as legal directory names (The current code ignores
anything that is not a str). The unicode name is
converted to str using Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding.
2002-06-17 10:43:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9562bcf3bc Add Oren Tirosh and news about his patch. 2002-06-14 21:31:18 +00:00
Skip Montanaro 57454e57f8 This introduces stricter library/header file checking for the Berkeley DB
library.  Since multiple versions can be installed simultaneously, it's
crucial that you only select libraries and header files which are compatible
with each other.  Version checking is done from highest version to lowest.
Building using version 1 of Berkeley DB is disabled by default because of
the hash file bugs people keep rediscovering.  It can be enabled by
uncommenting a few lines in setup.py.  Closes patch 553108.
2002-06-14 20:30:31 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 1f68fc7fa5 SF bug # 493951 string.{starts,ends}with vs slices
Handle negative indices similar to slices.
2002-06-14 00:50:42 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 606edc1d97 Patch #568235: Add posix.setpgid. 2002-06-13 21:09:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2e82e717e6 Changed the extended slice example to show that you can reverse a
string with a [::-1] slice.
2002-06-13 11:41:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c5fe5eb8d2 SF bug 567538: Generator can crash the interpreter (Finn Bock).
This was a simple typo.  Strange that the compiler didn't catch it!
Instead of WHY_CONTINUE, two tests used CONTINUE_LOOP, which isn't a
why_code at all, but an opcode; but even though 'why' is declared as
an enum, comparing it to an int is apparently not even worth a
warning -- not in gcc, and not in VC++. :-(

Will fix in 2.2 too.
2002-06-12 03:45:21 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 5efaf7eac8 This is my nearly two year old patch
[ 400998 ] experimental support for extended slicing on lists

somewhat spruced up and better tested than it was when I wrote it.

Includes docs & tests.  The whatsnew section needs expanding, and arrays
should support extended slices -- later.
2002-06-11 10:55:12 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis f90ae20354 Patch #488073: AtheOS port. 2002-06-11 06:22:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9f7549bfc7 Record the latest fixes. 2002-06-10 21:39:42 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis a3fb4f7816 Patch #505375: Make doc strings optional. 2002-06-09 13:33:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 5033c8e309 Add timeout mode. Clarify gnu_getopt. 2002-06-07 12:40:52 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 446a25fa3c Patch 473512: add GNU style scanning as gnu_getopt. 2002-06-06 10:58:36 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9923ffe2c0 Address SF bug 519621: slots weren't traversed by GC.
While I was at it, I added a tp_clear handler and changed the
tp_dealloc handler to use the clear_slots helper for the tp_clear
handler.

Also tightened the rules for slot names: they must now be proper
identifiers (ignoring the dirty little fact that <ctype.h> is locale
sensitive).

Also set mp->flags = READONLY for the __weakref__ pseudo-slot.

Most of this is a 2.2 bugfix candidate; I'll apply it there myself.
2002-06-04 19:52:53 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson b0dc1a38a1 Fiddle wording. 2002-06-04 18:27:35 +00:00
Neal Norwitz b5b5a260ea Fix SF bug #557436, TclError is a str should be an Exception
Make Tkinter.TclError derive from Exception, it was a string.
2002-06-04 17:14:07 +00:00
Walter Dörwald 474458da48 Add constants BOM_UTF8, BOM_UTF16, BOM_UTF16_LE, BOM_UTF16_BE,
BOM_UTF32, BOM_UTF32_LE and BOM_UTF32_BE that represent the Byte
Order Mark in UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings for little and
big endian systems.

The old names BOM32_* and BOM64_* were off by a factor of 2.

This closes SF bug http://www.python.org/sf/555360
2002-06-04 15:16:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 2e4e02620b Surprising fix for SF bug 563060: module can be used as base class.
Change the module constructor (module_init) to have the signature
__init__(name:str, doc=None); this prevents the call from type_new()
to succeed.  While we're at it, prevent repeated calling of
module_init for the same module from leaking the dict, changing the
semantics so that __dict__ is only initialized if NULL.

Also adding a unittest, test_module.py.

This is an incompatibility with 2.2, if anybody was instantiating the
module class before, their argument list was probably empty; so this
can't be backported to 2.2.x.
2002-06-04 05:58:34 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 32a7e7f6b6 Change name from string to basestring 2002-05-31 19:58:02 +00:00
Neal Norwitz d68f5171eb As discussed on python-dev, add a mechanism to indicate features
that are in the process of deprecation (PendingDeprecationWarning).
Docs could be improved.
2002-05-29 15:54:55 +00:00
Michael W. Hudson 34f20eac98 This is patch
[ 559250 ] more POSIX signal stuff

Adds support (and docs and tests and autoconfery) for posix signal
mask handling -- sigpending, sigprocmask and sigsuspend.
2002-05-27 15:08:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum cacfc07d08 - A new type object, 'string', is added. This is a common base type
for 'str' and 'unicode', and can be used instead of
  types.StringTypes, e.g. to test whether something is "a string":
  isinstance(x, string) is True for Unicode and 8-bit strings.  This
  is an abstract base class and cannot be instantiated directly.
2002-05-24 19:01:59 +00:00
Barry Warsaw 47f3e2cb6c Add a bit of news about the email package fixes. 2002-05-20 00:14:24 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 87f59eeb0a Noted SF patch 552452 adding degree/radian conversions to mathmodule.c. 2002-05-13 04:17:32 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 9b1df1db68 Noted change in ftplib 1.68 closing SF patch 553277. 2002-05-12 06:07:21 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer c9abc1de6b Remove news about PyMalloc_*. Do we need to say anything about
pymalloc?
2002-05-08 14:14:41 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 01f94bda38 Patch #552433: Special-case tuples. Avoid sub-type checking for lists.
Avoid checks for negative indices and duplicate checks for support of
the sequence protocol.
2002-05-08 08:44:21 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 21b23b09a2 Fix typos 2002-05-07 20:58:03 +00:00
Tim Peters 46c04e140c random.gauss() uses a piece of hidden state used by nothing else,
and the .seed() and .whseed() methods failed to reset it.  In other
words, setting the seed didn't completely determine the sequence of
results produced by random.gauss().  It does now.  Programs repeatedly
mixing calls to a seed method with calls to gauss() may see different
results now.

Bugfix candidate (random.gauss() has always been broken in this way),
despite that it may change results.
2002-05-05 20:40:00 +00:00
Fred Drake d0ba636541 Added notes related to the removal of deprecated features of the xrange type. 2002-05-02 21:28:26 +00:00
Fred Drake 7d28b73ec1 Added note about using the documentation build tools under Cygwin. 2002-05-02 21:17:00 +00:00
Fred Drake 7f781c9aab Add Pickler.clear_memo() so the pickle and cPickle modules are more similar. 2002-05-01 20:33:53 +00:00
Tim Peters 81b9251d59 Mostly in SequenceMatcher.{__chain_b, find_longest_match}:
This now does a dynamic analysis of which elements are so frequently
repeated as to constitute noise.  The primary benefit is an enormous
speedup in find_longest_match, as the innermost loop can have factors
of 100s less potential matches to worry about, in cases where the
sequences have many duplicate elements.  In effect, this zooms in on
sequences of non-ubiquitous elements now.

While I like what I've seen of the effects so far, I still consider
this experimental.  Please give it a try!
2002-04-29 01:37:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 26dd830123 Clarify that the strip changes also apply to Unicode. 2002-04-26 20:11:29 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7dab2426ca - New builtin function enumerate(x), from PEP 279. Example:
enumerate("abc") is an iterator returning (0,"a"), (1,"b"), (2,"c").
  The argument can be an arbitrary iterable object.
2002-04-26 19:40:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 517c7d4fd3 PyNumber_CoerceEx: this took a shortcut (not doing anything) when the
left and right type were of the same type and not classic instances.

This shortcut is dangerous for proxy types, because it means that
coerce(Proxy(1), Proxy(2.1)) leaves Proxy(1) unchanged rather than
turning it into Proxy(1.0).

In an ever-so-slight change of semantics, I now only take the shortcut
when the left and right types are of the same type and don't have the
CHECKTYPES feature.  It so happens that classic instances have this
flag, so the shortcut is still skipped in this case (i.e. nothing
changes for classic instances).  Proxies also have this flag set
(otherwise implementing numeric operations on proxies would become
nightmarish) and this means that the shortcut is also skipped there,
as desired.  It so happens that int, long and float also have this
flag set; that means that e.g. coerce(1, 1) will now invoke
int_coerce().  This is fine: int_coerce() can deal with this, and I'm
not worried about the performance; int_coerce() is only invoked when
the user explicitly calls coerce(), which should be rarer than rare.
2002-04-26 02:49:14 +00:00
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