cpython/PC
Guido van Rossum d59da4b432 Merged revisions 55407-55513 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/p3yk

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  r55413 | fred.drake | 2007-05-17 12:30:10 -0700 (Thu, 17 May 2007) | 1 line

  fix argument name in documentation; match the implementation
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  r55430 | jack.diederich | 2007-05-18 06:39:59 -0700 (Fri, 18 May 2007) | 1 line

  Implements class decorators, PEP 3129.
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  r55432 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-05-18 08:09:41 -0700 (Fri, 18 May 2007) | 2 lines

  obsubmit.
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  r55434 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-05-18 09:39:10 -0700 (Fri, 18 May 2007) | 3 lines

  Fix bug in test_inspect.  (I presume this is how it should be fixed;
  Jack Diedrich, please verify.)
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  r55460 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-20 00:31:57 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 4 lines

  Remove the imageop module.  With imgfile already removed in Python 3.0 and
  rgbimg gone in Python 2.6 the unit tests themselves were made worthless.  Plus
  third-party libraries perform the same function much better.
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  r55469 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-20 11:28:20 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 118 lines

  Merged revisions 55324-55467 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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    r55348 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-15 13:19:34 -0700 (Tue, 15 May 2007) | 4 lines

    HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
    the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
    injecting HTML into the error page.
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    r55372 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-15 21:33:50 -0700 (Tue, 15 May 2007) | 6 lines

    Port rev 55353 from Guido:
    Add what looks like a necessary call to PyErr_NoMemory() when PyMem_MALLOC()
    fails.

    Will backport.
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    r55377 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-15 22:06:33 -0700 (Tue, 15 May 2007) | 1 line

    Mention removal of some directories for obsolete platforms
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    r55380 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-15 22:50:03 -0700 (Tue, 15 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Change the maintainer of the BeOS port.
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    r55383 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-16 06:44:18 -0700 (Wed, 16 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Bug #1719995: don't use deprecated method in sets example.
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    r55386 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-16 13:05:11 -0700 (Wed, 16 May 2007) | 5 lines

    Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to
    lack of an infinite recursion check.

    Contributed by Damien Miller at Google.
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    r55389 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-16 15:42:29 -0700 (Wed, 16 May 2007) | 6 lines

    Remove the gopherlib module.  It has been raising a DeprecationWarning since
    Python 2.5.

    Also remove gopher support from urllib/urllib2.  As both imported gopherlib the
    usage of the support would have raised a DeprecationWarning.
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    r55394 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-05-16 18:08:04 -0700 (Wed, 16 May 2007) | 1 line

    calendar.py gets no benefit from xrange() instead of range()
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    r55395 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-16 19:02:56 -0700 (Wed, 16 May 2007) | 3 lines

    Complete deprecation of BaseException.message.  Some subclasses were directly
    accessing the message attribute instead of using the descriptor.
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    r55396 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-16 23:11:36 -0700 (Wed, 16 May 2007) | 4 lines

    Reduce the max stack depth to see if this fixes the segfaults on
    Windows and some other boxes.  If this is successful, this rev should
    be backported.  I'm not sure how close to the limit we should push this.
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    r55397 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-16 23:23:50 -0700 (Wed, 16 May 2007) | 4 lines

    Set the depth to something very small to try to determine if the
    crashes on Windows are really due to the stack size or possibly
    some other problem.
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    r55398 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-17 00:04:46 -0700 (Thu, 17 May 2007) | 4 lines

    Last try for tweaking the max stack depth.  5000 was the original value,
    4000 didn't work either.  1000 does work on Windows.  If 2000 works,
    that will hopefully be a reasonable balance.
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    r55412 | fred.drake | 2007-05-17 12:29:58 -0700 (Thu, 17 May 2007) | 1 line

    fix argument name in documentation; match the implementation
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    r55427 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-17 22:47:16 -0700 (Thu, 17 May 2007) | 1 line

    Verify neither dumps or loads overflow the stack and segfault.
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    r55446 | collin.winter | 2007-05-18 16:11:24 -0700 (Fri, 18 May 2007) | 1 line

    Backport PEP 3110's new 'except' syntax to 2.6.
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    r55448 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-05-18 18:11:16 -0700 (Fri, 18 May 2007) | 1 line

    Improvements to NamedTuple's implementation, tests, and documentation
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    r55449 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-05-18 18:50:11 -0700 (Fri, 18 May 2007) | 1 line

    Fix beginner mistake -- don't mix spaces and tabs.
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    r55450 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-18 20:48:47 -0700 (Fri, 18 May 2007) | 1 line

    Clear data so random memory does not get freed.  Will backport.
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    r55452 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-18 21:34:55 -0700 (Fri, 18 May 2007) | 3 lines

    Whoops, need to pay attention to those test failures.
    Move the clear to *before* the first use, not after.
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    r55453 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-18 21:35:52 -0700 (Fri, 18 May 2007) | 1 line

    Give some clue as to what happened if the test fails.
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    r55455 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-19 11:09:26 -0700 (Sat, 19 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Fix docstring for add_package in site.py.
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    r55458 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-20 00:09:50 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Remove the rgbimg module.  It has been deprecated since Python 2.5.
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    r55465 | nick.coghlan | 2007-05-20 04:12:49 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 1 line

    Fix typo in example (should be backported, but my maintenance branch is woefully out of date)
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  r55472 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-20 12:06:18 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove imageop from the Windows build process.
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  r55486 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-20 23:59:52 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 1 line

  Remove callable() builtin
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  r55506 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-22 00:43:29 -0700 (Tue, 22 May 2007) | 78 lines

  Merged revisions 55468-55505 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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    r55468 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-20 11:06:27 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 1 line

    rotor is long gone.
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    r55470 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-20 11:43:00 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 1 line

    Update directories/files at the top-level.
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    r55471 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-20 12:05:06 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Try to remove rgbimg from Windows builds.
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    r55474 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-20 16:17:38 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 4 lines

    Remove the macfs module.  This led to the deprecation of macostools.touched();
    it completely relied on macfs and is a no-op on OS X according to code
    comments.
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    r55476 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-20 16:56:18 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 3 lines

    Move imgfile import to the global namespace to trigger an import error ASAP to
    prevent creation of a test file.
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    r55477 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-20 16:57:38 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 3 lines

    Cause posixfile to raise a DeprecationWarning.  Documented as deprecated since
    Ptyhon 1.5.
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    r55479 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-05-20 17:03:15 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 1 line

    Note removed modules
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    r55481 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-05-20 21:35:47 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Add Alexandre Vassalotti.
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    r55482 | george.yoshida | 2007-05-20 21:41:21 -0700 (Sun, 20 May 2007) | 4 lines

    fix against r55474 [Remove the macfs module]

    Remove "libmacfs.tex" from Makefile.deps and mac/mac.tex.
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    r55487 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-05-21 01:13:35 -0700 (Mon, 21 May 2007) | 1 line

    Replace assertion with straight error-checking.
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    r55489 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-05-21 09:40:10 -0700 (Mon, 21 May 2007) | 1 line

    Allow all alphanumeric and underscores in type and field names.
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    r55490 | facundo.batista | 2007-05-21 10:32:32 -0700 (Mon, 21 May 2007) | 5 lines


    Added timeout support to HTTPSConnection, through the
    socket.create_connection function. Also added a small
    test for this, and updated NEWS file.
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    r55495 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-21 13:34:16 -0700 (Mon, 21 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function calls.
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    r55502 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-21 23:03:36 -0700 (Mon, 21 May 2007) | 1 line

    Document new params to HTTPSConnection
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    r55504 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-22 00:16:10 -0700 (Tue, 22 May 2007) | 1 line

    Stop using METH_OLDARGS
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    r55505 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-22 00:16:44 -0700 (Tue, 22 May 2007) | 1 line

    Stop using METH_OLDARGS implicitly
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2007-05-22 18:11:13 +00:00
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VC6 Merged revisions 55342-55406 via svnmerge from 2007-05-17 18:20:34 +00:00
bdist_wininst Four months of trunk changes (including a few releases...) 2006-12-13 04:49:30 +00:00
example_nt Four months of trunk changes (including a few releases...) 2006-12-13 04:49:30 +00:00
icons Partially merge trunk into p3yk. The removal of Mac/Tools is confusing svn 2006-06-08 14:42:34 +00:00
os2emx Merged revisions 55342-55406 via svnmerge from 2007-05-17 18:20:34 +00:00
os2vacpp Merged revisions 55342-55406 via svnmerge from 2007-05-17 18:20:34 +00:00
WinMain.c Revert creation of launcher.exe 2004-09-08 15:57:36 +00:00
_msi.c Merged the int/long unification branch, by very crude means (sorry Thomas!). 2007-01-14 03:31:43 +00:00
_subprocess.c Merge the rest of the trunk. 2006-06-08 15:35:45 +00:00
_winreg.c Merged revisions 53952-54987 via svnmerge from 2007-04-27 19:54:29 +00:00
config.c Merged revisions 55407-55513 via svnmerge from 2007-05-22 18:11:13 +00:00
dl_nt.c Patch #411138: Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774. 2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
dllbase_nt.txt Merge p3yk branch with the trunk up to revision 45595. This breaks a fair 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +00:00
empty.c Add main program for icon file. 2004-09-03 13:32:57 +00:00
errmap.h Much-needed merge (using svnmerge.py this time) of trunk changes into p3yk. 2006-05-27 19:21:47 +00:00
errmap.mak Much-needed merge (using svnmerge.py this time) of trunk changes into p3yk. 2006-05-27 19:21:47 +00:00
frozen_dllmain.c Remove some debugging messages - although this code is a complete hack, we dont need to announce it to the world every time they use freeze! 2000-10-05 22:10:33 +00:00
generrmap.c Much-needed merge (using svnmerge.py this time) of trunk changes into p3yk. 2006-05-27 19:21:47 +00:00
getpathp.c Merged revisions 53952-54987 via svnmerge from 2007-04-27 19:54:29 +00:00
icons.mak Help compiling icons into an exe, for use with MSI advertisement. 2004-08-13 15:26:40 +00:00
icons.rc Help compiling icons into an exe, for use with MSI advertisement. 2004-08-13 15:26:40 +00:00
import_nt.c Merge ssize_t branch. 2006-02-15 17:27:45 +00:00
make_versioninfo.c Merged revisions 55325-55327 via svnmerge from 2007-05-14 22:51:27 +00:00
msvcrtmodule.c initmsvcrt(): This no longer compiled on Windows, because 2006-01-19 15:21:30 +00:00
py.ico Merge the rest of the trunk. 2006-06-08 15:35:45 +00:00
pyc.ico Merge the rest of the trunk. 2006-06-08 15:35:45 +00:00
pycon.ico Merge the rest of the trunk. 2006-06-08 15:35:45 +00:00
pyconfig.h Merged revisions 55325-55327 via svnmerge from 2007-05-14 22:51:27 +00:00
python.mk Jim A's new versions of these 1998-08-03 20:23:42 +00:00
python_exe.rc Add pretty icon to python.exe 1997-12-05 06:31:40 +00:00
python_nt.rc Merged revisions 53005-53303 via svnmerge from 2007-01-09 23:18:33 +00:00
readme.txt Remove svn:mime-type (inexplicably set to a binary type), 2006-03-01 06:28:58 +00:00
testpy.py Merge p3yk branch with the trunk up to revision 45595. This breaks a fair 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +00:00
w9xpopen.c Fix all wrong instances of "it's". 2005-07-22 21:49:32 +00:00
winsound.c Merged revisions 46753-51188 via svnmerge from 2006-08-11 14:57:12 +00:00

readme.txt

Welcome to the "PC" subdirectory of the Python distribution
***********************************************************

*** Note: the project files for MS VC++ 7.1 are now in the
*** PCbuild directory.  See the file readme.txt there for build
*** instructions.  There is some information below that might
*** still be relevant.

This "PC" subdirectory contains complete project files to make
several older PC ports of Python, as well as all the PC-specific
Python source files.  It should be located in the root of the
Python distribution, and there should be directories "Modules",
"Objects", "Python", etc. in the parent directory of this "PC"
subdirectory.  Be sure to read the documentation in the Python
distribution.

Python requires library files such as string.py to be available in
one or more library directories.  The search path of libraries is
set up when Python starts.  To see the current Python library search
path, start Python and enter "import sys" and "print sys.path".

All PC ports use this scheme to try to set up a module search path:

  1) The script location; the current directory without script.
  2) The PYTHONPATH variable, if set.
  3) For Win32 platforms (NT/95), paths specified in the Registry.
  4) Default directories lib, lib/win, lib/test, lib/tkinter;
     these are searched relative to the environment variable
     PYTHONHOME, if set, or relative to the executable and its
     ancestors, if a landmark file (Lib/string.py) is found ,
     or the current directory (not useful).
  5) The directory containing the executable.

The best installation strategy is to put the Python executable (and
DLL, for Win32 platforms) in some convenient directory such as
C:/python, and copy all library files and subdirectories (using XCOPY)
to C:/python/lib.  Then you don't need to set PYTHONPATH.  Otherwise,
set the environment variable PYTHONPATH to your Python search path.
For example,
   set PYTHONPATH=.;d:\python\lib;d:\python\lib\win;d:\python\lib\dos-8x3

There are several add-in modules to build Python programs which use
the native Windows operating environment.  The ports here just make
"QuickWin" and DOS Python versions which support a character-mode
(console) environment.  Look in www.python.org for Tkinter, PythonWin,
WPY and wxPython.

To make a Python port, start the Integrated Development Environment
(IDE) of your compiler, and read in the native "project file"
(or makefile) provided.  This will enable you to change any source
files or build settings so you can make custom builds.

pyconfig.h    An important configuration file specific to PC's.

config.c    The list of C modules to include in the Python PC
            version.  Manually edit this file to add or
            remove Python modules.

testpy.py   A Python test program.  Run this to test your
            Python port.  It should produce copious output,
	    ending in a report on how many tests were OK, how many
	    failed, and how many were skipped.  Don't worry about
	    skipped tests (these test unavailable optional features).


Additional files and subdirectories for 32-bit Windows
======================================================

python_nt.rc   Resource compiler input for python15.dll.

dl_nt.c, import_nt.c
               Additional sources used for 32-bit Windows features.

getpathp.c     Default sys.path calculations (for all PC platforms).

dllbase_nt.txt A (manually maintained) list of base addresses for
               various DLLs, to avoid run-time relocation.

example_nt     A subdirectory showing how to build an extension as a
               DLL.

Visual Studio 6.0
=================
The subdirectory VC6 contains Visual Studio 6 project files. These
were originally located in the PCBuild directory, but are no longer
maintained.


IBM VisualAge C/C++ for OS/2
============================

See os2vacpp/readme.txt.  This platform is supported by Jeff Rush.


Note for Windows 3.x and DOS users
==================================

Neither Windows 3.x nor DOS is supported any more.  The last Python
version that supported these was Python 1.5.2; the support files were
present in Python 2.0 but weren't updated, and it is not our intention
to support these platforms for Python 2.x.