cpython

History

Tim Peters 25059d30c3 SF patch #489173 : Make os.spawnv not block the interpreter, from Anthony Roach. Release the global interpreter lock around platform spawn calls. Bugfix candidate? Hard to say; I favor "yes, bugfix". These clearly should have been releasing the GIL all along, if for no other reason than compatibility with the similar os.system(). But it's possible some program out there is (a) multithreaded, (b) calling a spawn function with P_WAIT, and (c) relying on the spawn call to block all their threads until the spawned program completes. I think it's very unlikely anyone is doing that on purpose, but someone may be doing so by accident.		2001-12-07 20:35:43 +00:00
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RPM	Update a beopen.com e-mail	2001-08-13 15:14:13 +00:00
ACKS	SF patch #489173 : Make os.spawnv not block the interpreter, from	2001-12-07 20:35:43 +00:00
AIX-NOTES	Rename Setup.in to Setup.dist, and assume that configure will create	2000-10-26 17:07:40 +00:00
BeOS-NOTES	Completely revamped BeOS notes, by Donn Cave (SF patch 411834).	2001-04-10 21:51:29 +00:00
BeOS-setup.py	This is for BeOS users who want to build all the modules. It's	2001-04-10 21:50:09 +00:00
HISTORY	Added release dates (in some cases detemined by looking at the mtime	2000-09-04 17:24:24 +00:00
HPUX-NOTES	Added note about libpython1.5.a.	1997-07-19 20:44:33 +00:00
NEWS	SF patch #489173 : Make os.spawnv not block the interpreter, from	2001-12-07 20:35:43 +00:00
PURIFY.README	Updated for Python 1.5, including my experiences with Purify on	1997-10-07 15:50:58 +00:00
Porting	Patch #411138 : Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774 .	2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
README	Updated this README to reality.	2001-10-26 15:01:16 +00:00
RFD	Initial revision	1994-01-26 10:20:16 +00:00
cheatsheet	Update cheatsheet to 2.0 from Brunning/Gruet's quick reference	2001-08-06 17:43:49 +00:00
find_recursionlimit.py	script that reports a fairly safe recursionlimit for a specific platform	2000-08-31 19:24:17 +00:00
gdbinit	PyObject_Dump() -> _PyObject_Dump()	2001-01-24 04:18:13 +00:00
indent.pro	Some new files...	1994-09-14 14:06:46 +00:00
python-mode.el	(py-version): Hopefully fixed my XEmacs settings so this doesn't get	2001-07-06 20:27:29 +00:00
python.man	SF patch #467455 : Enhanced environment variables, by Toby Dickenson.	2001-10-12 22:17:56 +00:00
setuid-prog.c	correct bogus instructions 'ccoment out' -> 'uncomment'	1998-09-10 20:18:09 +00:00
unicode.txt	Replace the text with a link to the PEP-ified version.	2001-06-27 17:14:04 +00:00
vgrindefs	Add 'yield' as a keyword	2001-08-06 17:42:53 +00:00

README

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

Files found here
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ACKS		Acknowledgements
AIX-NOTES	Notes for building Python on AIX
BeOS-NOTES	Notes for building on BeOS
BeOS-setup.py	setup.py replacement for BeOS, see BeOS-NOTES
HISTORY		News from previous releases -- oldest last
HPUX-NOTES	Notes about dynamic loading under HP-UX
NEWS		News for this release
PURIFY.README	Information for Purify users
Porting		Mini-FAQ on porting to new platforms
README		The file you're reading now
RFD		Request For Discussion about a Python newsgroup
RPM		(Old) tools to build RPMs
cheatsheet	Quick summary of Python by Ken Manheimer
find_recursionlimit.py  Script to find a value for sys.maxrecursionlimit
gdbinit		Handy stuff to put in your .gdbinit file, if you use gdb
indent.pro	GNU indent profile approximating my C style
python-mode.el	Emacs mode for editing Python programs
python.man	UNIX man page for the python interpreter
setuid-prog.c	C helper program for set-uid Python scripts
unicode.txt	Marc-Andre Lemburg's specification of the Unicode API
vgrindefs	Python configuration for vgrind (a generic pretty printer)