for 'str' and 'unicode', and can be used instead of
types.StringTypes, e.g. to test whether something is "a string":
isinstance(x, string) is True for Unicode and 8-bit strings. This
is an abstract base class and cannot be instantiated directly.
The old syntax suggested that a trailing comma was OK inside backticks,
but in fact (due to ideosyncrasies of pgen) it was not. Fix the grammar
to avoid the ambiguity. Fred: you may want to update the refman.
A MemoryError is now raised when the list cannot be created.
There is a test, but as the comment says, it really only
works for 32 bit systems. I don't know how to improve
the test for other systems (ie, 64 bit or systems
where the data size != addressable size,
e.g. 64 bit data, but 48 bit addressable memory)
mwh wrote:
> Jason, feel free to complain if you think this isn't
> the right thing to do.
I guess that I would like to complain and reopen this
issue. :,) I cannot build a Python 2.2.1 with threads
under Cygwin without this patch even though I'm using
Michael's static _socket workaround. This is due to the
Cygwin fork() problem with DLL base address conflicts
that are triggered by importing many modules during the
setup.py run. Similar problems can also be caused by
regrtest.py.
Even after my rebase patch is accepted into Cygwin's
setup.exe, I feel this patch will still be necessary.
This is because during the build process, the shared
extensions (i.e., DLLs) will not be rebased yet. Hence,
the potential for DLL base address conflicts will exist.
One way to obviate this patch is to push the rebase
functionality into Cygwin's ld. Unfortunately, I don't
think this is likely to happen. Another possible way,
is to use the yet to be defined and implemented unload
module functionality:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-December/019028.html
instead of calling the getaddrlist() method, since the latter doesn't
work with multiple calls (it will return the empty list for the second
and subsequent calls).
Closes SF bug #555035. Include a unittest.
of the PyUNIT version of the same file. This helps people understand that
this version is the same as the version from the independent PyUNIT
release (confusion was indicated on the PyUNIT mailing list).