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author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-03-14 10:56:14 (GMT) |
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committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-03-14 10:56:14 (GMT) |
commit | 93dc9eb2a39ccc84d50012f8133f05e81183e8a6 (patch) | |
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Merged revisions 78760,78771-78773,78802,78922,78952 via svnmerge from
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r78760 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-07 16:23:59 +0100 (So, 07 Mär 2010) | 1 line
#5341: more built-in vs builtin fixes.
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r78771 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-07 21:58:31 +0100 (So, 07 Mär 2010) | 1 line
#8085: The function is called PyObject_NewVar, not PyObject_VarNew.
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r78772 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-07 22:12:28 +0100 (So, 07 Mär 2010) | 1 line
#8039: document conditional expressions better, giving them their own section.
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r78773 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-07 22:32:06 +0100 (So, 07 Mär 2010) | 1 line
#8044: document Py_{Enter,Leave}RecursiveCall functions.
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r78802 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-08 17:28:40 +0100 (Mo, 08 Mär 2010) | 1 line
Fix typo.
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r78922 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-13 14:41:58 +0100 (Sa, 13 Mär 2010) | 1 line
Update for new download location.
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r78952 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-14 10:55:08 +0100 (So, 14 Mär 2010) | 1 line
#8137: add iso-8859-16 to the standard encodings table.
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diff --git a/Misc/HISTORY b/Misc/HISTORY index 4fb749a..57ae98d 100644 --- a/Misc/HISTORY +++ b/Misc/HISTORY @@ -2544,7 +2544,7 @@ Core and builtins - Bug #1244610, #1392915, fix build problem on OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8. configure would break checking curses.h. -- Bug #959576: The pwd module is now builtin. This allows Python to be +- Bug #959576: The pwd module is now built in. This allows Python to be built on UNIX platforms without $HOME set. - Bug #1072182, fix some potential problems if characters are signed. @@ -2577,7 +2577,7 @@ Core and builtins it will now use a default error message in this case. - Replaced most Unicode charmap codecs with new ones using the - new Unicode translate string feature in the builtin charmap + new Unicode translate string feature in the built-in charmap codec; the codecs were created from the mapping tables available at ftp.unicode.org and contain a few updates (e.g. the Mac OS encodings now include a mapping for the Apple logo) @@ -3032,7 +3032,7 @@ Library current file number. - Patch #1349274: gettext.install() now optionally installs additional - translation functions other than _() in the builtin namespace. + translation functions other than _() in the builtins namespace. - Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames. @@ -3403,7 +3403,7 @@ Build - Patch #881820: look for openpty and forkpty also in libbsd. - The sources of zlib are now part of the Python distribution (zlib 1.2.3). - The zlib module is now builtin on Windows. + The zlib module is now built in on Windows. - Use -xcode=pic32 for CCSHARED on Solaris with SunPro. @@ -4238,7 +4238,7 @@ Library - Patch #846659. Fix an error in tarfile.py when using GNU longname/longlink creation. -- The obsolete FCNTL.py has been deleted. The builtin fcntl module +- The obsolete FCNTL.py has been deleted. The built-in fcntl module has been available (on platforms that support fcntl) since Python 1.5a3, and all FCNTL.py did is export fcntl's names, after generating a deprecation warning telling you to use fcntl directly. @@ -4492,7 +4492,7 @@ Core and builtins segfault in a debug build, but provided less predictable behavior in a release build. -- input() builtin function now respects compiler flags such as +- input() built-in function now respects compiler flags such as __future__ statements. SF patch 876178. - Removed PendingDeprecationWarning from apply(). apply() remains @@ -4553,12 +4553,12 @@ Core and builtins - Compiler flags set in PYTHONSTARTUP are now active in __main__. -- Added two builtin types, set() and frozenset(). +- Added two built-in types, set() and frozenset(). -- Added a reversed() builtin function that returns a reverse iterator +- Added a reversed() built-in function that returns a reverse iterator over a sequence. -- Added a sorted() builtin function that returns a new sorted list +- Added a sorted() built-in function that returns a new sorted list from any iterable. - CObjects are now mutable (on the C level) through PyCObject_SetVoidPtr. @@ -4597,7 +4597,7 @@ Core and builtins When comparing containers with cyclic references to themselves it will now just hit the recursion limit. See SF patch 825639. -- str and unicode builtin types now have an rsplit() method that is +- str and unicode built-in types now have an rsplit() method that is same as split() except that it scans the string from the end working towards the beginning. See SF feature request 801847. @@ -5148,7 +5148,7 @@ Core and builtins - A warning about assignments to module attributes that shadow builtins, present in earlier releases of 2.3, has been removed. -- It is not possible to create subclasses of builtin types like str +- It is not possible to create subclasses of built-in types like str and tuple that define an itemsize. Earlier releases of Python 2.3 allowed this by mistake, leading to crashes and other problems. @@ -5623,13 +5623,13 @@ Core and builtins - New format codes B, H, I, k and K have been implemented for PyArg_ParseTuple and PyBuild_Value. -- New builtin function sum(seq, start=0) returns the sum of all the +- New built-in function sum(seq, start=0) returns the sum of all the items in iterable object seq, plus start (items are normally numbers, and cannot be strings). - bool() called without arguments now returns False rather than raising an exception. This is consistent with calling the - constructors for the other builtin types -- called without argument + constructors for the other built-in types -- called without argument they all return the false value of that type. (SF patch #724135) - In support of PEP 269 (making the pgen parser generator accessible @@ -6154,7 +6154,7 @@ Library internals, and supplies some helpers for working with pickles, such as a symbolic pickle disassembler. -- Xmlrpclib.py now supports the builtin boolean type. +- xmlrpclib.py now supports the built-in boolean type. - py_compile has a new 'doraise' flag and a new PyCompileError exception. @@ -6405,8 +6405,8 @@ Core and builtins trace function to change which line will execute next. A command to exploit this from pdb has been added. [SF patch #643835] -- The _codecs support module for codecs.py was turned into a builtin - module to assure that at least the builtin codecs are available +- The _codecs support module for codecs.py was turned into a built-in + module to assure that at least the built-in codecs are available to the Python parser for source code decoding according to PEP 263. - issubclass now supports a tuple as the second argument, just like @@ -6564,13 +6564,13 @@ Core and builtins - Unicode objects in sys.path are no longer ignored but treated as directory names. -- Fixed string.startswith and string.endswith builtin methods +- Fixed string.startswith and string.endswith built-in methods so they accept negative indices. [SF bug 493951] - Fixed a bug with a continue inside a try block and a yield in the finally clause. [SF bug 567538] -- Most builtin sequences now support "extended slices", i.e. slices +- Most built-in sequences now support "extended slices", i.e. slices with a third "stride" parameter. For example, "hello world"[::-1] gives "dlrow olleh". @@ -6585,7 +6585,7 @@ Core and builtins method no longer exist. xrange repetition and slicing have been removed. -- New builtin function enumerate(x), from PEP 279. Example: +- New built-in function enumerate(x), from PEP 279. Example: enumerate("abc") is an iterator returning (0,"a"), (1,"b"), (2,"c"). The argument can be an arbitrary iterable object. @@ -7134,7 +7134,7 @@ Build Presumably 2.3a1 breaks such systems. If anyone uses such a system, help! - The configure option --without-doc-strings can be used to remove the - doc strings from the builtin functions and modules; this reduces the + doc strings from the built-in functions and modules; this reduces the size of the executable. - The universal newlines option (PEP 278) is on by default. On Unix @@ -7370,7 +7370,7 @@ Mac available for convenience. - New Carbon modules File (implementing the APIs in Files.h and Aliases.h) - and Folder (APIs from Folders.h). The old macfs builtin module is + and Folder (APIs from Folders.h). The old macfs built-in module is gone, and replaced by a Python wrapper around the new modules. - Pathname handling should now be fully consistent: MacPython-OSX always uses @@ -7592,7 +7592,7 @@ Build C API ----- -- New function PyDict_MergeFromSeq2() exposes the builtin dict +- New function PyDict_MergeFromSeq2() exposes the built-in dict constructor's logic for updating a dictionary from an iterable object producing key-value pairs. @@ -7643,7 +7643,7 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes using new-style MRO rules if any base class is a new-style class. This needs to be documented. -- The new builtin dictionary() constructor, and dictionary type, have +- The new built-in dictionary() constructor, and dictionary type, have been renamed to dict. This reflects a decade of common usage. - dict() now accepts an iterable object producing 2-sequences. For @@ -8093,9 +8093,9 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes The new class must have the same C-level object layout as the old class. -- The builtin file type can be subclassed now. In the usual pattern, - "file" is the name of the builtin type, and file() is a new builtin - constructor, with the same signature as the builtin open() function. +- The built-in file type can be subclassed now. In the usual pattern, + "file" is the name of the built-in type, and file() is a new built-in + constructor, with the same signature as the built-in open() function. file() is now the preferred way to open a file. - Previously, __new__ would only see sequential arguments passed to @@ -8109,7 +8109,7 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes - Previously, an operation on an instance of a subclass of an immutable type (int, long, float, complex, tuple, str, unicode), where the subtype didn't override the operation (and so the - operation was handled by the builtin type), could return that + operation was handled by the built-in type), could return that instance instead a value of the base type. For example, if s was of a str subclass type, s[:] returned s as-is. Now it returns a str with the same value as s. @@ -8157,7 +8157,7 @@ Library called for each iteration until it returns an empty string). - The codecs module has grown four new helper APIs to access - builtin codecs: getencoder(), getdecoder(), getreader(), + built-in codecs: getencoder(), getdecoder(), getreader(), getwriter(). - SimpleXMLRPCServer: a new module (based upon SimpleHTMLServer) @@ -9287,7 +9287,7 @@ Core language, builtins, and interpreter In all previous version of Python, names were resolved in exactly three namespaces -- the local namespace, the global namespace, and - the builtin namespace. According to this old definition, if a + the builtins namespace. According to this old definition, if a function A is defined within a function B, the names bound in B are not visible in A. The new rules make names bound in B visible in A, unless A contains a name binding that hides the binding in B. @@ -9308,7 +9308,7 @@ Core language, builtins, and interpreter return str.strip() Under the old rules, the name str in helper() is bound to the - builtin function str(). Under the new rules, it will be bound to + built-in function str(). Under the new rules, it will be bound to the argument named str and an error will occur when helper() is called. @@ -9806,7 +9806,7 @@ Core language, builtins, and interpreter assignment, e.g. +=, was fixed. - Raise ZeroDivisionError when raising zero to a negative number, - e.g. 0.0 ** -2.0. Note that math.pow is unrelated to the builtin + e.g. 0.0 ** -2.0. Note that math.pow is unrelated to the built-in power operator and the result of math.pow(0.0, -2.0) will vary by platform. On Linux, it raises a ValueError. @@ -14056,7 +14056,7 @@ done to prevent accidental subdirectories with common names from overriding modules with the same name. - Fixed some strange exceptions in __del__ methods in library modules -(e.g. urllib). This happens because the builtin names are already +(e.g. urllib). This happens because the built-in names are already deleted by the time __del__ is called. The solution (a hack, but it works) is to set some instance variables to 0 instead of None. @@ -14759,8 +14759,8 @@ is set to somevalue.__class__, and SomeClass is ignored after that. f(a=1,a=2) is now a syntax error. -Changes to builtin features ---------------------------- +Changes to built-in features +---------------------------- - There's a new exception FloatingPointError (used only by Lee Busby's patches to catch floating point exceptions, at the moment). @@ -16060,7 +16060,7 @@ intervention may still be required.) (This has been fixed in 1.4beta3.) - New modules: errno, operator (XXX). -- Changes for use with Numerical Python: builtin function slice() and +- Changes for use with Numerical Python: built-in function slice() and Ellipses object, and corresponding syntax: x[lo:hi:stride] == x[slice(lo, hi, stride)] @@ -16548,7 +16548,7 @@ Complex in the library. - The functions posix.popen() and posix.fdopen() now have an optional third argument to specify the buffer size, and default their second -(mode) argument to 'r' -- in analogy to the builtin open() function. +(mode) argument to 'r' -- in analogy to the built-in open() function. The same applies to posixfile.open() and the socket method makefile(). - The thread.exit_thread() function now raises SystemExit so that |