Installer for 1.6a2. This is not the optimal location for the VCT file, it should be one level higher, but I can't be bothered fixing that this time around.

or getattr/setattr, is all that's needed.

'get_options()', 'get_command_option()', 'get_command_options()'.

'get_options()'.

Put the install folders in (vise), not vise, so the include files aren't accidentally picked up by the normal build process.

via an 'extra_compile_args' option in the 'build_info' dictionary.

Fix for problem with freeze when both "-m" and "-s service" options
are used.

(Blessed by MarkH)

Adding projects to the repository again, this time in MacBinary form. If you have added the MMPr filetype as "plain binary" in the MacCVS preferences you should revert this before doing this update.

Got rid of last references to GUSI1.

Upped for current python CVS status.

Various minor tweaks, I guess:-)

Removed string-exception preference, added tabcheck and NavService preference, upped version number.

Auto-install on import, if NavServices is available. Unless a "no navservices" flag is set Python automagically imports this module so code that uses macfs.xxxGetFile will get NavServices dialogs.

gave bogus results for chars in the range 128-255, because their
implementation was using signed characters.  Fixed this by using
unsigned character pointers (as opposed to using Py_CHARMASK()).

allocator.

referencing an undefined variable, so we better change it back.

weird errors.  (E.g. see thread "weird bug in test_winreg" in python-dev.)

Since it's actually useful to be able to re-run an individual test
after running test.autotest, we keep the unloading code, but only for
modules whose full name starts with "test.".

who wrote:

Here's the new version of thread_nt.h.  More particular, there is a
new version of thread lock that uses kernel object (e.g. semaphore)
only in case of contention; in other case it simply uses interlocked
functions, which are faster by the order of magnitude.  It doesn't
make much difference without threads present, but as soon as thread
machinery initialised and (mostly) the interpreter global lock is on,
difference becomes tremendous.  I've included a small script, which
initialises threads and launches pystone.  With original thread_nt.h,
Pystone results with initialised threads are twofold worse then w/o
threads.  With the new version, only 10% worse.  I have used this
patch for about 6 months (with threaded and non-threaded
applications).  It works remarkably well (though I'd desperately
prefer Python was free-threaded; I hope, it will soon).

instead.  This seems more robust than returning an Unicode string with
some unconverted charcters in it.

This still doesn't support getting truly binary data out of Tcl, since
we look for the trailing null byte; but the old (pre-Unicode) code did
this too, so apparently there's no need.  (Plus, I really don't feel
like finding out how Tcl deals with this in each version.)

strings _are_ valid!

1. In Tcl 8.2 and later, use Tcl_NewUnicodeObj() when passing a Python
Unicode object rather than going through UTF-8.  (This function
doesn't exist in Tcl 8.1, so there the original UTF-8 code is still
used; in Tcl 8.0 there is no support for Unicode.)  This assumes that
Tcl_UniChar is the same thing as Py_UNICODE; a run-time error is
issued if this is not the case.

2. In Tcl 8.1 and later (i.e., whenever Tcl supports Unicode), when a
string returned from Tcl contains bytes with the top bit set, we
assume it is encoded in UTF-8, and decode it into a Unicode string
object.

Notes:

- Passing Unicode strings to Tcl 8.0 does not do the right thing; this
isn't worth fixing.

- When passing an 8-bit string to Tcl 8.1 or later that has bytes with
the top bit set, Tcl tries to interpret it as UTF-8; it seems to fall
back on Latin-1 for non-UTF-8 bytes.  I'm not sure what to do about
this besides telling the user to disambiguate such strings by
converting them to Unicode (forcing the user to be explicit about the
encoding).

- Obviously it won't be possible to get binary data out of Tk this
way.  Do we need that ability?  How to do it?

For more comments, read the patches@python.org archives.
For documentation read the comments in mymalloc.h and objimpl.h.

(This is not exactly what Vladimir posted to the patches list; I've
made a few changes, and Vladimir sent me a fix in private email for a
problem that only occurs in debug mode.  I'm also holding back on his
change to main.c, which seems unnecessary to me.)

Finally, this long-obsolete module bites the dust.

Change Py_Malloc/Realloc/Free calls to PyMem_Malloc/Realloc/Free +
PyErr_Nomemory on error check.  Py_Malloc c.s. are obsolete.

- When 'import exceptions' fails, don't suggest to use -v to print the traceback;
  this doesn't actually work.
- Remove comment about fallback to string exceptions.
- Remove a PyErr_Occurred() check after all is said and done that can
  never trigger.
- Remove static function newstdexception() which is no longer called.

Spotted by Greg Kochanski <gpk@bell-labs.com>.

Added 'u' and 'u#' tags for PyArg_ParseTuple - these turn a
PyUnicodeObject argument into a Py_UNICODE * buffer, or a Py_UNICODE *
buffer plus a length with the '#'.  Also added an analog to 'U'
for Py_BuildValue.

you pass server information to the constructor.  Error noted by Pedro
Diaz Jimenez <diazjimenez@ctv.es>.

a size of 0 *is* illegal.