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15 years agobump version to 2.7a3 v2.7a3
Benjamin Peterson [Sat, 6 Feb 2010 16:37:32 +0000 (16:37 +0000)]
bump version to 2.7a3

15 years agoReview sysconfig docs.
Georg Brandl [Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:23:16 +0000 (10:23 +0000)]
Review sysconfig docs.

15 years ago#7864: make deprecation notices a bit clearer.
Georg Brandl [Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:08:21 +0000 (10:08 +0000)]
#7864: make deprecation notices a bit clearer.

15 years agoissue #7728: test_timeout was using a hardcoded port, which was
R. David Murray [Sat, 6 Feb 2010 04:27:21 +0000 (04:27 +0000)]
issue #7728: test_timeout was using a hardcoded port, which was
causing buildbot failures.  Changed to use test_support.bind_port.
Patch by Florent Xicluna.

15 years agounittest.TestLoader creates a TestSuite before calling load_tests. Issue 7799.
Michael Foord [Sat, 6 Feb 2010 00:22:26 +0000 (00:22 +0000)]
unittest.TestLoader creates a TestSuite before calling load_tests. Issue 7799.

15 years agotest_logging: minor tweaks to timeouts, listening tests marked as skipped.
Vinay Sajip [Fri, 5 Feb 2010 23:43:11 +0000 (23:43 +0000)]
test_logging: minor tweaks to timeouts, listening tests marked as skipped.

15 years agoMinor doc change.
Michael Foord [Fri, 5 Feb 2010 23:28:12 +0000 (23:28 +0000)]
Minor doc change.

15 years agoCorrection to docstring correction.
Michael Foord [Fri, 5 Feb 2010 23:22:37 +0000 (23:22 +0000)]
Correction to docstring correction.

15 years agoImproving docstrings in unittest.TestCase
Michael Foord [Fri, 5 Feb 2010 22:55:09 +0000 (22:55 +0000)]
Improving docstrings in unittest.TestCase

15 years agoAdding versionadded to test skipping section of unittest documentation.
Michael Foord [Fri, 5 Feb 2010 21:45:12 +0000 (21:45 +0000)]
Adding versionadded to test skipping section of unittest documentation.

15 years agoExample of using assertRaises as a context manager in the unittest documentation.
Michael Foord [Fri, 5 Feb 2010 21:07:38 +0000 (21:07 +0000)]
Example of using assertRaises as a context manager in the unittest documentation.

15 years agoCloses issue 7030.
Michael Foord [Fri, 5 Feb 2010 20:52:14 +0000 (20:52 +0000)]
Closes issue 7030.

15 years agoResolve bug 7847 by including documentation for -J, -U, and -X under "Options
Barry Warsaw [Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:45:25 +0000 (18:45 +0000)]
Resolve bug 7847 by including documentation for -J, -U, and -X under "Options
you shouldn't use".

15 years agoIssue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
Antoine Pitrou [Fri, 5 Feb 2010 17:05:54 +0000 (17:05 +0000)]
Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
and read operations on write-only file objects.  On Windows, the system C
library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash
the interpreter.  Patch by Stefan Krah.

15 years agoIssue #7857: test_logging: listener tests disabled for now.
Vinay Sajip [Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:40:20 +0000 (15:40 +0000)]
Issue #7857: test_logging: listener tests disabled for now.

15 years agoIssue #7857: test_logging: listener test now uses find_unused_port().
Vinay Sajip [Fri, 5 Feb 2010 14:52:05 +0000 (14:52 +0000)]
Issue #7857: test_logging: listener test now uses find_unused_port().

15 years agonormalize exceptions passed to the __exit__ method #7853
Benjamin Peterson [Fri, 5 Feb 2010 02:12:14 +0000 (02:12 +0000)]
normalize exceptions passed to the __exit__ method #7853

In Python 2.x, exceptions in finally blocks are not normalized.  Since with
statements are implemented using finally blocks, ceval.c had to be tweaked to
distinguish between with finally blocks and normal ones.

A test for the finalization of generators containing with statements was also
added.

15 years agoadd a test for #7853; the exception must be normalized for with
Benjamin Peterson [Fri, 5 Feb 2010 01:53:27 +0000 (01:53 +0000)]
add a test for #7853; the exception must be normalized for with

15 years agoAdded unit test for cfg:// resolution.
Vinay Sajip [Thu, 4 Feb 2010 21:40:56 +0000 (21:40 +0000)]
Added unit test for cfg:// resolution.

15 years agoIssue #7851: logging: clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip [Thu, 4 Feb 2010 20:23:45 +0000 (20:23 +0000)]
Issue #7851: logging: clarification on logging configuration files.

15 years agoIssue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Antoine Pitrou [Thu, 4 Feb 2010 20:20:18 +0000 (20:20 +0000)]
Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
type is specified.  Patch by Brian Curtin.

15 years agoRemoved spurious print statement.
Vinay Sajip [Thu, 4 Feb 2010 20:18:28 +0000 (20:18 +0000)]
Removed spurious print statement.

15 years agoUse correct assert* methods in the examples.
Ezio Melotti [Thu, 4 Feb 2010 20:06:38 +0000 (20:06 +0000)]
Use correct assert* methods in the examples.

15 years agoLogging: Implemented PEP 391.
Vinay Sajip [Thu, 4 Feb 2010 18:48:53 +0000 (18:48 +0000)]
Logging: Implemented PEP 391.

15 years agoAdd Chris Rebert to ACKS for issue 6760 Popen doc improvements.
R. David Murray [Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:33:31 +0000 (16:33 +0000)]
Add Chris Rebert to ACKS for issue 6760 Popen doc improvements.

15 years agoIssue 6760: Clarify args handling for subprocess.Popen. Patch by Chris Rebert
Nick Coghlan [Thu, 4 Feb 2010 12:43:58 +0000 (12:43 +0000)]
Issue 6760: Clarify args handling for subprocess.Popen. Patch by Chris Rebert

15 years agoFix a typo in a docstring introduced in r77956.
Brett Cannon [Wed, 3 Feb 2010 22:13:44 +0000 (22:13 +0000)]
Fix a typo in a docstring introduced in r77956.

15 years agoUpdate a docstring to suggest using importlib.import_module instead of calling __impo...
Brett Cannon [Wed, 3 Feb 2010 22:11:54 +0000 (22:11 +0000)]
Update a docstring to suggest using importlib.import_module instead of calling __import__ directly.

15 years agoFix test_inspect.py data to match recent change to inspect_fodder.py (r77942).
Mark Dickinson [Wed, 3 Feb 2010 16:50:14 +0000 (16:50 +0000)]
Fix test_inspect.py data to match recent change to inspect_fodder.py (r77942).

15 years agoleaving global attributes for backward compat
Tarek Ziadé [Wed, 3 Feb 2010 15:38:12 +0000 (15:38 +0000)]
leaving global attributes for backward compat

15 years agoCorrected list of attributes exposed by sys.getwindowsversion.
Eric Smith [Wed, 3 Feb 2010 14:17:50 +0000 (14:17 +0000)]
Corrected list of attributes exposed by sys.getwindowsversion.

15 years agoExplicitly mention the default value for formatdate's usegmt parameter.
R. David Murray [Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:36:23 +0000 (13:36 +0000)]
Explicitly mention the default value for formatdate's usegmt parameter.

15 years ago#7092: Silence more py3k warnings. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Ezio Melotti [Wed, 3 Feb 2010 05:37:26 +0000 (05:37 +0000)]
#7092: Silence more py3k warnings. Patch by Florent Xicluna.

15 years agoAdd various items
Andrew M. Kuchling [Wed, 3 Feb 2010 02:19:14 +0000 (02:19 +0000)]
Add various items

15 years agoadded a note in the whatsnew file for sysconfig
Tarek Ziadé [Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:39:40 +0000 (23:39 +0000)]
added a note in the whatsnew file for sysconfig

15 years agofixed a typo on distutils.sysconfig. thanks arfever
Tarek Ziadé [Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:55:00 +0000 (22:55 +0000)]
fixed a typo on distutils.sysconfig. thanks arfever

15 years agosysconfig.get_scheme_names now returns a sorted tuple
Tarek Ziadé [Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:54:28 +0000 (22:54 +0000)]
sysconfig.get_scheme_names now returns a sorted tuple

15 years agomodule reorganization + missing doctests
Tarek Ziadé [Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:50:23 +0000 (22:50 +0000)]
module reorganization + missing doctests

15 years agoIssue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when
Antoine Pitrou [Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:36:17 +0000 (22:36 +0000)]
Issue #7385: Fix a crash in `MemoryView_FromObject` when
`PyObject_GetBuffer` fails.  Patch by Florent Xicluna.

15 years agofirst version of the sysconfig module documentation
Tarek Ziadé [Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:27:58 +0000 (22:27 +0000)]
first version of the sysconfig module documentation

15 years ago#7092: Silence py3k warnings in test_exceptions and test_pep352. Patch by Florent...
Ezio Melotti [Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:34:37 +0000 (17:34 +0000)]
#7092: Silence py3k warnings in test_exceptions and test_pep352. Patch by Florent Xicluna.

15 years agoFix idioms and a couple of py3k warnings. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Ezio Melotti [Tue, 2 Feb 2010 15:57:45 +0000 (15:57 +0000)]
Fix idioms and a couple of py3k warnings. Patch by Florent Xicluna.

15 years agoSilence a couple of -3 warnings
Ezio Melotti [Tue, 2 Feb 2010 15:12:42 +0000 (15:12 +0000)]
Silence a couple of -3 warnings

15 years ago#7092: silence py3k warnings for bsddb. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Ezio Melotti [Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:37:35 +0000 (08:37 +0000)]
#7092: silence py3k warnings for bsddb. Patch by Florent Xicluna.

15 years agoAdd various items
Andrew M. Kuchling [Mon, 1 Feb 2010 02:04:26 +0000 (02:04 +0000)]
Add various items

15 years agoMerged revisions 77855-77856,77870 via svnmerge from
Martin v. Löwis [Mon, 1 Feb 2010 01:15:39 +0000 (01:15 +0000)]
Merged revisions 77855-77856,77870 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/sandbox/trunk/2to3/lib2to3

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  r77855 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-01-30 17:32:05 +0100 (Sa, 30 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  don't return node if it is not changed
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  r77856 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-01-30 17:35:29 +0100 (Sa, 30 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  return None to indicate no change
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  r77870 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-01-31 02:21:26 +0100 (So, 31 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  never return the original node given to transform()
........

15 years agoIssue #7819: Check sys.call_tracing() arguments types.
Victor Stinner [Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:32:15 +0000 (22:32 +0000)]
Issue #7819: Check sys.call_tracing() arguments types.

py3k was already patched by issue #3661.

15 years ago- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Antoine Pitrou [Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:26:04 +0000 (22:26 +0000)]
- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
  file position when calling `truncate()`.  It would previously change the
  file position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
  ftruncate() and other truncation APIs.  Patch by Pascal Chambon.

15 years agoMinor modification to unittest documentation.
Michael Foord [Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:59:26 +0000 (19:59 +0000)]
Minor modification to unittest documentation.

15 years agoFix-up ftplib documentation:
Georg Brandl [Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:51:49 +0000 (18:51 +0000)]
Fix-up ftplib documentation:
move exception descriptions to toplevel, not inside a class
remove attribution in "versionadded"
spell and grammar check docstring of FTP_TLS

15 years agomove distutils.rst to different toc
Benjamin Peterson [Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:09:34 +0000 (18:09 +0000)]
move distutils.rst to different toc

15 years agofix windows buildbot
Benjamin Peterson [Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:02:35 +0000 (18:02 +0000)]
fix windows buildbot

15 years ago- Fix typo in os.execvp docstring.
Matthias Klose [Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:46:26 +0000 (16:46 +0000)]
- Fix typo in os.execvp docstring.

15 years ago- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose [Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:05:13 +0000 (16:05 +0000)]
- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
  PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).

15 years ago#7092: silence more -3 and -Wd warnings
Ezio Melotti [Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:46:54 +0000 (11:46 +0000)]
#7092: silence more -3 and -Wd warnings

15 years agobe robust against test being run over and over (such as -R)
Benjamin Peterson [Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:28:38 +0000 (23:28 +0000)]
be robust against test being run over and over (such as -R)

15 years agomove test outside WITH_THREAD section
Benjamin Peterson [Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:26:05 +0000 (23:26 +0000)]
move test outside WITH_THREAD section

15 years ago#7802: fix invalid example (heh).
Georg Brandl [Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:57:48 +0000 (17:57 +0000)]
#7802: fix invalid example (heh).

15 years agoUse the correct markup for args
Ezio Melotti [Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:27:05 +0000 (13:27 +0000)]
Use the correct markup for args

15 years agoRelocate a couple of stars and remove redundant backticks
Ezio Melotti [Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:08:54 +0000 (13:08 +0000)]
Relocate a couple of stars and remove redundant backticks

15 years agoMerged revisions 77419,77435 via svnmerge from
Martin v. Löwis [Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:56:23 +0000 (10:56 +0000)]
Merged revisions 77419,77435 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/sandbox/trunk/2to3/lib2to3

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  r77419 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-01-10 21:39:48 +0100 (So, 10 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  enclose path in quotes to handle paths with spaces correctly #7666
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  r77435 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2010-01-12 01:36:54 +0100 (Di, 12 Jan 2010) | 2 lines

  Issue #1967: Add fixer for dictionary views.
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15 years agoIssue #7767: Add new C-API function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow, a
Mark Dickinson [Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:08:33 +0000 (10:08 +0000)]
Issue #7767: Add new C-API function PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow, a
long long variant of PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow.  Patch by Case Van
Horsen.

15 years ago#7092: silence py3k warnings for deprecated modules
Ezio Melotti [Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:22:54 +0000 (07:22 +0000)]
#7092: silence py3k warnings for deprecated modules

15 years ago#7801: fix xmlrpclib binary example, open the picture in binary mode
Victor Stinner [Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:00:26 +0000 (02:00 +0000)]
#7801: fix xmlrpclib binary example, open the picture in binary mode

15 years agoAdd Victor Stinner.
Martin v. Löwis [Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:15:44 +0000 (00:15 +0000)]
Add Victor Stinner.

15 years agoFix typo in assertSequenceEqual docstring.
R. David Murray [Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:35:39 +0000 (19:35 +0000)]
Fix typo in assertSequenceEqual docstring.

15 years agoIssue #7788: Fix a crash produced by deleting a list slice with huge
Mark Dickinson [Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:11:39 +0000 (17:11 +0000)]
Issue #7788: Fix a crash produced by deleting a list slice with huge
step value.  Patch by Marcin Bachry.

15 years agoChange error report when the object passed to suite.addTest is not
R. David Murray [Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:16:33 +0000 (21:16 +0000)]
Change error report when the object passed to suite.addTest is not
callable to include the repr of the invalid object.

15 years agoavoid a py3k warning from __hash__
Benjamin Peterson [Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:18:25 +0000 (02:18 +0000)]
avoid a py3k warning from __hash__

15 years agoan -> a
Benjamin Peterson [Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:15:02 +0000 (02:15 +0000)]
an -> a

15 years agoavoid to use zlib when the compress type is not ZIP_DEFLATED
Ezio Melotti [Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:41:30 +0000 (01:41 +0000)]
avoid to use zlib when the compress type is not ZIP_DEFLATED

15 years agoadd compat note
Benjamin Peterson [Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:24:46 +0000 (01:24 +0000)]
add compat note

15 years agoIssue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
Antoine Pitrou [Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:59:50 +0000 (20:59 +0000)]
Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal
:class:`zipfile.ZipExtFile` class used to represent files stored inside
an archive.  The new implementation is significantly faster and can
be wrapped in a :class:`io.BufferedReader` object for more speedups.
It also solves an issue where interleaved calls to `read()` and
`readline()` give wrong results.  Patch by Nir Aides.

15 years ago#7765: typos
Ezio Melotti [Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:25:11 +0000 (20:25 +0000)]
#7765: typos

15 years agoIssue #6963: Added maxtasksperchild argument to multiprocessing.Pool
Jesse Noller [Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:05:57 +0000 (03:05 +0000)]
Issue #6963: Added maxtasksperchild argument to multiprocessing.Pool

15 years agoraise a clear TypeError when trying to register a non-class
Benjamin Peterson [Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:16:42 +0000 (02:16 +0000)]
raise a clear TypeError when trying to register a non-class

15 years agofor UserDict to be compatible with abcs, it must subclass object
Benjamin Peterson [Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:15:28 +0000 (02:15 +0000)]
for UserDict to be compatible with abcs, it must subclass object

15 years agoAdded named (but not numbered) attributes to sys.getwindowsversion() test.
Eric Smith [Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:06:25 +0000 (02:06 +0000)]
Added named (but not numbered) attributes to sys.getwindowsversion() test.

15 years agoSwitch to test_support.get_attribute.
Eric Smith [Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:21:15 +0000 (01:21 +0000)]
Switch to test_support.get_attribute.

15 years agoRemoved unneeded test.
Eric Smith [Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:58:43 +0000 (00:58 +0000)]
Removed unneeded test.

15 years agoFix type on getwindowsversion documentation. Thanks Taggnostr.
Eric Smith [Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:55:16 +0000 (00:55 +0000)]
Fix type on getwindowsversion documentation. Thanks Taggnostr.

15 years agoIssue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named tuple and add...
Eric Smith [Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:28:29 +0000 (00:28 +0000)]
Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named tuple and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and product_type.

15 years agoadded local get_platform/set_platform APIs in distutils.sysconfig
Tarek Ziadé [Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:46:15 +0000 (22:46 +0000)]
added local get_platform/set_platform APIs in distutils.sysconfig

15 years agoreintroduced the names in Distutils for APIs that were relocated
Tarek Ziadé [Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:21:54 +0000 (21:21 +0000)]
reintroduced the names in Distutils for APIs that were relocated

15 years agofixed bdist_msi imports and added a test module for distutils.command.bdist_msi
Tarek Ziadé [Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:20:37 +0000 (17:20 +0000)]
fixed bdist_msi imports and added a test module for distutils.command.bdist_msi

15 years ago#7092: fix DeprecationWarnings for json when the tests are run with -3 -Wd.
Ezio Melotti [Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:57:21 +0000 (15:57 +0000)]
#7092: fix DeprecationWarnings for json when the tests are run with -3 -Wd.

15 years agoswitched the call order so this call works without suffering from issue #7774
Tarek Ziadé [Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:19:56 +0000 (23:19 +0000)]
switched the call order so this call works without suffering from issue #7774

15 years agoAdd a news entry for the functions verify and vereq that have been removed in r77729...
Ezio Melotti [Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:37:02 +0000 (12:37 +0000)]
Add a news entry for the functions verify and vereq that have been removed in r77729 and r77731

15 years ago#7775: fixed docstring for rpartition
Ezio Melotti [Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:24:37 +0000 (11:24 +0000)]
#7775: fixed docstring for rpartition

15 years agoAdded a note about Event.is_set() syntax being new to 2.6
Facundo Batista [Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:15:01 +0000 (06:15 +0000)]
Added a note about Event.is_set() syntax being new to 2.6

15 years agocompare types with is not ==
Benjamin Peterson [Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:58:21 +0000 (03:58 +0000)]
compare types with is not ==

15 years agomention from_float() in error message
Benjamin Peterson [Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:52:52 +0000 (03:52 +0000)]
mention from_float() in error message

15 years agofix an UnboundLocalError when the release file is empty #7773
Benjamin Peterson [Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:31:13 +0000 (03:31 +0000)]
fix an UnboundLocalError when the release file is empty #7773

15 years ago#7269: fix failures in test_bsddb3. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Ezio Melotti [Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:47:59 +0000 (21:47 +0000)]
#7269: fix failures in test_bsddb3. Patch by Florent Xicluna.

15 years agoremove archaic functions from test_support
Ezio Melotti [Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:48:35 +0000 (20:48 +0000)]
remove archaic functions from test_support

15 years agouse assert[Not]IsInstance where appropriate
Ezio Melotti [Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:58:36 +0000 (16:58 +0000)]
use assert[Not]IsInstance where appropriate

15 years agoFixed #7748: now upload and register commands don't need to force the encoding anymor...
Tarek Ziadé [Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:33:32 +0000 (00:33 +0000)]
Fixed #7748: now upload and register commands don't need to force the encoding anymore : DistributionMetada returns utf8 strings

15 years agouse assert[Not]In where appropriate
Ezio Melotti [Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:04:36 +0000 (23:04 +0000)]
use assert[Not]In where appropriate

15 years agodtoa.c fix from upstream that fixes incorrectly rounded results for certain subnormal...
Mark Dickinson [Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:25:53 +0000 (21:25 +0000)]
dtoa.c fix from upstream that fixes incorrectly rounded results for certain subnormals that are also halfway cases.

15 years agoIssue #7743: Add checks for zero inputs to the lshift and mult functions;
Mark Dickinson [Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:48:56 +0000 (20:48 +0000)]
Issue #7743:  Add checks for zero inputs to the lshift and mult functions;
this fixes the first bug described in issue #7743.