gh-74573: document that ndbm can silently corrupt databases on macOS (GH-113354)
* gh-74573: document that ndbm can silently corrupt databases on macOS
The system ndbm implementation on macOS has an undocumented limitation
on the size of values and can silently corrupt database files when those
are exceeded.
(cherry picked from commit 593b4d81d2)
Co-authored-by: Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren@mac.com>
Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend.aasland@protonmail.com>
Fix typo in collections.abc docs example (GH-113310)
Calling the instance reference arg for the __next__ method, "next", seems misleading as it would normally just be "self"
(cherry picked from commit 22b8945d76)
Co-authored-by: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
* gh-105912: document gotcha with using os.fork on macOS
Using ``fork(2)`` on macOS when also using higher-level
system APIs in the parent proces can crash on macOS because
those system APIs are not written to handle this usage
pattern.
There's nothing we can do about this other than documenting
the problem.
(cherry picked from commit 22511f77c2)
Co-authored-by: Carol Willing <carolcode@willingconsulting.com>
gh-107959: clarify Unix-availability of `os.lchmod()` (GH-107960)
POSIX specifies that implementations are not required to support changing the
file mode of symbolic links, but may do so.
Consequently, `lchmod()` is not part of POSIX (but mentioned for implementations
which do support the above).
The current wording of the availability of `os.lchmod()` is rather vague and
improved to clearly tell which POSIX/Unix/BSD-like support the function in
general (those that support changing the file mode of symbolic links).
Further, some examples of major implementations are added.
Data for the BSDs taken from their online manpages.
(cherry picked from commit f14e3d59c9)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name>
Co-authored-by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name>
Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
[doc] Make subprocess.wait documentation more precise (GH-98700)
[doc] Make subprocess.wait doc more precise
An active loop is only used when the `timeout` parameter is used on
POSIX.
When no timeout is used, the code calls `os.waitpid` internally (which puts
the process on a sleep status). On Windows, the internal Windows API
call accepts a timeout parameter, so that is delegated to the OS.
(cherry picked from commit 81ab0e8a4a)
Co-authored-by: Luis Pedro Coelho <luis@luispedro.org>
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
Fix Sphinx warning in library/http.cookies.rst (GH-112908)
gh-101100: Improve documentation for attributes on instance methods (GH-112832)
(cherry picked from commit ed21d0c1f4)
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
gh-101100: Fix most Sphinx nitpicks in the glossary and `stdtypes.rst` (GH-112757)
(cherry picked from commit e3f670e137)
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
gh-101100: Fix many easily solvable Sphinx nitpicks in the datamodel docs (GH-112737)
(cherry picked from commit 2f20cafdbf)
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
gh-101100: Fix Sphinx warning in `library/gettext.rst` (GH-112668)
(cherry picked from commit 489aeac3a2)
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
gh-101100: Fix most Sphinx nitpicks in `inspect.rst` (GH-112662)
(cherry picked from commit 45650d1c47)
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
[3.12] gh-112316: improve docs for `inspect.signature` and `inspect.Signature` (GH-112631) (GH-112649)
(cherry-picked from commit fc9e24b01f)
(cherry picked from commit 6221482f0c)
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
Docs: fix markup for `importlib.machinery.NamespaceLoader` (GH-112479)
(cherry picked from commit 2e632fa07d)
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
Backport PR #112477: correct socket AF_PACKET docs
Network byte order is not involved in the `int` on the Python side.
That happens under the hood.
Correctly use the term addresses instead of packets.
* Remove mention of "vsapi" element type from the documentation.
* Add tests for element_create() and other ttk.Style methods.
* Add examples for element_create() in the documentation.
(cherry picked from commit 005d1e8fc8)
Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
