From cd16bf640405065e4702539632ce577536207d88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:07:49 +0000
Subject: Merged revisions 55817-55961 via svnmerge from
 svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/p3yk

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  r55837 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-08 16:04:42 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  PEP 3119 -- the abc module.
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  r55838 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-08 17:38:55 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Implement part of PEP 3119 -- One Trick Ponies.
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  r55847 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-09 08:28:06 -0700 (Sat, 09 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Different way to do one trick ponies, allowing registration (per PEP strawman).
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  r55849 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-09 18:06:38 -0700 (Sat, 09 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

  Make sure that the magic looking for __hash__ (etc.) doesn't apply to
  real subclasses of Hashable.
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  r55852 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-10 08:29:51 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Add some more examples, e.g. generators and dict views.
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  r55853 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-10 08:31:59 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  keys() and items() *are* containers -- just values() isn't.
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  r55864 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-10 15:29:40 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  PEP 3127: new octal literals, binary literals.
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  r55865 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-10 15:31:37 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Some octal literal fixes in Tools.
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  r55866 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-10 15:37:43 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Tokenizer changes for PEP 3127.
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  r55867 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-10 15:37:55 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Some docs for PEP 3127.
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  r55868 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-10 15:44:39 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Missed a place in intobject.c. Is that used anymore anyway?
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  r55871 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 18:31:49 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 182 lines

  Merged revisions 55729-55868 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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    r55731 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-01 00:29:12 -0700 (Fri, 01 Jun 2007) | 7 lines

    SF 1668596/1720897: distutils now copies data files
    even if package_dir is empty.

    This needs to be backported.  I'm too tired tonight.  It would be great
    if someone backports this if the buildbots are ok with it.  Otherwise,
    I will try to get to it tomorrow.
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    r55732 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-01 04:33:33 -0700 (Fri, 01 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Bug #1722484: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
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    r55735 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-01 12:20:27 -0700 (Fri, 01 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Fix wrong issue number.
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    r55739 | brett.cannon | 2007-06-01 20:02:29 -0700 (Fri, 01 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Have configure raise an error when building on AtheOS.  Code specific to AtheOS
    will be removed in Python 2.7.
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    r55746 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-02 11:33:53 -0700 (Sat, 02 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Update expected birthday of 2.6
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    r55751 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-03 13:32:50 -0700 (Sun, 03 Jun 2007) | 10 lines

    Backout the original 'fix' to 1721309 which had no effect.
    Different versions of Berkeley DB handle this differently.
    The comments and bug report should have the details.  Memory is allocated
    in 4.4 (and presumably earlier), but not in 4.5.  Thus
    4.5 has the free error, but not earlier versions.

    Mostly update comments, plus make the free conditional.

    This fix was already applied to the 2.5 branch.
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    r55752 | brett.cannon | 2007-06-03 16:13:41 -0700 (Sun, 03 Jun 2007) | 6 lines

    Make _strptime.TimeRE().pattern() use ``\s+`` for matching whitespace instead
    of ``\s*``.  This prevents patterns from "stealing" bits from other patterns in
    order to make a match work.

    Closes bug #1730389.  Will be backported.
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    r55766 | hyeshik.chang | 2007-06-05 11:16:52 -0700 (Tue, 05 Jun 2007) | 4 lines

    Fix build on FreeBSD.  Bluetooth HCI API in FreeBSD is quite different
    from Linux's.  Just fix the build for now but the code doesn't
    support the complete capability of HCI on FreeBSD yet.
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    r55770 | hyeshik.chang | 2007-06-05 11:58:51 -0700 (Tue, 05 Jun 2007) | 4 lines

    Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
    reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint argument
    for .read() is specified.
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    r55775 | hyeshik.chang | 2007-06-05 12:28:15 -0700 (Tue, 05 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Fix for Windows: close a temporary file before trying to delete it.
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    r55783 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-05 14:24:47 -0700 (Tue, 05 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Patch by Tim Delany (missing DECREF). SF #1731330.
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    r55785 | collin.winter | 2007-06-05 17:17:35 -0700 (Tue, 05 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Patch #1731049: make threading.py use a proper "raise" when checking internal state, rather than assert statements (which get stripped out by -O).
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    r55786 | facundo.batista | 2007-06-06 08:13:37 -0700 (Wed, 06 Jun 2007) | 4 lines


    FTP.ntransfercmd method now uses create_connection when passive,
    using the timeout received in connection time.
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    r55792 | facundo.batista | 2007-06-06 10:15:23 -0700 (Wed, 06 Jun 2007) | 7 lines


    Added an optional timeout parameter to function urllib2.urlopen,
    with tests in test_urllib2net.py (must have network resource
    enabled to execute them). Also modified test_urllib2.py because
    testing mock classes must take it into acount. Docs are also
    updated.
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    r55793 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-06 13:19:19 -0700 (Wed, 06 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Build _ctypes and _ctypes_test in the ReleaseAMD64 configuration.
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    r55802 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-07 06:23:24 -0700 (Thu, 07 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Disallow function calls like foo(None=1).
    Backport from py3k rev. 55708 by Guido.
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    r55804 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-07 06:30:24 -0700 (Thu, 07 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Make reindent.py executable.
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    r55805 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-07 06:34:10 -0700 (Thu, 07 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Patch #1667860: Fix UnboundLocalError in urllib2.
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    r55821 | kristjan.jonsson | 2007-06-07 16:53:49 -0700 (Thu, 07 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Fixing changes to getbuildinfo.c that broke linux builds
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    r55828 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-08 09:10:27 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Make this test work with older Python releases where struct has no 't' format character.
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    r55829 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-06-08 10:29:20 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Bug #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
    Will backport to 2.5.
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    r55831 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-08 11:20:09 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    [ 1715718 ] x64 clean compile patch for _ctypes, by Kristj?n Valur
    with small modifications.
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    r55832 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-08 12:01:06 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Fix gcc warnings intruduced by passing Py_ssize_t to PyErr_Format calls.
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    r55833 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-08 12:08:31 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Fix wrong documentation, and correct the punktuation.
    Closes [1700455].
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    r55834 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-08 12:14:23 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Fix warnings by using proper function prototype.
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    r55839 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-08 20:36:34 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 7 lines

    Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a segfault when
    a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.  Found by Google.

    It would be good for people to review this especially carefully and verify
    I don't have an off by one error and there is no other way to cause overflow.
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    r55841 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-08 21:48:22 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Use macro version of GET_SIZE to avoid Coverity warning (#150) about a possible error.
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    r55842 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-06-09 00:42:52 -0700 (Sat, 09 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
    Will backport to 2.5.
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    r55843 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-06-09 00:58:05 -0700 (Sat, 09 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Fix Windows build.
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    r55845 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-06-09 03:10:26 -0700 (Sat, 09 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Provide LLONG_MAX for S390.
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    r55854 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-10 08:59:17 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 4 lines


    First version of build scripts for Windows/AMD64 (no external
    components are built yet, and 'kill_python' is disabled).
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    r55855 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-10 10:55:51 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    For now, disable the _bsddb, _sqlite3, _ssl, _testcapi, _tkinter
    modules in the ReleaseAMD64 configuration because they do not compile.
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    r55856 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-10 11:27:54 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Need to set the environment variables, otherwise devenv.com is not found.
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    r55860 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-10 14:01:17 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Revert commit 55855.
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  r55880 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 22:07:36 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 5 lines

  Fix the refleak counter on test_collections.  The ABC metaclass creates
  a registry which must be cleared on each run.  Otherwise, there *seem*
  to be refleaks when there really aren't any.  (The class is held within
  the registry even though it's no longer needed.)
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  r55884 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 22:46:33 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  These tests have been removed, so they are no longer needed here
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  r55886 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-11 00:26:37 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

  Optimize access to True and False in the compiler (if True)
  and the peepholer (LOAD_NAME True).
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  r55905 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-11 10:02:26 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 5 lines

  Remove __oct__ and __hex__ and use __index__ for converting
  non-ints before formatting in a base.

  Add a bin() builtin.
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  r55906 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-11 10:04:44 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  int(x, 0) does not "guess".
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  r55907 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-11 10:05:47 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Add a comment to explain that nb_oct and nb_hex are nonfunctional.
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  r55908 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 10:49:18 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Get rid of unused imports and comment.
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  r55910 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 13:05:17 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  _Abstract.__new__ now requires either no arguments or __init__ overridden.
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  r55911 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 13:07:49 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 7 lines

  Move the collections ABCs to a separate file, _abcoll.py, in order to avoid
  needing to import _collections.so during the bootstrap (this will become
  apparent in the next submit of os.py).

  Add (plain and mutable) ABCs for Set, Mapping, Sequence.
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  r55912 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 13:09:31 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Rewrite the _Environ class to use the new collections ABCs.
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  r55913 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 13:59:45 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 72 lines

  Merged revisions 55869-55912 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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    r55869 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 17:42:11 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Add Atul Varma for patch # 1667860
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    r55870 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 18:22:03 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Ignore valgrind problems on Ubuntu from ld
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    r55872 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 18:48:46 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Ignore config.status.lineno which seems new (new autoconf?)
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    r55873 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 19:14:39 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Prevent these tests from running on Win64 since they don\'t apply there either
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    r55874 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 19:16:10 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 5 lines

    Fix a bug when there was a newline in the string expandtabs was called on.
    This also catches another condition that can overflow.

    Will backport.
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    r55879 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 21:52:37 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Prevent hang if the port cannot be opened.
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    r55881 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 22:28:45 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 4 lines

    Add all of the distuils modules that don't seem to have explicit tests. :-(
    Move an import in mworkscompiler so that this module can be imported on
    any platform.  Hopefully this works on all platforms.
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    r55882 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 22:35:10 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 4 lines

    SF #1734732, lower case the module names per PEP 8.

    Will backport.
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    r55885 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 23:16:48 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 4 lines

    Not sure why this only fails sometimes on Unix machines. Better
    to disable it and only import msvccompiler on Windows since that's
    the only place it can work anyways.
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    r55887 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-11 00:29:43 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 4 lines

    Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple attribute.

    Will backport
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    r55889 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-11 00:36:24 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Reflow long line
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    r55896 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-11 08:58:33 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Use "O&" in calls to PyArg_Parse when we need a 'void*' instead of "k"
    or "K" codes.
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    r55901 | facundo.batista | 2007-06-11 09:27:08 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 5 lines


    Added versionchanged flag to all the methods which received
    a new optional timeout parameter, and a versionadded flag to
    the socket.create_connection function.
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  r55914 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 14:19:50 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

  New super() implementation, for PEP 3135 (though the PEP is not yet updated
  to this design, and small tweaks may still be made later).
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  r55923 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 21:15:24 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 4 lines

  I'm guessing this module broke when Neal ripped out the types module --
  it used 'list' both as a local variable and as the built-in list type.
  Renamed the local variable since that was easier.
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  r55924 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 21:20:05 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 5 lines

  Change all occurrences of super(<thisclass>, <firstarg>) to super().
  Seems to have worked, all the tests still pass.
  Exception: test_descr and test_descrtut, which have tons of these
  and are there to test the various usages.
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  r55939 | collin.winter | 2007-06-12 13:57:33 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  Patch #1735485: remove StandardError from the exception hierarchy.
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  r55954 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-12 21:56:32 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 51 lines

  Merged revisions 55913-55950 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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    r55926 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2007-06-12 02:09:58 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Apply patch #1734945 to support TurboLinux as distribution.
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    r55927 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2007-06-12 02:26:49 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Add patch #1726668: Windows Vista support.
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    r55929 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-12 08:36:22 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Checkout, but do not yet try to build, exernal sources.
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    r55930 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-12 09:08:27 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 6 lines

    Add bufferoverflowU.lib to the libraries needed by _ssl (is this the
    right thing to do?).

    Set the /XP64 /RETAIL build enviroment in the makefile when building
    ReleaseAMD64.
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    r55931 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-12 09:23:19 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 5 lines

    Revert this change, since it breaks the win32 build:

    Add bufferoverflowU.lib to the libraries needed by _ssl (is this the
    right thing to do?).
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    r55934 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-12 10:28:31 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Specify the bufferoverflowU.lib to the makefile on the command line
    (for ReleaseAMD64 builds).
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    r55937 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-12 12:02:59 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Add bufferoverflowU.lib to PCBuild\_bsddb.vcproj.
    Build sqlite3.dll and bsddb.
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    r55938 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-12 12:56:12 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Don't rebuild Berkeley DB if not needed (this was committed by accident).
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    r55948 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-06-12 20:42:19 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Provide PY_LLONG_MAX on all systems having long long.
    Will backport to 2.5.
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  r55959 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-13 09:22:41 -0700 (Wed, 13 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix a compilation warning.
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---
 Doc/lib/libthreading.tex | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

(limited to 'Doc/lib/libthreading.tex')

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libthreading.tex b/Doc/lib/libthreading.tex
index 522ea2f995..19c496e499 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libthreading.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libthreading.tex
@@ -174,11 +174,14 @@ until a call to \method{release()} in another thread changes it to
 unlocked, then the \method{acquire()} call resets it to locked and
 returns.  The \method{release()} method should only be called in the
 locked state; it changes the state to unlocked and returns
-immediately.  When more than one thread is blocked in
-\method{acquire()} waiting for the state to turn to unlocked, only one
-thread proceeds when a \method{release()} call resets the state to
-unlocked; which one of the waiting threads proceeds is not defined,
-and may vary across implementations.
+immediately. If an attempt is made to release an unlocked lock, a
+\exception{RuntimeError} will be raised.
+
+When more than one thread is blocked in \method{acquire()} waiting for
+the state to turn to unlocked, only one thread proceeds when a
+\method{release()} call resets the state to unlocked; which one of the
+waiting threads proceeds is not defined, and may vary across
+implementations.
 
 All methods are executed atomically.
 
@@ -257,8 +260,9 @@ become unlocked, allow exactly one of them to proceed.  If after the
 decrement the recursion level is still nonzero, the lock remains
 locked and owned by the calling thread.
 
-Only call this method when the calling thread owns the lock.
-Do not call this method when the lock is unlocked.
+Only call this method when the calling thread owns the lock. A
+\exception{RuntimeError} is raised if this method is called when the
+lock is unlocked.
 
 There is no return value.
 \end{methoddesc}
@@ -275,7 +279,8 @@ A condition variable has \method{acquire()} and \method{release()}
 methods that call the corresponding methods of the associated lock.
 It also has a \method{wait()} method, and \method{notify()} and
 \method{notifyAll()} methods.  These three must only be called when
-the calling thread has acquired the lock.
+the calling thread has acquired the lock, otherwise a
+\exception{RuntimeError} is raised.
 
 The \method{wait()} method releases the lock, and then blocks until it
 is awakened by a \method{notify()} or \method{notifyAll()} call for
@@ -343,9 +348,9 @@ lock; there is no return value.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{wait}{\optional{timeout}}
-Wait until notified or until a timeout occurs.
-This must only be called when the calling thread has acquired the
-lock.
+Wait until notified or until a timeout occurs. If the calling thread
+has not acquired the lock when this method is called, a
+\exception{RuntimeError} is raised.
 
 This method releases the underlying lock, and then blocks until it is
 awakened by a \method{notify()} or \method{notifyAll()} call for the
@@ -367,9 +372,10 @@ when the lock is reacquired.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{notify}{}
-Wake up a thread waiting on this condition, if any.
-This must only be called when the calling thread has acquired the
-lock.
+Wake up a thread waiting on this condition, if any. Wait until
+notified or until a timeout occurs. If the calling thread has not
+acquired the lock when this method is called, a
+\exception{RuntimeError} is raised.
 
 This method wakes up one of the threads waiting for the condition
 variable, if any are waiting; it is a no-op if no threads are waiting.
@@ -386,7 +392,9 @@ Note: the awakened thread does not actually return from its
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{notifyAll}{}
 Wake up all threads waiting on this condition.  This method acts like
-\method{notify()}, but wakes up all waiting threads instead of one.
+\method{notify()}, but wakes up all waiting threads instead of one. If
+the calling thread has not acquired the lock when this method is
+called, a \exception{RuntimeError} is raised.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 
@@ -404,8 +412,9 @@ finds that it is zero, it blocks, waiting until some other thread
 calls \method{release()}.
 
 \begin{classdesc}{Semaphore}{\optional{value}}
-The optional argument gives the initial value for the internal
-counter; it defaults to \code{1}.
+The optional argument gives the initial \var{value} for the internal
+counter; it defaults to \code{1}. If the \var{value} given is less
+than 0, \exception{ValueError} is raised.
 \end{classdesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{acquire}{\optional{blocking}}
@@ -586,9 +595,12 @@ before doing anything else to the thread.
 \begin{methoddesc}{start}{}
 Start the thread's activity.
 
-This must be called at most once per thread object.  It
-arranges for the object's \method{run()} method to be invoked in a
-separate thread of control.
+It must be called at most once per thread object.  It arranges for the
+object's \method{run()} method to be invoked in a separate thread of
+control.
+
+This method will raise a \exception{RuntimeException} if called more
+than once on the same thread object.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{run}{}
@@ -618,11 +630,10 @@ operation will block until the thread terminates.
 
 A thread can be \method{join()}ed many times.
 
-A thread cannot join itself because this would cause a
-deadlock.
-
-It is an error to attempt to \method{join()} a thread before it has
-been started.
+\method{join()} may throw a \exception{RuntimeError}, if an attempt is
+made to join the current thread as that would cause a deadlock. It is
+also an error to \method{join()} a thread before it has been started
+and attempts to do so raises same exception.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{getName}{}
@@ -651,7 +662,8 @@ Return the thread's daemon flag.
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{setDaemon}{daemonic}
 Set the thread's daemon flag to the Boolean value \var{daemonic}.
-This must be called before \method{start()} is called.
+This must be called before \method{start()} is called, otherwise
+\exception{RuntimeError} is raised.
 
 The initial value is inherited from the creating thread.
 
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