cpython/PC/VC6
Benjamin Peterson 4fa88fa0ba merge the io-c branch: C implementation of the io module
The main io module now uses the C implementation.  The Python one still exists
in Lib/_pyio.py for ease of testing new features and usefulness to other
implementers.

The rewrite was done by Antoine Pitrou and Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.  I was slightly
helpful at the end. :)


Following are the log messages from the io-c branch:

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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/io-c

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  r68683 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:13:48 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Merge in changes from the io-c sandbox. Tests will follow in separate commits.
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  r68684 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:17:26 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Fixes and additions to test_io.py
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  r68685 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:22:04 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Fix test_fileio
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  r68687 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:35:11 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Add dependency to _iomodule.h for the various C sources
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  r68688 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:38:18 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  These precautions are not needed anymore!
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  r68689 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:41:48 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix another test
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  r68693 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:49:58 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix test_uu (which was using private attributes of TextIOWrapper)
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  r68704 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 18:45:29 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Most io sources are Py_ssize_t-clean (I don't know about bytesio and stringio)
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  r68741 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 15:20:30 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Check return type in TextIOWrapper.__next__
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  r68742 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 15:28:48 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 4 lines

  Make binary buffered readline and iteration much faster
  (8x as fast as the IOBase generic implementation)
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  r68743 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 15:47:47 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Reinsert test_io_after_close (was removed by mistake)
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  r68745 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 16:16:06 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Add read, read1 and write methods to BufferedIOBase
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  r68747 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 16:35:58 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Kill test failure
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  r68752 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-01-18 17:05:43 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix a segfault when e.g a BufferedReader is created with a FileIO in
  read mode.
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  r68753 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 17:13:09 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Add truncate() to text IO objects
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  r68754 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 17:51:08 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Remove IOBase.__del__ and replace it with custom code with tp_dealloc
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  r68756 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 18:10:16 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Remove irrelevant comment.
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  r68758 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 18:36:16 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  in importlib:_fileio._FileIO -> _io.FileIO
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  r68812 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 14:15:51 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Add garbage collection support to FileIO objects
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  r68816 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 14:56:28 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Add GC support to Buffered and Text IO objects
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  r68817 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 15:19:45 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Add some file headers
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  r68820 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 15:29:59 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Add class TextIOBase
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  r68821 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 15:36:16 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Add properties to TextIOBase
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  r68822 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 15:41:19 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Disable the pure Python TextIOBase class, and inject C the implementation instead
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  r68824 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 16:36:28 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix two leaks
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  r68825 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 16:38:29 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  FileIO.name is just a plain attribute, we can set it directly
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  r68828 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 17:06:33 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Speed up closed checks on text IO objects. Good for a 25% speedup on small ops.
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  r68876 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-23 17:01:25 -0600 (Fri, 23 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Two typos
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  r68877 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-23 18:13:20 -0600 (Fri, 23 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Remove two unused functions
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  r69037 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-01-27 17:10:25 -0600 (Tue, 27 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  Update the win32 project files
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  r69044 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-27 18:51:07 -0600 (Tue, 27 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Improve heuristic in IncrementalNewlineDecoder + some micro-optimizations
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  r69104 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-29 15:23:42 -0600 (Thu, 29 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix some crashers found by Victor
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  r69115 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-01-29 20:36:28 -0600 (Thu, 29 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Updated VC6 project file.
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  r69194 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-01 16:57:18 -0600 (Sun, 01 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix downcasting warnings in 32-bit mode with 64-bit offsets (Windows)
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  r69626 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-14 17:33:34 -0600 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  only catch AttributeError and UnsupportedOperation
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  r69627 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-14 21:35:28 -0600 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  give the IO module its own state and store the os and locale modules in it
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  r69628 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-14 22:08:32 -0600 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  put interned strings in the module state structure
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  r69629 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-14 22:15:29 -0600 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  put UnsupportedOperation in the module state
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  r69636 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 08:31:42 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  dealloc unsupported_operation
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  r69638 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 09:24:45 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  actually test the C implementation
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  r69641 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 10:12:37 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 5 lines

  make interned strings globals again ;(

  putting them in the module state was asking for trouble when the module
  was dealloced before the classes in it were
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  r69642 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 10:19:45 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  actually test the python implementations
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  r69644 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 11:59:30 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix memory leak in destructor when a Python class inherits from IOBase (or an IOBase-derived type)
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  r69645 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 12:23:26 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Add a warning about the embarassing state of IOBase finalization
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  r69646 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 13:14:42 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix opening of 8-bit filenames with FileIO
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  r69647 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 13:20:22 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix leak in FileIO constructor
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  r69648 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 13:58:16 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix some refleaks
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  r69649 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 14:05:13 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix a leak in IOBase.writelines
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  r69650 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 14:11:56 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix memory leak in BufferedWriter.truncate
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  r69651 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 14:25:34 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix a leak in TextIOWrapper.seek
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  r69652 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 14:26:28 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Unify implementations of truncate for buffered objects
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  r69653 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 15:15:15 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix more leaks in TextIOWrapper
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  r69654 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 15:21:57 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Smaller chunk size for a faster test
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  r69656 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 17:29:48 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  braces make this much clearer
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  r69657 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 17:46:07 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  use the correct macro
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  r69658 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 19:38:59 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 5 lines

  Fix crash in test_urllib2_localnet in debug mode. It was due to an HTTPResponse
  object being revived when calling its close() method in IOBase's tp_dealloc.
  _PyIOBase_finalize() starts looking scary...
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  r69659 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 20:55:48 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  fix segfault on initialization failing
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  r69660 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 21:09:31 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  apparently locale.getprefferedencoding() can raise a ImportError, too
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  r69661 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 21:54:15 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  it's amazing this worked at all; I was using the wrong structs!
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  r69671 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-16 08:38:27 -0600 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  add garbage collection support to bytesio
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  r69677 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-16 10:31:03 -0600 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 5 lines

  reduce ImportError catching code duplication

  I'm not sure this makes the code clearer with its new gotos, but
  at least I added a big fat comment
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  r69812 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 13:50:16 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  _StringIO now belongs to the _io modules, rather to its own _stringio module
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  r69813 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 13:58:22 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Add a test for StringIO properties
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  r69814 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 14:06:03 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Reimplement a few trivial StringIO functions and properties in C
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  r69815 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 14:13:11 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Add the line_buffering property to TextIOWrapper, and test for it
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  r69817 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 14:45:50 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 4 lines

  Allow IncrementalNewlineDecoder to take unicode objects as decoding input if the decoder parameter is None
  This will help rewriting StringIO to C
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  r69827 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 19:00:30 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Rewrite most of StringIO in C. Some almost empty stubs remain to be converted.
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  r69828 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 19:09:25 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Plug a leak, and remove an unused string
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  r69829 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-20 20:02:28 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  this assertions makes more sense here
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  r69830 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-20 20:03:04 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  PyModule_AddObject can fail; simplify this code with a macro
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  r69839 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-21 12:54:01 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  StringIO is now written entirely in C (and blazingly fast)
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  r69841 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 14:05:40 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  split the Python implementation of io into another module and rewrite the tests to test both implementations
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  r69842 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 14:10:00 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  closed is not a function
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  r69843 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 14:13:04 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  fix __all__ test
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  r69844 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 14:21:24 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  fix the rest of the Misc tests
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  r69845 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 14:26:59 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  RawIOBase is better for FileIO
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  r69848 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 15:33:53 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  fix some more tests broken by bag argument validation
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  r69850 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 16:16:42 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  make the python IncrementalNewineDecoder support a None decoder
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  r69852 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 16:36:09 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  fix a BlockingIOError.characters_written bug
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  r69854 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 16:49:02 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  check whence
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  r69860 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 17:42:50 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  fix some of these Misbehaving io tests
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  r69865 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 18:59:52 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  don't use super here()
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  r69866 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 19:05:28 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  use implementation specific classes
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  r69868 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 22:12:05 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  use a more DRY friendly approach to injecting module contents into test classes
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  r69872 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-22 13:39:45 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Sanitize destructor behaviour of IOBase. Now Python-defined attributes can be accessed from close().
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  r69873 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-22 13:50:14 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 4 lines

  Only set the internal fd after it has been checked to be valid
  (otherwise, the destructor will attempt to close it)
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  r69885 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-22 15:30:14 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  convert some other tests to use both io implementations
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  r69888 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-22 17:03:16 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Silence all exceptions when finalizing
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  r69891 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-22 17:27:24 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  convert another test to test both io implementations
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  r69892 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-22 17:32:15 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  help poor people like me to find their io tests (did I miss any?)
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  r69893 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-22 17:37:56 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  put a big note in the test telling people to write tests for both implementations now
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  r69911 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-23 13:57:18 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  expose DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE again (fixes a bunch of test failures)
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  r69913 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-23 14:10:30 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 4 lines

  Do the cyclic garbage collection tests only on the C version.
  The Python version is helpless as it uses __del__.
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  r69914 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-23 14:21:41 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Adapt test_largefile to test both implementations
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  r69915 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-23 14:25:14 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  One small failure
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  r69916 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-23 14:28:33 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Add a comment, at BP's request
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  r69963 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-25 09:42:59 -0600 (Wed, 25 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Add a test of ABC inheritance
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  r70033 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-27 15:49:50 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  The base classes now are ABCs.
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  r70035 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-27 15:57:41 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  good house keeping
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  r70038 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-27 17:05:23 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 4 lines

  Make the buffer allocation overflow tests specific to the C implementation, since the Python implementation resizes its buffers when needed rather than allocating them up front.
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  r70041 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-27 18:26:12 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  kill java naming for sanity
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  r70042 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-27 18:28:53 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 2 lines

  timingTest is superseded by iobench
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  r70043 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-27 19:13:50 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Remove the last traces of java naming in test_io
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  r70044 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-27 19:18:34 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Better resource cleanup
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  r70045 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-27 19:29:00 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Remove dubious uses of super(), and fix one test
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  r70046 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-27 19:31:00 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Bump up CHUNK_SIZE (no need to make the Python version look slower than it is)
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  r70047 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-27 20:03:26 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  fix typo
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  r70048 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-27 21:35:11 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  move code to a better place
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  r70067 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-28 10:43:20 -0600 (Sat, 28 Feb 2009) | 4 lines

  1. make sure to undo buffered read aheads in BufferedRandom.seek()
  2. refill the buffer if have <= 0
  3. fix the last failing test_io test!
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  r70068 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-28 10:57:50 -0600 (Sat, 28 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  define read1() on the python implementation's BufferedIOBase
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  r70069 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-28 11:01:17 -0600 (Sat, 28 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  document read1() in BufferedIOBase
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  r70070 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-28 11:06:42 -0600 (Sat, 28 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  give credit where credit is due
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  r70075 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-28 13:34:59 -0600 (Sat, 28 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Amaury's name
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  r70112 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-03-02 17:11:55 -0600 (Mon, 02 Mar 2009) | 4 lines

  Looks like this is necessary in order to build cleanly under Windows
  (someone correct this if it's wrong, I'm no Windows user)
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  r70133 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-03 15:23:32 -0600 (Tue, 03 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  fix test_newline_property on _pyio.StringIO
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  r70135 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-03 15:47:30 -0600 (Tue, 03 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  fix typos and inconsistencies. thanks to Daniel Diniz
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  r70140 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-03 16:21:10 -0600 (Tue, 03 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  add the test from #5266
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_ctypes.dsp Four months of trunk changes (including a few releases...) 2006-12-13 04:49:30 +00:00
_ctypes_test.dsp Four months of trunk changes (including a few releases...) 2006-12-13 04:49:30 +00:00
_elementtree.dsp Four months of trunk changes (including a few releases...) 2006-12-13 04:49:30 +00:00
_msi.dsp And here is the rest of Hirokazu Yamamoto's patch for VS6.0 support. Thanks Hiro! 2008-01-04 15:35:04 +00:00
_multiprocessing.dsp Merged revisions 69494 via svnmerge from 2009-02-10 14:27:19 +00:00
_socket.dsp Merged revisions 64214 via svnmerge from 2008-06-13 01:09:34 +00:00
_sqlite3.dsp Issue #2065: VC6 related fix. 2008-08-14 01:40:45 +00:00
_ssl.dsp
_ssl.mak Four months of trunk changes (including a few releases...) 2006-12-13 04:49:30 +00:00
_testcapi.dsp
_tkinter.dsp Merged revisions 68468-68470 via svnmerge from 2009-01-10 11:48:27 +00:00
build_ssl.py And here is the rest of Hirokazu Yamamoto's patch for VS6.0 support. Thanks Hiro! 2008-01-04 15:35:04 +00:00
build_tkinter.py Merged revisions 69494 via svnmerge from 2009-02-10 14:27:19 +00:00
bz2.dsp Merged revisions 68435 via svnmerge from 2009-01-09 04:41:03 +00:00
make_versioninfo.dsp
pcbuild.dsw Follows to bsddb removal (VC6) 2008-09-04 08:47:17 +00:00
pyexpat.dsp
python.dsp Issue #2065: VC6 related fix. 2008-08-14 01:40:45 +00:00
pythoncore.dsp merge the io-c branch: C implementation of the io module 2009-03-04 00:14:51 +00:00
pythonw.dsp
readme.txt Merged revisions 68468-68470 via svnmerge from 2009-01-10 11:48:27 +00:00
rmpyc.py
rt.bat Remove meaning of -ttt, but still accept -t option on cmdline for compatibility. 2008-06-04 13:06:58 +00:00
select.dsp
tcl852.patch Merged revisions 69494 via svnmerge from 2009-02-10 14:27:19 +00:00
unicodedata.dsp
w9xpopen.dsp
winsound.dsp

readme.txt

Building Python using VC++ 6.0 or 5.0
-------------------------------------
This directory is used to build Python for Win32 platforms, e.g. Windows
2000 and XP.  It requires Microsoft Visual C++ 6.x or 5.x and Platform
SDK February 2003 Edition (Core SDK). You can download this SDK from
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm.
(For other Windows platforms and compilers, see ../readme.txt.)

All you need to do is open the workspace "pcbuild.dsw" in MSVC++, select
the Debug or Release setting (using Build -> Set Active Configuration...),
and build the projects.

The proper order to build subprojects:

1) pythoncore (this builds the main Python DLL and library files,
               python31.{dll, lib} in Release mode)

2) python (this builds the main Python executable,
           python.exe in Release mode)

3) the other subprojects, as desired or needed (note:  you probably don't
   want to build most of the other subprojects, unless you're building an
   entire Python distribution from scratch, or specifically making changes
   to the subsystems they implement; see SUBPROJECTS below)

When using the Debug setting, the output files have a _d added to
their name:  python31_d.dll, python_d.exe, pyexpat_d.pyd, and so on.

SUBPROJECTS
-----------
These subprojects should build out of the box.  Subprojects other than the
main ones (pythoncore, python, pythonw) generally build a DLL (renamed to
.pyd) from a specific module so that users don't have to load the code
supporting that module unless they import the module.

pythoncore
    .dll and .lib
python
    .exe
pythonw
    pythonw.exe, a variant of python.exe that doesn't pop up a DOS box
_msi
    _msi.c. You need to install Windows Installer SDK to build this module.
_socket
    socketmodule.c
_testcapi
    tests of the Python C API, run via Lib/test/test_capi.py, and
    implemented by module Modules/_testcapimodule.c
pyexpat
    Python wrapper for accelerated XML parsing, which incorporates stable
    code from the Expat project:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/
select
    selectmodule.c
unicodedata
    large tables of Unicode data
winsound
    play sounds (typically .wav files) under Windows

The following subprojects will generally NOT build out of the box.  They
wrap code Python doesn't control, and you'll need to download the base
packages first and unpack them into siblings of PCbuilds's parent
directory; for example, if your PCbuild is  .......\dist\src\PCbuild\,
unpack into new subdirectories of dist\.

_tkinter
    Python wrapper for the Tk windowing system.  Requires building
    Tcl/Tk first.  Following are instructions for Tcl/Tk 8.5.2.

    Get source
    ----------
    In the dist directory, run
    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tcl-8.5.2.1 tcl8.5.2
    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tk-8.5.2.0 tk8.5.2
    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tix-8.4.3.1 tix8.4.3

    Debug Build
    -----------
    To build debug version, add DEBUG=1 to all nmake call bellow.

    Build Tcl first (done here w/ MSVC 6 on Win2K)
    ---------------
    If your environment doesn't have struct _stat64, you need to apply
    tcl852.patch in this directory to dist\tcl8.5.2\generic\tcl.h.

    cd dist\tcl8.5.2\win
    run vcvars32.bat
    nmake -f makefile.vc
    nmake -f makefile.vc INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk install

    XXX Should we compile with OPTS=threads?

    Optional:  run tests, via
        nmake -f makefile.vc test

        all.tcl:        Total   24242   Passed  23358   Skipped 877     Failed  7
        Sourced 137 Test Files.
        Files with failing tests: exec.test http.test io.test main.test string.test stri
        ngObj.test

    Build Tk
    --------
    cd dist\tk8.5.2\win
    nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.5.2
    nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.5.2 INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk install

    XXX Should we compile with OPTS=threads?

    XXX I have no idea whether "nmake -f makefile.vc test" passed or
    XXX failed.  It popped up tons of little windows, and did lots of
    XXX stuff, and nothing blew up.

    Build Tix
    ---------
    cd dist\tix8.4.3\win
    nmake -f python.mak TCL_MAJOR=8 TCL_MINOR=5 TCL_PATCH=2 MACHINE=IX86 DEBUG=0
    nmake -f python.mak TCL_MAJOR=8 TCL_MINOR=5 TCL_PATCH=2 MACHINE=IX86 DEBUG=0 INSTALL_DIR=..\..\tcltk install

bz2
    Python wrapper for the libbz2 compression library.  Homepage
        http://www.bzip.org/
    Download the source from the python.org copy into the dist
    directory:

    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/bzip2-1.0.5

    And requires building bz2 first.

    cd dist\bzip2-1.0.5
    nmake -f makefile.msc

    All of this managed to build bzip2-1.0.5\libbz2.lib, which the Python
    project links in.


_sqlite3
    Python wrapper for SQLite library.
    
    Get the source code through
    
    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/sqlite-source-3.3.4
    
    To use the extension module in a Python build tree, copy sqlite3.dll into
    the PC/VC6 folder.


_ssl
    Python wrapper for the secure sockets library.

    Get the latest source code for OpenSSL from
        http://www.openssl.org

    You (probably) don't want the "engine" code.  For example, get
        openssl-0.9.6g.tar.gz
    not
        openssl-engine-0.9.6g.tar.gz

    Unpack into the "dist" directory, retaining the folder name from
    the archive - for example, the latest stable OpenSSL will install as
        dist/openssl-0.9.6g

    You can (theoretically) use any version of OpenSSL you like - the
    build process will automatically select the latest version.

    You must also install ActivePerl from
        http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/
    as this is used by the OpenSSL build process.  Complain to them <wink>.

    The MSVC project simply invokes PC/VC6/build_ssl.py to perform
    the build.  This Python script locates and builds your OpenSSL
    installation, then invokes a simple makefile to build the final .pyd.

    build_ssl.py attempts to catch the most common errors (such as not
    being able to find OpenSSL sources, or not being able to find a Perl
    that works with OpenSSL) and give a reasonable error message.
    If you have a problem that doesn't seem to be handled correctly
    (eg, you know you have ActivePerl but we can't find it), please take
    a peek at build_ssl.py and suggest patches.  Note that build_ssl.py
    should be able to be run directly from the command-line.

    build_ssl.py/MSVC isn't clever enough to clean OpenSSL - you must do
    this by hand.


YOUR OWN EXTENSION DLLs
-----------------------
If you want to create your own extension module DLL, there's an example
with easy-to-follow instructions in ../PC/example/; read the file
readme.txt there first.