Date:    Fri, 20 Dec 1996 14:47:50 +0100
From:    Lele Gaifax <lele@nautilus.eclipse.it>
To:      Python List <python-list@cwi.nl>
Subject: Typos in ref manual

Hi all,
browsing the reference manual I noticed what seem two small errors:
  a) in the list of keywords (section 2.3.1) 'exec' is missing
  b) in the Operator Precedence table (5.12) the comparison operators
     include '=', but probably '==' was intended.
Hope this help,
lele.

Adapt to new build conventions (get rid of Release directory).

Date:    Thu, 14 Sep 1995 12:18:20 -0400
From:    Alan Morse <alan@dvcorp.com>
To:      python-list@cwi.nl
Subject: getargs bug in 1.2 and 1.3 BETA

We have found a bug in the part of the getargs code that we added
and submitted, and which was incorporated into 1.1.

The parsing of "O?" format specifiers is not handled correctly;
there is no "else" for the "if" and therefore it can never fail.
What's worse, the advancing of the varargs pointer is not
handled properly, so from then on it is out of sync, wreaking
all sorts of havoc. (If it had failed properly, then the out-of-sync
varargs would not have been an issue.)

Below is the context diff for the change.

Note that I have made a few stylistic changes beyond adding the
else case, namely:

1) Making the "O" case follow the convention established by the other
format specifiers of getting all their vararg arguments before
performing the test, rather than getting some before and some after
the test passes.

2) Making the logic of the tests parallel, so the "if" part indicates
that the format is accepted and the "else" part indicates that the
format has failed. They were inconsistent with each other and with the
the other format specifiers.

-Alan Morse (amorse@dvcorp.com)

subdirectories.

All final products go into the current directory (i.e., PCbuild).

Object files go into temp-release and temp-debug.

Debug versions of DLLs have _d appended to their basename, e.g. the
debug version of python15.dll is python15_d.dll, the debug version of
python.exe is python_d.exe, and the debug version of parser.pyd is
parser_d.pyd.  (See corresponding patch to importdl.c.)  Uniformly
changed all extension modules to use .pyd, not .dll.

commented-out CODE/DATA statements).

a sibling of the html/ directory in the distribution.

Cleanup temporary files produced by latex2html in the output directory.

support that's offered.

Manual; the old FrameMaker names no longer apply.

still don't support things like \let^^M=\something, where ^^M could actually be
any active character.  Print a decent warning if we find one we can't handle.

synonyms for macros.  This supports:

	\let\newname = \oldname
	\let\newname\oldname

This is useful sometimes, and can at least avoid real errors at other times.

Ask Guido if you really want to know why.  ;-)

execute bit.... problem discovered by Guido.

Change the way TEXINPUTS gets defined to ensure that the directory containing
the main document file comes before any other dir, to allow documents to have
files that "override" like-named files elsewhere on the search path.  Guido
discovered we needed this.

Bow to font lock.

we have no .c source.

of error when sys.modules isn't there.

to the table of built-in modules.  This should normally be called
*before* Py_Initialize().  When the malloc() or realloc() call fails,
-1 is returned and the existing table is unchanged.

After a similar function by Just van Rossum.

int PyImport_ExtendInittab(struct _inittab *newtab);
int PyImport_AppendInittab(char *name, void (*initfunc)());

need to call PyErr_Clear() when it returns NULL.

need to cxall PyErr_Clear() when it returns NULL.

If the argument is not a dictionary, simply return NULL.  If the
hash() on the key fails, clear the error.

problem was a couple of bugs in the readline implementation.

1. Include the '\n' in the string returned by readline
2. Bug calculating new buffer size in _unread

Also remove unncessary import of StringIO

To: python-list@cwi.nl
Date: 13 May 98 18:33:11 GMT

I think I found a bug in CGIHTTPServer.py.  (Does anyone care? :-)
I was trying to use it as the web server for uploading files.
Python CGI scripts (using the CGI module) that worked for other
servers (e.g., Netscape Enterprise server) hang when run from
CGIHTTPServer.  The problem is that the content type parameters,
in particular the boundary parameter, were not passed through to
the CGI scripts, thus making the MIME parsing code choke.

My simple-minded fix is:

	% diff CGIHTTPServer.py /usr/local/lib/python1.5/CGIHTTPServer.py
	137,140c136
	<           if self.headers.typeheader is None:
	<               env['CONTENT_TYPE'] = self.headers.type
	<           else:
	<               env['CONTENT_TYPE'] = self.headers.typeheader
	---
	>           env['CONTENT_TYPE'] = self.headers.type

Conrad