Summary of changes:
- support for 'variable sized' data
- support for anonymous structure/union fields
- fix severe bug with certain arrays or structures containing more than 256 fields
the char buffer was requested. Now it actually returns the char buffer if
available or raises a TypeError if it isn't (as is raised for the other buffer
types if they are not present but requested).
Not a backport candidate since it does change semantics of the buffer object
(although it could be argued this is enough of a bug to bother backporting).
endian machines. Should fix the remaininf failure in the PPC64
Debian buildbot.
Thanks to Matthias Klose for providing access to a machine to debug
and test this.
parameter strings") changed this function's signature
seemingly by mistake, which is causing buildbots to fail
test_bsddb3. Restored the pre-46688 signature.
structmember typecode for Py_ssize_t fields. This should fix some of
the errors on the PPC64 debian machine (64-bit, big endian).
Assigning to readonly fields now raises AttributeError instead of
TypeError, so the testcase has to be changed as well.
in BerkeleyDB >= 4.2 it tried to construct a list out of an uninitialized
char **log_list.
feature: export the DB_ARCH_REMOVE flag by name in the module on BerkeleyDB >= 4.2.
46640 Patch #1454481: Make thread stack size runtime tunable.
46647 Markup fix
The first is causing many buildbots to fail test runs, and there
are multiple causes with seemingly no immediate prospects for
repairing them. See python-dev discussion.
Note that a branch can (and should) be created for resolving these
problems, like
svn copy svn+ssh://svn.python.org/python/trunk -r46640 svn+ssh://svn.python.org/python/branches/NEW_BRANCH
followed by merging rev 46647 to the new branch.
- Following Guido's comments, renamed
* pack_to -> pack_into
* recv_buf -> recv_into
* recvfrom_buf -> recvfrom_into
- Made fixes to _struct.c according to Neal Norwitz comments on the checkins
list.
- Converted some ints into the appropriate -- I hope -- ssize_t and size_t.
Fix by renaming the variable.
In a different module, Neal fixed it by renaming _self to self. There's
already a variable named 'self' here, so I used selfptr.
(I'm committing this on a Mac without Tk, but it's a simple search-and-replace.
<crosses fingers>, so I'll watch the buildbots and see what happens.)
Renames functional extension module to _functools and adds a Python
functools module so that utility functions like update_wrapper can be
added easily.
