I don't know what its origins are but I think I've seen it
once in a NeXT dictionary application -- not sure whether
anyone owns copyright but I don't see why we should risk it.
so the preferred name for them is tag_lower, tag_raise
(similar to tag_bind, and similar to the Text widget);
unfortunately can't delete the old ones yet (maybe in 1.6)
Per writes:
"""
The application where Signum Support uses smtplib needs to be able to
report good error messages to the user when sending email fails. To
help in diagnosing problems it is useful to be able to report the
entire message sent by the server, not only the SMTP error code of the
offending command.
A lot of the functions in sendmail.py unfortunately discards the
message, leaving only the code. The enclosed patch fixes that
problem.
The enclosed patch also introduces a base class for exceptions that
include an SMTP error code and error message, and make the code and
message available on separate attributes, so that surrounding code can
deal with them in whatever way it sees fit. I've also added some
documentation to the exception classes.
The constructor will now raise an exception if it cannot connect to
the SMTP server.
The data() method will raise an SMTPDataError if it doesn't receive
the expected 354 code in the middle of the exchange.
According to section 5.2.10 of RFC 1123 a smtp client must accept "any
text, including no text at all" after the error code. If the response
of a HELO command contains no text self.helo_resp will be set to the
empty string (""). The patch fixes the test in the sendmail() method
so that helo_resp is tested against None; if it has the empty string
as value the sendmail() method would invoke the helo() method again.
The code no longer accepts a -1 reply from the ehlo() method in
sendmail().
[Text about removing SMTPRecipientsRefused deleted --GvR]
"""
and also:
"""
smtplib.py appends an extra blank line to the outgoing mail if the
`msg' argument to the sendmail method already contains a trailing
newline. This patch should fix the problem.
"""
The Dragon writes:
"""
Mostly I just re-added the SMTPRecipientsRefused exception
(the exeption object now has the appropriate info in it ) [Per had
removed this in his patch --GvR] and tweaked the behavior of the
sendmail method whence it throws the newly added SMTPHeloException (it
was closing the connection, which it shouldn't. whatever catches the
exception should do that. )
I pondered the change of the return values to tuples all around,
and after some thinking I decided that regularizing the return values was
too much of the Right Thing (tm) to not do.
My one concern is that code expecting an integer & getting a tuple
may fail silently.
(i.e. if it's doing :
x.somemethod() >= 400:
expecting an integer, the expression will always be true if it gets a
tuple instead. )
However, most smtplib code I've seen only really uses the
sendmail() method, so this wouldn't bother it. Usually code I've seen
that calls the other methods usually only calls helo() and ehlo() for
doing ESMTP, a feature which was not in the smtplib included with 1.5.1,
and thus I would think not much code uses it yet.
"""
splitunc() parses UNC paths. The contributor of the UNC parsing in
splitdrive() doesn't like it, but I haven't heard a good reason to
keep it, and it causes some problems. (I think there's a
philosophical problem -- to me, the split*() functions are purely
syntactical, and the fact that \\foo is not a valid path doesn't mean
that it shouldn't be considered an absolute path.)
Also (quite separately, but strangely related to the philosophical
issue above) fix abspath() so that if win32api exists, it doesn't fail
when the path doesn't actually exist -- if GetFullPathName() fails,
fall back on the old strategy (join with getcwd() if neccessary, and
then use normpath()).
and dry-run flags consistently painless): 'execute()', 'mkpath()',
'copy_file()', 'copy_tree()', 'make_file()', and stub for 'make_files()'
(not sure yet if it's useful).
that wrap them in the Command class).
Fixed 'copy_file()' to use '_copy_file_contents()', not 'copyfile()'
from shutil module -- no reference to shutil anymore.
Added "not copying" announcement in 'copy_file()'.
Wee comment fix.
If you send something like "PUT / HTTP/1.0" to something derived from
BaseHTTPServer that doesn't define do_PUT, you will get a response
that begins like this:
HTTP/1.0 501 Unsupported method ('do_PUT')
Server: SimpleHTTP/0.3 Python/1.5
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:53:53 GMT
The server should complain about 'PUT' instead of 'do_PUT'. This
patch should fix the problem.
"""
- It needlessly used the makefile() method for each response that is
read from the SMTP server.
- If the remote SMTP server closes the connection unexpectedly the
code raised an IndexError. It now raises an SMTPServerDisconnected
exception instead.
- The code now checks that all lines in a multiline response actually
contains an error code.
"""
The Dragon approves.
"""
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.
Guido van Rossum
Fred Drake
Jeremy Hylton
Greg Ward