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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2013-03-25 06:01:37 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2013-03-25 06:01:37 (GMT)
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merge with upstream 3.3 branchv3.3.1rc1
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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/collections.abc.rst48
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/stdtypes.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/subprocess.rst23
3 files changed, 42 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.abc.rst b/Doc/library/collections.abc.rst
index 558eb98..5eea0df 100644
--- a/Doc/library/collections.abc.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/collections.abc.rst
@@ -41,29 +41,35 @@ ABC Inherits from Abstract Methods Mixin
:class:`Sized` ``__len__``
:class:`Callable` ``__call__``
-:class:`Sequence` :class:`Sized`, ``__getitem__`` ``__contains__``, ``__iter__``, ``__reversed__``,
- :class:`Iterable`, ``index``, and ``count``
+:class:`Sequence` :class:`Sized`, ``__getitem__``, ``__contains__``, ``__iter__``, ``__reversed__``,
+ :class:`Iterable`, ``__len__`` ``index``, and ``count``
:class:`Container`
-:class:`MutableSequence` :class:`Sequence` ``__setitem__``, Inherited :class:`Sequence` methods and
- ``__delitem__``, ``append``, ``reverse``, ``extend``, ``pop``,
- ``insert`` ``remove``, ``clear``, and ``__iadd__``
-
-:class:`Set` :class:`Sized`, ``__le__``, ``__lt__``, ``__eq__``, ``__ne__``,
- :class:`Iterable`, ``__gt__``, ``__ge__``, ``__and__``, ``__or__``,
- :class:`Container` ``__sub__``, ``__xor__``, and ``isdisjoint``
-
-:class:`MutableSet` :class:`Set` ``add``, Inherited :class:`Set` methods and
- ``discard`` ``clear``, ``pop``, ``remove``, ``__ior__``,
- ``__iand__``, ``__ixor__``, and ``__isub__``
-
-:class:`Mapping` :class:`Sized`, ``__getitem__`` ``__contains__``, ``keys``, ``items``, ``values``,
- :class:`Iterable`, ``get``, ``__eq__``, and ``__ne__``
- :class:`Container`
-
-:class:`MutableMapping` :class:`Mapping` ``__setitem__``, Inherited :class:`Mapping` methods and
- ``__delitem__`` ``pop``, ``popitem``, ``clear``, ``update``,
- and ``setdefault``
+:class:`MutableSequence` :class:`Sequence` ``__getitem__``, Inherited :class:`Sequence` methods and
+ ``__setitem__``, ``append``, ``reverse``, ``extend``, ``pop``,
+ ``__delitem__``, ``remove``, and ``__iadd__``
+ ``__len__``,
+ ``insert``
+
+:class:`Set` :class:`Sized`, ``__contains__``, ``__le__``, ``__lt__``, ``__eq__``, ``__ne__``,
+ :class:`Iterable`, ``__iter__``, ``__gt__``, ``__ge__``, ``__and__``, ``__or__``,
+ :class:`Container` ``__len__`` ``__sub__``, ``__xor__``, and ``isdisjoint``
+
+:class:`MutableSet` :class:`Set` ``__contains__``, Inherited :class:`Set` methods and
+ ``__iter__``, ``clear``, ``pop``, ``remove``, ``__ior__``,
+ ``__len__``, ``__iand__``, ``__ixor__``, and ``__isub__``
+ ``add``,
+ ``discard``
+
+:class:`Mapping` :class:`Sized`, ``__getitem__``, ``__contains__``, ``keys``, ``items``, ``values``,
+ :class:`Iterable`, ``__iter__``, ``get``, ``__eq__``, and ``__ne__``
+ :class:`Container` ``__len__``
+
+:class:`MutableMapping` :class:`Mapping` ``__getitem__``, Inherited :class:`Mapping` methods and
+ ``__setitem__``, ``pop``, ``popitem``, ``clear``, ``update``,
+ ``__delitem__``, and ``setdefault``
+ ``__iter__``,
+ ``__len__``
:class:`MappingView` :class:`Sized` ``__len__``
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 7e5f04f..60df11d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1627,6 +1627,8 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module).
Return true if the string is a valid identifier according to the language
definition, section :ref:`identifiers`.
+ Use :func:`keyword.iskeyword` to test for reserved identifiers such as
+ :keyword:`def` and :keyword:`class`.
.. method:: str.islower()
diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index 92b21b5..a72ca44 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ are able to handle the less common cases not covered by the convenience
functions.
-.. class:: Popen(args, bufsize=0, executable=None, stdin=None, stdout=None, \
+.. class:: Popen(args, bufsize=-1, executable=None, stdin=None, stdout=None, \
stderr=None, preexec_fn=None, close_fds=True, shell=False, \
cwd=None, env=None, universal_newlines=False, \
startupinfo=None, creationflags=0, restore_signals=True, \
@@ -428,17 +428,20 @@ functions.
untrusted input. See the warning under :ref:`frequently-used-arguments`
for details.
- *bufsize*, if given, has the same meaning as the corresponding argument to the
- built-in open() function: :const:`0` means unbuffered, :const:`1` means line
- buffered, any other positive value means use a buffer of (approximately) that
- size. A negative *bufsize* means to use the system default, which usually means
- fully buffered. The default value for *bufsize* is :const:`0` (unbuffered).
+ *bufsize* will be supplied as the corresponding argument to the :meth:`io.open`
+ function when creating the stdin/stdout/stderr pipe file objects:
+ :const:`0` means unbuffered (read and write are one system call and can return short),
+ :const:`1` means line buffered, any other positive value means use a buffer of
+ approximately that size. A negative bufsize (the default) means
+ the system default of io.DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE will be used.
- .. note::
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.2.4, 3.3.1
- If you experience performance issues, it is recommended that you try to
- enable buffering by setting *bufsize* to either -1 or a large enough
- positive value (such as 4096).
+ *bufsize* now defaults to -1 to enable buffering by default to match the
+ behavior that most code expects. In 3.2.0 through 3.2.3 and 3.3.0 it
+ incorrectly defaulted to :const:`0` which was unbuffered and allowed
+ short reads. This was unintentional and did not match the behavior of
+ Python 2 as most code expected.
The *executable* argument specifies a replacement program to execute. It
is very seldom needed. When ``shell=False``, *executable* replaces the