cpython/Misc
Lars Gustäbel 1465cc2887 Issue #8633: Support for POSIX.1-2008 binary pax headers.
tarfile is now able to read and write pax headers with a
"hdrcharset=BINARY" record. This record was introduced in
POSIX.1-2008 as a method to store unencoded binary strings that
cannot be translated to UTF-8. In practice, this is just a workaround
that allows a tar implementation to store filenames that do not
comply with the current filesystem encoding and thus cannot be
decoded correctly.
Additionally, tarfile works around a bug in current versions of GNU
tar: undecodable filenames are stored as-is in a pax header without a
"hdrcharset" record being added. Technically, these headers are
invalid, but tarfile manages to read them correctly anyway.
2010-05-17 18:02:50 +00:00
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RPM issue5063: Fixes for building RPM on CentOS plus misc .spec file enhancements. 2010-01-16 04:35:26 +00:00
TextMate/Python-Dev.tmbundle
Vim Blocked revisions 76154 via svnmerge 2009-11-08 21:41:27 +00:00
ACKS Merged revisions 81045 via svnmerge from 2010-05-10 16:27:45 +00:00
AIX-NOTES
HISTORY Merged revisions 78760,78771-78773,78802,78922,78952 via svnmerge from 2010-03-14 10:56:14 +00:00
NEWS Issue #8633: Support for POSIX.1-2008 binary pax headers. 2010-05-17 18:02:50 +00:00
NEWS.help
PURIFY.README
Porting Merged revisions 78966,78970,79018,79026-79027,79055,79156,79159,79163-79164,79173,79176,79194,79208,79212 via svnmerge from 2010-03-21 23:13:07 +00:00
README Merged revisions 75370-75372 via svnmerge from 2009-10-11 21:24:34 +00:00
README.OpenBSD
README.coverity
README.klocwork
README.valgrind
RFD
SpecialBuilds.txt Merged revisions 78760,78771-78773,78802,78922,78952 via svnmerge from 2010-03-14 10:56:14 +00:00
build.sh Merged revisions 78880 via svnmerge from 2010-03-12 21:29:28 +00:00
cheatsheet Merged revisions 73544 via svnmerge from 2009-06-24 06:42:05 +00:00
developers.txt Merged revisions 80301 via svnmerge from 2010-04-21 06:38:30 +00:00
gdbinit Make similar changes to 3.x version. 2010-01-14 01:14:50 +00:00
indent.pro
maintainers.rst adding myself to 'testing' interest area of maintainers.rst file 2010-05-11 14:00:04 +00:00
pymemcompat.h
python-config.in Fix python-config to use the new sysconfig module; silences deprecation warnings. 2010-04-06 21:30:42 +00:00
python-mode.el
python-wing.wpr Merged revisions 70912,70944,70968,71033,71041,71208,71263,71286,71395-71396,71405-71406,71485,71492,71494 via svnmerge from 2009-04-11 20:45:40 +00:00
python.man Merged revisions 79878-79880 via svnmerge from 2010-04-07 04:04:10 +00:00
python.pc.in Merged revisions 72898 via svnmerge from 2009-05-24 20:39:11 +00:00
setuid-prog.c Recorded merge of revisions 81029 via svnmerge from 2010-05-09 15:52:27 +00:00
valgrind-python.supp #3791: remove last traces of bsddb. 2009-06-04 09:30:30 +00:00
vgrindefs

README

Python Misc subdirectory
========================

This directory contains files that wouldn't fit in elsewhere.  Some
documents are only of historic importance.

Files found here
----------------

ACKS		Acknowledgements
AIX-NOTES	Notes for building Python on AIX
build.sh	Script to build and test latest Python from the repository
cheatsheet	Quick summary of Python by Ken Manheimer
developers.txt	A history of who got developer permissions, and why
gdbinit		Handy stuff to put in your .gdbinit file, if you use gdb
HISTORY		News from previous releases -- oldest last
indent.pro	GNU indent profile approximating my C style
maintainers.txt	A list of maintainers for library modules
NEWS		News for this release (for some meaning of "this")
NEWS.help	How to edit NEWS
Porting		Mini-FAQ on porting to new platforms
PURIFY.README	Information for Purify users
pymemcompat.h	Memory interface compatibility file.
python.man	UNIX man page for the python interpreter
python-mode.el	Emacs mode for editing Python programs
python.pc.in	Package configuration info template for pkg-config
python-wing.wpr Wing IDE project file
README		The file you're reading now
README.coverity	Information about running Coverity's Prevent on Python
README.klocwork	Information about running Klocwork's K7 on Python
README.OpenBSD	Help for building problems on OpenBSD
README.valgrind	Information for Valgrind users, see valgrind-python.supp
RFD		Request For Discussion about a Python newsgroup
RPM		(Old) tools to build RPMs
setuid-prog.c	C helper program for set-uid Python scripts
SpecialBuilds.txt     Describes extra symbols you can set for debug builds
TextMate	A TextMate bundle for Python development
valgrind-python.supp  Valgrind suppression file, see README.valgrind
vgrindefs	Python configuration for vgrind (a generic pretty printer)
Vim		Python development utilities for the Vim editor