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889 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Tim Peters ae0f1ed92c Move a name into correct position. 2001-10-31 04:45:45 +00:00
Tim Peters 59ed448bc6 SF patch #474485: pydoc generates some bad html, from Rich Salz. 2001-10-31 04:20:26 +00:00
Tim Peters a6ca4f40d0 SF patch #474500: Make OS/2 locks work like posix locks, from Michael
Muller.
2001-10-31 03:50:45 +00:00
Tim Peters 5b40f1c212 SF bug #474077 2.2b1: Error compiling extns with BCC
Removed "#undef HAVE_HYPOT" line from Borland config, as suggested.
Whether this will break some other Borland usage is a good question I
can't answer.
2001-10-30 21:09:55 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 692adf19cb News and attribution for SF bug #473009. 2001-10-30 03:03:03 +00:00
Tim Peters a427a2b8d0 Rename "dictionary" (type and constructor) to "dict". 2001-10-29 22:25:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 7ad2d1eb8e Add __del__ callbacks. They are too useful to leave out.
XXX Remaining problems:

- The GC module doesn't know about these; I think it has its reasons
  to disallow calling __del__, but for now, __del__ on new-style
  objects is called when the GC module discards an object, for better
  or for worse.

- The code to call a __del__ handler is really ridiculously
  complicated, due to all the different debug #ifdefs.  I've copied
  this from the similar code in classobject.c, so I'm pretty sure I
  did it right, but it's not pretty. :-(

- No tests yet.
2001-10-29 22:11:00 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 86443216b7 News about the socket type and the HP-UX port. 2001-10-27 22:28:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3eedf718b3 Updated this README to reality. 2001-10-26 15:01:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 12d955c830 Some news. 2001-10-26 14:56:06 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 79bcc17cd9 Delete Makefile.pre.in (BDFL pronouncement) 2001-10-26 14:54:16 +00:00
Tim Peters 1fc240e851 Generalize dictionary() to accept a sequence of 2-sequences. At the
outer level, the iterator protocol is used for memory-efficiency (the
outer sequence may be very large if fully materialized); at the inner
level, PySequence_Fast() is used for time-efficiency (these should
always be sequences of length 2).

dictobject.c, new functions PyDict_{Merge,Update}FromSeq2.  These are
wholly analogous to PyDict_{Merge,Update}, but process a sequence-of-2-
sequences argument instead of a mapping object.  For now, I left these
functions file static, so no corresponding doc changes.  It's tempting
to change dict.update() to allow a sequence-of-2-seqs argument too.

Also changed the name of dictionary's keyword argument from "mapping"
to "x".  Got a better name?  "mapping_or_sequence_of_pairs" isn't
attractive, although more so than "mosop" <wink>.

abstract.h, abstract.tex:  Added new PySequence_Fast_GET_SIZE function,
much faster than going thru the all-purpose PySequence_Size.

libfuncs.tex:
- Document dictionary().
- Fiddle tuple() and list() to admit that their argument is optional.
- The long-winded repetitions of "a sequence, a container that supports
  iteration, or an iterator object" is getting to be a PITA.  Many
  months ago I suggested factoring this out into "iterable object",
  where the definition of that could include being explicit about
  generators too (as is, I'm not sure a reader outside of PythonLabs
  could guess that "an iterator object" includes a generator call).
- Please check my curly braces -- I'm going blind <0.9 wink>.

abstract.c, PySequence_Tuple():  When PyObject_GetIter() fails, leave
its error msg alone now (the msg it produces has improved since
PySequence_Tuple was generalized to accept iterable objects, and
PySequence_Tuple was also stomping on the msg in cases it shouldn't
have even before PyObject_GetIter grew a better msg).
2001-10-26 05:06:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0afde13b43 Fix two typos, one noted by Noah Spurrier in SF bug #475166, the
second noted after a second's thought about what the next line should
do. :-(
2001-10-26 03:38:46 +00:00
Barry Warsaw d970fe4022 I went back and figured out the release date for Python 2.2a1. 2001-10-25 21:53:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a0dfc8577d Fix SF bug #474538: Memory (reference) leak in poller.register (Dave Brueck)
Replace some tortuous code that was trying to be clever but forgot to
DECREF the key and value, by more longwinded but obviously correct
code.

(Inspired by but not copying the fix from SF patch #475033.)
2001-10-25 20:18:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 491921467c Note updated RISCOS port. Remove reference in the 2.1 release notes
to os.extsep -- that variable actually didn't exist in that release!
2001-10-24 20:51:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 00ebd46dfc SF patch #474175 (Jay T Miller): file.readinto arg parsing bug
The C-code in fileobject.readinto(buffer) which parses
    the arguments assumes that size_t is interchangeable
    with int:

	    size_t ntodo, ndone, nnow;

	    if (f->f_fp == NULL)
		    return err_closed();
	    if (!PyArg_Parse(args, "w#", &ptr, &ntodo))
		    return NULL;

    This causes a problem on Alpha / Tru64 / OSF1 v5.1
    where size_t is a long and sizeof(long) != sizeof(int).

    The patch I'm proposing declares ntodo as an int.  An
    alternative might be to redefine w# to expect size_t.

[We can't change w# because there are probably third party modules
relying on it. GvR]
2001-10-23 21:25:24 +00:00
Tim Peters 98791affc8 Doc and NEWS changes due to Jeremy adding traceback objects to gc. 2001-10-23 01:59:54 +00:00
Fred Drake cb7a6b5bf7 Added two very tardy notes about the 2.2b1 release, fixed a typo. 2001-10-22 18:41:51 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 15e0353715 Add curses-related news items 2001-10-22 16:37:10 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling 51c18166bb Fix some typos 2001-10-22 01:47:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c8e5645f15 Methods of built-in types now properly check for keyword arguments
(formerly these were silently ignored).  The only built-in methods
that take keyword arguments are __call__, __init__ and __new__.
2001-10-22 00:43:43 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 67b2659046 Patch from SF bug #473150: configure weaknesses on HP-UX (Michael Piotrowski)
1. configure doesn't handle HP-UX release numbers
    (e.g., B.11.00), resulting in MACHDEP = "hpuxB".

    2. After checking for wchar.h, configure doesn't
    include it when checking the size of wchar_t.

    (Python 2.2b1 on HP-UX 11.00)
2001-10-20 14:21:45 +00:00
Tim Peters 84362bc74a The usual post-release fiddling. 2001-10-19 17:55:30 +00:00
Marc-André Lemburg b5507ecd3c Additional test and documentation for the unicode() changes.
This patch should also be applied to the 2.2b1 trunk.
2001-10-19 12:02:29 +00:00
Barry Warsaw f6fb171c9d Last minute updates for changes since 2.2a4. Unless Fred wants to add
anything about the hotshot profiler, this file is ready for the 2.2b1
Windows build.
2001-10-19 05:35:40 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton cb4414366b Add entry for RAND_xxx() functions in socket module. 2001-10-19 03:40:19 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1c486099ad Note the Unicode changes from SF patch #470578. 2001-10-19 02:05:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 93505a2f2b Another. 2001-10-19 01:51:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c524d952da SF patch #460805 by Chris Gonnerman: Support for unsetenv()
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?)
2001-10-19 01:31:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 98bf58f1c6 SF patch #462296: Add attributes to os.stat results; by Nick Mathewson.
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.)
2001-10-18 20:34:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 6c4bce3b5c Note stricter tp_compare return value requirements. 2001-10-18 19:20:25 +00:00
Fred Drake 934d2a4310 Add a note about changes related to the weak reference objects. 2001-10-18 18:18:06 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a5343ccd28 SF bug #471720: ThreadingMixIn/TCPServer forgets close
Solved with a helper method that calls finish_request() and then
close_request().  The code is by Max Neunhöffer.
2001-10-18 18:02:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f76de62f7d Fix SF bug #472234: type(obj) calls type->tp_init (Roeland Rengelink)
The fix is a band-aid: type_call() now makes the same exception for a
single-argument call to type() as type_new() was already making.
2001-10-18 15:49:21 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 61c5edf6fc Expose setgroups. Fixes feature request #468116. 2001-10-18 04:06:00 +00:00
Guido van Rossum bcbdc95e90 SF patch #467430.
- replace some log_error() calls with log_message()

- flush self.rfile before forking too (hope this works on Windows)
2001-10-17 06:45:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 89e000edb7 YAPC. 2001-10-17 00:17:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9074ef6081 Add fix for getattr(obj, name, default). Rearrange a few things. 2001-10-16 21:34:49 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3c28863e08 Partial patch from SF #452266, by Jason Petrone.
This changes Pythread_start_thread() to return the thread ID, or -1
for an error.  (It's technically an incompatible API change, but I
doubt anyone calls it.)
2001-10-16 21:13:49 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton 6f543b606d Add note about new zlib feature. 2001-10-16 20:42:52 +00:00
Guido van Rossum dfefc06fe0 Add Shane. 2001-10-16 20:13:53 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3eea25c3fa Reword the text on the demise of __dynamic__ somewhat, correcting a
typo.
2001-10-16 00:46:57 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 687ae00460 Get rid of __defined__ and tp_defined -- there's no need to
distinguish __dict__ and __defined__ any more.  In the C structure,
tp_cache takes its place -- but this hasn't been implemented yet.
2001-10-15 22:03:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum f35f06963b Another contributor. 2001-10-15 19:55:12 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 1346e83eb0 Patch 471400: escape single-dot lines; by Jason Hildebrand.
RFC 2049 recommends never outputting a line consisting of a single
dot.
2001-10-15 18:44:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum a8bcf80e7b Note about fix in list comprehensions. 2001-10-15 15:53:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum c0f1bfec05 SF bug #469910 by Alfonso Baciero: Bugfix for imaplib for macintosh
Pass binary mode to makefile().
2001-10-15 13:47:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 9abaf4d3b7 SF patch #467455 : Enhanced environment variables, by Toby Dickenson.
This patch changes to logic to:

   if env.var. set and non-empty:
       if env.var. is an integer:
           set flag to that integer
   if flag is zero: # [actually, <= 0 --GvR]
       set flag to 1

   Under this patch, anyone currently using
   PYTHONVERBOSE=yes will get the same output as before.

   PYTHONVERBNOSE=2 will generate more verbosity than
   before.

   The only unusual case that the following three are
   still all equivalent:
   PYTHONVERBOSE=yespleas
   PYTHONVERBOSE=1
   PYTHONVERBOSE=0
2001-10-12 22:17:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 3e99643682 Jason Lowe 2001-10-12 21:54:29 +00:00