cpython/Misc
Miss Islington (bot) 6f3c2c8d04
[3.13] gh-126180: Remove getopt and optparse deprecation notices (GH-128191)
* Remove getopt and optparse deprecation notices
* Add new docs sections for command line app helper libraries
* Add guidance on choosing a CLI parsing library to the optparse docs
* Link to the new guidance from the argparse and getopt docs
* Reword intro in docs section for superseded stdlib modules
* Reframe the optparse->argparse guide as a migration guide
  rather than as an upgrade guide

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(cherry picked from commit 831b6de6d7)

Co-authored-by: Alyssa Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
2024-12-23 04:40:59 +00:00
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NEWS.d [3.13] gh-126180: Remove getopt and optparse deprecation notices (GH-128191) 2024-12-23 04:40:59 +00:00
rhel7
ACKS [3.13] gh-127303: Add docs for token.EXACT_TOKEN_TYPES (GH-127304) (#127390) 2024-11-30 08:13:13 +00:00
HISTORY [3.13] gh-123492: Remove unnecessary `:func:` parentheses (gh-123493) (#123513) 2024-08-30 20:14:48 +03:00
Porting
README
README.AIX
README.coverity
README.valgrind
SpecialBuilds.txt
coverity_model.c [3.13] Fix typos (#123775) (#123866) 2024-10-07 23:44:31 +02:00
externals.spdx.json [3.13] gh-124448: Update Windows builds to use Tcl/Tk 8.6.15 (GH-125795) 2024-10-21 11:55:15 -05:00
indent.pro
platform_triplet.c gh-114099: Modify preprocessor symbol usage to support older macOS SDKs (GH-118073) 2024-04-19 14:56:33 -04:00
python-config.in bpo-45101: Add consistency in usage message IO between 2 versions of python-config (GH-28162) 2024-02-26 22:04:44 +02:00
python-config.sh.in [3.13] gh-116622: Rename build variable MODULE_LDFLAGS back to LIBPYTHON (GH-122764) (GH-122842) 2024-08-09 14:45:04 -07:00
python-embed.pc.in
python.man [3.13] gh-121101: Document -Wall option (an alias for -Walways) (GH-121102) (#121146) 2024-06-29 13:57:11 +05:30
python.pc.in [3.13] gh-116622: Rename build variable MODULE_LDFLAGS back to LIBPYTHON (GH-122764) (GH-122842) 2024-08-09 14:45:04 -07:00
sbom.spdx.json [3.13] gh-126623: Update libexpat to 2.6.4, make future updates easier (GH-126792) (GH-126796) 2024-11-13 18:56:17 +00:00
stable_abi.toml [3.13] gh-119521: Rename IncompleteInputError to _IncompleteInputError and remove from public API/ABI (GH-119680, GH-120955) (GH-120944) 2024-06-24 20:23:30 +02:00
svnmap.txt
valgrind-python.supp [3.13] gh-121096: Ignore dlopen() leaks in Valgrind suppression file (GH-121097) (#121122) 2024-06-28 11:26:37 +00:00
vgrindefs

README

Python Misc subdirectory
========================

This directory contains files that wouldn't fit in elsewhere.  Some
documents are only of historic importance.

Files found here
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ACKS                    Acknowledgements
HISTORY                 News from previous releases -- oldest last
indent.pro              GNU indent profile approximating my C style
NEWS                    News for this release (for some meaning of "this")
Porting                 Mini-FAQ on porting to new platforms
python-config.in        Python script template for python-config
python.man              UNIX man page for the python interpreter
python.pc.in            Package configuration info template for pkg-config
README                  The file you're reading now
README.AIX              Information about using Python on AIX
README.coverity         Information about running Coverity's Prevent on Python
README.valgrind         Information for Valgrind users, see valgrind-python.supp
SpecialBuilds.txt       Describes extra symbols you can set for debug builds
svnmap.txt              Map of old SVN revs and branches to hg changeset ids,
                        help history-digging
valgrind-python.supp    Valgrind suppression file, see README.valgrind
vgrindefs               Python configuration for vgrind (a generic pretty printer)