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-rw-r--r--Doc/c-api/reflection.rst6
-rw-r--r--Doc/faq/design.rst15
-rw-r--r--Doc/faq/extending.rst23
-rw-r--r--Doc/faq/gui.rst6
-rw-r--r--Doc/faq/library.rst299
-rw-r--r--Doc/faq/windows.rst8
-rw-r--r--Doc/howto/urllib2.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/uuid.rst8
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_uuid.py6
-rw-r--r--Lib/uuid.py6
11 files changed, 193 insertions, 193 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/init.rst b/Doc/c-api/init.rst
index 1d8c38c..c694abd 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/init.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/init.rst
@@ -285,13 +285,6 @@ Initialization, Finalization, and Threads
modify its value. The value is available to Python code as :data:`sys.version`.
-.. cfunction:: const char* Py_GetBuildNumber()
-
- Return a string representing the Subversion revision that this Python executable
- was built from. This number is a string because it may contain a trailing 'M'
- if Python was built from a mixed revision source tree.
-
-
.. cfunction:: const char* Py_GetPlatform()
.. index:: single: platform (in module sys)
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/reflection.rst b/Doc/c-api/reflection.rst
index 822c593..4f46c7f 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/reflection.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/reflection.rst
@@ -29,12 +29,6 @@ Reflection
currently executing.
-.. cfunction:: int PyEval_GetRestricted()
-
- If there is a current frame and it is executing in restricted mode, return true,
- otherwise false.
-
-
.. cfunction:: const char* PyEval_GetFuncName(PyObject *func)
Return the name of *func* if it is a function, class or instance object, else the
diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst
index c20de00..8e960f5 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/design.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/design.rst
@@ -234,8 +234,10 @@ code breakage.
.. XXX talk about protocols?
-Note that for string operations Python has moved from external functions (the
-``string`` module) to methods. However, ``len()`` is still a function.
+.. note::
+
+ For string operations, Python has moved from external functions (the
+ ``string`` module) to methods. However, ``len()`` is still a function.
Why is join() a string method instead of a list or tuple method?
@@ -306,14 +308,15 @@ expensive. In versions of Python prior to 2.0 it was common to use this idiom::
This only made sense when you expected the dict to have the key almost all the
time. If that wasn't the case, you coded it like this::
- if dict.has_key(key):
+ if key in dict(key):
value = dict[key]
else:
dict[key] = getvalue(key)
value = dict[key]
-(In Python 2.0 and higher, you can code this as ``value = dict.setdefault(key,
-getvalue(key))``.)
+For this specific case, you could also use ``value = dict.setdefault(key,
+getvalue(key))``, but only if the ``getvalue()`` call is cheap enough because it
+is evaluated in all cases.
Why isn't there a switch or case statement in Python?
@@ -750,7 +753,7 @@ requested again. This is called "memoizing", and can be implemented like this::
# Callers will never provide a third parameter for this function.
def expensive (arg1, arg2, _cache={}):
- if _cache.has_key((arg1, arg2)):
+ if (arg1, arg2) in _cache:
return _cache[(arg1, arg2)]
# Calculate the value
diff --git a/Doc/faq/extending.rst b/Doc/faq/extending.rst
index 4b3d6d5..6527ff1 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/extending.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/extending.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ Extending/Embedding FAQ
.. highlight:: c
+.. XXX need review for Python 3.
+
+
Can I create my own functions in C?
-----------------------------------
@@ -53,8 +56,7 @@ with a tool such as `SWIG <http://www.swig.org>`_. `SIP
<http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/sip/>`__, `CXX
<http://cxx.sourceforge.net/>`_ `Boost
<http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/index.html>`_, or `Weave
-<http://www.scipy.org/Weave>`_ are also alternatives for wrapping
-C++ libraries.
+<http://www.scipy.org/Weave>`_ are also alternatives for wrapping C++ libraries.
How can I execute arbitrary Python statements from C?
@@ -161,8 +163,8 @@ Sample code and use for catching stdout:
...
>>> import sys
>>> sys.stdout = StdoutCatcher()
- >>> print 'foo'
- >>> print 'hello world!'
+ >>> print('foo')
+ >>> print('hello world!')
>>> sys.stderr.write(sys.stdout.data)
foo
hello world!
@@ -199,7 +201,11 @@ begin by reading :ref:`the "Extending and Embedding" document
whole lot of difference between C and C++ -- so the strategy of building a new
Python type around a C structure (pointer) type will also work for C++ objects.
-For C++ libraries, see :ref:`c-wrapper-software`.
+For C++ libraries, you can look at `SIP
+<http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/sip/>`_, `CXX
+<http://cxx.sourceforge.net/>`_, `Boost
+<http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/index.html>`_, `Weave
+<http://www.scipy.org/Weave>`_ or `SWIG <http://www.swig.org>`_
I added a module using the Setup file and the make fails; why?
@@ -468,12 +474,9 @@ checking the value of sys.maxunicode:
>>> import sys
>>> if sys.maxunicode > 65535:
- ... print 'UCS4 build'
+ ... print('UCS4 build')
... else:
- ... print 'UCS2 build'
+ ... print('UCS2 build')
The only way to solve this problem is to use extension modules compiled with a
Python binary built using the same size for Unicode characters.
-
-
-
diff --git a/Doc/faq/gui.rst b/Doc/faq/gui.rst
index 57e4049..03177c9 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/gui.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/gui.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ Graphic User Interface FAQ
.. contents::
+.. XXX need review for Python 3.
+
+
General GUI Questions
=====================
@@ -159,6 +162,3 @@ The most common cause is that the widget to which the binding applies doesn't
have "keyboard focus". Check out the Tk documentation for the focus command.
Usually a widget is given the keyboard focus by clicking in it (but not for
labels; see the takefocus option).
-
-
-
diff --git a/Doc/faq/library.rst b/Doc/faq/library.rst
index c59b38f..aa698e4 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/library.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/library.rst
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ There are (at least) three kinds of modules in Python:
type::
import sys
- print sys.builtin_module_names
+ print(sys.builtin_module_names)
How do I make a Python script executable on Unix?
@@ -187,8 +187,11 @@ How do I get a single keypress at a time?
-----------------------------------------
For Unix variants: There are several solutions. It's straightforward to do this
-using curses, but curses is a fairly large module to learn. Here's a solution
-without curses::
+using curses, but curses is a fairly large module to learn.
+
+.. XXX this doesn't work out of the box, some IO expert needs to check why
+
+ Here's a solution without curses::
import termios, fcntl, sys, os
fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
@@ -202,23 +205,24 @@ without curses::
fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_SETFL, oldflags | os.O_NONBLOCK)
try:
- while 1:
+ while True:
try:
c = sys.stdin.read(1)
- print "Got character", `c`
- except IOError: pass
+ print("Got character", repr(c))
+ except IOError:
+ pass
finally:
termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSAFLUSH, oldterm)
fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_SETFL, oldflags)
-You need the :mod:`termios` and the :mod:`fcntl` module for any of this to work,
-and I've only tried it on Linux, though it should work elsewhere. In this code,
-characters are read and printed one at a time.
+ You need the :mod:`termios` and the :mod:`fcntl` module for any of this to
+ work, and I've only tried it on Linux, though it should work elsewhere. In
+ this code, characters are read and printed one at a time.
-:func:`termios.tcsetattr` turns off stdin's echoing and disables canonical mode.
-:func:`fcntl.fnctl` is used to obtain stdin's file descriptor flags and modify
-them for non-blocking mode. Since reading stdin when it is empty results in an
-:exc:`IOError`, this error is caught and ignored.
+ :func:`termios.tcsetattr` turns off stdin's echoing and disables canonical
+ mode. :func:`fcntl.fnctl` is used to obtain stdin's file descriptor flags
+ and modify them for non-blocking mode. Since reading stdin when it is empty
+ results in an :exc:`IOError`, this error is caught and ignored.
Threads
@@ -247,13 +251,13 @@ all the threads to finish::
import threading, time
def thread_task(name, n):
- for i in range(n): print name, i
+ for i in range(n): print(name, i)
for i in range(10):
T = threading.Thread(target=thread_task, args=(str(i), i))
T.start()
- time.sleep(10) # <----------------------------!
+ time.sleep(10) # <---------------------------!
But now (on many platforms) the threads don't run in parallel, but appear to run
sequentially, one at a time! The reason is that the OS thread scheduler doesn't
@@ -262,8 +266,8 @@ start a new thread until the previous thread is blocked.
A simple fix is to add a tiny sleep to the start of the run function::
def thread_task(name, n):
- time.sleep(0.001) # <---------------------!
- for i in range(n): print name, i
+ time.sleep(0.001) # <--------------------!
+ for i in range(n): print(name, i)
for i in range(10):
T = threading.Thread(target=thread_task, args=(str(i), i))
@@ -289,28 +293,28 @@ once.
Here's a trivial example::
- import threading, Queue, time
+ import threading, queue, time
# The worker thread gets jobs off the queue. When the queue is empty, it
# assumes there will be no more work and exits.
# (Realistically workers will run until terminated.)
def worker ():
- print 'Running worker'
+ print('Running worker')
time.sleep(0.1)
while True:
try:
arg = q.get(block=False)
- except Queue.Empty:
- print 'Worker', threading.currentThread(),
- print 'queue empty'
+ except queue.Empty:
+ print('Worker', threading.currentThread(), end=' ')
+ print('queue empty')
break
else:
- print 'Worker', threading.currentThread(),
- print 'running with argument', arg
+ print('Worker', threading.currentThread(), end=' ')
+ print('running with argument', arg)
time.sleep(0.5)
# Create queue
- q = Queue.Queue()
+ q = queue.Queue()
# Start a pool of 5 workers
for i in range(5):
@@ -322,10 +326,10 @@ Here's a trivial example::
q.put(i)
# Give threads time to run
- print 'Main thread sleeping'
+ print('Main thread sleeping')
time.sleep(5)
-When run, this will produce the following output:
+When run, this will produce the following output::
Running worker
Running worker
@@ -333,12 +337,12 @@ When run, this will produce the following output:
Running worker
Running worker
Main thread sleeping
- Worker <Thread(worker 1, started)> running with argument 0
- Worker <Thread(worker 2, started)> running with argument 1
- Worker <Thread(worker 3, started)> running with argument 2
- Worker <Thread(worker 4, started)> running with argument 3
- Worker <Thread(worker 5, started)> running with argument 4
- Worker <Thread(worker 1, started)> running with argument 5
+ Worker <Thread(worker 1, started 130283832797456)> running with argument 0
+ Worker <Thread(worker 2, started 130283824404752)> running with argument 1
+ Worker <Thread(worker 3, started 130283816012048)> running with argument 2
+ Worker <Thread(worker 4, started 130283807619344)> running with argument 3
+ Worker <Thread(worker 5, started 130283799226640)> running with argument 4
+ Worker <Thread(worker 1, started 130283832797456)> running with argument 5
...
Consult the module's documentation for more details; the ``Queue`` class
@@ -351,7 +355,7 @@ What kinds of global value mutation are thread-safe?
A global interpreter lock (GIL) is used internally to ensure that only one
thread runs in the Python VM at a time. In general, Python offers to switch
among threads only between bytecode instructions; how frequently it switches can
-be set via :func:`sys.setcheckinterval`. Each bytecode instruction and
+be set via :func:`sys.setswitchinterval`. Each bytecode instruction and
therefore all the C implementation code reached from each instruction is
therefore atomic from the point of view of a Python program.
@@ -443,7 +447,7 @@ How do I delete a file? (And other file questions...)
-----------------------------------------------------
Use ``os.remove(filename)`` or ``os.unlink(filename)``; for documentation, see
-the :mod:`os` module. The two functions are identical; :func:`unlink` is simply
+the :mod:`os` module. The two functions are identical; :func:`~os.unlink` is simply
the name of the Unix system call for this function.
To remove a directory, use :func:`os.rmdir`; use :func:`os.mkdir` to create one.
@@ -512,81 +516,83 @@ to read n bytes from a pipe p created with :func:`os.popen`, you need to use
``p.read(n)``.
-How do I run a subprocess with pipes connected to both input and output?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-.. XXX update to use subprocess
-
-Use the :mod:`popen2` module. For example::
-
- import popen2
- fromchild, tochild = popen2.popen2("command")
- tochild.write("input\n")
- tochild.flush()
- output = fromchild.readline()
-
-Warning: in general it is unwise to do this because you can easily cause a
-deadlock where your process is blocked waiting for output from the child while
-the child is blocked waiting for input from you. This can be caused because the
-parent expects the child to output more text than it does, or it can be caused
-by data being stuck in stdio buffers due to lack of flushing. The Python parent
-can of course explicitly flush the data it sends to the child before it reads
-any output, but if the child is a naive C program it may have been written to
-never explicitly flush its output, even if it is interactive, since flushing is
-normally automatic.
-
-Note that a deadlock is also possible if you use :func:`popen3` to read stdout
-and stderr. If one of the two is too large for the internal buffer (increasing
-the buffer size does not help) and you ``read()`` the other one first, there is
-a deadlock, too.
-
-Note on a bug in popen2: unless your program calls ``wait()`` or ``waitpid()``,
-finished child processes are never removed, and eventually calls to popen2 will
-fail because of a limit on the number of child processes. Calling
-:func:`os.waitpid` with the :data:`os.WNOHANG` option can prevent this; a good
-place to insert such a call would be before calling ``popen2`` again.
-
-In many cases, all you really need is to run some data through a command and get
-the result back. Unless the amount of data is very large, the easiest way to do
-this is to write it to a temporary file and run the command with that temporary
-file as input. The standard module :mod:`tempfile` exports a ``mktemp()``
-function to generate unique temporary file names. ::
-
- import tempfile
- import os
-
- class Popen3:
- """
- This is a deadlock-safe version of popen that returns
- an object with errorlevel, out (a string) and err (a string).
- (capturestderr may not work under windows.)
- Example: print Popen3('grep spam','\n\nhere spam\n\n').out
- """
- def __init__(self,command,input=None,capturestderr=None):
- outfile=tempfile.mktemp()
- command="( %s ) > %s" % (command,outfile)
- if input:
- infile=tempfile.mktemp()
- open(infile,"w").write(input)
- command=command+" <"+infile
- if capturestderr:
- errfile=tempfile.mktemp()
- command=command+" 2>"+errfile
- self.errorlevel=os.system(command) >> 8
- self.out=open(outfile,"r").read()
- os.remove(outfile)
- if input:
- os.remove(infile)
- if capturestderr:
- self.err=open(errfile,"r").read()
- os.remove(errfile)
-
-Note that many interactive programs (e.g. vi) don't work well with pipes
-substituted for standard input and output. You will have to use pseudo ttys
-("ptys") instead of pipes. Or you can use a Python interface to Don Libes'
-"expect" library. A Python extension that interfaces to expect is called "expy"
-and available from http://expectpy.sourceforge.net. A pure Python solution that
-works like expect is `pexpect <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pexpect/>`_.
+.. XXX update to use subprocess. See the :ref:`subprocess-replacements` section.
+
+ How do I run a subprocess with pipes connected to both input and output?
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ Use the :mod:`popen2` module. For example::
+
+ import popen2
+ fromchild, tochild = popen2.popen2("command")
+ tochild.write("input\n")
+ tochild.flush()
+ output = fromchild.readline()
+
+ Warning: in general it is unwise to do this because you can easily cause a
+ deadlock where your process is blocked waiting for output from the child
+ while the child is blocked waiting for input from you. This can be caused
+ because the parent expects the child to output more text than it does, or it
+ can be caused by data being stuck in stdio buffers due to lack of flushing.
+ The Python parent can of course explicitly flush the data it sends to the
+ child before it reads any output, but if the child is a naive C program it
+ may have been written to never explicitly flush its output, even if it is
+ interactive, since flushing is normally automatic.
+
+ Note that a deadlock is also possible if you use :func:`popen3` to read
+ stdout and stderr. If one of the two is too large for the internal buffer
+ (increasing the buffer size does not help) and you ``read()`` the other one
+ first, there is a deadlock, too.
+
+ Note on a bug in popen2: unless your program calls ``wait()`` or
+ ``waitpid()``, finished child processes are never removed, and eventually
+ calls to popen2 will fail because of a limit on the number of child
+ processes. Calling :func:`os.waitpid` with the :data:`os.WNOHANG` option can
+ prevent this; a good place to insert such a call would be before calling
+ ``popen2`` again.
+
+ In many cases, all you really need is to run some data through a command and
+ get the result back. Unless the amount of data is very large, the easiest
+ way to do this is to write it to a temporary file and run the command with
+ that temporary file as input. The standard module :mod:`tempfile` exports a
+ ``mktemp()`` function to generate unique temporary file names. ::
+
+ import tempfile
+ import os
+
+ class Popen3:
+ """
+ This is a deadlock-safe version of popen that returns
+ an object with errorlevel, out (a string) and err (a string).
+ (capturestderr may not work under windows.)
+ Example: print(Popen3('grep spam','\n\nhere spam\n\n').out)
+ """
+ def __init__(self,command,input=None,capturestderr=None):
+ outfile=tempfile.mktemp()
+ command="( %s ) > %s" % (command,outfile)
+ if input:
+ infile=tempfile.mktemp()
+ open(infile,"w").write(input)
+ command=command+" <"+infile
+ if capturestderr:
+ errfile=tempfile.mktemp()
+ command=command+" 2>"+errfile
+ self.errorlevel=os.system(command) >> 8
+ self.out=open(outfile,"r").read()
+ os.remove(outfile)
+ if input:
+ os.remove(infile)
+ if capturestderr:
+ self.err=open(errfile,"r").read()
+ os.remove(errfile)
+
+ Note that many interactive programs (e.g. vi) don't work well with pipes
+ substituted for standard input and output. You will have to use pseudo ttys
+ ("ptys") instead of pipes. Or you can use a Python interface to Don Libes'
+ "expect" library. A Python extension that interfaces to expect is called
+ "expy" and available from http://expectpy.sourceforge.net. A pure Python
+ solution that works like expect is `pexpect
+ <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pexpect/>`_.
How do I access the serial (RS232) port?
@@ -654,41 +660,29 @@ How can I mimic CGI form submission (METHOD=POST)?
I would like to retrieve web pages that are the result of POSTing a form. Is
there existing code that would let me do this easily?
-Yes. Here's a simple example that uses httplib::
+Yes. Here's a simple example that uses urllib.request::
#!/usr/local/bin/python
- import httplib, sys, time
+ import urllib.request
### build the query string
qs = "First=Josephine&MI=Q&Last=Public"
### connect and send the server a path
- httpobj = httplib.HTTP('www.some-server.out-there', 80)
- httpobj.putrequest('POST', '/cgi-bin/some-cgi-script')
- ### now generate the rest of the HTTP headers...
- httpobj.putheader('Accept', '*/*')
- httpobj.putheader('Connection', 'Keep-Alive')
- httpobj.putheader('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
- httpobj.putheader('Content-length', '%d' % len(qs))
- httpobj.endheaders()
- httpobj.send(qs)
- ### find out what the server said in response...
- reply, msg, hdrs = httpobj.getreply()
- if reply != 200:
- sys.stdout.write(httpobj.getfile().read())
+ req = urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.some-server.out-there'
+ '/cgi-bin/some-cgi-script', data=qs)
+ msg, hdrs = req.read(), req.info()
Note that in general for a percent-encoded POST operations, query strings must be
-quoted by using :func:`urllib.quote`. For example to send name="Guy Steele,
+quoted by using :func:`urllib.parse.urlencode`. For example to send name="Guy Steele,
Jr."::
- >>> from urllib import quote
- >>> x = quote("Guy Steele, Jr.")
- >>> x
- 'Guy%20Steele,%20Jr.'
- >>> query_string = "name="+x
- >>> query_string
- 'name=Guy%20Steele,%20Jr.'
+ >>> import urllib.parse
+ >>> urllib.parse.urlencode({'name': 'Guy Steele, Jr.'})
+ 'name=Guy+Steele%2C+Jr.'
+
+.. seealso:: :ref:`urllib-howto` for extensive examples.
What module should I use to help with generating HTML?
@@ -721,9 +715,9 @@ work on any host that supports an SMTP listener. ::
import sys, smtplib
- fromaddr = raw_input("From: ")
- toaddrs = raw_input("To: ").split(',')
- print "Enter message, end with ^D:"
+ fromaddr = input("From: ")
+ toaddrs = input("To: ").split(',')
+ print("Enter message, end with ^D:")
msg = ''
while True:
line = sys.stdin.readline()
@@ -741,17 +735,17 @@ varies between systems; sometimes it is ``/usr/lib/sendmail``, sometime
``/usr/sbin/sendmail``. The sendmail manual page will help you out. Here's
some sample code::
- SENDMAIL = "/usr/sbin/sendmail" # sendmail location
+ SENDMAIL = "/usr/sbin/sendmail" # sendmail location
import os
p = os.popen("%s -t -i" % SENDMAIL, "w")
p.write("To: receiver@example.com\n")
p.write("Subject: test\n")
- p.write("\n") # blank line separating headers from body
+ p.write("\n") # blank line separating headers from body
p.write("Some text\n")
p.write("some more text\n")
sts = p.close()
if sts != 0:
- print "Sendmail exit status", sts
+ print("Sendmail exit status", sts)
How do I avoid blocking in the connect() method of a socket?
@@ -768,7 +762,7 @@ have to check what's returned on your system.
You can use the ``connect_ex()`` method to avoid creating an exception. It will
just return the errno value. To poll, you can call ``connect_ex()`` again later
--- 0 or ``errno.EISCONN`` indicate that you're connected -- or you can pass this
+-- ``0`` or ``errno.EISCONN`` indicate that you're connected -- or you can pass this
socket to select to check if it's writable.
@@ -807,21 +801,15 @@ than a third of a second. This often beats doing something more complex and
general such as using gdbm with pickle/shelve.
-Why is cPickle so slow?
------------------------
-
-.. XXX update this, default protocol is 2/3
+If my program crashes with a bsddb (or anydbm) database open, it gets corrupted. How come?
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-The default format used by the pickle module is a slow one that results in
-readable pickles. Making it the default, but it would break backward
-compatibility::
+.. XXX move this FAQ entry elsewhere?
- largeString = 'z' * (100 * 1024)
- myPickle = cPickle.dumps(largeString, protocol=1)
+.. note::
-
-If my program crashes with a bsddb (or anydbm) database open, it gets corrupted. How come?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ The bsddb module is now available as a standalone package `pybsddb
+ <http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm>`_.
Databases opened for write access with the bsddb module (and often by the anydbm
module, since it will preferentially use bsddb) must explicitly be closed using
@@ -836,6 +824,13 @@ encounter an exception the next time the file is opened.
I tried to open Berkeley DB file, but bsddb produces bsddb.error: (22, 'Invalid argument'). Help! How can I restore my data?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+.. XXX move this FAQ entry elsewhere?
+
+.. note::
+
+ The bsddb module is now available as a standalone package `pybsddb
+ <http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm>`_.
+
Don't panic! Your data is probably intact. The most frequent cause for the error
is that you tried to open an earlier Berkeley DB file with a later version of
the Berkeley DB library.
diff --git a/Doc/faq/windows.rst b/Doc/faq/windows.rst
index 2d701c8..2a19c98 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/windows.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/windows.rst
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ Python on Windows FAQ
.. contents::
+.. XXX need review for Python 3.
+ XXX need review for Windows Vista/Seven?
+
+
How do I run a Python program under Windows?
--------------------------------------------
@@ -67,7 +71,7 @@ Python statements or expressions interactively and have them executed or
evaluated while you wait. This is one of Python's strongest features. Check it
by entering a few expressions of your choice and seeing the results::
- >>> print "Hello"
+ >>> print("Hello")
Hello
>>> "Hello" * 3
HelloHelloHello
@@ -507,7 +511,7 @@ Example::
import win32pipe
f = win32pipe.popen('dir /c c:\\')
- print f.readlines()
+ print(f.readlines())
f.close()
diff --git a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
index fb5b1c3..110b6de 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.. _urllib-howto:
+
***********************************************************
HOWTO Fetch Internet Resources Using The urllib Package
***********************************************************
diff --git a/Doc/library/uuid.rst b/Doc/library/uuid.rst
index 0ec2ed3..8351946 100644
--- a/Doc/library/uuid.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/uuid.rst
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ random UUID.
UUID('{12345678-1234-5678-1234-567812345678}')
UUID('12345678123456781234567812345678')
UUID('urn:uuid:12345678-1234-5678-1234-567812345678')
- UUID(bytes='\x12\x34\x56\x78'*4)
- UUID(bytes_le='\x78\x56\x34\x12\x34\x12\x78\x56' +
- '\x12\x34\x56\x78\x12\x34\x56\x78')
+ UUID(bytes=b'\x12\x34\x56\x78'*4)
+ UUID(bytes_le=b'\x78\x56\x34\x12\x34\x12\x78\x56' +
+ b'\x12\x34\x56\x78\x12\x34\x56\x78')
UUID(fields=(0x12345678, 0x1234, 0x5678, 0x12, 0x34, 0x567812345678))
UUID(int=0x12345678123456781234567812345678)
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ Here are some examples of typical usage of the :mod:`uuid` module::
# get the raw 16 bytes of the UUID
>>> x.bytes
- '\x00\x01\x02\x03\x04\x05\x06\x07\x08\t\n\x0b\x0c\r\x0e\x0f'
+ b'\x00\x01\x02\x03\x04\x05\x06\x07\x08\t\n\x0b\x0c\r\x0e\x0f'
# make a UUID from a 16-byte string
>>> uuid.UUID(bytes=x.bytes)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_uuid.py b/Lib/test/test_uuid.py
index a1663c5..43fa656 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_uuid.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_uuid.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
from unittest import TestCase
from test import support
+import builtins
import uuid
def importable(name):
@@ -176,6 +177,11 @@ class TestUUID(TestCase):
for u in equivalents:
for v in equivalents:
equal(u, v)
+
+ # Bug 7380: "bytes" and "bytes_le" should give the same type.
+ equal(type(u.bytes), builtins.bytes)
+ equal(type(u.bytes_le), builtins.bytes)
+
ascending.append(u)
# Test comparison of UUIDs.
diff --git a/Lib/uuid.py b/Lib/uuid.py
index b17f1c8..6e687943 100644
--- a/Lib/uuid.py
+++ b/Lib/uuid.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Typical usage:
>>> import uuid
# make a UUID based on the host ID and current time
- >>> uuid.uuid1()
+ >>> uuid.uuid1() # doctest: +SKIP
UUID('a8098c1a-f86e-11da-bd1a-00112444be1e')
# make a UUID using an MD5 hash of a namespace UUID and a name
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Typical usage:
UUID('6fa459ea-ee8a-3ca4-894e-db77e160355e')
# make a random UUID
- >>> uuid.uuid4()
+ >>> uuid.uuid4() # doctest: +SKIP
UUID('16fd2706-8baf-433b-82eb-8c7fada847da')
# make a UUID using a SHA-1 hash of a namespace UUID and a name
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ class UUID(object):
bytes = bytearray()
for shift in range(0, 128, 8):
bytes.insert(0, (self.int >> shift) & 0xff)
- return bytes
+ return bytes_(bytes)
@property
def bytes_le(self):