* Implement C recursion protection with limit pointers
* Remove calls to PyOS_CheckStack
* Add stack protection to parser
* Make tests more robust to low stacks
* Improve error messages for stack overflow
We had the definition of what makes a character "printable" documented in three places, giving two different definitions.
The definition in the comment on `_PyUnicode_IsPrintable` was inverted; correct that.
With that correction, the two definitions turn out to be equivalent -- but to confirm that, you have to go look up, or happen to know, that those are the only five "Other" categories and only three "Separator" categories in the Unicode character database. That makes it hard for the reader to tell whether they really are the same, or if there's some subtle difference in the intended semantics.
Fix that by cutting the C API docs' and the C comment's copies of the subtle details, in favor of referring to the Python-level docs. That ensures it's explicit that these are all meant to agree, and also lets us concentrate improvements to the wording in one place.
Speaking of which, borrow some ideas from the C comment, along with other tweaks, to hopefully add a bit more clarity to that one newly-centralized copy in the docs.
Also add a thorough test that the implementation agrees with this definition.
Author: Greg Price <gnprice@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Greg Price <gnprice@gmail.com>
As it says in its documentation, walk_stack was meant to just
follow `f.f_back` like other functions in the traceback module.
Instead it was previously doing `f.f_back.f_back` and then this
changed to `f_back.f_back.f_back.f_back' in Python 3.11 breaking
its behavior for external users.
This happened because the walk_stack function never really had
any good direct tests and its only consumer in the traceback module was
`extract_stack` which passed the result into `StackSummary.extract`.
As a generator, it was previously capturing the state of the stack
when it was first iterated over, rather than the stack when `walk_stack`
was called. Meaning when called inside the two method deep
`extract` and `extract_stack` calls, two `f_back`s were needed.
When 3.11 modified the sequence of calls in `extract`, two more
`f_back`s were needed to make the tests happy.
This changes the generator to capture the stack when `walk_stack` is
called, rather than when it is first iterated over. Since this is
technically a breaking change in behavior, there is a versionchanged
to the documentation. In practice, this is unlikely to break anyone,
you would have been needing to store the result of `walk_stack` and
expecting it to change.
In `help.copy_strip`, only copy the text `<section>`. In `help.HelpParser.handle_starttag` and elsewhere, remove code to skip the no longer present html. Add a reminder at the top of idle.rst to run copy_strip after changes.
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Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Also extend the 'idlelib' section header. These additions affect both the displayed idle.html file and the contents.html file displayed by clicking the Complete table of contents link on the main docs.python.org page. (The module index entries are generated from the module name and synopsis within module files.)
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Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Add function to list the currently loaded libraries to ctypes.util
The dllist() function calls platform-specific APIs in order to
list the runtime libraries loaded by Python and any imported modules.
On unsupported platforms the function may be missing.
Co-authored-by: Eryk Sun <eryksun@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Peter Bierma <zintensitydev@gmail.com>
Add `pathlib.Path.info` attribute, which stores an object implementing the `pathlib.types.PathInfo` protocol (also new). The object supports querying the file type and internally caching `os.stat()` results. Path objects generated by `Path.iterdir()` are initialised with status information from `os.DirEntry` objects, which is gleaned from scanning the parent directory.
The `PathInfo` protocol has four methods: `exists()`, `is_dir()`, `is_file()` and `is_symlink()`.
