cpython/Misc
Guido van Rossum 58da931da9 Merged revisions 58886-58929 via svnmerge from
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  r58892 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-11-06 15:32:56 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Add missing "return NULL" in overflow check in PyObject_Repr().
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  r58893 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-06 17:13:09 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Fix marshal's incorrect handling of subclasses of builtin types (backport candidate).
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  r58895 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-06 18:26:17 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Optimize dict.fromkeys() with dict inputs.  Useful for resetting bag/muliset counts for example.
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  r58896 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-06 18:45:46 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Add build option for faster loop execution.
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  r58900 | nick.coghlan | 2007-11-07 03:57:51 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Add missing NEWS entry
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  r58905 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-07 09:50:54 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Backported fix for bug #1392 from py3k branch r58903.
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  r58906 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-07 10:30:22 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Backport of Guido's review of my patch.
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  r58908 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-07 18:52:43 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Add set.isdisjoint()
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  r58915 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-08 10:47:51 -0800 (Thu, 08 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Reposition the decref (spotted by eagle-eye norwitz).
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  r58920 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-09 04:31:43 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix seealso link to sets docs. Do not merge to Py3k.
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  r58921 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-09 05:08:48 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix misleading example.
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  r58923 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-09 09:33:23 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Correct a comment about testing methods - nowadays most
  tests don't run directly on import.
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  r58924 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-11-09 14:56:30 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Add Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
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  r58925 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-09 15:14:44 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Optimize common case for dict.fromkeys().
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  r58927 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-09 17:54:03 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Use a freelist to speed-up block allocation and deallocation in collections.deque().
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  r58929 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-11-10 14:12:24 -0800 (Sat, 10 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Issue 1416.  Add getter, setter, deleter methods to properties that can be
  used as decorators to create fully-populated properties.
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2007-11-10 23:39:45 +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 Merging the py3k-pep3137 branch back into the py3k branch. 2007-11-06 21:34:58 +00:00
AIX-NOTES The fix to use . was incorporated 2003-06-08 02:25:17 +00:00
HISTORY Fixing the spelling of "writeable" to "writable", particularly PyBUF_WRITEABLE. 2007-09-17 17:55:36 +00:00
NEWS Merging the py3k-pep3137 branch back into the py3k branch. 2007-11-06 21:34:58 +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 Initial revision 1994-01-26 10:20:16 +00:00
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 58886-58929 via svnmerge from 2007-11-10 23:39:45 +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 Some new files... 1994-09-14 14:06:46 +00:00
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 Fixing the spelling of "writeable" to "writable", particularly PyBUF_WRITEABLE. 2007-09-17 17:55:36 +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
----------------

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