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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00003+++++++++++
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Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00007What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-20XX*
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12Core and Builtins
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14
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +000015- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a
16 unicode string.
17
Eric Smithc1bdf892009-10-26 17:46:17 +000018- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string
19 instead. This is in preparation for (but not strictly related to)
20 issue #7117, short float repr.
21
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +000022- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
23
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +000024- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
25 fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
26 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
27
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +000028- Issue #7168: Document PyFloat_AsString and PyFloat_AsReprString, and
29 note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
30
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +000031- Issue #7120: logging: Removed import of multiprocessing which is causing
32 crash in GAE.
33
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +000034- Issue #7140: The __dict__ of a module should not be cleared unless the module
35 is the only object holding a reference to it.
36
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +000037- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler.
38 There should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use.
39 Patch by Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
40
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +000041- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one
42 thread, and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
43
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +000044- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
45 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
46 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
47 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
48
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +000049- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
50 assignment.
51
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +000052- Issue #5329: Fix os.popen* regression from 2.5 with commands as a
53 sequence running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone
54 and Jani Hakala.
55
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +000056- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
57 of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
58
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +000059- Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
60 after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
61
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +000062- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +000063 take keyword arguments.
64
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +000065- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid
66 UTF-32 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
67
Mark Dickinson4b9d4732009-09-27 16:05:21 +000068- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and
69 long -> string conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +000070
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +000071- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
72
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +000073- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
74 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
75
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +000076- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
77
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +000078- classmethod no longer checks if its argument is callable.
79
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +000080- Issue #6750: A text file opened with io.open() could duplicate its output
81 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
82
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +000083- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with
84 a target of tuple unpacking.
85
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +000086- Issue #6707: dir() on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
87
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +000088- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for bytearray.translate() with invalid parameters.
89
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +000090- Issue #6573: set.union() stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
91 occurred in the argument chain.
92
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +000093- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
94
95- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +000096 from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
97
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +000098- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to print(), the default
99 separator and end should be unicode also.
100
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +0000101- Issue #6119: Fixed a incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of builtin
102 functions and methods.
103
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +0000104- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h.
105 This fixes a build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are
106 defined in inttypes.h instead of stdint.h on that platform.
107
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +0000108- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
109
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +0000110- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
111 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
112
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +0000113- Removed the ipaddr module.
114
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +0000115- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
116 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
117
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +0000118- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from compile() were being masked.
119
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +0000120- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
121 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
122
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +0000123- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
124
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +0000125- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always
126 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
127
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000128- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Benjamin Peterson95e5ebe2009-07-12 23:56:18 +0000129 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +0000130
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +0000131- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped
132 function with __func__.
133
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +0000134- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
135 Deprecated contextlib.nested() which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +0000136
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +0000137- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
138 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
139
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +0000140- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This
141 makes it consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real
142 and imaginary literals.
143
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +0000144- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
145
Benjamin Peterson0c3b4c62009-05-16 23:34:19 +0000146- __instancecheck__ and __subclasscheck__ are now completely ignored on classic
147 classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +0000148
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +0000149- Issue #5994: the marshal module now has docstrings.
150
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +0000151- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
152 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
153 rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
154 was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
155 didn't match that of float('-nan').
156
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +0000157- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
158 empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
159 to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a
160 default precision of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with
161 a default precision of 6. This more closely matches str(), and
162 reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to the empty
163 presentation type. This also affects the new complex.__format__ in
164 the same way.
165
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +0000166- Issue #5890: in subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was
167 shadowed by classtype's, even if it was None. property now
168 inserts the __doc__ into the subclass instance __dict__.
169
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +0000170- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
171 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
172
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000173- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example,
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000174 format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result.
175
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +0000176- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
177 never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
178
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +0000179- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
180 new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
181
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +0000182- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own
183 titlecase, but not their own uppercase.
184
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +0000185- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
186 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
187
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +0000188- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
189
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +0000190- Issue #5816: complex(repr(z)) now recovers z exactly, even when
191 z involves nans, infs or negative zeros.
192
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +0000193- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for
194 floats, ints, and longs.
195
196- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles
197 leading zero formatting poorly.
198
199- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if
200 we're using no type code and we have an exponent.
201
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +0000202- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions
203 correctly rounded.
204
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +0000205- Issue #5787: object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__") segfaulted on
206 some builtin types.
207
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000208- Issue #1869: fix a couple of minor round() issues. round(5e15+1)
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +0000209 was giving 5e15+2; round(-0.0) was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +0000210
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +0000211- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
212
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +0000213- Issue #5704: the "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
214
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +0000215- Issue #2170: refactored xml.dom.minidom.normalize, increasing both
216 its clarity and its speed.
217
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +0000218- Issue #2396: the memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
219
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +0000220- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
221 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
222
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +0000223- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
224
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +0000225- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
226 the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
227
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +0000228- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
229 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
230 reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
231 on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
232
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +0000233- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to
234 improve its performance. Long divisions and remainder operations
235 are now between 50% and 150% faster.
236
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +0000237- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
238 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
239 reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
240 --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
241 default. Add sys.long_info structseq to provide information about
242 the internal format.
243
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +0000244- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
245 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
246
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +0000247- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
248 the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
249 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.
250
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +0000251- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For
252 example: '{} {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'.
253
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +0000254- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for warnings.showwarning() a
255 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
256
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +0000257- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are
258 used when using str.format() with str, unicode, long, int, and
259 float arguments.
260
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +0000261- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division
262 for ints and longs.
263
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +0000264- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average
265 saving is 2 bytes per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long
266 on a 64-bit system.
267
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +0000268- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
269 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
270
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +0000271- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs:
272 it now forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
273
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +0000274- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
275
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000276- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +0000277 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
278 zip(), and bytearray().
279
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +0000280- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
281 functions.
282
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +0000283- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
284 OSError.
285
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +0000286- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
287
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +0000288- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common
289 to str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting
290 the interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
291
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +0000292- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
293 __next__ method.
294
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +0000295- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
296
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +0000297- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
298
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000299- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
300 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
301 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +0000302 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +0000303 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
304
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +0000305- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
306
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +0000307- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with
308 an existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all
309 code objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the
310 file has been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths).
311 Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
312
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +0000313- Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
314
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +0000315- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
316 file with `str' filename on Windows.
317
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +0000318- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
319 did not get collected.
320
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +0000321- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types
322 where the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
323
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +0000324- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
325 directory on POSIX systems.
326
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +0000327- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
328 systems.
329
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +0000330- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
331 bytearray.translate(). It was always allowed for bytes.translate().
332
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +0000333- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
334 fail.
335
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +0000336- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
337 print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
338 unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
339
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +0000340- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
341
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +0000342- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions.
343 Original patch by Neal Norwitz.
344
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +0000345- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
346 context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
347
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +0000348- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
349 exceptions.
350
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +0000351- Issue #4445: Replace "sizeof(PyStringObject)" with
352 "offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1" when allocating memory for
353 str instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory
354 (on average) per string allocation.
355
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +0000356- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
357 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
358 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
359
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +0000360- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__
361 instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
362
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +0000363- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
364 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
365
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +0000366- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +0000367 method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
368 kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
369 object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
370
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +0000371- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
372 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
373
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +0000374- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the imageop.rgb2rgb8() function.
375
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +0000376- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
377
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +0000378- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
379
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +0000380- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
381 exec statement.
382
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +0000383- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
384 method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
385
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +0000386- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
387 __future__ import didn't work.
388
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000389- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +0000390 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +0000391
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +0000392- On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW
393 returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is
394 really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k)
395
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +0000396- Issue #4069: When set.remove(element) is used with a set element, the element
397 is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the eventual
398 KeyError would always report the empty frozenset([]) as the missing key. Now
399 it correctly refers to the initial element.
400
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +0000401- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to
402 which there are buffer exports.
403
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +0000404- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
405
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +0000406- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
407
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +0000408- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
409
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +0000410- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with
411 short file names.
412
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +0000413- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
414 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +0000415
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +0000416- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
417 returned them on 64bit platforms.
418
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +0000419- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
420 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
421 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
422 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
423
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +0000424- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
425 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
426
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +0000427Library
428-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +0000429
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +0000430- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure
431 that they accept an int or long as the second argument.
432
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +0000433- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
434 header as required by RFC 1952.
435
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +0000436- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
437 Distutils.
438
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +0000439- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
440 an uppercase.
441
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +0000442- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
443 several threads at once.
444
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +0000445- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
446 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
447
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +0000448- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
449 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
450
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +0000451- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
452 protocol 2.
453
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +0000454- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
455
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +0000456- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
457 larger than emax.
458
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +0000459- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the
460 GNU readline library version 6.0.
461
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +0000462- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
463
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +0000464- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code
465
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +0000466- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
467
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +0000468- Add support to the `ihooks` module for relative imports.
469
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000470- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +0000471
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +0000472- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
473 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000474
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +0000475- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
476 correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
477
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +0000478- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
479 is too large to fit in the current precision.
480
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +0000481- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +0000482 Distutils.
483
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +0000484- Issue #7031: Add TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance() methods.
485
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +0000486- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an `array.array` to
487 `httplib.HTTPConnection.send`. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
488
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +0000489- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX
490 and other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
491
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +0000492- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
493
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +0000494- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
495
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +0000496- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
497 does now always result in NULL.
498
499- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize
500 correctly with base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +0000501
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +0000502- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing
503 debug message.
504
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +0000505- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
506
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +0000507- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
508
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +0000509- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
510 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
511 Michael Haubenwallner.
512
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +0000513- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal
514 instances.
515
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +0000516- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of
517 returning NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion
518 in long(Decimal('nan')).
519
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +0000520- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
521 with no type specifier.
522
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +0000523- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder revers to non-existing version.plist
524
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +0000525- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
526 repeatedly concatenating strings in httplib's
527 HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
528 when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
529
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +0000530- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
531 as documented.
532
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +0000533- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
534 names in the webbrowser module.
535
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +0000536- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
537
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +0000538- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
539 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
540
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +0000541- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
542
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +0000543- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
544
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +0000545- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
546
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +0000547- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
548
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +0000549- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
550
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +0000551- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
552 ScrolledText.
553
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +0000554- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
555
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +0000556- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating
557 the xview* and yview* methods.
558
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +0000559- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
560 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
561 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
562 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
563
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +0000564- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
565 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
566
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +0000567- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
568 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
569 The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
570
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +0000571- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode
572 decimal digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously
573 it was restricted to accepting [0-9].
574
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +0000575- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
576 opening an empty or very small file.
577
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000578- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
579 containing incomplete data.
580
581- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +0000582 behavior is similar when used with -O.
583
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +0000584- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
585
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +0000586- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't
587 know how to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add
588 correct handling of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
589
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +0000590- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +0000591
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +0000592- Issue #6466: now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler
593 uses the same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers.
594 It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
595 for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
596
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +0000597- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
598
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000599- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
600
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +0000601- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
602 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
603
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000604- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +0000605
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000606- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +0000607 attribute.
608
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +0000609- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
610
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +0000611- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
612 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
613
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +0000614- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
615
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000616- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +0000617 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
618 descriptor errors
619
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +0000620- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +0000621 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
622
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +0000623- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
624
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +0000625- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated
626 a 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
627 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
628
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +0000629- Issue #6314: logging.basicConfig() performs extra checks on the "level"
630 argument.
631
632- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +0000633 unixcompiler. Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
634
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +0000635- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py
636
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +0000637- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
638
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +0000639- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
640
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +0000641- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
642 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
643
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +0000644- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) when annonymous.
645 (On Unix)
646
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +0000647- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
648 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
649 ``io`` module.
650
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +0000651- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
652
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000653- Issue #5262: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
654 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
655
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +0000656- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
657
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +0000658- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands `$$`
659 in Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
660 `LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'`. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
661
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +0000662- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
663
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +0000664- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils.
665 Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
666
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +0000667- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
668
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +0000669- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
670 whitespace.
671
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +0000672- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the
673 argument to the 'help' function.
674
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +0000675- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
676 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
677
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +0000678- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if
679 the directory already exists.
680
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +0000681- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
682 specific Python version.
683
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +0000684- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
685 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
686 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
687
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +0000688- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
689 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000690
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +0000691- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
692 the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
693 a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
694
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +0000695- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
696 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
697
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000698- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +0000699 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
700
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +0000701- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
702
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +0000703- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used
704 inplace. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
705
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000706- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +0000707 subcommand.
708
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +0000709- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
710 deepcopy()ing.
711
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +0000712- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
713
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +0000714- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
715
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +0000716- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
717
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +0000718- Issue #6022: a test file was created in the current working directory by
719 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
720
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +0000721- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
722 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
723
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +0000724- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
725 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
726
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +0000727- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were broken
728 for old-style extensions.
729
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000730- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
731 trying to print a traceback.
732
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +0000733- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
734
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000735- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +0000736 ld is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
737
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +0000738- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because
739 of an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
740 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
741 Cournapeau.
742
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +0000743- Issue 5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped,
744 now it does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
745
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +0000746- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer
747 return directories.
748
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +0000749- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
750
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +0000751- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
752 looking for files given by a relative filename.
753
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +0000754- Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
755 extracting a file to the root directory.
756
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +0000757- Issue #5913: os.listdir() should fail for empty path on windows.
758
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +0000759- Issue #5084: unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
760 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal
761 and original patch by Jake McGuire.
762
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +0000763- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
764 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
765
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +0000766- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
767 Contributed by Google.
768
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +0000769- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
770
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +0000771- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +0000772 anymore.
773
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +0000774- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
775
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +0000776- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the
777 string is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
778 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
779
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +0000780- Issue #5853: calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
781 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
782 initialized before.
783
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +0000784- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
785 names which should not be exported.
786
787- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +0000788 sysconfig.get_config_vars.
789
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +0000790- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
791
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +0000792- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines
793 are now prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
794
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +0000795- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
796
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +0000797- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
798 Fraction(m, n), m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational
799 instances.
800
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +0000801- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string
802 that's valid for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the
803 exception of strings representing NaNs and infinities.
804
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +0000805- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
806
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000807- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
808
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +0000809- Issue #1161031: fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now
810 results in a handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR
811 and POLLNVAL now call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also,
812 dispatcher now has an 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing
813 log messages, which is set to 'warning' by default.
814
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +0000815- Issue #5607: fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
816
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +0000817- Issue #5741: don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting
818 a value in SafeConfigParser.
819
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +0000820- Issue #5732: added a new command in Distutils: check.
821
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000822- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +0000823 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
824
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +0000825- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are
826 now collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
827
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +0000828- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats.
829 Initial fix by Steven Bethard.
830
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +0000831- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases.
832 Initial fix by Wayne Davison.
833
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000834- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +0000835
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000836- Issue #5694: removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +0000837
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000838- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +0000839
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000840- Issue #1326077: fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +0000841
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000842- Issue #1726172: fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +0000843
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000844- Issue #2625: added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +0000845 mailbox.MH.get_message().
846
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000847- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to mulitiprocessing.manager
Andrew M. Kuchling59631852009-04-09 11:23:36 +0000848 so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +0000849
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +0000850- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of the
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +0000851 object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added docs
852 to note the limitation
853
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000854- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +0000855 of the equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000856
857- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +0000858 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000859
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +0000860- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were added.
861 addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
862 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
863 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
864
865- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
866 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000867
868- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +0000869 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +0000870
871- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +0000872 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +0000873
874- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
875 called immediately before and after a test run.
876
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +0000877- Issue #5663: better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
878 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
879 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
880 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000881
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +0000882- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing
883
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +0000884- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
885 printing out values.
886
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +0000887- Issue #4572: added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
888
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +0000889- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
890 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
891 threads.
892
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +0000893- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
894
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +0000895- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
896
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +0000897- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
898 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
899 that it was failing to do localization.
900
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +0000901- Issue #5583: Added optional Extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
902 Brandl.
903
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +0000904- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes
905 popups on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
906
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +0000907- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
908 with the threading module.
909
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +0000910- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support
911
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +0000912- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
913
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +0000914- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context
915 manager use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
916
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +0000917- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +0000918 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
919 to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
920
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +0000921- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not
922 defined (part of issue #5035).
923
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +0000924- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
925 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
926 output compared to previous Python versions.
927
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +0000928- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
929
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +0000930- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
931 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using
932 a with statement.
933
934- The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences in lists,
935 tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and comparison
936 specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error messages
937 actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google. [Issue #2578]
938
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +0000939- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop
940 forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
941 with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
942 partial bzip2 compressed data.
943
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +0000944- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
945 even if an exception occurs.
946
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +0000947- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
948 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
949
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +0000950- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type
951 specifier to Decimal.__format__
952
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +0000953- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
954 '>' alignment characters.
955
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +0000956- Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
957 character.
958
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +0000959- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by
960 Tim Golden.
961
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +0000962- collections.deque() objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
963
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +0000964- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
965 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent
966 window flashing.
967
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +0000968- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the
969 guaranteed to be safe interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of
970 the Tcl interpreter taken from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
971
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +0000972- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
973
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +0000974- Issue #5394: removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
975 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
976
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +0000977- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
978
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +0000979- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
980
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +0000981- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
982
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +0000983- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
984
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +0000985- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
986
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +0000987- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
988 ready received.
989
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +0000990- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
991 import guess_extension`` was used.
992
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +0000993- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
994 with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
995
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +0000996- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
997 overrun.
998
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +0000999- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
1000 bdist_rpm command.
1001
1002- Issue #5378: added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
1003
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00001004- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
1005
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00001006- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
1007 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
1008
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00001009- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance
1010 in Distutils tests.
1011
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001012- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
1013 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001014
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00001015- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
1016 The file was resized to wrong size.
1017
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00001018- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
1019
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001020- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00001021 from the package_data and the data_files metadata.
1022
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00001023- Issue #5257: refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00001024 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
1025
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00001026- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
1027 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
1028
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00001029- Issue #2461: added tests for distutils.util
1030
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00001031- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on
1032 LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
1033
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00001034- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
1035 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
1036
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00001037- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
1038 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
1039
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00001040- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
1041 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
1042 ctime of the files involved.
1043
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00001044- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
1045 deadlock.
1046
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00001047- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
1048 'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
1049 positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
1050
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00001051- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
1052
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001053- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case.
1054 This is a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
1055
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00001056- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a
1057 public documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
1058
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00001059- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support
1060 the execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__``
Nick Coghlanc3623b12009-02-08 01:46:01 +00001061 submodule when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi
1062 Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00001063
Guilherme Polo363161a2009-02-06 22:48:07 +00001064- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will
1065 not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in
1066 Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that created
1067 the Tcl interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00001068
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001069- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00001070 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
1071
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00001072- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by
1073 Ross Light.
1074
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00001075- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
1076 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
1077
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001078- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00001079 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
1080
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00001081- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
1082
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00001083- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was
1084 inside its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs.
1085 "src.new").
1086
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001087- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00001088 Iterator and MutableSet.
1089
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00001090- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
1091
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001092- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00001093 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
1094
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00001095- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has
1096 been backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
1097
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00001098- Issue #1885: distutils. When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar
1099 the tar file was overriden by the gztar one.
1100
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00001101- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
1102
Raymond Hettingerd081abc2009-01-27 02:58:49 +00001103- Added a new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement()
1104 and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00001105
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001106- Issue #5032: added a step argument to itertools.count() and
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00001107 allowed non-integer arguments.
1108
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00001109- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging
1110 support, expose the internal levels and provide proper usage
1111 examples.
1112
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00001113- Issue #1672332: fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
1114 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
1115
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00001116- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the
1117 unreadable local symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
1118
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00001119- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module;
1120 allow adding directories to a zipfile.
1121
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00001122- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00001123 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will
1124 be disabled, and not compiled.
1125
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00001126- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library,
1127 do an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the
1128 file size rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the
1129 traditional 2.x file object.
1130
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001131- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
1132 parameter was set.
1133
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001134- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
1135 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00001136 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00001137
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00001138- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
1139 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this check
1140 it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
1141
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00001142- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
1143 in sharedctypes.py.
1144
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00001145- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
1146 __getattr__.
1147
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00001148- Issue #3997: zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be
1149 opened with other applications.
1150
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00001151- Issue #1162154: inspect.getmembers() now skips attributes that raise
1152 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
1153
1154- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00001155 counting.
1156
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00001157- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
1158
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00001159- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
1160 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
1161 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
1162 Jacques Frechet.
1163
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00001164- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
1165
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001166- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00001167 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
1168
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00001169- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
1170 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been
1171 deprecated for removal in 3.x
1172
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00001173- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and Context.create_decimal_from_float()
1174 to the decimal module.
1175
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00001176- Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
1177 constants in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
1178
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00001179- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
1180 the function is not a generator.
1181
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001182- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case
1183 no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00001184
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001185- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00001186 function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.
1187
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001188- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
1189 cast as floats.
1190
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00001191- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00001192 did unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
1193
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00001194- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
1195
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00001196- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
1197
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00001198- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that
1199 the code under test can be written inline if more practical.
1200
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00001201- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@')
1202 works as expected in the interactive environment.
1203
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00001204- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
1205 Gabriel Genellina.
1206
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00001207- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
1208
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00001209- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
1210
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00001211- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error
1212 handling.
1213
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00001214- Issue #4574: fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
1215 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16)
1216 and gets split on a chunk boundary.
1217
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00001218- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code
1219 for packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
1220 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
1221
1222- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via
1223 zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by
1224 Alexander Belopolsky.
1225
1226- Issue #4197: doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP
1227 302 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they
1228 are still subject to the constraints that exist for all code running
1229 from inside a module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to
1230 perform IO operations based on __file__). Original patch by
1231 Alexander Belopolsky.
1232
1233- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that
1234 allows backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by
1235 Alexander Belopolsky.
1236
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00001237- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
1238 when given an unicode string.
1239
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00001240- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
1241
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00001242- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
1243 give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
1244 and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
1245
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00001246- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the
1247 --dry-run option.
1248
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00001249- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
1250 libs.
1251
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00001252- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
1253 statements.
1254
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00001255- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
1256 not a malformed option.
1257
Gregory P. Smith26576802008-12-05 02:27:01 +00001258- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00001259 from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
1260
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00001261- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
1262 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
1263 Content-Disposition headers.
1264
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00001265- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
1266 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing;
1267 it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers
1268 could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user
1269 doesn't configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00001270
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00001271- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
1272 exception.
1273
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00001274- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if
1275 the ctypes module is not present.
1276
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00001277- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
1278
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00001279- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
1280
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00001281- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
1282 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
1283
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00001284- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
1285 and then remove it.
1286
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00001287- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
1288
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00001289- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
1290 debugging.
1291
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00001292- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
1293 inspect.getargvalues.
1294
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00001295- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
1296
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00001297- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
1298 to claiming it is Mature.
1299
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00001300- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
1301 when protocol 0 is used.
1302
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00001303- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
1304 to be consistent with Apple tools.
1305
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001306- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001307 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00001308
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00001309- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
1310
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00001311- Issue #1737832 : plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
1312 module.
1313
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00001314- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process
1315 creates one of the needed subdirectories.
1316
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00001317- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script
1318
1319- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'
1320
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00001321- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
1322 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
1323
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00001324- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
1325 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
1326 and getservbyport().
1327
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00001328- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
1329 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
1330
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00001331- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for
1332 new arguments introduced in 2.5.
1333
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00001334- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
1335 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
1336 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
1337
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00001338- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
1339
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001340Tools/Demos
1341-----------
1342
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00001343- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/
1344
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00001345- Issue #4677: add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
1346
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001347Build
1348-----
1349
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001350- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX:
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00001351 ``intel`` builds a distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures,
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001352 while ``3-way`` builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386``
1353 and ``x86_64`` architectures.
1354
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00001355- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6
1356
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00001357- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
1358
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00001359- Issue 5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file
1360 extensions are installed.
1361
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00001362- Issue 5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is
1363 an error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
1364
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00001365- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file
1366 and a python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by
1367 Clinton Roy.
1368
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00001369- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
1370
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00001371- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
1372
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00001373- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the
1374 linker, rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
1375
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001376- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00001377 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00001378
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00001379- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
1380
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00001381- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
1382
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00001383- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
1384
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00001385- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
1386
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00001387- Issue #4472: "configure --enable-shared" now works on OSX
1388
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00001389- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
1390
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00001391- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
1392
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00001393- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
1394
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00001395- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
1396
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00001397- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
1398
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00001399- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
1400
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00001401- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
1402
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00001403- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to .PHONY.
1404
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00001405- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
1406
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00001407Documentation
1408-------------
1409
1410- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation
1411 for Windows.
1412
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00001413- Issue #6801 : symmetric_difference_update also accepts |.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001414 Thanks to Carl Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00001415
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001416C-API
1417-----
1418
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00001419- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with
Benjamin Petersonfe8745d2009-08-17 13:39:41 +00001420 NULL: Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00001421
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00001422- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
1423 PyCode_Addr2Line().
1424
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00001425- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
1426 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
1427
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00001428- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
1429 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
1430
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00001431- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
1432
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00001433- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError
1434 for negative arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
1435
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00001436- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
1437
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00001438- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
1439 the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
1440
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001441- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
1442 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00001443
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00001444- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall is now thread safe and can be used for
1445 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00001446
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001447Extension Modules
1448-----------------
1449
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00001450- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
1451
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00001452- Issue #3366: Add gamma function to math module.
1453
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00001454- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
1455 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that
1456 range.
1457
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00001458- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit
1459 on OSX.
1460
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00001461- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called
1462 with something other than a tuple as first argument.
1463
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00001464- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
1465 module.
1466
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00001467- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
1468
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00001469- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
1470 tokenizer not stopping.
1471
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00001472- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with
1473 Unicode category 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also
1474 matched characters with category 'No'.
1475
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00001476- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack
1477 with an integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range
1478 integer now consistently raises struct.error.
1479
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00001480- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies
1481 for the integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*'
1482 represents any of '=', '<', '>'.
1483
1484 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning.
1485 Previously it only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
1486
1487 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always
1488 result in struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method
1489 could be packed by 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h'
1490 ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a __long__ method could be packed by
1491 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with neither __int__ nor __long__,
1492 TypeError used to be raised (with a confusing error message) for
1493 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and struct.error in other cases.
1494
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00001495- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
1496
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00001497- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python
1498 GIL is now released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
1499
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00001500- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
1501 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
1502 implementations or external openssl library).
1503
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00001504- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00001505
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00001506- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
1507
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00001508- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
1509
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00001510- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
1511
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00001512- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
1513
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00001514- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
1515 OpenBSD.
1516
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00001517- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
1518
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00001519- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
1520
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00001521- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
1522
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001523Tests
1524-----
1525
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00001526- Issue #7151: fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no
1527 longer runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
1528
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00001529- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
1530 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
1531
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00001532- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
1533 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
1534 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00001535
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00001536- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
1537
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00001538- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
1539 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
1540
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00001541- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
1542 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
1543 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to
1544 skip the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
1545
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00001546- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
1547 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
1548
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00001549- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes
1550 it easy to import both normal and optimised versions of modules.
1551 test_heapq and test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for
1552 other modules with both C and Python implementations in the stdlib
1553 can be adjusted to use it over time.
1554
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00001555- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1556
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00001557- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
1558
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00001559- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
1560
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001561- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00001562 that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00001563 from test support, which does the conversion.
1564
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00001565- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
1566
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00001567- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
1568 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
1569 incorrectly on __exit__.
1570
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00001571- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
1572
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00001573
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001574What's New in Python 2.6 final
1575==============================
1576
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00001577*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001578
1579Core and Builtins
1580-----------------
1581
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00001582- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
1583 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
1584
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00001585- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
1586 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
1587
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00001588- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
1589
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001590Library
1591-------
1592
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00001593- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
1594 true singleton object.
1595
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00001596- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
1597 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
1598 into a float.
1599
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00001600- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
1601
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00001602- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
1603 sizes.
1604
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00001605- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
1606
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00001607- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
1608 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
1609
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001610Build
1611-----
1612
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00001613- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
1614 installer.
1615
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00001616- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
1617
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00001618
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001619What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
1620=============================================
1621
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00001622*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001623
1624Core and Builtins
1625-----------------
1626
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001627Extension Modules
1628-----------------
1629
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00001630- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
1631 segfault as a result.
1632
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00001633- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
1634 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001635
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00001636Tools/Demos
1637-----------
1638
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00001639- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00001640 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
1641 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
1642 are caught and silenced.
1643
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00001644Build
1645-----
1646
1647- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
1648 C runtime in the Windows installer.
1649
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00001650
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001651What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
1652=============================================
1653
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00001654*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001655
1656Core and Builtins
1657-----------------
1658
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00001659- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
1660
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00001661- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
1662 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
1663 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
1664 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
1665 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
1666 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
1667 64bit values.
1668
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00001669- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
1670 error.
1671
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00001672- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
1673 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
1674 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
1675 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
1676
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00001677- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
1678 a unicode argument.
1679
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001680- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
1681
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001682- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001683 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00001684 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
1685
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001686- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00001687 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
1688 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
1689 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
1690 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
1691 type object.
1692
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00001693- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
1694
1695- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
1696
1697- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
1698
1699- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
1700
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00001701- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
1702 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
1703
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00001704- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
1705 ``__delslice__``.
1706
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00001707- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
1708 library targets in the Makefile.
1709
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00001710- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
1711 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
1712 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
1713
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00001714C-API
1715-----
1716
1717- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
1718
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001719Library
1720-------
1721
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00001722- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
1723 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
1724
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00001725- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
1726
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00001727- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
1728
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001729- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
1730 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
1731 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
1732
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001733- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
1734
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001735- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00001736 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
1737
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00001738- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
1739
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00001740- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
1741
1742- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00001743
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00001744- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
1745 its symbolic link.
1746
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001747- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
1748
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00001749- Issue 600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
1750 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
1751 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
1752
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00001753- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
1754 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
1755
1756- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00001757
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00001758- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
1759 path to the Python binary.
1760
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00001761- Issue 3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
1762 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
1763 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
1764 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
1765
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00001766- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
1767
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00001768- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
1769
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00001770- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
1771
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00001772- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
1773
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00001774- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
1775 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00001776
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00001777- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
1778 non-integer floating point number.
1779
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00001780- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00001781 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
1782
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001783Extension Modules
1784-----------------
1785
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00001786- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
1787 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
1788
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00001789- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
1790 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
1791 without limit.
1792
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00001793- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
1794 exploitation of poor argument checking.
1795
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00001796- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
1797
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00001798- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
1799 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
1800
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00001801- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
1802 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
1803 threads/processes.
1804
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001805Tests
1806-----
1807
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00001808- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
1809 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
1810 that expected warning messages are being reported.
1811
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001812- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
1813
1814- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00001815
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001816Build
1817-----
1818
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00001819- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
1820
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00001821- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
1822 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
1823
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00001824- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
1825
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00001826- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00001827 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00001828
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00001829
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001830What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
1831================================
1832
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00001833*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001834
1835Core and Builtins
1836-----------------
1837
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00001838- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
1839 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
1840 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
1841 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
1842 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
1843 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
1844 default.
1845
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00001846- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
1847 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
1848
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00001849- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
1850 value again.
1851
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00001852- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
1853 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
1854 and introducing s*.
1855
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00001856- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
1857 object was stored in the freelist.
1858
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00001859- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
1860 ValueError consistently across platforms.
1861
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00001862- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
1863 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
1864 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
1865
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00001866- Apply security patches from Apple.
1867
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00001868- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
1869 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
1870
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00001871- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
1872 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
1873
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00001874- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
1875 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
1876 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
1877
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00001878- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
1879 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
1880 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
1881 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
1882 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
1883 failed have been fixed.
1884
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001885Library
1886-------
1887
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00001888- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
1889
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00001890- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
1891 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
1892
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00001893- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
1894 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
1895 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
1896
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00001897- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
1898 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
1899 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
1900 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
1901 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
1902 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
1903
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00001904- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
1905 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
1906
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00001907- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
1908
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00001909- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
1910
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00001911- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
1912
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00001913- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
1914 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
1915
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00001916- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00001917 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
1918
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00001919- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
1920 in a redirect.
1921
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00001922- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00001923 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00001924
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00001925- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
1926 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
1927
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00001928- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
1929 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
1930 regular expression.
1931
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00001932- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
1933 thread-safe.
1934
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00001935- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
1936 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
1937 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
1938
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00001939- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
1940
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00001941- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
1942 menu entries were not deleted.
1943
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00001944- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
1945 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
1946
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00001947- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
1948 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
1949
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00001950- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
1951 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
1952 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
1953
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00001954- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
1955 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
1956 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
1957
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00001958- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
1959 the reload() built-in has been removed.
1960
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00001961- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00001962 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00001963 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
1964 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
1965 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
1966 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
1967 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00001968
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00001969- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
1970 raised an AttributeError.
1971
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00001972- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00001973 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
1974 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00001975
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00001976- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
1977 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
1978
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00001979- Issue 3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
1980
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00001981- Issue 1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
1982 on a closed shelf.
1983
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00001984- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
1985
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00001986- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
1987
1988- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
1989 invalid arguments.
1990
1991- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
1992 with None arguments.
1993
1994- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
1995 configuration files.
1996
1997- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
1998
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00001999- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
2000 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
2001 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
2002
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00002003- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
2004 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
2005 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
2006
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00002007Build
2008-----
2009
2010- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
2011
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00002012Documentation
2013-------------
2014
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00002015- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
2016 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
2017
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00002018- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
2019 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
2020 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
2021 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
2022
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002023
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00002024What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
2025================================
2026
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00002027*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
2028
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00002029Core and Builtins
2030-----------------
2031
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00002032- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
2033 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
2034 an integer using operator.index().
2035
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00002036- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
2037 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
2038
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00002039- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
2040 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
2041
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00002042- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
2043 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
2044 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
2045
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00002046- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
2047 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
2048 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
2049 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
2050 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
2051 level.
2052
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00002053- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
2054 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
2055 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
2056 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
2057 all imports from that module to fail.
2058
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00002059- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
2060 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
2061 new-style classes.
2062
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00002063- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
2064 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
2065 another file in sys.stdout.
2066
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00002067- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
2068 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
2069 another thread's dictionary.
2070
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00002071- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
2072 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
2073 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
2074 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
2075 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
2076 10, -1).
2077
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002078- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
2079 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
2080 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00002081
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00002082- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
2083 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
2084 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00002085
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002086Library
2087-------
2088
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00002089- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
2090 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
2091 error when they failed.
2092
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00002093- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
2094
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00002095- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
2096
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00002097- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
2098
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00002099- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
2100
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002101- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
2102 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
2103
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002104- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00002105
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00002106- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
2107 a valid dlerror() message.
2108
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00002109- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
2110 incomplete structure was created.
2111
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00002112- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
2113
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00002114- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
2115
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002116- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00002117
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002118- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
2119 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002120 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00002121 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
2122 merged into trunk.
2123
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00002124- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
2125
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002126- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
2127
2128- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
2129
2130- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
2131 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002132 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00002133
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00002134- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002135 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00002136
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00002137- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
2138 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
2139
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002140- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
2141 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
2142
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00002143- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
2144 interrupted by a signal.
2145
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00002146- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00002147 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
2148 Prevents a deadlock.
2149
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00002150- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
2151 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
2152 default https port (443).
2153
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00002154- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
2155 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
2156 if the new process uses the threading module.
2157
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00002158Tests
2159-----
2160
2161- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
2162 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
2163 have been added to test_warnings.
2164
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00002165Build
2166-----
2167
2168- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
2169
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00002170
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002171Documentation
2172-------------
2173
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00002174- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00002175 Python 3.0.
2176
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00002177- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
2178
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00002179- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2180 Python 3.0.
2181
2182- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
2183 Python 3.0.
2184
2185
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002186What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
2187================================
2188
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00002189*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002190
2191Core and Builtins
2192-----------------
2193
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00002194- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
2195 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
2196 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
2197 bus error.
2198
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00002199- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
2200 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
2201
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00002202- Add future_builtins.ascii().
2203
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00002204- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00002205 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00002206
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00002207- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
2208
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00002209- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
2210
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00002211- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
2212
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00002213- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
2214
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002215- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
2216 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
2217 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
2218 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00002219
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00002220- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
2221
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002222- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
2223 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00002224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002225- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
2226 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00002227
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002228- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
2229 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
2230 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00002231
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00002232- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
2233 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
2234 can't be triggered from Python code.
2235
2236
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002237Extension Modules
2238-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00002239- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002240
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00002241- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
2242
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00002243- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00002244
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00002245- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
2246 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
2247
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00002248- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
2249 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
2250
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00002251- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
2252 weakref.proxy.
2253
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002254- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
2255 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00002256
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002257- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00002258
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00002259- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00002260 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
2261 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00002262
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002263- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
2264 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
2265 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00002266
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00002267- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
2268 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
2269 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
2270
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002271- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00002272
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00002273- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00002274
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002275Library
2276-------
2277
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00002278- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
2279 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
2280
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00002281- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
2282
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00002283- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
2284 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
2285 sense).
2286
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00002287- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
2288
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00002289- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
2290 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
2291 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
2292 the patch.
2293
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002294- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
2295 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
2296 the patch).
2297
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00002298- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
2299 os.uname exists.
2300
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00002301- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2302
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00002303- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
2304
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00002305- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
2306 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
2307 pointer-like object.
2308
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00002309- Added the ast module.
2310
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002311- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00002312
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00002313- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
2314 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
2315
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00002316- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
2317 to errno.
2318
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002319- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00002320
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002321- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00002322 msilib.Record objects.
2323
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00002324- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
2325 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
2326
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00002327- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
2328 in Python 3.0.
2329
2330- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
2331 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00002332
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00002333- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
2334 False boolean value now.
2335
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00002336- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
2337 transfers.
2338
2339- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
2340 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00002341
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00002342- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
2343 when the TarFile is closed.
2344
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00002345- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
2346 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
2347 an exception.
2348
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00002349- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
2350 otherwise be produced.
2351
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00002352- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
2353 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
2354
2355- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
2356 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
2357
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00002358- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
2359 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
2360 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
2361
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00002362- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
2363
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002364- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00002365 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
2366 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
2367 'm' or 'c'.
2368
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00002369- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2370
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002371- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
2372 removal in Python 3.0.
2373
2374- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2375 3.0.
2376
2377- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2378 3.0.
2379
2380- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2381 3.0.
2382
2383- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00002384 Python 3.0.
2385
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00002386- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
2387 Python 3.0.
2388
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002389- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2390 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00002391
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002392- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2393 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00002394
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002395- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2396 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00002397
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002398- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2399 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00002400
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002401- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00002402 Python 3.0.
2403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002404- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2405 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00002406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002407- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2408 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00002409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002410- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2411 3.0.
2412
2413- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
2414 removal in Python 3.0.
2415
2416- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2417 3.0.
2418
2419- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2420 3.0.
2421
2422- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
2423 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00002424
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002425- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
2426 removal in Python 3.0.
2427
2428- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00002429 Python 3.0.
2430
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002431- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
2432 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00002433
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00002434- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2435 Python 3.0.
2436
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00002437- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
2438 Python 3.0.
2439
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002440- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00002441
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00002442- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2443
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00002444- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2445
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00002446- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
2447
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00002448- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002450- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
2451 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
2452 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00002453
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002454- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
2455 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00002456
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00002457- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2458
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002459- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2460 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00002461
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00002462- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2463
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00002464- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2465
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00002466- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2467
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00002468- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2469
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00002470- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2471
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002472- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
2473 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00002474
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00002475- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2476
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00002477- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2478
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00002479- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
2480 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
2481 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
2482 OverflowError.
2483
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00002484- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2485
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002486- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
2487 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00002488
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00002489- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2490
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00002491- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2492
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00002493- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2494
2495- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00002496
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002497- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2498
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00002499- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
2500
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00002501- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
2502
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00002503- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00002504
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002505- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
2506 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00002507
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00002508- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002509 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
2510 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
2511 of Python.
2512
2513- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
2514 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
2515
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00002516- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
2517 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00002518
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00002519Build
2520-----
2521
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00002522- The Windows installer now includes Tk 8.5, bzip2 1.0.5, and SQLite 3.5.9.
Martin v. Löwis76307312008-06-12 18:52:00 +00002523
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00002524- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
2525
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00002526- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
2527
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002528- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
2529 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002530 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00002531
2532 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
2533
2534 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
2535
2536 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
2537
2538 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
2539
2540 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
2541
2542 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
2543
2544
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002545C API
2546-----
2547
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00002548- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
2549
2550- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00002551
2552- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
2553 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
2554 PyString names.
2555
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00002556
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002557What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002558=================================
2559
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00002560*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002561
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002562Core and builtins
2563-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002564
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00002565- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
2566
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002567- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
2568 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00002569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002570- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
2571 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00002572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002573- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00002574
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002575Extension Modules
2576-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002577
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002578- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
2579 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00002580
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00002581- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
2582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002583- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
2584 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002585
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002586- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
2587 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002588
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002589- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
2590 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00002591
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002592- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
2593 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
2594 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
2595 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
2596 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
2597 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
2598 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
2599 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00002600
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002601Library
2602-------
2603
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00002604- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
2605
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002606- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
2607 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00002608
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00002609- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
2610
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002611- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
2612 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00002613
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00002614- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
2615 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
2616 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
2617
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002618- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00002619 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00002620
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00002621- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00002622 reference to themselves.
2623
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00002624- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
2625 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
2626 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00002627
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00002628- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
2629 1900-01-01.
2630
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00002631- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
2632 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
2633
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00002634- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
2635 now implemented in C for better performance.
2636
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002637- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
2638 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
2639 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00002640
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002641- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00002642 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
2643 build documentation for more information.
2644
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00002645- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
2646 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
2647 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
2648 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
2649
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00002650- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2651 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
2652 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
2653
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002654- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
2655 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
2656 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
2657 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00002658
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002659Tests
2660-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002662- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
2663 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
2664 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
2665 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
2666 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
2667 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
2668 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
2669 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
2670 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
2671 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
2672 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
2673 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
2674 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
2675 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
2676 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
2677 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
2678 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
2679 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
2680 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
2681 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
2682
2683 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
2684 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
2685 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
2686 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
2687 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
2688 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
2689 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
2690 access to the underlying socket used.
2691
2692 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
2693 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
2694 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002695
2696 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002697 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00002698 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
2699 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
2700
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002701 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
2702 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002703
2704Build
2705-----
2706
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00002707- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
2708
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00002709- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
2710 gcc is used as compiler.
2711
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002712- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002713 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00002714
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002715C API
2716-----
2717
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002718- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
2719 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
2720 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
2721 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00002722
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00002723- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00002724
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00002725
2726What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
2727=================================
2728
2729*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
2730
2731Core and builtins
2732-----------------
2733
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002734- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
2735 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
2736 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00002737
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00002738- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
2739 cannot be executed.
2740
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00002741- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
2742 reference on the outer class name.
2743
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002744- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002745 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00002746
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002747- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
2748 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00002749
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002750- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002751
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002752- Added backport of bytearray type.
2753
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00002754- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
2755
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002756- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002757 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
2758 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
2759 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
2760 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
2761 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00002762
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00002763- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
2764
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002765- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
2766 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00002767
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00002768- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002769
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00002770- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
2771
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002772- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
2773 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00002774
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002775- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
2776 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00002777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002778- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00002779 exception instances.
2780
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002781- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002782 doesn't derive from BaseException.
2783
2784- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
2785 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00002786
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00002787- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
2788 memory usage in some circumstances.
2789
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002790- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
2791 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
2792 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00002793
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00002794- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
2795
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002796- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00002797 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
2798 longer passed.
2799
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00002800- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
2801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002802- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
2803 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
2804 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00002805
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002806- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
2807 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00002808
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00002809- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
2810
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00002811Extension Modules
2812-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00002813
2814- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
2815
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002816Library
2817-------
2818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002819- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
2820 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002821
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002822- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
2823 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
2824 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002826- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
2827 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002828
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002829- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
2830 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
2831 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00002832
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002833- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
2834 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00002835
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00002836- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
2837
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00002838- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
2839 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
2840 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
2841
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00002842- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
2843
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00002844- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
2845 advertised in the docs.
2846
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002847- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00002848
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002849- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00002850
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002851- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
2852 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00002853
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00002854- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
2855 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
2856
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002857- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
2858 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00002859 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
2860 information as well.
2861
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002862- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
2863 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00002864
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002865- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
2866 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00002867
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002868- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
2869 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
2870 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00002871
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00002872- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
2873 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
2874 strftime.
2875
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00002876- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002877 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
2878 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00002879
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002880- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
2881 correctly under win32
2882
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002883- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00002884
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002885- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002886 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
2887 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
2888 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00002889
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00002890- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
2891 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
2892
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002893- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
2894 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00002895
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002896- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
2897 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
2898 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00002899
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002900- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00002901 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
2902
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00002903- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
2904 from 't' to '?'.
2905
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002906- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
2907 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002908 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
2909 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
2910 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00002911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002912- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
2913 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00002914
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00002915Tests
2916-----
2917
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002918- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
2919 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00002920
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00002921- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
2922
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00002923- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
2924
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00002925- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
2926
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00002927- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
2928
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002929- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
2930 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00002931
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00002932- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
2933
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00002934- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
2935
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002936- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
2937 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00002938
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00002939- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
2940
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00002941- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
2942
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00002943- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
2944 permission to create files in the root directory.
2945
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00002946Build
2947-----
2948
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00002949- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
2950
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002951- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
2952 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00002953
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00002954- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00002955
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002956C API
2957-----
2958
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002959- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002960 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
2961
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00002962
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00002963What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
2964=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00002965
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00002966*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002967
2968Core and builtins
2969-----------------
2970
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00002971- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00002972 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00002973
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00002974- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
2975
2976- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00002977
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002978- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00002979 issue 215555 for a discussion.
2980
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00002981- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
2982 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
2983 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
2984 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
2985 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
2986 module is:
2987 from future_builtins import hex, oct
2988
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00002989- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
2990 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
2991 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
2992 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
2993 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
2994 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
2995
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00002996- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
2997 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
2998 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
2999 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
3000 PyObject_Format().
3001
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003002- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
3003 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
3004 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00003005
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00003006- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003007 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
3008 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00003009
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003010- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
3011 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00003012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003013- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
3014 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
3015 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00003016
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003017- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
3018 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
3019 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00003020
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00003021- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
3022 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
3023
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003024- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
3025 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00003026
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003027- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
3028 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00003029 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
3030
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003031- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
3032 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
3033 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00003034
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003035- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
3036 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00003037
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003038- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
3039 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00003040
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003041- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
3042 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00003043
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003044- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
3045 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00003046
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003047- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
3048 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
3049 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00003050
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003051- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
3052 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
3053 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
3054 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00003055
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00003056- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
3057 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
3058 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
3059
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003060- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00003061 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
3062 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
3063
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003064- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00003065 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
3066 support.
3067
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00003068- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
3069 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
3070
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00003071- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
3072
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003073- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00003074 added.
3075
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00003076- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
3077 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
3078
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003079- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
3080 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00003081
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003082- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
3083 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
3084 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00003085
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003086- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
3087 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00003088
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00003089- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
3090 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00003091
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00003092- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
3093
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003094- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
3095 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
3096 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00003097
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003098- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
3099 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
3100 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00003101
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003102- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00003103
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003104- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
3105 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00003106
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003107- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003108 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
3109 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00003110
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003111- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
3112 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
3113 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
3114 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00003115
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003116- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00003117
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003118- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
3119 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00003120
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003121- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
3122 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00003123
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00003124- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00003125 SystemError.
3126
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00003127- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
3128 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
3129 __package__ attribute.
3130
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003131- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
3132 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
3133 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00003134
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00003135- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
3136
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003137- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00003138 attribute of an empty cell object.
3139
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003140- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
3141 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00003142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003143- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
3144 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
3145 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
3146 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00003147
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003148- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
3149 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
3150 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00003151
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00003152- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
3153
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00003154- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
3155
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00003156- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
3157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003158- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
3159 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
3160 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00003161
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003162- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
3163 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
3164 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
3165 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
3166 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
3167 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00003168
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003169- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
3170 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
3171 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
3172 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
3173 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00003174
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003175- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
3176 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
3177 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00003178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003179- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
3180 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00003181
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003182- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003183 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
3184 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
3185 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
3186 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
3187 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00003188
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003189- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
3190 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00003191
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00003192- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
3193 with %G.
3194
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003195- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
3196 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00003197
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003198- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00003199
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003200- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00003201
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003202- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003203 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
3204 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00003205
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00003206- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
3207 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
3208
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00003209- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
3210 calls.
3211
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003212- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003213 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
3214 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00003215
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00003216- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
3217
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003218- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00003219 inherited from a builtin base.
3220
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003221- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00003222 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
3223
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00003224- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
3225
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00003226- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
3227 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
3228 remaining characters.
3229
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00003230- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
3231 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
3232
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00003233- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
3234
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003235- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
3236 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
3237 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
3238 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
3239 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00003240 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
3241 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00003242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003243- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
3244 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
3245 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
3246 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
3247 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00003248
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003249- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
3250 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
3251 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00003252
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003253- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
3254 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00003255
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003256- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
3257 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
3258 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00003259
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003260- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
3261 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00003262
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00003263- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
3264
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00003265- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
3266 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
3267
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003268- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003269 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
3270 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
3271 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00003272
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00003273- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
3274 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
3275
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003276- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
3277 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00003278
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003279- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
3280 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
3281 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00003282
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003283- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003284 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
3285 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00003286
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003287- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
3288 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003289 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
3290 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00003291
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003292- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
3293 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00003294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003295- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
3296 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00003297
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00003298- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
3299 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
3300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003301- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
3302 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
3303 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00003304
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003305- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
3306 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00003307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003308- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
3309 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00003310
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003311- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
3312 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
3313 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00003314
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00003315- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
3316 frame's thread state.
3317
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003318- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
3319 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00003320
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003321- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
3322 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00003323
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003324- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
3325 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00003326
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003327- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
3328 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00003329
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003330- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
3331 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00003332
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00003333- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
3334
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00003335- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
3336
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00003337- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
3338
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003339- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
3340 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00003341
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003342- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00003343
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00003344- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
3345 again, no longer the posix error code.
3346
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00003347- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
3348 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
3349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003350- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
3351 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00003352
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00003353- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
3354 embedded in the string to convert.
3355
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00003356- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
3357 recognized and rejected.
3358
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003359- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
3360
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00003361- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
3362 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
3363 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00003364
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00003365- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
3366 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
3367
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003368- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003369 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
3370 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00003371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003372- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
3373 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
3374 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00003375
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00003376- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
3377
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00003378- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
3379
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00003380- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
3381
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003382- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
3383 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
3384 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00003385
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00003386- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
3387 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
3388 'exceptions'.
3389
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00003390- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
3391 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
3392
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00003393- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
3394 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
3395
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00003396- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
3397
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00003398- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
3399
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00003400- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
3401 head is the original string if sep was not found.
3402
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003403- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003404 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
3405 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
3406 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00003407
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003408- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00003409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003410- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
3411 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003412
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003413- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
3414 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00003415
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003416- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00003417 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
3418 it actually exited.
3419
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00003420
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00003421Library
3422-------
3423
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003424- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00003425
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00003426- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
3427
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00003428- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
3429
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003430- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
3431 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00003432
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003433- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00003434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003435- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
3436 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
3437 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00003438
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003439- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
3440 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00003441
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003442- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00003443 (ignore-case)
3444
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00003445- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
3446 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
3447 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
3448 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
3449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003450- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
3451 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00003452
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003453- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
3454 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00003455
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00003456- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
3457 pickled.
3458
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00003459- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
3460 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
3461
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00003462- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
3463 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
3464 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
3465
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003466- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
3467 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00003468
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003469- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
3470 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
3471 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00003472
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003473- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
3474 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00003475
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003476- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
3477 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00003478
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003479- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
3480 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
3481 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
3482 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00003483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003484- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
3485 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00003486 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
3487
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00003488- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
3489
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003490- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
3491 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00003492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003493- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00003494
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003495- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
3496 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003498- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
3499 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003500
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003501- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
3502 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003503
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003504- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
3505 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003506
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003507- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
3508 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
3509 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00003510
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003511- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
3512 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00003513
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003514- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
3515 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00003516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003517- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
3518 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00003519
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003520- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
3521 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00003522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003523- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
3524 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00003525
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003526- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
3527 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00003528
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00003529- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
3530 with extended local headers.
3531
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003532- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
3533 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00003534
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003535- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00003536 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
3537 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
3538
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003539- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
3540 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00003541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003542- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
3543 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00003544
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003545- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
3546 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00003547
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003548- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
3549 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00003550
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003551- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
3552 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00003553
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003554- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003555 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00003556 Textbox.gather().
3557
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003558- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
3559 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00003560 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
3561 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00003562
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00003563- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
3564 that array types do not live longer than needed.
3565
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00003566- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
3567 and when creating a recursive instance.
3568
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003569- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
3570 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
3571 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00003572
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00003573- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
3574 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
3575 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
3576
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003577- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
3578 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00003579
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00003580- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00003581 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
3582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003583- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00003584 good for long regular expression matches.
3585
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003586- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
3587 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00003588
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00003589- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
3590 the current context.
3591
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00003592- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
3593 zipfile module.
3594
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00003595- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
3596
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003597- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
3598 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00003599
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00003600- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
3601
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00003602- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
3603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003604- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
3605 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00003606
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00003607- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
3608
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003609- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
3610 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00003611
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003612- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
3613 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00003614
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00003615- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
3616
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00003617- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
3618 Tcl objects.
3619
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00003620- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
3621
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003622- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
3623 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
3624 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
3625 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00003626
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003627- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
3628 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00003629
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003630- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
3631 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00003632
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003633- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
3634 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00003635
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003636- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
3637 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00003638
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00003639- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
3640 method used universal newlines.
3641
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00003642- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
3643 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
3644
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00003645- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
3646 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
3647
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00003648- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
3649 files are updated.
3650
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003651- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
3652 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003653
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00003654- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
3655 configured with --with-system-ffi.
3656
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003657- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00003658 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00003659
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00003660- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
3661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003662- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
3663 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
3664 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00003665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003666- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
3667 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00003668
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00003669- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00003670
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00003671- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
3672
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003673- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
3674 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00003675
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00003676- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
3677 to be orderable to properly represent them.
3678
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00003679- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
3680
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00003681- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
3682
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003683- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
3684 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
3685 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00003686
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00003687- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
3688 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
3689
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003690- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
3691 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00003692
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003693- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
3694 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00003695
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00003696- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
3697
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00003698- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
3699
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00003700- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
3701 syllables.
3702
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003703- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
3704 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00003705
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00003706- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
3707
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00003708- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
3709 represent the result in a single character.
3710
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00003711- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
3712
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00003713- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
3714
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00003715- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
3716 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
3717 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
3718
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00003719- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3720
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003721- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
3722 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00003723
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003724- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
3725 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
3726 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00003727
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003728- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
3729 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
3730 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00003731
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003732- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003733 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
3734 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00003735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003736- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
3737 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00003738
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003739- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
3740 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00003741
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00003742- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3743
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00003744- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3745
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003746- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
3747 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
3748 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00003749
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00003750- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3751
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00003752- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
3753
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00003754- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
3755 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
3756
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00003757- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
3758
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00003759- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
3760
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00003761- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
3762
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003763- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
3764 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00003765
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003766- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
3767 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00003768
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00003769- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
3770 the directories).
3771
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00003772- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
3773 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
3774 injecting HTML into the error page.
3775
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003776- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
3777 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00003778
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003779- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
3780 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003781
3782- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
3783
3784- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
3785
3786- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
3787 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
3788 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
3789
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00003790- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
3791 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
3792 ".cpp" too.
3793
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003794- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003795 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
3796 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
3797 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00003798
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003799- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
3800 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00003801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003802- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
3803 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00003804
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00003805- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
3806 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
3807 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
3808 closes patch #723312.
3809
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003810- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
3811 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00003812 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00003813
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00003814- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
3815
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00003816- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
3817 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
3818
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00003819- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
3820
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003821- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
3822 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00003823 directories.
3824
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00003825- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
3826 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
3827 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
3828 trying Mozilla variants.
3829
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00003830- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
3831
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00003832- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
3833 initialization failed.
3834
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00003835- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003836 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
3837 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00003838
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003839- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
3840 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
3841 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00003842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003843- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
3844 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00003845 correctly now.
3846
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00003847- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
3848
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003849- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
3850 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00003851
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00003852- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
3853
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003854- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
3855 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
3856 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00003857
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003858- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
3859 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
3860 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
3861 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00003862
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003863- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
3864 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
3865 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00003866
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00003867- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
3868 whitespace while wrapping.
3869
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00003870- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003871 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
3872 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00003873
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003874- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
3875 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
3876 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00003877
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00003878- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
3879 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
3880
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003881- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
3882 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00003883
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00003884- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
3885 concatenation in robotparser.
3886
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003887- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003888 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
3889 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00003890
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00003891- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
3892 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
3893
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00003894- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
3895
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003896- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
3897 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
3898 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00003899
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003900- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
3901 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
3902 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00003903
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003904- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
3905 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00003906 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00003907
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00003908- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
3909 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
3910
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00003911- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
3912 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
3913
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00003914- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
3915 returned string up to the first NUL character.
3916
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00003917- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
3918
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00003919- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
3920
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003921- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
3922 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
3923 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00003924
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00003925- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
3926
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003927- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
3928 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
3929 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
3930 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
3931 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
3932 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00003933
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003934- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
3935 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00003936
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00003937- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
3938 comprehensive test suite for the module.
3939
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00003940- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
3941 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
3942
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003943- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
3944 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
3945 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00003946
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003947- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00003948 in HTMLParser.
3949
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00003950- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
3951 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
3952
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00003953- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
3954
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00003955- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
3956
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00003957- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
3958
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00003959- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00003960
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00003961- Added itertools.izip_longest().
3962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003963- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
3964 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00003965
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00003966- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
3967
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00003968- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
3969 doesn't exist.
3970
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00003971- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
3972
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00003973- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
3974
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003975- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00003976
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003977- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
3978 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00003979
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003980- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
3981 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00003982
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003983- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
3984 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00003985
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00003986- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00003987 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00003988
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00003989- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
3990 iso8859_16.
3991
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00003992- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
3993 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
3994 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
3995 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00003996
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00003997- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
3998
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00003999- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
4000 directories.
4001
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00004002- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
4003
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004004- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
4005 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00004006
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004007- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004008 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004009
4010- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004011 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004012
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00004013- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004014
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004015- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
4016 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00004017
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00004018- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
4019
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00004020- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
4021 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
4022 parameterless foreign function calls work.
4023
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00004024- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
4025
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00004026- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
4027 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
4028 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
4029
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00004030- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
4031 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
4032
4033- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
4034 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
4035
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004036- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
4037 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
4038 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00004039
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004040- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
4041 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00004042
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00004043- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
4044
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004045- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
4046 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00004047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004048- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
4049 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00004050
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004051- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
4052 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00004053
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004054- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
4055 separated lists read from logging config files.
4056
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004057- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
4058 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
4059 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004060
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004061- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
4062 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00004063
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00004064- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
4065
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004066- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
4067 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00004068
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00004069- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
4070
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00004071- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
4072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004073- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
4074 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00004075
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00004076- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
4077 regular files.
4078
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00004079- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
4080
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004081- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
4082 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00004083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004084- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
4085 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00004086
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00004087- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
4088 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
4089
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00004090- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
4091 file name mangling.
4092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004093- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
4094 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00004095
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00004096- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
4097
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004098- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00004099 HTTPConnection.request().
4100
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00004101- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
4102 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
4103 objects.
4104
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004105- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
4106 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
4107 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00004108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004109- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
4110 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
4111 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00004112
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004113- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00004114
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004115- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00004116
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00004117- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
4118
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004119- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00004120 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00004121
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00004122- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
4123
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00004124- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
4125 GNU modes.
4126
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00004127- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
4128 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
4129 opcode.
4130
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00004131- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
4132 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
4133 statement (bug #1586513).
4134
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004135- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
4136 correctly.
4137
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00004138- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
4139
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004140- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
4141 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00004142
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00004143- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
4144 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
4145 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
4146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004147- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
4148 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
4149 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00004150
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004151- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
4152 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00004153
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00004154- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
4155
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00004156- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
4157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004158- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
4159 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00004160
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004161- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
4162 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00004163
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00004164- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
4165 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
4166
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00004167- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
4168 with a slash.
4169
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00004170- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
4171 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
4172
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00004173- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004174 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00004175
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00004176- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
4177 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
4178 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
4179
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004180- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
4181 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00004182
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004183- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
4184 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00004185
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004186- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
4187 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00004188
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00004189- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
4190
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004191- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00004192 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00004193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004194- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
4195 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00004196
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004197- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
4198 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00004199
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00004200- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
4201
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004202- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
4203 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00004204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004205- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
4206 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
4207 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004209- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
4210 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
4211 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00004212
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004213- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
4214 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
4215 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
4216 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00004217
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004218- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004219 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
4220 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004221 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
4222 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
4223 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00004224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004225- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
4226 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004227
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004228Extension Modules
4229-----------------
4230
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004231- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00004232
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00004233- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
4234
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00004235- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
4236
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00004237- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00004238
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004239- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
4240 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00004241
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004242- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
4243 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00004244
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004245- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
4246 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00004247
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00004248- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
4249
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00004250- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
4251
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004252- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
4253 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00004254
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00004255- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
4256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004257- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
4258 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00004259
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00004260- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
4261
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004262- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
4263 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00004264
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004265- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00004266 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
4267 parameter.
4268
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004269- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
4270 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
4271 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
4272 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00004273
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004274- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
4275 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00004276
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004277- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
4278 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00004279
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004280- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
4281 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
4282 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00004283
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004284- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
4285 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00004286
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00004287- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
4288
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00004289- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
4290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004291- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
4292 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
4293 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00004294
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004295- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
4296 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00004297
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00004298- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
4299
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00004300- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
4301
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004302- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
4303 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
4304 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
4305 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00004306
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00004307- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
4308 get_completion_type to readline.
4309
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00004310- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
4311 structure.
4312
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00004313- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4314
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00004315- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
4316
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00004317- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
4318 intended for RECNO databases.
4319
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004320- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004321 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
4322 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
4323 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
4324 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
4325 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
4326 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00004327
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00004328- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
4329
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00004330- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
4331
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004332- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
4333 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
4334 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
4335 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
4336 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00004337
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00004338- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
4339 error in spite of a succesful compression.
4340
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00004341- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
4342 of Py_ssize_t.
4343
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00004344- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
4345 fractional times. With unittest.
4346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004347- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
4348 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
4349 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00004350
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00004351- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
4352
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00004353- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
4354
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00004355- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
4356
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00004357- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
4358
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004359- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
4360 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00004361
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004362- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
4363 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00004364
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004365- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
4366 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00004367
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00004368- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
4369 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
4370
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004371- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
4372 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
4373 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00004374
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00004375- Speed up function calls into the math module.
4376
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00004377- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
4378 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
4379 does.
4380
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00004381- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
4382
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00004383- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
4384
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00004385- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
4386
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00004387- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
4388
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00004389- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
4390 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
4391
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00004392- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
4393 datetime's strftime function.
4394
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00004395- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
4396
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00004397- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
4398
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004399- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
4400 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00004401
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00004402- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
4403
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004404- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004405 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
4406 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00004407
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004408- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
4409 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00004410
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004411- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004412 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
4413 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004414 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
4415 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00004416 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00004417 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004418
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004419- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
4420 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
4421 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
4422 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
4423
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00004424- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
4425 were transposed.
4426
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00004427- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
4428 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00004429
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004430- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
4431 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
4432 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00004433
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004434- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
4435
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00004436- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
4437
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00004438- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
4439
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00004440- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00004441
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00004442- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
4443 databases without a DBEnv.
4444
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00004445- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
4446
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004447Tests
4448-----
4449
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00004450- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00004451
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004452- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
4453 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00004454
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004455- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
4456 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
4457 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00004458
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00004459- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
4460 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00004461
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004462- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
4463 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00004464
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004465- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
4466 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
4467 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00004468
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00004469- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
4470
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004471- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
4472 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
4473 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00004474
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00004475- Added some tests for modulefinder.
4476
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00004477- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
4478
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00004479- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
4480 number properly.
4481
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004482- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
4483 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004484
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004485Tools
4486-----
4487
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004488- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
4489 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
4490 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
4491 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00004492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004493- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
4494 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
4495 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00004496
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00004497- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
4498 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
4499
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004500- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
4501 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004502
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004503- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
4504 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004505
4506- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004507 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
4508 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00004509
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004510
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004511Documentation
4512-------------
4513
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00004514- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
4515 include new optional delay argument.
4516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004517- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
4518 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
4519 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00004520
4521- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
4522 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
4523
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00004524- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
4525 Python tutorial.
4526
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00004527- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
4528
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004529- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
4530 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00004531
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00004532- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
4533 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
4534
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00004535- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
4536 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
4537
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00004538- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
4539
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00004540- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
4541 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
4542
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00004543- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
4544 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
4545
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00004546- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
4547 docs.
4548
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00004549- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
4550
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00004551- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
4552 string pointed to by its parameter.
4553
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00004554- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
4555
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004556- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004557 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
4558 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
4559 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00004560
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004561
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00004562Tools/Demos
4563-----------
4564
4565- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004566
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004567- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004568 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
4569 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00004570
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00004571- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
4572 file not to get reported properly.
4573
4574
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004575Build
4576-----
4577
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004578- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
4579 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
4580 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00004581
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00004582- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
4583 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
4584
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00004585- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
4586
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004587- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004588
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004589- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
4590 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
4591 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
4592 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004593
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004594- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
4595 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004596
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00004597- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
4598
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00004599- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
4600 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
4601 without this option!
4602
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00004603- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
4604
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004605- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004606 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
4607 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
4608 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00004609
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004610- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
4611 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00004612
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00004613- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
4614
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00004615- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
4616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004617- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
4618 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00004619
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004620- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
4621 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00004622
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00004623- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
4624 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
4625 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
4626
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00004627- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
4628 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
4629
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00004630- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
4631
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00004632- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
4633
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004634- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
4635 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00004636
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00004637- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00004638 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
4639
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004640- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
4641 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00004642
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00004643- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
4644
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004645- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00004646
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00004647- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
4648
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00004649- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
4650
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00004651- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004652
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004653- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
4654 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
4655 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00004656
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004657
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004658C API
4659-----
4660
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004661- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
4662 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
4663 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
4664 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00004665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004666- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
4667 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
4668 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004669
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00004670- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00004671
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004672- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
4673 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
4674 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004675
4676- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
4677
4678- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
4679 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
4680
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004681- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
4682 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
4683 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
4684 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004685
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004686- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
4687 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004689- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
4690 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
4691 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004692
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004693- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
4694 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004695
4696- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
4697
4698- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
4699
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004700- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
4701
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00004702- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
4703
4704- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
4705 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
4706
4707- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
4708 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
4709
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004710- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
4711 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
4712 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004713
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004714- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
4715 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00004716
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004717- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
4718 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00004719
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004720
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004721Windows
4722-------
4723
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004724- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
4725 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
4726 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
4727 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00004728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004729- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
4730 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004731
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00004732- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
4733
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00004734
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00004735Mac
4736---
4737
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00004738- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4739
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00004740- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
4741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00004742- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
4743 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
4744 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00004745
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00004746----
4747
4748**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**