support that's offered.

Manual; the old FrameMaker names no longer apply.

still don't support things like \let^^M=\something, where ^^M could actually be
any active character.  Print a decent warning if we find one we can't handle.

synonyms for macros.  This supports:

	\let\newname = \oldname
	\let\newname\oldname

This is useful sometimes, and can at least avoid real errors at other times.

Ask Guido if you really want to know why.  ;-)

execute bit.... problem discovered by Guido.

Change the way TEXINPUTS gets defined to ensure that the directory containing
the main document file comes before any other dir, to allow documents to have
files that "override" like-named files elsewhere on the search path.  Guido
discovered we needed this.

Bow to font lock.

we have no .c source.

of error when sys.modules isn't there.

to the table of built-in modules.  This should normally be called
*before* Py_Initialize().  When the malloc() or realloc() call fails,
-1 is returned and the existing table is unchanged.

After a similar function by Just van Rossum.

int PyImport_ExtendInittab(struct _inittab *newtab);
int PyImport_AppendInittab(char *name, void (*initfunc)());

need to call PyErr_Clear() when it returns NULL.

need to cxall PyErr_Clear() when it returns NULL.

If the argument is not a dictionary, simply return NULL.  If the
hash() on the key fails, clear the error.

problem was a couple of bugs in the readline implementation.

1. Include the '\n' in the string returned by readline
2. Bug calculating new buffer size in _unread

Also remove unncessary import of StringIO

To: python-list@cwi.nl
Date: 13 May 98 18:33:11 GMT

I think I found a bug in CGIHTTPServer.py.  (Does anyone care? :-)
I was trying to use it as the web server for uploading files.
Python CGI scripts (using the CGI module) that worked for other
servers (e.g., Netscape Enterprise server) hang when run from
CGIHTTPServer.  The problem is that the content type parameters,
in particular the boundary parameter, were not passed through to
the CGI scripts, thus making the MIME parsing code choke.

My simple-minded fix is:

	% diff CGIHTTPServer.py /usr/local/lib/python1.5/CGIHTTPServer.py
	137,140c136
	<           if self.headers.typeheader is None:
	<               env['CONTENT_TYPE'] = self.headers.type
	<           else:
	<               env['CONTENT_TYPE'] = self.headers.typeheader
	---
	>           env['CONTENT_TYPE'] = self.headers.type

Conrad

also supports filenames with multiple spaces in their name :-)

This patch must hold the world record for living in my inbox:

  From: John Ehresman <jehresma@dsg.harvard.edu>
  Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 16:07:11 -0400

He provided a fix for the version that comes with Python 1.3:
ftpmirror.py revision 1.1...  And it was still relevant!

Adapted from code submitted by Just van Rossum.

   PySys_WriteStdout(format, ...)
   PySys_WriteStderr(format, ...)

      The first function writes to sys.stdout; the second to sys.stderr.  When
      there is a problem, they write to the real (C level) stdout or stderr;
      no exceptions are raised (but a pending exception may be cleared when a
      new exception is caught).

      Both take a printf-style format string as their first argument followed
      by a variable length argument list determined by the format string.

      *** WARNING ***

      The format should limit the total size of the formatted output string to
      1000 bytes.  In particular, this means that no unrestricted "%s" formats
      should occur; these should be limited using "%.<N>s where <N> is a
      decimal number calculated so that <N> plus the maximum size of other
      formatted text does not exceed 1000 bytes.  Also watch out for "%f",
      which can print hundreds of digits for very large numbers.

   PySys_WriteStdout(format, ...)
   PySys_WriteStderr(format, ...)

they should have a Repr() function.