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Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00002+++++++++++
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Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +02004What's New in Python 2.7.3?
5===========================
6
7*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
8
9Core and Builtins
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11
Ezio Melotti15d6b652011-08-15 09:22:24 +030012- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
13 titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
14
Benjamin Peterson6c18ff02011-07-22 10:41:44 -050015- Issues #12610 and #12609: Verify that user generated AST has correct string
16 and identifier types before compiling.
17
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -040018- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
19 non-exception class.
Benjamin Petersonc3349cd2011-07-15 14:15:40 -050020
Antoine Pitrou16166452011-07-12 22:04:20 +020021- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionnary gets
22 cleared by the garbage collector. This fixes a segfault when an instance
23 and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
24 deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
25 IOBase). Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
26
Victor Stinnerba8b3a22011-07-08 02:07:45 +020027- Issue #12501: Adjust callable() warning: callable() is only not supported in
28 Python 3.1. callable() is again supported in Python 3.2.
29
Victor Stinner59729ff2011-07-05 11:28:19 +020030- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read(), FileIO.readinto(), FileIO.write() and
31 os.write() clamp the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
32
Victor Stinnerd3c7e172011-05-30 23:49:13 +020033- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +020034 the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
35 raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
36
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -040037- dict_proxy objects now display their contents rather than just the class
38 name.
Raymond Hettingerbf7a2662011-06-30 00:44:36 +010039
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +020040Library
41-------
42
Senthil Kumaranf432aec2011-08-03 18:31:59 +080043- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
44 paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
45
Éric Araujo33af2632011-08-02 03:16:12 +020046- Issue #11933: Fix incorrect mtime comparison in distutils.
47
Éric Araujo560bf852011-07-31 02:04:00 +020048- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
49 manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
50
Éric Araujo9a528302011-07-29 17:34:35 +020051- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
52 in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
53
Charles-François Natali0cf7e252011-07-27 19:36:40 +020054- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
55
Raymond Hettinger55e5e272011-07-28 23:56:38 -070056- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
57 collections when it is done.
58
Ross Lagerwalld8e39012011-07-27 18:54:53 +020059- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
60 given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
61
Ross Lagerwall528c4ad2011-07-25 07:23:58 +020062- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
63 with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
64
Charles-François Natali3de8c732011-07-24 22:33:35 +020065- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
66
Antoine Pitrou4cfae022011-07-24 02:51:01 +020067- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup and setting/getting locales under Turkish
68 locales.
69
Nadeem Vawda0d2889f2011-07-23 16:13:01 +020070- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib when using FTP.
Nadeem Vawdab42c53e2011-07-23 15:51:16 +020071
Charles-François Natali97781b02011-07-22 23:43:42 +020072- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
73
Charles-François Natali4929eb92011-07-21 19:41:04 +020074- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
75
Antoine Pitrou495ee8f2011-07-20 00:26:23 +020076- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
77 directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
78 Linux 3.0.
79
R David Murray95225952011-07-18 21:34:04 -040080- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
81 commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
82
Antoine Pitrou304f0f92011-07-15 21:22:50 +020083- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__. Patch by
84 Andreas Stührk.
85
Charles-François Natali26591402011-07-14 19:49:02 +020086- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
87
Victor Stinnerbf547fd2011-07-13 21:47:31 +020088- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
89 the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
90
Victor Stinnere7901312011-07-05 14:08:01 +020091- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
92 if the process has only one pipe.
93
Victor Stinner65c15352011-07-04 03:05:37 +020094- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
95 shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
96
Charles-François Natali414d0fa2011-07-02 13:56:19 +020097- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
98 the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
99
Ned Deily87e82bb2011-06-28 19:52:59 -0700100- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
101 check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
102 interpreter process. This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
103 and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
104 environment after Distutils set it. Instead, have Distutils set the the
105 deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess. It is
106 still possible to globally override the default by setting
107 MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
108 greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
109 was built.
110
Raymond Hettinger2c316a32011-06-25 17:14:53 +0200111- Issue #11802: The cache in filecmp now has a maximum size of 100 so that
112 it won't grow without bound.
113
Ross Lagerwallffa8e2f2011-06-25 09:55:10 +0200114- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
115 Kitada.
116
R David Murrayf1138bb2011-06-17 22:23:04 -0400117- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
118 times without error, and _ProxyFile now closes the wrapped file.
119
Victor Stinnerc74a6ba2011-06-17 14:06:27 +0200120- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
121 connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
122 written by Ezio Melotti.
123
Benjamin Peterson0eb4ac42011-06-11 15:53:11 -0500124- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
125 functions.
126
R David Murray873c5832011-06-09 16:01:09 -0400127- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
128
Brian Curtincaea7e82011-06-08 19:29:53 -0500129- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
130 instead of os.stat.
131
Mark Dickinsona493ca32011-06-04 18:24:15 +0100132- Issue #12080: Fix a performance issue in Decimal._power_exact that caused
133 some corner-case Decimal.__pow__ calls to take an unreasonably long time.
134
Raymond Hettinger45b08292011-06-02 20:40:35 -0700135- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
136
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400137- sys.setcheckinterval() now updates the current ticker count as well as
138 updating the check interval, so if the user decreases the check interval,
139 the ticker doesn't have to wind down to zero from the old starting point
140 before the new interval takes effect. And if the user increases the
141 interval, it makes sure the new limit takes effect right away rather have an
142 early task switch before recognizing the new interval.
Raymond Hettinger19b851d2011-06-01 18:21:42 -0700143
Victor Stinner776e69b2011-06-01 01:03:00 +0200144- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
145 constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
146 written by Oleg Oshmyan.
147
Barry Warsawc5643282011-07-19 17:06:30 -0400148Extension Modules
149-----------------
150
151- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
152 signature. Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
153 broken. Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
154
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700155Build
156-----
157
158- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
159 os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
160 functions (*BSD and OS X). Also add new stat file flags for OS X
161 (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
162
Jason R. Coombsfee77452011-07-27 14:05:37 -0400163Tools/Demos
164-----------
165
166- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
167 an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
168
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +0200169Tests
170-----
171
Éric Araujo498da2c2011-07-31 17:59:28 +0200172- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
173 Python.
174
Ned Deily0ab67ee2011-07-13 15:05:31 -0700175- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
176 as the processor type on some Mac systems.
177
Antoine Pitrou4a4a0fe2011-07-09 02:34:05 +0200178- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
179 failure in name resolution.
180
Antoine Pitrou29603082011-07-08 19:40:15 +0200181- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
182 an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
183 Web site.
184
Antoine Pitroua4d58d22011-07-08 19:14:19 +0200185- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
186 DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name. The test
187 is now skipped instead.
188
Ned Deily46268c42011-07-03 21:52:35 -0700189- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
190 test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
191 in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
192
Ned Deily63144c62011-06-28 00:39:19 -0700193- Issue #12141: Install a copy of template C module file so that
194 test_build_ext of test_distutils is no longer silently skipped when
195 run outside of a build directory.
196
Ned Deily43e10542011-06-27 23:41:53 -0700197- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
198 Patch by Garrett Cooper.
199
Ned Deily64e59952011-06-27 23:09:31 -0700200- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
201 on Mac OS X. (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
202
Victor Stinnerd9f52922011-05-30 23:58:21 +0200203- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
204 iso2022_kr).
205
Victor Stinner08563d92011-05-30 23:44:13 +0200206
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000207What's New in Python 2.7.2?
208===========================
209
Benjamin Peterson9843ba52011-06-11 09:42:44 -0500210*Release date: 2011-06-11*
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -0500211
Benjamin Peterson43ee1a52011-06-10 11:32:52 -0500212Library
213-------
214
215- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
216
Benjamin Peterson4ba009d2011-05-31 18:59:49 -0500217Extension Modules
218-----------------
219
220- Issue #1221: Make pyexpat.__version__ equal to the Python version.
221
Benjamin Petersonf14e4202011-05-31 18:44:55 -0500222
223What's New in Python 2.7.2 release candidate 1?
224===============================================
225
Benjamin Petersoncd207052011-05-29 16:50:27 -0500226*Release date: 2011-05-29*
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000227
228Core and Builtins
229-----------------
230
Ned Deily482f9082011-05-28 00:11:54 -0700231- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
232 Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
233 "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
234 (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
235
Benjamin Petersonef1122c2011-06-03 16:17:22 -0500236- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. This allows old-style classes to have
237 __dir__. It also causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup to be
238 propagated.
Benjamin Peterson8de87a62011-05-23 16:11:05 -0500239
Victor Stinner2c585f62011-05-10 00:22:59 +0200240- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
241 clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
242
Victor Stinner0a92d182011-05-03 15:09:24 +0200243- Issue #8651: PyArg_Parse*() functions raise an OverflowError if the file
244 doesn't have PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN define and the size doesn't fit in an int
245 (length bigger than 2^31-1 bytes).
246
Victor Stinner645b9f62011-05-03 15:06:11 +0200247- Issue #8651: Fix "z#" format of PyArg_Parse*() function: the size was not
248 written if PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.
249
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +0200250- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
251 the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
252 Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
Victor Stinner97cf5852011-05-01 23:51:11 +0200253 str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
Victor Stinnere363ec12011-05-01 23:43:37 +0200254
Antoine Pitrou1f9eb152011-04-27 19:26:06 +0200255- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
256 APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch
257 by Charles-François Natali.
258
Ezio Melottie3685f62011-04-26 05:12:51 +0300259- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
260 accepted too.
261
Ezio Melottic283a852011-04-15 16:14:04 +0300262- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
263 between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
264 chars (e.g. u"\U00012345"[0]).
265
Victor Stinner5de51ac2011-04-09 16:09:08 +0200266- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
267 (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
268 written by Charles-Francois Natali.
269
Mark Dickinson874d59e2011-03-26 12:18:00 +0000270- Issue #11144: Ensure that int(a_float) returns an int whenever possible.
271 Previously, there were some corner cases where a long was returned even
272 though the result was within the range of an int.
273
Antoine Pitrou2ddaaff2011-03-09 12:54:00 +0100274- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
275 there are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
276
Antoine Pitrou3013b162011-01-18 19:06:19 +0000277- Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
278 Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
279
Benjamin Peterson9b911ca2011-01-12 15:49:47 +0000280- Issue #10892: Don't segfault when trying to delete __abstractmethods__ from a
281 class.
282
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +0000283- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
284 non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
285 Patch by Matt Bandy.
286
Raymond Hettinger57a86892011-01-25 21:43:29 +0000287- Issue #11004: Repaired edge case in deque.count().
288
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcac514c82011-01-03 00:50:57 +0000289- Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
290 can now handle dates after 2038.
291
R. David Murray64a1e7c2010-12-15 01:36:03 +0000292- Issue #4236: Py_InitModule4 now checks the import machinery directly
293 rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
294 error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.
295
Jesus Cea44e81682011-04-20 16:39:15 +0200296- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
297 Patch by Torsten Becker.
298
Benjamin Peterson07f54512010-12-11 04:25:57 +0000299- Issue #10674: Remove unused 'dictmaker' rule from grammar.
300
Mark Dickinsonecf8ec62010-12-04 12:30:41 +0000301- Issue #10596: Fix float.__mod__ to have the same behaviour as
302 float.__divmod__ with respect to signed zeros. -4.0 % 4.0 should be
303 0.0, not -0.0.
304
Eli Bendersky680e6eb2011-03-04 06:14:56 +0000305- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
306 empty, instead of OverflowError.
307
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000308Library
309-------
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +0000310
Ned Deilyd8b17232011-07-26 18:16:08 -0700311- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
312 when opening a long file. With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
313
Benjamin Peterson4fa68ab2011-05-26 09:56:41 -0500314- Issue #12161: Cause StringIO.getvalue() to raise a ValueError when used on a
315 closed StringIO instance.
316
Victor Stinnerdbfba162011-05-26 13:37:25 +0200317- Issue #12182: Fix pydoc.HTMLDoc.multicolumn() if Python uses the new (true)
318 division (python -Qnew). Patch written by Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve.
319
Victor Stinnerdaf17e92011-05-25 22:52:37 +0200320- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
321
Victor Stinner5100a402011-05-25 22:15:36 +0200322- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
323 if the file is closed.
324
Charles-François Natalib94e0cd2011-05-24 23:10:54 +0200325- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, use makefile() to wrap the SSL socket to avoid
326 heap fragmentation and MemoryError with some malloc implementations.
327
Victor Stinner40b41e12011-05-24 22:29:13 +0200328- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
329 their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
330 final argument is True.
331
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +0200332- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
333 to be able to unload the module.
334
Ronald Oussorenb13cacf2011-05-17 15:13:46 +0200335- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
336 with Tk 8.5.
337
Ronald Oussoren372954e2011-05-17 13:22:30 +0200338- Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
339 of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
340
Victor Stinnerf58f1c32011-05-21 02:13:22 +0200341- Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is
Ronald Oussoren53b6a5f2011-05-15 16:51:10 +0200342 set in shell.
343
Nadeem Vawda0cc4fd92011-05-14 14:29:07 +0200344- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
345 attribute when called without a max_length argument.
346
Antoine Pitrouee46a7b2011-05-13 00:31:52 +0200347- Issue #12062: In the `io` module, fix a flushing bug when doing a certain
348 type of I/O sequence on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading,
349 seeking a bit forward, writing, then seeking before the previous write but
350 still within buffered data, and writing again).
351
Antoine Pitrou47d1d0d2011-05-10 19:16:03 +0200352- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
353 order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
354
Victor Stinnerb1241f92011-05-10 01:52:03 +0200355- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
356
Martin v. Löwis591c2df2011-05-09 08:19:13 +0200357- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
358
Antoine Pitrou21ce8f02011-05-07 19:59:33 +0200359- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
360 by Kasun Herath.
361
R David Murray8b26c4b2011-05-06 21:56:22 -0400362- Issue 11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
363 detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
364 previous value of the mtime.
365
Ronald Oussoren58d6b1b2011-05-06 11:31:33 +0200366- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
367 filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
368 for the case.
369
Ezio Melottidf8a8f72011-05-04 14:40:53 +0300370- Issue #11982: fix json.loads('""') to return u'' rather than ''.
371
Victor Stinner112d48a2011-05-03 14:36:36 +0200372- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
373 around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
374
Senthil Kumaran011525e2011-04-28 15:30:31 +0800375- Issue #10761: Fix tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files are
376 present. Initial patch by Scott Leerssen.
377
Ezio Melotti34b32d62011-04-27 09:45:46 +0300378- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
379 strings are too long.
380
Senthil Kumaran5dc68682011-04-26 21:17:45 +0800381- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
382
Victor Stinner33feeab2011-04-18 16:33:28 +0200383- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
384 Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
385 parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
386
Raymond Hettingere0156c42011-04-19 09:48:39 -0700387- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
388 mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
389
Martin v. Löwis2d253dd2011-04-17 22:29:40 +0200390- Issue #11442: Add a charset parameter to the Content-type in SimpleHTTPServer
391 to avoid XSS attacks.
392
Senthil Kumaranddaea1c2011-04-15 18:07:33 +0800393- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
394 specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
395
Raymond Hettinger37c0fe52011-04-15 13:12:21 -0700396- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
397
Senthil Kumarana99b7612011-04-14 12:54:35 +0800398- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
399 Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
400
Ezio Melotti2b96f092011-04-13 05:37:29 +0300401- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
402 _json is not available.
403
404- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
Senthil Kumaran0531d6f2011-04-13 09:47:20 +0800405 url contains #fragment.
406
R David Murrayea8b6ef2011-04-12 21:00:26 -0400407- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
408 adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
409
brian.curtin16f98b72011-04-11 18:05:33 -0500410- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
411 from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
412
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +0300413- Issue #4877: Fix a segfault in xml.parsers.expat while attempting to parse
414 a closed file.
415
Raymond Hettingere4579c32011-04-11 17:27:42 -0700416- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
417 It was causing a failed import in the Turkish locale where the locale
418 sensitive str.upper() method caused a name mismatch.
419
Antoine Pitrou7dfc8742011-04-11 00:26:42 +0200420- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
421 worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
422 shut down. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
423
Ezio Melotti8b4367e2011-04-11 03:44:28 +0300424- Issue #7311: Fix HTMLParser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
Ezio Melotti9f1ffb22011-04-05 20:40:52 +0300425
Ross Lagerwall104c3f12011-04-05 15:24:34 +0200426- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
427
guido@google.com2bc23b82011-03-24 10:44:17 -0700428- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
guido@google.comdb3080e2011-03-28 13:53:40 -0700429 scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +0000430
Benjamin Peterson77d46602011-03-28 17:32:31 -0500431- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
432 arguments.
433
Martin v. Löwis03f7e232011-03-27 20:58:52 +0200434- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
435
Mark Dickinsond687be02011-03-27 16:15:24 +0100436- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
437 trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
438
Mark Dickinson1829e8f2011-03-27 15:32:05 +0100439- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
440 are now zeroed on creation. This matches the behaviour specified by the
441 documentation.
442
Martin v. Löwis49b0ce02011-03-27 10:10:46 +0200443- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi.
444
Raymond Hettinger9aa5a342011-03-25 16:00:13 -0700445- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
446 that start with a leading underscore.
447
Mark Dickinsonf9e9a6f2011-03-25 22:01:06 +0000448- Issue #11673: Fix multiprocessing Array and RawArray constructors to accept a
449 size of type 'long', rather than only accepting 'int'.
450
Éric Araujo374274d2011-03-19 04:29:36 +0100451- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
452 comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
453
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -0400454- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
455 setup and teardown.
456
Ronald Oussoren2ab59942011-03-16 09:47:15 -0400457- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
458 ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
459 that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
460
Michael Foord51368672011-03-17 12:59:38 -0400461- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
462 IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
Ronald Oussoren1aa999c2011-03-14 18:53:59 -0400463
Mark Dickinson2c8c62e2011-03-12 11:05:32 +0000464- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in plus and minus operations when
465 the context rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
466
Ned Deily9d4836e2011-03-09 02:31:55 -0800467- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
468 initialization fails.
469
Antoine Pitroud6f3a3e2011-03-06 02:03:34 +0100470- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
471 ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
472 TypeError. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
473
R. David Murray1a337902011-03-03 18:17:40 +0000474- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
475 certain files in read-write mode. Previously it detected this by
476 checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
477
Giampaolo Rodolàd65224f2011-03-03 14:17:51 +0000478- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
479 on accept(), send() and recv().
480
Antoine Pitroud3f6ea12011-02-26 23:35:27 +0000481- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
482 and make it work for non-blocking connects.
483
Antoine Pitrou6439c002011-02-25 21:35:47 +0000484- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
485 has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
486
Georg Brandl28046022011-02-25 11:01:04 +0000487- Issue #10680: Fix mutually exclusive arguments for argument groups in
488 argparse.
489
Antoine Pitrouf4d2b3d2011-02-21 23:59:20 +0000490- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
491 4GB, even on 32-bit builds. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
492 32-bit Windows.
493
Georg Brandl52f83952011-02-25 10:39:23 +0000494- Issue #10360: In WeakSet, do not raise TypeErrors when testing for
495 membership of non-weakrefable objects.
496
497- Issue #10549: Fix pydoc traceback when text-documenting certain classes.
498
499- Issue #940286: pydoc.Helper.help() ignores input/output init parameters.
500
Barry Warsaw42bb7ca2011-02-14 20:04:00 +0000501- Issue #11171: Fix detection of config/Makefile when --prefix !=
502 --exec-prefix, which caused Python to not start.
503
R. David Murray008c0442011-02-11 23:03:13 +0000504- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes
505 a rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
506
Antoine Pitrou820021e2011-01-31 21:47:45 +0000507- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
508 Patch by Stan Mihai.
509
Ned Deily60651532011-01-31 00:52:49 +0000510- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
511 menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
512 The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
513
Ned Deily2a6f4b32011-01-30 00:18:47 +0000514- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
515 than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
516 64-/32-bit installer variant.
517
Ned Deilyefc527a2011-01-29 19:30:39 +0000518- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
519 commands.
520
Vinay Sajipcdb83882011-01-21 23:35:57 +0000521- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
522
Antoine Pitrou8a0eede2011-01-20 21:20:18 +0000523- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
524 length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
525
Antoine Pitrou63a3f152011-01-19 15:27:24 +0000526- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
527 a symbol named FSTAT.
528
Ned Deily4a705502011-01-18 04:33:22 +0000529- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
530 Cocoa AquaTk.
531
Antoine Pitrou9989d852011-01-15 16:18:57 +0000532- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
533 length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
534 is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
535
Terry Reedyf7dd7992011-01-10 22:15:19 +0000536- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
537
Antoine Pitrou5a72e762011-01-07 21:49:44 +0000538- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years. The time.asctime
539 function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
540 false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise. The year range
541 accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
542 dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
543 by the OS. Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
544
Georg Brandl6adb9792011-01-09 07:53:14 +0000545- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
546 node twice.
547
Antoine Pitrou1f1613f2011-01-06 18:30:26 +0000548- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
549 on an existing file.
550
Antoine Pitrou77c1b382011-01-06 17:19:05 +0000551- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
552 the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
553
Antoine Pitrou91ce0d92011-01-03 18:45:09 +0000554- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
555 file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
556 patch by Ross Lagerwall.
557
Antoine Pitroub0614612011-01-02 20:04:52 +0000558- Issue #4662: os.tempnam(), os.tmpfile() and os.tmpnam() now raise a py3k
559 DeprecationWarning.
560
Raymond Hettinger8ebebd82011-01-02 01:03:26 +0000561- Subclasses of collections.OrderedDict now work correctly with __missing__.
562
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100563- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
Senthil Kumaran559395f2010-12-29 06:30:19 +0000564 variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util 's
565 request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
566 params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
567
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100568- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
Terry Reedy0df73672010-12-28 19:53:32 +0000569
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100570- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
R. David Murray08fc7012010-12-28 19:11:03 +0000571 browsers actually parse cookies.
572
R. David Murray5360d002010-12-27 19:17:17 +0000573- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
574 email.header.Header.encode.
575
R. David Murray5874ed62010-12-26 22:29:53 +0000576- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
577 it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
578 the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
579
Antoine Pitroufc9ead62010-12-21 21:26:55 +0000580- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
581
Daniel Stutzbach57cf0af2011-01-04 18:47:17 +0000582- Issue #10242: unittest.TestCase.assertItemsEqual makes too many assumptions
Michael Foorde6e0e262010-12-19 15:52:56 +0000583 about input.
584
Michael Foorda17f0762010-12-19 14:53:19 +0000585- Issue #10611: SystemExit should not cause a unittest test run to exit.
586
Antoine Pitroud7b6ac62010-12-18 18:18:21 +0000587- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
588 to avoid denial of services from the other party.
589
R. David Murray3f752ab2010-12-18 17:22:18 +0000590- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
591
592- Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
R. David Murray7a697252010-12-18 03:52:09 +0000593 rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
594
Antoine Pitrou47900cf2010-12-17 17:45:12 +0000595- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
596 from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
597
Senthil Kumaran5c7fd6e2010-12-17 04:56:02 +0000598- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
599 ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000600
Antoine Pitrou47d9b0e2010-12-16 17:11:34 +0000601- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
602 for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
603
Éric Araujoe04c13c2010-12-15 21:15:25 +0000604- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
605
R. David Murraydacb8042010-12-14 14:34:16 +0000606- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
607 causes debug mode to fail.
608
Ronald Oussoren8ec374c2010-12-07 16:02:59 +0000609- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
610
Ronald Oussoren517858a2010-12-07 16:13:17 +0000611- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
612 platforms).
613
Antoine Pitrou4cb64ad2010-12-03 19:31:52 +0000614- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
615 way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
616 current process.
617
Éric Araujofb3de6b2010-12-03 19:24:49 +0000618- Issue #10497: Fix incorrect use of gettext in argparse.
619
R. David Murrayd75cc912010-12-02 03:16:23 +0000620- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
621
Gregory P. Smith312efbc2010-12-14 15:02:53 +0000622- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
623 OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
624 or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
625
Steven Bethardf8583ac2011-01-24 20:40:15 +0000626- Issue #9509: argparse now properly handles IOErrors raised by
627 argparse.FileType.
628
Steven Bethard3f69a052011-03-26 19:59:02 +0100629- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
630
631- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
632
Steven Bethard5e0062d2011-03-26 21:50:38 +0100633- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
634 their children.
635
Steven Bethardbc3b1042011-03-27 13:57:55 +0200636- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
637
Steven Betharde3c11b42011-04-04 01:47:52 +0200638- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
639
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +0000640Extension Modules
641-----------------
642
Benjamin Peterson6116d4a2011-05-17 18:31:20 -0500643- Stop using the old interface for providing methods and attributes in the _sre
644 module. Among other things, this gives these classes ``__class__``
645 attributes. (See #12099)
646
Ezio Melotti0639be62011-05-07 19:21:22 +0300647- Issue #10169: Fix argument parsing in socket.sendto() to avoid error masking.
648
Ezio Melottic1ec7b52011-05-11 00:55:35 +0300649- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
650 objects using the C accelerations.
651
Ezio Melotticec46492011-05-07 17:40:23 +0300652- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
653 objects using the C accelerations.
654
Benjamin Petersonf21ad922011-03-26 17:56:28 -0500655- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
656 to an instance of the class.
657
R. David Murray2a4b3fc2010-12-11 02:13:04 +0000658- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
659
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +0000660Build
661-----
662
Ned Deily22f63b52011-05-28 05:56:14 -0700663- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
664 ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
665 files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
666
Thomas Wouters5edae7e2011-03-06 11:48:05 -0800667- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
668
Georg Brandl94800df2011-02-25 11:09:02 +0000669- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
670
671- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
672
Georg Brandl71f4fbb2011-02-25 11:04:50 +0000673- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
674
Ned Deilye6cc7d62011-02-21 21:00:09 +0000675- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
676 package had previously been installed.
677
Ned Deily68adfdc2011-02-07 16:52:25 +0000678- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac
679 OS X installers now includes a link to the installed documentation.
680
Ned Deily53c460d2011-01-30 01:43:40 +0000681- Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
682 the system-provided Python.
683
684- Issue #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X
685 32-bit installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
686 (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
687 support enabled).
688
Antoine Pitrou9828b562011-01-03 19:11:32 +0000689- Don't run pgen twice when using make -j.
690
Antoine Pitrou31e85952011-01-03 18:57:14 +0000691- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
692 the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
693
Antoine Pitrouf11d1832011-01-02 19:37:45 +0000694- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
695 and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
696
David Malcolm4c29e1c2011-01-06 17:39:24 +0000697- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
698 timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
699 support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
700 only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
701
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -0400702- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
703 using GCC 4.0.
704
Raymond Hettinger179816d2011-04-12 18:54:46 -0700705IDLE
706----
707
708- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
709 file in a package.
710
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +0000711Tests
712-----
713
Ned Deilyc4f97f42011-05-29 02:36:17 -0700714- Issue #12205: Fix test_subprocess failure due to uninstalled test data.
715
Ezio Melottie3992eb2011-05-14 06:24:53 +0300716- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
717
Ezio Melotti5c5d7e22011-05-09 06:54:53 +0300718- Issue #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
719
Nadeem Vawdabafc6a92011-04-19 01:35:58 +0200720- Fix test_startfile to wait for child process to terminate before finishing.
721
Ross Lagerwallfe2f1ad2011-04-09 20:39:50 +0200722- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
723 platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
724
Ned Deily5f511822011-04-05 17:16:09 -0700725- Issue #7108: Fix test_commands to not fail when special attributes ('@'
726 or '.') appear in 'ls -l' output.
727
R David Murraycdd5fc92011-03-13 22:37:18 -0400728- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
729 false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
730
Antoine Pitrou8bc59fa2011-01-12 18:56:09 +0000731- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
732 by Ross Lagerwall.
733
Antoine Pitrou8c688be2011-01-03 20:49:01 +0000734- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
735 in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
736 explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
737
R. David Murrayf8a63912010-12-14 16:26:30 +0000738- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
739 encountering them.
740
R. David Murray0960bc52010-12-04 17:24:46 +0000741- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
742 tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
743
Benjamin Peterson5ee84482010-11-28 04:49:23 +0000744
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +0000745What's New in Python 2.7.1?
746===========================
747
Benjamin Peterson3e0fa422010-11-27 14:40:29 +0000748*Release date: 2010-11-27*
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +0000749
750Library
751-------
752
Éric Araujo54274ad2011-02-03 00:12:18 +0000753- Issue #2236: distutils' mkpath ignored the mode parameter.
754
755- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
756
Raymond Hettinger061bf7a2010-11-30 03:15:35 +0000757- Issue #10323: itertools.islice() now consumes the minimum number of
758 inputs before stopping. Formerly, the final state of the underlying
759 iterator was undefined.
760
Alexander Belopolsky1fea5c42010-11-30 01:18:17 +0000761- Issue #10565: The collections.Iterator ABC now checks for both
762 ``__iter__`` and ``next``.
763
Georg Brandl79f096a2010-11-26 07:57:57 +0000764- Issue #10092: Properly reset locale in calendar.Locale*Calendar classes.
765
Martin v. Löwise03c7782010-11-22 10:53:46 +0000766- Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.2.
767
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +0000768- Issue #6098: Don't claim DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
769
Senthil Kumaran9a5897b2010-11-29 12:41:03 +0000770- Issue #10561: In pdb, clear the breakpoints by the breakpoint number.
771
Georg Brandl5ded7912010-11-26 07:35:31 +0000772- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
773 XML namespace attribute is encountered.
774
Georg Brandl86e0c892010-11-26 07:22:28 +0000775- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
776 created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
777 BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
778
Senthil Kumaran0b7cac12010-11-22 05:04:33 +0000779- Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
780 start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
781
Brian Curtin2d011ed2010-11-21 23:50:51 +0000782- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
783 the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
784
Éric Araujo4fadd532010-11-20 20:02:41 +0000785- Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
786
Georg Brandl839c1132010-11-20 11:29:38 +0000787- Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
788 is called without data.
789
Benjamin Peterson4fec9ce2010-11-20 17:31:08 +0000790- Issue #10467: Fix BytesIO.readinto() after seeking into a position after the
791 end of the file.
792
Senthil Kumaran501bfd82010-11-14 03:31:52 +0000793- Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
794
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +0000795Build
796-----
797
Brian Curtin69a106a2010-11-22 02:08:49 +0000798- Backport r83399 to allow test_distutils to pass on installed versions.
799
Martin v. Löwiseebd0172010-11-14 18:17:39 +0000800- Issue #1303434: Generate ZIP file containing all PDBs.
801
Ezio Melotti2623a372010-11-21 13:34:58 +0000802Tests
803-----
804
805- Issue #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
806
Ezio Melottibf8484e2010-11-24 21:54:47 +0000807Documentation
808-------------
809
810- Issue #10299: List the built-in functions in a table in functions.rst.
811
Benjamin Petersondb4c3342010-11-13 23:32:58 +0000812
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +0000813What's New in Python 2.7.1 release candidate 1?
814===============================================
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000815
Benjamin Petersoncc214172010-11-13 17:33:04 +0000816*Release date: 2010-11-13*
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000817
818Core and Builtins
819-----------------
820
Raymond Hettinger2ad17e12010-10-30 08:17:46 +0000821- Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the
822 missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys).
823
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000824- Issue #10125: Don't segfault when the iterator passed to
825 ``file.writelines()`` closes the file.
Benjamin Petersonbf775542010-10-16 19:20:12 +0000826
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000827- Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the
828 length of the offending line.
Benjamin Petersonf99f33d2010-10-24 03:00:35 +0000829
Benjamin Petersonf76942d2010-10-16 03:51:38 +0000830- Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope
831 resolution.
832
R. David Murray1d9d16e2010-10-16 00:43:13 +0000833- Issue #9862: Compensate for broken PIPE_BUF in AIX by hard coding
834 its value as the default 512 when compiling on AIX.
835
Jesus Cea33c722b2010-11-04 21:39:52 +0000836- Issue #9675: CObject use is marked as a Py3k warning, not a deprecation
837 warning.
838
Benjamin Petersondc954242010-10-12 23:02:35 +0000839- Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's
840 dict are now cleared again. This causes issue #7140 to appear again.
841
Mark Dickinsoncb61e5d2010-09-26 10:37:12 +0000842- Issue #9869: Make long() and PyNumber_Long return something of type
843 long for a class whose __long__ method returns a plain int. This
844 fixes an interpreter crash when initializing an instance of a long
845 subclass from an object whose __long__ method returns a plain int.
846
Benjamin Petersona5d5cc42010-10-02 00:08:58 +0000847- Issue #10006: type.__abstractmethods__ now raises an AttributeError.
848
Antoine Pitrou0a7b65b2010-09-08 12:40:49 +0000849- Issue #9797: pystate.c wrongly assumed that zero couldn't be a valid
850 thread-local storage key.
851
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +0000852- Issue #4947: The write() method of sys.stdout and sys.stderr uses their
853 encoding and errors attributes instead of using utf-8 in strict mode, to get
854 the same behaviour than the print statement.
855
Antoine Pitrou9cf85f12010-09-01 21:17:34 +0000856- Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
857 a memoryview object.
858
Martin v. Löwis6086b0d2010-08-19 09:09:04 +0000859- Restore GIL in nis_cat in case of error.
860
Benjamin Peterson6f3d6a92010-08-25 23:17:42 +0000861- Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.
862
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +0000863- Issue #8530: Prevent stringlib fastsearch from reading beyond the front
864 of an array.
865
Raymond Hettinger3ad323e2010-08-06 10:18:56 +0000866- Issue #83755: Implicit set-to-frozenset conversion was not thread-safe.
867
Mark Dickinsonaad57bd2010-08-01 10:45:15 +0000868- Issue #9416: Fix some issues with complex formatting where the
869 output with no type specifier failed to match the str output:
870
871 - format(complex(-0.0, 2.0), '-') omitted the real part from the output,
872 - format(complex(0.0, 2.0), '-') included a sign and parentheses.
873
Antoine Pitrou32669782010-07-11 12:14:05 +0000874- Issue #7616: Fix copying of overlapping memoryview slices with the Intel
875 compiler.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +0000876
877Library
878-------
879
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100880- Issue #9926: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +0000881
Antoine Pitrou7eaa4482010-11-09 23:15:18 +0000882- Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). Patch by
883 Lorenzo M. Catucci.
884
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +0000885- Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with
886 --enable-shared.
Michael Foord75152ea2010-11-20 17:40:49 +0000887
Éric Araujo2f0a0402010-11-06 15:46:46 +0000888- Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check).
889
890- Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce.
891
892- Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did
893 not in build_clib.
894
Éric Araujoe9954b52010-11-06 04:53:42 +0000895- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. Patch by
896 Arfrever.
897
Éric Araujoe28665a2010-11-06 04:36:28 +0000898- Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
899
Éric Araujod1feff72010-11-06 04:06:18 +0000900- Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and
901 tests. Patch by Brian Brazil, completed by Éric Araujo.
902
Antoine Pitrou6b1167c2010-11-05 19:55:02 +0000903- Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from
904 its low-level signal handler. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
905
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000906- Issue #10038: json.loads() on str should always return unicode (regression
907 from Python 2.6). Patch by Walter Dörwald.
Michael Foorde5dc24e2010-11-01 22:11:53 +0000908
Barry Warsawfa658272010-11-02 21:03:09 +0000909- Issue #120176: Wrapped TestSuite subclass does not get __call__ executed.
910
911- Issue #6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises
912 EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None
913 instead.
Giampaolo Rodolà19e9fef2010-11-01 15:07:14 +0000914
Antoine Pitrou61d14b72010-10-31 16:17:36 +0000915- Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given
916 as a filename. Patch by Brian Brazil.
917
Antoine Pitrou3917c092010-10-31 13:12:48 +0000918- Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames
919 were given to it. Patch by Brian Brazil.
920
Antoine Pitrou594a0462010-10-31 13:05:48 +0000921- Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file
922 for append that isn't seekable. Patch by Brian Brazil.
923
Raymond Hettingercbba8d42010-10-30 07:29:44 +0000924- Issue #6105: json.dumps now respects OrderedDict's iteration order.
925
Antoine Pitrou638cee62010-10-28 14:50:57 +0000926- Issue #9295: Fix a crash under Windows when calling close() on a file
927 object with custom buffering from two threads at once.
928
Antoine Pitrou7f081022010-10-27 18:43:21 +0000929- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
930 xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
931 http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
932
Brian Curtin4cc54032010-10-21 14:48:22 +0000933- Issue #10163: Skip unreadable registry keys during mimetypes
934 initialization.
935
Hirokazu Yamamoto50f7d7e2010-10-18 13:55:29 +0000936- Issue #5117: Fixed root directory related issue on posixpath.relpath() and
937 ntpath.relpath().
938
Éric Araujo86f90742011-03-21 00:15:26 +0100939- Issue #9409: Fix the regex to match all kind of filenames, for interactive
Florent Xiclunab67660f2010-10-14 21:10:45 +0000940 debugging in doctests.
941
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +0000942- Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the
943 current directory was deleted. Patch written by W. Trevor King.
944
Fred Drake577acb42010-10-11 19:13:04 +0000945- Issue #10045: Improved performance when writing after seeking past the
946 end of the "file" in cStringIO.
947
Vinay Sajip5e8349e2010-10-10 20:36:04 +0000948- Issue #9948: Fixed problem of losing filename case information.
949
Antoine Pitrou58dab672010-10-10 09:54:59 +0000950- Issue #9437: Fix building C extensions with non-default LDFLAGS.
951
Antoine Pitrou76a66aa2010-10-06 21:26:52 +0000952- Issue #9759: GzipFile now raises ValueError when an operation is attempted
953 after the file is closed. Patch by Jeffrey Finkelstein.
954
Éric Araujoc17776f2010-10-04 23:59:35 +0000955- Issue #9042: Fix interaction of custom translation classes and caching in
956 gettext.
957
Lars Gustäbel6aab8d02010-10-04 15:37:53 +0000958- Issue #9065: tarfile no longer uses "root" as the default for the uname and
959 gname field.
960
R. David Murray10a86762010-10-02 16:26:05 +0000961- Issue #1050268: parseaddr now correctly quotes double quote and backslash
962 characters that appear inside quoted strings in email addresses.
963
R. David Murray20ad3632010-10-01 15:48:49 +0000964- Issue #10004: quoprimime no longer generates a traceback when confronted
965 with invalid characters after '=' in a Q-encoded word.
966
Antoine Pitrou66b5df62010-09-27 18:16:46 +0000967- Issue #9950: Fix socket.sendall() crash or misbehaviour when a signal is
968 received. Now sendall() properly calls signal handlers if necessary,
969 and retries sending if these returned successfully, including on sockets
970 with a timeout.
971
Vinay Sajip3eac5912010-09-25 17:48:25 +0000972- Issue #9947: logging: Fixed locking bug in stopListening.
973
Vinay Sajip546885e2010-09-25 17:42:36 +0000974- Issue #9945: logging: Fixed locking bugs in addHandler/removeHandler.
975
Alexander Belopolsky517185e2010-09-24 18:14:18 +0000976- Issue #9936: Fixed executable lines' search in the trace module.
977
Antoine Pitrou2c7d6852010-09-23 19:55:24 +0000978- Issue #9928: Properly initialize the types exported by the bz2 module.
979
Antoine Pitrou6391b342010-09-14 18:48:19 +0000980- Issue #9854: The default read() implementation in io.RawIOBase now
981 handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.
982
Antoine Pitrouf7f390a2010-09-14 14:37:18 +0000983- Issue #9729: Fix the signature of SSLSocket.recvfrom() and
984 SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods. Also,
985 fix various SSLSocket methods to raise socket.error rather than an
986 unhelpful TypeError when called on an unconnected socket. Original patch
987 by Andrew Bennetts.
988
Raymond Hettinger74f869e2010-09-13 22:14:36 +0000989- Issue #9826: OrderedDict.__repr__ can now handle self-referential
990 values: d['x'] = d.
991
Victor Stinner8fc843b2010-09-17 23:35:50 +0000992- Issue #767645: Set os.path.supports_unicode_filenames to True on Mac OS X.
Victor Stinner46287f52010-09-13 20:31:34 +0000993
Antoine Pitroue4195e82010-09-12 14:56:27 +0000994- Issue #9837: The read() method of ZipExtFile objects (as returned by
995 ZipFile.open()) could return more bytes than requested.
996
Raymond Hettinger20397532010-09-12 02:11:45 +0000997- Issue #9825: removed __del__ from the definition of collections.OrderedDict.
998 This prevents user-created self-referencing ordered dictionaries from
999 becoming permanently uncollectable GC garbage. The downside is that
1000 removing __del__ means that the internal doubly-linked list has to wait for
1001 GC collection rather than freeing memory immediately when the refcnt drops
1002 to zero.
1003
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00001004- Issue #9816: random.Random.jumpahead(n) did not produce a sufficiently
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001005 different internal state for small values of n. Fixed by salting the
Raymond Hettingerffd2a422010-09-10 10:47:22 +00001006 value.
1007
Antoine Pitrouc818ed42010-09-07 21:40:25 +00001008- Issue #9792: In case of connection failure, socket.create_connection()
1009 would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
1010 to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors. Now the
1011 original error is re-raised.
1012
Antoine Pitrouf4f61712010-09-07 16:34:47 +00001013- Issue #9758: When fcntl.ioctl() was called with mutable_flag set to True,
1014 and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
1015 be updated back after the system call. Original patch by Brian Brazil.
1016
Antoine Pitroudca9de92010-09-04 17:52:26 +00001017- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
1018 dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.
1019
Fred Drakea1e627d2010-09-03 03:55:50 +00001020- Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
1021 ConfigParser.write.
1022
Daniel Stutzbach66c981b2010-08-31 20:29:39 +00001023- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
1024 avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
1025
Terry Reedyd2d2ae92010-11-11 23:22:19 +00001026- Issue #2986: difflib.SequenceMatcher gets a new parameter, autojunk, which
1027 can be set to False to turn off the previously undocumented 'popularity'
1028 heuristic. Patch by Terry Reedy and Eli Bendersky
1029
Senthil Kumaran7e8fd5e2010-08-26 06:20:13 +00001030- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
1031 falling into recursion.
1032
R. David Murray7c4bf552010-08-25 01:45:57 +00001033- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
1034 character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.
1035
Daniel Stutzbach91287322010-08-24 21:09:30 +00001036- Issue #8750: Fixed MutableSet's methods to correctly handle
1037 reflexive operations, namely x -= x and x ^= x.
1038
Victor Stinnercaafd772010-09-08 10:51:01 +00001039- Issue #9129: smtpd.py is vulnerable to DoS attacks deriving from missing
Giampaolo Rodolà8664d742010-08-23 22:48:51 +00001040 error handling when accepting a new connection.
1041
Giampaolo Rodolà63308d72010-08-23 21:58:47 +00001042- Issue #658749: asyncore's connect() method now correctly interprets winsock
1043 errors.
1044
Vinay Sajip1ddd51f2010-08-23 17:50:30 +00001045- Issue #9501: Fixed logging regressions in cleanup code.
1046
Raymond Hettinger917bba12010-08-22 08:01:58 +00001047- Issue #9214: Set operations on KeysView or ItemsView in the collections
1048 module now correctly return a set. (Patch by Eli Bendersky.)
1049
Antoine Pitrou3ebaed62010-08-21 19:17:25 +00001050- Issue #9617: Signals received during a low-level write operation aren't
1051 ignored by the buffered IO layer anymore.
1052
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00001053- Issue #2521: Use weakrefs on for caching in the abc module, so that classes
1054 are not held onto after they are deleted elsewhere.
1055
Raymond Hettingera54b2da2010-08-17 19:03:06 +00001056- Issue #9626: the view methods for collections.OrderedDict() were returning
1057 the unordered versions inherited from dict. Those methods are now
1058 overridden to provide ordered views.
1059
Éric Araujo0389ae62010-08-14 03:07:46 +00001060- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
1061 comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
1062 without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
1063
Antoine Pitroue1436d12010-08-12 15:25:51 +00001064- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
1065 and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
1066 case in Python 2.5 and earlier).
1067
Antoine Pitroucb4f47c2010-08-11 13:40:17 +00001068- Issue #9550: a BufferedReader could issue an additional read when the
1069 original read request had been satisfied, which could block indefinitely
1070 when the underlying raw IO channel was e.g. a socket. Report and original
1071 patch by Jason V. Miller.
1072
Fred Drake0a1fa0e2010-08-10 13:09:54 +00001073- Issue #9551: Don't raise TypeError when setting the value to None for
1074 SafeConfigParser instances constructed with allow_no_value == True.
1075
Antoine Pitrou8cdede42010-08-10 00:04:13 +00001076- Issue #6915: Under Windows, os.listdir() didn't release the Global
1077 Interpreter Lock around all system calls. Original patch by Ryan Kelly.
1078
Antoine Pitrou99009162010-08-09 22:51:24 +00001079- Issue #3757: thread-local objects now support cyclic garbage collection.
1080 Thread-local objects involved in reference cycles will be deallocated
1081 timely by the cyclic GC, even if the underlying thread is still running.
1082
Florent Xicluna2f1b1ff2010-08-09 20:46:49 +00001083- Issue #6231: Fix xml.etree.ElementInclude to include the tail of the
1084 current node.
1085
Thomas Heller5c7589c2010-08-08 18:28:59 +00001086- Issue #6869: Fix a refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
1087
Thomas Heller001d3a12010-08-08 17:56:41 +00001088- Issue5504 - ctypes should now work with systems where mmap can't be
1089 PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
1090
Senthil Kumarane677ecf2010-08-08 11:56:31 +00001091- Fix Issue8280 - urllib2's Request method will remove fragements in the url.
1092 This is how it is supposed to work, wget and curl do the same. Previous
1093 behavior was wrong.
1094
Giampaolo Rodolà47617ab2010-08-04 08:35:25 +00001095- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly.
1096
R. David Murray75a292e2010-08-04 00:05:50 +00001097- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
1098 encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
1099
R. David Murray1cbf78e2010-08-03 18:14:01 +00001100- Issue #9444: Argparse now uses the first element of prefix_chars as
1101 the option character for the added 'h/help' option if prefix_chars
1102 does not contain a '-', instead of raising an error.
1103
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00001104- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
1105
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001106- Issue #9428: Fix running scripts with the profile/cProfile modules from
1107 the command line.
1108
Georg Brandl9c5efad2010-08-02 21:29:14 +00001109- Issue #7781: Fix restricting stats by entry counts in the pstats
1110 interactive browser.
1111
1112- Issue #9209: Do not crash in the pstats interactive browser on invalid
1113 regular expressions.
1114
Georg Brandla2a92cf2010-08-02 17:34:58 +00001115- Issue #7372: Fix pstats regression when stripping paths from profile
1116 data generated with the profile module.
1117
Georg Brandl2bd953e2010-08-01 20:59:03 +00001118- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
1119 entries, consider the first one.
1120
Antoine Pitrou39703012010-08-01 20:13:11 +00001121- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
1122 reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
1123
Georg Brandl50775992010-08-01 19:33:15 +00001124- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
1125 in the top-level debugged frame.
1126
1127- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
1128 in doctests.
1129
1130- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
1131 if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
1132
1133- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
1134 been reassigned.
1135
1136- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
1137 a breakpoint command.
1138
Antoine Pitrou607951d2010-08-01 16:57:17 +00001139- Issue #9448: Fix a leak of OS resources (mutexes or semaphores) when
1140 re-initializing a buffered IO object by calling its ``__init__`` method.
1141
Georg Brandle2773252010-08-01 19:14:56 +00001142- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
1143 or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
1144
Georg Brandl004c74d2010-08-01 19:06:51 +00001145- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
1146
1147- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
1148 http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
1149
1150- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
1151 when sys.stdout is reassigned.
1152
Georg Brandl0347c712010-08-01 19:02:09 +00001153- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
1154
1155- Issue #8230: Fix Lib/test/sortperf.py.
1156
Georg Brandl78e69572010-08-01 18:52:52 +00001157- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
1158 across devices.
1159
1160- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
1161
1162- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
1163
Georg Brandl1f05e2e2010-08-01 08:22:05 +00001164- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
1165 string when Unicode was previously output.
1166
R. David Murray58f15b62010-08-01 04:04:03 +00001167- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
1168 newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
1169
Victor Stinner73363e82010-07-28 01:39:45 +00001170- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
1171 utf-16 incremental encoders.
1172
Brian Curtinb2ec2322010-07-26 02:40:17 +00001173- Issue #7113: Speed up loading in ConfigParser. Patch by Łukasz Langa.
1174
Gregory P. Smith2a91ce82010-07-25 19:11:36 +00001175- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
1176 parameters.
1177
Victor Stinner8b0d84e2010-07-24 02:51:49 +00001178- Issue #9032: XML-RPC client retries the request on EPIPE error. The EPIPE
1179 error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a big
1180 XML-RPC request.
1181
Victor Stinner2c6aee92010-07-24 02:46:16 +00001182- Issue #5542: Remove special logic that closes HTTPConnection socket on EPIPE.
1183
Victor Stinner4c16d122010-07-24 01:07:52 +00001184- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
1185 doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
1186 options).
1187
Ronald Oussoren3a04a252010-07-23 12:41:00 +00001188- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
1189
Antoine Pitrou7a7013e2010-07-21 16:47:28 +00001190- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
1191 I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
1192 (Jan Hosang).
1193
R. David Murrayf6cbdcb2010-07-09 13:25:56 +00001194- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
1195
Mark Dickinson7ea29b02010-07-08 21:28:31 +00001196- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
1197 RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
1198 due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
1199
1200- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
1201 power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
1202 Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
1203
R. David Murray3caf7b92010-07-05 16:06:05 +00001204- Issue #9161: Fix regression in optparse's acceptance of unicode
1205 strings in add_option calls.
1206
Mark Dickinson75b44b32010-07-04 16:47:56 +00001207- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
1208
Mark Dickinsona7ee59b2010-07-04 16:23:54 +00001209- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001210
Ronald Oussoren75956202010-07-11 08:52:52 +00001211- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
1212
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00001213- Issue #9315: Fix for the trace module to record correct class name
1214 for tracing methods.
1215
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001216Extension Modules
1217-----------------
1218
Georg Brandl67c27332010-10-24 14:16:05 +00001219- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
1220 with expat version 2.0.1.
1221
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00001222- Issue #10003: Allow handling of SIGBREAK on Windows. Fixes a regression
Victor Stinnerd2f6ae62010-10-12 22:53:51 +00001223 introduced by issue #9324.
Brian Curtin1390dd72010-10-01 16:44:03 +00001224
Antoine Pitroue6ebcda2010-09-04 21:24:42 +00001225- Issue #8734: Avoid crash in msvcrt.get_osfhandle() when an invalid file
1226 descriptor is provided. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
1227
Antoine Pitrou247e2fd2010-09-04 17:27:10 +00001228- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
1229 in the posix module. Patch by Marcin Bachry.
1230
Benjamin Peterson52c36052010-08-21 03:03:22 +00001231- As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
1232 interpreter by default.
1233
Brian Curtin24af0e92010-08-06 19:41:01 +00001234- Issue #9324: Add parameter validation to signal.signal on Windows in order
1235 to prevent crashes.
1236
Mark Dickinson5e684332010-08-06 09:44:48 +00001237- Issue #9526: Remove some outdated (int) casts that were preventing
1238 the array module from working correctly with arrays of more than
1239 2**31 elements.
1240
Mark Dickinsonf38d8882010-08-03 18:46:28 +00001241- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
1242
Mark Dickinson0f981282010-08-03 16:54:19 +00001243- Issue #8065: Fix memory leak in readline module (from failure to
1244 free the result of history_get_history_state()).
1245
Mark Dickinson4ee98532010-08-03 16:18:39 +00001246- Issue #9450: Fix memory leak in readline.replace_history_item and
1247 readline.remove_history_item for readline version >= 5.0.
1248
Brian Curtinba6c08e2010-08-01 15:47:53 +00001249- Issue #8105: Validate file descriptor passed to mmap.mmap on Windows.
1250
Georg Brandla4917272010-07-31 21:22:36 +00001251- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
1252
Mark Dickinson96527c32010-07-29 21:44:47 +00001253- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
1254
Ronald Oussoren9e7ffae2010-07-24 09:46:41 +00001255- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
1256 compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
1257 not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
1258 returns the same information as the id command.
1259
1260 os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
1261
Mark Dickinsoncac0b832010-07-18 07:55:55 +00001262- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
1263 (e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
1264 then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
1265 char is unsigned.
1266
Matthias Klose6e86bf72010-07-30 21:27:18 +00001267- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
1268
Ronald Oussoren19199832011-03-14 11:57:39 -04001269
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00001270Tools/Demos
1271-----------
1272
Benjamin Peterson4de6b062010-10-13 22:07:17 +00001273- Issue #7287: Demo/imputil/knee.py was removed.
1274
Antoine Pitrou2fba0b32010-09-08 21:12:36 +00001275- Issue #9188: The gdb extension now handles correctly narrow (UCS2) as well
1276 as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
1277 inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.
1278
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00001279Build
1280-----
1281
Antoine Pitroue0c5f3c2010-10-27 20:35:26 +00001282- Issue #8852: Allow the socket module to build on OpenSolaris.
1283
Antoine Pitrou7be5a652010-10-10 08:14:41 +00001284- Issue #10054: Some platforms provide uintptr_t in inttypes.h. Patch by
1285 Akira Kitada.
1286
Antoine Pitrou22ad2452010-10-09 15:28:59 +00001287- Issue #10055: Make json C89-compliant in UCS4 mode.
1288
Antoine Pitrou285cd162010-09-21 15:23:17 +00001289- Issue #1633863: Don't ignore $CC under AIX.
1290
Hirokazu Yamamotoc4caa9c2010-09-18 22:33:33 +00001291- Issue #9810: Compile bzip2 source files in python's project file
1292 directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.
1293
Antoine Pitrouaabdceb2010-09-10 20:03:17 +00001294- Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
1295 be built as a shared library. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
1296
Antoine Pitrou85729812010-09-07 14:55:24 +00001297- Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX. Patch by Sébastien
1298 Sablé.
1299
Antoine Pitroua74c3342010-09-03 16:15:17 +00001300- Issue #3101: Helper functions _add_one_to_index_C() and
1301 _add_one_to_index_F() become _Py_add_one_to_index_C() and
1302 _Py_add_one_to_index_F(), respectively.
Antoine Pitrou1fcdba82010-09-01 13:02:50 +00001303
1304- Issue #9700: define HAVE_BROKEN_POSIX_SEMAPHORES under AIX 6.x. Patch by
1305 Sébastien Sablé.
1306
Benjamin Peterson4082d9b2010-07-17 20:41:16 +00001307- Issue #9280: Make sharedinstall depend on sharedmods.
1308
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001309- Issue #9275: The OSX installer once again installs links to binaries in
1310 ``/usr/local/bin``.
Ronald Oussoren8a14db82010-07-23 11:13:03 +00001311
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001312- Issue #9392: A framework build on OSX will once again use a versioned name
1313 of the ``2to3`` tool, that is you can use ``2to3-2.7`` to select the Python
1314 2.7 edition of 2to3.
Ronald Oussoren0969c672010-07-29 13:18:19 +00001315
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00001316- Issue #9701: The MacOSX installer can patch the shell profile to ensure that
1317 the "bin" directory inside the framework is on the shell's search path. This
1318 feature now also supports the ZSH shell.
1319
Ronald Oussoren24215252010-10-20 13:11:46 +00001320- Issue #7473: avoid link errors when building a framework with a different
1321 set of architectures than the one that is currently installed.
Ronald Oussorenec2fe002010-09-28 14:01:49 +00001322
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00001323Tests
1324-----
1325
Hirokazu Yamamoto1f504f12010-10-08 09:41:13 +00001326- Issue #9978: Wait until subprocess completes initialization. (Win32KillTests
1327 in test_os)
1328
Antoine Pitrou767cbc42010-09-18 18:15:33 +00001329- Issue #9894: Do not hardcode ENOENT in test_subprocess.
1330
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001331- Issue #9323: Make test.regrtest.__file__ absolute, this was not always the
1332 case when running profile or trace, for example.
1333
Alexander Belopolsky9d17da32010-09-13 16:45:02 +00001334- Issue #9315: Added tests for the trace module. Patch by Eli Bendersky.
Florent Xicluna92847452010-09-13 17:36:36 +00001335
Florent Xiclunac0c0b142010-09-13 08:53:00 +00001336- Strengthen test_unicode with explicit type checking for assertEqual tests.
1337
Giampaolo Rodolà633e4742010-08-14 17:04:46 +00001338- Issue #8857: Provide a test case for socket.getaddrinfo.
1339
Florent Xicluna172e15f2010-08-09 20:02:00 +00001340- Issue #7564: Skip test_ioctl if another process is attached to /dev/tty.
1341
Mark Dickinson28669332010-08-07 13:07:11 +00001342- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure with newer versions of ncurses.
1343
Antoine Pitrou185fae72010-08-04 15:54:33 +00001344- Issue #9496: Provide a test suite for the rlcompleter module. Patch by
1345 Michele Orrù.
1346
Antoine Pitrou22db7352010-07-08 18:54:04 +00001347- Issue #8605: Skip test_gdb if Python is compiled with optimizations.
1348
Ronald Oussoren8928e322010-09-28 14:43:59 +00001349- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
1350
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00001351Documentation
1352-------------
1353
Matthias Klose3e8230d2010-09-12 16:51:29 +00001354- Issue #9817: Add expat COPYING file; add expat, libffi and expat licenses
1355 to Doc/license.rst.
1356
Brian Curtin4d808892010-08-05 19:00:45 +00001357- Issue #9524: Document that two CTRL* signals are meant for use only
1358 with os.kill.
1359
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001360- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
1361 only.
Brett Cannon9ae2cb72010-07-23 12:07:27 +00001362
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00001363- Issue #7829: Document in dis that bytecode is an implementation detail.
Brett Cannon8c4fa112010-07-21 09:52:10 +00001364
Benjamin Petersone3c10452010-07-03 14:51:25 +00001365
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00001366What's New in Python 2.7?
1367=========================
1368
Benjamin Petersonc60082d2010-07-03 13:56:13 +00001369*Release date: 2010-07-03*
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00001370
1371Core and Builtins
1372-----------------
1373
Benjamin Peterson947ce582010-06-24 00:12:40 +00001374- Prevent assignment to set literals.
1375
Benjamin Peterson4f612592010-06-21 17:28:30 +00001376Library
1377-------
1378
Antoine Pitroua4083502010-08-28 18:29:13 +00001379- Issue #1868: Eliminate subtle timing issues in thread-local objects by
1380 getting rid of the cached copy of thread-local attribute dictionary.
1381
Benjamin Peterson6a336f62010-07-03 13:57:30 +00001382- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
1383
1384Extension Modules
1385-----------------
1386
Benjamin Petersonc670b7e2010-07-03 13:49:23 +00001387- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
1388 ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size.
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00001389
Antoine Pitrou0dddf602010-06-25 00:03:21 +00001390- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
1391 on an OpenSSL structure.
1392
Benjamin Peterson00633672010-07-03 13:56:56 +00001393
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00001394What's New in Python 2.7 release candidate 2?
1395=============================================
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001396
Benjamin Petersonbfcedf42010-06-21 15:57:57 +00001397*Release date: 2010-06-20*
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001398
1399Core and Builtins
1400-----------------
1401
Benjamin Petersonb9133892010-06-22 19:16:37 +00001402- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
1403
Nick Coghlan8842c352010-06-13 06:50:39 +00001404- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
1405 option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
1406 See tracker issue for details.
1407
Antoine Pitroucca3a3f2010-06-11 21:42:26 +00001408- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
1409 the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
1410 (higher than 0x10000).
1411
Benjamin Petersonfa4c59f2010-06-08 14:53:29 +00001412- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
1413 too large.
Benjamin Peterson13e934a2010-06-07 22:23:23 +00001414
Benjamin Petersonafa1b302010-06-21 15:27:46 +00001415Build
1416-----
1417
1418- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
1419
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001420Library
1421-------
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00001422
Victor Stinner15e5b1b2010-07-03 13:36:19 +00001423- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
Giampaolo Rodolàe00e2f02010-06-30 17:38:28 +00001424 raises an exception.
1425
Thomas Hellerf1800992010-06-21 14:00:24 +00001426- Issue #8959: fix regression caused by using unmodified libffi
1427 library on Windows. ctypes does now again check the stack before
1428 and after calling foreign functions.
1429
R. David Murraydf1cf302010-06-17 01:36:52 +00001430- Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
1431 smart enough to find source files in the linecache.
1432
Mark Dickinsone979ec82010-06-13 10:50:29 +00001433- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
1434 values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
1435
Vinay Sajip936efc72010-06-11 22:56:50 +00001436- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001437
Michael Foord83d35762010-06-10 16:32:00 +00001438- Issue #8948: cleanup functions and class / module setups and teardowns are
1439 now honored in unittest debug methods.
1440
Tarek Ziadé770fd152010-06-06 20:05:20 +00001441Documentation
1442-------------
1443
1444- Issues #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
1445 distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
1446
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001447Misc
1448----
1449
1450- Issue #8362: Add maintainers.rst: list of module maintainers
1451
Benjamin Peterson2f3d9f92010-06-06 02:09:33 +00001452
Antoine Pitrou6001b0b2010-05-09 18:32:48 +00001453What's New in Python 2.7 Release Candidate 1?
1454=============================================
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001455
Benjamin Peterson77d534e2010-06-06 00:22:09 +00001456*Release date: 2010-06-05*
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001457
1458Core and Builtins
1459-----------------
1460
Ezio Melottiab2eb0e2010-06-05 19:21:32 +00001461- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
1462 start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
1463 of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
1464 E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
1465 replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
1466 ('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
1467 Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
1468
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00001469- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
Mark Dickinsone4b83e02010-06-05 12:14:43 +00001470 __hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
1471 arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
1472 when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
1473 gets ignored.
Mark Dickinson23f0d6b2010-06-05 11:52:24 +00001474
Mark Dickinson4ca7c3c2010-05-30 13:18:10 +00001475- Issue #8748: Fix two issues with comparisons between complex and integer
1476 objects. (1) The comparison could incorrectly return True in some cases
1477 (2**53+1 == complex(2**53) == 2**53), breaking transivity of equality.
1478 (2) The comparison raised an OverflowError for large integers, leading
1479 to unpredictable exceptions when combining integers and complex objects
1480 in sets or dicts.
1481
Mark Dickinson81336372010-05-30 12:12:25 +00001482- Issue #5211: Implicit coercion for the complex type is now completely
1483 removed. (Coercion for arithmetic operations was already removed in 2.7
1484 alpha 4, but coercion for rich comparisons was accidentally left in.)
1485
Victor Stinnerc49dfcc2010-05-25 22:30:32 +00001486- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
1487 and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
1488
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001489- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try implicit
1490 relative import semantics.
Brett Cannoneb3cd302010-05-20 18:37:55 +00001491
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001492- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using it
1493 from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
Antoine Pitrou83137c22010-05-17 19:56:59 +00001494
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001495- Issue #8868: Fix that ensures that python scripts have access to the
Ronald Oussoren27c72e92010-06-02 03:47:14 +00001496 Window Server again in a framework build on MacOSX 10.5 or earlier.
1497
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00001498C-API
1499-----
1500
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001501- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows embedders
1502 of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying sys.path. This
1503 helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
Antoine Pitrou6a265602010-05-21 17:12:38 +00001504 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
1505
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001506Library
1507-------
1508
Michael Foordd8918592010-06-05 19:51:38 +00001509- Issue #8302: SkipTest in unittest.TestCase.setUpClass or setUpModule is now
1510 reported as a skip rather than an error.
1511
1512- Issue #8351: Excessively large diffs due to
1513 unittest.TestCase.assertSequenceEqual are no longer included in failure
1514 reports.
1515
Alexander Belopolsky3b818bf2010-06-05 14:54:26 +00001516- Issue #8899: time.struct_time now has class and atribute docstrings.
1517
R. David Murraye7e505b2010-06-04 19:51:06 +00001518- Issue #4487: email now accepts as charset aliases all codec aliases
1519 accepted by the codecs module.
1520
Martin v. Löwiseba67c02010-06-04 19:39:07 +00001521- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
1522
R. David Murray61746d52010-06-03 15:43:20 +00001523- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
1524 a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
1525
Lars Gustäbel2ee9c6f2010-06-03 09:56:22 +00001526- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
1527 mistake.
1528
R. David Murray52dcd452010-06-02 22:03:15 +00001529- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
1530 encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
1531
Alexander Belopolsky9292ee02010-05-27 20:55:27 +00001532- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
1533 timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
1534
Victor Stinner04ee3372010-05-24 21:37:28 +00001535- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
1536 Fredrik Håård
Victor Stinner554a3b82010-05-24 21:33:24 +00001537
Georg Brandlf0757a22010-05-24 21:29:07 +00001538- Issue #8016: Add the CP858 codec.
1539
Georg Brandl5d0ca2c2010-05-22 11:29:19 +00001540- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
1541
Victor Stinner7df55da2010-05-22 13:37:56 +00001542- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
1543 twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
1544 StreamWriter classes.
Victor Stinner262be5e2010-05-22 02:11:07 +00001545
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00001546- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001547 than 'strict'.
Victor Stinnerd6703b52010-05-21 22:50:28 +00001548
Benjamin Peterson266e4542010-05-21 21:31:24 +00001549- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
1550 of files without one.
1551
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001552- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from ``collections.Mapping.__eq__()`` when
Benjamin Petersoneb318d32010-05-21 20:51:45 +00001553 comparing to a non-mapping.
1554
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001555- Issue #8759: Fix user paths in sysconfig for posix and os2 schemes.
Tarek Ziadé8f692272010-05-19 22:20:14 +00001556
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001557- Issue #1285086: Speed up ``urllib.quote()`` and urllib.unquote for simple
1558 cases.
Florent Xiclunaaf87f9f2010-05-17 13:35:09 +00001559
Tarek Ziadé422545f2010-05-17 10:06:20 +00001560- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
1561
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001562- Issue #5099: The ``__del__()`` method of ``subprocess.Popen`` (and the methods
1563 it calls) referenced global objects, causing errors to pop up during
1564 interpreter shutdown.
Brett Cannon42a0ba72010-05-14 00:21:48 +00001565
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00001566Extension Modules
1567-----------------
1568
Stefan Krah449aa862010-06-03 12:39:50 +00001569- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against ncurses,
1570 the curses module must be linked against ncurses as well. Otherwise it
1571 is not safe to load both the readline and curses modules in an application.
1572
Brian Curtinb64c89b2010-05-25 15:06:15 +00001573- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
1574 ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
1575
Mark Dickinson932e1622010-05-10 16:07:42 +00001576- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001577 overflow checks in the ``audioop`` module.
Benjamin Peterson534b8de2010-05-08 18:53:42 +00001578
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001579Tests
1580-----
1581
R. David Murray4653fb52010-06-03 20:19:25 +00001582- Issue #8889: test_support.transient_internet rewritten so that the new
1583 checks also work on FreeBSD, which lacks EAI_NODATA.
1584
1585- Issue #8835: test_support.transient_internet() catches gaierror(EAI_NONAME)
Victor Stinner03883622010-05-27 22:29:48 +00001586 and gaierror(EAI_NODATA)
1587
Victor Stinner708c0722010-05-26 17:25:28 +00001588- Issue #7449: Skip test_socketserver if threading support is disabled
1589
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001590- On darwin, ``test_site`` assumed that a framework build was being used,
1591 leading to a failure where four directories were expected for site-packages
1592 instead of two in a non-framework build.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001593
Martin v. Löwisb41afb52010-05-28 15:28:47 +00001594Build
1595-----
1596
Martin v. Löwis16b2a5e2010-06-04 19:15:32 +00001597- Display installer warning that Windows 2000 won't be supported in future
1598 releases.
1599
Victor Stinnerb65bd2e2010-06-11 19:22:28 +00001600- Issues #1759169, #8864: Drop _XOPEN_SOURCE on Solaris, define it for
Martin v. Löwis26eec582010-06-04 17:18:42 +00001601 multiprocessing only.
Brett Cannonda9af752010-05-13 23:59:41 +00001602
Martin v. Löwis5aafc172010-06-04 18:04:42 +00001603Tools/Demos
1604-----------
1605
1606- Issue #5464: Implement plural forms in msgfmt.py.
1607
1608
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00001609What's New in Python 2.7 beta 2?
1610================================
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001611
Benjamin Petersonc2516072010-05-08 17:08:17 +00001612*Release date: 2010-05-08*
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001613
1614Core and Builtins
1615-----------------
1616
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001617- Run Clang 2.7's static analyzer for ``Objects/`` and ``Python/``.
Brett Cannon5fb89df2010-05-05 20:54:53 +00001618
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001619- Issue #1533: Fix inconsistency in range function argument processing: any
1620 non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if possible)
1621 using its __int__ method. Previously, only small arguments were treated this
1622 way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was outside the range of a C long)
1623 would produce a TypeError.
Mark Dickinsona8d26682010-05-04 16:18:25 +00001624
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001625- Issue #8202: ``sys.argv[0]`` is now set to '-m' instead of '-c' when searching
1626 for the module file to be executed with the -m command line option.
Nick Coghlanc5e44852010-04-28 14:51:08 +00001627
Brett Cannon19949692010-04-25 22:33:36 +00001628- Issue #7319: When -Q is used, do not silence DeprecationWarning.
1629
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00001630- Issue #7332: Remove the 16KB stack-based buffer in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001631 ``PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile``, which doesn't bring any noticeable
Antoine Pitrou18e63fb2010-04-21 22:53:29 +00001632 benefit compared to the dynamic memory allocation fallback. Patch by
1633 Charles-François Natali.
1634
Benjamin Peterson821a8ea2010-04-16 22:35:38 +00001635- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
1636 passed to bytearray.
1637
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001638- Issue #7072: ``isspace(0xa0)`` is true on Mac OS X.
Ronald Oussoren37805e52010-04-18 13:47:49 +00001639
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001640- Issue #8404: Fix set operations on dictionary views.
Alexandre Vassalotti268e4872010-05-04 03:21:51 +00001641
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001642- Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds
1643 on MacOS X. That is, ``python setup.py install --user`` will install into
1644 ``~/Library/Python/2.7`` instead of ``~/.local``.
Ronald Oussoren2f88bfd2010-05-08 10:29:06 +00001645
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001646Library
1647-------
1648
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001649- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when the
1650 zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
Antoine Pitroufc3bfad2010-05-11 23:42:28 +00001651
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001652- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a chunk
1653 larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor objects.
Antoine Pitrou3843cd82010-05-07 16:50:34 +00001654
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001655- Issue #8573: asyncore ``_strerror()`` function might throw ValueError.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00001656
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001657- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing error
1658 messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
1659 inheritance with the underlying socket object. The cheap inheritance has been
1660 deprecated.
Giampaolo Rodolàf7454fa2010-05-06 17:57:06 +00001661
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001662- Issue #4265: ``shutil.copyfile()`` was leaking file descriptors when disk
1663 fills. Patch by Tres Seaver.
Tarek Ziadé38f81222010-05-05 22:15:31 +00001664
Barry Warsaw8efa8672010-05-05 16:17:22 +00001665- Issue #7755: Use an unencumbered audio file for tests.
1666
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001667- Issue #8621: ``uuid.uuid4()`` returned the same sequence of values in the
1668 parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on Mac OS X 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren33206962010-05-05 14:48:37 +00001669
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001670- Issue #8313: ``traceback.format_exception_only()`` encodes unicode message to
1671 ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if ``str(value)`` failed.
Victor Stinner926fd4e2010-05-05 12:40:49 +00001672
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001673- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a Decimal
1674 operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those signals is
1675 trapped, the specification determines the order in which the signals should be
1676 handled. In many cases this order wasn't being followed, leading to the wrong
1677 Python exception being raised.
Mark Dickinson4f96f5f2010-05-04 14:25:50 +00001678
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00001679- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001680 exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling close()
1681 several times is supported. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
Antoine Pitrouf7fd8e42010-05-03 16:25:33 +00001682
Vinay Sajip27a13702010-05-03 15:11:53 +00001683- Issue #8576: logging updated to remove usage of find_unused_port().
1684
Antoine Pitrou951919f2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00001685- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
1686 gc.DEBUG_STATS.
1687
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001688- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals, not
1689 just SIGCHLD.
Jean-Paul Calderonee54ddf12010-05-08 20:06:02 +00001690
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001691- Issue #7192: ``webbrowser.get("firefox")`` now works on Mac OS X, as does
1692 ``webbrowser.get("safari")``.
Ronald Oussoren4ef1c7e2010-05-02 09:48:21 +00001693
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001694- Issue #8577: ``distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc()`` now makes a difference
Tarek Ziadéa5cd1822010-04-30 12:15:12 +00001695 between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
1696 "Include".
1697
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001698- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set when
1699 mode="w|" is used.
Lars Gustäbel5c4c4612010-04-29 15:23:38 +00001700
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001701- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions of
1702 the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
Antoine Pitrouf56a2882010-04-29 10:05:40 +00001703
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001704- Issue #6312: Fix http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked. It
1705 should correctly return an empty response now.
Senthil Kumaraned9204342010-04-28 17:20:43 +00001706
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001707- Issue #7490: To facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
1708 suites, the ``IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL`` directive now also ignores the module
1709 location of the raised exception. Based on initial patch by Lennart Regebro.
Nick Coghlandfb45df2010-04-28 14:29:06 +00001710
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001711- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline before
1712 the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
Antoine Pitrou4c7bcf12010-04-27 22:03:37 +00001713
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001714- Issue #8546: Reject None given as the buffering argument to ``_pyio.open()``.
Benjamin Petersona9bd6d52010-04-27 21:01:54 +00001715
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001716- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by Sridhar
1717 Ratnakumar.
Antoine Pitrou1dc6b082010-04-27 19:09:59 +00001718
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001719- Issue #6656: Fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
R. David Murray3939dcd2010-04-26 21:17:14 +00001720
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001721- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown, where
1722 the method could block indefinitely if called just before the event loop
1723 started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes witnessed in
1724 test_httpservers.
Antoine Pitroua6240402010-04-25 21:40:32 +00001725
Antoine Pitroufc69af12010-04-24 20:04:58 +00001726- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
1727 indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
1728
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001729- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of the
1730 SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
Antoine Pitrou4d3e3722010-04-24 19:57:01 +00001731
Georg Brandl4341e542010-04-24 09:08:10 +00001732- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
1733
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001734- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the underlying
1735 socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
Antoine Pitroub558f172010-04-23 23:25:45 +00001736
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001737- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL socket.
1738 Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
Antoine Pitroudfb299b2010-04-23 22:54:59 +00001739
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001740- Issue #8451: Syslog module now uses basename(sys.argv[0]) instead of the
1741 string "python" as the *ident*. openlog() arguments are all optional and
1742 keywords.
Sean Reifscheiderf6ce3cb2010-04-23 08:31:55 +00001743
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001744- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has a
1745 non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00001746 wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
1747 OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
1748
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001749- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing the _ssl
1750 extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates doesn't fail
1751 because of an "unknown algorithm".
Antoine Pitrouc715a9e2010-04-21 19:28:03 +00001752
Victor Stinnera92e81b2010-04-20 22:28:31 +00001753- Issue #8437: Fix test_gdb failures, patch written by Dave Malcolm
1754
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001755- Issue #4814: The timeout parameter is now applied also for connections
1756 resulting from PORT/EPRT commands.
Giampaolo Rodolà607f7c02010-04-19 21:46:28 +00001757
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001758- Issue #8463: Add missing reference to bztar in shutil's documentation.
Tarek Ziadé8a12f942010-04-19 21:28:21 +00001759
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001760- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding error
1761 handler from the new IO library.
Antoine Pitrou7c587bf2010-04-19 18:52:43 +00001762
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001763- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response code
1764 as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
Giampaolo Rodolàcf445fc2010-04-18 12:55:03 +00001765
Martin v. Löwis24f09fd2010-04-17 22:40:40 +00001766- Issue #8279: Fix test_gdb failures.
1767
Antoine Pitrou0a6373c2010-04-17 17:10:38 +00001768- Issue #8322: Add a *ciphers* argument to SSL sockets, so as to change the
1769 available cipher list. Helps fix test_ssl with OpenSSL 1.0.0.
1770
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001771- Issue #2987: RFC 2732 support for urlparse (IPv6 addresses). Patch by Tony
Senthil Kumaran8c6d9d72010-04-16 02:46:46 +00001772 Locke and Hans Ulrich Niedermann.
1773
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00001774- Issue #7585: difflib context and unified diffs now place a tab between
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001775 filename and date, conforming to the 'standards' they were originally designed
1776 to follow. This improves compatibility with patch tools.
R. David Murray1a14d3d2010-04-12 16:35:19 +00001777
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00001778- Issue #7472: Fixed typo in email.encoders module; messages using ISO-2022
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001779 character sets will now consistently use a Content-Transfer-Encoding of 7bit
1780 rather than sometimes being marked as 8bit.
R. David Murray27ef9372010-04-12 14:26:06 +00001781
Martin v. Löwis7f7765c2010-04-12 05:18:16 +00001782- Issue #8330: Fix expected output in test_gdb.
1783
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001784- Issue #8374: Update the internal alias table in the :mod:`locale` module to
1785 cover recent locale changes and additions.
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00001786
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00001787Extension Modules
1788-----------------
1789
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001790- Issue #8644: Improved accuracy of ``timedelta.total_seconds()``.
Mark Dickinson7000e9e2010-05-09 09:30:06 +00001791
Brett Cannon945df9a2010-05-04 01:04:53 +00001792- Use Clang 2.7's static analyzer to find places to clean up some code.
1793
Matthias Klose8a96d202010-04-21 22:18:52 +00001794- Build the ossaudio extension on GNU/kFreeBSD.
1795
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001796- On Windows, ctypes does no longer check the stack before and after calling a
1797 foreign function. This allows to use the unmodified libffi library.
Thomas Heller06a7e202010-05-04 18:44:42 +00001798
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00001799Tests
1800-----
1801
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001802- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be handled
1803 by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete uncompressed
1804 data).
Antoine Pitrou37ffc3e2010-05-11 23:32:31 +00001805
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001806- Issue #8490: asyncore now has a more solid test suite which actually tests its
1807 API.
Giampaolo Rodolàff46d6e2010-05-10 15:33:22 +00001808
Antoine Pitrou54f9f832010-04-30 23:08:48 +00001809- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
1810 test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
1811
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001812- Issue #7449: Fix many tests to support Python compiled without thread support.
1813 Patches written by Jerry Seutter.
Victor Stinnerd9d147b2010-04-27 21:46:03 +00001814
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001815- Issue #8108: test_ftplib's non-blocking SSL server now has proper handling of
1816 SSL shutdowns.
Antoine Pitroua5c4b552010-04-22 23:33:02 +00001817
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00001818Build
1819-----
1820
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001821- Issue #8625: Turn off optimization in ``--with-pydebug`` builds with gcc.
Mark Dickinsond2f3e3f2010-05-05 22:23:58 +00001822 (Optimization was unintentionally turned on in gcc --with-pydebug builds in
1823 2.7 beta1 as a result of the issue #1628484 fix, combined with autoconf's
1824 strange choice of default CFLAGS produced by AC_PROG_CC for gcc.)
1825
Matthias Klose5183ebd2010-04-24 16:38:36 +00001826- Issue #8509: Fix quoting in help strings and code snippets in configure.in.
1827
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001828- Issue #3646: It is now easily possible to install a Python framework into your
1829 home directory on Mac OS X, see Mac/README for more information.
Ronald Oussoren01d149f2010-04-30 11:20:14 +00001830
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001831- Issue #8510: Update to autoconf 2.65.
Matthias Klosea0bea5d2010-05-08 10:00:28 +00001832
Brett Cannonc1f5c2f2010-05-02 21:51:23 +00001833Misc
1834----
1835
1836- Update the Vim syntax highlight file.
1837
Benjamin Peterson12409062010-04-10 18:53:58 +00001838
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001839What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
1840================================
1841
Benjamin Petersonfbac6c12010-04-10 16:22:05 +00001842*Release date: 2010-04-10*
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001843
1844Core and Builtins
1845-----------------
1846
Philip Jenveyaebbaeb2010-04-06 23:24:45 +00001847- Issue #7301: Add environment variable $PYTHONWARNINGS.
1848
Benjamin Peterson3a1dfa22010-04-06 21:50:00 +00001849- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
1850 changed.
1851
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001852- Issue #8259: ``1L << (2**31)`` no longer produces an 'outrageous shift error'
Mark Dickinson82791672010-04-06 16:47:55 +00001853 on 64-bit machines. The shift count for either left or right shift is
1854 permitted to be up to sys.maxsize.
1855
Benjamin Peterson4ceeeb02010-04-03 22:48:51 +00001856- Ensure that tokenization of identifiers is not affected by locale.
1857
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001858- Issue #1222585: Added LDCXXSHARED for C++ support. Patch by Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadé00002952010-04-03 08:37:59 +00001859
Benjamin Peterson1c7c11e2010-04-03 01:28:57 +00001860- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
1861
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001862- Issue #7994: Issue a PendingDeprecationWarning if object.__format__ is called
1863 with a non-empty format string. This is an effort to future-proof user
1864 code. If a derived class does not currently implement __format__ but later
1865 adds its own __format__, it would most likely break user code that had
Antoine Pitrou01a196a2011-01-02 20:05:11 +00001866 supplied a format string. This will be changed to a DeprecationWarning in
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001867 Python 3.3 and it will be an error in Python 3.4.
Eric Smithd44b2fc2010-04-02 12:30:56 +00001868
Antoine Pitroua57df2c2010-03-31 21:32:15 +00001869- Issue #8268: Old-style classes (not just instances) now support weak
1870 references.
1871
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001872- Issue #8211: Save/restore CFLAGS around AC_PROG_CC in configure.in, in case it
1873 is set.
Victor Stinner6cbf90f2010-03-25 00:21:53 +00001874
Victor Stinnerc7790ed2010-03-22 12:36:28 +00001875- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method
Victor Stinner95affc42010-03-22 12:24:37 +00001876
Benjamin Peterson96545892010-03-21 20:21:00 +00001877- Issue #6474: Make error message from passing an inadequate number of keyword
1878 arguments to a function correct.
1879
Benjamin Peterson0dee9c12010-03-17 20:41:42 +00001880- Issue #8164: Don't allow lambda functions to have a docstring.
1881
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00001882- Issue #3137: Don't ignore errors at startup, especially a keyboard interrupt
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001883 (SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
1884 printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
Victor Stinner66644262010-03-10 22:30:19 +00001885 module.
1886
Collin Winter001a3952010-03-18 21:54:01 +00001887- Code objects now support weak references.
1888
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00001889Library
1890-------
1891
R. David Murray661303f2010-04-13 20:57:40 +00001892- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
1893
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00001894- Issue #8321: Give access to OpenSSL version numbers from the `ssl` module,
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001895 using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO` and
1896 `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.
Antoine Pitrouf9de5342010-04-05 21:35:07 +00001897
Benjamin Peterson76a23c12010-04-04 23:23:22 +00001898- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
1899
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001900- Issue #8257: The Decimal construct now accepts a float instance directly,
1901 converting that float to a Decimal of equal value:
Mark Dickinson8a950712010-04-03 15:47:46 +00001902
1903 >>> Decimal(1.1)
1904 Decimal('1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625')
1905
Raymond Hettinger34c35b22010-04-03 10:22:00 +00001906- collections.Counter() now supports a subtract() method.
1907
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001908- The functools module now has a total_ordering() class decorator to simplify
1909 the specification of rich comparisons.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00001910
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001911- The functools module also adds cmp_to_key() as a tool to transition old-style
1912 comparison functions to new-style key-functions.
Raymond Hettingera551f312010-04-04 18:34:45 +00001913
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001914- Issue #8294: The Fraction constructor now accepts Decimal and float instances
1915 directly.
Mark Dickinson7c63eee2010-04-02 22:27:36 +00001916
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001917- Issue #7279: Comparisons involving a Decimal signaling NaN now signal
1918 InvalidOperation instead of returning False. (Comparisons involving a quiet
1919 NaN are unchanged.) Also, Decimal quiet NaNs are now hashable; Decimal
1920 signaling NaNs remain unhashable.
Mark Dickinsone096e822010-04-02 10:17:07 +00001921
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001922- Issue #2531: Comparison operations between floats and Decimal instances now
1923 return a result based on the numeric values of the operands; previously they
1924 returned an arbitrary result based on the relative ordering of id(float) and
1925 id(Decimal).
Mark Dickinson99d80962010-04-02 08:53:22 +00001926
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00001927- Issue #8233: When run as a script, py_compile.py optionally takes a single
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001928 argument `-` which tells it to read files to compile from stdin. Each line is
1929 read on demand and the named file is compiled immediately. (Original patch by
1930 Piotr Ożarowski).
Barry Warsawf7f2d6f2010-03-31 21:07:16 +00001931
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001932- Issue #3135: Add ``inspect.getcallargs()``, which binds arguments to a
1933 function like a normal call.
Benjamin Peterson7e213252010-03-30 17:58:13 +00001934
Florent Xicluna58b65662010-03-30 16:29:03 +00001935- Backwards incompatible change: Unicode codepoints line tabulation (0x0B) and
1936 form feed (0x0C) are now considered linebreaks, as specified in Unicode
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001937 Standard Annex #14. See issue #7643. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Florent Xicluna22b24382010-03-30 08:24:06 +00001938
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001939- Comparisons using one of <, <=, >, >= between a complex instance and a
1940 Fractions instance now raise TypeError instead of returning True/False. This
1941 makes Fraction <=> complex comparisons consistent with int <=> complex, float
1942 <=> complex, and complex <=> complex comparisons.
Mark Dickinson9588d992010-03-27 11:14:37 +00001943
Michael Foorde6410c52010-03-29 20:04:23 +00001944- Addition of ``WeakSet`` to the ``weakref`` module.
1945
Vinay Sajipb0623d62010-03-24 14:31:21 +00001946- logging: Added LOG_FTP to SysLogHandler and updated documentation.
1947
Florent Xicluna176cda12010-03-22 22:52:11 +00001948- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is
1949 running from the build directory (POSIX only).
1950
Florent Xiclunae1f4c922010-03-22 22:45:50 +00001951- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
1952
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00001953- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001954 didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is now
1955 silenced.
Antoine Pitrou513d9ae2010-03-22 19:59:46 +00001956
Florent Xicluna9e7a4c92010-03-22 16:07:38 +00001957- Issue #7703: ctypes supports both buffer() and memoryview(). The former is
1958 deprecated.
1959
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001960- Issue #7860: platform.uname now reports the correct 'machine' type when Python
1961 is running in WOW64 mode on 64 bit Windows.
R. David Murrayc9d1a782010-03-22 15:55:09 +00001962
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001963- logging: Added getChild utility method to Logger and added isEnabledFor method
1964 to LoggerAdapter.
Vinay Sajip804899b2010-03-22 15:29:01 +00001965
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001966- Issue #8201: logging: Handle situation of non-ASCII and Unicode logger names
1967 existing at the same time, causing a Unicode error when configuration code
1968 attempted to sort the existing loggers.
Vinay Sajip31e928e2010-03-22 13:02:28 +00001969
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001970- Issue #8200: logging: Handle errors when multiprocessing is not fully loaded
1971 when logging occurs.
Vinay Sajip3017a7b2010-03-22 12:33:08 +00001972
Antoine Pitroueee91cd2010-03-26 19:27:16 +00001973- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
1974 Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
1975 reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
Antoine Pitrou448da712010-03-21 19:33:38 +00001976
Florent Xiclunacf82fa62010-03-21 12:27:20 +00001977- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
1978
Florent Xicluna2e0a53f2010-03-18 21:50:06 +00001979- Issue #8024: Update the Unicode database to 5.2.
1980
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001981- Issue #8104: socket.recv_into() and socket.recvfrom_into() now support writing
1982 into objects supporting the new buffer API, for example bytearrays or
1983 memoryviews.
Antoine Pitroud7b731d2010-03-17 22:45:39 +00001984
Matthias Klose8b411682010-03-16 10:48:52 +00001985- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
1986 with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
1987
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001988- Issue #8140: Extend compileall to compile single files. Add -i option.
Matthias Kloseb13d04c2010-03-15 17:44:12 +00001989
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001990- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of the
1991 locale.
Matthias Klose358e7ff2010-03-15 13:42:23 +00001992
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001993- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if ``argv[0]`` has been set
1994 to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00001995 program name.
Victor Stinner75227342010-03-12 14:30:26 +00001996
Vinay Sajipecfa08f2010-03-12 09:16:10 +00001997- Issue #8117: logging: Improved algorithm for computing initial rollover time
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00001998 for ``TimedRotatingFileHandler`` by using the modification time of an existing
1999 log file to compute the next rollover time. If the log file does not exist,
2000 the current time is used as the basis for the computation.
Vinay Sajip9098ee42010-03-12 06:01:21 +00002001
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002002- Issue #6472: The ``xml.etree`` package is updated to ElementTree 1.3. The
Florent Xicluna3e8c1892010-03-11 14:36:19 +00002003 cElementTree module is updated too.
2004
Florent Xicluna85677612010-03-10 23:58:42 +00002005- Issue #7880: Fix sysconfig when the python executable is a symbolic link.
2006
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002007- Issue #7624: Fix ``isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable)`` for old-style
Florent Xicluna47627d52010-03-08 15:20:28 +00002008 classes.
2009
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002010- Issue #7143: email: ``get_payload()`` used to strip any trailing newline from
2011 a base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
2012 This is a behavior change, so email's minor version number is now bumped, to
2013 version 4.0.2, for the 2.7 release.
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00002014
Larry Hastings3b958e32010-04-02 11:18:17 +00002015- Issue #8235: _socket: Add the constant ``SO_SETFIB``. SO_SETFIB is
2016 a socket option available on FreeBSD 7.1 and newer.
2017
Michael Foorda04c7a02010-04-02 22:55:59 +00002018- Issue #8038: unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
2019
2020- Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout / stderr
2021 during test runs.
2022
Victor Stinnerdb990922010-05-15 21:00:59 +00002023- Issue #1220212: Added os.kill support for Windows, including support for
Brian Curtin85108e62010-04-02 23:31:28 +00002024 sending CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK events to console subprocesses.
2025
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002026Extension Modules
2027-----------------
2028
Martin v. Löwis16ea5482010-04-07 11:01:46 +00002029- Issue #8314: Fix unsigned long long bug in libffi on Sparc v8.
2030
Matthias Klosee9fbf2b2010-03-19 14:45:06 +00002031- Issue #1039, #8154: Fix os.execlp() crash with missing 2nd argument.
2032
Jesus Cea6557aac2010-03-22 14:22:26 +00002033- Issue #8156: bsddb module updated to version 4.8.4.
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002034 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.8.4. This update drops
2035 support for Berkeley DB 4.0, and adds support for 4.8.
Matthias Klose54cc5392010-03-15 12:46:18 +00002036
Jesus Cea616de772010-04-28 10:32:30 +00002037- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
2038
Matthias Klose817acef2010-03-15 00:02:36 +00002039- Issue #8142: Update libffi to the 3.0.9 release.
2040
Mark Dickinson4846a8e2010-04-03 14:05:10 +00002041- Issue #8300: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with any
2042 integer format code, struct.pack first attempts to convert the non-integer
2043 using its __index__ method. If that method is non-existent or raises
2044 TypeError it goes on to try the __int__ method, as described below.
2045
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002046- Issue #1530559: When passing a non-integer argument to struct.pack with *any*
2047 integer format code (one of 'bBhHiIlLqQ'), struct.pack attempts to use the
2048 argument's __int__ method to convert to an integer before packing. It also
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002049 produces a DeprecationWarning in this case. (In Python 2.6, the behaviour was
2050 inconsistent: __int__ was used for some integer codes but not for others, and
2051 the set of integer codes for which it was used differed between native packing
2052 and standard packing.)
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00002053
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002054- Issue #7347: _winreg: Add CreateKeyEx and DeleteKeyEx, as well as fix a bug in
2055 the return value of QueryReflectionKey.
Brian Curtin19479fa2010-04-02 21:51:37 +00002056
Antoine Pitrou02b3f0a2010-03-13 21:21:30 +00002057Tools/Demos
2058-----------
2059
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002060- Issue #7993: Add a test of IO packet processing bandwidth to ccbench. It
2061 measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on the
2062 number of background CPU-bound Python threads.
Benjamin Peterson5da7e7c2010-03-06 22:44:07 +00002063
Collin Wintera70f3492010-03-19 00:08:44 +00002064- python-config now supports multiple options on the same command line.
2065
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00002066Build
2067-----
2068
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002069- Issue #8032: For gdb7, a python-gdb.py file is added to the build, allowing to
2070 use advanced gdb features when debugging Python.
Martin v. Löwisbf0dfb32010-04-01 07:40:51 +00002071
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002072- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment variable
2073 anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker when building a
2074 shared library.
Antoine Pitrouf83b3082010-03-21 19:19:41 +00002075
Martin v. Löwis24e4e162010-03-15 13:00:17 +00002076- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
2077
Benjamin Peterson11d93232010-03-14 14:24:31 +00002078- Issue #7705: Fix linking on FreeBSD.
2079
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven6d22cfc2010-04-07 16:34:08 +00002080- Make sure that the FreeBSD build of the included libffi uses the proper
2081 assembly file.
2082
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00002083C-API
2084-----
2085
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00002086- Issue #8276: PyEval_CallObject() is now only available in macro form. The
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002087 function declaration, which was kept for backwards compatibility reasons, is
2088 now removed (the macro was introduced in 1997!).
Antoine Pitrou76c86492010-04-01 16:42:11 +00002089
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002090- Issue #7992: A replacement PyCObject API, PyCapsule, has been backported from
2091 Python 3.1. All existing Python CObjects in the main distribution have been
2092 converted to capsules. To address backwards-compatibility concerns,
2093 PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() was changed to understand capsules.
Larry Hastings402b73f2010-03-25 00:54:54 +00002094
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00002095Tests
2096-----
2097
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002098- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail if any
2099 thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
R. David Murraye0e8a872010-04-17 05:26:26 +00002100
Antoine Pitrouab5ce722010-04-11 22:45:47 +00002101- Issue #8348: Fix test ftp url in test_urllib2net.
2102
2103- Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
2104
2105- Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
2106
Antoine Pitrou3b4c9892010-04-06 17:21:09 +00002107- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
2108
Antoine Pitrou6032c252010-03-30 18:49:45 +00002109- Issue #8248: Add some tests for the bool type. Patch by Gregory Nofi.
2110
Florent Xicluna75c66762010-03-30 16:31:14 +00002111- Issue #8263: Now regrtest.py will report a failure if it receives a
2112 KeyboardInterrupt (SIGINT).
2113
Florent Xicluna8aa5a582010-03-25 20:33:49 +00002114- Issue #8180 and #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X and add more tests for special
2115 Unicode normalization cases.
Florent Xicluna77a88492010-03-21 18:00:38 +00002116
Georg Brandlfee0f442010-05-22 21:26:21 +00002117- Issue #7783: test.test_support.open_urlresource invalidates the outdated files
2118 from the local cache.
Florent Xicluna3cc8f212010-03-15 18:08:58 +00002119
R. David Murray4617e502010-03-08 02:04:06 +00002120
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002121What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 4?
2122=================================
2123
Benjamin Peterson8e7c1172010-03-06 20:34:14 +00002124*Release date: 2010-03-06*
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002125
2126Core and Builtins
2127-----------------
2128
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002129- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid a
2130 fatal error in low memory condition.
Victor Stinner71fb87e2010-03-03 23:20:25 +00002131
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002132- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if the BOM
2133 check fails.
Victor Stinnerd23d3932010-03-02 23:20:02 +00002134
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00002135- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002136 UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to strings.
Eric Smith2d9856d2010-02-24 14:15:36 +00002137
Ezio Melotti32125152010-02-25 17:36:04 +00002138- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002139 UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using the
2140 default encoding.
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00002141
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002142- Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with 0
2143 padding.
Eric Smith87bcb242010-02-23 00:11:16 +00002144
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002145- Issue #2560: Remove an unnecessary 'for' loop from ``my_fgets()`` in
Andrew M. Kuchlingb64d6132010-02-22 22:48:41 +00002146 Parser/myreadline.c.
2147
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00002148- Issue #7988: Fix default alignment to be right aligned for
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002149 ``complex.__format__``. Now it matches other numeric types.
Eric Smithf32d4ac2010-02-22 18:33:47 +00002150
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002151- Issue #5211: The complex type no longer uses implicit coercion in mixed-type
2152 binary arithmetic operations.
Mark Dickinson82b34c52010-02-21 12:57:35 +00002153
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002154Library
2155-------
Georg Brandl7f0c3ff2010-08-01 21:18:52 +00002156
Senthil Kumaranc1d0ed22010-12-04 09:58:29 +00002157- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
2158 RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
2159 authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
2160
R. David Murray05b76312010-07-17 01:35:16 +00002161- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
2162 combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002163
Florent Xicluna0b9a18a2010-03-06 11:01:08 +00002164- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
2165
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002166- Issue #1054943: Fix ``unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text)`` for the Public
Ezio Melotti8122bdd2010-03-14 10:13:49 +00002167 Review Issue #29 (http://unicode.org/review/pr-29.html).
Victor Stinner7c924ec2010-03-04 12:09:33 +00002168
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002169- Issue #7494: Fix a crash in ``_lsprof`` (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
Victor Stinner56a51532010-03-04 00:10:12 +00002170 reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
2171
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002172- Issue #7232: Add support for the context manager protocol to the
2173 ``tarfile.TarFile`` class.
Lars Gustäbel64581042010-03-03 11:55:48 +00002174
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00002175- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002176 ``wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler``.
Barry Warsaw08a8fb32010-03-01 21:46:51 +00002177
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00002178- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
Florent Xicluna2a903b22010-02-27 13:31:23 +00002179
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002180- Issue #691291: ``codecs.open()`` should not convert end of lines on reading
2181 and writing.
Florent Xicluna82aa01f2010-02-27 11:19:18 +00002182
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002183- Issue #7975: Correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
R. David Murray48605be2010-02-24 02:31:27 +00002184
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002185- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly with the
2186 cycle garbage collector.
Thomas Heller92bd0592010-02-23 20:11:44 +00002187
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002188- Issue #7970: ``email.Generator.flatten`` now correctly flattens
2189 message/rfc822 messages parsed by ``email.Parser.HeaderParser``.
R. David Murray51f12042010-02-21 04:23:00 +00002190
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00002191- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
2192
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002193- Issue #7633: In the decimal module, ``Context`` class methods (with the
2194 exception of canonical and is_canonical) now accept instances of int and long
2195 wherever a Decimal instance is accepted, and implicitly convert that argument
2196 to Decimal. Previously only some arguments were converted.
Mark Dickinson6d8effb2010-02-18 14:27:02 +00002197
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002198- Issue #6003: Add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to specify the
2199 compression type.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002200
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00002201- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
2202 argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
2203 class to be used without having to subclass.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002204
Ezio Melotti4cc80ca2010-02-20 08:09:39 +00002205- Issue #7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
Michael Foorddb43b5a2010-02-10 14:25:12 +00002206 name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
Ronald Oussorendd25e862010-02-07 20:18:02 +00002207
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002208- Issue #5801: Remove spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
Tarek Ziadéb8708a22010-02-23 05:53:05 +00002209
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002210- Issue #1537721: Add a ``writeheader()`` method to ``csv.DictWriter``.
Dirkjan Ochtman86148172010-02-23 21:09:52 +00002211
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002212- Issue #7427: Improve the representation of httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions.
Dirkjan Ochtmanebc73dc2010-02-24 04:49:00 +00002213
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002214- Issue #7481: When a ``threading.Thread`` failed to start it would leave the
2215 instance stuck in initial state and present in ``threading.enumerate()``.
Gregory P. Smith613c7a52010-02-28 18:36:09 +00002216
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00002217- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002218 ``os.waitpid()`` and ``os.read()`` system calls where appropriate.
Gregory P. Smithcce211f2010-03-01 00:05:08 +00002219
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002220- Issue #6729: Add ``ctypes.c_ssize_t`` to represent ssize_t.
Gregory P. Smith3c699d32010-03-01 04:56:12 +00002221
Steven Betharde9330e72010-03-02 08:38:09 +00002222- Issue #6247: The argparse module has been added to the standard library.
2223
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00002224Extension Modules
2225-----------------
2226
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002227- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.6.0. This fixes several obscure
Gerhard Häring3bbb6722010-03-05 09:12:37 +00002228 bugs and allows loading SQLite extensions from shared libraries.
2229
Florent Xiclunae7901c52010-03-01 20:45:01 +00002230- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
2231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002232- Issue #6544: Fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
Georg Brandlea370a92010-02-23 21:48:57 +00002233 handling.
2234
Martin v. Löwis413fabc2010-02-18 09:22:20 +00002235- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
2236 msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
Benjamin Peterson2d798ac2010-02-06 18:26:27 +00002237
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002238- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling ``os.fork()`` from within a
Gregory P. Smith9e5d1322010-03-01 01:22:39 +00002239 thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
2240 lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
2241
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002242- Issue #7999: ``os.setreuid()`` and ``os.setregid()`` would refuse to accept a
2243 -1 parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Gregory P. Smith6a65f852010-03-01 05:43:43 +00002244
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002245Tests
2246-----
2247
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002248- Issue #7849: The utility ``test.test_support.check_warnings()`` verifies if
2249 warnings are effectively raised. A new utility ``check_py3k_warnings()`` is
2250 available.
Florent Xicluna6de9e932010-03-07 12:18:33 +00002251
Florent Xicluna985478d2010-03-06 18:52:52 +00002252- The four path modules (genericpath, macpath, ntpath, posixpath) share a
2253 common TestCase for some tests: test_genericpath.CommonTest.
2254
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002255- Print platform information when running the whole test suite, or using the
2256 ``--verbose`` flag.
Florent Xicluna58526412010-03-06 17:24:36 +00002257
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002258- Issue #767675: Enable test_pep277 on POSIX platforms with Unicode-friendly
Florent Xiclunac0a9d412010-03-02 22:34:11 +00002259 filesystem encoding.
Florent Xicluna2db61fb2010-03-02 21:34:45 +00002260
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002261- Issue #6292: For the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
R. David Murrayf28fd242010-02-23 00:24:49 +00002262 is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
2263
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002264- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new ``temp_cwd`` context manager which is
2265 now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory. The
2266 original CWD is saved in ``test.test_support.SAVEDCWD``. Thanks to Florent
2267 Xicluna who helped with the patch.
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002268
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00002269Build
2270-----
2271
Martin v. Löwis7875ef62010-02-15 21:41:12 +00002272- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
Martin v. Löwis5e2dd862010-02-15 08:32:00 +00002273
Ezio Melotti8f6a2872010-02-10 21:40:33 +00002274
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002275What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?
2276=================================
2277
Benjamin Petersona7be9d22010-02-06 16:37:32 +00002278*Release date: 2010-02-06*
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002279
2280Core and Builtins
2281-----------------
2282
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00002283- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
2284 and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002285 library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash the
2286 interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
Antoine Pitroubb445a12010-02-05 17:05:54 +00002287
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00002288- Issue #7853: Normalize exceptions before they are passed to a context
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002289 manager's ``__exit__()`` method.
Benjamin Peterson565d7852010-02-05 02:12:14 +00002290
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002291- Issue #7385: Fix a crash in ``PyMemoryView_FromObject()`` when
2292 ``PyObject_GetBuffer()`` fails. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou526e4212010-02-02 22:36:17 +00002293
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002294- Issue #7819: Check ``sys.call_tracing()`` arguments types.
Victor Stinnerb4b0a292010-01-31 22:32:15 +00002295
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002296- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list slice with
2297 very large step value.
Mark Dickinson36ecd672010-01-29 17:11:39 +00002298
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002299- Issue #7766: Change ``sys.getwindowsversion()`` return value to a named tuple
2300 and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The
2301 new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and
2302 product_type.
Eric Smithee931b72010-01-27 00:28:29 +00002303
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002304- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as ``int(bytearray())``)
2305 could crash in many places because of the ``PyByteArray_AS_STRING()`` macro
2306 returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty string
2307 instead.
Antoine Pitroue80a6a42010-01-17 12:26:20 +00002308
Antoine Pitrou64672132010-01-13 07:55:48 +00002309- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
2310 methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
2311 implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002313- Issue #7632: Fix various str -> float conversion bugs present in 2.7 alpha 2,
2314 including:
Mark Dickinson8efef5c2010-01-12 22:23:56 +00002315
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002316 (1) a serious 'wrong output' bug that could occur for long (> 40 digit) input
2317 strings,
2318 (2) a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds when parsing certain long
2319 numeric strings corresponding to subnormal values,
2320 (3) a memory leak for some values large enough to cause overflow, and
2321 (4) a number of flaws that could lead to incorrectly rounded results.
2322
2323- Issue #7319, #7770: Silence ``DeprecationWarning`` by default when the -3
2324 option is not used.
Brett Cannon6fdd3dc2010-01-10 02:56:19 +00002325
Alexandre Vassalottiee936a22010-01-09 23:35:54 +00002326- Issue #2335: Backport set literals syntax from Python 3.x.
2327
Alexandre Vassalotti7a8df802010-01-11 23:13:49 +00002328- Issue #2333: Backport set and dict comprehensions syntax from Python 3.x.
2329
Alexandre Vassalotti69eb5162010-01-11 23:17:10 +00002330- Issue #1967: Backport dictionary views from Python 3.x.
2331
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002332Library
2333-------
2334
Mark Dickinson42add992010-07-11 19:17:28 +00002335- Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
2336 treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.
2337
R. David Murray63e4fd72010-02-10 22:42:04 +00002338- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
2339 interpreter shutdown.
2340
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002341- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">") in
2342 XML processing instructions and comments. These raw characters are allowed
2343 by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g. PHP code in
2344 a processing instruction. Patch by Neil Muller.
Antoine Pitrou42fb6ab2010-02-09 17:08:05 +00002345
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002346- Issue #7869: logging: Improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
Vinay Sajip64e8b972010-02-07 12:56:54 +00002347
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002348- Issue #7868: logging: Added loggerClass attribute to Manager.
Vinay Sajip657514a2010-02-07 01:37:08 +00002349
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002350- Issue #7851: logging: Clarification on logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip0e6e97d2010-02-04 20:23:45 +00002351
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00002352- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002353 specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the ``socket`` module).
Antoine Pitroud840e512010-02-04 20:20:18 +00002354 Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
2355 type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
2356
Vinay Sajip28c382f2010-02-04 18:48:53 +00002357- logging: Implemented PEP 391.
2358
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00002359- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002360 file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the file
2361 position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
Antoine Pitrouf3fa0742010-01-31 22:26:04 +00002362 ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
2363
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002364- Issue #7610: Reworked implementation of the internal ``zipfile.ZipExtFile``
2365 class used to represent files stored inside an archive. The new
2366 implementation is significantly faster and can be wrapped in a
2367 ``io.BufferedReader`` object for more speedups. It also solves an issue
2368 where interleaved calls to ``read()`` and ``readline()`` give wrong results.
2369 Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou94c33eb2010-01-27 20:59:50 +00002370
Benjamin Peterson2deb5c72010-01-27 02:16:42 +00002371- Issue #7792: Registering non-classes to ABCs raised an obscure error.
2372
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002373- Removed the deprecated functions ``verify()`` and ``vereq()`` from
2374 Lib/test/test_support.py.
Ezio Melotti82230f92010-01-25 12:37:02 +00002375
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002376- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in ``platform.linux_distribution()``
2377 when the release file is empty.
Benjamin Petersona43f34c2010-01-25 03:31:13 +00002378
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002379- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options in
2380 Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
2381 encoded string for them. This ensures that the upload and register commands
2382 send the correct values to PyPI without any error.
Tarek Ziadéf14c7fc2010-01-24 00:33:32 +00002383
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002384- Issue #1670765: Prevent ``email.generator.Generator`` from re-wrapping
R. David Murrayed44dfa2010-01-16 05:15:17 +00002385 headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
2386 invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
2387
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002388- Issue #7701: Fix crash in ``binascii.b2a_uu()`` in debug mode when given a
Antoine Pitrouc391ad02010-01-15 00:18:00 +00002389 1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
2390
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002391- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in the _sre module when given bad argument
2392 values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrouefdddd32010-01-14 17:25:24 +00002393
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002394- Issue #7703: Add support for the new buffer API to functions of the binascii
2395 module. Backported from py3k by Florent Xicluna, with some additional tests.
Antoine Pitroufd3a60d2010-01-14 16:27:09 +00002396
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002397- Issue #2846: Add support for gzip.GzipFile reading zero-padded files. Patch
2398 by Brian Curtin.
Antoine Pitrou5a9112c2010-01-13 14:32:10 +00002399
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002400- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch by
2401 Matt Giuca.
Ezio Melottib5689de2010-01-12 03:32:05 +00002402
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00002403- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002404 Extension extra options may change the output without changing the .c file).
2405 Initial patch by Collin Winter.
Tarek Ziadédc0f4872010-01-11 22:50:29 +00002406
Matthias Klose0d948ac2010-01-22 00:39:04 +00002407Extension Modules
2408-----------------
2409
2410- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
2411 (CVE_2009_3560).
2412
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00002413Build
2414-----
2415
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002416- Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the private
2417 memory allocation scheme in dtoa.c and use PyMem_Malloc and PyMem_Free
2418 instead. Also disable caching of powers of 5.
Mark Dickinson9481c572010-01-17 20:57:56 +00002419
Ronald Oussorena55af9a2010-01-17 16:25:57 +00002420- Issue #7658: Ensure that the new pythonw executable works on OSX 10.4
2421
2422- Issue #7714: Use ``gcc -dumpversion`` to detect the version of GCC on
2423 MacOSX.
2424
Antoine Pitrou8c510e72010-01-13 11:47:49 +00002425- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
2426 Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2427
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00002428Tools/Demos
2429-----------
2430
2431- iobench (a file I/O benchmark) and ccbench (a concurrency benchmark) were
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002432 added to the ``Tools`` directory. They were previously living in the
Antoine Pitrouc07336c2010-01-18 21:15:21 +00002433 sandbox.
2434
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00002435Tests
2436-----
2437
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002438- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use ``test_support.bind_port()``
R. David Murrayce6e4b02010-02-06 04:27:21 +00002439 instead of a hard coded port.
2440
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00002441Documentation
2442-------------
Victor Stinnerf20f9c22010-02-23 23:16:07 +00002443
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002444- Updated "Using Python" documentation to include description of CPython's -J,
2445 -U and -X options.
Barry Warsawb1e66ee2010-02-05 18:45:25 +00002446
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002447- Updated Python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
Matthias Klose626d92a2010-01-31 16:05:13 +00002448 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
2449
Benjamin Petersondd6d92a2010-01-09 17:30:31 +00002450
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002451What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 2?
2452=================================
2453
Benjamin Petersonaa7e51f2010-01-09 16:34:06 +00002454*Release date: 2010-01-09*
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002455
2456Core and Builtins
2457-----------------
2458
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002459- The ``__complex__()`` method is now looked up on the class of instances to
2460 make it consistent with other special methods.
Benjamin Petersonecdae192010-01-04 00:43:01 +00002461
Antoine Pitrou5b7139a2010-01-02 21:12:58 +00002462- Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
2463 `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
2464
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002465- Issue #5080: A number of functions and methods previously produced a
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002466 DeprecationWarning when passed a float argument where an integer was expected.
2467 These functions and methods now raise TypeError instead. The majority of the
2468 effects of this change are in the extension modules, but some core functions
2469 and methods are affected: notably the 'chr', 'range' and 'xrange' builtins,
2470 and many unicode/str methods.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002471
Benjamin Peterson0f02d392009-12-30 19:34:10 +00002472- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
2473 AttributeError.
2474
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002475- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans, negative zero)
2476 in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that described in C99 Annex F.
Mark Dickinson99d652e2009-12-30 12:12:23 +00002477
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002478- Issue #7579: The msvcrt module now has docstrings for all its functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcc8a2ce72009-12-29 23:06:17 +00002479
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc8645a5c2009-12-29 22:03:38 +00002480- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
2481 used to drop the time part of the result.
2482
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002483- Issue #1811: Improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for true division
2484 of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly rounded for ints a and b (at
2485 least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in particular does not depend on the
2486 internal representation of a long.
Mark Dickinson46572832009-12-27 14:55:57 +00002487
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002488- Issue #6108: ``unicode(exception)`` and ``str(exception)`` should return the
2489 same message when only ``__str__()`` (and not ``__unicode__()``) is overridden
2490 in the subclass.
Ezio Melottif84caf42009-12-24 22:25:17 +00002491
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002492- Issue #6834: Replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00002493 executables on OSX.
2494
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002495 These executables now work properly with the arch(1) command: ``arch -ppc
2496 python`` will start a universal binary version of python in PPC mode (unlike
2497 previous releases).
Ronald Oussoren92919a62009-12-24 13:30:58 +00002498
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002499- Issue #1680159: Unicode coercion during an 'in' operation no longer masks the
2500 underlying error when the coercion fails for the left hand operand.
R. David Murray0a0a1a82009-12-14 16:28:26 +00002501
Benjamin Peterson4895af42009-12-13 16:36:53 +00002502- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
2503
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002504- Issue #7466: Segmentation fault when the garbage collector is called in the
2505 middle of populating a tuple. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitrou2a08b422009-12-13 16:18:14 +00002506
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002507
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002508Library
2509-------
2510
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002511- Issue #6963: Added "maxtasksperchild" argument to ``multiprocessing.Pool``,
2512 allowing for a maximum number of tasks within the pool to be completed by the
2513 worker before that worker is terminated, and a new one created to replace it.
Jesse Noller654ade32010-01-27 03:05:57 +00002514
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002515- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes gcc
2516 when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch by
2517 Arfrever.
Tarek Ziadéc25417f2010-01-08 23:42:23 +00002518
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00002519- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002520 renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's no
2521 alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Antoine Pitrou80157252010-01-08 19:20:17 +00002522 Xicluna.
2523
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002524- Issue #7455: Fix possible crash in cPickle on invalid input. Patch by Victor
2525 Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou0d423b82010-01-07 17:46:49 +00002526
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002527- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library when
2528 using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
Antoine Pitroub9d49632010-01-04 23:22:44 +00002529
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002530- Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism, and
2531 make it implement the ``io.BufferedIOBase`` ABC to allow for further speedups
2532 by wrapping it in an ``io.BufferedReader``. Patch by Nir Aides.
Antoine Pitrou673ddf92010-01-03 22:29:56 +00002533
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002534- Issue #3972: ``httplib.HTTPConnection`` now accepts an optional source_address
Gregory P. Smith9d325212010-01-03 02:06:07 +00002535 parameter to allow specifying where your connections come from.
2536
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002537- ``socket.create_connection()`` now accepts an optional source_address
2538 parameter.
Gregory P. Smith79a3eb12010-01-03 01:29:44 +00002539
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002540- Issue #5511: ``zipfile.ZipFile`` can now be used as a context manager.
Ezio Melotti569e61f2009-12-30 06:14:51 +00002541 Initial patch by Brian Curtin.
2542
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002543- Distutils now correctly identifies the build architecture as "x86_64" when
2544 building on OSX 10.6 without "-arch" flags.
Ronald Oussorenca8e7ec2009-12-24 14:50:35 +00002545
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002546- Issue #7556: Distutils' msvc9compiler now opens the MSVC Manifest file in text
2547 mode.
Tarek Ziadé0479eb52009-12-21 23:37:44 +00002548
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002549- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in the
2550 Distutils upload command to avoid an error when PyPI reads it. This occurs on
2551 long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
Tarek Ziadé2421d562009-12-20 23:23:34 +00002552
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002553- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
2554 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
Senthil Kumaran7713acf2009-12-20 06:05:13 +00002555
Benjamin Petersonddd392c2009-12-13 19:19:07 +00002556- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
2557 argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
2558 the same as passing no argument.
2559
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002560- Issue #7348: ``StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1)`` now acts as if it got no
2561 argument like other file objects.
Benjamin Petersonc4771d22009-12-13 17:31:31 +00002562
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002563- Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by default.
Lars Gustäbel92ca7562009-12-13 11:32:27 +00002564
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002565- Issue #7470: logging: Fix bug in Unicode encoding fallback.
Vinay Sajip5cc4e2a2009-12-11 09:16:01 +00002566
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002567- Issue #5949: Fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is missing
2568 proper end-of-line termination.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00002569
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002570- Issue #7457: Added a read_pkg_file method to
2571 ``distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata``.
Benjamin Peterson4f51baf2009-12-05 18:40:02 +00002572
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002573- Issue #3745: Undo the 2.7a1 change to have hashlib to reject unicode and non
2574 buffer API supporting objects as input. That behavior is for 3.x only.
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00002575
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00002576C-API
2577-----
2578
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002579- Issue #7767: New function ``PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow()`` added, analogous
2580 to ``PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow()``.
Mark Dickinsona36507c2010-01-30 10:08:33 +00002581
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002582- Issue #5080: The argument parsing functions ``PyArg_ParseTuple()``,
2583 ``PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords()``, ``PyArg_VaParse()``,
2584 ``PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords()`` and ``PyArg_Parse()`` no longer accept
2585 float arguments for integer format codes (other than 'L'): previously an
2586 attempt to pass a float resulted in a DeprecationWarning; now it gives a
2587 TypeError. For the 'L' format code (which previously had no warning) there is
2588 now a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson1b34d252010-01-01 17:27:30 +00002589
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002590- Issue #7033: Function ``PyErr_NewExceptionWithDoc()`` added.
Georg Brandl740cdc32009-12-28 08:34:58 +00002591
Martin v. Löwisb4261d52009-12-21 19:29:59 +00002592Build
2593-----
2594
Benjamin Petersonedfe72f2010-01-01 15:21:13 +00002595- Issue #6491: Allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbms will be built.
2596
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00002597- Issue #6943: Use pkg-config to find the libffi headers when the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002598 ``--with-system-ffi`` flag is used.
Benjamin Petersonb4abef62010-01-01 15:18:38 +00002599
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002600- Issue #7609: Add a ``--with-system-expat`` option that causes the system's
2601 expat library to be used for the pyexpat module instead of the one included
2602 with Python.
Benjamin Peterson2c196742009-12-31 03:17:18 +00002603
Benjamin Peterson500ce232009-12-30 02:58:50 +00002604- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
2605 found.
2606
Martin v. Löwisf477b932010-01-02 09:25:21 +00002607- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l and sqlite 3.6.21 on Windows.
R. David Murray93321f32009-12-09 15:15:31 +00002608
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002609- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
2610 compiler might use the wrong library.
Ronald Oussorenb5afe542009-12-24 14:17:19 +00002611
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002612Tests
2613-----
2614
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002615- Issue #7376: Instead of running a self-test (which was failing) when called
R. David Murray77e48ba2009-12-20 16:46:06 +00002616 with no arguments, doctest.py now gives a usage message.
2617
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002618- Issue #7396: Fix regrtest -s, which was broken by the -j enhancement.
R. David Murray98e3df32009-12-16 11:49:46 +00002619
R. David Murrayc7298ff2009-12-14 21:57:39 +00002620- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
2621 instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
2622
2623
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002624What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
2625================================
2626
Benjamin Peterson3513c872009-12-05 18:48:13 +00002627*Release date: 2009-12-05*
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00002628
2629Core and Builtins
2630-----------------
2631
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002632- Issue #7419: ``locale.setlocale()`` could crash the interpreter on Windows
2633 when called with invalid values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00002634
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002635- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the result to
2636 upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f' no longer converts
2637 to 'g' for large values.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7288712009-12-01 21:51:04 +00002638
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002639- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats larger than
2640 1e50 in absolute value.
Mark Dickinson9dd5e162009-11-23 20:54:09 +00002641
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002642- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g., "%.120g" %
2643 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the requested 120
2644 significant digits instead.
Mark Dickinson18cfada2009-11-23 18:46:41 +00002645
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002646- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parentheses.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00002647
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002648- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for ``def f((x)=3): pass``.
Benjamin Peterson89b1a5c2009-11-19 22:58:01 +00002649
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002650- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread on MacOSX
2651 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren315cd0c2009-11-19 16:25:21 +00002652
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002653- Issue #7117: ``repr(x)`` for a float x returns a result based on the shortest
2654 decimal string that's guaranteed to round back to x under correct rounding
2655 (with round-half-to-even rounding mode). Previously it gave a string based on
2656 rounding x to 17 decimal digits. repr(x) for a complex number behaves
2657 similarly. On platforms where the correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa code is
2658 not supported (see below), repr is unchanged.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002659
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002660- Issue #7117: On almost all platforms: float-to-string and string-to-float
2661 conversions within Python are now correctly rounded. Places these conversions
2662 occur include: str for floats and complex numbers; the float and complex
2663 constructors; old-style and new-style numeric formatting; serialization and
2664 deserialization of floats and complex numbers using marshal, pickle and json;
2665 parsing of float and imaginary literals in Python code; Decimal-to-float
2666 conversion.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002667
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002668 The conversions use a Python-adapted version of David Gay's well-known dtoa.c,
2669 providing correctly-rounded strtod and dtoa C functions. This code is
2670 supported on Windows, and on Unix-like platforms using gcc, icc or suncc as
2671 the C compiler. There may be a small number of platforms on which correct
2672 operation of this code cannot be guaranteed, so the code is not used: notably,
2673 this applies to platforms where the C double format is not IEEE 754 binary64,
2674 and to platforms on x86 hardware where the x87 FPU is set to 64-bit precision
2675 and Python's configure script is unable to determine how to change the FPU
2676 precision. On these platforms conversions use the platform strtod and dtoa,
2677 as before.
Mark Dickinsonb678de82009-11-19 18:41:49 +00002678
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002679- Issue #7117: Backport round implementation from Python 3.x. ``round()`` now
2680 uses the correctly-rounded string <-> float conversions described above (when
2681 available), and so produces correctly rounded results that will display nicely
2682 under the float repr. There are two related small changes: (1) round now
2683 accepts any class with an ``__index__()`` method for its second argument (but
2684 no longer accepts floats for the second argument), and (2) an excessively
2685 large second integer argument (e.g., ``round(1.234, 10**100)``) no longer
2686 raises an exception.
Mark Dickinsonbd15a062009-11-18 19:33:35 +00002687
Philip Jenveyfab8be22009-11-17 02:42:26 +00002688- Issue #1757126: Fix the cyrillic-asian alias for the ptcp154 encoding.
2689
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002690- Fix several issues with ``compile()``. The input can now contain Windows and
2691 Mac newlines and is no longer required to end in a newline.
Benjamin Petersone36199b2009-11-12 23:39:44 +00002692
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002693- Remove length limitation when constructing a complex number from a unicode
2694 string.
Mark Dickinsonc04c7c52009-10-26 22:28:14 +00002695
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002696- Issue #7244: ``itertools.izip_longest()`` no longer ignores exceptions raised
2697 during the formation of an output tuple.
Raymond Hettingerfa7dadd2009-11-01 20:45:16 +00002698
Mark Dickinson8d87dc02009-10-25 20:39:06 +00002699- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
2700
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002701- Issue #1722344: ``threading._shutdown()`` is now called in ``Py_Finalize()``,
2702 which fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
2703 interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
Antoine Pitrouefb60c02009-10-20 21:29:37 +00002704
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002705- Issue #7168: Document ``PyFloat_AsString()`` and ``PyFloat_AsReprString()``,
2706 and note that they are unsafe and deprecated.
Eric Smithc12781a2009-10-19 14:38:14 +00002707
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002708- Issue #7120: logging: Remove import of multiprocessing which is causing crash
2709 in GAE.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00002710
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002711- Issue #7140: The ``__dict__`` of a module should not be cleared unless the
2712 module is the only object holding a reference to it.
Benjamin Peterson196b0922009-10-15 15:44:46 +00002713
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002714- Issue #1754094: Improve the stack depth calculation in the compiler. There
2715 should be no other effect than a small decrease in memory use. Patch by
2716 Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas.
Neil Schemenauer7fdd1cb2009-10-14 17:17:14 +00002717
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002718- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one thread,
2719 and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
Antoine Pitroubeaf6a02009-10-11 21:03:26 +00002720
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd0052d12009-10-06 19:56:32 +00002721- Issue #1571184: The Unicode database contains properties for more characters.
2722 The tables for code points representing numeric values, white spaces or line
2723 breaks are now generated from the official Unicode Character Database files,
2724 and include information from the Unihan.txt file.
2725
Benjamin Peterson7adbb5a2009-10-03 20:23:24 +00002726- Issue #7050: Fix a SystemError when trying to use unpacking and augmented
2727 assignment.
2728
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002729- Issue #5329: Fix ``os.popen*`` regression from 2.5 with commands as a sequence
2730 running through the shell. Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Jani Hakala.
Philip Jenvey8b902042009-09-29 19:10:15 +00002731
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002732- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead of
2733 producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
Mark Dickinson7e7a3ec2009-09-29 19:01:06 +00002734
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002735- Issue #6990: Fix ``threading.local`` subclasses leaving old state around after
2736 a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.
Philip Jenveydbf3b252009-09-29 04:32:44 +00002737
Benjamin Peterson9db55402009-09-18 21:47:27 +00002738- Issue #6300: unicode.encode, unicode.decode, str.decode, and str.encode now
Benjamin Peterson332d7212009-09-18 21:14:55 +00002739 take keyword arguments.
2740
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002741- Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid UTF-32
2742 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
Georg Brandle9741f32009-09-17 11:28:09 +00002743
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002744- Issue #6713: Improve performance of base 10 int -> string and long -> string
2745 conversions.
Mark Dickinsonaa2adc82009-09-16 22:10:56 +00002746
Thomas Wouters2920adb2009-09-16 20:36:34 +00002747- Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
2748
Georg Brandl0674d3f2009-09-16 20:30:09 +00002749- Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"
2750 attribute on exceptions that was set explicitly.
2751
Mark Dickinsonc8a7c7c2009-09-06 10:03:31 +00002752- Issue #6846: Fix bug where bytearray.pop() returns negative integers.
2753
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002754- ``classmethod()`` no longer checks if its argument is callable.
Benjamin Peterson6fcf9b52009-09-01 22:27:57 +00002755
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002756- Issue #6750: A text file opened with ``io.open()`` could duplicate its output
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfff896b2009-08-29 18:14:40 +00002757 when writing from multiple threads at the same time.
2758
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002759- Issue #6704: Improve the col_offset in AST for "for" statements with a target
2760 of tuple unpacking.
Benjamin Petersonc0ba8282009-08-15 22:59:21 +00002761
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002762- Issue #6707: ``dir()`` on an uninitialized module caused a crash.
Benjamin Peterson4c6e8082009-08-15 13:16:38 +00002763
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002764- Issue #6540: Fixed crash for ``bytearray.translate()`` with invalid parameters.
Georg Brandlec812ca2009-07-22 11:57:15 +00002765
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002766- Issue #6573: ``set.union()`` stopped processing inputs if an instance of self
Raymond Hettingerc2b9e1a2009-07-27 20:32:04 +00002767 occurred in the argument chain.
2768
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9d11fef2009-07-13 20:03:21 +00002769- Issue #1616979: Added the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
2770
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002771- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit from
2772 the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set. Patch by Marco N.
R. David Murray23a736a2009-07-07 01:06:13 +00002773
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002774- Issue #4618: When unicode arguments are passed to ``print()``, the default
Benjamin Peterson753d1622009-07-02 18:16:45 +00002775 separator and end should be unicode also.
2776
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00002777- Issue #6119: Fixed an incorrect Py3k warning about order comparisons of
2778 built-in functions and methods.
Benjamin Peterson1bf47652009-07-02 17:06:17 +00002779
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002780- Issue #6347: Include inttypes.h as well as stdint.h in pyport.h. This fixes a
2781 build failure on HP-UX: int32_t and uint32_t are defined in inttypes.h instead
2782 of stdint.h on that platform.
Mark Dickinson2f865b92009-06-30 15:32:30 +00002783
Hirokazu Yamamotoa3c56092009-06-28 10:23:00 +00002784- Issue #4856: Remove checks for win NT.
2785
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc595f7a52009-06-25 22:29:29 +00002786- Issue #2016: Fixed a crash in a corner case where the dictionary of keyword
2787 arguments could be modified during the function call setup.
2788
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc14fc6732009-06-23 21:09:09 +00002789- Removed the ipaddr module.
2790
Raymond Hettinger62641e92009-06-23 20:59:43 +00002791- Issue #6329: Fixed iteration for memoryview objects (it was being blocked
2792 because it wasn't recognized as a sequence).
2793
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002794- Issue #6289: Encoding errors from ``compile()`` were being masked.
Benjamin Peterson08a0bbc2009-06-16 00:29:31 +00002795
Benjamin Petersona72be3b2009-06-13 20:23:33 +00002796- When no module is given in a relative import, the module field of the
2797 ImportFrom AST node is now None instead of an empty string.
2798
Benjamin Peterson565e1b62009-06-13 03:46:30 +00002799- Assignment to None using import statements now raises a SyntaxError.
2800
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002801- Issue #4547: When debugging a very large function, it was not always possible
2802 to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb02ceda2009-06-01 20:53:18 +00002803
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00002804- Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002805 the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
Antoine Pitrou46dbe272009-05-30 21:27:00 +00002806
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002807- Issue #5982: staticmethod and classmethod now expose the wrapped function with
2808 ``__func__``.
Raymond Hettinger578a2282009-05-29 04:58:52 +00002809
Raymond Hettinger822b87f2009-05-29 01:46:48 +00002810- Added support for multiple context managers in the same with-statement.
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002811 Deprecated ``contextlib.nested()`` which is no longer needed.
Georg Brandl944f6842009-05-25 21:02:56 +00002812
Benjamin Peterson1880d8b2009-05-25 13:13:44 +00002813- Issue #6101: A new opcode, SETUP_WITH, has been added to speed up the with
2814 statement and correctly lookup the __enter__ and __exit__ special methods.
2815
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002816- Issue #5829: complex("1e500") no longer raises OverflowError. This makes it
2817 consistent with float("1e500") and interpretation of real and imaginary
2818 literals.
Mark Dickinsona4e0efa2009-05-20 18:43:07 +00002819
Hirokazu Yamamotoa4f90182009-05-17 02:58:36 +00002820- Issue #3527: Removed Py_WIN_WIDE_FILENAMES which is not used any more.
2821
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002822- ``__instancecheck__()`` and ``__subclasscheck__()`` are now completely ignored
2823 on classic classes and instances.
Benjamin Petersoneb9fb2c2009-05-16 22:46:11 +00002824
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002825- Issue #5994: The marshal module now has docstrings.
R. David Murray525cffc2009-05-13 13:07:14 +00002826
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00002827- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
Mark Dickinsonb1d45852009-05-11 15:33:08 +00002828
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002829 (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly rejected;
2830 (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans was locale aware; and
2831 (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan') didn't match that of float('-nan').
Eric Smitha985a3a2009-05-05 18:26:08 +00002832
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002833- Issue #5920: For ``float.__format__()``, change the behavior with the empty
2834 presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n') to be like 'g'
2835 but with at least one decimal point and with a default precision
2836 of 12. Previously, the behavior the same but with a default precision of 6.
2837 This more closely matches ``str()``, and reduces surprises when adding
2838 alignment flags to the empty presentation type. This also affects the new
2839 complex.__format__ in the same way.
2840
2841- Issue #5890: In subclasses of 'property' the __doc__ attribute was shadowed by
2842 classtype's, even if it was None. property now inserts the __doc__ into the
2843 subclass instance __dict__.
R. David Murray7ba8e1c2009-05-04 22:16:24 +00002844
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00002845- Issue #4426: The UTF-7 decoder was too strict and didn't accept some legal
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002846 sequences. Patch by Nick Barnes and Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou653dece2009-05-04 18:32:32 +00002847
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002848- Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, ``format(complex(1, 2./3),
2849 '.5')`` now produces a sensible result.
Eric Smith9139cc62009-04-30 00:58:58 +00002850
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002851- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it never
2852 gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
Mark Dickinson92fcc9c2009-04-29 20:41:00 +00002853
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002854- Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes new
2855 Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.
Eric Smithcac7af62009-04-27 19:04:37 +00002856
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002857- Issue #4971: Fix titlecase for characters that are their own titlecase, but
2858 not their own uppercase.
Martin v. Löwis99f27792009-04-26 00:53:18 +00002859
Eric Smith068f0652009-04-25 21:40:15 +00002860- Issue #5835: Deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd and replace it with
2861 _PyOS_double_to_string or PyOS_double_to_string.
2862
Benjamin Peterson5083dc52009-04-25 00:41:22 +00002863- Issue #5283: Setting __class__ in __del__ caused a segfault.
2864
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002865- Issue #5816: ``complex(repr(z))`` now recovers z exactly, even when z involves
2866 nans, infs or negative zeros.
Mark Dickinson95bc9802009-04-24 12:46:53 +00002867
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002868- Implement PEP 378, Format Specifier for Thousands Separator, for floats, ints,
2869 and longs.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00002870
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002871- Issue #5515: 'n' formatting for ints, longs, and floats handles leading zero
2872 formatting poorly.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00002873
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002874- Issue #5772: For float.__format__, don't add a trailing ".0" if we're using no
2875 type code and we have an exponent.
Eric Smithaca19e62009-04-22 13:29:05 +00002876
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002877- Issue #3166: Make long -> float (and int -> float) conversions correctly
2878 rounded.
Mark Dickinson6736cf82009-04-20 21:13:33 +00002879
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002880- Issue #5787: ``object.__getattribute__(some_type, "__bases__")`` segfaulted on
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00002881 some built-in types.
Benjamin Petersond4d400c2009-04-18 20:12:47 +00002882
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002883- Issue #1869: Fix a couple of minor round() issues. ``round(5e15+1)`` was
2884 giving 5e15+2; ``round(-0.0)`` was losing the sign of the zero.
Mark Dickinson1bdf7e92009-04-18 14:59:42 +00002885
Benjamin Peterson99d36f12009-04-15 21:26:36 +00002886- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
2887
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002888- Issue #5704: The "-3" command-line option now implies "-t".
Georg Brandl3c4a5462009-04-12 12:08:12 +00002889
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002890- Issue #2170: Refactored ``xml.dom.minidom.normalize``, increasing both its
2891 clarity and its speed.
R. David Murray0374a822009-04-09 21:54:50 +00002892
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002893- Issue #2396: The memoryview object was backported from Python 3.1.
Antoine Pitrou789be0c2009-04-02 21:18:34 +00002894
Georg Brandld3f03fa2009-04-02 18:09:04 +00002895- Fix a problem in PyErr_NormalizeException that leads to "undetected errors"
2896 when hitting the recursion limit under certain circumstances.
2897
Brett Cannon15ba4da2009-04-01 18:03:59 +00002898- Issue #1665206: Remove the last eager import in _warnings.c and make it lazy.
2899
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002900- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to the end
2901 sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
Ronald Oussorene0154ed2009-03-30 23:10:35 +00002902
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00002903- Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002904 untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can reduce
2905 the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead on
2906 long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.
Antoine Pitrouf8387af2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00002907
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002908- Issue #5512: Rewrite PyLong long division algorithm (x_divrem) to improve its
2909 performance. Long divisions and remainder operations are now between 50% and
2910 150% faster.
Mark Dickinson0b666bf2009-03-23 18:25:13 +00002911
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002912- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base 2**15 for the
2913 internal representation of integers, for performance reasons. Base 2**30 is
2914 enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add --enable-big-digits option to
2915 configure, which overrides the default. Add sys.long_info structseq to
2916 provide information about the internal format.
Mark Dickinsonefc82f72009-03-20 15:51:55 +00002917
Benjamin Peterson6ffe8522009-03-18 20:52:15 +00002918- Issue #4034: Fix weird attribute error messages of the traceback object. (As a
2919 result traceback.__members__ no longer exists.)
2920
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002921- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside the BMP to
2922 surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 and sizeof(Py_UNICODE)
2923 == 2.
Mark Dickinson6b265f12009-03-18 16:07:26 +00002924
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002925- Issue #5237: Allow auto-numbered fields in str.format(). For example: ``'{}
2926 {}'.format(1, 2) == '1 2'``.
Eric Smith6f42edb2009-03-14 11:57:26 +00002927
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002928- Issue #3652: Make the 'line' argument for ``warnings.showwarning()`` a
Brett Cannon6c4cff02009-03-11 04:51:06 +00002929 requirement. Means the DeprecationWarning from Python 2.6 can go away.
2930
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002931- Issue #5247: Improve error message when unknown format codes are used when
2932 using ``str.format()`` with str, unicode, long, int, and float arguments.
Eric Smithe9fb6862009-02-20 14:02:36 +00002933
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002934- Running Python with the -3 option now also warns about classic division for
2935 ints and longs.
Raymond Hettinger08259e82009-02-18 23:10:19 +00002936
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002937- Issue #5260: Long integers now consume less memory: average saving is 2 bytes
2938 per long on a 32-bit system and 6 bytes per long on a 64-bit system.
Mark Dickinson2ffb26f2009-02-15 10:13:41 +00002939
Antoine Pitrou76a4b892009-02-13 13:52:33 +00002940- Issue #5186: Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method by
2941 rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.
2942
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002943- Issue #4575: Fix Py_IS_INFINITY macro to work correctly on x87 FPUs: it now
2944 forces its argument to double before testing for infinity.
Mark Dickinsonc97c9092009-02-09 14:18:43 +00002945
Benjamin Petersone18ef192009-01-20 14:21:16 +00002946- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
2947
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00002948- Issue #1242657: the __len__() and __length_hint__() calls in several tools
Raymond Hettingerb5163702009-02-02 21:50:13 +00002949 were suppressing all exceptions. These include list(), filter(), map(),
2950 zip(), and bytearray().
2951
Benjamin Peterson596d3062009-01-19 15:42:23 +00002952- os.ftruncate raises OSErrors instead of IOErrors for consistency with other os
2953 functions.
2954
Benjamin Peterson5848d1f2009-01-19 00:08:08 +00002955- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
2956 OSError.
2957
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca18392a2009-01-13 23:19:08 +00002958- Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
2959
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002960- Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common to
2961 str, bytes and bytearray could be optimized away by the compiler, letting the
2962 interpreter segfault instead of raising an error.
Antoine Pitrouc2f02212009-01-13 23:13:52 +00002963
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca40d5732009-01-12 23:36:55 +00002964- Issue #3720: Fix a crash when an iterator modifies its class and removes its
2965 __next__ method.
2966
Martin v. Löwise3422fa2009-01-12 08:11:24 +00002967- Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
2968
Martin v. Löwis1b3bef22009-01-12 07:57:11 +00002969- Issue #4915: Port sysmodule to Windows CE.
2970
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00002971- Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
2972 collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
2973 destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Benjamin Petersond50a5d52009-07-13 00:03:20 +00002974 Martin von Löwis at
Antoine Pitrou4c5ecb72009-01-09 21:40:55 +00002975 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
2976
Martin v. Löwisb90304a2009-01-07 18:40:40 +00002977- Issue #4850: Change COUNT_ALLOCS variables to Py_ssize_t.
2978
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002979- Issue #1180193: When importing a module from a .pyc (or .pyo) file with an
2980 existing .py counterpart, override the co_filename attributes of all code
2981 objects if the original filename is obsolete (which can happen if the file has
2982 been renamed, moved, or if it is accessed through different paths). Patch by
2983 Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitroue96d4ea2009-01-06 18:10:47 +00002984
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002985- Issue #4075: Use ``OutputDebugStringW()`` in Py_FatalError.
Martin v. Löwis5344c992009-01-02 20:32:55 +00002986
Hirokazu Yamamoto99a1b202009-01-01 15:45:39 +00002987- Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
2988 file with `str' filename on Windows.
2989
Antoine Pitrouaa687902009-01-01 14:11:22 +00002990- Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator
2991 did not get collected.
2992
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00002993- Issue #4701: PyObject_Hash now implicitly calls PyType_Ready on types where
2994 the tp_hash and tp_dict slots are both NULL.
Nick Coghlan180e4002008-12-30 01:18:48 +00002995
Benjamin Peterson7af65562008-12-29 17:56:58 +00002996- Issue #4764: With io.open, IOError.filename is set when trying to open a
2997 directory on POSIX systems.
2998
Benjamin Petersonfe231b02008-12-29 17:47:42 +00002999- Issue #4764: IOError.filename is set when trying to open a directory on POSIX
3000 systems.
3001
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00003002- Issue #4759: None is now allowed as the first argument of
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003003 ``bytearray.translate()``. It was always allowed for ``bytes.translate()``.
Georg Brandl6425a2f2008-12-28 11:54:53 +00003004
Skip Montanarof205c132008-12-23 03:30:15 +00003005- Added test case to ensure attempts to read from a file opened for writing
3006 fail.
3007
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003008- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always print
3009 elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable/unreachable.
3010 Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
Antoine Pitrou73c0e652008-12-17 22:46:54 +00003011
Mark Dickinson1a707982008-12-17 16:14:37 +00003012- Issue #3439: Add a bit_length method to int and long.
3013
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003014- Issue #2183: Simplify and optimize bytecode for list comprehensions. Original
3015 patch by Neal Norwitz.
Antoine Pitroud0c35152008-12-17 00:38:28 +00003016
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003017- Issue #4597: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a context
3018 manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcad9b5992008-12-10 23:22:49 +00003019
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003020- Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating exceptions.
Jeffrey Yasskinffd42cf2008-12-10 07:35:02 +00003021
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003022- Issue #4445: Replace ``sizeof(PyStringObject)`` with
3023 ``offsetof(PyStringObject, ob_sval) + 1`` when allocating memory for str
3024 instances. On a typical machine this saves 3 bytes of memory (on average) per
3025 string allocation.
Mark Dickinson826f3fe2008-12-05 21:55:28 +00003026
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcdc619012008-11-22 20:01:18 +00003027- Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the
3028 interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!")
3029 instead of throwing a MemoryError.
3030
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003031- Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead
3032 of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed iterators.
Raymond Hettinger7989a4d2008-12-03 15:42:10 +00003033
Benjamin Petersonc078f922008-11-21 22:27:24 +00003034- Issue #4367: Python would segfault during compiling when the unicodedata
3035 module couldn't be imported and \N escapes were present.
3036
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003037- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` method on
3038 file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still kept open but
3039 the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO`` object also got a
3040 new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc32265652008-11-20 23:34:31 +00003041
Benjamin Peterson46cc6d12008-11-19 21:49:09 +00003042- Issue #4348: Some bytearray methods returned that didn't cause any change to
3043 the bytearray, returned the same bytearray instead of a copy.
3044
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003045- Issue #4317: Fixed a crash in the ``imageop.rgb2rgb8()`` function.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc7cfe7ea2008-11-18 22:19:37 +00003046
Benjamin Peterson273c2332008-11-17 22:39:09 +00003047- Issue #4230: If ``__getattr__`` is a descriptor, it now functions correctly.
3048
Benjamin Peterson6624a9f2008-11-03 15:14:51 +00003049- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
3050
Benjamin Petersondcee09d2008-10-31 02:16:05 +00003051- Issue #4225: ``from __future__ import unicode_literals`` didn't work in an
3052 exec statement.
3053
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003054- Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__`` method
3055 does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69a9c5b2008-10-30 21:18:34 +00003056
Benjamin Petersonbdca9422008-10-26 20:21:13 +00003057- Issue #4209: Enabling unicode_literals and the print_function in the same
3058 __future__ import didn't work.
3059
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00003060- Using ``nonlocal`` as a variable name will now raise a Py3k SyntaxWarning
Georg Brandl7fb00ad2008-10-25 07:00:52 +00003061 because it is a reserved word in 3.x.
Benjamin Peterson399b1fe2008-10-25 02:53:28 +00003062
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003063- On windows, ``os.chdir()`` given unicode was not working if
3064 GetCurrentDirectoryW returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful
3065 this code path is really executed because I cannot move to such directory on
3066 win2k)
Hirokazu Yamamoto10a018c2008-10-09 10:00:30 +00003067
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003068- Issue #4069: When ``set.remove(element)`` is used with a set element, the
3069 element is temporarily replaced with an equivalent frozenset. But the
3070 eventual KeyError would always report the empty ``frozenset()`` as the missing
3071 key. Now it correctly refers to the initial element.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd78b9dc2008-10-07 20:32:10 +00003072
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003073- Issue #4509: Various issues surrounding resize of bytearray objects to which
3074 there are buffer exports.
Antoine Pitrouae5bece2008-12-06 21:29:24 +00003075
Benjamin Peterson8d5934b2008-12-27 18:24:11 +00003076- Issue #4748: Lambda generators no longer return a value.
3077
Kristján Valur Jónsson6220e412009-01-12 09:20:34 +00003078- Issue #3582: Use native TLS functions on Windows
3079
Gregory P. Smithae91d092009-03-02 05:13:57 +00003080- The re.sub(), re.subn() and re.split() functions now accept a flags parameter.
3081
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003082- Issue #3845: In PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags avoid invalid memory access with short
3083 file names.
Matthias Kloseedb5e1e2009-04-04 14:18:13 +00003084
Matthias Klose91a3b9e2009-04-05 21:19:13 +00003085- Issue #1113244: Py_XINCREF, Py_DECREF, Py_XDECREF: Add `do { ... } while (0)'
3086 to avoid compiler warnings.
Matthias Klose0610e082009-04-05 12:43:08 +00003087
Gregory P. Smith2b3eb372009-04-05 23:48:26 +00003088- Issue #5705: os.setuid() would not accept values > 2**31-1 but pwd.getpwnam()
3089 returned them on 64bit platforms.
3090
Walter Dörwalded960ac2009-05-03 22:36:33 +00003091- Issue #5108: Handle %s like %S and %R in PyUnicode_FromFormatV(): Call
3092 PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8() once, remember the result and output it in a second
3093 step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
3094 of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
3095
Walter Dörwald726ba8e2009-05-06 14:32:35 +00003096- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
3097 consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
3098
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003099- Issue #2422: When compiled with the ``--with-valgrind`` option, the pymalloc
3100 allocator will be automatically disabled when running under Valgrind. This
3101 gives improved memory leak detection when running under Valgrind, while taking
3102 advantage of pymalloc at other times.
Benjamin Peterson91c12eb2009-12-03 02:52:39 +00003103
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003104Library
3105-------
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00003106
Raymond Hettinger5f516ed2010-04-03 18:10:37 +00003107- Add count() and reverse() methods to collections.deque().
Raymond Hettingera5fd24e2009-12-10 06:42:54 +00003108
Raymond Hettinger0b3263b2009-12-10 06:00:33 +00003109- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
3110
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003111- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the wrong
3112 parameter types. Patch by Victor Stinner.
Antoine Pitrou187177f2009-12-08 15:40:51 +00003113
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003114- logging: Added optional "secure" parameter to SMTPHandler, to enable use of
Vinay Sajip48305662009-12-06 17:57:11 +00003115 TLS with authentication credentials.
3116
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003117- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is generated
3118 in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
Tarek Ziadé4f383172009-12-06 09:22:40 +00003119
Martin v. Löwisc218a2f2009-12-03 20:53:51 +00003120- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions with
3121 msvc9compiler.
3122
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003123- Issue #7333: The ``posix`` module gains an ``initgroups()`` function providing
3124 access to the initgroups(3) C library call on Unix systems which implement it.
3125 Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone.
Antoine Pitrou30b3b352009-12-02 20:37:54 +00003126
Tarek Ziadéa5076a22009-11-29 22:20:30 +00003127- Issue #7408: Fixed distutils.tests.sdist so it doesn't check for group
3128 ownership when the group is not forced, because the group may be different
3129 from the user's group and inherit from its container when the test is run.
3130
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003131- Issue #1515: Enable use of deepcopy() with instance methods. Patch by Robert
3132 Collins.
Antoine Pitroud16f57b2009-11-28 15:55:58 +00003133
Vinay Sajip01801d12009-11-27 14:03:36 +00003134- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
3135
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00003136- Issue #6845: Add restart support for binary upload in ftplib. The
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003137 ``storbinary()`` method of FTP and FTP_TLS objects gains an optional "rest"
Antoine Pitrouacbe3bd2009-11-27 13:18:34 +00003138 argument. Patch by Pablo Mouzo.
3139
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003140- Issue #5788: ``datetime.timedelta`` objects get a new ``total_seconds()``
3141 method returning the total number of seconds in the duration. Patch by Brian
3142 Quinlan.
Antoine Pitroubcfaf802009-11-25 22:59:36 +00003143
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00003144- Issue #6615: logging: Used weakrefs in internal handler list.
3145
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003146- Issue #1488943: ``difflib.Differ`` doesn't always add hints for tab
3147 characters.
Senthil Kumaran5c456e62009-11-23 18:41:31 +00003148
Lars Gustäbeldd866d52009-11-22 18:30:53 +00003149- Issue #6123: tarfile now opens empty archives correctly and consistently
3150 raises ReadError on empty files.
3151
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003152- Issue #7354: distutils.tests.test_msvc9compiler - dragfullwindows can be 2.
Tarek Ziadé39de1fc2009-11-19 05:33:16 +00003153
Ezio Melotti3373a3a2010-01-16 18:38:01 +00003154- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
3155 __str__.
Benjamin Petersondc3c2392009-11-19 03:00:02 +00003156
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003157- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in case
3158 of an error.
Lars Gustäbel355538e2009-11-18 20:24:54 +00003159
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003160- Issue #7293: ``distutils.test_msvc9compiler`` is fixed to work on any fresh
3161 Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
Tarek Ziadéacccafc2009-11-18 08:46:56 +00003162
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003163- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch.
Nick Coghlan11db64e2009-11-15 22:36:47 +00003164
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003165- Issue #2054: ftplib now provides an FTP_TLS class to do secure FTP using TLS
3166 or SSL. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
Antoine Pitrouccd5e022009-11-15 17:22:09 +00003167
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003168- Issue #4969: The mimetypes module now reads the MIME database from the
3169 registry under Windows. Patch by Gabriel Genellina.
Antoine Pitroud5b34d42009-11-15 14:10:48 +00003170
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003171- Issue #6816: runpy now provides a run_path function that allows Python code to
3172 execute file paths that refer to source or compiled Python files as well as
3173 zipfiles, directories and other valid sys.path entries that contain a
Nick Coghlan49868cb2009-11-15 07:30:34 +00003174 __main__.py file. This allows applications that run other Python scripts to
3175 support the same flexibility as the CPython command line itself.
3176
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003177- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish a
3178 connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The default
3179 timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for local connections.
Antoine Pitrouc562ca42009-11-13 22:31:18 +00003180
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00003181- Issue #7197: Allow unittest.TextTestRunner objects to be pickled and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003182 unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
Antoine Pitrou0734c632009-11-10 20:49:30 +00003183 test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
3184
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003185- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other than
3186 those started through ``threading.Thread`` (for example, using
3187 ``thread.start_new_thread()``.
Antoine Pitroud7158d42009-11-09 16:00:11 +00003188
Antoine Pitrou99c160b2009-11-05 13:42:29 +00003189- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
3190 which are part of a reference cycle.
3191
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003192- Issue #7211: Allow 64-bit values for the ``ident`` and ``data`` fields of
3193 kevent objects on 64-bit systems. Patch by Michael Broghton.
Antoine Pitrou323b9da2009-11-04 19:25:14 +00003194
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003195- Issue #6896: ``mailbox.Maildir`` now invalidates its internal cache each time
Antoine Pitrouaec41242009-11-02 11:34:27 +00003196 a modification is done through it. This fixes inconsistencies and test
3197 failures on systems with slightly bogus mtime behaviour.
3198
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003199- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before reading
3200 from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and lead to incorrect
3201 entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it afterwards to avoid the
3202 terminal echoing the input afterwards on OSes such as Solaris.
Gregory P. Smith38f5d8f2009-11-01 18:33:55 +00003203
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003204- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make sure that
3205 they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also fix buggy handling of
3206 large arguments (those with coefficient longer than the current precision) in
3207 shift and rotate.
Mark Dickinson0c673122009-10-29 12:04:00 +00003208
Lars Gustäbel8c06ccc2009-10-29 09:15:00 +00003209- Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
3210 header as required by RFC 1952.
3211
Tarek Ziadé40b998b2009-10-27 23:06:10 +00003212- Issue #1180: Added a new global option to ignore ~/.pydistutils.cfg in
3213 Distutils.
3214
Tarek Ziadéd24cab82009-10-27 21:20:27 +00003215- Issue #7218: Fix test_site for win32, the directory comparison was done with
3216 an uppercase.
3217
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003218- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from several
3219 threads at once.
Antoine Pitroudd629662009-10-27 17:41:58 +00003220
Tarek Ziadéb9c1cfc2009-10-24 15:10:37 +00003221- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distutils is now done with respect to
3222 sys.dont_write_bytecode.
3223
Vinay Sajipc470d682009-11-25 09:03:30 +00003224- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
Tarek Ziadé672422a2009-10-24 13:29:44 +00003225 raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
3226
Antoine Pitroufa94e802009-10-24 12:23:18 +00003227- Issue #6218: io.StringIO and io.BytesIO instances are now picklable with
3228 protocol 2.
3229
Vinay Sajip5ac65282009-10-21 20:22:14 +00003230- Issue #7077: logging: SysLogHandler now treats Unicode as per RFC 5424.
3231
Mark Dickinsona7a52ab2009-10-20 13:33:03 +00003232- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
3233 larger than emax.
3234
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003235- Issue #5833: Fix extra space character in readline completion with the GNU
3236 readline library version 6.0.
Antoine Pitroue0899802009-10-19 18:20:21 +00003237
Antoine Pitrou5ba84912009-10-19 17:59:07 +00003238- Issue #7133: SSL objects now support the new buffer API.
3239
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003240- Issue #7149: urllib fails on OSX in the proxy detection code.
Ronald Oussoren31802d02009-10-18 07:07:00 +00003241
Benjamin Petersonc63457b2009-10-15 03:06:55 +00003242- Issue #7069: Make inspect.isabstract() return a boolean.
3243
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003244- Add support to the ``ihooks`` module for relative imports.
Neil Schemenauere6039f02009-10-14 19:23:53 +00003245
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003246- Issue #6894: Fixed the issue urllib2 doesn't respect "no_proxy" environment.
Senthil Kumaran27468662009-10-11 02:00:07 +00003247
Vinay Sajip1c77b7f2009-10-10 20:32:36 +00003248- Issue #7086: Added TCP support to SysLogHandler, and tidied up some
3249 anachronisms in the code which were a relic of 1.5.2 compatibility.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003250
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003251- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the correct place
3252 to look for it is the Content-Type header.
R. David Murray0c8bee62009-10-09 21:50:54 +00003253
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003254- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result is too
3255 large to fit in the current precision.
Mark Dickinson15ae41c2009-10-07 19:22:05 +00003256
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00003257- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in
Tarek Ziadé1b486712009-10-02 23:49:48 +00003258 Distutils.
3259
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003260- Issue #7031: Add ``TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance()`` methods.
Georg Brandl12fafe62009-10-01 21:02:39 +00003261
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003262- Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an ``array.array`` to
3263 ``httplib.HTTPConnection.send``. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
Antoine Pitrou72481782009-09-29 17:48:18 +00003264
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003265- Issue #6236, #6348: Fix various failures in the `io` module under AIX and
3266 other platforms, when using a non-gcc compiler. Patch by egreen.
Antoine Pitrou2a466582009-09-21 21:17:48 +00003267
Tarek Ziadé99773352009-09-21 13:41:08 +00003268- Issue #6954: Fixed crash when using DISTUTILS_DEBUG flag in Distutils.
3269
Ronald Oussoren51f06332009-09-20 10:31:22 +00003270- Issue #6851: Fix urllib.urlopen crash on secondairy threads on OSX 10.6
3271
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003272- Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...) does now
3273 always result in NULL.
Thomas Heller6be522b2009-09-18 20:05:44 +00003274
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003275- Issue #5042: ctypes Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
3276 base class positional arguments.
Thomas Heller7a352c02009-09-18 18:55:17 +00003277
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003278- Issue #6938: Fix a TypeError in string formatting of a multiprocessing debug
3279 message.
Georg Brandlc40e60e2009-09-18 09:18:27 +00003280
Matthias Klose924eab62009-09-13 15:09:24 +00003281- Issue #6635: Fix profiler printing usage message.
3282
Lars Gustäbel21121e62009-09-12 10:28:15 +00003283- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
3284
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00003285- Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003286 distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and Michael
3287 Haubenwallner.
Tarek Ziadébed26a32009-09-09 08:14:20 +00003288
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003289- Issue #6857: Default format() alignment should be '>' for Decimal instances.
Mark Dickinson5cfa8042009-09-08 20:20:19 +00003290
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003291- Issue #6795: int(Decimal('nan')) now raises ValueError instead of returning
3292 NaN or raising InvalidContext. Also, fix infinite recursion in
3293 long(Decimal('nan')).
Mark Dickinson968f1692009-09-07 18:04:58 +00003294
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003295- Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats with no
3296 type specifier.
Mark Dickinson491ea552009-09-07 16:17:41 +00003297
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003298- Issue #4937: plat-mac/bundlebuilder refers to non-existing version.plist.
Ronald Oussoren626faeb2009-09-06 12:23:18 +00003299
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003300- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of repeatedly
3301 concatenating strings in httplib's HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a
3302 significant speed increase when downloading large files servend with a
3303 Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
Chris Withers7f3ea6a2009-09-04 16:32:22 +00003304
Georg Brandld22b9512009-09-04 08:17:04 +00003305- Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
3306 as documented.
3307
Georg Brandl2e1308f2009-09-04 06:59:20 +00003308- Issue #2666: Handle BROWSER environment variable properly for unknown browser
3309 names in the webbrowser module.
3310
Lars Gustäbelf7cda522009-08-28 19:23:44 +00003311- Issue #6054: Do not normalize stored pathnames in tarfile.
3312
Mark Dickinson7a7739d2009-08-28 13:25:02 +00003313- Issue #6794: Fix Decimal.compare_total and Decimal.compare_total_mag: NaN
3314 payloads are now ordered by integer value rather than lexicographically.
3315
Tarek Ziadé764fc232009-08-20 21:23:13 +00003316- Issue #6693: New functions in site.py to get user/global site packages paths.
3317
Gregory P. Smith4e63d542009-08-20 09:39:38 +00003318- The thread.lock type now supports weak references.
3319
Guilherme Polo7b50c4f2009-08-18 14:46:57 +00003320- Issue #1356969: Add missing info methods in Tix.HList.
3321
Guilherme Polo6b3c7092009-08-18 14:23:00 +00003322- Issue #1522587: New constants and methods for the Tix.Grid widget.
3323
Guilherme Polo6c823f82009-08-18 13:29:20 +00003324- Issue #1250469: Fix the return value of Tix.PanedWindow.panes.
3325
Guilherme Polod3e6e4b2009-08-18 13:23:08 +00003326- Issue #1119673: Do not override Tkinter.Text methods when creating a
3327 ScrolledText.
3328
Gregory P. Smithb98d6b22009-08-16 18:52:58 +00003329- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
3330
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003331- Issue #1135: Add the XView and YView mix-ins to avoid duplicating the xview*
3332 and yview* methods.
Guilherme Poloe45f0172009-08-14 14:36:45 +00003333
Antoine Pitrou20e1f932009-08-06 20:18:29 +00003334- Issue #6629: Fix a data corruption issue in the new `io` package, which could
3335 occur when writing to a BufferedRandom object (e.g. a file opened in "rb+" or
3336 "wb+" mode) after having buffered a certain amount of data for reading. This
3337 bug was not present in the pure Python implementation.
3338
Jesse Noller8497efe2009-08-06 02:05:56 +00003339- Issue #4660: If a multiprocessing.JoinableQueue.put() was preempted, it was
3340 possible to get a spurious 'task_done() called too many times' error.
3341
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00003342- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003343 properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods. The
3344 socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
Gregory P. Smithc4ad0342009-08-13 18:54:50 +00003345
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003346- Issue #6595: The Decimal constructor now allows arbitrary Unicode decimal
3347 digits in input, as recommended by the standard. Previously it was restricted
3348 to accepting [0-9].
Mark Dickinson4326ad82009-08-02 10:59:36 +00003349
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3e5b0272009-07-28 22:15:30 +00003350- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
3351 opening an empty or very small file.
3352
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00003353- Issue #6553: Fixed a crash in cPickle.load(), when given a file-like object
3354 containing incomplete data.
3355
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003356- Issue #6545: Removed assert statements in distutils.Extension, so the behavior
3357 is similar when used with -O.
Tarek Ziadéaf2406f2009-07-22 08:55:19 +00003358
Benjamin Petersond7b0eeb2009-07-19 20:18:21 +00003359- unittest has been split up into a package. All old names should still work.
3360
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003361- Issue #6431: Make Fraction type return NotImplemented when it doesn't know how
3362 to handle a comparison without loss of precision. Also add correct handling
3363 of infinities and nans for comparisons with float.
Mark Dickinson88a0a2e2009-07-18 15:18:18 +00003364
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b30162009-07-23 19:26:02 +00003365- Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn segfault on bad formatted string.
Hirokazu Yamamoto1a3d0852009-07-17 06:26:54 +00003366
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003367- Issue #6466: Now distutils.cygwinccompiler and distutils.emxccompiler uses the
3368 same refactored function to get gcc/ld/dllwrap versions numbers. It's
3369 ``distutils.util.get_compiler_versions()``. Added deprecation warnings for
3370 the obsolete get_versions() functions.
Tarek Ziadéa99dedf2009-07-16 15:35:45 +00003371
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003372- Issue #6433: Fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list.
Jesse Noller7530e472009-07-16 14:23:04 +00003373
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003374- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
3375
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc74b8d332009-07-11 14:33:51 +00003376- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
3377 standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
3378
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003379- Issue #6455: Fixed test_build_ext under win32.
Tarek Ziadé8c400012009-07-10 09:10:33 +00003380
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003381- Issue #6377: Enabled the compiler option, and deprecate its usage as an
Tarek Ziadée670e5a2009-07-06 12:50:46 +00003382 attribute.
3383
Tarek Ziadé63f17382009-07-04 02:02:41 +00003384- Issue #6413: Fixed the log level in distutils.dist for announce.
3385
Gregory P. Smithc197d0a2009-07-04 01:55:11 +00003386- Issue #3392: The subprocess communicate() method no longer fails in select()
3387 when file descriptors are large; communicate() now uses poll() when possible.
3388
Tarek Ziadé65ec61e2009-07-03 08:22:56 +00003389- Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
3390
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003391- Issues #5155, #5313, #5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00003392 unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003393 descriptor errors.
Jesse Noller1b90efb2009-06-30 17:11:52 +00003394
Vinay Sajipcbb24b32009-07-13 11:21:05 +00003395- Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
Tarek Ziadé3fbcc602009-06-29 16:13:39 +00003396 extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.
3397
Hirokazu Yamamoto99ebc632009-06-29 14:29:31 +00003398- Issue #6344: Fixed a crash of mmap.read() when passed a negative argument.
3399
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003400- Issue #5230: pydoc would report no documentation found if a module generated a
3401 'not found' import error when loaded; it now reports the import errors.
R. David Murrayef087da2009-06-23 18:02:46 +00003402 Thanks to Lucas Prado Melo for initial fix and collaboration on the tests.
3403
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003404- Issue #6314: ``logging.basicConfig()`` performs extra checks on the "level"
Vinay Sajip603fb6d2009-06-21 17:37:27 +00003405 argument.
3406
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003407- Issue #6164: Added an AIX specific linker argument in Distutils unixcompiler.
3408 Original patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
Tarek Ziadé439bf932009-06-20 13:57:20 +00003409
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003410- Issue #6274: Fixed possible file descriptors leak in subprocess.py.
Facundo Batista8c826b72009-06-19 18:02:28 +00003411
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc5fe420e2009-06-18 22:32:50 +00003412- Issue #6189: Restored compatibility of subprocess.py with Python 2.2.
3413
Tarek Ziadéfdefc0a2009-06-16 07:29:52 +00003414- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
3415
Tarek Ziadéa1cc0402009-06-15 23:30:13 +00003416- Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
3417 httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.
3418
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003419- Issue #6271: mmap tried to close invalid file handle (-1) for anonymous maps
3420 on Unix.
Hirokazu Yamamoto983a4652009-06-14 03:53:55 +00003421
Antoine Pitrou19690592009-06-12 20:14:08 +00003422- Issue #6215: All bug fixes and enhancements from the Python 3.1 io library
3423 (including the fast C implementation) have been backported to the standard
3424 ``io`` module.
3425
Martin v. Löwis2dcd7a02009-06-12 17:28:31 +00003426- Issue #6258: Support AMD64 in bdist_msi.
3427
Vinay Sajip334ffe82010-01-15 23:27:05 +00003428- Issue #6252: Fixed bug in next rollover time computation in
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003429 TimedRotatingFileHandler.
3430
Tarek Ziadéc7498f52009-06-11 09:13:36 +00003431- Issue #6263: Fixed syntax error in distutils.cygwincompiler.
3432
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003433- Issue #5201: distutils.sysconfig.parse_makefile() now understands ``$$`` in
3434 Makefiles. This prevents compile errors when using syntax like:
3435 ``LDFLAGS='-rpath=\$$LIB:/some/other/path'``. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadé25d2bae2009-06-11 08:12:20 +00003436
Georg Brandle6632b42009-06-04 08:58:32 +00003437- Issue #5767: Removed sgmlop support from xmlrpclib.
3438
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003439- Issue #6131: test_modulefinder leaked when run after test_distutils. Patch by
3440 Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé3e3eace2009-05-29 08:08:07 +00003441
Tarek Ziadé9e5d2dc2009-05-28 12:53:54 +00003442- Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
3443
Raymond Hettingerb4d2d312009-05-29 01:36:26 +00003444- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
3445 whitespace.
3446
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003447- Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
3448 the 'help' function.
R. David Murrayd67ea7d2009-05-27 20:07:21 +00003449
Benjamin Peterson176a56c2009-05-25 00:48:58 +00003450- In unittest, using a skipping decorator on a class is now equivalent to
3451 skipping every test on the class. The ClassTestSuite class has been removed.
3452
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003453- Issue #6050: Don't fail extracting a directory from a zipfile if the directory
3454 already exists.
Martin v. Löwis0b09c422009-05-24 19:30:52 +00003455
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003456- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a specific
3457 Python version.
Martin v. Löwis53b578e2009-05-24 19:10:52 +00003458
Antoine Pitroud49e3752009-05-24 15:40:09 +00003459- Issue #1309352: fcntl now converts its third arguments to a C `long` rather
3460 than an int, which makes some operations possible under 64-bit Linux (e.g.
3461 DN_MULTISHOT with F_NOTIFY).
3462
Senthil Kumarane266f252009-05-24 09:14:50 +00003463- Issue #1424152: Fix for httplib, urllib2 to support SSL while working through
3464 proxy. Original patch by Christopher Li, changes made by Senthil Kumaran.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003465
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003466- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use the
3467 dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have a
3468 process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.
Antoine Pitrou5e858fe2009-05-23 15:37:45 +00003469
R. David Murrayad3058e2009-05-23 00:48:58 +00003470- Issue #4066: smtplib.SMTP_SSL._get_socket now correctly returns the socket.
3471 Patch by Farhan Ahmad, test by Marcin Bachry.
3472
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003473- Issue #6062: In distutils, fixed the package option of build_ext. Feedback
Tarek Ziadé7d7127d2009-05-19 16:17:21 +00003474 and tests on pywin32 by Tim Golden.
3475
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003476- Issue #6053: Fixed distutils tests on win32. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
Tarek Ziadé07bbfcc2009-05-18 12:21:26 +00003477
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003478- Issue #6046: Fixed the library extension when distutils build_ext is used in
3479 place. Initial patch by Roumen Petrov.
Tarek Ziadéfcc7f032009-05-18 08:03:37 +00003480
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003481- Issue #6041: Now distutils `sdist` and `register` commands use `check` as a
Tarek Ziadécb768042009-05-16 16:37:06 +00003482 subcommand.
3483
Antoine Pitrou775fd662009-05-15 16:54:52 +00003484- Issue #2116: Weak references and weak dictionaries now support copy()ing and
3485 deepcopy()ing.
3486
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003487- Issue #1655: Make imaplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitrou52035a02009-05-15 11:50:29 +00003488
Antoine Pitrou42b5bcf2009-05-14 21:48:09 +00003489- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
3490
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003491- Issue #1664: Make nntplib IPv6-capable. Patch by Derek Morr.
Antoine Pitroueed30d82009-05-14 21:22:08 +00003492
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003493- Issue #6022: A test file was created in the current working directory by
Tarek Ziadécbb4f9e2009-05-14 20:14:13 +00003494 test_get_outputs in Distutils.
3495
R. David Murray996ba022009-05-13 17:14:11 +00003496- Issue #4050: inspect.findsource/getsource now raise an IOError if the 'source'
3497 file is a binary. Patch by Brodie Rao, tests by Daniel Diniz.
3498
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00003499- Issue #5977: distutils build_ext.get_outputs was not taking into account the
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003500 inplace option. Initial patch by kxroberto.
Tarek Ziadé972480d2009-05-12 17:07:14 +00003501
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003502- Issue #5984: distutils.command.build_ext.check_extensions_list checks were
3503 broken for old-style extensions.
Tarek Ziadéd5d83422009-05-10 10:12:08 +00003504
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00003505- Issue #5971: StreamHandler.handleError now swallows IOErrors which occur when
3506 trying to print a traceback.
3507
Tarek Ziadé812d7712009-05-09 10:06:00 +00003508- Issue #5976: Fixed Distutils test_check_environ.
3509
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003510- Issue #5900: Ensure RUNPATH is added to extension modules with RPATH if GNU ld
3511 is used. Original patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Tarek Ziadée2be83d2009-05-09 08:28:53 +00003512
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003513- Issue #5941: Distutils build_clib command was not working anymore because of
3514 an incomplete costumization of the archiver command. Added ARFLAGS in the
3515 Makefile besides AR and make Distutils use it. Original patch by David
Tarek Ziadé99f660a2009-05-07 21:20:34 +00003516 Cournapeau.
3517
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00003518- Issue #5955: aifc's close method did not close the file it wrapped, now it
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003519 does. This also means getfp method now returns the real fp.
R. David Murrayd3bf34c2009-05-07 16:29:19 +00003520
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003521- Issue #4875: On win32, ctypes.util.find_library does no longer return
3522 directories.
Thomas Hellera57773e2009-05-05 18:55:47 +00003523
Georg Brandl4d4313d2009-05-05 08:54:11 +00003524- Issue #5142: Add the ability to skip modules while stepping to pdb.
3525
Georg Brandle3869c42009-05-05 08:30:28 +00003526- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
3527 looking for files given by a relative filename.
3528
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003529- Issue #5692: In ``zipfile.Zipfile``, fix wrong path calculation when
Antoine Pitrou97377bf2009-05-04 21:17:17 +00003530 extracting a file to the root directory.
3531
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003532- Issue #5913: ``os.listdir()`` should fail for empty path on windows.
Hirokazu Yamamoto406d7aa2009-05-04 05:28:39 +00003533
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003534- Issue #5084: Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects,
3535 saving memory and avoiding growth in size of subsequent pickles. Proposal and
3536 original patch by Jake McGuire.
Antoine Pitrou74309892009-05-02 21:13:23 +00003537
Antoine Pitrou1fc02312009-05-01 20:55:35 +00003538- Issue #3002: ``shutil.copyfile()`` and ``shutil.copytree()`` now raise an
3539 error when a named pipe is encountered, rather than blocking infinitely.
3540
Gregory P. Smith1d499262009-05-01 19:59:52 +00003541- Issue #3959: The ipaddr module has been added to the standard library.
3542 Contributed by Google.
3543
R. David Murray25b4add2009-04-29 13:17:37 +00003544- Issue #2245: aifc now skips chunk types it doesn't recognize, per spec.
3545
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003546- Issue #5874: distutils.tests.test_config_cmd is not locale-sensitive anymore.
Tarek Ziadéa1b91d92009-04-29 08:03:46 +00003547
Thomas Heller90c61a22009-04-28 19:23:41 +00003548- Issue #4305: ctypes should now build again on mipsel-linux-gnu
3549
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003550- Issue #1734234: Massively speedup ``unicodedata.normalize()`` when the string
3551 is already in normalized form, by performing a quick check beforehand.
Antoine Pitroue988e282009-04-27 21:53:26 +00003552 Original patch by Rauli Ruohonen.
3553
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003554- Issue #5853: Calling a function of the mimetypes module from several threads
Antoine Pitrouf2651e12009-04-27 20:50:20 +00003555 at once could hit the recursion limit if the mimetypes database hadn't been
3556 initialized before.
3557
Vinay Sajipe34d6aa2009-04-27 13:44:27 +00003558- Issue #5854: Updated __all__ to include some missing names and remove some
3559 names which should not be exported.
3560
3561- Issue #5810: Fixed Distutils test_build_scripts so it uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003562 ``sysconfig.get_config_vars()``.
Tarek Ziadébcddf672009-04-25 12:51:59 +00003563
Tarek Ziadéd567c382009-04-25 12:38:08 +00003564- Issue #4951: Fixed failure in test_httpservers.
3565
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003566- Issue #3102: All global symbols that the _ctypes extension defines are now
3567 prefixed with 'Py' or '_ctypes'.
Thomas Heller5c6af802009-04-24 20:31:47 +00003568
Thomas Hellerec21ccd2009-04-24 20:00:41 +00003569- Issue #5041: ctypes does now allow pickling wide character.
3570
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00003571- Issue #5812: For the two-argument form of the Fraction constructor,
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003572 ``Fraction(m, n)``, m and n are permitted to be arbitrary Rational instances.
Mark Dickinson4af8e742009-04-24 13:56:07 +00003573
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003574- Issue #5812: Fraction('1e6') is valid: more generally, any string that's valid
3575 for float() is now valid for Fraction(), with the exception of strings
3576 representing NaNs and infinities.
Mark Dickinson8100bd82009-04-22 18:15:25 +00003577
Tarek Ziadé31559b62009-04-20 14:29:42 +00003578- Issue #5795: Fixed test_distutils failure on Debian ppc.
3579
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003580- Issue #5768: Fixed bug in Unicode output logic and test case for same.
3581
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003582- Issue #1161031: Fix readwrite select flag handling: POLLPRI now results in a
3583 handle_expt_event call, not handle_read_event, and POLLERR and POLLNVAL now
3584 call handle_close, not handle_expt_event. Also, dispatcher now has an
3585 'ignore_log_types' attribute for suppressing log messages, which is set to
3586 'warning' by default.
R. David Murrayabc26602009-04-13 16:56:32 +00003587
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003588- Issue #5607: Fixed Distutils test_get_platform for Mac OS X fat binaries.
Tarek Ziadé156c31a2009-04-13 12:34:01 +00003589
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003590- Issue #5741: Don't disallow "%%" (which is an escape for "%") when setting a
3591 value in SafeConfigParser.
Georg Brandl21cf5ee2009-04-12 17:24:11 +00003592
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003593- Issue #5732: Added a new command in Distutils: check.
Tarek Ziadé942825f2009-04-11 14:55:07 +00003594
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003595- Issue #5731: Distutils bdist_wininst no longer worked on non-Windows
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003596 platforms. Initial patch by Paul Moore.
Tarek Ziadéad958262009-04-09 21:36:44 +00003597
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003598- Issue #2254: Fix CGIHTTPServer information disclosure. Relative paths are now
3599 collapsed within the url properly before looking in cgi_directories.
Gregory P. Smith923ba362009-04-06 06:33:26 +00003600
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003601- Issue #5095: Added bdist_msi to the list of bdist supported formats. Initial
3602 fix by Steven Bethard.
Tarek Ziadé64408fb2009-04-05 22:51:09 +00003603
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003604- Issue #1491431: Fixed distutils.filelist.glob_to_re for edge cases. Initial
3605 fix by Wayne Davison.
Tarek Ziadéfaa6b122009-04-05 21:44:08 +00003606
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003607- Issue #5693: TestSuite.__iter__ can now be consistently overridden in
3608 subclasses.
Michael Foordf2dfef12009-04-05 19:19:28 +00003609
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003610- Issue #5694: Removed spurious test output in Distutils (test_clean).
Tarek Ziadé453d9532009-04-05 18:31:24 +00003611
Georg Brandl29c6a282009-04-05 20:23:13 +00003612- Issue #5471: Fix os.path.expanduser() for $HOME set to '/'.
Georg Brandl3f0ef202009-04-05 14:48:49 +00003613
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003614- Issue #1326077: Fix the formatting of SyntaxErrors by the traceback module.
Georg Brandl1956d5c2009-04-05 14:25:41 +00003615
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003616- Issue #1726172: Fix IndexError in the case of and empty response in ftplib.
Georg Brandl50ba6e12009-04-05 10:48:47 +00003617
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003618- Issue #2625: Added missing iteritems() call to the for loop in
R. David Murray52720c52009-04-02 14:05:35 +00003619 mailbox.MH.get_message().
3620
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003621- Issue #5585: Add the ability to call an initializer to
3622 mulitiprocessing.manager so that users can install custom handlers/etc.
Jesse Noller7152f6d2009-04-02 05:17:26 +00003623
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003624- Issue #3551: Patch multiprocessing to raise a proper exception if the size of
3625 the object when writefile is called causes a ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Added
3626 docs to note the limitation.
Jesse Noller5053fbb2009-04-02 04:22:09 +00003627
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003628- unittest.assertNotEqual() now uses the inequality operator (!=) instead of the
3629 equality operator.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003630
3631- Issue #6001: Test discovery for unittest. Implemented in
Michael Foordb4a81c82009-05-29 20:33:46 +00003632 unittest.TestLoader.discover and from the command line.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003633
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003634- Issue #5679: The methods unittest.TestCase.addCleanup and doCleanups were
3635 added. addCleanup allows you to add cleanup functions that will be called
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00003636 unconditionally (after setUp if setUp fails, otherwise after tearDown). This
3637 allows for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
3638
3639- Issue #3379: unittest.main now takes an optional exit argument. If False main
3640 doesn't call sys.exit allowing it to be used from the interactive interpreter.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003641
3642- Issue #5995: unittest.main now takes an optional verbosity argument allowing
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00003643 test modules to be run with a higher than default verbosity.
Vinay Sajip83da0342009-06-11 09:23:41 +00003644
3645- Issue #5995: A fix to allow you to run "python -m unittest test_module" or
Michael Foord5d31e052009-05-11 17:59:43 +00003646 "python -m unittest test_module.TestClass" from the command line.
Michael Foord07ef4872009-05-02 22:43:34 +00003647
3648- Issue #5728: unittest.TestResult has new startTestRun and stopTestRun methods;
3649 called immediately before and after a test run.
3650
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003651- Issue #5663: Better failure messages for unittest asserts. Default assertTrue
Michael Foord345b2fe2009-04-02 03:20:38 +00003652 and assertFalse messages are now useful. TestCase has a longMessage attribute.
3653 This defaults to False, but if set to True useful error messages are shown in
3654 addition to explicit messages passed to assert methods.
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003655
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003656- Issue #3110: Add additional protect around SEM_VALUE_MAX for multiprocessing.
Jesse Nollerb502bc72009-04-02 02:32:55 +00003657
Georg Brandl58b8b952009-04-01 21:54:21 +00003658- In Pdb, prevent the reassignment of __builtin__._ by sys.displayhook on
3659 printing out values.
3660
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003661- Issue #4572: Added SEEK_* symbolic constants to io module.
Georg Brandl5942b912009-04-01 21:05:44 +00003662
Brett Cannonad078a02009-04-01 16:00:34 +00003663- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
3664 instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
3665 threads.
3666
Raymond Hettinger66c4a6b2009-04-01 18:50:56 +00003667- Issue #5647: MutableSet.__iand__() no longer mutates self during iteration.
3668
Georg Brandle92d4b62009-04-01 04:21:14 +00003669- Actually make the SimpleXMLRPCServer CGI handler work.
3670
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003671- Issue #2522: locale.format() now checks its first argument to ensure it has
R. David Murraya83da352009-04-01 03:21:43 +00003672 been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
3673 that it was failing to do localization.
3674
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003675- Issue #5583: Added optional extensions in Distutils. Initial patch by Georg
Tarek Ziadé9e47ce42009-03-31 22:27:23 +00003676 Brandl.
3677
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003678- Issue #5619: Multiprocessing children disobey the debug flag and causes popups
3679 on windows buildbots. Patch applied to work around this issue.
Jesse Noller42f9b4e2009-03-31 22:20:35 +00003680
Benjamin Petersond906ea62009-03-31 21:34:42 +00003681- Issue #5632: Thread.ident was None for the main thread and threads not created
3682 with the threading module.
3683
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003684- Issue #5400: Added patch for multiprocessing on netbsd compilation/support.
Jesse Noller1f0a5552009-03-31 18:27:14 +00003685
Hirokazu Yamamoto9d2ee5d2009-03-31 13:13:05 +00003686- Issue #5387: Fixed mmap.move crash by integer overflow.
3687
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003688- Issue #5261: Patch multiprocessing's semaphore.c to support context manager
3689 use: "with multiprocessing.Lock()" works now.
Jesse Noller82eb5902009-03-30 23:29:31 +00003690
Vinay Sajip22aa4bb2009-04-16 19:15:49 +00003691- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003692 socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs to
3693 wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.
Jesse Noller459a6482009-03-30 15:50:42 +00003694
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003695- Adjusted _tkinter to compile without warnings when WITH_THREAD is not defined
3696 (part of issue #5035).
Guilherme Polo1972d162009-03-27 21:43:08 +00003697
Marc-André Lemburgcbdf15b2009-03-25 19:45:33 +00003698- Issue #5561: Removed the sys.version_info shortcuts from platform's
3699 python_version() and python_version_tuple() since they produced different
3700 output compared to previous Python versions.
3701
Benjamin Peterson692428e2009-03-23 21:50:21 +00003702- Issue #1034053: unittest now supports skipping tests and expected failures.
3703
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003704- The unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() method now returns a context manager when
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003705 not given a callable so that code to be tested can be written inline using a
3706 with statement.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003707
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003708- Issue #2578: The unittest.TestCase.assertEqual() now displays the differences
3709 in lists, tuples, dicts and sets on failure. Many new handy type and
3710 comparison specific assert* methods have been added that fail with error
3711 messages actually useful for debugging. Contributed in part by Google.
Gregory P. Smith28399852009-03-31 16:54:10 +00003712
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003713- Issue #5068: Fixed the tarfile._BZ2Proxy.read() method that would loop forever
3714 on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used with mode
3715 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or partial bzip2
3716 compressed data.
Lars Gustäbel2020a592009-03-22 20:09:33 +00003717
Benjamin Petersonb364bfe2009-03-22 17:45:11 +00003718- Issue #5536: urllib.urlretrieve makes sure to close the file it's writing to
3719 even if an exception occurs.
3720
Raymond Hettinger91852ca2009-03-19 19:19:03 +00003721- Issue #5381: Added object_pairs_hook to the json module. This allows
3722 OrderedDicts to be built by the decoder.
3723
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003724- Issue #2110: Add support for thousands separator and 'n' type specifier to
3725 ``Decimal.__format__()``.
Mark Dickinson277859d2009-03-17 23:03:46 +00003726
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003727- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and '>'
3728 alignment characters.
Mark Dickinsonb065e522009-03-17 18:01:03 +00003729
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003730- Issue #1222: ``locale.format()`` bug when the thousands separator is a space
Antoine Pitroufeeafff2009-03-14 00:07:21 +00003731 character.
3732
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003733- Issue #5472: Fixed distutils.test_util tear down. Original patch by Tim
3734 Golden.
Tarek Ziadé61585c22009-03-11 12:48:04 +00003735
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003736- collections.deque objects now have a read-only attribute called maxlen.
Raymond Hettinger56411aa2009-03-10 12:50:59 +00003737
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00003738- Issue #2638: Show a window constructed with tkSimpleDialog.Dialog only after
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003739 it is has been populated and properly configured in order to prevent window
3740 flashing.
Guilherme Polo15d57652009-03-07 02:14:38 +00003741
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003742- Issue #4792: Prevent a segfault in _tkinter by using the guaranteed to be safe
3743 interp argument given to the PythonCmd in place of the Tcl interpreter taken
3744 from a PythonCmd_ClientData.
Guilherme Polo3768b2f2009-03-07 01:47:49 +00003745
Guilherme Polo6d6c1fd2009-03-07 01:19:12 +00003746- Issue #5193: Guarantee that Tkinter.Text.search returns a string.
3747
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003748- Issue #5394: Removed > 2.3 syntax from distutils.msvc9compiler.
Tarek Ziadé943b24e2009-03-07 00:32:45 +00003749 Original patch by Akira Kitada.
3750
Hirokazu Yamamoto264fc122009-03-05 14:21:12 +00003751- Issue #5385: Fixed mmap crash after resize failure on windows.
3752
Hirokazu Yamamotoeacbbdf2009-03-03 22:18:14 +00003753- Issue #5179: Fixed subprocess handle leak on failure on windows.
3754
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003755- PEP 372: Added collections.OrderedDict().
Raymond Hettingerbc512d32009-03-03 04:45:34 +00003756
Raymond Hettinger88a91642009-03-03 04:51:24 +00003757- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
3758
Raymond Hettingere89b8e92009-03-03 05:00:37 +00003759- The configparser module now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
3760
Benjamin Peterson7d49bba2009-03-02 22:41:42 +00003761- Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
3762 ready received.
3763
Benjamin Petersonad58b7c2009-03-02 03:35:12 +00003764- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
3765 import guess_extension`` was used.
3766
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003767- Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash on Windows in accessing elements of second
3768 map object with same tagname but larger size than first map.
Hirokazu Yamamotob0e10c72009-02-28 12:13:07 +00003769
Hirokazu Yamamotof2dc8852009-02-28 10:31:54 +00003770- Issue #5386: mmap.write_byte didn't check map size, so it could cause buffer
3771 overrun.
3772
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00003773- Issue #1533164: Installed but not listed *.pyo was breaking Distutils
3774 bdist_rpm command.
3775
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003776- Issue #5378: Added --quiet option to Distutils bdist_rpm command.
Tarek Ziadé73347352009-02-28 10:08:02 +00003777
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003778- Issue #5052: Make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
Tarek Ziadédda92f72009-02-27 12:53:34 +00003779
Benjamin Petersonb3dd5482009-02-26 19:07:18 +00003780- Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
3781 is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().
3782
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003783- Issue #5316: Fixed buildbot failures introduced by multiple inheritance in
3784 Distutils tests.
Tarek Ziadée3bc0ef2009-02-25 22:29:27 +00003785
Vinay Sajip1a0d2be2009-02-19 12:31:32 +00003786- Issue #5287: Add exception handling around findCaller() call to help out
3787 IronPython.
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00003788
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003789- Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit Windows and Unix. When ``offset >
3790 0``, the file was resized to wrong size.
Hirokazu Yamamoto17a837e2009-02-17 13:17:26 +00003791
Hirokazu Yamamotof6bbd0e2009-02-17 10:12:10 +00003792- Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
3793
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003794- Issue #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files from the package_data
3795 and the data_files metadata.
Tarek Ziadé7dd53392009-02-16 21:38:01 +00003796
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003797- Issue #5257: Refactored all tests in distutils, so they use
Tarek Ziadé13699002009-02-14 14:10:23 +00003798 support.TempdirManager, to avoid writing in the tests directory.
3799
Tarek Ziadé2432b0b2009-02-13 23:00:43 +00003800- Issue #4524: distutils build_script command failed with --with-suffix=3.
3801 Initial patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
3802
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003803- Issue #2461: Added tests for distutils.util.
Tarek Ziadé275958a2009-02-13 22:22:03 +00003804
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003805- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on LP64
3806 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
Gregory P. Smith3605b5c2009-02-11 23:45:25 +00003807
Thomas Heller3689ae22009-02-10 18:43:01 +00003808- Issue #5203: Fixed ctypes segfaults when passing a unicode string to a
3809 function without argtypes (only occurs if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false).
3810
Tarek Ziadé74fbf602009-02-10 12:31:09 +00003811- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
3812 under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
3813
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00003814- Issue #5128: Make compileall properly inspect bytecode to determine if needs
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003815 to be recreated. This avoids a timing hole thanks to the old reliance on the
Brett Cannon28d10882009-02-10 02:07:38 +00003816 ctime of the files involved.
3817
Guilherme Poloa66cf5b2009-02-09 20:50:27 +00003818- Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
3819 deadlock.
3820
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003821- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument 'rename'
3822 which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to positional names
3823 in the form, _1, _2, ...
Raymond Hettinger322daea2009-02-10 01:24:05 +00003824
Guilherme Polod2ea0332009-02-09 16:41:09 +00003825- Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
3826
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003827- Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case. This is
3828 a regression which did not occur in 2.5.
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003829
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003830- Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a public
3831 documented method ``ZipImporter.get_filename()``.
Nick Coghlan0194f5b2009-02-08 03:17:00 +00003832
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003833- Issue #4195: The ``runpy`` module (and the ``-m`` switch) now support the
3834 execution of packages by looking for and executing a ``__main__`` submodule
3835 when a package name is supplied. Initial patch by Andi Vajda.
Nick Coghland39600e2009-02-08 01:26:34 +00003836
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003837- Issue #1731706: Call Tcl_ConditionFinalize for Tcl_Conditions that will not be
3838 used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory leak in Tkapp_Call
3839 when calling from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl
3840 interpreter. Patch by Robert Hancock.
Guilherme Polo14ff18d2009-02-06 22:26:22 +00003841
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003842- Issue #1520877: Now distutils.sysconfig reads $AR from the
Tarek Ziadé05adf072009-02-06 01:15:51 +00003843 environment/Makefile. Patch by Douglas Greiman.
3844
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003845- Issue #4285: Change sys.version_info to be a named tuple. Patch by Ross
3846 Light.
Eric Smith81fe0932009-02-06 00:48:26 +00003847
Tarek Ziadéd5eb9852009-02-06 00:31:59 +00003848- Issue #1276768: The verbose option was not used in the code of
3849 distutils.file_util and distutils.dir_util.
3850
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003851- Issue #5132: Fixed trouble building extensions under Solaris with
Tarek Ziadé0d4fd342009-02-05 22:52:52 +00003852 --enabled-shared activated. Initial patch by Dave Peterson.
3853
Guilherme Polod7bb4d42009-02-02 21:14:14 +00003854- Issue #1581476: Always use the Tcl global namespace when calling into Tcl.
3855
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003856- Issue #2047: shutil.move() could believe that its destination path was inside
3857 its source path if it began with the same letters (e.g. "src" vs. "src.new").
Antoine Pitrou707c5932009-01-29 20:19:34 +00003858
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003859- Issue #4920: Fixed .next() vs .__next__() issues in the ABCs for Iterator and
3860 MutableSet.
Raymond Hettingerf779e6f2009-01-28 23:02:26 +00003861
Guilherme Polocda93aa2009-01-28 13:09:03 +00003862- Added the ttk module. See issue #2983: Ttk support for Tkinter.
3863
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003864- Issue #5021: doctest.testfile() did not create __name__ and
Raymond Hettingerecf252a2009-01-27 10:03:04 +00003865 collections.namedtuple() relied on __name__ being defined.
3866
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003867- Backport importlib from Python 3.1. Only the import_module() function has been
3868 backported to help facilitate transitions from 2.7 to 3.1.
Brett Cannon93881c62009-01-26 01:16:50 +00003869
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003870- Issue #1885: distutils: When running sdist with --formats=tar,gztar the tar
3871 file was overriden by the gztar one.
Tarek Ziadéaaedcef2009-01-25 23:34:00 +00003872
Tarek Ziadéef249b12009-01-25 18:19:25 +00003873- Issue #4863: distutils.mwerkscompiler has been removed.
3874
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003875- Added new itertools functions: combinations_with_replacement() and compress().
Raymond Hettinger2bcb8e92009-01-25 21:04:14 +00003876
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003877- Issue #5032: Added a step argument to itertools.count() and allowed
3878 non-integer arguments.
Raymond Hettinger31c769c2009-02-12 05:39:46 +00003879
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003880- Fix and properly document the multiprocessing module's logging support, expose
3881 the internal levels and provide proper usage examples.
Jesse Nollerb5a4b0a2009-01-25 03:36:13 +00003882
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003883- Issue #1672332: Fix unpickling of subnormal floats, which was
Mark Dickinsona3ecd2c2009-01-24 16:40:29 +00003884 producing a ValueError on some platforms.
3885
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003886- Issue #3881: Help Tcl to load even when started through the unreadable local
3887 symlink to "Program Files" on Vista.
Martin v. Löwisf081e1c2009-01-24 15:47:27 +00003888
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003889- Issue #4710: Extract directories properly in the zipfile module; allow adding
3890 directories to a zipfile.
Martin v. Löwis0dfcfc82009-01-24 14:00:33 +00003891
Vinay Sajipb20af942009-02-08 19:06:08 +00003892- Issue #3807: _multiprocessing build fails when configure is passed
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003893 --without-threads argument. When this occurs, _multiprocessing will be
3894 disabled, and not compiled.
Jesse Nollerf6da8d12009-01-23 14:04:41 +00003895
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003896- Issue #5008: When a file is opened in append mode with the new IO library, do
3897 an explicit seek to the end of file (so that e.g. tell() returns the file size
3898 rather than 0). This is consistent with the behaviour of the traditional 2.x
3899 file object.
Antoine Pitroue741cc62009-01-21 00:45:36 +00003900
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003901- Issue #5013: Fixed a bug in FileHandler which occurred when the delay
3902 parameter was set.
3903
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00003904- Issue #4998: The memory saving effect of __slots__ had been lost on Fractions
3905 which inherited from numbers.py which did not have __slots__ defined. The
Mark Dickinson39c6f7f2009-02-12 17:55:42 +00003906 numbers hierarchy now has its own __slots__ declarations.
Raymond Hettinger933d3a72009-01-20 20:34:19 +00003907
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00003908- Issue #3321: _multiprocessing.Connection() doesn't check handle; added checks
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003909 for *nix machines for negative handles and large int handles. Without this
3910 check it is possible to segfault the interpreter.
Jesse Noller9a5b2ad2009-01-19 15:12:22 +00003911
Jesse Noller6ab22152009-01-18 02:45:38 +00003912- Issue #4449: AssertionError in mp_benchmarks.py, caused by an underlying issue
3913 in sharedctypes.py.
3914
Benjamin Peterson5e5fbb62009-01-17 22:27:54 +00003915- Issue #1225107: inspect.isclass() returned True for instances with a custom
3916 __getattr__.
3917
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003918- Issue #3997: Zipfiles generated with more than 65536 files could not be opened
3919 with other applications.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd25f87a2009-01-17 16:40:17 +00003920
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003921- Issue #1162154: ``inspect.getmembers()`` now skips attributes that raise
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb54447f2009-01-13 23:39:22 +00003922 AttributeError, e.g. a __slots__ attribute which has not been set.
3923
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003924- Issue #1696199: Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient counting.
Raymond Hettingerf94d7fa2009-01-12 22:58:41 +00003925
Antoine Pitroubd4b5f22009-01-10 16:15:24 +00003926- Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
3927
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00003928- Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003929 the timestamp in the gzip stream. The default value remains the current time.
3930 The information can be used by e.g. gunzip when decompressing. Patch by
Antoine Pitrouf0d2c3f2009-01-04 21:29:23 +00003931 Jacques Frechet.
3932
Mark Dickinson514d4832009-01-04 21:25:40 +00003933- Restore Python 2.3 compatibility for decimal.py.
3934
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00003935- Issue #1702551: distutils sdist was not excluding VCS directories under
Tarek Ziadé85d6fb52009-01-04 00:04:49 +00003936 Windows. Inital solution by Guy Dalberto.
3937
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00003938- The _tkinter module functions "createfilehandler", "deletefilehandler",
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003939 "createtimerhandler", "mainloop", "dooneevent" and "quit" have been deprecated
3940 for removal in 3.x
Guilherme Poloe7f14032009-01-03 21:51:09 +00003941
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003942- Issue #4796: Added Decimal.from_float() and
3943 Context.create_decimal_from_float() to the decimal module.
Raymond Hettingerf4d85972009-01-03 19:02:23 +00003944
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003945- Issue #4812: Add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only constants
3946 in the decimal module. (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
Mark Dickinsonc5de0962009-01-02 23:07:08 +00003947
Benjamin Peterson8ad09a42008-12-31 23:48:39 +00003948- Issue #4795: inspect.isgeneratorfunction() returns False instead of None when
3949 the function is not a generator.
3950
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003951- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case no
3952 MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey.
Tarek Ziadéb1a85412008-12-30 23:03:41 +00003953
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003954- Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
3955 Original patch by Thomas Heller.
Tarek Ziadéc13acb12008-12-29 22:23:53 +00003956
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003957- Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to cast
3958 as floats.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00003959
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003960- Issue #4790: The nsmallest() and nlargest() functions in the heapq module did
3961 unnecessary work in the common case where no key function was specified.
Georg Brandlfe427892009-01-03 22:03:11 +00003962
Martin v. Löwis732479f2008-12-29 16:22:25 +00003963- Issue #3767: Convert Tk object to string in tkColorChooser.
3964
Martin v. Löwise2eb2b42008-12-29 15:51:01 +00003965- Issue #3248: Allow placing ScrolledText in a PanedWindow.
3966
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003967- Issue #4444: Allow assertRaises() to be used as a context handler, so that the
3968 code under test can be written inline if more practical.
Antoine Pitrou697ca3d2008-12-28 14:09:36 +00003969
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003970- Issue #4739: Add pydoc help topics for symbols, so that e.g. help('@') works
3971 as expected in the interactive environment.
Georg Brandlc3a98032008-12-27 18:20:04 +00003972
Antoine Pitrou6f193e02008-12-27 15:43:12 +00003973- Issue #4756: zipfile.is_zipfile() now supports file-like objects. Patch by
3974 Gabriel Genellina.
3975
Tarek Ziadée4c75bb2008-12-24 19:10:05 +00003976- Issue #4400: .pypirc default generated file was broken in distutils.
3977
Benjamin Peterson54686e32008-12-24 15:10:27 +00003978- Issue #4736: io.BufferedRWPair's closed property now functions properly.
3979
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003980- Issue #3954: Fix a potential SystemError in _hotshot.logreader error handling.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31949b92008-12-15 21:47:57 +00003981
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003982- Issue #4574: Fix a crash in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder when a carriage
3983 return encodes to more than one byte in the source encoding (e.g. UTF-16) and
3984 gets split on a chunk boundary.
Antoine Pitrou655fbf12008-12-14 17:40:51 +00003985
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003986- Issue #4223: inspect.getsource() will now correctly display source code for
3987 packages loaded via zipimport (or any other conformant PEP 302
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003988 loader). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
3989
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003990- Issue #4201: pdb can now access and display source code loaded via zipimport
3991 (or any other conformant PEP 302 loader). Original patch by Alexander
3992 Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003993
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00003994- Issue #4197: Doctests in modules loaded via zipimport (or any other PEP 302
3995 conformant loader) will now work correctly in most cases (they are still
3996 subject to the constraints that exist for all code running from inside a
3997 module loaded via a PEP 302 loader and attempting to perform IO operations
3998 based on __file__). Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00003999
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004000- Issues #4082 and #4512: Add runpy support to zipimport in a manner that allows
4001 backporting to maintenance branches. Original patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
Nick Coghlana2053472008-12-14 10:54:50 +00004002
Antoine Pitrou74af3bb2008-12-13 23:12:30 +00004003- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
4004 when given an unicode string.
4005
Lars Gustäbel3b027422008-12-12 13:58:03 +00004006- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
4007
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004008- Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to give correct
4009 results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN and the other is a
4010 finite number that requires rounding.
Facundo Batistae29d4352008-12-11 04:19:46 +00004011
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004012- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the --dry-run
4013 option.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc240028c2008-12-11 00:03:42 +00004014
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004015- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat libs.
Skip Montanaro45313fe2008-12-06 17:43:30 +00004016
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004017- Issue #4529: Fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
Georg Brandlfe879e82008-12-05 12:09:41 +00004018 statements.
4019
Georg Brandla07435d2008-12-05 09:23:14 +00004020- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
4021 not a malformed option.
4022
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004023- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output from a
4024 subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
Gregory P. Smith97f49f42008-12-04 20:21:09 +00004025
Fred Drake52481032008-12-04 18:25:17 +00004026- Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
4027 support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
4028 Content-Disposition headers.
4029
Vinay Sajip6831d6b2008-12-04 20:32:18 +00004030- Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004031 captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it
4032 will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could
4033 be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't
4034 configure logging.
Vinay Sajip213faca2008-12-03 23:22:58 +00004035
Christian Heimesaa674712008-11-28 11:02:32 +00004036- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
4037 exception.
4038
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004039- Issue #4363: The uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() functions now work even if the
4040 ctypes module is not present.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd4294172008-11-21 22:05:48 +00004041
Benjamin Petersonbfc51562008-11-22 01:59:15 +00004042- FileIO's mode attribute now always includes ``"b"``.
4043
Martin v. Löwisbb9b1f12008-11-19 09:09:41 +00004044- Issue #4116: Resolve member name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__.
4045
Brett Cannone3d0bf72008-11-15 22:40:44 +00004046- httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() now accepts an arbitrary number of values
4047 for any header, matching what the documentation has claimed for a while.
4048
Hirokazu Yamamotob9828f62008-11-03 18:03:06 +00004049- Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
4050 and then remove it.
4051
Thomas Heller1fac5a42008-10-30 20:18:13 +00004052- Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
4053
Benjamin Petersonc18574c2008-10-22 21:16:34 +00004054- Issue #4150: Pdb's "up" command now works for generator frames in post-mortem
4055 debugging.
4056
Benjamin Petersone4dc1752008-10-21 22:20:31 +00004057- Issue #4092: Return ArgInfo as promised in the documentation from
4058 inspect.getargvalues.
4059
Georg Brandlf3776a12008-10-08 18:47:17 +00004060- Issue #3935: Properly support list subclasses in bisect's C implementation.
4061
Martin v. Löwis96a9f232008-10-06 15:15:40 +00004062- Issue #4014: Don't claim that Python has an Alpha release status, in addition
4063 to claiming it is Mature.
4064
Alexandre Vassalotti6067f782008-12-27 07:13:01 +00004065- Issue #4730: Fixed the cPickle module to handle correctly astral characters
4066 when protocol 0 is used.
4067
Ronald Oussoren0238497e2009-01-02 14:10:20 +00004068- Issue #1594: MacOS.GetCreatorAndType now always returns a big-endian result,
4069 to be consistent with Apple tools.
4070
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00004071- Issue #900949: plat-mac/videoreader.py no longer relies on a non-existing
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004072 module.
Ronald Oussoren63b74fe2009-01-02 14:46:19 +00004073
Ronald Oussoren7f8cbf02009-01-02 14:48:17 +00004074- Issue #16278952: plat-mac/videoreader.py now correctly imports MediaDescr
4075
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004076- Issue #1737832: plat-mac/EasyDialog.py no longer uses the broken aepack
Ronald Oussoren919697c2009-01-02 14:52:09 +00004077 module.
4078
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004079- Issue #1149804: macostools.mkdirs now even works when another process creates
4080 one of the needed subdirectories.
Ronald Oussorenabcc1682009-01-02 15:00:05 +00004081
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004082- Issue #900506: added --no-zipimport flag to the bundlebuilder script.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00004083
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004084- Issue #841800: bundlebuilder now works with 'python -O'.
Ronald Oussoren072bb402009-01-02 15:25:36 +00004085
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00004086- Issue #4861: ctypes.util.find_library(): Robustify. Fix library detection on
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004087 biarch systems. Try to rely on ldconfig only, without using objdump and gcc.
Matthias Klose43723e22009-01-10 17:00:42 +00004088
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00004089- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004090 protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind() and
4091 getservbyport().
Gregory P. Smithde1a8b72009-01-31 22:57:30 +00004092
Neil Schemenauer92c3b212009-02-07 00:54:41 +00004093- Issue #999042: The Python compiler now handles explict global statements
4094 correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).
4095
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004096- Issue #2703: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__: Provide default values for new
4097 arguments introduced in 2.5.
Matthias Klosea5d58c82009-04-05 21:00:48 +00004098
Walter Dörwald5d98ec72009-04-25 14:03:16 +00004099- Issue #5828 (Invalid behavior of unicode.lower): Fixed bogus logic in
4100 makeunicodedata.py and regenerated the Unicode database (This fixes
4101 u'\u1d79'.lower() == '\x00').
4102
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Wervenb87b3342009-05-08 14:11:23 +00004103- Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
4104
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00004105Tools/Demos
4106-----------
4107
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004108- Ttk demos added in Demo/tkinter/ttk/.
Guilherme Polo4eae0782009-01-28 15:56:01 +00004109
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004110- Issue #4677: Add two list comprehension tests to pybench.
Antoine Pitroue555f582008-12-27 20:34:52 +00004111
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00004112Build
4113-----
4114
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004115- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it compiles
4116 correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported problem with the
4117 --with-tsc build on x86-64.
Mark Dickinson504a1512009-10-31 10:11:28 +00004118
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004119- Add 2 new options to ``--with-universal-archs`` on MacOSX: ``intel`` builds a
4120 distribution with ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures, while ``3-way``
4121 builds a distribution with the ``ppc``, ``i386`` and ``x86_64`` architectures.
Vinay Sajip03d5c342009-10-16 14:06:44 +00004122
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004123- Issue #6802: Fix build issues on MacOSX 10.6.
Ronald Oussoren25967582009-09-06 10:00:26 +00004124
Guilherme Polo1ce2d532009-08-16 14:38:57 +00004125- Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
4126
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004127- Issue #5390: Add uninstall icon independent of whether file extensions are
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004128 installed.
Martin v. Löwisecb4f952009-06-28 09:32:39 +00004129
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004130- Issue #5809: Specifying both --enable-framework and --enable-shared is an
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004131 error. Configure now explicity tells you about this.
Ronald Oussoren450d5612009-06-08 21:12:41 +00004132
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004133- Issue #3585: Add pkg-config support. It creates a python-2.7.pc file and a
4134 python.pc symlink in the $(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig directory. Patch by Clinton Roy.
Antoine Pitrouf2caeed2009-05-24 20:23:57 +00004135
Benjamin Petersone5afa3b2009-05-23 19:24:37 +00004136- Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
4137
Martin v. Löwis588b54b2009-05-05 16:10:16 +00004138- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
4139
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004140- Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
4141 rather than always exit successfully. Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
Antoine Pitrou3fd4ea92009-05-01 21:16:14 +00004142
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00004143- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
Vinay Sajipf9b01fe2009-05-09 12:07:17 +00004144 the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked.
Matthias Klose10cbe482009-04-29 17:18:19 +00004145
Matthias Klose8ad554f2009-02-22 23:14:26 +00004146- Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
4147
Martin v. Löwisa3e3cb72009-02-10 13:09:19 +00004148- Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.
4149
Martin v. Löwisfee1c7f2009-02-02 14:23:16 +00004150- Issue #4494: Fix build with Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED on Windows.
4151
Martin v. Löwiseefda272009-01-11 09:43:55 +00004152- Issue #4895: Use _strdup on Windows CE.
4153
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004154- Issue #4472: ``configure --enable-shared`` now works on OSX.
Ronald Oussorenf7d54052009-01-02 10:48:31 +00004155
Benjamin Petersonfd9633e2008-12-28 15:37:31 +00004156- Issues #4728 and #4060: WORDS_BIGEDIAN is now correct in Universal builds.
4157
Martin v. Löwiscb6c3592008-11-30 11:08:26 +00004158- Issue #4389: Add icon to the uninstall entry in "add-and-remove-programs".
4159
Martin v. Löwis63470982008-11-19 13:51:44 +00004160- Issue #4289: Remove Cancel button from AdvancedDlg.
4161
Martin v. Löwis3d6f8ff2008-11-07 18:51:50 +00004162- Issue #1656675: Register a drop handler for .py* files on Windows.
4163
Martin v. Löwis692c2f82008-11-06 16:43:00 +00004164- Issue #4120: Exclude manifest from extension modules in VS2008.
4165
Martin v. Löwis0f3e7692008-10-17 13:43:01 +00004166- Issue #4091: Install pythonxy.dll in system32 again.
4167
Martin v. Löwiseba774b2008-10-13 11:23:35 +00004168- Issue #4018: Disable "for me" installations on Vista.
4169
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004170- Issue #3758: Add ``patchcheck`` build target to ``.PHONY``.
Brett Cannon60b15d22008-10-06 22:44:37 +00004171
Martin v. Löwisbb86d832008-11-04 20:40:09 +00004172- Issue #4204: Fixed module build errors on FreeBSD 4.
4173
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00004174Documentation
4175-------------
4176
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004177- Issue #6556: Fixed the Distutils configuration files location explanation for
4178 Windows.
Tarek Ziadéc4a4aeb2009-08-21 14:28:38 +00004179
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004180- Issue #6801: symmetric_difference_update also accepts ``|``. Thanks to Carl
4181 Chenet.
Tarek Ziadé3092ed92009-08-29 13:33:21 +00004182
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004183C-API
4184-----
4185
Mark Dickinsone31d3002009-12-21 11:21:25 +00004186- Issue #7528: Add PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow (backported from py3k).
4187
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004188- Issue #7228: Add '%lld' and '%llu' support to PyString_FromFormat(V) and
4189 PyErr_Format, on machines with HAVE_LONG_LONG defined.
Mark Dickinson82864d12009-11-15 16:18:58 +00004190
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004191- Add new C-API function PyOS_string_to_double, and deprecated PyOS_ascii_atof
4192 and PyOS_ascii_strtod.
Mark Dickinson09823a22009-10-31 09:42:39 +00004193
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004194- Removed _PyOS_double_to_string. Use PyOS_double_to_string instead. This is in
4195 preparation for (but not strictly related to) issue #7117, short float repr.
Mark Dickinsonba26b392009-10-31 09:28:12 +00004196
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004197- Issue #6624: PyArg_ParseTuple with "s" format when parsing argument with NULL:
4198 Bogus TypeError detail string.
Sean Reifscheider9279e7d2009-08-01 23:54:55 +00004199
Jeffrey Yasskinf7f858d2009-05-08 22:23:21 +00004200- Issue #5954: Add a PyFrame_GetLineNumber() function to replace most uses of
4201 PyCode_Addr2Line().
4202
Jeffrey Yasskin1aa47002009-05-08 21:51:06 +00004203- Issue #5959: Add a PyCode_NewEmpty() function to create a new empty code
4204 object at a specified file, function, and line number.
4205
Brett Cannonc4f90eb2009-04-02 03:17:39 +00004206- Issue #1419652: Change the first argument to PyImport_AppendInittab() to
4207 ``const char *`` as the string is stored beyond the call.
4208
Benjamin Peterson5781f322009-02-16 21:09:09 +00004209- Some PyBytes_* aliases have been removed because they don't exist in 3.x.
4210
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004211- Issue #5175: PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong now raises OverflowError for negative
4212 arguments. Previously, it raised TypeError.
Mark Dickinson4015f622009-02-10 15:46:50 +00004213
Benjamin Petersoncf2ce242008-12-22 20:52:53 +00004214- Issue #4720: The format for PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can begin with '|'.
4215
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004216- Issue #3632: From the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when the
4217 GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3538a312008-12-15 22:29:14 +00004218
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004219- Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
4220 Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.
Vinay Sajip5fb11b22009-01-20 22:43:17 +00004221
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004222- Issue #4293: Py_AddPendingCall() is now thread safe and can be used for
Kristján Valur Jónssonc22ab182009-01-12 09:24:04 +00004223 asynchronous notifications to python from any thread. Documentation added.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc07d539d2008-10-14 21:47:22 +00004224
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00004225Extension Modules
4226-----------------
4227
Martin v. Löwis50ea4562009-11-27 13:56:01 +00004228- Issue #6508: Add posix.{getresuid,getresgid,setresuid,setresgid}.
4229
Mark Dickinson3d830822009-10-08 15:54:10 +00004230- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
4231
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004232- Issue #3366: Add erf, erfc, expm1, gamma, lgamma functions to math module.
Mark Dickinsonb93fff02009-09-28 18:54:55 +00004233
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00004234- Issue #6823: Allow time.strftime() to accept a tuple with a isdst field
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004235 outside of the range of [-1, 1] by normalizing the value to within that range.
Brett Cannon4d947432009-09-22 00:29:48 +00004236
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004237- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit on
4238 OSX.
Ronald Oussoren9f20d9d2009-09-20 14:18:15 +00004239
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004240- Issue #6944: Fix a SystemError when socket.getnameinfo() was called with
4241 something other than a tuple as first argument.
Georg Brandlab849892009-09-19 07:35:07 +00004242
Benjamin Peterson7f6d0832009-09-08 23:04:22 +00004243- Issue #6865: Fix reference counting issue in the initialization of the pwd
4244 module.
4245
Mark Dickinson6b3f1ef2009-09-06 21:21:05 +00004246- Issue #6848: Fix curses module build failure on OS X 10.6.
4247
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00004248- Fix a segfault in expat when given a specially crafted input lead to the
Matthias Klose3b0f9b02010-01-22 00:34:48 +00004249 tokenizer not stopping. CVE-2009-3720.
Brett Cannon764465f2009-08-13 19:27:12 +00004250
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004251- Issue #6561: '\d' in a regex now matches only characters with Unicode category
4252 'Nd' (Number, Decimal Digit). Previously it also matched characters with
4253 category 'No'.
Mark Dickinsonfe67bd92009-07-28 20:35:03 +00004254
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004255- Issue #1523: Remove deprecated overflow wrapping for struct.pack with an
4256 integer format code ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). Packing an out-of-range integer now
4257 consistently raises struct.error.
Mark Dickinson5fd3af22009-07-07 15:08:28 +00004258
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004259- Issues #1530559, #1741130: Fix various struct.pack inconsistencies for the
4260 integer formats ('bBhHiIlLqQ'). In the following, '*' represents any of '=',
4261 '<', '>'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004262
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004263 - Packing a float now always gives a Deprecation Warning. Previously it
4264 only warned for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L'.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004265
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004266 - If x is not an int, long or float, then packing x will always result in
4267 struct.error. Previously an x with an __int__ method could be packed by
4268 'b', 'B', 'h', 'H', 'i', 'l', '*b', '*h' ,'*i', '*l', and an x with a
4269 __long__ method could be packed by 'q', 'Q', '*q', '*Q'; for x with
4270 neither __int__ nor __long__, TypeError used to be raised (with a
4271 confusing error message) for 'I', 'L', '*B', '*H', '*I', '*L', and
4272 struct.error in other cases.
Mark Dickinson463dc4b2009-07-05 10:01:24 +00004273
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004274 Note: as of Python 2.7 beta 1, the above is out of date. In 2.7 beta 1, any
4275 argument with an __int__ method can be packed, but use of this feature
4276 triggers a DeprecationWarning.
Mark Dickinson154b7ad2010-03-07 16:24:45 +00004277
Martin v. Löwis4f16d3b2009-05-29 15:58:08 +00004278- Issue #4873: Fix resource leaks in error cases of pwd and grp.
4279
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004280- Issue #4751: For hashlib algorithms provided by OpenSSL, the Python GIL is now
4281 released during computation on data lengths >= 2048 bytes.
Gregory P. Smithd02eeda2009-05-04 00:16:49 +00004282
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00004283- Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
4284 supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
Gregory P. Smithfe32d302010-01-02 22:42:50 +00004285 implementations or external openssl library). NOTE: Undone in 2.7a2.
Gregory P. Smithea388262009-02-13 03:00:00 +00004286
Mark Dickinsona200dd52009-01-15 15:17:43 +00004287- Issue #4397: Fix occasional test_socket failure on OS X.
Mark Dickinsone82cdae2009-01-15 14:54:37 +00004288
Martin v. Löwisb3b7d852009-01-11 09:26:54 +00004289- Issue #4279: Fix build of parsermodule under Cygwin.
4290
Martin v. Löwis9ac49272009-01-02 20:40:14 +00004291- Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
4292
Georg Brandl6269fec2009-01-01 12:15:31 +00004293- Issue #4228: Pack negative values the same way as 2.4 in struct's L format.
4294
Martin v. Löwis03824e42008-12-29 18:17:34 +00004295- Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
4296
Mark Dickinson4c96fa52008-12-11 19:28:08 +00004297- Issues #3167, #3682: Fix test_math failures for log, log10 on Solaris,
4298 OpenBSD.
4299
Martin v. Löwisbcb017f2008-11-30 19:28:27 +00004300- Issue #4365: Add crtassem.h constants to the msvcrt module.
4301
Benjamin Peterson9dfe6a82008-11-24 04:09:03 +00004302- Issue #4396: The parser module now correctly validates the with statement.
4303
Jack Diederichd60c29e2009-03-31 23:46:48 +00004304- Issue #5228: Make functools.partial objects can now be pickled.
4305
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00004306Tests
4307-----
4308
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004309- Issue #7431: Use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a file
4310 in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the user running the
4311 tests.
R. David Murray820b0ea2009-12-03 23:57:59 +00004312
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004313- Issue #7324: Add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to catch the case
4314 of an option with no handler.
R. David Murrayda826892009-11-15 00:04:32 +00004315
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004316- Issue #7312: Add a -F flag to run the selected tests in a loop until a test
4317 fails. Can be combined with -j.
R. David Murray7f7eea62009-11-14 15:18:22 +00004318
Antoine Pitrou310c9fe2009-11-11 20:55:07 +00004319- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
4320
Antoine Pitrouc98efe02009-11-06 22:34:35 +00004321- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
4322 primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
4323
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00004324- Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004325 leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of reaping
4326 threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were still
4327 referenced. This also introduces a new private function: ``thread._count()``.
Antoine Pitrou59c44f32009-10-30 17:07:08 +00004328
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004329- Issue #7151: Fixed regrtest -j so that output to stderr from a test no longer
4330 runs the risk of causing the worker thread to fail.
R. David Murray282396f2009-10-18 21:12:37 +00004331
Antoine Pitrou58d2f262009-10-10 20:52:11 +00004332- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
4333 __all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
4334
R. David Murray14dcd432009-10-14 13:58:07 +00004335- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for things like sys.argv and cwd to
4336 runtest_inner in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them,
4337 and a new section in the summary report at the end.
R. David Murrayabe3d3e2009-10-05 17:03:09 +00004338
Mark Dickinson245d9152009-10-04 18:38:39 +00004339- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
4340
Brett Cannone7e941e2009-09-03 21:25:21 +00004341- Issue #6806: test_platform failed under OS X 10.6.0 because ``sw_ver`` leaves
4342 off the trailing 0 in the version number.
4343
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00004344- Issue #5450: Moved tests involving loading tk from Lib/test/test_tcl to
4345 Lib/lib-tk/test/test_tkinter/test_loadtk. With this, these tests demonstrate
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004346 the same behaviour as test_ttkguionly (and now also test_tk) which is to skip
4347 the tests if DISPLAY is defined but can't be used.
Guilherme Polo7f146ab2009-06-21 17:22:50 +00004348
Antoine Pitrou4698d992009-05-31 14:20:14 +00004349- Issue #6152: New option '-j'/'--multiprocess' for regrtest allows running
4350 regression tests in parallel, shortening the total runtime.
4351
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004352- Issue #5354: New test support function import_fresh_module() makes it easy to
4353 import both normal and optimised versions of modules. test_heapq and
4354 test_warnings have been adjusted to use it, tests for other modules with both
4355 C and Python implementations in the stdlib can be adjusted to use it over
4356 time.
Nick Coghlan5533ff62009-04-22 15:26:04 +00004357
Brett Cannonce3d2212009-04-01 20:25:48 +00004358- Fix test_warnings to no longer reset the warnings filter.
4359
Brett Cannon2da4d622009-04-01 19:57:10 +00004360- Fix test_logging to no longer reset the warnings filter.
4361
Georg Brandld8fb6ac2009-04-01 00:04:33 +00004362- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
4363
Georg Brandlba83f822010-03-14 09:50:54 +00004364- regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that
4365 should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test
4366 support, which does the conversion.
R. David Murray41448c52009-03-31 19:57:24 +00004367
Guilherme Polob1a98de2009-01-28 20:03:26 +00004368- Issue #5083: New 'gui' resource for regrtest.
4369
Walter Dörwalda1453172009-04-25 12:15:07 +00004370- Issue #5837: Certain sequences of calls to set() and unset() for
4371 support.EnvironmentVarGuard objects restored the environment variables
4372 incorrectly on __exit__.
4373
Alexandre Vassalotti999ecc02009-07-15 18:19:47 +00004374- Issue #2389: Array objects are now pickled in a portable manner.
4375
Brett Cannon813c43a2009-11-08 21:35:28 +00004376Misc
4377----
4378
4379- Issue #5611: Auto-detect whether a C file uses tabs or spaces in Vim.
4380
Barry Warsaw12582c92008-10-02 03:33:51 +00004381
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004382What's New in Python 2.6 final
4383==============================
4384
Barry Warsawafa14362008-10-01 21:46:40 +00004385*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004386
4387Core and Builtins
4388-----------------
4389
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfc5ea392008-09-26 22:34:08 +00004390- Issue #3967: Fixed a crash in the count() and find() methods of string-like
4391 objects, when the "start" parameter is a huge value.
4392
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc17617a02008-09-25 20:52:56 +00004393- Issue #3965: Fixed a crash on Windows when open() is given an invalid
4394 filename or mode, and the filename is a unicode string.
4395
Martin v. Löwise86b07c2008-09-25 04:12:50 +00004396- Bug #3951: Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER should not be enabled by default.
4397
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004398Library
4399-------
4400
Martin v. Löwise563aa42008-09-29 22:09:07 +00004401- Issue #3965: Allow repeated calls to turtle.Screen, by making it a
4402 true singleton object.
4403
Brett Cannonb2d61bd2008-09-29 03:41:21 +00004404- Issue #3895: It was possible to crash the interpreter when an external timer
4405 was used with cProfile that returned an object that could not be converted
4406 into a float.
4407
Benjamin Peterson22d3c922008-09-25 20:35:45 +00004408- Issue #3950: Made turtle respect scale factors.
4409
Thomas Hellera85c95d2008-09-24 18:26:05 +00004410- Issue #3547: Fixed ctypes structures bitfields of varying integer
4411 sizes.
4412
Benjamin Peterson2c7470d2008-09-21 21:27:51 +00004413- Issue #3879: A regression in urllib.getproxies_enviroment was fixed.
4414
Gregory P. Smith08067492008-09-30 20:41:13 +00004415- Issue #3863: Disabled a unit test of fork being called from a thread
4416 when running on platforms known to exhibit OS bugs when attempting that.
4417
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00004418Build
4419-----
4420
Martin v. Löwisd69c9042008-10-01 11:19:50 +00004421- Bug #3989: Package the 2to3 script (as 2to3.py) in the Windows
4422 installer.
4423
Martin v. Löwis175d0072008-09-19 15:21:07 +00004424- Bug #3887: Package x64 version of CRT for AMD64 Windows binaries.
4425
Barry Warsaw0c5ca572008-09-18 05:34:31 +00004426
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004427What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?
4428=============================================
4429
Barry Warsaw6af16192008-09-18 04:33:43 +00004430*Release date: 17-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004431
4432Core and Builtins
4433-----------------
4434
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00004435Extension Modules
4436-----------------
4437
Benjamin Peterson8d77d442008-09-30 01:31:49 +00004438- Security Issue #2: imageop did not validate arguments correctly and could
4439 segfault as a result.
4440
Benjamin Peterson8c2b7dc2008-09-18 01:22:16 +00004441- Issue #3886: Possible integer overflows in the _hashopenssl module were
4442 closed.
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004443
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00004444Tools/Demos
4445-----------
4446
Georg Brandl2bd92a52009-10-11 21:10:07 +00004447- Issue #3850: recursion tests in Tools/scripts/find_recursion_limit.py can raise
Antoine Pitrou3c9f5412008-09-13 20:30:30 +00004448 AttributeError instead of RuntimeError, depending in which C API call
4449 exactly the recursion limit is exceeded. Consequently, both exception types
4450 are caught and silenced.
4451
Martin v. Löwis4eb18f92008-09-14 20:22:39 +00004452Build
4453-----
4454
4455- Issue #3617: Include a licensing statement regarding the Microsoft
4456 C runtime in the Windows installer.
4457
Barry Warsawdfd6b862008-09-13 01:12:18 +00004458
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004459What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 1?
4460=============================================
4461
Barry Warsaw1e62aec2008-09-12 23:25:57 +00004462*Release date: 12-Sep-2008*
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004463
4464Core and Builtins
4465-----------------
4466
Martin v. Löwis9fa5a282008-09-11 06:53:30 +00004467- Issue #3642: Suppress warning in obmalloc when size_t is larger than uint.
4468
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc05e34492008-09-10 22:04:45 +00004469- Issue #3743: In a few places, PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T was incorrectly used with
4470 PyString_FromFormat or PyErr_Format to display size_t values. The macro
4471 PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T is designed to select the correct format for the OS
4472 ``printf`` function, whereas PyString_FromFormat has an independent
4473 implementation and uses "%zd" on all platforms for size_t values.
4474 This makes a difference on win64, where ``printf`` needs "%Id" to display
4475 64bit values.
4476
Benjamin Peterson97179b02008-09-09 20:55:01 +00004477- Issue #3634: _weakref.ref(Exception).__init__() gave invalid return value on
4478 error.
4479
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd3ffb892008-09-09 07:24:30 +00004480- Issue #3777: long() applied to a float object now always return a long
4481 object; previously an int would be returned for small values. the __long__
4482 method is allowed to return either an int or a long, but the behaviour of
4483 float objects should not change to respect backward compatibility.
4484
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc3571fbf2008-09-01 19:52:00 +00004485- Issue #3751: str.rpartition would perform a left-partition when called with
4486 a unicode argument.
4487
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00004488- Issue #3683: Fix compilation when --without-threads is given.
4489
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00004490- Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004491 PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
Antoine Pitroud4ae97b2008-08-29 18:39:48 +00004492 was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
4493
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004494- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
Antoine Pitrou0668c622008-08-26 22:42:08 +00004495 match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
4496 mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
4497 when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
4498 __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__ on the tuple rather than on each
4499 type object.
4500
Neal Norwitz18aa3882008-08-24 05:04:52 +00004501- Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc.
4502
4503- Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file.
4504
4505- Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads.
4506
4507- Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker.
4508
Christian Heimes7d4c3172008-08-22 19:47:25 +00004509- Silenced another compiler warning about a used but not defined
4510 function 'stringlib_contains_obj'.
4511
Benjamin Peterson712ee922008-08-24 18:10:20 +00004512- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
4513 ``__delslice__``.
4514
Gregory P. Smith2bb25cc2008-09-02 05:29:51 +00004515- Issue #3678: Correctly pass LDFLAGS and LDLAST to the linker on shared
4516 library targets in the Makefile.
4517
Gregory P. Smith980b99b2008-09-07 05:15:18 +00004518- Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries
4519 that may be required when linking against readline. This fixes issues
4520 with x86_64 builds on some platforms (a few Linux flavors and OpenBSD).
4521
Benjamin Peterson14cb6bc2008-08-26 17:08:40 +00004522C-API
4523-----
4524
4525- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
4526
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004527Library
4528-------
4529
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc24cb3822008-09-11 20:56:13 +00004530- Issue #3640: Pickling a list or a dict uses less local variables, to reduce
4531 stack usage in the case of deeply nested objects.
4532
Guido van Rossume3c4fd92008-09-10 14:27:00 +00004533- Issue #3629: Fix sre "bytecode" validator for an end case.
4534
Martin v. Löwis24329ba2008-09-10 13:38:12 +00004535- Issue #3811: The Unicode database was updated to 5.1.
4536
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004537- Issue #3781: Further warnings.catch_warnings() cleanup to prevent
4538 silent misbehaviour when a single instance is nested in multiple
4539 with statements, or when the methods are invoked in the wrong order.
4540
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00004541- Issue #3809: Fixed spurious 'test.blah' file left behind by test_logging.
4542
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004543- Issue #3781: Clean up the API for warnings.catch_warnings() by having it
Brett Cannon672237d2008-09-09 00:49:16 +00004544 return a list or None rather than a custom object.
4545
Benjamin Peterson6ac7d7c2008-09-06 19:28:11 +00004546- Issue #1638033: Cookie.Morsel gained the httponly attribute.
4547
Antoine Pitrouebcd0ce2008-09-05 23:30:23 +00004548- Issue #3535: zipfile couldn't read some zip files larger than 2GB.
4549
4550- Issue #3776: Deprecate the bsddb package for removal in 3.0.
Brett Cannon32476fc2008-09-05 18:33:51 +00004551
Hirokazu Yamamoto42e459e2008-09-04 14:25:30 +00004552- Issue #3762: platform.architecture() fails if python is lanched via
4553 its symbolic link.
4554
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00004555- Issue #3772: Fixed regression problem in StreamHandler.emit().
4556
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004557- Issue #600362: Relocated parse_qs() and parse_qsl(), from the cgi module
Facundo Batistac585df92008-09-03 22:35:50 +00004558 to the urlparse one. Added a PendingDeprecationWarning in the old
4559 module, it will be deprecated in the future.
4560
Marc-André Lemburgb339b2a2008-09-03 11:13:56 +00004561- Issue #2562: Fix distutils PKG-INFO writing logic to allow having
4562 non-ascii characters and Unicode in setup.py meta-data.
4563
4564- Issue #3726: Allow spaces in separators in logging configuration files.
Vinay Sajip6a2fd812008-09-03 09:20:05 +00004565
Marc-André Lemburg31a0a142008-09-02 12:11:19 +00004566- Issue #3719: platform.architecture() fails if there are spaces in the
4567 path to the Python binary.
4568
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004569- Issue #3602: Moved test.test_support.catch_warning() to
Brett Cannon1eaf0742008-09-02 01:25:16 +00004570 warnings.catch_warnings() along with some API cleanup. Expanding the tests
4571 for catch_warnings() also led to an improvement in the raising of a
4572 DeprecationWarning related to warnings.warn_explicit().
4573
Benjamin Peterson973e6c22008-09-01 23:12:58 +00004574- The deprecation warnings for the old camelCase threading API were removed.
4575
Vinay Sajip35e3b032008-09-01 14:33:59 +00004576- logging: fixed lack of use of encoding attribute specified on a stream.
4577
Christian Heimesa27a62e2008-08-22 19:55:54 +00004578- Silenced a trivial compiler warning in the sqlite module.
4579
Christian Heimes1cc69632008-08-22 20:10:27 +00004580- Fixed two format strings in the _collections module.
4581
Benjamin Peterson17f03ca2008-09-01 14:18:30 +00004582- Issue #3703: _fileio.FileIO gave unhelpful error message when trying to open a
4583 directory.
Benjamin Petersonf22c26e2008-09-01 14:13:43 +00004584
Gregory P. Smithd7122032008-09-02 05:36:11 +00004585- Issue #3708: os.urandom no longer goes into an infinite loop when passed a
4586 non-integer floating point number.
4587
Vinay Sajip65d66e12008-09-04 07:31:21 +00004588- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
Jesse Nollerb814d6a2008-09-03 18:10:30 +00004589 SEM_VALUE_MAX.
4590
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00004591Extension Modules
4592-----------------
4593
Jesse Noller438195f2009-01-18 21:04:36 +00004594- Issue #4301: Patch the logging module to add processName support, remove
4595 _check_logger_class from multiprocessing.
4596
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc293924b2008-09-02 23:19:56 +00004597- Issue #2975: When compiling several extension modules with Visual Studio 2008
4598 from the same python interpreter, some environment variables would grow
4599 without limit.
4600
Benjamin Peterson37346b22008-08-23 20:27:43 +00004601- Issue #3643: Added a few more checks to _testcapi to prevent segfaults by
4602 exploitation of poor argument checking.
4603
Gerhard Häringef2276b2008-09-12 13:54:06 +00004604- sqlite3: Changed docstring of iterdump() to mark method as "Non-standard".
4605
Gerhard Häring6e1afcf2008-09-12 18:58:57 +00004606- Issue #3103: Reduced globals symbols used by sqlite3 module and made sure all
4607 remaining ones have "pysqlite_" prefix.
4608
Gerhard Häringe6872eb2008-09-12 22:33:22 +00004609- Issue #3846: Release the GIL during sqlite3_prepare calls. This improves
4610 concurrent access to the same SQLite database from multiple
4611 threads/processes.
4612
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00004613Tests
4614-----
4615
Nick Coghland2e09382008-09-11 12:11:06 +00004616- Issue #3781: Add test.test_support.check_warnings() as a convenience
4617 wrapper for warnings.catch_warnings() that makes it easier to check
4618 that expected warning messages are being reported.
4619
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00004620- Issue #3796: Some tests functions were not enabled in test_float.
4621
4622- Issue #3768: Move test_py3kwarn over to the new API for catch_warnings().
Brett Cannona0b74442008-09-03 22:45:11 +00004623
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00004624Build
4625-----
4626
Martin v. Löwisab0b29b2008-09-13 08:11:57 +00004627- Issue #3833: Use a different upgrade code for Win64 installers.
4628
Martin v. Löwis3f5fda82008-09-08 13:50:10 +00004629- Issue #2271: Set SecureCustomProperties so that installation will properly
4630 use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.
4631
Martin v. Löwis67543a92008-09-08 12:02:45 +00004632- Allow passing the MSI file name to merge.py.
4633
Vinay Sajip844f7412008-09-09 13:42:08 +00004634- Issue #3758: Rename the 'check' target to 'patchcheck' so as to not clash
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcfeb8cad2008-09-06 20:53:51 +00004635 with GNU build target guidelines.
Brett Cannoncdeb24b2008-09-05 22:59:17 +00004636
Barry Warsaw6a0b5592008-08-21 02:12:56 +00004637
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004638What's New in Python 2.6 beta 3?
4639================================
4640
Barry Warsaw07a4a382008-08-21 01:15:08 +00004641*Release date: 20-Aug-2008*
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004642
4643Core and Builtins
4644-----------------
4645
Guido van Rossumf8402962008-08-20 15:01:50 +00004646- Issue #1878: Remove Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG from
4647 Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core. This means 3rd party
4648 extensions do not automatically benefit from the class attribute
4649 cache; they will have to explicitly add Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_VERSION_TAG
4650 to their tp_flags field if they care. This is a backwards
4651 compatibility feature; in 3.0, all types will use the cache by
4652 default.
4653
Benjamin Petersonf647dc12008-08-20 01:27:30 +00004654- Keyword arguments can now follow starred arguments. (``f(a, *args,
4655 keyword=23)`` is now valid syntax.)
4656
Thomas Heller0ad5ae02008-08-19 19:25:04 +00004657- ctypes function pointers that are COM methods have a boolean True
4658 value again.
4659
Martin v. Löwisf91d46a2008-08-12 14:49:50 +00004660- Issue #3139: Make buffer-interface thread-safe wrt. PyArg_ParseTuple,
4661 by denying s# to parse objects that have a releasebuffer procedure,
4662 and introducing s*.
4663
Georg Brandl1e13ea92008-08-11 09:07:59 +00004664- Issue #3537: Fix an assertion failure when an empty but presized dict
4665 object was stored in the freelist.
4666
Mark Dickinsonb6467572008-08-04 21:30:09 +00004667- Issue #1481296: Make long(float('nan')) and int(float('nan')) raise
4668 ValueError consistently across platforms.
4669
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc39fd6722008-07-31 21:28:03 +00004670- Issue #3479: On platforms where sizeof(int) is smaller than sizeof(long)
4671 (64bit Unix, for example), unichr() would truncate its argument and return
4672 u'\x00' for unichr(2**32). Now it properly raises an OverflowError.
4673
Neal Norwitze7d8be82008-07-31 17:17:14 +00004674- Apply security patches from Apple.
4675
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc246daed2008-07-31 00:42:16 +00004676- Issue #2542: Now that issubclass() may call arbitrary code, ensure that
4677 PyErr_ExceptionMatches returns 0 when an exception occurs there.
4678
Antoine Pitrou92f82162008-07-25 22:22:08 +00004679- Issue #1819: function calls with several named parameters are now on
4680 average 35% faster (as measured by pybench).
4681
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4921fe2008-07-21 22:00:38 +00004682- Issue #2378: An unexpected UnboundLocalError or NameError could appear when
4683 the python debugger steps into a class statement: the free variables (local
4684 variables defined in an outer scope) would be deleted from the outer scope.
4685
Gregory P. Smith0470bab2008-07-22 04:46:32 +00004686- Issue #2620: Overflow checking when allocating or reallocating memory
4687 was not always being done properly in some python types and extension
4688 modules. PyMem_MALLOC, PyMem_REALLOC, PyMem_NEW and PyMem_RESIZE have
4689 all been updated to perform better checks and places in the code that
4690 would previously leak memory on the error path when such an allocation
4691 failed have been fixed.
4692
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004693Library
4694-------
4695
Hirokazu Yamamoto838c79f2008-08-20 13:14:07 +00004696- Issue #3612: Added some missing basic types in ctypes.wintypes.
4697
Benjamin Petersone977ad42008-08-20 01:42:01 +00004698- The methods ``is_in_tuple()``, ``is_vararg()``, and ``is_keywordarg()`` of
4699 symtable.Symbol have been deprecated for removal in 3.0 and the next release.
4700
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc351ffb82008-08-18 19:23:47 +00004701- Issue #2234: distutils failed for some versions of the cygwin compiler. The
4702 version reported by these tools does not necessarily follow the python
4703 version numbering scheme, so the module is less strict when parsing it.
4704
Nick Coghlanf70385a2008-08-18 12:42:46 +00004705- Issue #2235: Added Py3k warnings for types which will become unhashable
4706 under the stricter __hash__ inheritance rules in 3.0. Several types
4707 which did not meet the rules for hash invariants and were already
4708 unhashable in 3.0 have now been explicitly flagged as unhashable in
4709 2.6 as well (collections.Mapping, collections.Set, unittest.TestSuite,
4710 xml.dom.minidom.NamedNodeMap, numbers.Number, UserList.UserList)
4711
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +00004712- Update __all__ for cookielib, csv, os, urllib2, and weakref to include things
4713 imported into the module but exposed as part of the module's API.
4714
Brett Cannon7b96f072008-08-18 00:41:11 +00004715- Remove an unneeded import of abc.ABCMeta from 'inspect'.
4716
Brett Cannon46225e72008-08-18 00:36:52 +00004717- Remove unneeded imports of 'sys' and 'warnings' from 'io'.
4718
Brett Cannon25c9d6a2008-08-17 22:10:11 +00004719- Remove unneeded imports of 'warnings' from shelve, filecmp, and dummy_thread.
4720
Hirokazu Yamamoto41a81eb2008-08-17 13:10:46 +00004721- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
4722 by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
4723
Mark Dickinson3e4caeb2009-02-21 20:27:01 +00004724- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occurred os.rename()
Hirokazu Yamamoto7f30a682008-08-17 09:46:56 +00004725 fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
4726
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004727- Issue #2464: urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
Facundo Batista94f243a2008-08-17 03:38:39 +00004728 in a redirect.
4729
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00004730- Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
Brett Cannon721b1452008-08-16 22:00:27 +00004731 BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.
Brett Cannonabe423e2008-08-16 21:47:07 +00004732
Facundo Batistaeb90b782008-08-16 14:44:07 +00004733- Issue #2776: fixed small issue when handling an URL with double slash
4734 after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.
4735
Antoine Pitroub90a8be2008-08-15 21:03:21 +00004736- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
4737 pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
4738 regular expression.
4739
Antoine Pitrou11ec65d2008-08-14 21:04:30 +00004740- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
4741 thread-safe.
4742
Brett Cannonbf3157b2008-08-14 05:00:03 +00004743- Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
4744 since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
4745 subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.
4746
Antoine Pitrou9fcd4b32008-08-11 17:21:36 +00004747- Issue #3134: shutil referenced undefined WindowsError symbol.
4748
Robert Schuppenies14646332008-08-10 11:01:53 +00004749- Issue #1342811: Fix leak in Tkinter.Menu.delete. Commands associated to
4750 menu entries were not deleted.
4751
Brett Cannon83e81842008-08-09 23:30:55 +00004752- Copied the implementation of reduce() to _functools.reduce() to have a
4753 version that did not raise a DeprecationWarning under -3.
4754
Antoine Pitrou76b8bee2008-08-09 17:27:23 +00004755- Issue #3205: When iterating over a BZ2File fails allocating memory, raise
4756 a MemoryError rather than silently stop the iteration.
4757
Guido van Rossum59ce9012008-08-09 14:55:34 +00004758- Issue #3487: sre "bytecode" validator. Passing invalid "re-bytecode"
4759 to _sre.compile() will now be rejected. This should not affect anybody
4760 since the re.compile() function never generates invalid re-bytecode.
4761
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +00004762- Issue #3436: Make csv.DictReader's fieldnames attribute a property so that
4763 upon first access it can be automatically initialized from the csv file if
4764 it wasn't initialized during instantiation.
4765
Brett Cannon3aa2a492008-08-06 22:28:09 +00004766- Issue #2338: Create imp.reload() to help with transitioning to Python 3.0 as
4767 the reload() built-in has been removed.
4768
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00004769- Changed code in the following modules/packages to remove warnings raised
Brett Cannonc1b76e42008-08-09 23:06:16 +00004770 while running under the ``-3`` flag: aifc, asynchat, asyncore, bdb, bsddb,
Brett Cannon047e4a92008-08-17 04:16:04 +00004771 ConfigParser, cookielib, csv, difflib, distutils, DocXMLRPCServer, email,
4772 filecmp, fileinput, inspect, logging, modulefinder, pdb, pickle, profile,
4773 pstats, pydoc, re, rlcompleter, SimpleXMLRPCServer, shelve, socket,
4774 subprocess, sqlite3, tarfile, Tkinter, test.test_support, textwrap,
4775 threading, tokenize, traceback, urlparse, wsgiref, xml, xmlrpclib.
Brett Cannon7e30b672008-08-04 21:52:25 +00004776
Lars Gustäbel727bd0b2008-08-02 11:26:39 +00004777- Issue #3039: Fix tarfile.TarFileCompat.writestr() which always
4778 raised an AttributeError.
4779
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00004780- Issue #2523: Fix quadratic behaviour when read()ing a binary file without
Antoine Pitroude781a42008-08-09 12:43:23 +00004781 asking for a specific length. This problem only affected files opened
4782 using the new "io" module, not the built-in open() function.
Benjamin Peterson01a24322008-07-28 23:35:27 +00004783
Mark Dickinsonfe84cce2008-07-27 06:39:07 +00004784- Issue #3449: Update decimal module to use most recent specification
4785 (v. 1.68) and tests (v. 2.58) from IBM.
4786
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004787- Issue #3437: Bug fix in robotparser parsing of Allow: lines.
Skip Montanarof9ac43f2008-07-27 00:50:41 +00004788
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00004789- Issue #1592: Improve error reporting when operations are attempted
Raymond Hettinger8c664e82008-07-25 18:43:33 +00004790 on a closed shelf.
4791
Georg Brandlf9efabb2008-07-23 15:16:45 +00004792- Deprecate the "ast" parser function aliases.
4793
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004794- Issue #3120: On 64-bit Windows the subprocess module was truncating handles.
4795
4796- Issue #3303: Fix a crash in locale.strcoll() when calling it with
4797 invalid arguments.
4798
4799- Issue #3302: Fix several crashes when calling locale's gettext functions
4800 with None arguments.
4801
4802- Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging
4803 configuration files.
4804
4805- Deprecate the sunaudio module for removal in Python 3.0.
4806
Antoine Pitrou5fdfa3e2008-07-25 19:42:26 +00004807- Issue #3394: zipfile.writestr sets external attributes when passed a
4808 file name rather than a ZipInfo instance, so files are extracted with
4809 mode 0600 rather than 000 under Unix.
4810
Gregory P. Smitha36f8fe2008-08-04 00:13:29 +00004811- Issue #1857: subprocess.Popen.poll gained an additional _deadstate keyword
4812 argument in python 2.5, this broke code that subclassed Popen to include its
4813 own poll method. Fixed my moving _deadstate to an _internal_poll method.
4814
Martin v. Löwis8dbf3642008-08-01 14:10:26 +00004815Build
4816-----
4817
4818- Generate the PatternGrammar pickle during "make install".
4819
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00004820Documentation
4821-------------
4822
Nick Coghlan6e8fef02008-08-18 13:14:22 +00004823- Issue #2235: the C API function PyObject_HashNotImplemented and its
4824 interaction with the tp_hash slot (added in 2.6b2) are now documented
4825
Nick Coghlan2a0c2b12008-08-04 12:47:17 +00004826- Issue #643841: The language reference now provides more detailed
4827 coverage of the lookup process for special methods. The disclaimers
4828 regarding lack of coverage of new-style classes have also been
4829 removed, since the coverage is now fairly reasonable.
4830
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004831
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00004832What's New in Python 2.6 beta 2?
4833================================
4834
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc90d07172008-07-21 21:36:24 +00004835*Release date: 17-Jul-2008*
4836
Raymond Hettingere3ae6552008-06-20 04:18:15 +00004837Core and Builtins
4838-----------------
4839
Georg Brandl3e483f62008-07-16 22:57:41 +00004840- Issue #3156: Fix inconsistent behavior of the bytearray type: all
4841 its methods now allow for items objects that can be converted to
4842 an integer using operator.index().
4843
Mark Dickinson64b7e502008-07-16 09:40:03 +00004844- Issue #3360: Fix incorrect parsing of '020000000000.0', which
4845 produced a ValueError instead of giving the correct float.
4846
Eric Smitha5fa5a22008-07-16 00:11:49 +00004847- Issue #3083: Add alternate (#) formatting for bin, oct, hex output
4848 for str.format(). This adds the prefix 0b, 0o, or 0x, respectively.
4849
Mark Dickinson7103aa42008-07-15 19:08:33 +00004850- Issue #3008: the float type has a new instance method 'float.hex'
4851 and a new class method 'float.fromhex' to convert floating-point
4852 numbers to and from hexadecimal strings, respectively.
4853
Nick Coghlan6d6bd442008-07-15 15:40:22 +00004854- Issue #2235: __hash__ is once again inherited by default. To allow
4855 collections.Hashable to remain meaningful in the presence of the
4856 default hash implementation (object.__hash__), it is now possible
4857 to explicit block inheritance of hash by setting __hash__=None at
4858 the Python level, or tp_hash=PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C
4859 level.
4860
Nick Coghlanb028f502008-07-13 14:52:36 +00004861- Issue #3221: Issue a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError if
4862 the parent module cannot be found while performing an absolute import.
4863 This means that an incorrectly defined __package__ attribute will
4864 now only prevent relative imports in that module rather than causing
4865 all imports from that module to fail.
4866
Nick Coghlan14ff9942008-07-08 14:21:42 +00004867- Issue #2517: Allow unicode messages in Exceptions again by correctly
4868 bypassing the instance dictionary when looking up __unicode__ on
4869 new-style classes.
4870
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbdd941f2008-07-01 20:38:04 +00004871- Issue #3242: Fix a crash inside the print statement, if sys.stdout is
4872 set to a custom object whose write() method happens to install
4873 another file in sys.stdout.
4874
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc1f40c8a2008-06-30 22:42:40 +00004875- Issue #3088: Corrected a race condition in classes derived from
4876 threading.local: the first member set by a thread could be saved in
4877 another thread's dictionary.
4878
Mark Dickinson1ec2fcd2008-06-20 14:53:43 +00004879- Issue #3004: Minor change to slice.indices(): the start and stop
4880 arguments are now treated identically, making the behaviour easier
4881 to describe and understand. For example, slice(None, -10,
4882 1).indices(9) now returns (0, 0, 1) instead of (0, -1, 1), and
4883 slice(None, 10, -1).indices(10) returns (9, 9, -1) instead of (9,
4884 10, -1).
4885
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00004886- Issue #3219: Calling a function with repeated keyword arguments,
4887 f(a=2, a=23), would not cause a syntax error. This was a regression
4888 from 2.4 caused by the switch to the new compiler.
Benjamin Peterson175e4d92008-07-01 19:34:52 +00004889
Georg Brandl278fc502008-07-19 12:46:12 +00004890- Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with
4891 other freelists. Changes their CompactFreeList apis into
4892 ClearFreeList apis and calls them via gc.collect().
Gregory P. Smith2fe77062008-07-06 03:35:58 +00004893
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004894Library
4895-------
4896
Thomas Heller57adf222008-08-14 19:10:48 +00004897- Issue #3554: ctypes.string_at and ctypes.wstring_at did call Python
4898 api functions without holding the GIL, which could lead to a fatal
4899 error when they failed.
4900
Martin v. Löwisaabf4042008-08-02 07:20:25 +00004901- Issue #799428: Fix Tkinter.Misc._nametowidget to unwrap Tcl command objects.
4902
Jesse Noller7fb96402008-07-17 21:01:05 +00004903- Issue #3395: fix reference in test_multiprocessing to old debugInfo method
4904
Georg Brandla24869a2008-07-16 22:33:18 +00004905- Issue #3312: Fix two crashes in sqlite3.
4906
Georg Brandl86cbf812008-07-16 21:31:41 +00004907- Issue #1608818: Fix misbehavior in os.listdir() if readdir() fails.
4908
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00004909- Issue #3125: Remove copy_reg in multiprocessing and replace it with
4910 ForkingPickler.register() to resolve conflict with ctypes.
4911
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004912- Issue #3090: Fixed ARCHFLAGS parsing on OS/X
Jesse Noller13e9d582008-07-16 14:32:36 +00004913
Thomas Heller880f5292008-07-15 19:39:38 +00004914- Issue #3313: Fixed a crash when a failed dlopen() call does not set
4915 a valid dlerror() message.
4916
Thomas Heller2bad6572008-07-15 17:19:50 +00004917- Issue #3258: Fixed a crash when a ctypes POINTER type to an
4918 incomplete structure was created.
4919
Brett Cannon3d0b9f02008-07-13 01:15:07 +00004920- Issue #3339: dummy_thread.acquire() should not return None.
4921
Raymond Hettingerb01713e2008-07-10 14:34:57 +00004922- Issue #3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
4923
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004924- Issue #3301: Bisect module behaved badly when lo was negative.
Raymond Hettinger3cd1e422008-07-10 14:03:19 +00004925
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00004926- Issue #839496: SimpleHTTPServer used to open text files in text mode. This is
4927 both unnecessary (HTTP allows text content to be sent in several forms) and
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004928 wrong because the actual transmitted size could differ from the
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0f7cddc2008-07-06 21:34:39 +00004929 content-length. The problem had been corrected in the 2.4 branch, but never
4930 merged into trunk.
4931
Georg Brandle78fbcc2008-07-05 10:13:36 +00004932- Issue #2663: add filtering capability to shutil.copytree().
4933
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00004934- Issue #1622: Correct interpretation of various ZIP header fields.
4935
4936- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.
4937
4938- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
4939 archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004940 Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.
Martin v. Löwis8c436412008-07-03 12:51:14 +00004941
Vinay Sajip51e65192008-07-18 09:01:10 +00004942- Issue #449227: The rlcompleter module now adds "(" to callable objects
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004943 when completed.
Facundo Batista66c52772008-07-02 16:52:55 +00004944
Nick Coghlanc060b0e2008-07-02 13:09:19 +00004945- Issue #3190: Pydoc now hides the automatic module attribute __package__ (the
4946 handling is now the same as that of other special attributes like __name__).
4947
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004948- Issue #2885 (partial): The urllib.urlopen() function has been deprecated for
4949 removal in Python 3.0 in favor of urllib2.urlopen().
4950
Gregory P. Smithf4140642008-07-06 07:16:40 +00004951- Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
4952 interrupted by a signal.
4953
Andrew M. Kuchlingcc3f2b12008-07-10 14:43:31 +00004954- Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile iterator to release its internal lock
Gregory P. Smith3b1e6b22008-07-07 04:31:58 +00004955 properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
4956 Prevents a deadlock.
4957
Gregory P. Smithc4691ec2008-07-07 05:09:12 +00004958- Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
4959 redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
4960 default https port (443).
4961
Gregory P. Smithdb3409c2008-07-17 03:13:05 +00004962- Issue #874900: after an os.fork() call the threading module state is cleaned
4963 up in the child process to prevent deadlock and report proper thread counts
4964 if the new process uses the threading module.
4965
Nick Coghlan38469e22008-07-13 12:23:47 +00004966Tests
4967-----
4968
4969- test.test_support.catch_warning now keeps track of all warnings it sees
4970 and is now better documented. Explicit unit tests for this context manager
4971 have been added to test_warnings.
4972
Martin v. Löwisd84fd952008-06-30 06:57:39 +00004973Build
4974-----
4975
4976- Issue #3215: Build sqlite3 as sqlite3.dll, not sqlite3.pyd.
4977
Brett Cannon8bb8fa52008-07-02 01:57:08 +00004978
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00004979Documentation
4980-------------
4981
Brett Cannonfeef51d2008-07-11 00:50:01 +00004982- Document that robotparser has been renamed to urllib.robotparser in
Brett Cannon963ffdb2008-07-11 00:48:57 +00004983 Python 3.0.
4984
Brett Cannonf6afa332008-07-11 00:16:30 +00004985- Document that urlparse has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0.
4986
Brett Cannon97aa1ae2008-07-11 00:12:52 +00004987- Document that urllib2 is split across multiple modules and renamed in
4988 Python 3.0.
4989
4990- Document that urllib is split across multiple modules and renamed in
4991 Python 3.0.
4992
4993
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004994What's New in Python 2.6 beta 1?
4995================================
4996
Barry Warsawb5d17402008-06-19 01:48:07 +00004997*Release date: 18-June-2008*
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00004998
4999Core and Builtins
5000-----------------
5001
Brett Cannondea1b562008-06-27 00:31:13 +00005002- Issue #3211: warnings.warn_explicit() did not guard against its 'registry'
5003 argument being anything other than a dict or None. Also fixed a bug in error
5004 handling when 'message' and 'category' were both set to None, triggering a
5005 bus error.
5006
Amaury Forgeot d'Arca8919fe2008-06-16 19:12:42 +00005007- Issue #3100: Corrected a crash on deallocation of a subclassed weakref which
5008 holds the last (strong) reference to its referent.
5009
Georg Brandl89f48872008-06-11 18:55:38 +00005010- Add future_builtins.ascii().
5011
Raymond Hettinger5c4d3d02008-06-09 13:07:27 +00005012- Several set methods now accept multiple arguments: update(), union(),
Raymond Hettinger4267be62008-06-11 10:30:54 +00005013 intersection(), intersection_update(), difference(), and difference_update().
Raymond Hettingeree4bcad2008-06-09 08:33:37 +00005014
Robert Schuppenies51df0642008-06-01 16:16:17 +00005015- Issue #2898: Added sys.getsizeof() to retrieve size of objects in bytes.
5016
Martin v. Löwis99815892008-06-01 07:20:46 +00005017- New environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING.
5018
Martin v. Löwis4dd019f2008-05-20 08:11:19 +00005019- Patch #2488: Add sys.maxsize.
5020
Georg Brandla9916b52008-05-17 22:11:54 +00005021- Issue #2353: file.xreadlines() now emits a Py3k warning.
5022
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005023- Issue #2863: generators now have a ``gen.__name__`` attribute that
5024 equals ``gen.gi_code.co_name``, like ``func.__name___`` that equals
5025 ``func.func_code.co_name``. The repr() of a generator now also
5026 contains this name.
Georg Brandlc91210c2008-05-15 15:08:32 +00005027
Georg Brandlbd85eb12008-05-14 06:34:15 +00005028- Issue #2831: enumerate() now has a ``start`` argument.
5029
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005030- Issue #2801: fix bug in the float.is_integer method where a
5031 ValueError was sometimes incorrectly raised.
Mark Dickinsone81c3762008-05-09 16:14:15 +00005032
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005033- Issue #2790: sys.flags was not properly exposing its bytes_warning
5034 attribute.
Brett Cannon3c1d50a2008-05-08 20:23:54 +00005035
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005036- Issue #2196: hasattr() now lets exceptions which do not inherit
5037 Exception (KeyboardInterrupt, and SystemExit) propagate instead of
5038 ignoring them.
Benjamin Petersonb9030f42008-05-12 00:41:23 +00005039
Gregory P. Smith9d534572008-06-11 07:41:16 +00005040- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
5041 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
5042 can't be triggered from Python code.
5043
5044
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005045Extension Modules
5046-----------------
Guido van Rossum84b1e0f2008-08-20 14:57:20 +00005047- Issue #1179: [CVE-2007-4965] Integer overflow in imageop module.
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005048
Raymond Hettinger305480c2008-06-16 01:42:40 +00005049- Issue #3116: marshal.dumps() had quadratic behavior for strings > 32Mb.
5050
Andrew M. Kuchling2126bab2008-06-22 13:39:11 +00005051- Issue #2138: Add factorial() to the math module.
Raymond Hettingerecbdd2e2008-06-09 06:54:45 +00005052
Raymond Hettinger6d7702e2008-05-31 03:24:31 +00005053- The heapq module does comparisons using LT instead of LE. This
5054 makes its implementation match that used by list.sort().
5055
Mark Dickinson99dfe922008-05-23 01:35:30 +00005056- Issue #2819: add full-precision summation function to math module,
5057 based on Hettinger's ASPN Python Cookbook recipe.
5058
Georg Brandl88659b02008-05-20 08:40:43 +00005059- Issue #2592: delegate nb_index and the floor/truediv slots in
5060 weakref.proxy.
5061
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005062- Support os.O_ASYNC and fcntl.FASYNC if the constants exist on the
5063 platform.
Georg Brandl5049a852008-05-16 13:10:15 +00005064
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00005065- Support for Windows 9x has been removed from the winsound module.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf9b54c22008-05-12 21:30:24 +00005066
Jesus Cea09c01782008-09-28 23:24:19 +00005067- bsddb module updated to version 4.7.3.
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00005068 http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm#bsddb3-4.7.3. This
5069 code should be compatible with Python 3.0.
Jesus Ceaef9764f2008-05-13 18:45:46 +00005070
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005071- Issue #2858: Fix potential memory corruption when
5072 bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_get and other bsddb.db object constructors
5073 raised an exception.
Gregory P. Smith664782e2008-05-17 06:12:02 +00005074
Gregory P. Smith5d7d6c32008-05-25 08:32:04 +00005075- Issue #2669: bsddb/__init__.py iteration no longer silently fails when
5076 the database has changed size during iteration. It now raises a
5077 RuntimeError in the same manner as a dictionary.
5078
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005079- Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
Christian Heimes0bd23c02008-05-16 10:23:31 +00005080
Benjamin Petersond8a89722008-08-18 16:40:03 +00005081- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
Gregory P. Smith8856dda2008-06-01 23:48:47 +00005082
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005083Library
5084-------
5085
Vinay Sajip1e022682008-06-29 21:27:15 +00005086- logging.config: Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
5087 used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
5088
Facundo Batista5596b0c2008-06-22 13:36:20 +00005089- Issue #2722: Now the os.getcwd() supports very long path names.
5090
Facundo Batista2da91c32008-06-21 17:43:56 +00005091- Issue #2888: Fixed the behaviour of pprint when working with nested
5092 structures, to match the behaviour of 2.5 and 3.0 (now follows the common
5093 sense).
5094
Facundo Batistaa6a4d502008-06-21 18:58:04 +00005095- Issue #1817: cgi now correctly handles the querystring on POST requests
5096
Vinay Sajip8dc20fd2008-06-19 22:41:08 +00005097- Issue #3136: fileConfig()'s disabling of old loggers is now conditional via
5098 an optional disable_existing_loggers parameter, but the default value is
5099 such that the old behaviour is preserved. Thanks to Leandro Lucarella for
5100 the patch.
5101
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005102- Issue #3126: StreamHandler and FileHandler check before calling "flush" and
5103 "close" that the stream object has these, using hasattr (thanks to bobf for
5104 the patch).
5105
Benjamin Peterson5c0be322008-06-13 15:11:50 +00005106- Issue #2912: platform.uname now tries to determine unknown information even if
5107 os.uname exists.
5108
Benjamin Peterson26305a02008-06-12 22:33:06 +00005109- The rfc822 module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
5110
Benjamin Petersona03722f2008-06-12 14:23:49 +00005111- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
5112
Thomas Heller1cec7aa2008-06-10 14:07:12 +00005113- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
5114 which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
5115 pointer-like object.
5116
Georg Brandl8509db52008-06-10 07:45:28 +00005117- Added the ast module.
5118
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005119- Added the multiprocessing module, PEP 371.
Benjamin Peterson6f7ae692008-06-11 20:04:30 +00005120
Georg Brandl7be19aa2008-06-07 15:59:10 +00005121- Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into
5122 inspect.cleandoc() to ease standalone use.
5123
Thomas Hellerfbb9c0b2008-06-06 08:33:46 +00005124- Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access
5125 to errno.
5126
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005127- Issue #2404: ctypes objects support the new pep3118 buffer interface.
Thomas Heller59475e92008-06-05 17:52:59 +00005128
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005129- Patch #2125: Add GetInteger and GetString methods for
Martin v. Löwisffe62ed2008-06-02 08:40:06 +00005130 msilib.Record objects.
5131
Gregory P. Smith137d8242008-06-02 04:05:52 +00005132- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
5133 unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
5134
Georg Brandlac19d852008-06-01 21:19:14 +00005135- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
5136 in Python 3.0.
5137
5138- Issue #3011: locale module alias table was updated to the latest
5139 version from the X.org locale.alias file.
Marc-André Lemburgadff65b2008-05-30 20:52:18 +00005140
Thomas Heller9287acf2008-05-29 19:42:34 +00005141- Issue #1797 (partial fix): ctypes NULL function pointers have a
5142 False boolean value now.
5143
Georg Brandld0b592f2008-05-29 07:45:26 +00005144- Issue #2985: Allow 64-bit integer responses (``<i8>``) in XMLRPC
5145 transfers.
5146
5147- Issue #2877: The UserString.MutableString class has been removed in
5148 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannonabb34fe2008-05-29 05:08:50 +00005149
Lars Gustäbelb1a54a32008-05-27 12:39:23 +00005150- Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
5151 when the TarFile is closed.
5152
Georg Brandle08e3d02008-05-25 08:07:37 +00005153- Issue #2959: For consistency with other file-like objects, gzip's
5154 GzipFile.close() can now be called multiple times without raising
5155 an exception.
5156
Martin v. Löwis27e4a172008-05-23 15:18:28 +00005157- Issue #1390: Raise ValueError in toxml when an invalid comment would
5158 otherwise be produced.
5159
Vinay Sajipc0128832008-05-20 15:37:22 +00005160- Issue #2914: TimedRotatingFileHandler now takes an optional keyword
5161 argument "utc" to use UTC time rather than local time.
5162
5163- Issue #2929: TimedRotatingFileHandler was using the wrong path when
5164 deleting old log files (filename only instead of full path).
5165
Georg Brandl112aa502008-05-20 08:25:48 +00005166- Issue #1775025: You can now specify zipfile members to open(),
5167 read() or extract() via a ZipInfo instance. This allows handling
5168 duplicate filenames in zipfiles.
5169
Georg Brandl28fdfa92008-05-17 17:57:01 +00005170- Issue #961805: Fix Text.edit_modified() in Tkinter.
5171
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005172- Issue #1793: Function ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() added that returns
Thomas Heller95ba13f2008-05-16 20:06:31 +00005173 the name of the C runtime library that Python uses.
5174 ctypes.util.find_library(name) now call this function when name is
5175 'm' or 'c'.
5176
Brett Cannonfa40bbf2008-05-16 00:50:02 +00005177- The statvfs module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005179- The sunaudiodev and SUNAUDIODEV modules have been deprecated for
5180 removal in Python 3.0.
5181
5182- The WAIT module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5183 3.0.
5184
5185- The torgb module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5186 3.0.
5187
5188- The SV module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5189 3.0.
5190
5191- The readcd module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon22248172008-05-16 00:10:24 +00005192 Python 3.0.
5193
Brett Cannon11ae6e72008-05-15 03:49:00 +00005194- The panelparser module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
5195 Python 3.0.
5196
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005197- The panel module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5198 3.0.
Brett Cannon7e375862008-05-15 03:46:27 +00005199
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005200- The jpeg module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5201 3.0.
Brett Cannon89f5d9c2008-05-15 03:44:00 +00005202
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005203- The IOCTL module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5204 3.0.
Brett Cannond8c41ec2008-05-15 03:41:55 +00005205
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005206- The IN module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5207 3.0.
Brett Cannon6328b292008-05-15 03:36:13 +00005208
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005209- The imgfile module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon178582e2008-05-15 03:20:36 +00005210 Python 3.0.
5211
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005212- The GLWS module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5213 3.0.
Brett Cannon72ccc402008-05-15 03:17:24 +00005214
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005215- The GET module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5216 3.0.
Brett Cannon2773b6f2008-05-15 03:14:57 +00005217
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005218- The fm module from IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5219 3.0.
5220
5221- The FL, flp, and fl modules from IRIX have been deprecated for
5222 removal in Python 3.0.
5223
5224- The FILE module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5225 3.0.
5226
5227- The ERRNO module on IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5228 3.0.
5229
5230- The DEVICE, GL, gl, and cgen modules (which indirectly includes
5231 cgensupport) have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon044616a2008-05-15 02:33:55 +00005232
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005233- The CL, CL_old, and cl modules for IRIX have been deprecated for
5234 removal in Python 3.0.
5235
5236- The cdplayer module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in
Brett Cannon650f5162008-05-14 21:12:12 +00005237 Python 3.0.
5238
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005239- The cddb module for IRIX has been deprecated for removal in Python
5240 3.0.
Brett Cannon9eebe492008-05-14 20:34:22 +00005241
Brett Cannonddf949f2008-05-14 20:31:38 +00005242- The cd and CD modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
5243 Python 3.0.
5244
Brett Cannon34721d52008-05-14 01:08:21 +00005245- The al and AL modules for IRIX have been deprecated for removal in
5246 Python 3.0.
5247
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005248- Issue #1713041: fix pprint's handling of maximum depth.
Georg Brandl23da6e62008-05-12 16:26:52 +00005249
Brett Cannonbb141bb2008-05-12 03:47:47 +00005250- The timing module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5251
Brett Cannonac861b52008-05-12 03:45:59 +00005252- The sv module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5253
Brett Cannon43e5ef42008-05-12 03:19:20 +00005254- The multifile module has been deprecated as per PEP 4.
5255
Brett Cannon42bfa902008-05-12 00:08:34 +00005256- The imageop module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005258- Issue #2250: Exceptions raised during evaluation of names in
5259 rlcompleter's ``Completer.complete()`` method are now caught and
5260 ignored.
Georg Brandl627a6662008-05-11 21:03:42 +00005261
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005262- Issue #2659: Added ``break_on_hyphens`` option to textwrap
5263 TextWrapper class.
Georg Brandl6f95ae52008-05-11 10:42:28 +00005264
Brett Cannon2a869132008-05-11 03:01:47 +00005265- The mhlib module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5266
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005267- The linuxaudiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python
5268 3.0.
Brett Cannondf0a7172008-05-11 00:50:51 +00005269
Brett Cannon27508d42008-05-10 22:45:07 +00005270- The ihooks module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5271
Brett Cannonfe598512008-05-10 22:11:45 +00005272- The fpformat module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5273
Brett Cannone35a3a12008-05-10 21:22:43 +00005274- The dl module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5275
Brett Cannond5a09852008-05-10 03:14:32 +00005276- The Canvas module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5277
Brett Cannon6192df12008-05-10 02:58:26 +00005278- The compiler package has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5279
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005280- The Bastion and rexec modules have been deprecated for removal in
5281 Python 3.0.
Brett Cannoncda73a42008-05-10 02:53:46 +00005282
Brett Cannon768d44f2008-05-10 02:47:54 +00005283- The bsddb185 module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5284
Brett Cannon9ac39742008-05-09 22:51:58 +00005285- The pure module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5286
Mark Dickinsonf8476c12008-05-09 17:54:23 +00005287- Issue #2487: change the semantics of math.ldexp(x, n) when n is too
5288 large to fit in a C long. ldexp(x, n) now returns a zero (with
5289 suitable sign) if n is large and negative; previously, it raised
5290 OverflowError.
5291
Brett Cannonfa24d9a2008-05-09 05:32:42 +00005292- The toaiff module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5293
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005294- The test.testall module has been deprecated for removal in Python
5295 3.0.
Brett Cannon3c759142008-05-09 05:25:37 +00005296
Brett Cannond7265d62008-05-09 05:18:40 +00005297- The new module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5298
Brett Cannone3b19402008-05-08 20:36:09 +00005299- The user module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5300
Brett Cannon6071cc82008-05-08 19:52:45 +00005301- The stringold module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5302
5303- The mutex module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
Brett Cannon9d441822008-05-08 19:26:08 +00005304
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005305- The imputil module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5306
Brett Cannoncae4f5f2008-05-08 20:24:43 +00005307- test.test_support.catch_warning() gained a 'record' argument.
5308
Benjamin Peterson0893a0a2008-05-09 00:27:01 +00005309- os.path.walk is deprecated in favor of os.walk.
5310
Georg Brandl9020ff82008-05-11 14:17:13 +00005311- pdb gained the "until" command.
Benjamin Peterson98353942008-05-11 14:13:25 +00005312
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005313- The Mac Modules (including Carbon) have been deprecated for removal
5314 in Python 3.0.
Benjamin Peterson23681932008-05-12 21:42:13 +00005315
Vinay Sajip9828b7e2008-06-17 11:04:02 +00005316- Library: on MacOS X you can now set ``ARCHFLAGS`` in the shell
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00005317 environment to control the '-arch' flags that are used to build
5318 an extension. This was added for compatibility with Apple's build
5319 of Python.
5320
5321- The bundled OSX-specific copy of libbffi is now in sync with the version
5322 shipped with PyObjC 2.0 and includes support for x86_64 and ppc64 platforms.
5323
Georg Brandl25c34082008-08-18 23:09:49 +00005324- The threading module gained aliases for names that will be removed in the
5325 3.x series.
Benjamin Peterson0fbcf692008-06-11 17:27:50 +00005326
Brett Cannon80bb9d92008-05-08 18:15:14 +00005327Build
5328-----
5329
Martin v. Löwiscc0f2b22008-06-13 18:12:51 +00005330- The Windows installer now includes Tk 8.5, bzip2 1.0.5, and SQLite 3.5.9.
Martin v. Löwis76307312008-06-12 18:52:00 +00005331
Martin v. Löwis8c255e42008-05-23 15:06:50 +00005332- Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
5333
Brett Cannonb61d8012008-05-11 23:39:04 +00005334- ``Lib/lib-old`` is now added to sys.path.
5335
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00005336- On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework in 64-bit
5337 mode or even as a 4-way universal binary (that is, PPC, i386,
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005338 PPC64 and x86_64 support in one binary).
Ronald Oussoren5640ce22008-06-05 12:58:24 +00005339
5340 This is controlled by the configure argument ``--with-universal-archs``:
5341
5342 - ``--with-universal-archs=all``: install 4-way universal
5343
5344 - ``--with-universal-archs=32-bit``: install 2-way universal, 32-bit (the default)
5345
5346 - ``--with-universal-archs=64-bit``: install 2-way universal, 64-bit
5347
5348 This option should be used in combination with ``--enable-universalsdk=``.
5349
5350 NOTE: 64-bit and 4-way builds are only suppported on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later).
5351
5352
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00005353C API
5354-----
5355
Georg Brandl74a1dea2008-05-28 11:21:39 +00005356- Add ``PyType_Modified()`` as a public API to clear the type cache.
5357
5358- The PyBytes functions have been renamed to PyByteArray.
Christian Heimes7a990612008-05-26 13:15:11 +00005359
5360- The PyString functions have been renamed to PyBytes. A batch of
5361 defines were added so that the linker still sees the original
5362 PyString names.
5363
Georg Brandl5e7b1c02008-05-16 17:40:23 +00005364
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005365What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 3?
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00005366=================================
5367
Barry Warsaw6cc79402008-05-08 13:16:19 +00005368*Release date: 08-May-2008*
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00005369
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00005370Core and builtins
5371-----------------
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00005372
Georg Brandl28e08732008-04-30 19:47:09 +00005373- Issue #2719: backported the ``next()`` builtin from Python 3.
5374
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005375- Issue #2681: The octal literal ``0o8`` was incorrecly acctepted. Now
5376 it properly raises a SyntaxError.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc52167212008-04-24 18:07:05 +00005377
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005378- Issue #2617: Reserved -J and -X arguments for Jython, IronPython and
5379 other implementations of Python.
Christian Heimes7a98d272008-04-12 13:03:03 +00005380
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005381- Implemented PEP 370: Per user site-packages directory.
Christian Heimesaf748c32008-05-06 22:41:46 +00005382
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00005383Extension Modules
5384-----------------
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005386- Issue #2670: Fix a failure in urllib2.build_opener(), when passed
5387 two handlers that derive the same default base class.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc96865852008-04-22 21:14:41 +00005388
Christian Heimese74c8f22008-04-19 02:23:57 +00005389- Added kill, terminate and send_signal(sig) to subprocess.Popen.
5390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005391- Added phase(z) -> phi, polar(z) -> r, phi and rect(r, phi) -> z to
5392 the cmath module.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00005393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005394- Four new methods were added to the math and cmath modules: acosh,
5395 asinh, atanh and log1p.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00005396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005397- zlib.decompressobj().flush(value) no longer crashes the interpreter
5398 when passed a value less than or equal to zero.
Gregory P. Smith671c5d92008-04-09 18:18:43 +00005399
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005400- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the
5401 original Python code has been kept as backup). This will allow for
5402 using the 'warning's machinery in such places as the parser where
5403 use of pure Python code is not possible. Both the ``showarning()``
5404 and ``formatwarning()`` gain an optional 'line' argument which is
5405 not called by default for backwards-compatibility reasons. Setting
5406 ``warnings.showwarning()`` to an implementation that lacks support
5407 for the ``line`` argument will raise a DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannone9746892008-04-12 23:44:07 +00005408
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005409Library
5410-------
5411
Brett Cannonf8436822008-05-06 23:41:32 +00005412- The audiodev module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
5413
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005414- Issue #2750: Add the 'json' package. Based on simplejson 1.9 and
5415 contributed by Bob Ippolito.
Brett Cannon4b964f92008-05-05 20:21:38 +00005416
Martin v. Löwis471617d2008-05-05 17:16:58 +00005417- Issue #1734346: Support Unicode file names for zipfiles.
5418
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005419- Issue #2581: distutils: Vista UAC/elevation support for
5420 bdist_wininst.
Mark Hammond7c5c8e62008-05-02 12:48:15 +00005421
Mark Dickinsonfe536f52008-04-25 16:59:09 +00005422- Issue #2635: Fix bug in 'fix_sentence_endings' textwrap.fill option,
5423 where an extra space was added after a word containing (but not
5424 ending in) '.', '!' or '?'.
5425
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00005426- Add from_buffer() and from_buffer_copy() class methods to ctypes
Georg Brandl5cc774e2008-06-11 20:28:06 +00005427 data types.
Thomas Heller6ad5fbb2008-04-25 15:44:16 +00005428
Neal Norwitz2b0bea52008-04-25 03:40:17 +00005429- Issue #2682: ctypes callback functions no longer contain a cyclic
Thomas Hellerbf027c42008-04-24 18:14:19 +00005430 reference to themselves.
5431
Gregory P. Smithd59fefb2008-04-22 08:11:33 +00005432- The getpass module has been improved on Unix. It now uses /dev/tty
5433 by default and uses stderr instead of stdout. A GetPassWarning is
5434 issued when input echo cannot be controlled.
Gregory P. Smith41e30182008-04-21 21:31:08 +00005435
Skip Montanarob131f042008-04-18 20:35:46 +00005436- Issue #2014: Allow XML-RPC datetime objects to have dates before
5437 1900-01-01.
5438
Nick Coghlan106fc482008-04-15 10:25:31 +00005439- Issue #2439: Added new function pkgutil.get_data(), which is a
5440 convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API.
5441
Thomas Heller046e6a42008-04-14 16:10:07 +00005442- Issue #2616: The ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER() functions are
5443 now implemented in C for better performance.
5444
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005445- Issue #2408: The ``_types`` module, which was used as in
5446 implementation detail of the public ``types`` module, has been
5447 removed and replaced by pure python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc02f33b42008-04-08 23:10:07 +00005448
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005449- Issue #2513: distutils on Windows is now capable of cross-compiling
Mark Hammond495cf992008-04-07 01:53:39 +00005450 extension modules between 32 and 64 bit platforms. See the distutls
5451 build documentation for more information.
5452
Gregory P. Smithaa63d0d2008-04-06 23:11:17 +00005453- Issue #815646: Individual file objects may now be used from multiple
5454 threads at once without fear of crashing the Python interpreter. If
5455 file.close() is called while an object is in use by another thread
5456 an IOError exception will be raised and the file will not be closed.
5457
Thomas Hellerf7906482008-04-04 19:43:25 +00005458- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
5459 libffi3.0.5 version, apart from some small changes to
5460 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.
5461
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005462- Issue #2385: distutils.core.run_script() makes __file__ available,
5463 so the controlled environment will more closely mirror the typical
5464 script environment. This supports setup.py scripts that refer to
5465 data files.
Fred Drake46c58c12008-04-04 05:41:30 +00005466
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005467Tests
5468-----
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005469
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005470- Issue #2550: The approach used by client/server code for obtaining
5471 ports to listen on in network-oriented tests has been refined in an
5472 effort to facilitate running multiple instances of the entire
5473 regression test suite in parallel without issue.
5474 test_support.bind_port() has been fixed such that it will always
5475 return a unique port -- which wasn't always the case with the
5476 previous implementation, especially if socket options had been set
5477 that affected address reuse (i.e. SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT). The
5478 new implementation of bind_port() will actually raise an exception
5479 if it is passed an AF_INET/SOCK_STREAM socket with either the
5480 SO_REUSEADDR or SO_REUSEPORT socket option set. Furthermore, if
5481 available, bind_port() will set the SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option on
5482 the socket it's been passed. This currently only applies to
5483 Windows. This option prevents any other sockets from binding to the
5484 host/port we've bound to, thus removing the possibility of the
5485 'non-deterministic' behaviour, as Microsoft puts it, that occurs
5486 when a second SOCK_STREAM socket binds and accepts to a host/port
5487 that's already been bound by another socket. The optional preferred
5488 port parameter to bind_port() has been removed. Under no
5489 circumstances should tests be hard coding ports!
5490
5491 test_support.find_unused_port() has also been introduced, which will
5492 pass a temporary socket object to bind_port() in order to obtain an
5493 unused port. The temporary socket object is then closed and
5494 deleted, and the port is returned. This method should only be used
5495 for obtaining an unused port in order to pass to an external program
5496 (i.e. the -accept [port] argument to openssl's s_server mode) or as
5497 a parameter to a server-oriented class that doesn't give you direct
5498 access to the underlying socket used.
5499
5500 Finally, test_support.HOST has been introduced, which should be used
5501 for the host argument of any relevant socket calls (i.e. bind and
5502 connect).
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005503
5504 The following tests were updated to following the new conventions:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005505 test_socket, test_smtplib, test_asyncore, test_ssl, test_httplib,
Trent Nelsone41b0062008-04-08 23:47:30 +00005506 test_poplib, test_ftplib, test_telnetlib, test_socketserver,
5507 test_asynchat and test_socket_ssl.
5508
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005509 It is now possible for multiple instances of the regression test
5510 suite to run in parallel without issue.
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005511
5512Build
5513-----
5514
Mark Dickinson65134662008-04-25 16:11:04 +00005515- Issue #1496032: On alpha, use -mieee when gcc is the compiler.
5516
Thomas Hellerdc96a772008-04-04 10:07:55 +00005517- Issue #2544: On HP-UX systems, use 'gcc -shared' for linking when
5518 gcc is used as compiler.
5519
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00005520- Issue #2573: On MacOS X it is now possible to install the framework
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005521 with a different name using --with-framework-name=NAME.
Ronald Oussoren580c7fe2008-05-02 19:45:11 +00005522
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005523C API
5524-----
5525
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005526- Added implementation of copysign, acosh, asinh, atanh and log1p to
5527 the new files Include/pymath.h and Python/pymath.h for platforms
5528 which provide the functions through their libm. The files also
5529 contains several helpers and constants for math.
Christian Heimes6f341092008-04-18 23:13:07 +00005530
Benjamin Petersondacde0d2008-05-26 17:43:53 +00005531- Added a new convenience macro, PyErr_WarnPy3k, for issuing Py3k warnings.
Benjamin Petersona692c4d2008-04-27 02:28:02 +00005532
Barry Warsawba437742008-04-04 01:34:41 +00005533
5534What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 2?
5535=================================
5536
5537*Release date: 02-Apr-2008*
5538
5539Core and builtins
5540-----------------
5541
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005542- Issue #1733757: The interpreter would hang on shutdown if the
5543 tracing function set by sys.settrace is still active and happens to
5544 call threading.currentThread().
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd7a26512008-04-03 23:07:55 +00005545
Georg Brandl91e0cda2008-03-29 01:50:06 +00005546- Patch #1442: properly report exceptions when the PYTHONSTARTUP file
5547 cannot be executed.
5548
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc69b747b2008-03-28 20:30:50 +00005549- The compilation of a class nested in another class used to leak one
5550 reference on the outer class name.
5551
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00005552- Patch #1810: compile() can now compile _ast trees as returned by
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005553 ``compile(..., PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
Georg Brandlfc8eef32008-03-28 12:11:56 +00005554
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005555- Patch #2426: Added sqlite3.Connection.iterdump method to allow easy
5556 dumping of databases. Contributed by Paul Kippes at PyCon 2008.
Gregory P. Smithb9803422008-03-28 08:32:09 +00005557
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00005558- Patch #2477: Added from __future__ import unicode_literals.
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00005559
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00005560- Added backport of bytearray type.
5561
Georg Brandl80055f62008-03-25 07:56:27 +00005562- Issue #2355: add Py3k warning for buffer().
5563
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00005564- Issue #1477: With narrow Unicode builds, the unicode escape sequence
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005565 \Uxxxxxxxx did not accept values outside the Basic Multilingual
5566 Plane. This affected raw unicode literals and the
5567 'raw-unicode-escape' codec. Now UTF-16 surrogates are generated in
5568 this case, like normal unicode literals and the 'unicode-escape'
5569 codec.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc9a0d3462008-03-23 09:55:29 +00005570
Georg Brandl65bb42d2008-03-21 20:38:24 +00005571- Issue #2348: add Py3k warning for file.softspace.
5572
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005573- Issue #2346/#2347: add Py3k warnings for __methods__ and
5574 __members__.
Georg Brandl07e56812008-03-21 20:21:46 +00005575
Georg Brandl5a444242008-03-21 20:11:46 +00005576- Issue #2358: Add a Py3k warning on sys.exc_clear() usage.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00005577
Martin v. Löwisa4d77892008-03-19 04:39:13 +00005578- Issue #2400: Allow relative imports to "import *".
5579
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005580- Issue #1745: Backport print function with ``from __future__ import
5581 print_function``.
Eric Smith7c478942008-03-18 23:45:49 +00005582
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005583- Issue #2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
5584 The two changes are: im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__
Neal Norwitzb1d3d962008-03-18 04:46:00 +00005585
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005586- Issue #2379: Raise a Py3K warning for __getitem__ or __getslice__ on
Guido van Rossum6d91be32008-03-18 04:42:22 +00005587 exception instances.
5588
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00005589- Issue #2371: Add a Py3k warning when catching an exception that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005590 doesn't derive from BaseException.
5591
5592- Issue #2341: Add a Py3k warning when raising an exception that
5593 doesn't derive from BaseException.
Guido van Rossum04edb522008-03-18 02:49:46 +00005594
Neal Norwitz419fd492008-03-17 20:22:43 +00005595- Issue #2321: use pymalloc for unicode object string data to reduce
5596 memory usage in some circumstances.
5597
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005598- PEP 3127: octal literals now start with "0o". Old-style octal
5599 literals are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of
5600 "0b". This also affects int(x, 0).
Eric Smith0aed07a2008-03-17 19:43:40 +00005601
Georg Brandl1e7c3752008-03-25 08:37:23 +00005602- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
5603
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005604- Issue #1779871: GNU gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
Jeffrey Yasskin1b4e45b2008-03-17 14:40:53 +00005605 flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
5606 longer passed.
5607
Neal Norwitz400aeda2008-03-15 22:03:18 +00005608- Add a warning when asserting a non-empty tuple which is always true.
5609
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005610- Issue #2179: speed up with statement execution by storing the exit
5611 method on the stack instead of in a temporary variable (patch by
5612 Jeffrey Yaskin)
Nick Coghlan7af53be2008-03-07 14:13:28 +00005613
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005614- Issue #2238: Some syntax errors in *args and **kwargs expressions
5615 could give bogus error messages.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcd21fb4c2008-03-05 01:50:33 +00005616
Sean Reifscheider68fa8e62008-03-20 00:50:07 +00005617- Issue #2143: Fix embedded readline() hang on SSL socket EOF.
5618
Andrew M. Kuchling46d6b682008-04-30 16:19:55 +00005619Extension Modules
5620-----------------
Martin v. Löwisaef18b12008-03-24 13:31:16 +00005621
5622- Patch #2240: Implement signal.setitimer and signal.getitimer.
5623
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005624Library
5625-------
5626
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005627- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts
5628 for daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005629
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005630- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now
5631 calculates rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a
5632 while.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005633
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005634- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses
5635 improved logic for removing old files.
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005636
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005637- Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two
5638 consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as
5639 [""""], which is incorrect python code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcda0c0252008-03-27 23:23:54 +00005640
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005641- Issue #2248: return the result of the QUIT command. from
5642 SMTP.quit().
Georg Brandldeaf2ca2008-03-27 13:27:31 +00005643
Christian Heimes8c78cc32008-03-26 12:53:58 +00005644- Backport of Python 3.0's io module.
5645
Mark Dickinson8e85ffa2008-03-25 18:47:59 +00005646- Issue #2482: Make sure that the coefficient of a Decimal is always
5647 stored as a str instance, not as a unicode instance. This ensures
5648 that str(Decimal) is always an instance of str.
5649
Mark Dickinson3b24ccb2008-03-25 14:33:23 +00005650- Issue #2478: fix failure of decimal.Decimal(0).sqrt()
5651
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +00005652- Issue #2432: give DictReader the dialect and line_num attributes
5653 advertised in the docs.
5654
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005655- Issue #2460: Make Ellipsis object copyable.
Raymond Hettingerb72233c2008-03-24 08:17:39 +00005656
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005657- Issue #1681432: Add triangular distribution to the random module
Raymond Hettingerbbc50ea2008-03-23 13:32:32 +00005658
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005659- Issue #2136: urllib2's auth handler now allows single-quoted realms
5660 in the WWW-Authenticate header.
Georg Brandl33124322008-03-21 19:54:00 +00005661
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00005662- Issue #2434: Enhanced platform.win32_ver() to also work on Python
5663 installation which do not have the win32all package installed.
5664
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005665- Added support to platform.uname() to also report the machine and
5666 processor information on Windows XP and later. As a result,
Marc-André Lemburga1867752008-03-20 18:08:00 +00005667 platform.machine() and platform.processor() will report this
5668 information as well.
5669
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005670- The library implementing the 2to3 conversion, lib2to3, was added to
5671 the standard distribution.
Martin v. Löwis5e37bae2008-03-19 04:43:46 +00005672
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005673- Issue #1747858: Fix chown to work with large uid's and gid's on
5674 64-bit platforms.
Gregory P. Smith37f3f432008-03-18 20:40:01 +00005675
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005676- Issue #1202: zlib.crc32 and zlib.adler32 no longer return different
5677 values on 32-bit vs. 64-bit python interpreters. Both were correct,
5678 but they now both return a signed integer object for consistency.
Gregory P. Smithf48f9d32008-03-17 18:48:05 +00005679
Skip Montanaro32ed8c22008-03-15 16:07:11 +00005680- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
5681 microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
5682 strftime.
5683
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00005684- Issue #705836: struct.pack(">f", x) now raises OverflowError on all
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005685 platforms when x is too large to fit into an IEEE 754 float;
5686 previously it only raised OverflowError on non IEEE 754 platforms.
Mark Dickinsonc23b8a72008-03-14 14:23:37 +00005687
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00005688- Issues #2166, #1741 and #1531505: now distutils deals with HOME
5689 correctly under win32
5690
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005691- Patch #1858: distutils: added multiple server support in .pypirc
Andrew M. Kuchlingaac5c862008-05-11 14:00:00 +00005692
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00005693- Issue #1106316: pdb.post_mortem()'s parameter, "traceback", is now
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005694 optional: it defaults to the traceback of the exception that is
5695 currently being handled (is mandatory to be in the middle of an
5696 exception, otherwise it raises ValueError).
Facundo Batistac54aec12008-03-08 16:50:27 +00005697
Jeffrey Yasskine75f59a2008-03-07 06:22:15 +00005698- Issue #1193577: A .shutdown() method has been added to SocketServers
5699 which terminates the .serve_forever() loop.
5700
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005701- Issue #2220: handle rlcompleter attribute match failure more
5702 gracefully.
Georg Brandl98aa8052008-03-06 07:45:52 +00005703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005704- Issue #2225: py_compile, when executed as a script, now returns a
5705 non- zero status code if not all files could be compiled
5706 successfully.
Georg Brandla7bd27f2008-03-06 07:41:16 +00005707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005708- Bug #1725737: In distutils' sdist, exclude RCS, CVS etc. also in the
Georg Brandl810ea292008-03-06 07:34:52 +00005709 root directory, and also exclude .hg, .git, .bzr, and _darcs.
5710
Thomas Hellerf3c05592008-03-05 15:34:29 +00005711- Issue #1872: The struct module typecode for _Bool has been changed
5712 from 't' to '?'.
5713
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005714- The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
5715 libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005716 Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac. On OS X, preconfigured libffi
5717 files are used. On all linux systems the --with-system-ffi
5718 configure option defaults to "yes".
Thomas Heller78b8f442008-03-05 14:53:39 +00005719
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005720- Issue #1577: shutil.move() now calls os.rename() if the destination
5721 is a directory instead of copying-then-remove-source.
Sean Reifscheider493894c2008-03-18 17:24:12 +00005722
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00005723Tests
5724-----
5725
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005726- test_nis no longer fails when test.test_support.verbose is true and
5727 NIS is not set up on the testing machine.
Brett Cannon7919d982008-03-19 16:50:13 +00005728
Brett Cannona5573b32008-03-18 04:16:06 +00005729- Output comparison tests are no longer supported.
5730
Brett Cannonb7ec8e52008-03-18 03:46:22 +00005731- Rewrite test_errno to use unittest and no longer be a no-op.
5732
Brett Cannon0bb79502008-03-18 01:58:56 +00005733- GHOP 234: Convert test_extcall to doctest.
5734
Brett Cannonba17cfc2008-03-18 01:50:25 +00005735- GHOP 290: Convert test_dbm and test_dummy_threading to unittest.
5736
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005737- GHOP 293: Convert test_strftime, test_getargs, and test_pep247 to
5738 unittest.
Brett Cannon6eeaddc2008-03-18 01:00:07 +00005739
Brett Cannon1f5182b2008-03-13 21:09:28 +00005740- Issue #2055: Convert test_fcntl to unittest.
5741
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005742- Issue #1960: Convert test_gdbm to unittest.
Brett Cannon4a6e8d62008-03-13 21:02:16 +00005743
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005744- GHOP 294: Convert test_contains, test_crypt, and test_select to
5745 unittest.
Brett Cannon2e0f9f32008-03-13 20:47:41 +00005746
Brett Cannonb8d37352008-03-13 20:33:10 +00005747- GHOP 238: Convert test_tokenize to use doctest.
5748
Brett Cannon66865d22008-03-13 20:27:00 +00005749- GHOP 237: Rewrite test_thread using unittest.
5750
Martin v. Löwisd2bbe522008-03-06 06:55:22 +00005751- Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
5752 permission to create files in the root directory.
5753
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00005754Build
5755-----
5756
Martin v. Löwiscdbc9772008-03-24 12:57:53 +00005757- A new script 2to3 is now installed, to run the 2.x to 3.x converter.
5758
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005759- Python/memmove.c and Python/strerror.c have been removed; both
5760 functions are in the C89 standard library.
Brett Cannonaa5778d2008-03-18 04:09:00 +00005761
Martin v. Löwisbf7b0b72008-03-14 13:56:09 +00005762- Patch #2284: Add -x64 option to rt.bat.
Barry Warsaw65475fd2008-03-01 17:11:41 +00005763
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00005764C API
5765-----
5766
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005767- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005768 PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx().
5769
Christian Heimes3c608332008-03-26 22:01:37 +00005770
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00005771What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1?
5772=================================
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00005773
Barry Warsaw7c075232008-03-01 02:53:36 +00005774*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00005775
5776Core and builtins
5777-----------------
5778
Fred Drakea8ee94b2008-03-01 02:45:07 +00005779- Issue #2051: pyc and pyo files are no longer created with permission
Barry Warsaw52973612008-03-01 02:23:38 +00005780 644. The mode is now inherited from the py file.
Christian Heimes40346852008-02-23 17:52:07 +00005781
Georg Brandlad61bc82008-02-23 15:11:18 +00005782- Issue #2067: file.__exit__() now calls subclasses' close() method.
5783
5784- Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators.
Christian Heimes5224d282008-02-23 15:01:05 +00005785
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005786- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00005787 issue #215555 for a discussion.
Facundo Batistafc2d0102008-02-23 12:01:13 +00005788
Eric Smitha73fbe72008-02-23 03:09:44 +00005789- Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct().
5790 These are the PEP 3127 version of these functions, designed to be
5791 compatible with the hex() and oct() builtins from Python 3.0. They
5792 differ slightly in their output formats from the existing, unchanged
5793 Python 2.6 builtins. The expected usage of the future_builtins
5794 module is:
5795 from future_builtins import hex, oct
5796
Eric Smith7ef40bf2008-02-20 23:34:22 +00005797- Issue #1600: Modifed PyOS_ascii_formatd to use at most 2 digit
5798 exponents for exponents with absolute value < 100. Follows C99
5799 standard. This is a change on Windows, which would use 3 digits.
5800 Also, added 'n' to the formats that PyOS_ascii_formatd understands,
5801 so that any alterations it does to the resulting string will be
5802 available in stringlib/formatter.h (for float.__format__).
5803
Eric Smith5a3c1352008-02-19 13:21:56 +00005804- Implemented PEP 3101, Advanced String Formatting. This adds a new
5805 builtin format(); a format() method for str and unicode; a
5806 __format__() method to object, str, unicode, int, long, float, and
5807 datetime; the class string.Formatter; and the C API
5808 PyObject_Format().
5809
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005810- Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted
5811 __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent
5812 state.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc632fad32008-02-16 20:55:24 +00005813
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00005814- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005815 prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access
5816 a slot on a registered virtual subclass.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc60d6c7f2008-02-15 21:22:45 +00005817
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005818- Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as
5819 real or imaginary part.
Christian Heimes2f0da532008-02-15 06:57:08 +00005820
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005821- Clear all free lists during a gc.collect() of the highest generation
5822 in order to allow pymalloc to free more arenas. Python may give back
5823 memory to the OS earlier.
Christian Heimes3b718a72008-02-14 12:47:33 +00005824
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005825- Issue #2045: Fix an infinite recursion triggered when printing a
5826 subclass of collections.defaultdict, if its default_factory is set
5827 to a bound method.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcb01aa432008-02-08 00:56:02 +00005828
Christian Heimesf75dbef2008-02-08 00:11:31 +00005829- Fixed a minor memory leak in dictobject.c. The content of the free
5830 list was not freed on interpreter shutdown.
5831
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005832- Limit free list of method and built-in function objects to 256
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005833 entries each.
Christian Heimes6075a822008-02-06 12:44:34 +00005834
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005835- Patch #1953: Added ``sys._compact_freelists()`` and the C API
5836 functions ``PyInt_CompactFreeList`` and ``PyFloat_CompactFreeList``
Christian Heimes422051a2008-02-04 18:00:12 +00005837 to compact the internal free lists of pre-allocted ints and floats.
5838
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005839- Issue #1983: Fixed return type of fork(), fork1() and forkpty()
5840 calls. Python expected the return type int but the fork familie
5841 returns pi_t.
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00005842
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005843- Issue #1678380: Fix a bug that identifies 0j and -0j when they
5844 appear in the same code unit.
Mark Dickinson105be772008-01-31 22:17:37 +00005845
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005846- Issue #2025: Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() methods to comply
5847 with the collections.Sequence API.
Raymond Hettinger5b07ebc2008-02-07 00:54:20 +00005848
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005849- Patch #1970 by Antoine Pitrou: Speedup unicode whitespace and
5850 linebreak detection
Christian Heimes4d4f2702008-01-30 11:32:37 +00005851
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005852- Added ``PyType_ClearCache()`` and ``sys._clear_type_cache`` to clear
5853 the internal lookup cache for ref leak tests.
Christian Heimes908caac2008-01-27 23:34:59 +00005854
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005855- Patch #1473257: generator objects gain a gi_code attribute. This is
5856 the same object as the func_code attribute of the function that
5857 produced the generator.
Georg Brandl0cdf9a32008-01-26 14:14:20 +00005858
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005859- Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the
5860 compiler, even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is
5861 supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler
5862 correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc31eaafe2008-01-24 22:59:25 +00005863
Guido van Rossumeead05f2008-01-24 18:21:02 +00005864- A few crashers fixed: weakref_in_del.py (issue #1377858);
5865 loosing_dict_ref.py (issue #1303614, test67.py);
5866 borrowed_ref_[34].py (not in tracker).
5867
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00005868- Issue #1069410: The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is
Christian Heimesb2302ba2008-01-23 17:15:06 +00005869 suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in
5870 dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
5871
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005872- Issue #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However
Christian Heimes082c9b02008-01-23 14:20:50 +00005873 several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode
5874 support.
5875
Georg Brandl26543b12008-01-21 18:36:51 +00005876- Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
5877 second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
5878
Georg Brandl14404b62008-01-19 19:27:05 +00005879- Issue #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
5880
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00005881- Issue #1865: ``bytes`` as an alias for ``str`` and b"" as an alias "" were
Christian Heimes288e89a2008-01-18 18:24:07 +00005882 added.
5883
Christian Heimesc94e2b52008-01-14 04:13:37 +00005884- sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
5885 object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.
5886
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005887- Patch #1816: Added sys.flags structseq. It exposes the status of
5888 most command line arguments and PYTHON* environment variables.
Christian Heimesf31b69f2008-01-14 03:42:48 +00005889
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005890- Objects/structseq.c: Implemented new structseq representation. The
5891 patch makes structseqs (e.g. the return value of os.stat) more
5892 readable.
Christian Heimes9c201962008-01-14 03:33:52 +00005893
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005894- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method
5895 accesses, resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce4c270c2008-01-14 00:29:41 +00005896
Neal Norwitz3fc15b82008-01-10 05:42:58 +00005897- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
5898 The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.
Christian Heimes3403f152008-01-09 19:56:33 +00005899
Georg Brandlaed6c662008-01-07 17:25:53 +00005900- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
5901
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005902- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
5903 envvar and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set
5904 to forbid Python to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
Georg Brandl2da0fce2008-01-07 17:09:35 +00005905
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005906- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an
5907 extension module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32
5908 application' instead of 'error code 193'.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arce0b76952008-01-04 02:04:15 +00005909
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005910- Bug #1481296: Fixed long(float('nan')) != 0L.
Christian Heimes8267d1d2008-01-04 00:37:34 +00005911
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005912- Issue #1640: Added math.isinf(x), math.isnan(x) and math.copysign(x,
5913 y) functions.
Christian Heimese2ca4242008-01-03 20:23:15 +00005914
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00005915- Issue #1635: Platform independent creation and representation of NaN
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005916 and INF. float("nan"), float("inf") and float("-inf") now work on
5917 every platform with IEEE 754 semantics.
Christian Heimes0a8143f2007-12-18 23:22:54 +00005918
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005919- Compiler now generates simpler and faster code for dictionary
5920 literals. The oparg for BUILD_MAP now indicates an estimated
5921 dictionary size. There is a new opcode, STORE_MAP, for adding
5922 entries to the dictionary.
Raymond Hettingerfd7ed402007-12-18 21:24:09 +00005923
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005924- Issue #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux.
Christian Heimesdb3d6cb2007-12-16 21:39:43 +00005925
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005926- Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the
5927 decorator in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
Christian Heimes90e10e72007-12-14 02:35:23 +00005928
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005929- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split char
5930 is not found.
Skip Montanaro26015492007-12-08 15:33:24 +00005931
Andrew M. Kuchling395fe442007-12-05 13:27:20 +00005932- Issue #1553: An erroneous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a
Christian Heimes7cc1c6f2007-12-05 12:52:34 +00005933 SystemError.
5934
Nick Coghlanef01d822007-12-03 12:55:17 +00005935- PEP 366: Allow explicit relative imports when executing modules
5936 inside packages with the -m switch via a new module level
5937 __package__ attribute.
5938
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005939- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still
5940 running, and if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the
5941 PyGILState_Ensure() / PyGILState_Release() functions.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcbe49a902007-11-30 20:37:22 +00005942
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00005943- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
5944
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00005945- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents``
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcce7d10c2007-11-24 13:44:17 +00005946 attribute of an empty cell object.
5947
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005948- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated
5949 input. It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arcf57375a2007-11-21 01:38:26 +00005950
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005951- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py
5952 file can now be directly executed by passing their name to the
5953 interpreter. The directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the
5954 first entry in sys.path.
Nick Coghlan327a39b2007-11-18 11:56:28 +00005955
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005956- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing
5957 function uses a generator expression when at the same time the
5958 executed code is closing a paused generator.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc0d75f092007-11-13 21:54:28 +00005959
Raymond Hettinger1760c8a2007-11-08 02:52:43 +00005960- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
5961
Raymond Hettinger3f8caa32007-10-24 01:28:33 +00005962- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
5963
Neal Norwitz44f326e2007-10-05 05:29:17 +00005964- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
5965
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00005966- The enumerate() built-in function is no longer bounded to sequences
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005967 smaller than LONG_MAX. Formerly, it raised an OverflowError. Now,
5968 automatically shifts from ints to longs.
Raymond Hettinger8f669372007-10-03 21:18:11 +00005969
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005970- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the
5971 possibility of having a self-referential tuple, which is possible
5972 from C code. Nor did object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str
5973 could do something that could lead to an inifinite recursion.
5974 Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(), respectively, fixed the
5975 issues.
Brett Cannon0b14f242007-09-30 19:45:10 +00005976
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005977- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the
5978 'print' statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released
5979 as needed. Now PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with
5980 various tp_print implementations of the built-in types and those in
5981 the collections module.
Brett Cannon01531592007-09-17 03:28:34 +00005982
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005983- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in
5984 their throw() method even though string exceptions no longer
5985 allowed.
Brett Cannon4c20bc42007-09-11 21:02:28 +00005986
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005987- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very
5988 deeply nested list by using the recursion counter.
Brett Cannona0c05512007-09-10 21:38:27 +00005989
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00005990- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005991 PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger
5992 recursion depth updates/checks. Required the creation of a static
5993 RuntimeError instance in case normalizing an exception put the
5994 recursion check value past its limit. Fixes crashers
5995 infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
Brett Cannon1e534b52007-09-07 04:18:30 +00005996
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00005997- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its
5998 original source encoding.
Martin v. Löwisa5136192007-09-04 14:19:28 +00005999
Georg Brandl7c3b50d2007-07-12 08:38:00 +00006000- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
6001 with %G.
6002
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006003- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a
6004 segfault when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
Neal Norwitz7dbd2a32007-06-09 03:36:34 +00006005
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006006- Issue #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
Martin v. Löwisda587ab2007-06-08 17:29:20 +00006007
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006008- Issue #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
Georg Brandla5ea6892007-06-01 11:33:33 +00006009
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00006010- Add new attribute names for function objects. All the func_* become
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006011 __*__ attributes. (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and
6012 __name__.)
Neal Norwitz0ac60192007-05-27 04:08:54 +00006013
Neal Norwitz8b2bfbc2007-05-23 06:35:32 +00006014- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
6015 deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
6016
Georg Brandl2134e752007-05-21 20:34:16 +00006017- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
6018 calls.
6019
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00006020- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006021 "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility
6022 with Python 3.0.
Collin Winter62903052007-05-18 23:11:24 +00006023
Brett Cannon229cee22007-05-05 01:34:02 +00006024- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
6025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006026- Issue #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006027 inherited from a built-in base.
Armin Rigo9790a272007-05-02 19:23:31 +00006028
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006029- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
Neal Norwitzcbd9ee62007-04-14 05:25:50 +00006030 setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
6031
Raymond Hettinger13936692007-04-11 18:40:58 +00006032- Request #1191699: Slices can now be pickled.
6033
Raymond Hettinger4db5fe92007-04-12 04:10:00 +00006034- Request #1193128: str.translate() now allows a None argument for
6035 translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
6036 remaining characters.
6037
Georg Brandl5cb76c12007-03-21 09:00:39 +00006038- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
6039 masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
6040
Neal Norwitzaa754b72007-03-21 06:39:48 +00006041- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
6042
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00006043- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
6044 now stricter in rejecting excess arguments. The only time when
6045 either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
6046 other one is. For backwards compatibility, when both are
6047 overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
Guido van Rossum234b1ff2007-03-23 19:39:01 +00006048 warning later). Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
6049 as supported by type.__new__().
Guido van Rossum143b5642007-03-23 04:58:42 +00006050
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006051- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an
6052 object to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back
6053 to the __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath
6054 module now can operate on objects that define a __complex__()
6055 method.
Georg Brandl2b869942007-03-17 16:08:45 +00006056
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006057- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with
6058 __slots__. The old and the new class are still required to have the
6059 same slot names.
Žiga Seilnacht6f2d09c2007-03-16 11:59:38 +00006060
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006061- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors
6062 in complex if statements.
Collin Winter77c67bd2007-03-16 04:11:30 +00006063
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006064- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when
6065 ``object.__reduce_ex__()`` is called with an object that is faking
6066 its type.
Žiga Seilnacht20f43d32007-03-15 11:44:55 +00006067
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006068- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an
6069 unicode name.
Žiga Seilnacht71436f02007-03-14 12:24:09 +00006070
Georg Brandl5240d742007-03-13 20:46:32 +00006071- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
6072
Georg Brandl7b9c5552007-03-12 14:30:05 +00006073- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
6074 case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
6075
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00006076- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006077 its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This
6078 allows customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a
6079 __getattr__().
Georg Brandl871f1bc2007-03-12 13:17:36 +00006080
Collin Winter276887b2007-03-12 16:11:39 +00006081- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
6082 self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
6083
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006084- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()``
6085 method.
Žiga Seilnacht89032082007-03-11 15:54:54 +00006086
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006087- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow
6088 parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of
6089 raising a ValueError.
Collin Wintere38051d2007-03-09 20:33:07 +00006090
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00006091- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006092 makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible
6093 when a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
Georg Brandlaa2321b2007-03-07 00:40:28 +00006094
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00006095- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
6096 exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006097 variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just
6098 like on other exceptions or normal program exit.
Georg Brandl49aafc92007-03-07 00:34:46 +00006099
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006100- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in
6101 long().
Georg Brandl00cd8182007-03-06 18:41:12 +00006102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006103- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error
6104 condition.
Georg Brandl098cd692007-03-06 12:17:50 +00006105
Georg Brandl0fca97a2007-03-05 22:28:08 +00006106- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
6107 sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
6108
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006109- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before
6110 the name. This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing
6111 exceptions.
Neal Norwitz88516a62007-02-26 22:41:45 +00006112
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006113- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to
6114 slot_nb_inplace_power.
Martin v. Löwisfd963262007-02-09 12:19:32 +00006115
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006116- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.
6117 Attempting to catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
Brett Cannon129bd522007-01-30 21:34:36 +00006118
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006119- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object
6120 created a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style
6121 classes (classic classes still have the bug).
Brett Cannonf5bee302007-01-23 23:21:22 +00006122
Martin v. Löwis6c5c5022007-01-23 21:11:47 +00006123- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
6124 frame's thread state.
6125
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006126- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in
6127 sitecustomize.py.
Thomas Wouters6ed19652007-01-23 13:50:49 +00006128
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006129- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object raised
6130 a warning.
Neal Norwitz72cd02c2007-01-05 05:25:22 +00006131
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006132- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main, to
6133 avoid relying on atexit.
Martin v. Löwis7b7c9d42007-01-04 21:06:12 +00006134
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006135- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big
6136 number.
Raymond Hettinger94547f72006-12-20 06:42:06 +00006137
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006138- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on
6139 strings, tuples and lists.
Georg Brandl283a1352006-11-19 08:48:30 +00006140
Martin v. Löwis056dac12006-11-12 18:24:26 +00006141- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
6142
Martin v. Löwisa346c092006-11-08 06:48:36 +00006143- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
6144
Neal Norwitz85dbec62006-11-04 19:25:22 +00006145- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
6146
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006147- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure
6148 that the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
Georg Brandlb9f4ad32006-10-29 18:31:42 +00006149
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006150- Bug #1565514: SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
Neal Norwitz21997af2006-10-28 21:19:07 +00006151
Thomas Hellerdf08f0b2006-10-27 18:31:36 +00006152- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
6153 again, no longer the posix error code.
6154
Martin v. Löwisb5bc5372006-10-27 06:16:31 +00006155- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
6156 if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
6157
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006158- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after
6159 returns) and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
Neal Norwitzcbeb6872006-10-14 21:33:38 +00006160
Georg Brandl2c1375c2006-10-12 11:27:59 +00006161- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
6162 embedded in the string to convert.
6163
Georg Brandl846f73a2006-10-08 07:11:54 +00006164- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
6165 recognized and rejected.
6166
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00006167- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
6168
Armin Rigo7ccbca92006-10-04 12:17:45 +00006169- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
6170 were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
6171 anymore.
Martin v. Löwis820d6ac2006-10-04 05:47:34 +00006172
Georg Brandl3267d282006-09-30 09:03:42 +00006173- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
6174 number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
6175
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00006176- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006177 keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but
6178 didn't use them).
Georg Brandl5d59c092006-09-30 08:43:30 +00006179
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006180- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to
6181 "with" not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this
6182 statement: from __future__ import division, with_statement
Georg Brandla10d3af2006-09-24 12:35:36 +00006183
Neal Norwitz3a230172006-09-22 08:18:10 +00006184- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
6185
Neal Norwitz4a8fbdb2006-09-22 08:16:26 +00006186- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
6187
Brett Cannonf6aa86e2006-09-20 18:43:13 +00006188- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
6189
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006190- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__
6191 method. This allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes
6192 directly to succeed.
Brett Cannon9adeab72006-09-20 18:34:28 +00006193
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00006194- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
6195 Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
6196 'exceptions'.
6197
Georg Brandl98775df2006-09-06 06:09:31 +00006198- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
6199 imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
6200
Tim Petersc10c9d02006-09-05 02:18:09 +00006201- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
6202 optimizations. Changed to be more standard-conforming.
6203
Neal Norwitz4f096d92006-08-21 19:47:08 +00006204- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
6205
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00006206- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
6207
Neal Norwitzd34e4272006-09-05 02:36:20 +00006208- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
6209 head is the original string if sep was not found.
6210
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00006211- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006212 generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again. Fixing this
6213 problem required changing the .pyc magic number. This means that
6214 .pyc files generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
Neal Norwitzdac090d2006-09-05 03:53:08 +00006215
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006216- ``with`` and ``as`` are now keywords.
Neal Norwitzca460d92006-09-06 06:28:06 +00006217
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006218- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be
6219 decoded.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006220
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00006221- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to
6222 BaseException.
Christian Heimes44eeaec2007-12-03 20:01:02 +00006223
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006224- Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
Gregory P. Smith95cd5c02008-01-22 01:20:42 +00006225 threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
6226 it actually exited.
6227
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00006228
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00006229Library
6230-------
6231
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006232- Patch #2274: Add heapq.heappushpop().
Raymond Hettinger53bdf092008-03-13 19:03:51 +00006233
Christian Heimes608c1d82008-03-03 18:28:04 +00006234- Add inspect.isabstract(object) to fix bug #2223
6235
Mark Dickinson1ddf1d82008-02-29 02:16:37 +00006236- Add a __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101.
6237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006238- Add a timing parameter when using trace.Trace to print out
6239 timestamps.
Neal Norwitzca376612008-02-26 08:21:28 +00006240
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006241- Issue #1627: httplib now ignores negative Content-Length headers.
Georg Brandl8c460d52008-02-24 00:14:24 +00006242
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006243- Issue #900744: If an invalid chunked-encoding header is sent by a
6244 server, httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the
6245 connection instead of raising ValueError.
Georg Brandl23635032008-02-24 00:03:22 +00006246
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006247- Issue #1492: The content type of BaseHTTPServer error messages can
6248 now be overridden.
Georg Brandl16479232008-02-23 15:02:28 +00006249
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006250- Issue #1781: ConfigParser now does not let you add the "default" section
Facundo Batistab12f0b52008-02-23 12:46:10 +00006251 (ignore-case)
6252
Guido van Rossum8bc09652008-02-21 18:18:37 +00006253- Removed uses of dict.has_key() from distutils, and uses of
6254 callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
6255 without warnings when '-3' is given. More work like this needs to
6256 be done in the rest of the stdlib.
6257
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006258- Issue #1916: added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
6259 inspect.py.
Facundo Batista759bfc62008-02-18 03:43:43 +00006260
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006261- Issue #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double
6262 slash.
Facundo Batistad14600e2008-02-18 12:48:43 +00006263
Thomas Hellera06a1a82008-02-13 20:21:53 +00006264- ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
6265 pickled.
6266
Martin v. Löwisdad88dc2008-02-12 18:47:34 +00006267- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
6268 implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
6269
Mark Dickinsond058cd22008-02-10 21:29:51 +00006270- Rename rational.py to fractions.py and the rational.Rational class
6271 to fractions.Fraction, to avoid the name clash with the abstract
6272 base class numbers.Rational. See discussion in issue #1682.
6273
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006274- The pickletools module now provides an optimize() function that
6275 eliminates unused PUT opcodes from a pickle string.
Raymond Hettingerda614dc2008-02-10 20:35:16 +00006276
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006277- Patch #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile and
6278 SpooledTemporaryFile to be used in with statements by correctly
6279 supporting the context management protocol.
Nick Coghlanac094dc2008-02-10 07:32:52 +00006280
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006281- Patch #1979: Add rich comparisons to Decimal, and make Decimal
6282 comparisons involving a NaN follow the IEEE 754 standard.
Mark Dickinson2fc92632008-02-06 22:10:50 +00006283
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006284- Issue #2004: tarfile.py: Use mode 0700 for temporary directories and
6285 default permissions for missing directories.
Lars Gustäbel0192e432008-02-05 11:51:40 +00006286
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006287- Issue #175006: The debugger used to skip the condition of a "while"
6288 statement after the first iteration. Now it correctly steps on the
6289 expression, and breakpoints on the "while" statement are honored on
6290 each loop.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc6fd03bb2008-02-04 21:45:05 +00006291
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006292- Issue #1765140: add an optional delay argument to FileHandler and
6293 its subclasses. Defaults to false (existing behaviour), but if true,
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00006294 defers opening the file until the first call to emit().
6295
Raymond Hettingerc226c312008-01-23 00:04:40 +00006296- The pprint module now supports sets and frozensets.
6297
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006298- Issue #1221598: add optional callbacks to ftplib.FTP's storbinary()
6299 and storlines() methods. (Contributed by Phil Schwartz)
Gregory P. Smithc64386b2008-01-22 00:19:41 +00006300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006301- Issue #1715: include sub-extension modules in pydoc's text output.
Georg Brandlf2dae0e2008-01-21 21:05:49 +00006302
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006303- Issue #1836: fix an off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingHandler's
6304 rollover time calculation.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006305
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006306- Issue #1021: fix a bug to allow basicConfig to accept NOTSET as a
6307 level.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006308
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006309- Issue #932563: add LoggerAdapter convenience class to make it easier
6310 to add contextual information in logging output.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006311
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006312- Issue #1760556: fix a bug to avoid FileHandler throwing an exception
6313 in flush().
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006314
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006315- Bug #1530959: distutils' build command now uses different build
6316 directory when building extension modules against versions of Python
6317 compiled with ``--with-pydebug``.
Georg Brandl50160152008-01-21 17:42:40 +00006318
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006319- Issue #1555501: move plistlib from plat-mac directory to general
6320 library.
Georg Brandl864de822008-01-21 16:34:07 +00006321
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006322- Issue #1269: fix a bug in pstats.add_callers() and add a unit test
6323 file for pstats.
Georg Brandl66e73632008-01-21 10:24:59 +00006324
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006325- Issue #1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink
6326 to a directory.
Georg Brandl52353982008-01-20 14:17:42 +00006327
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006328- Issue #1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in
6329 ftp mode, returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Georg Brandld5e6cf22008-01-20 12:18:17 +00006330
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006331- Issue #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when
6332 using the ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
Georg Brandl22350112008-01-20 12:05:43 +00006333
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006334- Issue #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that
6335 urllib.open() returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.
Georg Brandl9b0d46d2008-01-20 11:43:03 +00006336
Gregory P. Smithf25680a2008-01-20 01:26:04 +00006337- Issue #1003: Fix zipfile decryption check, it would fail zip files
6338 with extended local headers.
6339
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006340- Issue #1189216: Fix the zipfile module to work on archives with
6341 headers past the 2**31 byte boundary.
Gregory P. Smith350d03b2008-01-19 23:10:52 +00006342
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006343- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
Gregory P. Smithb9ba0752008-01-19 21:00:37 +00006344 collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
6345 to hang when the child wrote to stderr.
6346
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006347- Issue #1146: fix how textwrap breaks a long word that would start in
6348 the last column of a line.
Georg Brandlc6fde722008-01-19 19:48:19 +00006349
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006350- Issue #1693149: trace.py --ignore-module - accept multiple
6351 comma-separated modules to be given.
Skip Montanaro562133b2008-01-19 18:47:24 +00006352
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006353- Issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
6354 just-created (and empty) instance. Thanks Jonathan Share.
Facundo Batista2b1b1952008-01-19 12:32:27 +00006355
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006356- Issue #1861: Added an attribute to the sched module which returns an
6357 ordered list of upcoming events (displayed as named tuples).
Raymond Hettinger44bd6c02008-01-17 19:31:38 +00006358
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006359- Issue #1837: The queue module now also supports a LIFO queue and a
6360 priority queue.
Raymond Hettinger3ad2acc82008-01-16 23:49:35 +00006361
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00006362- Patch #1048820: Add insert-mode editing to curses.textpad.Textbox
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006363 (patch by Stefan Wehr). Also, fix an off-by-one bug in
Andrew M. Kuchling4a2762d2008-01-20 00:00:38 +00006364 Textbox.gather().
6365
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00006366- Issue #1831: ctypes now raises a TypeError if conflicting positional
6367 and named arguments are passed to a Structure or Union initializer.
Thomas Heller415c1e32008-01-16 19:45:51 +00006368 When too many positional arguments are passed, also a TypeError is
6369 raised instead of a ValueError.
Thomas Heller02ec2892008-01-16 19:37:33 +00006370
Thomas Heller902d3072008-01-16 19:16:27 +00006371- Convert the internal ctypes array type cache to a WeakValueDict so
6372 that array types do not live longer than needed.
6373
Guido van Rossumcad37242008-01-15 17:59:29 +00006374- Issue #1786: pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an exec call
6375 and when creating a recursive instance.
6376
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006377- Issue #1698398: ZipFile.printdir() crashed because the format string
6378 expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time
6379 object.
Raymond Hettinger351e1a32008-01-14 22:58:05 +00006380
Mark Dickinson59bc20b2008-01-12 01:56:00 +00006381- Issue #1780: The Decimal constructor now accepts arbitrary leading
6382 and trailing whitespace when constructing from a string.
6383 Context.create_decimal no longer accepts trailing newlines.
6384
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006385- Decimal.as_tuple(), difflib.find_longest_match() and inspect
6386 functions that returned a tuple now return a named tuple.
Georg Brandl2f32c392008-01-11 09:20:58 +00006387
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00006388- Doctest now returns results as a named tuple for readability:
Raymond Hettingerfff4e6e2008-01-11 01:25:54 +00006389 (0, 7) --> TestResults(failed=0, attempted=7)
6390
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006391- Issue #846388:q re.match is interruptible now, which is particularly
Facundo Batista4473d222008-01-08 21:10:12 +00006392 good for long regular expression matches.
6393
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006394- Patch #1137: allow setting buffer_size attribute on pyexpat Parser
6395 objects to set the character data buffer size.
Andrew M. Kuchlinge0a49b62008-01-08 14:30:55 +00006396
Facundo Batista52b25792008-01-08 12:25:20 +00006397- Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected by
6398 the current context.
6399
Georg Brandl62416bc2008-01-07 18:47:44 +00006400- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
6401 zipfile module.
6402
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00006403- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
6404
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006405- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments
6406 are equal instead of raising an exception.
Georg Brandl183a0842008-01-06 14:27:15 +00006407
Guido van Rossumc6a04c22008-01-05 22:19:06 +00006408- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
6409
Guido van Rossumced4eb02008-01-05 01:21:57 +00006410- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
6411
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006412- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory
6413 permissions and times.
Lars Gustäbel2ee1c762008-01-04 14:00:33 +00006414
Christian Heimes06875612008-01-04 13:21:07 +00006415- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
6416
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006417- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when
6418 writing
Christian Heimes06131882008-01-04 00:04:52 +00006419
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006420- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle
6421 certain unicode characters.
Guido van Rossumae04c332008-01-03 19:12:44 +00006422
Jeffrey Yasskin2f3c16b2008-01-03 02:21:52 +00006423- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
6424
Martin v. Löwis84b9aab2008-01-01 21:09:07 +00006425- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
6426 Tcl objects.
6427
Thomas Heller153038e2007-12-18 19:00:34 +00006428- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
6429
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006430- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects
6431 created on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a
6432 consequence of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6
6433 cannot be loaded in Python 2.5.
Martin v. Löwis6b449f42007-12-03 19:20:02 +00006434
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006435- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008
6436 for both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
Christian Heimesc654fc22007-12-03 13:55:16 +00006437
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006438- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do
6439 not seek to the start.
Lars Gustäbel77b2d632007-12-01 21:02:12 +00006440
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006441- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information
6442 about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
Christian Heimesdfdfaab2007-12-01 11:20:10 +00006443
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006444- Issue #1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play
6445 nicely together.
Skip Montanaro58a6f442007-11-24 14:30:47 +00006446
Brett Cannon43e53f82007-11-21 00:47:36 +00006447- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
6448 method used universal newlines.
6449
Nick Coghlan90b858e2007-11-07 11:57:51 +00006450- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
6451 StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
6452
Thomas Heller486b1b02007-11-02 19:10:24 +00006453- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
6454 --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
6455
Hye-Shik Changa838a802007-10-28 11:19:02 +00006456- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
6457 files are updated.
6458
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006459- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the
6460 os.environ.pop() and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00006461
Thomas Heller91ac4222007-10-19 18:11:41 +00006462- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
6463 configured with --with-system-ffi.
6464
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00006465- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
Georg Brandl1a94ec22007-10-24 21:40:38 +00006466 --disable-toolbox-glue.
Thomas Heller7fee6dd2007-10-11 19:51:32 +00006467
Raymond Hettingera7fc4b12007-10-05 02:47:07 +00006468- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
6469
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006470- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX. Formerly, it
6471 raised an OverflowError. Now, automatically shifts from ints to
6472 longs.
Raymond Hettinger50e90e22007-10-04 00:20:27 +00006473
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006474- Added itertools.product() which forms the Cartesian product of the
6475 input iterables.
Raymond Hettingerc5705a82008-02-22 19:50:06 +00006476
Raymond Hettinger66f91ea2008-03-05 20:59:58 +00006477- Added itertools.combinations() and itertools.permutations().
Raymond Hettinger93e804d2008-02-26 23:40:50 +00006478
Georg Brandlaff85e22007-09-20 16:06:07 +00006479- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
6480
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006481- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification
6482 (v1.66).
Facundo Batistab67da232007-09-17 16:26:50 +00006483
Georg Brandl8fd3ecf2007-09-12 19:00:07 +00006484- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
6485 to be orderable to properly represent them.
6486
Thomas Heller2825b2e2007-09-07 06:32:17 +00006487- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
6488
Martin v. Löwis7dcb83c2007-08-30 19:04:09 +00006489- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
6490
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006491- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the
6492 RobotFileParser no longer prompts interactively for a username and
6493 password (bug 813986).
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00006494
Lars Gustäbel0f4a14b2007-08-28 12:31:09 +00006495- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
6496 the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
6497
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006498- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward
6499 compatibility with Python 3000.
Guido van Rossum95f1a1b2007-08-27 20:52:10 +00006500
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006501- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill
6502 Janssen.
Guido van Rossum4f2c3dd2007-08-25 15:08:43 +00006503
Bill Janssenf413fb02007-08-30 18:08:06 +00006504- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
6505
Georg Brandl8ec57542007-08-24 06:10:01 +00006506- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
6507
Hye-Shik Chang23901042007-08-20 06:49:18 +00006508- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
6509 syllables.
6510
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006511- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that are
6512 missing in GBK.
Hye-Shik Changf3e93a02007-08-04 04:10:18 +00006513
Walter Dörwald6e390802007-08-17 16:41:28 +00006514- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
6515
Martin v. Löwisf1e0b3f2007-07-28 07:03:05 +00006516- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
6517 represent the result in a single character.
6518
Martin v. Löwisf25e35b2007-07-27 18:28:22 +00006519- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
6520
Martin v. Löwis254b8f92007-07-25 16:24:23 +00006521- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
6522
Thomas Hellerfa704c62007-07-13 17:12:23 +00006523- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
6524 ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location. As a
6525 sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
6526
Lars Gustäbel104490e2007-06-18 11:42:11 +00006527- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
6528
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006529- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple
6530 attribute.
Neal Norwitzc161cb92007-06-11 07:29:43 +00006531
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006532- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout
6533 parameter (note that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and
6534 FTPS connections).
Facundo Batista10951d52007-06-06 17:15:23 +00006535
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006536- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now
6537 uses the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout
6538 specified at connection time.
Facundo Batista92493122007-06-06 15:13:37 +00006539
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00006540- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006541 reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint
6542 argument for .read() is specified.
Hye-Shik Chang9b541402007-06-05 18:58:51 +00006543
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006544- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of
6545 ``\s*`` when matching spaces in the specified format argument.
Brett Cannonf7188ce2007-06-03 23:13:41 +00006546
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006547- Bugs #1668596/#1720897: distutils now copies data files even if
6548 package_dir is empty.
Neal Norwitz4a700bb2007-06-01 07:29:12 +00006549
Brett Cannonc2aa09a2007-05-31 19:20:00 +00006550- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6551
Brett Cannon7eec2172007-05-30 22:24:28 +00006552- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6553
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006554- Issue #1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when
6555 using hashes with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384
6556 and sha512).
Gregory P. Smithe1ac4f12007-11-06 00:19:03 +00006557
Brett Cannonc249bda2007-05-30 21:48:58 +00006558- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6559
Brett Cannon90134c92007-05-30 20:46:26 +00006560- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
6561
Lars Gustäbela0fcb932007-05-27 19:49:30 +00006562- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
6563 officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
6564
Facundo Batista711a54e2007-05-24 17:50:54 +00006565- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
6566
Georg Brandlc90bc752007-05-24 16:49:29 +00006567- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
6568
Brett Cannon41bf2fa2007-05-20 23:57:38 +00006569- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
6570
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006571- Remove the gopherlib module. This also leads to the removal of
6572 gopher support in urllib/urllib2.
Brett Cannond75f0432007-05-16 22:42:29 +00006573
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006574- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to lack
6575 of an infinite recursion check.
Neal Norwitzb1a9b372007-05-16 20:05:11 +00006576
Neal Norwitze0e70a42007-05-16 05:06:33 +00006577- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
6578 the directories).
6579
Georg Brandla09a96a2007-05-15 20:19:34 +00006580- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
6581 the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
6582 injecting HTML into the error page.
6583
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006584- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated. Use the subprocess
6585 module.
Neal Norwitz42dd86b2007-05-11 06:57:33 +00006586
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006587- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with
6588 SMTP servers which require authentication.
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006589
6590- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
6591
6592- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
6593
6594- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
6595 log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
6596 only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
6597
Georg Brandlfb4b3b72007-04-24 15:27:13 +00006598- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
6599 (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
6600 ".cpp" too.
6601
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00006602- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006603 the client's request was successfully received, understood, and
6604 accepted. Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue
6605 #1177) and urllib2.
Facundo Batistad918a652007-04-24 13:54:38 +00006606
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006607- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information
6608 is now properly recreated when the locale is changed.
Brett Cannonc6906652007-04-01 18:47:27 +00006609
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006610- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in
6611 distutils.MSVCCompiler.
Neal Norwitz8f35f442007-04-01 18:24:22 +00006612
Facundo Batistab6a5c9d2007-03-29 18:22:35 +00006613- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
6614 (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
6615 work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
6616 closes patch #723312.
6617
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006618- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
6619 called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
Facundo Batista70f996b2007-05-21 17:32:32 +00006620 and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
Facundo Batista07c78be2007-03-23 18:54:07 +00006621
Martin v. Löwis0af33882007-03-23 13:27:15 +00006622- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
6623
Žiga Seilnacht7492e422007-03-21 20:07:56 +00006624- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
6625 now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
6626
Collin Wintera8785cc2007-03-19 18:52:08 +00006627- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
6628
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006629- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set
6630 to True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
Georg Brandlcae9f3d2007-03-21 09:10:29 +00006631 directories.
6632
Georg Brandl8f06d022007-03-16 07:55:09 +00006633- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
6634 GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
6635 of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
6636 trying Mozilla variants.
6637
Collin Winter6f187742007-03-16 22:16:08 +00006638- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
6639
Georg Brandlab1f4672007-03-15 07:41:30 +00006640- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
6641 initialization failed.
6642
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00006643- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006644 AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response
6645 didn't contain a valid HTTP status line.
Georg Brandlf66b6032007-03-14 08:27:52 +00006646
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006647- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now
6648 properly expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home
6649 directory references are recognized and handled on Windows.
Georg Brandl03b90d82007-03-13 22:07:36 +00006650
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006651- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module
6652 for the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
Georg Brandlb6ae6aa2007-03-13 21:58:44 +00006653 correctly now.
6654
Georg Brandlbad6f192007-03-13 21:32:56 +00006655- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
6656
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006657- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the
6658 debugged Python program, optionally with different arguments.
Georg Brandl8e84c652007-03-13 21:08:15 +00006659
Thomas Heller5dc4fe02007-03-13 20:42:52 +00006660- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
6661
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006662- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the
6663 documentation for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which
6664 pydoc.doc() does.
Georg Brandl8441f152007-03-13 20:02:57 +00006665
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006666- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition
6667 to strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
6668 convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its
6669 methods.
Georg Brandld9bef352007-03-13 19:32:21 +00006670
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006671- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete"
6672 parameter which can be set to False to prevent the default
6673 delete-on-close behavior.
Georg Brandl35ef9c12007-03-13 18:31:49 +00006674
Georg Brandl9e6b4702007-03-13 18:15:41 +00006675- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
6676 whitespace while wrapping.
6677
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00006678- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006679 are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to
6680 errors on reading back those values.
Georg Brandl92a6bae2007-03-13 17:43:32 +00006681
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006682- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to
6683 tarfile.py. Extended and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new
6684 testtar.tar.
Lars Gustäbelc64e4022007-03-13 10:47:19 +00006685
Martin v. Löwisbdd0f392007-03-13 10:24:00 +00006686- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
6687 email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
6688
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006689- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS"
6690 to pydoc's help keywords.
Georg Brandlb6a87542007-03-13 10:06:48 +00006691
Georg Brandl4ffc8f52007-03-13 09:41:31 +00006692- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
6693 concatenation in robotparser.
6694
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00006695- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006696 field names in its exception message if you try to write a record
6697 with a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +00006698
Georg Brandlceede5c2007-03-13 08:14:27 +00006699- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
6700 OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
6701
Martin v. Löwis2681beb2007-03-12 11:01:10 +00006702- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
6703
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006704- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they
6705 trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint
6706 number.
Collin Winter2faa9e12007-03-11 16:00:20 +00006707
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006708- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to
6709 server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for
6710 TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
Collin Winterae041062007-03-10 14:41:48 +00006711
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006712- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be
6713 equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
Collin Winterfaaa2042007-03-10 03:35:34 +00006714 patch #1545011.
Collin Winter22c42ba2007-03-10 02:51:26 +00006715
Andrew M. Kuchlinge45a77a2008-01-19 16:26:13 +00006716- Patch #742598: Add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that calls
6717 .handle_timeout() when no requests are received.
6718
Thomas Heller2456a3c2007-03-09 20:39:22 +00006719- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
6720 Python would crash instead of raising an error.
6721
Thomas Hellerc2f77252007-03-09 19:21:28 +00006722- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
6723 returned string up to the first NUL character.
6724
Martin v. Löwis1190a382007-03-09 15:35:55 +00006725- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
6726
Collin Winterfb728de2007-03-09 03:26:32 +00006727- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
6728
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006729- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile
6730 module. The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent
6731 names now has a descriptive message.
Georg Brandl4b3ab6f2007-07-12 09:59:22 +00006732
Martin v. Löwis05c075d2007-03-07 11:04:33 +00006733- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
6734
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006735- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular,
6736 TestCase and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer
6737 accepted in TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no
6738 incompatibility since it never made sense with ordinary subclasses
6739 -- the failure just occurred later, with a more cumbersome
6740 exception.
Georg Brandl9caadf82007-03-08 18:37:31 +00006741
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006742- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to
6743 unittest's main() function.
Georg Brandld0a96252007-03-07 09:21:06 +00006744
Georg Brandl15c5ce92007-03-07 09:09:40 +00006745- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
6746 comprehensive test suite for the module.
6747
Georg Brandl71ff6462007-03-07 08:31:51 +00006748- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
6749 given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
6750
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006751- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't
6752 know how to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to
6753 build.
Skip Montanarod1287322007-03-06 15:41:38 +00006754
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006755- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
Martin v. Löwisab8a6bb2007-03-06 14:43:00 +00006756 in HTMLParser.
6757
Georg Brandlff432e62007-03-06 13:37:45 +00006758- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
6759 using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
6760
Martin v. Löwis3eb76482007-03-06 10:41:24 +00006761- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
6762
Skip Montanarof694b1b2007-03-04 20:54:12 +00006763- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
6764
Raymond Hettinger00166c52007-02-19 04:08:43 +00006765- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
6766
Raymond Hettingercd3c1082007-10-23 21:23:07 +00006767- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
Raymond Hettingerc37e5e02007-03-01 06:16:43 +00006768
Raymond Hettingerd36862c2007-02-21 05:20:38 +00006769- Added itertools.izip_longest().
6770
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006771- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using
6772 absolute import semantics.
Brett Cannon971a0122007-02-15 22:54:39 +00006773
Lars Gustäbel5b1a7852007-02-13 16:09:24 +00006774- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
6775
Martin v. Löwis84f6de92007-02-13 10:10:39 +00006776- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
6777 doesn't exist.
6778
Martin v. Löwisc6d626e2007-02-13 09:49:38 +00006779- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
6780
Martin v. Löwis07aa3ed2007-02-13 08:34:45 +00006781- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
6782
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006783- Patch #1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
Martin v. Löwis2bad58f2007-02-12 12:21:10 +00006784
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006785- Patch #1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face
6786 of relative directory names.
Skip Montanaro691acf22007-02-11 18:24:37 +00006787
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006788- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR, not
6789 lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Martin v. Löwis0a203262007-02-09 12:36:48 +00006790
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006791- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode
6792 and allow appending to empty files.
Lars Gustäbel3f8aca12007-02-06 18:38:13 +00006793
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00006794- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
Vinay Sajip8549ce32007-05-06 17:53:37 +00006795 subprocess.
Peter Astrand5f9c6ae2007-02-06 15:37:50 +00006796
Georg Brandl4ba9e5b2007-01-27 17:59:42 +00006797- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
6798 iso8859_16.
6799
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006800- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly
6801 compile a with statement; previously, executing code containing a
6802 with statement compiled by the compiler package crashed the
6803 interpreter.
Georg Brandlab496842007-01-27 17:43:02 +00006804
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006805- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
6806
Lars Gustäbel0713a682007-02-19 09:54:47 +00006807- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
6808 directories.
6809
Georg Brandldd7b0522007-01-21 10:35:10 +00006810- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
6811
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006812- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its
6813 docstring.
Sjoerd Mullender33a0a062007-01-16 16:42:38 +00006814
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006815- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006816 return a tuple (it used to return a list).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006817
6818- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006819 python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006820
Brett Cannon07e1db32007-01-25 20:22:02 +00006821- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00006822
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006823- The sets module has been deprecated. Use the built-in set/frozenset
6824 types instead.
Brett Cannon093b6702007-01-13 00:29:49 +00006825
Thomas Heller6fd45492007-01-12 20:21:53 +00006826- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
6827
Thomas Heller8138c262007-01-11 21:18:56 +00006828- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
6829 definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types. Make
6830 parameterless foreign function calls work.
6831
Thomas Hellerfb9d7872007-01-10 20:12:13 +00006832- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
6833
Vinay Sajipab41c102007-01-09 14:51:36 +00006834- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
6835 be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
6836 encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
6837
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00006838- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
6839 SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
6840
6841- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
6842 SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
6843
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006844- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from
6845 LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and
6846 AttributeError are trapped.
Vinay Sajipc9137262007-01-08 18:52:36 +00006847
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006848- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj
6849 argument.
Lars Gustäbela7ba6fc2006-12-27 10:30:46 +00006850
Andrew M. Kuchling71662322006-12-27 03:31:24 +00006851- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
6852
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006853- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves
6854 under certain conditions.
Lars Gustäbela4b23812006-12-23 17:57:23 +00006855
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006856- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and
6857 tell() work correctly together with readline().
Lars Gustäbel6baa5022006-12-23 16:40:13 +00006858
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006859- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError
6860 exception if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
Georg Brandlebbeed72006-12-19 22:06:46 +00006861
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006862- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
6863 separated lists read from logging config files.
6864
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006865- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging
6866 shutdown when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd
6867 problems.
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006868
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006869- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the
6870 directory to be created is already there.
Georg Brandlb1307432006-12-09 09:08:29 +00006871
Georg Brandl87fa5592006-12-06 22:21:18 +00006872- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
6873
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006874- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type for
6875 ordering, sorting, etc.
Martin v. Löwisa00bcac2006-12-03 12:01:53 +00006876
Thomas Helleref583a42006-11-28 20:21:54 +00006877- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
6878
Thomas Heller25d208b2006-11-24 18:45:39 +00006879- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
6880
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006881- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType in
6882 xmlrpclib.
Martin v. Löwis07529352006-11-19 18:51:54 +00006883
Martin v. Löwiscffcc8b2006-11-19 10:41:41 +00006884- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
6885 regular files.
6886
Martin v. Löwisbba003e2006-11-18 18:42:11 +00006887- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
6888
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006889- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even if an
6890 exception occurs.
Martin v. Löwisef5fd3e2006-11-18 18:05:35 +00006891
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006892- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if the
6893 parent window is withdrawn.
Martin v. Löwisc73a4a42006-11-18 18:00:23 +00006894
Georg Brandl54082112006-11-16 16:50:59 +00006895- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
6896 to facilitate usage as a decorator.
6897
Martin v. Löwis45cd4ff2006-11-12 18:56:03 +00006898- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
6899 file name mangling.
6900
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006901- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer that
6902 precedes an 1xx response.
Martin v. Löwis36cbc082006-11-12 18:48:13 +00006903
Martin v. Löwis065f0c82006-11-12 10:41:39 +00006904- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
6905
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00006906- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
Martin v. Löwis040a9272006-11-12 10:32:47 +00006907 HTTPConnection.request().
6908
Andrew M. Kuchlinga3e5d372006-11-09 13:27:07 +00006909- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
6910 weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
6911 objects.
6912
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006913- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if
6914 there's a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.
6915 (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchling978d8282006-11-09 21:16:46 +00006916
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006917- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been
6918 physically written to disk after calling .flush() or
6919 .close(). (Patch by David Watson.)
Andrew M. Kuchlingb5686da2006-11-09 13:51:14 +00006920
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006921- Patch #1592250: Add elide argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
Martin v. Löwis038cad72006-11-09 11:27:32 +00006922
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006923- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork().
Martin v. Löwisb2bba732006-11-09 11:06:03 +00006924
Martin v. Löwis5361e9a2006-11-08 07:35:55 +00006925- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
6926
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00006927- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
Guido van Rossumaf16ece2008-02-21 19:46:35 +00006928 bdist_rpm.
Martin v. Löwis5310e502006-11-04 18:14:06 +00006929
Georg Brandl2c9838e2006-10-29 14:39:09 +00006930- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
6931
Georg Brandl3354f282006-10-29 09:16:12 +00006932- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
6933 GNU modes.
6934
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00006935- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00006936 list comprehensions as the built-in compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
Georg Brandl5addf702006-10-29 08:53:06 +00006937 opcode.
6938
Georg Brandl8f99f812006-10-29 08:39:22 +00006939- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
6940 fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
6941 statement (bug #1586513).
6942
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00006943- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
6944 correctly.
6945
Martin v. Löwisee82c0e2006-10-27 07:13:28 +00006946- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
6947
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006948- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that ctypes
6949 isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
Martin v. Löwis1b2f6272006-10-22 10:55:15 +00006950
Thomas Hellerd2ea4a22006-10-17 19:30:48 +00006951- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
6952 result type. Raise an error when something else is used. This is a
6953 partial fix for Bug #1574584.
6954
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006955- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.
6956 Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
6957 when the module is run as a script.
Brett Cannond80e0c82006-10-16 03:09:52 +00006958
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006959- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
6960 started with that option.
Georg Brandld0761532006-10-12 07:57:21 +00006961
Martin v. Löwisf43893a2006-10-09 20:44:25 +00006962- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
6963
Martin v. Löwis8b274262006-10-04 15:25:28 +00006964- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
6965
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006966- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name
6967 given to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
Georg Brandla92979a2006-09-30 11:22:28 +00006968
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006969- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for
6970 classes, but also for functions.
Georg Brandl154324a2006-09-30 11:06:47 +00006971
Georg Brandl05b3c452006-09-30 10:58:01 +00006972- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
6973 keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
6974
Georg Brandl8d1e5bf2006-09-30 09:13:21 +00006975- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
6976 with a slash.
6977
Georg Brandl8c667452006-09-30 07:31:57 +00006978- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
6979 GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
6980
Georg Brandl5a85d5c2009-06-24 06:41:19 +00006981- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data and
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006982 format do match be more clear.
Brett Cannon11b35352006-09-26 23:38:24 +00006983
Georg Brandlc7986ce2006-09-24 12:50:24 +00006984- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
6985 being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
6986 In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
6987
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006988- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't
6989 because the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
Georg Brandl2c94bf72006-09-24 10:36:01 +00006990
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006991- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite
6992 loop.
Neal Norwitzbcc119a2006-09-11 04:24:09 +00006993
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00006994- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython
6995 & SAGE by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
Nick Coghlanb3c18f82006-09-08 10:04:38 +00006996
Georg Brandl4e933132006-09-06 20:05:58 +00006997- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
6998
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00006999- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
Neal Norwitza22975f2006-09-05 02:24:03 +00007000 to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
Nick Coghlanbb0996c2006-09-03 01:20:46 +00007001
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007002- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils
7003 setup() function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
Andrew M. Kuchling99994792006-10-09 17:10:12 +00007004
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007005- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers on
7006 systems with low clock resolution.
Martin v. Löwis2eb8c4f2006-08-18 03:47:18 +00007007
Gustavo Niemeyerc36bede2006-09-07 00:48:33 +00007008- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
7009
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007010- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
7011 #299092).
Matthias Klosea398e2d2007-01-11 11:44:04 +00007012
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007013- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
7014 the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
7015 longer than 3 bytes.
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00007016
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007017- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified
7018 (start and end attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t
7019 members).
Walter Dörwald84a3efe2007-06-13 16:57:12 +00007020
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007021- Issue #829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies
7022 with RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not
7023 obtained from the TLS negotiation itself. Patch contributed by Bill
7024 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smith2b3ba582008-01-17 08:03:17 +00007025
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007026- Issue #1339: The smtplib.SMTP class has been refactored a bit such
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00007027 that the SMTP.starttls() caller no longer needs to call ehlo()
7028 beforehand. SMTP.starttls() now raises an exception of the server
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007029 does not claim to support starttls. Adds the
7030 SMTP.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() method. Patch contributed by Bill
7031 Fenner.
Gregory P. Smithbde4ae42008-01-17 08:35:49 +00007032
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007033- Patch #1089358: Add signal.siginterrupt, a wrapper around
7034 siginterrupt(3).
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00007035
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007036Extension Modules
7037-----------------
7038
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00007039- Patch #1657: added select.epoll and select.kqueue.
Christian Heimes0e9ab5f2008-03-21 23:49:44 +00007040
Georg Brandlebcfd112008-02-23 23:04:35 +00007041- Patch #1506171: added operator.methodcaller().
7042
Georg Brandle2065c62008-02-23 23:02:23 +00007043- Patch #1826: operator.attrgetter() now supports dotted attribute paths.
7044
Georg Brandl392c6fc2008-05-25 07:25:25 +00007045- Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3).
Christian Heimesf0476e82008-02-23 17:42:31 +00007046
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007047- Bug #2112: mmap.error is now a subclass of EnvironmentError and not
7048 a direct EnvironmentError.
Facundo Batistae1396882008-02-17 18:59:29 +00007049
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007050- Bug #2111: mmap segfaults when trying to write a block opened with
7051 PROT_READ.
Christian Heimes7adfad82008-02-15 08:20:11 +00007052
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007053- Bug #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times() result on
7054 Windows.
Georg Brandl0a40ffb2008-02-13 07:20:22 +00007055
Martin v. Löwise0d30ef2008-02-12 13:47:26 +00007056- Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
7057
Hye-Shik Chang01612e72008-02-08 17:10:20 +00007058- Updated ``big5hkscs`` codec to the HKSCS revision of 2004.
7059
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007060- Issue #1940: make it possible to use curses.filter() before
7061 curses.initscr() as the documentation says.
Georg Brandl29604a12008-01-26 14:03:47 +00007062
Christian Heimes7f39c9f2008-01-25 12:18:43 +00007063- Backport of _fileio module from Python 3.0.
7064
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007065- Patch #1087741: mmap.mmap is now a class, not a factory function. It
7066 is also subclassable now.
Georg Brandl5ca3fd82008-01-21 14:18:14 +00007067
Georg Brandl56112892008-01-20 13:59:46 +00007068- Patch #1648: added ``sys.getprofile()`` and ``sys.gettrace()``.
7069
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007070- Patch #1663329: added ``os.closerange()`` function to quickly close
7071 a range of file descriptors without considering errors.
Georg Brandl309501a2008-01-19 20:22:13 +00007072
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007073- Patch #976880: ``mmap`` objects now have an ``rfind`` method that
Andrew M. Kuchling5c60bfc2008-01-19 18:18:41 +00007074 works as expected. ``mmap.find`` also takes an optional ``end``
7075 parameter.
7076
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007077- _winreg's HKEY object has gained __enter__ and __exit__ methods to
7078 support the context manager protocol. The _winreg module also
7079 gained a new function ``ExpandEnvironmentStrings`` to expand
7080 REG_EXPAND_SZ keys.
Christian Heimesb39a7562008-01-08 15:46:10 +00007081
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007082- itertools.starmap() now accepts any iterable input. Previously, it
7083 required the function inputs to be tuples.
Raymond Hettinger47317092008-01-17 03:02:14 +00007084
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007085- itertools.chain() now has an alternate constructor,
7086 chain.from_iterable().
Raymond Hettingerb4cbc982008-02-28 22:46:41 +00007087
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007088- Issue #1646: Make socket support TIPC. The socket module now has
7089 support for TIPC under Linux, see http://tipc.sf.net/ for more
7090 information.
Christian Heimesfb2d25a2008-01-07 16:12:44 +00007091
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007092- Added interface for Windows' WSAIoctl to socket object and added an
7093 example for a simple network sniffer.
Christian Heimes04ae9162008-01-04 15:23:30 +00007094
Guido van Rossum076d9ee2008-01-03 23:54:04 +00007095- Bug #1301: Bad assert in _tkinter fixed.
7096
Christian Heimescdaa2cb2007-12-31 14:47:07 +00007097- Added bdist_wininst executable for VS 2008.
7098
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007099- Bug #1604: collections.deque.__init__(iterable) now clears any prior
7100 contents before adding elements from the iterable. This fix brings
7101 the behavior into line with that for list.__init__().
Raymond Hettingeradf9ffd2007-12-13 00:08:37 +00007102
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007103- Added wide char functions to msvcrt module: getwch, getwche, putwch
7104 and ungetwch. The functions accept or return unicode.
Christian Heimes7c7f6af2007-12-10 15:12:41 +00007105
Martin v. Löwis69233e82007-12-04 08:39:16 +00007106- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
7107
Christian Heimes28104c52007-11-27 23:16:44 +00007108- Added warnpy3k function to the warnings module.
7109
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007110- Marshal.dumps() now expects exact type matches for int, long, float,
7111 complex, tuple, list, dict, set, and frozenset. Formerly, it would
7112 silently miscode subclasses of those types. Now, it raises a
7113 ValueError instead.
Raymond Hettinger12e94202007-11-07 01:13:09 +00007114
Martin v. Löwis58bd49f2007-09-04 13:13:14 +00007115- Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
7116 get_completion_type to readline.
7117
Thomas Helleref4fff32007-07-13 17:46:54 +00007118- Bug #1649098: Avoid declaration of zero-sized array declaration in
7119 structure.
7120
Brett Cannondc48b742007-05-20 07:09:50 +00007121- Removed the rgbimg module; been deprecated since Python 2.5.
7122
Neal Norwitz59f58aa2007-05-19 03:48:47 +00007123- Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
7124
Gregory P. Smith82eafe62007-10-18 17:17:57 +00007125- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
7126 intended for RECNO databases.
7127
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00007128- pybsddb.sf.net Bug #477182: Load the database flags at database open
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007129 time so that opening a database previously created with the DB_DUP
7130 or DB_DUPSORT flag set will keep the proper behavior on subsequent
7131 opens. Specifically: dictionary assignment to a DB object will
7132 replace all values for a given key when the database allows
7133 duplicate values. DB users should use DB.put(k, v) when they want
7134 to store duplicates; not DB[k] = v.
Gregory P. Smithec10a4a2007-11-05 02:32:26 +00007135
Gregory P. Smithac11e022007-11-05 02:56:31 +00007136- Add the bsddb.db.DBEnv.lock_id_free method.
7137
Martin v. Löwis3bf573f2007-04-04 18:30:36 +00007138- Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
7139
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007140- Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary
7141 characters with ASCII value less than 32. Also, it correctly quotes
7142 dots only if they occur on a single line, as opposed to the previous
7143 behavior of quoting dots if they are the second character of any
7144 line.
Georg Brandl4aef7272007-03-13 22:49:43 +00007145
Georg Brandla47337f2007-03-13 12:34:25 +00007146- Bug #1622896: fix a rare corner case where the bz2 module raised an
7147 error in spite of a succesful compression.
7148
Georg Brandl40c62612007-03-06 18:59:11 +00007149- Patch #1654417: make operator.{get,set,del}slice use the full range
7150 of Py_ssize_t.
7151
Guido van Rossum2054ee92007-03-06 15:50:01 +00007152- Patch #1646728: datetime.fromtimestamp fails with negative
7153 fractional times. With unittest.
7154
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007155- Patch #1490190: posixmodule now includes os.chflags() and
7156 os.lchflags() functions on platforms where the underlying system
7157 calls are available.
Martin v. Löwis382abef2007-02-19 10:55:19 +00007158
Georg Brandl983d1002007-02-15 11:29:04 +00007159- Patch #1494140: Add documentation for the new struct.Struct object.
7160
Martin v. Löwis45423a72007-02-14 10:07:37 +00007161- Patch #1432399: Support the HCI protocol for bluetooth sockets
7162
Martin v. Löwisb1cc1d42007-02-13 12:14:19 +00007163- Patch #1657276: Make NETLINK_DNRTMSG conditional.
7164
Martin v. Löwis4c11a922007-02-08 09:13:36 +00007165- Bug #1653736: Complain about keyword arguments to time.isoformat.
7166
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007167- Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007168 built-in types.
Georg Brandlb84c1372007-01-21 10:28:43 +00007169
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007170- Patch #1610575: The struct module now supports the 't' code, for C99
7171 _Bool.
Martin v. Löwisaef4c6b2007-01-21 09:33:07 +00007172
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007173- Patch #1635058: ensure that htonl and friends never accept or return
7174 negative numbers, per the underlying C implementation.
Guido van Rossumbb2cc692007-01-14 17:03:32 +00007175
Martin v. Löwis046c4d12006-12-03 11:23:45 +00007176- Patch #1544279: Improve thread-safety of the socket module by moving
7177 the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.
7178
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007179- Patch #1019808: fix bug that causes an incorrect error to be
7180 returned when a socket timeout is set and a connection attempt
7181 fails.
Andrew M. Kuchling060e6852008-01-19 20:47:59 +00007182
Neal Norwitz45e230a2006-11-19 21:26:53 +00007183- Speed up function calls into the math module.
7184
Georg Brandl25aabf42006-11-16 17:08:45 +00007185- Bug #1588217: don't parse "= " as a soft line break in binascii's
7186 a2b_qp() function, instead leave it in the string as quopri.decode()
7187 does.
7188
Neal Norwitz4fe44232006-11-21 05:26:22 +00007189- Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().
7190
Martin v. Löwis012bc722006-10-15 09:43:39 +00007191- Bug #1567666: Emulate GetFileAttributesExA for Win95.
7192
Martin v. Löwis18aaa562006-10-15 08:43:33 +00007193- Patch #1576166: Support os.utime for directories on Windows NT+.
7194
Georg Brandl412a9ea2006-10-09 19:03:06 +00007195- Patch #1572724: fix typo ('=' instead of '==') in _msi.c.
7196
Hye-Shik Changb7883462006-10-08 13:48:34 +00007197- Bug #1572832: fix a bug in ISO-2022 codecs which may cause segfault
7198 when encoding non-BMP unicode characters.
7199
Georg Brandl4ddfcd32006-09-30 11:17:34 +00007200- Bug #1556784: allow format strings longer than 127 characters in
7201 datetime's strftime function.
7202
Jack Diederichd10a0f72006-09-21 20:34:49 +00007203- Fix itertools.count(n) to work with negative numbers again.
7204
Martin v. Löwis43fd99c2006-09-16 17:36:37 +00007205- RLIMIT_SBSIZE was added to the resource module where available.
7206
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007207- Bug #1551427: fix a wrong NULL pointer check in the win32 version of
7208 os.urandom().
Georg Brandl74bb7832006-09-06 06:03:59 +00007209
Neal Norwitz6aefa912006-09-02 02:50:35 +00007210- Bug #1548092: fix curses.tparm seg fault on invalid input.
7211
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00007212- Patch #1114: fix curses module compilation on 64-bit AIX, & possibly
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007213 other 64-bit LP64 platforms where attr_t is not the same size as a
7214 long. (Contributed by Luke Mewburn.)
Andrew M. Kuchling62182c82008-01-08 14:56:02 +00007215
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007216- Bug #1550714: fix SystemError from itertools.tee on negative value
7217 for n.
Neal Norwitz69e88972006-09-02 02:58:13 +00007218
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007219- Fixed a few bugs on cjkcodecs:
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007220 - gbk and gb18030 codec now handle U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
7221 correctly.
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007222 - iso2022_jp_2 codec now encodes into G0 for KS X 1001, GB2312
7223 codepoints to conform the standard.
Hye-Shik Chang2cad3e92006-09-05 12:14:57 +00007224 - iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codec can encode JIS X 0213:2
Hye-Shik Chang199f1db2006-09-05 12:07:09 +00007225 codepoints now.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007226
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00007227- Bug #1552726: in readline.c, avoid repeatedly polling in interactive
7228 mode by only placing a timeout on the select() if an input hook has
7229 been defined. This prevents an interactive Python from waking up 10
7230 times per second. Patch by Richard Boulton.
7231
Gregory P. Smithf09c6262007-03-17 22:33:35 +00007232- fixed a bug with bsddb.DB.stat: the flags and txn keyword arguments
7233 were transposed.
7234
Jesus Cea4907d272008-08-31 14:00:51 +00007235- Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.5.x,
7236 4.6.x and 4.7.x.
Gregory P. Smith8b96a352007-01-05 01:59:42 +00007237
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007238- Bug #1633621: if curses.resizeterm() or curses.resize_term() is
7239 called, update _curses.LINES, _curses.COLS, curses.LINES and
7240 curses.COLS.
Andrew M. Kuchling43889c02006-09-27 16:37:30 +00007241
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00007242- Fix an off-by-one bug in locale.strxfrm().
7243
Matthias Klose38336402007-09-04 20:46:02 +00007244- Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
7245
Matthias Klose9afb9852007-10-24 20:00:44 +00007246- Build using system ffi library on arm*-linux*.
7247
Christian Heimes3f065a42007-11-21 01:17:28 +00007248- Bug #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
Matthias Klosee19e0c22007-04-03 04:35:59 +00007249
Gregory P. Smitheeed5b72008-02-03 07:20:53 +00007250- bsddb module: Fix memory leak when using database cursors on
7251 databases without a DBEnv.
7252
Gerhard Häring11ab8072008-03-02 13:12:27 +00007253- The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
7254
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007255Tests
7256-----
7257
Brett Cannon56c4deb2008-03-03 00:38:58 +00007258- Refactor test_logging to use unittest.
Brett Cannonf9db8a32008-02-17 01:59:18 +00007259
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007260- Refactor test_profile and test_cprofile to use the same code to
7261 profile.
Georg Brandlb7090772008-02-05 19:58:17 +00007262
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007263- Make test_runpy reentrant by fixing _check_module to clear out any
7264 module being tested. Was causing an error by __import__ doing a
7265 reload on the second run and thus suppressing bytecode recreation.
Brett Cannondbed7a72007-08-23 14:53:17 +00007266
Brett Cannonea2835a2007-03-14 21:44:15 +00007267- Capture socket connection resets and timeouts in test_socket_ssl and
7268 test_urllib2net and raise test.test_support.ResourceDenied.
Brett Cannoned001842007-03-14 21:40:13 +00007269
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007270- Patch #1559413: Fix test_cmd_line if sys.executable contains a
7271 space.
Martin v. Löwiscd1210a2007-03-14 20:02:31 +00007272
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007273- Added test.test_support.TransientResource which is a context manager
7274 to surround calls to resources that are not guaranteed to work even
7275 if test.test_support.requires says that the resource should exist.
Brett Cannona30fcb42007-03-08 23:58:11 +00007276
Brett Cannone05e6b02007-01-29 04:41:44 +00007277- Added a test for slicing of an exception.
7278
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007279- Added test.test_support.EnvironmentVarGuard. It's a class that
7280 provides a context manager so that one can temporarily set or unset
7281 environment variables.
Brett Cannon92d54d52007-01-04 00:23:49 +00007282
Thomas Heller112d1a62006-10-27 19:05:53 +00007283- Added some tests for modulefinder.
7284
Brett Cannon373d90b2006-10-03 23:23:14 +00007285- Converted test_imp to use unittest.
7286
Neal Norwitz919d5cc2006-09-05 02:35:08 +00007287- Fix bsddb test_basics.test06_Transactions to check the version
7288 number properly.
7289
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007290- test.test_support.catch_warning is a new context manager that can be
7291 used to catch the warnings issued by the warning framework.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007292
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007293Tools
7294-----
7295
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007296- Tools/scripts/reindent.py now creates the backup file using
7297 shutil.copy to preserve user/group and permissions. Added also a
7298 --nobackup option to not create the backup if the user is concerned
Georg Brandl222e2082010-08-01 22:27:39 +00007299 regarding this. Check issue #1050828 for more details.
Facundo Batistaf88a0772008-02-17 16:21:13 +00007300
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007301- Tools/scripts/win_add2path.py was added. The simple script modifes
7302 the PATH environment var of the HKCU tree and adds the python bin
7303 and script directory.
Christian Heimesbd865db2008-01-18 11:58:50 +00007304
Skip Montanaro3e275362007-08-29 01:33:45 +00007305- Tools/18n/pygettext.py was added to the list of scripts installed by
7306 Tools/scripts/setup.py (tracker item 642309).
7307
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007308- Added IronPython and Jython support to pybench (part of which was
7309 patch #1563844).
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007310
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007311- Made some minor changes to pybench output to allow the user to see
7312 which Python version is running pybench.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007313
7314- Added support for the new platform module feature
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007315 platform.python_implementation(); this will now be saved in the
7316 benchmark pickle.
Marc-André Lemburgfa3d08b2007-01-16 13:03:06 +00007317
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007318
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007319Documentation
7320-------------
7321
Vinay Sajipd7cf32e2008-01-24 12:43:33 +00007322- RFE #1765140: Updated documentation on FileHandler and subclasses to
7323 include new optional delay argument.
7324
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007325- Bug #932563: Added section on getting contextual information into
7326 logging output, and added documentation for the new LoggerAdapter
7327 class.
Vinay Sajip2bdc48c2008-01-21 18:16:05 +00007328
7329- Bug #1295: Added information about caching of formatted exception
7330 information in the LogRecord by Formatter.format().
7331
Georg Brandl9467bc52007-07-12 09:37:49 +00007332- Bug #1637365: add subsection about "__name__ == __main__" to the
7333 Python tutorial.
7334
Georg Brandl3dc6e902007-04-25 06:24:59 +00007335- Patch #1698768: updated the "using Python on the Mac" intro.
7336
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007337- Bug #1569057: Document that calling file.next() when the file is
7338 open for writing is undefined.
Brett Cannon55a18642007-04-08 04:29:32 +00007339
Žiga Seilnachtc64ad482007-03-24 14:24:26 +00007340- Patch #1489771: the syntax rules in Python Reference Manual were
7341 updated to reflect the current Python syntax.
7342
Martin v. Löwis2f401d72007-03-23 10:35:49 +00007343- Patch #1686451: Fix return type for
7344 PySequence_{Count,Index,Fast_GET_SIZE}.
7345
Georg Brandl0692a262007-03-13 07:50:57 +00007346- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
7347
Collin Winterb7b2b4e2007-03-09 18:09:10 +00007348- Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate()
7349 and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.
7350
Georg Brandl21e99f42010-03-07 15:23:59 +00007351- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing built-in types to the
Georg Brandld28b9fc2007-03-06 10:02:47 +00007352 "extending and embedding" tutorial.
7353
Georg Brandlb26b1c62007-01-17 21:19:58 +00007354- Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next
7355 docs.
7356
Georg Brandla4c8e322006-10-12 08:22:53 +00007357- Bug #1565919: document set types in the Language Reference.
7358
Georg Brandl44a7b3a2006-09-30 12:02:57 +00007359- Bug #1546052: clarify that PyString_FromString(AndSize) copies the
7360 string pointed to by its parameter.
7361
Georg Brandlfb257732006-09-30 09:06:45 +00007362- Bug #1566663: remove obsolete example from datetime docs.
7363
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00007364- Bug #1541682: Fix example in the "Refcount details" API docs.
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007365 Additionally, remove a faulty example showing PySequence_SetItem
7366 applied to a newly created list object and add notes that this isn't
7367 a good idea.
Georg Brandl648c1102006-08-18 07:27:59 +00007368
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007369
Georg Brandl27562782006-10-27 20:39:43 +00007370Tools/Demos
7371-----------
7372
7373- Patch #1552024: add decorator support to unparse.py demo script.
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00007374
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00007375- Make auto-generated python.vim file list built-ins and exceptions in
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007376 alphatbetical order. Makes output more deterministic and easier to
7377 tell if the file is stale or not.
Brett Cannonc8939d22006-09-20 19:28:35 +00007378
Marc-André Lemburg96148682006-09-06 20:40:22 +00007379- Bug #1546372: Fixed small bugglet in pybench that caused a missing
7380 file not to get reported properly.
7381
7382
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007383Build
7384-----
7385
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007386- Have the search path for building extensions follow the declared
7387 order in $CPPFLAGS and $LDFLAGS when adding directories from those
7388 environment variables.
Brett Cannon70c0c022008-02-03 09:59:21 +00007389
Christian Heimes951cc0f2008-01-31 23:08:23 +00007390- Bug #1983: Added a check to pyport to verify that sizeof(pid_t) is
7391 smaller or equal sizeof(long).
7392
Christian Heimescba36bb2008-01-30 22:54:18 +00007393- Bug #1234: Fixed semaphore errors on AIX 5.2
7394
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007395- Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007396
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007397- Removed PCbuild8/ directory and added a new build directory for VS
7398 2005 based on the VS 2008 build directory to PC/VS8.0. The script
7399 PCbuild/vs8to9.py was added to sync changes from PCbuild to
7400 PC/VS8.0.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007401
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007402- Moved PCbuild/ directory for VS 2003 to PC/VS7.1 and renamed
7403 PCBuild9/ directory to PCBuild/.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007404
Martin v. Löwiscb78de62007-12-29 18:49:21 +00007405- Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
7406
Guido van Rossum7c862f82007-12-13 20:50:10 +00007407- Bug #1608: use -fwrapv when GCC supports it. This is important,
7408 newer GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks
7409 without this option!
7410
Martin v. Löwis63bf1492007-11-12 05:14:05 +00007411- Patch #1418: Make the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS object files actually work.
7412
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00007413- Add a FAST_LOOPS build option that speeds-up looping by trading away
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007414 periodic threadstate and signal checking in tight loops. By
7415 default, this option is turned-off. It should only be enabled in
7416 debugged, performance critical applications.
Raymond Hettingerdc1d1ba2007-11-07 02:45:46 +00007417
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007418- Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a
7419 readonly source.
Martin v. Löwisd44a4e92007-09-05 11:47:34 +00007420
Martin v. Löwis8bc77e42007-09-01 06:36:03 +00007421- Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
7422
Martin v. Löwis75c23bd2007-08-30 18:25:47 +00007423- Bug #1746880: Correctly install DLLs into system32 folder on Win64.
7424
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007425- Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD
7426 4.1+.
Martin v. Löwis76760b02007-07-31 19:57:56 +00007427
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007428- Stop supporting AtheOS and cause a build error in configure for the
7429 platform.
Brett Cannon19fab762007-06-02 03:02:29 +00007430
Georg Brandldb846032007-03-31 18:56:11 +00007431- Bug #1655392: don't add -L/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/config to the LDFLAGS
7432 returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
7433 because that prevented the shared library from being used.
7434
Georg Brandl18c47f62007-03-13 10:19:22 +00007435- Patch #1569798: fix a bug in distutils when building Python from a
7436 directory within sys.exec_prefix.
7437
Martin v. Löwiseb623572007-03-12 10:50:39 +00007438- Bug #1675511: Use -Kpic instead of -xcode=pic32 on Solaris/x86.
7439
Martin v. Löwis4d542ec2006-11-25 15:39:19 +00007440- Disable _XOPEN_SOURCE on NetBSD 1.x.
7441
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007442- configure now checks whether gcc supports the PyArg_ParseTuple
7443 format attribute.
Martin v. Löwisaac13162006-10-19 10:58:46 +00007444
Vinay Sajip76fdb8c2006-12-14 08:53:55 +00007445- Bug #1578513: Cross compilation was broken by a change to configure.
Martin v. Löwisfefbc202006-10-17 18:59:23 +00007446 Repair so that it's back to how it was in 2.4.3.
7447
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007448- Patch #1576954: Update VC6 build directory; remove redundant files
7449 in VC7.
Martin v. Löwisc9e82f62006-10-15 07:54:40 +00007450
Martin v. Löwisebe26702006-10-02 14:55:51 +00007451- Bug #1568842: Fix test for uintptr_t.
7452
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007453- Patch #1540470: for OpenBSD 4.0.
Neal Norwitz4bc2c092006-09-05 02:57:01 +00007454
Matthias Klosed149d0c2006-12-03 17:16:41 +00007455- Fix build failure on kfreebsd and on the hurd.
7456
Matthias Kloseebde1492006-12-09 12:15:27 +00007457- Fix the build of the library reference in info format.
7458
Matthias Kloseeb8ff672007-08-02 21:33:13 +00007459- Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007460
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007461- Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script
7462 pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build
7463 environment.
Matthias Klose642ac852007-09-04 18:17:36 +00007464
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007465
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007466C API
7467-----
7468
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007469- Unified naming convention for free lists and their limits. All free
7470 lists in Object/ are named ``free_list``, the counter ``numfree``
7471 and the upper limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an
7472 #ifndef block.
Christian Heimes5b970ad2008-02-06 13:33:44 +00007473
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007474- ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly
7475 to ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new
7476 frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00007477
Vinay Sajipb7edfc42008-04-02 21:10:23 +00007478- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API.
Amaury Forgeot d'Arccab3d982008-02-03 22:51:43 +00007479
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007480- Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format
7481 and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and
7482 PyLong_FromSsize_t public functions.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007483
7484- Patch #1720595: add T_BOOL to the range of structmember types.
7485
7486- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
7487 ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
7488
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007489- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t#
7490 of w# format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even
7491 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set. The str.decode method used to return
7492 incorrect results with huge strings.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007493
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007494- Issue #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE,
7495 Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007496
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007497- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while
7498 keeping backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size,
7499 and PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007500
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007501- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not
7502 defined.
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007503
7504- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
7505
7506- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
7507
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007508- Added a new API function ``PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock``.
7509
Georg Brandl6caad7d2008-01-26 14:19:22 +00007510- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
7511
7512- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
7513 (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
7514
7515- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
7516 outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
7517
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007518- ``PyImport_Import`` and ``PyImport_ImportModule`` now always do
7519 absolute imports. In earlier versions they might have used relative
7520 imports under some conditions.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007521
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007522- Added case insensitive comparison methods ``PyOS_stricmp(char*,
7523 char*)`` and ``PyOS_strnicmp(char*, char*, Py_ssize_t)``.
Christian Heimes000a0742008-01-03 22:16:32 +00007524
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007525- Bug #1542693: remove semi-colon at end of PyImport_ImportModuleEx
7526 macro so it can be used as an expression.
Neal Norwitz8a267062006-08-19 04:25:29 +00007527
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007528
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007529Windows
7530-------
7531
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007532- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now
7533 requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION
7534 macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64
7535 builds.
Christian Heimes95d64472008-02-09 19:55:22 +00007536
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007537- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and
7538 _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007539
Martin v. Löwisd476a402007-10-12 08:56:52 +00007540- Bug #1216: Restore support for Visual Studio 2002.
7541
Martin v. Löwis2607e6c2006-11-21 18:20:25 +00007542
Neal Norwitz92422fb2006-08-18 03:57:54 +00007543Mac
7544---
7545
Brett Cannonf0cb1d72007-05-31 20:01:11 +00007546- cfmfile now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7547
Brett Cannon791d56f2007-05-31 19:40:42 +00007548- buildtools now raises a DeprecationWarning.
7549
Georg Brandl3ee81df2008-05-17 18:14:43 +00007550- Removed the macfs module. It had been deprecated since Python 2.5.
7551 This lead to the deprecation of macostools.touched() as it relied
7552 solely on macfs and was a no-op under OS X.
Brett Cannon5e263512007-05-20 23:17:38 +00007553
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00007554----
7555
7556**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**