Merged revisions 58742-58816 via svnmerge from
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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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diff --git a/Doc/library/weakref.rst b/Doc/library/weakref.rst
index 6c7c919..3adf318 100644
--- a/Doc/library/weakref.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/weakref.rst
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
but cannot be propagated; they are handled in exactly the same way as exceptions
raised from an object's :meth:`__del__` method.
- Weak references are hashable if the *object* is hashable. They will maintain
+ Weak references are :term:`hashable` if the *object* is hashable. They will maintain
their hash value even after the *object* was deleted. If :func:`hash` is called
the first time only after the *object* was deleted, the call will raise
:exc:`TypeError`.
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
the proxy in most contexts instead of requiring the explicit dereferencing used
with weak reference objects. The returned object will have a type of either
``ProxyType`` or ``CallableProxyType``, depending on whether *object* is
- callable. Proxy objects are not hashable regardless of the referent; this
+ callable. Proxy objects are not :term:`hashable` regardless of the referent; this
avoids a number of problems related to their fundamentally mutable nature, and
prevent their use as dictionary keys. *callback* is the same as the parameter
of the same name to the :func:`ref` function.