data formats. The _xdr module is no longer used, since struct
supports the required IEEE floats and doubles.
(I have one doubt about not using _xdr. The struct module doesn't
handle Inf, NaN and gradual underflow correctly. If the _xdr module
does these things better, it may still have a (small) competitive
advantage. On the other hand, since not all platforms support IEEE
floating point, it's not clear that it would be a good idea to ever
transfer Inf or NaNs. Gradual underflow can be fixed in the struct
module.
module. (Small problem: struct.pack() won't deal with the Python long
ints returned by struct.unpack() for the 'L' format. Worked around
that for now.)
all the modules attributes are present and creates a small criss-cross
window for 5 seconds (example from the documentation :-) A more
comprehensive test would probably be useful... but maybe overkill.
test_rotor.py: New test of the rotor module.
test_*: converted to the new test harness. GvR note! test_signal.py
works interatively (i.e. when verbose=1) but does not work inside the
test harness. It must be a timing issue, but I haven't figured it out
yet.
test_*: converted to the new test harness. GvR note! test_signal.py
works interatively (i.e. when verbose=1) but does not work inside the
test harness. It must be a timing issue, but I haven't figured it out
yet.
'verbose' flag ala GvR updated test harness architecture.
Old way:
verbose = 0
if __name__ == '__main__':
verbose = 1
New way:
from test_support import verbose
Some other small readablility and functionality updates.
[NOTE: testall.py and autotest.py might could go away soon, I've
played with Guido's new regrtest.py script and it seems to work well.
I'll wait until Guido gives the word to completely switch over -- and
change the Makefile too!]
<leonard@dstc.edu.au>; allows hyphen and period in the middle
of attribute names. Still not allowed as first character;
as first character these are illegal in the Reference Concrete
Syntax, and we've not identified any use of these characters as
the first char in an attribute name in deployment on the web.
