Add definitions of INT_MAX and LONG_MAX to pyport.h.
Remove includes of limits.h and conditional definitions of INT_MAX
and LONG_MAX elsewhere.
This closes SourceForge patch #101659 and bug #115323.
Add three new convenience functions to the PyModule_*() family:
PyModule_AddObject(), PyModule_AddIntConstant(), PyModule_AddStringConstant().
This closes SourceForge patch #101233.
python-dev discussion.
This should catch future version incompatibilities on Windows. Alas,
this doesn't help for 1.5 vs. 1.6; but it will help for 1.6 vs. 2.0.
Here's a patch which changes modsupport to add 'u' and 'u#',
to support building Unicode objects from a null-terminated
Py_UNICODE *, and a Py_UNICODE * with length, respectively.
[Conversion from 'U' to 'u' by Fred, based on python-dev comments.]
Note that the use of None for NULL values of the Py_UNICODE* value is
still in; I'm not sure of the conclusion on that issue.
The MS compiler doesn't call it 'long long', it uses __int64,
so a new #define, LONG_LONG, has been added and all occurrences
of 'long long' are replaced with it.
This is a bit of a hack: when the shared library is loaded, the module
name is "package.module", but the module calls Py_InitModule*() with just
"module" for the name. The shared library loader squirrels away the true
name of the module in _Py_PackageContext, and Py_InitModule*() will
substitute this (if the name actually matches).
Py_Initmodule(), which is a macro wrapper around it).
The return value is now a NULL pointer if the initialization failed.
This may make old modules fail with a SEGFAULT, since they don't
expect this kind of failure. That's OK, since (a) it "never" happens,
and (b) they would fail with a fatal error otherwise, anyway.
Tons of extension modules should now check the return value of
Py_Initmodule*() -- that's on my TODO list.
