"""
The GNU folks, in their infinite wisdom, have decided not to implement
altzone in libc6; this would not be horrible, except that timezone
(which is implemented) includes the current DST setting (i.e. timezone
for Central is 18000 in summer and 21600 in winter). So Python's
timezone and altzone variables aren't set correctly during DST.
Here's a patch relative to 1.5.2b2 that (a) makes timezone and altzone
show the "right" thing on Linux (by using the tm_gmtoff stuff
available in BSD, which is how the GLIBC manual claims things should
be done) and (b) should cope with the southern hemisphere. In pursuit
of (b), I also took the liberty of renaming the "summer" and "winter"
variables to "july" and "jan". This patch should also make certain
time calculations on Linux actually work right (like the tz-aware
functions in the rfc822 module).
(It's hard to find DST that's currently being used in the southern
hemisphere; I tested using Africa/Windhoek.)
"""
I should have waited overnight <wink/sigh>. Nothing wrong with the one I
sent, but I couldn't resist going on to add new -r1 / -r2 cmdline options
for recreating the original files from ndiff's output. That's attached, if
you're game! Us Windows guys don't usually have a sed sitting around
<wink>.
Attached is a cleaned-up version of ndiff (added useful module
docstring, now echo'ed in case of cmd line mistake); added -q option
to suppress initial file identification lines; + other minor cleanups,
& a slightly faster match engine.
allow using the 'a' flag as a mode for opening a GzipFile. gzip
files, surprisingly enough, can be concatenated and then decompressed;
the effect is to concatenate the two chunks of data.
If we support it on writing, it should also be supported on reading.
This *wasn't* trivial, and required rearranging the code in the
reading path, particularly the _read() method.
Raise IOError instead of RuntimeError in two cases, 'Not a gzipped file'
and 'Unknown compression method'
is not an empty string, this means that you have arrived at the
end of the stream of compressed data, and the contents of .unused_data are
whatever follows the compressed stream.
Unfortunately his code breaks wcgui.py in a way that's not easy
to fix. I expect that this is a temporary situation --
eventually Sam's changes will be merged back in.
(The changes add a -t option to specify exceptions to the -x
option, and explicit checking for #foo style fragment ids.)
data struct before calling gethostby{name,addr}_r(); (2) ignore the
3/5/6 args determinations made by the configure script and switch on
platform identifiers instead:
AIX, OSF have 3 args
Sun, SGI have 5 args
Linux has 6 args
On all other platforms, undef HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R altogether.
Fred Drake
Guido van Rossum
Greg Ward
Barry Warsaw
Andrew M. Kuchling
Jeremy Hylton