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Nick Coghlanc649ec52006-05-29 12:43:05 +00007What's New in Python 2.5 beta 1?
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +00008=================================
9
Nick Coghlanc649ec52006-05-29 12:43:05 +000010*Release date: XX-JUN-2006*
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000011
12Core and builtins
13-----------------
14
Brett Cannon22565aa2006-06-09 22:31:23 +000015- Bug #532646: object.__call__() will continue looking for the __call__
16 attribute on objects until one without one is found. This leads to recursion
17 when you take a class and set its __call__ attribute to an instance of the
18 class. Originally fixed for classic classes, but this fix is for new-style.
19 Removes the infinite_rec_3 crasher.
20
Georg Brandl24250812006-06-09 18:45:48 +000021- The string and unicode methods startswith() and endswith() now accept
22 a tuple of prefixes/suffixes to look for. Implements RFE #1491485.
23
Brett Cannonde3b0522006-06-08 17:00:45 +000024- Buffer objects, at the C level, never used the char buffer
25 implementation even when the char buffer for the wrapped object was
26 explicitly requested (originally returned the read or write buffer).
27 Now a TypeError is raised if the char buffer is not present but is
28 requested.
29
Georg Brandlddbaa662006-06-04 21:56:52 +000030- Patch #1346214: Statements like "if 0: suite" are now again optimized
31 away like they were in Python 2.4.
32
Georg Brandlb7c8f542006-05-27 12:30:25 +000033- Builtin exceptions are now full-blown new-style classes instead of
34 instances pretending to be classes, which speeds up exception handling
35 by about 80% in comparison to 2.5a2.
36
Martin v. Löwisd004fc82006-05-27 08:36:52 +000037- Patch #1494554: Update unicodedata.numeric and unicode.isnumeric to
38 Unicode 4.1.
39
Georg Brandlf4ef1162006-05-26 18:03:31 +000040- Patch #921466: sys.path_importer_cache is now used to cache valid and
41 invalid file paths for the built-in import machinery which leads to
42 fewer open calls on startup.
43
Tim Peters696cf432006-05-24 21:10:40 +000044- Patch #1442927: ``long(str, base)`` is now up to 6x faster for non-power-
45 of-2 bases. The largest speedup is for inputs with about 1000 decimal
46 digits. Conversion from non-power-of-2 bases remains quadratic-time in
47 the number of input digits (it was and remains linear-time for bases
48 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32).
49
Tim Petersb713ec22006-05-23 18:45:30 +000050- Bug #1334662: ``int(string, base)`` could deliver a wrong answer
51 when ``base`` was not 2, 4, 8, 10, 16 or 32, and ``string`` represented
52 an integer close to ``sys.maxint``. This was repaired by patch
53 #1335972, which also gives a nice speedup.
54
Richard Jonescebbefc2006-05-23 18:28:17 +000055- Patch #1337051: reduced size of frame objects.
56
57- PyErr_NewException now accepts a tuple of base classes as its
58 "base" parameter.
59
Richard Jones7c88dcc2006-05-23 10:37:38 +000060- Patch #876206: function call speedup by retaining allocated frame
61 objects.
62
Georg Brandl7b90e162006-05-18 07:01:27 +000063- Bug #1462152: file() now checks more thoroughly for invalid mode
64 strings and removes a possible "U" before passing the mode to the
65 C library function.
66
Neal Norwitz1004a532006-05-15 07:17:23 +000067- Patch #1488312, Fix memory alignment problem on SPARC in unicode
68
Neal Norwitz373f0a72006-05-15 07:04:36 +000069- Bug #1487966: Fix SystemError with conditional expression in assignment
70
Martin v. Löwis879768d2006-05-11 13:28:43 +000071- WindowsError now has two error code attributes: errno, which carries
72 the error values from errno.h, and winerror, which carries the error
73 values from winerror.h. Previous versions put the winerror.h values
74 (from GetLastError()) into the errno attribute.
75
Martin v. Löwis77736712006-05-04 05:51:03 +000076- Patch #1475845: Raise IndentationError for unexpected indent.
77
Neal Norwitzc4edb0e2006-05-02 04:43:14 +000078- Patch #1479181: split open() and file() from being aliases for each other.
79
Tim Peters44bd9862006-06-01 13:49:23 +000080- Patch #1497053 & bug #1275608: Exceptions occurring in ``__eq__()``
81 methods were always silently ignored by dictionaries when comparing keys.
82 They are now passed through (except when using the C API function
83 ``PyDict_GetItem()``, whose semantics did not change).
84
85- Bug #1456209: In some obscure cases it was possible for a class with a
86 custom ``__eq__()`` method to confuse dict internals when class instances
87 were used as a dict's keys and the ``__eq__()`` method mutated the dict.
88 No, you don't have any code that did this ;-)
Armin Rigo35f6d362006-06-01 13:19:12 +000089
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +000090Extension Modules
91-----------------
92
Brett Cannon6ee7d012006-06-08 16:23:04 +000093- Change binascii.hexlify to accept a read-only buffer instead of only a char
94 buffer and actually follow its documentation.
95
Hye-Shik Chang58ce5bc2006-06-05 00:59:54 +000096- Fixed a potentially invalid memory access of CJKCodecs' shift-jis decoder.
97
Nick Coghlanc649ec52006-05-29 12:43:05 +000098- Patch #1478788 (modified version): The functional extension module has
99 been renamed to _functools and a functools Python wrapper module added.
100 This provides a home for additional function related utilities that are
101 not specifically about functional programming. See PEP 309.
102
Bob Ippolito7ccc95a2006-05-23 19:11:34 +0000103- Patch #1493701: performance enhancements for struct module.
104
Georg Brandl378d5922006-05-17 14:26:50 +0000105- Patch #1490224: time.altzone is now set correctly on Cygwin.
106
Georg Brandl8d3342b2006-05-16 07:38:27 +0000107- Patch #1435422: zlib's compress and decompress objects now have a
108 copy() method.
109
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000110- On Win32, os.listdir now supports arbitrarily-long Unicode path names
111 (up to the system limit of 32K characters).
112
113- Use Win32 API to implement os.{access,chdir,chmod,mkdir,remove,rename,rmdir,utime}.
114 As a result, these functions now raise WindowsError instead of OSError.
115
Tim Peters7a822da2006-05-25 21:50:17 +0000116- ``time.clock()`` on Win64 should use the high-performance Windows
117 ``QueryPerformanceCounter()`` now (as was already the case on 32-bit
118 Windows platforms).
119
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000120- Calling Tk_Init twice is refused if the first call failed as that
121 may deadlock.
122
Gregory P. Smith0459e4d2006-06-05 02:02:25 +0000123- bsddb: added the DB_ARCH_REMOVE flag and fixed db.DBEnv.log_archive() to
124 accept it without potentially using an uninitialized pointer.
125
126- bsddb: added support for the DBEnv.log_stat() and DBEnv.lsn_reset() methods
127 assuming BerkeleyDB >= 4.0 and 4.4 respectively. [pybsddb project SF
128 patch numbers 1494885 and 1494902]
Nick Coghlanc649ec52006-05-29 12:43:05 +0000129
Gregory P. Smith372b5832006-06-05 18:48:21 +0000130- bsddb: added an interface for the BerkeleyDB >= 4.3 DBSequence class.
Gregory P. Smithf0547d02006-06-05 17:38:04 +0000131 [pybsddb project SF patch number 1466734]
132
Gregory P. Smith372b5832006-06-05 18:48:21 +0000133- bsddb: fix DBCursor.pget() bug with keyword argument names when no data
134 parameter is supplied. [SF pybsddb bug #1477863]
135
Gregory P. Smith3c228b12006-06-05 23:59:37 +0000136- bsddb: the __len__ method of a DB object has been fixed to return correct
137 results. It could previously incorrectly return 0 in some cases.
138 Fixes SF bug 1493322 (pybsddb bug 1184012).
139
Gregory P. Smithff7d9912006-06-08 05:17:08 +0000140- bsddb: the bsddb.dbtables Modify method now raises the proper error and
141 aborts the db transaction safely when a modifier callback fails.
142 Fixes SF python patch/bug #1408584.
143
Gregory P. Smith372b5832006-06-05 18:48:21 +0000144
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000145Library
146-------
147
Greg Ward0e0c9f42006-06-11 16:24:11 +0000148- Bug #1498146: fix optparse to handle Unicode strings in option help,
149 description, and epilog.
150
Greg Wardd1c797e2006-06-11 14:42:41 +0000151- Bug #1366250: minor optparse documentation error.
152
Greg Ward7f547402006-06-11 00:40:49 +0000153- Bug #1361643: fix textwrap.dedent() so it handles tabs appropriately;
154 clarify docs.
155
Andrew M. Kuchling0873b112006-06-09 16:46:51 +0000156- The wsgiref package has been added to the standard library.
157
Nick Coghlan676725d2006-06-08 13:54:49 +0000158- The functions update_wrapper() and wraps() have been added to the functools
159 module. These make it easier to copy relevant metadata from the original
160 function when writing wrapper functions.
161
Tim Petersd6a9eef2006-06-05 01:48:21 +0000162- The optional ``isprivate`` argument to ``doctest.testmod()``, and the
163 ``doctest.is_private()`` function, both deprecated in 2.4, were removed.
Tim Petersbf0400a2006-06-05 01:43:03 +0000164
Martin v. Löwis3f767792006-06-04 19:36:28 +0000165- Patch #1359618: Speed up charmap encoder by using a trie structure
166 for lookup.
167
Tim Petersd609b1a2006-06-02 23:22:51 +0000168- The functions in the ``pprint`` module now sort dictionaries by key
169 before computing the display. Before 2.5, ``pprint`` sorted a dictionary
170 if and only if its display required more than one line, although that
171 wasn't documented. The new behavior increases predictability; e.g.,
172 using ``pprint.pprint(a_dict)`` in a doctest is now reliable.
173
Georg Brandlfd9a4b12006-05-29 20:57:01 +0000174- Patch #1497027: try HTTP digest auth before basic auth in urllib2
175 (thanks for J. J. Lee).
176
Georg Brandl2b330372006-05-28 20:23:12 +0000177- Patch #1496206: improve urllib2 handling of passwords with respect to
178 default HTTP and HTTPS ports.
179
George Yoshidaf3c65de2006-05-28 16:39:09 +0000180- Patch #1080727: add "encoding" parameter to doctest.DocFileSuite.
181
Bob Ippolito7298f272006-05-23 18:43:47 +0000182- Patch #1281707: speed up gzip.readline.
183
Georg Brandlb89316f2006-05-17 15:51:16 +0000184- Patch #1180296: Two new functions were added to the locale module:
185 format_string() to get the effect of "format % items" but locale-aware,
186 and currency() to format a monetary number with currency sign.
187
Georg Brandle3a25832006-05-17 14:56:04 +0000188- Patch #1486962: Several bugs in the turtle Tk demo module were fixed
189 and several features added, such as speed and geometry control.
190
Georg Brandl49c8f4c2006-05-15 19:30:35 +0000191- Patch #1488881: add support for external file objects in bz2 compressed
192 tarfiles.
193
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000194- Patch #721464: pdb.Pdb instances can now be given explicit stdin and
195 stdout arguments, making it possible to redirect input and output
196 for remote debugging.
197
198- Patch #1484695: Update the tarfile module to version 0.8. This fixes
199 a couple of issues, notably handling of long file names using the
200 GNU LONGNAME extension.
201
202- Patch #1478292. ``doctest.register_optionflag(name)`` shouldn't create a
203 new flag when ``name`` is already the name of an option flag.
204
205- Bug #1385040: don't allow "def foo(a=1, b): pass" in the compiler
206 package.
207
208- Patch #1472854: make the rlcompleter.Completer class usable on non-
209 UNIX platforms.
210
211- Patch #1470846: fix urllib2 ProxyBasicAuthHandler.
212
Andrew M. Kuchling3fed2eb2006-06-09 16:44:40 +0000213- Bug #1472827: correctly escape newlines and tabs in attribute values in
214 the saxutils.XMLGenerator class.
215
216
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000217Build
218-----
219
Georg Brandl66a0dbb2006-06-08 12:54:13 +0000220- Bug #1502728: Correctly link against librt library on HP-UX.
221
Martin v. Löwis222c5152006-06-03 07:37:13 +0000222- OpenBSD 3.9 is supported now.
223
Martin v. Löwisa43190b2006-05-22 09:15:18 +0000224- Patch #1492356: Port to Windows CE.
225
Neal Norwitz58e28882006-05-19 07:00:58 +0000226- Bug/Patch #1481770: Use .so extension for shared libraries on HP-UX for ia64.
227
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000228- Patch #1471883: Add --enable-universalsdk.
229
230C API
231-----
232
233Tests
234-----
235
236Tools
237-----
238
239Documentation
240-------------
241
Nick Coghlanc649ec52006-05-29 12:43:05 +0000242
243
Neal Norwitz7a5fc282006-05-15 06:48:14 +0000244What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 2?
245=================================
246
247*Release date: 27-APR-2006*
248
249Core and builtins
250-----------------
251
Thomas Heller1b046642006-04-18 18:51:06 +0000252- Bug #1465834: 'bdist_wininst preinstall script support' was fixed
253 by converting these apis from macros into exported functions again:
254
255 PyParser_SimpleParseFile PyParser_SimpleParseString PyRun_AnyFile
256 PyRun_AnyFileEx PyRun_AnyFileFlags PyRun_File PyRun_FileEx
257 PyRun_FileFlags PyRun_InteractiveLoop PyRun_InteractiveOne
258 PyRun_SimpleFile PyRun_SimpleFileEx PyRun_SimpleString
259 PyRun_String Py_CompileString
260
Martin v. Löwis45294a92006-04-18 06:24:08 +0000261- Under COUNT_ALLOCS, types are not necessarily immortal anymore.
262
Martin v. Löwis19ab6c92006-04-16 18:55:50 +0000263- All uses of PyStructSequence_InitType have been changed to initialize
264 the type objects only once, even if the interpreter is initialized
265 multiple times.
266
Neal Norwitz61546162006-04-14 05:20:28 +0000267- Bug #1454485, array.array('u') could crash the interpreter. This was
268 due to PyArgs_ParseTuple(args, 'u#', ...) trying to convert buffers (strings)
269 to unicode when it didn't make sense. 'u#' now requires a unicode string.
270
271- Py_UNICODE is unsigned. It was always documented as unsigned, but
272 due to a bug had a signed value in previous versions.
273
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000274- Patch #837242: ``id()`` of any Python object always gives a positive
275 number now, which might be a long integer. ``PyLong_FromVoidPtr`` and
276 ``PyLong_AsVoidPtr`` have been changed accordingly. Note that it has
Tim Peters527f6522006-04-11 01:47:17 +0000277 never been correct to implement a ``__hash()__`` method that returns the
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000278 ``id()`` of an object:
Martin v. Löwis0bc2ab92006-04-10 20:28:17 +0000279
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000280 def __hash__(self):
281 return id(self) # WRONG
282
283 because a hash result must be a (short) Python int but it was always
284 possible for ``id()`` to return a Python long. However, because ``id()``
Tim Peters527f6522006-04-11 01:47:17 +0000285 could return negative values before, on a 32-bit box an ``id()`` result
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000286 was always usable as a hash value before this patch. That's no longer
287 necessarily so.
288
289- Python on OS X 10.3 and above now uses dlopen() (via dynload_shlib.c)
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +0000290 to load extension modules and now provides the dl module. As a result,
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000291 sys.setdlopenflags() now works correctly on these systems. (SF patch
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +0000292 #1454844)
293
Phillip J. Eby51dd7d92006-04-11 01:21:31 +0000294- Patch #1463867: enhanced garbage collection to allow cleanup of cycles
295 involving generators that have paused outside of any ``try`` or ``with``
296 blocks. (In 2.5a1, a paused generator that was part of a reference
297 cycle could not be garbage collected, regardless of whether it was
298 paused in a ``try`` or ``with`` block.)
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +0000299
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000300Extension Modules
301-----------------
302
Martin v. Löwis7e75f1a2006-04-15 08:35:59 +0000303- Patch #1191065: Fix preprocessor problems on systems where recvfrom
304 is a macro.
305
Georg Brandlbbfe4fa2006-04-11 06:47:43 +0000306- Bug #1467952: os.listdir() now correctly raises an error if readdir()
307 fails with an error condition.
308
Gregory P. Smith3adc4aa2006-04-13 19:19:01 +0000309- Fixed bsddb.db.DBError derived exceptions so they can be unpickled.
310
311- Bug #1117761: bsddb.*open() no longer raises an exception when using
312 the cachesize parameter.
313
314- Bug #1149413: bsddb.*open() no longer raises an exception when using
315 a temporary db (file=None) with the 'n' flag to truncate on open.
316
317- Bug #1332852: bsddb module minimum BerkeleyDB version raised to 3.3
318 as older versions cause excessive test failures.
Gregory P. Smith7f5b6f42006-04-08 07:10:51 +0000319
Armin Rigoa9017c32006-04-19 11:50:27 +0000320- Patch #1062014: AF_UNIX sockets under Linux have a special
321 abstract namespace that is now fully supported.
322
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000323Library
324-------
325
Tim Peters711bf302006-04-25 03:31:36 +0000326- Patch #1475231: ``doctest`` has a new ``SKIP`` option, which causes
327 a doctest to be skipped (the code is not run, and the expected output
328 or exception is ignored).
329
Nick Coghlanda2268f2006-04-24 04:37:15 +0000330- Fixed contextlib.nested to cope with exceptions being raised and
331 caught inside exit handlers.
332
Greg Wardab05edc2006-04-23 03:47:58 +0000333- Updated optparse module to Optik 1.5.1 (allow numeric constants in
334 hex, octal, or binary; add ``append_const`` action; keep going if
335 gettext cannot be imported; added ``OptionParser.destroy()`` method;
336 added ``epilog`` for better help generation).
337
Tim Peters21fbd572006-04-21 21:18:10 +0000338- Bug #1473760: ``tempfile.TemporaryFile()`` could hang on Windows, when
339 called from a thread spawned as a side effect of importing a module.
340
Phillip J. Eby17a35f92006-04-18 16:45:14 +0000341- The pydoc module now supports documenting packages contained in
342 .zip or .egg files.
343
344- The pkgutil module now has several new utility functions, such
345 as ``walk_packages()`` to support working with packages that are either
346 in the filesystem or zip files.
347
Andrew M. Kuchling1da4a942006-04-22 02:32:43 +0000348- The mailbox module can now modify and delete messages from
349 mailboxes, in addition to simply reading them. Thanks to Gregory
350 K. Johnson for writing the code, and to the 2005 Google Summer of
351 Code for funding his work.
Phillip J. Eby17a35f92006-04-18 16:45:14 +0000352
Tim Petersc7605f22006-04-17 21:12:33 +0000353- The ``__del__`` method of class ``local`` in module ``_threading_local``
354 returned before accomplishing any of its intended cleanup.
355
Martin v. Löwisbd30f522006-04-17 17:08:37 +0000356- Patch #790710: Add breakpoint command lists in pdb.
357
Martin v. Löwis0db2a982006-04-16 20:55:38 +0000358- Patch #1063914: Add Tkinter.Misc.clipboard_get().
359
Martin v. Löwis4b501e62006-04-15 08:41:11 +0000360- Patch #1191700: Adjust column alignment in bdb breakpoint lists.
361
Anthony Baxtere29002c2006-04-12 12:07:31 +0000362- SimpleXMLRPCServer relied on the fcntl module, which is unavailable on
363 Windows. Bug #1469163.
364
Phillip J. Eby47032112006-04-11 01:07:43 +0000365- The warnings, linecache, inspect, traceback, site, and doctest modules
366 were updated to work correctly with modules imported from zipfiles or
367 via other PEP 302 __loader__ objects.
368
Martin v. Löwis17de8ff2006-04-10 15:55:37 +0000369- Patch #1467770: Reduce usage of subprocess._active to processes which
370 the application hasn't waited on.
371
Martin v. Löwisb04dee92006-04-10 08:34:21 +0000372- Patch #1462222: Fix Tix.Grid.
373
Neal Norwitza31bf182006-04-09 03:35:43 +0000374- Fix exception when doing glob.glob('anything*/')
375
Skip Montanaro262fb922006-04-21 02:31:07 +0000376- The pstats.Stats class accepts an optional stream keyword argument to
377 direct output to an alternate file-like object.
378
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000379Build
380-----
381
Martin v. Löwis4be4e652006-04-17 19:25:49 +0000382- The Makefile now has a reindent target, which runs reindent.py on
383 the library.
384
Martin v. Löwis48bbaf22006-04-15 18:06:54 +0000385- Patch #1470875: Building Python with MS Free Compiler
386
Martin v. Löwisc90b17e2006-04-15 08:13:05 +0000387- Patch #1161914: Add a python-config script.
Martin v. Löwis48bbaf22006-04-15 18:06:54 +0000388
Martin v. Löwis0f48d982006-04-14 14:34:26 +0000389- Patch #1324762:Remove ccpython.cc; replace --with-cxx with
390 --with-cxx-main. Link with C++ compiler only if --with-cxx-main was
Andrew M. Kuchlingdb4018f2006-04-14 14:54:18 +0000391 specified. (Can be overridden by explicitly setting LINKCC.) Decouple
Martin v. Löwis0f48d982006-04-14 14:34:26 +0000392 CXX from --with-cxx-main, see description in README.
393
Martin v. Löwis10acfd02006-04-10 12:39:36 +0000394- Patch #1429775: Link extension modules with the shared libpython.
395
Hye-Shik Changf4795c82006-04-26 19:20:26 +0000396- Fixed a libffi build problem on MIPS systems.
397
Tim Peters8931ff12006-05-13 23:28:20 +0000398- ``PyString_FromFormat``, ``PyErr_Format``, and ``PyString_FromFormatV``
399 now accept formats "%u" for unsigned ints, "%lu" for unsigned longs,
400 and "%zu" for unsigned integers of type ``size_t``.
401
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000402Tests
403-----
404
Nick Coghlanda2268f2006-04-24 04:37:15 +0000405- test_contextlib now checks contextlib.nested can cope with exceptions
406 being raised and caught inside exit handlers.
407
Nick Coghlan27ec1a72006-04-24 04:32:47 +0000408- test_cmd_line now checks operation of the -m and -c command switches
409
Phillip J. Eby51dd7d92006-04-11 01:21:31 +0000410- The test_contextlib test in 2.5a1 wasn't actually run unless you ran
411 it separately and by hand. It also wasn't cleaning up its changes to
412 the current Decimal context.
413
Thomas Woutersabd08882006-04-26 15:53:30 +0000414- regrtest.py now has a -M option to run tests that test the new limits of
415 containers, on 64-bit architectures. Running these tests is only sensible
416 on 64-bit machines with more than two gigabytes of memory. The argument
417 passed is the maximum amount of memory for the tests to use.
418
Marc-André Lemburgd0b8e832006-04-19 15:48:59 +0000419Tools
420-----
421
422- Added the Python benchmark suite pybench to the Tools/ directory;
423 contributed by Marc-Andre Lemburg.
Phillip J. Eby51dd7d92006-04-11 01:21:31 +0000424
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000425Documentation
426-------------
427
Tim Petersb06d28c2006-05-12 01:57:59 +0000428- Patch #1473132: Improve docs for ``tp_clear`` and ``tp_traverse``.
429
Nick Coghlanc195d8a2006-04-24 03:04:43 +0000430- PEP 343: Added Context Types section to the library reference
431 and attempted to bring other PEP 343 related documentation into
432 line with the implementation and/or python-dev discussions.
433
Tim Peters8dc73d22006-04-24 02:03:16 +0000434- Bug #1337990: clarified that ``doctest`` does not support examples
435 requiring both expected output and an exception.
Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +0000436
437
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000438What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1?
439=================================
440
Anthony Baxterebed3f62006-04-03 15:03:44 +0000441*Release date: 05-APR-2006*
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +0000442
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000443Core and builtins
444-----------------
445
Nick Coghlan43832302006-04-23 17:04:07 +0000446- PEP 338: -m command line switch now delegates to runpy.run_module
447 allowing it to support modules in packages and zipfiles
448
Martin v. Löwisc661b882006-04-20 04:54:23 +0000449- On Windows, .DLL is not an accepted file name extension for
450 extension modules anymore; extensions are only found if they
451 end in .PYD.
452
Martin v. Löwisea62d252006-04-03 10:56:49 +0000453- Bug #1421664: sys.stderr.encoding is now set to the same value as
454 sys.stdout.encoding.
455
Neal Norwitz92e212f2006-04-03 04:48:37 +0000456- __import__ accepts keyword arguments.
457
Georg Brandlccadf842006-03-31 18:54:53 +0000458- Patch #1460496: round() now accepts keyword arguments.
459
Anthony Baxter262c00a2006-03-30 10:53:17 +0000460- Fixed bug #1459029 - unicode reprs were double-escaped.
461
Hye-Shik Changd478f342006-03-23 12:32:36 +0000462- Patch #1396919: The system scope threads are reenabled on FreeBSD
463 5.4 and later versions.
464
Neal Norwitze98ccf62006-03-23 05:39:47 +0000465- Bug #1115379: Compiling a Unicode string with an encoding declaration
466 now gives a SyntaxError.
467
Georg Brandlabd1ff82006-03-18 07:59:59 +0000468- Previously, Python code had no easy way to access the contents of a
469 cell object. Now, a ``cell_contents`` attribute has been added
470 (closes patch #1170323).
471
Tim Peterscf79aac2006-03-16 01:14:46 +0000472- Patch #1123430: Python's small-object allocator now returns an arena to
473 the system ``free()`` when all memory within an arena becomes unused
474 again. Prior to Python 2.5, arenas (256KB chunks of memory) were never
475 freed. Some applications will see a drop in virtual memory size now,
476 especially long-running applications that, from time to time, temporarily
477 use a large number of small objects. Note that when Python returns an
478 arena to the platform C's ``free()``, there's no guarantee that the
Andrew M. Kuchling1da4a942006-04-22 02:32:43 +0000479 platform C library will in turn return that memory to the operating system.
480 The effect of the patch is to stop making that impossible, and in tests it
Tim Peterscf79aac2006-03-16 01:14:46 +0000481 appears to be effective at least on Microsoft C and gcc-based systems.
482 Thanks to Evan Jones for hard work and patience.
483
Georg Brandl533ff6f2006-03-08 18:09:27 +0000484- Patch #1434038: property() now uses the getter's docstring if there is
485 no "doc" argument given. This makes it possible to legitimately use
486 property() as a decorator to produce a read-only property.
487
Guido van Rossum9aa37ab2006-03-07 18:54:08 +0000488- PEP 357, patch 1436368: add an __index__ method to int/long and a matching
489 nb_index slot to the PyNumberMethods struct. The slot is consulted instead
490 of requiring an int or long in slicing and a few other contexts, enabling
491 other objects (e.g. Numeric Python's integers) to be used as slice indices.
492
Neal Norwitz995acdf2006-03-07 05:01:00 +0000493- Fixed various bugs reported by Coverity's Prevent tool.
494
Brett Cannonbf364092006-03-01 04:25:17 +0000495- PEP 352, patch #1104669: Make exceptions new-style objects. Introduced the
496 new exception base class, BaseException, which has a new message attribute.
497 KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit to directly inherit from BaseException now.
498 Raising a string exception now raises a DeprecationWarning.
499
Thomas Woutersfb609f42006-02-28 16:37:25 +0000500- Patch #1438387, PEP 328: relative and absolute imports. Imports can now be
501 explicitly relative, using 'from .module import name' to mean 'from the same
502 package as this module is in. Imports without dots still default to the
503 old relative-then-absolute, unless 'from __future__ import
504 absolute_import' is used.
505
Brett Cannona7446e32006-02-27 23:39:10 +0000506- Properly check if 'warnings' raises an exception (usually when a filter set
507 to "error" is triggered) when raising a warning for raising string
508 exceptions.
509
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000510- CO_GENERATOR_ALLOWED is no longer defined. This behavior is the default.
Neal Norwitz0023a2f2006-02-27 23:24:48 +0000511 The name was removed from Include/code.h.
512
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000513- PEP 308: conditional expressions were added: (x if cond else y).
Neal Norwitzeb651252006-02-27 16:47:12 +0000514
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000515- Patch 1433928:
516 - The copy module now "copies" function objects (as atomic objects).
517 - dict.__getitem__ now looks for a __missing__ hook before raising
518 KeyError.
519
Tim Peters84ef21c2006-02-28 20:39:06 +0000520- PEP 343: with statement implemented. Needs ``from __future__ import
521 with_statement``. Use of 'with' as a variable will generate a warning.
522 Use of 'as' as a variable will also generate a warning (unless it's
Neal Norwitz055ec242006-02-28 20:06:49 +0000523 part of an import statement).
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +0000524 The following objects have __context__ methods:
525 - The built-in file type.
526 - The thread.LockType type.
527 - The following types defined by the threading module:
528 Lock, RLock, Condition, Semaphore, BoundedSemaphore.
529 - The decimal.Context class.
Guido van Rossumc2e20742006-02-27 22:32:47 +0000530
Marc-André Lemburgfe4b34c2006-02-19 15:22:22 +0000531- Fix the encodings package codec search function to only search
532 inside its own package. Fixes problem reported in patch #1433198.
533
534 Note: Codec packages should implement and register their own
535 codec search function. PEP 100 has the details.
536
Tim Peters9ea89d22006-06-04 03:26:02 +0000537- PEP 353: Using ``Py_ssize_t`` as the index type.
538
539- ``PYMALLOC_DEBUG`` builds now add ``4*sizeof(size_t)`` bytes of debugging
540 info to each allocated block, since the ``Py_ssize_t`` changes (PEP 353)
541 now allow Python to make use of memory blocks exceeding 2**32 bytes for
542 some purposes on 64-bit boxes. A ``PYMALLOC_DEBUG`` build was limited
543 to 4-byte allocations before.
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000544
Neal Norwitzfc76d632006-01-10 06:03:13 +0000545- Patch #1400181, fix unicode string formatting to not use the locale.
546 This is how string objects work. u'%f' could use , instead of .
547 for the decimal point. Now both strings and unicode always use periods.
548
Neal Norwitz671b9e32006-01-09 07:07:12 +0000549- Bug #1244610, #1392915, fix build problem on OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8.
550 configure would break checking curses.h.
551
Georg Brandlcd4d1e82005-12-27 17:37:07 +0000552- Bug #959576: The pwd module is now builtin. This allows Python to be
553 built on UNIX platforms without $HOME set.
554
Neal Norwitzc10978f2005-12-19 06:07:16 +0000555- Bug #1072182, fix some potential problems if characters are signed.
556
Neal Norwitz5d0ad502005-12-19 04:27:42 +0000557- Bug #889500, fix line number on SyntaxWarning for global declarations.
558
Neal Norwitzdb83eb32005-12-18 05:29:30 +0000559- Bug #1378022, UTF-8 files with a leading BOM crashed the interpreter.
560
Neal Norwitze7214a12005-12-18 05:03:17 +0000561- Support for converting hex strings to floats no longer works.
562 This was not portable. float('0x3') now raises a ValueError.
563
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000564- Patch #1382163: Expose Subversion revision number to Python. New C API
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +0000565 function Py_GetBuildNumber(). New attribute sys.subversion. Build number
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000566 is now displayed in interactive prompt banner.
567
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000568- Implementation of PEP 341 - Unification of try/except and try/finally.
569 "except" clauses can now be written together with a "finally" clause in
Neal Norwitz11ca77e2005-12-17 22:24:12 +0000570 one try statement instead of two nested ones. Patch #1355913.
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000571
Hye-Shik Chang835b2432005-12-17 04:38:31 +0000572- Bug #1379994: Builtin unicode_escape and raw_unicode_escape codec
573 now encodes backslash correctly.
574
Martin v. Löwisb45b3152005-11-28 17:34:23 +0000575- Patch #1350409: Work around signal handling bug in Visual Studio 2005.
576
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000577- Bug #1281408: Py_BuildValue now works correctly even with unsigned longs
Georg Brandlf06e30a2005-11-24 15:37:42 +0000578 and long longs.
579
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000580- SF Bug #1350188, "setdlopenflags" leads to crash upon "import"
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000581 It was possible for dlerror() to return a NULL pointer, so
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000582 it will now use a default error message in this case.
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000583
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000584- Replaced most Unicode charmap codecs with new ones using the
585 new Unicode translate string feature in the builtin charmap
586 codec; the codecs were created from the mapping tables available
587 at ftp.unicode.org and contain a few updates (e.g. the Mac OS
588 encodings now include a mapping for the Apple logo)
589
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000590- Added a few more codecs for Mac OS encodings
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000591
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000592- Sped up some Unicode operations.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000593
Martin v. Löwisbd260da2006-02-26 19:42:26 +0000594- A new AST parser implementation was completed. The abstract
595 syntax tree is available for read-only (non-compile) access
Martin v. Löwis577b5b92006-02-27 15:23:19 +0000596 to Python code; an _ast module was added.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000597
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000598- SF bug #1167751: fix incorrect code being produced for generator expressions.
Neal Norwitz16af7342005-10-21 06:25:33 +0000599 The following code now raises a SyntaxError: foo(a = i for i in range(10))
600
Neal Norwitz708e51a2005-10-03 04:48:15 +0000601- SF Bug #976608: fix SystemError when mtime of an imported file is -1.
602
Neal Norwitz11bd1192005-10-03 00:54:56 +0000603- SF Bug #887946: fix segfault when redirecting stdin from a directory.
604 Provide a warning when a directory is passed on the command line.
605
Neal Norwitz40d37812005-10-02 01:48:49 +0000606- Fix segfault with invalid coding.
607
608- SF bug #772896: unknown encoding results in MemoryError.
609
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000610- All iterators now have a Boolean value of True. Formerly, some iterators
Raymond Hettinger6b27cda2005-09-24 21:23:05 +0000611 supported a __len__() method which evaluated to False when the iterator
612 was empty.
613
Guido van Rossum630db602005-09-20 18:49:54 +0000614- On 64-bit platforms, when __len__() returns a value that cannot be
615 represented as a C int, raise OverflowError.
616
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000617- test__locale is skipped on OS X < 10.4 (only partial locale support is
Walter Dörwald6611a8b2005-10-09 19:28:35 +0000618 present).
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000619
Georg Brandl80bbf3f2005-09-14 19:38:29 +0000620- SF bug #893549: parsing keyword arguments was broken with a few format
621 codes.
622
Guido van Rossum8ee3e5a2005-09-14 18:09:42 +0000623- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on AIX 5.3
624 with IBM's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1284289). This also closes SF
625 bug #105470: test_pwd fails on 64bit system (Opteron).
626
Guido van Rossum539c6622005-09-14 17:49:54 +0000627- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 on
628 Itanium2 with HP's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1225212).
629
Georg Brandl4550b8d2005-08-26 06:43:52 +0000630- Disallow keyword arguments for type constructors that don't use them
Georg Brandl02c42872005-08-26 06:42:30 +0000631 (fixes bug #1119418).
632
Martin v. Löwisd35edda2005-08-24 08:39:24 +0000633- Forward UnicodeDecodeError into SyntaxError for source encoding errors.
634
Barry Warsawe2eca0b2005-08-15 18:14:19 +0000635- SF bug #900092: When tracing (e.g. for hotshot), restore 'return' events for
636 exceptions that cause a function to exit.
637
Raymond Hettinger9f1a6792005-07-31 01:16:36 +0000638- The implementation of set() and frozenset() was revised to use its
639 own internal data structure. Memory consumption is reduced by 1/3
640 and there are modest speed-ups as well. The API is unchanged.
641
Tim Petersde7990b2005-07-17 23:45:23 +0000642- SF bug #1238681: freed pointer is used in longobject.c:long_pow().
643
Michael W. Hudson0edc7a02005-07-12 10:21:19 +0000644- SF bug #1229429: PyObject_CallMethod failed to decrement some
645 reference counts in some error exit cases.
646
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000647- SF bug #1185883: Python's small-object memory allocator took over
648 a block managed by the platform C library whenever a realloc specified
649 a small new size. However, there's no portable way to know then how
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000650 much of the address space following the pointer is valid, so there's no
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000651 portable way to copy data from the C-managed block into Python's
652 small-object space without risking a memory fault. Python's small-object
653 realloc now leaves such blocks under the control of the platform C
654 realloc.
655
Michael W. Hudsonb8963812005-07-05 15:21:58 +0000656- SF bug #1232517: An overflow error was not detected properly when
657 attempting to convert a large float to an int in os.utime().
658
Raymond Hettinger3296e692005-06-29 23:29:56 +0000659- SF bug #1224347: hex longs now print with lowercase letters just
660 like their int counterparts.
661
Michael W. Hudson188d4362005-06-20 16:52:57 +0000662- SF bug #1163563: the original fix for bug #1010677 ("thread Module
663 Breaks PyGILState_Ensure()") broke badly in the case of multiple
664 interpreter states; back out that fix and do a better job (see
665 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-June/054258.html
666 for a longer write-up of the problem).
667
Michael W. Hudsondf888462005-06-03 14:41:55 +0000668- SF patch #1180995: marshal now uses a binary format by default when
669 serializing floats.
670
Michael W. Hudsonda85a902005-06-01 11:34:22 +0000671- SF patch #1181301: on platforms that appear to use IEEE 754 floats,
672 the routines that promise to produce IEEE 754 binary representations
673 of floats now simply copy bytes around.
674
Skip Montanarobbf12ba2005-05-20 03:07:06 +0000675- bug #967182: disallow opening files with 'wU' or 'aU' as specified by PEP
676 278.
677
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000678- patch #1109424: int, long, float, complex, and unicode now check for the
679 proper magic slot for type conversions when subclassed. Previously the
680 magic slot was ignored during conversion. Semantics now match the way
681 subclasses of str always behaved. int/long/float, conversion of an instance
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +0000682 to the base class has been moved to the proper nb_* magic slot and out of
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000683 PyNumber_*().
Neal Norwitzcfba5f82006-04-25 05:05:03 +0000684 Thanks Walter D�rwald.
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000685
Barry Warsawc8d907c2005-04-19 23:43:40 +0000686- Descriptors defined in C with a PyGetSetDef structure, where the setter is
687 NULL, now raise an AttributeError when attempting to set or delete the
688 attribute. Previously a TypeError was raised, but this was inconsistent
689 with the equivalent pure-Python implementation.
690
Michael W. Hudson774479c2005-04-18 08:46:17 +0000691- It is now safe to call PyGILState_Release() before
692 PyEval_InitThreads() (note that if there is reason to believe there
693 are multiple threads around you still must call PyEval_InitThreads()
694 before using the Python API; this fix is for extension modules that
695 have no way of knowing if Python is multi-threaded yet).
696
Michael W. Hudsone3afc592005-04-07 10:11:19 +0000697- Typing Ctrl-C whilst raw_input() was waiting in a build with threads
698 disabled caused a crash.
699
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000700- Bug #1165306: instancemethod_new allowed the creation of a method
701 with im_class == im_self == NULL, which caused a crash when called.
702
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000703- Move exception finalisation later in the shutdown process - this
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +0000704 fixes the crash seen in bug #1165761
705
Raymond Hettinger96229b12005-03-11 06:49:40 +0000706- Added two new builtins, any() and all().
707
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000708- Defining a class with empty parentheses is now allowed
Brett Cannonf4189912005-04-09 02:30:16 +0000709 (e.g., ``class C(): pass`` is no longer a syntax error).
710 Patch #1176012 added support to the 'parser' module and 'compiler' package
711 (thanks to logistix for that added support).
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000712
Martin v. Löwis96d743e2005-03-03 23:00:26 +0000713- Patch #1115086: Support PY_LONGLONG in structmember.
714
Raymond Hettingerb67cc802005-03-03 16:45:19 +0000715- Bug #1155938: new style classes did not check that __init__() was
716 returning None.
717
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000718- Patch #802188: Report characters after line continuation character
Martin v. Löwis4bf108d2005-03-03 11:45:45 +0000719 ('\') with a specific error message.
720
Martin v. Löwisff232d72005-03-03 09:24:38 +0000721- Bug #723201: Raise a TypeError for passing bad objects to 'L' format.
722
Michael W. Hudson8e1afab2005-02-17 14:55:21 +0000723- Bug #1124295: the __name__ attribute of file objects was
724 inadvertently made inaccessible in restricted mode.
725
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000726- Bug #1074011: closing sys.std{out,err} now causes a flush() and
Martin v. Löwis8e3ca8a2005-01-23 09:41:49 +0000727 an ferror() call.
728
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +0000729- min() and max() now support key= arguments with the same meaning as in
730 list.sort().
731
Raymond Hettingerc34f8672005-01-02 06:17:33 +0000732- The peephole optimizer now performs simple constant folding in expressions:
733 (2+3) --> (5).
734
Raymond Hettingera422c342005-01-11 03:03:27 +0000735- set and frozenset objects can now be marshalled. SF #1098985.
736
Michael W. Hudsonfaa76482005-01-31 17:09:25 +0000737- Bug #1077106: Poor argument checking could cause memory corruption
738 in calls to os.read().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000739
Jeremy Hyltonab630502005-02-04 18:44:06 +0000740- The parser did not complain about future statements in illegal
741 positions. It once again reports a syntax error if a future
742 statement occurs after anything other than a doc string.
743
Neil Schemenauercf52c072005-08-12 17:34:58 +0000744- Change the %s format specifier for str objects so that it returns a
745 unicode instance if the argument is not an instance of basestring and
746 calling __str__ on the argument returns a unicode instance.
747
Tim Petersf4e69282006-02-27 17:15:31 +0000748- Patch #1413181: changed ``PyThreadState_Delete()`` to forget about the
749 current thread state when the auto-GIL-state machinery knows about
750 it (since the thread state is being deleted, continuing to remember it
751 can't help, but can hurt if another thread happens to get created with
752 the same thread id).
753
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000754Extension Modules
755-----------------
756
Georg Brandl43f08a82006-03-31 18:01:16 +0000757- Patch #1380952: fix SSL objects timing out on consecutive read()s
758
Neal Norwitz05a45592006-03-20 06:30:08 +0000759- Patch #1309579: wait3 and wait4 were added to the posix module.
760
Anthony Baxterfa869072006-03-20 05:21:58 +0000761- Patch #1231053: The audioop module now supports encoding/decoding of alaw.
762 In addition, the existing ulaw code was updated.
763
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000764- RFE #567972: Socket objects' family, type and proto properties are
Georg Brandl72d7a782006-03-22 06:44:14 +0000765 now exposed via new attributes.
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000766
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +0000767- Everything under lib-old was removed. This includes the following modules:
768 Para, addpack, cmp, cmpcache, codehack, dircmp, dump, find, fmt, grep,
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +0000769 lockfile, newdir, ni, packmail, poly, rand, statcache, tb, tzparse,
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +0000770 util, whatsound, whrandom, zmod
771
772- The following modules were removed: regsub, reconvert, regex, regex_syntax.
773
774- re and sre were swapped, so help(re) provides full help. importing sre
Neal Norwitzefbeaef2006-03-16 06:40:39 +0000775 is deprecated. The undocumented re.engine variable no longer exists.
776
Hye-Shik Changabb903f2006-03-13 10:20:08 +0000777- Bug #1448490: Fixed a bug that ISO-2022 codecs could not handle
778 SS2 (single-shift 2) escape sequences correctly.
779
Martin v. Löwis480f1bb2006-03-09 23:38:20 +0000780- The unicodedata module was updated to the 4.1 version of the Unicode
781 database. The 3.2 version is still available as unicodedata.db_3_2_0
782 for applications that require this specific version (such as IDNA).
783
Neal Norwitzb62c4332006-03-04 18:35:47 +0000784- The timing module is no longer built by default. It was deprecated
785 in PEP 4 in Python 2.0 or earlier.
786
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000787- Patch 1433928: Added a new type, defaultdict, to the collections module.
788 This uses the new __missing__ hook behavior added to dict (see above).
789
Georg Brandldbd83392006-02-20 09:42:33 +0000790- Bug #854823: socketmodule now builds on Sun platforms even when
791 INET_ADDRSTRLEN is not defined.
792
Georg Brandlf4f44152006-02-18 22:29:33 +0000793- Patch #1393157: os.startfile() now has an optional argument to specify
794 a "command verb" to invoke on the file.
795
Neal Norwitz082b2df2006-02-07 07:04:46 +0000796- Bug #876637, prevent stack corruption when socket descriptor
797 is larger than FD_SETSIZE.
798
Neal Norwitz0e6bc8c2006-02-05 05:45:43 +0000799- Patch #1407135, bug #1424041: harmonize mmap behavior of anonymous memory.
800 mmap.mmap(-1, size) now returns anonymous memory in both Unix and Windows.
801 mmap.mmap(0, size) should not be used on Windows for anonymous memory.
802
Martin v. Löwis57a34e82006-02-04 19:12:37 +0000803- Patch #1422385: The nis module now supports access to domains other
804 than the system default domain.
805
Martin v. Löwis14694662006-02-03 12:54:16 +0000806- Use Win32 API to implement os.stat/fstat. As a result, subsecond timestamps
807 are reported, the limit on path name lengths is removed, and stat reports
808 WindowsError now (instead of OSError).
809
Gregory P. Smithcfc4a8d2006-01-29 19:46:23 +0000810- Add bsddb.db.DBEnv.set_tx_timestamp allowing time based database recovery.
811
Neal Norwitz62a21122006-01-25 05:21:55 +0000812- Bug #1413192, fix seg fault in bsddb if a transaction was deleted
813 before the env.
814
Martin v. Löwis11017b12006-01-14 18:12:57 +0000815- Patch #1103116: Basic AF_NETLINK support.
816
Neal Norwitz3b4fff82006-01-11 08:54:45 +0000817- Bug #1402308, (possible) segfault when using mmap.mmap(-1, ...)
818
Neal Norwitz88bbd732006-01-10 07:05:44 +0000819- Bug #1400822, _curses over{lay,write} doesn't work when passing 6 ints.
820 Also fix ungetmouse() which did not accept arguments properly.
821 The code now conforms to the documented signature.
822
Neal Norwitz5e3d8622006-01-09 06:24:35 +0000823- Bug #1400115, Fix segfault when calling curses.panel.userptr()
824 without prior setting of the userptr.
825
Neal Norwitz40c6b472006-01-05 05:43:35 +0000826- Fix 64-bit problems in bsddb.
827
Neal Norwitz8856fb72005-12-18 03:34:22 +0000828- Patch #1365916: fix some unsafe 64-bit mmap methods.
829
Hye-Shik Changc5c57e62005-12-12 11:48:32 +0000830- Bug #1290333: Added a workaround for cjkcodecs' _codecs_cn build
831 problem on AIX.
832
Georg Brandla13c2442005-11-22 19:30:31 +0000833- Bug #869197: os.setgroups rejects long integer arguments
834
Neal Norwitz0f46bbf2005-11-03 05:00:25 +0000835- Bug #1346533, select.poll() doesn't raise an error if timeout > sys.maxint
836
Neal Norwitz7b631792005-11-02 05:26:07 +0000837- Bug #1344508, Fix UNIX mmap leaking file descriptors
838
Neal Norwitzf3396542005-10-28 05:52:22 +0000839- Patch #1338314, Bug #1336623: fix tarfile so it can extract
840 REGTYPE directories from tarfiles written by old programs.
841
Gregory P. Smithe101df92006-01-24 20:09:45 +0000842- Patch #1407992, fixes broken bsddb module db associate when using
843 BerkeleyDB 3.3, 4.0 or 4.1.
844
845- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 4.4
846
847- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 3.2
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000848
Neal Norwitz484d9a42005-09-30 04:46:49 +0000849- Patch #1309009, Fix segfault in pyexpat when the XML document is in latin_1,
850 but Python incorrectly assumes it is in UTF-8 format
851
Georg Brandle677adc2005-09-29 13:40:49 +0000852- Fix parse errors in the readline module when compiling without threads.
853
Hye-Shik Chang9ceebd52005-09-24 14:58:47 +0000854- Patch #1288833: Removed thread lock from socket.getaddrinfo on
855 FreeBSD 5.3 and later versions which got thread-safe getaddrinfo(3).
856
Michael W. Hudson10402a32005-09-22 09:19:01 +0000857- Patches #1298449 and #1298499: Add some missing checks for error
858 returns in cStringIO.c.
859
Neal Norwitz058bde12005-09-21 06:44:25 +0000860- Patch #1297028: fix segfault if call type on MultibyteCodec,
861 MultibyteStreamReader, or MultibyteStreamWriter
862
Neal Norwitzcfe7dd92005-09-19 06:49:27 +0000863- Fix memory leak in posix.access().
864
Martin v. Löwis8b291e22005-09-18 08:17:56 +0000865- Patch #1213831: Fix typo in unicodedata._getcode.
866
Georg Brandlfb1ef852005-09-14 20:53:32 +0000867- Bug #1007046: os.startfile() did not accept unicode strings encoded in
868 the file system encoding.
869
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000870- Patch #756021: Special-case socket.inet_aton('255.255.255.255') for
871 platforms that don't have inet_aton().
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000872
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000873- Bug #1215928: Fix bz2.BZ2File.seek() for 64-bit file offsets.
874
875- Bug #1191043: Fix bz2.BZ2File.(x)readlines for files containing one
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000876 line without newlines.
877
Georg Brandl38387b82005-08-24 07:17:40 +0000878- Bug #728515: mmap.resize() now resizes the file on Unix as it did
879 on Windows.
880
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000881- Patch #1180695: Add nanosecond stat resolution, and st_gen,
Martin v. Löwisebd9d5b2005-08-09 15:00:59 +0000882 st_birthtime for FreeBSD.
883
Michael W. Hudson8137bea2005-07-27 20:24:40 +0000884- Patch #1231069: The fcntl.ioctl function now uses the 'I' code for
885 the request code argument, which results in more C-like behaviour
886 for large or negative values.
887
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000888- Bug #1234979: For the argument of thread.Lock.acquire, the Windows
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000889 implementation treated all integer values except 1 as false.
Georg Brandlaf410b52005-07-08 22:26:13 +0000890
Georg Brandl6b95f1d2005-06-03 19:47:00 +0000891- Bug #1194181: bz2.BZ2File didn't handle mode 'U' correctly.
892
Hye-Shik Chang5f937a72005-06-02 13:09:30 +0000893- Patch #1212117: os.stat().st_flags is now accessible as a attribute
894 if available on the platform.
895
Skip Montanaro5ff14922005-05-16 02:42:22 +0000896- Patch #1103951: Expose O_SHLOCK and O_EXLOCK in the posix module if
897 available on the platform.
898
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000899- Bug #1166660: The readline module could segfault if hook functions
900 were set in a different thread than that which called readline.
901
Raymond Hettinger4aec61e2005-03-18 21:20:23 +0000902- collections.deque objects now support a remove() method.
903
Raymond Hettinger984f9bb2005-03-09 16:38:48 +0000904- operator.itemgetter() and operator.attrgetter() now support retrieving
905 multiple fields. This provides direct support for sorting on multiple
906 keys (primary, secondary, etc).
907
Martin v. Löwisb60ae992005-03-08 09:10:29 +0000908- os.access now supports Unicode path names on non-Win32 systems.
909
Martin v. Löwisfd78a6f2005-03-04 14:37:01 +0000910- Patches #925152, #1118602: Avoid reading after the end of the buffer
911 in pyexpat.GetInputContext.
912
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000913- Patches #749830, #1144555: allow UNIX mmap size to default to current
Martin v. Löwis7fe60c02005-03-03 11:22:44 +0000914 file size.
915
Raymond Hettinger9c323f82005-02-28 19:39:44 +0000916- Added functional.partial(). See PEP309.
917
Martin v. Löwis9533e342005-02-27 20:33:25 +0000918- Patch #1093585: raise a ValueError for negative history items in readline.
919 {remove_history,replace_history}
920
Fred Drake9c131f22005-01-23 15:16:08 +0000921- The spwd module has been added, allowing access to the shadow password
922 database.
Martin v. Löwisc3001752005-01-23 09:27:24 +0000923
Martin v. Löwisfe33d0b2005-01-16 08:57:39 +0000924- stat_float_times is now True.
925
Raymond Hettingerb0900e62004-12-16 16:23:40 +0000926- array.array objects are now picklable.
927
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +0000928- the cPickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
929 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
930
Raymond Hettingerb2594052004-12-05 09:25:51 +0000931- itertools.islice() now accepts None for the start and step arguments.
932 This allows islice() to work more readily with slices:
933 islice(s.start, s.stop, s.step)
934
Skip Montanaro0af3ade2005-01-13 04:12:31 +0000935- datetime.datetime() now has a strptime class method which can be used to
936 create datetime object using a string and format.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000937
Matthias Klosed77f8b32006-04-03 16:34:56 +0000938- Patch #1117961: Replace the MD5 implementation from RSA Data Security Inc
Matthias Klose8e39ec72006-04-03 16:27:50 +0000939 with the implementation from http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmd5-rfc/.
940
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000941Library
942-------
943
Nick Coghlan43832302006-04-23 17:04:07 +0000944- PEP 338: new module runpy defines a run_module function to support
945 executing modules which provide access to source code or a code object
946 via the PEP 302 import mechanisms.
947
Anthony Baxter93f5b932006-04-03 08:05:07 +0000948- The email module's parsedate_tz function now sets the daylight savings
949 flag to -1 (unknown) since it can't tell from the date whether it should
950 be set.
951
Fred Drakead5177c2006-04-01 22:14:43 +0000952- Patch #624325: urlparse.urlparse() and urlparse.urlsplit() results
953 now sport attributes that provide access to the parts of the result.
954
Georg Brandl7f6b67c2006-04-01 08:35:18 +0000955- Patch #1462498: sgmllib now handles entity and character references
956 in attribute values.
957
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +0000958- Added the sqlite3 package. This is based on pysqlite2.1.3, and provides
Georg Brandl828fdef2006-04-01 08:59:03 +0000959 a DB-API interface in the standard library. You'll need sqlite 3.0.8 or
Tim Peters3a5e8b12006-04-11 01:44:07 +0000960 later to build this - if you have an earlier version, the C extension
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +0000961 module will not be built.
962
Tim Petersc17976e2006-04-01 00:26:53 +0000963- Bug #1460340: ``random.sample(dict)`` failed in various ways. Dicts
964 aren't officially supported here, and trying to use them will probably
965 raise an exception some day. But dicts have been allowed, and "mostly
966 worked", so support for them won't go away without warning.
967
Georg Brandl338ef7d2006-03-31 18:42:16 +0000968- Bug #1445068: getpass.getpass() can now be given an explicit stream
969 argument to specify where to write the prompt.
970
Georg Brandl22ec80b2006-03-31 18:25:44 +0000971- Patch #1462313, bug #1443328: the pickle modules now can handle classes
972 that have __private names in their __slots__.
973
Neal Norwitz6974a512006-04-10 00:25:01 +0000974- Bug #1250170: mimetools now handles socket.gethostname() failures gracefully.
Georg Brandldd2245f2006-03-31 17:18:06 +0000975
Phillip J. Eby59821cf2006-03-30 02:16:40 +0000976- patch #1457316: "setup.py upload" now supports --identity to select the
977 key to be used for signing the uploaded code.
978
Raymond Hettingerfd3fcf02006-03-24 20:43:29 +0000979- Queue.Queue objects now support .task_done() and .join() methods
980 to make it easier to monitor when daemon threads have completed
981 processing all enqueued tasks. Patch #1455676.
982
Martin v. Löwisbd8dbab2006-03-23 18:18:35 +0000983- popen2.Popen objects now preserve the command in a .cmd attribute.
984
Thomas Hellerc61c0492006-03-22 10:09:27 +0000985- Added the ctypes ffi package.
986
Barry Warsaw4d90bbd2006-03-22 02:45:50 +0000987- email 4.0 package now integrated. This is largely the same as the email 3.0
988 package that was included in Python 2.3, except that PEP 8 module names are
989 now used (e.g. mail.message instead of email.Message). The MIME classes
990 have been moved to a subpackage (e.g. email.mime.text instead of
991 email.MIMEText). The old names are still supported for now. Several
992 deprecated Message methods have been removed and lots of bugs have been
993 fixed. More details can be found in the email package documentation.
994
Walter Dörwald40108c92006-03-27 08:15:44 +0000995- Patches #1436130/#1443155: codecs.lookup() now returns a CodecInfo object
996 (a subclass of tuple) that provides incremental decoders and encoders
997 (a way to use stateful codecs without the stream API). Python functions
998 codecs.getincrementaldecoder() and codecs.getincrementalencoder() as well
999 as C functions PyCodec_IncrementalEncoder() and PyCodec_IncrementalDecoder()
1000 have been added.
Walter Dörwaldabb02e52006-03-15 11:35:15 +00001001
Walter Dörwald067db482006-03-15 22:17:27 +00001002- Patch #1359365: Calling next() on a closed StringIO.String object raises
1003 a ValueError instead of a StopIteration now (like file and cString.String do).
1004 cStringIO.StringIO.isatty() will raise a ValueError now if close() has been
1005 called before (like file and StringIO.StringIO do).
Walter Dörwald197e8322006-03-15 22:13:13 +00001006
Martin v. Löwis04824ce2006-03-10 21:26:16 +00001007- A regrtest option -w was added to re-run failed tests in verbose mode.
1008
Georg Brandle2b46772006-03-09 23:22:43 +00001009- Patch #1446372: quit and exit can now be called from the interactive
1010 interpreter to exit.
1011
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +00001012- The function get_count() has been added to the gc module, and gc.collect()
1013 grew an optional 'generation' argument.
1014
Martin v. Löwisfbab90e2006-03-05 13:36:04 +00001015- A library msilib to generate Windows Installer files, and a distutils
1016 command bdist_msi have been added.
1017
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +00001018- PEP 343: new module contextlib.py defines decorator @contextmanager
1019 and helpful context managers nested() and closing().
1020
Martin v. Löwis415ed932006-02-27 19:56:30 +00001021- The compiler package now supports future imports after the module docstring.
1022
Georg Brandl8f7c54e2006-02-20 08:40:38 +00001023- Bug #1413790: zipfile now sanitizes absolute archive names that are
1024 not allowed by the specs.
1025
Georg Brandlc98eeed2006-02-19 14:57:47 +00001026- Patch #1215184: FileInput now can be given an opening hook which can
1027 be used to control how files are opened.
1028
Georg Brandlc029f872006-02-19 14:12:34 +00001029- Patch #1212287: fileinput.input() now has a mode parameter for
1030 specifying the file mode input files should be opened with.
1031
Georg Brandl67e9fb92006-02-19 13:56:17 +00001032- Patch #1215184: fileinput now has a fileno() function for getting the
1033 current file number.
1034
Georg Brandl602b9ba2006-02-19 13:26:36 +00001035- Patch #1349274: gettext.install() now optionally installs additional
1036 translation functions other than _() in the builtin namespace.
1037
Georg Brandle4662172006-02-19 09:51:27 +00001038- Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames.
1039
Georg Brandl7b4e7c22006-02-18 21:10:56 +00001040- Patch #1373643: The chunk module can now read chunks larger than
1041 two gigabytes.
1042
Georg Brandl21dd1af2006-02-17 13:35:13 +00001043- Patch #1417555: SimpleHTTPServer now returns Last-Modified headers.
1044
Georg Brandlbd3bc4d2006-02-17 09:52:53 +00001045- Bug #1430298: It is now possible to send a mail with an empty
1046 return address using smtplib.
1047
Georg Brandl0e1abe22006-02-17 09:48:14 +00001048- Bug #1432260: The names of lambda functions are now properly displayed
1049 in pydoc.
Georg Brandl501dd0d2006-02-17 09:45:40 +00001050
Martin v. Löwis00756902006-02-05 17:09:41 +00001051- Patch #1412872: zipfile now sets the creator system to 3 (Unix)
1052 unless the system is Win32.
1053
Tim Petersda1329b2006-02-27 16:50:01 +00001054- Patch #1349118: urllib now supports user:pass@ style proxy
Martin v. Löwis3e865952006-01-24 15:51:21 +00001055 specifications, raises IOErrors when proxies for unsupported protocols
1056 are defined, and uses the https proxy on https redirections.
1057
Georg Brandl531ceba2006-01-21 07:20:56 +00001058- Bug #902075: urllib2 now supports 'host:port' style proxy specifications.
1059
1060- Bug #1407902: Add support for sftp:// URIs to urlparse.
Georg Brandl89f35ac2006-01-20 17:24:23 +00001061
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +00001062- Bug #1371247: Update Windows locale identifiers in locale.py.
1063
Neal Norwitzf60cd472006-01-14 07:05:13 +00001064- Bug #1394565: SimpleHTTPServer now doesn't choke on query parameters
Georg Brandl45ab2332006-01-13 17:05:56 +00001065 any more.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +00001066
Georg Brandl4edd9892006-01-13 16:59:46 +00001067- Bug #1403410: The warnings module now doesn't get confused
1068 when it can't find out the module name it generates a warning for.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +00001069
Martin v. Löwis412ed3b2006-01-08 10:45:39 +00001070- Patch #1177307: Added a new codec utf_8_sig for UTF-8 with a BOM signature.
1071
Neal Norwitzab86f8e2005-12-23 21:44:36 +00001072- Patch #1157027: cookielib mishandles RFC 2109 cookies in Netscape mode
1073
Neal Norwitz338e7862005-12-23 21:27:46 +00001074- Patch #1117398: cookielib.LWPCookieJar and .MozillaCookieJar now raise
1075 LoadError as documented, instead of IOError. For compatibility,
1076 LoadError subclasses IOError.
1077
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +00001078- Added the hashlib module. It provides secure hash functions for MD5 and
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +00001079 SHA1, 224, 256, 384, and 512. Note that recent developments make the
1080 historic MD5 and SHA1 unsuitable for cryptographic-strength applications.
1081 In <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058850.html>
1082 Ronald L. Rivest offered this advice for Python:
1083
1084 "The consensus of researchers in this area (at least as
1085 expressed at the NIST Hash Function Workshop 10/31/05),
1086 is that SHA-256 is a good choice for the time being, but
1087 that research should continue, and other alternatives may
1088 arise from this research. The larger SHA's also seem OK."
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +00001089
Fredrik Lundh7e0aef02005-12-12 18:54:55 +00001090- Added a subset of Fredrik Lundh's ElementTree package. Available
1091 modules are xml.etree.ElementTree, xml.etree.ElementPath, and
1092 xml.etree.ElementInclude, from ElementTree 1.2.6.
1093
Martin v. Löwis307021f2005-11-27 16:59:04 +00001094- Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles.
1095
Georg Brandl1f663572005-11-26 16:50:44 +00001096- Bug #1365984: urllib now opens "data:" URLs again.
1097
Brett Cannonad07ff22005-11-23 02:15:50 +00001098- Patch #1314396: prevent deadlock for threading.Thread.join() when an exception
1099 is raised within the method itself on a previous call (e.g., passing in an
1100 illegal argument)
1101
Brett Cannon5d0bf942005-11-02 23:04:26 +00001102- Bug #1340337: change time.strptime() to always return ValueError when there
1103 is an error in the format string.
1104
Georg Brandle8f24432005-10-03 14:16:44 +00001105- Patch #754022: Greatly enhanced webbrowser.py (by Oleg Broytmann).
1106
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +00001107- Bug #729103: pydoc.py: Fix docother() method to accept additional
Georg Brandl8b813db2005-10-01 16:32:31 +00001108 "parent" argument.
1109
Georg Brandlaa935172005-09-29 20:49:16 +00001110- Patch #1300515: xdrlib.py: Fix pack_fstring() to really use null bytes
1111 for padding.
1112
Georg Brandl80ba8e82005-09-29 20:16:07 +00001113- Bug #1296004: httplib.py: Limit maximal amount of data read from the
1114 socket to avoid a MemoryError on Windows.
1115
Matthias Klosef3f231f2005-09-20 07:02:49 +00001116- Patch #1166948: locale.py: Prefer LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG over LANGUAGE
1117 to get the correct encoding.
1118
1119- Patch #1166938: locale.py: Parse LANGUAGE as a colon separated list of
1120 languages.
1121
Martin v. Löwis4ed67382005-09-18 08:34:39 +00001122- Patch #1268314: Cache lines in StreamReader.readlines for performance.
1123
Brett Cannona783d062005-09-15 02:34:56 +00001124- Bug #1290505: Fix clearing the regex cache for time.strptime().
1125
Martin v. Löwis5dbdc592005-08-27 10:07:56 +00001126- Bug #1167128: Fix size of a symlink in a tarfile to be 0.
1127
Georg Brandl5a650a22005-08-26 08:51:34 +00001128- Patch #810023: Fix off-by-one bug in urllib.urlretrieve reporthook
1129 functionality.
1130
Martin v. Löwis8b595142005-08-25 11:03:38 +00001131- Bug #1163178: Make IDNA return an empty string when the input is empty.
1132
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +00001133- Patch #848017: Make Cookie more RFC-compliant. Use CRLF as default output
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00001134 separator and do not output trailing semicolon.
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +00001135
Georg Brandlb9256022005-08-24 18:46:39 +00001136- Patch #1062060: urllib.urlretrieve() now raises a new exception, named
1137 ContentTooShortException, when the actually downloaded size does not
1138 match the Content-Length header.
1139
Martin v. Löwis0a5d4a22005-08-24 14:55:22 +00001140- Bug #1121494: distutils.dir_utils.mkpath now accepts Unicode strings.
1141
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +00001142- Bug #1178484: Return complete lines from codec stream readers
1143 even if there is an exception in later lines, resulting in
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +00001144 correct line numbers for decoding errors in source code.
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +00001145
Georg Brandl6d2b3462005-08-24 07:36:17 +00001146- Bug #1192315: Disallow negative arguments to clear() in pdb.
1147
Martin v. Löwisb813c532005-08-07 20:51:04 +00001148- Patch #827386: Support absolute source paths in msvccompiler.py.
1149
Georg Brandl649f8e72005-08-03 07:30:12 +00001150- Patch #1105730: Apply the new implementation of commonprefix in posixpath
1151 to ntpath, macpath, os2emxpath and riscospath.
1152
Guido van Rossum755149f2005-07-27 00:00:44 +00001153- Fix a problem in Tkinter introduced by SF patch #869468: delete bogus
1154 __hasattr__ and __delattr__ methods on class Tk that were breaking
1155 Tkdnd.
1156
Georg Brandl5dbda752005-07-17 20:27:41 +00001157- Bug #1015140: disambiguated the term "article id" in nntplib docs and
1158 docstrings to either "article number" or "message id".
1159
Georg Brandla4a8b822005-07-15 09:13:21 +00001160- Bug #1238170: threading.Thread.__init__ no longer has "kwargs={}" as a
1161 parameter, but uses the usual "kwargs=None".
1162
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +00001163- textwrap now processes text chunks at O(n) speed instead of O(n**2).
Raymond Hettinger8bfa8932005-07-15 06:53:35 +00001164 Patch #1209527 (Contributed by Connelly).
1165
Georg Brandl5c5fe2f2005-07-14 06:40:47 +00001166- urllib2 has now an attribute 'httpresponses' mapping from HTTP status code
1167 to W3C name (404 -> 'Not Found'). RFE #1216944.
1168
Georg Brandl9e43acf2005-07-04 17:16:07 +00001169- Bug #1177468: Don't cache the /dev/urandom file descriptor for os.urandom,
1170 as this can cause problems with apps closing all file descriptors.
1171
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00001172- Bug #839151: Fix an attempt to access sys.argv in the warnings module;
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +00001173 it can be missing in embedded interpreters
Georg Brandl5284b532005-06-26 22:54:58 +00001174
Georg Brandl2f210b62005-06-26 22:09:06 +00001175- Bug #1155638: Fix a bug which affected HTTP 0.9 responses in httplib.
1176
Georg Brandlfbff1bc2005-06-26 21:36:25 +00001177- Bug #1100201: Cross-site scripting was possible on BaseHTTPServer via
1178 error messages.
1179
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001180- Bug #1108948: Cookie.py produced invalid JavaScript code.
1181
Raymond Hettingerda99d1c2005-06-21 07:43:58 +00001182- The tokenize module now detects and reports indentation errors.
1183 Bug #1224621.
1184
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +00001185- The tokenize module has a new untokenize() function to support a full
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +00001186 roundtrip from lexed tokens back to Python source code. In addition,
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +00001187 the generate_tokens() function now accepts a callable argument that
1188 terminates by raising StopIteration.
1189
Georg Brandl9166e1a2005-06-04 09:20:03 +00001190- Bug #1196315: fix weakref.WeakValueDictionary constructor.
1191
Georg Brandl268e61c2005-06-03 14:28:50 +00001192- Bug #1213894: os.path.realpath didn't resolve symlinks that were the first
1193 component of the path.
1194
Skip Montanaro174dd222005-05-14 20:54:16 +00001195- Patch #1120353: The xmlrpclib module provides better, more transparent,
1196 support for datetime.{datetime,date,time} objects. With use_datetime set
1197 to True, applications shouldn't have to fiddle with the DateTime wrapper
1198 class at all.
1199
Martin v. Löwis55f1bb82005-03-21 20:56:35 +00001200- distutils.commands.upload was added to support uploading distribution
1201 files to PyPI.
1202
Walter Dörwalda6e8a4a2005-03-31 13:57:38 +00001203- distutils.commands.register now encodes the data as UTF-8 before posting
1204 them to PyPI.
1205
Raymond Hettinger267b8682005-03-27 10:47:39 +00001206- decimal operator and comparison methods now return NotImplemented
1207 instead of raising a TypeError when interacting with other types. This
1208 allows other classes to implement __radd__ style methods and have them
1209 work as expected.
1210
Raymond Hettingerbea3f6f2005-03-15 04:59:17 +00001211- Bug #1163325: Decimal infinities failed to hash. Attempting to
1212 hash a NaN raised an InvalidOperation instead of a TypeError.
1213
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00001214- Patch #918101: Add tarfile open mode r|* for auto-detection of the
Martin v. Löwis78be7df2005-03-05 12:47:42 +00001215 stream compression; add, for symmetry reasons, r:* as a synonym of r.
1216
Martin v. Löwis00a73e72005-03-04 19:40:34 +00001217- Patch #1043890: Add extractall method to tarfile.
1218
Martin v. Löwisc72dd382005-03-04 13:50:17 +00001219- Patch #1075887: Don't require MSVC in distutils if there is nothing
1220 to build.
1221
Martin v. Löwis637431b2005-03-03 23:12:42 +00001222- Patch #1103407: Properly deal with tarfile iterators when untarring
1223 symbolic links on Windows.
1224
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00001225- Patch #645894: Use getrusage for computing the time consumption in
Martin v. Löwisa4dac402005-03-03 11:39:45 +00001226 profile.py if available.
1227
Martin v. Löwisdf37c8c2005-03-03 11:08:03 +00001228- Patch #1046831: Use get_python_version where appropriate in sysconfig.py.
1229
Martin v. Löwisc5574e82005-03-03 10:57:37 +00001230- Patch #1117454: Remove code to special-case cookies without values
1231 in LWPCookieJar.
1232
Martin v. Löwis4ea3ead2005-03-03 10:48:12 +00001233- Patch #1117339: Add cookielib special name tests.
1234
Martin v. Löwise869eb12005-03-03 09:46:07 +00001235- Patch #1112812: Make bsddb/__init__.py more friendly for modulefinder.
1236
Martin v. Löwisf2a8d632005-03-03 08:35:22 +00001237- Patch #1110248: SYNC_FLUSH the zlib buffer for GZipFile.flush.
1238
Martin v. Löwisdf241532005-03-03 08:17:42 +00001239- Patch #1107973: Allow to iterate over the lines of a tarfile.ExFileObject.
1240
Martin v. Löwis8ed338a2005-03-03 08:12:27 +00001241- Patch #1104111: Alter setup.py --help and --help-commands.
1242
Martin v. Löwis4afe1542005-03-01 08:09:28 +00001243- Patch #1121234: Properly cleanup _exit and tkerror commands.
1244
Martin v. Löwisc2a0ac22005-02-24 20:22:10 +00001245- Patch #1049151: xdrlib now unpacks booleans as True or False.
1246
Raymond Hettingerbab41432005-02-05 01:31:19 +00001247- Fixed bug in a NameError bug in cookielib. Patch #1116583.
1248
Guido van Rossumd0641422005-02-03 15:01:24 +00001249- Applied a security fix to SimpleXMLRPCserver (PSF-2005-001). This
1250 disables recursive traversal through instance attributes, which can
1251 be exploited in various ways.
1252
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +00001253- Bug #1222790: in SimpleXMLRPCServer, set the reuse-address and close-on-exec
Andrew M. Kuchling3a976052005-12-04 15:07:41 +00001254 flags on the HTTP listening socket.
1255
Andrew M. Kuchlinge63fde72005-12-04 15:36:57 +00001256- Bug #792570: SimpleXMLRPCServer had problems if the request grew too large.
1257 Fixed by reading the HTTP body in chunks instead of one big socket.read().
1258
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +00001259- Patches #893642, #1039083: add allow_none, encoding arguments to constructors of
Andrew M. Kuchling10a16de2005-12-04 16:34:40 +00001260 SimpleXMLRPCServer and CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler.
1261
Martin v. Löwis1d11de62005-01-29 13:29:23 +00001262- Bug #1110478: Revert os.environ.update to do putenv again.
1263
Thomas Hellerd6c6e222005-01-20 19:20:16 +00001264- Bug #1103844: fix distutils.install.dump_dirs() with negated options.
1265
Martin v. Löwis22b457e2005-01-16 08:40:58 +00001266- os.{SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END} have been added for convenience.
1267
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001268- Enhancements to the csv module:
1269
1270 + Dialects are now validated by the underlying C code, better
Georg Brandl7eb4b7d2005-07-22 21:49:32 +00001271 reflecting its capabilities, and improving its compliance with
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +00001272 PEP 305.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001273 + Dialect parameter parsing has been re-implemented to improve error
1274 reporting.
1275 + quotechar=None and quoting=QUOTE_NONE now work the way PEP 305
1276 dictates.
1277 + the parser now removes the escapechar prefix from escaped characters.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +00001278 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the writer now tests for numeric
Andrew M. Kuchling6db67822006-04-18 14:04:57 +00001279 types, rather than any object that can be represented as a numeric.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +00001280 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the reader now casts unquoted fields
1281 to floats.
Andrew McNamaraf69d94f2005-01-13 11:30:54 +00001282 + reader now allows \r characters to be quoted (previously it only allowed
1283 \n to be quoted).
Andrew McNamarac89f2842005-01-12 07:44:42 +00001284 + writer doublequote handling improved.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001285 + Dialect classes passed to the module are no longer instantiated by
1286 the module before being parsed (the former validation scheme required
1287 this, but the mechanism was unreliable).
1288 + The dialect registry now contains instances of the internal
1289 C-coded dialect type, rather than references to python objects.
1290 + the internal c-coded dialect type is now immutable.
1291 + register_dialect now accepts the same keyword dialect specifications
1292 as the reader and writer, allowing the user to register dialects
1293 without first creating a dialect class.
1294 + a configurable limit to the size of parsed fields has been added -
1295 previously, an unmatched quote character could result in the entire
1296 file being read into the field buffer before an error was reported.
Andrew McNamara31d88962005-01-12 03:45:10 +00001297 + A new module method csv.field_size_limit() has been added that sets
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001298 the parser field size limit (returning the former limit). The initial
1299 limit is 128kB.
Andrew McNamara7f2053e2005-01-12 11:17:16 +00001300 + A line_num attribute has been added to the reader object, which tracks
1301 the number of lines read from the source iterator. This is not
1302 the same as the number of records returned, as records can span
1303 multiple lines.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +00001304 + reader and writer objects were not being registered with the cyclic-GC.
1305 This has been fixed.
1306
Brett Cannone6539c42005-01-08 02:43:53 +00001307- _DummyThread objects in the threading module now delete self.__block that is
1308 inherited from _Thread since it uses up a lock allocated by 'thread'. The
1309 lock primitives tend to be limited in number and thus should not be wasted on
1310 a _DummyThread object. Fixes bug #1089632.
1311
Raymond Hettinger97db05d2005-01-07 08:15:41 +00001312- The imghdr module now detects Exif files.
1313
Raymond Hettinger6065d322004-12-20 23:51:53 +00001314- StringIO.truncate() now correctly adjusts the size attribute.
1315 (Bug #951915).
1316
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +00001317- locale.py now uses an updated locale alias table (built using
1318 Tools/i18n/makelocalealias.py, a tool to parse the X11 locale
1319 alias file); the encoding lookup was enhanced to use Python's
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +00001320 encoding alias table.
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +00001321
Raymond Hettinger3557f422004-12-07 12:02:02 +00001322- moved deprecated modules to Lib/lib-old: whrandom, tzparse, statcache.
1323
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +00001324- the pickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
1325 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
1326
Brett Cannon84667c02004-12-07 03:25:18 +00001327- optparse now optionally imports gettext. This allows its use in setup.py.
1328
Raymond Hettinger3489cad2004-12-05 05:20:42 +00001329- the pickle module no longer uses the deprecated bin parameter.
1330
Raymond Hettinger1bc82f82004-12-05 03:58:17 +00001331- the shelve module no longer uses the deprecated binary parameter.
1332
Raymond Hettinger6c92d762004-12-05 03:28:00 +00001333- the pstats module no longer uses the deprecated ignore() method.
1334
Raymond Hettingerf3fa9462004-12-05 01:58:09 +00001335- the filecmp module no longer uses the deprecated use_statcache argument.
1336
Raymond Hettinger664347b2004-12-04 21:21:53 +00001337- unittest.TestCase.run() and unittest.TestSuite.run() can now be successfully
1338 extended or overridden by subclasses. Formerly, the subclassed method would
1339 be ignored by the rest of the module. (Bug #1078905).
1340
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001341- heapq.nsmallest() and heapq.nlargest() now support key= arguments with
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +00001342 the same meaning as in list.sort().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001343
Walter Dörwald36733692004-12-22 12:50:50 +00001344- Bug #1076985: ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` now calls ``read()`` only
1345 once when a size argument is given. This prevents a buffer overflow in the
1346 tokenizer with very long source lines.
1347
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +00001348- Bug #1083110: ``zlib.decompress.flush()`` would segfault if called
1349 immediately after creating the object, without any intervening
1350 ``.decompress()`` calls.
Andrew M. Kuchling3b585b32004-12-28 20:10:48 +00001351
Skip Montanaro05885812005-01-16 20:48:27 +00001352- The reconvert.quote function can now emit triple-quoted strings. The
1353 reconvert module now has some simple documentation.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001354
Walter Dörwaldaf3b39a2005-02-18 13:22:43 +00001355- ``UserString.MutableString`` now supports negative indices in
1356 ``__setitem__`` and ``__delitem__``
1357
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +00001358- Bug #1149508: ``textwrap`` now handles hyphenated numbers (eg. "2004-03-05")
1359 correctly.
1360
Walter Dörwaldbc8e6422005-04-21 21:32:03 +00001361- Partial fixes for SF bugs #1163244 and #1175396: If a chunk read by
1362 ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` has a trailing "\r", read one more
1363 character even if the user has passed a size parameter to get a proper
1364 line ending. Remove the special handling of a "\r\n" that has been split
1365 between two lines.
1366
Walter Dörwalda47d1c02005-08-30 10:23:14 +00001367- Bug #1251300: On UCS-4 builds the "unicode-internal" codec will now complain
1368 about illegal code points. The codec now supports PEP 293 style error
1369 handlers.
1370
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +00001371- Bug #1235646: ``codecs.StreamRecoder.next()`` now reencodes the data it reads
Walter Dörwaldc5238b82005-09-01 11:56:53 +00001372 from the input stream, so that the output is a byte string in the correct
1373 encoding instead of a unicode string.
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +00001374
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +00001375- Bug #1202493: Fixing SRE parser to handle '{}' as perl does, rather than
1376 considering it exactly like a '*'.
1377
Walter Dörwald007f8df2005-10-09 19:42:27 +00001378- Bug #1245379: Add "unicode-1-1-utf-7" as an alias for "utf-7" to
1379 ``encodings.aliases``.
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +00001380
Walter Dörwald09f0dd52005-11-21 19:10:07 +00001381- ` uu.encode()`` and ``uu.decode()`` now support unicode filenames.
1382
Gustavo Niemeyer548148812006-01-31 18:34:13 +00001383- Patch #1413711: Certain patterns of differences were making difflib
1384 touch the recursion limit.
1385
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +00001386- Bug #947906: An object oriented interface has been added to the calendar
1387 module. It's possible to generate HTML calendar now and the module can be
Walter Dörwald48d5e502006-04-01 07:57:00 +00001388 called as a script (e.g. via ``python -mcalendar``). Localized month and
1389 weekday names can be ouput (even if an exotic encoding is used) using
1390 special classes that use unicode.
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +00001391
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001392Build
1393-----
1394
Neal Norwitz602d3392006-03-31 08:21:40 +00001395- Fix test_float, test_long, and test_struct failures on Tru64 with gcc
1396 by using -mieee gcc option.
1397
Martin v. Löwis86d66262006-02-17 08:40:11 +00001398- Patch #1432345: Make python compile on DragonFly.
1399
Martin v. Löwis856bf9a2006-02-14 20:42:55 +00001400- Build support for Win64-AMD64 was added.
1401
Martin v. Löwisa55e55e2006-02-11 15:55:14 +00001402- Patch #1428494: Prefer linking against ncursesw over ncurses library.
1403
Martin v. Löwisfd9a72a2006-01-08 10:07:33 +00001404- Patch #881820: look for openpty and forkpty also in libbsd.
1405
Martin v. Löwis64c33dd2006-01-03 07:42:14 +00001406- The sources of zlib are now part of the Python distribution (zlib 1.2.3).
1407 The zlib module is now builtin on Windows.
1408
Martin v. Löwisd5845ec2005-12-30 12:31:38 +00001409- Use -xcode=pic32 for CCSHARED on Solaris with SunPro.
1410
Martin v. Löwis147fbe52005-08-07 21:09:30 +00001411- Bug #1189330: configure did not correctly determine the necessary
1412 value of LINKCC if python was built with GCC 4.0.
1413
Trent Mick8321b422005-07-26 02:29:21 +00001414- Upgrade Windows build to zlib 1.2.3 which eliminates a potential security
1415 vulnerability in zlib 1.2.1 and 1.2.2.
1416
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00001417- EXTRA_CFLAGS has been introduced as an environment variable to hold compiler
1418 flags that change binary compatibility. Changes were also made to
1419 distutils.sysconfig to also use the environment variable when used during
Martin v. Löwisd7c795e2005-04-25 07:14:03 +00001420 compilation of the interpreter and of C extensions through distutils.
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00001421
Bob Ippolitoed233462005-03-29 13:47:59 +00001422- SF patch 1171735: Darwin 8's headers are anal about POSIX compliance,
1423 and linking has changed (prebinding is now deprecated, and libcc_dynamic
1424 no longer exists). This configure patch makes things right.
1425
Martin v. Löwise2713be2005-03-08 15:03:08 +00001426- Bug #1158607: Build with --disable-unicode again.
1427
Brett Cannon46d96232005-02-16 00:07:19 +00001428- spwdmodule.c is built only if either HAVE_GETSPNAM or HAVE_HAVE_GETSPENT is
1429 defined. Discovered as a result of not being able to build on OS X.
1430
Brett Cannon516592f2004-12-07 00:42:59 +00001431- setup.py now uses the directories specified in LDFLAGS using the -L option
1432 and in CPPFLAGS using the -I option for adding library and include
1433 directories, respectively, for compiling extension modules against. This has
1434 led to the core being compiled using the values in CPPFLAGS. It also removes
1435 the need for the special-casing of both DarwinPorts and Fink for darwin since
1436 the proper directories can be specified in LDFLAGS (``-L/sw/lib`` for Fink,
1437 ``-L/opt/local/lib`` for DarwinPorts) and CPPFLAGS (``-I/sw/include`` for
1438 Fink, ``-I/opt/local/include`` for DarwinPorts).
1439
Brett Cannon43802422005-02-10 20:48:03 +00001440- Test in configure.in that checks for tzset no longer dependent on tm->tm_zone
1441 to exist in the struct (not required by either ISO C nor the UNIX 2 spec).
1442 Tests for sanity in tzname when HAVE_TZNAME defined were also defined.
1443 Closes bug #1096244. Thanks Gregory Bond.
1444
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001445C API
1446-----
1447
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +00001448- ``PyMem_{Del, DEL}`` and ``PyMem_{Free, FREE}`` no longer map to
1449 ``PyObject_{Free, FREE}``. They map to the system ``free()`` now. If memory
1450 is obtained via the ``PyObject_`` family, it must be released via the
1451 ``PyObject_`` family, and likewise for the ``PyMem_`` family. This has
1452 always been officially true, but when Python's small-object allocator was
1453 introduced, an attempt was made to cater to a few extension modules
1454 discovered at the time that obtained memory via ``PyObject_New`` but
1455 released it via ``PyMem_DEL``. It's years later, and if such code still
1456 exists it will fail now (probably with segfaults, but calling wrong
1457 low-level memory management functions can yield many symptoms).
1458
Raymond Hettingerbeb31012005-08-16 03:47:52 +00001459- Added a C API for set and frozenset objects.
1460
Raymond Hettinger66517482004-12-03 11:45:13 +00001461- Removed PyRange_New().
1462
Walter Dörwaldd1c1e102005-10-06 20:29:57 +00001463- Patch #1313939: PyUnicode_DecodeCharmap() accepts a unicode string as the
1464 mapping argument now. This string is used as a mapping table. Byte values
1465 greater than the length of the string and 0xFFFE are treated as undefined
1466 mappings.
1467
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001468
1469Tests
1470-----
1471
Martin v. Löwis4d394df2005-01-23 09:19:22 +00001472- In test_os, st_?time is now truncated before comparing it with ST_?TIME.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001473
Hye-Shik Changaaa2f1d2005-12-10 17:44:27 +00001474- Patch #1276356: New resource "urlfetch" is implemented. This enables
1475 even impatient people to run tests that require remote files.
1476
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001477
1478Documentation
1479-------------
1480
Georg Brandl8cb30772006-01-20 09:34:29 +00001481- Bug #1402224: Add warning to dl docs about crashes.
1482
Georg Brandla3a93ae2006-01-20 09:14:36 +00001483- Bug #1396471: Document that Windows' ftell() can return invalid
1484 values for text files with UNIX-style line endings.
1485
Georg Brandl32252422005-09-14 20:42:00 +00001486- Bug #1274828: Document os.path.splitunc().
1487
Georg Brandl79c122f2005-08-24 07:31:33 +00001488- Bug #1190204: Clarify which directories are searched by site.py.
1489
Georg Brandl6f2bbd32005-08-24 07:26:55 +00001490- Bug #1193849: Clarify os.path.expanduser() documentation.
1491
Georg Brandlf13c4ba2005-08-02 10:28:08 +00001492- Bug #1243192: re.UNICODE and re.LOCALE affect \d, \D, \s and \S.
1493
Georg Brandl150db732005-07-18 08:53:17 +00001494- Bug #755617: Document the effects of os.chown() on Windows.
1495
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001496- Patch #1180012: The documentation for modulefinder is now in the library reference.
1497
1498- Patch #1213031: Document that os.chown() accepts argument values of -1.
1499
1500- Bug #1190563: Document os.waitpid() return value with WNOHANG flag.
1501
1502- Bug #1175022: Correct the example code for property().
1503
Georg Brandl40c71652005-06-25 21:08:46 +00001504- Document the IterableUserDict class in the UserDict module.
1505 Closes bug #1166582.
1506
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001507- Remove all latent references for "Macintosh" that referred to semantics for
1508 Mac OS 9 and change to reflect the state for OS X.
1509 Closes patch #1095802. Thanks Jack Jansen.
1510
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001511Mac
1512---
1513
1514
Hye-Shik Chang4e422812005-07-17 02:36:59 +00001515New platforms
1516-------------
1517
1518- FreeBSD 7 support is added.
1519
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001520
1521Tools/Demos
1522-----------
1523
Brett Cannonacde7342006-03-01 04:28:00 +00001524- Created Misc/Vim/vim_syntax.py to auto-generate a python.vim file in that
1525 directory for syntax highlighting in Vim. Vim directory was added and placed
1526 vimrc to it (was previous up a level).
1527
Georg Brandl56897312005-08-24 18:32:30 +00001528- Added two new files to Tools/scripts: pysource.py, which recursively
1529 finds Python source files, and findnocoding.py, which finds Python
1530 source files that need an encoding declaration.
1531 Patch #784089, credits to Oleg Broytmann.
1532
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001533- Bug #1072853: pindent.py used an uninitialized variable.
1534
Martin v. Löwisab9ec162005-04-09 10:53:34 +00001535- Patch #1177597: Correct Complex.__init__.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001536
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +00001537- Fixed a display glitch in Pynche, which could cause the right arrow to
1538 wiggle over by a pixel.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001539
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00001540----
1541
1542**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**