| 858346e | Tim Peters | 25 September 2000, 21:01:28 UTC | Replace SIGFPE paranoia around strtod and atof. I don't believe these fncs are allowed to raise SIGFPE (see the C std), but OK by me if people using --with-fpectl want to pay for checking anyway. | 25 September 2000, 21:01:28 UTC |
| 7f577e7 | Fred Drake | 25 September 2000, 18:26:21 UTC | regex and regsub are obsolete and Evil, so don't include them in the club. | 25 September 2000, 18:26:21 UTC |
| e9133f7 | Fredrik Lundh | 25 September 2000, 17:59:57 UTC | unicode database compression, step 3: - use unidb compression for the unicodectype module. smaller, faster, and slightly more portable... - also mention the unicode directory in Tools/README | 25 September 2000, 17:59:57 UTC |
| e53793b | Fred Drake | 25 September 2000, 17:52:40 UTC | Updates from Fredrik Lundh <effbot@telia.com> about Unicode-related behavior. | 25 September 2000, 17:52:40 UTC |
| af57431 | Fred Drake | 25 September 2000, 17:30:17 UTC | Include the version-detecting code to allow PyXML to override the "standard" xml package. Require at least PyXML 0.6.1. | 25 September 2000, 17:30:17 UTC |
| ef5781b | Fred Drake | 25 September 2000, 17:23:04 UTC | Add obsolescence note to the module descriptions that get added to the list of module synopses at the front of the chapter; based on a comment from Aahz <aahz@panix.com>. | 25 September 2000, 17:23:04 UTC |
| 7198ba9 | Jeremy Hylton | 25 September 2000, 17:00:24 UTC | fix bug #114290: when interpreter's argv[0] has a relative path make it absolute by joining it with getcwd result. avoid including unnecessary ./ in path but do not test for ../ (more complicated) | 25 September 2000, 17:00:24 UTC |
| 38bfc4d | Barry Warsaw | 25 September 2000, 15:09:28 UTC | Add a test for SF bug #110621; stripping square brackets off of addresses with domain literals. | 25 September 2000, 15:09:28 UTC |
| 02706f5 | Fred Drake | 25 September 2000, 15:08:46 UTC | Properly set LINKFORSHARED on Reliant UNIX. Problem and required linker flags reported by Daniel Dittmar <daniel.dittmar@sap.com>. | 25 September 2000, 15:08:46 UTC |
| 2ea2b11 | Barry Warsaw | 25 September 2000, 15:08:27 UTC | AddrlistClass.getdomainliteral(): rfc822 requires that the domain literal be wrapped in square brackets. This fix replaces the square brackets that were previously being stripped off. Closes SF bug #110621. | 25 September 2000, 15:08:27 UTC |
| ee76f0b | Guido van Rossum | 25 September 2000, 14:46:26 UTC | Credit where credit is due. Also fixed an unalphabetic sequence. | 25 September 2000, 14:46:26 UTC |
| 4126736 | Guido van Rossum | 25 September 2000, 14:42:33 UTC | When reading the file, option names were not passed through self.optionxform(), which (in the default case) caused options spelled with opper case letters in their name to be inaccessible. Reported by "Todd R. Palmer" <t2palmer@bellsouth.net> on activepython@listserv1.ActiveState.com. | 25 September 2000, 14:42:33 UTC |
| 6d4addd | Andrew M. Kuchling | 25 September 2000, 14:40:15 UTC | Update URL for Python 2.0 | 25 September 2000, 14:40:15 UTC |
| d79c33a | Fred Drake | 25 September 2000, 14:14:30 UTC | Minor cleanups, wrap long lines. | 25 September 2000, 14:14:30 UTC |
| b00adfb | Guido van Rossum | 25 September 2000, 13:22:00 UTC | Add missing prototypes for the benefit of SunOS 4.1.4 */ | 25 September 2000, 13:22:00 UTC |
| 4b36e6b | Guido van Rossum | 25 September 2000, 13:16:15 UTC | For the benefit of SunOS 4.1.4, define MS_SYNC as 0 when it's undefined. ccording to MvL, this is safe: the MS_SYNC flag means that msync() returns when all I/O operations are scheduled; without it, it waits until they are complete, which is acceptable behavior. | 25 September 2000, 13:16:15 UTC |
| cfcea49 | Fredrik Lundh | 25 September 2000, 08:07:06 UTC | unicode database compression, step 2: - fixed attributions - moved decomposition data to a separate table, in preparation for step 3 (which won't happen before 2.0 final, promise!) - use relative paths in the generator script I have a lot more stuff in the works for 2.1, but let's leave that for another day... | 25 September 2000, 08:07:06 UTC |
| 2101348 | Tim Peters | 25 September 2000, 07:13:41 UTC | Fiddled w/ /F's cool new splitbins function: documented it, generalized it a bit, sped it a lot primarily by removing the unused assumption that None was a legit bin entry (the function doesn't really need to assume that there's anything special about 0), added an optional "trace" argument, and in __debug__ mode added exhaustive verification that the decomposition is both correct and doesn't overstep any array bounds (which wasn't obvious to me from staring at the generated C code -- now I feel safe!). Did not commit a new unicodedata_db.h, as the one produced by this version is identical to the one already checked in. | 25 September 2000, 07:13:41 UTC |
| 68ded6e | Greg Ward | 25 September 2000, 01:58:31 UTC | Added 'translate_longopt()' function. | 25 September 2000, 01:58:31 UTC |
| 2f2b6c6 | Greg Ward | 25 September 2000, 01:58:07 UTC | Change to use the new 'translate_longopt()' function from fancy_getopt, rather than rolling our own with fancy_getopt's 'longopt_xlate' global. | 25 September 2000, 01:58:07 UTC |
| d644ca2 | Greg Ward | 25 September 2000, 01:53:01 UTC | Added a bunch of missing "=" signs in the option table. Removed script options -- don't think they ever worked, weren't very well thought through, etc. | 25 September 2000, 01:53:01 UTC |
| af64aed | Greg Ward | 25 September 2000, 01:51:01 UTC | Renamed '--keep-tree' option to '--keep-temp', for consistency with the bdist_* commands. | 25 September 2000, 01:51:01 UTC |
| 99b032e | Greg Ward | 25 September 2000, 01:41:15 UTC | Added 'boolean_options' list to support config file parsing. | 25 September 2000, 01:41:15 UTC |
| 817dc09 | Greg Ward | 25 September 2000, 01:25:06 UTC | Added 'strtobool()' function: convert strings like "yes", "1", "no", "0", etc. to true/false. | 25 September 2000, 01:25:06 UTC |
| ceb9e22 | Greg Ward | 25 September 2000, 01:23:52 UTC | Fixed some bugs and mis-features in handling config files: * options can now be spelled "foo-bar" or "foo_bar" (handled in 'parse_config_files()', just after we parse a file) * added a "[global]" section so there's a place to set global options like verbose/quiet and dry-run * respect the "negative alias" dictionary so (eg.) "quiet=1" is the same as "verbose=0" (this had to be done twice: once in 'parse_config_file()' for global options, and once in '_set_command_options()' for per-command options) * the other half of handling boolean options correctly: allow commands to list their boolean options in a 'boolean_options' class attribute, and use it to translate strings (like "yes", "1", "no", "0", etc) to true or false | 25 September 2000, 01:23:52 UTC |
| 84da8aa | Thomas Wouters | 25 September 2000, 00:11:37 UTC | Fix inconsistent use of space/tabs. | 25 September 2000, 00:11:37 UTC |
| f367cac | Fredrik Lundh | 24 September 2000, 23:18:31 UTC | unicode database compression, step 1: - use unidb compression for the unicodedata module. on Windows, the new unidatabase module is 120k, down from nearly 600k. | 24 September 2000, 23:18:31 UTC |
| 51dc968 | Tim Peters | 24 September 2000, 22:12:45 UTC | Repaired damaged string. | 24 September 2000, 22:12:45 UTC |
| 28adf52 | Fred Drake | 24 September 2000, 22:07:59 UTC | xmlparse_ExternalEntityParserCreate(): Add required cast to return to avoid compiler warnings. | 24 September 2000, 22:07:59 UTC |
| 46e1302 | Jack Jansen | 24 September 2000, 22:01:53 UTC | Readme and relnotes for intermediate 2.0b1+ release. | 24 September 2000, 22:01:53 UTC |
| 55a0bde | Jack Jansen | 24 September 2000, 22:00:11 UTC | Handle the ****/**** appleevent wildcard when called as a main program, so that it becomes a handy debugging tool (BuildApplet, copy aete resource, apply applescript to it). | 24 September 2000, 22:00:11 UTC |
| 486f138 | Jack Jansen | 24 September 2000, 21:56:43 UTC | Added a workaround for shortcomings in the OSA support: there can be class/property conflicts and passing classes as arguments doesn't work. The package now seems to work. | 24 September 2000, 21:56:43 UTC |
| a13a9dc | Martin v. Löwis | 24 September 2000, 21:54:14 UTC | Use SAX2 namespace support. | 24 September 2000, 21:54:14 UTC |
| a4287c2 | Fredrik Lundh | 24 September 2000, 21:45:34 UTC | unicode database compression, step 1: - use unidb compression for the unicodedata module. on Windows, the new unidatabase module is 120k, down from nearly 600k. | 24 September 2000, 21:45:34 UTC |
| 58af43f | Martin v. Löwis | 24 September 2000, 21:31:06 UTC | [Patch 101634] xml.sax: Fix parse and parseString not to rely on ExpatParser Greatly simplify import logic by using __import__ saxutils: Support Unicode strings and files as parameters to prepare_input_source | 24 September 2000, 21:31:06 UTC |
| eedb576 | Fredrik Lundh | 24 September 2000, 21:28:28 UTC | unicode database compression, step 1: - use unidb compression for the unicodedata module. on Windows, the new unidatabase module is 120k, down from nearly 600k. | 24 September 2000, 21:28:28 UTC |
| 2066fa0 | Martin v. Löwis | 24 September 2000, 21:17:39 UTC | Find feature names in handler. | 24 September 2000, 21:17:39 UTC |
| 424980f | Lars Gustäbel | 24 September 2000, 20:57:04 UTC | Enabled EntityResolver test again now that pyexpat.c has been fixed. | 24 September 2000, 20:57:04 UTC |
| 3a361f4 | Lars Gustäbel | 24 September 2000, 20:55:01 UTC | Fixed another bug. | 24 September 2000, 20:55:01 UTC |
| 4a30a07 | Lars Gustäbel | 24 September 2000, 20:50:52 UTC | Added ExternalEntityParserCreate method (patch 101635). | 24 September 2000, 20:50:52 UTC |
| bb75713 | Lars Gustäbel | 24 September 2000, 20:38:18 UTC | Improvements to doco strings. Tiny bug fix to expatreader.py (endDocument was only called after errors). | 24 September 2000, 20:38:18 UTC |
| 33315b1 | Martin v. Löwis | 24 September 2000, 20:30:24 UTC | Use findfile to locate input and output files. | 24 September 2000, 20:30:24 UTC |
| e292a24 | Lars Gustäbel | 24 September 2000, 20:19:45 UTC | Added EntityResolver and DTDHandler (patch 101631) with test cases. | 24 September 2000, 20:19:45 UTC |
| bc1c1c9 | Martin v. Löwis | 24 September 2000, 19:57:18 UTC | Install xml/parsers, not xml/parser. | 24 September 2000, 19:57:18 UTC |
| 05a65d6 | Martin v. Löwis | 24 September 2000, 19:40:25 UTC | If dbopen is not in libc, checking whether it is in libdb will fail if db_185.h has renamed that function to __db185_open, which it does in DB 3.1. So don't check whether the function is in -ldb. | 24 September 2000, 19:40:25 UTC |
| 716efea | Lars Gustäbel | 24 September 2000, 18:57:26 UTC | Added necessary test input file for test_sax.py | 24 September 2000, 18:57:26 UTC |
| 523b0a6 | Lars Gustäbel | 24 September 2000, 18:54:49 UTC | Added back the InputSource class (patch 101630). | 24 September 2000, 18:54:49 UTC |
| b7536d5 | Lars Gustäbel | 24 September 2000, 18:53:56 UTC | Added test cases for the InputSource class. | 24 September 2000, 18:53:56 UTC |
| b49f88b | Fredrik Lundh | 24 September 2000, 18:51:25 UTC | - Improved handling of win32 proxy settings (addresses bug #114256). The earlier code assumed "protocol=host;protocol=host;..." or "host", but Windows may also use "protocol=host" (just one entry), as well as "protocol://host". This code needs some more work, so I'll leave the bug open for now. | 24 September 2000, 18:51:25 UTC |
| ab64787 | Lars Gustäbel | 24 September 2000, 18:40:52 UTC | Added test cases for the Attributes interface. | 24 September 2000, 18:40:52 UTC |
| 32bf12e | Lars Gustäbel | 24 September 2000, 18:39:23 UTC | Updated to final Attributes interface (patch 101632). | 24 September 2000, 18:39:23 UTC |
| e84bf75 | Lars Gustäbel | 24 September 2000, 18:31:37 UTC | Updated to new SAX method signatures (*NS, patch 101573). | 24 September 2000, 18:31:37 UTC |
| f43cf31 | Lars Gustäbel | 24 September 2000, 18:29:24 UTC | Updated to new *NS signatures (patch 101573). | 24 September 2000, 18:29:24 UTC |
| 1258049 | Guido van Rossum | 24 September 2000, 16:47:19 UTC | Stupid typo in the pthread_t test | 24 September 2000, 16:47:19 UTC |
| 19f977b | Fredrik Lundh | 24 September 2000, 14:46:23 UTC | - don't hang if group id is followed by whitespace (closes bug #114660) | 24 September 2000, 14:46:23 UTC |
| 96753b3 | Lars Gustäbel | 24 September 2000, 12:24:24 UTC | Added first start on SAX 2.0 tests. | 24 September 2000, 12:24:24 UTC |
| 358f4da | Lars Gustäbel | 24 September 2000, 11:06:27 UTC | Added back missing argument to ignorableWhitespace signature. | 24 September 2000, 11:06:27 UTC |
| fc643c3 | Lars Gustäbel | 24 September 2000, 10:53:31 UTC | Bug fix to namespace handling in XMLGenerator (now adds declarations). Bug fixes to XMLFilterBase (wrong ignorableWhitespace signature and did not inherit set*Handler methods from XMLReader.) | 24 September 2000, 10:53:31 UTC |
| 9a580c4 | Nicholas Riley | 24 September 2000, 06:29:50 UTC | Fixes for Python 1.6 compatibility - socket bind and connect get a tuple instead two arguments. | 24 September 2000, 06:29:50 UTC |
| 21afd01 | Nicholas Riley | 24 September 2000, 06:28:47 UTC | Change for Python 1.6 compatibility - UNIX's 'os' module defines 'spawnv' now, so we check for 'fork' first. | 24 September 2000, 06:28:47 UTC |
| 1f54902 | Fred Drake | 24 September 2000, 05:21:58 UTC | Conform to the Python style guide. | 24 September 2000, 05:21:58 UTC |
| ddb4867 | Fred Drake | 23 September 2000, 05:32:26 UTC | Conform more closely with the Python style guide. | 23 September 2000, 05:32:26 UTC |
| 7be3115 | Fred Drake | 23 September 2000, 05:22:07 UTC | Added explanation of the use of the first program argument passed to the exec*() family of functions. | 23 September 2000, 05:22:07 UTC |
| 93adb69 | Fred Drake | 23 September 2000, 04:55:48 UTC | Change the name of the exception from "pyexpat.error" to "xml.parsers.expat.error", so it will reflect the public name of the exception rather than the internal name. Also change some of the initialization to use the new PyModule_Add*() convenience functions. | 23 September 2000, 04:55:48 UTC |
| 96ea196 | Fred Drake | 23 September 2000, 04:49:30 UTC | Use the public name for the Expat parser; "pyexpat" is deprecated. | 23 September 2000, 04:49:30 UTC |
| 7fbc85c | Fred Drake | 23 September 2000, 04:47:56 UTC | Rename the public interface from "pyexpat" to "xml.parsers.expat". | 23 September 2000, 04:47:56 UTC |
| 003b925 | Fred Drake | 23 September 2000, 04:44:43 UTC | Add a wrapper around the pyexpat module, making the "public" name of the module "xml.parsers.expat". | 23 September 2000, 04:44:43 UTC |
| c32741d | Fred Drake | 23 September 2000, 04:36:14 UTC | Added warnings about platform vagaries to the strptime() documentation. This closes SourceForge bug #115146. | 23 September 2000, 04:36:14 UTC |
| ef14d73 | Tim Peters | 23 September 2000, 03:39:17 UTC | Fix for SF bug 110624: float literals behave inconsistently. I fixed the specific complaint but left the (many) large issues untouched. See the (very long) bug report discussion for why: http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&group_id=5470&bug_id=110624 Note that while I left the interface to the undocumented public API function PyFloat_FromString alone, its 2nd argument is useless. From a comment block in the code: RED_FLAG 22-Sep-2000 tim PyFloat_FromString's pend argument is braindead. Prior to this RED_FLAG, 1. If v was a regular string, *pend was set to point to its terminating null byte. That's useless (the caller can find that without any help from this function!). 2. If v was a Unicode string, or an object convertible to a character buffer, *pend was set to point into stack trash (the auto temp vector holding the character buffer). That was downright dangerous. Since we can't change the interface of a public API function, pend is still supported but now *officially* useless: if pend is not NULL, *pend is set to NULL. | 23 September 2000, 03:39:17 UTC |
| 891150b | Fred Drake | 23 September 2000, 03:25:42 UTC | Added documentation for the new PyModule_*() convenience functions. This closes SourceForge patch #101233. | 23 September 2000, 03:25:42 UTC |
| 9e28515 | Fred Drake | 23 September 2000, 03:24:27 UTC | Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>: Add three new convenience functions to the PyModule_*() family: PyModule_AddObject(), PyModule_AddIntConstant(), PyModule_AddStringConstant(). This closes SourceForge patch #101233. | 23 September 2000, 03:24:27 UTC |
| f84fb66 | Greg Ward | 23 September 2000, 01:20:19 UTC | Split 'run()' up into 'build()', 'install()', and 'bytecompile()' (for easier extensibility). | 23 September 2000, 01:20:19 UTC |
| 7b87c0e | Greg Ward | 23 September 2000, 01:10:10 UTC | Whitespace tweaks. | 23 September 2000, 01:10:10 UTC |
| 9e3dc4e | Greg Ward | 23 September 2000, 00:59:34 UTC | Reformat docstrings. Standardize use of whitespace on function calls. | 23 September 2000, 00:59:34 UTC |
| 4a75158 | Jack Jansen | 22 September 2000, 23:54:07 UTC | mkcwproject now works, but for one thing: the import of the XML document as a project through AppleEvents. | 22 September 2000, 23:54:07 UTC |
| 9a8df7d | Jack Jansen | 22 September 2000, 23:28:40 UTC | Test files for mkcwproject | 22 September 2000, 23:28:40 UTC |
| 07642c3 | Jack Jansen | 22 September 2000, 23:26:55 UTC | More bits and pieces of project generation. | 22 September 2000, 23:26:55 UTC |
| 7760cff | Neil Schemenauer | 22 September 2000, 22:35:36 UTC | Fix some long/"l" int/"i" mismatches. Fixes bug #113779. | 22 September 2000, 22:35:36 UTC |
| 4a5eb96 | Jack Jansen | 22 September 2000, 21:50:11 UTC | Keepconsole is now a 4-way option: never/errorexit/unseen output/always. Default is "unseen output". Upped the Popt version number. | 22 September 2000, 21:50:11 UTC |
| e126233 | Guido van Rossum | 22 September 2000, 19:41:56 UTC | Poke-and-hope attempt to fix Bugs #115006 and #114324: fix the test for pthread_t (to calculate its size) to work even if pthread_t is a struct. | 22 September 2000, 19:41:56 UTC |
| d9a8dec | Fred Drake | 22 September 2000, 18:41:50 UTC | Maildir.__init__(): Use the correct filter for filenames, so that this class conforms to the maildir specification. | 22 September 2000, 18:41:50 UTC |
| 1fa9365 | Fred Drake | 22 September 2000, 18:19:37 UTC | Added refcount information for the *_InPlace*() API series. This closes SourceForge bug #114287. | 22 September 2000, 18:19:37 UTC |
| c0e6c5b | Fred Drake | 22 September 2000, 18:17:49 UTC | PyNumber_Coerce() returns an int, not a PyObject *. | 22 September 2000, 18:17:49 UTC |
| 3764b6b | Fred Drake | 22 September 2000, 17:55:32 UTC | Fix the way we found relevant cfuncdesc lines; PREFIX was not a regular expression! | 22 September 2000, 17:55:32 UTC |
| 7f58e2e | Guido van Rossum | 22 September 2000, 17:26:14 UTC | It's better to test for __hpux rather than __hppa, and hpux or hppa is unnecessary. Sez edg@SF | 22 September 2000, 17:26:14 UTC |
| 38178fd | Fred Drake | 22 September 2000, 17:05:04 UTC | use_sans_serif(), use_italics(): Remove both functions, inlining use_italics() at its only call site. init_myformat(): Uncomment line so that some internal markup does not get generated, since it is not properly removed later. (Fix on aspect of SourceForge bug #114749.) Modified call to process_commands_wrap_deferred(), removing \code from the list since it had a bad interaction with other changes in some contexts. | 22 September 2000, 17:05:04 UTC |
| a9dd2ee | Fred Drake | 22 September 2000, 16:20:23 UTC | Update versioning for the next Python release. | 22 September 2000, 16:20:23 UTC |
| e71912c | Fred Drake | 22 September 2000, 16:18:19 UTC | Update RELEASE for the next Python release. | 22 September 2000, 16:18:19 UTC |
| cd5ff9f | Guido van Rossum | 22 September 2000, 16:15:54 UTC | Change HP=UX compiler options from -Aa to -Ae, which implies -D_HPUX_SOURCE and also turns on long long support. Suggestion by stnor@sweden.hp.com (Stefan Norberg). Please test this if you have access to HP-UX!!! | 22 September 2000, 16:15:54 UTC |
| ecc23b0 | Guido van Rossum | 22 September 2000, 16:01:05 UTC | Hopefully fix the problem with undeclared fdatasync() on HP-UX that was reported twice so far. Someone with access to HP-UX, please test this! (Is '__hppa' or 'hppa' really the correct symbol to test for?) | 22 September 2000, 16:01:05 UTC |
| 4c6d21a | Fred Drake | 22 September 2000, 15:46:35 UTC | Fix some minor nits about the use of \optional in parameter lists. | 22 September 2000, 15:46:35 UTC |
| ff555e3 | Guido van Rossum | 22 September 2000, 15:38:21 UTC | Address Bug #115057: add a --with-suffix option to set the EXE variable in the Makefiles from the configure script. Usefil for Cygwin and Mac OS X builds. | 22 September 2000, 15:38:21 UTC |
| ef5f2b9 | Neil Schemenauer | 22 September 2000, 15:30:16 UTC | - plug a memory leak due to circular lists | 22 September 2000, 15:30:16 UTC |
| d569f23 | Neil Schemenauer | 22 September 2000, 15:29:28 UTC | - Replace debugleak flag with findleaks flag. The new SAVEALL GC option is used to find cyclic garbage produced by tests. | 22 September 2000, 15:29:28 UTC |
| faae266 | Neil Schemenauer | 22 September 2000, 15:26:20 UTC | - Add test for new SAVEALL debugging flag - Use exceptions rather than asserts for failing tests. - Reorganize tests and produce some output if verbose option is set. | 22 September 2000, 15:26:20 UTC |
| 544de1e | Neil Schemenauer | 22 September 2000, 15:22:38 UTC | - Add DEBUG_SAVEALL option. When enabled all garbage objects found by the collector will be saved in gc.garbage. This is useful for debugging a program that creates reference cycles. - Fix else statements in gcmodule.c to conform to Python coding standards. | 22 September 2000, 15:22:38 UTC |
| 676940b | Fred Drake | 22 September 2000, 15:21:31 UTC | When PyInt_FromLong() returns NULL, you do not need to check PyErr_Occurred(). Removed the extra test and setting of a bogus exception. | 22 September 2000, 15:21:31 UTC |
| d35509a | Jack Jansen | 22 September 2000, 12:46:19 UTC | Contributed modules by Riccardo Trocca. Extended pixmap wrapper, NumPy visualiser and QuickTime to images. | 22 September 2000, 12:46:19 UTC |
| fdd2269 | Jack Jansen | 22 September 2000, 12:17:14 UTC | Allow lists of files/fsspecs as the source for copy() and move(). By Bill Bedford, slightly edited by me. | 22 September 2000, 12:17:14 UTC |
| f58a7aa | Tim Peters | 22 September 2000, 10:05:54 UTC | Implemented new os.startfile function, unique to Windows, exposing a subset of Win32 ShellExecute's functionality. Guido wants this because IDLE's Help -> Docs function currently crashes his machine because of a conflict between his version of Norton AntiVirus (6.10.20) and MS's _popen. Docs for startfile are being mailed to Fred (or just read the docstring -- it tells the whole story). Changed webbrowser.py to use os.startfile instead of os.popen on Windows. Changed IDLE's EditorWindow.py to pass an absolute path for the docs (hardcoding ShellExecute's "directory" arg to "." as used to be done let IDLE work, but made the startfile command exceedingly obscure for other uses -- the MS docs are terrible, of course, & still not sure I understand it). Note that Windows Python must link with shell32.lib now! That's where ShellExecute lives. | 22 September 2000, 10:05:54 UTC |
