revamped README; the usual elsewhere...

BUGS

-*** See the ChangeLog file for bugs fixed since 1.2 BETA 2 ***
-
-Sorry, this list does not claim completeness.  If I fixed a bug
-immediately upon receiving the first complaint I usually did not
-nother to make an entry in this file, unless it was a serious bug
-(core dump or infinite loop).
+THIS LIST DOES NOT CLAIM COMPLETENESS.
 
 ==> Status indicators: (-) not fixed; (*) fixed; (?) not sure.
 
 ======================================================================
 
-(-) "f()=0" generates syntax error msg without line number
-
-======================================================================
-
-Known BUGS in 1.2 BETA 1, fixed in 1.2 BETA 2
----------------------------------------------
-
-(*) list slice assignment contains reantrancy bug
-
-(*) range() and xrange() break on Alpha's
-
-(*) interactive use of vars() gives barrage of output due to recursive
-inclusion of '_'
-
-(*) configure.in contains bogus name to check for inet library
-
-Known BUGS in 1.1.1 and 1.2 BETA 3
-----------------------------------
-
-(-) still a memory leak in threads when thread.exit_thread() is used
+Problems that are difficult to solve
+------------------------------------
 
-Problems in 1.1.1 that are difficult to solve
----------------------------------------------
+(-) "f()=0" generates syntax error msg without line number
 
 (-) tkinter seems to leave an exception around sometime which breaks
 unmarshalling code objects [hard to reproduce, have added a trap to
@@ -49,9 +25,6 @@ called [problem: what if other threads are still active?]
 Known portability problems
 --------------------------
 
-(-) tkinter doesn't seem to see any declaration of malloc on sunos
-4.1.3?
-
 (-) arraymodule doesn't compile under Ultrix (FPROTO macro)
 
 (-) makesetup assumes CCC is the C++ compiler -- not portable
@@ -67,6 +40,44 @@ LIBS=/usr/lib/libdld.sl) [hard to test without a HP machine handy]
 BUGS present in 1.1.1 and fixed in 1.2
 --------------------------------------
 
+(*) extraneous fclose() in run_script() in pythonrun.c for .pyc file
+
+(*) __str__ is called if it exists (and then fails) when applying
+str() to a class
+
+(*) mem leaks in inittime() in timemodule.c
+
+(*) mem leak in optimize() in compile.c
+
+(*) mem leak in func_dealloc() in funcobject.c
+
+(*) missing DECREF for result of run_string in exec_statement() in
+ceval.c
+
+(*) missing INCREF in RAISE_EXCEPTION case after gettupleitem() in
+ceval.c
+
+(*) posix.utime gives problems on problems on platforms where struct
+utime members are bitfields
+
+(*) leak in regex module.c:reg_dealloc() -- should free compiled pattern
+
+(*) many uses of macros from <ctype.h> fail with signed characters
+
+(*) compilation on NeXT requires manual editing of the Makefile
+
+(*) tkinter should cast malloc() result
+
+(*) marshal.c (w_object()) triggers GCC bug on DEC Alpha
+
+(*) int/long size bug in range() and xrange() on DEC Alpha
+
+(*) memory leaks in dbm and gdbm modules
+
+(*) refcnt bug in select.select([f], [f], [f])
+
+(*) Should fflush(stdout) before printing traceback to stderr
+
 (*) Linux uses GNU getopt by default which is broken
 
 (*) make sharedinstall references to machdep directory but doesn't
@@ -85,8 +96,8 @@ cmd line forgets a newline
 (*) C-level coerce() doesn't call __coerce__ when it should (and
 similar for __cmp__)
 
-(*) struct module aligns doubles wrongly when compiled with -DDEBUG on
-sparc
+(*) struct module assigns unaligned doubles when compiled with -DDEBUG
+on sparc
 
 (*) memory leak (namebuf) in initmodule2
 
@@ -234,14 +245,15 @@ Bugs found in 1.0.2 and not yet fixed
 -------------------------------------
 
 (?) compiler warnings about argument type of uname() on ULTRIX
-machines (don't know what to do about it)
+machines (don't know what to do about it) [could be fixed by fix for
+bitfields in struct uname]
 
 (?) syntax error for interactive input prints garbage instead of last
 source line on some systems (e.g. AIX) (impossible to test/reproduce)
-!!! I think I've found this one -- a missing INCREF in print_error!
+[I think I've found this one -- a missing INCREF in print_error]
 
 (?) (maybe) a bad .pyc file (with old magic number) causes the .py
-file to be ignored
+file to be ignored [should be fixed by rewrite of import.c]
 
 (?) Sunos4.0.2 / 386 configure bugs:
 	- timelocal instead of mktime
@@ -314,7 +326,7 @@ Bugs found in 1.0.1 and fixed in 1.0.2
 BUGS found in 1.0.0 and not yet fixed
 -------------------------------------
 
-(?) On NeXT, need to define _POSIX_SOURCE.
+(*) On NeXT, need to define _POSIX_SOURCE.
 
 (?) there appears to be something wrong with gcc and -ldl on some
 SunOS 4.1.3 systems

ChangeLog

+Thu Apr  6 16:34:28 1995  Guido van Rossum  <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
+
+	* Objects/classobject.c (instancemethod_compare): change the way
+	instance methods are compared -- don't apply cmpobject() to
+	im_self but do a simple pointer compare
+
+	* Objects/object.c: move counting of free'd objects (#ifdef
+	COUNT_ALLOCS) from DELREF() to UNREF()
+
+	* Include/object.h (_Py_ForgetReference()): add counting of free'd
+	objects (#ifdef COUNT_ALLOCS)
+
+Tue Apr  4 13:53:47 1995  Guido van Rossum  <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
+
+	* Objects/frameobject.c (newframeobject): changed dictlookup()
+	with constant C string arg to mappinglookup() with static Python
+	string (Sjoerd)
+
+Fri Mar 31 12:26:03 1995  Guido van Rossum  <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
+
+	* irix5/tmp/lib/python/lib/frozenmain.c: carried through renaming
+	phase 3
+
+Thu Mar 30 11:44:23 1995  Guido van Rossum  <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
+
+	* README: added warning about bash bug in certain Slackware Linux
+	version
+
+	* Doc/lib*.tex: reorganized into more subject-related chapters;
+	rewritten abstract and introduction
+
+	* Doc/myformat.sty: define \dfn{} as \em instead of \sl
+
+	* Modules/config.c.in: moved decl of realmain() out of #ifdef
+
+	* Python/pythonrun.c (print_error): added fflush(stdout) to
+	print_error() so output doesn't get mangled when stdout and stderr
+	are redirected to the same file
+
+	* Modules/selectmodule.c: fix subtle refcnt bugs with fd2obj
+	arrays (R Lindsay Todd)
+
+	* Include/object.h, Object/{tupleobject.c,stringobject.c},
+	Python/ceval.c: fix ref-count debugging (R Lindsay Todd)
+
+	* Python/sysmodule.c (sys_checkinterval): initialize to 10 as
+	before (major speed up!)
+
+	* Modules/cdmodule.c: use newgetargs; removed sbtoa() and
+	timetoa(); added msftoframe(); added constants that used to be in
+	standard module CD (Sjoerd)
+
+	* Modules/posixmodule.c: added WNOHANG constant
+
+Fri Mar 24 14:55:48 1995  Guido van Rossum  <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
+
+	* Lib/nntplib.py: rename debug() to set_debuglevel() as for
+	ftplib.py
+
+Thu Mar 23 11:10:24 1995  Guido van Rossum  <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
+
+	* Lib/posixfile.py (open): make mode default to 'r' and add
+	optional bufsize
 
 ========================================
 ==> Release 1.2 BETA 4 (21 Mar 1995) <==
@@ -98,7 +161,7 @@ Thu Mar  9 15:06:02 1995  Guido van Rossum  <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
 
 	* configure(.in): added test for CC value not matching cache
 
-	* Modules/tkintermodule.c: add casts to malloc() calls"
+	* Modules/tkintermodule.c: add casts to malloc() calls in
 	tkintermodule.c
 
 	* Moved Demo/bgen, Demo/freeze, Demo/modulator and most of
@@ -176,12 +239,6 @@ Fri Feb 17 12:00:29 1995  Guido van Rossum  <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
 
 Thu Feb 16 11:21:45 1995  Guido van Rossum  <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
 
-	* Lib/tkinter/Tkinter.py (Entry): rename select_view method to
-	view
-
-	* Lib/tkinter/Dialog.py: set widgetName so test for photo in
-	Tkinter works
-
 	* Doc/libshelve.tex: added/reorganized list of restrictions
 
 	* Doc/libsocket.tex: added quick list of new exported symbols
@@ -806,8 +863,6 @@ Mon Jan  2 20:15:39 1995  Guido van Rossum  <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
 	* Modules/Makefile.pre.in (sharedinstall): fix bug (sh can't loop
 	over empty list) when $(SHAREDMODS) is empty
 
-sMon Jan  2 19:35:49 1995  Guido van Rossum  <guido@voorn.cwi.nl>
-
 	* Python/errors.c: added hook for better mac error messages
 
 	* Python/pythonrun.c (run_script): removed extraneous fclose() in

TODO

+(-) many module should export their symbolic constants instead of
+relying on a module written in Python
+
+(-) change regexmodule.c to cooperate with other non-python users and
+to export the symbolic constants
+
+(-) save/restore sys.exc_{type,value,traceback} around except clauses.
+
+(-) don't call class instance's __del__ more than once?????
+
+(-) add "access" to posix?  What name should it have?
+
+(-) add facility to "freeze" lists and dictionaries?
+
+(-) add WNOHANG to posix
+
 (-) support lists in newgetargs()
 
 (-) syntax errors detected during compilation should give line number