Not all code has been fixed yet; this is just a checkpoint...
The C API still has PyDict_HasKey() and _HasKeyString(); not sure
if I want to change those just yet.
cPickle cannot be imported. This was necessary because my last mass
checkin broke cPickle and I don't feel like debugging it right now;
but it seems a good idea in general not to require cPickle when
pickle.py is also there. A few unrelated fixes for issues while
debigging various test failures.
setup.py: disable building of cPickle until I've fixed it
Objects/...
genobject.c: disallow raising string exceptions
Lib/...
Cookie.py: fix doctest not to fail if cPickle is missing
ctypes/macholib/dyld.py: fix relative imports
sqlite3/__init__.py: fix relative import
xml/dom/__init__.py: fix relative import
Lib/test/...
regrtest.py: reduce list of skipped items on darwin
test_generators.py: don't test string exceptions; test throw() errors
test_traceback.py: don't test string exceptions
pickletester.py: don't fail if cPickle is missing
test_datetime.py: don't fail if cPickle is missing
test_descr.py: don't fail if cPickle is missing (still some other failures)
test_exceptions.py: don't fail if cPickle is missing
test_re.py: don't fail if cPickle is missing
test_array.py: use pickle, not cPickle
test_bool.py: don't fail if cPickle is missing
test_deque.py: use pickle, not cPickle
test_logging.py: use pickle, not cPickle
and test_support.run_classtests() into run_unittest()
and use it wherever possible.
Also don't use "from test.test_support import ...", but
"from test import test_support" in a few spots.
From SF patch #662807.
raising an exception. This is consistent with calling the
constructors for the other builtin types -- called without argument
they all return the false value of that type. (SF patch #724135)
Thanks to Alex Martelli.
imports e.g. test_support must do so using an absolute package name
such as "import test.test_support" or "from test import test_support".
This also updates the README in Lib/test, and gets rid of the
duplicate data dirctory in Lib/test/data (replaced by
Lib/email/test/data).
Now Tim and Jack can have at it. :)
[ 400998 ] experimental support for extended slicing on lists
somewhat spruced up and better tested than it was when I wrote it.
Includes docs & tests. The whatsnew section needs expanding, and arrays
should support extended slices -- later.
Change pickling format for bools to use a backwards compatible
encoding. This means you can pickle True or False on Python 2.3
and Python 2.2 or before will read it back as 1 or 0. The code
used for pickling bools before would create pickles that could
not be read in previous Python versions.
Guido van Rossum