attribute values. Just using escape() can (and always has) led to broken
XML being generated. This makes sure it always produces the right thing.
This actually closes SF bug #440351.
break old code (in extreme cases). See SF bug #448153.
Add a new subclass IterableUserDict that has the __iter__ method.
Note that for new projects, unless backwards compatibility with
pre-2.2 Python is required, subclassing 'dictionary' is recommended;
UserDict might become deprecated.
- Add an explicit call to PyType_Ready(&PyList_Type) to pythonrun.c
(just for the heck of it, really -- we should either explicitly
ready all types, or none).
__all__, to indicate these are implied as part of the public API.
IDLE's "Check Module" command uses this, and it broke once already
because the reset_globals() and tokeneater() functions were deleted
when Neil converted this to using the generator API of tokenizer.
(See SF bug #448835.)
- Add comment blocks explaining add_operators() and override_slots().
(This file could use some more explaining, but this is all I had
breath for today. :)
- Renamed the argument 'base' of add_wrappers() to 'wraps' because
it's not a base class (which is what the 'base' identifier is used
for elsewhere).
Small nits:
- Fix add_tp_new_wrapper() to avoid overwriting an existing __new__
descriptor in tp_defined.
- In add_operators(), check the return value of add_tp_new_wrapper().
Functional change:
- Remove the tp_new functionality from PyBaseObject_Type; this means
you can no longer instantiate the 'object' type. It's only useful
as a base class.
- To make up for the above loss, add tp_new to dynamic types. This
has to be done in a hackish way (after override_slots() has been
called, with an explicit call to add_tp_new_wrapper() at the very
end) because otherwise I ran into recursive calls of slot_tp_new().
Sigh.
mistake).
+ Arrange for Win2K Add/Remove to show a Python icon.
I think this "does it" -- a full install/uninstall can now be done on a
Win2K box from an ordinary (not Admin, not Power User) user acct, incl.
file extension registration, Start Menu entries, and full Add/Remove.
moddirlist and incdirlist, lists of source and include
directories that are searched for modules.
This is needed because the Mac modules and include files
live in the Mac subtree.
In addition (and that's actually what the mod is all about) on OSX we build all the Mac extension modules.
been overwriting them even if they have the same version, not just if
they're an older version (and our installers have always done this).
+ Added an "Advanced Options" subdialog to "Select Components". Allows
to do a non-admin install even if you have Administrator rights, and
to skip registering file extensions and/or creating Start Menu
shortcuts. Since so far these installers have been tested only by me,
and Win2K has been full of surprises, I want those options available
out in the field.
Lots of web searching turned up what should have been obvious: Because
Windows Installer is a native Win2K service, it can run at a higher
privilege level than the user invoking it. So MSI installs don't bash
into these permission gotchas on Win2K, but Wise 8.1 does (it's just
another app to Win2K, and we're not alone in wrestling with this; but,
like changing int division in Python, Win2K is doing a right thing <wink>).
Can't test it until getting to a Win2K box, because the non-Admin way
of setting file associations on Win2K doesn't work on any other flavor
of Windows (and other flavors of Windows never need Admin privs to
do it the old way).
+ Consequently got rid of the "Register file associations" Component and
associated GUI.
+ Added a line to the summary saying whether or not this is an Admin-level
install (I fear that will be an important clue someday).
+ Minor fiddling to the summary to reduce the # of lines. Added a
horizontal scrollbar in case the install path is very long.
+ Reworked the way the Main and Tools components share pydoc.pyw; cleaner
and simpler.
and install the Python and MS runtime DLLs into the Python dir instead of
a system dir.
Initial value is taken from new compiler vrbl _DOADMIN_ (default true),
and forced to false if the user doesn't have admin privs.
This makes it possible to *test* non-admin installs on machines where the
distinction doesn't exist (like my home box), via just changing _DOADMIN_.
It may also be useful for users who don't *want* an installer to
scribble into their system dir (for example, me(! most days)), but that
would require adding more GUI to let them get at it.
+ Fiddle vrbls so Win2K add/remove can display version w/o future manual
script fiddling.
+ Break apart the mysterious wizard-generated Win2K "Edit 3 Registry Keys"
script items by hand into 3 separate items, so you can see what the heck
they're doing in the script view.
+ pydoc.pyw was a problem: it's installed by both the Main and Tools
components. So when both were selected, the second time it got
installed Wise figured it was overwriting a pre-existing version, and
made a backup copy in BACKUP. A rollback-uninstall then restored that,
leaving the Tools/Scripts/ directory non-empty, and so Wise couldn't
remove that directory (or any above it). Fixed by installing pydoc.pyw
at most once.
+ Rearranged and commented the "register file extensions" section, because
it was confusing and needs more work: turns out it's not true that
Win2K requires Admin privs to register file extensions, BUT, if you
don't have Admin privs, Win2K requires a new way to register file
extensions, and a way that doesn't blow up but doesn't do any good either
on earlier Windows flavors. I think I know how to get this done, but am
too depressed to do it right now <0.7 wink>.
starting the test suite proper. If _socket fails to build, that will
make this test fail with an ImportError -- handled by the test harness
as "no such module _socket" -- instead of an AttributeError deep in
CGIHTTPServer.
Fred Drake
Guido van Rossum
Jeremy Hylton
Jack Jansen
Andrew M. Kuchling
Steven M. Gava
Tim Peters
Just van Rossum
Martin v. Löwis
Piers Lauder
Greg Ward