Mailman 3 October 2000 - Python-Dev

Small memory leak in unicodeobject.c
by bwarsaw＠beopen.com Oct. 3, 2000

Oct. 3, 2000

I've found a small memory leak in unicodeobject.c, in the way _PyUnicode_Fini() shuts down. Take a loop such as: -------------------- snip snip -------------------- #include "Python.h" int main(int argc, char** argv) { int i; while (1) { Py_Initialize(); Py_Finalize(); } return 0; } -------------------- snip snip -------------------- and you'll find that unicode_empty leaks. This is because, while _PyUnicode_Fini() decrefs unicode_empty, it never actually … [View More]

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Release candidate followed by feature freeze?
by Martin von Loewis Oct. 3, 2000

Oct. 3, 2000

> It would be hard to sell Python for important applications, > e.g. long-running server processes, if there was a small possibility > that the program could crash through no fault of its own. There is always a small possibility that the program could crash through no faults of its own - i.e. I don't believe that Python is bug free without gc. I'd agree that bugs in the gc are more serious than other bugs. If it turns out that there are serious bugs in 2.0 (whether in the gc or … [View More]

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Suggested change for Setup.in
by bwarsaw＠beopen.com Oct. 3, 2000

Oct. 3, 2000

I have a small suggestion for Modules/Setup.in. On Linux (RH6.1) with the zlib rpm installed, all I need to enable this module is the following line: zlib zlibmodule.c -lz but Setup.in has this suggestion, which I think is too hard for people to figure out what to do: zlib zlibmodule.c -I$(prefix)/include -L$(exec_prefix)/lib -lz The standard build options will already include the right -I and -L flags for this to Just Work. I suggest we make the common case (Linux?) simple, and … [View More]

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Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Lib/test test_pty.py,1.4,1.5
by Jeremy Hylton Oct. 3, 2000

Oct. 3, 2000

Thomas, Thanks for taking care of this. One nit on the checkin procedure, pleae reference the SF bug number when you're fixing a bug. Also, report the revision number of the changed file when you close the bug. Thanks, Jeremy

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Canvas.Canvas.bbox() return value
by Guido van Rossum Oct. 3, 2000

Oct. 3, 2000

Hi Fredrik, Re this bug report: http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110677&group_id=5470 I can take care of the Canvas issues, but I need your advice on bbox(). He's right that the bbox() method the Canvas class in the Canvas module is different from all other bbox() methods: it returns a tuple of tuples ((x1,y1),(x2,y2)) instead of a flat 4-tuple (x,y1,x2,y2). Do you think it's worth not breaking existing code here??? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Lib cgi.py,1.53,1.54
by Fredrik Lundh Oct. 3, 2000

Oct. 3, 2000

> Change first line to #!/usr/bin/env python (really just to test check-in). hmm. cgi.py is a CGI script. according to the Python FAQ, CGI scripts should use an explicit path, not /usr/bin/env: "Note -- *don't* do this for CGI scripts. The $PATH variable for CGI scripts is often very minimal, so you need to use the actual absolute pathname of the interpreter." (since this comes up over and over again, maybe someone should add a comment to the file?) </F>

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ANNOUNCE: Distutils 1.0
by Greg Ward Oct. 3, 2000

Oct. 3, 2000

Python Distribution Utilities release 1.0 October 2, 2000 The Python Distribution Utilities, or Distutils for short, are a collection of modules that aid in the development, distribution, and installation of Python modules. (It is intended that ultimately the Distutils will grow up into a system for distributing and installing whole Python applications, but for now their scope is limited to module distributions.) The Distutils are a … [View More]

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ANNOUNCE: Distutils 1.0
by Greg Ward Oct. 3, 2000

Oct. 3, 2000

Python Distribution Utilities release 1.0 October 2, 2000 The Python Distribution Utilities, or Distutils for short, are a collection of modules that aid in the development, distribution, and installation of Python modules. (It is intended that ultimately the Distutils will grow up into a system for distributing and installing whole Python applications, but for now their scope is limited to module distributions.) The Distutils are a … [View More]

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Development HTML docs online
by Fred L. Drake, Jr. Oct. 3, 2000

Oct. 3, 2000

I've set things up so I can easily "publish" the Python documentation online without actually building a release. It's not entirely automatic, but I can push it online easily, so you'll be able to see what I'm doing. It can include more than just what's in CVS, but I try not to have too much waiting to checkin at once. Check it out: ftp://python.beopen.com/pub/docco/devel/index.html -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at beopen.com> BeOpen PythonLabs Team Member

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Release candidate followed by feature freeze?
by Guido van Rossum Oct. 2, 2000

Oct. 2, 2000

I'm considering to issue a release candidate before the final 2.0 release. I'd like to poll opinions about this (we haven't had a PythonLabs group meeting about this yet). The importance of a release candidate (RC) is twofold: we announce it widely so it (hopefully) gets a lot of testing -- necessary since a lot of things have changed again since beta2; and we impose a checkin stop once the RC is out, with exceptions only allowed by the release manager to fix showstopper bugs found in the RC. … [View More]

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