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* Merged revisions 69803-69805,69840,69901,69905,69907,69924,69927,69987 via ↵Benjamin Peterson2009-02-261-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r69803 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-20 01:48:21 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 1 line #5327: fix a broken link by joining it. ........ r69804 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-20 02:22:21 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 1 line At least separate imports from other statements. ........ r69805 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-20 02:45:47 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 2 lines Fix punctuation. ........ r69840 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-21 13:09:40 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line #5338, #5339: two types in the API manual. ........ r69901 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-23 05:24:46 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 2 lines #5349: C++ pure virtuals can also have an implementation. ........ r69905 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-23 09:51:27 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 2 lines #5352: str.count() counts non-overlapping instances. ........ r69907 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-23 12:33:48 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 1 line Fix grammar. ........ r69924 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-23 20:45:35 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 1 line update README on running tests ........ r69927 | neil.schemenauer | 2009-02-23 22:23:25 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 1 line Fix call to os.waitpid, it does not take keyword args. ........ r69987 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-25 18:30:11 -0600 (Wed, 25 Feb 2009) | 1 line fix str.format()'s first arg #5371 ........
* Merged revisions 68162,68166,68171,68176,68195-68196,68210,68232 via ↵Georg Brandl2009-01-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r68162 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-01-02 16:06:00 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Fix for issue 4472 is incompatible with Cygwin, this patch should fix that. ........ r68166 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-02 19:26:23 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 1 line document PyMemberDef ........ r68171 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-02 21:25:14 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 3 lines #4811: fix markup glitches (mostly remains of the conversion), found by Gabriel Genellina. ........ r68176 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-01-02 22:00:35 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 1 line Add various items ........ r68195 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-03 14:45:15 +0100 (Sat, 03 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Remove useless string literal. ........ r68196 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-03 15:29:53 +0100 (Sat, 03 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Fix indentation. ........ r68210 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-03 20:10:12 +0100 (Sat, 03 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Set eol-style correctly for mp_distributing.py. ........ r68232 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-03 22:52:16 +0100 (Sat, 03 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Grammar fix. ........
* Remove trailing whitespace.Georg Brandl2009-01-031-21/+21
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* merge from trunkBenjamin Peterson2008-10-111-9/+7
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* Merged revisions ↵Georg Brandl2008-06-101-2/+2
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* Merged revisions 59605-59624 via svnmerge fromChristian Heimes2007-12-311-53/+53
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r59606 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-29 11:57:00 +0100 (Sat, 29 Dec 2007) | 2 lines Some cleanup in the docs. ........ r59611 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-12-29 19:49:21 +0100 (Sat, 29 Dec 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD. ........ r59612 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-29 23:09:34 +0100 (Sat, 29 Dec 2007) | 1 line Simpler documentation for itertools.tee(). Should be backported. ........ r59613 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-29 23:16:24 +0100 (Sat, 29 Dec 2007) | 1 line Improve docs for itertools.groupby(). The use of xrange(0) to create a unique object is less obvious than object(). ........ r59620 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-31 15:47:07 +0100 (Mon, 31 Dec 2007) | 3 lines Added wininst-9.0.exe executable for VS 2008 Integrated bdist_wininst into PCBuild9 directory ........ r59621 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-31 15:51:18 +0100 (Mon, 31 Dec 2007) | 1 line Moved PCbuild directory to PC/VS7.1 ........ r59622 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-31 15:59:26 +0100 (Mon, 31 Dec 2007) | 1 line Fix paths for build bot ........ r59623 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-31 16:02:41 +0100 (Mon, 31 Dec 2007) | 1 line Fix paths for build bot, part 2 ........ r59624 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-31 16:18:55 +0100 (Mon, 31 Dec 2007) | 1 line Renamed PCBuild9 directory to PCBuild ........
* Merged revisions 58095-58132,58136-58148,58151-58197 via svnmerge fromThomas Wouters2007-09-191-1/+1
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All protocols tested with all certificate options. Tests for bad key and bad cert. Test of STARTTLS functionality. Test of RAND_* functions. * Fixes for threading/malloc bug. * Issue 1065 fixed: sslsocket class renamed to SSLSocket. sslerror class renamed to SSLError. Function "wrap_socket" now used to wrap an existing socket. * Issue 1583946 finally fixed: Support for subjectAltName added. Subject name now returned as proper DN list of RDNs. * SSLError exported from socket as "sslerror". * RAND_* functions properly exported from ssl.py. * Documentation improved: Example of how to create a self-signed certificate. Better indexing. ........ r58098 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-09-11 00:02:25 +0200 (Tue, 11 Sep 2007) | 9 lines Patch # 1140 (my code, approved by Effbot). Make sure the type of the return value of re.sub(x, y, z) is the type of y+x (i.e. unicode if either is unicode, str if they are both str) even if there are no substitutions or if x==z (which triggered various special cases in join_list()). Could be backported to 2.5; no need to port to 3.0. ........ r58099 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-09-11 00:36:02 +0200 (Tue, 11 Sep 2007) | 8 lines Patch # 1026 by Benjamin Aranguren (with Alex Martelli): Backport abc.py and isinstance/issubclass overloading to 2.6. I had to backport test_typechecks.py myself, and make one small change to abc.py to avoid duplicate work when x.__class__ and type(x) are the same. ........ r58100 | bill.janssen | 2007-09-11 01:41:24 +0200 (Tue, 11 Sep 2007) | 3 lines A better way of finding an open port to test with. ........ r58101 | bill.janssen | 2007-09-11 03:09:19 +0200 (Tue, 11 Sep 2007) | 4 lines Make sure test_ssl doesn't reference the ssl module in a context where it can't be imported. ........ r58102 | bill.janssen | 2007-09-11 04:42:07 +0200 (Tue, 11 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Fix some documentation bugs. ........ r58103 | nick.coghlan | 2007-09-11 16:01:18 +0200 (Tue, 11 Sep 2007) | 1 line Always use the -E flag when spawning subprocesses in test_cmd_line (Issue 1056) ........ r58106 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-11 21:17:48 +0200 (Tue, 11 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Disable some tests that fail on the 'ppc Debian unstable' buildbot to find out if they cause the segfault on the 'alpha Debian' machine. ........ r58108 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-11 23:02:28 +0200 (Tue, 11 Sep 2007) | 6 lines Generators had their throw() method allowing string exceptions. That's a no-no. Fixes issue #1147. Need to fix 2.5 to raise a proper warning if a string exception is passed in. ........ r58112 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-12 20:03:51 +0200 (Wed, 12 Sep 2007) | 3 lines New documentation page for the bdb module. (This doesn't need to be merged to Py3k.) ........ r58114 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-12 20:05:57 +0200 (Wed, 12 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1152: use non-deprecated name in example. ........ r58115 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-12 20:08:33 +0200 (Wed, 12 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Fix #1122: wrong return type documented for various _Size() functions. ........ r58117 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-12 20:10:56 +0200 (Wed, 12 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Fix #1139: PyFile_Encoding really is PyFile_SetEncoding. ........ r58119 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-12 20:29:18 +0200 (Wed, 12 Sep 2007) | 2 lines bug #1154: release memory allocated by "es" PyArg_ParseTuple format specifier. ........ r58121 | bill.janssen | 2007-09-12 20:52:05 +0200 (Wed, 12 Sep 2007) | 1 line root certificate for https://svn.python.org/, used in test_ssl ........ r58122 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-12 21:00:07 +0200 (Wed, 12 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items to be orderable to properly represent them. ........ r58125 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-12 21:29:28 +0200 (Wed, 12 Sep 2007) | 4 lines #1120: put explicit version in the shebang lines of pydoc, idle and smtpd.py scripts that are installed by setup.py. That way, they work when only "make altinstall" is used. ........ r58139 | mark.summerfield | 2007-09-13 16:54:30 +0200 (Thu, 13 Sep 2007) | 9 lines Replaced variable o with obj in operator.rst because o is easy to confuse. Added a note about Python 3's collections.Mapping etc., above section that describes isMappingType() etc. Added xrefs between os, os.path, fileinput, and open(). ........ r58143 | facundo.batista | 2007-09-13 20:13:15 +0200 (Thu, 13 Sep 2007) | 7 lines Merged the decimal-branch (revisions 54886 to 58140). Decimal is now fully updated to the latests Decimal Specification (v1.66) and the latests test cases (v2.56). Thanks to Mark Dickinson for all his help during this process. ........ r58145 | facundo.batista | 2007-09-13 20:42:09 +0200 (Thu, 13 Sep 2007) | 7 lines Put the parameter watchexp back in (changed watchexp from an int to a bool). Also second argument to watchexp is now converted to Decimal, just as with all the other two-argument operations. Thanks Mark Dickinson. ........ r58147 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-14 00:49:34 +0200 (Fri, 14 Sep 2007) | 1 line Add various items ........ r58148 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-14 00:50:10 +0200 (Fri, 14 Sep 2007) | 1 line Make target unique ........ r58154 | facundo.batista | 2007-09-14 20:58:34 +0200 (Fri, 14 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Included the new functions, and new descriptions. ........ r58155 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-14 21:40:35 +0200 (Fri, 14 Sep 2007) | 2 lines ctypes.util.find_library uses dump(1) instead of objdump(1) on Solaris. Fixes issue #1777530; will backport to release25-maint. ........ r58159 | facundo.batista | 2007-09-14 23:29:52 +0200 (Fri, 14 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Some additions (examples and a bit on the tutorial). ........ r58160 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-15 18:53:36 +0200 (Sat, 15 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Remove bdb from the "undocumented modules" list. ........ r58164 | bill.janssen | 2007-09-17 00:06:00 +0200 (Mon, 17 Sep 2007) | 15 lines Add support for asyncore server-side SSL support. This requires adding the 'makefile' method to ssl.SSLSocket, and importing the requisite fakefile class from socket.py, and making the appropriate changes to it to make it use the SSL connection. Added sample HTTPS server to test_ssl.py, and test that uses it. Change SSL tests to use https://svn.python.org/, instead of www.sf.net and pop.gmail.com. Added utility function to ssl module, get_server_certificate, to wrap up the several things to be done to pull a certificate from a remote server. ........ r58173 | bill.janssen | 2007-09-17 01:16:46 +0200 (Mon, 17 Sep 2007) | 1 line use binary mode when reading files for testAsyncore to make Windows happy ........ r58175 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-09-17 02:55:00 +0200 (Mon, 17 Sep 2007) | 7 lines Sync-up named tuples with the latest version of the ASPN recipe. Allows optional commas in the field-name spec (help when named tuples are used in conjuction with sql queries). Adds the __fields__ attribute for introspection and to support conversion to dictionary form. Adds a __replace__() method similar to str.replace() but using a named field as a target. Clean-up spelling and presentation in doc-strings. ........ r58176 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-17 05:28:34 +0200 (Mon, 17 Sep 2007) | 5 lines Add a bunch of GIL release/acquire points in tp_print implementations and for PyObject_Print(). Closes issue #1164. ........ r58177 | sean.reifschneider | 2007-09-17 07:45:04 +0200 (Mon, 17 Sep 2007) | 2 lines issue1597011: Fix for bz2 module corner-case error due to error checking bug. ........ r58180 | facundo.batista | 2007-09-17 18:26:50 +0200 (Mon, 17 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Decimal is updated, :) ........ r58181 | facundo.batista | 2007-09-17 19:30:13 +0200 (Mon, 17 Sep 2007) | 5 lines The methods always return Decimal classes, even if they're executed through a subclass (thanks Mark Dickinson). Added a bit of testing for this. ........ r58183 | sean.reifschneider | 2007-09-17 22:53:21 +0200 (Mon, 17 Sep 2007) | 2 lines issue1082: Fixing platform and system for Vista. ........ r58185 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-18 03:36:16 +0200 (Tue, 18 Sep 2007) | 1 line Add item; sort properly ........ r58186 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-09-18 05:33:19 +0200 (Tue, 18 Sep 2007) | 1 line Handle corner cased on 0-tuples and 1-tuples. Add verbose option so people can see how it works. ........ r58192 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-18 09:24:40 +0200 (Tue, 18 Sep 2007) | 2 lines A bit of reordering, also show more subheadings in the lang ref index. ........ r58193 | facundo.batista | 2007-09-18 18:53:18 +0200 (Tue, 18 Sep 2007) | 4 lines Speed up of the various division operations (remainder, divide, divideint and divmod). Thanks Mark Dickinson. ........ r58197 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-09-19 00:18:02 +0200 (Wed, 19 Sep 2007) | 1 line Cleanup docs for NamedTuple. ........
* Move the 3k reST doc tree in place.Georg Brandl2007-08-151-0/+2286