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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-10-06 10:11:56 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-10-06 10:11:56 (GMT)
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@@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ Here are the changes 2.2 introduces:
* Classes can define methods called :meth:`__truediv__` and :meth:`__floordiv__`
to overload the two division operators. At the C level, there are also slots in
- the :ctype:`PyNumberMethods` structure so extension types can define the two
+ the :c:type:`PyNumberMethods` structure so extension types can define the two
operators.
* Python 2.2 supports some command-line arguments for testing whether code will
@@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ New and Improved Modules
Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino.)
* Two new format characters were added to the :mod:`struct` module for 64-bit
- integers on platforms that support the C :ctype:`long long` type. ``q`` is for
+ integers on platforms that support the C :c:type:`long long` type. ``q`` is for
a signed 64-bit integer, and ``Q`` is for an unsigned one. The value is
returned in Python's long integer type. (Contributed by Tim Peters.)
@@ -1057,16 +1057,16 @@ code, none of the changes described here will affect you very much.
at much higher speeds than Python-based functions and should reduce the overhead
of profiling and tracing. This will be of interest to authors of development
environments for Python. Two new C functions were added to Python's API,
- :cfunc:`PyEval_SetProfile` and :cfunc:`PyEval_SetTrace`. The existing
+ :c:func:`PyEval_SetProfile` and :c:func:`PyEval_SetTrace`. The existing
:func:`sys.setprofile` and :func:`sys.settrace` functions still exist, and have
simply been changed to use the new C-level interface. (Contributed by Fred L.
Drake, Jr.)
* Another low-level API, primarily of interest to implementors of Python
- debuggers and development tools, was added. :cfunc:`PyInterpreterState_Head` and
- :cfunc:`PyInterpreterState_Next` let a caller walk through all the existing
- interpreter objects; :cfunc:`PyInterpreterState_ThreadHead` and
- :cfunc:`PyThreadState_Next` allow looping over all the thread states for a given
+ debuggers and development tools, was added. :c:func:`PyInterpreterState_Head` and
+ :c:func:`PyInterpreterState_Next` let a caller walk through all the existing
+ interpreter objects; :c:func:`PyInterpreterState_ThreadHead` and
+ :c:func:`PyThreadState_Next` allow looping over all the thread states for a given
interpreter. (Contributed by David Beazley.)
* The C-level interface to the garbage collector has been changed to make it
@@ -1078,19 +1078,19 @@ code, none of the changes described here will affect you very much.
To upgrade an extension module to the new API, perform the following steps:
-* Rename :cfunc:`Py_TPFLAGS_GC` to :cfunc:`PyTPFLAGS_HAVE_GC`.
+* Rename :c:func:`Py_TPFLAGS_GC` to :c:func:`PyTPFLAGS_HAVE_GC`.
-* Use :cfunc:`PyObject_GC_New` or :cfunc:`PyObject_GC_NewVar` to allocate
- objects, and :cfunc:`PyObject_GC_Del` to deallocate them.
+* Use :c:func:`PyObject_GC_New` or :c:func:`PyObject_GC_NewVar` to allocate
+ objects, and :c:func:`PyObject_GC_Del` to deallocate them.
-* Rename :cfunc:`PyObject_GC_Init` to :cfunc:`PyObject_GC_Track` and
- :cfunc:`PyObject_GC_Fini` to :cfunc:`PyObject_GC_UnTrack`.
+* Rename :c:func:`PyObject_GC_Init` to :c:func:`PyObject_GC_Track` and
+ :c:func:`PyObject_GC_Fini` to :c:func:`PyObject_GC_UnTrack`.
-* Remove :cfunc:`PyGC_HEAD_SIZE` from object size calculations.
+* Remove :c:func:`PyGC_HEAD_SIZE` from object size calculations.
-* Remove calls to :cfunc:`PyObject_AS_GC` and :cfunc:`PyObject_FROM_GC`.
+* Remove calls to :c:func:`PyObject_AS_GC` and :c:func:`PyObject_FROM_GC`.
-* A new ``et`` format sequence was added to :cfunc:`PyArg_ParseTuple`; ``et``
+* A new ``et`` format sequence was added to :c:func:`PyArg_ParseTuple`; ``et``
takes both a parameter and an encoding name, and converts the parameter to the
given encoding if the parameter turns out to be a Unicode string, or leaves it
alone if it's an 8-bit string, assuming it to already be in the desired
@@ -1099,10 +1099,10 @@ code, none of the changes described here will affect you very much.
specified new encoding. (Contributed by M.-A. Lemburg, and used for the MBCS
support on Windows described in the following section.)
-* A different argument parsing function, :cfunc:`PyArg_UnpackTuple`, has been
+* A different argument parsing function, :c:func:`PyArg_UnpackTuple`, has been
added that's simpler and presumably faster. Instead of specifying a format
string, the caller simply gives the minimum and maximum number of arguments
- expected, and a set of pointers to :ctype:`PyObject\*` variables that will be
+ expected, and a set of pointers to :c:type:`PyObject\*` variables that will be
filled in with argument values.
* Two new flags :const:`METH_NOARGS` and :const:`METH_O` are available in method
@@ -1111,14 +1111,14 @@ code, none of the changes described here will affect you very much.
corresponding method that uses :const:`METH_VARARGS`. Also, the old
:const:`METH_OLDARGS` style of writing C methods is now officially deprecated.
-* Two new wrapper functions, :cfunc:`PyOS_snprintf` and :cfunc:`PyOS_vsnprintf`
+* Two new wrapper functions, :c:func:`PyOS_snprintf` and :c:func:`PyOS_vsnprintf`
were added to provide cross-platform implementations for the relatively new
- :cfunc:`snprintf` and :cfunc:`vsnprintf` C lib APIs. In contrast to the standard
- :cfunc:`sprintf` and :cfunc:`vsprintf` functions, the Python versions check the
+ :c:func:`snprintf` and :c:func:`vsnprintf` C lib APIs. In contrast to the standard
+ :c:func:`sprintf` and :c:func:`vsprintf` functions, the Python versions check the
bounds of the buffer used to protect against buffer overruns. (Contributed by
M.-A. Lemburg.)
-* The :cfunc:`_PyTuple_Resize` function has lost an unused parameter, so now it
+* The :c:func:`_PyTuple_Resize` function has lost an unused parameter, so now it
takes 2 parameters instead of 3. The third argument was never used, and can
simply be discarded when porting code from earlier versions to Python 2.2.
@@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@ Some of the more notable changes are:
operator, but these features were rarely used and therefore buggy. The
:meth:`tolist` method and the :attr:`start`, :attr:`stop`, and :attr:`step`
attributes are also being deprecated. At the C level, the fourth argument to
- the :cfunc:`PyRange_New` function, ``repeat``, has also been deprecated.
+ the :c:func:`PyRange_New` function, ``repeat``, has also been deprecated.
* There were a bunch of patches to the dictionary implementation, mostly to fix
potential core dumps if a dictionary contains objects that sneakily changed
@@ -1242,8 +1242,8 @@ Some of the more notable changes are:
up to display the output. This patch makes it possible to import such scripts,
in case they're also usable as modules. (Implemented by David Bolen.)
-* On platforms where Python uses the C :cfunc:`dlopen` function to load
- extension modules, it's now possible to set the flags used by :cfunc:`dlopen`
+* On platforms where Python uses the C :c:func:`dlopen` function to load
+ extension modules, it's now possible to set the flags used by :c:func:`dlopen`
using the :func:`sys.getdlopenflags` and :func:`sys.setdlopenflags` functions.
(Contributed by Bram Stolk.)