dirs: document performance reasons for bypassing Python C API So someone isn't tempted to change it.

dirs: port PyInt code to work on Python 3 PyIntObject no longer exists in Python 3. Instead, there is PyLongObject. Furthermore, PyInt_AS_LONG is a macro referencing a struct member. PyInt_AS_LONG doesn't exist in Python 3 and PyLong_AS_LONG is a #define for PyLong_AsLong, which is a function. So assigning to the return value of PyLong_AS_LONG doesn't work. This patch introduces a macro for obtaining the value of an integer-like type that works on Python 2 and Python 3. On Python 3, we access the struct field of the underlying PyLongObjet directly, without overflow checking. This is essentially the same as what Python 2 was doing except using a PyLong instead of a PyInt.

dirs: convert PyString to PyBytes PyStringObject was renamed to PyBytes in Python 3 along with the corresponding PyString* functions and macros. PyString* doesn't exist in Python 3. But PyBytes* is an alias to PyString in Python 2. So rewrite PyString* to PyBytes* for Python 2/3 dual compatibility.

dirs: inline string macros The old code happened to work because of how the macro was defined. This no longer works in Python 3. Furthermore, assigning to a macro just feels weird. So just inline the macro.

parsers: use PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT The macro changed slightly in Python 3, introducing curly brackets that somehow confuse Clang into issuing a ton of compiler warnings. Using PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT makes these go away. It's worth noting that the code is identical: the 2nd argument to PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT is assigned to the ob_size field and is inserted immediately after "PyObject_HEAD_INIT(type)" is generated. Compilers are weird.

pathencode: use Py_SIZE directly On Python 2, PyBytes_GET_SIZE is the same as PyString_GET_SIZE which is the same as Py_SIZE which resolves to a struct member. On Python 3, PyBytes_GET_SIZE is "(assert(PyBytes_Check(op)),Py_SIZE(op))". The compiler barfs when assigning to this version. This patch simply changes PyBytes_GET_SIZE to Py_SIZE. On Python 2, there is no effective change in behavior. On Python 3, we drop the PyBytes_Check(). However, in all cases we have explicitly created a PyBytesObject in the same function, so the PyBytes_Check() is guaranteed to be true. Despite this, code changes over time, so I've added added assert() in all callers so we can catch this in debug builds. With this patch, all mercurial.* C extensions now compile on Python 3 on my OS X machine. There are several compiler warnings and I'm sure there are incompatibilities with Python 3, including possibly segfaults. But it is a milestone.

util: remove PyString* aliases on Python 3 We no longer have any users of the legacy PyString* functions. We no longer need these redefinitions. After this change, the only reference to "PyString" in the repo is in watchman's C extension. That isn't our code and porting Mercurial extensions to Python 3 is not a high priority at the moment. watchman's C extension will be dealt with later.

parsers: convert PyString* to PyBytes* With this change, we no longer have any occurrences of "PyString" in our C extensions.

pathencode: convert PyString* to PyBytes*

osutil: convert PyString* to PyBytes* Continuing the conversion from PyString* to PyBytes*.

manifest: convert PyString* to PyBytes* Python 2.6 introduced PyBytesObject and PyBytes* as aliases for PyStringObject and PyString*. So on Python 2.6+, PyBytes* and PyString* are identical and this patch should be a no-op. On Python 3, PyStringObject is effectively renamed to PyUnicodeObject and PyBytesObject becomes the main type for byte strings. This patch begins the process of mass converting PyString* to PyBytes* so the C extensions use the correct type on Python 3.

merge: update doc of manifestmerge() per 18c2184c27dc p1 was renamed to wctx by 18c2184c27dc.

py3: remove superfluous indent from check-py3-compat.py

py3: make check-py3-compat.py load modules in standard manner Otherwise no code transformation would be applied to the modules which are imported only by imp.load_module(). This change means modules are imported from PYTHONPATH, not from the paths given by command arguments. This isn't always correct, but seems acceptable.

py3: include module filename in check-py3-compat.py output This change is intended to reduce noises in the next patch.

util: document we want Python type mapping to be temporary I think remapping Python C API types and functions is not a great approach. I'd prefer this whole #ifdef disappeared. Add a comment so we don't forget about it.

util: define PyInt_Type on Python 3 util.h attempts to wallpaper over C API differences between Python 2 and 3. This is not the correct approach where performance is critical. But it is good enough for the current state of the Python 3 port.

parsers: return NULL from PyInit_parsers on Python 3 This function must return a PyObject* or the compiler complains.

mail: take --encoding and HGENCODING into account Fall back to our encoding strategy for sending MIME text that's neither ASCII nor UTF-8.

template: provide a termwidth keyword (issue5395) We want to provide terminal-sized output. As a starting point, expose the terminal width to the templater for use in things like fill.

util: ensure forwarded attrs are set in globals() as sysstr Custom module importer strikes again.

pycompat: when setting attrs, ensure we use sysstr The custom module importer was making these bytes, so when we poked values into self.__dict__ we had bytes instead of unicode on py3 and it didn't work.

i18n: make the locale directory name the same string type as the datapath

contributing: add new file with a pointer to the wiki This also includes what I consider to be the minimum set of steps someone should be able to perform even if they can't run the testsuite. Hopefully this will help new contributors know to at least run the two checkers that find most things that (in my experience) require manual cleanup.