cpython/Misc
Christian Heimes 292d351fc1 Merged revisions 60481,60485,60489-60520,60523-60527,60530-60533,60535-60538,60540-60551 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

NOTE: I blocked the following revisions:
      svnmerge.py block -r 60521,60522,60528,60529,60534,60539
      The new tests must be merged with lots of manual work.

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  r60493 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-01 12:59:08 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Update IPv6 RFC number.
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  r60497 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-01 16:50:15 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Add link checker builder, written for GHOP by Thomas Lamb.
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  r60500 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-01 19:08:09 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Rename batch file.
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  r60504 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-01 19:49:26 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  More int -> pid_t.
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  r60507 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-01 20:24:01 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Wording nit.
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  r60510 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-01 21:45:33 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Update for latest sphinx latex writer.
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  r60511 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-01 22:30:23 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #1996: float.as_integer_ratio() should return fraction in lowest terms.
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  r60512 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-01 23:15:52 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Integer ratio should return ints instead of longs whereever possible.
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  r60513 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-01 23:22:50 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  labs() takes a long for an input.
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  r60514 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-01 23:42:59 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Test round-trip on float.as_integer_ratio() and float.__truediv__().
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  r60515 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2008-02-01 23:58:17 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 3 lines

  Bump distutils version number to match Python version.
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  r60516 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-02 00:12:19 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Fix int/long typecase.  Add check for non-binary floating point.
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  r60517 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-02 00:45:44 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Add protection from weirdness while scaling the mantissa to an integer.
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  r60518 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-02 06:11:40 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Simpler solution to handling non-IEEE 754 environments.
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  r60519 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-02 06:24:44 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Neaten-up a bit.
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  r60520 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-02 10:56:20 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Amendments to the urllib2 docs, written for GHOP by Thomas Lamb.
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  r60525 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-02 11:49:58 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 3 lines

  Add email example how to send a multipart message.
  Written for GHOP by Martin Matejek.
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  r60526 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-02 12:05:00 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Rewrite test_socketserver as unittest, written for GHOP by Benjamin Petersen.
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  r60527 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-02 12:05:34 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Add GHOP contributor.
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  r60530 | mark.dickinson | 2008-02-02 18:16:13 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Make the Rational constructor accept '3.' and '.2' as well as '3.2'.
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  r60531 | neal.norwitz | 2008-02-02 19:52:51 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Update the leaky tests (ie, ignore these tests if they report leaks).  This version has been running for a while.
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  r60533 | skip.montanaro | 2008-02-02 20:11:57 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 7 lines

  Split the refleak mail body into two parts, the first being those failing
  tests which are deemed more important issues, the second those which are
  known to have difficult to solve problems and are generally expected to
  leak.  Hopefully this doesn't break the script...
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  r60535 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-03 01:04:50 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 3 lines

  Wait for a delay before reaping children -- this should fix the
  test_socketserver failures on several platforms.
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  r60536 | brett.cannon | 2008-02-03 03:07:55 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix a minor typo.
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  r60537 | brett.cannon | 2008-02-03 03:08:45 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 3 lines

  Directories from CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS were being added in the reverse order for
  searches as to how they were listed in the environment variable.
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  r60538 | brett.cannon | 2008-02-03 03:34:14 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Remove extra tick marks and add a missing closing parenthesis.
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  r60540 | andrew.macintyre | 2008-02-03 07:58:06 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Update OS/2 EMX build bits for 2.6.
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  r60541 | andrew.macintyre | 2008-02-03 08:01:11 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Rename module definition file to reflect v2.6.
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  r60542 | andrew.macintyre | 2008-02-03 08:07:31 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 6 lines

  The wrapper function is supposed to be for spawnvpe() so that's
  what we should call [this wrapper only available on OS/2].

  Backport candidate to 2.5.
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  r60544 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-02-03 08:20:53 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 6 lines

  Merge this fix from the pybsddb tree:
  r293 | jcea | 2008-01-31 01:08:19 -0800 (Thu, 31 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

  Solved memory leak when using cursors with
  databases without environment.
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  r60546 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-02-03 09:01:46 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  remove a repeated occurance of a hardcoded berkeleydb library version number
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  r60549 | brett.cannon | 2008-02-03 10:59:21 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Add an entry for r60537.
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  r60550 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-03 13:29:00 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  #2003: fix sentence.
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  r60551 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-03 15:34:18 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Fixed paths to Windows build directories in build_ext.py
  Use vsbuild instead of devenv in build.bat and _bsddb.vcproj
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2008-02-03 16:51:08 +00:00
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RPM Merge current trunk into p3yk. This includes the PyNumber_Index API change, 2006-08-21 19:07:27 +00:00
Vim Merged revisions 60383-60407 via svnmerge from 2008-01-29 12:18:50 +00:00
ACKS Merged revisions 60481,60485,60489-60520,60523-60527,60530-60533,60535-60538,60540-60551 via svnmerge from 2008-02-03 16:51:08 +00:00
AIX-NOTES The fix to use . was incorporated 2003-06-08 02:25:17 +00:00
build.sh Merged revisions 60481,60485,60489-60520,60523-60527,60530-60533,60535-60538,60540-60551 via svnmerge from 2008-02-03 16:51:08 +00:00
cheatsheet Kill execfile(), use exec() instead 2007-08-12 00:43:29 +00:00
developers.txt Copied doc for reload() from trunk's function.rst to imp.rst 2008-01-07 17:19:16 +00:00
find_recursionlimit.py Run 2to3's print fixer over some places that had been missed. 2007-08-30 18:39:28 +00:00
gdbinit Get gdb macros working with unicode and PyVarObject change 2007-08-27 02:49:29 +00:00
HISTORY Fixing the spelling of "writeable" to "writable", particularly PyBUF_WRITEABLE. 2007-09-17 17:55:36 +00:00
indent.pro Some new files... 1994-09-14 14:06:46 +00:00
NEWS Fixed multiple reinitialization of the Python interpreter. The small int list in longobject.c has caused a seg fault during the third finalization. 2008-01-31 15:16:38 +00:00
NEWS.help Bug #1014775: update NEWS.help for changes in docutils. 2004-08-30 14:33:25 +00:00
Porting Patch #411138: Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774. 2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
PURIFY.README Merge current trunk into p3yk. This includes the PyNumber_Index API change, 2006-08-21 19:07:27 +00:00
pymemcompat.h Fix grammatically inept comment. 2002-08-22 13:36:11 +00:00
python-config.in Bug #1074: make python-config with Py3k. 2007-09-01 07:27:37 +00:00
python-mode.el Kill execfile(), use exec() instead 2007-08-12 00:43:29 +00:00
python.man Get rid of xreadlines() (methods). 2006-03-17 08:29:44 +00:00
README Remove support for BeOS 2007-08-17 12:57:41 +00:00
README.coverity Merged revisions 46753-51188 via svnmerge from 2006-08-11 14:57:12 +00:00
README.klocwork Merge current trunk into p3yk. This includes the PyNumber_Index API change, 2006-08-21 19:07:27 +00:00
README.OpenBSD Add some notes about a recurring problem with OpenBSD 2006-01-09 07:29:03 +00:00
README.valgrind Merge p3yk branch with the trunk up to revision 45595. This breaks a fair 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +00:00
RFD Initial revision 1994-01-26 10:20:16 +00:00
setuid-prog.c Fixing the spelling of "writeable" to "writable", particularly PyBUF_WRITEABLE. 2007-09-17 17:55:36 +00:00
SpecialBuilds.txt Four months of trunk changes (including a few releases...) 2006-12-13 04:49:30 +00:00
valgrind-python.supp Merged revisions 55817-55961 via svnmerge from 2007-06-13 18:07:49 +00:00
vgrindefs Patch #1550800: make exec a function. 2006-09-06 06:51:57 +00:00

Python Misc subdirectory
========================

This directory contains files that wouldn't fit in elsewhere.  Some
documents are only of historic importance.

Files found here
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ACKS		Acknowledgements
AIX-NOTES	Notes for building Python on AIX
cheatsheet	Quick summary of Python by Ken Manheimer
find_recursionlimit.py  Script to find a value for sys.maxrecursionlimit
gdbinit		Handy stuff to put in your .gdbinit file, if you use gdb
HISTORY		News from previous releases -- oldest last
HPUX-NOTES	Notes about dynamic loading under HP-UX
indent.pro	GNU indent profile approximating my C style
NEWS		News for this release (for some meaning of "this")
Porting		Mini-FAQ on porting to new platforms
PURIFY.README	Information for Purify users
pymemcompat.h	Memory interface compatibility file.
python.man	UNIX man page for the python interpreter
python-mode.el	Emacs mode for editing Python programs
README		The file you're reading now
README.valgrind	Information for Valgrind users, see valgrind-python.supp
RFD		Request For Discussion about a Python newsgroup
RPM		(Old) tools to build RPMs
SpecialBuilds.txt     Describes extra symbols you can set for debug builds
setuid-prog.c	C helper program for set-uid Python scripts
vgrindefs	Python configuration for vgrind (a generic pretty printer)
valgrind-python.supp	Valgrind suppression file, see README.valgrind