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Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00007What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-20XX*
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12Core and Builtins
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14
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +000015- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats
16 larger than 1e50 in absolute value.
17
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +000018- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g.,
19 "%.120g" % 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the
20 requested 120 significant digits instead.
21
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +000022- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parenthesis.
23
Benjamin Peterson48f0a8d2009-11-19 23:19:29 +000024- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for def f((x)=3): pass.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +000025
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +000026- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread
27 on MacOSX 10.6.
28
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +000029- Issue #7117: repr(x) for a float x returns a result based on the
30 shortest decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under
31 correct rounding (with round-half-to-even rounding mode).
32 Previously it gave a string based on rounding x to 17 decimal digits.
33 repr(x) for a complex number behaves similarly. On platforms where
34 the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is not supported (see below),
35 repr is unchanged.
36
37- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and
38 string-to-float conversions within Python are now correctly rounded.
39 Places these conversions occur include: str for floats and complex
40 numbers; the float and complex constructors; old-style and new-style
41 numeric formatting; serialization and deserialization of floats and
42 complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json; parsing of float and
43 imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float conversion.
44
45 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's
46 well-known dtoa.c, providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C
47 functions. This code is supported on Windows, and on Unix-like
48 platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as the C compiler. There may be a
49 small number of platforms on which correct operation of this code
50 cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably, this applies
51 to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64, and
52 to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit
53 precision and Python's configure script is unable to determine how
54 to change the FPU precision. On these platforms conversions use the
55 platform strtod and dtoa, as before.
56
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +000057- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. round
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +000058 now uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions
59 described above (when available), and so produces correctly rounded
60 results that will display nicely under the float repr. There are
61 two related small changes: (1) round now accepts any class with an
62 __index__ method for its second argument (but no longer accepts
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +000063 floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively large second
64 integer argument (e.g., round(1.234, 10**100)) no longer raises an
65 exception.
66
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +000067- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
68
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +000069- Fix several issues with compile(). The input can now contain Windows and Mac
70 newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
71
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +000072- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a
73 unicode string.
74
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +000075- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
76 raised during the formation of an output tuple.
77
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +000078- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
79
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +000080- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
81 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
82 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
83
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +000084- Issue #7168: Document PyFloat_AsString and PyFloat_AsReprString, and
85 note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
86
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +000087- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
88 crash in GAE.
89
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +000090- Issue #7140: The __dict__ of a module should not be cleared unless the module
91 is the only object holding a reference to it.
92
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +000093- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
94 There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
95 Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
96
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +000097- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one
98 thread, and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
99
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +0000100- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
101 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
102 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
103 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
104
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +0000105- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
106 assignment.
107
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +0000108- Issue #5329: Fix os.popen* regression from 2.5 with commands as a
109 sequence running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone
110 and Jani Hakala.
111
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +0000112- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
113 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
114
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +0000115- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
116 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
117
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +0000118- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +0000119 take keyword arguments.
120
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +0000121- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid
122 UTF-32 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
123
Mark Dickinson4b9d4732009-09-27 16:05:21 +0000124- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and
125 long -> string conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +0000126
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +0000127- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
128
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +0000129- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
130 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
131
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +0000132- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
133
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +0000134- classmethod no longer checks if its argument is callable.
135
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +0000136- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
137 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
138
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +0000139- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with
140 a target of tuple unpacking.
141
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +0000142- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
143
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +0000144- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
145
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +0000146- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
147 occurred in the argument chain.
148
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +0000149- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
150
151- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +0000152 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
153
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +0000154- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to print(), the default
155 separator and end should be unicode also.
156
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +0000157- Issue #6119: Fixed a incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of builtin
158 functions and methods.
159
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +0000160- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
161 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
162 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
163
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +0000164- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
165
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +0000166- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
167 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
168
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +0000169- Removed the ipaddr module.
170
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +0000171- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
172 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
173
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +0000174- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from compile() were being masked.
175
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +0000176- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
177 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
178
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +0000179- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
180
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +0000181- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
182 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
183
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000184- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Benjamin Peterson95e5ebe2009-07-12 23:56:18 +0000185 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000186
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +0000187- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
188 function with __func__.
189
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +0000190- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
191 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +0000192
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +0000193- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
194 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
195
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +0000196- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
197 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
198 and imaginary literals.
199
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +0000200- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
201
Benjamin Peterson0c3b4c62009-05-16 23:34:19 +0000202- __instancecheck__ and __subclasscheck__ are now completely ignored on classic
203 classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +0000204
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +0000205- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
206
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +0000207- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
208 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
209 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
210 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
211 didn't match that of float('-nan').
212
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +0000213- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
214 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
215 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
216 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
217 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
218 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
219 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
220 the same way.
221
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +0000222- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
223 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
224 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
225
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +0000226- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
227 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
228
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000229- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000230 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
231
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +0000232- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
233 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
234
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +0000235- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
236 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
237
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +0000238- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
239 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
240
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +0000241- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
242 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
243
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +0000244- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
245
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +0000246- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
247 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
248
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +0000249- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
250 floats, ints, and longs.
251
252- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles
253 leading zero formatting poorly.
254
255- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if
256 we're using no type code and we have an exponent.
257
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +0000258- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions
259 correctly rounded.
260
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +0000261- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
262 some builtin types.
263
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000264- Issue #1869: fix a couple of minor round() issues. round(5e15+1)
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000265 was giving 5e15+2; round(-0.0) was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000266
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +0000267- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
268
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +0000269- Issue #5704: the "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
270
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +0000271- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
272 its clarity and its speed.
273
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +0000274- Issue #2396: the memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
275
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +0000276- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
277 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
278
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +0000279- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
280
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +0000281- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
282 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
283
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +0000284- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
285 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
286 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
287 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
288
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +0000289- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
290 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
291 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
292
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +0000293- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
294 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
295 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
296 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
297 default. Add sys.long_info structseq to provide information about
298 the internal format.
299
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +0000300- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
301 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
302
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +0000303- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
304 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
305 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
306
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +0000307- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
308 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
309
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +0000310- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for warnings.showwarning() a
311 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
312
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +0000313- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
314 used when using str.format() with str, unicode, long, int, and
315 float arguments.
316
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +0000317- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division
318 for ints and longs.
319
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +0000320- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average
321 saving is 2 bytes per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long
322 on a 64-bit system.
323
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +0000324- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
325 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
326
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +0000327- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
328 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
329
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +0000330- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
331
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000332- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +0000333 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
334 zip(), and bytearray().
335
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +0000336- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
337 functions.
338
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +0000339- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
340 OSError.
341
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +0000342- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
343
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +0000344- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
345 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
346 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
347
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +0000348- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
349 __next__ method.
350
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +0000351- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
352
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +0000353- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
354
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000355- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
356 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
357 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +0000358 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000359 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
360
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +0000361- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
362
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +0000363- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
364 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
365 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
366 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
367 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
368
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +0000369- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
370
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +0000371- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
372 file with `str' filename on Windows.
373
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +0000374- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
375 did not get collected.
376
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +0000377- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
378 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
379
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +0000380- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
381 directory on POSIX systems.
382
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +0000383- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
384 systems.
385
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +0000386- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
387 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
388
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +0000389- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
390 fail.
391
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +0000392- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
393 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
394 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
395
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +0000396- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
397
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +0000398- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions.
399 Original patch by Neal Norwitz.
400
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +0000401- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
402 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
403
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +0000404- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
405 exceptions.
406
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +0000407- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyStringObject)" with
408 "offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
409 str instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
410 (on average) per string allocation.
411
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +0000412- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
413 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
414 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
415
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +0000416- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__
417 instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
418
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +0000419- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
420 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
421
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +0000422- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +0000423 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
424 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
425 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
426
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +0000427- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
428 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
429
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +0000430- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the imageop.rgb2rgb8() function.
431
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +0000432- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
433
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +0000434- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
435
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +0000436- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
437 exec statement.
438
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +0000439- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
440 method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
441
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +0000442- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
443 __future__ import didn't work.
444
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000445- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +0000446 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000447
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +0000448- On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW
449 returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is
450 really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k)
451
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +0000452- Issue #4069: When set.remove(element) is used with a set element, the element
453 is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the eventual
454 KeyError would always report the empty frozenset([]) as the missing key. Now
455 it correctly refers to the initial element.
456
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +0000457- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
458 which there are buffer exports.
459
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +0000460- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
461
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +0000462- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
463
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +0000464- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
465
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +0000466- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
467 short file names.
468
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +0000469- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
470 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +0000471
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +0000472- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
473 returned them on 64bit platforms.
474
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +0000475- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
476 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
477 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
478 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
479
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +0000480- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
481 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
482
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000483Library
484-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +0000485
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +0000486- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
487 `storbinary()` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional `rest`
488 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
489
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +0000490- Issue #5788: `datetime.timedelta` objects get a new `total_seconds()`
491 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by
492 Brian Quinlan.
493
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +0000494- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
495
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +0000496- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters
497
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +0000498- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
499 raises ReadError on empty files.
500
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +0000501- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +0000502 be 2.
503
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +0000504- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method instead to __unicode__
505 instead of __str__.
506
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +0000507- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
508 case of an error.
509
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +0000510- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
511 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
512
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +0000513- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
514
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +0000515- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using
516 TLS or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
517
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +0000518- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from
519 the registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
520
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +0000521- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code
522 to execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well
523 as zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
524 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
525 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
526
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +0000527- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
528 a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
529 default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
530 local connections.
531
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +0000532- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
533 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
534 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
535
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +0000536- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
537 than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
538 `thread.start_new_thread()`.
539
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +0000540- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
541 which are part of a reference cycle.
542
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +0000543- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the `ident` and `data` fields of kevent
544 objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
545
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +0000546- Issue #6896: mailbox.Maildir now invalidates its internal cache each time
547 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
548 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
549
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +0000550- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
551 reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
552 lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
553 afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
554 OSes such as Solaris.
555
Mark Dickinson6f390012009-10-29 12:11:18 +0000556- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
557 sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
558 fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
559 than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +0000560
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +0000561- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
562 header as required by RFC 1952.
563
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +0000564- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
565 Distutils.
566
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +0000567- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
568 an uppercase.
569
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +0000570- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
571 several threads at once.
572
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +0000573- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
574 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
575
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +0000576- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +0000577 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
578
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +0000579- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
580 protocol 2.
581
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +0000582- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
583
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +0000584- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
585 larger than emax.
586
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +0000587- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the
588 GNU readline library version 6.0.
589
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +0000590- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
591
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +0000592- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code
593
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +0000594- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
595
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +0000596- Add support to the `ihooks` module for relative imports.
597
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000598- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +0000599
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +0000600- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
601 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000602
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +0000603- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
604 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
605
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +0000606- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
607 is too large to fit in the current precision.
608
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000609- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +0000610 Distutils.
611
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +0000612- Issue #7031: Add TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance() methods.
613
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +0000614- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an `array.array` to
615 `httplib.HTTPConnection.send`. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
616
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +0000617- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX
618 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
619
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +0000620- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
621
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +0000622- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
623
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +0000624- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
625 does now always result in NULL.
626
627- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize
628 correctly with base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +0000629
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +0000630- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing
631 debug message.
632
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +0000633- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
634
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +0000635- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
636
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +0000637- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
638 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
639 Michael Haubenwallner.
640
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +0000641- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
642 instances.
643
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +0000644- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
645 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
646 in long(Decimal('nan')).
647
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +0000648- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
649 with no type specifier.
650
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +0000651- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder revers to non-existing version.plist
652
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +0000653- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
654 repeatedly concatenating strings in httplib's
655 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
656 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
657
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +0000658- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
659 as documented.
660
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +0000661- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
662 names in the webbrowser module.
663
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +0000664- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
665
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +0000666- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
667 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
668
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +0000669- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
670
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +0000671- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
672
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +0000673- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
674
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +0000675- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
676
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +0000677- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
678
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +0000679- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
680 ScrolledText.
681
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +0000682- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
683
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +0000684- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
685 the xview* and yview* methods.
686
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +0000687- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
688 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
689 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
690 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
691
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +0000692- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
693 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
694
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +0000695- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
696 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
697 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
698
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +0000699- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
700 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
701 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
702
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +0000703- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
704 opening an empty or very small file.
705
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000706- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
707 containing incomplete data.
708
709- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +0000710 behavior is similar when used with -O.
711
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +0000712- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
713
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +0000714- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
715 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
716 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
717
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000718- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +0000719
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +0000720- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
721 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
722 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
723 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
724
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +0000725- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
726
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000727- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
728
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +0000729- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
730 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
731
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000732- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +0000733
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000734- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +0000735 attribute.
736
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +0000737- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
738
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +0000739- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
740 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
741
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +0000742- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
743
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000744- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +0000745 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
746 descriptor errors
747
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000748- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +0000749 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
750
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +0000751- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
752
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +0000753- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated
754 a 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
755 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
756
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +0000757- Issue #6314: logging.basicConfig() performs extra checks on the "level"
758 argument.
759
760- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +0000761 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
762
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +0000763- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
764
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +0000765- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
766
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +0000767- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
768
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +0000769- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
770 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
771
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +0000772- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when annonymous.
773 (On Unix)
774
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +0000775- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
776 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
777 ``io`` module.
778
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +0000779- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
780
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000781- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
782 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
783
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +0000784- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
785
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +0000786- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
787 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
788 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
789
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +0000790- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
791
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +0000792- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
793 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
794
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +0000795- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
796
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +0000797- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
798 whitespace.
799
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +0000800- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
801 argument to the 'help' function.
802
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +0000803- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
804 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
805
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +0000806- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
807 the directory already exists.
808
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +0000809- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
810 specific Python version.
811
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +0000812- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
813 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
814 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
815
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +0000816- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
817 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000818
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +0000819- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
820 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
821 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
822
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +0000823- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
824 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
825
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000826- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +0000827 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
828
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +0000829- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
830
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +0000831- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
832 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
833
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000834- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +0000835 subcommand.
836
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +0000837- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
838 deepcopy()ing.
839
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +0000840- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
841
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +0000842- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
843
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +0000844- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
845
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +0000846- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
847 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
848
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +0000849- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
850 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
851
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +0000852- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
853 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
854
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +0000855- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
856 for old-style extensions.
857
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000858- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
859 trying to print a traceback.
860
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +0000861- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
862
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000863- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +0000864 ld is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
865
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +0000866- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
867 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
868 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
869 Cournapeau.
870
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +0000871- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
872 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
873
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +0000874- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
875 return directories.
876
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +0000877- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
878
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +0000879- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
880 looking for files given by a relative filename.
881
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +0000882- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
883 extracting a file to the root directory.
884
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +0000885- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
886
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +0000887- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
888 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
889 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
890
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +0000891- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
892 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
893
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +0000894- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
895 Contributed by Google.
896
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +0000897- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
898
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000899- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +0000900 anymore.
901
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +0000902- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
903
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +0000904- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
905 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
906 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
907
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +0000908- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
909 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
910 initialized before.
911
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +0000912- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
913 names which should not be exported.
914
915- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +0000916 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
917
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +0000918- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
919
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +0000920- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
921 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
922
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +0000923- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
924
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +0000925- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
926 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
927 instances.
928
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +0000929- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
930 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
931 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
932
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +0000933- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
934
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000935- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
936
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +0000937- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
938 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
939 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
940 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
941 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
942
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +0000943- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
944
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +0000945- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
946 a value in SafeConfigParser.
947
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +0000948- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
949
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000950- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +0000951 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
952
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +0000953- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are
954 now collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
955
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +0000956- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
957 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
958
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +0000959- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
960 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
961
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000962- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +0000963
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000964- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +0000965
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000966- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +0000967
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000968- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +0000969
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000970- Issue #1726172: fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +0000971
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000972- Issue #2625: added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +0000973 mailbox.MH.get_message().
974
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000975- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to mulitiprocessing.manager
Andrew M. Kuchling59631852009-04-09 11:23:36 +0000976 so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +0000977
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000978- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of the
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +0000979 object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added docs
980 to note the limitation
981
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000982- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +0000983 of the equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000984
985- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +0000986 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000987
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +0000988- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were added.
989 addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
990 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
991 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
992
993- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
994 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000995
996- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +0000997 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000998
999- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00001000 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00001001
1002- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
1003 called immediately before and after a test run.
1004
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00001005- Issue #5663: better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
1006 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
1007 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
1008 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001009
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00001010- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing
1011
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00001012- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
1013 printing out values.
1014
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00001015- Issue #4572: added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
1016
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00001017- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
1018 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
1019 threads.
1020
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00001021- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
1022
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00001023- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
1024
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00001025- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
1026 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
1027 that it was failing to do localization.
1028
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00001029- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
1030 Brandl.
1031
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00001032- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
1033 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
1034
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00001035- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
1036 with the threading module.
1037
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00001038- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
1039
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00001040- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
1041
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00001042- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
1043 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
1044
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001045- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00001046 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
1047 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
1048
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00001049- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not
1050 defined (part of issue #5035).
1051
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00001052- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
1053 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
1054 output compared to previous Python versions.
1055
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00001056- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
1057
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00001058- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
1059 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using
1060 a with statement.
1061
1062- The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences in lists,
1063 tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and comparison
1064 specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error messages
1065 actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google. [Issue #2578]
1066
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00001067- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
1068 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
1069 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
1070 partial bzip2 compressed data.
1071
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00001072- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
1073 even if an exception occurs.
1074
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00001075- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
1076 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
1077
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00001078- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
1079 specifier to Decimal.__format__
1080
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00001081- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
1082 '>' alignment characters.
1083
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00001084- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
1085 character.
1086
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00001087- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
1088 Tim Golden.
1089
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00001090- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
1091
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00001092- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
1093 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
1094 window flashing.
1095
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00001096- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
1097 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
1098 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
1099
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00001100- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
1101
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00001102- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
1103 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
1104
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00001105- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
1106
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00001107- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
1108
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00001109- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
1110
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00001111- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
1112
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00001113- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
1114
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00001115- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
1116 ready received.
1117
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00001118- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
1119 import guess_extension`` was used.
1120
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00001121- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
1122 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
1123
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00001124- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
1125 overrun.
1126
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00001127- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
1128 bdist_rpm command.
1129
1130- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
1131
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00001132- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
1133
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00001134- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
1135 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
1136
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00001137- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
1138 in Distutils tests.
1139
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001140- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
1141 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001142
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00001143- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
1144 The file was resized to wrong size.
1145
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00001146- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
1147
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001148- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00001149 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
1150
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001151- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00001152 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
1153
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00001154- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
1155 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
1156
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00001157- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
1158
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00001159- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on
1160 LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
1161
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00001162- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
1163 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
1164
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00001165- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
1166 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
1167
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00001168- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
1169 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
1170 ctime of the files involved.
1171
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00001172- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
1173 deadlock.
1174
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00001175- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
1176 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
1177 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
1178
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00001179- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
1180
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001181- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case.
1182 This is a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
1183
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00001184- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
1185 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
1186
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00001187- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
1188 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
Nick Coghlanc3623b12009-02-08 01:46:01 +00001189 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
1190 Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00001191
Guilherme Polo363161a2009-02-06 22:48:07 +00001192- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
1193 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
1194 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
1195 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00001196
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001197- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00001198 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
1199
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00001200- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
1201 Ross Light.
1202
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00001203- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
1204 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
1205
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001206- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00001207 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
1208
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00001209- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
1210
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00001211- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
1212 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
1213 "src.new").
1214
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001215- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00001216 Iterator and MutableSet.
1217
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00001218- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
1219
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001220- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00001221 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
1222
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00001223- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
1224 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
1225
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00001226- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
1227 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
1228
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00001229- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
1230
Raymond Hettingerd081abc2009-01-27 02:58:49 +00001231- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
1232 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00001233
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001234- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00001235 allowed non-integer arguments.
1236
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00001237- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
1238 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
1239 examples.
1240
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00001241- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
1242 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
1243
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00001244- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
1245 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
1246
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00001247- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
1248 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
1249
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001250- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00001251 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
1252 be disabled, and not compiled.
1253
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00001254- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
1255 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
1256 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
1257 traditional 2.x file object.
1258
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001259- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
1260 parameter was set.
1261
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001262- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
1263 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00001264 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001265
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00001266- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
1267 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
1268 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
1269
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00001270- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
1271 in sharedctypes.py.
1272
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00001273- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
1274 __getattr__.
1275
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00001276- Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
1277 opened with other applications.
1278
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00001279- Issue #1162154: inspect.getmembers() now skips attributes that raise
1280 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
1281
1282- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00001283 counting.
1284
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00001285- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
1286
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00001287- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
1288 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
1289 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
1290 Jacques Frechet.
1291
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00001292- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
1293
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001294- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00001295 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
1296
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00001297- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
1298 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been
1299 deprecated for removal in 3.x
1300
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00001301- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
1302 to the decimal module.
1303
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00001304- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
1305 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
1306
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00001307- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
1308 the function is not a generator.
1309
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001310- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
1311 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00001312
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001313- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00001314 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
1315
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001316- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
1317 cast as floats.
1318
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001319- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001320 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
1321
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00001322- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
1323
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00001324- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
1325
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00001326- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
1327 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
1328
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00001329- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
1330 works as expected in the interactive environment.
1331
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00001332- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
1333 Gabriel Genellina.
1334
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00001335- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
1336
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00001337- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
1338
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00001339- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
1340 handling.
1341
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00001342- Issue #4574: fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
1343 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16)
1344 and gets split on a chunk boundary.
1345
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00001346- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
1347 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
1348 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
1349
1350- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
1351 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
1352 Alexander Belopolsky.
1353
1354- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
1355 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
1356 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
1357 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
1358 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
1359 Alexander Belopolsky.
1360
1361- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
1362 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
1363 Alexander Belopolsky.
1364
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00001365- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
1366 when given an unicode string.
1367
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00001368- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
1369
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00001370- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
1371 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
1372 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
1373
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00001374- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the
1375 --dry-run option.
1376
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00001377- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
1378 libs.
1379
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00001380- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
1381 statements.
1382
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00001383- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
1384 not a malformed option.
1385
Gregory P. Smith26576802008-12-05 02:27:01 +00001386- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00001387 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
1388
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00001389- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
1390 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
1391 Content-Disposition headers.
1392
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00001393- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
1394 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
1395 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
1396 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
1397 doesn't configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00001398
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00001399- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
1400 exception.
1401
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00001402- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if
1403 the ctypes module is not present.
1404
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00001405- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
1406
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00001407- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
1408
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00001409- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
1410 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
1411
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00001412- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
1413 and then remove it.
1414
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00001415- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
1416
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00001417- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
1418 debugging.
1419
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00001420- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
1421 inspect.getargvalues.
1422
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00001423- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
1424
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00001425- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
1426 to claiming it is Mature.
1427
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00001428- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
1429 when protocol 0 is used.
1430
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00001431- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
1432 to be consistent with Apple tools.
1433
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001434- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001435 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001436
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00001437- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
1438
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00001439- Issue #1737832 : plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
1440 module.
1441
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00001442- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process
1443 creates one of the needed subdirectories.
1444
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00001445- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script
1446
1447- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'
1448
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00001449- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
1450 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
1451
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00001452- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
1453 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
1454 and getservbyport().
1455
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00001456- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
1457 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
1458
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00001459- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
1460 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
1461
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00001462- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
1463 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
1464 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
1465
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00001466- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
1467
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001468Tools/Demos
1469-----------
1470
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00001471- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
1472
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001473- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
1474
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001475Build
1476-----
1477
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00001478- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
1479 compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
1480 problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
1481
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001482- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX:
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00001483 ``intel`` builds a distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures,
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001484 while ``3-way`` builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386``
1485 and ``x86_64`` architectures.
1486
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00001487- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
1488
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00001489- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
1490
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00001491- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
1492 extensions are installed.
1493
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00001494- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1495 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1496
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00001497- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
1498 and a python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
1499 Clinton Roy.
1500
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00001501- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
1502
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00001503- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
1504
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00001505- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
1506 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1507
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001508- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00001509 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001510
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00001511- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
1512
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00001513- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
1514
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00001515- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
1516
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00001517- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
1518
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00001519- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
1520
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00001521- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
1522
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00001523- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
1524
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00001525- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
1526
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00001527- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
1528
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00001529- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
1530
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00001531- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
1532
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00001533- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
1534
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001535- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
1536
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00001537- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
1538
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00001539Documentation
1540-------------
1541
1542- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
1543 for Windows.
1544
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00001545- Issue #6801 : symmetric_difference_update also accepts |.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001546 Thanks to Carl Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00001547
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001548C-API
1549-----
1550
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00001551- Issue #Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V)
1552 and PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
1553
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00001554- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated
1555 PyOS_ascii_atof and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
1556
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00001557- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string
1558 instead. This is in preparation for (but not strictly related to)
1559 issue #7117, short float repr.
1560
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001561- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
Benjamin Petersonfe8745d2009-08-17 13:39:41 +00001562 NULL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00001563
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00001564- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
1565 PyCode_Addr2Line().
1566
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00001567- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
1568 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
1569
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00001570- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
1571 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
1572
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00001573- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
1574
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00001575- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
1576 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
1577
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00001578- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
1579
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00001580- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
1581 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
1582
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001583- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
1584 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001585
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00001586- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall is now thread safe and can be used for
1587 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001588
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001589Extension Modules
1590-----------------
1591
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00001592- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
1593
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00001594- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
1595
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00001596- Issue #3366: Add gamma function to math module.
1597
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00001598- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
1599 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that
1600 range.
1601
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00001602- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit
1603 on OSX.
1604
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00001605- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called
1606 with something other than a tuple as first argument.
1607
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00001608- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
1609 module.
1610
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00001611- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
1612
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00001613- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
1614 tokenizer not stopping.
1615
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00001616- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
1617 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
1618 matched characters with category 'No'.
1619
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00001620- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack
1621 with an integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range
1622 integer now consistently raises struct.error.
1623
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00001624- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies
1625 for the integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*'
1626 represents any of '=', '<', '>'.
1627
1628 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning.
1629 Previously it only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
1630
1631 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always
1632 result in struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method
1633 could be packed by 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h'
1634 ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a __long__ method could be packed by
1635 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with neither __int__ nor __long__,
1636 TypeError used to be raised (with a confusing error message) for
1637 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and struct.error in other cases.
1638
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00001639- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1640
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00001641- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python
1642 GIL is now released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
1643
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00001644- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
1645 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
1646 implementations or external openssl library).
1647
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00001648- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00001649
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00001650- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
1651
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00001652- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
1653
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00001654- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
1655
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00001656- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
1657
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00001658- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
1659 OpenBSD.
1660
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00001661- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
1662
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001663- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
1664
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00001665- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
1666
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001667Tests
1668-----
1669
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00001670- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
1671 catch the case of an option with no handler.
1672
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00001673- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until
1674 a test fails. Can be combined with -j.
1675
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00001676- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
1677
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00001678- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
1679 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
1680
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00001681- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
1682 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
1683 reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
1684 still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
1685 :func:`thread._count()`.
1686
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00001687- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
1688 longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
1689
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00001690- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
1691 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
1692
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00001693- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
1694 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
1695 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00001696
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00001697- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
1698
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00001699- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
1700 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
1701
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00001702- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
1703 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
1704 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
1705 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
1706
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00001707- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
1708 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
1709
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00001710- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
1711 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
1712 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
1713 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
1714 can be adjusted to use it over time.
1715
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00001716- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1717
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00001718- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1719
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00001720- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
1721
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001722- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001723 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001724 from test support, which does the conversion.
1725
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001726- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
1727
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00001728- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
1729 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
1730 incorrectly on __exit__.
1731
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00001732- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
1733
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00001734Misc
1735----
1736
1737- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
1738
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001739
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001740What's New in Python 2.6 final
1741==============================
1742
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00001743*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001744
1745Core and Builtins
1746-----------------
1747
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00001748- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
1749 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
1750
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00001751- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
1752 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
1753
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00001754- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
1755
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001756Library
1757-------
1758
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00001759- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
1760 true singleton object.
1761
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00001762- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
1763 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
1764 into a float.
1765
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00001766- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
1767
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00001768- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
1769 sizes.
1770
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00001771- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
1772
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00001773- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
1774 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
1775
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001776Build
1777-----
1778
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00001779- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
1780 installer.
1781
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001782- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
1783
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001784
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001785What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
1786=============================================
1787
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00001788*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001789
1790Core and Builtins
1791-----------------
1792
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001793Extension Modules
1794-----------------
1795
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00001796- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
1797 segfault as a result.
1798
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001799- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
1800 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001801
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00001802Tools/Demos
1803-----------
1804
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00001805- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00001806 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
1807 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
1808 are caught and silenced.
1809
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00001810Build
1811-----
1812
1813- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
1814 C runtime in the Windows installer.
1815
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001816
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001817What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
1818=============================================
1819
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00001820*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001821
1822Core and Builtins
1823-----------------
1824
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00001825- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
1826
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00001827- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
1828 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
1829 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
1830 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
1831 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
1832 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
1833 64bit values.
1834
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00001835- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
1836 error.
1837
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00001838- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
1839 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
1840 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
1841 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
1842
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00001843- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
1844 a unicode argument.
1845
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001846- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
1847
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001848- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001849 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001850 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
1851
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001852- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00001853 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
1854 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
1855 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
1856 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
1857 type object.
1858
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00001859- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
1860
1861- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
1862
1863- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
1864
1865- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
1866
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00001867- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
1868 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
1869
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00001870- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
1871 ``__delslice__``.
1872
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00001873- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
1874 library targets in the Makefile.
1875
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00001876- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
1877 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
1878 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
1879
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00001880C-API
1881-----
1882
1883- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
1884
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001885Library
1886-------
1887
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00001888- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
1889 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
1890
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00001891- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
1892
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00001893- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
1894
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001895- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
1896 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
1897 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
1898
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001899- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
1900
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001901- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00001902 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
1903
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00001904- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
1905
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00001906- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
1907
1908- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00001909
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00001910- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
1911 its symbolic link.
1912
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001913- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
1914
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00001915- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
1916 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
1917 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
1918
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00001919- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
1920 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
1921
1922- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00001923
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00001924- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
1925 path to the Python binary.
1926
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00001927- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
1928 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
1929 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
1930 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
1931
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00001932- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
1933
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001934- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
1935
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00001936- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
1937
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00001938- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
1939
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001940- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
1941 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00001942
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00001943- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
1944 non-integer floating point number.
1945
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001946- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00001947 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
1948
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001949Extension Modules
1950-----------------
1951
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00001952- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
1953 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
1954
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00001955- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
1956 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
1957 without limit.
1958
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001959- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
1960 exploitation of poor argument checking.
1961
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00001962- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
1963
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00001964- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
1965 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
1966
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00001967- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
1968 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
1969 threads/processes.
1970
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001971Tests
1972-----
1973
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001974- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
1975 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
1976 that expected warning messages are being reported.
1977
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001978- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
1979
1980- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001981
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001982Build
1983-----
1984
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00001985- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
1986
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00001987- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
1988 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
1989
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00001990- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
1991
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001992- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001993 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001994
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001995
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001996What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
1997================================
1998
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00001999*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002000
2001Core and Builtins
2002-----------------
2003
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00002004- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
2005 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
2006 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
2007 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
2008 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
2009 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
2010 default.
2011
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00002012- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
2013 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
2014
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00002015- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
2016 value again.
2017
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00002018- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
2019 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
2020 and introducing s*.
2021
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00002022- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
2023 object was stored in the freelist.
2024
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00002025- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
2026 ValueError consistently across platforms.
2027
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00002028- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
2029 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
2030 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
2031
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00002032- Apply security patches from Apple.
2033
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00002034- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
2035 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
2036
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00002037- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
2038 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
2039
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00002040- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
2041 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
2042 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
2043
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00002044- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
2045 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
2046 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
2047 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
2048 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
2049 failed have been fixed.
2050
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002051Library
2052-------
2053
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00002054- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
2055
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00002056- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
2057 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
2058
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00002059- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
2060 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
2061 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
2062
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00002063- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
2064 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
2065 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
2066 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
2067 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
2068 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
2069
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00002070- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
2071 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
2072
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00002073- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
2074
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00002075- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
2076
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00002077- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
2078
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00002079- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
2080 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
2081
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00002082- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00002083 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
2084
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00002085- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
2086 in a redirect.
2087
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00002088- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00002089 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00002090
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00002091- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
2092 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
2093
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00002094- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
2095 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
2096 regular expression.
2097
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00002098- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
2099 thread-safe.
2100
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00002101- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
2102 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
2103 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
2104
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00002105- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
2106
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00002107- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
2108 menu entries were not deleted.
2109
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00002110- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
2111 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
2112
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00002113- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
2114 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
2115
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00002116- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
2117 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
2118 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
2119
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00002120- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
2121 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
2122 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
2123
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00002124- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
2125 the reload() built-in has been removed.
2126
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00002127- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00002128 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00002129 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
2130 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
2131 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
2132 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
2133 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00002134
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00002135- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
2136 raised an AttributeError.
2137
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00002138- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00002139 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
2140 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00002141
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00002142- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
2143 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
2144
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00002145- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
2146
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00002147- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
2148 on a closed shelf.
2149
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00002150- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
2151
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002152- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
2153
2154- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
2155 invalid arguments.
2156
2157- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
2158 with None arguments.
2159
2160- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
2161 configuration files.
2162
2163- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
2164
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00002165- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
2166 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
2167 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
2168
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00002169- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
2170 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
2171 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
2172
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00002173Build
2174-----
2175
2176- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
2177
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00002178Documentation
2179-------------
2180
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00002181- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
2182 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
2183
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00002184- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
2185 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
2186 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
2187 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
2188
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002189
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00002190What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
2191================================
2192
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002193*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
2194
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00002195Core and Builtins
2196-----------------
2197
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00002198- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
2199 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
2200 an integer using operator.index().
2201
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00002202- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
2203 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
2204
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00002205- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
2206 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
2207
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00002208- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
2209 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
2210 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
2211
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00002212- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
2213 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
2214 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
2215 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
2216 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
2217 level.
2218
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00002219- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
2220 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
2221 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
2222 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
2223 all imports from that module to fail.
2224
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00002225- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
2226 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
2227 new-style classes.
2228
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00002229- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
2230 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
2231 another file in sys.stdout.
2232
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00002233- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
2234 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
2235 another thread's dictionary.
2236
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00002237- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
2238 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
2239 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
2240 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
2241 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
2242 10, -1).
2243
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002244- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
2245 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
2246 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00002247
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002248- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
2249 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
2250 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00002251
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002252Library
2253-------
2254
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00002255- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
2256 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
2257 error when they failed.
2258
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00002259- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
2260
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00002261- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
2262
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00002263- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
2264
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00002265- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
2266
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002267- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
2268 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
2269
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002270- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002271
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00002272- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
2273 a valid dlerror() message.
2274
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00002275- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
2276 incomplete structure was created.
2277
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00002278- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
2279
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00002280- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
2281
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002282- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00002283
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002284- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
2285 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002286 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002287 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
2288 merged into trunk.
2289
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00002290- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
2291
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002292- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
2293
2294- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
2295
2296- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
2297 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002298 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002299
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002300- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002301 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00002302
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00002303- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
2304 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
2305
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002306- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
2307 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
2308
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00002309- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
2310 interrupted by a signal.
2311
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002312- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00002313 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
2314 Prevents a deadlock.
2315
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00002316- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
2317 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
2318 default https port (443).
2319
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00002320- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
2321 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
2322 if the new process uses the threading module.
2323
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00002324Tests
2325-----
2326
2327- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
2328 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
2329 have been added to test_warnings.
2330
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00002331Build
2332-----
2333
2334- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
2335
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002336
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002337Documentation
2338-------------
2339
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00002340- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00002341 Python 3.0.
2342
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00002343- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
2344
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002345- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2346 Python 3.0.
2347
2348- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2349 Python 3.0.
2350
2351
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002352What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
2353================================
2354
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00002355*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002356
2357Core and Builtins
2358-----------------
2359
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00002360- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
2361 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
2362 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
2363 bus error.
2364
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00002365- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
2366 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
2367
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00002368- Add future_builtins.ascii().
2369
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00002370- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00002371 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00002372
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00002373- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
2374
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00002375- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
2376
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00002377- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
2378
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00002379- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
2380
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002381- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
2382 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
2383 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
2384 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00002385
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00002386- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
2387
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002388- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
2389 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00002390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002391- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
2392 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00002393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002394- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
2395 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
2396 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00002397
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00002398- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
2399 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
2400 can't be triggered from Python code.
2401
2402
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002403Extension Modules
2404-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00002405- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002406
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00002407- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
2408
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00002409- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00002410
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00002411- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
2412 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
2413
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00002414- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
2415 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
2416
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00002417- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
2418 weakref.proxy.
2419
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002420- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
2421 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00002422
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002423- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00002424
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00002425- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00002426 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
2427 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00002428
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002429- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
2430 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
2431 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00002432
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00002433- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
2434 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
2435 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
2436
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002437- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00002438
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00002439- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00002440
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002441Library
2442-------
2443
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00002444- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
2445 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
2446
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00002447- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
2448
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00002449- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
2450 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
2451 sense).
2452
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00002453- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
2454
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00002455- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
2456 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
2457 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
2458 the patch.
2459
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002460- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
2461 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
2462 the patch).
2463
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00002464- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
2465 os.uname exists.
2466
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00002467- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2468
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00002469- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2470
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00002471- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
2472 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
2473 pointer-like object.
2474
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00002475- Added the ast module.
2476
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002477- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00002478
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00002479- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
2480 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
2481
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00002482- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
2483 to errno.
2484
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002485- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00002486
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002487- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00002488 msilib.Record objects.
2489
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00002490- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
2491 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
2492
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00002493- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
2494 in Python 3.0.
2495
2496- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
2497 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00002498
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00002499- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
2500 False boolean value now.
2501
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00002502- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
2503 transfers.
2504
2505- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
2506 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00002507
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00002508- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
2509 when the TarFile is closed.
2510
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00002511- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
2512 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
2513 an exception.
2514
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00002515- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
2516 otherwise be produced.
2517
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00002518- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
2519 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
2520
2521- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
2522 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
2523
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00002524- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
2525 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
2526 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
2527
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00002528- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
2529
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002530- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00002531 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
2532 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
2533 'm' or 'c'.
2534
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00002535- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2536
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002537- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
2538 removal in Python 3.0.
2539
2540- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2541 3.0.
2542
2543- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2544 3.0.
2545
2546- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2547 3.0.
2548
2549- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00002550 Python 3.0.
2551
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00002552- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
2553 Python 3.0.
2554
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002555- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2556 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00002557
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002558- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2559 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00002560
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002561- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2562 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00002563
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002564- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2565 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00002566
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002567- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00002568 Python 3.0.
2569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002570- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2571 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00002572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002573- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2574 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00002575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002576- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2577 3.0.
2578
2579- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
2580 removal in Python 3.0.
2581
2582- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2583 3.0.
2584
2585- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2586 3.0.
2587
2588- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
2589 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002590
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002591- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
2592 removal in Python 3.0.
2593
2594- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00002595 Python 3.0.
2596
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002597- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2598 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00002599
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00002600- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2601 Python 3.0.
2602
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00002603- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2604 Python 3.0.
2605
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002606- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00002607
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00002608- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2609
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00002610- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2611
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00002612- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
2613
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00002614- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2615
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002616- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
2617 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
2618 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00002619
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002620- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
2621 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00002622
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00002623- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2624
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002625- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2626 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00002627
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00002628- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2629
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00002630- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2631
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00002632- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2633
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00002634- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2635
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00002636- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2637
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002638- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
2639 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00002640
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00002641- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2642
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00002643- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2644
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00002645- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
2646 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
2647 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
2648 OverflowError.
2649
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00002650- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2651
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002652- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2653 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00002654
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00002655- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2656
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00002657- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2658
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00002659- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2660
2661- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00002662
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002663- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2664
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00002665- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
2666
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00002667- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
2668
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00002669- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00002670
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002671- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
2672 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00002673
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002674- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002675 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
2676 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
2677 of Python.
2678
2679- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
2680 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
2681
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00002682- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
2683 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00002684
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002685Build
2686-----
2687
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00002688- The Windows installer now includes Tk 8.5, bzip2 1.0.5, and SQLite 3.5.9.
Martin v. Löwis76307312008-06-12 18:52:00 +00002689
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00002690- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
2691
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00002692- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
2693
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002694- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
2695 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002696 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002697
2698 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
2699
2700 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
2701
2702 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
2703
2704 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
2705
2706 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
2707
2708 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
2709
2710
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002711C API
2712-----
2713
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00002714- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
2715
2716- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002717
2718- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
2719 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
2720 PyString names.
2721
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00002722
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002723What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002724=================================
2725
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00002726*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002727
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002728Core and builtins
2729-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002730
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00002731- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
2732
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002733- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
2734 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00002735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002736- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
2737 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00002738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002739- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00002740
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002741Extension Modules
2742-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002744- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
2745 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00002746
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00002747- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
2748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002749- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
2750 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002751
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002752- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
2753 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002754
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002755- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
2756 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00002757
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002758- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
2759 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
2760 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
2761 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
2762 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
2763 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
2764 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
2765 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00002766
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002767Library
2768-------
2769
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00002770- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2771
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002772- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
2773 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00002774
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00002775- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
2776
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002777- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
2778 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00002779
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00002780- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
2781 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
2782 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
2783
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002784- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002785 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002786
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00002787- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00002788 reference to themselves.
2789
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00002790- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
2791 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
2792 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00002793
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00002794- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
2795 1900-01-01.
2796
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00002797- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
2798 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
2799
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00002800- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
2801 now implemented in C for better performance.
2802
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002803- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
2804 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
2805 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00002806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002807- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00002808 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
2809 build documentation for more information.
2810
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00002811- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
2812 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
2813 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
2814 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
2815
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00002816- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2817 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
2818 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
2819
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002820- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
2821 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
2822 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
2823 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00002824
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002825Tests
2826-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002827
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002828- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
2829 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
2830 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
2831 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
2832 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
2833 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
2834 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
2835 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
2836 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
2837 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
2838 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
2839 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
2840 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
2841 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
2842 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
2843 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
2844 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
2845 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
2846 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
2847 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
2848
2849 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
2850 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
2851 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
2852 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
2853 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
2854 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
2855 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
2856 access to the underlying socket used.
2857
2858 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
2859 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
2860 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002861
2862 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002863 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002864 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
2865 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
2866
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002867 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
2868 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002869
2870Build
2871-----
2872
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00002873- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
2874
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00002875- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
2876 gcc is used as compiler.
2877
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002878- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002879 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002880
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002881C API
2882-----
2883
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002884- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
2885 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
2886 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
2887 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002888
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00002889- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00002890
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002891
2892What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
2893=================================
2894
2895*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
2896
2897Core and builtins
2898-----------------
2899
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002900- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
2901 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
2902 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00002903
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00002904- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
2905 cannot be executed.
2906
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00002907- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
2908 reference on the outer class name.
2909
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002910- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002911 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002912
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002913- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
2914 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00002915
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002916- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002917
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002918- Added backport of bytearray type.
2919
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002920- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
2921
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002922- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002923 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
2924 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
2925 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
2926 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
2927 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002928
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00002929- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
2930
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002931- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
2932 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00002933
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00002934- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002935
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00002936- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
2937
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002938- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
2939 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00002940
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002941- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
2942 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00002943
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002944- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00002945 exception instances.
2946
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002947- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002948 doesn't derive from BaseException.
2949
2950- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
2951 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002952
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00002953- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
2954 memory usage in some circumstances.
2955
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002956- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
2957 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
2958 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00002959
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00002960- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
2961
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002962- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00002963 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
2964 longer passed.
2965
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00002966- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
2967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002968- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
2969 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
2970 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00002971
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002972- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
2973 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002974
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00002975- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
2976
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002977Extension Modules
2978-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00002979
2980- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
2981
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002982Library
2983-------
2984
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002985- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
2986 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002988- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
2989 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
2990 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002991
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002992- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
2993 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002994
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002995- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
2996 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
2997 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00002998
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002999- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
3000 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00003001
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00003002- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
3003
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00003004- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
3005 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
3006 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
3007
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00003008- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
3009
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00003010- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
3011 advertised in the docs.
3012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003013- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00003014
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003015- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00003016
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003017- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
3018 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00003019
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00003020- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
3021 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
3022
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003023- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
3024 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00003025 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
3026 information as well.
3027
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003028- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
3029 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00003030
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003031- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
3032 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00003033
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003034- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
3035 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
3036 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00003037
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00003038- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
3039 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
3040 strftime.
3041
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00003042- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003043 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
3044 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00003045
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00003046- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
3047 correctly under win32
3048
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003049- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00003050
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00003051- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003052 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
3053 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
3054 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00003055
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00003056- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
3057 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
3058
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003059- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
3060 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00003061
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003062- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
3063 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
3064 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00003065
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003066- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00003067 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
3068
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00003069- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
3070 from 't' to '?'.
3071
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00003072- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
3073 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003074 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
3075 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
3076 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00003077
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003078- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
3079 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00003080
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00003081Tests
3082-----
3083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003084- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
3085 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00003086
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00003087- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
3088
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00003089- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
3090
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00003091- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
3092
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00003093- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
3094
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003095- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
3096 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00003097
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00003098- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
3099
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00003100- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
3101
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003102- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
3103 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00003104
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00003105- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
3106
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00003107- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
3108
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00003109- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
3110 permission to create files in the root directory.
3111
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00003112Build
3113-----
3114
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00003115- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
3116
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003117- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
3118 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00003119
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00003120- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00003121
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003122C API
3123-----
3124
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003125- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003126 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
3127
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00003128
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00003129What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
3130=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003131
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00003132*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00003133
3134Core and builtins
3135-----------------
3136
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00003137- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00003138 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00003139
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00003140- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
3141
3142- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00003143
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003144- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00003145 issue 215555 for a discussion.
3146
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00003147- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
3148 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
3149 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
3150 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
3151 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
3152 module is:
3153 from future_builtins import hex, oct
3154
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00003155- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
3156 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
3157 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
3158 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
3159 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
3160 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
3161
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00003162- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
3163 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
3164 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
3165 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
3166 PyObject_Format().
3167
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003168- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
3169 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
3170 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00003171
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003172- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003173 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
3174 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00003175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003176- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
3177 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00003178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003179- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
3180 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
3181 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00003182
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003183- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
3184 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
3185 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00003186
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00003187- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
3188 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
3189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003190- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
3191 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00003192
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003193- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
3194 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00003195 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
3196
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003197- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
3198 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
3199 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00003200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003201- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
3202 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00003203
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003204- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
3205 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00003206
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003207- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
3208 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00003209
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003210- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
3211 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00003212
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003213- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
3214 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
3215 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00003216
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003217- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
3218 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
3219 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
3220 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00003221
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00003222- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
3223 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
3224 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
3225
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003226- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00003227 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
3228 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
3229
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003230- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00003231 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
3232 support.
3233
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00003234- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
3235 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
3236
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00003237- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
3238
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003239- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00003240 added.
3241
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00003242- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
3243 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
3244
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003245- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
3246 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00003247
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003248- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
3249 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
3250 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00003251
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003252- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
3253 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00003254
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00003255- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
3256 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00003257
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00003258- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
3259
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003260- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
3261 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
3262 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00003263
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003264- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
3265 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
3266 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00003267
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003268- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00003269
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003270- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
3271 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00003272
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003273- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003274 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
3275 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003276
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003277- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
3278 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
3279 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
3280 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00003281
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003282- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00003283
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003284- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
3285 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00003286
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003287- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
3288 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00003289
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00003290- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00003291 SystemError.
3292
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00003293- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
3294 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
3295 __package__ attribute.
3296
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003297- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
3298 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
3299 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00003300
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00003301- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
3302
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003303- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00003304 attribute of an empty cell object.
3305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003306- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
3307 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00003308
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003309- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
3310 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
3311 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
3312 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00003313
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003314- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
3315 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
3316 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00003317
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00003318- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
3319
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00003320- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
3321
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00003322- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
3323
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003324- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
3325 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
3326 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00003327
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003328- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
3329 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
3330 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
3331 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
3332 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
3333 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00003334
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003335- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
3336 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
3337 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
3338 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
3339 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00003340
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003341- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
3342 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
3343 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00003344
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003345- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
3346 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00003347
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003348- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003349 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
3350 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
3351 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
3352 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
3353 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003354
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003355- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
3356 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00003357
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00003358- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
3359 with %G.
3360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003361- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
3362 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00003363
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003364- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00003365
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003366- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00003367
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003368- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003369 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
3370 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003371
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00003372- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
3373 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
3374
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00003375- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
3376 calls.
3377
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003378- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003379 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
3380 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003381
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00003382- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
3383
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003384- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00003385 inherited from a builtin base.
3386
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003387- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00003388 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
3389
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00003390- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
3391
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00003392- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
3393 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
3394 remaining characters.
3395
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00003396- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
3397 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
3398
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00003399- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
3400
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003401- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
3402 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
3403 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
3404 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
3405 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00003406 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
3407 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003408
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003409- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
3410 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
3411 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
3412 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
3413 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00003414
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003415- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
3416 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
3417 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00003418
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003419- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
3420 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00003421
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003422- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
3423 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
3424 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00003425
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003426- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
3427 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00003428
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00003429- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
3430
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00003431- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
3432 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
3433
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003434- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003435 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
3436 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
3437 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003438
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00003439- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
3440 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
3441
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003442- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
3443 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00003444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003445- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
3446 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
3447 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00003448
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003449- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003450 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
3451 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003452
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003453- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
3454 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003455 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
3456 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003457
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003458- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
3459 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00003460
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003461- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
3462 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00003463
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00003464- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
3465 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
3466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003467- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
3468 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
3469 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00003470
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003471- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
3472 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00003473
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003474- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
3475 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00003476
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003477- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
3478 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
3479 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00003480
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00003481- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
3482 frame's thread state.
3483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003484- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
3485 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00003486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003487- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
3488 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00003489
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003490- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
3491 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00003492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003493- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
3494 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00003495
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003496- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
3497 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00003498
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00003499- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
3500
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00003501- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
3502
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00003503- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
3504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003505- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
3506 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00003507
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003508- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00003509
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00003510- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
3511 again, no longer the posix error code.
3512
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00003513- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
3514 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
3515
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003516- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
3517 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00003518
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00003519- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
3520 embedded in the string to convert.
3521
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00003522- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
3523 recognized and rejected.
3524
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003525- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
3526
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003527- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
3528 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
3529 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00003530
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00003531- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
3532 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
3533
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003534- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003535 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
3536 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003537
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003538- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
3539 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
3540 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00003541
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00003542- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
3543
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00003544- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
3545
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00003546- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
3547
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003548- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
3549 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
3550 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00003551
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00003552- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
3553 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
3554 'exceptions'.
3555
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00003556- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
3557 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
3558
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00003559- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
3560 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
3561
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00003562- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
3563
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00003564- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
3565
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00003566- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
3567 head is the original string if sep was not found.
3568
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003569- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003570 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
3571 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
3572 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003573
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003574- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00003575
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003576- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
3577 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003578
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003579- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
3580 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00003581
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003582- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00003583 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
3584 it actually exited.
3585
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003586
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003587Library
3588-------
3589
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003590- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00003591
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00003592- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
3593
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00003594- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
3595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003596- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
3597 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00003598
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003599- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00003600
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003601- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
3602 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
3603 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00003604
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003605- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
3606 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00003607
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003608- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00003609 (ignore-case)
3610
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00003611- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
3612 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
3613 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
3614 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
3615
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003616- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
3617 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00003618
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003619- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
3620 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00003621
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00003622- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
3623 pickled.
3624
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00003625- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
3626 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
3627
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00003628- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
3629 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
3630 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
3631
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003632- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
3633 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00003634
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003635- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
3636 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
3637 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00003638
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003639- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
3640 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00003641
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003642- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
3643 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00003644
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003645- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
3646 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
3647 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
3648 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00003649
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003650- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
3651 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003652 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
3653
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00003654- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
3655
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003656- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
3657 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00003658
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003659- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00003660
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003661- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
3662 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003663
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003664- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
3665 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003666
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003667- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
3668 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003669
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003670- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
3671 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003672
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003673- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
3674 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
3675 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00003676
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003677- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
3678 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00003679
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003680- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
3681 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00003682
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003683- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
3684 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00003685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003686- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
3687 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00003688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003689- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
3690 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00003691
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003692- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
3693 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00003694
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00003695- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
3696 with extended local headers.
3697
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003698- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
3699 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00003700
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003701- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00003702 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
3703 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
3704
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003705- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
3706 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00003707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003708- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
3709 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00003710
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003711- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
3712 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00003713
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003714- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
3715 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00003716
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003717- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
3718 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00003719
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003720- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003721 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003722 Textbox.gather().
3723
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003724- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
3725 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00003726 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
3727 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003728
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00003729- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
3730 that array types do not live longer than needed.
3731
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003732- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
3733 and when creating a recursive instance.
3734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003735- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
3736 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
3737 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00003738
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00003739- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
3740 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
3741 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
3742
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003743- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
3744 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00003745
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003746- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00003747 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
3748
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003749- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00003750 good for long regular expression matches.
3751
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003752- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
3753 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00003754
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00003755- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
3756 the current context.
3757
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00003758- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
3759 zipfile module.
3760
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00003761- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
3762
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003763- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
3764 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00003765
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00003766- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
3767
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00003768- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
3769
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003770- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
3771 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00003772
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00003773- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
3774
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003775- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
3776 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00003777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003778- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
3779 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00003780
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00003781- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
3782
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00003783- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
3784 Tcl objects.
3785
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00003786- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
3787
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003788- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
3789 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
3790 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
3791 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00003792
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003793- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
3794 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00003795
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003796- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
3797 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00003798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003799- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
3800 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00003801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003802- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
3803 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00003804
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00003805- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
3806 method used universal newlines.
3807
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00003808- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
3809 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
3810
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00003811- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
3812 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
3813
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00003814- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
3815 files are updated.
3816
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003817- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
3818 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003819
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00003820- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
3821 configured with --with-system-ffi.
3822
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003823- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003824 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003825
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00003826- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
3827
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003828- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
3829 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
3830 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00003831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003832- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
3833 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00003834
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00003835- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00003836
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00003837- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
3838
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003839- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
3840 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00003841
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00003842- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
3843 to be orderable to properly represent them.
3844
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00003845- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
3846
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00003847- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
3848
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003849- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
3850 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
3851 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00003852
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00003853- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
3854 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
3855
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003856- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
3857 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00003858
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003859- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
3860 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00003861
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00003862- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
3863
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00003864- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
3865
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00003866- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
3867 syllables.
3868
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003869- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
3870 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00003871
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00003872- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
3873
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00003874- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
3875 represent the result in a single character.
3876
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00003877- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
3878
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00003879- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
3880
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00003881- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
3882 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
3883 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
3884
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00003885- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3886
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003887- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
3888 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00003889
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003890- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
3891 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
3892 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00003893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003894- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
3895 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
3896 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00003897
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003898- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003899 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
3900 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003901
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003902- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
3903 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00003904
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003905- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
3906 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00003907
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00003908- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3909
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00003910- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003912- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
3913 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
3914 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00003915
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00003916- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3917
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00003918- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3919
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00003920- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
3921 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
3922
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00003923- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
3924
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00003925- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
3926
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00003927- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
3928
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003929- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
3930 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00003931
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003932- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
3933 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00003934
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00003935- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
3936 the directories).
3937
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00003938- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
3939 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
3940 injecting HTML into the error page.
3941
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003942- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
3943 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00003944
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003945- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
3946 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003947
3948- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
3949
3950- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
3951
3952- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
3953 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
3954 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
3955
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00003956- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
3957 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
3958 ".cpp" too.
3959
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003960- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003961 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
3962 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
3963 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003964
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003965- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
3966 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00003967
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003968- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
3969 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00003970
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00003971- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
3972 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
3973 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
3974 closes patch #723312.
3975
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003976- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
3977 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00003978 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00003979
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00003980- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
3981
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00003982- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
3983 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
3984
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00003985- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
3986
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003987- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
3988 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00003989 directories.
3990
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00003991- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
3992 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
3993 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
3994 trying Mozilla variants.
3995
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00003996- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
3997
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00003998- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
3999 initialization failed.
4000
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00004001- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004002 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
4003 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00004004
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004005- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
4006 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
4007 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00004008
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004009- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
4010 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00004011 correctly now.
4012
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00004013- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
4014
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004015- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
4016 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00004017
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00004018- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
4019
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004020- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
4021 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
4022 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00004023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004024- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
4025 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
4026 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
4027 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00004028
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004029- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
4030 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
4031 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00004032
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00004033- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
4034 whitespace while wrapping.
4035
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00004036- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004037 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
4038 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00004039
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004040- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
4041 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
4042 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00004043
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00004044- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
4045 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
4046
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004047- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
4048 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00004049
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00004050- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
4051 concatenation in robotparser.
4052
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00004053- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004054 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
4055 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00004056
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00004057- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
4058 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
4059
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00004060- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
4061
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004062- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
4063 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
4064 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00004065
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004066- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
4067 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
4068 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00004069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004070- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
4071 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00004072 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00004073
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00004074- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
4075 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
4076
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00004077- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
4078 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
4079
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00004080- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
4081 returned string up to the first NUL character.
4082
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00004083- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
4084
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00004085- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
4086
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004087- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
4088 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
4089 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00004090
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00004091- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
4092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004093- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
4094 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
4095 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
4096 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
4097 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
4098 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00004099
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004100- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
4101 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00004102
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00004103- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
4104 comprehensive test suite for the module.
4105
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00004106- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
4107 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
4108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004109- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
4110 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
4111 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00004112
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004113- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00004114 in HTMLParser.
4115
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00004116- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
4117 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
4118
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00004119- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
4120
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00004121- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
4122
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00004123- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
4124
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00004125- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00004126
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00004127- Added itertools.izip_longest().
4128
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004129- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
4130 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00004131
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00004132- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
4133
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00004134- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
4135 doesn't exist.
4136
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00004137- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
4138
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00004139- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
4140
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004141- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00004142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004143- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
4144 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00004145
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004146- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
4147 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00004148
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004149- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
4150 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00004151
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00004152- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00004153 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00004154
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00004155- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
4156 iso8859_16.
4157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004158- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
4159 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
4160 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
4161 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00004162
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004163- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
4164
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00004165- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
4166 directories.
4167
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00004168- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
4169
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004170- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
4171 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00004172
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004173- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004174 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004175
4176- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004177 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004178
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004179- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004180
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004181- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
4182 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00004183
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00004184- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
4185
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00004186- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
4187 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
4188 parameterless foreign function calls work.
4189
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00004190- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
4191
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00004192- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
4193 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
4194 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
4195
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00004196- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
4197 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
4198
4199- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
4200 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
4201
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004202- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
4203 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
4204 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00004205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004206- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
4207 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00004208
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00004209- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
4210
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004211- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
4212 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00004213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004214- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
4215 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00004216
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004217- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
4218 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00004219
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004220- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
4221 separated lists read from logging config files.
4222
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004223- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
4224 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
4225 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004226
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004227- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
4228 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00004229
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00004230- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
4231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004232- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
4233 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00004234
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00004235- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
4236
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00004237- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
4238
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004239- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
4240 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00004241
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00004242- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
4243 regular files.
4244
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00004245- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
4246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004247- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
4248 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00004249
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004250- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
4251 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00004252
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00004253- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
4254 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
4255
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00004256- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
4257 file name mangling.
4258
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004259- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
4260 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00004261
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00004262- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
4263
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004264- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00004265 HTTPConnection.request().
4266
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00004267- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
4268 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
4269 objects.
4270
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004271- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
4272 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
4273 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00004274
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004275- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
4276 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
4277 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00004278
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004279- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00004280
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004281- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00004282
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00004283- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
4284
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004285- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004286 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004287
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00004288- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
4289
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00004290- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
4291 GNU modes.
4292
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00004293- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
4294 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
4295 opcode.
4296
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00004297- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
4298 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
4299 statement (bug #1586513).
4300
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004301- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
4302 correctly.
4303
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00004304- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
4305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004306- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
4307 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00004308
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00004309- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
4310 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
4311 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
4312
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004313- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
4314 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
4315 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00004316
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004317- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
4318 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00004319
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00004320- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
4321
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00004322- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
4323
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004324- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
4325 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00004326
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004327- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
4328 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00004329
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00004330- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
4331 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
4332
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00004333- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
4334 with a slash.
4335
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00004336- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
4337 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
4338
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00004339- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004340 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00004341
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00004342- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
4343 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
4344 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
4345
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004346- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
4347 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00004348
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004349- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
4350 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00004351
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004352- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
4353 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00004354
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00004355- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
4356
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004357- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00004358 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004359
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004360- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
4361 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00004362
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004363- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
4364 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004365
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00004366- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
4367
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004368- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
4369 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00004370
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004371- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
4372 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
4373 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004375- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
4376 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
4377 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00004378
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004379- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
4380 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
4381 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
4382 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00004383
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004384- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004385 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
4386 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004387 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
4388 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
4389 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004391- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
4392 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004393
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004394Extension Modules
4395-----------------
4396
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004397- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00004398
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00004399- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
4400
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00004401- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
4402
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004403- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00004404
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004405- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
4406 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00004407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004408- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
4409 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00004410
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004411- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
4412 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00004413
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00004414- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
4415
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00004416- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
4417
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004418- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
4419 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004420
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00004421- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
4422
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004423- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
4424 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00004425
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00004426- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
4427
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004428- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
4429 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00004430
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004431- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00004432 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
4433 parameter.
4434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004435- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
4436 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
4437 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
4438 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00004439
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004440- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
4441 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00004442
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004443- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
4444 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00004445
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004446- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
4447 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
4448 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00004449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004450- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
4451 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00004452
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00004453- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
4454
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00004455- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
4456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004457- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
4458 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
4459 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00004460
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004461- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
4462 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00004463
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00004464- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
4465
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00004466- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
4467
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004468- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
4469 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
4470 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
4471 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00004472
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00004473- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
4474 get_completion_type to readline.
4475
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00004476- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
4477 structure.
4478
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00004479- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4480
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00004481- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
4482
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00004483- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
4484 intended for RECNO databases.
4485
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004486- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004487 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
4488 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
4489 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
4490 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
4491 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
4492 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004493
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00004494- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
4495
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00004496- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
4497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004498- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
4499 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
4500 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
4501 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
4502 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00004503
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00004504- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
4505 error in spite of a succesful compression.
4506
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00004507- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
4508 of Py_ssize_t.
4509
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00004510- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
4511 fractional times. With unittest.
4512
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004513- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
4514 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
4515 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00004516
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00004517- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
4518
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00004519- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
4520
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00004521- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
4522
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00004523- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
4524
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004525- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
4526 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00004527
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004528- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
4529 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00004530
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004531- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
4532 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00004533
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00004534- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
4535 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
4536
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004537- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
4538 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
4539 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00004540
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00004541- Speed up function calls into the math module.
4542
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00004543- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
4544 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
4545 does.
4546
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00004547- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
4548
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00004549- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
4550
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00004551- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
4552
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00004553- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
4554
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00004555- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
4556 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
4557
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00004558- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
4559 datetime's strftime function.
4560
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00004561- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
4562
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00004563- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
4564
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004565- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
4566 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00004567
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00004568- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
4569
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004570- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004571 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
4572 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004573
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004574- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
4575 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00004576
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004577- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004578 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
4579 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004580 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
4581 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00004582 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004583 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004584
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004585- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
4586 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
4587 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
4588 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
4589
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00004590- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
4591 were transposed.
4592
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00004593- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
4594 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00004595
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004596- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
4597 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
4598 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004599
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004600- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
4601
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00004602- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
4603
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00004604- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
4605
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00004606- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004607
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00004608- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
4609 databases without a DBEnv.
4610
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00004611- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
4612
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004613Tests
4614-----
4615
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00004616- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00004617
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004618- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
4619 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00004620
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004621- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
4622 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
4623 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00004624
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00004625- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
4626 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00004627
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004628- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
4629 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00004630
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004631- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
4632 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
4633 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00004634
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00004635- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
4636
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004637- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
4638 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
4639 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00004640
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004641- Added some tests for modulefinder.
4642
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00004643- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
4644
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00004645- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
4646 number properly.
4647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004648- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
4649 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004650
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004651Tools
4652-----
4653
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004654- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
4655 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
4656 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
4657 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00004658
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004659- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
4660 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
4661 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00004662
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00004663- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
4664 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
4665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004666- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
4667 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004668
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004669- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
4670 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004671
4672- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004673 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
4674 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004675
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004676
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004677Documentation
4678-------------
4679
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004680- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
4681 include new optional delay argument.
4682
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004683- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
4684 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
4685 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004686
4687- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
4688 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
4689
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00004690- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
4691 Python tutorial.
4692
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00004693- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
4694
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004695- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
4696 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00004697
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00004698- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
4699 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
4700
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00004701- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
4702 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
4703
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00004704- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
4705
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00004706- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
4707 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
4708
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00004709- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
4710 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
4711
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00004712- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
4713 docs.
4714
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00004715- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
4716
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00004717- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
4718 string pointed to by its parameter.
4719
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00004720- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
4721
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004722- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004723 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
4724 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
4725 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004726
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004727
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004728Tools/Demos
4729-----------
4730
4731- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004732
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004733- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004734 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
4735 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004736
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004737- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
4738 file not to get reported properly.
4739
4740
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004741Build
4742-----
4743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004744- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
4745 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
4746 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00004747
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004748- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
4749 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
4750
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00004751- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
4752
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004753- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004754
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004755- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
4756 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
4757 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
4758 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004759
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004760- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
4761 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004762
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00004763- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
4764
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00004765- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
4766 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
4767 without this option!
4768
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00004769- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
4770
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004771- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004772 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
4773 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
4774 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004775
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004776- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
4777 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00004778
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00004779- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
4780
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00004781- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
4782
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004783- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
4784 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00004785
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004786- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
4787 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00004788
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00004789- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
4790 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
4791 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
4792
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00004793- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
4794 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
4795
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00004796- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
4797
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00004798- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
4799
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004800- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
4801 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00004802
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004803- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00004804 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
4805
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004806- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
4807 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00004808
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00004809- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
4810
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004811- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00004812
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00004813- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
4814
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00004815- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
4816
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00004817- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004819- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
4820 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
4821 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00004822
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004823
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004824C API
4825-----
4826
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004827- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
4828 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
4829 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
4830 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00004831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004832- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
4833 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
4834 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004835
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004836- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004837
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004838- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
4839 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
4840 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004841
4842- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
4843
4844- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
4845 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
4846
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004847- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
4848 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
4849 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
4850 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004851
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004852- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
4853 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004854
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004855- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
4856 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
4857 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004858
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004859- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
4860 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004861
4862- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
4863
4864- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
4865
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004866- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
4867
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004868- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
4869
4870- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
4871 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
4872
4873- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
4874 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
4875
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004876- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
4877 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
4878 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004879
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004880- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
4881 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004882
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004883- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
4884 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00004885
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004886
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004887Windows
4888-------
4889
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004890- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
4891 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
4892 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
4893 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00004894
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004895- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
4896 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004897
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00004898- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
4899
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004900
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004901Mac
4902---
4903
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00004904- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4905
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00004906- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4907
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004908- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4909 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
4910 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00004911
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00004912----
4913
4914**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**