blob: d78e993df5ba73ab057e4fabda35356a8c6b05ac [file] [log] [blame]
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00001+++++++++++
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002Python News
3+++++++++++
4
Anthony Baxterb0c66302004-11-04 05:23:17 +00005(editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.)
6
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00007What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
8================================
9
10*Release date: XX-June-2008*
11
12Core and Builtins
13-----------------
14
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +000015- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
16
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +000017- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
18
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +000019- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
20
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +000021- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
22
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000023- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
24 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
25 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
26 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +000027
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +000028- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
29
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000030- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
31 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +000032
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000033- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
34 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +000035
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000036- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
37 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
38 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +000039
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +000040Extension Modules
41-----------------
42
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +000043- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
44 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
45
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +000046- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
47 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
48
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +000049- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
50 weakref.proxy.
51
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000052- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
53 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +000054
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +000055- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +000056
Jesus Ceaca3939c2008-05-22 15:27:38 +000057- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.0.
58 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.0
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +000059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000060- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
61 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
62 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +000063
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +000064- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
65 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
66 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
67
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +000068- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +000069
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +000070- Added a threading.Thread.getIdent() method.
71
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +000072Library
73-------
74
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +000075- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
76 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
77
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +000078- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
79 in Python 3.0.
80
81- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
82 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +000083
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +000084- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
85 False boolean value now.
86
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +000087- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
88 transfers.
89
90- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
91 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +000092
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +000093- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
94 when the TarFile is closed.
95
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +000096- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
97 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
98 an exception.
99
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +0000100- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
101 otherwise be produced.
102
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +0000103- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
104 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
105
106- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
107 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
108
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +0000109- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
110 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
111 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
112
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +0000113- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
114
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000115- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +0000116 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
117 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
118 'm' or 'c'.
119
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +0000120- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
121
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000122- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
123 removal in Python 3.0.
124
125- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
126 3.0.
127
128- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
129 3.0.
130
131- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
132 3.0.
133
134- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +0000135 Python 3.0.
136
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +0000137- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
138 Python 3.0.
139
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000140- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
141 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +0000142
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000143- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
144 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +0000145
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000146- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
147 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +0000148
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000149- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
150 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +0000151
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000152- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +0000153 Python 3.0.
154
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000155- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
156 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +0000157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000158- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
159 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +0000160
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000161- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
162 3.0.
163
164- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
165 removal in Python 3.0.
166
167- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
168 3.0.
169
170- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
171 3.0.
172
173- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
174 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +0000175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000176- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
177 removal in Python 3.0.
178
179- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +0000180 Python 3.0.
181
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000182- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
183 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +0000184
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +0000185- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
186 Python 3.0.
187
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +0000188- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
189 Python 3.0.
190
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000191- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +0000192
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +0000193- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
194
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +0000195- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
196
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +0000197- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
198
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +0000199- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
200
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000201- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
202 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
203 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +0000204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000205- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
206 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +0000207
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +0000208- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
209
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000210- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
211 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +0000212
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +0000213- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
214
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +0000215- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
216
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +0000217- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
218
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +0000219- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
220
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +0000221- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
222
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000223- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
224 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +0000225
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +0000226- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
227
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +0000228- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
229
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +0000230- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
231 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
232 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
233 OverflowError.
234
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +0000235- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
236
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000237- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
238 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +0000239
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +0000240- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
241
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +0000242- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
243
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +0000244- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
245
246- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +0000247
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000248- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
249
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +0000250- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
251
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +0000252- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
253
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +0000254- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +0000255
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000256- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
257 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +0000258
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +0000259Build
260-----
261
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +0000262- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
263
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +0000264- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
265
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +0000266C API
267-----
268
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +0000269- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
270
271- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +0000272
273- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
274 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
275 PyString names.
276
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +0000277
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000278What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +0000279=================================
280
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +0000281*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +0000282
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +0000283Core and builtins
284-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +0000285
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +0000286- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
287
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000288- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
289 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +0000290
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000291- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
292 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +0000293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000294- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +0000295
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +0000296Extension Modules
297-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000298
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000299- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
300 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +0000301
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +0000302- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
303
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000304- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
305 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +0000306
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000307- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
308 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +0000309
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000310- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
311 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +0000312
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000313- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
314 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
315 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
316 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
317 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
318 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
319 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
320 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +0000321
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000322Library
323-------
324
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +0000325- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
326
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000327- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
328 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +0000329
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +0000330- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
331
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000332- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
333 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +0000334
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +0000335- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
336 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
337 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
338
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +0000339- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
340 data types
341
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +0000342- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +0000343 reference to themselves.
344
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +0000345- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
346 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
347 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +0000348
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +0000349- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
350 1900-01-01.
351
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +0000352- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
353 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
354
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +0000355- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
356 now implemented in C for better performance.
357
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000358- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
359 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
360 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +0000361
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000362- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +0000363 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
364 build documentation for more information.
365
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +0000366- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
367 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
368 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
369 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
370
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +0000371- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
372 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
373 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000375- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
376 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
377 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
378 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +0000379
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000380Tests
381-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +0000382
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000383- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
384 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
385 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
386 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
387 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
388 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
389 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
390 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
391 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
392 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
393 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
394 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
395 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
396 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
397 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
398 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
399 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
400 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
401 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
402 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
403
404 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
405 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
406 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
407 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
408 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
409 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
410 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
411 access to the underlying socket used.
412
413 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
414 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
415 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +0000416
417 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000418 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +0000419 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
420 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
421
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000422 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
423 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000424
425Build
426-----
427
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +0000428- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
429
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +0000430- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
431 gcc is used as compiler.
432
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +0000433- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000434 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +0000435
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000436C API
437-----
438
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000439- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
440 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
441 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
442 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +0000443
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +0000444- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +0000445
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +0000446
447What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
448=================================
449
450*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
451
452Core and builtins
453-----------------
454
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000455- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
456 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
457 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +0000458
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +0000459- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
460 cannot be executed.
461
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +0000462- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
463 reference on the outer class name.
464
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +0000465- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000466 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +0000467
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000468- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
469 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +0000470
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +0000471- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +0000472
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +0000473- Added backport of bytearray type.
474
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +0000475- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
476
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +0000477- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000478 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
479 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
480 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
481 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
482 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +0000483
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +0000484- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
485
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000486- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
487 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +0000488
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +0000489- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +0000490
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +0000491- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
492
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000493- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
494 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +0000495
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000496- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
497 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +0000498
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000499- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +0000500 exception instances.
501
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +0000502- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000503 doesn't derive from BaseException.
504
505- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
506 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +0000507
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +0000508- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
509 memory usage in some circumstances.
510
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000511- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
512 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
513 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +0000514
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +0000515- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
516
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000517- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +0000518 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
519 longer passed.
520
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +0000521- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000523- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
524 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
525 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +0000526
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000527- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
528 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +0000529
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +0000530- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
531
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +0000532Extension Modules
533-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +0000534
535- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
536
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +0000537Library
538-------
539
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000540- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
541 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000542
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000543- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
544 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
545 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000547- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
548 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000550- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
551 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
552 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +0000553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000554- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
555 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +0000556
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +0000557- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
558
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +0000559- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
560 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
561 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
562
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +0000563- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
564
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +0000565- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
566 advertised in the docs.
567
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000568- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +0000569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000570- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +0000571
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000572- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
573 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +0000574
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +0000575- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
576 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
577
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000578- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
579 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +0000580 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
581 information as well.
582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000583- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
584 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +0000585
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000586- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
587 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +0000588
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000589- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
590 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
591 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +0000592
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +0000593- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
594 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
595 strftime.
596
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +0000597- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000598 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
599 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +0000600
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +0000601- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
602 correctly under win32
603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000604- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +0000605
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +0000606- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000607 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
608 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
609 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +0000610
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +0000611- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
612 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
613
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000614- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
615 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +0000616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000617- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
618 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
619 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +0000620
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000621- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +0000622 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
623
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +0000624- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
625 from 't' to '?'.
626
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +0000627- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
628 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000629 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
630 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
631 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +0000632
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000633- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
634 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +0000635
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +0000636Tests
637-----
638
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000639- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
640 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +0000641
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +0000642- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
643
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +0000644- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
645
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +0000646- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
647
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +0000648- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
649
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000650- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
651 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +0000652
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +0000653- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
654
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +0000655- Issue 1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
656
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000657- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
658 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +0000659
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +0000660- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
661
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +0000662- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
663
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +0000664- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
665 permission to create files in the root directory.
666
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +0000667Build
668-----
669
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +0000670- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
671
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000672- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
673 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +0000674
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +0000675- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +0000676
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +0000677C API
678-----
679
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000680- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000681 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
682
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +0000683
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +0000684What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
685=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +0000686
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +0000687*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +0000688
689Core and builtins
690-----------------
691
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +0000692- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +0000693 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +0000694
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +0000695- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
696
697- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +0000698
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000699- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +0000700 issue 215555 for a discussion.
701
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +0000702- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
703 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
704 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
705 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
706 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
707 module is:
708 from future_builtins import hex, oct
709
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +0000710- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
711 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
712 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
713 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
714 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
715 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
716
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +0000717- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
718 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
719 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
720 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
721 PyObject_Format().
722
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000723- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
724 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
725 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +0000726
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +0000727- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000728 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
729 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +0000730
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000731- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
732 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +0000733
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000734- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
735 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
736 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +0000737
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000738- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
739 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
740 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +0000741
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +0000742- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
743 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
744
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000745- Limit free list of method and builtin function objects to 256
746 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +0000747
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000748- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
749 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +0000750 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
751
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000752- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
753 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
754 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +0000755
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000756- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
757 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +0000758
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000759- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
760 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +0000761
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000762- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
763 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +0000764
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000765- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
766 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +0000767
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000768- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
769 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
770 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +0000771
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000772- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
773 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
774 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
775 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +0000776
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +0000777- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
778 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
779 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
780
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +0000781- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +0000782 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
783 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
784
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000785- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +0000786 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
787 support.
788
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +0000789- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
790 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
791
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +0000792- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
793
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +0000794- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +0000795 added.
796
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +0000797- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
798 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
799
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000800- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
801 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +0000802
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000803- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
804 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
805 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +0000806
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000807- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
808 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +0000809
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +0000810- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
811 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +0000812
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +0000813- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
814
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000815- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
816 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
817 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +0000818
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000819- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
820 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
821 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +0000822
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000823- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +0000824
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000825- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
826 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +0000827
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +0000828- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000829 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
830 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +0000831
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000832- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
833 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
834 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
835 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +0000836
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000837- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +0000838
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000839- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
840 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +0000841
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000842- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
843 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +0000844
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +0000845- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +0000846 SystemError.
847
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +0000848- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
849 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
850 __package__ attribute.
851
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000852- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
853 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
854 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +0000855
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +0000856- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
857
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +0000858- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +0000859 attribute of an empty cell object.
860
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000861- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
862 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +0000863
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000864- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
865 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
866 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
867 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +0000868
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000869- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
870 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
871 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +0000872
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +0000873- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
874
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +0000875- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
876
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +0000877- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
878
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000879- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences
880 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
881 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +0000882
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000883- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
884 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
885 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
886 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
887 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
888 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +0000889
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000890- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
891 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
892 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
893 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
894 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +0000895
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000896- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
897 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
898 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +0000899
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000900- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
901 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +0000902
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +0000903- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000904 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
905 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
906 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
907 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
908 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +0000909
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000910- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
911 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +0000912
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +0000913- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
914 with %G.
915
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000916- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
917 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +0000918
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000919- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +0000920
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000921- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +0000922
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +0000923- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000924 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
925 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +0000926
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +0000927- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
928 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
929
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +0000930- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
931 calls.
932
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +0000933- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000934 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
935 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +0000936
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +0000937- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000939- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +0000940 inherited from a builtin base.
941
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +0000942- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +0000943 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
944
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +0000945- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
946
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +0000947- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
948 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
949 remaining characters.
950
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +0000951- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
952 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
953
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +0000954- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
955
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +0000956- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
957 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
958 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
959 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
960 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +0000961 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
962 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +0000963
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000964- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
965 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
966 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
967 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
968 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +0000969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000970- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
971 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
972 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +0000973
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000974- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
975 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +0000976
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000977- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
978 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
979 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +0000980
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000981- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
982 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +0000983
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +0000984- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
985
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +0000986- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
987 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
988
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +0000989- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000990 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
991 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
992 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +0000993
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +0000994- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
995 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
996
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +0000997- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
998 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +0000999
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001000- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
1001 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
1002 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00001003
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00001004- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001005 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
1006 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00001007
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00001008- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
1009 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001010 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
1011 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00001012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001013- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
1014 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00001015
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001016- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
1017 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00001018
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00001019- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
1020 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
1021
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001022- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
1023 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
1024 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00001025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001026- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
1027 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00001028
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001029- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
1030 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00001031
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001032- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
1033 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
1034 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00001035
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00001036- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
1037 frame's thread state.
1038
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001039- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
1040 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00001041
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001042- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
1043 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00001044
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001045- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
1046 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00001047
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001048- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
1049 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00001050
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001051- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
1052 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00001053
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00001054- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
1055
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00001056- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
1057
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00001058- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
1059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001060- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
1061 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00001062
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001063- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00001064
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00001065- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
1066 again, no longer the posix error code.
1067
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00001068- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
1069 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
1070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001071- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
1072 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00001073
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00001074- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
1075 embedded in the string to convert.
1076
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00001077- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
1078 recognized and rejected.
1079
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00001080- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
1081
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00001082- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
1083 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
1084 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00001085
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00001086- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
1087 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
1088
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00001089- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001090 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
1091 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00001092
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001093- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
1094 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
1095 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00001096
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00001097- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
1098
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00001099- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
1100
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00001101- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
1102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001103- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
1104 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
1105 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00001106
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00001107- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
1108 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
1109 'exceptions'.
1110
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00001111- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
1112 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
1113
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00001114- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
1115 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
1116
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00001117- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
1118
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00001119- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
1120
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00001121- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
1122 head is the original string if sep was not found.
1123
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00001124- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001125 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
1126 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
1127 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00001128
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001129- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00001130
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001131- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
1132 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00001133
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00001134- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
1135 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00001136
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001137- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00001138 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
1139 it actually exited.
1140
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00001141
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00001142Library
1143-------
1144
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001145- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00001146
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00001147- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
1148
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00001149- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
1150
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001151- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
1152 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00001153
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001154- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00001155
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001156- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
1157 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
1158 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00001159
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001160- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
1161 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00001162
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001163- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00001164 (ignore-case)
1165
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00001166- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
1167 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
1168 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
1169 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
1170
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001171- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
1172 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00001173
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001174- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
1175 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00001176
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00001177- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
1178 pickled.
1179
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00001180- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
1181 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
1182
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00001183- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
1184 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
1185 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
1186
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001187- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
1188 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00001189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001190- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
1191 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
1192 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00001193
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001194- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
1195 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00001196
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001197- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
1198 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00001199
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001200- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
1201 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
1202 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
1203 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00001204
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001205- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
1206 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00001207 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
1208
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00001209- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
1210
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001211- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
1212 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00001213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001214- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00001215
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001216- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
1217 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001218
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001219- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
1220 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001221
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001222- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
1223 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001224
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001225- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
1226 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001227
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001228- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
1229 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
1230 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00001231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001232- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
1233 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00001234
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001235- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
1236 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00001237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001238- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
1239 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00001240
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001241- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
1242 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00001243
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001244- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
1245 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00001246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001247- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
1248 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00001249
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00001250- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
1251 with extended local headers.
1252
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001253- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
1254 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00001255
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001256- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00001257 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
1258 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
1259
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001260- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
1261 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00001262
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001263- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
1264 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00001265
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001266- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
1267 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00001268
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001269- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
1270 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00001271
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001272- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
1273 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00001274
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00001275- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001276 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00001277 Textbox.gather().
1278
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00001279- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
1280 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00001281 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
1282 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00001283
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00001284- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
1285 that array types do not live longer than needed.
1286
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00001287- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
1288 and when creating a recursive instance.
1289
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001290- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
1291 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
1292 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00001293
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00001294- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
1295 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
1296 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
1297
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001298- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
1299 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00001300
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00001301- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00001302 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
1303
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001304- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00001305 good for long regular expression matches.
1306
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001307- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
1308 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00001309
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00001310- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
1311 the current context.
1312
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00001313- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
1314 zipfile module.
1315
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00001316- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
1317
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001318- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
1319 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00001320
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00001321- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
1322
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00001323- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
1324
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001325- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
1326 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00001327
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00001328- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
1329
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001330- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
1331 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00001332
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001333- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
1334 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00001335
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00001336- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
1337
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00001338- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
1339 Tcl objects.
1340
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00001341- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
1342
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001343- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
1344 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
1345 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
1346 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00001347
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001348- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
1349 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00001350
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001351- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
1352 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00001353
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001354- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
1355 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00001356
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001357- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
1358 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00001359
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00001360- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
1361 method used universal newlines.
1362
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00001363- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
1364 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
1365
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00001366- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
1367 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
1368
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00001369- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
1370 files are updated.
1371
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001372- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
1373 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00001374
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00001375- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
1376 configured with --with-system-ffi.
1377
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00001378- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00001379 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00001380
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00001381- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
1382
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001383- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
1384 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
1385 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00001386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001387- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
1388 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00001389
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00001390- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00001391
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00001392- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
1393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001394- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
1395 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00001396
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00001397- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
1398 to be orderable to properly represent them.
1399
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00001400- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
1401
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00001402- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
1403
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001404- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
1405 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
1406 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00001407
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00001408- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
1409 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
1410
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001411- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
1412 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00001413
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001414- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
1415 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00001416
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00001417- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
1418
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00001419- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
1420
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00001421- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
1422 syllables.
1423
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001424- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
1425 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00001426
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00001427- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
1428
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00001429- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
1430 represent the result in a single character.
1431
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00001432- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
1433
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00001434- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
1435
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00001436- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
1437 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
1438 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
1439
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00001440- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
1441
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001442- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
1443 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00001444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001445- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
1446 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
1447 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00001448
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001449- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
1450 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
1451 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00001452
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00001453- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001454 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
1455 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00001456
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001457- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
1458 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00001459
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001460- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
1461 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00001462
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00001463- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
1464
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00001465- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
1466
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001467- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
1468 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
1469 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00001470
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00001471- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
1472
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00001473- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
1474
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00001475- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
1476 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
1477
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00001478- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
1479
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00001480- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
1481
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00001482- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
1483
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001484- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
1485 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00001486
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001487- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
1488 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00001489
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00001490- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
1491 the directories).
1492
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00001493- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
1494 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
1495 injecting HTML into the error page.
1496
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001497- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
1498 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00001499
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001500- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
1501 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00001502
1503- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
1504
1505- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
1506
1507- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
1508 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
1509 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
1510
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00001511- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
1512 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
1513 ".cpp" too.
1514
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00001515- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001516 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
1517 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
1518 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00001519
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001520- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
1521 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00001522
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001523- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
1524 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00001525
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00001526- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
1527 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
1528 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
1529 closes patch #723312.
1530
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00001531- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
1532 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00001533 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00001534
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00001535- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
1536
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00001537- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
1538 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
1539
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00001540- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
1541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001542- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
1543 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00001544 directories.
1545
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00001546- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
1547 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
1548 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
1549 trying Mozilla variants.
1550
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00001551- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
1552
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00001553- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
1554 initialization failed.
1555
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00001556- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001557 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
1558 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00001559
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001560- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
1561 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
1562 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00001563
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001564- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
1565 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00001566 correctly now.
1567
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00001568- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
1569
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001570- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
1571 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00001572
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00001573- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
1574
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001575- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
1576 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
1577 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00001578
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001579- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
1580 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
1581 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
1582 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00001583
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001584- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
1585 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
1586 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00001587
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00001588- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
1589 whitespace while wrapping.
1590
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00001591- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001592 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
1593 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00001594
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001595- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
1596 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
1597 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00001598
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00001599- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
1600 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
1601
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001602- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
1603 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00001604
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00001605- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
1606 concatenation in robotparser.
1607
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00001608- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001609 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
1610 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00001611
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00001612- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
1613 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
1614
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00001615- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
1616
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001617- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
1618 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
1619 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00001620
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001621- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
1622 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
1623 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00001624
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001625- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
1626 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00001627 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00001628
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00001629- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
1630 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
1631
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00001632- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
1633 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
1634
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00001635- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
1636 returned string up to the first NUL character.
1637
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00001638- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
1639
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00001640- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
1641
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001642- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
1643 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
1644 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00001645
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00001646- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
1647
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001648- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
1649 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
1650 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
1651 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
1652 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
1653 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00001654
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001655- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
1656 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00001657
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00001658- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
1659 comprehensive test suite for the module.
1660
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00001661- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
1662 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
1663
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001664- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
1665 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
1666 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00001667
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00001668- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00001669 in HTMLParser.
1670
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00001671- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
1672 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
1673
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00001674- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
1675
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00001676- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
1677
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00001678- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
1679
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00001680- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00001681
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00001682- Added itertools.izip_longest().
1683
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001684- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
1685 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00001686
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00001687- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
1688
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00001689- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
1690 doesn't exist.
1691
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00001692- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
1693
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00001694- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
1695
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001696- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00001697
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001698- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
1699 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00001700
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001701- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
1702 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00001703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001704- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
1705 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00001706
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00001707- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00001708 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00001709
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00001710- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
1711 iso8859_16.
1712
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001713- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
1714 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
1715 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
1716 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00001717
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00001718- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
1719
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00001720- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
1721 directories.
1722
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00001723- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
1724
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001725- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
1726 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00001727
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001728- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00001729 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001730
1731- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00001732 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001733
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00001734- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00001735
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001736- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
1737 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00001738
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00001739- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
1740
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00001741- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
1742 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
1743 parameterless foreign function calls work.
1744
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00001745- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
1746
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00001747- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
1748 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
1749 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
1750
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00001751- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
1752 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
1753
1754- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
1755 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
1756
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001757- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
1758 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
1759 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00001760
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001761- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
1762 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00001763
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00001764- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
1765
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001766- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
1767 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00001768
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001769- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
1770 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00001771
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001772- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
1773 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00001774
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00001775- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
1776 separated lists read from logging config files.
1777
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001778- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
1779 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
1780 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00001781
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001782- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
1783 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00001784
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00001785- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
1786
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001787- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
1788 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00001789
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00001790- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
1791
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00001792- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
1793
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001794- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
1795 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00001796
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00001797- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
1798 regular files.
1799
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00001800- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
1801
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001802- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
1803 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00001804
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001805- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
1806 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00001807
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00001808- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
1809 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
1810
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00001811- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
1812 file name mangling.
1813
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001814- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
1815 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00001816
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00001817- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
1818
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00001819- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00001820 HTTPConnection.request().
1821
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00001822- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
1823 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
1824 objects.
1825
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001826- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
1827 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
1828 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00001829
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001830- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
1831 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
1832 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00001833
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00001834- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00001835
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00001836- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00001837
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00001838- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
1839
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00001840- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00001841 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00001842
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00001843- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
1844
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00001845- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
1846 GNU modes.
1847
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00001848- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
1849 list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
1850 opcode.
1851
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00001852- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
1853 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
1854 statement (bug #1586513).
1855
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00001856- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
1857 correctly.
1858
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00001859- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
1860
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001861- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
1862 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00001863
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00001864- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
1865 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
1866 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
1867
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001868- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
1869 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
1870 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00001871
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001872- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
1873 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00001874
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00001875- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
1876
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00001877- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
1878
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001879- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
1880 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00001881
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001882- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
1883 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00001884
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00001885- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
1886 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
1887
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00001888- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
1889 with a slash.
1890
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00001891- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
1892 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
1893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001894- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data data and
1895 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00001896
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00001897- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
1898 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
1899 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
1900
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001901- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
1902 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00001903
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001904- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
1905 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00001906
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001907- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
1908 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00001909
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00001910- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
1911
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00001912- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00001913 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00001914
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001915- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
1916 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00001917
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001918- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
1919 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00001920
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00001921- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
1922
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001923- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
1924 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00001925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001926- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
1927 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
1928 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00001929
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001930- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
1931 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
1932 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00001933
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001934- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
1935 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
1936 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
1937 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00001938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001939- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00001940 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
1941 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001942 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
1943 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
1944 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00001945
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001946- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
1947 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00001948
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00001949Extension Modules
1950-----------------
1951
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00001952- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00001953
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00001954- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
1955
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00001956- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
1957
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00001958- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00001959
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001960- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
1961 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00001962
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001963- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
1964 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00001965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001966- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
1967 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00001968
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00001969- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
1970
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00001971- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
1972
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001973- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
1974 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00001975
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00001976- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
1977
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001978- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
1979 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00001980
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00001981- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
1982
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001983- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
1984 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00001985
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001986- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00001987 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
1988 parameter.
1989
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001990- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
1991 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
1992 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
1993 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00001994
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001995- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
1996 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00001997
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00001998- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
1999 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00002000
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002001- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
2002 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
2003 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00002004
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002005- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
2006 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00002007
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00002008- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
2009
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00002010- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
2011
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002012- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
2013 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
2014 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00002015
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002016- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
2017 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00002018
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00002019- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
2020
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00002021- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
2022
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002023- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
2024 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
2025 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
2026 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00002027
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00002028- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
2029 get_completion_type to readline.
2030
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00002031- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
2032 structure.
2033
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00002034- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
2035
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00002036- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
2037
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00002038- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
2039 intended for RECNO databases.
2040
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00002041- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002042 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
2043 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
2044 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
2045 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
2046 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
2047 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00002048
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00002049- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
2050
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00002051- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
2052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002053- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
2054 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
2055 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
2056 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
2057 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00002058
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00002059- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
2060 error in spite of a succesful compression.
2061
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00002062- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
2063 of Py_ssize_t.
2064
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00002065- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
2066 fractional times. With unittest.
2067
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002068- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
2069 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
2070 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00002071
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00002072- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
2073
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00002074- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
2075
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00002076- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
2077
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00002078- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
2079
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002080- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
2081 builtin types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00002082
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002083- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
2084 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00002085
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002086- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
2087 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00002088
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00002089- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
2090 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
2091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002092- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
2093 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
2094 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00002095
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00002096- Speed up function calls into the math module.
2097
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00002098- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
2099 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
2100 does.
2101
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00002102- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
2103
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00002104- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
2105
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00002106- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
2107
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00002108- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
2109
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00002110- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
2111 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
2112
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00002113- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
2114 datetime's strftime function.
2115
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00002116- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
2117
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00002118- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
2119
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002120- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
2121 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00002122
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00002123- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
2124
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00002125- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002126 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
2127 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00002128
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002129- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
2130 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00002131
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00002132- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002133 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
2134 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00002135 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
2136 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00002137 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00002138 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002139
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00002140- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
2141 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
2142 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
2143 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
2144
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00002145- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
2146 were transposed.
2147
Matthias Klose691632f2007-09-03 23:33:04 +00002148- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x
2149 and 4.6.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00002150
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002151- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
2152 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
2153 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00002154
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00002155- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
2156
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00002157- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
2158
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00002159- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
2160
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00002161- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00002162
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00002163- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
2164 databases without a DBEnv.
2165
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00002166- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
2167
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002168Tests
2169-----
2170
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00002171- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00002172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002173- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
2174 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00002175
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002176- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
2177 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
2178 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00002179
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00002180- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
2181 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00002182
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002183- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
2184 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00002185
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002186- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
2187 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
2188 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00002189
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00002190- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
2191
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002192- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
2193 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
2194 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00002195
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00002196- Added some tests for modulefinder.
2197
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00002198- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
2199
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00002200- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
2201 number properly.
2202
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002203- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
2204 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002205
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002206Tools
2207-----
2208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002209- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
2210 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
2211 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
2212 regarding this. Check issue 1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00002213
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002214- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
2215 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
2216 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00002217
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00002218- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
2219 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
2220
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002221- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
2222 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002223
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002224- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
2225 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002226
2227- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002228 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
2229 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00002230
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002231
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002232Documentation
2233-------------
2234
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00002235- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
2236 include new optional delay argument.
2237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002238- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
2239 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
2240 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00002241
2242- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
2243 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
2244
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00002245- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
2246 Python tutorial.
2247
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00002248- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
2249
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002250- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
2251 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00002252
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00002253- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
2254 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
2255
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00002256- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
2257 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
2258
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00002259- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
2260
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00002261- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
2262 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
2263
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00002264- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
2265 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
2266
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00002267- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
2268 docs.
2269
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00002270- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
2271
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00002272- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
2273 string pointed to by its parameter.
2274
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00002275- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
2276
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00002277- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002278 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
2279 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
2280 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00002281
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002282
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00002283Tools/Demos
2284-----------
2285
2286- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00002287
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00002288- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002289 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
2290 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00002291
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00002292- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
2293 file not to get reported properly.
2294
2295
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002296Build
2297-----
2298
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002299- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
2300 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
2301 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00002302
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00002303- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
2304 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
2305
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00002306- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
2307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002308- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002309
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002310- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
2311 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
2312 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
2313 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002315- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
2316 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002317
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00002318- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
2319
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00002320- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
2321 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
2322 without this option!
2323
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00002324- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
2325
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00002326- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002327 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
2328 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
2329 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00002330
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002331- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
2332 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00002333
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00002334- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
2335
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00002336- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
2337
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002338- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
2339 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00002340
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002341- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
2342 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00002343
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00002344- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
2345 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
2346 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
2347
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00002348- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
2349 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
2350
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00002351- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
2352
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00002353- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
2354
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002355- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
2356 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00002357
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00002358- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00002359 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
2360
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002361- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
2362 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00002363
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00002364- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
2365
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002366- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00002367
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00002368- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
2369
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00002370- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
2371
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00002372- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002373
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002374- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
2375 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
2376 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00002377
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002378
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002379C API
2380-----
2381
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002382- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
2383 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
2384 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
2385 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00002386
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002387- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
2388 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
2389 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00002390
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00002391- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00002392
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002393- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
2394 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
2395 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002396
2397- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
2398
2399- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
2400 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
2401
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002402- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
2403 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
2404 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
2405 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002406
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002407- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
2408 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002409
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002410- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
2411 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
2412 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002413
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002414- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
2415 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002416
2417- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
2418
2419- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
2420
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002421- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
2422
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00002423- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
2424
2425- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
2426 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
2427
2428- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
2429 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
2430
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002431- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
2432 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
2433 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002435- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
2436 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00002437
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002438- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
2439 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00002440
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002441
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00002442Windows
2443-------
2444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002445- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
2446 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
2447 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
2448 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00002449
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002450- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
2451 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00002452
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00002453- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
2454
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00002455
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00002456Mac
2457---
2458
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00002459- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
2460
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00002461- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
2462
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00002463- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
2464 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
2465 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00002466
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002467----
2468
2469**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**