[ 635933 ] make some type attrs writable
Plus a couple of extra tests beyond what's up there.
It hasn't been as carefully reviewed as it perhaps should, so all readers
are encouraged, nay exhorted, to give this a close reading.
There are still a couple of oddities related to assigning to __name__,
but I intend to solicit python-dev's opinions on these.
The bsddb subproject is gone.
The _bsddb subproject is new.
There are problems here, but I'm out of time to work on this now. If
anyone can address an XXX comment or two in readme.txt, please do!
Already supported dict() and dict(mapping).
Now supports dict(itemsequence) and
Just van Rossum's new syntax for dict(keywordargs).
Also, added related unittests.
The docs already promise dict-like behavior
so no update is needed there.
Replaced docstring with comments. Prevents subclass contamination.
Added the missing __cmp__() method and a test for __cmp__().
Used try/except style in preference to has_key() followed by a look-up.
Used iteritem() where possible to save creating a long key list and
to save redundant lookups.
Expanded .update() to look for the most helpful methods first and gradually
work down to a mininum expected interface.
Expanded documentation to be more clear on how to use the class.
When mwh added extended slicing, strings and unicode became mappings.
Thus, dict was set which prevented an error when doing:
newstr = 'format without a percent' % string_value
This fix raises an exception again when there are no formats
and % with a string value.
Armin Rigo's Draconian but effective fix for
SF bug 453523: list.sort crasher
slightly fiddled to catch more cases of list mutation. The dreaded
internal "immutable list type" is gone! OTOH, if you look at a list
*while* it's being sorted now, it will appear to be empty. Better
than a core dump.
figure out what the code was doing. The fixes were a combination of
closing open files before deletion, opening files in binary mode, and
plain skipping things that can't work on Windows (BaseTest.decompress
uses a process gimmick that doesn't exist on Windows, and, even if it
did, assumes a "bunzip2" executable is on PATH).
The _update method detected mutable elements by trapping TypeErrors.
Unfortunately, this masked useful TypeErrors raised by the iterable
itself. For cases where it is possible for an iterable to raise
a TypeError, the iterable is pre-converted to a list outside the
try/except so that any TypeErrors propagate through.
from Greg Chapman.
* Modules/_sre.c
(lastmark_restore): New function, implementing algorithm to restore
a state to a given lastmark. In addition to the similar algorithm used
in a few places of SRE_MATCH, restore lastindex when restoring lastmark.
(SRE_MATCH): Replace lastmark inline restoring by lastmark_restore(),
function. Also include it where missing. In SRE_OP_MARK, set lastindex
only if i > lastmark.
* Lib/test/re_tests.py
* Lib/test/test_sre.py
Included regression tests for the fixed bugs.
* Misc/NEWS
Mention fixes.
Michael W. Hudson
Guido van Rossum
Raymond Hettinger
Walter Dörwald
Martin v. Löwis
Tim Peters
Neal Norwitz
Just van Rossum
Fred Drake
Neil Schemenauer
Jeremy Hylton
Gustavo Niemeyer
Finn Bock