I just did a bunch of research into trying to find out if using strdup()
in a patch was reasonable. I finally grepped enough to find strdup in
pyconfig.h and configure.in . But that leads to a Brett Newbie Question.
Does there happen to be a better way to find out what functions we check
for beyond grepping configure.in? The entire reason I bothered to do so
much research is I thought we were only supposed to assume ANSI C with
POSIX (which, from what I can tell, strdup() is not). But …
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Googling and grepping I discovered the meaning of AC_REPLACE_FUNCS()
which strdup was being called in configure.in . I would never have
known strdup was available to me for code had I not randomly come across
this patch and done all of this research.
Because of this I would like to list in the Python development guide I
am writing up all of the places one can check for info; what
configure.in checks for or handles and pyport.h come to mind. It would
be nice to have a place that lists all the places one can check for C
functionality that are not in the Python/C API directly. If people have
other places in the code that one should check please let me know so I
can make sure it makes it into the doc and prevents me from having to
come up with another Brett Newbie Question. =)
-Brett
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I have a patch (DBCursor.get_current_size(), returns size of data for
current entry) which I'd like to submit. This involves changes to
pybsddb cvs as well as python cvs, from what I can tell (for tests and
docs in the pybsddb repo).
While I have developer access to pybsddb, I don't have it for Python.
Submitting patches for two different repositories seems cumbersome, so
where should I add it? Python SF tracker?
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