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r78760 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-07 16:23:59 +0100 (So, 07 Mär 2010) | 1 line
#5341: more built-in vs builtin fixes.
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r78771 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-07 21:58:31 +0100 (So, 07 Mär 2010) | 1 line
#8085: The function is called PyObject_NewVar, not PyObject_VarNew.
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r78772 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-07 22:12:28 +0100 (So, 07 Mär 2010) | 1 line
#8039: document conditional expressions better, giving them their own section.
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r78773 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-07 22:32:06 +0100 (So, 07 Mär 2010) | 1 line
#8044: document Py_{Enter,Leave}RecursiveCall functions.
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r78802 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-08 17:28:40 +0100 (Mo, 08 Mär 2010) | 1 line
Fix typo.
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r78922 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-13 14:41:58 +0100 (Sa, 13 Mär 2010) | 1 line
Update for new download location.
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r78952 | georg.brandl | 2010-03-14 10:55:08 +0100 (So, 14 Mär 2010) | 1 line
#8137: add iso-8859-16 to the standard encodings table.
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diff --git a/Misc/HISTORY b/Misc/HISTORY
index 4fb749a..57ae98d 100644
--- a/Misc/HISTORY
+++ b/Misc/HISTORY
@@ -2544,7 +2544,7 @@
- Bug #1244610, #1392915, fix build problem on OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8.
configure would break checking curses.h.
-- Bug #959576: The pwd module is now builtin. This allows Python to be
+- Bug #959576: The pwd module is now built in. This allows Python to be
built on UNIX platforms without $HOME set.
- Bug #1072182, fix some potential problems if characters are signed.
@@ -2577,7 +2577,7 @@
it will now use a default error message in this case.
- Replaced most Unicode charmap codecs with new ones using the
- new Unicode translate string feature in the builtin charmap
+ new Unicode translate string feature in the built-in charmap
codec; the codecs were created from the mapping tables available
at ftp.unicode.org and contain a few updates (e.g. the Mac OS
encodings now include a mapping for the Apple logo)
@@ -3032,7 +3032,7 @@
current file number.
- Patch #1349274: gettext.install() now optionally installs additional
- translation functions other than _() in the builtin namespace.
+ translation functions other than _() in the builtins namespace.
- Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames.
@@ -3403,7 +3403,7 @@
- Patch #881820: look for openpty and forkpty also in libbsd.
- The sources of zlib are now part of the Python distribution (zlib 1.2.3).
- The zlib module is now builtin on Windows.
+ The zlib module is now built in on Windows.
- Use -xcode=pic32 for CCSHARED on Solaris with SunPro.
@@ -4238,7 +4238,7 @@
- Patch #846659. Fix an error in tarfile.py when using
GNU longname/longlink creation.
-- The obsolete FCNTL.py has been deleted. The builtin fcntl module
+- The obsolete FCNTL.py has been deleted. The built-in fcntl module
has been available (on platforms that support fcntl) since Python
1.5a3, and all FCNTL.py did is export fcntl's names, after generating
a deprecation warning telling you to use fcntl directly.
@@ -4492,7 +4492,7 @@
segfault in a debug build, but provided less predictable behavior in
a release build.
-- input() builtin function now respects compiler flags such as
+- input() built-in function now respects compiler flags such as
__future__ statements. SF patch 876178.
- Removed PendingDeprecationWarning from apply(). apply() remains
@@ -4553,12 +4553,12 @@
- Compiler flags set in PYTHONSTARTUP are now active in __main__.
-- Added two builtin types, set() and frozenset().
+- Added two built-in types, set() and frozenset().
-- Added a reversed() builtin function that returns a reverse iterator
+- Added a reversed() built-in function that returns a reverse iterator
over a sequence.
-- Added a sorted() builtin function that returns a new sorted list
+- Added a sorted() built-in function that returns a new sorted list
from any iterable.
- CObjects are now mutable (on the C level) through PyCObject_SetVoidPtr.
@@ -4597,7 +4597,7 @@
When comparing containers with cyclic references to themselves it
will now just hit the recursion limit. See SF patch 825639.
-- str and unicode builtin types now have an rsplit() method that is
+- str and unicode built-in types now have an rsplit() method that is
same as split() except that it scans the string from the end
working towards the beginning. See SF feature request 801847.
@@ -5148,7 +5148,7 @@
- A warning about assignments to module attributes that shadow
builtins, present in earlier releases of 2.3, has been removed.
-- It is not possible to create subclasses of builtin types like str
+- It is not possible to create subclasses of built-in types like str
and tuple that define an itemsize. Earlier releases of Python 2.3
allowed this by mistake, leading to crashes and other problems.
@@ -5623,13 +5623,13 @@
- New format codes B, H, I, k and K have been implemented for
PyArg_ParseTuple and PyBuild_Value.
-- New builtin function sum(seq, start=0) returns the sum of all the
+- New built-in function sum(seq, start=0) returns the sum of all the
items in iterable object seq, plus start (items are normally numbers,
and cannot be strings).
- bool() called without arguments now returns False rather than
raising an exception. This is consistent with calling the
- constructors for the other builtin types -- called without argument
+ constructors for the other built-in types -- called without argument
they all return the false value of that type. (SF patch #724135)
- In support of PEP 269 (making the pgen parser generator accessible
@@ -6154,7 +6154,7 @@
internals, and supplies some helpers for working with pickles, such as
a symbolic pickle disassembler.
-- Xmlrpclib.py now supports the builtin boolean type.
+- xmlrpclib.py now supports the built-in boolean type.
- py_compile has a new 'doraise' flag and a new PyCompileError
exception.
@@ -6405,8 +6405,8 @@
trace function to change which line will execute next. A command to
exploit this from pdb has been added. [SF patch #643835]
-- The _codecs support module for codecs.py was turned into a builtin
- module to assure that at least the builtin codecs are available
+- The _codecs support module for codecs.py was turned into a built-in
+ module to assure that at least the built-in codecs are available
to the Python parser for source code decoding according to PEP 263.
- issubclass now supports a tuple as the second argument, just like
@@ -6564,13 +6564,13 @@
- Unicode objects in sys.path are no longer ignored but treated
as directory names.
-- Fixed string.startswith and string.endswith builtin methods
+- Fixed string.startswith and string.endswith built-in methods
so they accept negative indices. [SF bug 493951]
- Fixed a bug with a continue inside a try block and a yield in the
finally clause. [SF bug 567538]
-- Most builtin sequences now support "extended slices", i.e. slices
+- Most built-in sequences now support "extended slices", i.e. slices
with a third "stride" parameter. For example, "hello world"[::-1]
gives "dlrow olleh".
@@ -6585,7 +6585,7 @@
method no longer exist. xrange repetition and slicing have been
removed.
-- New builtin function enumerate(x), from PEP 279. Example:
+- New built-in function enumerate(x), from PEP 279. Example:
enumerate("abc") is an iterator returning (0,"a"), (1,"b"), (2,"c").
The argument can be an arbitrary iterable object.
@@ -7134,7 +7134,7 @@
Presumably 2.3a1 breaks such systems. If anyone uses such a system, help!
- The configure option --without-doc-strings can be used to remove the
- doc strings from the builtin functions and modules; this reduces the
+ doc strings from the built-in functions and modules; this reduces the
size of the executable.
- The universal newlines option (PEP 278) is on by default. On Unix
@@ -7370,7 +7370,7 @@
available for convenience.
- New Carbon modules File (implementing the APIs in Files.h and Aliases.h)
- and Folder (APIs from Folders.h). The old macfs builtin module is
+ and Folder (APIs from Folders.h). The old macfs built-in module is
gone, and replaced by a Python wrapper around the new modules.
- Pathname handling should now be fully consistent: MacPython-OSX always uses
@@ -7592,7 +7592,7 @@
C API
-----
-- New function PyDict_MergeFromSeq2() exposes the builtin dict
+- New function PyDict_MergeFromSeq2() exposes the built-in dict
constructor's logic for updating a dictionary from an iterable object
producing key-value pairs.
@@ -7643,7 +7643,7 @@
using new-style MRO rules if any base class is a new-style class.
This needs to be documented.
-- The new builtin dictionary() constructor, and dictionary type, have
+- The new built-in dictionary() constructor, and dictionary type, have
been renamed to dict. This reflects a decade of common usage.
- dict() now accepts an iterable object producing 2-sequences. For
@@ -8093,9 +8093,9 @@
The new class must have the same C-level object layout as the old
class.
-- The builtin file type can be subclassed now. In the usual pattern,
- "file" is the name of the builtin type, and file() is a new builtin
- constructor, with the same signature as the builtin open() function.
+- The built-in file type can be subclassed now. In the usual pattern,
+ "file" is the name of the built-in type, and file() is a new built-in
+ constructor, with the same signature as the built-in open() function.
file() is now the preferred way to open a file.
- Previously, __new__ would only see sequential arguments passed to
@@ -8109,7 +8109,7 @@
- Previously, an operation on an instance of a subclass of an
immutable type (int, long, float, complex, tuple, str, unicode),
where the subtype didn't override the operation (and so the
- operation was handled by the builtin type), could return that
+ operation was handled by the built-in type), could return that
instance instead a value of the base type. For example, if s was of
a str subclass type, s[:] returned s as-is. Now it returns a str
with the same value as s.
@@ -8157,7 +8157,7 @@
called for each iteration until it returns an empty string).
- The codecs module has grown four new helper APIs to access
- builtin codecs: getencoder(), getdecoder(), getreader(),
+ built-in codecs: getencoder(), getdecoder(), getreader(),
getwriter().
- SimpleXMLRPCServer: a new module (based upon SimpleHTMLServer)
@@ -9287,7 +9287,7 @@
In all previous version of Python, names were resolved in exactly
three namespaces -- the local namespace, the global namespace, and
- the builtin namespace. According to this old definition, if a
+ the builtins namespace. According to this old definition, if a
function A is defined within a function B, the names bound in B are
not visible in A. The new rules make names bound in B visible in A,
unless A contains a name binding that hides the binding in B.
@@ -9308,7 +9308,7 @@
return str.strip()
Under the old rules, the name str in helper() is bound to the
- builtin function str(). Under the new rules, it will be bound to
+ built-in function str(). Under the new rules, it will be bound to
the argument named str and an error will occur when helper() is
called.
@@ -9806,7 +9806,7 @@
assignment, e.g. +=, was fixed.
- Raise ZeroDivisionError when raising zero to a negative number,
- e.g. 0.0 ** -2.0. Note that math.pow is unrelated to the builtin
+ e.g. 0.0 ** -2.0. Note that math.pow is unrelated to the built-in
power operator and the result of math.pow(0.0, -2.0) will vary by
platform. On Linux, it raises a ValueError.
@@ -14056,7 +14056,7 @@
overriding modules with the same name.
- Fixed some strange exceptions in __del__ methods in library modules
-(e.g. urllib). This happens because the builtin names are already
+(e.g. urllib). This happens because the built-in names are already
deleted by the time __del__ is called. The solution (a hack, but it
works) is to set some instance variables to 0 instead of None.
@@ -14759,8 +14759,8 @@
f(a=1,a=2) is now a syntax error.
-Changes to builtin features
----------------------------
+Changes to built-in features
+----------------------------
- There's a new exception FloatingPointError (used only by Lee Busby's
patches to catch floating point exceptions, at the moment).
@@ -16060,7 +16060,7 @@
- New modules: errno, operator (XXX).
-- Changes for use with Numerical Python: builtin function slice() and
+- Changes for use with Numerical Python: built-in function slice() and
Ellipses object, and corresponding syntax:
x[lo:hi:stride] == x[slice(lo, hi, stride)]
@@ -16548,7 +16548,7 @@
- The functions posix.popen() and posix.fdopen() now have an optional
third argument to specify the buffer size, and default their second
-(mode) argument to 'r' -- in analogy to the builtin open() function.
+(mode) argument to 'r' -- in analogy to the built-in open() function.
The same applies to posixfile.open() and the socket method makefile().
- The thread.exit_thread() function now raises SystemExit so that