Merged revisions 59541-59561 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r59544 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-18 01:13:45 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 1 line
Add more namedtuple() test cases. Neaten the code and comments.
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r59545 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-18 04:38:03 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 3 lines
Fixed for #1601: IDLE not working correctly on Windows (Py30a2/IDLE30a1)
Amaury's ideas works great. Should we build the Python core with WINVER=0x0500 and _WIN32_WINNT=0x0500, too?
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r59546 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-18 10:00:13 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 1 line
Make it a bit easier to test Tcl/Tk and idle from a build dir.
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r59547 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-18 10:12:10 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 1 line
Removed several unused files from the PCbuild9 directory. They are relics from the past.
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r59548 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-18 19:26:18 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 29 lines
Speed-up dictionary constructor by about 10%.
New opcode, STORE_MAP saves the compiler from awkward stack manipulations
and specializes for dicts using PyDict_SetItem instead of PyObject_SetItem.
Old disassembly:
0 BUILD_MAP 0
3 DUP_TOP
4 LOAD_CONST 1 (1)
7 ROT_TWO
8 LOAD_CONST 2 ('x')
11 STORE_SUBSCR
12 DUP_TOP
13 LOAD_CONST 3 (2)
16 ROT_TWO
17 LOAD_CONST 4 ('y')
20 STORE_SUBSCR
New disassembly:
0 BUILD_MAP 0
3 LOAD_CONST 1 (1)
6 LOAD_CONST 2 ('x')
9 STORE_MAP
10 LOAD_CONST 3 (2)
13 LOAD_CONST 4 ('y')
16 STORE_MAP
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r59549 | thomas.heller | 2007-12-18 20:00:34 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 2 lines
Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
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r59551 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-12-18 21:10:42 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 2 lines
Issue #1645 by Alberto Bertogli. Fix a comment.
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r59553 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-18 22:24:09 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 12 lines
Give meaning to the oparg for BUILD_MAP: estimated size of the dictionary.
Allows dictionaries to be pre-sized (upto 255 elements) saving time lost
to re-sizes with their attendant mallocs and re-insertions.
Has zero effect on small dictionaries (5 elements or fewer), a slight
benefit for dicts upto 22 elements (because they had to resize once
anyway), and more benefit for dicts upto 255 elements (saving multiple
resizes during the build-up and reducing the number of collisions on
the first insertions). Beyond 255 elements, there is no addional benefit.
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r59554 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-18 22:56:09 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 1 line
Fixed #1649: IDLE error: dictionary changed size during iteration
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r59557 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-18 23:21:27 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 1 line
Simplify and speedup _asdict() for named tuples.
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r59558 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-19 00:22:54 +0100 (Wed, 19 Dec 2007) | 3 lines
Applied patch #1635: Float patch for inf and nan on Windows (and other platforms).
The patch unifies float("inf") and repr(float("inf")) on all platforms.
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r59559 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-19 00:51:15 +0100 (Wed, 19 Dec 2007) | 1 line
Users demand iterable input for named tuples. The author capitulates.
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r59560 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-19 01:21:06 +0100 (Wed, 19 Dec 2007) | 1 line
Beef-up tests for dict literals
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r59561 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-19 01:27:21 +0100 (Wed, 19 Dec 2007) | 1 line
Zap a duplicate line
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 14fd1a7..02c709c2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -435,7 +435,8 @@
Convert a string or a number to floating point. If the argument is a string, it
must contain a possibly signed decimal or floating point number, possibly
- embedded in whitespace. Otherwise, the argument may be an integer
+ embedded in whitespace. The argument may also be [+|-]nan or [+|-]inf.
+ Otherwise, the argument may be a plain integer
or a floating point number, and a floating point number with the same value
(within Python's floating point precision) is returned. If no argument is
given, returns ``0.0``.
@@ -447,9 +448,10 @@
single: Infinity
When passing in a string, values for NaN and Infinity may be returned, depending
- on the underlying C library. The specific set of strings accepted which cause
- these values to be returned depends entirely on the C library and is known to
- vary.
+ on the underlying C library. Float accepts the strings nan, inf and -inf for
+ NaN and positive or negative infinity. The case and a leading + are ignored as
+ well as a leading - is ignored for NaN. Float always represents NaN and infinity
+ as nan, inf or -inf.
The float type is described in :ref:`typesnumeric`.