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Neal Norwitza1f10902006-07-12 07:28:29 +00007What's New in Python 2.5 release candidate 1?
8=============================================
9
10*Release date: XX-AUG-2006*
11
12Core and builtins
13-----------------
14
Martin v. Löwis982e9fe2006-07-24 12:54:17 +000015- Bug #1524310: Properly report errors from FindNextFile in os.listdir.
16
Martin v. Löwisd22968a2006-07-24 11:54:53 +000017- Patch #1232023: Stop including current directory in search
18 path on Windows.
19
Neal Norwitze1fdb322006-07-21 05:32:28 +000020- Fix some potential crashes found with failmalloc.
21
Neal Norwitze7563102006-07-17 01:00:16 +000022- Fix warnings reported by Klocwork's static analysis tool.
23
Neal Norwitz84be93b2006-07-16 01:50:38 +000024- Bug #1512814, Fix incorrect lineno's when code within a function
25 had more than 255 blank lines.
26
Georg Brandl9dceedb2006-07-12 15:31:17 +000027- Patch #1521179: Python now accepts the standard options ``--help`` and
28 ``--version`` as well as ``/?`` on Windows.
29
Neal Norwitza1f10902006-07-12 07:28:29 +000030- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in for loop (for x, in) work
31 again. Fixing this problem required changing the .pyc magic number.
32 This means that .pyc files generated before 2.5c1 will be regenerated.
33
Tim Peters112aad32006-07-19 00:03:19 +000034- Bug #1524317: Compiling Python ``--without-threads`` failed.
35 The Python core compiles again then, and, in a build without threads, the
36 new ``sys._current_frames()`` returns a dictionary with one entry,
37 mapping the faux "thread id" 0 to the current frame.
38
Ronald Oussoren3075e162006-07-25 20:28:55 +000039- Bug #1525447: build on MacOS X on a case-sensitive filesystem.
40
41
Neal Norwitza1f10902006-07-12 07:28:29 +000042Library
43-------
44
Georg Brandl0619a322006-07-26 07:40:17 +000045- Bug #1459963: urllib and urllib2 now normalize HTTP header names correctly
46 with title().
47
Georg Brandlcf0c1722006-07-26 07:23:32 +000048- Patch #1525766: In pkgutil.walk_packages, correctly pass the onerror callback
49 to recursive calls and call it with the failing package name.
50
Martin v. Löwis0b483032006-07-25 09:53:12 +000051- Bug #1525817: Don't truncate short lines in IDLE's tool tips.
52
Georg Brandlc13c34c2006-07-24 14:09:56 +000053- Patch #1515343: Fix printing of deprecated string exceptions with a
54 value in the traceback module.
55
Greg Ward48fae7a2006-07-23 16:05:51 +000056- Resync optparse with Optik 1.5.3: minor tweaks for/to tests.
57
Martin v. Löwis426f4a12006-07-18 17:46:31 +000058- Patch #1524429: Use repr() instead of backticks in Tkinter again.
59
Brett Cannoncaebe222006-07-18 04:41:36 +000060- Bug #1520914: Change time.strftime() to accept a zero for any position in its
61 argument tuple. For arguments where zero is illegal, the value is forced to
62 the minimum value that is correct. This is to support an undocumented but
63 common way people used to fill in inconsequential information in the time
64 tuple pre-2.4.
65
Bob Ippolito5ea4bf12006-07-15 16:53:15 +000066- Patch #1220874: Update the binhex module for Mach-O.
67
Barry Warsawb110bad2006-07-21 14:51:07 +000068- The email package has improved RFC 2231 support, specifically for
69 recognizing the difference between encoded (name*0*=<blah>) and non-encoded
70 (name*0=<blah>) parameter continuations. This may change the types of
71 values returned from email.message.Message.get_param() and friends.
72 Specifically in some cases where non-encoded continuations were used,
73 get_param() used to return a 3-tuple of (None, None, string) whereas now it
74 will just return the string (since non-encoded continuations don't have
75 charset and language parts).
76
77 Also, whereas % values were decoded in all parameter continuations, they are
78 now only decoded in encoded parameter parts.
79
Ronald Oussoren3075e162006-07-25 20:28:55 +000080- Bug #1517990: IDLE keybindings on MacOS X now work correctly
81
82- Bug #1517996: IDLE now longer shows the default Tk menu when a
83 path browser, class browser or debugger is the frontmost window on MacOS X
84
85
Neal Norwitza1f10902006-07-12 07:28:29 +000086Extension Modules
87-----------------
88
Martin v. Löwisbda0dde2006-07-24 10:26:33 +000089- Patch #1448199: Release interpreter lock in _winreg.ConnectRegistry.
90
Thomas Hellerce049a02006-07-14 17:51:14 +000091- Patch #1521817: Index range checking on ctypes arrays containing
92 exactly one element enabled again. This allows iterating over these
93 arrays, without the need to check the array size before.
94
Thomas Heller6e1ad2e2006-07-13 17:05:13 +000095- Bug #1521375: When the code in ctypes.util.find_library was
Andrew M. Kuchlingb7eca832006-07-13 17:37:26 +000096 run with root privileges, it could overwrite or delete
Thomas Heller2bdf29e2006-07-13 17:01:14 +000097 /dev/null in certain cases; this is now fixed.
98
Thomas Heller47d7a062006-07-12 08:43:47 +000099- Bug #1467450: On Mac OS X 10.3, RTLD_GLOBAL is now used as the
100 default mode for loading shared libraries in ctypes.
Neal Norwitza1f10902006-07-12 07:28:29 +0000101
Thomas Hellerb4dc2ef2006-07-13 09:53:47 +0000102- Because of a misspelled preprocessor symbol, ctypes was always
103 compiled without thread support; this is now fixed.
104
Brett Cannonf23ad3d2006-07-25 17:32:20 +0000105Tests
106-----
107
108- Bug #1501330: Change test_ossaudiodev to be much more tolerant in terms of
109 how long the test file should take to play. Now accepts taking 2.93 secs
110 (exact time) +/- 10% instead of the hard-coded 3.1 sec.
111
112
Georg Brandlad29e632006-06-21 17:45:17 +0000113What's New in Python 2.5 beta 2?
114================================
115
Anthony Baxter70e8e872006-07-10 07:41:04 +0000116*Release date: 11-JUL-2006*
Georg Brandlad29e632006-06-21 17:45:17 +0000117
118Core and builtins
119-----------------
120
Neil Schemenauer6ec6ab02006-07-09 21:19:29 +0000121- Bug #1441486: The literal representation of -(sys.maxint - 1)
122 again evaluates to a int object, not a long.
123
Neil Schemenauer0e07b602006-07-09 16:16:34 +0000124- Bug #1501934: The scope of global variables that are locally assigned
125 using augmented assignment is now correctly determined.
126
Martin v. Löwisd5cfa542006-07-03 13:47:40 +0000127- Bug #927248: Recursive method-wrapper objects can now safely
128 be released.
129
Martin v. Löwisfcfff0a2006-07-03 12:19:50 +0000130- Bug #1417699: Reject locale-specific decimal point in float()
131 and atof().
132
Hye-Shik Change6a1cb92006-06-23 21:16:18 +0000133- Bug #1511381: codec_getstreamcodec() in codec.c is corrected to
134 omit a default "error" argument for NULL pointer. This allows
135 the parser to take a codec from cjkcodecs again.
Georg Brandlad29e632006-06-21 17:45:17 +0000136
Neal Norwitzfb48afa2006-07-08 05:31:37 +0000137- Bug #1519018: 'as' is now validated properly in import statements.
138
Neal Norwitz28746ab2006-07-09 22:14:42 +0000139- On 64 bit systems, int literals that use less than 64 bits are
140 now ints rather than longs.
141
Neal Norwitzed657552006-07-10 00:04:44 +0000142- Bug #1512814, Fix incorrect lineno's when code at module scope
143 started after line 256.
144
Tim Peters32a83612006-07-10 21:08:24 +0000145- New function ``sys._current_frames()`` returns a dict mapping thread
146 id to topmost thread stack frame. This is for expert use, and is
147 especially useful for debugging application deadlocks. The functionality
148 was previously available in Fazal Majid's ``threadframe`` extension
149 module, but it wasn't possible to do this in a wholly threadsafe way from
150 an extension.
151
Georg Brandlad29e632006-06-21 17:45:17 +0000152Library
153-------
154
Martin v. Löwis06c68b82006-07-10 22:11:28 +0000155- Patch #1519566: Update turtle demo, make begin_fill idempotent.
156
Tim Peters32a83612006-07-10 21:08:24 +0000157- Bug #1508010: msvccompiler now requires the DISTUTILS_USE_SDK
Martin v. Löwis8d656812006-07-10 07:23:48 +0000158 environment variable to be set in order to the SDK environment
159 for finding the compiler, include files, etc.
160
Martin v. Löwis388a8c22006-07-06 19:28:03 +0000161- Bug #1515998: Properly generate logical ids for files in bdist_msi.
162
Nick Coghlan2d792252006-07-06 13:47:18 +0000163- warnings.py now ignores ImportWarning by default
164
Thomas Woutersadd19112006-07-05 11:03:49 +0000165- string.Template() now correctly handles tuple-values. Previously,
166 multi-value tuples would raise an exception and single-value tuples would
167 be treated as the value they contain, instead.
168
Martin v. Löwisede77f52006-07-03 13:01:35 +0000169- Bug #822974: Honor timeout in telnetlib.{expect,read_until}
170 even if some data are received.
171
Martin v. Löwis45482392006-07-03 12:28:58 +0000172- Bug #1267547: Put proper recursive setup.py call into the
173 spec file generated by bdist_rpm.
174
Martin v. Löwis2b88f632006-07-03 10:19:49 +0000175- Bug #1514693: Update turtle's heading when switching between
176 degrees and radians.
177
Martin v. Löwis4c4300d2006-07-03 10:05:30 +0000178- Reimplement turtle.circle using a polyline, to allow correct
Martin v. Löwis2b88f632006-07-03 10:19:49 +0000179 filling of arcs.
Martin v. Löwis4c4300d2006-07-03 10:05:30 +0000180
Martin v. Löwisbd39c032006-07-03 09:44:00 +0000181- Bug #1514703: Only setup canvas window in turtle when the canvas
182 is created.
183
Martin v. Löwis7596e832006-07-01 15:33:37 +0000184- Bug #1513223: .close() of a _socketobj now releases the underlying
185 socket again, which then gets closed as it becomes unreferenced.
186
Fred Drake10497c82006-06-29 02:57:48 +0000187- Bug #1504333: Make sgmllib support angle brackets in quoted
188 attribute values.
189
190- Bug #853506: Fix IPv6 address parsing in unquoted attributes in
191 sgmllib ('[' and ']' were not accepted).
192
Georg Brandl1be63af2006-06-28 20:23:25 +0000193- Fix a bug in the turtle module's end_fill function.
194
Brett Cannon53ab5b72006-06-22 16:49:14 +0000195- Bug #1510580: The 'warnings' module improperly required that a Warning
196 category be either a types.ClassType and a subclass of Warning. The proper
197 check is just that it is a subclass with Warning as the documentation states.
198
Georg Brandlad29e632006-06-21 17:45:17 +0000199- The compiler module now correctly compiles the new try-except-finally
200 statement (bug #1509132).
201
Neal Norwitz60373cd2006-06-22 06:30:50 +0000202- The wsgiref package is now installed properly on Unix.
203
Vinay Sajip28e57612006-07-01 10:45:20 +0000204- A bug was fixed in logging.config.fileConfig() which caused a crash on
205 shutdown when fileConfig() was called multiple times.
206
Gerhard Häring762fbd32006-07-02 17:48:30 +0000207- The sqlite3 module did cut off data from the SQLite database at the first
208 null character before sending it to a custom converter. This has been fixed
209 now.
210
Neal Norwitz0f8b31a2006-06-28 06:28:31 +0000211Extension Modules
212-----------------
213
Tim Peters112aad32006-07-19 00:03:19 +0000214- #1494314: Fix a regression with high-numbered sockets in 2.4.3. This
215 means that select() on sockets > FD_SETSIZE (typically 1024) work again.
216 The patch makes sockets use poll() internally where available.
Anthony Baxter93ab5fa2006-07-11 02:04:09 +0000217
Thomas Hellerb9cb84f2006-07-10 11:17:37 +0000218- Assigning None to pointer type fields in ctypes structures possible
219 overwrote the wrong fields, this is fixed now.
220
221- Fixed a segfault in _ctypes when ctypes.wintypes were imported
222 on non-Windows platforms.
223
224- Bug #1518190: The ctypes.c_void_p constructor now accepts any
225 integer or long, without range checking.
226
227- Patch #1517790: It is now possible to use custom objects in the ctypes
228 foreign function argtypes sequence as long as they provide a from_param
229 method, no longer is it required that the object is a ctypes type.
230
231- The '_ctypes' extension module now works when Python is configured
232 with the --without-threads option.
233
Martin v. Löwisee1e06d2006-07-02 18:44:00 +0000234- Bug #1513646: os.access on Windows now correctly determines write
235 access, again.
236
Neal Norwitz0f8b31a2006-06-28 06:28:31 +0000237- Bug #1512695: cPickle.loads could crash if it was interrupted with
238 a KeyboardInterrupt.
239
Neal Norwitza12aa882006-07-06 06:45:08 +0000240- Bug #1296433: parsing XML with a non-default encoding and
241 a CharacterDataHandler could crash the interpreter in pyexpat.
242
Neal Norwitz2a30cd02006-07-10 01:18:57 +0000243- Patch #1516912: improve Modules support for OpenVMS.
244
Neal Norwitz3b6b8012006-06-27 04:12:58 +0000245Build
246-----
247
Martin v. Löwisd73168d2006-07-14 09:58:55 +0000248- Automate Windows build process for the Win64 SSL module.
249
Tim Peters32a83612006-07-10 21:08:24 +0000250- 'configure' now detects the zlib library the same way as distutils.
Thomas Woutersfc34f6c2006-07-06 10:48:28 +0000251 Previously, the slight difference could cause compilation errors of the
252 'zlib' module on systems with more than one version of zlib.
253
Martin v. Löwis4cbd05c2006-07-06 07:05:21 +0000254- The MSI compileall step was fixed to also support a TARGETDIR
255 with spaces in it.
256
Martin v. Löwis88ef6372006-07-06 06:55:58 +0000257- Bug #1517388: sqlite3.dll is now installed on Windows independent
258 of Tcl/Tk.
259
Neal Norwitzc315a0f2006-06-27 04:28:56 +0000260- Bug #1513032: 'make install' failed on FreeBSD 5.3 due to lib-old
Neal Norwitz3b6b8012006-06-27 04:12:58 +0000261 trying to be installed even though it's empty.
Georg Brandlad29e632006-06-21 17:45:17 +0000262
Neal Norwitzb15ac312006-06-29 04:10:08 +0000263Tests
264-----
265
266- Call os.waitpid() at the end of tests that spawn child processes in order
267 to minimize resources (zombies).
268
Martin v. Löwis1bf59592006-06-29 18:58:44 +0000269Documentation
270-------------
271
Nick Coghlan2d792252006-07-06 13:47:18 +0000272- Cover ImportWarning, PendingDeprecationWarning and simplefilter() in the
273 documentation for the warnings module.
274
Martin v. Löwis1bf59592006-06-29 18:58:44 +0000275- Patch #1509163: MS Toolkit Compiler no longer available.
276
Neal Norwitz56640df2006-07-10 02:36:41 +0000277- Patch #1504046: Add documentation for xml.etree.
Georg Brandlad29e632006-06-21 17:45:17 +0000278
Nick Coghlanc649ec52006-05-29 12:43:05 +0000279What's New in Python 2.5 beta 1?
Georg Brandlad29e632006-06-21 17:45:17 +0000280================================
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000281
Anthony Baxterd1136802006-06-19 12:04:15 +0000282*Release date: 20-JUN-2006*
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000283
284Core and builtins
285-----------------
286
Georg Brandla56b9152006-06-19 06:35:54 +0000287- Patch #1507676: Error messages returned by invalid abstract object operations
288 (such as iterating over an integer) have been improved and now include the
289 type of the offending object to help with debugging.
290
Brett Cannonea3912b2006-06-13 21:46:41 +0000291- Bug #992017: A classic class that defined a __coerce__() method that returned
292 its arguments swapped would infinitely recurse and segfault the interpreter.
293
Neal Norwitz909eb122006-06-12 02:13:21 +0000294- Fix the socket tests so they can be run concurrently.
295
Neal Norwitzb9845e72006-06-12 02:11:18 +0000296- Removed 5 integers from C frame objects (PyFrameObject).
Vinay Sajip28e57612006-07-01 10:45:20 +0000297 f_nlocals, f_ncells, f_nfreevars, f_stack_size, f_restricted.
Neal Norwitzb9845e72006-06-12 02:11:18 +0000298
Brett Cannon22565aa2006-06-09 22:31:23 +0000299- Bug #532646: object.__call__() will continue looking for the __call__
300 attribute on objects until one without one is found. This leads to recursion
301 when you take a class and set its __call__ attribute to an instance of the
302 class. Originally fixed for classic classes, but this fix is for new-style.
303 Removes the infinite_rec_3 crasher.
304
Georg Brandl24250812006-06-09 18:45:48 +0000305- The string and unicode methods startswith() and endswith() now accept
306 a tuple of prefixes/suffixes to look for. Implements RFE #1491485.
307
Brett Cannonde3b0522006-06-08 17:00:45 +0000308- Buffer objects, at the C level, never used the char buffer
309 implementation even when the char buffer for the wrapped object was
310 explicitly requested (originally returned the read or write buffer).
311 Now a TypeError is raised if the char buffer is not present but is
312 requested.
313
Georg Brandlddbaa662006-06-04 21:56:52 +0000314- Patch #1346214: Statements like "if 0: suite" are now again optimized
315 away like they were in Python 2.4.
316
Georg Brandlb7c8f542006-05-27 12:30:25 +0000317- Builtin exceptions are now full-blown new-style classes instead of
318 instances pretending to be classes, which speeds up exception handling
319 by about 80% in comparison to 2.5a2.
320
Martin v. Löwisd004fc82006-05-27 08:36:52 +0000321- Patch #1494554: Update unicodedata.numeric and unicode.isnumeric to
322 Unicode 4.1.
323
Georg Brandlf4ef1162006-05-26 18:03:31 +0000324- Patch #921466: sys.path_importer_cache is now used to cache valid and
325 invalid file paths for the built-in import machinery which leads to
326 fewer open calls on startup.
327
Tim Peters696cf432006-05-24 21:10:40 +0000328- Patch #1442927: ``long(str, base)`` is now up to 6x faster for non-power-
329 of-2 bases. The largest speedup is for inputs with about 1000 decimal
330 digits. Conversion from non-power-of-2 bases remains quadratic-time in
331 the number of input digits (it was and remains linear-time for bases
332 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32).
333
Tim Petersb713ec22006-05-23 18:45:30 +0000334- Bug #1334662: ``int(string, base)`` could deliver a wrong answer
335 when ``base`` was not 2, 4, 8, 10, 16 or 32, and ``string`` represented
336 an integer close to ``sys.maxint``. This was repaired by patch
337 #1335972, which also gives a nice speedup.
338
Richard Jonescebbefc2006-05-23 18:28:17 +0000339- Patch #1337051: reduced size of frame objects.
340
341- PyErr_NewException now accepts a tuple of base classes as its
342 "base" parameter.
343
Richard Jones7c88dcc2006-05-23 10:37:38 +0000344- Patch #876206: function call speedup by retaining allocated frame
345 objects.
346
Georg Brandl7b90e162006-05-18 07:01:27 +0000347- Bug #1462152: file() now checks more thoroughly for invalid mode
348 strings and removes a possible "U" before passing the mode to the
349 C library function.
350
Neal Norwitz1004a532006-05-15 07:17:23 +0000351- Patch #1488312, Fix memory alignment problem on SPARC in unicode
352
Neal Norwitz373f0a72006-05-15 07:04:36 +0000353- Bug #1487966: Fix SystemError with conditional expression in assignment
354
Martin v. Löwis879768d2006-05-11 13:28:43 +0000355- WindowsError now has two error code attributes: errno, which carries
356 the error values from errno.h, and winerror, which carries the error
357 values from winerror.h. Previous versions put the winerror.h values
358 (from GetLastError()) into the errno attribute.
359
Martin v. Löwis77736712006-05-04 05:51:03 +0000360- Patch #1475845: Raise IndentationError for unexpected indent.
361
Neal Norwitzc4edb0e2006-05-02 04:43:14 +0000362- Patch #1479181: split open() and file() from being aliases for each other.
363
Tim Peters44bd9862006-06-01 13:49:23 +0000364- Patch #1497053 & bug #1275608: Exceptions occurring in ``__eq__()``
365 methods were always silently ignored by dictionaries when comparing keys.
366 They are now passed through (except when using the C API function
367 ``PyDict_GetItem()``, whose semantics did not change).
368
369- Bug #1456209: In some obscure cases it was possible for a class with a
370 custom ``__eq__()`` method to confuse dict internals when class instances
371 were used as a dict's keys and the ``__eq__()`` method mutated the dict.
372 No, you don't have any code that did this ;-)
Armin Rigo35f6d362006-06-01 13:19:12 +0000373
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000374Extension Modules
375-----------------
376
Trent Mick960a3f82006-06-28 20:30:41 +0000377- Bug #1295808: expat symbols should be namespaced in pyexpat
378
379- Patch #1462338: Upgrade pyexpat to expat 2.0.0
380
Brett Cannon6ee7d012006-06-08 16:23:04 +0000381- Change binascii.hexlify to accept a read-only buffer instead of only a char
382 buffer and actually follow its documentation.
383
Hye-Shik Chang58ce5bc2006-06-05 00:59:54 +0000384- Fixed a potentially invalid memory access of CJKCodecs' shift-jis decoder.
385
Nick Coghlanc649ec52006-05-29 12:43:05 +0000386- Patch #1478788 (modified version): The functional extension module has
387 been renamed to _functools and a functools Python wrapper module added.
388 This provides a home for additional function related utilities that are
389 not specifically about functional programming. See PEP 309.
390
Bob Ippolito7ccc95a2006-05-23 19:11:34 +0000391- Patch #1493701: performance enhancements for struct module.
392
Georg Brandl378d5922006-05-17 14:26:50 +0000393- Patch #1490224: time.altzone is now set correctly on Cygwin.
394
Georg Brandl8d3342b2006-05-16 07:38:27 +0000395- Patch #1435422: zlib's compress and decompress objects now have a
396 copy() method.
397
Andrew MacIntyre92913322006-06-13 15:04:24 +0000398- Patch #1454481: thread stack size is now tunable at runtime for thread
399 enabled builds on Windows and systems with Posix threads support.
400
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000401- On Win32, os.listdir now supports arbitrarily-long Unicode path names
402 (up to the system limit of 32K characters).
403
404- Use Win32 API to implement os.{access,chdir,chmod,mkdir,remove,rename,rmdir,utime}.
405 As a result, these functions now raise WindowsError instead of OSError.
406
Tim Peters7a822da2006-05-25 21:50:17 +0000407- ``time.clock()`` on Win64 should use the high-performance Windows
408 ``QueryPerformanceCounter()`` now (as was already the case on 32-bit
409 Windows platforms).
410
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000411- Calling Tk_Init twice is refused if the first call failed as that
412 may deadlock.
413
Gregory P. Smith0459e4d2006-06-05 02:02:25 +0000414- bsddb: added the DB_ARCH_REMOVE flag and fixed db.DBEnv.log_archive() to
415 accept it without potentially using an uninitialized pointer.
416
417- bsddb: added support for the DBEnv.log_stat() and DBEnv.lsn_reset() methods
418 assuming BerkeleyDB >= 4.0 and 4.4 respectively. [pybsddb project SF
419 patch numbers 1494885 and 1494902]
Nick Coghlanc649ec52006-05-29 12:43:05 +0000420
Gregory P. Smith372b5832006-06-05 18:48:21 +0000421- bsddb: added an interface for the BerkeleyDB >= 4.3 DBSequence class.
Gregory P. Smithf0547d02006-06-05 17:38:04 +0000422 [pybsddb project SF patch number 1466734]
423
Gregory P. Smith372b5832006-06-05 18:48:21 +0000424- bsddb: fix DBCursor.pget() bug with keyword argument names when no data
425 parameter is supplied. [SF pybsddb bug #1477863]
426
Gregory P. Smith3c228b12006-06-05 23:59:37 +0000427- bsddb: the __len__ method of a DB object has been fixed to return correct
428 results. It could previously incorrectly return 0 in some cases.
429 Fixes SF bug 1493322 (pybsddb bug 1184012).
430
Gregory P. Smithff7d9912006-06-08 05:17:08 +0000431- bsddb: the bsddb.dbtables Modify method now raises the proper error and
432 aborts the db transaction safely when a modifier callback fails.
433 Fixes SF python patch/bug #1408584.
434
Gregory P. Smith506f7b52006-06-15 08:52:32 +0000435- bsddb: multithreaded DB access using the simple bsddb module interface
Vinay Sajip28e57612006-07-01 10:45:20 +0000436 now works reliably. It has been updated to use automatic BerkeleyDB
Gregory P. Smith506f7b52006-06-15 08:52:32 +0000437 deadlock detection and the bsddb.dbutils.DeadlockWrap wrapper to retry
438 database calls that would previously deadlock. [SF python bug #775414]
439
Vinay Sajip28e57612006-07-01 10:45:20 +0000440- Patch #1446489: add support for the ZIP64 extensions to zipfile.
Gregory P. Smith372b5832006-06-05 18:48:21 +0000441
Walter Dörwald4994d952006-06-19 08:07:50 +0000442- Patch #1506645: add Python wrappers for the curses functions
443 is_term_resized, resize_term and resizeterm.
Gregory P. Smith506f7b52006-06-15 08:52:32 +0000444
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000445Library
446-------
447
Martin v. Löwis6fb20aa2006-06-17 19:03:26 +0000448- Patch #815924: Restore ability to pass type= and icon= in tkMessageBox
449 functions.
450
Martin v. Löwis3798da02006-06-17 18:44:27 +0000451- Patch #812986: Update turtle output even if not tracing.
452
Vinay Sajip28e57612006-07-01 10:45:20 +0000453- Patch #1494750: Destroy master after deleting children in
Martin v. Löwis92733be2006-06-17 09:25:15 +0000454 Tkinter.BaseWidget.
455
Martin v. Löwis5ecad9c2006-06-17 09:20:41 +0000456- Patch #1096231: Add ``default`` argument to Tkinter.Wm.wm_iconbitmap.
457
Martin v. Löwis337487e2006-06-17 09:15:14 +0000458- Patch #763580: Add name and value arguments to Tkinter variable
459 classes.
460
Georg Brandl83cc0d02006-06-14 08:50:03 +0000461- Bug #1117556: SimpleHTTPServer now tries to find and use the system's
462 mime.types file for determining MIME types.
463
Georg Brandl2605ca82006-06-14 06:08:31 +0000464- Bug #1339007: Shelf objects now don't raise an exception in their
465 __del__ method when initialization failed.
466
Martin v. Löwisd8251432006-06-14 05:21:04 +0000467- Patch #1455898: The MBCS codec now supports the incremental mode for
468 double-byte encodings.
469
Tim Peters43898b42006-06-14 04:09:25 +0000470- ``difflib``'s ``SequenceMatcher.get_matching_blocks()`` was changed to
471 guarantee that adjacent triples in the return list always describe
472 non-adjacent blocks. Previously, a pair of matching blocks could end
473 up being described by multiple adjacent triples that formed a partition
474 of the matching pair.
475
Greg Ward0e0c9f42006-06-11 16:24:11 +0000476- Bug #1498146: fix optparse to handle Unicode strings in option help,
477 description, and epilog.
478
Greg Wardd1c797e2006-06-11 14:42:41 +0000479- Bug #1366250: minor optparse documentation error.
480
Greg Ward7f547402006-06-11 00:40:49 +0000481- Bug #1361643: fix textwrap.dedent() so it handles tabs appropriately;
482 clarify docs.
483
Andrew M. Kuchling0873b112006-06-09 16:46:51 +0000484- The wsgiref package has been added to the standard library.
485
Nick Coghlan676725d2006-06-08 13:54:49 +0000486- The functions update_wrapper() and wraps() have been added to the functools
487 module. These make it easier to copy relevant metadata from the original
488 function when writing wrapper functions.
489
Tim Petersd6a9eef2006-06-05 01:48:21 +0000490- The optional ``isprivate`` argument to ``doctest.testmod()``, and the
491 ``doctest.is_private()`` function, both deprecated in 2.4, were removed.
Tim Petersbf0400a2006-06-05 01:43:03 +0000492
Martin v. Löwis3f767792006-06-04 19:36:28 +0000493- Patch #1359618: Speed up charmap encoder by using a trie structure
494 for lookup.
495
Tim Petersd609b1a2006-06-02 23:22:51 +0000496- The functions in the ``pprint`` module now sort dictionaries by key
497 before computing the display. Before 2.5, ``pprint`` sorted a dictionary
498 if and only if its display required more than one line, although that
499 wasn't documented. The new behavior increases predictability; e.g.,
500 using ``pprint.pprint(a_dict)`` in a doctest is now reliable.
501
Georg Brandlfd9a4b12006-05-29 20:57:01 +0000502- Patch #1497027: try HTTP digest auth before basic auth in urllib2
503 (thanks for J. J. Lee).
504
Georg Brandl2b330372006-05-28 20:23:12 +0000505- Patch #1496206: improve urllib2 handling of passwords with respect to
506 default HTTP and HTTPS ports.
507
George Yoshidaf3c65de2006-05-28 16:39:09 +0000508- Patch #1080727: add "encoding" parameter to doctest.DocFileSuite.
509
Bob Ippolito7298f272006-05-23 18:43:47 +0000510- Patch #1281707: speed up gzip.readline.
511
Georg Brandlb89316f2006-05-17 15:51:16 +0000512- Patch #1180296: Two new functions were added to the locale module:
513 format_string() to get the effect of "format % items" but locale-aware,
514 and currency() to format a monetary number with currency sign.
515
Georg Brandle3a25832006-05-17 14:56:04 +0000516- Patch #1486962: Several bugs in the turtle Tk demo module were fixed
517 and several features added, such as speed and geometry control.
518
Georg Brandl49c8f4c2006-05-15 19:30:35 +0000519- Patch #1488881: add support for external file objects in bz2 compressed
520 tarfiles.
521
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000522- Patch #721464: pdb.Pdb instances can now be given explicit stdin and
523 stdout arguments, making it possible to redirect input and output
524 for remote debugging.
525
526- Patch #1484695: Update the tarfile module to version 0.8. This fixes
527 a couple of issues, notably handling of long file names using the
528 GNU LONGNAME extension.
529
530- Patch #1478292. ``doctest.register_optionflag(name)`` shouldn't create a
531 new flag when ``name`` is already the name of an option flag.
532
533- Bug #1385040: don't allow "def foo(a=1, b): pass" in the compiler
534 package.
535
536- Patch #1472854: make the rlcompleter.Completer class usable on non-
537 UNIX platforms.
538
539- Patch #1470846: fix urllib2 ProxyBasicAuthHandler.
540
Andrew M. Kuchling3fed2eb2006-06-09 16:44:40 +0000541- Bug #1472827: correctly escape newlines and tabs in attribute values in
542 the saxutils.XMLGenerator class.
543
544
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000545Build
546-----
547
Georg Brandl66a0dbb2006-06-08 12:54:13 +0000548- Bug #1502728: Correctly link against librt library on HP-UX.
549
Martin v. Löwis222c5152006-06-03 07:37:13 +0000550- OpenBSD 3.9 is supported now.
551
Martin v. Löwisa43190b2006-05-22 09:15:18 +0000552- Patch #1492356: Port to Windows CE.
553
Neal Norwitz58e28882006-05-19 07:00:58 +0000554- Bug/Patch #1481770: Use .so extension for shared libraries on HP-UX for ia64.
555
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000556- Patch #1471883: Add --enable-universalsdk.
557
558C API
559-----
560
561Tests
562-----
563
564Tools
565-----
566
567Documentation
568-------------
569
Nick Coghlanc649ec52006-05-29 12:43:05 +0000570
571
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000572What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 2?
573=================================
574
575*Release date: 27-APR-2006*
576
577Core and builtins
578-----------------
579
Thomas Heller1b046642006-04-18 18:51:06 +0000580- Bug #1465834: 'bdist_wininst preinstall script support' was fixed
581 by converting these apis from macros into exported functions again:
582
583 PyParser_SimpleParseFile PyParser_SimpleParseString PyRun_AnyFile
584 PyRun_AnyFileEx PyRun_AnyFileFlags PyRun_File PyRun_FileEx
585 PyRun_FileFlags PyRun_InteractiveLoop PyRun_InteractiveOne
586 PyRun_SimpleFile PyRun_SimpleFileEx PyRun_SimpleString
587 PyRun_String Py_CompileString
588
Martin v. Löwis45294a92006-04-18 06:24:08 +0000589- Under COUNT_ALLOCS, types are not necessarily immortal anymore.
590
Martin v. Löwis19ab6c92006-04-16 18:55:50 +0000591- All uses of PyStructSequence_InitType have been changed to initialize
592 the type objects only once, even if the interpreter is initialized
593 multiple times.
594
Neal Norwitz61546162006-04-14 05:20:28 +0000595- Bug #1454485, array.array('u') could crash the interpreter. This was
596 due to PyArgs_ParseTuple(args, 'u#', ...) trying to convert buffers (strings)
597 to unicode when it didn't make sense. 'u#' now requires a unicode string.
598
599- Py_UNICODE is unsigned. It was always documented as unsigned, but
600 due to a bug had a signed value in previous versions.
601
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000602- Patch #837242: ``id()`` of any Python object always gives a positive
603 number now, which might be a long integer. ``PyLong_FromVoidPtr`` and
604 ``PyLong_AsVoidPtr`` have been changed accordingly. Note that it has
Tim Peters527f6522006-04-11 01:47:17 +0000605 never been correct to implement a ``__hash()__`` method that returns the
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000606 ``id()`` of an object:
Martin v. Löwis0bc2ab92006-04-10 20:28:17 +0000607
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000608 def __hash__(self):
609 return id(self) # WRONG
610
611 because a hash result must be a (short) Python int but it was always
612 possible for ``id()`` to return a Python long. However, because ``id()``
Tim Peters527f6522006-04-11 01:47:17 +0000613 could return negative values before, on a 32-bit box an ``id()`` result
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000614 was always usable as a hash value before this patch. That's no longer
615 necessarily so.
616
617- Python on OS X 10.3 and above now uses dlopen() (via dynload_shlib.c)
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +0000618 to load extension modules and now provides the dl module. As a result,
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000619 sys.setdlopenflags() now works correctly on these systems. (SF patch
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +0000620 #1454844)
621
Phillip J. Eby51dd7d92006-04-11 01:21:31 +0000622- Patch #1463867: enhanced garbage collection to allow cleanup of cycles
623 involving generators that have paused outside of any ``try`` or ``with``
624 blocks. (In 2.5a1, a paused generator that was part of a reference
625 cycle could not be garbage collected, regardless of whether it was
626 paused in a ``try`` or ``with`` block.)
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +0000627
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000628Extension Modules
629-----------------
630
Martin v. Löwis7e75f1a2006-04-15 08:35:59 +0000631- Patch #1191065: Fix preprocessor problems on systems where recvfrom
632 is a macro.
633
Georg Brandlbbfe4fa2006-04-11 06:47:43 +0000634- Bug #1467952: os.listdir() now correctly raises an error if readdir()
635 fails with an error condition.
636
Gregory P. Smith3adc4aa2006-04-13 19:19:01 +0000637- Fixed bsddb.db.DBError derived exceptions so they can be unpickled.
638
639- Bug #1117761: bsddb.*open() no longer raises an exception when using
640 the cachesize parameter.
641
642- Bug #1149413: bsddb.*open() no longer raises an exception when using
643 a temporary db (file=None) with the 'n' flag to truncate on open.
644
645- Bug #1332852: bsddb module minimum BerkeleyDB version raised to 3.3
646 as older versions cause excessive test failures.
Gregory P. Smith7f5b6f42006-04-08 07:10:51 +0000647
Armin Rigoa9017c32006-04-19 11:50:27 +0000648- Patch #1062014: AF_UNIX sockets under Linux have a special
649 abstract namespace that is now fully supported.
650
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000651Library
652-------
653
Peter Astrand7d1d4362006-07-14 14:04:45 +0000654- Bug #1223937: subprocess.CalledProcessError reports the exit status
655 of the process using the returncode attribute, instead of
656 abusing errno.
657
Tim Peters711bf302006-04-25 03:31:36 +0000658- Patch #1475231: ``doctest`` has a new ``SKIP`` option, which causes
659 a doctest to be skipped (the code is not run, and the expected output
660 or exception is ignored).
661
Nick Coghlanda2268f2006-04-24 04:37:15 +0000662- Fixed contextlib.nested to cope with exceptions being raised and
663 caught inside exit handlers.
664
Greg Wardab05edc2006-04-23 03:47:58 +0000665- Updated optparse module to Optik 1.5.1 (allow numeric constants in
666 hex, octal, or binary; add ``append_const`` action; keep going if
667 gettext cannot be imported; added ``OptionParser.destroy()`` method;
668 added ``epilog`` for better help generation).
669
Tim Peters21fbd572006-04-21 21:18:10 +0000670- Bug #1473760: ``tempfile.TemporaryFile()`` could hang on Windows, when
671 called from a thread spawned as a side effect of importing a module.
672
Phillip J. Eby17a35f92006-04-18 16:45:14 +0000673- The pydoc module now supports documenting packages contained in
674 .zip or .egg files.
675
676- The pkgutil module now has several new utility functions, such
677 as ``walk_packages()`` to support working with packages that are either
678 in the filesystem or zip files.
679
Andrew M. Kuchling1da4a942006-04-22 02:32:43 +0000680- The mailbox module can now modify and delete messages from
681 mailboxes, in addition to simply reading them. Thanks to Gregory
682 K. Johnson for writing the code, and to the 2005 Google Summer of
683 Code for funding his work.
Phillip J. Eby17a35f92006-04-18 16:45:14 +0000684
Tim Petersc7605f22006-04-17 21:12:33 +0000685- The ``__del__`` method of class ``local`` in module ``_threading_local``
686 returned before accomplishing any of its intended cleanup.
687
Martin v. Löwisbd30f522006-04-17 17:08:37 +0000688- Patch #790710: Add breakpoint command lists in pdb.
689
Martin v. Löwis0db2a982006-04-16 20:55:38 +0000690- Patch #1063914: Add Tkinter.Misc.clipboard_get().
691
Martin v. Löwis4b501e62006-04-15 08:41:11 +0000692- Patch #1191700: Adjust column alignment in bdb breakpoint lists.
693
Anthony Baxtere29002c2006-04-12 12:07:31 +0000694- SimpleXMLRPCServer relied on the fcntl module, which is unavailable on
695 Windows. Bug #1469163.
696
Phillip J. Eby47032112006-04-11 01:07:43 +0000697- The warnings, linecache, inspect, traceback, site, and doctest modules
698 were updated to work correctly with modules imported from zipfiles or
699 via other PEP 302 __loader__ objects.
700
Martin v. Löwis17de8ff2006-04-10 15:55:37 +0000701- Patch #1467770: Reduce usage of subprocess._active to processes which
702 the application hasn't waited on.
703
Martin v. Löwisb04dee92006-04-10 08:34:21 +0000704- Patch #1462222: Fix Tix.Grid.
705
Neal Norwitza31bf182006-04-09 03:35:43 +0000706- Fix exception when doing glob.glob('anything*/')
707
Skip Montanaro262fb922006-04-21 02:31:07 +0000708- The pstats.Stats class accepts an optional stream keyword argument to
709 direct output to an alternate file-like object.
710
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000711Build
712-----
713
Martin v. Löwis4be4e652006-04-17 19:25:49 +0000714- The Makefile now has a reindent target, which runs reindent.py on
715 the library.
716
Martin v. Löwis48bbaf22006-04-15 18:06:54 +0000717- Patch #1470875: Building Python with MS Free Compiler
718
Martin v. Löwisc90b17e2006-04-15 08:13:05 +0000719- Patch #1161914: Add a python-config script.
Martin v. Löwis48bbaf22006-04-15 18:06:54 +0000720
Martin v. Löwis0f48d982006-04-14 14:34:26 +0000721- Patch #1324762:Remove ccpython.cc; replace --with-cxx with
722 --with-cxx-main. Link with C++ compiler only if --with-cxx-main was
Andrew M. Kuchlingdb4018f2006-04-14 14:54:18 +0000723 specified. (Can be overridden by explicitly setting LINKCC.) Decouple
Martin v. Löwis0f48d982006-04-14 14:34:26 +0000724 CXX from --with-cxx-main, see description in README.
725
Martin v. Löwis10acfd02006-04-10 12:39:36 +0000726- Patch #1429775: Link extension modules with the shared libpython.
727
Hye-Shik Changf4795c82006-04-26 19:20:26 +0000728- Fixed a libffi build problem on MIPS systems.
729
Tim Peters8931ff12006-05-13 23:28:20 +0000730- ``PyString_FromFormat``, ``PyErr_Format``, and ``PyString_FromFormatV``
731 now accept formats "%u" for unsigned ints, "%lu" for unsigned longs,
732 and "%zu" for unsigned integers of type ``size_t``.
733
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000734Tests
735-----
736
Nick Coghlanda2268f2006-04-24 04:37:15 +0000737- test_contextlib now checks contextlib.nested can cope with exceptions
738 being raised and caught inside exit handlers.
739
Nick Coghlan27ec1a72006-04-24 04:32:47 +0000740- test_cmd_line now checks operation of the -m and -c command switches
741
Phillip J. Eby51dd7d92006-04-11 01:21:31 +0000742- The test_contextlib test in 2.5a1 wasn't actually run unless you ran
743 it separately and by hand. It also wasn't cleaning up its changes to
744 the current Decimal context.
745
Thomas Woutersabd08882006-04-26 15:53:30 +0000746- regrtest.py now has a -M option to run tests that test the new limits of
747 containers, on 64-bit architectures. Running these tests is only sensible
748 on 64-bit machines with more than two gigabytes of memory. The argument
749 passed is the maximum amount of memory for the tests to use.
750
Marc-André Lemburgd0b8e832006-04-19 15:48:59 +0000751Tools
752-----
753
754- Added the Python benchmark suite pybench to the Tools/ directory;
755 contributed by Marc-Andre Lemburg.
Phillip J. Eby51dd7d92006-04-11 01:21:31 +0000756
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000757Documentation
758-------------
759
Tim Petersb06d28c2006-05-12 01:57:59 +0000760- Patch #1473132: Improve docs for ``tp_clear`` and ``tp_traverse``.
761
Nick Coghlanc195d8a2006-04-24 03:04:43 +0000762- PEP 343: Added Context Types section to the library reference
763 and attempted to bring other PEP 343 related documentation into
764 line with the implementation and/or python-dev discussions.
765
Tim Peters8dc73d22006-04-24 02:03:16 +0000766- Bug #1337990: clarified that ``doctest`` does not support examples
767 requiring both expected output and an exception.
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000768
769
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000770What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1?
771=================================
772
Anthony Baxterebed3f62006-04-03 15:03:44 +0000773*Release date: 05-APR-2006*
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +0000774
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000775Core and builtins
776-----------------
777
Nick Coghlan43832302006-04-23 17:04:07 +0000778- PEP 338: -m command line switch now delegates to runpy.run_module
779 allowing it to support modules in packages and zipfiles
780
Martin v. Löwisc661b882006-04-20 04:54:23 +0000781- On Windows, .DLL is not an accepted file name extension for
782 extension modules anymore; extensions are only found if they
783 end in .PYD.
784
Martin v. Löwisea62d252006-04-03 10:56:49 +0000785- Bug #1421664: sys.stderr.encoding is now set to the same value as
786 sys.stdout.encoding.
787
Neal Norwitz92e212f2006-04-03 04:48:37 +0000788- __import__ accepts keyword arguments.
789
Georg Brandlccadf842006-03-31 18:54:53 +0000790- Patch #1460496: round() now accepts keyword arguments.
791
Anthony Baxter262c00a2006-03-30 10:53:17 +0000792- Fixed bug #1459029 - unicode reprs were double-escaped.
793
Hye-Shik Changd478f342006-03-23 12:32:36 +0000794- Patch #1396919: The system scope threads are reenabled on FreeBSD
795 5.4 and later versions.
796
Neal Norwitze98ccf62006-03-23 05:39:47 +0000797- Bug #1115379: Compiling a Unicode string with an encoding declaration
798 now gives a SyntaxError.
799
Georg Brandlabd1ff82006-03-18 07:59:59 +0000800- Previously, Python code had no easy way to access the contents of a
801 cell object. Now, a ``cell_contents`` attribute has been added
802 (closes patch #1170323).
803
Tim Peterscf79aac2006-03-16 01:14:46 +0000804- Patch #1123430: Python's small-object allocator now returns an arena to
805 the system ``free()`` when all memory within an arena becomes unused
806 again. Prior to Python 2.5, arenas (256KB chunks of memory) were never
807 freed. Some applications will see a drop in virtual memory size now,
808 especially long-running applications that, from time to time, temporarily
809 use a large number of small objects. Note that when Python returns an
810 arena to the platform C's ``free()``, there's no guarantee that the
Andrew M. Kuchling1da4a942006-04-22 02:32:43 +0000811 platform C library will in turn return that memory to the operating system.
812 The effect of the patch is to stop making that impossible, and in tests it
Tim Peterscf79aac2006-03-16 01:14:46 +0000813 appears to be effective at least on Microsoft C and gcc-based systems.
814 Thanks to Evan Jones for hard work and patience.
815
Georg Brandl533ff6f2006-03-08 18:09:27 +0000816- Patch #1434038: property() now uses the getter's docstring if there is
817 no "doc" argument given. This makes it possible to legitimately use
818 property() as a decorator to produce a read-only property.
819
Guido van Rossum9aa37ab2006-03-07 18:54:08 +0000820- PEP 357, patch 1436368: add an __index__ method to int/long and a matching
821 nb_index slot to the PyNumberMethods struct. The slot is consulted instead
822 of requiring an int or long in slicing and a few other contexts, enabling
823 other objects (e.g. Numeric Python's integers) to be used as slice indices.
824
Neal Norwitz995acdf2006-03-07 05:01:00 +0000825- Fixed various bugs reported by Coverity's Prevent tool.
826
Brett Cannonbf364092006-03-01 04:25:17 +0000827- PEP 352, patch #1104669: Make exceptions new-style objects. Introduced the
828 new exception base class, BaseException, which has a new message attribute.
829 KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit to directly inherit from BaseException now.
830 Raising a string exception now raises a DeprecationWarning.
831
Thomas Woutersfb609f42006-02-28 16:37:25 +0000832- Patch #1438387, PEP 328: relative and absolute imports. Imports can now be
833 explicitly relative, using 'from .module import name' to mean 'from the same
834 package as this module is in. Imports without dots still default to the
835 old relative-then-absolute, unless 'from __future__ import
836 absolute_import' is used.
837
Brett Cannona7446e32006-02-27 23:39:10 +0000838- Properly check if 'warnings' raises an exception (usually when a filter set
839 to "error" is triggered) when raising a warning for raising string
840 exceptions.
841
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000842- CO_GENERATOR_ALLOWED is no longer defined. This behavior is the default.
Neal Norwitz0023a2f2006-02-27 23:24:48 +0000843 The name was removed from Include/code.h.
844
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000845- PEP 308: conditional expressions were added: (x if cond else y).
Neal Norwitzeb651252006-02-27 16:47:12 +0000846
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000847- Patch 1433928:
848 - The copy module now "copies" function objects (as atomic objects).
849 - dict.__getitem__ now looks for a __missing__ hook before raising
850 KeyError.
851
Tim Peters84ef21c2006-02-28 20:39:06 +0000852- PEP 343: with statement implemented. Needs ``from __future__ import
853 with_statement``. Use of 'with' as a variable will generate a warning.
854 Use of 'as' as a variable will also generate a warning (unless it's
Neal Norwitz055ec242006-02-28 20:06:49 +0000855 part of an import statement).
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +0000856 The following objects have __context__ methods:
857 - The built-in file type.
858 - The thread.LockType type.
859 - The following types defined by the threading module:
860 Lock, RLock, Condition, Semaphore, BoundedSemaphore.
861 - The decimal.Context class.
Guido van Rossumc2e20742006-02-27 22:32:47 +0000862
Marc-André Lemburgfe4b34c2006-02-19 15:22:22 +0000863- Fix the encodings package codec search function to only search
864 inside its own package. Fixes problem reported in patch #1433198.
865
866 Note: Codec packages should implement and register their own
867 codec search function. PEP 100 has the details.
868
Tim Peters9ea89d22006-06-04 03:26:02 +0000869- PEP 353: Using ``Py_ssize_t`` as the index type.
870
871- ``PYMALLOC_DEBUG`` builds now add ``4*sizeof(size_t)`` bytes of debugging
872 info to each allocated block, since the ``Py_ssize_t`` changes (PEP 353)
873 now allow Python to make use of memory blocks exceeding 2**32 bytes for
874 some purposes on 64-bit boxes. A ``PYMALLOC_DEBUG`` build was limited
875 to 4-byte allocations before.
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000876
Neal Norwitzfc76d632006-01-10 06:03:13 +0000877- Patch #1400181, fix unicode string formatting to not use the locale.
878 This is how string objects work. u'%f' could use , instead of .
879 for the decimal point. Now both strings and unicode always use periods.
880
Neal Norwitz671b9e32006-01-09 07:07:12 +0000881- Bug #1244610, #1392915, fix build problem on OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8.
882 configure would break checking curses.h.
883
Georg Brandlcd4d1e82005-12-27 17:37:07 +0000884- Bug #959576: The pwd module is now builtin. This allows Python to be
885 built on UNIX platforms without $HOME set.
886
Neal Norwitzc10978f2005-12-19 06:07:16 +0000887- Bug #1072182, fix some potential problems if characters are signed.
888
Neal Norwitz5d0ad502005-12-19 04:27:42 +0000889- Bug #889500, fix line number on SyntaxWarning for global declarations.
890
Neal Norwitzdb83eb32005-12-18 05:29:30 +0000891- Bug #1378022, UTF-8 files with a leading BOM crashed the interpreter.
892
Neal Norwitze7214a12005-12-18 05:03:17 +0000893- Support for converting hex strings to floats no longer works.
894 This was not portable. float('0x3') now raises a ValueError.
895
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000896- Patch #1382163: Expose Subversion revision number to Python. New C API
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +0000897 function Py_GetBuildNumber(). New attribute sys.subversion. Build number
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000898 is now displayed in interactive prompt banner.
899
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000900- Implementation of PEP 341 - Unification of try/except and try/finally.
901 "except" clauses can now be written together with a "finally" clause in
Neal Norwitz11ca77e2005-12-17 22:24:12 +0000902 one try statement instead of two nested ones. Patch #1355913.
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000903
Hye-Shik Chang835b2432005-12-17 04:38:31 +0000904- Bug #1379994: Builtin unicode_escape and raw_unicode_escape codec
905 now encodes backslash correctly.
906
Martin v. Löwisb45b3152005-11-28 17:34:23 +0000907- Patch #1350409: Work around signal handling bug in Visual Studio 2005.
908
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000909- Bug #1281408: Py_BuildValue now works correctly even with unsigned longs
Georg Brandlf06e30a2005-11-24 15:37:42 +0000910 and long longs.
911
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000912- SF Bug #1350188, "setdlopenflags" leads to crash upon "import"
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000913 It was possible for dlerror() to return a NULL pointer, so
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000914 it will now use a default error message in this case.
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000915
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000916- Replaced most Unicode charmap codecs with new ones using the
917 new Unicode translate string feature in the builtin charmap
918 codec; the codecs were created from the mapping tables available
919 at ftp.unicode.org and contain a few updates (e.g. the Mac OS
920 encodings now include a mapping for the Apple logo)
921
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000922- Added a few more codecs for Mac OS encodings
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000923
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000924- Sped up some Unicode operations.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000925
Martin v. Löwisbd260da2006-02-26 19:42:26 +0000926- A new AST parser implementation was completed. The abstract
927 syntax tree is available for read-only (non-compile) access
Martin v. Löwis577b5b92006-02-27 15:23:19 +0000928 to Python code; an _ast module was added.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000929
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000930- SF bug #1167751: fix incorrect code being produced for generator expressions.
Neal Norwitz16af7342005-10-21 06:25:33 +0000931 The following code now raises a SyntaxError: foo(a = i for i in range(10))
932
Neal Norwitz708e51a2005-10-03 04:48:15 +0000933- SF Bug #976608: fix SystemError when mtime of an imported file is -1.
934
Neal Norwitz11bd1192005-10-03 00:54:56 +0000935- SF Bug #887946: fix segfault when redirecting stdin from a directory.
936 Provide a warning when a directory is passed on the command line.
937
Neal Norwitz40d37812005-10-02 01:48:49 +0000938- Fix segfault with invalid coding.
939
940- SF bug #772896: unknown encoding results in MemoryError.
941
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000942- All iterators now have a Boolean value of True. Formerly, some iterators
Raymond Hettinger6b27cda2005-09-24 21:23:05 +0000943 supported a __len__() method which evaluated to False when the iterator
944 was empty.
945
Guido van Rossum630db602005-09-20 18:49:54 +0000946- On 64-bit platforms, when __len__() returns a value that cannot be
947 represented as a C int, raise OverflowError.
948
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000949- test__locale is skipped on OS X < 10.4 (only partial locale support is
Walter Dörwald6611a8b2005-10-09 19:28:35 +0000950 present).
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000951
Georg Brandl80bbf3f2005-09-14 19:38:29 +0000952- SF bug #893549: parsing keyword arguments was broken with a few format
953 codes.
954
Guido van Rossum8ee3e5a2005-09-14 18:09:42 +0000955- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on AIX 5.3
956 with IBM's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1284289). This also closes SF
957 bug #105470: test_pwd fails on 64bit system (Opteron).
958
Guido van Rossum539c6622005-09-14 17:49:54 +0000959- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 on
960 Itanium2 with HP's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1225212).
961
Georg Brandl4550b8d2005-08-26 06:43:52 +0000962- Disallow keyword arguments for type constructors that don't use them
Georg Brandl02c42872005-08-26 06:42:30 +0000963 (fixes bug #1119418).
964
Martin v. Löwisd35edda2005-08-24 08:39:24 +0000965- Forward UnicodeDecodeError into SyntaxError for source encoding errors.
966
Barry Warsawe2eca0b2005-08-15 18:14:19 +0000967- SF bug #900092: When tracing (e.g. for hotshot), restore 'return' events for
968 exceptions that cause a function to exit.
969
Raymond Hettinger9f1a6792005-07-31 01:16:36 +0000970- The implementation of set() and frozenset() was revised to use its
971 own internal data structure. Memory consumption is reduced by 1/3
972 and there are modest speed-ups as well. The API is unchanged.
973
Tim Petersde7990b2005-07-17 23:45:23 +0000974- SF bug #1238681: freed pointer is used in longobject.c:long_pow().
975
Michael W. Hudson0edc7a02005-07-12 10:21:19 +0000976- SF bug #1229429: PyObject_CallMethod failed to decrement some
977 reference counts in some error exit cases.
978
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000979- SF bug #1185883: Python's small-object memory allocator took over
980 a block managed by the platform C library whenever a realloc specified
981 a small new size. However, there's no portable way to know then how
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000982 much of the address space following the pointer is valid, so there's no
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000983 portable way to copy data from the C-managed block into Python's
984 small-object space without risking a memory fault. Python's small-object
985 realloc now leaves such blocks under the control of the platform C
986 realloc.
987
Michael W. Hudsonb8963812005-07-05 15:21:58 +0000988- SF bug #1232517: An overflow error was not detected properly when
989 attempting to convert a large float to an int in os.utime().
990
Raymond Hettinger3296e692005-06-29 23:29:56 +0000991- SF bug #1224347: hex longs now print with lowercase letters just
992 like their int counterparts.
993
Michael W. Hudson188d4362005-06-20 16:52:57 +0000994- SF bug #1163563: the original fix for bug #1010677 ("thread Module
995 Breaks PyGILState_Ensure()") broke badly in the case of multiple
996 interpreter states; back out that fix and do a better job (see
997 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-June/054258.html
998 for a longer write-up of the problem).
999
Michael W. Hudsondf888462005-06-03 14:41:55 +00001000- SF patch #1180995: marshal now uses a binary format by default when
1001 serializing floats.
1002
Michael W. Hudsonda85a902005-06-01 11:34:22 +00001003- SF patch #1181301: on platforms that appear to use IEEE 754 floats,
1004 the routines that promise to produce IEEE 754 binary representations
1005 of floats now simply copy bytes around.
1006
Skip Montanarobbf12ba2005-05-20 03:07:06 +00001007- bug #967182: disallow opening files with 'wU' or 'aU' as specified by PEP
1008 278.
1009
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +00001010- patch #1109424: int, long, float, complex, and unicode now check for the
1011 proper magic slot for type conversions when subclassed. Previously the
1012 magic slot was ignored during conversion. Semantics now match the way
1013 subclasses of str always behaved. int/long/float, conversion of an instance
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +00001014 to the base class has been moved to the proper nb_* magic slot and out of
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +00001015 PyNumber_*().
Neal Norwitzcfba5f82006-04-25 05:05:03 +00001016 Thanks Walter D�rwald.
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +00001017
Barry Warsawc8d907c2005-04-19 23:43:40 +00001018- Descriptors defined in C with a PyGetSetDef structure, where the setter is
1019 NULL, now raise an AttributeError when attempting to set or delete the
1020 attribute. Previously a TypeError was raised, but this was inconsistent
1021 with the equivalent pure-Python implementation.
1022
Michael W. Hudson774479c2005-04-18 08:46:17 +00001023- It is now safe to call PyGILState_Release() before
1024 PyEval_InitThreads() (note that if there is reason to believe there
1025 are multiple threads around you still must call PyEval_InitThreads()
1026 before using the Python API; this fix is for extension modules that
1027 have no way of knowing if Python is multi-threaded yet).
1028
Michael W. Hudsone3afc592005-04-07 10:11:19 +00001029- Typing Ctrl-C whilst raw_input() was waiting in a build with threads
1030 disabled caused a crash.
1031
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +00001032- Bug #1165306: instancemethod_new allowed the creation of a method
1033 with im_class == im_self == NULL, which caused a crash when called.
1034
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00001035- Move exception finalisation later in the shutdown process - this
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +00001036 fixes the crash seen in bug #1165761
1037
Raymond Hettinger96229b12005-03-11 06:49:40 +00001038- Added two new builtins, any() and all().
1039
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +00001040- Defining a class with empty parentheses is now allowed
Brett Cannonf4189912005-04-09 02:30:16 +00001041 (e.g., ``class C(): pass`` is no longer a syntax error).
1042 Patch #1176012 added support to the 'parser' module and 'compiler' package
1043 (thanks to logistix for that added support).
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +00001044
Martin v. Löwis96d743e2005-03-03 23:00:26 +00001045- Patch #1115086: Support PY_LONGLONG in structmember.
1046
Raymond Hettingerb67cc802005-03-03 16:45:19 +00001047- Bug #1155938: new style classes did not check that __init__() was
1048 returning None.
1049
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00001050- Patch #802188: Report characters after line continuation character
Martin v. Löwis4bf108d2005-03-03 11:45:45 +00001051 ('\') with a specific error message.
1052
Martin v. Löwisff232d72005-03-03 09:24:38 +00001053- Bug #723201: Raise a TypeError for passing bad objects to 'L' format.
1054
Michael W. Hudson8e1afab2005-02-17 14:55:21 +00001055- Bug #1124295: the __name__ attribute of file objects was
1056 inadvertently made inaccessible in restricted mode.
1057
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00001058- Bug #1074011: closing sys.std{out,err} now causes a flush() and
Martin v. Löwis8e3ca8a2005-01-23 09:41:49 +00001059 an ferror() call.
1060
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +00001061- min() and max() now support key= arguments with the same meaning as in
1062 list.sort().
1063
Raymond Hettingerc34f8672005-01-02 06:17:33 +00001064- The peephole optimizer now performs simple constant folding in expressions:
1065 (2+3) --> (5).
1066
Raymond Hettingera422c342005-01-11 03:03:27 +00001067- set and frozenset objects can now be marshalled. SF #1098985.
1068
Michael W. Hudsonfaa76482005-01-31 17:09:25 +00001069- Bug #1077106: Poor argument checking could cause memory corruption
1070 in calls to os.read().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001071
Jeremy Hyltonab630502005-02-04 18:44:06 +00001072- The parser did not complain about future statements in illegal
1073 positions. It once again reports a syntax error if a future
1074 statement occurs after anything other than a doc string.
1075
Neil Schemenauercf52c072005-08-12 17:34:58 +00001076- Change the %s format specifier for str objects so that it returns a
1077 unicode instance if the argument is not an instance of basestring and
1078 calling __str__ on the argument returns a unicode instance.
1079
Tim Petersf4e69282006-02-27 17:15:31 +00001080- Patch #1413181: changed ``PyThreadState_Delete()`` to forget about the
1081 current thread state when the auto-GIL-state machinery knows about
1082 it (since the thread state is being deleted, continuing to remember it
1083 can't help, but can hurt if another thread happens to get created with
1084 the same thread id).
1085
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001086Extension Modules
1087-----------------
1088
Georg Brandl43f08a82006-03-31 18:01:16 +00001089- Patch #1380952: fix SSL objects timing out on consecutive read()s
1090
Neal Norwitz05a45592006-03-20 06:30:08 +00001091- Patch #1309579: wait3 and wait4 were added to the posix module.
1092
Anthony Baxterfa869072006-03-20 05:21:58 +00001093- Patch #1231053: The audioop module now supports encoding/decoding of alaw.
1094 In addition, the existing ulaw code was updated.
1095
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +00001096- RFE #567972: Socket objects' family, type and proto properties are
Georg Brandl72d7a782006-03-22 06:44:14 +00001097 now exposed via new attributes.
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +00001098
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +00001099- Everything under lib-old was removed. This includes the following modules:
1100 Para, addpack, cmp, cmpcache, codehack, dircmp, dump, find, fmt, grep,
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +00001101 lockfile, newdir, ni, packmail, poly, rand, statcache, tb, tzparse,
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +00001102 util, whatsound, whrandom, zmod
1103
1104- The following modules were removed: regsub, reconvert, regex, regex_syntax.
1105
1106- re and sre were swapped, so help(re) provides full help. importing sre
Neal Norwitzefbeaef2006-03-16 06:40:39 +00001107 is deprecated. The undocumented re.engine variable no longer exists.
1108
Hye-Shik Changabb903f2006-03-13 10:20:08 +00001109- Bug #1448490: Fixed a bug that ISO-2022 codecs could not handle
1110 SS2 (single-shift 2) escape sequences correctly.
1111
Martin v. Löwis480f1bb2006-03-09 23:38:20 +00001112- The unicodedata module was updated to the 4.1 version of the Unicode
1113 database. The 3.2 version is still available as unicodedata.db_3_2_0
1114 for applications that require this specific version (such as IDNA).
1115
Neal Norwitzb62c4332006-03-04 18:35:47 +00001116- The timing module is no longer built by default. It was deprecated
1117 in PEP 4 in Python 2.0 or earlier.
1118
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +00001119- Patch 1433928: Added a new type, defaultdict, to the collections module.
1120 This uses the new __missing__ hook behavior added to dict (see above).
1121
Georg Brandldbd83392006-02-20 09:42:33 +00001122- Bug #854823: socketmodule now builds on Sun platforms even when
1123 INET_ADDRSTRLEN is not defined.
1124
Georg Brandlf4f44152006-02-18 22:29:33 +00001125- Patch #1393157: os.startfile() now has an optional argument to specify
1126 a "command verb" to invoke on the file.
1127
Neal Norwitz082b2df2006-02-07 07:04:46 +00001128- Bug #876637, prevent stack corruption when socket descriptor
1129 is larger than FD_SETSIZE.
1130
Neal Norwitz0e6bc8c2006-02-05 05:45:43 +00001131- Patch #1407135, bug #1424041: harmonize mmap behavior of anonymous memory.
1132 mmap.mmap(-1, size) now returns anonymous memory in both Unix and Windows.
1133 mmap.mmap(0, size) should not be used on Windows for anonymous memory.
1134
Martin v. Löwis57a34e82006-02-04 19:12:37 +00001135- Patch #1422385: The nis module now supports access to domains other
1136 than the system default domain.
1137
Martin v. Löwis14694662006-02-03 12:54:16 +00001138- Use Win32 API to implement os.stat/fstat. As a result, subsecond timestamps
1139 are reported, the limit on path name lengths is removed, and stat reports
1140 WindowsError now (instead of OSError).
1141
Gregory P. Smithcfc4a8d2006-01-29 19:46:23 +00001142- Add bsddb.db.DBEnv.set_tx_timestamp allowing time based database recovery.
1143
Neal Norwitz62a21122006-01-25 05:21:55 +00001144- Bug #1413192, fix seg fault in bsddb if a transaction was deleted
1145 before the env.
1146
Martin v. Löwis11017b12006-01-14 18:12:57 +00001147- Patch #1103116: Basic AF_NETLINK support.
1148
Neal Norwitz3b4fff82006-01-11 08:54:45 +00001149- Bug #1402308, (possible) segfault when using mmap.mmap(-1, ...)
1150
Neal Norwitz88bbd732006-01-10 07:05:44 +00001151- Bug #1400822, _curses over{lay,write} doesn't work when passing 6 ints.
1152 Also fix ungetmouse() which did not accept arguments properly.
1153 The code now conforms to the documented signature.
1154
Neal Norwitz5e3d8622006-01-09 06:24:35 +00001155- Bug #1400115, Fix segfault when calling curses.panel.userptr()
1156 without prior setting of the userptr.
1157
Neal Norwitz40c6b472006-01-05 05:43:35 +00001158- Fix 64-bit problems in bsddb.
1159
Neal Norwitz8856fb72005-12-18 03:34:22 +00001160- Patch #1365916: fix some unsafe 64-bit mmap methods.
1161
Hye-Shik Changc5c57e62005-12-12 11:48:32 +00001162- Bug #1290333: Added a workaround for cjkcodecs' _codecs_cn build
1163 problem on AIX.
1164
Georg Brandla13c2442005-11-22 19:30:31 +00001165- Bug #869197: os.setgroups rejects long integer arguments
1166
Neal Norwitz0f46bbf2005-11-03 05:00:25 +00001167- Bug #1346533, select.poll() doesn't raise an error if timeout > sys.maxint
1168
Neal Norwitz7b631792005-11-02 05:26:07 +00001169- Bug #1344508, Fix UNIX mmap leaking file descriptors
1170
Neal Norwitzf3396542005-10-28 05:52:22 +00001171- Patch #1338314, Bug #1336623: fix tarfile so it can extract
1172 REGTYPE directories from tarfiles written by old programs.
1173
Gregory P. Smithe101df92006-01-24 20:09:45 +00001174- Patch #1407992, fixes broken bsddb module db associate when using
1175 BerkeleyDB 3.3, 4.0 or 4.1.
1176
1177- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 4.4
1178
1179- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 3.2
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +00001180
Neal Norwitz484d9a42005-09-30 04:46:49 +00001181- Patch #1309009, Fix segfault in pyexpat when the XML document is in latin_1,
1182 but Python incorrectly assumes it is in UTF-8 format
1183
Georg Brandle677adc2005-09-29 13:40:49 +00001184- Fix parse errors in the readline module when compiling without threads.
1185
Hye-Shik Chang9ceebd52005-09-24 14:58:47 +00001186- Patch #1288833: Removed thread lock from socket.getaddrinfo on
1187 FreeBSD 5.3 and later versions which got thread-safe getaddrinfo(3).
1188
Michael W. Hudson10402a32005-09-22 09:19:01 +00001189- Patches #1298449 and #1298499: Add some missing checks for error
1190 returns in cStringIO.c.
1191
Neal Norwitz058bde12005-09-21 06:44:25 +00001192- Patch #1297028: fix segfault if call type on MultibyteCodec,
1193 MultibyteStreamReader, or MultibyteStreamWriter
1194
Neal Norwitzcfe7dd92005-09-19 06:49:27 +00001195- Fix memory leak in posix.access().
1196
Martin v. Löwis8b291e22005-09-18 08:17:56 +00001197- Patch #1213831: Fix typo in unicodedata._getcode.
1198
Georg Brandlfb1ef852005-09-14 20:53:32 +00001199- Bug #1007046: os.startfile() did not accept unicode strings encoded in
1200 the file system encoding.
1201
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +00001202- Patch #756021: Special-case socket.inet_aton('255.255.255.255') for
1203 platforms that don't have inet_aton().
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +00001204
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +00001205- Bug #1215928: Fix bz2.BZ2File.seek() for 64-bit file offsets.
1206
1207- Bug #1191043: Fix bz2.BZ2File.(x)readlines for files containing one
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +00001208 line without newlines.
1209
Georg Brandl38387b82005-08-24 07:17:40 +00001210- Bug #728515: mmap.resize() now resizes the file on Unix as it did
1211 on Windows.
1212
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +00001213- Patch #1180695: Add nanosecond stat resolution, and st_gen,
Martin v. Löwisebd9d5b2005-08-09 15:00:59 +00001214 st_birthtime for FreeBSD.
1215
Michael W. Hudson8137bea2005-07-27 20:24:40 +00001216- Patch #1231069: The fcntl.ioctl function now uses the 'I' code for
1217 the request code argument, which results in more C-like behaviour
1218 for large or negative values.
1219
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00001220- Bug #1234979: For the argument of thread.Lock.acquire, the Windows
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +00001221 implementation treated all integer values except 1 as false.
Georg Brandlaf410b52005-07-08 22:26:13 +00001222
Georg Brandl6b95f1d2005-06-03 19:47:00 +00001223- Bug #1194181: bz2.BZ2File didn't handle mode 'U' correctly.
1224
Hye-Shik Chang5f937a72005-06-02 13:09:30 +00001225- Patch #1212117: os.stat().st_flags is now accessible as a attribute
1226 if available on the platform.
1227
Skip Montanaro5ff14922005-05-16 02:42:22 +00001228- Patch #1103951: Expose O_SHLOCK and O_EXLOCK in the posix module if
1229 available on the platform.
1230
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +00001231- Bug #1166660: The readline module could segfault if hook functions
1232 were set in a different thread than that which called readline.
1233
Raymond Hettinger4aec61e2005-03-18 21:20:23 +00001234- collections.deque objects now support a remove() method.
1235
Raymond Hettinger984f9bb2005-03-09 16:38:48 +00001236- operator.itemgetter() and operator.attrgetter() now support retrieving
1237 multiple fields. This provides direct support for sorting on multiple
1238 keys (primary, secondary, etc).
1239
Martin v. Löwisb60ae992005-03-08 09:10:29 +00001240- os.access now supports Unicode path names on non-Win32 systems.
1241
Martin v. Löwisfd78a6f2005-03-04 14:37:01 +00001242- Patches #925152, #1118602: Avoid reading after the end of the buffer
1243 in pyexpat.GetInputContext.
1244
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00001245- Patches #749830, #1144555: allow UNIX mmap size to default to current
Martin v. Löwis7fe60c02005-03-03 11:22:44 +00001246 file size.
1247
Raymond Hettinger9c323f82005-02-28 19:39:44 +00001248- Added functional.partial(). See PEP309.
1249
Martin v. Löwis9533e342005-02-27 20:33:25 +00001250- Patch #1093585: raise a ValueError for negative history items in readline.
1251 {remove_history,replace_history}
1252
Fred Drake9c131f22005-01-23 15:16:08 +00001253- The spwd module has been added, allowing access to the shadow password
1254 database.
Martin v. Löwisc3001752005-01-23 09:27:24 +00001255
Martin v. Löwisfe33d0b2005-01-16 08:57:39 +00001256- stat_float_times is now True.
1257
Raymond Hettingerb0900e62004-12-16 16:23:40 +00001258- array.array objects are now picklable.
1259
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +00001260- the cPickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
1261 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
1262
Raymond Hettingerb2594052004-12-05 09:25:51 +00001263- itertools.islice() now accepts None for the start and step arguments.
1264 This allows islice() to work more readily with slices:
1265 islice(s.start, s.stop, s.step)
1266
Skip Montanaro0af3ade2005-01-13 04:12:31 +00001267- datetime.datetime() now has a strptime class method which can be used to
1268 create datetime object using a string and format.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001269
Matthias Klosed77f8b32006-04-03 16:34:56 +00001270- Patch #1117961: Replace the MD5 implementation from RSA Data Security Inc
Matthias Klose8e39ec72006-04-03 16:27:50 +00001271 with the implementation from http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmd5-rfc/.
1272
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001273Library
1274-------
Tim Peters112aad32006-07-19 00:03:19 +00001275
Georg Brandlc5e3d8a2006-07-17 13:26:33 +00001276- Patch #1388073: Numerous __-prefixed attributes of unittest.TestCase have
1277 been renamed to have only a single underscore prefix. This was done to
1278 make subclassing easier.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001279
Nick Coghlan43832302006-04-23 17:04:07 +00001280- PEP 338: new module runpy defines a run_module function to support
1281 executing modules which provide access to source code or a code object
1282 via the PEP 302 import mechanisms.
1283
Anthony Baxter93f5b932006-04-03 08:05:07 +00001284- The email module's parsedate_tz function now sets the daylight savings
1285 flag to -1 (unknown) since it can't tell from the date whether it should
1286 be set.
1287
Fred Drakead5177c2006-04-01 22:14:43 +00001288- Patch #624325: urlparse.urlparse() and urlparse.urlsplit() results
1289 now sport attributes that provide access to the parts of the result.
1290
Georg Brandl7f6b67c2006-04-01 08:35:18 +00001291- Patch #1462498: sgmllib now handles entity and character references
1292 in attribute values.
1293
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +00001294- Added the sqlite3 package. This is based on pysqlite2.1.3, and provides
Georg Brandl828fdef2006-04-01 08:59:03 +00001295 a DB-API interface in the standard library. You'll need sqlite 3.0.8 or
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +00001296 later to build this - if you have an earlier version, the C extension
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +00001297 module will not be built.
1298
Tim Petersc17976e2006-04-01 00:26:53 +00001299- Bug #1460340: ``random.sample(dict)`` failed in various ways. Dicts
1300 aren't officially supported here, and trying to use them will probably
1301 raise an exception some day. But dicts have been allowed, and "mostly
1302 worked", so support for them won't go away without warning.
1303
Georg Brandl338ef7d2006-03-31 18:42:16 +00001304- Bug #1445068: getpass.getpass() can now be given an explicit stream
1305 argument to specify where to write the prompt.
1306
Georg Brandl22ec80b2006-03-31 18:25:44 +00001307- Patch #1462313, bug #1443328: the pickle modules now can handle classes
1308 that have __private names in their __slots__.
1309
Neal Norwitz6974a512006-04-10 00:25:01 +00001310- Bug #1250170: mimetools now handles socket.gethostname() failures gracefully.
Georg Brandldd2245f2006-03-31 17:18:06 +00001311
Phillip J. Eby59821cf2006-03-30 02:16:40 +00001312- patch #1457316: "setup.py upload" now supports --identity to select the
1313 key to be used for signing the uploaded code.
1314
Raymond Hettingerfd3fcf02006-03-24 20:43:29 +00001315- Queue.Queue objects now support .task_done() and .join() methods
1316 to make it easier to monitor when daemon threads have completed
1317 processing all enqueued tasks. Patch #1455676.
1318
Martin v. Löwisbd8dbab2006-03-23 18:18:35 +00001319- popen2.Popen objects now preserve the command in a .cmd attribute.
1320
Thomas Hellerc61c0492006-03-22 10:09:27 +00001321- Added the ctypes ffi package.
1322
Barry Warsaw4d90bbd2006-03-22 02:45:50 +00001323- email 4.0 package now integrated. This is largely the same as the email 3.0
1324 package that was included in Python 2.3, except that PEP 8 module names are
1325 now used (e.g. mail.message instead of email.Message). The MIME classes
1326 have been moved to a subpackage (e.g. email.mime.text instead of
1327 email.MIMEText). The old names are still supported for now. Several
1328 deprecated Message methods have been removed and lots of bugs have been
1329 fixed. More details can be found in the email package documentation.
1330
Walter Dörwald40108c92006-03-27 08:15:44 +00001331- Patches #1436130/#1443155: codecs.lookup() now returns a CodecInfo object
1332 (a subclass of tuple) that provides incremental decoders and encoders
1333 (a way to use stateful codecs without the stream API). Python functions
1334 codecs.getincrementaldecoder() and codecs.getincrementalencoder() as well
1335 as C functions PyCodec_IncrementalEncoder() and PyCodec_IncrementalDecoder()
1336 have been added.
Walter Dörwaldabb02e52006-03-15 11:35:15 +00001337
Walter Dörwald067db482006-03-15 22:17:27 +00001338- Patch #1359365: Calling next() on a closed StringIO.String object raises
1339 a ValueError instead of a StopIteration now (like file and cString.String do).
1340 cStringIO.StringIO.isatty() will raise a ValueError now if close() has been
1341 called before (like file and StringIO.StringIO do).
Walter Dörwald197e8322006-03-15 22:13:13 +00001342
Martin v. Löwis04824ce2006-03-10 21:26:16 +00001343- A regrtest option -w was added to re-run failed tests in verbose mode.
1344
Georg Brandle2b46772006-03-09 23:22:43 +00001345- Patch #1446372: quit and exit can now be called from the interactive
1346 interpreter to exit.
1347
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +00001348- The function get_count() has been added to the gc module, and gc.collect()
1349 grew an optional 'generation' argument.
1350
Martin v. Löwisfbab90e2006-03-05 13:36:04 +00001351- A library msilib to generate Windows Installer files, and a distutils
1352 command bdist_msi have been added.
1353
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +00001354- PEP 343: new module contextlib.py defines decorator @contextmanager
1355 and helpful context managers nested() and closing().
1356
Martin v. Löwis415ed932006-02-27 19:56:30 +00001357- The compiler package now supports future imports after the module docstring.
1358
Georg Brandl8f7c54e2006-02-20 08:40:38 +00001359- Bug #1413790: zipfile now sanitizes absolute archive names that are
1360 not allowed by the specs.
1361
Georg Brandlc98eeed2006-02-19 14:57:47 +00001362- Patch #1215184: FileInput now can be given an opening hook which can
1363 be used to control how files are opened.
1364
Georg Brandlc029f872006-02-19 14:12:34 +00001365- Patch #1212287: fileinput.input() now has a mode parameter for
1366 specifying the file mode input files should be opened with.
1367
Georg Brandl67e9fb92006-02-19 13:56:17 +00001368- Patch #1215184: fileinput now has a fileno() function for getting the
1369 current file number.
1370
Georg Brandl602b9ba2006-02-19 13:26:36 +00001371- Patch #1349274: gettext.install() now optionally installs additional
1372 translation functions other than _() in the builtin namespace.
1373
Georg Brandle4662172006-02-19 09:51:27 +00001374- Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames.
1375
Georg Brandl7b4e7c22006-02-18 21:10:56 +00001376- Patch #1373643: The chunk module can now read chunks larger than
1377 two gigabytes.
1378
Georg Brandl21dd1af2006-02-17 13:35:13 +00001379- Patch #1417555: SimpleHTTPServer now returns Last-Modified headers.
1380
Georg Brandlbd3bc4d2006-02-17 09:52:53 +00001381- Bug #1430298: It is now possible to send a mail with an empty
1382 return address using smtplib.
1383
Georg Brandl0e1abe22006-02-17 09:48:14 +00001384- Bug #1432260: The names of lambda functions are now properly displayed
1385 in pydoc.
Georg Brandl501dd0d2006-02-17 09:45:40 +00001386
Martin v. Löwis00756902006-02-05 17:09:41 +00001387- Patch #1412872: zipfile now sets the creator system to 3 (Unix)
1388 unless the system is Win32.
1389
Tim Petersda1329b2006-02-27 16:50:01 +00001390- Patch #1349118: urllib now supports user:pass@ style proxy
Martin v. Löwis3e865952006-01-24 15:51:21 +00001391 specifications, raises IOErrors when proxies for unsupported protocols
1392 are defined, and uses the https proxy on https redirections.
1393
Georg Brandl531ceba2006-01-21 07:20:56 +00001394- Bug #902075: urllib2 now supports 'host:port' style proxy specifications.
1395
1396- Bug #1407902: Add support for sftp:// URIs to urlparse.
Georg Brandl89f35ac2006-01-20 17:24:23 +00001397
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +00001398- Bug #1371247: Update Windows locale identifiers in locale.py.
1399
Neal Norwitzf60cd472006-01-14 07:05:13 +00001400- Bug #1394565: SimpleHTTPServer now doesn't choke on query parameters
Georg Brandl45ab2332006-01-13 17:05:56 +00001401 any more.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +00001402
Georg Brandl4edd9892006-01-13 16:59:46 +00001403- Bug #1403410: The warnings module now doesn't get confused
1404 when it can't find out the module name it generates a warning for.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +00001405
Martin v. Löwis412ed3b2006-01-08 10:45:39 +00001406- Patch #1177307: Added a new codec utf_8_sig for UTF-8 with a BOM signature.
1407
Neal Norwitzab86f8e2005-12-23 21:44:36 +00001408- Patch #1157027: cookielib mishandles RFC 2109 cookies in Netscape mode
1409
Neal Norwitz338e7862005-12-23 21:27:46 +00001410- Patch #1117398: cookielib.LWPCookieJar and .MozillaCookieJar now raise
1411 LoadError as documented, instead of IOError. For compatibility,
1412 LoadError subclasses IOError.
1413
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +00001414- Added the hashlib module. It provides secure hash functions for MD5 and
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +00001415 SHA1, 224, 256, 384, and 512. Note that recent developments make the
1416 historic MD5 and SHA1 unsuitable for cryptographic-strength applications.
1417 In <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058850.html>
1418 Ronald L. Rivest offered this advice for Python:
1419
1420 "The consensus of researchers in this area (at least as
1421 expressed at the NIST Hash Function Workshop 10/31/05),
1422 is that SHA-256 is a good choice for the time being, but
1423 that research should continue, and other alternatives may
1424 arise from this research. The larger SHA's also seem OK."
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +00001425
Fredrik Lundh7e0aef02005-12-12 18:54:55 +00001426- Added a subset of Fredrik Lundh's ElementTree package. Available
1427 modules are xml.etree.ElementTree, xml.etree.ElementPath, and
1428 xml.etree.ElementInclude, from ElementTree 1.2.6.
1429
Martin v. Löwis307021f2005-11-27 16:59:04 +00001430- Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles.
1431
Georg Brandl1f663572005-11-26 16:50:44 +00001432- Bug #1365984: urllib now opens "data:" URLs again.
1433
Brett Cannonad07ff22005-11-23 02:15:50 +00001434- Patch #1314396: prevent deadlock for threading.Thread.join() when an exception
1435 is raised within the method itself on a previous call (e.g., passing in an
1436 illegal argument)
1437
Brett Cannon5d0bf942005-11-02 23:04:26 +00001438- Bug #1340337: change time.strptime() to always return ValueError when there
1439 is an error in the format string.
1440
Georg Brandle8f24432005-10-03 14:16:44 +00001441- Patch #754022: Greatly enhanced webbrowser.py (by Oleg Broytmann).
1442
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +00001443- Bug #729103: pydoc.py: Fix docother() method to accept additional
Georg Brandl8b813db2005-10-01 16:32:31 +00001444 "parent" argument.
1445
Georg Brandlaa935172005-09-29 20:49:16 +00001446- Patch #1300515: xdrlib.py: Fix pack_fstring() to really use null bytes
1447 for padding.
1448
Georg Brandl80ba8e82005-09-29 20:16:07 +00001449- Bug #1296004: httplib.py: Limit maximal amount of data read from the
1450 socket to avoid a MemoryError on Windows.
1451
Matthias Klosef3f231f2005-09-20 07:02:49 +00001452- Patch #1166948: locale.py: Prefer LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG over LANGUAGE
1453 to get the correct encoding.
1454
1455- Patch #1166938: locale.py: Parse LANGUAGE as a colon separated list of
1456 languages.
1457
Martin v. Löwis4ed67382005-09-18 08:34:39 +00001458- Patch #1268314: Cache lines in StreamReader.readlines for performance.
1459
Brett Cannona783d062005-09-15 02:34:56 +00001460- Bug #1290505: Fix clearing the regex cache for time.strptime().
1461
Martin v. Löwis5dbdc592005-08-27 10:07:56 +00001462- Bug #1167128: Fix size of a symlink in a tarfile to be 0.
1463
Georg Brandl5a650a22005-08-26 08:51:34 +00001464- Patch #810023: Fix off-by-one bug in urllib.urlretrieve reporthook
1465 functionality.
1466
Martin v. Löwis8b595142005-08-25 11:03:38 +00001467- Bug #1163178: Make IDNA return an empty string when the input is empty.
1468
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +00001469- Patch #848017: Make Cookie more RFC-compliant. Use CRLF as default output
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00001470 separator and do not output trailing semicolon.
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +00001471
Georg Brandlb9256022005-08-24 18:46:39 +00001472- Patch #1062060: urllib.urlretrieve() now raises a new exception, named
1473 ContentTooShortException, when the actually downloaded size does not
1474 match the Content-Length header.
1475
Martin v. Löwis0a5d4a22005-08-24 14:55:22 +00001476- Bug #1121494: distutils.dir_utils.mkpath now accepts Unicode strings.
1477
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +00001478- Bug #1178484: Return complete lines from codec stream readers
1479 even if there is an exception in later lines, resulting in
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +00001480 correct line numbers for decoding errors in source code.
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +00001481
Georg Brandl6d2b3462005-08-24 07:36:17 +00001482- Bug #1192315: Disallow negative arguments to clear() in pdb.
1483
Martin v. Löwisb813c532005-08-07 20:51:04 +00001484- Patch #827386: Support absolute source paths in msvccompiler.py.
1485
Georg Brandl649f8e72005-08-03 07:30:12 +00001486- Patch #1105730: Apply the new implementation of commonprefix in posixpath
1487 to ntpath, macpath, os2emxpath and riscospath.
1488
Guido van Rossum755149f2005-07-27 00:00:44 +00001489- Fix a problem in Tkinter introduced by SF patch #869468: delete bogus
1490 __hasattr__ and __delattr__ methods on class Tk that were breaking
1491 Tkdnd.
1492
Georg Brandl5dbda752005-07-17 20:27:41 +00001493- Bug #1015140: disambiguated the term "article id" in nntplib docs and
1494 docstrings to either "article number" or "message id".
1495
Georg Brandla4a8b822005-07-15 09:13:21 +00001496- Bug #1238170: threading.Thread.__init__ no longer has "kwargs={}" as a
1497 parameter, but uses the usual "kwargs=None".
1498
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +00001499- textwrap now processes text chunks at O(n) speed instead of O(n**2).
Raymond Hettinger8bfa8932005-07-15 06:53:35 +00001500 Patch #1209527 (Contributed by Connelly).
1501
Georg Brandl5c5fe2f2005-07-14 06:40:47 +00001502- urllib2 has now an attribute 'httpresponses' mapping from HTTP status code
1503 to W3C name (404 -> 'Not Found'). RFE #1216944.
1504
Georg Brandl9e43acf2005-07-04 17:16:07 +00001505- Bug #1177468: Don't cache the /dev/urandom file descriptor for os.urandom,
1506 as this can cause problems with apps closing all file descriptors.
1507
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00001508- Bug #839151: Fix an attempt to access sys.argv in the warnings module;
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +00001509 it can be missing in embedded interpreters
Georg Brandl5284b532005-06-26 22:54:58 +00001510
Georg Brandl2f210b62005-06-26 22:09:06 +00001511- Bug #1155638: Fix a bug which affected HTTP 0.9 responses in httplib.
1512
Georg Brandlfbff1bc2005-06-26 21:36:25 +00001513- Bug #1100201: Cross-site scripting was possible on BaseHTTPServer via
1514 error messages.
1515
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001516- Bug #1108948: Cookie.py produced invalid JavaScript code.
1517
Raymond Hettingerda99d1c2005-06-21 07:43:58 +00001518- The tokenize module now detects and reports indentation errors.
1519 Bug #1224621.
1520
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +00001521- The tokenize module has a new untokenize() function to support a full
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00001522 roundtrip from lexed tokens back to Python source code. In addition,
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +00001523 the generate_tokens() function now accepts a callable argument that
1524 terminates by raising StopIteration.
1525
Georg Brandl9166e1a2005-06-04 09:20:03 +00001526- Bug #1196315: fix weakref.WeakValueDictionary constructor.
1527
Georg Brandl268e61c2005-06-03 14:28:50 +00001528- Bug #1213894: os.path.realpath didn't resolve symlinks that were the first
1529 component of the path.
1530
Skip Montanaro174dd222005-05-14 20:54:16 +00001531- Patch #1120353: The xmlrpclib module provides better, more transparent,
1532 support for datetime.{datetime,date,time} objects. With use_datetime set
1533 to True, applications shouldn't have to fiddle with the DateTime wrapper
1534 class at all.
1535
Martin v. Löwis55f1bb82005-03-21 20:56:35 +00001536- distutils.commands.upload was added to support uploading distribution
1537 files to PyPI.
1538
Walter Dörwalda6e8a4a2005-03-31 13:57:38 +00001539- distutils.commands.register now encodes the data as UTF-8 before posting
1540 them to PyPI.
1541
Raymond Hettinger267b8682005-03-27 10:47:39 +00001542- decimal operator and comparison methods now return NotImplemented
1543 instead of raising a TypeError when interacting with other types. This
1544 allows other classes to implement __radd__ style methods and have them
1545 work as expected.
1546
Raymond Hettingerbea3f6f2005-03-15 04:59:17 +00001547- Bug #1163325: Decimal infinities failed to hash. Attempting to
1548 hash a NaN raised an InvalidOperation instead of a TypeError.
1549
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00001550- Patch #918101: Add tarfile open mode r|* for auto-detection of the
Martin v. Löwis78be7df2005-03-05 12:47:42 +00001551 stream compression; add, for symmetry reasons, r:* as a synonym of r.
1552
Martin v. Löwis00a73e72005-03-04 19:40:34 +00001553- Patch #1043890: Add extractall method to tarfile.
1554
Martin v. Löwisc72dd382005-03-04 13:50:17 +00001555- Patch #1075887: Don't require MSVC in distutils if there is nothing
1556 to build.
1557
Martin v. Löwis637431b2005-03-03 23:12:42 +00001558- Patch #1103407: Properly deal with tarfile iterators when untarring
1559 symbolic links on Windows.
1560
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00001561- Patch #645894: Use getrusage for computing the time consumption in
Martin v. Löwisa4dac402005-03-03 11:39:45 +00001562 profile.py if available.
1563
Martin v. Löwisdf37c8c2005-03-03 11:08:03 +00001564- Patch #1046831: Use get_python_version where appropriate in sysconfig.py.
1565
Martin v. Löwisc5574e82005-03-03 10:57:37 +00001566- Patch #1117454: Remove code to special-case cookies without values
1567 in LWPCookieJar.
1568
Martin v. Löwis4ea3ead2005-03-03 10:48:12 +00001569- Patch #1117339: Add cookielib special name tests.
1570
Martin v. Löwise869eb12005-03-03 09:46:07 +00001571- Patch #1112812: Make bsddb/__init__.py more friendly for modulefinder.
1572
Martin v. Löwisf2a8d632005-03-03 08:35:22 +00001573- Patch #1110248: SYNC_FLUSH the zlib buffer for GZipFile.flush.
1574
Martin v. Löwisdf241532005-03-03 08:17:42 +00001575- Patch #1107973: Allow to iterate over the lines of a tarfile.ExFileObject.
1576
Martin v. Löwis8ed338a2005-03-03 08:12:27 +00001577- Patch #1104111: Alter setup.py --help and --help-commands.
1578
Martin v. Löwis4afe1542005-03-01 08:09:28 +00001579- Patch #1121234: Properly cleanup _exit and tkerror commands.
1580
Martin v. Löwisc2a0ac22005-02-24 20:22:10 +00001581- Patch #1049151: xdrlib now unpacks booleans as True or False.
1582
Raymond Hettingerbab41432005-02-05 01:31:19 +00001583- Fixed bug in a NameError bug in cookielib. Patch #1116583.
1584
Guido van Rossumd0641422005-02-03 15:01:24 +00001585- Applied a security fix to SimpleXMLRPCserver (PSF-2005-001). This
1586 disables recursive traversal through instance attributes, which can
1587 be exploited in various ways.
1588
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +00001589- Bug #1222790: in SimpleXMLRPCServer, set the reuse-address and close-on-exec
Andrew M. Kuchling3a976052005-12-04 15:07:41 +00001590 flags on the HTTP listening socket.
1591
Andrew M. Kuchlinge63fde72005-12-04 15:36:57 +00001592- Bug #792570: SimpleXMLRPCServer had problems if the request grew too large.
1593 Fixed by reading the HTTP body in chunks instead of one big socket.read().
1594
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +00001595- Patches #893642, #1039083: add allow_none, encoding arguments to constructors of
Andrew M. Kuchling10a16de2005-12-04 16:34:40 +00001596 SimpleXMLRPCServer and CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler.
1597
Martin v. Löwis1d11de62005-01-29 13:29:23 +00001598- Bug #1110478: Revert os.environ.update to do putenv again.
1599
Thomas Hellerd6c6e222005-01-20 19:20:16 +00001600- Bug #1103844: fix distutils.install.dump_dirs() with negated options.
1601
Martin v. Löwis22b457e2005-01-16 08:40:58 +00001602- os.{SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END} have been added for convenience.
1603
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001604- Enhancements to the csv module:
1605
1606 + Dialects are now validated by the underlying C code, better
Georg Brandl7eb4b7d2005-07-22 21:49:32 +00001607 reflecting its capabilities, and improving its compliance with
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00001608 PEP 305.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001609 + Dialect parameter parsing has been re-implemented to improve error
1610 reporting.
1611 + quotechar=None and quoting=QUOTE_NONE now work the way PEP 305
1612 dictates.
1613 + the parser now removes the escapechar prefix from escaped characters.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +00001614 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the writer now tests for numeric
Andrew M. Kuchling6db67822006-04-18 14:04:57 +00001615 types, rather than any object that can be represented as a numeric.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +00001616 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the reader now casts unquoted fields
1617 to floats.
Andrew McNamaraf69d94f2005-01-13 11:30:54 +00001618 + reader now allows \r characters to be quoted (previously it only allowed
1619 \n to be quoted).
Andrew McNamarac89f2842005-01-12 07:44:42 +00001620 + writer doublequote handling improved.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001621 + Dialect classes passed to the module are no longer instantiated by
1622 the module before being parsed (the former validation scheme required
1623 this, but the mechanism was unreliable).
1624 + The dialect registry now contains instances of the internal
1625 C-coded dialect type, rather than references to python objects.
1626 + the internal c-coded dialect type is now immutable.
1627 + register_dialect now accepts the same keyword dialect specifications
1628 as the reader and writer, allowing the user to register dialects
1629 without first creating a dialect class.
1630 + a configurable limit to the size of parsed fields has been added -
1631 previously, an unmatched quote character could result in the entire
1632 file being read into the field buffer before an error was reported.
Andrew McNamara31d88962005-01-12 03:45:10 +00001633 + A new module method csv.field_size_limit() has been added that sets
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001634 the parser field size limit (returning the former limit). The initial
1635 limit is 128kB.
Andrew McNamara7f2053e2005-01-12 11:17:16 +00001636 + A line_num attribute has been added to the reader object, which tracks
1637 the number of lines read from the source iterator. This is not
1638 the same as the number of records returned, as records can span
1639 multiple lines.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001640 + reader and writer objects were not being registered with the cyclic-GC.
1641 This has been fixed.
1642
Brett Cannone6539c42005-01-08 02:43:53 +00001643- _DummyThread objects in the threading module now delete self.__block that is
1644 inherited from _Thread since it uses up a lock allocated by 'thread'. The
1645 lock primitives tend to be limited in number and thus should not be wasted on
1646 a _DummyThread object. Fixes bug #1089632.
1647
Raymond Hettinger97db05d2005-01-07 08:15:41 +00001648- The imghdr module now detects Exif files.
1649
Raymond Hettinger6065d322004-12-20 23:51:53 +00001650- StringIO.truncate() now correctly adjusts the size attribute.
1651 (Bug #951915).
1652
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +00001653- locale.py now uses an updated locale alias table (built using
1654 Tools/i18n/makelocalealias.py, a tool to parse the X11 locale
1655 alias file); the encoding lookup was enhanced to use Python's
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +00001656 encoding alias table.
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +00001657
Raymond Hettinger3557f422004-12-07 12:02:02 +00001658- moved deprecated modules to Lib/lib-old: whrandom, tzparse, statcache.
1659
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +00001660- the pickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
1661 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
1662
Brett Cannon84667c02004-12-07 03:25:18 +00001663- optparse now optionally imports gettext. This allows its use in setup.py.
1664
Raymond Hettinger3489cad2004-12-05 05:20:42 +00001665- the pickle module no longer uses the deprecated bin parameter.
1666
Raymond Hettinger1bc82f82004-12-05 03:58:17 +00001667- the shelve module no longer uses the deprecated binary parameter.
1668
Raymond Hettinger6c92d762004-12-05 03:28:00 +00001669- the pstats module no longer uses the deprecated ignore() method.
1670
Raymond Hettingerf3fa9462004-12-05 01:58:09 +00001671- the filecmp module no longer uses the deprecated use_statcache argument.
1672
Raymond Hettinger664347b2004-12-04 21:21:53 +00001673- unittest.TestCase.run() and unittest.TestSuite.run() can now be successfully
1674 extended or overridden by subclasses. Formerly, the subclassed method would
1675 be ignored by the rest of the module. (Bug #1078905).
1676
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001677- heapq.nsmallest() and heapq.nlargest() now support key= arguments with
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +00001678 the same meaning as in list.sort().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001679
Walter Dörwald36733692004-12-22 12:50:50 +00001680- Bug #1076985: ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` now calls ``read()`` only
1681 once when a size argument is given. This prevents a buffer overflow in the
1682 tokenizer with very long source lines.
1683
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +00001684- Bug #1083110: ``zlib.decompress.flush()`` would segfault if called
1685 immediately after creating the object, without any intervening
1686 ``.decompress()`` calls.
Andrew M. Kuchling3b585b32004-12-28 20:10:48 +00001687
Skip Montanaro05885812005-01-16 20:48:27 +00001688- The reconvert.quote function can now emit triple-quoted strings. The
1689 reconvert module now has some simple documentation.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001690
Walter Dörwaldaf3b39a2005-02-18 13:22:43 +00001691- ``UserString.MutableString`` now supports negative indices in
1692 ``__setitem__`` and ``__delitem__``
1693
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +00001694- Bug #1149508: ``textwrap`` now handles hyphenated numbers (eg. "2004-03-05")
1695 correctly.
1696
Walter Dörwaldbc8e6422005-04-21 21:32:03 +00001697- Partial fixes for SF bugs #1163244 and #1175396: If a chunk read by
1698 ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` has a trailing "\r", read one more
1699 character even if the user has passed a size parameter to get a proper
1700 line ending. Remove the special handling of a "\r\n" that has been split
1701 between two lines.
1702
Walter Dörwalda47d1c02005-08-30 10:23:14 +00001703- Bug #1251300: On UCS-4 builds the "unicode-internal" codec will now complain
1704 about illegal code points. The codec now supports PEP 293 style error
1705 handlers.
1706
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +00001707- Bug #1235646: ``codecs.StreamRecoder.next()`` now reencodes the data it reads
Walter Dörwaldc5238b82005-09-01 11:56:53 +00001708 from the input stream, so that the output is a byte string in the correct
1709 encoding instead of a unicode string.
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +00001710
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +00001711- Bug #1202493: Fixing SRE parser to handle '{}' as perl does, rather than
1712 considering it exactly like a '*'.
1713
Walter Dörwald007f8df2005-10-09 19:42:27 +00001714- Bug #1245379: Add "unicode-1-1-utf-7" as an alias for "utf-7" to
1715 ``encodings.aliases``.
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +00001716
Walter Dörwald09f0dd52005-11-21 19:10:07 +00001717- ` uu.encode()`` and ``uu.decode()`` now support unicode filenames.
1718
Gustavo Niemeyer548148812006-01-31 18:34:13 +00001719- Patch #1413711: Certain patterns of differences were making difflib
1720 touch the recursion limit.
1721
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +00001722- Bug #947906: An object oriented interface has been added to the calendar
1723 module. It's possible to generate HTML calendar now and the module can be
Walter Dörwald48d5e502006-04-01 07:57:00 +00001724 called as a script (e.g. via ``python -mcalendar``). Localized month and
1725 weekday names can be ouput (even if an exotic encoding is used) using
1726 special classes that use unicode.
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +00001727
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001728Build
1729-----
1730
Neal Norwitz602d3392006-03-31 08:21:40 +00001731- Fix test_float, test_long, and test_struct failures on Tru64 with gcc
1732 by using -mieee gcc option.
1733
Martin v. Löwis86d66262006-02-17 08:40:11 +00001734- Patch #1432345: Make python compile on DragonFly.
1735
Martin v. Löwis856bf9a2006-02-14 20:42:55 +00001736- Build support for Win64-AMD64 was added.
1737
Martin v. Löwisa55e55e2006-02-11 15:55:14 +00001738- Patch #1428494: Prefer linking against ncursesw over ncurses library.
1739
Martin v. Löwisfd9a72a2006-01-08 10:07:33 +00001740- Patch #881820: look for openpty and forkpty also in libbsd.
1741
Martin v. Löwis64c33dd2006-01-03 07:42:14 +00001742- The sources of zlib are now part of the Python distribution (zlib 1.2.3).
1743 The zlib module is now builtin on Windows.
1744
Martin v. Löwisd5845ec2005-12-30 12:31:38 +00001745- Use -xcode=pic32 for CCSHARED on Solaris with SunPro.
1746
Martin v. Löwis147fbe52005-08-07 21:09:30 +00001747- Bug #1189330: configure did not correctly determine the necessary
1748 value of LINKCC if python was built with GCC 4.0.
1749
Trent Mick8321b422005-07-26 02:29:21 +00001750- Upgrade Windows build to zlib 1.2.3 which eliminates a potential security
1751 vulnerability in zlib 1.2.1 and 1.2.2.
1752
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00001753- EXTRA_CFLAGS has been introduced as an environment variable to hold compiler
1754 flags that change binary compatibility. Changes were also made to
1755 distutils.sysconfig to also use the environment variable when used during
Martin v. Löwisd7c795e2005-04-25 07:14:03 +00001756 compilation of the interpreter and of C extensions through distutils.
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00001757
Bob Ippolitoed233462005-03-29 13:47:59 +00001758- SF patch 1171735: Darwin 8's headers are anal about POSIX compliance,
1759 and linking has changed (prebinding is now deprecated, and libcc_dynamic
1760 no longer exists). This configure patch makes things right.
1761
Martin v. Löwise2713be2005-03-08 15:03:08 +00001762- Bug #1158607: Build with --disable-unicode again.
1763
Brett Cannon46d96232005-02-16 00:07:19 +00001764- spwdmodule.c is built only if either HAVE_GETSPNAM or HAVE_HAVE_GETSPENT is
1765 defined. Discovered as a result of not being able to build on OS X.
1766
Brett Cannon516592f2004-12-07 00:42:59 +00001767- setup.py now uses the directories specified in LDFLAGS using the -L option
1768 and in CPPFLAGS using the -I option for adding library and include
1769 directories, respectively, for compiling extension modules against. This has
1770 led to the core being compiled using the values in CPPFLAGS. It also removes
1771 the need for the special-casing of both DarwinPorts and Fink for darwin since
1772 the proper directories can be specified in LDFLAGS (``-L/sw/lib`` for Fink,
1773 ``-L/opt/local/lib`` for DarwinPorts) and CPPFLAGS (``-I/sw/include`` for
1774 Fink, ``-I/opt/local/include`` for DarwinPorts).
1775
Brett Cannon43802422005-02-10 20:48:03 +00001776- Test in configure.in that checks for tzset no longer dependent on tm->tm_zone
1777 to exist in the struct (not required by either ISO C nor the UNIX 2 spec).
1778 Tests for sanity in tzname when HAVE_TZNAME defined were also defined.
1779 Closes bug #1096244. Thanks Gregory Bond.
1780
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001781C API
1782-----
1783
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +00001784- ``PyMem_{Del, DEL}`` and ``PyMem_{Free, FREE}`` no longer map to
1785 ``PyObject_{Free, FREE}``. They map to the system ``free()`` now. If memory
1786 is obtained via the ``PyObject_`` family, it must be released via the
1787 ``PyObject_`` family, and likewise for the ``PyMem_`` family. This has
1788 always been officially true, but when Python's small-object allocator was
1789 introduced, an attempt was made to cater to a few extension modules
1790 discovered at the time that obtained memory via ``PyObject_New`` but
1791 released it via ``PyMem_DEL``. It's years later, and if such code still
1792 exists it will fail now (probably with segfaults, but calling wrong
1793 low-level memory management functions can yield many symptoms).
1794
Raymond Hettingerbeb31012005-08-16 03:47:52 +00001795- Added a C API for set and frozenset objects.
1796
Raymond Hettinger66517482004-12-03 11:45:13 +00001797- Removed PyRange_New().
1798
Walter Dörwaldd1c1e102005-10-06 20:29:57 +00001799- Patch #1313939: PyUnicode_DecodeCharmap() accepts a unicode string as the
1800 mapping argument now. This string is used as a mapping table. Byte values
1801 greater than the length of the string and 0xFFFE are treated as undefined
1802 mappings.
1803
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001804
1805Tests
1806-----
1807
Martin v. Löwis4d394df2005-01-23 09:19:22 +00001808- In test_os, st_?time is now truncated before comparing it with ST_?TIME.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001809
Hye-Shik Changaaa2f1d2005-12-10 17:44:27 +00001810- Patch #1276356: New resource "urlfetch" is implemented. This enables
1811 even impatient people to run tests that require remote files.
1812
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001813
1814Documentation
1815-------------
1816
Georg Brandl8cb30772006-01-20 09:34:29 +00001817- Bug #1402224: Add warning to dl docs about crashes.
1818
Georg Brandla3a93ae2006-01-20 09:14:36 +00001819- Bug #1396471: Document that Windows' ftell() can return invalid
1820 values for text files with UNIX-style line endings.
1821
Georg Brandl32252422005-09-14 20:42:00 +00001822- Bug #1274828: Document os.path.splitunc().
1823
Georg Brandl79c122f2005-08-24 07:31:33 +00001824- Bug #1190204: Clarify which directories are searched by site.py.
1825
Georg Brandl6f2bbd32005-08-24 07:26:55 +00001826- Bug #1193849: Clarify os.path.expanduser() documentation.
1827
Georg Brandlf13c4ba2005-08-02 10:28:08 +00001828- Bug #1243192: re.UNICODE and re.LOCALE affect \d, \D, \s and \S.
1829
Georg Brandl150db732005-07-18 08:53:17 +00001830- Bug #755617: Document the effects of os.chown() on Windows.
1831
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001832- Patch #1180012: The documentation for modulefinder is now in the library reference.
1833
1834- Patch #1213031: Document that os.chown() accepts argument values of -1.
1835
1836- Bug #1190563: Document os.waitpid() return value with WNOHANG flag.
1837
1838- Bug #1175022: Correct the example code for property().
1839
Georg Brandl40c71652005-06-25 21:08:46 +00001840- Document the IterableUserDict class in the UserDict module.
1841 Closes bug #1166582.
1842
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001843- Remove all latent references for "Macintosh" that referred to semantics for
1844 Mac OS 9 and change to reflect the state for OS X.
1845 Closes patch #1095802. Thanks Jack Jansen.
1846
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001847Mac
1848---
1849
1850
Hye-Shik Chang4e422812005-07-17 02:36:59 +00001851New platforms
1852-------------
1853
1854- FreeBSD 7 support is added.
1855
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001856
1857Tools/Demos
1858-----------
1859
Brett Cannonacde7342006-03-01 04:28:00 +00001860- Created Misc/Vim/vim_syntax.py to auto-generate a python.vim file in that
1861 directory for syntax highlighting in Vim. Vim directory was added and placed
1862 vimrc to it (was previous up a level).
1863
Georg Brandl56897312005-08-24 18:32:30 +00001864- Added two new files to Tools/scripts: pysource.py, which recursively
1865 finds Python source files, and findnocoding.py, which finds Python
1866 source files that need an encoding declaration.
1867 Patch #784089, credits to Oleg Broytmann.
1868
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001869- Bug #1072853: pindent.py used an uninitialized variable.
1870
Martin v. Löwisab9ec162005-04-09 10:53:34 +00001871- Patch #1177597: Correct Complex.__init__.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001872
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +00001873- Fixed a display glitch in Pynche, which could cause the right arrow to
1874 wiggle over by a pixel.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001875
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00001876----
1877
1878**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**