Merged revisions 59883-59920 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r59887 | neal.norwitz | 2008-01-10 06:42:58 +0100 (Thu, 10 Jan 2008) | 1 line Reword entry, not sure I made it much better though. ........ r59888 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-10 14:37:12 +0100 (Thu, 10 Jan 2008) | 1 line Check for fd of -1 to save fsync() and fstat() call ........ r59891 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-10 19:45:40 +0100 (Thu, 10 Jan 2008) | 1 line Reflow a paragraph, and fix a typo. ........ r59892 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-10 20:15:10 +0100 (Thu, 10 Jan 2008) | 1 line Examples for named tuple subclassing should include __slots__ ........ r59895 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-10 21:37:12 +0100 (Thu, 10 Jan 2008) | 1 line Clarify how to add a field to a named tuple. ........ r59896 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-01-10 22:59:42 +0100 (Thu, 10 Jan 2008) | 12 lines Closing issue1761. Surprising behaviour of the "$" regexp: it matches the end of the string, AND just before the newline at the end of the string:: re.sub('$', '#', 'foo\n') == 'foo#\n#' Python is consistent with Perl and the pcre library, so we just document it. Guido prefers "\Z" to match only the end of the string. ........ r59898 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-11 00:00:01 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line Neaten-up the named tuple docs ........ r59900 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-11 01:23:13 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line Run doctests on the collections module ........ r59903 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-11 02:25:54 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line Doctest results return a named tuple for readability ........ r59904 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-11 03:12:33 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line Comment-out missing constant (from rev 59819) ........ r59905 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-11 03:24:13 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line Have Decimal.as_tuple return a named tuple. ........ r59906 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-11 04:04:50 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line Let most inspect functions return named tuples ........ r59907 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-11 04:20:54 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line Improve usability of the SequenceMatcher by returning named tuples describing match ranges. ........ r59909 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-11 09:04:03 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line Add an important missing blank. ........ r59910 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-11 10:19:11 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 2 lines Guard definition of TIPC_SUB_CANCEL with an #ifdef. ........ r59911 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-11 10:20:58 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 2 lines News entries for rev. 5990[567]. ........ r59912 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-11 10:55:53 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 2 lines Documentation for r5990[3567]. ........ r59913 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-11 13:41:39 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 4 lines The sqlite3 dll, when compiled in debug mode, must be linked with /MDd to use the debug runtime library. Further, the dll will be named sqlite3_d.dll. ........ r59919 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-11 16:38:46 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 6 lines Revert revision 59913, because it was wrong: The sqlite3 dll, when compiled in debug mode, must be linked with /MDd to use the debug runtime library. Further, the dll will be named sqlite3_d.dll. ........ r59920 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-11 16:42:29 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line Removed unused variable ........

--- a/Doc/library/difflib.rst	Fri Jan 11 12:58:40 2008 +0000
+++ b/Doc/library/difflib.rst	Fri Jan 11 16:17:00 2008 +0000
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@
 
    Find longest matching block in ``a[alo:ahi]`` and ``b[blo:bhi]``.
 
-   If *isjunk* was omitted or ``None``, :meth:`get_longest_match` returns ``(i, j,
+   If *isjunk* was omitted or ``None``, :meth:`find_longest_match` returns ``(i, j,
    k)`` such that ``a[i:i+k]`` is equal to ``b[j:j+k]``, where ``alo <= i <= i+k <=
    ahi`` and ``blo <= j <= j+k <= bhi``. For all ``(i', j', k')`` meeting those
    conditions, the additional conditions ``k >= k'``, ``i <= i'``, and if ``i ==
@@ -365,6 +365,9 @@
 
    If no blocks match, this returns ``(alo, blo, 0)``.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 2.6
+      This method returns a :term:`named tuple` ``Match(a, b, size)``.
+
 
 .. method:: SequenceMatcher.get_matching_blocks()