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* Cruft cleanup: Removed the unused last_is_sticky argument from the internalTim Peters2001-05-281-0/+6
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* Implement an old idea of Christian Tismer's: use polynomial divisionTim Peters2001-05-271-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | instead of multiplication to generate the probe sequence. The idea is recorded in Python-Dev for Dec 2000, but that version is prone to rare infinite loops. The value is in getting *all* the bits of the hash code to participate; and, e.g., this speeds up querying every key in a dict with keys [i << 16 for i in range(20000)] by a factor of 500. Should be equally valuable in any bad case where the high-order hash bits were getting ignored. Also wrote up some of the motivations behind Python's ever-more-subtle hash table strategy.
* Change list.extend() error msgs and NEWS to reflect that list.extend()Tim Peters2001-05-261-1/+2
| | | | | | | now takes any iterable argument, not only sequences. NEEDS DOC CHANGES -- but I don't think we settled on a concise way to say this stuff.
* - calendar.py uses month and day names based on the current locale.Barry Warsaw2001-05-221-0/+2
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* Added NEWS item for the UTF-16 change.Marc-André Lemburg2001-05-221-0/+5
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* Add NEWS item for new string methods.Marc-André Lemburg2001-05-151-0/+25
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* Add warnings to the strop module, for to those functions that reallyGuido van Rossum2001-05-151-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | *are* obsolete; three variables and the maketrans() function are not (yet) obsolete. Add a compensating warnings.filterwarnings() call to test_strop.py. Add this to the NEWS.
* SF patch #418147 Fixes to allow compiling w/ Borland, from Stephen Hansen.Tim Peters2001-05-141-0/+4
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* pprint's workhorse _safe_repr() function took time quadratic in the # ofTim Peters2001-05-141-1/+4
| | | | | | | elements when crunching a list, dict or tuple. Now takes linear time instead -- huge speedup for even moderately large containers, and the code is notably simpler too. Added some basic "is the output correct?" tests to test_pprint.
* Fix a typo, consistently spell ASCII in all caps, and insert blankGuido van Rossum2001-05-141-2/+4
| | | | | lines between paragraphs in Mark Hammond's news item about the default encoding in posixmodule. Resist the temptation to reflow paragraphs.
* SF bug[ #423781: pprint.isrecursive() broken.Tim Peters2001-05-141-7/+25
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* Add mention of the default file system encoding for Windows.Mark Hammond2001-05-141-0/+17
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* Get rid of the superstitious "~" in dict hashing's "i = (~hash) & mask".Tim Peters2001-05-131-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The comment following used to say: /* We use ~hash instead of hash, as degenerate hash functions, such as for ints <sigh>, can have lots of leading zeros. It's not really a performance risk, but better safe than sorry. 12-Dec-00 tim: so ~hash produces lots of leading ones instead -- what's the gain? */ That is, there was never a good reason for doing it. And to the contrary, as explained on Python-Dev last December, it tended to make the *sum* (i + incr) & mask (which is the first table index examined in case of collison) the same "too often" across distinct hashes. Changing to the simpler "i = hash & mask" reduced the number of string-dict collisions (== # number of times we go around the lookup for-loop) from about 6 million to 5 million during a full run of the test suite (these are approximate because the test suite does some random stuff from run to run). The number of collisions in non-string dicts also decreased, but not as dramatically. Note that this may, for a given dict, change the order (wrt previous releases) of entries exposed by .keys(), .values() and .items(). A number of std tests suffered bogus failures as a result. For dicts keyed by small ints, or (less so) by characters, the order is much more likely to be in increasing order of key now; e.g., >>> d = {} >>> for i in range(10): ... d[i] = i ... >>> d {0: 0, 1: 1, 2: 2, 3: 3, 4: 4, 5: 5, 6: 6, 7: 7, 8: 8, 9: 9} >>> Unfortunately. people may latch on to that in small examples and draw a bogus conclusion. test_support.py Moved test_extcall's sortdict() into test_support, made it stronger, and imported sortdict into other std tests that needed it. test_unicode.py Excluced cp875 from the "roundtrip over range(128)" test, because cp875 doesn't have a well-defined inverse for unicode("?", "cp875"). See Python-Dev for excruciating details. Cookie.py Chaged various output functions to sort dicts before building strings from them. test_extcall Fiddled the expected-result file. This remains sensitive to native dict ordering, because, e.g., if there are multiple errors in a keyword-arg dict (and test_extcall sets up many cases like that), the specific error Python complains about first depends on native dict ordering.
* Variant of patch #423262: Change module attribute get & setTim Peters2001-05-111-0/+3
| | | | | | Allow module getattr and setattr to exploit string interning, via the previously null module object tp_getattro and tp_setattro slots. Yields a very nice speedup for things like random.random and os.path etc.
* SF bug #422121 Insecurities in dict comparison.Tim Peters2001-05-101-0/+5
| | | | | | | Fixed a half dozen ways in which general dict comparison could crash Python (even cause Win98SE to reboot) in the presence of kay and/or value comparison routines that mutate the dict during dict comparison. Bugfix candidate.
* Blurb about the increased precision of float literals in .pyc/.pyo files.Tim Peters2001-05-081-0/+20
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* SF patch #421922: Implement rich comparison for dicts.Tim Peters2001-05-081-2/+4
| | | | | | d1 == d2 and d1 != d2 now work even if the keys and values in d1 and d2 don't support comparisons other than ==, and testing dicts for equality is faster now (especially when inequality obtains).
* Generalize zip() to work with iterators.Tim Peters2001-05-061-8/+4
| | | | | | | | NEEDS DOC CHANGES. More AttributeErrors transmuted into TypeErrors, in test_b2.py, and, again, this strikes me as a good thing. This checkin completes the iterator generalization work that obviously needed to be done. Can anyone think of others that should be changed?
* Generalize PySequence_Count() (operator.countOf) to work with iterators.Tim Peters2001-05-051-2/+4
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* Remove redundant line.Tim Peters2001-05-051-1/+0
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* Make 'x in y' and 'x not in y' (PySequence_Contains) play nice w/ iterators.Tim Peters2001-05-051-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | NEEDS DOC CHANGES A few more AttributeErrors turned into TypeErrors, but in test_contains this time. The full story for instance objects is pretty much unexplainable, because instance_contains() tries its own flavor of iteration-based containment testing first, and PySequence_Contains doesn't get a chance at it unless instance_contains() blows up. A consequence is that some_complex_number in some_instance dies with a TypeError unless some_instance.__class__ defines __iter__ but does not define __getitem__.
* Make unicode.join() work nice with iterators. This also required a changeTim Peters2001-05-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | to string.join(), so that when the latter figures out in midstream that it really needs unicode.join() instead, unicode.join() can actually get all the sequence elements (i.e., there's no guarantee that the sequence passed to string.join() can be iterated over *again* by unicode.join(), so string.join() must not pass on the original sequence object anymore).
* Mark string.join() as done. Turns out string_join() works "for free" now,Tim Peters2001-05-051-1/+2
| | | | | | because PySequence_Fast() started working for free as soon as PySequence_Tuple() learned how to work with iterators. For some reason unicode.join() still doesn't work, though.
* Generalize tuple() to work nicely with iterators.Tim Peters2001-05-051-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | NEEDS DOC CHANGES. This one surprised me! While I expected tuple() to be a no-brainer, turns out it's actually dripping with consequences: 1. It will *allow* the popular PySequence_Fast() to work with any iterable object (code for that not yet checked in, but should be trivial). 2. It caused two std tests to fail. This because some places used PyTuple_Sequence() (the C spelling of tuple()) as an indirect way to test whether something *is* a sequence. But tuple() code only looked for the existence of sq->item to determine that, and e.g. an instance passed that test whether or not it supported the other operations tuple() needed (e.g., __len__). So some things the tests *expected* to fail with an AttributeError now fail with a TypeError instead. This looks like an improvement to me; e.g., test_coercion used to produce 559 TypeErrors and 2 AttributeErrors, and now they're all TypeErrors. The error details are more informative too, because the places calling this were *looking* for TypeErrors in order to replace the generic tuple() "not a sequence" msg with their own more specific text, and AttributeErrors snuck by that.
* Add TODO item about x in y -- this should use iterators too, IMO.Guido van Rossum2001-05-041-0/+1
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* Added reminders to make some remaining functions iterator-friendly. FeelTim Peters2001-05-041-1/+3
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* Generalize reduce() to work with iterators.Tim Peters2001-05-041-0/+1
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* Generalize map() to work with iterators.Tim Peters2001-05-031-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | NEEDS DOC CHANGES. Possibly contentious: The first time s.next() yields StopIteration (for a given map argument s) is the last time map() *tries* s.next(). That is, if other sequence args are longer, s will never again contribute anything but None values to the result, even if trying s.next() again could yield another result. This is the same behavior map() used to have wrt IndexError, so it's the only way to be wholly backward-compatible. I'm not a fan of letting StopIteration mean "try again later" anyway.
* Generalize max(seq) and min(seq) to work with iterators.Tim Peters2001-05-031-0/+2
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* Generalize filter(f, seq) to work with iterators. This also generalizesTim Peters2001-05-021-8/+9
| | | | | filter() to no longer insist that len(seq) be defined. NEEDS DOC CHANGES.
* Add more news about iterators.Guido van Rossum2001-05-011-0/+12
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* Generalize list(seq) to work with iterators. This also generalizes list()Tim Peters2001-05-011-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | to no longer insist that len(seq) be defined. NEEDS DOC CHANGES. This is meant to be a model for how other functions of this ilk (max, filter, etc) can be generalized similarly. Feel encouraged to grab your favorite and convert it! Note some cute consequences: list(file) == file.readlines() == list(file.xreadlines()) list(dict) == dict.keys() list(dict.iteritems()) = dict.items() list(xrange(i, j, k)) == range(i, j, k)
* SF bug 418296: WinMain.c should use WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN.Tim Peters2001-04-241-0/+1
| | | | | I believe Kevin Rodgers here! The old WINDOWS_LEAN_AND_MEAN has, AFAICT, always been wrong.
* SF bug #417508: 'hypot' not found with Borland C++Build.Tim Peters2001-04-211-0/+1
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* Noted what's new in 2.1 (final).Guido van Rossum2001-04-161-0/+21
| | | | Hopefully this is the last checkin for 2.1!
* Added news for 2.1c2.Guido van Rossum2001-04-161-11/+192
| | | | Greatly updated news for 2.1c1 (!).
* SF bug reporters.Guido van Rossum2001-04-151-0/+2
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* Another ACK.Guido van Rossum2001-04-141-0/+1
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* Note additions to pydoc and pstats.Guido van Rossum2001-04-131-0/+5
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* Note that __debug__ assignments are legal again.Guido van Rossum2001-04-121-0/+3
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* (py-pdbtrack-track-stack-file): On Ken's suggestion, add "pdbtrack:"Barry Warsaw2001-04-111-3/+3
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* Noted the improved RISCOS port and the new Unixware 7 port.Guido van Rossum2001-04-112-0/+5
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* Added news about the updated python-mode.elBarry Warsaw2001-04-111-0/+10
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* intermediateBarry Warsaw2001-04-111-51/+148
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* Some new names.Guido van Rossum2001-04-101-0/+3
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* Completely revamped BeOS notes, by Donn Cave (SF patch 411834).Guido van Rossum2001-04-101-109/+23
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* This is for BeOS users who want to build all the modules. It'sGuido van Rossum2001-04-101-0/+606
| | | | | | modified from setup.py version "1.37" to support BeOS build. Contributed by Donn Cave (SF patch 411830).
* Fixing Itamar's name, as per his request.Moshe Zadka2001-04-091-1/+1
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* Get rid of useless string import, as reported by Neal Norwitz's PyChecker.pyTim Peters2001-04-081-0/+1
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* Mention pydoc in the man pageAndrew M. Kuchling2001-04-051-0/+5
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