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Fix #17967: For ftp urls CWD to target instead of hopping to each directory towards target. This fixes a bug where target is accessible, but parent directories are restricted.
author Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>
date Sat, 01 Jun 2013 08:27:06 -0700
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1 This is Python version 3.3.2
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2 ============================
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4 Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,
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5 2012, 2013 Python Software Foundation. All rights reserved.
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7 Python 3.x is a new version of the language, which is incompatible with the 2.x
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8 line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially
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9 how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed
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10 considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed.
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13 Build Instructions
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14 ------------------
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16 On Unix, Linux, BSD, OSX, and Cygwin:
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20 ./configure
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21 make
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22 make test
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23 sudo make install
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25 This will install Python as python3.
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27 You can pass many options to the configure script; run "./configure --help" to
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28 find out more. On OSX and Cygwin, the executable is called python.exe;
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29 elsewhere it's just python.
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31 On Mac OS X, if you have configured Python with --enable-framework, you should
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32 use "make frameworkinstall" to do the installation. Note that this installs the
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34 set up a symlink in /usr/local/bin.
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36 On Windows, see PCbuild/readme.txt.
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41 mkdir debug
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42 cd debug
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43 ../configure --with-pydebug
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44 make
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45 make test
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47 (This will fail if you *also* built at the top-level directory. You should do a
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48 "make clean" at the toplevel first.)
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51 What's New
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52 ----------
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54 We try to have a comprehensive overview of the changes in the "What's New in
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55 Python 3.3" document, found at
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61 development).
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63 If you want to install multiple versions of Python see the section below
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64 entitled "Installing multiple versions".
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67 Documentation
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85 backported versions of certain key Python 3.x features.
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87 A source-to-source translation tool, "2to3", can take care of the mundane task
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102 memory. To enable these tests, run "make testall".
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108 ./python -m test -v test_whatever
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114 Installing multiple versions
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117 On Unix and Mac systems if you intend to install multiple versions of Python
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