* Don't use "Python runtime" anymore to parse command line options or
to get environment variables: pymain_init() is now a strict
separation.
* Use an error message rather than "crashing" directly with
Py_FatalError(). Limit the number of calls to Py_FatalError(). It
prepares the code to handle errors more nicely later.
* Warnings options (-W, PYTHONWARNINGS) and "XOptions" (-X) are now
only added to the sys module once Python core is properly
initialized.
* _PyMain is now the well identified owner of some important strings
like: warnings options, XOptions, and the "program name". The
program name string is now properly freed at exit.
pymain_free() is now responsible to free the "command" string.
* Rename most methods in Modules/main.c to use a "pymain_" prefix to
avoid conflits and ease debug.
* Replace _Py_CommandLineDetails_INIT with memset(0)
* Reorder a lot of code to fix the initialization ordering. For
example, initializing standard streams now comes before parsing
PYTHONWARNINGS.
* Py_Main() now handles errors when adding warnings options and
XOptions.
* Add _PyMem_GetDefaultRawAllocator() private function.
* Cleanup _PyMem_Initialize(): remove useless global constants: move
them into _PyMem_Initialize().
* Call _PyRuntime_Initialize() as soon as possible:
_PyRuntime_Initialize() now returns an error message on failure.
* Add _PyInitError structure and following macros:
* _Py_INIT_OK()
* _Py_INIT_ERR(msg)
* _Py_INIT_USER_ERR(msg): "user" error, don't abort() in that case
* _Py_INIT_FAILED(err)
As stated in PEP 11, 3.4 removes code on Windows platforms where
COMSPEC points to command.com. The w9xpopen project in Visual Studio
was added to support that case, and there was a special case in subprocess
to cover that situation. This change removes the w9xpopen project from
the Visual Studio solution and removes any references to the w9xpopen
executable.
branch: vs2010
tag: tip
user: Brian Curtin <brian@python.org>
date: Sun May 13 16:15:11 2012 -0500
summary: Changes to allow Profile Guided Optimization builds to succeed on VS2010
Steve Dower
Victor Stinner
Nick Coghlan
Zachary Ware
Brian Curtin
Kristján Valur Jónsson