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* Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles.Martin v. Löwis2005-11-271-0/+2
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* bug #1365984: urllib and data: URLs. Problem was that cStringIO objects ↵Georg Brandl2005-11-261-0/+2
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* bug #1281408: make Py_BuildValue work with unsigned longs and long longsGeorg Brandl2005-11-241-0/+3
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* Prevent threading.Thread.join() from blocking when a previous call raised anBrett Cannon2005-11-231-0/+4
| | | | | | exception (e.g., passing in an illegal argument). Applies patch #1314396. Thanks Eric Blossom.
* Bug #869197: setgroups rejects long integer argumentGeorg Brandl2005-11-221-0/+2
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* Typo fixAndrew M. Kuchling2005-11-221-1/+1
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* Use basestring instead of type.StringType for checking whether a inputWalter Dörwald2005-11-211-0/+2
| | | | | or output file is a file name instead of a file object. This enables unicode file names as arguments to uu.encode() and uu.decode().
* - SF Bug #1350188, "setdlopenflags" leads to crash upon "import"Neal Norwitz2005-11-091-0/+4
| | | | | It was possible dlerror() returns a NULL pointer, use a default error message in this case.
* Bug #1346533, select.poll() doesn't raise an error if timeout > sys.maxintNeal Norwitz2005-11-031-0/+2
| | | | | | Need to check return result of PyInt_AsLong() Will backport.
* Change time.strptime() to raise ValueError whenever there is an error in theBrett Cannon2005-11-021-0/+3
| | | | | | | format string. Before exceptions generated by the internal code propagated up to the user and were not helpful. Closes bug #1340337.
* Bug #1344508, Fix UNIX mmap leaking file descriptors. Will backport.Neal Norwitz2005-11-021-0/+2
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* Patch #1338314, Bug #1336623: fix tarfile so it can extractNeal Norwitz2005-10-281-0/+3
| | | | | | REGTYPE directories from tarfiles written by old programs. Will backport.
* Add news item for the new charmap codecs.Marc-André Lemburg2005-10-231-0/+8
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* add some notes about recent checkinsNeal Norwitz2005-10-211-0/+6
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* Get the bug # writeNeal Norwitz2005-10-211-1/+1
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* Incorrect code was generated for:Neal Norwitz2005-10-211-0/+3
| | | | | | | foo(a = i for i in range(10)) This should have generated a SyntaxError. Fix the Grammar so it raises a SyntaxError and test it.
* Bug #1245379: Add "unicode-1-1-utf-7" as an alias for "utf-7" as specifiedWalter Dörwald2005-10-091-0/+2
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* Remove trailing spaces.Walter Dörwald2005-10-091-3/+3
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* Fix indentation.Walter Dörwald2005-10-091-1/+1
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* Part of SF patch #1313939: Speedup charmap decoding by extendingWalter Dörwald2005-10-061-0/+5
| | | | | | | PyUnicode_DecodeCharmap() the accept a unicode string as the mapping argument which is used as a mapping table. This code isn't used by any of the codecs yet.
* Patch #754022: Greatly enhanced webbrowser.py.Georg Brandl2005-10-031-0/+2
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* Fix SF bug #976608, Unhelpful error message when mtime of a module is -1Neal Norwitz2005-10-031-0/+2
| | | | Will backport.
* SF bug #887946, segfault if redirecting directoryNeal Norwitz2005-10-031-0/+3
| | | | | | | Also provide a warning if a directory is passed on the command line. Add minimal command line test. Will backport.
* - Fix segfault with invalid coding.Neal Norwitz2005-10-021-0/+4
| | | | | | | - SF Bug #772896, unknown encoding results in MemoryError, which is not helpful I will only backport the segfault fix. I'll let Anthony decide if he wants the other changes backported. I will do the backport if asked.
* bug [ 729103 ] Cannot retrieve name of super objectGeorg Brandl2005-10-011-0/+3
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* Patch #1309009, Fix segfault in pyexpat when the XML document isNeal Norwitz2005-09-301-0/+3
| | | | | | in latin_1, but Python incorrectly assumes it is in UTF-8 format Will backport.
* patch [ 1300515 ] xdrlib.py: pack_fstring() did not use null bytes for paddingGeorg Brandl2005-09-291-0/+3
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* bug [ 1296004 ] MemoryError in httplibGeorg Brandl2005-09-291-0/+3
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* Fix parse errors in readline module when compiling without threads.Georg Brandl2005-09-291-0/+2
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* Convert iterator __len__() methods to a private API.Raymond Hettinger2005-09-241-0/+4
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* Patch #1288833: Removed thread lock from socket.getaddrinfo onHye-Shik Chang2005-09-241-0/+3
| | | | | FreeBSD 5.3 and later versions which got thread-safe getaddrinfo(3). (Reported by Maxim Sobolev)
* Patches #1298449 and #1298499: Add some missing checks for errorMichael W. Hudson2005-09-221-0/+3
| | | | | | returns in cStringIO.c. Thanks to Andrew Bennetts. This must be a backport candidate.
* SF Patch #1297028, cjkcodecs does not initialize type pointerNeal Norwitz2005-09-211-0/+3
| | | | | | | Fix segfault. I tried to write a test, but it wouldn't crash when running regrtest. This really should have some sort of test. Should definitely be backported.
* - On 64-bit platforms, when __len__() returns a value that cannot beGuido van Rossum2005-09-201-0/+3
| | | | | | | represented as a C int, raise OverflowError. (Forward port from 2.4.2; the patch to classobject.c was already in but needed a correction in the error message text.)
* - Patch #1166948: locale.py: Prefer LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG over LANGUAGEMatthias Klose2005-09-201-0/+6
| | | | | | | to get the correct encoding. - Patch #1166938: locale.py: Parse LANGUAGE as a colon separated list of languages.
* Note fix of memory leak.Neal Norwitz2005-09-191-0/+2
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* skip _locale test if OS X < 10.4Skip Montanaro2005-09-191-0/+3
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* Patch #1268314: Cache lines in StreamReader.readlines for performance.Martin v. Löwis2005-09-181-0/+2
| | | | Will backport to Python 2.4.
* Patch #1213831: Fix typo in unicodedata._getcode.Martin v. Löwis2005-09-181-0/+2
| | | | Will backport to Python 2.4.
* Clear out the regex cache when the TimeRE cache is invalidated by a localeBrett Cannon2005-09-151-0/+2
| | | | | | change. Fixes bug #1290505.
* *** empty log message ***Georg Brandl2005-09-141-0/+3
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* bug [ 1274828 ] splitunc not documentedGeorg Brandl2005-09-141-0/+2
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* Complete format code support in getargs.c::skipitem(), which is called whenGeorg Brandl2005-09-141-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | evaluating keyword arguments. CVS: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CVS: Enter Log. Lines beginning with `CVS:' are removed automatically CVS: CVS: Committing in . CVS: CVS: Modified Files: CVS: Python/getargs.c CVS: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
* - Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on AIX 5.3Guido van Rossum2005-09-141-0/+4
| | | | | with IBM's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1284289). This also closes SF bug #105470: test_pwd fails on 64bit system (Opteron).
* - Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 onGuido van Rossum2005-09-141-0/+3
| | | | Itanium2 with HP's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1225212).
* Bug #1202493: Fixing SRE parser to handle '{}' as perl does, rather thanGustavo Niemeyer2005-09-141-0/+4
| | | | considering it exactly like a '*'.
* Fix rest markup and typos.Walter Dörwald2005-09-011-2/+2
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* SF bug #1235646: codecs.StreamRecoder.next() now reencodes the data it readsWalter Dörwald2005-09-011-0/+3
| | | | | from the input stream, so that the output is a byte string in the correct encoding instead of a unicode string.
* SF bug #1251300: On UCS-4 builds the "unicode-internal" codec will now complainWalter Dörwald2005-08-301-0/+4
| | | | | about illegal code points. The codec now supports PEP 293 style error handlers. (This is a variant of the Nik Haldimann's patch that detects truncated data)
* Patch #1168594: set sizes of non-regular files to zero. Fixes #1167128.Martin v. Löwis2005-08-271-0/+2
| | | | Will backport to 2.4.