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PEP: 42
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Title: Small Feature Requests
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Version: $Revision$
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Author: Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@beopen.com>
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Status: Active
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Type: Informational
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Created: 12-Sep-2000
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Introduction
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This PEP contains a list of small feature requests that may be
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considered for future versions of Python. Large feature requests
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are not included here, but are described in separate PEPs. See
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pep-0000.txt for details.
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2000-09-15 15:27:09 -04:00
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Core Language / Builtins
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2000-09-15 14:56:47 -04:00
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- A builtin function that returns the number of bytes an object
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uses internally. Apparently mxTools has a sizeof function that
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returns the size of the object struct itself.
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http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110835&group_id=5470
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2000-09-15 15:22:22 -04:00
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- Add C API functions to help Windows users who are building
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embedded applications where the FILE * structure does not match
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the FILE * the interpreter was compiled with.
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http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110821&group_id=5470
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See this bug report for a specific suggestion that will allow a
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Borland C++ builder application to interact with a python.dll
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build with MSVC.
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2000-09-15 15:27:09 -04:00
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Standard Library
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- The urllib module should support proxies which require
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authenication. See SourceForge bug #110619 for information:
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http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110619&group_id=5470
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- Support passive FTP via urllib
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http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110848&group_id=5470
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2000-09-15 16:04:01 -04:00
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- Use objects with attributes in place of tuples of values for
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return values in several places in the library. Two specific
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APIs which could use this treatment include os.stat() and
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os.statvfs(); see SourceForge bug #111481:
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http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=111481&group_id=5470
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which shows very specifically why this approach is better than
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the tuple approach: additional attributes can be added as needed
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without having as detrimental an affect on existing code.
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- os.rename() should be modified to handle EXDEV errors on
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platforms that don't allow rename() to operate across filesystem
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boundaries by copying the file over and removing the original.
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Linux is one system that requires this treatment.
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http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=112317&group_id=5470
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Tools
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- IDLE should reload & recompile modules changed externally. To
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be done properly, scripts will have to be run in a separate
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process.
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http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=110841&group_id=5470
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Local Variables:
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mode: indented-text
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indent-tabs-mode: nil
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