most common interface to Tcl, the call() method, by maybe 20-25%.
The speedup code avoids the construction of a Tcl command string from
the argument list -- the Tcl argument list is immediately parsed back
by Tcl_Eval() into a list that is *guaranteed* (by Tcl_Merge()) to be
exactly the same list, so instead we look up the command info and call
the command function directly. If the lookup fails, we fall back to
the old method (Tcl_Merge() + Tcl_Eval()) so we don't need to worry
about special cases like undefined commands or the occasional command
("after") that sets the info.proc pointer to NULL -- let TclEval()
deal with these.
the address of the Tcl interpreter object, as an integer. Not very
useful for the Python programmer, but this can be called by another C
extension that needs to make calls into the Tcl/Tk C API and needs to
get the address of the Tcl interpreter object. A simple cast of the
return value to (Tcl_Interp *) will do the trick now.
save and restore the tstate, but explicitly calling
PyEval_SaveThread() does reset it! While I think about how to fix
this for real, here's a fix that avoids getting a fatal error.
This one works! However it requires using a modified version of
tclNotify.c (provided), which requires access to the Tcl source
to compile it. In order to enable this hack, add the following
to the Setup line for _tkinter:
tclNotify.c -DHAVE_PYTCL_WAITUNTILEVENT -I$(TCL)/generic
where TCL points to the source tree of Tcl 8.0. Other versions
of Tcl are not supported.
The tclNotify.c file is copyrighted by Sun Microsystems; the
licensing terms are in the file license.terms. According to this
file, no further permission to distribute this is required,
provided the file license.terms is included. Hence, I am checking
that in, too.
while one thread is blocked in mainloop(). Also, handle signals (not
just interrupts) as soon as they happen.
Cleanup: remove support for Tcl/Tk versions 7.4/4.0. (I've confirmed
that it works for 7.5/4.1 and 7.6/4.2, as well as 8.0b2.)
Coding style change: instead of ``func (args)'', write ``func(args)''
everywhere.
Minor functionality change: use PyArg_ParseTuple everywhere. This
should only affect the errors reported for bad argument lists; in
particular, deletefilehandler() is much clearer about what's going
on.
(XXX Still to do: Mac and Win ports to 8.0b2.)
This is needed because if a configure option has " as its value,
it will be rendered as {"}; after stripping one level of quoting it's
just ", on which splitlist will barf.
Updated some comments.
Fixed bug in Merge() called with NULL args.
Get rid of TkDefaultAppName() -- it is not used anywhere.
Pass error message on when Appinit fails.
Create/Delete FileHandler assume fd is a socket on Windows.
Guido van Rossum
Barry Warsaw
Jack Jansen