cpython/Doc/library/types.rst
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  r62194 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-04-07 01:04:28 +0200 (Mon, 07 Apr 2008) | 7 lines

  Add enough debugging information to diagnose failures where the
  HandlerBException is ignored, and fix one such problem, where it was thrown
  during the __del__ method of the previous Popen object.

  We may want to find a better way of printing verbose information so it's not
  spammy when the test passes.
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  r62197 | mark.hammond | 2008-04-07 03:53:39 +0200 (Mon, 07 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Issue #2513: enable 64bit cross compilation on windows.
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  r62198 | mark.hammond | 2008-04-07 03:59:40 +0200 (Mon, 07 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  correct heading underline for new "Cross-compiling on Windows" section
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  r62204 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-04-07 08:33:21 +0200 (Mon, 07 Apr 2008) | 4 lines

  Use the new PyFile_IncUseCount & PyFile_DecUseCount calls appropriatly
  within the standard library.  These modules use PyFile_AsFile and later
  release the GIL while operating on the previously returned FILE*.
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  r62205 | mark.summerfield | 2008-04-07 09:39:23 +0200 (Mon, 07 Apr 2008) | 4 lines

  changed "2500 components" to "several thousand" since the number keeps
  growning:-)
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  r62214 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-07 20:51:59 +0200 (Mon, 07 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  #2525: update timezone info examples in the docs.
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  r62219 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-08 01:57:07 +0200 (Tue, 08 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Write PEP 3127 section; add items
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  r62220 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-08 01:57:21 +0200 (Tue, 08 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Typo fix
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  r62221 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-08 03:33:10 +0200 (Tue, 08 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Typographical fix: 32bit -> 32-bit, 64bit -> 64-bit
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  r62227 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-08 23:22:53 +0200 (Tue, 08 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Add items
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  r62229 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-04-08 23:27:42 +0200 (Tue, 08 Apr 2008) | 7 lines

  Issue2564: Prevent a hang in "import test.autotest", which runs the entire test
  suite as a side-effect of importing the module.

  - in test_capi, a thread tried to import other modules
  - re.compile() imported sre_parse again on every call.
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  r62230 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-04-08 23:51:57 +0200 (Tue, 08 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Prevent an error when inspect.isabstract() is called with something else than a new-style class.
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  r62231 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-04-09 00:07:05 +0200 (Wed, 09 Apr 2008) | 8 lines

  Issue 2408: remove the _types module
  It was only used as a helper in types.py to access types (GetSetDescriptorType and MemberDescriptorType),
  when they can easily be obtained with python code.
  These expressions even work with Jython.

  I don't know what the future of the types module is; (cf. discussion in http://bugs.python.org/issue1605 )
  at least this change makes it simpler.
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  r62233 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-04-09 01:10:07 +0200 (Wed, 09 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Add a NEWS entry for previous checkin
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  r62234 | trent.nelson | 2008-04-09 01:47:30 +0200 (Wed, 09 Apr 2008) | 37 lines

  - Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining ports
    to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an effort to
    facilitate running multiple instances of the entire regression test suite
    in parallel without issue.  test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such
    that it will always return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case
    with the previous implementation, especially if socket options had been
    set that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT).  The
    new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception if it
    is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the SO_REUSEADDR or
    SO_REUSEPORT socket option set.  Furthermore, if available, bind_port()
    will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on the socket it's been passed.
    This currently only applies to Windows.  This option prevents any other
    sockets from binding to the host/port we've bound to, thus removing the
    possibility of the 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it,
    that occurs when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a
    host/port that's already been bound by another socket.  The optional
    preferred port parameter to bind_port() has been removed.  Under no
    circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!

    test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will pass
    a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an unused port.
    The temporary socket object is then closed and deleted, and the port is
    returned.  This method should only be used for obtaining an unused port
    in order to pass to an external program (i.e. the -accept [port] argument
    to openssl's s_server mode) or as a parameter to a server-oriented class
    that doesn't give you direct access to the underlying socket used.

    Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used for
    the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and connect).

    The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
      test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
      test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
      test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.

    It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test suite to
    run in parallel without issue.
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  r62235 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-04-09 02:25:17 +0200 (Wed, 09 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  Fix zlib crash from zlib.decompressobj().flush(val) when val was not positive.
  It tried to allocate negative or zero memory.  That fails.
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  r62237 | trent.nelson | 2008-04-09 02:34:53 +0200 (Wed, 09 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Fix typo with regards to self.PORT shadowing class variables with the same name.
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  r62238 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-09 03:08:32 +0200 (Wed, 09 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Add items
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  r62239 | jerry.seutter | 2008-04-09 07:07:58 +0200 (Wed, 09 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Changed test so it no longer runs as a side effect of importing.
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2008-04-09 08:37:03 +00:00

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:mod:`types` --- Names for built-in types
=========================================
.. module:: types
:synopsis: Names for built-in types.
This module defines names for some object types that are used by the standard
Python interpreter, but not for the types defined by various extension modules.
Also, it does not include some of the types that arise during processing such as
the ``listiterator`` type. New names exported by future versions of this module
will all end in ``Type``.
Typical use is for functions that do different things depending on their
argument types, like the following::
from types import IntType
def delete(mylist, item):
if type(item) is IntType:
del mylist[item]
else:
mylist.remove(item)
Starting in Python 2.2, built-in factory functions such as :func:`int` and
:func:`str` are also names for the corresponding types. This is now the
preferred way to access the type instead of using the :mod:`types` module.
Accordingly, the example above should be written as follows::
def delete(mylist, item):
if isinstance(item, int):
del mylist[item]
else:
mylist.remove(item)
Starting in Python 3.0 all types that are also available as builtins are no
longer exposed through the types module.
The module defines the following names:
.. data:: FunctionType
LambdaType
The type of user-defined functions and lambdas.
.. data:: GeneratorType
The type of :term:`generator`-iterator objects, produced by calling a
generator function.
.. data:: CodeType
.. index:: builtin: compile
The type for code objects such as returned by :func:`compile`.
.. data:: MethodType
The type of methods of user-defined class instances.
.. data:: BuiltinFunctionType
BuiltinMethodType
The type of built-in functions like :func:`len` or :func:`sys.exit`.
.. data:: ModuleType
The type of modules.
.. data:: TracebackType
The type of traceback objects such as found in ``sys.exc_info()[2]``.
.. data:: FrameType
The type of frame objects such as found in ``tb.tb_frame`` if ``tb`` is a
traceback object.
.. data:: GetSetDescriptorType
The type of objects defined in extension modules with ``PyGetSetDef``, such
as ``FrameType.f_locals`` or ``array.array.typecode``. This type is used as
descriptor for object attributes; it has the same purpose as the
:class:`property` type, but for classes defined in extension modules.
.. data:: MemberDescriptorType
The type of objects defined in extension modules with ``PyMemberDef``, such
as ``datetime.timedelta.days``. This type is used as descriptor for simple C
data members which use standard conversion functions; it has the same purpose
as the :class:`property` type, but for classes defined in extension modules.
In other implementations of Python, this type may be identical to
``GetSetDescriptorType``.