Gave Python linear-time repr() implementations for dicts, lists, strings.
This means, e.g., that repr(range(50000)) is no longer 50x slower than
pprint.pprint() in 2.2 <wink>.
I don't consider this a bugfix candidate, as it's a performance boost.
Added _PyString_Join() to the internal string API. If we want that in the
public API, fine, but then it requires runtime error checks instead of
asserts.
Protect several more uses of constants with #ifdefs; these are necessary on
(at least) SCO OpenServer 5. Fixes a non-SF-submitted bugreport by Michael
Kent.
is allocated than needed (used to allocate 80 bytes of digit space no
matter how small the long input). This also runs faster, at least on 32-
bit boxes.
the new PyLong_{As,From}{Unsigned,}LongLong tests, so the bulk of the
code is in the new #include file testcapi_long.h, which generates
different code depending on how macros are set. This sucks, but I couldn't
think of anything that sucked less.
UNIX headache? If we still maintain dependencies by hand, someone who
knows what they're doing should teach whatever needs it that
_testcapimodule.c includes testcapi_long.h.
Unfortunately, the std-mode bBhHIL codes don't do any range-checking; if
and when some of those get fixed, remove their letters from the
IntTester.BUGGY_RANGE_CHECK string. In the meantime, a msg saying that
range-tests are getting skipped is printed to stdout whenever one is
skipped.
Replaced PyLong_{As,From}{Unsigned,}LongLong guts with calls
to _PyLong_{As,From}ByteArray.
_testcapimodule.c:
Added strong tests of PyLong_{As,From}{Unsigned,}LongLong.
Fixes SF bug #432552 PyLong_AsLongLong() problems.
Possible bugfix candidate, but the fix relies on code added to longobject
to support the new q/Q structmodule format codes.
functions. I intend to replace their guts with calls to the new
_PyLong_{As,From}ByteArray() functions, but AFAICT there's no tests for
them at all now; I also suspect PyLong_AsLongLong() isn't catching all
overflow cases, but without a std test to demonstrate that why should you
believe me <wink>.
Also added a raiseTestError() utility function.
Add a -F option similar to "cvs commit -F <file>".
Add a -t option to allow specifying the prefix to the directory into which
the docs should be unpacked (useful when I start trying out new styles for
the presentation).
This completes the q/Q project.
longobject.c _PyLong_AsByteArray: The original code had a gross bug:
the most-significant Python digit doesn't necessarily have SHIFT
significant bits, and you really need to count how many copies of the sign
bit it has else spurious overflow errors result.
test_struct.py: This now does exhaustive std q/Q testing at, and on both
sides of, all relevant power-of-2 boundaries, both positive and negative.
NEWS: Added brief dict news while I was at it.
_PyLong_FromByteArray
_PyLong_AsByteArray
Untested and probably buggy -- they compile OK, but nothing calls them
yet. Will soon be called by the struct module, to implement x-platform
'q' and 'Q'.
If other people have uses for them, we could move them into the public API.
See longobject.h for usage details.
functions -- these are not available on traditional Mac OS platforms.
Corrected the version annotations for the spawn*() functions and related
constants; these were added in Python 1.6, not 1.5.2.
native mode, and only when config #defines HAVE_LONG_LONG. Standard mode
will eventually treat them as 8-byte ints across all platforms, but that
likely requires a new set of routines in longobject.c first (while
sizeof(long) >= 4 is guaranteed by C, there's nothing in C we can rely
on x-platform to hold 8 bytes of int, so we'll have to roll our own;
I'm thinking of a simple pair of conversion functions, Python long
to/from sized vector of unsigned bytes; that may be useful for GMP
conversions too; std q/Q would call them with size fixed at 8).
test_struct.py: In addition to adding some native-mode 'q' and 'Q' tests,
got rid of unused code, and repaired a non-portable assumption about
native sizeof(short) (it isn't 2 on some Cray boxes).
libstruct.tex: In addition to adding a bit of 'q'/'Q' docs (more needed
later), removed an erroneous footnote about 'I' behavior.
Patch from Michael Hundson.
format_exception_only() blew up when trying to report a SyntaxError
from a string input (line is None in this case, but it assumed a string).
Bugfix candidate.
Tim Peters
Martin v. Löwis
Fred Drake
Thomas Wouters
Guido van Rossum
Marc-André Lemburg
Jack Jansen