[Python-Dev] mmapfile module

Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:30:55 +1000

[Tim laments]
> mind immediately.  I'm skeptical that anyone other than Guido
> could decide
> what *needs* to go out, so it's a good thing he's got nothing
> to do <wink>.

He has been very quiet recently - where are you hiding Guido.

> one-boy's-opinion-ly y'rs  - tim

Here is another.  Lets take a different tack - what has been checked in
since 1.5.2 that should _not_ go out - ie, is too controversial?

If nothing else, makes a good starting point, and may help Guido out:

Below summary of the CVS diff I just did, and categorized by my opinion.
It turns out that most of the changes would appear candidates.  While not
actually "bug-fixes", many have better documentation, removal of unused
imports etc, so would definately not hurt to get out. Looks like some build
issues have been fixed too.

Apart from possibly Tim's recent "UnboundLocalError" (which is the only
serious behaviour change) I can't see anything that should obviously be
ommitted.

Hopefully this is of interest...

[Disclaimer - lots of files here - it is quite possible I missed
something...]

Mark.

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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/README,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/cgi.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/ftplib.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/poplib.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/re.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Tools/audiopy/README,v
  Doc changes.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/cmd.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/htmllib.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/netrc.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/pipes.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/pty.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/shlex.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/urlparse.py,v
  Remove unused imports

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/pdb.py,v
  Remove unused globals

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/popen2.py,v
  Change to cleanup

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/profile.py,v
  Remove unused imports and changes to comments.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/pyclbr.py,v
  Better doc, and support for module level functions.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/repr.py,v
  self.maxlist changed to self.maxdict

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/rfc822.py,v
  Doc changes, and better date handling.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/configure,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/configure.in,v
  Looks like FreeBSD build flag changes.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Demo/classes/bitvec.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Python/pythonrun.c,v
  Whitespace fixes.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Demo/scripts/makedir.py,v
  Check we have passed a non empty string

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Include/patchlevel.h,v
  1.5.2+

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/BaseHTTPServer.py,v
  Remove import rfc822 and more robust errors.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/CGIHTTPServer.py,v
  Support for HTTP_COOKIE

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/fpformat.py,v
  NotANumber supports class exceptions.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/macpath.py,v
  Use constants from stat module

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/macurl2path.py,v
  Minor changes to path parsing

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/mimetypes.py,v
  Recognise '.js': 'application/x-javascript',

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/sunau.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/wave.py,v
  Support for binary files.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/whichdb.py,v
  Reads file header to check for bsddb format.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/xmllib.py,v
  XML may be at the start of the string, instead of the whole string.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/lib-tk/tkSimpleDialog.py,v
  Destroy method added.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Modules/cPickle.c,v
 As in the log :-)

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Modules/cStringIO.c,v
  No longer a Py_FatalError on module init failure.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Modules/fpectlmodule.c,v
  Support for OSF in #ifdefs

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Modules/makesetup,v
    # to handle backslashes for sh's that don't automatically
    # continue a read when the last char is a backslash

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Modules/posixmodule.c,v
   Better error handling

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Modules/timemodule.c,v
  #ifdef changes for __GNU_LIBRARY__/_GLIBC_

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Python/errors.c,v
  Better error messages on Win32

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Python/getversion.c,v
  Bigger buffer and strings.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Python/pystate.c,v
  Threading bug

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Objects/floatobject.c,v
  Tim Peters writes:1. Fixes float divmod etc.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Objects/listobject.c,v
   Doc changes, and When deallocating a list, DECREF the items from the end
back to the start.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Objects/stringobject.c,v
  Bug for to do with width of a formatspecifier

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Objects/tupleobject.c,v
   Appropriate overflow checks so that things like sys.maxint*(1,)
can'tdump core.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/tempfile.py,v
  don't cache attributes of type int

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/urllib.py,v
 Number of revisions.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/aifc.py,v
  Chunk moved to new module.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/audiodev.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/dbhash.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/dis.py,v
  Changes in comments.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/cmpcache.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/cmp.py,v
  New "shallow" arg.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/dumbdbm.py,v
  Coerce f.tell() to int.

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Modules/main.c,v
  Fix to tracebacks off by a line with -x

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/lib-tk/Tkinter.py,v
  Number of changes you can review!

OTHERS:
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/asynchat.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/asyncore.py,v
 Latest versions from Sam???

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/smtplib.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/sched.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/ConfigParser.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/SocketServer.py,v
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/calendar.py,v  Sorry - out
of time to detail

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Python/bltinmodule.c,v
  Unbound local, docstring, and better support for ExtensionClasses.

Freeze:
  Few changes

IDLE:
  Lotsa changes :-)

Number of .h files have #ifdef changes for CE I wont detail (but would be
great to get a few of these in - and I have more :-)

Tools directory:
  Number of changes - outa time to detail