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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2007-06-13 18:07:49 (GMT)
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Merged revisions 55817-55961 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/p3yk ................ r55837 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-08 16:04:42 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 2 lines PEP 3119 -- the abc module. ................ r55838 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-08 17:38:55 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Implement part of PEP 3119 -- One Trick Ponies. ................ r55847 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-09 08:28:06 -0700 (Sat, 09 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Different way to do one trick ponies, allowing registration (per PEP strawman). ................ r55849 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-09 18:06:38 -0700 (Sat, 09 Jun 2007) | 3 lines Make sure that the magic looking for __hash__ (etc.) doesn't apply to real subclasses of Hashable. ................ r55852 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-10 08:29:51 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Add some more examples, e.g. generators and dict views. ................ r55853 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-10 08:31:59 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines keys() and items() *are* containers -- just values() isn't. ................ r55864 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-10 15:29:40 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines PEP 3127: new octal literals, binary literals. ................ r55865 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-10 15:31:37 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Some octal literal fixes in Tools. ................ r55866 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-10 15:37:43 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Tokenizer changes for PEP 3127. ................ r55867 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-10 15:37:55 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Some docs for PEP 3127. ................ r55868 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-10 15:44:39 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Missed a place in intobject.c. Is that used anymore anyway? ................ r55871 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 18:31:49 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 182 lines Merged revisions 55729-55868 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r55731 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-01 00:29:12 -0700 (Fri, 01 Jun 2007) | 7 lines SF 1668596/1720897: distutils now copies data files even if package_dir is empty. This needs to be backported. I'm too tired tonight. It would be great if someone backports this if the buildbots are ok with it. Otherwise, I will try to get to it tomorrow. ........ r55732 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-01 04:33:33 -0700 (Fri, 01 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1722484: remove docstrings again when running with -OO. ........ r55735 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-01 12:20:27 -0700 (Fri, 01 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Fix wrong issue number. ........ r55739 | brett.cannon | 2007-06-01 20:02:29 -0700 (Fri, 01 Jun 2007) | 3 lines Have configure raise an error when building on AtheOS. Code specific to AtheOS will be removed in Python 2.7. ........ r55746 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-02 11:33:53 -0700 (Sat, 02 Jun 2007) | 1 line Update expected birthday of 2.6 ........ r55751 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-03 13:32:50 -0700 (Sun, 03 Jun 2007) | 10 lines Backout the original 'fix' to 1721309 which had no effect. Different versions of Berkeley DB handle this differently. The comments and bug report should have the details. Memory is allocated in 4.4 (and presumably earlier), but not in 4.5. Thus 4.5 has the free error, but not earlier versions. Mostly update comments, plus make the free conditional. This fix was already applied to the 2.5 branch. ........ r55752 | brett.cannon | 2007-06-03 16:13:41 -0700 (Sun, 03 Jun 2007) | 6 lines Make _strptime.TimeRE().pattern() use ``\s+`` for matching whitespace instead of ``\s*``. This prevents patterns from "stealing" bits from other patterns in order to make a match work. Closes bug #1730389. Will be backported. ........ r55766 | hyeshik.chang | 2007-06-05 11:16:52 -0700 (Tue, 05 Jun 2007) | 4 lines Fix build on FreeBSD. Bluetooth HCI API in FreeBSD is quite different from Linux's. Just fix the build for now but the code doesn't support the complete capability of HCI on FreeBSD yet. ........ r55770 | hyeshik.chang | 2007-06-05 11:58:51 -0700 (Tue, 05 Jun 2007) | 4 lines Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint argument for .read() is specified. ........ r55775 | hyeshik.chang | 2007-06-05 12:28:15 -0700 (Tue, 05 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Fix for Windows: close a temporary file before trying to delete it. ........ r55783 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-05 14:24:47 -0700 (Tue, 05 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Patch by Tim Delany (missing DECREF). SF #1731330. ........ r55785 | collin.winter | 2007-06-05 17:17:35 -0700 (Tue, 05 Jun 2007) | 3 lines Patch #1731049: make threading.py use a proper "raise" when checking internal state, rather than assert statements (which get stripped out by -O). ........ r55786 | facundo.batista | 2007-06-06 08:13:37 -0700 (Wed, 06 Jun 2007) | 4 lines FTP.ntransfercmd method now uses create_connection when passive, using the timeout received in connection time. ........ r55792 | facundo.batista | 2007-06-06 10:15:23 -0700 (Wed, 06 Jun 2007) | 7 lines Added an optional timeout parameter to function urllib2.urlopen, with tests in test_urllib2net.py (must have network resource enabled to execute them). Also modified test_urllib2.py because testing mock classes must take it into acount. Docs are also updated. ........ r55793 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-06 13:19:19 -0700 (Wed, 06 Jun 2007) | 1 line Build _ctypes and _ctypes_test in the ReleaseAMD64 configuration. ........ r55802 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-07 06:23:24 -0700 (Thu, 07 Jun 2007) | 3 lines Disallow function calls like foo(None=1). Backport from py3k rev. 55708 by Guido. ........ r55804 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-07 06:30:24 -0700 (Thu, 07 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Make reindent.py executable. ........ r55805 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-07 06:34:10 -0700 (Thu, 07 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Patch #1667860: Fix UnboundLocalError in urllib2. ........ r55821 | kristjan.jonsson | 2007-06-07 16:53:49 -0700 (Thu, 07 Jun 2007) | 1 line Fixing changes to getbuildinfo.c that broke linux builds ........ r55828 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-08 09:10:27 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 1 line Make this test work with older Python releases where struct has no 't' format character. ........ r55829 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-06-08 10:29:20 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 3 lines Bug #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX. Will backport to 2.5. ........ r55831 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-08 11:20:09 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 2 lines [ 1715718 ] x64 clean compile patch for _ctypes, by Kristj?n Valur with small modifications. ........ r55832 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-08 12:01:06 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 1 line Fix gcc warnings intruduced by passing Py_ssize_t to PyErr_Format calls. ........ r55833 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-08 12:08:31 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Fix wrong documentation, and correct the punktuation. Closes [1700455]. ........ r55834 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-08 12:14:23 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 1 line Fix warnings by using proper function prototype. ........ r55839 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-08 20:36:34 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 7 lines Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms. Found by Google. It would be good for people to review this especially carefully and verify I don't have an off by one error and there is no other way to cause overflow. ........ r55841 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-08 21:48:22 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 1 line Use macro version of GET_SIZE to avoid Coverity warning (#150) about a possible error. ........ r55842 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-06-09 00:42:52 -0700 (Sat, 09 Jun 2007) | 3 lines Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints. Will backport to 2.5. ........ r55843 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-06-09 00:58:05 -0700 (Sat, 09 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Fix Windows build. ........ r55845 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-06-09 03:10:26 -0700 (Sat, 09 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Provide LLONG_MAX for S390. ........ r55854 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-10 08:59:17 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 4 lines First version of build scripts for Windows/AMD64 (no external components are built yet, and 'kill_python' is disabled). ........ r55855 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-10 10:55:51 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 3 lines For now, disable the _bsddb, _sqlite3, _ssl, _testcapi, _tkinter modules in the ReleaseAMD64 configuration because they do not compile. ........ r55856 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-10 11:27:54 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line Need to set the environment variables, otherwise devenv.com is not found. ........ r55860 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-10 14:01:17 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line Revert commit 55855. ........ ................ r55880 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 22:07:36 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 5 lines Fix the refleak counter on test_collections. The ABC metaclass creates a registry which must be cleared on each run. Otherwise, there *seem* to be refleaks when there really aren't any. (The class is held within the registry even though it's no longer needed.) ................ r55884 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 22:46:33 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line These tests have been removed, so they are no longer needed here ................ r55886 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-11 00:26:37 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 3 lines Optimize access to True and False in the compiler (if True) and the peepholer (LOAD_NAME True). ................ r55905 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-11 10:02:26 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 5 lines Remove __oct__ and __hex__ and use __index__ for converting non-ints before formatting in a base. Add a bin() builtin. ................ r55906 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-11 10:04:44 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 2 lines int(x, 0) does not "guess". ................ r55907 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-11 10:05:47 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Add a comment to explain that nb_oct and nb_hex are nonfunctional. ................ r55908 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 10:49:18 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Get rid of unused imports and comment. ................ r55910 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 13:05:17 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 2 lines _Abstract.__new__ now requires either no arguments or __init__ overridden. ................ r55911 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 13:07:49 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 7 lines Move the collections ABCs to a separate file, _abcoll.py, in order to avoid needing to import _collections.so during the bootstrap (this will become apparent in the next submit of os.py). Add (plain and mutable) ABCs for Set, Mapping, Sequence. ................ r55912 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 13:09:31 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Rewrite the _Environ class to use the new collections ABCs. ................ r55913 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 13:59:45 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 72 lines Merged revisions 55869-55912 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r55869 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 17:42:11 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line Add Atul Varma for patch # 1667860 ........ r55870 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 18:22:03 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line Ignore valgrind problems on Ubuntu from ld ........ r55872 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 18:48:46 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Ignore config.status.lineno which seems new (new autoconf?) ........ r55873 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 19:14:39 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line Prevent these tests from running on Win64 since they don\'t apply there either ........ r55874 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 19:16:10 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 5 lines Fix a bug when there was a newline in the string expandtabs was called on. This also catches another condition that can overflow. Will backport. ........ r55879 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 21:52:37 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line Prevent hang if the port cannot be opened. ........ r55881 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 22:28:45 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 4 lines Add all of the distuils modules that don't seem to have explicit tests. :-( Move an import in mworkscompiler so that this module can be imported on any platform. Hopefully this works on all platforms. ........ r55882 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 22:35:10 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 4 lines SF #1734732, lower case the module names per PEP 8. Will backport. ........ r55885 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 23:16:48 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 4 lines Not sure why this only fails sometimes on Unix machines. Better to disable it and only import msvccompiler on Windows since that's the only place it can work anyways. ........ r55887 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-11 00:29:43 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 4 lines Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple attribute. Will backport ........ r55889 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-11 00:36:24 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 1 line Reflow long line ........ r55896 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-11 08:58:33 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 3 lines Use "O&" in calls to PyArg_Parse when we need a 'void*' instead of "k" or "K" codes. ........ r55901 | facundo.batista | 2007-06-11 09:27:08 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 5 lines Added versionchanged flag to all the methods which received a new optional timeout parameter, and a versionadded flag to the socket.create_connection function. ........ ................ r55914 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 14:19:50 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 3 lines New super() implementation, for PEP 3135 (though the PEP is not yet updated to this design, and small tweaks may still be made later). ................ r55923 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 21:15:24 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 4 lines I'm guessing this module broke when Neal ripped out the types module -- it used 'list' both as a local variable and as the built-in list type. Renamed the local variable since that was easier. ................ r55924 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 21:20:05 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 5 lines Change all occurrences of super(<thisclass>, <firstarg>) to super(). Seems to have worked, all the tests still pass. Exception: test_descr and test_descrtut, which have tons of these and are there to test the various usages. ................ r55939 | collin.winter | 2007-06-12 13:57:33 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 1 line Patch #1735485: remove StandardError from the exception hierarchy. ................ r55954 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-12 21:56:32 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 51 lines Merged revisions 55913-55950 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r55926 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2007-06-12 02:09:58 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 3 lines Apply patch #1734945 to support TurboLinux as distribution. ........ r55927 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2007-06-12 02:26:49 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 3 lines Add patch #1726668: Windows Vista support. ........ r55929 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-12 08:36:22 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 1 line Checkout, but do not yet try to build, exernal sources. ........ r55930 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-12 09:08:27 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 6 lines Add bufferoverflowU.lib to the libraries needed by _ssl (is this the right thing to do?). Set the /XP64 /RETAIL build enviroment in the makefile when building ReleaseAMD64. ........ r55931 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-12 09:23:19 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 5 lines Revert this change, since it breaks the win32 build: Add bufferoverflowU.lib to the libraries needed by _ssl (is this the right thing to do?). ........ r55934 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-12 10:28:31 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 3 lines Specify the bufferoverflowU.lib to the makefile on the command line (for ReleaseAMD64 builds). ........ r55937 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-12 12:02:59 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 3 lines Add bufferoverflowU.lib to PCBuild\_bsddb.vcproj. Build sqlite3.dll and bsddb. ........ r55938 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-12 12:56:12 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Don't rebuild Berkeley DB if not needed (this was committed by accident). ........ r55948 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-06-12 20:42:19 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 3 lines Provide PY_LLONG_MAX on all systems having long long. Will backport to 2.5. ........ ................ r55959 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-13 09:22:41 -0700 (Wed, 13 Jun 2007) | 2 lines Fix a compilation warning. ................
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc')
-rw-r--r--Doc/api/exceptions.tex1
-rwxr-xr-xDoc/lib/libctypes.tex4
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libdecimal.tex2
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libexcs.tex20
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libftplib.tex3
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex23
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libhttplib.tex2
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libpoplib.tex2
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libsmtplib.tex4
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libsocket.tex1
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libtelnetlib.tex2
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libthreading.tex64
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/liburllib2.tex19
-rw-r--r--Doc/ref/ref2.tex43
-rw-r--r--Doc/ref/ref3.tex12
-rw-r--r--Doc/tut/tut.tex54
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew26.tex2
17 files changed, 146 insertions, 112 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/api/exceptions.tex b/Doc/api/exceptions.tex
index 46ade49..01c0aaf 100644
--- a/Doc/api/exceptions.tex
+++ b/Doc/api/exceptions.tex
@@ -381,7 +381,6 @@ completeness, here are all the variables:
\begin{tableiii}{l|l|c}{cdata}{C Name}{Python Name}{Notes}
\lineiii{PyExc_BaseException\ttindex{PyExc_BaseException}}{\exception{BaseException}}{(1), (4)}
\lineiii{PyExc_Exception\ttindex{PyExc_Exception}}{\exception{Exception}}{(1)}
- \lineiii{PyExc_StandardError\ttindex{PyExc_StandardError}}{\exception{StandardError}}{(1)}
\lineiii{PyExc_ArithmeticError\ttindex{PyExc_ArithmeticError}}{\exception{ArithmeticError}}{(1)}
\lineiii{PyExc_LookupError\ttindex{PyExc_LookupError}}{\exception{LookupError}}{(1)}
\lineiii{PyExc_AssertionError\ttindex{PyExc_AssertionError}}{\exception{AssertionError}}{}
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libctypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libctypes.tex
index f19507a..346863d 100755
--- a/Doc/lib/libctypes.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libctypes.tex
@@ -437,8 +437,8 @@ You should be careful, however, not to pass them to functions
expecting pointers to mutable memory. If you need mutable memory
blocks, ctypes has a \code{create{\_}string{\_}buffer} function which creates
these in various ways. The current memory block contents can be
-accessed (or changed) with the \code{raw} property, if you want to access
-it as NUL terminated string, use the \code{string} property:
+accessed (or changed) with the \code{raw} property; if you want to access
+it as NUL terminated string, use the \code{value} property:
\begin{verbatim}
>>> from ctypes import *
>>> p = create_string_buffer(3) # create a 3 byte buffer, initialized to NUL bytes
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libdecimal.tex b/Doc/lib/libdecimal.tex
index a0a257e..8c665da 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libdecimal.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libdecimal.tex
@@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ exception is raised upon encountering the condition.
The following table summarizes the hierarchy of signals:
\begin{verbatim}
- exceptions.ArithmeticError(exceptions.StandardError)
+ exceptions.ArithmeticError(exceptions.Exception)
DecimalException
Clamped
DivisionByZero(DecimalException, exceptions.ZeroDivisionError)
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
index 631c798..298f04d 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libexcs.tex
@@ -64,13 +64,6 @@ from this class.
\versionchanged[Changed to inherit from \exception{BaseException}]{2.5}
\end{excdesc}
-\begin{excdesc}{StandardError}
-The base class for all built-in exceptions except
-\exception{StopIteration}, \exception{GeneratorExit},
-\exception{KeyboardInterrupt} and \exception{SystemExit}.
-\exception{StandardError} itself is derived from \exception{Exception}.
-\end{excdesc}
-
\begin{excdesc}{ArithmeticError}
The base class for those built-in exceptions that are raised for
various arithmetic errors: \exception{OverflowError},
@@ -143,9 +136,9 @@ Raised when an \keyword{assert} statement fails.
\begin{excdesc}{GeneratorExit}
Raise when a generator's \method{close()} method is called.
- It directly inherits from \exception{Exception} instead of
- \exception{StandardError} since it is technically not an error.
\versionadded{2.5}
+ \versionchanged[Changed to inherit from Exception instead of
+ StandardError]{3.0}
\end{excdesc}
\begin{excdesc}{IOError}
@@ -257,10 +250,9 @@ Raised when an \keyword{assert} statement fails.
\begin{excdesc}{StopIteration}
Raised by builtin \function{next()} and an iterator's \method{__next__()}
method to signal that there are no further values.
- This is derived from \exception{Exception} rather than
- \exception{StandardError}, since this is not considered an error in
- its normal application.
\versionadded{2.2}
+ \versionchanged[Changed to inherit from Exception instead of
+ StandardError]{3.0}
\end{excdesc}
@@ -304,7 +296,7 @@ Raised when an \keyword{assert} statement fails.
Instances have an attribute \member{code} which is set to the
proposed exit status or error message (defaulting to \code{None}).
Also, this exception derives directly from \exception{BaseException} and
- not \exception{StandardError}, since it is not technically an error.
+ not \exception{Exception}, since it is not technically an error.
A call to \function{sys.exit()} is translated into an exception so that
clean-up handlers (\keyword{finally} clauses of \keyword{try} statements)
@@ -315,7 +307,7 @@ Raised when an \keyword{assert} statement fails.
\function{fork()}).
The exception inherits from \exception{BaseException} instead of
- \exception{StandardError} or \exception{Exception} so that it is not
+ \exception{Exception} so that it is not
accidentally caught by code that catches \exception{Exception}. This allows
the exception to properly propagate up and cause the interpreter to exit.
\versionchanged[Changed to inherit from \exception{BaseException}]{2.5}
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libftplib.tex b/Doc/lib/libftplib.tex
index 98d7e80..1ce5f9b 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libftplib.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libftplib.tex
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ made. When \var{user} is given, additionally the method call
The optional \var{timeout} parameter specifies a timeout in seconds for the
connection attempt (if is not specified, or passed as None, the global
default timeout setting will be used).
+\versionchanged[\var{timeout} was added]{2.6}
\end{classdesc}
\begin{datadesc}{all_errors}
@@ -117,6 +118,8 @@ the connection attempt. If is not specified, or passed as None, the
object timeout is used (the timeout that you passed when instantiating the
class); if the object timeout is also None, the global default timeout
setting will be used.
+
+\versionchanged[\var{timeout} was added]{2.6}
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}[FTP]{getwelcome}{}
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
index 4f49e33..3cc06c8 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
@@ -104,6 +104,14 @@ def my_import(name):
\versionadded{2.3}
\end{funcdesc}
+\begin{funcdesc}{bin}{x}
+ Convert an integer number to a binary string.
+ The result is a valid Python expression. If \var{x} is not a Python
+ \class{int} object, it has to define an \method{__index__} method
+ that returns an integer.
+ \versionadded{3.0}
+\end{funcdesc}
+
\begin{funcdesc}{bool}{\optional{x}}
Convert a value to a Boolean, using the standard truth testing
procedure. If \var{x} is false or omitted, this returns
@@ -540,8 +548,10 @@ class C:
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{hex}{x}
- Convert an integer number (of any size) to a hexadecimal string.
- The result is a valid Python expression.
+ Convert an integer number to a hexadecimal string.
+ The result is a valid Python expression. If \var{x} is not a Python
+ \class{int} object, it has to define an \method{__index__} method
+ that returns an integer.
\versionchanged[Formerly only returned an unsigned literal]{2.4}
\end{funcdesc}
@@ -559,8 +569,7 @@ class C:
representable as a Python integer, possibly embedded in whitespace.
The \var{radix} parameter gives the base for the
conversion and may be any integer in the range [2, 36], or zero. If
- \var{radix} is zero, the proper radix is guessed based on the
- contents of string; the interpretation is the same as for integer
+ \var{radix} is zero, the interpretation is the same as for integer
literals. If \var{radix} is specified and \var{x} is not a string,
\exception{TypeError} is raised.
Otherwise, the argument may be a plain or
@@ -707,8 +716,10 @@ class C:
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{oct}{x}
- Convert an integer number (of any size) to an octal string. The
- result is a valid Python expression.
+ Convert an integer number to an octal string. The
+ result is a valid Python expression. If \var{x} is not a Python
+ \class{int} object, it has to define an \method{__index__} method
+ that returns an integer.
\versionchanged[Formerly only returned an unsigned literal]{2.4}
\end{funcdesc}
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libhttplib.tex b/Doc/lib/libhttplib.tex
index 7c9449d..37a442d 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libhttplib.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libhttplib.tex
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ the server at the same host and port:
>>> h3 = httplib.HTTPConnection('www.cwi.nl', 80, timeout=10)
\end{verbatim}
\versionadded{2.0}
+\versionchanged[\var{timeout} was added]{2.6}
\end{classdesc}
\begin{classdesc}{HTTPSConnection}{host\optional{, port\optional{,
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ key. \var{cert_file} is a PEM formatted certificate chain file.
\warning{This does not do any certificate verification!}
\versionadded{2.0}
+\versionchanged[\var{timeout} was added]{2.6}
\end{classdesc}
\begin{classdesc}{HTTPResponse}{sock\optional{, debuglevel=0}\optional{, strict=0}}
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libpoplib.tex b/Doc/lib/libpoplib.tex
index 7b2c4a1..9ca5bbd 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libpoplib.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libpoplib.tex
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ If \var{port} is omitted, the standard POP3 port (110) is used.
The optional \var{timeout} parameter specifies a timeout in seconds for the
connection attempt (if not specified, or passed as None, the global default
timeout setting will be used).
+
+\versionchanged[\var{timeout} was added]{2.6}
\end{classdesc}
\begin{classdesc}{POP3_SSL}{host\optional{, port\optional{, keyfile\optional{, certfile}}}}
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsmtplib.tex b/Doc/lib/libsmtplib.tex
index 26293d6..1c034e7 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libsmtplib.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libsmtplib.tex
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ default timeout setting will be used).
For normal use, you should only require the initialization/connect,
\method{sendmail()}, and \method{quit()} methods. An example is
included below.
+
+\versionchanged[\var{timeout} was added]{2.6}
\end{classdesc}
\begin{classdesc}{SMTP_SSL}{\optional{host\optional{, port\optional{,
@@ -45,6 +47,8 @@ certificate chain file for the SSL connection.
The optional \var{timeout} parameter specifies a timeout in seconds for the
connection attempt (if not specified, or passed as None, the global
default timeout setting will be used).
+
+\versionchanged[\var{timeout} was added]{2.6}
\end{classdesc}
\begin{classdesc}{LMTP}{\optional{host\optional{, port\optional{,
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
index ff0fb87..e3fce23 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ higher-level protocols, it is not normally used directly from
application-level code. Passing the optional \var{timeout} parameter
will set the timeout on the socket instance (if it is not given or
\code{None}, the global default timeout setting is used).
+\versionadded{2.6}
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{getaddrinfo}{host, port\optional{, family\optional{,
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libtelnetlib.tex b/Doc/lib/libtelnetlib.tex
index 269ee9b..853788f 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libtelnetlib.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libtelnetlib.tex
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ This class has many \method{read_*()} methods. Note that some of them
raise \exception{EOFError} when the end of the connection is read,
because they can return an empty string for other reasons. See the
individual descriptions below.
+\versionchanged[\var{timeout} was added]{2.6}
\end{classdesc}
@@ -123,6 +124,7 @@ connection attempt (if not specified, or passed as None, the global default
timeout setting will be used).
Do not try to reopen an already connected instance.
+\versionchanged[\var{timeout} was added]{2.6}
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}[Telnet]{msg}{msg\optional{, *args}}
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libthreading.tex b/Doc/lib/libthreading.tex
index 522ea2f..19c496e 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libthreading.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libthreading.tex
@@ -174,11 +174,14 @@ until a call to \method{release()} in another thread changes it to
unlocked, then the \method{acquire()} call resets it to locked and
returns. The \method{release()} method should only be called in the
locked state; it changes the state to unlocked and returns
-immediately. When more than one thread is blocked in
-\method{acquire()} waiting for the state to turn to unlocked, only one
-thread proceeds when a \method{release()} call resets the state to
-unlocked; which one of the waiting threads proceeds is not defined,
-and may vary across implementations.
+immediately. If an attempt is made to release an unlocked lock, a
+\exception{RuntimeError} will be raised.
+
+When more than one thread is blocked in \method{acquire()} waiting for
+the state to turn to unlocked, only one thread proceeds when a
+\method{release()} call resets the state to unlocked; which one of the
+waiting threads proceeds is not defined, and may vary across
+implementations.
All methods are executed atomically.
@@ -257,8 +260,9 @@ become unlocked, allow exactly one of them to proceed. If after the
decrement the recursion level is still nonzero, the lock remains
locked and owned by the calling thread.
-Only call this method when the calling thread owns the lock.
-Do not call this method when the lock is unlocked.
+Only call this method when the calling thread owns the lock. A
+\exception{RuntimeError} is raised if this method is called when the
+lock is unlocked.
There is no return value.
\end{methoddesc}
@@ -275,7 +279,8 @@ A condition variable has \method{acquire()} and \method{release()}
methods that call the corresponding methods of the associated lock.
It also has a \method{wait()} method, and \method{notify()} and
\method{notifyAll()} methods. These three must only be called when
-the calling thread has acquired the lock.
+the calling thread has acquired the lock, otherwise a
+\exception{RuntimeError} is raised.
The \method{wait()} method releases the lock, and then blocks until it
is awakened by a \method{notify()} or \method{notifyAll()} call for
@@ -343,9 +348,9 @@ lock; there is no return value.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{wait}{\optional{timeout}}
-Wait until notified or until a timeout occurs.
-This must only be called when the calling thread has acquired the
-lock.
+Wait until notified or until a timeout occurs. If the calling thread
+has not acquired the lock when this method is called, a
+\exception{RuntimeError} is raised.
This method releases the underlying lock, and then blocks until it is
awakened by a \method{notify()} or \method{notifyAll()} call for the
@@ -367,9 +372,10 @@ when the lock is reacquired.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{notify}{}
-Wake up a thread waiting on this condition, if any.
-This must only be called when the calling thread has acquired the
-lock.
+Wake up a thread waiting on this condition, if any. Wait until
+notified or until a timeout occurs. If the calling thread has not
+acquired the lock when this method is called, a
+\exception{RuntimeError} is raised.
This method wakes up one of the threads waiting for the condition
variable, if any are waiting; it is a no-op if no threads are waiting.
@@ -386,7 +392,9 @@ Note: the awakened thread does not actually return from its
\begin{methoddesc}{notifyAll}{}
Wake up all threads waiting on this condition. This method acts like
-\method{notify()}, but wakes up all waiting threads instead of one.
+\method{notify()}, but wakes up all waiting threads instead of one. If
+the calling thread has not acquired the lock when this method is
+called, a \exception{RuntimeError} is raised.
\end{methoddesc}
@@ -404,8 +412,9 @@ finds that it is zero, it blocks, waiting until some other thread
calls \method{release()}.
\begin{classdesc}{Semaphore}{\optional{value}}
-The optional argument gives the initial value for the internal
-counter; it defaults to \code{1}.
+The optional argument gives the initial \var{value} for the internal
+counter; it defaults to \code{1}. If the \var{value} given is less
+than 0, \exception{ValueError} is raised.
\end{classdesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{acquire}{\optional{blocking}}
@@ -586,9 +595,12 @@ before doing anything else to the thread.
\begin{methoddesc}{start}{}
Start the thread's activity.
-This must be called at most once per thread object. It
-arranges for the object's \method{run()} method to be invoked in a
-separate thread of control.
+It must be called at most once per thread object. It arranges for the
+object's \method{run()} method to be invoked in a separate thread of
+control.
+
+This method will raise a \exception{RuntimeException} if called more
+than once on the same thread object.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{run}{}
@@ -618,11 +630,10 @@ operation will block until the thread terminates.
A thread can be \method{join()}ed many times.
-A thread cannot join itself because this would cause a
-deadlock.
-
-It is an error to attempt to \method{join()} a thread before it has
-been started.
+\method{join()} may throw a \exception{RuntimeError}, if an attempt is
+made to join the current thread as that would cause a deadlock. It is
+also an error to \method{join()} a thread before it has been started
+and attempts to do so raises same exception.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{getName}{}
@@ -651,7 +662,8 @@ Return the thread's daemon flag.
\begin{methoddesc}{setDaemon}{daemonic}
Set the thread's daemon flag to the Boolean value \var{daemonic}.
-This must be called before \method{start()} is called.
+This must be called before \method{start()} is called, otherwise
+\exception{RuntimeError} is raised.
The initial value is inherited from the creating thread.
diff --git a/Doc/lib/liburllib2.tex b/Doc/lib/liburllib2.tex
index 0df7385..9d2c382 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/liburllib2.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/liburllib2.tex
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ authentication, redirections, cookies and more.
The \module{urllib2} module defines the following functions:
-\begin{funcdesc}{urlopen}{url\optional{, data}}
+\begin{funcdesc}{urlopen}{url\optional{, data}\optional{, timeout}}
Open the URL \var{url}, which can be either a string or a \class{Request}
object.
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ parameter is provided. \var{data} should be a buffer in the standard
\function{urllib.urlencode()} function takes a mapping or sequence of
2-tuples and returns a string in this format.
+The optional \var{timeout} parameter specifies a timeout in seconds for the
+connection attempt (if not specified, or passed as None, the global default
+timeout setting will be used). This actually only work for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP
+and FTPS connections.
+
This function returns a file-like object with two additional methods:
\begin{itemize}
@@ -40,6 +45,8 @@ Raises \exception{URLError} on errors.
Note that \code{None} may be returned if no handler handles the
request (though the default installed global \class{OpenerDirector}
uses \class{UnknownHandler} to ensure this never happens).
+
+\versionchanged[\var{timeout} was added]{2.6}
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{install_opener}{opener}
@@ -351,12 +358,18 @@ that HTTP errors are a special case).
\end{itemize}
\end{methoddesc}
-\begin{methoddesc}[OpenerDirector]{open}{url\optional{, data}}
+\begin{methoddesc}[OpenerDirector]{open}{url\optional{, data}{\optional{, timeout}}}
Open the given \var{url} (which can be a request object or a string),
optionally passing the given \var{data}.
Arguments, return values and exceptions raised are the same as those
of \function{urlopen()} (which simply calls the \method{open()} method
-on the currently installed global \class{OpenerDirector}).
+on the currently installed global \class{OpenerDirector}). The optional
+\var{timeout} parameter specifies a timeout in seconds for the connection
+attempt (if not specified, or passed as None, the global default timeout
+setting will be used; this actually only work for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP
+and FTPS connections).
+
+\versionchanged[\var{timeout} was added]{2.6}
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}[OpenerDirector]{error}{proto\optional{,
diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref2.tex b/Doc/ref/ref2.tex
index 39b75a9..7b70676 100644
--- a/Doc/ref/ref2.tex
+++ b/Doc/ref/ref2.tex
@@ -565,6 +565,7 @@ number and an imaginary number).
\index{floating point literal}
\index{hexadecimal literal}
\index{octal literal}
+\index{binary literal}
\index{decimal literal}
\index{imaginary literal}
\index{complex!literal}
@@ -574,35 +575,32 @@ Note that numeric literals do not include a sign; a phrase like
`\code{-}' and the literal \code{1}.
-\subsection{Integer and long integer literals\label{integers}}
+\subsection{Integer literals\label{integers}}
-Integer and long integer literals are described by the following
+Integer literals are described by the following
lexical definitions:
\begin{productionlist}
- \production{longinteger}
- {\token{integer} ("l" | "L")}
\production{integer}
{\token{decimalinteger} | \token{octinteger} | \token{hexinteger}}
\production{decimalinteger}
- {\token{nonzerodigit} \token{digit}* | "0"}
+ {\token{nonzerodigit} \token{digit}* | "0"+}
\production{octinteger}
- {"0" \token{octdigit}+}
+ {"0" ("o" | "O") \token{octdigit}+}
\production{hexinteger}
{"0" ("x" | "X") \token{hexdigit}+}
+ \production{bininteger}
+ {"0" ("b" | "B") \token{bindigit}+}
\production{nonzerodigit}
{"1"..."9"}
\production{octdigit}
{"0"..."7"}
\production{hexdigit}
{\token{digit} | "a"..."f" | "A"..."F"}
+ \production{bindigit}
+ {"0"..."1"}
\end{productionlist}
-Although both lower case \character{l} and upper case \character{L} are
-allowed as suffix for long integers, it is strongly recommended to always
-use \character{L}, since the letter \character{l} looks too much like the
-digit \character{1}.
-
Plain integer literals that are above the largest representable plain
integer (e.g., 2147483647 when using 32-bit arithmetic) are accepted
as if they were long integers instead.\footnote{In versions of Python
@@ -613,13 +611,16 @@ taken as the negative plain integer obtained by subtracting 4294967296
from their unsigned value.} There is no limit for long integer
literals apart from what can be stored in available memory.
-Some examples of plain integer literals (first row) and long integer
-literals (second and third rows):
+Note that leading zeros in a non-zero decimal number are not allowed.
+This is for disambiguation with C-style octal literals, which Python
+used before version 3.0.
+
+Some examples of integer literals:
\begin{verbatim}
-7 2147483647 0177
-3L 79228162514264337593543950336L 0377L 0x100000000L
- 79228162514264337593543950336 0xdeadbeef
+7 2147483647 0o177 0b100110111
+3 79228162514264337593543950336 0o377 0x100000000
+ 79228162514264337593543950336 0xdeadbeef
\end{verbatim}
@@ -644,12 +645,10 @@ definitions:
{("e" | "E") ["+" | "-"] \token{digit}+}
\end{productionlist}
-Note that the integer and exponent parts of floating point numbers
-can look like octal integers, but are interpreted using radix 10. For
-example, \samp{077e010} is legal, and denotes the same number
-as \samp{77e10}.
-The allowed range of floating point literals is
-implementation-dependent.
+Note that the integer and exponent parts are always interpreted using
+radix 10. For example, \samp{077e010} is legal, and denotes the same
+number as \samp{77e10}.
+The allowed range of floating point literals is implementation-dependent.
Some examples of floating point literals:
\begin{verbatim}
diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex
index 66aa273..cced29e 100644
--- a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex
+++ b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex
@@ -2033,17 +2033,11 @@ and \function{float()}\bifuncindex{float}. Should return a value of
the appropriate type.
\end{methoddesc}
-\begin{methoddesc}[numeric object]{__oct__}{self}
-\methodline[numeric object]{__hex__}{self}
-Called to implement the built-in functions
-\function{oct()}\bifuncindex{oct} and
-\function{hex()}\bifuncindex{hex}. Should return a string value.
-\end{methoddesc}
-
\begin{methoddesc}[numeric object]{__index__}{self}
Called to implement \function{operator.index()}. Also called whenever
-Python needs an integer object (such as in slicing). Must return an
-integer (int or long).
+Python needs an integer object (such as in slicing, or in the built-in
+\function{bin()}, \function{hex()} and \function{oct()} functions).
+Must return an integer (int or long).
\versionadded{2.5}
\end{methoddesc}
diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
index 4ed1b83..53a84a9 100644
--- a/Doc/tut/tut.tex
+++ b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
@@ -2689,7 +2689,7 @@ standard module \module{__builtin__}\refbimodindex{__builtin__}:
'LookupError', 'MemoryError', 'NameError', 'None', 'NotImplemented',
'NotImplementedError', 'OSError', 'OverflowError',
'PendingDeprecationWarning', 'ReferenceError', 'RuntimeError',
- 'RuntimeWarning', 'StandardError', 'StopIteration', 'SyntaxError',
+ 'RuntimeWarning', 'StopIteration', 'SyntaxError',
'SyntaxWarning', 'SystemError', 'SystemExit', 'TabError', 'True',
'TypeError', 'UnboundLocalError', 'UnicodeDecodeError',
'UnicodeEncodeError', 'UnicodeError', 'UnicodeTranslateError',
@@ -2734,9 +2734,9 @@ possible structure for your package (expressed in terms of a
hierarchical filesystem):
\begin{verbatim}
-Sound/ Top-level package
+sound/ Top-level package
__init__.py Initialize the sound package
- Formats/ Subpackage for file format conversions
+ formats/ Subpackage for file format conversions
__init__.py
wavread.py
wavwrite.py
@@ -2745,13 +2745,13 @@ Sound/ Top-level package
auread.py
auwrite.py
...
- Effects/ Subpackage for sound effects
+ effects/ Subpackage for sound effects
__init__.py
echo.py
surround.py
reverse.py
...
- Filters/ Subpackage for filters
+ filters/ Subpackage for filters
__init__.py
equalizer.py
vocoder.py
@@ -2774,20 +2774,20 @@ Users of the package can import individual modules from the
package, for example:
\begin{verbatim}
-import Sound.Effects.echo
+import sound.effects.echo
\end{verbatim}
-This loads the submodule \module{Sound.Effects.echo}. It must be referenced
+This loads the submodule \module{sound.effects.echo}. It must be referenced
with its full name.
\begin{verbatim}
-Sound.Effects.echo.echofilter(input, output, delay=0.7, atten=4)
+sound.effects.echo.echofilter(input, output, delay=0.7, atten=4)
\end{verbatim}
An alternative way of importing the submodule is:
\begin{verbatim}
-from Sound.Effects import echo
+from sound.effects import echo
\end{verbatim}
This also loads the submodule \module{echo}, and makes it available without
@@ -2800,7 +2800,7 @@ echo.echofilter(input, output, delay=0.7, atten=4)
Yet another variation is to import the desired function or variable directly:
\begin{verbatim}
-from Sound.Effects.echo import echofilter
+from sound.effects.echo import echofilter
\end{verbatim}
Again, this loads the submodule \module{echo}, but this makes its function
@@ -2827,7 +2827,7 @@ class or function or variable defined in the previous item.
%The \code{__all__} Attribute
\ttindex{__all__}
-Now what happens when the user writes \code{from Sound.Effects import
+Now what happens when the user writes \code{from sound.effects import
*}? Ideally, one would hope that this somehow goes out to the
filesystem, finds which submodules are present in the package, and
imports them all. Unfortunately, this operation does not work very
@@ -2849,19 +2849,19 @@ encountered. It is up to the package author to keep this list
up-to-date when a new version of the package is released. Package
authors may also decide not to support it, if they don't see a use for
importing * from their package. For example, the file
-\file{Sounds/Effects/__init__.py} could contain the following code:
+\file{sounds/effects/__init__.py} could contain the following code:
\begin{verbatim}
__all__ = ["echo", "surround", "reverse"]
\end{verbatim}
-This would mean that \code{from Sound.Effects import *} would
-import the three named submodules of the \module{Sound} package.
+This would mean that \code{from sound.effects import *} would
+import the three named submodules of the \module{sound} package.
-If \code{__all__} is not defined, the statement \code{from Sound.Effects
+If \code{__all__} is not defined, the statement \code{from sound.effects
import *} does \emph{not} import all submodules from the package
-\module{Sound.Effects} into the current namespace; it only ensures that the
-package \module{Sound.Effects} has been imported (possibly running any
+\module{sound.effects} into the current namespace; it only ensures that the
+package \module{sound.effects} has been imported (possibly running any
initialization code in \file{__init__.py}) and then imports whatever names are
defined in the package. This includes any names defined (and
submodules explicitly loaded) by \file{__init__.py}. It also includes any
@@ -2869,14 +2869,14 @@ submodules of the package that were explicitly loaded by previous
import statements. Consider this code:
\begin{verbatim}
-import Sound.Effects.echo
-import Sound.Effects.surround
-from Sound.Effects import *
+import sound.effects.echo
+import sound.effects.surround
+from sound.effects import *
\end{verbatim}
In this example, the echo and surround modules are imported in the
current namespace because they are defined in the
-\module{Sound.Effects} package when the \code{from...import} statement
+\module{sound.effects} package when the \code{from...import} statement
is executed. (This also works when \code{__all__} is defined.)
Note that in general the practice of importing \code{*} from a module or
@@ -2904,12 +2904,12 @@ which the current module is a submodule), the \keyword{import}
statement looks for a top-level module with the given name.
When packages are structured into subpackages (as with the
-\module{Sound} package in the example), there's no shortcut to refer
+\module{sound} package in the example), there's no shortcut to refer
to submodules of sibling packages - the full name of the subpackage
must be used. For example, if the module
-\module{Sound.Filters.vocoder} needs to use the \module{echo} module
-in the \module{Sound.Effects} package, it can use \code{from
-Sound.Effects import echo}.
+\module{sound.filters.vocoder} needs to use the \module{echo} module
+in the \module{sound.effects} package, it can use \code{from
+sound.effects import echo}.
Starting with Python 2.5, in addition to the implicit relative imports
described above, you can write explicit relative imports with the
@@ -2920,8 +2920,8 @@ module for example, you might use:
\begin{verbatim}
from . import echo
-from .. import Formats
-from ..Filters import equalizer
+from .. import formats
+from ..filters import equalizer
\end{verbatim}
Note that both explicit and implicit relative imports are based on the
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew26.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew26.tex
index a40c100..5d2373f 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew26.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew26.tex
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
\tableofcontents
This article explains the new features in Python 2.6. No release date
-for Python 2.6 has been set; it will probably be released in late 2007.
+for Python 2.6 has been set; it will probably be released in mid 2008.
% Compare with previous release in 2 - 3 sentences here.