Miscellaneous Patches

See also Python20CriticalPatches and Python20FrequentlyAskedQuestions.

Library modules

Note these links are invalid since the transition away from cvsweb.

• The mailbox.py module had a last-minute cheese bug. [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/python/python/dist/src/Lib/mailbox.py.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26 Colored Diff] [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/python/python/dist/src/Lib/mailbox.py.diff?r1=1.25&r2=1.26&f=c Context Diff]

• Misc. bugfixes for sre_parse.py [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/python/python/dist/src/Lib/sre_parse.py.diff?r1=1.37&r2=1.38&sortby=date Colored Diff] [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/python/python/dist/src/Lib/sre_parse.py.diff?sortby=date&r1=1.37&r2=1.38&f=c Context Diff]

• Fix typos in UserString.py [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/python/python/dist/src/Lib/UserString.py.diff?r1=1.6&r2=1.7&sortby=date Colored Diff] [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/python/python/dist/src/Lib/UserString.py.diff?sortby=date&r1=1.6&r2=1.7&f=c Context Diff]

• Fix argument count of _cmp() in filecmp.py [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/python/python/dist/src/Lib/filecmp.py.diff?r1=1.6&r2=1.7 Colored Diff] [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/python/python/dist/src/Lib/filecmp.py.diff?r1=1.6&r2=1.7&f=c Context Diff]

Building

• TELL64 problems on BSDI and Mac OSX [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/python/python/dist/src/Objects/fileobject.c.diff?r1=2.91&r2=2.92 Colored Diff] [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/python/python/dist/src/Objects/fileobject.c.diff?r1=2.91&r2=2.92&f=c Context Diff]

• Shared library problems on OpenBSD [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/python/python/dist/src/Python/dynload_shlib.c.diff?r1=2.6&r2=2.7 Colored Diff] [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/python/python/dist/src/Python/dynload_shlib.c.diff?r1=2.6&r2=2.7&f=c Context Diff]

Long file support on Linux

(Not a diff or patch, but worth a mention.)

On some Linux systems, you can enable long support as follows:

• export CC="-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64";
• /configure

But then file.tell() may return negative numbers for positions over 2G, due to an apparent libc bug. As a work-around, change the function _portable_ftell() in Objects/fileobject.c to use the fgetpos() case.