This patch implements what we have discussed on python-dev late in
September: str(obj) and unicode(obj) should behave similar, while
the old behaviour is retained for unicode(obj, encoding, errors).
The patch also adds a new feature with which objects can provide
unicode(obj) with input data: the __unicode__ method. Currently no
new tp_unicode slot is implemented; this is left as option for the
future.
Note that PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject() no longer accepts Unicode
objects as input. The API name already suggests that Unicode
objects do not belong in the list of acceptable objects and the
functionality was only needed because
PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject() was being used directly by
unicode(). The latter was changed in the discussed way:
* unicode(obj) calls PyObject_Unicode()
* unicode(obj, encoding, errors) calls PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject()
One thing left open to discussion is whether to leave the
PyUnicode_FromObject() API as a thin API extension on top of
PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject() or to turn it into a (macro) alias
for PyObject_Unicode() and deprecate it. Doing so would have some
surprising consequences though, e.g. u"abc" + 123 would turn out
as u"abc123"...
[Marc-Andre didn't have time to check this in before the deadline. I
hope this is OK, Marc-Andre! You can still make changes and commit
them on the trunk after the branch has been made, but then please mail
Barry a context diff if you want the change to be merged into the
2.2b1 release branch. GvR]
In Include/, marshal.h declares both
PyMarshal_ReadLongFromFile()
and PyMarshal_ReadShortFromFile(),
but the second is missing from marshal.c.
[Shouldn't the return type be declared as 'short' instead of 'int'?
But 'int' is what was in marshal.h all those years... --Guido]
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?)
This was submitted by Moshe, but apparently he's too busy to check it
in himself. He wrote:
Here is a function in GNU readline called add_history,
which is used to manage the history list. Though Python
uses this function internally, it does not expose it to
the Python programmer. This patch adds direct interface
to this function with documentation.
This could be used by friendly modules to "seed" the
history with commands.
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.)
The GUI-mode code to display properties blew up if the property functions
(get, set, etc) weren't simply methods (or functions).
"The problem" here is really that the generic document() method dispatches
to one of .doc{routine, class, module, other}(), but all of those require
a different(!) number of arguments. Thus document isn't general-purpose
at all: you have to know exactly what kind of thing is it you're going
to document first, in order to pass the correct number of arguments to
.document for it to pass on. As an expedient hack, just tacked "*ignored"
on to the end of the formal argument lists for the .docXXX routines so
that .document's caller doesn't have to know in advance which path
.document is going to take.
(With slight cosmetic improvements to shorten lines and a grammar fix
to a docstring.)
This addes -X and -E options to freeze. From the docstring:
-X module Like -x, except the module can never be imported by
the frozen binary.
-E: Freeze will fail if any modules can't be found (that
were not excluded using -x or -X).
This fixes the behavior reported by SF bug #404545, where a file
x.y.py could be imported by the statement "import x.y" when there's a
frozen package x (I believe even if x.y also exists as a frozen
module).
:-).
Add a test that prevents the __hello__ bytecode from going stale
unnoticed again.
The test also tests the loophole noted in SF bug #404545. This test
will fail right now; I'll check in the fix in a minute.
the left-hand operand may not be the proxy in all cases. If it isn't,
we end up doing two things: a) unwrapping something that isn't a
PyWeakReference (later resulting in a core dump) and b) passing a
proxy as the right-hand operand anyway, even though that can't be
handled by the actual handler (maybe eventually causing a core dump).
This is fixed by always unwrapping all the proxies involved before
passing anything to the actual handler.
The symbol table pass didn't have an explicit case for the list_iter
node which is used only for a nested list comprehension. As a result,
the target of the list comprehension was treated as a use instead of
an assignment. Fix is to add a case to symtable_node() to handle
list_iter.
Also, rework and document a couple of the subtler implementation
issues in the symbol table pass. The symtable_node() switch statement
depends on falling through the last several cases, in order to handle
some of the more complicated nodes like atom. Add a comment
explaining the behavior before the first fall through case. Add a
comment /* fall through */ at the end of case so that it is explicitly
marked as such.
Move the for_stmt case out of the fall through logic, which simplifies
both for_stmt and default. (The default used the local variable start
to skip the first three nodes of a for_stmt when it fell through.)
Rename the flag argument to symtable_assign() to def_flag and add a
comment explaining its use:
The third argument to symatble_assign() is a flag to be passed to
symtable_add_def() if it is eventually called. The flag is useful
to specify the particular type of assignment that should be
recorded, e.g. an assignment caused by import.
isinstance() now allows any object as the first argument and a class, a
type or something with a __bases__ tuple attribute for the second
argument. This closes SF patch #464992.
Quoth the OpenSSL RAND_add man page:
OpenSSL makes sure that the PRNG state is unique for each
thread. On systems that provide /dev/urandom, the
randomness device is used to seed the PRNG transparently.
However, on all other systems, the application is
responsible for seeding the PRNG by calling RAND_add(),
RAND_egd(3) or RAND_load_file(3).
I decided to expose RAND_add() because it's general and RAND_egd()
because it's a useful special case. RAND_load_file() didn't seem to
offer much over RAND_add(), so I skipped it. Also supplied
RAND_status() which returns true if the PRNG is seeded and false if
not.
Guido van Rossum
Martin v. Löwis
Tim Peters
Fredrik Lundh
Barry Warsaw
Fred Drake
Jeremy Hylton
Neil Schemenauer