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4323f7c Guido van Rossum 25 November 1997, 18:27:23 UTC Simple index for the reference manuals (mostly for use on the Windows platform). 25 November 1997, 18:27:23 UTC
71ace95 Guido van Rossum 25 November 1997, 18:20:52 UTC Updated to the most pressing 1.5 issues. 25 November 1997, 18:20:52 UTC
4aa6186 Guido van Rossum 25 November 1997, 15:40:06 UTC Drop Capitalized Important Words. 25 November 1997, 15:40:06 UTC
580aa8d Guido van Rossum 25 November 1997, 15:34:51 UTC Several changes, e.g. restructuring of the intro to be closer to what it ought to be. Maybe the last checkin before 1.5b1 is released. 25 November 1997, 15:34:51 UTC
682fbe5 Guido van Rossum 25 November 1997, 15:33:44 UTC Remove hyperlink to time-sensitive Python release info. 25 November 1997, 15:33:44 UTC
dd58469 Guido van Rossum 25 November 1997, 06:02:27 UTC WISE installer source for Python 1.5 25 November 1997, 06:02:27 UTC
36e18e3 Guido van Rossum 25 November 1997, 06:00:59 UTC Added pypcre.c module. 25 November 1997, 06:00:59 UTC
cb91e7b Fred Drake 25 November 1997, 04:06:21 UTC Added the "italic correction" command ("\/") to the list of ignored commands. There is at least one of there in the library reference, and this reduces the warning count. We *do* know what to do with it! 25 November 1997, 04:06:21 UTC
e624e0f Fred Drake 25 November 1997, 04:04:00 UTC Removed leading comment about this being "introductory" documentation; compared to most, I'd say this section is fairly thorough. Fixed \indexsubitem definitions for symbol and token module sub-documents. Perhaps these should be moved to their own files, but they're awefully small. 25 November 1997, 04:04:00 UTC
f259efe Guido van Rossum 25 November 1997, 01:00:40 UTC Get rid of math mode in some places. 25 November 1997, 01:00:40 UTC
3e1e274 Guido van Rossum 25 November 1997, 00:43:34 UTC Don't use $math$ mode to typeset a simple '>' sign. Use \code, not \samp. 25 November 1997, 00:43:34 UTC
9d62e80 Guido van Rossum 25 November 1997, 00:35:44 UTC Remove strange use of $math$ mode to produce a backslash. 25 November 1997, 00:35:44 UTC
5b7220f Guido van Rossum 25 November 1997, 00:05:12 UTC Oops, did the previous delete the wrong way. 25 November 1997, 00:05:12 UTC
d5da7a6 Guido van Rossum 24 November 1997, 23:59:31 UTC Get rid of last traces of module 'audio' 24 November 1997, 23:59:31 UTC
ca83f01 Guido van Rossum 24 November 1997, 23:49:35 UTC Added "-n file" option to only print files newer than the given file. 24 November 1997, 23:49:35 UTC
e2d4dd1 Guido van Rossum 24 November 1997, 22:24:22 UTC Use fuzzy comparison from test_support to compare outcome of pow(x,y,z) to pow(x,y)%z. 24 November 1997, 22:24:22 UTC
275feea Guido van Rossum 24 November 1997, 17:50:47 UTC New names... 24 November 1997, 17:50:47 UTC
00f1569 Guido van Rossum 24 November 1997, 17:50:09 UTC Add fileinput. 24 November 1997, 17:50:09 UTC
e300d6f Guido van Rossum 24 November 1997, 17:49:45 UTC Replace plat-os2 with plat-win, per Jeff Rush' suggestion. 24 November 1997, 17:49:45 UTC
37885c2 Guido van Rossum 24 November 1997, 17:49:13 UTC Trivial change in prompt label suggested by Case Roole. 24 November 1997, 17:49:13 UTC
2d9feed Guido van Rossum 24 November 1997, 17:36:21 UTC Change the option used on Linux to export all symbols from the main program to shared libraries. On mklinux, the old '-rdynamic' doesn't work; the new '-Xlinker -export-dynamic' works both there and on Intel Linux platforms. 24 November 1997, 17:36:21 UTC
465f71d Guido van Rossum 24 November 1997, 15:54:24 UTC Done a sort -u on the symbols (and replaced all tabs with spaces). 24 November 1997, 15:54:24 UTC
e1cba7f Guido van Rossum 24 November 1997, 15:50:27 UTC Oops, the sort took some whitespace into account. 24 November 1997, 15:50:27 UTC
060dffb Guido van Rossum 24 November 1997, 15:48:23 UTC Done a sort -u on the symbols. 24 November 1997, 15:48:23 UTC
345df17 Guido van Rossum 22 November 1997, 22:10:01 UTC os2 patch by Jeff Rush 22 November 1997, 22:10:01 UTC
7db30ca Guido van Rossum 22 November 1997, 22:05:00 UTC ignore various VC++ turds 22 November 1997, 22:05:00 UTC
50d4cc2 Guido van Rossum 22 November 1997, 21:59:45 UTC Files specific to Visual Age C for OS/2 -- by Jeff Rush 22 November 1997, 21:59:45 UTC
0ba48ba Guido van Rossum 22 November 1997, 21:58:14 UTC Added Jeff Rush' comments 22 November 1997, 21:58:14 UTC
d3af2f3 Guido van Rossum 22 November 1997, 21:56:10 UTC win -> plat-win 22 November 1997, 21:56:10 UTC
f5578e4 Guido van Rossum 22 November 1997, 21:55:18 UTC Add PyImport_Inittab and PyOS_AfterFork 22 November 1997, 21:55:18 UTC
8e9ebfd Guido van Rossum 22 November 1997, 21:53:48 UTC os2 patch by Jeff Rush 22 November 1997, 21:53:48 UTC
c0b9319 Guido van Rossum 22 November 1997, 21:49:56 UTC bind_class should return a value 22 November 1997, 21:49:56 UTC
be7c45e Guido van Rossum 22 November 1997, 21:49:19 UTC New address parser by Ben Escoto replaces Sjoerd Mullender's parseaddr() 22 November 1997, 21:49:19 UTC
e6c128f Guido van Rossum 22 November 1997, 21:48:26 UTC Use fstat if we can; write MAGIC into file last. 22 November 1997, 21:48:26 UTC
8700fe6 Guido van Rossum 22 November 1997, 17:35:19 UTC Redone the _tkinter configuration section with support for popular packages. 22 November 1997, 17:35:19 UTC
7a206c8 Guido van Rossum 22 November 1997, 17:34:41 UTC New tkappinit supporting several popular packages. 22 November 1997, 17:34:41 UTC
7d5b99d Guido van Rossum 21 November 1997, 17:12:59 UTC A new standard module, as discussed on comp.lang.python, to simplify the writing of filters. Typical use is: import fileinput for line in fileinput.input(): process(line) This iterates over the lines of all files listed in sys.argv[1:], defaulting to sys.stdin if the list is empty or when a filename is '-'. There is also an option to use this to direct the output back to the input files. 21 November 1997, 17:12:59 UTC
2aa78ef Guido van Rossum 21 November 1997, 16:37:54 UTC Add a pointer back to the wizard in the "compat" output. 21 November 1997, 16:37:54 UTC
0d2d759 Barry Warsaw 20 November 1997, 21:39:02 UTC PySocketSock_methods: Added "connect_ex" so the method can actually be called! 20 November 1997, 21:39:02 UTC
4a9aff2 Guido van Rossum 20 November 1997, 21:15:28 UTC A comparison with several other languages that also appears in the Handbook of Object Technology. 20 November 1997, 21:15:28 UTC
bc12f78 Guido van Rossum 20 November 1997, 21:04:27 UTC Adding Martin von Loewis' documentation for his locale module. 20 November 1997, 21:04:27 UTC
e084f0b Guido van Rossum 20 November 1997, 21:03:33 UTC Add description for some modules that have been added since this intro section was last revised... 20 November 1997, 21:03:33 UTC
3472026 Guido van Rossum 20 November 1997, 21:00:03 UTC Add description for Queue; fix typo (whichdbm should be whichdb). 20 November 1997, 21:00:03 UTC
db847bd Guido van Rossum 20 November 1997, 20:35:45 UTC Plug memory leak in Py_BuildValue when using {...} to construct dictionaries. 20 November 1997, 20:35:45 UTC
3d96d52 Barry Warsaw 20 November 1997, 19:56:38 UTC (Queue.Empty): When class based exceptions are in force, derive this class from the standard base exception Exception. Otherwise define Queue.Empty as a string exception. (Queue): 8-space to 4-space indentation conversion. Also, basically recast all method comments into docstrings. 20 November 1997, 19:56:38 UTC
17c8e78 Barry Warsaw 20 November 1997, 19:54:16 UTC libqueue.tex: Documentation for the Queue.py module. Makefile: Add dependency on libqueue.tex lib.tex: Place the libqueue.tex documentation just after libthread.tex since Queue depends on thread support in Python. 20 November 1997, 19:54:16 UTC
51bb7b7 Guido van Rossum 20 November 1997, 15:42:46 UTC Dang. Formatting glitch. 20 November 1997, 15:42:46 UTC
f5831ae Guido van Rossum 20 November 1997, 15:42:18 UTC New blurb, derived from my Handbook of Object Technology abstract. 20 November 1997, 15:42:18 UTC
4552f3d Barry Warsaw 20 November 1997, 00:15:13 UTC In the description of sub(), give a better explanation of the interface when repl is a function. Also give a simple example of using a function repl. 20 November 1997, 00:15:13 UTC
bd1169a Guido van Rossum 19 November 1997, 19:02:09 UTC Add Martin von Loewis as the author of this module. 19 November 1997, 19:02:09 UTC
eef1d4e Guido van Rossum 19 November 1997, 19:01:43 UTC User-level locale module. A wrapper around _locale which adds format(), str(), atof(), and atoi(). The last three are locale sensitive versions of the corresponding standard functions (only for numbers though); format() does general %[efg] formatting taking the locale into account, optionally with thousands grouping. 19 November 1997, 19:01:43 UTC
3df69bc Guido van Rossum 19 November 1997, 18:57:48 UTC Add support for _locale. 19 November 1997, 18:57:48 UTC
fc4255d Guido van Rossum 19 November 1997, 18:57:13 UTC Add s.connect_ex() which returns errno instead of raising an exception. 19 November 1997, 18:57:13 UTC
aec7497 Guido van Rossum 19 November 1997, 18:56:17 UTC Add optional support fort Tix and BLT. 19 November 1997, 18:56:17 UTC
2e58ff3 Guido van Rossum 19 November 1997, 18:53:33 UTC Fix importing of shared libraries from inside packages. This is a bit of a hack: when the shared library is loaded, the module name is "package.module", but the module calls Py_InitModule*() with just "module" for the name. The shared library loader squirrels away the true name of the module in _Py_PackageContext, and Py_InitModule*() will substitute this (if the name actually matches). 19 November 1997, 18:53:33 UTC
ee6fd1c Guido van Rossum 19 November 1997, 18:51:35 UTC Add declaration for _Py_PackageContext -- needed to fix importing of shared libraries from inside packages. 19 November 1997, 18:51:35 UTC
858cb73 Guido van Rossum 19 November 1997, 16:15:37 UTC Two changes (here we go again :-( ). 1) The __builtins__ variable in the __main__ module is set to the __builtin__ module instead of its __dict__. 2) Get rid of the SIGHUP and SIGTERM handlers. They can't be made to work reliably when threads may be in use, they are Unix specific, and Python programmers can now program this functionality is a safer way using the signal module. 19 November 1997, 16:15:37 UTC
df9db1e Guido van Rossum 19 November 1997, 16:05:40 UTC Give more detailed error message when the argument count isn't right. 19 November 1997, 16:05:40 UTC
127b8dd Guido van Rossum 19 November 1997, 16:04:54 UTC Add declaration for PyNumber_CoerceEx(). 19 November 1997, 16:04:54 UTC
242c642 Guido van Rossum 19 November 1997, 16:03:17 UTC Add a new function PyNumber_CoerceEx() which works just like PyNumber_Coerce() except that when the coercion can't be done and no other exceptions happen, it returns 1 instead of raising an exception. Use this function in PyObject_Compare() to avoid raising an exception simply because two objects with numeric behavior can't be coerced to a common type; instead, proceed with the non-numeric default comparison. Note that this is a somewhat questionable practice -- comparisons for numeric objects shouldn't default to random behavior like this, but it is required for backward compatibility. (Case in point, it broke comparison of kjDict objects to integers in Aaron Watters' kjbuckets extension.) A correct fix (for python 2.0) should involve a different definiton of comparison altogether. 19 November 1997, 16:03:17 UTC
220ecc8 Guido van Rossum 18 November 1997, 21:03:39 UTC Martin von Loewis' _locale module (locale.py follows tomorrow). 18 November 1997, 21:03:39 UTC
3931df9 Guido van Rossum 18 November 1997, 19:23:07 UTC Undo another glitch of the automatic not-so-Grand Renaming; some local variables called 'coerce' were accidentally renamed to 'PyNumber_Coerce'. Rename them back to coercefunc. 18 November 1997, 19:23:07 UTC
33635f8 Guido van Rossum 18 November 1997, 19:21:47 UTC start numbering things 1.5b1 now 18 November 1997, 19:21:47 UTC
8360005 Guido van Rossum 18 November 1997, 15:50:39 UTC Assert that the proxies object passed in to the URLopener constructor is indeed a dictionary (or a mapping). 18 November 1997, 15:50:39 UTC
421c224 Guido van Rossum 18 November 1997, 15:47:55 UTC Added docstrings (contributed by Martin von Loewis). 18 November 1997, 15:47:55 UTC
e4a93bc Guido van Rossum 18 November 1997, 15:32:15 UTC Fix the release date for 1.5b1 to be Nov. 26 18 November 1997, 15:32:15 UTC
d9a26ff Guido van Rossum 18 November 1997, 15:31:16 UTC Add support for NULL macro (like UNIX, ABC etc.). 18 November 1997, 15:31:16 UTC
2974f0f Guido van Rossum 18 November 1997, 15:30:40 UTC Add xmllib; remove (slow) from description of htmllib. 18 November 1997, 15:30:40 UTC
7336935 Guido van Rossum 18 November 1997, 15:30:13 UTC dis is now documented; bisect is deemed useful. 18 November 1997, 15:30:13 UTC
f7790c6 Guido van Rossum 18 November 1997, 15:29:20 UTC Document s.connect_ex(), which does not raise an exception on error. 18 November 1997, 15:29:20 UTC
364e643 Guido van Rossum 18 November 1997, 15:28:46 UTC Clarified reference to old profiler. Mention conversion to Perl-style regular expressions. 18 November 1997, 15:28:46 UTC
5de6488 Guido van Rossum 18 November 1997, 15:27:51 UTC Added doc for errorcode dictionary. 18 November 1997, 15:27:51 UTC
5d68e8e Guido van Rossum 18 November 1997, 15:27:20 UTC Fixed case sensitivity of attributes (they are case *sensitive*). 18 November 1997, 15:27:20 UTC
eae121e Guido van Rossum 18 November 1997, 15:11:47 UTC Adding dis and xmllib docs 18 November 1997, 15:11:47 UTC
a10768a Guido van Rossum 18 November 1997, 15:11:22 UTC Docu for xmllib.py, by Sjoerd Mullender. 18 November 1997, 15:11:22 UTC
b62b6d1 Guido van Rossum 18 November 1997, 15:10:53 UTC Docu for dis.py, written by Martin von Loewis. 18 November 1997, 15:10:53 UTC
a219efa Guido van Rossum 18 November 1997, 15:09:54 UTC Sjoerd Mullender's xml parser (based on sgmllib, somewhat). 18 November 1997, 15:09:54 UTC
46de1b0 Guido van Rossum 14 November 1997, 23:32:19 UTC This BUGS list hasn't been updated since the release of Python 1.2! It is useless. My real bugs database is currently being maintained with GNATS. 14 November 1997, 23:32:19 UTC
359bcaa Guido van Rossum 14 November 1997, 22:24:28 UTC This fix (across 4 files in 3 directories) solves a subtle problem with signal handlers in a fork()ed child process when Python is compiled with thread support. The bug was reported by Scott <scott@chronis.icgroup.com>. What happens is that after a fork(), the variables used by the signal module to determine whether this is the main thread or not are bogus, and it decides that no thread is the main thread, so no signals will be delivered. The solution is the addition of PyOS_AfterFork(), which fixes the signal module's variables. A dummy version of the function is present in the intrcheck.c source file which is linked when the signal module is not used. 14 November 1997, 22:24:28 UTC
c9fd600 Guido van Rossum 11 November 1997, 18:29:22 UTC Suggestion by David Ascher: set EXE macro to empty string and use it in a few places -- so it can be set to .exe on GNUWIN32 platforms and do the right thing. Whatever. (This was already done in Modules/Makefile* but wasn't carried over here.) 11 November 1997, 18:29:22 UTC
6592b3c Guido van Rossum 11 November 1997, 17:18:48 UTC Use a %s format for the exit status -- through the magical workings of the aptly named MagicDict class, the value is a string, not a number, by the time it is printed... 11 November 1997, 17:18:48 UTC
ca2f69c Guido van Rossum 11 November 1997, 17:17:55 UTC As Mark Hammond found out, it was a bad idea to add "set -e" to the check in command -- this fails for new files! 11 November 1997, 17:17:55 UTC
6f5a312 Guido van Rossum 11 November 1997, 16:36:14 UTC New version from Neale... He promised it's the last. 11 November 1997, 16:36:14 UTC
dfed725 Guido van Rossum 11 November 1997, 16:29:38 UTC Fix memory leak in exec statement with code object -- the None returned by PyEval_EvalCode() on success was never DECREF'ed. Fix by Bernhard Herzog. 11 November 1997, 16:29:38 UTC
3120bc3 Guido van Rossum 08 November 1997, 07:16:19 UTC v1.1; added attribution to Neale Pickett. 08 November 1997, 07:16:19 UTC
368e06b Guido van Rossum 07 November 1997, 20:38:49 UTC Some restructuring. All geometry manager methods that apply to a master widget instead of to a slave widget have been moved to the Misc class, which is inherited by all of Tk(), Toplevel() and Widget(). They have been renamed to have their geometry manager name as a prefix, e.g. pack_propagate(); the short names can still be used where ambiguities are resolved so that pack has priority over place has priority over grid (since this was the old rule). Also, the method definitions in the Pack, Place and Grid classes now all have their respective geometry manager name as a prefix (e.g. pack_configure); the shorter names are aliases defined through assignment. A similar renaming has been done for all config() methods found elsewhere; these have been renamed to configure() with config being the alias (instead of the other way around). (This may not make much of a difference but the official Tk command name is now 'configure' and it may help in debugging tracebacks.) Finally, a new base class BaseWidget has been introduced, which implements the methods common between Widget and Toplevel (the difference between those two classes is that Toplevel has a different __init__() but also that Toplevel doesn't inherit from Pack, Place or Grid. 07 November 1997, 20:38:49 UTC
1abbd7f Guido van Rossum 07 November 1997, 19:58:10 UTC Added vgrindefs. 07 November 1997, 19:58:10 UTC
93a47d7 Guido van Rossum 07 November 1997, 19:57:54 UTC Plucked this from the net. 07 November 1997, 19:57:54 UTC
f518154 Guido van Rossum 07 November 1997, 19:20:34 UTC Fix problem discovered by Barry: if you hit ^C to sys.stdin.readline(), you get a fatal error (no current thread). This is because there was a call to PyErr_CheckSignals() while there was no current thread. I wonder how many more of these we find... I bnetter go hunting for PyErr_CheckSignals() now... 07 November 1997, 19:20:34 UTC
c1189eb Guido van Rossum 06 November 1997, 15:45:05 UTC Separate out a function pystones(loops=LOOPS) which runs the benchmark and returns a (benchtime, stones) tuple. The main() function now calls this and prints the report. Fred Drake's code. 06 November 1997, 15:45:05 UTC
f849291 Guido van Rossum 06 November 1997, 15:41:23 UTC Add __init__.py to test package. 06 November 1997, 15:41:23 UTC
6ae21ad Barry Warsaw 06 November 1997, 14:36:49 UTC #(py-emacs-features): Fixed typo in docstring. 06 November 1997, 14:36:49 UTC
b8f1166 Barry Warsaw 06 November 1997, 14:35:15 UTC (python-font-lock-keywords): Pick up block introducing keywords with immediately following colons. Sjoerd noticed this one too. Here's a nonsense.py file that flexes all the font-lock keyword combinations. class A: class B(A): pass def __init__(self): if i == 2 and j == 3 or k == 4: import stuff from otherstuff import cool for i in range(cool.count): if i == j: break elif j == 1: continue print i else: return not i elif q is not i: return lambda x: x + 1 else: try: try: raise stuff.error except stuff.error, v: print v except: global q finally: while q > 0: q = q - 1 assert q == 0 def make(): a = A() exec "nonsense" del a 06 November 1997, 14:35:15 UTC
ef3c891 Barry Warsaw 05 November 1997, 18:55:50 UTC (python-font-lock-keywords): Fix for consecutive keyword font locking, given by Sjoerd Mullender <Sjoerd.Mullender@cwi.nl>. 05 November 1997, 18:55:50 UTC
5e21cb0 Barry Warsaw 05 November 1997, 18:41:11 UTC (py-emacs-features): Test for working make-temp-name, which is broken on NTEmacs 19.34.6. (py-serial-number): New variable. (py-execute-region): If make-temp-name is broken, simply append a serial number to the string "python-" to get a temporary file name. It's possible concurrent NTEmacs can step on each others toes, but it makes no sense to further coddle a busted NTEmacs. 05 November 1997, 18:41:11 UTC
2bd358c Guido van Rossum 05 November 1997, 17:15:02 UTC A nice blurb that Mark Hammond wrote, aimed at Windows users. 05 November 1997, 17:15:02 UTC
a9ce70f Barry Warsaw 05 November 1997, 16:56:51 UTC (py-execute-region): Fixed small bug with queuing file for execution in a py-shell. Temp files now get cleaned up. 05 November 1997, 16:56:51 UTC
2518c67 Barry Warsaw 05 November 1997, 00:51:08 UTC (mark-python-def-or-class): Renamed to py-mark-def-or-class globally. (py-mode-map): Moved py-mark-def-or-class from M-C-h to C-c C-m since the old binding conflicts with the standard global backward-kill-word binding, and this new binding is more conformant with other language modes. Moved py-mark-block to C-c C-k. 05 November 1997, 00:51:08 UTC
851e7d5 Guido van Rossum 04 November 1997, 20:22:24 UTC Got rid of the errorstr dictionary, which is redundant now that there's os.strerror() -- also, it would form a locale liability. 04 November 1997, 20:22:24 UTC
4a1f39a Guido van Rossum 04 November 1997, 19:36:18 UTC Undo half of the previous change :-( Setting interp->builtins to the __builtin__ module instead of to its dictionary had the unfortunate side effect of always running in restricted execution mode :-( I will check in a different way of setting __main__.__builtins__ to the __builtin__ module later. Also, there was a typo -- a comment was unfinished, and as a result some finalizations were not being executed. In Bart Simpson style, I Will Not Check In Untested Changes. I Will Not Check In Untested Changes. I Will Not Check In Untested Changes. I Will Not Check In Untested Changes. I Will Not Check In Untested Changes. I Will Not Check In Untested Changes. I Will Not Check In Untested Changes. I Will Not Check In Untested Changes. I Will Not Check In Untested Changes. I Will Not Check In Untested Changes. 04 November 1997, 19:36:18 UTC
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