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* Patch #573770: Implement lchown.Martin v. Löwis2002-07-281-3/+3
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* News about StopIteration as a "sink state".Guido van Rossum2002-07-231-0/+8
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* Add news about strptime and socket.setdefaulttimeout().Guido van Rossum2002-07-231-1/+6
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* Move DL_IMPORT/DL_EXPORT to Build section, I think this is the correct placeNeal Norwitz2002-07-221-4/+5
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* Add note about DL_IMPORT deprecation.Mark Hammond2002-07-221-0/+4
| | | | [ 583894 ] doc DL_IMPORT/DL_EXPORT changes
* Add a blurb on the 3 Windows bugs I worked on over the last couple of days.Mark Hammond2002-07-161-0/+8
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* Mention new encoding.Marc-André Lemburg2002-07-121-0/+2
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* The Py_REF_DEBUG/COUNT_ALLOCS/Py_TRACE_REFS macro minefield: addedTim Peters2002-07-091-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | more trivial lexical helper macros so that uses of these guys expand to nothing at all when they're not enabled. This should help sub- standard compilers that can't do a good job of optimizing away the previous "(void)0" expressions. Py_DECREF: There's only one definition of this now. Yay! That was that last one in the family defined multiple times in an #ifdef maze. Py_FatalError(): Changed the char* signature to const char*. _Py_NegativeRefcount(): New helper function for the Py_REF_DEBUG expansion of Py_DECREF. Calling an external function cuts down on the volume of generated code. The previous inline expansion of abort() didn't work as intended on Windows (the program often kept going, and the error msg scrolled off the screen unseen). _Py_NegativeRefcount calls Py_FatalError instead, which captures our best knowledge of how to abort effectively across platforms.
* SF bug 578752: COUNT_ALLOCS vs heap typesTim Peters2002-07-081-0/+8
| | | | | | | Repair segfaults and infinite loops in COUNT_ALLOCS builds in the presence of new-style (heap-allocated) classes/types. Bugfix candidate. I'll backport this to 2.2. It's irrelevant in 2.1.
* Removed WITH_CYCLE_GC #ifdef-ery. Holes:Tim Peters2002-07-071-0/+14
| | | | | | + I'm not sure what to do about configure.in. Left it alone. + Ditto pyexpat.c. Fred or Martin will know what to do.
* Stop trying to cater to platforms with a broken HUGE_VAL definition. ItTim Peters2002-07-031-0/+18
| | | | | breaks other platforms (in this case, the hack for broken Cray systems in turn caused failure on a Mac system broken in a different way).
* Implement the encoding argument for toxml and toprettyxml.Martin v. Löwis2002-06-301-0/+3
| | | | Document toprettyxml.
* Fix SF bug 546434 -- buffer slice type inconsistent.Raymond Hettinger2002-06-251-0/+5
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* Mention private vars in __slots__.Guido van Rossum2002-06-211-0/+3
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* Mention pymemcompat.h.Guido van Rossum2002-06-181-1/+6
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* Minor tweaks to existing items (radian/degree, and UTF-16 readers..Guido van Rossum2002-06-181-5/+5
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* Apply diff2.txt from SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/566999Walter Dörwald2002-06-171-0/+3
| | | | | | | | This patch enhances Python/import.c/find_module() so that unicode objects found in sys.path will be treated as legal directory names (The current code ignores anything that is not a str). The unicode name is converted to str using Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding.
* Add Oren Tirosh and news about his patch.Guido van Rossum2002-06-141-0/+10
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* This introduces stricter library/header file checking for the Berkeley DBSkip Montanaro2002-06-141-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | library. Since multiple versions can be installed simultaneously, it's crucial that you only select libraries and header files which are compatible with each other. Version checking is done from highest version to lowest. Building using version 1 of Berkeley DB is disabled by default because of the hash file bugs people keep rediscovering. It can be enabled by uncommenting a few lines in setup.py. Closes patch 553108.
* SF bug # 493951 string.{starts,ends}with vs slicesNeal Norwitz2002-06-141-0/+3
| | | | Handle negative indices similar to slices.
* Patch #568235: Add posix.setpgid.Martin v. Löwis2002-06-131-1/+2
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* Changed the extended slice example to show that you can reverse aGuido van Rossum2002-06-131-2/+2
| | | | string with a [::-1] slice.
* SF bug 567538: Generator can crash the interpreter (Finn Bock).Guido van Rossum2002-06-121-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | This was a simple typo. Strange that the compiler didn't catch it! Instead of WHY_CONTINUE, two tests used CONTINUE_LOOP, which isn't a why_code at all, but an opcode; but even though 'why' is declared as an enum, comparing it to an int is apparently not even worth a warning -- not in gcc, and not in VC++. :-( Will fix in 2.2 too.
* This is my nearly two year old patchMichael W. Hudson2002-06-111-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | [ 400998 ] experimental support for extended slicing on lists somewhat spruced up and better tested than it was when I wrote it. Includes docs & tests. The whatsnew section needs expanding, and arrays should support extended slices -- later.
* Patch #488073: AtheOS port.Martin v. Löwis2002-06-111-0/+2
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* Record the latest fixes.Guido van Rossum2002-06-101-0/+9
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* Patch #505375: Make doc strings optional.Martin v. Löwis2002-06-091-0/+4
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* Add timeout mode. Clarify gnu_getopt.Guido van Rossum2002-06-071-1/+7
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* Patch 473512: add GNU style scanning as gnu_getopt.Martin v. Löwis2002-06-061-0/+2
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* Address SF bug 519621: slots weren't traversed by GC.Guido van Rossum2002-06-041-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | While I was at it, I added a tp_clear handler and changed the tp_dealloc handler to use the clear_slots helper for the tp_clear handler. Also tightened the rules for slot names: they must now be proper identifiers (ignoring the dirty little fact that <ctype.h> is locale sensitive). Also set mp->flags = READONLY for the __weakref__ pseudo-slot. Most of this is a 2.2 bugfix candidate; I'll apply it there myself.
* Fiddle wording.Michael W. Hudson2002-06-041-3/+4
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* Fix SF bug #557436, TclError is a str should be an ExceptionNeal Norwitz2002-06-041-0/+4
| | | | Make Tkinter.TclError derive from Exception, it was a string.
* Add constants BOM_UTF8, BOM_UTF16, BOM_UTF16_LE, BOM_UTF16_BE,Walter Dörwald2002-06-041-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | BOM_UTF32, BOM_UTF32_LE and BOM_UTF32_BE that represent the Byte Order Mark in UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings for little and big endian systems. The old names BOM32_* and BOM64_* were off by a factor of 2. This closes SF bug http://www.python.org/sf/555360
* Surprising fix for SF bug 563060: module can be used as base class.Guido van Rossum2002-06-041-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change the module constructor (module_init) to have the signature __init__(name:str, doc=None); this prevents the call from type_new() to succeed. While we're at it, prevent repeated calling of module_init for the same module from leaking the dict, changing the semantics so that __dict__ is only initialized if NULL. Also adding a unittest, test_module.py. This is an incompatibility with 2.2, if anybody was instantiating the module class before, their argument list was probably empty; so this can't be backported to 2.2.x.
* Change name from string to basestringNeal Norwitz2002-05-311-2/+2
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* As discussed on python-dev, add a mechanism to indicate featuresNeal Norwitz2002-05-291-0/+6
| | | | | that are in the process of deprecation (PendingDeprecationWarning). Docs could be improved.
* This is patchMichael W. Hudson2002-05-271-0/+3
| | | | | | | [ 559250 ] more POSIX signal stuff Adds support (and docs and tests and autoconfery) for posix signal mask handling -- sigpending, sigprocmask and sigsuspend.
* - A new type object, 'string', is added. This is a common base typeGuido van Rossum2002-05-241-0/+6
| | | | | | | for 'str' and 'unicode', and can be used instead of types.StringTypes, e.g. to test whether something is "a string": isinstance(x, string) is True for Unicode and 8-bit strings. This is an abstract base class and cannot be instantiated directly.
* Add a bit of news about the email package fixes.Barry Warsaw2002-05-201-0/+6
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* Noted SF patch 552452 adding degree/radian conversions to mathmodule.c.Raymond Hettinger2002-05-131-0/+2
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* Noted change in ftplib 1.68 closing SF patch 553277.Raymond Hettinger2002-05-121-0/+7
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* Remove news about PyMalloc_*. Do we need to say anything aboutNeil Schemenauer2002-05-081-6/+1
| | | | pymalloc?
* Patch #552433: Special-case tuples. Avoid sub-type checking for lists.Martin v. Löwis2002-05-081-0/+4
| | | | | Avoid checks for negative indices and duplicate checks for support of the sequence protocol.
* Fix typosAndrew M. Kuchling2002-05-071-13/+11
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* random.gauss() uses a piece of hidden state used by nothing else,Tim Peters2002-05-051-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | and the .seed() and .whseed() methods failed to reset it. In other words, setting the seed didn't completely determine the sequence of results produced by random.gauss(). It does now. Programs repeatedly mixing calls to a seed method with calls to gauss() may see different results now. Bugfix candidate (random.gauss() has always been broken in this way), despite that it may change results.
* Added notes related to the removal of deprecated features of the xrange type.Fred Drake2002-05-021-0/+9
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* Added note about using the documentation build tools under Cygwin.Fred Drake2002-05-021-0/+3
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* Add Pickler.clear_memo() so the pickle and cPickle modules are more similar.Fred Drake2002-05-011-0/+3
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* Mostly in SequenceMatcher.{__chain_b, find_longest_match}:Tim Peters2002-04-291-2/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | This now does a dynamic analysis of which elements are so frequently repeated as to constitute noise. The primary benefit is an enormous speedup in find_longest_match, as the innermost loop can have factors of 100s less potential matches to worry about, in cases where the sequences have many duplicate elements. In effect, this zooms in on sequences of non-ubiquitous elements now. While I like what I've seen of the effects so far, I still consider this experimental. Please give it a try!
* Clarify that the strip changes also apply to Unicode.Guido van Rossum2002-04-261-3/+3
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