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-rw-r--r--Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst30
-rw-r--r--Doc/c-api/gcsupport.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/c-api/typeobj.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/argparse.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/codecs.rst6
-rw-r--r--Doc/reference/executionmodel.rst4
-rw-r--r--Doc/reference/expressions.rst35
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst24
8 files changed, 77 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
index 5fa35a0..619f0f6 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
@@ -471,6 +471,36 @@ Exception Objects
This steals a reference to *ctx*.
+Recursion Control
+=================
+
+These two functions provide a way to perform safe recursive calls at the C
+level, both in the core and in extension modules. They are needed if the
+recursive code does not necessarily invoke Python code (which tracks its
+recursion depth automatically).
+
+.. cfunction:: int Py_EnterRecursiveCall(char *where)
+
+ Marks a point where a recursive C-level call is about to be performed.
+
+ If :const:`USE_STACKCHECK` is defined, this function checks if the the OS
+ stack overflowed using :cfunc:`PyOS_CheckStack`. In this is the case, it
+ sets a :exc:`MemoryError` and returns a nonzero value.
+
+ The function then checks if the recursion limit is reached. If this is the
+ case, a :exc:`RuntimeError` is set and a nonzero value is returned.
+ Otherwise, zero is returned.
+
+ *where* should be a string such as ``" in instance check"`` to be
+ concatenated to the :exc:`RuntimeError` message caused by the recursion depth
+ limit.
+
+.. cfunction:: void Py_LeaveRecursiveCall()
+
+ Ends a :cfunc:`Py_EnterRecursiveCall`. Must be called once for each
+ *successful* invocation of :cfunc:`Py_EnterRecursiveCall`.
+
+
.. _standardexceptions:
Standard Exceptions
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/gcsupport.rst b/Doc/c-api/gcsupport.rst
index 4f4d27d..1a280c8 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/gcsupport.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/gcsupport.rst
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ include the :const:`Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GC` and provide an implementation of the
Constructors for container types must conform to two rules:
#. The memory for the object must be allocated using :cfunc:`PyObject_GC_New`
- or :cfunc:`PyObject_GC_VarNew`.
+ or :cfunc:`PyObject_GC_NewVar`.
#. Once all the fields which may contain references to other containers are
initialized, it must call :cfunc:`PyObject_GC_Track`.
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/typeobj.rst b/Doc/c-api/typeobj.rst
index 378bfe1..eb8a83e 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/typeobj.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/typeobj.rst
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ type objects) *must* have the :attr:`ob_size` field.
instance; this is normally :cfunc:`PyObject_Del` if the instance was allocated
using :cfunc:`PyObject_New` or :cfunc:`PyObject_VarNew`, or
:cfunc:`PyObject_GC_Del` if the instance was allocated using
- :cfunc:`PyObject_GC_New` or :cfunc:`PyObject_GC_VarNew`.
+ :cfunc:`PyObject_GC_New` or :cfunc:`PyObject_GC_NewVar`.
This field is inherited by subtypes.
diff --git a/Doc/library/argparse.rst b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
index edb28e8..92ac6c4 100644
--- a/Doc/library/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/argparse.rst
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ By default, ArgumentParser objects read command-line args in as simple strings.
However, quite often the command-line string should instead be interpreted as
another type, like a :class:`float`, :class:`int` or :class:`file`. The
``type`` keyword argument of :meth:`add_argument` allows any necessary
-type-checking and type-conversions to be performed. Many common builtin types
+type-checking and type-conversions to be performed. Many common built-in types
can be used directly as the value of the ``type`` argument::
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
index 785f3f6..13e86a2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
@@ -1065,11 +1065,13 @@ particular, the following variants typically exist:
+-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
| iso8859_10 | iso-8859-10, latin6, L6 | Nordic languages |
+-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
-| iso8859_13 | iso-8859-13 | Baltic languages |
+| iso8859_13 | iso-8859-13, latin7, L7 | Baltic languages |
+-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
| iso8859_14 | iso-8859-14, latin8, L8 | Celtic languages |
+-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
-| iso8859_15 | iso-8859-15 | Western Europe |
+| iso8859_15 | iso-8859-15, latin9, L9 | Western Europe |
++-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
+| iso8859_16 | iso-8859-16, latin10, L10 | South-Eastern Europe |
+-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
| johab | cp1361, ms1361 | Korean |
+-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
diff --git a/Doc/reference/executionmodel.rst b/Doc/reference/executionmodel.rst
index 90791d2..b4c29b1 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/executionmodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/executionmodel.rst
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ namespace is searched. The global statement must precede all uses of the name.
.. index:: pair: restricted; execution
-The built-in namespace associated with the execution of a code block is actually
+The builtins namespace associated with the execution of a code block is actually
found by looking up the name ``__builtins__`` in its global namespace; this
should be a dictionary or a module (in the latter case the module's dictionary
is used). By default, when in the :mod:`__main__` module, ``__builtins__`` is
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ weak form of restricted execution.
.. impl-detail::
Users should not touch ``__builtins__``; it is strictly an implementation
- detail. Users wanting to override values in the built-in namespace should
+ detail. Users wanting to override values in the builtins namespace should
:keyword:`import` the :mod:`builtins` module and modify its
attributes appropriately.
diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
index d074ebb..d0acd20 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
@@ -1113,12 +1113,7 @@ Boolean operations
pair: Conditional; expression
pair: Boolean; operation
-Boolean operations have the lowest priority of all Python operations:
-
.. productionlist::
- expression: `conditional_expression` | `lambda_form`
- expression_nocond: `or_test` | `lambda_form_nocond`
- conditional_expression: `or_test` ["if" `or_test` "else" `expression`]
or_test: `and_test` | `or_test` "or" `and_test`
and_test: `not_test` | `and_test` "and" `not_test`
not_test: `comparison` | "not" `not_test`
@@ -1135,10 +1130,6 @@ truth value by providing a :meth:`__bool__` method.
The operator :keyword:`not` yields ``True`` if its argument is false, ``False``
otherwise.
-The expression ``x if C else y`` first evaluates *C* (*not* *x*); if *C* is
-true, *x* is evaluated and its value is returned; otherwise, *y* is evaluated
-and its value is returned.
-
.. index:: operator: and
The expression ``x and y`` first evaluates *x*; if *x* is false, its value is
@@ -1158,6 +1149,30 @@ not bother to return a value of the same type as its argument, so e.g., ``not
'foo'`` yields ``False``, not ``''``.)
+Conditional Expressions
+=======================
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.5
+
+.. index::
+ pair: conditional; expression
+ pair: ternary; operator
+
+.. productionlist::
+ conditional_expression: `or_test` ["if" `or_test` "else" `expression`]
+ expression: `conditional_expression` | `lambda_form`
+ expression_nocond: `or_test` | `lambda_form_nocond`
+
+Conditional expressions (sometimes called a "ternary operator") have the lowest
+priority of all Python operations.
+
+The expression ``x if C else y`` first evaluates the condition, *C* (*not* *x*);
+if *C* is true, *x* is evaluated and its value is returned; otherwise, *y* is
+evaluated and its value is returned.
+
+See :pep:`308` for more details about conditional expressions.
+
+
.. _lambdas:
.. _lambda:
@@ -1252,6 +1267,8 @@ groups from right to left).
+===============================================+=====================================+
| :keyword:`lambda` | Lambda expression |
+-----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
+| :keyword:`if` -- :keyword:`else` | Conditional expression |
++-----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| :keyword:`or` | Boolean OR |
+-----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| :keyword:`and` | Boolean AND |
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 1952032..c94327b 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -111,9 +111,9 @@ are:
:func:`reduce` function.
Python 3.0 adds several new built-in functions and changes the
-semantics of some existing built-ins. Functions that are new in 3.0
+semantics of some existing builtins. Functions that are new in 3.0
such as :func:`bin` have simply been added to Python 2.6, but existing
-built-ins haven't been changed; instead, the :mod:`future_builtins`
+builtins haven't been changed; instead, the :mod:`future_builtins`
module has versions with the new 3.0 semantics. Code written to be
compatible with 3.0 can do ``from future_builtins import hex, map`` as
necessary.
@@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ formatted. It receives a single argument, the format specifier::
else:
return str(self)
-There's also a :func:`format` built-in that will format a single
+There's also a :func:`format` builtin that will format a single
value. It calls the type's :meth:`__format__` method with the
provided specifier::
@@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ access protocol. Abstract Base Classes (or ABCs) are an equivalent
feature for Python. The ABC support consists of an :mod:`abc` module
containing a metaclass called :class:`ABCMeta`, special handling of
this metaclass by the :func:`isinstance` and :func:`issubclass`
-built-ins, and a collection of basic ABCs that the Python developers
+builtins, and a collection of basic ABCs that the Python developers
think will be widely useful. Future versions of Python will probably
add more ABCs.
@@ -1322,9 +1322,9 @@ an octal number, but it does add support for "0o" and "0b"::
>>> 0b101111
47
-The :func:`oct` built-in still returns numbers
+The :func:`oct` builtin still returns numbers
prefixed with a leading zero, and a new :func:`bin`
-built-in returns the binary representation for a number::
+builtin returns the binary representation for a number::
>>> oct(42)
'052'
@@ -1333,7 +1333,7 @@ built-in returns the binary representation for a number::
>>> bin(173)
'0b10101101'
-The :func:`int` and :func:`long` built-ins will now accept the "0o"
+The :func:`int` and :func:`long` builtins will now accept the "0o"
and "0b" prefixes when base-8 or base-2 are requested, or when the
*base* argument is zero (signalling that the base used should be
determined from the string)::
@@ -1419,7 +1419,7 @@ can be shifted left and right with ``<<`` and ``>>``,
combined using bitwise operations such as ``&`` and ``|``,
and can be used as array indexes and slice boundaries.
-In Python 3.0, the PEP slightly redefines the existing built-ins
+In Python 3.0, the PEP slightly redefines the existing builtins
:func:`round`, :func:`math.floor`, :func:`math.ceil`, and adds a new
one, :func:`math.trunc`, that's been backported to Python 2.6.
:func:`math.trunc` rounds toward zero, returning the closest
@@ -1527,7 +1527,7 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
Previously this would have been a syntax error.
(Contributed by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc; :issue:`3473`.)
-* A new built-in, ``next(iterator, [default])`` returns the next item
+* A new builtin, ``next(iterator, [default])`` returns the next item
from the specified iterator. If the *default* argument is supplied,
it will be returned if *iterator* has been exhausted; otherwise,
the :exc:`StopIteration` exception will be raised. (Backported
@@ -1956,9 +1956,9 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
(Contributed by Phil Schwartz; :issue:`1221598`.)
* The :func:`reduce` built-in function is also available in the
- :mod:`functools` module. In Python 3.0, the built-in has been
+ :mod:`functools` module. In Python 3.0, the builtin has been
dropped and :func:`reduce` is only available from :mod:`functools`;
- currently there are no plans to drop the built-in in the 2.x series.
+ currently there are no plans to drop the builtin in the 2.x series.
(Patched by Christian Heimes; :issue:`1739906`.)
* When possible, the :mod:`getpass` module will now use
@@ -2760,7 +2760,7 @@ The functions in this module currently include:
* ``filter(predicate, iterable)``,
``map(func, iterable1, ...)``: the 3.0 versions
- return iterators, unlike the 2.x built-ins which return lists.
+ return iterators, unlike the 2.x builtins which return lists.
* ``hex(value)``, ``oct(value)``: instead of calling the
:meth:`__hex__` or :meth:`__oct__` methods, these versions will