(Championed by Bob Ippolito.)
The update() method for mappings now accepts all the same argument forms
as the dict() constructor. This includes item lists and/or keyword
arguments.
The new execvpe code would sometimes do the wrong thing when a
non-executable file existed earlier in the path and an executable file
of the same name existed later in the path. This patch restores the
proper behavior (which is to execute the second file). When only a
non-executable file exists, the correct error is still reported.
1) Do not attempt to exec a file which does not exist
just to find out what error the operating system
returns. This is an exploitable race on all platforms
that support symbolic links.
2) Immediately re-raise the exception if we get an
error other than errno.ENOENT or errno.ENOTDIR. This
may need to be adapted for other platforms.
(As a security issue, this should be considered for 2.1
and 2.2 as well as 2.3.)
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?)
UNIX style fork/execve/wait are not fully compatible with thread
support on BeOS. For Python, that means neither fork() from import
nor import from a fork work reliably. os._execvpe() does the latter,
importing tempfile to set up a tantalizing target for hackers. This
patch replaces both the tempfile name generation and the exec that
uses it, in case we're on BeOS. Need this for
setup:distutils:execvp(); symptoms are random crashes and internal
BeOS error messages about th name, in case we're on BeOS. It's an
issue because setup.py + distutils calls os.execvp(); symptoms are
random crashes during setup.py, and internal BeOS error messages
about thread IDs.
comments, docstrings or error messages. I fixed two minor things in
test_winreg.py ("didn't" -> "Didn't" and "Didnt" -> "Didn't").
There is a minor style issue involved: Guido seems to have preferred English
grammar (behaviour, honour) in a couple places. This patch changes that to
American, which is the more prominent style in the source. I prefer English
myself, so if English is preferred, I'd be happy to supply a patch myself ;)
I think that after this patch, all objects in the os module (with names
that don't start with "_") that can have docstrings, do, on Linux at
least.
Also fix a nit in one of my spawn* docstrings.
This patch solves 2 problems of the os module.
1) Bug ID #50 (case-mismatch wiht "environ.get(..,..)" and "del environ[..]")
2) os.environ.update (dict) doesn't propagate changes to the 'real'
environment (i.e doesn't call putenv)
This patches also has minor changes specific for 1.6a
The string module isn't used anymore, instead the strings own methods are
used.
*this* set of patches is Ka-Ping's final sweep:
The attached patches update the standard library so that all modules
have docstrings beginning with one-line summaries.
A new docstring was added to formatter. The docstring for os.py
was updated to mention nt, os2, ce in addition to posix, dos, mac.
who writes:
Here is batch 2, as a big collection of CVS context diffs.
Along with moving comments into docstrings, i've added a
couple of missing docstrings and attempted to make sure more
module docstrings begin with a one-line summary.
I did not add docstrings to the methods in profile.py for
fear of upsetting any careful optimizations there, though
i did move class documentation into class docstrings.
The convention i'm using is to leave credits/version/copyright
type of stuff in # comments, and move the rest of the descriptive
stuff about module usage into module docstrings. Hope this is
okay.
have fork and execv (and friends) but not spawnv. They operate
exactly like the spawn functions on Windows. A limited set of needed
constants is also defined (P_WAIT, P_NOWAIT etc.).
Also add getenv() as a familiar alias for environ.get().
Raymond Hettinger
Andrew M. Kuchling
Andrew MacIntyre
Neal Norwitz
Guido van Rossum
Tim Peters
Skip Montanaro
Jack Jansen
Martin v. Löwis
Fred Drake
Michael W. Hudson
Ka-Ping Yee
Thomas Wouters