delta/cpython-git.git, branch v2.1.1c1

This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create tag 'r211c1'.

2001-07-13T15:10:55+00:00

Expand the blob on Solaris to mention passing '-Xc' to compile Python

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correctly. Note that 'faulty' should actually be spelled 'fawlty', but I
don't want those bugreports assigned to me ;)

Add credit for a last-minute fix in the re documentation.

2001-07-12T14:59:49+00:00

Fix return value for m.group() for groups not in the part of the RE that

2001-07-12T14:15:03+00:00

matched; reported by Paul Moore.

Preliminary NEWS entry for 2.1.1c1

2001-07-12T13:38:18+00:00

Net result of Tim's checkins 2.28 through 2.31:

2001-07-12T12:43:11+00:00

- SF but #417587: compiler warnings compiling 2.1.
  Repaired *some* of the SGI compiler warnings Sjoerd Mullender
  reported.

- Minor fiddling related to
  SF patch 416251 2.1c1 mmapmodule: unused vrbl cleanup

- Fix the .find() method for memory maps.

  1) it didn't obey the "start" parameter (and when it does, we must
     validate the value)
  2) the return value needs to be an absolute index, rather than
     relative to some arbitrary point in the file

  (checking CVS, it appears this method never worked; these changes
   bring it into line with typical .find() behavior)


- Fix new compiler warnings.  Also boost "start" from (C) int to long and
  return a (C) long:  PyArg_ParseTuple and Py_BuildValue may not let
  us get at the size_t we really want, but C int is clearly too small
  for a 64-bit box, and both the start parameter and the return value
  should work for large mapped files even on 32-bit boxes.  The code
  really needs to be rethought from scratch (not by me, though ...).

Backport Tim's checkin 1.9:

2001-07-12T12:28:10+00:00

SF bug 418615: regular expression bug in pipes.py.
Obviously bad regexps, spotted by Jeffery Collins.

Backport Tim's checkin 1.7:

2001-07-12T12:26:42+00:00

SF bug 418296: WinMain.c should use WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN.
I believe Kevin Rodgers here!  The old WINDOWS_LEAN_AND_MEAN has, AFAICT,
always been wrong.

Re-do the broken-nice() patch to break less platforms. Hopefully none :P

2001-07-11T22:27:39+00:00

Also note that it isn't just Linux nice() that is broken: at least FreeBSD
and BSDI also have this problem. os.nice() should probably just be emulated
using getpriority()/setpriority(), if they are available, but that isn't
worth putting in 2.1.1.

Move the section on concrete numeric objects before the section on

2001-07-11T20:40:05+00:00

concrete sequence objects, since their API is simpler.

This is in response to a comment in SF bug #440037.

(Does this really belong in the bugfix release?  Yes: this is a readability
bug, and those are important in the documentation.)