Merged revisions 59952-59984 via svnmerge from

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r59952 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-14 02:35:28 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line Issue 1821: configure libffi for amd64 on FreeeBSD. ........ r59953 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-14 06:48:43 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line Update description of float_info ........ r59959 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-14 14:58:05 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line Fix 1698398: Zipfile.printdir() crashed because the format string expected a tuple object of length six instead of a time.struct_time object. ........ r59961 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-14 17:29:16 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line Typo fixes ........ r59962 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-14 17:29:44 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line Markup fix ........ r59963 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-14 17:47:32 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line Add many items ........ r59964 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-14 17:55:32 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line Repair unfinished sentence ........ r59967 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-14 19:02:37 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 5 lines Issue 1820: structseq objects did not work with the % formatting operator or isinstance(t, tuple). Orignal patch (without tests) by Leif Walsh. ........ r59968 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-14 19:07:42 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line Tighten the definition of a named tuple. ........ r59969 | skip.montanaro | 2008-01-14 19:40:20 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 3 lines Better (?) text describing the lack of guarantees provided by qsize(), empty() and full(). ........ r59970 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-14 21:39:59 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line Temporarily revert 59967 until GC can be added. ........ r59971 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-14 21:46:43 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line Small grammar nit ........ r59972 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-14 22:55:56 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 2 lines Typo. ........ r59973 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-14 22:58:15 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 2 lines Remove duplicate entry. ........ r59974 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-01-14 23:46:24 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 12 lines Add rational.Rational as an implementation of numbers.Rational with infinite precision. This has been discussed at http://bugs.python.org/issue1682. It's useful primarily for teaching, but it also demonstrates how to implement a member of the numeric tower, including fallbacks for mixed-mode arithmetic. I expect to write a couple more patches in this area: * Rational.from_decimal() * Rational.trim/approximate() (maybe with different names) * Maybe remove the parentheses from Rational.__str__() * Maybe rename one of the Rational classes * Maybe make Rational('3/2') work. ........ r59978 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-15 06:38:05 -0800 (Tue, 15 Jan 2008) | 8 lines Restore description of sys.dont_write_bytecode. The duplication is intentional -- this paragraph is in a section describing additions to the sys module, and there's a later section that mentions the switch. I think most people scan the what's-new and don't read it in detail, so a bit of duplication is OK. ........ r59984 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-15 09:59:29 -0800 (Tue, 15 Jan 2008) | 3 lines Issue #1786 (by myself): pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call and when creating a recursive instance. ........

Author: gvanrossum

Demo/classes/Rat.py

@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ Glossary
  also :term:`immutable`.
 
  named tuple
- Any tuple-like class whose indexable fields are also accessible with
+ Any tuple subclass whose indexable fields are also accessible with
  named attributes (for example, :func:`time.localtime` returns a
  tuple-like object where the *year* is accessible either with an
  index such as ``t[0]`` or with a named attribute like ``t.tm_year``).

Doc/glossary.rst

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ The following modules are documented in this chapter:
 math.rst
 cmath.rst
 decimal.rst
+rational.rst
 random.rst
 itertools.rst
 functools.rst

Doc/library/numeric.rst

@@ -49,8 +49,9 @@ See the source code for details. The public methods are:
 
 .. method:: Queue.qsize()
 
- Return the approximate size of the queue. Because of multithreading semantics,
- this number is not reliable.
+ Return the approximate size of the queue. Note, qsize() > 0 doesn't
+ guarantee that a subsequent get() will not block, nor will qsize() < maxsize
+ guarantee that put() will not block.
 
 
 .. method:: Queue.put(item[, block[, timeout]])