type for all functions. However many function call PyArg_Parse() and
need a 0. This is so that when they didn't change anything, the can
do Py_INCREF(args); return args. Reverted this back. For atof(),
there's no reason not to use PyArg_ParseTuple(), so I changed the code
(atoi and atol already used that).
maxsplit which is implemented in string.py but wasn't here. The
reference manual doesn't define what happens when maxsplit is negative
or larger than the number of occurrences, but in either case, I
implemented this as all get replaced. Default value is zero which
replaces all occurrences.
- 'delete' is a C++ keyword; use 'del_table' instead
- apply Py_CHARMASK() to del_table[i] before using it as an index
*** this fixes a bug that was just reported on the list ***
- if the translation didn't make any changes, INCREF and return
the original string
- when del_table is empty or omitted, don't copy the translation
table to a table of ints (should be a bit faster)
Rewrote maketrans() to avoid copying the table (2-3% faster).
performance hit. Urg. Reverted.
strop_joinfields(): re-instate optimizations for lists and tuples, but
support arbitrary other kinds of sequences as well.
- split_whitespace(): slightly better memory ref handling when errors
occur.
- strop_joinfields(): First argument can now be any sequence-protocol
conformant object.
- strop_find(), strop_rfind(): Use PyArg_ParseTuple for optional
arguments
- strop_lower(), strop_upper(): Factor logic into a common function
do_casechange().
- strop_atoi(), strop_atol(): Use PyArg_ParseTuple.
- strop_maketrans(): arguments used to be optional, although the
documentation doesn't reflect this. Make the source conform to the
docs. Arguments are required, but two empty strings will return the
identity translation table.
- General pass fixing up formatting, and checking for return values.
Extended split() (and hence splitfields(), which is the same function)
to support an optional third parameter giving the maximum number of
delimiters to parse.
