Here is my current version of xmllib.py and the documentation. This
version has some API changes with respect to the version currently in
Python (also the one in 1.5.2a).
This version supports XML namespaces.
File names with "funny" characters get translated wrong by
pathname2url (any variety). E.g. the (Unix) file "/ufs/sjoerd/#tmp"
gets translated into "/ufs/sjoerd/#tmp" which, when interpreted as a
URL is file "/ufs/sjoerd/" with fragment ID "tmp".
Here's an easy fix. (An alternative fix would be to change the
various implementations of pathname2url and url2pathname to include
calls to quote and unquote.
[The main problem is with the normal use of URLs:
url = url2pathname(file)
transmit url
url, tag = splittag(url)
urlopen(url)
]
In addition, this patch fixes some uses of unquote:
- the host part of URLs should be unquoted
- the file path in the FTP URL should be unquoted before it is split
into components.
- because of the latter, I removed all unquoting from ftpwrapper,
and moved it to the caller, but that is not essential
when we create a recursive instance, by setting the class variable
'FieldStorageClass' to the desired class. By default, this is set to
None, in which case we use self.__class__ (as before).
When literal mode is entered it should exit automatically when the
matching close tag of the last unclosed open tag is encountered. This
patch fixes this.
In SimpleHTTPServer.py, the server specified in test() should
be BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer, in case the request handler should
want to reference the two attributes added by
BaseHTTPServer.server_bind:
self.server_name = hostname
self.server_port = port
There was some Bobo CGI code that wanted access to those attributes.
In CGIHTTPServer.py, the list of acceptable formats is -split-
on spaces but -joined- on commas, resulting in double commas
in the joined text. It appears harmless to my browser but
ought to be fixed anyway.
'A, B, C' -> 'A,', 'B,', 'C,' -> 'A,,B,,C'
Because it might be a common mistake to pass a single string, this
situation is treated separately.
Since we were making a copy of the longopts list anyway, we now use
the list() function -- this made it necessary to change all uses of
the local variable (and argument) 'list' to something more meaningful,
i.e., 'opts'.
Also added docstrings (copied from the library manual) and removed the
(now redundant) module comments.
filenames generated are easily predictable, it is possible to trick an
unsuspecting program into overwriting another file by creating a
symbolic link with the predicted name. Fix this by using the
low-level os.open() function with the O_EXCL flag and mode 0700. On
non-Unix platforms, presumably there are no symbolic links so the
problem doesn't exist. The explicit test for Unix (posix, actually)
makes it possible to change the non-Unix logic to work without a
try-except clause.
The mktemp() file is as unsafe as ever.
"""
I've attached a long overdue patch to pickle.py to bring it to format
1.3, which is the same as 1.2 except that the binary float format
is supported. This is done using the new platform-indepent format
features of struct.
This patch also gets rid of the undocumented obsolete Pickler
dump_special method.
"""
"""
Jochen Hayek has reported a problem with some versions of IMAP4
servers that choose to mix the case in their CAPABILITIES response.
The patch below fixes the problem.
"""
"""
The FieldStorage constructor calls the read_multi method. The read_multi
method creates new FieldStorage objects, re-invoking the constructor
(on the new objects). The problem is that the 'environ', 'keep_blank_values',
and 'strict_parsing' arguments originally passed to the constructor are not
propigated to the new object constructors. This causes os.environ to be used,
leading to a miss-handling of the parts.
I fixed this by passing these arguments to read_multi and then on to the
constructor. See the context diff below.
"""
assign the exception info to sys.last_{type,value,traceback}. That
way, an introspective Tkinter app can inspect its own stack trace.
(The controversy is that it would keep some objects alive, but that's
probably no big deal.)
Fix bug in NoDefaultRoot() -- _default_root wasn't declared global;
and made it reentrant.
Don't set _default_root to whatever master gets passed in to
BaseWidget._setup() (only set it when we need to create a new Tk()
widget).
there's a syntax error. (In particular, display the correct
filename). This changes the API: if there's a syntax error, the
function now returns normally after dumping the error to sys.stderr.
I changed Sjoerd's use of string.join(string.split(...)) with
string.replace().
Added a debug function to replace 'print' statements.
Ensured that response attached to 'NO' replies is passed back.
added readonly exception.
Rearranged method order into types.
Ensure select returns a meaningful error on 'NO'.
'NO' returns from authenticate and login raise error with last message,
not list.
1. Generate a correct Content-Length header visible through the info() method
if a request to open an FTP URL gets a length in the response to RETR.
2. Take a third argument to urlretrieve() that makes it possible to progress-
meter an urlretrieve call (this is what I needed the above change for).
See the second patch band below for details.
3. To avoid spurious errors, I commented out the gopher test. The target
document no longer exists.
InteractiveInterpreter, which handles parsing and interpreter state
but doesn't know deal with buffering or prompting or input file
naming. And a derived class, InteractiveConsole, which adds buffering
and prompting and supports setting the filename once. Also tweak the
algorithm in compile_command() a bit so that input consisting of all
blank lines or comments always succeeds immediately, and note the fact
that apart from SyntaxError it can also raise OverflowError.
Windows. If sys.stdin doesn't appear to be a real file (characterized
by having a working fileno()), don't use any console specific methods
-- go straight to the default.
function is only used when running the calibration code, and it turns
out that recent changes in the timing code caused this statement to
raise an exception.
there's an __getinitargs__() method), if a TypeError occurs, catch and
reraise it but add info to the error about the class name being
instantiated. This makes debugging a lot easier if __getinitargs__()
returns something bogus (e.g. a string instead of a singleton tuple).
and without a message number argument: the argument was called 'msg'
but the code expected it to be called 'which'. In line with the other
methods, I've renamed the argument to 'which', and adapted the doc
string not to refer to 'msg'.
pdb.py Uses the Breakpoint class so one can enable/disable breakpoints,
set temporary ones, set ignore counts, and conditions. The last
can be set using the 'b' command
b 243 , i>4 ( b 243,i>4 if you are space adverse)
or with the condition command so conditions can be changed
for a particular breakpoint.
Breakpoints are numbered from 1 on, and if a breakpoint is deleted,
the number is not reused. All the breakpoint handling commands
refer to breakpoints by number. To be consistent, the clear command
does so as well, which is the one change from the original pdb that
is not transparent. Thus only the breakpoint command 'b' uses a
line number or file:line or method. You can also give
b whrandom.random and the method will be searched for along
sys.path. This is implemented with an 'egrep' command and so
is not as portable as it might be. [ see lineinfo() and
lineinfoCmd ]
Breakpoints cannot be set at a line that is blank or a '#' comment
or starts a triply quoted comment. This is because I would like
this behavior in my DDD interface and think it reasonable for
pdb as well. It can be removed readily, however as it is all
incorporated in the routine checkline(). If one attempts to
set a breakpoint at a 'def' line, the breakpoint is automatically
moved to the first executable line after the 'def'. This too is
in checkline().
do_EOF() returns zero so typing an end-of-file character as a command
does nothing. 'quit' does the quitting.
The routine defaultFile() is present so as to preserve the current
pdb behavior and yet allow me to override it in pydb.
There's some code in lineinfo() that is probably mainly useful only
for pydb and if you prefer, much up to the comment "Best first guess"
could be removed.
Keith Davidson provided the code for handling $HOME/.pdbrc and
./.pdbrc, and it has been incorporated. He also provided the
alias handling routine. I modified it a bit so it could live
nicely in precmd(). He and I have been in contact; he has the
new pdb (and pydb) with his code incorporated. He also asked
about the possibility of allowing multiple commands on one
line, such as step;step or s;s or with an alias such as
alias ct tbreak %1 ; continue
and since it was so easy, that's in place as well. It's a simple
'split the line at the first ";"' operation and puts the second
half in the command queue (self.cmdqueue). This has the unfortunate
effect of destroying a line like print "i: "+i+"; j: "+j
but either there's a simple way to deal with this, or my attitude
will remain that pdb is a debugger, not a compiler/parser/etc.
An alias like alias 4s s;;s;
will work because the adjacent and trailing ";" act like a <cr> which
repeats the last command. Of course, either s;s;s;s or s;;; would be
a bit more sensible.
The help commands have been updated.
bdb.py now has a class definition called Breakpoint along with
associated methods. There's no reason why this class has to
be there; if you prefer it elsewhere, 'tis easily done.
(Minor reformatting by GvR; e.g. moved Breakpoint's doc string to
proper point.)
cmd.py has incorporated the changes we discussed a couple of weeks ago
(a command queue, returning line from precmd, and stop from postcmd)
and some changes to help that were occasioned because I wanted to
inherit from pdb which inherits from cmd.py and the help routine
didn't look for commands or the associated help deeply enough.
1. use dict.get instead of try/except KeyError
2. if the url scheme is 'http' then avoid the series of
'if var in [someseq]:'. instead, inline all of the code.
3. find = string.find
1) I added a command queue which is helpful to me (at least so far) and
would also allow syntax like 's;s' (step; step) in conjunction with precmd
2) doc_leader allows the derived class to print a message before the help
output. Defaults to current practise of a blank line
3) nohelp allows one to override the 'No help on' message. I need
'Undefined command: "%s". Try "help".'
4) Pass line to self.precmd to allow one to do some parsing: change first
word to lower case, strip out a leading number, whatever.
5) Pass the result of onecmd and the input line to postcmd. This allows
one to ponder the stop result before it is effective.
6) emptyline() requires a if self.lastcmd: conditional because if the
first command is null (<cr>), you get an infinite recursion with the
code as it stands.
by the new '-x' arguments, losing the previous items. Thus,
test_support, test_b1 & test_b2 are executed (and warnings issued).
(Discovered by Vladimir Marangozov.)
instead of a list, turn it into a list containing that string. This
avoids an apparently common newbie mistake -- passing in a single
string for the destination and have it treated as a sequence of
characters.
displays funny characters, like spaces or control characters, more
clearly (one of my pet peeves in error messages). Also only suppress
the filename if it is None; display it if it is '', since that would
be a genuine (illegal) filename passed in!
