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* Merged revisions 66958 via svnmerge fromMartin v. Löwis2008-10-171-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r66958 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-10-17 15:43:01 +0200 (Fr, 17 Okt 2008) | 1 line Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again. ........
* Merged revisions 66891 via svnmerge fromAmaury Forgeot d'Arc2008-10-141-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r66891 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-10-14 23:47:22 +0200 (mar., 14 oct. 2008) | 5 lines #4122: On Windows, Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE cannot be used in an extension module: compilation fails with "undefined reference to _Py_ascii_whitespace" Will backport to 2.6. ........
* Merged revisions 66881 via svnmerge fromMartin v. Löwis2008-10-131-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r66881 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-10-13 13:23:35 +0200 (Mo, 13 Okt 2008) | 2 lines Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista. ........
* Merged revisions 66809-66810,66835,66862-66863 via svnmerge fromHirokazu Yamamoto2008-10-091-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r66809 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-10-06 10:57:03 +0900 | 1 line Added the test for issue3762. ........ r66810 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-10-06 11:41:59 +0900 | 1 line More strict test. Consider the case sys.executable itself is symlink. ........ r66835 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-10-08 03:10:47 +0900 | 1 line more intensive test on dbm. ........ r66862 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-10-09 19:00:30 +0900 | 3 lines On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k) ........ r66863 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-10-09 19:11:21 +0900 | 1 line r66862 contained memory leak. ........
* #4069: aSet.remove(otherSet) would always report the empty frozenset([]) as ↵Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2008-10-071-0/+5
| | | | | | | | the missing key. Now it correctly refers to the initial otherSet. Backport of r66836.
* Merged revisions 66819 via svnmerge fromBrett Cannon2008-10-061-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r66819 | brett.cannon | 2008-10-06 15:44:37 -0700 (Mon, 06 Oct 2008) | 4 lines Add the 'patchcheck' build target to .PHONY. Re-closes issue 3758. Thanks to Ralph Corderoy for the catch. ........
* Merged revisions 66814 via svnmerge fromMartin v. Löwis2008-10-061-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r66814 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-10-06 17:15:40 +0200 (Mo, 06 Okt 2008) | 3 lines Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition to claiming it is Mature. ........
* Merged revisions 66748 via svnmerge fromChristian Heimes2008-10-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r66748 | christian.heimes | 2008-10-02 21:47:50 +0200 (Thu, 02 Oct 2008) | 1 line Fixed a couple more C99 comments and one occurence of inline. ........
* Merged revisions 66739 via svnmerge fromChristian Heimes2008-10-021-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r66739 | christian.heimes | 2008-10-02 20:33:41 +0200 (Thu, 02 Oct 2008) | 1 line Fixed a comment to C89 style as of http://drj11.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/python-and-bragging-about-c89/ ........
* Post release danceBarry Warsaw2008-10-021-0/+12
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* Bumping to 2.6 final.Barry Warsaw2008-10-011-1/+1
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* Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the WindowsMartin v. Löwis2008-10-011-0/+3
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* Works around issue3863: freebsd4/5/6 and os2emx are known to have OS bugs whenGregory P. Smith2008-09-301-0/+3
| | | | | | | calling fork() from a child thread. This disables that unit test (with a note printed to stderr) on those platforms. A caveat about buggy platforms is added to the os.fork documentation.
* fix security issue 2: imageop's poor validation of arguments could result in ↵Benjamin Peterson2008-09-301-0/+3
| | | | | | | segfaults patch by Victor Stinner reviewed by myself and Brett
* Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it aMartin v. Löwis2008-09-291-0/+3
| | | | | | true singleton object. Reviewed by Gregor Lingl.
* The _lsprof module could crash the interpreter if it was given an externalBrett Cannon2008-09-291-0/+4
| | | | | | | | timer that did not return a float and a timer was still running when the Profiler object was garbage collected. Fixes issue 3895. Code review by Benjamin Peterson.
* bsddb4.7.3pre9 renamed to 4.7.3Jesus Cea2008-09-281-1/+1
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* #3967: Correct a crash in count() and find() methods of string-like objects.Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2008-09-261-0/+3
| | | | | | | | For example: "".count("xxxx", sys.maxint, 0) Reviewed by Benjamin Peterson. Will port to 2.5 and 3.0.
* #3965: on Windows, open() crashes if the filename or the mode is invalid,Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2008-09-251-0/+3
| | | | | | and if the filename is a unicode string. Reviewed by Martin von Loewis.
* add a NEWs entry for r66614Benjamin Peterson2008-09-251-0/+2
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* Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.Martin v. Löwis2008-09-251-0/+2
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* Fix issue #3547: ctypes is confused by bitfields of varying integer typesThomas Heller2008-09-241-0/+3
| | | | Reviewed by Fredrik Lundh and Skip Montanaro.
* #3879 fix a regression in urllib.getproxies_environmentBenjamin Peterson2008-09-211-0/+2
| | | | reviewers: Benjamin, Georg
* Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64Martin v. Löwis2008-09-191-0/+5
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* done with 2.6rc2Barry Warsaw2008-09-181-0/+12
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* Bumping to 2.6rc2v2.6rc2Barry Warsaw2008-09-181-1/+1
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* fix possible integer overflows in _hashopenssl #3886Benjamin Peterson2008-09-181-2/+5
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* Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft C runtime ↵Martin v. Löwis2008-09-141-0/+6
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* Issue #3850: Misc/find_recursionlimit.py was broken.Antoine Pitrou2008-09-131-0/+8
| | | | Reviewed by A.M. Kuchling.
* Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.Martin v. Löwis2008-09-131-0/+2
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* post release updatesBarry Warsaw2008-09-131-0/+12
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* Bumping to 2.6rc1Barry Warsaw2008-09-121-1/+1
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* Issue #3846: Release GIL during calls to sqlite3_prepare. This improves ↵Gerhard Häring2008-09-121-0/+4
| | | | concurrent access to the same database file from multiple threads/processes.
* Fixes issue #3103. In the sqlite3 module, made one more function static. All ↵Gerhard Häring2008-09-121-0/+3
| | | | renaming public symbos now have the pysqlite prefix to avoid name clashes. This at least once created problems where the same symbol name appeared somewhere in Apache and the sqlite3 module was used from mod_python.
* sqlite3 module: Mark iterdump() method as "Non-standard" like all the other ↵Gerhard Häring2008-09-121-0/+2
| | | | methods not found in DB-API.
* #3640: Correct a crash in cPickle on 64bit platforms, in the case of deeply ↵Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2008-09-111-0/+3
| | | | | | nested lists or dicts. Reviewed by Martin von Loewis.
* Issue #3781: Final cleanup of warnings.catch_warnings and its usage in the ↵Nick Coghlan2008-09-111-1/+9
| | | | test suite. Closes issue w.r.t. 2.6 (R: Brett Cannon)
* Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t isMartin v. Löwis2008-09-111-3/+2
| | | | larger than uint. Reverts r65975. Reviewed by Brett Cannon.
* #3743: PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed for the OS "printf" functions, not forAmaury Forgeot d'Arc2008-09-101-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | PyString_FromFormat which has an independent implementation, and uses "%zd". This makes a difference on win64, where printf needs "%Id" to display 64bit values. For example, queue.__repr__ was incorrect. Reviewed by Martin von Loewis.
* - Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.Guido van Rossum2008-09-101-0/+2
| | | | Reviewed by Amaury.
* Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.Martin v. Löwis2008-09-101-0/+2
| | | | Reviewed by Fredrik Lundh and Marc-Andre Lemburg.
* Fix #3634 invalid return value from _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__Benjamin Peterson2008-09-091-0/+3
| | | | Reviewers: Amaury, Antoine, Benjamin
* Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.Vinay Sajip2008-09-091-1/+3
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* #3777: long(4.2) returned an int, and broke backward compatibility.Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2008-09-091-0/+5
| | | | | | | the __long__ slot is allowed to return either int or long, but the behaviour of float objects should not change between 2.5 and 2.6. Reviewed by Benjamin Peterson
* warnings.catch_warnings() now returns a list or None instead of the customBrett Cannon2008-09-091-0/+3
| | | | | | | | WarningsRecorder object. This makes the API simpler to use as no special object must be learned. Closes issue 3781. Review by Benjamin Peterson.
* Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properlyMartin v. Löwis2008-09-081-0/+3
| | | | use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
* Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.Martin v. Löwis2008-09-081-0/+2
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* - Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional librariesGregory P. Smith2008-09-071-0/+4
| | | | | | that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues with x86_64 builds on some platforms (at least a few Linux flavors as well as OpenBSD/amd64).
* #3796: A test class was not run in test_float.Amaury Forgeot d'Arc2008-09-061-3/+5
| | | | Reviewed by Benjamin.
* #1638033: add support for httponly on Cookie.MorselBenjamin Peterson2008-09-061-0/+2
| | | | Reviewer: Benjamin