After a long discussion about the problem with Windows GUI apps Guido decided that sys.stdin, stdout and stderr should be None when the C runtime library returns invalid file descriptors for the standard streams.

So far the only known cases are Windows GUI apps and scripts started with pythonw on Windows. The OS restrictions are tight enough to catch the problem on other OSes.

When an unfinished generator-iterator is garbage collected, PyEval_EvalFrameEx
is called with a GeneratorExit exception set.  This leads to funny results
if the sys.settrace function itself makes use of generators.
A visible effect is that the settrace function is reset to None.
Another is that the eventual "finally" block of the generator is not called.

It is necessary to save/restore the exception around the call to the trace
function.

This happens a lot with py3k: isinstance() of an ABCMeta instance runs
    def __instancecheck__(cls, instance):
        """Override for isinstance(instance, cls)."""
        return any(cls.__subclasscheck__(c)
                   for c in {instance.__class__, type(instance)})
which lets an opened generator expression each time it returns True.

Seems a backport candidate, even if the case is less frequent in 2.5.

The pre-commit hook doesn't allow a trailing newline

This adds support for bytes literals (b'...') to tokenize.py, and
removes support for unicode literals (u'...').

Added some more methods and attributes to stdprinter to ease up debugging #1415 on Windows. It also makes the object more file like. Now it can be used as a working replacement for an io instance.

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  r58940 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-11-12 05:53:02 +0100 (Mon, 12 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Only set rl_completion_display_matches_hook if there
  is a Python hook function. Fixes #1425.
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  r58941 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-11-12 06:14:05 +0100 (Mon, 12 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
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  r58942 | walter.doerwald | 2007-11-12 11:01:33 +0100 (Mon, 12 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix TextCalendar.prweek(). This closes issue #1427.
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  r58931 | vinay.sajip | 2007-11-11 15:27:30 +0100 (Sun, 11 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Fixed a bug reported (in private email, by Robert Crida) in logging configuration whereby child loggers of a logger named in a configuration file, which are not themselves named in the configuration, are disabled when the configuration is applied.
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  r58932 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-11 16:16:16 +0100 (Sun, 11 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove duplication of "this".
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  r58935 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-12 02:15:40 +0100 (Mon, 12 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Added new decorator syntax to property.__doc__
  Guido prefers _x over __x.
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  r58936 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-12 02:20:56 +0100 (Mon, 12 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix for #1427: Error in standard module calendar
  the prweek() method is still broken and I can't figure out how it suppose to work.
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  r58938 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-11-12 02:25:21 +0100 (Mon, 12 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Re-word sentence
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raw string literals.  I added a whole bunch of tests but am still not sure
I am testing all paths through the code.  I really think the code could be
simplified quite a bit.

Fixed some of the bugs in the readline module. #1425 is still open and several methods don't do enough error checks.

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  r58892 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-11-06 15:32:56 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Add missing "return NULL" in overflow check in PyObject_Repr().
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  r58893 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-06 17:13:09 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Fix marshal's incorrect handling of subclasses of builtin types (backport candidate).
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  r58895 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-06 18:26:17 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Optimize dict.fromkeys() with dict inputs.  Useful for resetting bag/muliset counts for example.
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  r58896 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-06 18:45:46 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Add build option for faster loop execution.
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  r58900 | nick.coghlan | 2007-11-07 03:57:51 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Add missing NEWS entry
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  r58905 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-07 09:50:54 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Backported fix for bug #1392 from py3k branch r58903.
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  r58906 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-07 10:30:22 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Backport of Guido's review of my patch.
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  r58908 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-07 18:52:43 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Add set.isdisjoint()
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  r58915 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-08 10:47:51 -0800 (Thu, 08 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Reposition the decref (spotted by eagle-eye norwitz).
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  r58920 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-09 04:31:43 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix seealso link to sets docs. Do not merge to Py3k.
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  r58921 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-09 05:08:48 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix misleading example.
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  r58923 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-09 09:33:23 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Correct a comment about testing methods - nowadays most
  tests don't run directly on import.
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  r58924 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-11-09 14:56:30 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Add Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
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  r58925 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-09 15:14:44 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Optimize common case for dict.fromkeys().
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  r58927 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-09 17:54:03 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Use a freelist to speed-up block allocation and deallocation in collections.deque().
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  r58929 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-11-10 14:12:24 -0800 (Sat, 10 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Issue 1416.  Add getter, setter, deleter methods to properties that can be
  used as decorators to create fully-populated properties.
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On Windows fileno(stdout) and fileno(stderr) can return an invalid file descriptor number (-2 on my machine). It happens only for pythonw.exe but not for python.exe.

Catch the problem ASAP in PyFile_NewStdPrinter(). I've also removed the call to PyErr_BadInternalCall(). It was causing a seg fault because the exceptions aren't available yet.

I've created three bat files based on the howto http://wiki.python.org/moin/Building_Python_with_the_free_MS_C_Toolkit

I figured out that the files may suite other developers. The files take care of most problems and makes building Python on Windows easier. Simply double click on build_env.bat to open a shell and type build.

Fixed #1403 where compileall and py_compile choked on an encoding header in a py file. Both modules need more unit tests.

Added tests from Raghuram Devarakonda for bug #1395 'py3k: duplicated line endings when using read(1)' to outstanding_bugs.py

Fixed memoryview constructor. It allowed arbitrary keyword arguments. The bug was found by mykhal from #python. I've also added a small test case in the new test_memoryview.py

(Consider this code review feedback. :-)

The patch doesn't do the whole name mangling mambo jambo on purpose. MS sure does some weird things and I don't feel like reimplementing ntpath.normpath in C. If the user does deliberately something stupid he is on his own.

TODO: Backport to 2.6 (maybe 2.5?) and document that users should only do sys.path.append(os.path.normpath(somepath)) if they want to be on the safe side.

is more appropriate).

No detailed change log; just check out the change log for the py3k-pep3137
branch.  The most obvious changes:

  - str8 renamed to bytes (PyString at the C level);
  - bytes renamed to buffer (PyBytes at the C level);
  - PyString and PyUnicode are no longer compatible.

I.e. we now have an immutable bytes type and a mutable bytes type.

The behavior of PyString was modified quite a bit, to make it more
bytes-like.  Some changes are still on the to-do list.

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  r58868 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-05 16:19:03 -0800 (Mon, 05 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Fixes Issue 1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when using
  hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384 and sha512).
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Thanks to Amaury Forgeot d'Arc for fixing my patch ;-)

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  r58822 | brett.cannon | 2007-11-02 23:47:02 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Add a missing quotation mark.
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  r58840 | skip.montanaro | 2007-11-04 07:56:52 -0800 (Sun, 04 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Note change to get_dialect semantics in 2.5.  Will backport to 2.5.
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  r58844 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-04 09:43:49 -0800 (Sun, 04 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix syntax for versionchanged markup.
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  r58850 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-04 18:32:26 -0800 (Sun, 04 Nov 2007) | 9 lines

  Fixes bug 477182 on pybsddb.sf.net.  DB objects now load the flags and
  pay attention to them when opening an existing database.  This means
  that d[] behaves properly even on databases previously created with DB_DUP
  or DB_DUPSORT flags to allow duplicate keys.

  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=477182&group_id=13900&atid=113900

  Do not backport, this bugfix could be considered an API change.
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  r58851 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-04 18:56:31 -0800 (Sun, 04 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
  Improve test_lock's tempdir creation and cleanup.
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  r58852 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-05 01:06:28 -0800 (Mon, 05 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

   * db->get_types is only available in BerkeleyDB >= 4.2
   * get compiling with older versions of python again for a stand alone release.
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  r58853 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-05 01:07:40 -0800 (Mon, 05 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  * db->get_flags is only available in BerkeleyDB >= 4.2
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  r58854 | mark.summerfield | 2007-11-05 01:22:48 -0800 (Mon, 05 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Added cross-references between the various archive file formats.
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  r58857 | mark.summerfield | 2007-11-05 06:38:50 -0800 (Mon, 05 Nov 2007) | 5 lines

  Clarified the fact that you can have comments for individual archive
  members even though comments to the archive itself aren't currently
  supported.
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PyModule_GetName() returns a char* from PyUnicode_AsString but the code in import.c was using PyString_FromString on it.

Added PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefaultAndSize
Fixed a problem with the sys.path code that caused a segfault on Windows when the path contains non ASCII chars. The code for sys.executable, exec_prefix and prefix should be fixed, too.

Fixed encoding of author name in tarfile.py.

I suspect this has some problems when the subclass is evil,
but that's for later.

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  r58745 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-01 10:19:33 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  #1364: os.lstat is available on Windows too, as an alias to os.stat.
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  r58750 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-01 12:48:10 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Backport of import tests for bug http://bugs.python.org/issue1293 and bug http://bugs.python.org/issue1342
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  r58751 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-01 13:11:06 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Removed non ASCII text from test as requested by Guido. Sorry :/
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  r58753 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-01 13:37:02 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix markup glitch.
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  r58757 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-01 14:08:14 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 4 lines

  Fix bug introduced in revision 58385.  Database keys could no longer
  have NULL bytes in them.  Replace the errant strdup with a
  malloc+memcpy.  Adds a unit test for the correct behavior.
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  r58758 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-01 14:15:36 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Undo revision 58533 58534 fixes.  Those were a workaround for
  a problem introduced by 58385.
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  r58759 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-11-01 14:17:47 -0700 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  false "fix" undone as correct problem was found and fixed.
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  r58765 | mark.summerfield | 2007-11-02 01:24:59 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Added more file-handling related cross-references.
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  r58766 | nick.coghlan | 2007-11-02 03:09:12 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Fix for bug 1705170 - contextmanager swallowing StopIteration (2.5 backport candidate)
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  r58784 | thomas.heller | 2007-11-02 12:10:24 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 4 lines

  Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
  --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes" because the
  bundled libffi sources are too old.
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  r58785 | thomas.heller | 2007-11-02 12:11:23 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Enable the full ctypes c_longdouble tests again.
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  r58796 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-02 13:06:17 -0700 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 4 lines

  Make "hashable" a glossary entry and clarify docs on __cmp__, __eq__ and __hash__.
  I hope the concept of hashability is better understandable now.
  Thanks to Tim Hatch for pointing out the flaws here.
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