cpython/Misc
Thomas Wouters 89d996e5c2 Merged revisions 57778-58052 via svnmerge from
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  r57820 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 08:59:27 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Document new shorthand notation for index entries.
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  r57827 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 10:47:51 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix subitem markup.
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  r57833 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-08-31 12:01:07 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line

  Mark registry components as 64-bit on Win64.
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  r57854 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:23 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line

  deprecate use of FakeSocket
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  r57855 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:46 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line

  remove mentions of socket.ssl in comments
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  r57856 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:03:31 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line

  remove use of non-existent SSLFakeSocket in apparently untested code
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  r57859 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-01 08:36:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
  Will backport to 2.5.
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  r57865 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 09:51:24 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix RST link (backport from Py3k).
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  r57876 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 17:49:49 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  Document sets' ">" and "<" operations (backport from py3k).
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  r57878 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-01 19:40:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 4 lines

  Added a note and examples to explain that re.split does not split on an
  empty pattern match. (issue 852532).
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  r57879 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:18:09 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix wrong function names.
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  r57880 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:34:05 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix typo.
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  r57889 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:31:59 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  Markup fix
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  r57892 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:43:36 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  Add various items
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  r57895 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:17:58 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  Wording change
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  r57896 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:18:31 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  Add more items
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  r57904 | ronald.oussoren | 2007-09-02 11:46:07 +0200 (Sun, 02 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  Macosx: this patch ensures that the value of MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET used
  by the Makefile is also used at configure-time.
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  r57925 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-03 09:16:46 +0200 (Mon, 03 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix #883466: don't allow Unicode as arguments to quopri and uu codecs.
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  r57936 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 01:33:04 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  - Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.6.x.
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  r57954 | mark.summerfield | 2007-09-04 10:16:15 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  Added cross-references plus a note about dict & list shallow copying.
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  r57958 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 11:51:57 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  Document that we rely on the OS to release the crypto
  context. Fixes #1626801.
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  r57960 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 15:13:14 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
  get_completion_type to readline.
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  r57961 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 16:19:28 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original
  source encoding. Will backport to 2.5.
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  r57972 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 20:17:36 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  - Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script pybuildbot.identify
    to include some information about the build environment.
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  r57973 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 21:05:38 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  - Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Remove whitespace at eol.
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  r57975 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 22:46:02 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  - Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
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  r57980 | bill.janssen | 2007-09-05 02:46:27 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  SSL certificate distinguished names should be represented by tuples
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  r57985 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 08:39:17 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  Patch #1105: Explain that one needs to build the solution
  to get dependencies right.
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  r57987 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-05 09:51:21 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 4 lines

  PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference.
  There are probably a number of places that are open to attacks
  such as the following one, in bltinmodule.c:min_max().
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  r57991 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 13:47:34 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to
  a readonly source.
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  r57993 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-05 15:36:44 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  Backport from Py3k: Bug #1684991: explain lookup semantics for __special__ methods (new-style classes only).
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  r58004 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 10:30:51 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines

  Patch #1733973 by peaker:
  ptrace_enter_call() assumes no exception is currently set.
  This assumption is broken when throwing into a generator.
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  r58006 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 11:30:38 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines

  PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference.
  This attack is against ceval.c:IMPORT_NAME, which calls an
  object (__builtin__.__import__) without holding a reference to it.
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  r58013 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-06 16:49:56 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  Backport from 3k: #1116: fix reference to old filename.
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  r58021 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-06 22:26:20 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  Fix typo:  c_float represents to C float type.
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  r58022 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-07 00:29:06 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  If this is correct for py3k branch and it's already in the release25-maint
  branch, seems like it ought to be on the trunk as well.
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  r58023 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-09-07 00:59:59 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines

  Apply the fix from Issue1112 to make this test more robust and keep
  windows happy.
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  r58031 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 05:17:50 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines

  Make uuid1 and uuid4 tests conditional on whether ctypes can be imported;
  implementation of either function depends on ctypes but uuid as a whole does
  not.
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  r58032 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 06:18:30 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines

  Fix a crasher where Python code managed to infinitely recurse in C code without
  ever going back out to Python code in PyObject_Call().  Required introducing a
  static RuntimeError instance so that normalizing an exception there is no
  reliance on a recursive call that would put the exception system over the
  recursion check itself.
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  r58034 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 08:32:17 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  Add a 'c_longdouble' type to the ctypes module.
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  r58035 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:30:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  Remove unneeded #include.
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  r58036 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:33:24 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines

  Backport from py3k branch:

  Add a workaround for a strange bug on win64, when _ctypes is compiled
  with the SDK compiler.  This should fix the failing
  Lib\ctypes\test\test_as_parameter.py test.
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  r58037 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-07 16:14:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix a wrong indentation for sublists.
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  r58043 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-07 22:10:49 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  #1095: ln -f doesn't work portably, fix in Makefile.
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  r58049 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-08 02:34:17 +0200 (Sat, 08 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  be explicit about the actual location of the missing file
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2007-09-08 17:39:28 +00:00
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RPM Merge current trunk into p3yk. This includes the PyNumber_Index API change, 2006-08-21 19:07:27 +00:00
Vim Kill execfile(), use exec() instead 2007-08-12 00:43:29 +00:00
ACKS Merged revisions 57778-58052 via svnmerge from 2007-09-08 17:39:28 +00:00
AIX-NOTES The fix to use . was incorporated 2003-06-08 02:25:17 +00:00
HISTORY Remove RISCOS support 2007-08-16 14:35:24 +00:00
NEWS Add some miscellanea. 2007-08-30 22:07:17 +00:00
NEWS.help Bug #1014775: update NEWS.help for changes in docutils. 2004-08-30 14:33:25 +00:00
PURIFY.README Merge current trunk into p3yk. This includes the PyNumber_Index API change, 2006-08-21 19:07:27 +00:00
Porting Patch #411138: Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774. 2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
README Remove support for BeOS 2007-08-17 12:57:41 +00:00
README.OpenBSD Add some notes about a recurring problem with OpenBSD 2006-01-09 07:29:03 +00:00
README.coverity Merged revisions 46753-51188 via svnmerge from 2006-08-11 14:57:12 +00:00
README.klocwork Merge current trunk into p3yk. This includes the PyNumber_Index API change, 2006-08-21 19:07:27 +00:00
README.valgrind Merge p3yk branch with the trunk up to revision 45595. This breaks a fair 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +00:00
RFD
SpecialBuilds.txt Four months of trunk changes (including a few releases...) 2006-12-13 04:49:30 +00:00
build.sh Merged revisions 57125-57128 via svnmerge from 2007-08-17 04:19:37 +00:00
cheatsheet Kill execfile(), use exec() instead 2007-08-12 00:43:29 +00:00
developers.txt Merged revisions 57620-57771 via svnmerge from 2007-08-30 22:15:33 +00:00
find_recursionlimit.py Run 2to3's print fixer over some places that had been missed. 2007-08-30 18:39:28 +00:00
gdbinit Get gdb macros working with unicode and PyVarObject change 2007-08-27 02:49:29 +00:00
indent.pro
pymemcompat.h Fix grammatically inept comment. 2002-08-22 13:36:11 +00:00
python-config.in Bug #1074: make python-config with Py3k. 2007-09-01 07:27:37 +00:00
python-mode.el Kill execfile(), use exec() instead 2007-08-12 00:43:29 +00:00
python.man Get rid of xreadlines() (methods). 2006-03-17 08:29:44 +00:00
setuid-prog.c correct bogus instructions 'ccoment out' -> 'uncomment' 1998-09-10 20:18:09 +00:00
valgrind-python.supp Merged revisions 55817-55961 via svnmerge from 2007-06-13 18:07:49 +00:00
vgrindefs Patch #1550800: make exec a function. 2006-09-06 06:51:57 +00:00

README

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

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
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
HISTORY		News from previous releases -- oldest last
HPUX-NOTES	Notes about dynamic loading under HP-UX
indent.pro	GNU indent profile approximating my C style
NEWS		News for this release (for some meaning of "this")
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
README		The file you're reading now
README.valgrind	Information for Valgrind users, see valgrind-python.supp
RFD		Request For Discussion about a Python newsgroup
RPM		(Old) tools to build RPMs
SpecialBuilds.txt     Describes extra symbols you can set for debug builds
setuid-prog.c	C helper program for set-uid Python scripts
vgrindefs	Python configuration for vgrind (a generic pretty printer)
valgrind-python.supp	Valgrind suppression file, see README.valgrind