cpython

History

Tim Peters fb05db2cae file_truncate(): provide full "large file" support on Windows, by dropping MS's inadequate _chsize() function. This was inspired by SF patch 498109 ("fileobject truncate support for win32"), which I rejected. libstdtypes.tex: Someone who knows should update the availability blurb. For example, if it's available on Linux, it would be good to say so. test_largefile: Uncommented the file.truncate() tests, and reworked to do more. The old comment about "permission errors" in the truncation tests under Windows was almost certainly due to that the file wasn't open for write access at this point, so of course MS wouldn't let you truncate it. I'd be appalled if a Unixish system did. CAUTION: Someone should run this test on Linux (etc) too. The truncation part was commented out before. Note that test_largefile isn't run by default.		2002-03-11 00:24:00 +00:00
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RPM	Checked in Sean Reifschneider's RPM spec file and patches. Bugfix candidate.	2002-01-06 03:29:16 +00:00
ACKS	SF patch 514641 (Naofumi Honda) - Negative ob_size of LongObjects	2002-03-01 22:24:49 +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	…
NEWS	file_truncate(): provide full "large file" support on Windows, by	2002-03-11 00:24:00 +00:00
PURIFY.README	…
Porting	Patch #411138 : Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774 .	2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
README	Remove stub for unicode.txt. Resort README in dictionary order.	2002-02-11 01:18:25 +00:00
RFD	…
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	…
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	…
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
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
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
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
vgrindefs	Python configuration for vgrind (a generic pretty printer)