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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +00007What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 2?
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-2006*
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12Core and builtins
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Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +000015- Python on OS X 10.3 and above now uses dlopen() (via dynload_shlib.c)
16 to load extension modules and now provides the dl module. As a result,
17 sys.setdlopenflags() now works correctly on these systems. (SF patch
18 #1454844)
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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000021Extension Modules
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23
Gregory P. Smith7f5b6f42006-04-08 07:10:51 +000024- Fix bsddb.db.DBError derived exceptions so they can be unpickled.
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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000026Library
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Martin v. Löwisb04dee92006-04-10 08:34:21 +000029- Patch #1462222: Fix Tix.Grid.
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Neal Norwitza31bf182006-04-09 03:35:43 +000031- Fix exception when doing glob.glob('anything*/')
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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000033Build
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39Tests
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42Documentation
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Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +000047What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1?
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Anthony Baxterebed3f62006-04-03 15:03:44 +000050*Release date: 05-APR-2006*
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +000051
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +000052Core and builtins
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54
Martin v. Löwisea62d252006-04-03 10:56:49 +000055- Bug #1421664: sys.stderr.encoding is now set to the same value as
56 sys.stdout.encoding.
57
Neal Norwitz92e212f2006-04-03 04:48:37 +000058- __import__ accepts keyword arguments.
59
Georg Brandlccadf842006-03-31 18:54:53 +000060- Patch #1460496: round() now accepts keyword arguments.
61
Anthony Baxter262c00a2006-03-30 10:53:17 +000062- Fixed bug #1459029 - unicode reprs were double-escaped.
63
Hye-Shik Changd478f342006-03-23 12:32:36 +000064- Patch #1396919: The system scope threads are reenabled on FreeBSD
65 5.4 and later versions.
66
Neal Norwitze98ccf62006-03-23 05:39:47 +000067- Bug #1115379: Compiling a Unicode string with an encoding declaration
68 now gives a SyntaxError.
69
Georg Brandlabd1ff82006-03-18 07:59:59 +000070- Previously, Python code had no easy way to access the contents of a
71 cell object. Now, a ``cell_contents`` attribute has been added
72 (closes patch #1170323).
73
Tim Peterscf79aac2006-03-16 01:14:46 +000074- Patch #1123430: Python's small-object allocator now returns an arena to
75 the system ``free()`` when all memory within an arena becomes unused
76 again. Prior to Python 2.5, arenas (256KB chunks of memory) were never
77 freed. Some applications will see a drop in virtual memory size now,
78 especially long-running applications that, from time to time, temporarily
79 use a large number of small objects. Note that when Python returns an
80 arena to the platform C's ``free()``, there's no guarantee that the
81 platform C will in turn return that memory to the operating system. The
82 effect of the patch is to stop making that impossible, and in tests it
83 appears to be effective at least on Microsoft C and gcc-based systems.
84 Thanks to Evan Jones for hard work and patience.
85
Georg Brandl533ff6f2006-03-08 18:09:27 +000086- Patch #1434038: property() now uses the getter's docstring if there is
87 no "doc" argument given. This makes it possible to legitimately use
88 property() as a decorator to produce a read-only property.
89
Guido van Rossum9aa37ab2006-03-07 18:54:08 +000090- PEP 357, patch 1436368: add an __index__ method to int/long and a matching
91 nb_index slot to the PyNumberMethods struct. The slot is consulted instead
92 of requiring an int or long in slicing and a few other contexts, enabling
93 other objects (e.g. Numeric Python's integers) to be used as slice indices.
94
Neal Norwitz995acdf2006-03-07 05:01:00 +000095- Fixed various bugs reported by Coverity's Prevent tool.
96
Brett Cannonbf364092006-03-01 04:25:17 +000097- PEP 352, patch #1104669: Make exceptions new-style objects. Introduced the
98 new exception base class, BaseException, which has a new message attribute.
99 KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit to directly inherit from BaseException now.
100 Raising a string exception now raises a DeprecationWarning.
101
Thomas Woutersfb609f42006-02-28 16:37:25 +0000102- Patch #1438387, PEP 328: relative and absolute imports. Imports can now be
103 explicitly relative, using 'from .module import name' to mean 'from the same
104 package as this module is in. Imports without dots still default to the
105 old relative-then-absolute, unless 'from __future__ import
106 absolute_import' is used.
107
Brett Cannona7446e32006-02-27 23:39:10 +0000108- Properly check if 'warnings' raises an exception (usually when a filter set
109 to "error" is triggered) when raising a warning for raising string
110 exceptions.
111
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000112- CO_GENERATOR_ALLOWED is no longer defined. This behavior is the default.
Neal Norwitz0023a2f2006-02-27 23:24:48 +0000113 The name was removed from Include/code.h.
114
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000115- PEP 308: conditional expressions were added: (x if cond else y).
Neal Norwitzeb651252006-02-27 16:47:12 +0000116
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000117- Patch 1433928:
118 - The copy module now "copies" function objects (as atomic objects).
119 - dict.__getitem__ now looks for a __missing__ hook before raising
120 KeyError.
121
Tim Peters84ef21c2006-02-28 20:39:06 +0000122- PEP 343: with statement implemented. Needs ``from __future__ import
123 with_statement``. Use of 'with' as a variable will generate a warning.
124 Use of 'as' as a variable will also generate a warning (unless it's
Neal Norwitz055ec242006-02-28 20:06:49 +0000125 part of an import statement).
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +0000126 The following objects have __context__ methods:
127 - The built-in file type.
128 - The thread.LockType type.
129 - The following types defined by the threading module:
130 Lock, RLock, Condition, Semaphore, BoundedSemaphore.
131 - The decimal.Context class.
Guido van Rossumc2e20742006-02-27 22:32:47 +0000132
Marc-André Lemburgfe4b34c2006-02-19 15:22:22 +0000133- Fix the encodings package codec search function to only search
134 inside its own package. Fixes problem reported in patch #1433198.
135
136 Note: Codec packages should implement and register their own
137 codec search function. PEP 100 has the details.
138
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000139- PEP 353: Using ssize_t as the index type.
140
Neal Norwitzfc76d632006-01-10 06:03:13 +0000141- Patch #1400181, fix unicode string formatting to not use the locale.
142 This is how string objects work. u'%f' could use , instead of .
143 for the decimal point. Now both strings and unicode always use periods.
144
Neal Norwitz671b9e32006-01-09 07:07:12 +0000145- Bug #1244610, #1392915, fix build problem on OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8.
146 configure would break checking curses.h.
147
Georg Brandlcd4d1e82005-12-27 17:37:07 +0000148- Bug #959576: The pwd module is now builtin. This allows Python to be
149 built on UNIX platforms without $HOME set.
150
Neal Norwitzc10978f2005-12-19 06:07:16 +0000151- Bug #1072182, fix some potential problems if characters are signed.
152
Neal Norwitz5d0ad502005-12-19 04:27:42 +0000153- Bug #889500, fix line number on SyntaxWarning for global declarations.
154
Neal Norwitzdb83eb32005-12-18 05:29:30 +0000155- Bug #1378022, UTF-8 files with a leading BOM crashed the interpreter.
156
Neal Norwitze7214a12005-12-18 05:03:17 +0000157- Support for converting hex strings to floats no longer works.
158 This was not portable. float('0x3') now raises a ValueError.
159
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000160- Patch #1382163: Expose Subversion revision number to Python. New C API
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +0000161 function Py_GetBuildNumber(). New attribute sys.subversion. Build number
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000162 is now displayed in interactive prompt banner.
163
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000164- Implementation of PEP 341 - Unification of try/except and try/finally.
165 "except" clauses can now be written together with a "finally" clause in
Neal Norwitz11ca77e2005-12-17 22:24:12 +0000166 one try statement instead of two nested ones. Patch #1355913.
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000167
Hye-Shik Chang835b2432005-12-17 04:38:31 +0000168- Bug #1379994: Builtin unicode_escape and raw_unicode_escape codec
169 now encodes backslash correctly.
170
Martin v. Löwisb45b3152005-11-28 17:34:23 +0000171- Patch #1350409: Work around signal handling bug in Visual Studio 2005.
172
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000173- Bug #1281408: Py_BuildValue now works correctly even with unsigned longs
Georg Brandlf06e30a2005-11-24 15:37:42 +0000174 and long longs.
175
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000176- SF Bug #1350188, "setdlopenflags" leads to crash upon "import"
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000177 It was possible for dlerror() to return a NULL pointer, so
178 it will now use a default error message in this case.
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000179
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000180- Replaced most Unicode charmap codecs with new ones using the
181 new Unicode translate string feature in the builtin charmap
182 codec; the codecs were created from the mapping tables available
183 at ftp.unicode.org and contain a few updates (e.g. the Mac OS
184 encodings now include a mapping for the Apple logo)
185
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000186- Added a few more codecs for Mac OS encodings
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000187
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000188- Sped up some Unicode operations.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000189
Martin v. Löwisbd260da2006-02-26 19:42:26 +0000190- A new AST parser implementation was completed. The abstract
191 syntax tree is available for read-only (non-compile) access
Martin v. Löwis577b5b92006-02-27 15:23:19 +0000192 to Python code; an _ast module was added.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000193
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000194- SF bug #1167751: fix incorrect code being produced for generator expressions.
Neal Norwitz16af7342005-10-21 06:25:33 +0000195 The following code now raises a SyntaxError: foo(a = i for i in range(10))
196
Neal Norwitz708e51a2005-10-03 04:48:15 +0000197- SF Bug #976608: fix SystemError when mtime of an imported file is -1.
198
Neal Norwitz11bd1192005-10-03 00:54:56 +0000199- SF Bug #887946: fix segfault when redirecting stdin from a directory.
200 Provide a warning when a directory is passed on the command line.
201
Neal Norwitz40d37812005-10-02 01:48:49 +0000202- Fix segfault with invalid coding.
203
204- SF bug #772896: unknown encoding results in MemoryError.
205
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000206- All iterators now have a Boolean value of True. Formerly, some iterators
Raymond Hettinger6b27cda2005-09-24 21:23:05 +0000207 supported a __len__() method which evaluated to False when the iterator
208 was empty.
209
Guido van Rossum630db602005-09-20 18:49:54 +0000210- On 64-bit platforms, when __len__() returns a value that cannot be
211 represented as a C int, raise OverflowError.
212
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000213- test__locale is skipped on OS X < 10.4 (only partial locale support is
Walter Dörwald6611a8b2005-10-09 19:28:35 +0000214 present).
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000215
Georg Brandl80bbf3f2005-09-14 19:38:29 +0000216- SF bug #893549: parsing keyword arguments was broken with a few format
217 codes.
218
Guido van Rossum8ee3e5a2005-09-14 18:09:42 +0000219- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on AIX 5.3
220 with IBM's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1284289). This also closes SF
221 bug #105470: test_pwd fails on 64bit system (Opteron).
222
Guido van Rossum539c6622005-09-14 17:49:54 +0000223- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 on
224 Itanium2 with HP's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1225212).
225
Georg Brandl4550b8d2005-08-26 06:43:52 +0000226- Disallow keyword arguments for type constructors that don't use them
Georg Brandl02c42872005-08-26 06:42:30 +0000227 (fixes bug #1119418).
228
Martin v. Löwisd35edda2005-08-24 08:39:24 +0000229- Forward UnicodeDecodeError into SyntaxError for source encoding errors.
230
Barry Warsawe2eca0b2005-08-15 18:14:19 +0000231- SF bug #900092: When tracing (e.g. for hotshot), restore 'return' events for
232 exceptions that cause a function to exit.
233
Raymond Hettinger9f1a6792005-07-31 01:16:36 +0000234- The implementation of set() and frozenset() was revised to use its
235 own internal data structure. Memory consumption is reduced by 1/3
236 and there are modest speed-ups as well. The API is unchanged.
237
Tim Petersde7990b2005-07-17 23:45:23 +0000238- SF bug #1238681: freed pointer is used in longobject.c:long_pow().
239
Michael W. Hudson0edc7a02005-07-12 10:21:19 +0000240- SF bug #1229429: PyObject_CallMethod failed to decrement some
241 reference counts in some error exit cases.
242
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000243- SF bug #1185883: Python's small-object memory allocator took over
244 a block managed by the platform C library whenever a realloc specified
245 a small new size. However, there's no portable way to know then how
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000246 much of the address space following the pointer is valid, so there's no
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000247 portable way to copy data from the C-managed block into Python's
248 small-object space without risking a memory fault. Python's small-object
249 realloc now leaves such blocks under the control of the platform C
250 realloc.
251
Michael W. Hudsonb8963812005-07-05 15:21:58 +0000252- SF bug #1232517: An overflow error was not detected properly when
253 attempting to convert a large float to an int in os.utime().
254
Raymond Hettinger3296e692005-06-29 23:29:56 +0000255- SF bug #1224347: hex longs now print with lowercase letters just
256 like their int counterparts.
257
Michael W. Hudson188d4362005-06-20 16:52:57 +0000258- SF bug #1163563: the original fix for bug #1010677 ("thread Module
259 Breaks PyGILState_Ensure()") broke badly in the case of multiple
260 interpreter states; back out that fix and do a better job (see
261 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-June/054258.html
262 for a longer write-up of the problem).
263
Michael W. Hudsondf888462005-06-03 14:41:55 +0000264- SF patch #1180995: marshal now uses a binary format by default when
265 serializing floats.
266
Michael W. Hudsonda85a902005-06-01 11:34:22 +0000267- SF patch #1181301: on platforms that appear to use IEEE 754 floats,
268 the routines that promise to produce IEEE 754 binary representations
269 of floats now simply copy bytes around.
270
Skip Montanarobbf12ba2005-05-20 03:07:06 +0000271- bug #967182: disallow opening files with 'wU' or 'aU' as specified by PEP
272 278.
273
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000274- patch #1109424: int, long, float, complex, and unicode now check for the
275 proper magic slot for type conversions when subclassed. Previously the
276 magic slot was ignored during conversion. Semantics now match the way
277 subclasses of str always behaved. int/long/float, conversion of an instance
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +0000278 to the base class has been moved to the proper nb_* magic slot and out of
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000279 PyNumber_*().
280 Thanks Walter Dörwald.
281
Barry Warsawc8d907c2005-04-19 23:43:40 +0000282- Descriptors defined in C with a PyGetSetDef structure, where the setter is
283 NULL, now raise an AttributeError when attempting to set or delete the
284 attribute. Previously a TypeError was raised, but this was inconsistent
285 with the equivalent pure-Python implementation.
286
Michael W. Hudson774479c2005-04-18 08:46:17 +0000287- It is now safe to call PyGILState_Release() before
288 PyEval_InitThreads() (note that if there is reason to believe there
289 are multiple threads around you still must call PyEval_InitThreads()
290 before using the Python API; this fix is for extension modules that
291 have no way of knowing if Python is multi-threaded yet).
292
Michael W. Hudsone3afc592005-04-07 10:11:19 +0000293- Typing Ctrl-C whilst raw_input() was waiting in a build with threads
294 disabled caused a crash.
295
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000296- Bug #1165306: instancemethod_new allowed the creation of a method
297 with im_class == im_self == NULL, which caused a crash when called.
298
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000299- Move exception finalisation later in the shutdown process - this
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +0000300 fixes the crash seen in bug #1165761
301
Raymond Hettinger96229b12005-03-11 06:49:40 +0000302- Added two new builtins, any() and all().
303
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000304- Defining a class with empty parentheses is now allowed
Brett Cannonf4189912005-04-09 02:30:16 +0000305 (e.g., ``class C(): pass`` is no longer a syntax error).
306 Patch #1176012 added support to the 'parser' module and 'compiler' package
307 (thanks to logistix for that added support).
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000308
Martin v. Löwis96d743e2005-03-03 23:00:26 +0000309- Patch #1115086: Support PY_LONGLONG in structmember.
310
Raymond Hettingerb67cc802005-03-03 16:45:19 +0000311- Bug #1155938: new style classes did not check that __init__() was
312 returning None.
313
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000314- Patch #802188: Report characters after line continuation character
Martin v. Löwis4bf108d2005-03-03 11:45:45 +0000315 ('\') with a specific error message.
316
Martin v. Löwisff232d72005-03-03 09:24:38 +0000317- Bug #723201: Raise a TypeError for passing bad objects to 'L' format.
318
Michael W. Hudson8e1afab2005-02-17 14:55:21 +0000319- Bug #1124295: the __name__ attribute of file objects was
320 inadvertently made inaccessible in restricted mode.
321
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000322- Bug #1074011: closing sys.std{out,err} now causes a flush() and
Martin v. Löwis8e3ca8a2005-01-23 09:41:49 +0000323 an ferror() call.
324
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +0000325- min() and max() now support key= arguments with the same meaning as in
326 list.sort().
327
Raymond Hettingerc34f8672005-01-02 06:17:33 +0000328- The peephole optimizer now performs simple constant folding in expressions:
329 (2+3) --> (5).
330
Raymond Hettingera422c342005-01-11 03:03:27 +0000331- set and frozenset objects can now be marshalled. SF #1098985.
332
Michael W. Hudsonfaa76482005-01-31 17:09:25 +0000333- Bug #1077106: Poor argument checking could cause memory corruption
334 in calls to os.read().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000335
Jeremy Hyltonab630502005-02-04 18:44:06 +0000336- The parser did not complain about future statements in illegal
337 positions. It once again reports a syntax error if a future
338 statement occurs after anything other than a doc string.
339
Neil Schemenauercf52c072005-08-12 17:34:58 +0000340- Change the %s format specifier for str objects so that it returns a
341 unicode instance if the argument is not an instance of basestring and
342 calling __str__ on the argument returns a unicode instance.
343
Tim Petersf4e69282006-02-27 17:15:31 +0000344- Patch #1413181: changed ``PyThreadState_Delete()`` to forget about the
345 current thread state when the auto-GIL-state machinery knows about
346 it (since the thread state is being deleted, continuing to remember it
347 can't help, but can hurt if another thread happens to get created with
348 the same thread id).
349
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000350Extension Modules
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352
Georg Brandl43f08a82006-03-31 18:01:16 +0000353- Patch #1380952: fix SSL objects timing out on consecutive read()s
354
Neal Norwitz05a45592006-03-20 06:30:08 +0000355- Patch #1309579: wait3 and wait4 were added to the posix module.
356
Anthony Baxterfa869072006-03-20 05:21:58 +0000357- Patch #1231053: The audioop module now supports encoding/decoding of alaw.
358 In addition, the existing ulaw code was updated.
359
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000360- RFE #567972: Socket objects' family, type and proto properties are
Georg Brandl72d7a782006-03-22 06:44:14 +0000361 now exposed via new attributes.
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000362
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +0000363- Everything under lib-old was removed. This includes the following modules:
364 Para, addpack, cmp, cmpcache, codehack, dircmp, dump, find, fmt, grep,
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +0000365 lockfile, newdir, ni, packmail, poly, rand, statcache, tb, tzparse,
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +0000366 util, whatsound, whrandom, zmod
367
368- The following modules were removed: regsub, reconvert, regex, regex_syntax.
369
370- re and sre were swapped, so help(re) provides full help. importing sre
Neal Norwitzefbeaef2006-03-16 06:40:39 +0000371 is deprecated. The undocumented re.engine variable no longer exists.
372
Hye-Shik Changabb903f2006-03-13 10:20:08 +0000373- Bug #1448490: Fixed a bug that ISO-2022 codecs could not handle
374 SS2 (single-shift 2) escape sequences correctly.
375
Martin v. Löwis480f1bb2006-03-09 23:38:20 +0000376- The unicodedata module was updated to the 4.1 version of the Unicode
377 database. The 3.2 version is still available as unicodedata.db_3_2_0
378 for applications that require this specific version (such as IDNA).
379
Neal Norwitzb62c4332006-03-04 18:35:47 +0000380- The timing module is no longer built by default. It was deprecated
381 in PEP 4 in Python 2.0 or earlier.
382
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000383- Patch 1433928: Added a new type, defaultdict, to the collections module.
384 This uses the new __missing__ hook behavior added to dict (see above).
385
Georg Brandldbd83392006-02-20 09:42:33 +0000386- Bug #854823: socketmodule now builds on Sun platforms even when
387 INET_ADDRSTRLEN is not defined.
388
Georg Brandlf4f44152006-02-18 22:29:33 +0000389- Patch #1393157: os.startfile() now has an optional argument to specify
390 a "command verb" to invoke on the file.
391
Neal Norwitz082b2df2006-02-07 07:04:46 +0000392- Bug #876637, prevent stack corruption when socket descriptor
393 is larger than FD_SETSIZE.
394
Neal Norwitz0e6bc8c2006-02-05 05:45:43 +0000395- Patch #1407135, bug #1424041: harmonize mmap behavior of anonymous memory.
396 mmap.mmap(-1, size) now returns anonymous memory in both Unix and Windows.
397 mmap.mmap(0, size) should not be used on Windows for anonymous memory.
398
Martin v. Löwis57a34e82006-02-04 19:12:37 +0000399- Patch #1422385: The nis module now supports access to domains other
400 than the system default domain.
401
Martin v. Löwis14694662006-02-03 12:54:16 +0000402- Use Win32 API to implement os.stat/fstat. As a result, subsecond timestamps
403 are reported, the limit on path name lengths is removed, and stat reports
404 WindowsError now (instead of OSError).
405
Gregory P. Smithcfc4a8d2006-01-29 19:46:23 +0000406- Add bsddb.db.DBEnv.set_tx_timestamp allowing time based database recovery.
407
Neal Norwitz62a21122006-01-25 05:21:55 +0000408- Bug #1413192, fix seg fault in bsddb if a transaction was deleted
409 before the env.
410
Martin v. Löwis11017b12006-01-14 18:12:57 +0000411- Patch #1103116: Basic AF_NETLINK support.
412
Neal Norwitz3b4fff82006-01-11 08:54:45 +0000413- Bug #1402308, (possible) segfault when using mmap.mmap(-1, ...)
414
Neal Norwitz88bbd732006-01-10 07:05:44 +0000415- Bug #1400822, _curses over{lay,write} doesn't work when passing 6 ints.
416 Also fix ungetmouse() which did not accept arguments properly.
417 The code now conforms to the documented signature.
418
Neal Norwitz5e3d8622006-01-09 06:24:35 +0000419- Bug #1400115, Fix segfault when calling curses.panel.userptr()
420 without prior setting of the userptr.
421
Neal Norwitz40c6b472006-01-05 05:43:35 +0000422- Fix 64-bit problems in bsddb.
423
Neal Norwitz8856fb72005-12-18 03:34:22 +0000424- Patch #1365916: fix some unsafe 64-bit mmap methods.
425
Hye-Shik Changc5c57e62005-12-12 11:48:32 +0000426- Bug #1290333: Added a workaround for cjkcodecs' _codecs_cn build
427 problem on AIX.
428
Georg Brandla13c2442005-11-22 19:30:31 +0000429- Bug #869197: os.setgroups rejects long integer arguments
430
Neal Norwitz0f46bbf2005-11-03 05:00:25 +0000431- Bug #1346533, select.poll() doesn't raise an error if timeout > sys.maxint
432
Neal Norwitz7b631792005-11-02 05:26:07 +0000433- Bug #1344508, Fix UNIX mmap leaking file descriptors
434
Neal Norwitzf3396542005-10-28 05:52:22 +0000435- Patch #1338314, Bug #1336623: fix tarfile so it can extract
436 REGTYPE directories from tarfiles written by old programs.
437
Gregory P. Smithe101df92006-01-24 20:09:45 +0000438- Patch #1407992, fixes broken bsddb module db associate when using
439 BerkeleyDB 3.3, 4.0 or 4.1.
440
441- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 4.4
442
443- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 3.2
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000444
Neal Norwitz484d9a42005-09-30 04:46:49 +0000445- Patch #1309009, Fix segfault in pyexpat when the XML document is in latin_1,
446 but Python incorrectly assumes it is in UTF-8 format
447
Georg Brandle677adc2005-09-29 13:40:49 +0000448- Fix parse errors in the readline module when compiling without threads.
449
Hye-Shik Chang9ceebd52005-09-24 14:58:47 +0000450- Patch #1288833: Removed thread lock from socket.getaddrinfo on
451 FreeBSD 5.3 and later versions which got thread-safe getaddrinfo(3).
452
Michael W. Hudson10402a32005-09-22 09:19:01 +0000453- Patches #1298449 and #1298499: Add some missing checks for error
454 returns in cStringIO.c.
455
Neal Norwitz058bde12005-09-21 06:44:25 +0000456- Patch #1297028: fix segfault if call type on MultibyteCodec,
457 MultibyteStreamReader, or MultibyteStreamWriter
458
Neal Norwitzcfe7dd92005-09-19 06:49:27 +0000459- Fix memory leak in posix.access().
460
Martin v. Löwis8b291e22005-09-18 08:17:56 +0000461- Patch #1213831: Fix typo in unicodedata._getcode.
462
Georg Brandlfb1ef852005-09-14 20:53:32 +0000463- Bug #1007046: os.startfile() did not accept unicode strings encoded in
464 the file system encoding.
465
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000466- Patch #756021: Special-case socket.inet_aton('255.255.255.255') for
467 platforms that don't have inet_aton().
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000468
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000469- Bug #1215928: Fix bz2.BZ2File.seek() for 64-bit file offsets.
470
471- Bug #1191043: Fix bz2.BZ2File.(x)readlines for files containing one
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000472 line without newlines.
473
Georg Brandl38387b82005-08-24 07:17:40 +0000474- Bug #728515: mmap.resize() now resizes the file on Unix as it did
475 on Windows.
476
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000477- Patch #1180695: Add nanosecond stat resolution, and st_gen,
Martin v. Löwisebd9d5b2005-08-09 15:00:59 +0000478 st_birthtime for FreeBSD.
479
Michael W. Hudson8137bea2005-07-27 20:24:40 +0000480- Patch #1231069: The fcntl.ioctl function now uses the 'I' code for
481 the request code argument, which results in more C-like behaviour
482 for large or negative values.
483
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000484- Bug #1234979: For the argument of thread.Lock.acquire, the Windows
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000485 implementation treated all integer values except 1 as false.
Georg Brandlaf410b52005-07-08 22:26:13 +0000486
Georg Brandl6b95f1d2005-06-03 19:47:00 +0000487- Bug #1194181: bz2.BZ2File didn't handle mode 'U' correctly.
488
Hye-Shik Chang5f937a72005-06-02 13:09:30 +0000489- Patch #1212117: os.stat().st_flags is now accessible as a attribute
490 if available on the platform.
491
Skip Montanaro5ff14922005-05-16 02:42:22 +0000492- Patch #1103951: Expose O_SHLOCK and O_EXLOCK in the posix module if
493 available on the platform.
494
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000495- Bug #1166660: The readline module could segfault if hook functions
496 were set in a different thread than that which called readline.
497
Raymond Hettinger4aec61e2005-03-18 21:20:23 +0000498- collections.deque objects now support a remove() method.
499
Raymond Hettinger984f9bb2005-03-09 16:38:48 +0000500- operator.itemgetter() and operator.attrgetter() now support retrieving
501 multiple fields. This provides direct support for sorting on multiple
502 keys (primary, secondary, etc).
503
Martin v. Löwisb60ae992005-03-08 09:10:29 +0000504- os.access now supports Unicode path names on non-Win32 systems.
505
Martin v. Löwisfd78a6f2005-03-04 14:37:01 +0000506- Patches #925152, #1118602: Avoid reading after the end of the buffer
507 in pyexpat.GetInputContext.
508
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000509- Patches #749830, #1144555: allow UNIX mmap size to default to current
Martin v. Löwis7fe60c02005-03-03 11:22:44 +0000510 file size.
511
Raymond Hettinger9c323f82005-02-28 19:39:44 +0000512- Added functional.partial(). See PEP309.
513
Martin v. Löwis9533e342005-02-27 20:33:25 +0000514- Patch #1093585: raise a ValueError for negative history items in readline.
515 {remove_history,replace_history}
516
Fred Drake9c131f22005-01-23 15:16:08 +0000517- The spwd module has been added, allowing access to the shadow password
518 database.
Martin v. Löwisc3001752005-01-23 09:27:24 +0000519
Martin v. Löwisfe33d0b2005-01-16 08:57:39 +0000520- stat_float_times is now True.
521
Raymond Hettingerb0900e62004-12-16 16:23:40 +0000522- array.array objects are now picklable.
523
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +0000524- the cPickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
525 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
526
Raymond Hettingerb2594052004-12-05 09:25:51 +0000527- itertools.islice() now accepts None for the start and step arguments.
528 This allows islice() to work more readily with slices:
529 islice(s.start, s.stop, s.step)
530
Skip Montanaro0af3ade2005-01-13 04:12:31 +0000531- datetime.datetime() now has a strptime class method which can be used to
532 create datetime object using a string and format.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000533
Matthias Klosed77f8b32006-04-03 16:34:56 +0000534- Patch #1117961: Replace the MD5 implementation from RSA Data Security Inc
Matthias Klose8e39ec72006-04-03 16:27:50 +0000535 with the implementation from http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmd5-rfc/.
536
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000537Library
538-------
539
Anthony Baxter93f5b932006-04-03 08:05:07 +0000540- The email module's parsedate_tz function now sets the daylight savings
541 flag to -1 (unknown) since it can't tell from the date whether it should
542 be set.
543
Fred Drakead5177c2006-04-01 22:14:43 +0000544- Patch #624325: urlparse.urlparse() and urlparse.urlsplit() results
545 now sport attributes that provide access to the parts of the result.
546
Georg Brandl7f6b67c2006-04-01 08:35:18 +0000547- Patch #1462498: sgmllib now handles entity and character references
548 in attribute values.
549
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +0000550- Added the sqlite3 package. This is based on pysqlite2.1.3, and provides
Georg Brandl828fdef2006-04-01 08:59:03 +0000551 a DB-API interface in the standard library. You'll need sqlite 3.0.8 or
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +0000552 later to build this - if you have an earlier version, the C extension
553 module will not be built.
554
Tim Petersc17976e2006-04-01 00:26:53 +0000555- Bug #1460340: ``random.sample(dict)`` failed in various ways. Dicts
556 aren't officially supported here, and trying to use them will probably
557 raise an exception some day. But dicts have been allowed, and "mostly
558 worked", so support for them won't go away without warning.
559
Georg Brandl338ef7d2006-03-31 18:42:16 +0000560- Bug #1445068: getpass.getpass() can now be given an explicit stream
561 argument to specify where to write the prompt.
562
Georg Brandl22ec80b2006-03-31 18:25:44 +0000563- Patch #1462313, bug #1443328: the pickle modules now can handle classes
564 that have __private names in their __slots__.
565
Neal Norwitz6974a512006-04-10 00:25:01 +0000566- Bug #1250170: mimetools now handles socket.gethostname() failures gracefully.
Georg Brandldd2245f2006-03-31 17:18:06 +0000567
Phillip J. Eby59821cf2006-03-30 02:16:40 +0000568- patch #1457316: "setup.py upload" now supports --identity to select the
569 key to be used for signing the uploaded code.
570
Raymond Hettingerfd3fcf02006-03-24 20:43:29 +0000571- Queue.Queue objects now support .task_done() and .join() methods
572 to make it easier to monitor when daemon threads have completed
573 processing all enqueued tasks. Patch #1455676.
574
Martin v. Löwisbd8dbab2006-03-23 18:18:35 +0000575- popen2.Popen objects now preserve the command in a .cmd attribute.
576
Thomas Hellerc61c0492006-03-22 10:09:27 +0000577- Added the ctypes ffi package.
578
Barry Warsaw4d90bbd2006-03-22 02:45:50 +0000579- email 4.0 package now integrated. This is largely the same as the email 3.0
580 package that was included in Python 2.3, except that PEP 8 module names are
581 now used (e.g. mail.message instead of email.Message). The MIME classes
582 have been moved to a subpackage (e.g. email.mime.text instead of
583 email.MIMEText). The old names are still supported for now. Several
584 deprecated Message methods have been removed and lots of bugs have been
585 fixed. More details can be found in the email package documentation.
586
Walter Dörwald40108c92006-03-27 08:15:44 +0000587- Patches #1436130/#1443155: codecs.lookup() now returns a CodecInfo object
588 (a subclass of tuple) that provides incremental decoders and encoders
589 (a way to use stateful codecs without the stream API). Python functions
590 codecs.getincrementaldecoder() and codecs.getincrementalencoder() as well
591 as C functions PyCodec_IncrementalEncoder() and PyCodec_IncrementalDecoder()
592 have been added.
Walter Dörwaldabb02e52006-03-15 11:35:15 +0000593
Walter Dörwald067db482006-03-15 22:17:27 +0000594- Patch #1359365: Calling next() on a closed StringIO.String object raises
595 a ValueError instead of a StopIteration now (like file and cString.String do).
596 cStringIO.StringIO.isatty() will raise a ValueError now if close() has been
597 called before (like file and StringIO.StringIO do).
Walter Dörwald197e8322006-03-15 22:13:13 +0000598
Martin v. Löwis04824ce2006-03-10 21:26:16 +0000599- A regrtest option -w was added to re-run failed tests in verbose mode.
600
Georg Brandle2b46772006-03-09 23:22:43 +0000601- Patch #1446372: quit and exit can now be called from the interactive
602 interpreter to exit.
603
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +0000604- The function get_count() has been added to the gc module, and gc.collect()
605 grew an optional 'generation' argument.
606
Martin v. Löwisfbab90e2006-03-05 13:36:04 +0000607- A library msilib to generate Windows Installer files, and a distutils
608 command bdist_msi have been added.
609
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +0000610- PEP 343: new module contextlib.py defines decorator @contextmanager
611 and helpful context managers nested() and closing().
612
Martin v. Löwis415ed932006-02-27 19:56:30 +0000613- The compiler package now supports future imports after the module docstring.
614
Georg Brandl8f7c54e2006-02-20 08:40:38 +0000615- Bug #1413790: zipfile now sanitizes absolute archive names that are
616 not allowed by the specs.
617
Georg Brandlc98eeed2006-02-19 14:57:47 +0000618- Patch #1215184: FileInput now can be given an opening hook which can
619 be used to control how files are opened.
620
Georg Brandlc029f872006-02-19 14:12:34 +0000621- Patch #1212287: fileinput.input() now has a mode parameter for
622 specifying the file mode input files should be opened with.
623
Georg Brandl67e9fb92006-02-19 13:56:17 +0000624- Patch #1215184: fileinput now has a fileno() function for getting the
625 current file number.
626
Georg Brandl602b9ba2006-02-19 13:26:36 +0000627- Patch #1349274: gettext.install() now optionally installs additional
628 translation functions other than _() in the builtin namespace.
629
Georg Brandle4662172006-02-19 09:51:27 +0000630- Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames.
631
Georg Brandl7b4e7c22006-02-18 21:10:56 +0000632- Patch #1373643: The chunk module can now read chunks larger than
633 two gigabytes.
634
Georg Brandl21dd1af2006-02-17 13:35:13 +0000635- Patch #1417555: SimpleHTTPServer now returns Last-Modified headers.
636
Georg Brandlbd3bc4d2006-02-17 09:52:53 +0000637- Bug #1430298: It is now possible to send a mail with an empty
638 return address using smtplib.
639
Georg Brandl0e1abe22006-02-17 09:48:14 +0000640- Bug #1432260: The names of lambda functions are now properly displayed
641 in pydoc.
Georg Brandl501dd0d2006-02-17 09:45:40 +0000642
Martin v. Löwis00756902006-02-05 17:09:41 +0000643- Patch #1412872: zipfile now sets the creator system to 3 (Unix)
644 unless the system is Win32.
645
Tim Petersda1329b2006-02-27 16:50:01 +0000646- Patch #1349118: urllib now supports user:pass@ style proxy
Martin v. Löwis3e865952006-01-24 15:51:21 +0000647 specifications, raises IOErrors when proxies for unsupported protocols
648 are defined, and uses the https proxy on https redirections.
649
Georg Brandl531ceba2006-01-21 07:20:56 +0000650- Bug #902075: urllib2 now supports 'host:port' style proxy specifications.
651
652- Bug #1407902: Add support for sftp:// URIs to urlparse.
Georg Brandl89f35ac2006-01-20 17:24:23 +0000653
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000654- Bug #1371247: Update Windows locale identifiers in locale.py.
655
Neal Norwitzf60cd472006-01-14 07:05:13 +0000656- Bug #1394565: SimpleHTTPServer now doesn't choke on query parameters
Georg Brandl45ab2332006-01-13 17:05:56 +0000657 any more.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000658
Georg Brandl4edd9892006-01-13 16:59:46 +0000659- Bug #1403410: The warnings module now doesn't get confused
660 when it can't find out the module name it generates a warning for.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000661
Martin v. Löwis412ed3b2006-01-08 10:45:39 +0000662- Patch #1177307: Added a new codec utf_8_sig for UTF-8 with a BOM signature.
663
Neal Norwitzab86f8e2005-12-23 21:44:36 +0000664- Patch #1157027: cookielib mishandles RFC 2109 cookies in Netscape mode
665
Neal Norwitz338e7862005-12-23 21:27:46 +0000666- Patch #1117398: cookielib.LWPCookieJar and .MozillaCookieJar now raise
667 LoadError as documented, instead of IOError. For compatibility,
668 LoadError subclasses IOError.
669
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +0000670- Added the hashlib module. It provides secure hash functions for MD5 and
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000671 SHA1, 224, 256, 384, and 512. Note that recent developments make the
672 historic MD5 and SHA1 unsuitable for cryptographic-strength applications.
673 In <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058850.html>
674 Ronald L. Rivest offered this advice for Python:
675
676 "The consensus of researchers in this area (at least as
677 expressed at the NIST Hash Function Workshop 10/31/05),
678 is that SHA-256 is a good choice for the time being, but
679 that research should continue, and other alternatives may
680 arise from this research. The larger SHA's also seem OK."
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +0000681
Fredrik Lundh7e0aef02005-12-12 18:54:55 +0000682- Added a subset of Fredrik Lundh's ElementTree package. Available
683 modules are xml.etree.ElementTree, xml.etree.ElementPath, and
684 xml.etree.ElementInclude, from ElementTree 1.2.6.
685
Martin v. Löwis307021f2005-11-27 16:59:04 +0000686- Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles.
687
Georg Brandl1f663572005-11-26 16:50:44 +0000688- Bug #1365984: urllib now opens "data:" URLs again.
689
Brett Cannonad07ff22005-11-23 02:15:50 +0000690- Patch #1314396: prevent deadlock for threading.Thread.join() when an exception
691 is raised within the method itself on a previous call (e.g., passing in an
692 illegal argument)
693
Brett Cannon5d0bf942005-11-02 23:04:26 +0000694- Bug #1340337: change time.strptime() to always return ValueError when there
695 is an error in the format string.
696
Georg Brandle8f24432005-10-03 14:16:44 +0000697- Patch #754022: Greatly enhanced webbrowser.py (by Oleg Broytmann).
698
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000699- Bug #729103: pydoc.py: Fix docother() method to accept additional
Georg Brandl8b813db2005-10-01 16:32:31 +0000700 "parent" argument.
701
Georg Brandlaa935172005-09-29 20:49:16 +0000702- Patch #1300515: xdrlib.py: Fix pack_fstring() to really use null bytes
703 for padding.
704
Georg Brandl80ba8e82005-09-29 20:16:07 +0000705- Bug #1296004: httplib.py: Limit maximal amount of data read from the
706 socket to avoid a MemoryError on Windows.
707
Matthias Klosef3f231f2005-09-20 07:02:49 +0000708- Patch #1166948: locale.py: Prefer LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG over LANGUAGE
709 to get the correct encoding.
710
711- Patch #1166938: locale.py: Parse LANGUAGE as a colon separated list of
712 languages.
713
Martin v. Löwis4ed67382005-09-18 08:34:39 +0000714- Patch #1268314: Cache lines in StreamReader.readlines for performance.
715
Brett Cannona783d062005-09-15 02:34:56 +0000716- Bug #1290505: Fix clearing the regex cache for time.strptime().
717
Martin v. Löwis5dbdc592005-08-27 10:07:56 +0000718- Bug #1167128: Fix size of a symlink in a tarfile to be 0.
719
Georg Brandl5a650a22005-08-26 08:51:34 +0000720- Patch #810023: Fix off-by-one bug in urllib.urlretrieve reporthook
721 functionality.
722
Martin v. Löwis8b595142005-08-25 11:03:38 +0000723- Bug #1163178: Make IDNA return an empty string when the input is empty.
724
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +0000725- Patch #848017: Make Cookie more RFC-compliant. Use CRLF as default output
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000726 separator and do not output trailing semicolon.
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +0000727
Georg Brandlb9256022005-08-24 18:46:39 +0000728- Patch #1062060: urllib.urlretrieve() now raises a new exception, named
729 ContentTooShortException, when the actually downloaded size does not
730 match the Content-Length header.
731
Martin v. Löwis0a5d4a22005-08-24 14:55:22 +0000732- Bug #1121494: distutils.dir_utils.mkpath now accepts Unicode strings.
733
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +0000734- Bug #1178484: Return complete lines from codec stream readers
735 even if there is an exception in later lines, resulting in
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000736 correct line numbers for decoding errors in source code.
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +0000737
Georg Brandl6d2b3462005-08-24 07:36:17 +0000738- Bug #1192315: Disallow negative arguments to clear() in pdb.
739
Martin v. Löwisb813c532005-08-07 20:51:04 +0000740- Patch #827386: Support absolute source paths in msvccompiler.py.
741
Georg Brandl649f8e72005-08-03 07:30:12 +0000742- Patch #1105730: Apply the new implementation of commonprefix in posixpath
743 to ntpath, macpath, os2emxpath and riscospath.
744
Guido van Rossum755149f2005-07-27 00:00:44 +0000745- Fix a problem in Tkinter introduced by SF patch #869468: delete bogus
746 __hasattr__ and __delattr__ methods on class Tk that were breaking
747 Tkdnd.
748
Georg Brandl5dbda752005-07-17 20:27:41 +0000749- Bug #1015140: disambiguated the term "article id" in nntplib docs and
750 docstrings to either "article number" or "message id".
751
Georg Brandla4a8b822005-07-15 09:13:21 +0000752- Bug #1238170: threading.Thread.__init__ no longer has "kwargs={}" as a
753 parameter, but uses the usual "kwargs=None".
754
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000755- textwrap now processes text chunks at O(n) speed instead of O(n**2).
Raymond Hettinger8bfa8932005-07-15 06:53:35 +0000756 Patch #1209527 (Contributed by Connelly).
757
Georg Brandl5c5fe2f2005-07-14 06:40:47 +0000758- urllib2 has now an attribute 'httpresponses' mapping from HTTP status code
759 to W3C name (404 -> 'Not Found'). RFE #1216944.
760
Georg Brandl9e43acf2005-07-04 17:16:07 +0000761- Bug #1177468: Don't cache the /dev/urandom file descriptor for os.urandom,
762 as this can cause problems with apps closing all file descriptors.
763
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000764- Bug #839151: Fix an attempt to access sys.argv in the warnings module;
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000765 it can be missing in embedded interpreters
Georg Brandl5284b532005-06-26 22:54:58 +0000766
Georg Brandl2f210b62005-06-26 22:09:06 +0000767- Bug #1155638: Fix a bug which affected HTTP 0.9 responses in httplib.
768
Georg Brandlfbff1bc2005-06-26 21:36:25 +0000769- Bug #1100201: Cross-site scripting was possible on BaseHTTPServer via
770 error messages.
771
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +0000772- Bug #1108948: Cookie.py produced invalid JavaScript code.
773
Raymond Hettingerda99d1c2005-06-21 07:43:58 +0000774- The tokenize module now detects and reports indentation errors.
775 Bug #1224621.
776
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +0000777- The tokenize module has a new untokenize() function to support a full
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000778 roundtrip from lexed tokens back to Python source code. In addition,
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +0000779 the generate_tokens() function now accepts a callable argument that
780 terminates by raising StopIteration.
781
Georg Brandl9166e1a2005-06-04 09:20:03 +0000782- Bug #1196315: fix weakref.WeakValueDictionary constructor.
783
Georg Brandl268e61c2005-06-03 14:28:50 +0000784- Bug #1213894: os.path.realpath didn't resolve symlinks that were the first
785 component of the path.
786
Skip Montanaro174dd222005-05-14 20:54:16 +0000787- Patch #1120353: The xmlrpclib module provides better, more transparent,
788 support for datetime.{datetime,date,time} objects. With use_datetime set
789 to True, applications shouldn't have to fiddle with the DateTime wrapper
790 class at all.
791
Martin v. Löwis55f1bb82005-03-21 20:56:35 +0000792- distutils.commands.upload was added to support uploading distribution
793 files to PyPI.
794
Walter Dörwalda6e8a4a2005-03-31 13:57:38 +0000795- distutils.commands.register now encodes the data as UTF-8 before posting
796 them to PyPI.
797
Raymond Hettinger267b8682005-03-27 10:47:39 +0000798- decimal operator and comparison methods now return NotImplemented
799 instead of raising a TypeError when interacting with other types. This
800 allows other classes to implement __radd__ style methods and have them
801 work as expected.
802
Raymond Hettingerbea3f6f2005-03-15 04:59:17 +0000803- Bug #1163325: Decimal infinities failed to hash. Attempting to
804 hash a NaN raised an InvalidOperation instead of a TypeError.
805
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000806- Patch #918101: Add tarfile open mode r|* for auto-detection of the
Martin v. Löwis78be7df2005-03-05 12:47:42 +0000807 stream compression; add, for symmetry reasons, r:* as a synonym of r.
808
Martin v. Löwis00a73e72005-03-04 19:40:34 +0000809- Patch #1043890: Add extractall method to tarfile.
810
Martin v. Löwisc72dd382005-03-04 13:50:17 +0000811- Patch #1075887: Don't require MSVC in distutils if there is nothing
812 to build.
813
Martin v. Löwis637431b2005-03-03 23:12:42 +0000814- Patch #1103407: Properly deal with tarfile iterators when untarring
815 symbolic links on Windows.
816
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000817- Patch #645894: Use getrusage for computing the time consumption in
Martin v. Löwisa4dac402005-03-03 11:39:45 +0000818 profile.py if available.
819
Martin v. Löwisdf37c8c2005-03-03 11:08:03 +0000820- Patch #1046831: Use get_python_version where appropriate in sysconfig.py.
821
Martin v. Löwisc5574e82005-03-03 10:57:37 +0000822- Patch #1117454: Remove code to special-case cookies without values
823 in LWPCookieJar.
824
Martin v. Löwis4ea3ead2005-03-03 10:48:12 +0000825- Patch #1117339: Add cookielib special name tests.
826
Martin v. Löwise869eb12005-03-03 09:46:07 +0000827- Patch #1112812: Make bsddb/__init__.py more friendly for modulefinder.
828
Martin v. Löwisf2a8d632005-03-03 08:35:22 +0000829- Patch #1110248: SYNC_FLUSH the zlib buffer for GZipFile.flush.
830
Martin v. Löwisdf241532005-03-03 08:17:42 +0000831- Patch #1107973: Allow to iterate over the lines of a tarfile.ExFileObject.
832
Martin v. Löwis8ed338a2005-03-03 08:12:27 +0000833- Patch #1104111: Alter setup.py --help and --help-commands.
834
Martin v. Löwis4afe1542005-03-01 08:09:28 +0000835- Patch #1121234: Properly cleanup _exit and tkerror commands.
836
Martin v. Löwisc2a0ac22005-02-24 20:22:10 +0000837- Patch #1049151: xdrlib now unpacks booleans as True or False.
838
Raymond Hettingerbab41432005-02-05 01:31:19 +0000839- Fixed bug in a NameError bug in cookielib. Patch #1116583.
840
Guido van Rossumd0641422005-02-03 15:01:24 +0000841- Applied a security fix to SimpleXMLRPCserver (PSF-2005-001). This
842 disables recursive traversal through instance attributes, which can
843 be exploited in various ways.
844
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000845- Bug #1222790: in SimpleXMLRPCServer, set the reuse-address and close-on-exec
Andrew M. Kuchling3a976052005-12-04 15:07:41 +0000846 flags on the HTTP listening socket.
847
Andrew M. Kuchlinge63fde72005-12-04 15:36:57 +0000848- Bug #792570: SimpleXMLRPCServer had problems if the request grew too large.
849 Fixed by reading the HTTP body in chunks instead of one big socket.read().
850
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000851- Patches #893642, #1039083: add allow_none, encoding arguments to constructors of
Andrew M. Kuchling10a16de2005-12-04 16:34:40 +0000852 SimpleXMLRPCServer and CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler.
853
Martin v. Löwis1d11de62005-01-29 13:29:23 +0000854- Bug #1110478: Revert os.environ.update to do putenv again.
855
Thomas Hellerd6c6e222005-01-20 19:20:16 +0000856- Bug #1103844: fix distutils.install.dump_dirs() with negated options.
857
Martin v. Löwis22b457e2005-01-16 08:40:58 +0000858- os.{SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END} have been added for convenience.
859
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000860- Enhancements to the csv module:
861
862 + Dialects are now validated by the underlying C code, better
Georg Brandl7eb4b7d2005-07-22 21:49:32 +0000863 reflecting its capabilities, and improving its compliance with
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000864 PEP 305.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000865 + Dialect parameter parsing has been re-implemented to improve error
866 reporting.
867 + quotechar=None and quoting=QUOTE_NONE now work the way PEP 305
868 dictates.
869 + the parser now removes the escapechar prefix from escaped characters.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +0000870 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the writer now tests for numeric
Andrew McNamaraf69d94f2005-01-13 11:30:54 +0000871 types, rather than any object than can be represented as a numeric.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +0000872 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the reader now casts unquoted fields
873 to floats.
Andrew McNamaraf69d94f2005-01-13 11:30:54 +0000874 + reader now allows \r characters to be quoted (previously it only allowed
875 \n to be quoted).
Andrew McNamarac89f2842005-01-12 07:44:42 +0000876 + writer doublequote handling improved.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000877 + Dialect classes passed to the module are no longer instantiated by
878 the module before being parsed (the former validation scheme required
879 this, but the mechanism was unreliable).
880 + The dialect registry now contains instances of the internal
881 C-coded dialect type, rather than references to python objects.
882 + the internal c-coded dialect type is now immutable.
883 + register_dialect now accepts the same keyword dialect specifications
884 as the reader and writer, allowing the user to register dialects
885 without first creating a dialect class.
886 + a configurable limit to the size of parsed fields has been added -
887 previously, an unmatched quote character could result in the entire
888 file being read into the field buffer before an error was reported.
Andrew McNamara31d88962005-01-12 03:45:10 +0000889 + A new module method csv.field_size_limit() has been added that sets
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000890 the parser field size limit (returning the former limit). The initial
891 limit is 128kB.
Andrew McNamara7f2053e2005-01-12 11:17:16 +0000892 + A line_num attribute has been added to the reader object, which tracks
893 the number of lines read from the source iterator. This is not
894 the same as the number of records returned, as records can span
895 multiple lines.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000896 + reader and writer objects were not being registered with the cyclic-GC.
897 This has been fixed.
898
Brett Cannone6539c42005-01-08 02:43:53 +0000899- _DummyThread objects in the threading module now delete self.__block that is
900 inherited from _Thread since it uses up a lock allocated by 'thread'. The
901 lock primitives tend to be limited in number and thus should not be wasted on
902 a _DummyThread object. Fixes bug #1089632.
903
Raymond Hettinger97db05d2005-01-07 08:15:41 +0000904- The imghdr module now detects Exif files.
905
Raymond Hettinger6065d322004-12-20 23:51:53 +0000906- StringIO.truncate() now correctly adjusts the size attribute.
907 (Bug #951915).
908
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +0000909- locale.py now uses an updated locale alias table (built using
910 Tools/i18n/makelocalealias.py, a tool to parse the X11 locale
911 alias file); the encoding lookup was enhanced to use Python's
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000912 encoding alias table.
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +0000913
Raymond Hettinger3557f422004-12-07 12:02:02 +0000914- moved deprecated modules to Lib/lib-old: whrandom, tzparse, statcache.
915
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +0000916- the pickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
917 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
918
Brett Cannon84667c02004-12-07 03:25:18 +0000919- optparse now optionally imports gettext. This allows its use in setup.py.
920
Raymond Hettinger3489cad2004-12-05 05:20:42 +0000921- the pickle module no longer uses the deprecated bin parameter.
922
Raymond Hettinger1bc82f82004-12-05 03:58:17 +0000923- the shelve module no longer uses the deprecated binary parameter.
924
Raymond Hettinger6c92d762004-12-05 03:28:00 +0000925- the pstats module no longer uses the deprecated ignore() method.
926
Raymond Hettingerf3fa9462004-12-05 01:58:09 +0000927- the filecmp module no longer uses the deprecated use_statcache argument.
928
Raymond Hettinger664347b2004-12-04 21:21:53 +0000929- unittest.TestCase.run() and unittest.TestSuite.run() can now be successfully
930 extended or overridden by subclasses. Formerly, the subclassed method would
931 be ignored by the rest of the module. (Bug #1078905).
932
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000933- heapq.nsmallest() and heapq.nlargest() now support key= arguments with
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +0000934 the same meaning as in list.sort().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000935
Walter Dörwald36733692004-12-22 12:50:50 +0000936- Bug #1076985: ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` now calls ``read()`` only
937 once when a size argument is given. This prevents a buffer overflow in the
938 tokenizer with very long source lines.
939
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +0000940- Bug #1083110: ``zlib.decompress.flush()`` would segfault if called
941 immediately after creating the object, without any intervening
942 ``.decompress()`` calls.
Andrew M. Kuchling3b585b32004-12-28 20:10:48 +0000943
Skip Montanaro05885812005-01-16 20:48:27 +0000944- The reconvert.quote function can now emit triple-quoted strings. The
945 reconvert module now has some simple documentation.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000946
Walter Dörwaldaf3b39a2005-02-18 13:22:43 +0000947- ``UserString.MutableString`` now supports negative indices in
948 ``__setitem__`` and ``__delitem__``
949
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +0000950- Bug #1149508: ``textwrap`` now handles hyphenated numbers (eg. "2004-03-05")
951 correctly.
952
Walter Dörwaldbc8e6422005-04-21 21:32:03 +0000953- Partial fixes for SF bugs #1163244 and #1175396: If a chunk read by
954 ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` has a trailing "\r", read one more
955 character even if the user has passed a size parameter to get a proper
956 line ending. Remove the special handling of a "\r\n" that has been split
957 between two lines.
958
Walter Dörwalda47d1c02005-08-30 10:23:14 +0000959- Bug #1251300: On UCS-4 builds the "unicode-internal" codec will now complain
960 about illegal code points. The codec now supports PEP 293 style error
961 handlers.
962
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +0000963- Bug #1235646: ``codecs.StreamRecoder.next()`` now reencodes the data it reads
Walter Dörwaldc5238b82005-09-01 11:56:53 +0000964 from the input stream, so that the output is a byte string in the correct
965 encoding instead of a unicode string.
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +0000966
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +0000967- Bug #1202493: Fixing SRE parser to handle '{}' as perl does, rather than
968 considering it exactly like a '*'.
969
Walter Dörwald007f8df2005-10-09 19:42:27 +0000970- Bug #1245379: Add "unicode-1-1-utf-7" as an alias for "utf-7" to
971 ``encodings.aliases``.
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +0000972
Walter Dörwald09f0dd52005-11-21 19:10:07 +0000973- ` uu.encode()`` and ``uu.decode()`` now support unicode filenames.
974
Gustavo Niemeyer548148812006-01-31 18:34:13 +0000975- Patch #1413711: Certain patterns of differences were making difflib
976 touch the recursion limit.
977
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +0000978- Bug #947906: An object oriented interface has been added to the calendar
979 module. It's possible to generate HTML calendar now and the module can be
Walter Dörwald48d5e502006-04-01 07:57:00 +0000980 called as a script (e.g. via ``python -mcalendar``). Localized month and
981 weekday names can be ouput (even if an exotic encoding is used) using
982 special classes that use unicode.
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +0000983
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000984Build
985-----
986
Neal Norwitz602d3392006-03-31 08:21:40 +0000987- Fix test_float, test_long, and test_struct failures on Tru64 with gcc
988 by using -mieee gcc option.
989
Martin v. Löwis86d66262006-02-17 08:40:11 +0000990- Patch #1432345: Make python compile on DragonFly.
991
Martin v. Löwis856bf9a2006-02-14 20:42:55 +0000992- Build support for Win64-AMD64 was added.
993
Martin v. Löwisa55e55e2006-02-11 15:55:14 +0000994- Patch #1428494: Prefer linking against ncursesw over ncurses library.
995
Martin v. Löwisfd9a72a2006-01-08 10:07:33 +0000996- Patch #881820: look for openpty and forkpty also in libbsd.
997
Martin v. Löwis64c33dd2006-01-03 07:42:14 +0000998- The sources of zlib are now part of the Python distribution (zlib 1.2.3).
999 The zlib module is now builtin on Windows.
1000
Martin v. Löwisd5845ec2005-12-30 12:31:38 +00001001- Use -xcode=pic32 for CCSHARED on Solaris with SunPro.
1002
Martin v. Löwis147fbe52005-08-07 21:09:30 +00001003- Bug #1189330: configure did not correctly determine the necessary
1004 value of LINKCC if python was built with GCC 4.0.
1005
Trent Mick8321b422005-07-26 02:29:21 +00001006- Upgrade Windows build to zlib 1.2.3 which eliminates a potential security
1007 vulnerability in zlib 1.2.1 and 1.2.2.
1008
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00001009- EXTRA_CFLAGS has been introduced as an environment variable to hold compiler
1010 flags that change binary compatibility. Changes were also made to
1011 distutils.sysconfig to also use the environment variable when used during
Martin v. Löwisd7c795e2005-04-25 07:14:03 +00001012 compilation of the interpreter and of C extensions through distutils.
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00001013
Bob Ippolitoed233462005-03-29 13:47:59 +00001014- SF patch 1171735: Darwin 8's headers are anal about POSIX compliance,
1015 and linking has changed (prebinding is now deprecated, and libcc_dynamic
1016 no longer exists). This configure patch makes things right.
1017
Martin v. Löwise2713be2005-03-08 15:03:08 +00001018- Bug #1158607: Build with --disable-unicode again.
1019
Brett Cannon46d96232005-02-16 00:07:19 +00001020- spwdmodule.c is built only if either HAVE_GETSPNAM or HAVE_HAVE_GETSPENT is
1021 defined. Discovered as a result of not being able to build on OS X.
1022
Brett Cannon516592f2004-12-07 00:42:59 +00001023- setup.py now uses the directories specified in LDFLAGS using the -L option
1024 and in CPPFLAGS using the -I option for adding library and include
1025 directories, respectively, for compiling extension modules against. This has
1026 led to the core being compiled using the values in CPPFLAGS. It also removes
1027 the need for the special-casing of both DarwinPorts and Fink for darwin since
1028 the proper directories can be specified in LDFLAGS (``-L/sw/lib`` for Fink,
1029 ``-L/opt/local/lib`` for DarwinPorts) and CPPFLAGS (``-I/sw/include`` for
1030 Fink, ``-I/opt/local/include`` for DarwinPorts).
1031
Brett Cannon43802422005-02-10 20:48:03 +00001032- Test in configure.in that checks for tzset no longer dependent on tm->tm_zone
1033 to exist in the struct (not required by either ISO C nor the UNIX 2 spec).
1034 Tests for sanity in tzname when HAVE_TZNAME defined were also defined.
1035 Closes bug #1096244. Thanks Gregory Bond.
1036
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001037C API
1038-----
1039
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +00001040- ``PyMem_{Del, DEL}`` and ``PyMem_{Free, FREE}`` no longer map to
1041 ``PyObject_{Free, FREE}``. They map to the system ``free()`` now. If memory
1042 is obtained via the ``PyObject_`` family, it must be released via the
1043 ``PyObject_`` family, and likewise for the ``PyMem_`` family. This has
1044 always been officially true, but when Python's small-object allocator was
1045 introduced, an attempt was made to cater to a few extension modules
1046 discovered at the time that obtained memory via ``PyObject_New`` but
1047 released it via ``PyMem_DEL``. It's years later, and if such code still
1048 exists it will fail now (probably with segfaults, but calling wrong
1049 low-level memory management functions can yield many symptoms).
1050
Raymond Hettingerbeb31012005-08-16 03:47:52 +00001051- Added a C API for set and frozenset objects.
1052
Raymond Hettinger66517482004-12-03 11:45:13 +00001053- Removed PyRange_New().
1054
Walter Dörwaldd1c1e102005-10-06 20:29:57 +00001055- Patch #1313939: PyUnicode_DecodeCharmap() accepts a unicode string as the
1056 mapping argument now. This string is used as a mapping table. Byte values
1057 greater than the length of the string and 0xFFFE are treated as undefined
1058 mappings.
1059
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001060
1061Tests
1062-----
1063
Martin v. Löwis4d394df2005-01-23 09:19:22 +00001064- In test_os, st_?time is now truncated before comparing it with ST_?TIME.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001065
Hye-Shik Changaaa2f1d2005-12-10 17:44:27 +00001066- Patch #1276356: New resource "urlfetch" is implemented. This enables
1067 even impatient people to run tests that require remote files.
1068
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001069
1070Documentation
1071-------------
1072
Georg Brandl8cb30772006-01-20 09:34:29 +00001073- Bug #1402224: Add warning to dl docs about crashes.
1074
Georg Brandla3a93ae2006-01-20 09:14:36 +00001075- Bug #1396471: Document that Windows' ftell() can return invalid
1076 values for text files with UNIX-style line endings.
1077
Georg Brandl32252422005-09-14 20:42:00 +00001078- Bug #1274828: Document os.path.splitunc().
1079
Georg Brandl79c122f2005-08-24 07:31:33 +00001080- Bug #1190204: Clarify which directories are searched by site.py.
1081
Georg Brandl6f2bbd32005-08-24 07:26:55 +00001082- Bug #1193849: Clarify os.path.expanduser() documentation.
1083
Georg Brandlf13c4ba2005-08-02 10:28:08 +00001084- Bug #1243192: re.UNICODE and re.LOCALE affect \d, \D, \s and \S.
1085
Georg Brandl150db732005-07-18 08:53:17 +00001086- Bug #755617: Document the effects of os.chown() on Windows.
1087
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001088- Patch #1180012: The documentation for modulefinder is now in the library reference.
1089
1090- Patch #1213031: Document that os.chown() accepts argument values of -1.
1091
1092- Bug #1190563: Document os.waitpid() return value with WNOHANG flag.
1093
1094- Bug #1175022: Correct the example code for property().
1095
Georg Brandl40c71652005-06-25 21:08:46 +00001096- Document the IterableUserDict class in the UserDict module.
1097 Closes bug #1166582.
1098
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001099- Remove all latent references for "Macintosh" that referred to semantics for
1100 Mac OS 9 and change to reflect the state for OS X.
1101 Closes patch #1095802. Thanks Jack Jansen.
1102
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001103Mac
1104---
1105
1106
Hye-Shik Chang4e422812005-07-17 02:36:59 +00001107New platforms
1108-------------
1109
1110- FreeBSD 7 support is added.
1111
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001112
1113Tools/Demos
1114-----------
1115
Brett Cannonacde7342006-03-01 04:28:00 +00001116- Created Misc/Vim/vim_syntax.py to auto-generate a python.vim file in that
1117 directory for syntax highlighting in Vim. Vim directory was added and placed
1118 vimrc to it (was previous up a level).
1119
Georg Brandl56897312005-08-24 18:32:30 +00001120- Added two new files to Tools/scripts: pysource.py, which recursively
1121 finds Python source files, and findnocoding.py, which finds Python
1122 source files that need an encoding declaration.
1123 Patch #784089, credits to Oleg Broytmann.
1124
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001125- Bug #1072853: pindent.py used an uninitialized variable.
1126
Martin v. Löwisab9ec162005-04-09 10:53:34 +00001127- Patch #1177597: Correct Complex.__init__.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001128
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +00001129- Fixed a display glitch in Pynche, which could cause the right arrow to
1130 wiggle over by a pixel.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001131
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00001132----
1133
1134**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**